Boy Scouts in the Los Angeles area will now be able to earn a merit patch for learning about the evils of downloading pirated movies and music.
Be loyal, kind and don’t steal movies
The brainwashing continues.
There’s even talk of stores installing facial recognition programs and license plate readers to catch repeat offenders. You’re not likely to notice much of a difference at your favorite shopping haunts. But make no mistake — they’re noticing you.
Attention, Shoplifters
Retail collecting even more data on its customers? Nice.
MyspaceBashing.com Forums :: Index
Lot of wasted MySpace hate misdirected at its users rather than the more disturbing aspect of MySpace and social networking sites. Still. Some of the threads are pretty amusing.
How bad does Circuit City want your money? So much so that the retailer is willing to “instal” backward compatibility on your Xbox 360.
Sleazy Circuit City Ripping Off Xbox 360 Customers – Kotaku
Thats pretty dirty. Probably a lot of suckers out there that paid for that service too.
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Company officials had told employees in a series of meetings that layoff notices would be delivered electronically, spokeswoman Kay Jackson said. She said employees were invited to ask questions before Tuesday’s notification on a company intranet site.
RadioShack uses e-mail to fire 400 employees as part of planned job cuts | ajc.com
Shady…imagine if it got caught [...]
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…after learning that the defendant had passed away, the RIAA made a motion to stay the case for 60 days in order to allow the family time to “grieve”, after which time they want to start taking depositions of the late Mr. Scantlebury’s children
Shady RIAA at it again:
Recording Industry vs The People
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Western values ‘are causing mental illness’ – World – Times Online
This is kind of sad, but I think corporate greed and the commoditization of employees kind of forces it.
“Maybe we’re Crazy”
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US carmakers and auto-mobile insurers are unshakably certain that vehicles protected by “transponder immobil-izers” can’t be driven without the proper keys – or, at least, that circumventing those transponder systems takes more sweat and money than most auto thieves are willing to expend. So car companies advertise their security systems as unbreakable, insurers and consumers [...]
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MetLife’s Human Life Value Calculator
WTF?!
“You’re worth more than you think.”
Now I dont know about you but I think my life is worth more than anything in this world. That includes the Mona Lisa, the colliseum of rome, etc. How the hell is some web page going to even attempt?
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My two cents: all for faster internet. Not for paying more for it, considering that internet has transformed from independent content to corporate fuckery. Oh and the propaganda behind it is a little reminiscent of no-child-left behind (cause no child moves forward).
While this picture looks like a nice utopia (on your way to a bubble) [...]
