At root, these people say and do stupid things (whether on Facebook or elsewhere) regarding vaccines because they lost trust in pharmaceutical research and business practices. The industry lost their faith and credit by perpetrating lots of shady deeds, pimping dangerous medicines, and rigging pharma research.
People buy non-GMO organic whatever at inflated prices because they lost faith in industrial agriculture. Brexit is happening and Euroskeptic parties are surging because people lost faith in the EU. Fake news happens because people have lost faith in journalists, who seem more partisan hacks than beacons of truth.
There is, at the moment, a crisis of faith in the institutions, because the institutions spent the last fifty years putting the almighty dollar ahead of ethics. In the 50's, when people were told DDT was safe, they believed it and gladly stood in clouds of it. They told people that smoking was healthy and that more doctors smoked Camels because it was better for your T-zone. Now, when people are told vaccines are safe, nobody believes it: pharma and chemists and doctors have spent all their credibility.
The real question is how journalists, pharma, doctors, argiculture, the EU, governments, etc. can all regain the credibility that they all worked so hard to destroy.
QFT, beacause I highly doubt anyone will mod you up -- but yes, yes, this is the problem. And I will gently chide you for not posting logged in, as yours was a particularly Informative / Insightful post.
But I still can't reconcile the moon deniers, antivaxxers, flat-earthers and the like with reality. Their spiels raise the same red flags as Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, and Organized Religions in my head. They raise all the woowoo / nutjob red flags. No difference.
I still trust some journos, I still trust some doctors, I still trust some institutions. But I have now, and for the past 2, almost 3 decades developed an intense dislike of the Federal Gov't, large megacorps (GM, GE, Bayer, Walmart, Google, etc etc ad nauseum). To all of the above we are but livestock. To the small merchant, we're still a profit center, but their reach and pervasiveness is less intense than the megacorps. . But, I've leaned to think this: "If I do [thing], who benefits? Who makes the money? Who doesn't make the money? Follow the money and you find the charlatans.
Why the fuck is an adult (well, legally anyways) getting all this attention for doing something that adults are expected to do? I just filed my taxes, where's my standing ovation?
As I read it, it's because a child (barely adult?) had the temerity, the jones, to go against his parent on a controversial hot-button topic which just happens to be click-baity 'news'
Snarky reply: Isn't this how a whole generation or three of kids were raised (Late-X, Millenials and Y?) I showed up! I got a trophy for showing up! Yay me! I'm thpecial! Look at me! Participation awards! I'm a thpecial and unique snowflake!
No you're not. You're not a special and unique snowflake. From 10 inches up y'all look exactly the same.
So yes, toady cocksucker, you do get to tell your employer what you expect of them when it comes to violating ethical codes of conduct or working on secret projects that undermine freedoms or collude with autocratic govts.
And then you get reassigned to Siberia (it's a metaphor, look it up) or you get to walk the plank (another metaphor)
It's like that everywhere I've been to.
Go ahead, kick your boss' door down and tell him you refuse to work on anything that you find personally offensive. Do it. Right now. March in there and tell him off. Let's see how much time goes by before you're on the street with a box with your things in it.
The Real World has a habit of dulling even the keenest-edged bright-eyed idealist.
But a record, ahhh... that's tangible. Feel it. Smell it. The smell of library. The smell of history. The smell of many rounds of weed cleaned with licenses on the folds of an LP cover.
Run the Hunt EDA carbon fiber along the surface.
Brush off the dust bunnies off the stylus.
Hear the ker-thunk *plop* as the stylus settles into the groove.
Watch the the filaments in the KT-88 power tubes run their cheerful cherry orange. Ditty for the 12AX7s in the preamp. Smell it. Dust on hot glass.
Amaze yourself at the total lack of snap-crackle-pop, because you have a real turntable, not some made-in-china massmarket unit. No, you're running something German, from the mid-70's. When vinyl was the only game, really.
Streaming for convenience. Physical, tangible, for the foreverness.
