post # 800! FACEBOOOK!!!
Sunday, July 06, 2008
Friday, July 04, 2008
Free Beer Part Plus
Don't bother ringing it up...
Whoever calls me at the office for an early beer gets the first one on me. Between 4:00pm and 8:00pm works. You don't even have to pick me up.
Thursday, July 03, 2008
Wednesday, July 02, 2008
SENACYT said yes
it's official... i'm off to Texas... got the call about 30 minutes ago... thought my dawgz should be the fisrt to know...
-da yanx-
p.s. benito and manny.. i think today will be a good day for me to drink from those awesome bday presentz... cheers mates!
Monday, June 30, 2008
Sunday, June 29, 2008
Friday, June 27, 2008
FREE BEER!
For whoever picks me up at work today. Anytime between this very minute and 8:00pm will do. The earlier, the merrier.
Brilliant!
charlie and hash has gone too far!
This is all text from a note and comments on said note written in facebook. i was tagged.
Charlie & Hash
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Yesterday at 10:47pm
chuxaaaa HAhahHAh
no se, me dio por escuchar la cancion porque cOka me decia que taba brutal y que se defecooo de la risa
yo disque.. bueno voy a escucharla
a todo esto como un par de dias despues me llega un inbox de BOLLO PRODUCTIONS.. (http://www.facebook.com/inbox/#/group.php?gid=15574573986)
disque para downloadiar eel MP3 de la cancion.. sinceramente no pensaba hacerlo..
la vaina es que en el trabajo me puse a escuchar la vaina..AYALA VERGAAAAA
chuxaa que RISAAAA FRENN!! HAhahHA
como tenia los audifonos todo el mundo me veia con cara de " watafoc" pero ellos no entendian.. y creo que jamas entenderan estooo aw
HhaHAHa
escribo la nota para que TODOS y TODAS disfruten un poco de esto aw.
esta exceleeeente da buca risa y OMG.. no tengo palabras aw..
escuchenlo ustedes mismos
http://www.myspace.com/charliehash
chuxa aun lo tengo en mi casa.. y en mi celular.. chuxa..
chuxa chuxa hHAhhAh lo sigo escuchando aw.. OMG que riiisaaa
hahahahahaha
tripeen y comenten =)
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Ilerick Camaño (Panama) wrote
at 10:55pm
XuXa! ajajajaj BUAAJAJAJJAJAJAJAJAJJAJA ajajjajajajaja aiala verga ajajajaja esto que es Roxy? aajajaj Xuxa tu quieres que yo me mee en la silla coño! " but it fits in your ano" ajajajjajajajaj CHUCHA AJAJJAJAA cuando me lavo la poronga me dan ganas de tocar la conga AYALA PINGAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ejgraciaaaaaa xD
Roxy Demaurex (Panama) wrote
at 10:57pm
BIGGER THAN UR IPOD NANO!! yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahahahahaha
CHUXA MADRE AW.. hahahahahahah stopppp stooopp!! HAhahA
Olgamaria Carcamo (Panama) wrote
at 11:05pm
i sale poty sin camisa
Roxy Demaurex (Panama) wrote
at 11:06pm
chuxa no e visto el video aw.. creo que mi higado solo aguanta la cancion aw
chuxa que risa brother
Olgamaria Carcamo (Panama) wrote
at 11:07pm
pronostico q pegaran como calle 13
really
Roxy Demaurex (Panama) wrote
at 11:09pm
chuxa no pegan y me kabreoooo durisimo aw..
es que es tan.. tan.. chuxa ellos aw. HAhahA
Crisy Rivera (Panama) wrote
at 11:23pm
ESTO ES NOTICIA VIEJA ROXEEEII AY NOOO
ajajajaajj mentiraas muass
Roxy Demaurex (Panama) wrote
at 11:25pm
Ombe puehhh me kabreas.. no se si leistes al inicio que decia
UN BUEN PAR DE DIAS DESPUESSSSSS RECIBI EL INBOX
Y LO ESCUCHE
jooooo =(
no te taggeo mas.
