Archive for January, 2008
“If GM could sell a car that ran on pig shit, they would.”
0 Comments Published January 22nd, 2008 in Current Events, Nature, Pollution, TransportationI just saw a documentary call Who Killed the Electric Car? and found it pretty entertaining and even a bit informative, which makes it a real gem these days among what passes for documentaries. To ruin the surprise: YOU. And General Motors. And Big Oil. And the White House. And pretty much the whole establishment, [...]
For those that aren’t aware, China operates under a political economic system called communism. It has very little to do with those communes of the 60′s were everyone sang songs to acoustic guitar, had orgies, and occasional drank killer kool-aid. While similar to the vodka swilling, bravado laden, secret police toting Soviet Empire’s communism, again [...]
File sharing’s contributions towards the Rapture
0 Comments Published January 7th, 2008 in Culture & Society, Current EventsI recently watched a independent ‘documentary’ called Steal This Film II, which contends that the current fight against online file sharing is equivalent to the political and religious persecution that early book makers faced following the invention of the printing press. While the movie offers a lot of interesting perspectives, especially in the historical sense, [...]
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