So, after reading every single post under this blurb, I have summarized two things.
1. We will find a way to circumvent this.
2. The mass market will, hopefully, ultimately, reject this.
Blatant optimism if you ask me. That post about phazeing out analog in 2006 is a prime example. YOu have to renember that the people working against -us- the consumers are very smart men. They are like us, only on the other side of the fence, the greedy, monopolistic 'Adult' side. The force caught inbetween our intellectual struggle is the average consumer. Whoever influences this force the most wins the struggle.
Now, in one corner, you have the multimedia giants..armed with billions of dollars, political ties, control over the media (and news broadcasts) and ultimately what is seen onones TV, heard over the radio, ect. In the other corner you have the geeks, the thinkers, the dreamers, the underpayed IT guy, the over-educated college Grad. Our weapons: Fanatasicism, limited resources (webpages on internet), more fanatascism..and a touch of technical knowhow.
To relate this to another topic, Think of Corporate America like the american army in Iraq. BIG GUNS, BIG BOMBS, Lots of Money, lots of high priced technology. Us? we're the Iraqis, we've got fanatiscism, we've got 'technical knowhow' (duct-tapeing gernade launchers to AK-47's, roadside bombs) and we've got 'limited resources' (Internet, dated russian equipment). Unfortunately, the seething masses are always more willing to listen to the home team then the visitors. TO the average indoctrinated, TV-bred american, the Corporate America is the home team, and we're the 'visitors'.
Thats the main diference, a important advantage the terrorists in Iraq have and one we -don't even have-. Is a rocky, craggy, uphill battle for the technicaly, socialy, politically educated but under-powered..and we have a larger number of uneducated, uncaring americans baring our way then ever before.
So, after reading every single post under this blurb, I have summarized two things.
1. We will find a way to circumvent this.
2. The mass market will, hopefully, ultimately, reject this.
Blatant optimism if you ask me. That post about phazeing out analog in 2006 is a prime example. YOu have to renember that the people working against -us- the consumers are very smart men. They are like us, only on the other side of the fence, the greedy, monopolistic 'Adult' side.
The force caught inbetween our intellectual struggle is the average consumer. Whoever influences this force the most wins the struggle. Now, in one corner, you have the multimedia giants..armed with billions of dollars, political ties, control over the media (and news broadcasts) and ultimately what is seen onones TV, heard over the radio, ect. In the other corner you have the geeks, the thinkers, the dreamers, the underpayed IT guy, the over-educated college Grad. Our weapons: Fanatasicism, limited resources (webpages on internet), more fanatascism..and a touch of technical knowhow.
To relate this to another topic, Think of Corporate America like the american army in Iraq. BIG GUNS, BIG BOMBS, Lots of Money, lots of high priced technology. Us? we're the Iraqis, we've got fanatiscism, we've got 'technical knowhow' (duct-tapeing gernade launchers to AK-47's, roadside bombs) and we've got 'limited resources' (Internet, dated russian equipment).
Unfortunately, the seething masses are always more willing to listen to the home team then the visitors. TO the average indoctrinated, TV-bred american, the Corporate America is the home team, and we're the 'visitors'. Thats the main diference, a important advantage the terrorists in Iraq have and one we -don't even have-.
Is a rocky, craggy, uphill battle for the technicaly, socialy, politically educated but under-powered..and we have a larger number of uneducated, uncaring americans baring our way then ever before.
In one sense, isn't it just paranoia to think we are being watched right now? (don't think I miss your sarcasm) However, in another, its really exciteing to think some pencil neck in washington is reading what we type -and actually cares-. We all need that feeling, deep down, that what we say really is noticed and appreciated. Especially if our words are filtering up the Domestic/Beaureacratic/Social/Corporate/Goverment ladder to those -other- intelligent people like ourselfs who just happened to fight (lie, cheat, walk on, mislead, ect) their way to the top.
Technically, it doesn't seem possible that washington possibly has the resources to monitor all the chatter on the net. Perhaps -targeted- chatter, moving these discussions to perhaps a web forum on a islamist's extremist's website, would garner us the resonance we'd all like to belive we have.
