Comment Re:A Waste? (Score 1) 309
Wow, that was interesting.
The mod system works!
Comment Re:Interesting Discussion (Score 1) 346
I used to punch drunk bums in the face for cash
oh! what ever happened to my adolescent innocence?!
Comment Re:Stay Away. (Score 0, Troll) 95
or perhaps you were TOO YOUNG to understand that PC > N64
Comment Re:World improves (Score 2, Insightful) 921
Organic foods has become a marketing term, the benefits of locally grown organic foods are economic in nature, not health-wise. If they lack pesticides and potentially harmful hormones then that is an added benefit. I think if you compare organic milk to diet pepsi, you will find that there are benefits; or twinkies vs organic corn. However, the molecular structure of peppers, whether they are grown in a farm, or in an indoor "artificial" environment, should not change-at least not to the point that one is healthy and the other is not. However, if you get peppers from kentucky, and you live in maine, there is a lot of added cost (which can be subsidized by the government) that creates added cost that is transparent to the consumer. Also, there are other more dubious problems of having a completely centralized food source. I still would like to know what "organic frosted mini wheats" are, and why are they 2 dollars more than the normal ones...
China Bans Shock Treatment For Internet Addiction 113
angry tapir writes "China has banned the use of shock therapy to treat Internet addiction after its use at one hospital sparked nationwide controversy. The hospital drew wide media coverage in recent months after Internet users claiming to have received the treatment wrote in blogs and forums about being tied down and subjected to shocks for 30 minutes at a time."
Iran Tries To Pacify Protesters With Lord of The Rings Marathon 419
Iranian state television's Channel Two is playing a Lord of the Rings marathon in an attempt to keep people inside watching hobbits and not protesting in the streets. Normally, people in Tehran are treated to one or two Hollywood movies a week, but with recent events the government hopes that sitting through a nine-hour trilogy will take the fight out of most of the protesters. Perhaps this was not the best choice in films if you want your people not to believe that "even the smallest person can change the course of the future."
Comment Re:Off topic: What idiot modded this up? (Score 3, Funny) 242
you must be new here.
Submission + - Shock Jocks Testing Limits of Free Speech
walnutmon writes: "The New York based Opie and Anthony show has pushed the limits of even satalite radio this morning when a homeless guy, called by the pair "Homeless Charlie", began to rant about high profile women that he would like to... have relations with. He did this while Opie and Anthony pushed him to keep going, afterwords telling Charlie that he is welcome to come by and share his thoughts any time.
The story gained recognition, and became well known after it was linked on the Drudge Report. Check out the audio and judge for yourself.
Should action be taken against the shock jocks? Do you find this kind of talk offensive, or funny, or neither?"
The story gained recognition, and became well known after it was linked on the Drudge Report. Check out the audio and judge for yourself.
Should action be taken against the shock jocks? Do you find this kind of talk offensive, or funny, or neither?"
Submission + - This Land is My Land: Rich Stake Their Claim
theodp writes: "What do you do with a $1 billion cigarette payday? If you're Brad Kelley, you go on a land shopping spree, buying hundreds of thousands of acres in Texas and another 60,0000 in Florida for your rhinos, pygmy hippos, gazelles, antelopes, wildebeests, impalas, and wart hogs. The WSJ reports that the rich are accumulating open spaces across the U.S., much as they have with vacation homes, automobiles and paintings in the past. Techies making the Top 100 Landowners List include Jeff Bezos (#27) and Tom Siebel (#66)."
Submission + - Sony Gets Bad Press from Grusome Publicity Stunt
walnutmon writes: Sony is suffering a backlash from a recent publicity stunt that seems to have been in bad taste.
In a time of increasing public sensitivity to video game violence, Sony has gone to the extreme by publishing pictures from a party featuring topless cocktail waitresses and, get this: a freshly decapitated goat.
From the article:
Sony has been no stranger to bad press in recent years, between a rootkit scandal and countless corporate mishaps, this latest debacle just begs the question: When are they going to learn that there is such thing as bad press?
In a time of increasing public sensitivity to video game violence, Sony has gone to the extreme by publishing pictures from a party featuring topless cocktail waitresses and, get this: a freshly decapitated goat.
From the article:
The corpse of the decapitated animal was the centerpiece of a party to celebrate the launch of the God Of War II game for the company's PlayStation 2 console.
Guests at the event were even invited to reach inside the goat's still-warm carcass to eat offal from its stomach.
Sickening images of the party have appeared in the company's official PlayStation magazine — but after being contacted by The Mail on Sunday, Sony issued an apology for the gruesome stunt and promised to recall the entire print run.
Sony has been no stranger to bad press in recent years, between a rootkit scandal and countless corporate mishaps, this latest debacle just begs the question: When are they going to learn that there is such thing as bad press?