I'm going to say this very carefully, very deliberately: Fuck... this modern world and its 100% fakeness. Fuck it long and hard, dry, with a very splintered phone pole.
There's *nothing* like that which you can hold, and store, and cherish, and long for, lust for. Fuck this fake digital modern world.
But truly, nothing beats the sheet music in front of you, with your barely-able fingers poised over the ebonies and ivories.
Fuck this modern world and those who worship at its altar.
Believe me, I grew up without it, I could do just fine thank you.
But that would only help *my* sanity.
The cancerous brain-washing of all those retards on both right and left who believe everything that comes out of that goddamned lie box will continue, and that will help no one.
Heh. TV truly is dead, and teh interweeebz replaced it as the main ad delivererer, brainwasher and tell-you-what-to-feel-and-how-to-act. Yup! TV's dead, long live the new TV!
Fuck all. What have we wrought. What have we allowed to happen.
Biggest problem? Trusting tech to solve the problem is the worst fucking solution possible. THe best solution would be for people to think for their own, but no, that's too fucking hard.
The 'leaders' of Europe are already slitting each others throats
Yep, they got far more experience than we do... but the apple doesn't fall far from the tree. I bet we could make a pretty much unbroken chain of events backwards from today's middle-eastern strife to WWII to WWI to Napoleon to the French Revolution and on and on and on and see how one event directly fueled the next. Europe has been at it far so long, much longer than we've been living here in this continent.
I personally know a number of couples who have aged their romance well and are not shouting "Fuck you!" at each other.
As do I. But the joke, and the State of our Union, remains. I didn't write it. I heard or read it once, decades ago. I forgot the source, and frankly, don't care enough about it to do the research. I thought it is illustrative of how things are in this country today.
Would you not agree that collectively, as a nation, we're just in that late-stage now?
Shutting up either side won't help. So what to do.. what to do.
Maybe it's time I leave the US.. but to where? And then what? Watch it fall from afar? I'd rather help fix it. But that sounds fucking exhausting and I still doubt it can be fixed. So what do we do as a nation? The solution will not be technical in nature. I think tech is just making everything worse, as far as dialog goes.
...where people would have to congregate in say, a church, or a town square, or a stadium to meet people of like inclinations and have discussions in civilized tones, a healthy ruckus of many voices speaking.
Imagine, then, that another group with opposing views invades the former's space and start yelling and using bullhorns to say things that the former group can't or won't tolerate.
What do you think would happen? I think the word "Riot" covers it fairly well.
I'm firmly convinced that because the internet allows loud-mouthed know-it-alls convinced of the righteousness and truthiness of their own opinions to invade and poison the others' discussions with naught but a downvote / downmod, we haven't taken that next step of Intolerance: Cracking skulls with baseball bats, hurling rocks and Molotov cocktails, and ultimately shooting at each other.
We are headed for Civil War in this country. An old boss of mine, a prepper, was convinced nearly 20 years ago this was the course of our next 50 years. I thought he was slightly off his rocker. He never could tell me why he thought this, he just strongly felt it was coming. An intuition.
I don't think that anymore. I think we're headed for war within ourselves. Not make-believe war, but actual shoot-you-in-the-face-before-you-do-me-in war. You know, like in the 1860's.
And somewhere, in Russia, China, Germany and England, and many other places, their leaders will be laughing like mad dogs watching us slit each other's throats.
That's what reading/. at -1 has taught me. We stopped listening to each other long, long ago. Today's utterly shambolic Cohen "hearing" or whatever that circus was supposed to be depressed me to no end. We're non-functional. Not just dysfunctional like the Simpsons or the Bundys, we're non-functional as a country. We don't make anything anymore, almost no one's making enough bank to survive on their own... and the few that do at the very very top are undoubtedly actively encouraging this split.
So, while I welcome the opportunity for discourse and dissent, the sheer amount of fuck you nazi faggot / fuck you liberal twat has gotten to the point where I don't think any kind of dialog is possible.
