Comments on: This Week in the News: No One Gives a Crap http://halffull.org/2005/08/29/this-week-in-the-news-no-one-gives-a-crap/ distributed humor Thu, 20 Nov 2008 23:38:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: hulk http://halffull.org/2005/08/29/this-week-in-the-news-no-one-gives-a-crap/#comment-627 hulk Wed, 31 Aug 2005 21:55:01 +0000 http://halffull.org/?p=196#comment-627 <p>I don't feel bad for the idiots who died in their attics. If you're out of gas in your car just start walking!</p> I don’t feel bad for the idiots who died in their attics. If you’re out of gas in your car just start walking!

]]> By: Blue Midget http://halffull.org/2005/08/29/this-week-in-the-news-no-one-gives-a-crap/#comment-626 Blue Midget Wed, 31 Aug 2005 19:02:05 +0000 http://halffull.org/?p=196#comment-626 <p>Trent Reznor now doesn't want anything to do with Nothing Records? That's odd. I wonder why?</p> <p>The images that have been coming from the areas stricken by the hurricane are so awful. I feel terribly for the people who have been affected. As of this morning, the death toll was up to 110, and I am sure that by tomorrow there will be more. Just terrible.</p> Trent Reznor now doesn’t want anything to do with Nothing Records? That’s odd. I wonder why?

The images that have been coming from the areas stricken by the hurricane are so awful. I feel terribly for the people who have been affected. As of this morning, the death toll was up to 110, and I am sure that by tomorrow there will be more. Just terrible.

]]> By: Kristin http://halffull.org/2005/08/29/this-week-in-the-news-no-one-gives-a-crap/#comment-625 Kristin Wed, 31 Aug 2005 02:09:36 +0000 http://halffull.org/?p=196#comment-625 <p>Trent Reznor no longer lives in New Orleans. He moved to LA a while ago and sold his home in New Orleans about 5 months ago. From what I understand, Nothing is still there but he wants nothing to do with it. My heart goes out to the people who do live there though. I'm from Florida where 3 hurricanes hit last year and we didn't have to go through anything like that... it is just horrible.</p> Trent Reznor no longer lives in New Orleans. He moved to LA a while ago and sold his home in New Orleans about 5 months ago. From what I understand, Nothing is still there but he wants nothing to do with it. My heart goes out to the people who do live there though. I’m from Florida where 3 hurricanes hit last year and we didn’t have to go through anything like that… it is just horrible.

