Corporations @ MindSay

Here's a chilling thought: Wrigley Field may not be "Wrigley Field" for much longer.

Sam Zell, Chief Executive Officer of the Tribune Company, is planning to sell the Chicago Cubs and the stadium separately.  Whoever buys the stadium will have naming rights; a handful of potential buyers have already been approved by Major League Baseball.

I think any baseball fan out there would agree that this is beyond upsetting.

By now you all probably know about Wikiscanner, created by Virgil Griffith. It is a very impressive piece of software that cross-references wikipedia edits with data on the owners of the associated block of IP addresses. Basically, it tells you who owns the I.P. Addresses that are editing the information you are looking at. The results are interesting. According to Virgil, there are three common types of interesting vanadlism  and disinformation he has found:

Without naming any names, I've found three common kinds of vandalism.

1. Wholesale removal of entire paragraphs of critical information. (common for both political figures and corporations)
2. White-washing -- replacing negative/neutral adjectives with positive adjectives that mean something similar. (common for political figures)
3. Adding negative information to a competitor's page. (common for corporations)

This vandalism is usually fixed before most of us will see it, but it is interesting to see what a certain computer network is up to. Click here to see some examples.

Such as:

Pepsi deletes all long-term health effects

Of course Pepsi doesn't want this stuff known, and powerful corporations tend to go to great lengths to diminish the effects of bad publicity... that's why someone decided to delete all the long-term health effects associated with its product.

Republican Party Spills Harry Potter Spoiler

This just goes to show how evil Republicans can be.

US Department of Justice/ ATF suggesting Bush stole the 2000 election

Who knows? May be true... haha.

dems think Rush is a racist, bigot, jerkoff

Probably true as well.

someone in benny hinn ministries with a grudge?

Ditto.

While these edits are not necessarily official, nor definite edits from officials on the networks, it is from people with access to the network, which could come with inside access or some intimacy with the associated person/group. It shows the lengths that certain groups of people, in corporations or surrounding a political figure, will go to spread their biases. They want to control what you know about them, or change your perception, rather than changing themselves and proving they are good. Truth is not always a bad thing, and you can always accept the past as unchangeable and embrace the future as a chance to make a positive change.

Then again, some of these things are just in good(?) fun.

I always find myself defending my right to make choices about my life... and death.  I don't know much about death with dignity, compassion in death, quitters, hope, hopelessness, and the natural course of events.  It's like art, I only know what I like. 

Speaking of which, a TV series popped up in 1977 which was based on the film and book "Logan's Run".  It wasn't very good and lasted only a season... another example of a good idea gone bad, which happens to be television's area of expertise.  In case you never heard of it,  it was about a society that kills people off at a certain (and tender) age.

The concept of strong arming someone to end his life is scary. But that isn't what physician assisted suicide is all about, at least now anyway.

I'm sure that when the corporate interests find it in our best interest to start killing us off,  it will happen.  Don't you think?

WASHINGTON — Drivers may be griping about record high gasoline costs, but the recent surge in the price at the pump will have little impact on most consumers and will be hardly noticed in the broad economy, say several economists, including those at Standard & Poor's, LaSalle Bank and the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas.

I'm sure the economists from Standard & Poor's, LaSalle Bank and the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas will hardly notice the price at the pump. But don't they know that the trickle down effect goes both ways? Won't all of our costs be impacted by the cost of gasoline, and energy costs in general?

Do these bafoons think we are not impacted by rising energy costs, rising health costs, environmental destruction, loss of freedom, and declining incomes?

Those who make our decisions for us are not concerned with how their decisions impact us. What is their concern? I think we all know.

How many of you will be attending Super Bowl parties? How many of you attending are not really football fans?

 

Nothing bothers me more than people who become football experts during the Super Bowl even though they haven't watched a game all year. The Super Bowl has been a joke for at least the last decade. Probably longer. It's a party for a bunch of corporate jackoffs.

 

There are hardly any real fans at the game. The pre-game show begins on Saturday. The halftime is like drawn out torture.

 

Anyway, enjoy the game!