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Comment Re:Yup - the story is doing its job (Score 1) 369

I'll second this. I could bring this country to its knees with $5000 on a Home Depot card. Drive past electrical substation, throw long and thick piece of wire, keep driving. That's just off the top of my head. Heck, I live in Portland, where the main water supply is open to the air, and in a city PARK. People jog past it.

There is no threat. I am much more likely to be killed by a drunk driver than a terrorist.

Comment I am not afraid (Score 1) 369

I am not afraid of a word document. This is nothing. Why must we always be afraid? Perhaps we wouldn't tolerate always being a war if we didn't have An Enemy to be afraid of.

I have books in my house with dangerous information. Having information is not a crime. Have a desire is not a crime. Writing down that you want to release bubonic plague on people is a FAR cry from having the actual means and will to do so.

A terrorist can take my life, but let's face it. Odds are, I'll die in a car accident. Terrorists with ACTUAL bombs don't scare me. Terrorists with word documents on a laptop certainly don't scare me.

The only people that hurt my freedom were Americans that keep voting stupid.

I'm going to download lots of dangerous information on my laptop. Perhaps a chemistry book or two. Perhaps my own country should invade my house.....

Comment Re:Washington DC think tanks (Score 1) 465

You think people are making money from the idea that humans are causing global warming? All those scientists flush with Fat Cash, right? All those really influential people like.... who again?

And ... you... don't see the people making Fat Cash from ignoring the idea that humans are causing global warming? All those rich oil dudes... Nothing?

How does that WORK?

Comment People like you... (Score 3, Informative) 643

Well, I guess that since a tiny slice of the cops MIGHT disable their cameras, we shouldn't do it at all. We probably shouldn't do anything at all, ever. We should probably just make murder legal and stop prosecuting it, since some people still murder...

I do not understand how people with this outlook can get anything done in life.

Cameras are good. They keep everyone, cops and public, polite. If the camera doesn't work, that comes out in the courtroom. That's what the courtroom is for.

Comment Re:People should leave. They Don't. (Score 1) 257

You can TRY.

I buy specific New Balance shoes, because they're made in America and theoretically made under some labor laws. I buy my clothing second hand. At least I'm not the one who payed the blood price on them. I try to buy local food, or at least Organic. I ride my bike and take public transportation as much as possible. When I need to buy a power tool, I hit Craigslist and buy an older (and usually better made and cheaper to boot) tool instead of buying new. My computers are bought second hand as well. A four year old Laptop surfs the web, programs, and does CAD work just fine. Etc.

Blah blah, I'm awesome... the point is, you can TRY. If consumers shifted their consumption patterns just a LITTLE bit, it would send a big message. Just look at food. 15 years ago, the concept of an Organic isle in Safeway was inconceivable. Look at chocolate. Fair trade is better than not fair trade. Even buying from the same company, but Organic, means that company is behaving better. People wanted better chocolate, and they wanted to feel like they weren't taking advantage. The market shifted in response.

Or you could just not care, because there's nothing you can do. I think that's the biggest lie we as Humans have to overcome. There is PLENTY you can do. Amazing things happen when folks organize and share effort.

Comment People should leave. They Don't. (Score 4, Interesting) 257

Right after the BP oil spill, I stood outside my house and watched cars go into an AM/PM for gas. Right across the road was a Shell (not that Shell is innocent or anything). I thought to myself "BP just did a Bad Thing, why are people buying from AM/PM? It says 'part of BP' right on the sign!"

Perhaps it was habit? Perhaps it was that the gas was 5cents cheaper a gallon?

This still bugs me to this day. Five cents a gallon, with each person having approximately a 10-15gal tank.. They couldn't or wouldn't spend 50-75 cents to send a message.

There are already a lot of posts saying "where would they go to?". I get that. I do. But we still need to pull our heads out of our (not so) collective asses. There is only one thing that a company fears, and that is a drop in profit. As long as it's profitable to take advantage of us, they will. It's not THAT much effort to be a conscious consumer. People have been doing it with food. They just need to extend it to other things.

Comment Re:Every week there's a new explanation of the hia (Score 1) 465

There are two ice caps. The one that is ice floating in warming water is melting. The other one is over a land mass, and hence not melting with warming water. The mount of ice on the southern pole is regulated by wind and snowfall. More heat in the system makes more vigorous winds, hence freezing more.

This is not unexplained. You just didn't look.

Comment Re: Washington DC think tanks (Score 1) 465

You do realize you sound crazy.... right? The "green" solar agenda is to shift money to untaxable locations and hide it (I thought that was EVERYONE's agenda), and to divert the world's attention by hating the world and killing everyone?

I... wow. What does anyone say to that? Where did you GET that?

Comment Re:Correction: (Score 3, Insightful) 338

How do you fight a corporation? I'm very curious... :D

I'm very involved in local politics. I've met my state reps, several times. You CAN fight city hall, you just need enough people.

I'm pretty sure that if you posted nasty things about your local government, the cops would not actually beat you and put you in jail. That's a big bit of hyperbole you have there. Corps don't have armies? Ever heard of the Pinkertons? They did a LOT of head busting back in the day. Well, union busting. :D

I guess the point here is that you CAN change an organization if you get enough people, if you organize, and hurt them (either votes or money) until they do what you want. At the heart of it both my city government and a corporation are just large organizations.... But the corporation's bottom line is Profit, and the Government's bottom line is Services Delivered. Both have all the benefits of large organizations (economy of scale, etc) and the drawbacks (corruption, slowness, etc)

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