You eat your Mcdonalds and large Cokes, and drive around full speed in your brand new black Civics, SUVs, whatever. You come home to a fully furnished apartment with the best AC, refridgeration and entertainment money can buy. Living, as you do, on the fat of the land -- how can any one who has responded thus far make any accurate assumptions, scientifically or otherwise, about the state of the natural world? Over a billion -- BILLION -- people live on less than a dollar a day. Cities of the dispossesed (read: Bangkok, Jakarta) with millions of teeming, poor, industrialized "market slaves" pull your microchips from your t-shirts.
Our entire economy is overseas, in cities made from jungles that were there in 1950. If you think that the change is in your back-yard, its not even really on the American continent. The 1/3 of the worlds resources they're speaking of are in the 3rd world-- where your luxuries are invisibly produced. In the future-- when as someone noted there are trade wars over resources-- and the 3rd world wakes up to realize "Oh, all the factories are here. Lets' just take over the total production line"-- then America's precious dot-conomy hits the fan and you're stuck, at 60 with NO social insurance, NO snazzy retirement package and are lucky to get a factory job back from India (where the coders now live)..
You think America/1st world is special? By globizationalization, we've empowered 3rd world countries to snatch resources as easily as our evangelical X-tian Texan redneck assholes do it.
Wake up: the elephant trade was destroyed by the Japanese and their fetish for a ivory stamp to put on their business papers.
They just recently discovered that the whole time we had thought there was only one kind of African elephant, there are actually two -- plains elephants and forest elephants (smaller, darker, almost untrackable). God made this world and our greed is annihilating it in ways no one can see from a desk.
Too many more biological scientists dont read./ instead of the engineer trash.
Audiogalaxy, as proficient user, was lightyears ahead of Napster and way way beyond Kazaa & the crowd. When you had it working for you, it would provide the most amazing music sent TO you by groups of people with similar interests, guaranteed to be good. Their biggest liability was that they didnt have the money to compete with the RIAA. They're not in violation of anything besides listing whats on your hard drive; but legally, it would take millions to prove a simple point. All they ever sold was AG t-shirts. God bless them for trying; music will be as free as language (look at us reading without paying $$ for it) some day. No executive deserves 500k/yr for making children behave like Britney Spears. Fuck 'em for being soulless, immoral and soon to be dead.
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You eat your Mcdonalds and large Cokes, and drive around full speed in your brand new black Civics, SUVs, whatever. You come home to a fully furnished apartment with the best AC, refridgeration and entertainment money can buy. Living, as you do, on the fat of the land -- how can any one who has responded thus far make any accurate assumptions, scientifically or otherwise, about the state of the natural world? Over a billion -- BILLION -- people live on less than a dollar a day. Cities of the dispossesed (read: Bangkok, Jakarta) with millions of teeming, poor, industrialized "market slaves" pull your microchips from your t-shirts. Our entire economy is overseas, in cities made from jungles that were there in 1950. If you think that the change is in your back-yard, its not even really on the American continent. The 1/3 of the worlds resources they're speaking of are in the 3rd world-- where your luxuries are invisibly produced. In the future-- when as someone noted there are trade wars over resources-- and the 3rd world wakes up to realize "Oh, all the factories are here. Lets' just take over the total production line"-- then America's precious dot-conomy hits the fan and you're stuck, at 60 with NO social insurance, NO snazzy retirement package and are lucky to get a factory job back from India (where the coders now live).. You think America/1st world is special? By globizationalization, we've empowered 3rd world countries to snatch resources as easily as our evangelical X-tian Texan redneck assholes do it. Wake up: the elephant trade was destroyed by the Japanese and their fetish for a ivory stamp to put on their business papers. They just recently discovered that the whole time we had thought there was only one kind of African elephant, there are actually two -- plains elephants and forest elephants (smaller, darker, almost untrackable). God made this world and our greed is annihilating it in ways no one can see from a desk. Too many more biological scientists dont read ./ instead of the engineer trash.
Audiogalaxy, as proficient user, was lightyears ahead of Napster and way way beyond Kazaa & the crowd. When you had it working for you, it would provide the most amazing music sent TO you by groups of people with similar interests, guaranteed to be good. Their biggest liability was that they didnt have the money to compete with the RIAA. They're not in violation of anything besides listing whats on your hard drive; but legally, it would take millions to prove a simple point. All they ever sold was AG t-shirts. God bless them for trying; music will be as free as language (look at us reading without paying $$ for it) some day. No executive deserves 500k/yr for making children behave like Britney Spears. Fuck 'em for being soulless, immoral and soon to be dead.