It's like the old joke: When you first get married, you have sex everywhere. As the marriage ages, you only have sex in the bedroom. As the marriage dies, you only have hallway sex: you yell Fuck You at the top of your lungs to the other, and they reply in kind.
So, fuck everyone's comment systems, none of them will work anymore because we, the users, are broken.
And when your kid that can't be vaccinated dies, you'll just shrug your shoulders and hope they got a Clue?
Wait, you're putting a hypothetical that I have a child that can't be vaccinated against X, and the kid dies from X, would that make me shrug my shoulders and hope they (the antivaxxers) got a Clue?
I may actually do a bit more than just shrug my shoulders, I would be distraught, angry, I imagine. Really pissed off. I would want them (the antivaxxers) to wake the fuck up and realize that their retardation is killing others (which is the argument I'm making, in case it escaped your notice)
Would I go after amazon for selling such tripe? Probably not. They're free to sell what people write.
Would I sue the persons writing the best-selling books on the subject? Yeah, I probably would. While they're free to write what they want, Actions have Consequences. They're free to write it, I'm free to sue them into oblivion for it.
But that wouldn't return the dead kid to life. And you know it.
Anti-vaccination propaganda kills people. People who would have lived are dead because people reject science.
And that, right there, will do what book-bannings will never do - pit the majority of the world against a relatively smaller number of crackpots -- and the thieves who take their money.
It's about the money, not about the kids. Antivaxxer authors and the stores that sell them want to make money, and will do anything to that end -- same as any other business.
When their kids start dying, maybe they'll get a Clue. "buh buh buh you TOLD me vax are bad! You TOLD me my precious would develop immunities towards all these diseases!"
If not, then their genes are retired from the pool. Win.
Sounds cruel and cold, but this is natural selection. Weed out the crackpot conspiracists.
The scary part is their walking timebomb offspring will affect others. That's what truly makes the antivaxxers dangerous.
is in no part a "national security" or otherwise strategic resource.
A single place full of people's likes and dislikes, vacation schedules, who's in their circles of friends and famlies, what car they own, where they live.. pictures and vids of all of the above and more.... none of this is strategic?
It's very strategic, just not to the normal, well-adjusted human. But for thieves, conmen, and anyone interested in gathering intel on a target? Pricelessly strategic.
A troll is someone who posts on the Internet with the intention of ruining something for someone else.
No, that's not what a Troll is. A Troll posts something with the deliberate purpose of getting a rise out of the other party. That's nowhere near "ruining something for someone else." That's an asshole.
If people keep expanding the meaning of Troll, then soon everyone will be a Troll. I just looked it up in Webster's and that, indeed, is what is happening.
Culture jamming and "targeted campaigns" like this are the antidote to mass marketing. Fuck the entertainment industry.
Not all of it deserves it, but the vast majority does. Especially the more pervasive ones.
There have always been movies / programs / artists who take great glee in sticking it to The Man. Smothers Brothers, Laugh-In, Animaniacs, South Park and the like come to mind.
What would've Office Space's "release" been like were it done today? Back then Fox buried it and buried it waaay deep. I would like to think a positive bombing campaign from fans would've helped. But would they bother? Or would they just sit in front of their screens 'bating and drinking Brawndo?
This won't stop a troll armies from review-bombing a film once it's in theaters. The damage will just happen a little later than now.
Oh, and you fake 1A types? Freeze Peach doesn't apply to non-government places. If I run a bar, and you lot come in and start evangelizing for something I and my customers don't care for, I can wholly kick you out and you can't do shit about it. Tough titties. You can boycott my place, sure, but for each of you there will be more that aren't like you.
And with the Brits, and Poles, and Germans, and.... fellas, WAR advances tech.
Modern tech started with the US Military (Score:2, Troll)
That said -- WTF, how is the parent modded Troll?! It's a Troll to tell the fucking truth?
Truly, this place has gone over to the fucking dogs.
Can someone explain to me what, exactly, was Trollish in the parent? Huh?
