The Evils of Starbucks

Here is an excellent article on how poorly Starbucks treats its employees. Starbucks and Walmart are horrible for workers rights. Link

Workers revolt! or at least unionize.

MPAA pwnd by DIGG and the users of the free internet

This weeks Little Orphan Annie secret decoder ring secret code is:

09-f9-11-02-9d-74-e3-5b-d8-41-56-c5-63-56-88-c0

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Countdown to life without Bush

This is my new favorite key chain gadget! It counts down the days to when the dolt GW is ousted by our constitution. Unless of course he becomes the true dictator he aspires to be. I can't believe the military brainwashed me enough to actually vote for this douche bag.

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Best of two worlds

The best that the U.S. and Russia have to offer come together in Africa. Isn't life grand?

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Do NOT Buy Monster Cables!

This is the biggest scam in the home theater world. For instance Monster is selling Nintendo Wii component cables for $60 which is double what Nintendo charges for the official cables and up to six times what you can expect to pay for third party cables. Mind you the Wii only displays 480p. There is no possible way that there is a $50 difference in the quality of video between my $10 cables and Monster's $60 ones. I doubt most people could even tell the difference between the two.

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Lets all buy only EMI's tunes

clipped from www.engadget.com

EMI will now be available on iTunes DRM free! This is the first hammer coming down on the Belrin wall or DRM. Steve got the ball rolling but a major record company actually following through is amazing.

Go NPR!!!

NPR is fighting the RIAA's attempts to raise royalties through an internet rate increase.

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Would you like a police state with that?

Police in this country are out of control! People should not be afraid of police. There was a time when police were supposed to protect and serve the people, not themselves or the government.

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Take a picture in Miami, go to jail

Miller said that in the next instant, he was surrounded by the officers. One attempted to trip kick him to fall to the ground, but he was concerned about his expensive camera equipment, so he tried not to fall on his face. He heard one officer say “He’s resisting arrest!”

Miller tried to explain he wasn’t, but he’d lost his negotiating leverage a few minutes back. He went down hard on one knee. The officers planted (Miller said slammed) his face into the concrete and twisted his wrists and arms behind him to the point of pain.

“They were treating me like I was uncontrollable, a meth addict or something,” he said. “I tried to explain, but one of them said, ‘If you don’t shut up, I’m going to tase you.’”

Miller, at last, shut up.

What does nationality matter?

Since when does the nationality of a college students matter even if he is depressed ands threatens that he has a bomb??? This is how the media continually feeds the flames of racism and bigotry.

clipped from www.cnn.com

Police: Depressed student said he had bomb, anthrax

ROLLA, Missouri (AP) -- Nearly two dozen people were being decontaminated Tuesday after a white, powdery substance was found on a student who claimed to have a bomb and threatened "terrorist-type" actions at the University of Missouri-Rolla, officials said.

The man, described as a graduate student depressed about his grades, also claimed to have anthrax, according to police. School officials said "possible bomb materials" were found when he was taken into custody.

The man's identity and nationality were not released, though school spokesman Lance Feyh said he was an international student.

Quote of the day

"Stop buying products that serve any other master than you." Joel Johnson



This was in reference to an article he wrote for Gizmodo (link) about how what a joke consumer electronics are. The is a perfect description of DRM riddled products such as Microsoft's Plays for Sure, and Apple's Fairplay (which Steve Jobs want to gets rid of but Hollywood has a gun bazooka held to his head). If I legally purchase an album or a movie of of the intertubes I should be able to do whatever the hell I want with it. But no, the music industry and Hollywood stooges get to tell what I'm allowed to do with MY property. I purchased the product, not rented it. Anyway, as that went way off topic, read the article I linked to earlier.

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