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Marc, what I'm saying is that there are two problems here. The US law is a problem, but changing that probably wouldn't do much. All it would do would be to take the ethical cover away from companies going overseas. But they would probably still do it for competitive reasons. The fact is that ...

mpbrockman wrote:

York99 wrote:...if Palin can make up words, so can I...

Really want to associate yourself with Palin (or George "the misunderestimated" Shrub)?

If you're asking me if I'd like to have a lot of influence and money for not really doing anything, then yes. Yes I do.

Sorry, this isn't exactly what you asked for, but I think it's relevant. And it's something I've been thinking about a lot in similar contexts to what you referenced, Justin.

Some things to bear in mind regarding internet forwards and political arguments:

http://www.cracked.com/article_19468_5 ...

Sorry if I wasn't clear. I'm not totally clear on what's confusing, but I'll take a swing at it.

I'm saying that there is a problem from both sides of the issue. On one side, US law compels corporations to maximize profits. On the other side, maximizing those profits is easy when there is cheap ...

Because of the law I mentioned in the first paragraph, the law pretty much requires them to do so.

So this isn't just a problem with our laws...

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Maybe I'm misunderstanding something there.

Sorry if I wasn't clear. I'm not totally clear on what's confusing, but I'll take a swing at it.

I ...

Hey Politics-Heads,

Does anyone know of web sites that...

1. Have very dumbed down explanations of various social/political issues?

2. Refute viral political email forwards?

Re: #2, I get these right-wing email forwards from my dad and they end up starting conversations between us when I knock ...

But if you look at its DNA, what motivates it... it's pure profit. Its reason for living is to make as much money as possible for its investors.

Exactly. Capitalism. I think faulting companies for that is naive and silly. All I'd like to see is them pay their fair share in taxes. Make money, yes ...

I have no idea what y'all are talking about. What can I do with a Q-Tip and some rubbing alcohol?

I think I was allowing third party cookies. Not positive, though. Still getting cookies by the truckload, but it's not messing anything up so I guess I don't really care.

Re: Slowness
Computer might just be showing some signs of age. It's only about 3 years old, but I don't know what else it would ...

I just cleared them again and then opened up Facebook for literally less than a minute. I then had nearly 2 dozen cookies. So I've found the main culprit. Now I just need to know how to stop it.

Lately my MacBook has been running slowly and pausing all the time.

Because I don't know what to do, yesterday I deleted all my cookies. Today I went back into wherever that happens and I had scores of cookies in there. I started deleting them one by one, but they were repopulating about as quickly ...

B. Tribe wrote:Is there a Giants oriented sports bar in town?

There's a There Might Be Giants sports bar on West 4th downtown.

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Piece!

I get frustrated by how some people define 'experimental.' I see people doing shows or moves within shows where they're trying to be experimental or avant garde and what it really is is self-satisfaction for the performer(s) and truly boring for experienced audience members.

The easiest example of ...