Thursday, June 26, 2008
Sunday, June 22, 2008
el gringo me debe un "rom an'couc"
check it buddy
http://www.costaricaaviation.com/charts/mpto/MPTO_ARPT_DIA.PDF
bollos: bogota is awesome. we should all live there. manny bring sofia. rat bring rat ta tat tat! megna you can stay in madrid since it is cool to visit there. benito go back to your roots bring your wife. poti bring sam and your studio. blus bring rum. busch your woman is already there and you only have to invest in a 'bigger bed' hehehe, peace!
Friday, June 20, 2008
happy birthday da yanks... you be goin to colombia!
so i'm headed off to bogota in a couple o' hours with Executive Producer JR Busch... be sure to log onto www.gallinazo.com.co
peace!
Thursday, June 19, 2008
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Dont say I didnt warn you...
This video will not make you laugh, will not make you feel good about yourself, and I strongly advise you not to watch if youve been anywhere near food...however, I still think you should you watch as much as you can...this is footage from a fur farm in China
Thursday, June 12, 2008
Sunday, June 08, 2008
da rat
el capitalismo sus mentes salvo amor libre y las drogas (lo prometio?)
y aunque hoy el planeta destruyen contentos van echando su mal
Saturday, June 07, 2008
Thursday, June 05, 2008
Wednesday, June 04, 2008
Monday, June 02, 2008
Panama Canal Time Lapse Video
I'm pretty sure the rat has seen it, pero igual ta cool. Happy monday bitches.
Saturday, May 31, 2008
Friday, May 30, 2008
Thursday, May 29, 2008
If I wasn't certain I would die while using it, I would want this for Christmas
And this is what it looks like up close:
Aqui hay otro video de todo el el process but it's in french: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEXxkWXncuo
Sunday, May 25, 2008
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
haha
A Movie Review (from Jesus H. Chris on April 29th, 2008)
I have seen some terrible movies in my time. Independence Day, Armageddon, Titanic, The Departed…the list goes on. But tonight, in a bout of insomnia, i managed to watch 1 hour, 11 minutes and 58 seconds of what has to be the all-time King of all terrible, useless, obnoxious, stupid, insipid, horrid, putrid, fetid, utter shit movies: Transformers. Don’t ask me why i even tried. Just don’t. It’s not important. All i know is that my eyes actually smell like shit right now thanks to this visual bus-station toilet called a movie. I have in the past jokingly implied that violence should be visited upon those who have enjoyed such sad films. The joke is over. I hereby truly encourage people to hunt down every single person involved in the making of the Transformers movie (and their extended family members — including children and grandparents) and actually kill them. Literally. If you yourself enjoyed this movie (or were merely ambivalent about it), please consider killing yourself by nail-gunning your own eviscera to your own stupid face while sitting naked on a pail of bees you idiot.
Thank you for reading my movie review.
Saturday, May 17, 2008
Friday, May 16, 2008
Some of that Old Timey Music
Este man fue un farmer toda su vida. Born in 1893. Didnt make it til the 1960's....
Thursday, May 15, 2008
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
The Random Pop
I usually don't like to make fun of people y trato de respetar a la mayoría de los artistas aunque no sea mi onda... Si la gente tripea su feeling latin pop o reggeaton o balada fashion dude o lo que sea, then cool, si les viene del corazón está cool. Pero hoy me provoca burlarme de este cara de payaso aunque no sea justificado ya que ni he escuchado su música, but he looks like a total looser... Sólo abrí la página de panamacock y apenas vi esta foto no me pude contener.
Este man es parte de una nueva onda que estoy viendo de manes totalmente normales o random, pasándose por artistas pop bien fashion. Por mas que Nsync o Backstreet Boys suckeaban, por lo menos los manes combinaban con ese estilo, pero nada peor que ver a un random ass Panameño tirándosela de pop star looking all normal con panza y vaina. Otro claro ejemplo de este fenómeno es Mario Spinali, artista pop venezolano/panameño. Estuve buscando por todos lados una foto de la portada de la revista Weekend de La Prensa del año pasado, donde salía Spinali sin camisa y con jeans todo mojado saliendo de una piscina. Lo que me llamó la atención era lo normal que se veía la foto, parecía un pasiero mío más, saliendo de una piscina en Coronado - totalmente normal, no para salir en la fucking portada de Weekend diske the new pop star. If you look like a normal dude, then play your music and dress like a normal dude man... Pero bueno, no encontré esa foto asique posteo esta. 