Oh right, most people here use Troll instead of replying a rebuttal.
the OP was right on the money. Just a little narrow in scope in who bumped up tech in the last big one. It was all the players... yes, even ITaly, where the hell you think the swept wing came from?
You sure did! And then you posted it on Slashdot. Tell us more about your dog whistle.
It's not made in china, it's nickel over brass, and I used it as an illustration of what I'm doing to put a scratch, however superficial, on companies who sold out their production to china to make a buck. I'll be using it to help a friend deal with his new Yorkie. But of course, I know you just be trollin', I"m just humoring you.
That's my point. If one objects to a certain way of doing business, do not support those businesses that do it that way.
Same with the movies. China-financed? Not interested.
Will not watch. Just like I try to boycott films which have Chinese financial backing.
Hurt them where they really feel it. If an American company takes Chinese money to make a movie, I will not see it.
That simple. I'm done.
My next phone will be a refurb, I will not take the First Hit for no phone company.
Hurt. Them.
I just bought a whistle for dog training. Went with Acme (UK), not HJN WGOW (or whatever made-up name shows up on amazon) I would've bought USA but couldn't find a single one.
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If you think something is wrong with "the kids these days", you have to remember you raised them.
I have no offspring, nor do I want to. So bbbzzzzt, wrong.
Your point, though, is valid. Idiots raising coddled, overprotected kids that cannot cope.
Now.. imagine the carnage in 20 years when those very same kids you're defending become parents.
Who knows, maybe they'll do allright after taking long looks in the mirror and talking things through with whatever support mechanisms they have.
At root, these people say and do stupid things (whether on Facebook or elsewhere) regarding vaccines because they lost trust in pharmaceutical research and business practices. The industry lost their faith and credit by perpetrating lots of shady deeds, pimping dangerous medicines, and rigging pharma research.
People buy non-GMO organic whatever at inflated prices because they lost faith in industrial agriculture. Brexit is happening and Euroskeptic parties are surging because people lost faith in the EU. Fake news happens because people have lost faith in journalists, who seem more partisan hacks than beacons of truth.
There is, at the moment, a crisis of faith in the institutions, because the institutions spent the last fifty years putting the almighty dollar ahead of ethics. In the 50's, when people were told DDT was safe, they believed it and gladly stood in clouds of it. They told people that smoking was healthy and that more doctors smoked Camels because it was better for your T-zone. Now, when people are told vaccines are safe, nobody believes it: pharma and chemists and doctors have spent all their credibility.
The real question is how journalists, pharma, doctors, argiculture, the EU, governments, etc. can all regain the credibility that they all worked so hard to destroy.
QFT, beacause I highly doubt anyone will mod you up -- but yes, yes, this is the problem. And I will gently chide you for not posting logged in, as yours was a particularly Informative / Insightful post.
But I still can't reconcile the moon deniers, antivaxxers, flat-earthers and the like with reality. Their spiels raise the same red flags as Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, and Organized Religions in my head. They raise all the woowoo / nutjob red flags. No difference.
I still trust some journos, I still trust some doctors, I still trust some institutions. But I have now, and for the past 2, almost 3 decades developed an intense dislike of the Federal Gov't, large megacorps (GM, GE, Bayer, Walmart, Google, etc etc ad nauseum). To all of the above we are but livestock. To the small merchant, we're still a profit center, but their reach and pervasiveness is less intense than the megacorps.
.
But, I've leaned to think this: "If I do [thing], who benefits? Who makes the money? Who doesn't make the money? Follow the money and you find the charlatans.
Does Microsoft Outlook allow companies to pay to be at the top of your inbox based on the content of all of your previous emails?
Yahoo Mail does. (Unless you run an adblocker.)
Please, don't give MS any ideas on how to further monetize Office.
Why the fuck is an adult (well, legally anyways) getting all this attention for doing something that adults are expected to do? I just filed my taxes, where's my standing ovation?