*switching topics*
Personally I find myself wavering on whether we should try and follow through with Iraq..become trully righteous (which will never happen)..or become a genocidal society that takes pleasure in the destruction of entire cultures bent against us.
One school of thought: Islamic culture is, moderate or not, against ours. They see the way we are, and they don't like it. Deep down in every muslims heart, they like it when they see americans get blown up. Look at all the celebrations after 9/11.
Is it trully a stretch to say that to envisage the death of Americans in your mind is no diffrent from the actual deed committed with your own bloodied hands? Is the underlying support given by the general muslim populace towards terrorist and anti-west efforts not as much a affront to the West as the actual bombings?
Look at muslim history, past to present. Look at their culture, look at their achievements. Before oil was discovered their greatest gifts to humanity were pretty rugs and the Bong(some would argue this is reason enough to enshrine them eternally.)(PS thats suppose to be funny, please don't lay into me with factoids on that one...). They have given nothing but violence, strife and poverty to this world.
Ok, Christians also gave those things, but we calmed down..they haven't.
Finnaly, do you not feel disgusted by their arrogance? Whether they take up arms against us in their minds or in their hands...dosen't it turn your stomach how they spit on us. Its the equivalent of a cockroach shitting on our shoe.
So what should we do? Systematic Nuclear Erradication! HooWah! Instantly errase a couple of islamic countrys from the earth, then gauge their attitude..if it gets worse, erase more countrys. Naturally the muslims will either learn the error in their ways and finnaly submit..or they all die. Either way, problem solved.....
Of course, then our culture would go down as one of the vilest, evil, demonic...wait, what am I saying, we did the exact same thing to the navtive americans and no one gave a fart...
Of course the other school of thought is to try and buddy up with the muslims and take away their innitiative to attack. That was my old belife too..but I'v familiarlized myself with the muslim way of thinking..generally, they will -never- accept us.
Final recourse: Stop buying their oil, reinvest our capital elsewhere, ect,ect. If they want to live in the stone age, we can assist! Or if they really do want to become a modern society, they should get up and take charge. Oh wait, we're talking about muslims, one of the most ass-backward people on this planet.
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So, after reading every single post under this blurb, I have summarized two things.
1. We will find a way to circumvent this.
2. The mass market will, hopefully, ultimately, reject this.
Blatant optimism if you ask me. That post about phazeing out analog in 2006 is a prime example. YOu have to renember that the people working against -us- the consumers are very smart men. They are like us, only on the other side of the fence, the greedy, monopolistic 'Adult' side. The force caught inbetween our intellectual struggle is the average consumer. Whoever influences this force the most wins the struggle.
Now, in one corner, you have the multimedia giants..armed with billions of dollars, political ties, control over the media (and news broadcasts) and ultimately what is seen onones TV, heard over the radio, ect. In the other corner you have the geeks, the thinkers, the dreamers, the underpayed IT guy, the over-educated college Grad. Our weapons: Fanatasicism, limited resources (webpages on internet), more fanatascism..and a touch of technical knowhow.
To relate this to another topic, Think of Corporate America like the american army in Iraq. BIG GUNS, BIG BOMBS, Lots of Money, lots of high priced technology. Us? we're the Iraqis, we've got fanatiscism, we've got 'technical knowhow' (duct-tapeing gernade launchers to AK-47's, roadside bombs) and we've got 'limited resources' (Internet, dated russian equipment). Unfortunately, the seething masses are always more willing to listen to the home team then the visitors. TO the average indoctrinated, TV-bred american, the Corporate America is the home team, and we're the 'visitors'.
Thats the main diference, a important advantage the terrorists in Iraq have and one we -don't even have-. Is a rocky, craggy, uphill battle for the technicaly, socialy, politically educated but under-powered..and we have a larger number of uneducated, uncaring americans baring our way then ever before.