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Sunday, May 11, 2008
Friday, May 09, 2008
Wednesday, May 07, 2008
More Fritzl
Turns out he had been convicted of rape in 1967. That wasn't enough for the authorities to put a red light on his adoption of 3 children.
It's in the last paragraph of this report.
"Mr Fritzl was convicted of rape in 1967 and was sentenced to a term in prison. However, under Austrian law, this would have been regarded as a spent conviction."
That last sentence bothers me. It's like saying, Yeah, he raped some poor girl. He did do his time though, so let's not ask any questions when his daughter mysteriously disappears. And we all know nobody ever walks out of jail to continue to do whatever got them in there in the first place, so let's also allow him to adopt children.
Them's the lawmakers, brothers. With laws like that, who needs rapists?
Sunday, May 04, 2008
Saturday, May 03, 2008
Fuck Samson
Here I am trying to scare my annoying neighbors by blasting Propagandhi. In comes "Nailing Descartes to the Wall". Ha! The Fuckers will Pay. Then "Less Talk More Rock", take that you bastards. I am feeling good. Think I'll go get my amp and start an Anti-Neighbor Band. Death Metal. Suddenly "Anchorless" comes in. All my efforts are thwarted. John K. Samson is one fruity fruit cake. Thanks for your time.
Friday, May 02, 2008
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
BBC.com : LSD inventor Albert Hofmann dies
Albert Hofmann, the Swiss chemist who discovered the hallucinogenic drug LSD, has died of a heart attack at his home in Basel at the age of 102.
Mr Hofmann first produced LSD in 1938 while researching the medicinal uses of a crop fungus. He accidentally ingested some of the drug and said later: "Everything I saw was distorted as in a warped mirror".
He argued for decades that LSD could help treat mental illness, but in the 1960s it became a popular street drug.
'Turn on, tune in, drop out'
While working with the drug in the Sandoz pharmaceutical laboratory a few years after first producing it, Mr Hofmann ingested some of the drug through his fingertips. He went home and experienced what he described as visions of "fantastic pictures, extraordinary shapes with intense, kaleidoscopic play of colours".
The drug was popularised by Harvard professor Timothy Leary who suggested that people "turn on, tune in, drop out".
Rock stars and the counter-culture of the 1960s picked up LSD as a wonder drug but horror stories began to emerge of users suffering permanent psychological damage.
LSD was made illegal in many countries beginning in the late 1960s.
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
This is fucked up...
Austria Shocked by Incest and Imprisonment Revelations
A prison cell
Austrians were left shocked by news of a 42-year-old woman who was sexually abused and held prisoner by her father for more than 20 years. The father has since admitted to imprisoning and abusing his daughter.
A 73-year-old Austrian admitted on Monday to having fathered seven children with his daughter whom he kept imprisoned in a dungeon for 24 years, while officials rejected any responsibility for the tragedy.
Josef F., a retired electrical engineer from Amstetten in eastern Austria, confessed to having locked his daughter, Elisabeth, 42, in the basement in August 1984, and to having abused and raped her repeatedly, authorities said at a press conference.
"This crime is more or less solved," provincial police chief Franz Pruchner said. "This crime is unique in the criminal history of Austria. It is beyond all dimensions I know of."
Josef had confessed to the crimes after his initial refusal to cooperate with with the authorities, but tried to mitigate the details.
He showed next to no regrets, authorities said.
During her captivity, Elisabeth gave birth to seven children, results of continued sexual abuse by her father. One infant died shortly after his birth. The father disposed of the body by burning it in the house's central-heating boiler, he told police.