As I read it, it's because a child (barely adult?) had the temerity, the jones, to go against his parent on a controversial hot-button topic which just happens to be click-baity 'news'
Snarky reply: Isn't this how a whole generation or three of kids were raised (Late-X, Millenials and Y?) I showed up! I got a trophy for showing up! Yay me! I'm thpecial! Look at me! Participation awards! I'm a thpecial and unique snowflake!
No you're not. You're not a special and unique snowflake. From 10 inches up y'all look exactly the same.
So yes, toady cocksucker, you do get to tell your employer what you expect of them when it comes to violating ethical codes of conduct or working on secret projects that undermine freedoms or collude with autocratic govts.
And then you get reassigned to Siberia (it's a metaphor, look it up) or you get to walk the plank (another metaphor)
It's like that everywhere I've been to.
Go ahead, kick your boss' door down and tell him you refuse to work on anything that you find personally offensive. Do it. Right now. March in there and tell him off. Let's see how much time goes by before you're on the street with a box with your things in it.
The Real World has a habit of dulling even the keenest-edged bright-eyed idealist.
But a record, ahhh... that's tangible. Feel it. Smell it. The smell of library. The smell of history. The smell of many rounds of weed cleaned with licenses on the folds of an LP cover.
Run the Hunt EDA carbon fiber along the surface.
Brush off the dust bunnies off the stylus.
Hear the ker-thunk *plop* as the stylus settles into the groove.
Watch the the filaments in the KT-88 power tubes run their cheerful cherry orange. Ditty for the 12AX7s in the preamp. Smell it. Dust on hot glass.
Amaze yourself at the total lack of snap-crackle-pop, because you have a real turntable, not some made-in-china massmarket unit. No, you're running something German, from the mid-70's. When vinyl was the only game, really.
Streaming for convenience. Physical, tangible, for the foreverness.
I'm going to say this very carefully, very deliberately: Fuck... this modern world and its 100% fakeness. Fuck it long and hard, dry, with a very splintered phone pole.
There's *nothing* like that which you can hold, and store, and cherish, and long for, lust for. Fuck this fake digital modern world.
But truly, nothing beats the sheet music in front of you, with your barely-able fingers poised over the ebonies and ivories.
Fuck this modern world and those who worship at its altar.
There's still room for the old ways.
You could start by getting off the internet.
Believe me, I grew up without it, I could do just fine thank you.
But that would only help *my* sanity.
The cancerous brain-washing of all those retards on both right and left who believe everything that comes out of that goddamned lie box will continue, and that will help no one.
Heh. TV truly is dead, and teh interweeebz replaced it as the main ad delivererer, brainwasher and tell-you-what-to-feel-and-how-to-act. Yup! TV's dead, long live the new TV!
Fuck all. What have we wrought. What have we allowed to happen.
Biggest problem? Trusting tech to solve the problem is the worst fucking solution possible. THe best solution would be for people to think for their own, but no, that's too fucking hard.
Racism dressed up in progressive clothing is just as ugly as the KKK and Nazis.
That's sig-worthy, bumpersticker-worthy, all kinds of worthy.
Enligtenment ideas are racist, got it. You outted the ideal of taking us back to the dark ages.
I'll settle for pre-internet era. At least back then, everyone knew where the bullshit was and avoided stepping in it.
Now, it's all bullshit, 100% of it, can't believe a fucking word anybody says about any fucking thing at all.
We are truly living in a world where Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt rule the Earth.
The 'leaders' of Europe are already slitting each others throats
Yep, they got far more experience than we do... but the apple doesn't fall far from the tree. I bet we could make a pretty much unbroken chain of events backwards from today's middle-eastern strife to WWII to WWI to Napoleon to the French Revolution and on and on and on and see how one event directly fueled the next. Europe has been at it far so long, much longer than we've been living here in this continent.
I personally know a number of couples who have aged their romance well and are not shouting "Fuck you!" at each other.
As do I. But the joke, and the State of our Union, remains. I didn't write it. I heard or read it once, decades ago. I forgot the source, and frankly, don't care enough about it to do the research. I thought it is illustrative of how things are in this country today.
Would you not agree that collectively, as a nation, we're just in that late-stage now?
