Ok, but where did you buy the computer you are typing on?
You saw this, right?: "And, in case you haven't noticed, I use the word "we" a lot. I concentrate on buying local, organic foods and made in America products. Have I always? No. Do I spend my life in a mall? No. I actually won't step foot in a mall or in a chain restaurant, and so on and so on."
The computer I am typing on was provided by the library. My laptop is an HP, which could have been made in CHina, Palo Alto, Texas, or Mexico. I'll get back to you as it is of utmost importance to the point I was making.
Screw it, let's say it was made in China. Your turn.
Too easy. Say you actually followed your own advice, and didn't buy a made-in-chinese-sweatshop HP laptop- lets say you walk to the library in made in USA shoes and clothes, and only use the public resource for your computer needs. The library bought all those computers from a made-in-chinese-sweatshop company. Whats worse, is the federal govt had to borrow the money from China, just to give it to the bankrupt states, to disperse so their municipalities could afford those sweatshop computers, and if you work- your tax dollars (both state and fed) are supporting free-trade with an oppressive, anti-human rights country.
I'll bet we agree on "China is bad" when it comes to labor laws, and many other areas...
All Im sayin, is you are just as much a supporter of this system as anyone with a iphone, b/c nobody can avoid it... Its everywhere. And our modern lives demand that these things are necessary. If you disagree, then take Chadwick's advice, and try living in the jungle... :shock: I can guarantee AT&T wont have service there.
Simply having "consciousness" of the situation, does not, an innocent make- although I bet it plays well to say such high minded things in certain circles. AMT, being one of them.
grotesque... bullshit crap not one swingin dick needs. iphone1, iphone2, iphone3, iphone4, & now iphone5... like what the fuck? when will it stop? once they added a camera to a phone i knew we were fucked as a people of planet earth. not one swingin dick sees this or understand this except for maybe some old school natives livin in a jungle someplace
which by the way i wanna salute them fuckers so badly. i am actually jealous of jungle people. i wanna live the way they live. this new updated haul ass world bites my balls
1. Why the prejudice for the iPhone? Isn't your computer just as culpable as the phone? Its probably just the Apple corporation, and your interpretation of what it stands for that bugs you... the phone is actually kind of handy.
2. What is keeping you from following your dreams and living in the jungle? Seriously. Why are you NOT doing it?
Thanks.
Are you serious?
Your reply was silly.
1. Why the prejudice for the iPhone? What is the topic of the thread? I am talking about gluttonous materialism in this country. I am talking about the idea that people place value on the things they own and not on who they are.
2. What?
Let me add that I will not reply to anymore of your juvenile responses. When your discourse rises above the level of a gibbon, then we can engage.
1.What you're describing is a philosophical problem, not an iPhone problem. So, your thread title is a little narrow.
2. Ya, my bad- I think I confused what you said w/ chadwick's jungle dream.
Call me a gibbon? I must have been close to making sense... b/c you dissolve into name-calling.
Oh well... Must be frustrating for you to live in this unjust world. Look up Miniver Cheevy... you and he would make good companions.
If someone wants to get the newest technology, so be it.
I don't get the rabidness of folks who feel they need to always own the latest and greatest (whether or not it's even affordable!), but again, so be it...just as I don't get waiting for hours on end in line to buy it.
Their choice, in this beautiful world - because it's not just America.
All I can do is live my own life...to try (and sometimes fail) to "be the change I want to see"...and to sometimes sit on the sidelines, pointing and laughing at what I perceive to be the absurdity of others.
sold -- and i want the first one in Iowa please --- because i am a greedy PIG!
Race ya!!!
that's some funny shit I don't care who ya are
I was told by the gal at T-mobil that my mytouch phone by LG was one of the last sold in San Diego, the new ones are made by a different company and not as good for some reason......so I got a LG mytouch for sale and bidding will start at $900
Jimmy Kimmel sent someone out to the streets of LA with an iPhone 4S. Kimmel told people they were playing with an iPhone 5. When they are told it's the new iPhone, they start conjuring up all sorts of reasons why it crushes the iPhone 4S. Again, it is an iPhone 4S
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Too easy. Say you actually followed your own advice, and didn't buy a made-in-chinese-sweatshop HP laptop- lets say you walk to the library in made in USA shoes and clothes, and only use the public resource for your computer needs. The library bought all those computers from a made-in-chinese-sweatshop company. Whats worse, is the federal govt had to borrow the money from China, just to give it to the bankrupt states, to disperse so their municipalities could afford those sweatshop computers, and if you work- your tax dollars (both state and fed) are supporting free-trade with an oppressive, anti-human rights country.
I'll bet we agree on "China is bad" when it comes to labor laws, and many other areas...
All Im sayin, is you are just as much a supporter of this system as anyone with a iphone, b/c nobody can avoid it... Its everywhere. And our modern lives demand that these things are necessary. If you disagree, then take Chadwick's advice, and try living in the jungle... :shock: I can guarantee AT&T wont have service there.
Simply having "consciousness" of the situation, does not, an innocent make- although I bet it plays well to say such high minded things in certain circles. AMT, being one of them.
1.What you're describing is a philosophical problem, not an iPhone problem. So, your thread title is a little narrow.
2. Ya, my bad- I think I confused what you said w/ chadwick's jungle dream.
Call me a gibbon? I must have been close to making sense... b/c you dissolve into name-calling.
Oh well... Must be frustrating for you to live in this unjust world. Look up Miniver Cheevy... you and he would make good companions.
I don't get the rabidness of folks who feel they need to always own the latest and greatest (whether or not it's even affordable!), but again, so be it...just as I don't get waiting for hours on end in line to buy it.
Their choice, in this beautiful world - because it's not just America.
All I can do is live my own life...to try (and sometimes fail) to "be the change I want to see"...and to sometimes sit on the sidelines, pointing and laughing at what I perceive to be the absurdity of others.
(what can I say? It's a good release
"Life Is What Happens To You When Your Busy Making Other Plans" John Lennon
Cannot wait to get that little beauty.
It's nice.
"Life Is What Happens To You When Your Busy Making Other Plans" John Lennon
Race ya!!!
I was told by the gal at T-mobil that my mytouch phone by LG was one of the last sold in San Diego, the new ones are made by a different company and not as good for some reason......so I got a LG mytouch for sale and bidding will start at $900
Godfather.
http://www.businessinsider.com/jimmy-kimmel-iphone-5-skit-2012-9