Children had never seen daylight
HouseBildunterschrift: Großansicht des Bildes mit der Bildunterschrift: The house in which Josef F. kept his daughter imprisoned
Police on Sunday evening opened the basement dungeon where she was kept, overcoming several electronic locks set up by Josef F. The rooms were very small and below 1.7 meters (5.5 feet) in height. The basement contained sleeping cots, washing facilities and a TV set, the Austrian press agency reported.
Three Elisabeth F.'s six surviving children were locked in the room with her, until her father let them out a few days ago and claimed the mother had returned home.
For two of her sons, Stefan, 18, and Felix, 5, it was the first time they had seen daylight, police said.
More here
Monday, April 28, 2008
The Greatest Game of All Time?? Someone needs to confirm this...
(This post only applies to those of us who still play video games)
Is IGN licking Rockstar's balls by giving it a perfect score for both the PS3 and the XBox 360 or is this game that good?? In any case you just dont make this statement about a game unless it's so obviously true it cant be denied:
"Without question, Grand Theft Auto IV is the best game since Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time."
Sunday, April 27, 2008
GG Allin's Funeral
You can't embed this video, but you can watch it here... que locura!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUJB7uWkC0A
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Stay healthy
Masturbation may prevent prostate cancer
SUMMARY: Researchers find that men who masturbate frequently are at a reduced risk of cancer.
Frequent masturbation may help men cut their risk of contracting prostate cancer, Australian researchers have found. It is believed that carcinogens may build up in the prostate if men do not ejaculate regularly, BBC News reported on Wednesday. The researchers surveyed more than 1,000 men who had developed prostate cancer, and 1,250 men who had not. They found that men who had ejaculated the most between the ages of 20 and 50 were the least likely to get cancer. Men who ejaculated more than five times each week were a third less likely to develop prostate cancer.
Sexual intercourse may not have the same effect because of the higher risk of contracting a sexually transmitted disease, which could in turn raise the risk of cancer. "Had we been able to remove ejaculations associated with sexual intercourse, there should have been an even stronger protective effect of ejaculations," Graham Giles of the Cancer Council Victoria, who led the researchers, said in the article.
The prostate produces a fluid that is incorporated into ejaculation, which activates sperm and prevents them from sticking together. Studies on animals have shown that carcinogens like 3-methylchloranthrene can be harbored in the prostate. Frequent ejaculation encourages the cancer-inducing fluids to "flush out."
Monday, April 21, 2008
Saturday, April 19, 2008
Thursday, April 17, 2008
Talking about books.....Hope beyond the Wall??
From GRRM's blog:
"Anyway, I'm back now, and not going anywhere until late June, when I will be taking off on my long-anticipated trip to Ireland, Portugal, and Spain. It's part vacation, part speaking engagement, and part promotional tour. If you live in or near any of those three places, watch the Appearances page on my website for details of when and when I'll be. We'll be adding dates as the events are confirmed.
Of course, I need to finish A DANCE WITH DRAGONS before I leave, or else my publishers will hunt me down and kill me. So that's pretty much all I'll be doing between now and then. And if I don't finish, maybe I'll just stay in Ireland, Portugal, or Spain, where no one will ever be able to find me.
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Gringos
Encima que no tienen nada que hacer con su vida mas que grabar awebasones para poner en youtube, tienen que fuckin malgastar energía. El marica dice que uso mas de 65,000 luces todas conectadas a computadoras y sincronizadas a la música. Ya que el perrón esta gastando la energía limitada de nuestro planeta, por lo menos vamos a tripiar la vaina so it dont go to waste.
Saturday, April 05, 2008
Mariah Carey's "Ken Lee"
This might be old news to some pero it's new to me... this chick really believes the song is called Ken Lee (without you)
She actually made it past the auditions and sang the song again in the final 12...
bitch is famous now! poti... concursa en latin american idol
Friday, April 04, 2008
Panama Social Calendar
I recently stumbled across this website looking for shit in google. Me pareció bien completa y útil. Maybe you guys already know about it but just wanted to share it. Have a great weekend yall.
http://www.panamasocialcalendar.com/month.php
Tuesday, April 01, 2008
Sunday, March 30, 2008
It was more fun when it was illegal...