]]> By: hulk http://halffull.org/2005/08/29/this-week-in-the-news-no-one-gives-a-crap/#comment-624 hulk Tue, 30 Aug 2005 21:52:05 +0000 http://halffull.org/?p=196#comment-624 <p>I must say I'm in favor of being less informed about the goings on of the world. I should amend that. If you want to be truly informed, read the lesser papers of the world. The local ones. Google news allows you to do this. If you're reading a story about Kashmir, read something from Indian AND Pakistan. If you're reading a chinese story, read Xinhau and laugh at the propoganda. Stay away from Fox News, or CNN, or MSNBC, or any of the networks for real news. My problem is that mainstream (by this I mean network, cable news, talk radio and major newspapers) are controlling the populace through the media coverage. We are led to believe that the world is full of these trends and trained to think in the short term. We're all crying ourselves to sleep about oil. Let's see...the oil story started a few months ago...and experience tells us it will go away by next year. Yet we obsess about it now. Why? It's thrust into our consciousness by the liberal/conservative/Geraldo media complex. The thought passed through my mind today that we vote based on quips and one-liners. We seek simple solutions to complex problems. When was the last time a presidential candidate gave a two hour answer to the question, "Why is it so hard to have health care?" Instead we get, "Trial lawyers" or "Big corporations". I'm oversimplifying and sometimes they give an entire ten minutes analyzing the problem. It's rare, and it's rarer that the answer accounts for several different factors. Part of the problem is that politicians don't want to say the truth, that they are sometimes unwilling, sometimes unable to fix our problems. I reference the economy. The economy is such a complex beast that hundreds of college educated wall street analysts together can't figure it out, yet a presidential administration can somehow affect it? I don't believe that.</p> <p>Getting back to my point, I'd say most of the news is controlling us. I don't beleive that there's a consciousness to this control. However we do tend to get focused on a few issues at a time simply because one network will cover it, quickly followed by every other network. We become trained to flock to certain news outlets and opinion hacks and proceed to expound their points as bible truth (I'm certainly guilty of this). As such I would contend that we are acting as mindless tools of a system that has originated to preserve the world: an educated populace is dangerous. Thankfully we're all being dissuaded from thinking independently through classification and oversimplification and worrying about pretty white girls who've gone missing in countries full of brown people and we feel secure and the world is safe for another day.</p> <p>Vis a vis. Concordantly. That feels good.</p> I must say I’m in favor of being less informed about the goings on of the world. I should amend that. If you want to be truly informed, read the lesser papers of the world. The local ones. Google news allows you to do this. If you’re reading a story about Kashmir, read something from Indian AND Pakistan. If you’re reading a chinese story, read Xinhau and laugh at the propoganda. Stay away from Fox News, or CNN, or MSNBC, or any of the networks for real news. My problem is that mainstream (by this I mean network, cable news, talk radio and major newspapers) are controlling the populace through the media coverage. We are led to believe that the world is full of these trends and trained to think in the short term. We’re all crying ourselves to sleep about oil. Let’s see…the oil story started a few months ago…and experience tells us it will go away by next year. Yet we obsess about it now. Why? It’s thrust into our consciousness by the liberal/conservative/Geraldo media complex. The thought passed through my mind today that we vote based on quips and one-liners. We seek simple solutions to complex problems. When was the last time a presidential candidate gave a two hour answer to the question, “Why is it so hard to have health care?” Instead we get, “Trial lawyers” or “Big corporations”. I’m oversimplifying and sometimes they give an entire ten minutes analyzing the problem. It’s rare, and it’s rarer that the answer accounts for several different factors. Part of the problem is that politicians don’t want to say the truth, that they are sometimes unwilling, sometimes unable to fix our problems. I reference the economy. The economy is such a complex beast that hundreds of college educated wall street analysts together can’t figure it out, yet a presidential administration can somehow affect it? I don’t believe that.

Getting back to my point, I’d say most of the news is controlling us. I don’t beleive that there’s a consciousness to this control. However we do tend to get focused on a few issues at a time simply because one network will cover it, quickly followed by every other network. We become trained to flock to certain news outlets and opinion hacks and proceed to expound their points as bible truth (I’m certainly guilty of this). As such I would contend that we are acting as mindless tools of a system that has originated to preserve the world: an educated populace is dangerous. Thankfully we’re all being dissuaded from thinking independently through classification and oversimplification and worrying about pretty white girls who’ve gone missing in countries full of brown people and we feel secure and the world is safe for another day.

Vis a vis. Concordantly. That feels good.

]]> By: redshift http://halffull.org/2005/08/29/this-week-in-the-news-no-one-gives-a-crap/#comment-619 redshift Mon, 29 Aug 2005 23:02:55 +0000 http://halffull.org/?p=196#comment-619 <p>Warner's online label will be godawful. There is absolutely no chance that it will be, in any way whatsoever, redeeming. In fact, it will be a cesspit of foulness rivaled only by the RIAA itself. Perhaps when music exec jackasses get an ounce of grey matter in their thick, useless skulls and realize what would actually be good for artists and the public, I'll reconsider my pure hatred of them. Ha! I don't see that happening soon.</p> <p><em>...froth...</em></p> Warner’s online label will be godawful. There is absolutely no chance that it will be, in any way whatsoever, redeeming. In fact, it will be a cesspit of foulness rivaled only by the RIAA itself. Perhaps when music exec jackasses get an ounce of grey matter in their thick, useless skulls and realize what would actually be good for artists and the public, I’ll reconsider my pure hatred of them. Ha! I don’t see that happening soon.

…froth…

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