Google - Good corporate citizen ?
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@linea said:
I think the point is, you say "where do you stop?", but if we as consumers didn't stop but insisted, people that want to sell us stuff would soon evolve.
THat will never happen since we are groomed from the time we can talk to be good consumers. advertising, branding........ big corporations have convinced people that they care????????
its insane. 
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@sorgesu said:
http://www.goveg.com/factoryfarming_chickens.asp
So do you eat chicken?
I was just agreeing with your 'being a better person' supposition. And NO I don't eat chicken.
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I think it was Robert Reich who remarked on how we need to get real on this. Corporations are not people; they are formed to make money for a loose array of people, but we should treat corporations as entities that need strict regulation and have NO rights, beyond the laws of commerce. We shouldn't expect them to act like humans, nor give them the same freedoms.
(That goes for robots too, Googlebot.)
Susan, will you deny that it is human nature to cheat(among other things), and propose that Americans have a corner on the market? Perhaps it is wealth that creates greed and not the other way around. Anyway, I guess you are hanging with the wrong crowd.
to go further OT: Among nations this other sort of thing gives me shame, which extends to Mother England.: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7903516.stm
@unknownuser said:
It said the framework of international law that existed before the 9/11 attacks was robust and effective, but had been actively undermined by the US and the UK.
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@pbacot said:
I think it was Robert Reich who remarked on how we need to get real on this. Corporations are not people; they are formed to make money for a loose array of people, but we should treat corporations as entities that need strict regulation and have NO rights, beyond the laws of commerce. We shouldn't expect them to act like humans, nor give them the same freedoms.
(That goes for robots too, Googlebot.)
There you go.
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DE
SketchUcation should give out a Best (ongoing) Avatar award. And you should get it for your tireless efforts.
P.S. I like the second cover you post, of the history comics. El Cid driving out the Moors. How ironical in Europe's "struggle for civilization". That alone put "civilization" back a couple centuries, I guess.
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@pbacot said:
DE
SketchUcation should give out a Best (ongoing) Avatar award. And you should get it for your tireless efforts.
P.S. I like the second cover you post, of the history comics. El Cid driving out the Moors. How ironical in Europe's "struggle for civilization". That alone put "civilization" back a couple centuries, I guess.
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Thanks...
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xrok1 said:
@unknownuser said:
That will never happen since we are groomed from the time we can talk to be good consumers. advertising, branding........ big corporations have convinced people that they care???????? its insane.
What a depressing, futile picture of society you paint. I don't feel or live the same way, if I did I may as well accept that we will always live in a corrupt "corpocracy" and stop voting. In your perception I must be a terrible consumer. I must have failed the training and be a real embarrassment to the advertisers. I'm really pleased about that.
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linea, you should be proud that your eyes are open, so am i. you should also be sad that society as a whole is blind to it. if you watch 'religulous' the mike myers movie, its the same way with a lot of important issues.
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No I think more and more people are speaking up now, you've got to stand by your convictions.
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@unknownuser said:
No I think more and more people are speaking up now, you've got to stand by your convictions.
Those of us who feel safe enough to speak about these things have been talking long enough. It is time we took steps.
I walk to work every day. Rain or snow. It is about 3k to my office. I walk through a mostly residential area until I reach the core of the city. I feel lucky that I can walk. In the past two years I've been watching the morning comuters stream by me into the downtown area in their cars. Not a single person walks to work. In the summer I ride my bike. Not a single bike passes.
There is much talk about the carbon count but I don't listen any more. The talk is idle. No one takes action.
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@xrok1 said:
linea, you should be proud that your eyes are open, so am i. you should also be sad that society as a whole is blind to it. if you watch 'religulous' the mike myers movie, its the same way with a lot of important issues.
I think you mean Bill Maher. -
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