So really it just comes down to Politicians lying to get into power, then doing whatever their corporate masters tell them to do once they get there. Bush is an idiot, and transparently a corporate shill. Obama is just a slicker, more authoritative one.

Quite right, here's another word for Corporatist: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism Have a look at the first couple of lines.

In my experience an awful lot of Execs are idiots. Some of the statements made in meetings at the company I work at would cause our shareprice to plummet like a sheep if they were made public.

Yes, except that at 26c Northland is very warm, but pleasant. At +34C in Australia, its usually too hot to enjoy. Northland also has no poisonous things unless you count the Katipo spider, but I've never seen one, and I've been looking for 40 years or so. (Not continuously).

That would likely be true if The US were not just a one party state. Also have a look at this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism Take special note of this bit: "Fascists seek to organize a nation according to corporatist perspectives, values, and systems, including the political system and the economy." That's pretty much exactly what is happening here.

From reading the article, it seems to be both. I am assuming that "media lines" is marketing speak for some sort of advise on what to say. I don't know, however, as I don't speak marketing. That's what this seems to be. Just a political party that wants to control the message.

I didn't read the summary very closely and assumed this was about the death of big record companies!

Well, I think you should choose mine. I haven't ironed out all the wrinkles yet, but I think it'll work. It will involve beer somewhere along the line, I'm pretty sure about that. I haven't quite figured out how to make you send me money yet, and that seems to be the most important part of any church, so I'll fill in the rest of the details when I've got that bit sorted. Meanwhile, cheers.

The Pharaoh in question was Akhenaten, also known as Amenhotep IV. He introduced monotheism to the Egyptians, and made the god Aten the supreme god. It was a sort of Sun worship from what I can see. He was exised from history by the rulers who followed him, and only rediscovered later. (19th Century I think). So the answer to the question "Who created God"? is always "We did."

That happened in NZ last year. The guy involved wound up in court arguing that the device belonged to him, as the Police had left it on his car. He won too.

That's right. My SSD drive doesn't even make my dick get any bigger. Its still a really funny colour though.

Nice point, and in 1945 my Father was shot by a Nazi, (although of course he didn't die). Didn't stop the rest of his platoon killing the Nazi, and his (surrendered) comrades. Does that stop me from playing FPS games featuring Nazis? No. Does that stop me letting my kids doing the same? No. Do I talk to my kids about who the Nazis were and what happens in war? Of course. I don't see any reason to be offended by games featuring Nazis either. My Father carried the scars of war to his grave, both mental and physical, but there was no couselling or other help available, and I don't think it would have occured to him to ask for any anyway. War is not a pleasant thing for anyone. Some of these people getting upset about reality intruding on their comfortable lives need to understand that. The US cannot go to war and expect no casualties. The world doesn't work like that.

Yeah, but I've got a WiFi router, and my 10 year old is home with a cold today. You do the math.

Some people are still scared of that. A piece was reported on what passes for news on TV here recently that a study on cell phone radiation showed no correlation with cancer at all, but was "reported" as "Researchers can't find a correlation, but are not sure that there isn't one". The trouble with the whole report was at the end when they interviewed one of the researchers who basically said "There's no correlation, that we can find. The numbers just don't stack up" Then the dumb ass reported repeated that they were still looking. Sounded to me like the researchers had moved on actually.

What?! That seems very hard to believe. I live in New Zealand, one of the smallest, least densely populated countries in the world, and I have more choices that that!