Shutting up either side won't help. So what to do.. what to do.
Maybe it's time I leave the US.. but to where? And then what? Watch it fall from afar? I'd rather help fix it. But that sounds fucking exhausting and I still doubt it can be fixed. So what do we do as a nation? The solution will not be technical in nature. I think tech is just making everything worse, as far as dialog goes.
...where people would have to congregate in say, a church, or a town square, or a stadium to meet people of like inclinations and have discussions in civilized tones, a healthy ruckus of many voices speaking.
Imagine, then, that another group with opposing views invades the former's space and start yelling and using bullhorns to say things that the former group can't or won't tolerate.
What do you think would happen? I think the word "Riot" covers it fairly well.
I'm firmly convinced that because the internet allows loud-mouthed know-it-alls convinced of the righteousness and truthiness of their own opinions to invade and poison the others' discussions with naught but a downvote / downmod, we haven't taken that next step of Intolerance: Cracking skulls with baseball bats, hurling rocks and Molotov cocktails, and ultimately shooting at each other.
We are headed for Civil War in this country. An old boss of mine, a prepper, was convinced nearly 20 years ago this was the course of our next 50 years. I thought he was slightly off his rocker. He never could tell me why he thought this, he just strongly felt it was coming. An intuition.
I don't think that anymore. I think we're headed for war within ourselves. Not make-believe war, but actual shoot-you-in-the-face-before-you-do-me-in war. You know, like in the 1860's.
And somewhere, in Russia, China, Germany and England, and many other places, their leaders will be laughing like mad dogs watching us slit each other's throats.
That's what reading /. at -1 has taught me. We stopped listening to each other long, long ago. Today's utterly shambolic Cohen "hearing" or whatever that circus was supposed to be depressed me to no end. We're non-functional. Not just dysfunctional like the Simpsons or the Bundys, we're non-functional as a country. We don't make anything anymore, almost no one's making enough bank to survive on their own... and the few that do at the very very top are undoubtedly actively encouraging this split.
So, while I welcome the opportunity for discourse and dissent, the sheer amount of fuck you nazi faggot / fuck you liberal twat has gotten to the point where I don't think any kind of dialog is possible.
It's like the old joke: When you first get married, you have sex everywhere. As the marriage ages, you only have sex in the bedroom. As the marriage dies, you only have hallway sex: you yell Fuck You at the top of your lungs to the other, and they reply in kind.
So, fuck everyone's comment systems, none of them will work anymore because we, the users, are broken.
The World Weekly News is right up your alley, too bad they folded in 2007.
Or you could try the Sun, or the Daily Fail.
Seriously. Destroyed? Destroyed would be 50 years in prison, forfeit the car, homes, boats, jets, possessions. That would be "Destroyed."
*sigh*
And when your kid that can't be vaccinated dies, you'll just shrug your shoulders and hope they got a Clue?
Wait, you're putting a hypothetical that I have a child that can't be vaccinated against X, and the kid dies from X, would that make me shrug my shoulders and hope they (the antivaxxers) got a Clue?
I may actually do a bit more than just shrug my shoulders, I would be distraught, angry, I imagine. Really pissed off. I would want them (the antivaxxers) to wake the fuck up and realize that their retardation is killing others (which is the argument I'm making, in case it escaped your notice)
Would I go after amazon for selling such tripe? Probably not. They're free to sell what people write.
Would I sue the persons writing the best-selling books on the subject? Yeah, I probably would. While they're free to write what they want, Actions have Consequences. They're free to write it, I'm free to sue them into oblivion for it.
But that wouldn't return the dead kid to life. And you know it.
Shoulda used UPS, not Amazon's own shipping.
Anti-vaccination propaganda kills people. People who would have lived are dead because people reject science.
And that, right there, will do what book-bannings will never do - pit the majority of the world against a relatively smaller number of crackpots -- and the thieves who take their money.
It's about the money, not about the kids. Antivaxxer authors and the stores that sell them want to make money, and will do anything to that end -- same as any other business.