So, after reading every single post under this blurb, I have summarized two things. 1. We will find a way to circumvent this. 2. The mass market will, hopefully, ultimately, reject this. Blatant optimism if you ask me. That post about phazeing out analog in 2006 is a prime example. YOu have to renember that the people working against -us- the consumers are very smart men. They are like us, only on the other side of the fence, the greedy, monopolistic 'Adult' side. The force caught inbetween our intellectual struggle is the average consumer. Whoever influences this force the most wins the struggle. Now, in one corner, you have the multimedia giants..armed with billions of dollars, political ties, control over the media (and news broadcasts) and ultimately what is seen onones TV, heard over the radio, ect. In the other corner you have the geeks, the thinkers, the dreamers, the underpayed IT guy, the over-educated college Grad. Our weapons: Fanatasicism, limited resources (webpages on internet), more fanatascism..and a touch of technical knowhow. To relate this to another topic, Think of Corporate America like the american army in Iraq. BIG GUNS, BIG BOMBS, Lots of Money, lots of high priced technology. Us? we're the Iraqis, we've got fanatiscism, we've got 'technical knowhow' (duct-tapeing gernade launchers to AK-47's, roadside bombs) and we've got 'limited resources' (Internet, dated russian equipment). Unfortunately, the seething masses are always more willing to listen to the home team then the visitors. TO the average indoctrinated, TV-bred american, the Corporate America is the home team, and we're the 'visitors'. Thats the main diference, a important advantage the terrorists in Iraq have and one we -don't even have-. Is a rocky, craggy, uphill battle for the technicaly, socialy, politically educated but under-powered..and we have a larger number of uneducated, uncaring americans baring our way then ever before.
In one sense, isn't it just paranoia to think we are being watched right now? (don't think I miss your sarcasm) However, in another, its really exciteing to think some pencil neck in washington is reading what we type -and actually cares-. We all need that feeling, deep down, that what we say really is noticed and appreciated. Especially if our words are filtering up the Domestic/Beaureacratic/Social/Corporate/Goverment ladder to those -other- intelligent people like ourselfs who just happened to fight (lie, cheat, walk on, mislead, ect) their way to the top.
Technically, it doesn't seem possible that washington possibly has the resources to monitor all the chatter on the net. Perhaps -targeted- chatter, moving these discussions to perhaps a web forum on a islamist's extremist's website, would garner us the resonance we'd all like to belive we have.
*switching topics*
Personally I find myself wavering on whether we should try and follow through with Iraq..become trully righteous (which will never happen)..or become a genocidal society that takes pleasure in the destruction of entire cultures bent against us.
One school of thought: Islamic culture is, moderate or not, against ours. They see the way we are, and they don't like it. Deep down in every muslims heart, they like it when they see americans get blown up. Look at all the celebrations after 9/11.
Is it trully a stretch to say that to envisage the death of Americans in your mind is no diffrent from the actual deed committed with your own bloodied hands? Is the underlying support given by the general muslim populace towards terrorist and anti-west efforts not as much a affront to the West as the actual bombings?
Look at muslim history, past to present. Look at their culture, look at their achievements. Before oil was discovered their greatest gifts to humanity were pretty rugs and the Bong(some would argue this is reason enough to enshrine them eternally.)(PS thats suppose to be funny, please don't lay into me with factoids on that one...). They have given nothing but violence, strife and poverty to this world.
Ok, Christians also gave those things, but we calmed down..they haven't.
Finnaly, do you not feel disgusted by their arrogance? Whether they take up arms against us in their minds or in their hands...dosen't it turn your stomach how they spit on us. Its the equivalent of a cockroach shitting on our shoe.
So what should we do? Systematic Nuclear Erradication! HooWah! Instantly errase a couple of islamic countrys from the earth, then gauge their attitude..if it gets worse, erase more countrys. Naturally the muslims will either learn the error in their ways and finnaly submit..or they all die. Either way, problem solved.....
Of course, then our culture would go down as one of the vilest, evil, demonic...wait, what am I saying, we did the exact same thing to the navtive americans and no one gave a fart...
Of course the other school of thought is to try and buddy up with the muslims and take away their innitiative to attack. That was my old belife too..but I'v familiarlized myself with the muslim way of thinking..generally, they will -never- accept us.
Final recourse: Stop buying their oil, reinvest our capital elsewhere, ect,ect. If they want to live in the stone age, we can assist! Or if they really do want to become a modern society, they should get up and take charge. Oh wait, we're talking about muslims, one of the most ass-backward people on this planet.