No offense Jane, but yer a sellout. So are you Fensler. While neither of you are as bad as, say, the phone companies, you are both doing the whole "let's sell stuff on the Internet" thing.
I've always hated this. To me, everything online should be free. Well, I think that about physical things too, but that's sort of an implausible prospect that the moment. basically, you could call me a net-jew, or an anarcho-stingy, or even a cheap bastard who doesn't want to contribute to this great new ecconomy. That's because I earnestly believe that selling shit is the most baseless and non-moral act available to humanity. Sorry dad, but I truly believe that advertising is evil. Selling food, gas, furniturethings that someone walks into the store and needs, fine. Dandy. Go ahead to the supermarket. But please, supermarkets: sell the stuff at an even cost. The capitalistic ecconomy breeds utter mercenaries who are bent upon raping and pillaging in the one remaining wild west! Business is that vast pirate infested waters of the Caribean in the 1700's. Enron, WorldCom, and Martha have all passed their buttfuckings on downt he line to the folks at the bottom. And this is almost encouraged.
We get bills from AT&T. We have no contracts or service agreements with them. V has no long distance. They provide us with nothing. Yet they send us bills for amounts like $5.00, and hope that we will pay out of habit or duty. They call all hours of the night and demand that I make rude noises at them, and present them with heavily slobber-encrusted lewd suggestions. I don't fucking want to do that! I'm not asking you poor women to call! I really don't want to be so rude, and I know you personally aren't responsible for calling me.... But them's the rules of the game, toots.
Supermarkets are quickly realizing that they make the most money on items that are sold to the highest paying customers. These items, like Carr's crackers, olive oils, meats, and other fru-fru stuff can cost the same to make as their normal competetors, yet the stores and manufacturers can mark them up extra high because the customers expect this.
It's all obscene profiteering. And yes, I'm bringing this all around to the record industry. Each CD and case costs no more than $0.10 to print. And they are sold for nothign less than $12, usually higher. Obscene profits. Wherever there are obscene profits, there are crrupt assfucks skimming off the pension funds.
And lets not even get started on Saturday morning cartoons, if you can call them that. It's more like "2 minutes of episodic toy advertisement, six minutes of miscelaneous cereal, toy, MacDonalds, movie, game ads, 2 more minutes of episodic toy advertisement, 6 minutes of more miscelaneous psychologically targeted advertisements that will tell little girls they are fat and poor, little boys they are wimpy and unagressive, and convince all children that happiness is only available wrapped in plastic and sold at the mall for $6.99.
Anyone have any idea how many child psycologists the advertising industry employs?