By the way...Firefox dont like...at least mine dont
Trey Parker and Matt Stone's raunchy 'toon now legally available online at South Park Studios Web site.
In the ongoing battle against digital piracy, South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone decided to say, "F*** it. Let's let people watch Scott Tenorman eat his parents in chili whenever they want."
The two maniacal geniuses have tapped into the Internet generation by making every single episode of their popular animated show available for streaming on the Web; a South Park-only Hulu, if you will. Sweeeeet.
All 12 seasons of the show, including new ones that just aired, can be streamed from SouthParkStudios.com, which was just overhauled yesterday to accommodate the full episodes. Though the episodes have breaks for commercials, ads had not yet been implemented as of press time.
"Every South Park episode and billions of clips have been online for years on YouTube or BitTorrent (...) we've always loved the fact that more people in more places could see our little show," Stone told Web site BoingBoing. "The new Web site just makes it easier for people to see and share South Park... Basically, we just got really sick of having to download our own show illegally all the time. So we gave ourselves a legal alternative."
SouthParkStudios also features shorter clips, information, games, and more.
Thursday, March 27, 2008
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
In the Spirit of Vader
No se si han visto este show diske Chad Vader - Day Shift Manager. Lo vi hace como un año pero todavía me cago de la risa. I'm only posting the first episode pero pueden chekiar los otros en youtube. Enjoy.
Sunday, March 23, 2008
prototype logo for radio show
9-10pm radio 10 lunes-viernes
maybe we should call it "los bollos" instead and use the bollo logo.
Saturday, March 22, 2008
Thursday, March 20, 2008
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
Darth Vader's Younger Sister
Gayest shit I've ever seen! Who would do such a thing to one of the most feared and respected characters in sci-fi history? As much as it hurts to look at, its fucking funny. "Luke, I am your father....and ermmm, I like to dress up like a 13 year old Japanese girl"
Have a good day yalls
Friday, March 14, 2008
Katia gets a deuce!
Thats right crackas! On a day like this, two years ago, the Cooler was born amidst the ashes of La Fritanga [thanks Manny]. It has survived countless challenges through its short existence: management squabbles, writer disputes, technical difficulties, and posting droughts. Nonetheless, it is quite obvious that after a couple of years of this shit, rumours of Katia's demise were greatly exaggerated. Long live the Blog and The Bollos and keep posting!
Thursday, March 13, 2008
Skinny Fucks, the College Days
Te la pasabas fumando canyac and eating junk all day, and now it just seems impossible to get rid of that beer belly past 25. Enjoy!
BTW Planet Pendulo made it to la primera plana de La Prensa today! Congrats Poti, too bad hes in Costa Rica and missed it.
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
Monday, March 03, 2008
Beni's Wet Dream
Man, they still rock! CLEAN CLEAN!
by the way, i got "no joke" in the mail, "forbidden places" should be here soon.
Blue's Wet Dream
Whorelore: The Magical World of Warcraft Porn
Welcome to a dusty fantasy land of deep-throating elf ears, masturbating trolls, and chain-mail-wearing porn stars.
by Bonnie Ruberg
March 2nd, 2008 8:43 PM
Pornography director Dez is standing on an outdoor set in the L.A. hills, on the first nice day in months. He's surrounded by actresses who're naked except for some strategically placed sheet armor. “It’s been like thirty degrees here,” he laments over the phone, expressing concern about his naked employees trying to “work” in the cold. “Finally we can shoot.”
What Dez (his industry name) is so anxious to film is the second episode in a new season of Whorelore: Swords, Sorcery, and Sex—his web-porn series based on the immensely popular massive multiplayer online role-playing game, World of Warcraft. A land of elves, fantasy, and eight million players, Warcraft can now also claim it has inspired sex between men and women in eighty pounds of hand-crafted armor. And no matter what kind of protection you're packing, in real life that much metal has got to make things less than magical.
