[lbo-talk] RE: lbo-talk Digest/ring tones

[Celi Ben]

someone said there was a Time poll where they said what's your opinion of
Ann Coulter, and it was 10% good, 10% bad, and 80% hadn't heard of her,
which is refreshing. I couldn't find that at the site, but they had a
featured story about how the youth are driving new technology and
innovation, and the market will be catering to them in the future. But the
example they devoted the article to was cell phone ring tones. The youth
all use cell phones at a higher frequency in high school than adults do,
and they don't just make calls and text message, but they are basically
driving  future economic growth by buying: individualized ring tones and
wallpaper. Which for some reason I would expect to spend as much on in a
yearly budget as roles of masking tape. 
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1042443,00.html Companies 
are busy brainstorming
new individualized cell phone entertainment to make billions, like
listening to music by dialing a number and ordering songs. I mean, to hell
with the essential parts of the economy for providing transportation,
food, housing, education, and healthcare - ring tones! with text
messaging, I still don't see why waiting until you get to a keyboard so
you don't get tendonitis, or even saving your thoughts until you see your
friend isn't a lot more efficient unless it is for friends in another room
in high school where they aren't allowed to get up and walk over to them.

We covered the UC Berkeley ethnic studies/academic freedom forum.
http://www.indybay.org/education/ where he touches on Brown. My friend and I 
agree that even though Churchill is a good speaker, he keeps failing to 
understand how many others are failing to understand him,so he isn't picking 
up on social cues on one hand, but society isn't picking up on social cues 
by failing to be aware of what's going on in the rest of the world and the 
laundry list of incidents in his book... and there is quite a bit riding on 
this - ,  there are great speakers who can communicate how millions of 
people are poor in other countries due to U.S. economic policy, and many are 
killed or terrorized by military intervention, or local military funding 
from the U.S., and there is an ethical duty to do something about it. But 
none of these speakers would ever be plucked out for the national stage. But 
Churchill for instance was trying to describe a symbolic example of 
Eichmanns (and can't he pick another nonGerman manager of atrocity for 
once?) with this story about a racist bar in the financial district, but 
there are other more simple, powerful examples he could have chosen.
>I never said they did, and I think people who DO believe that are nuts --
>not even worth debating, really. You are confusing me with Wanzala.
>Icepick-wielding "Stalinist" three-quarters-Polish-Americans on the one 
>hand
>and conspiracy theorists from Africa on the other do indeed look alike on
>the Internet, though, so I guess I don't blame you, particularly since
>you're clearly not the readin'-comprehension type.
>
>
>Further, Chuck unleashes another really, really dumb cliche, making it
>difficult to believe that he really is this stupid, but there you are:
>
> > I have a plan. I work with people who have plans. We accomplish
> > shit, unlike you and your petit bourgeoise liberal friends.
>
>If nothing else, Chuck, you're occasionally good for a laugh. Just not with
>this one. Some things are so dumb, they're funny. And other things are even
>dumber still -- and as a result, not funny at all.
>
>By the way, you misspelled "bourgeois."

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