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HUMAN COCKFIGHTS & OTHERS
(2006) NEWSWEEK, 10/9 50/ SCELFO Human cockfighting is back in a big way. The Feds tried to kill it years ago, but the retro males fought back. Even Vietnam war vet, Senator John McCain tried to stop it, but failed. If we got porn, why not violence? This is a street fight in a cage with a few rules. SPIKE TV has most of it and makes a ton of money. Its ratings for 18-34 is greater than basketball, hockey, or baseball. Someday, we could have live kills followed by live rapes. Now, that's entertainment! (2006) BUSINESS WEEK 10/9 47-49/ OREY Corporate snoops are used to looking at other corporations and you. Here are there tricks. DUMPSTER DIVING. If you don't shred, you may be dead to you competitor .PHANTOM INTERVIEW. Your competitor interviews at your company hoping that a random remark or related becomes outside knowledge.VIDEO SURVEILANCE. Tiny little cameras can now be placed anywhere and everywhere in your company. INFILTRATION. You hire them, and they gather information for another company. 56-57/ MATLACK You buy that beautiful watch with a fantastic brand name at 50% off. What do you get? It is a knock off or fake. Blame it on globalization amongst other things. 77/ HIBBARD Here are some of the latest myth busters in web design. Folks want star news over real news. Users want gadgets that are easy to use rather than a common page with an enter button followed by gadgets on various pages. Moving a search box can affect millions of searchers. (2006) THE ECONOMIST ______/72-73 Russian television in the long ago past was known for mind numbing documentaries on agricultural production or a long winded speeches by the latest dictator. Now it is open to many things including Reality Tv. So you now get a sex show, or a story about Stalin in its revisionist form. You also get violence. How about Babushka Swap? _____/77-79
SECOND LIFE is a metaverse. It introduces you to a life that is experience by advanced Schizophrenia. You enter a door and the floor falls away unto which you walk on clouds. Suddenly a nice man makes nice and then starts screaming obscenities. You are in a virtual world that inhabits three fourths of a million people. This is for folks that want to go deep inside themselves by way of a virtual world. SECOND LIFE is not pre-program so if you join, you help create as others do a world that you may feel that you belong. SECOND LIFE is also used for autistic learners and for distant learners.
_____/ 89 A new theory of life is gaining ground over string theory. Importantly, how do you get relativity and quantum theory together.It is called LOOP QUANTUM GRAVITY.
(2006) THE WEEK 10/13 ______/17 There is a new movement to outlaw birth control of any kind. It starts with traditional Catholics but is now finding room on among Protestant Evangelicals. Birth control cheapens sex, so it should be outlawed. The way to go of marrieds and particularly singles is abstinence. _____/28 When your brain is on extra testosterone, you get 'roid rage.You can also get brain damage. Males have 20 times more testosterone than females. _____/ 50 Who cheats the most on exams? Business students. (2006) TIME 10/9 /
_____/8 James Baker, the advisor and Secretary of state in President George H. W. Bush's white house is Black. That is if you accept the one-drop criteria of Blackness.
24-27/Allen & Carney Republicans have a secret weapon. It is MONEY. They also have superior strategies to win. 58-59/ Sullivan War will diminish when the true believers of religion and politics diminish. When Cafeteria Christian re-emerge or if they re-emerge, we may see diminishment of struggle.
(2006) U.S. New & WORLD REPORT 45-46/ Leveled New cars coming from inventors, are making hybrids that get 100 miles per gallon. Toyota and others are looking for a stronger and lighter battery. If and when that happens, down goes the consumption of gasoline or whatever the energy source. |
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