Whorelore, now in its second season, started in 2006 as Dez’s “labor of love.” He’d already starred in over 600 porn titles—most famously, he says, Rectal Rooter and Dez’s Dirty Weekend—before venturing behind the camera. “Whorelore had always been something I wanted to do,” he explains. “I’ve been playing Dungeons & Dragons since the time I was eight, and I love World of Warcraft. Besides, I was bored doing Gonzo porn. [In the past] they’ve done porn with knights and bare maidens and stuff like that, but they’ve never added magic or anything cool.” So Dez decided to “step it up a notch,” throwing in low-grade special effects, a storyline, and a geek’s affectionate attention to detail. Originally he called his new project Whorecraft, but had to change the title due to some hush-hush legal flack from “you know who.” Read: Blizzard Entertainment, the company that runs World of Warcraft and looks out for its good name. (A Blizzard spokesperson declined to comment on the name change, saying the company doesn't publicly discuss legal issues.)
A little legal action hasn’t stopped Dez from accomplishing his goal to show the world how hot it’d be if WOW's sensual elves swallowed. And Whorelore doesn’t stop at sweet elf love. Often shot outdoors for a more rustic, “medieval” feel, the six, half-hour episodes in season one feature everything from two armor-clad, busty blonde warriors making out on a boulder to a masturbating troll (i.e. a woman painted entirely green moaning with a Jamaican accent). Playing off an old video game joke, Dez called episode one "Rogues Do it From Behind," and episode four, “Man Hunt,” has Dez’s characters encountering a real live bear--though, thankfully, it doesn’t join in on the fun. The second season of six more 30-minute episodes is still in production, but the Whorelore website describes it as a struggle between light and dark, with a villain “capable of vanquishing those who thrive for harmony.” Don’t worry, that just means there’s a magical nympho who likes to deep-throat elf ears.
Unlike other porn productions, which frequently get shot in under a day, Dez says each Whorelore installment takes a week to film, and over a month to prepare. In his series, the performers actually attempt to act (some more successfully than others), entire scenes are staged with no sexual contact (just traipsing around dusty terrain), and sometimes the cast spends hours learning choreographed fights. Then there are the props and costumes—which have to seem authentically fantastic. That means no running sneakers or tighty whities. “It’s a nightmare,” Dez admits, “[Orchestrating] all the little trinkets and scrolls and pots and jewelry. . . We rented a castle once in Hollywood Hills, and a light-switch snuck into that episode. A real castle, and I guess they had a light switch.” The important thing to remember, he says, is that while Whorelore may be a lot of fun, it’ll never to be perfect. “It’s not a real movie, it’s porn.”
Though Dez’s passion for gaming inspired the series, he’s not the only Whorelore employee with a MMORPG habit. “A number of the girls play World of Warcraft,” he admits when asked to confirm a report that he’s gotten his actresses hooked on the online world. “I actually just got a new girl from there,” says Dez. “She’s really good at the game, too. She contacted me, and I was like, ‘She’s hot!’ and now she’s going to be in the second season. She’s moving down to L.A. soon to start her porn career.” While not every Whorelore fan is destined to appear on-camera in see-through panties and renaissance-fair boots, lots of World of Warcraft players have sent Dez scripts they’d like to see acted out. “I get stuff daily from people who want all kinds of crazy stuff!” His most recent submission: a sex scene with a minotaur.
All seven finished episodes of Whorelore are available online for 7.99 to $8.99. So far, despite illegal downloading, Dez says the series is selling great. “If you put all six episodes from the first season together and actually said it was a DVD,” something he’s thinking of doing once he’s done the second season, “I’d say we have one of the best-selling movies of all time.”
As for that elf ear deep-throating, whose idea was it to swallow a plastic appendage? “That was actually [the actress’s] idea,” explains Dez. “She was like, ‘Oh my God I want to suck on these things,’ so I was like, ‘Alright, let’s go with it.” Don’t worry though, he says, she’s a “big gamer,” so she can take it. “She can play Guitar Hero on hard.” Pun fully intended.