Sure. Let's shred our civil liberties "for the children".
Re-read what I said. I'm advocating for them not to be slienced.
They will silence themselves when their offspring starts dying from preventable, avoidable diseases.
Clear this time?
When their kids start dying, maybe they'll get a Clue. "buh buh buh you TOLD me vax are bad! You TOLD me my precious would develop immunities towards all these diseases!"
If not, then their genes are retired from the pool. Win.
Sounds cruel and cold, but this is natural selection. Weed out the crackpot conspiracists.
The scary part is their walking timebomb offspring will affect others. That's what truly makes the antivaxxers dangerous.
Your manner of phrasing is very typical of Russians.
I was thinking Polandball...
is in no part a "national security" or otherwise strategic resource.
A single place full of people's likes and dislikes, vacation schedules, who's in their circles of friends and famlies, what car they own, where they live.. pictures and vids of all of the above and more.... none of this is strategic?
It's very strategic, just not to the normal, well-adjusted human. But for thieves, conmen, and anyone interested in gathering intel on a target? Pricelessly strategic.
A troll is someone who posts on the Internet with the intention of ruining something for someone else.
No, that's not what a Troll is. A Troll posts something with the deliberate purpose of getting a rise out of the other party. That's nowhere near "ruining something for someone else." That's an asshole.
If people keep expanding the meaning of Troll, then soon everyone will be a Troll. I just looked it up in Webster's and that, indeed, is what is happening.
Culture jamming and "targeted campaigns" like this are the antidote to mass marketing. Fuck the entertainment industry.
Not all of it deserves it, but the vast majority does. Especially the more pervasive ones.
There have always been movies / programs / artists who take great glee in sticking it to The Man. Smothers Brothers, Laugh-In, Animaniacs, South Park and the like come to mind.
What would've Office Space's "release" been like were it done today? Back then Fox buried it and buried it waaay deep. I would like to think a positive bombing campaign from fans would've helped. But would they bother? Or would they just sit in front of their screens 'bating and drinking Brawndo?
In before the freeze peach guys.
This won't stop a troll armies from review-bombing a film once it's in theaters. The damage will just happen a little later than now.
Oh, and you fake 1A types? Freeze Peach doesn't apply to non-government places. If I run a bar, and you lot come in and start evangelizing for something I and my customers don't care for, I can wholly kick you out and you can't do shit about it. Tough titties. You can boycott my place, sure, but for each of you there will be more that aren't like you.
And with the Brits, and Poles, and Germans, and.... fellas, WAR advances tech.
Modern tech started with the US Military (Score:2, Troll)
That said -- WTF, how is the parent modded Troll?! It's a Troll to tell the fucking truth?
Truly, this place has gone over to the fucking dogs.
Can someone explain to me what, exactly, was Trollish in the parent? Huh?
Oh right, most people here use Troll instead of replying a rebuttal.
the OP was right on the money. Just a little narrow in scope in who bumped up tech in the last big one. It was all the players... yes, even ITaly, where the hell you think the swept wing came from?
You sure did! And then you posted it on Slashdot. Tell us more about your dog whistle.
It's not made in china, it's nickel over brass, and I used it as an illustration of what I'm doing to put a scratch, however superficial, on companies who sold out their production to china to make a buck. I'll be using it to help a friend deal with his new Yorkie. But of course, I know you just be trollin', I"m just humoring you.
That's my point. If one objects to a certain way of doing business, do not support those businesses that do it that way.
Same with the movies. China-financed? Not interested.
Will not watch. Just like I try to boycott films which have Chinese financial backing.
Hurt them where they really feel it. If an American company takes Chinese money to make a movie, I will not see it.
That simple. I'm done.
My next phone will be a refurb, I will not take the First Hit for no phone company.
Hurt. Them.
I just bought a whistle for dog training. Went with Acme (UK), not HJN WGOW (or whatever made-up name shows up on amazon) I would've bought USA but couldn't find a single one.
HURT THEM