Sunday, March 02, 2008
yankee
Nike has been criticized for contracting with factories in countries such as China, Vietnam, Indonesia and Mexico. Vietnam Labor Watch, an activist group, has documented that factories contracted by Nike have violated minimum wage and overtime laws in Vietnam as late as 1996, although Nike claims that this practice has been halted.[13] The company has been subject to much critical coverage of the often poor working conditions and exploitation of cheap overseas labor employed in the free trade zones where their goods are typically manufactured. Sources of this criticism include Naomi Klein's book No Logo and Michael Moore's documentaries.
Nike was criticized about ads which referred to empowering women in the U.S. while engaging in practices in East Asian factories which some felt disempowered women.[14]
In the 1990s, Nike faced criticism for use of child labor in Cambodia and Pakistan in factories it contracted to manufacture soccer balls. Although Nike took action to curb or at least reduce the practice of child labor, they continue to contract their production to companies that operate in areas where inadequate regulation and monitoring make it hard to ensure that child labor is not being used.[15]
These campaigns have been taken up by many college and universities, especially anti-globalisation groups as well as several anti-sweatshop groups such as the United Students Against Sweatshops.[citation needed] Despite these campaigns, however, Nike's annual revenues have increased from $6.4 billion in 1996 to nearly $17 billion in 2007, according to the company's annual reports.
Beatles song
Nike has been a focus of criticism for their use of the Beatles song "Revolution" in a commercial, against the wishes of Apple Records, the Beatles' recording company. Nike paid $250,000 to Capitol Records Inc., which held the North American licensing rights to the Beatles' recordings, for the right to use the Beatles' rendition for a year.
According to a July 28, 1987 article written by the Associated Press, Apple sued Nike Inc., Capitol Records Inc., EMI Records Inc. and Wieden+Kennedy advertising agency for $15 million. Capitol-EMI countered by saying the lawsuit was 'groundless' because Capitol had licensed the use of "Revolution" with the "active support and encouragement of Yoko Ono Lennon, a shareholder and director of Apple."
According to a November 9, 1989 article in the Los Angeles Daily News, "a tangle of lawsuits between the Beatles and their American and British record companies has been settled." One condition of the out-of-court settlement was that terms of the agreement would be kept secret. The settlement was reached among the three parties involved: George Harrison, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr; Yoko Ono; and Apple, EMI and Capitol Records. A spokesman for Yoko Ono noted, "It's such a confusing myriad of issues that even people who have been close to the principals have a difficult time grasping it. Attorneys on both sides of the Atlantic have probably put their children through college on this."
Nike discontinued airing ads featuring "Revolution" in March 1988. Yoko Ono later gave permission to Nike to use John Lennon's "Instant Karma" in another ad.
[edit] Minor Threat ad
In late June 2005, Nike received criticism from Ian MacKaye, owner of Dischord Records, guitarist/vocalist for Fugazi & The Evens, and front-man of defunct punk band Minor Threat, for appropriating imagery and text from Minor Threat's 1981 self-titled album's cover art in a flyer promoting Nike Skateboarding's 2005 East Coast demo tour.
On June 27, Nike Skateboarding's website issued an apology to Dischord, Minor Threat, and fans of both and announced that they tried to remove and dispose of all flyers. They state that the people who designed it were skateboarders and Minor Threat fans themselves who created the ad out of respect and appreciation for the band.[19] The dispute was eventually settled out of court between Nike & Minor Threat. The exact details of the settlement have never been disclosed.
Thursday, February 28, 2008
Confused and in need of a drink or 50
Ok, first off, thanks to the Rat for helping me pick the parts for a PC, but I've decided to go laptop and you can't buy those by the part.
So, we're going with Dell, and I need you computer types to advise me here, because I built 2 laptops and something doesn't make sense. I'll let you see for yourselves.
Option 1:
Option 2:
To sum it up:
PROCESSOR
Option 1: Intel® Core™ 2 Duo T9300 (2.5GHz/800Mhz FSB/6MB cache)
Option 2: Intel® Core™ 2 Duo Processor T7500 (2.2GHz/800Mhz FSB, 4MB Cache)
OPERATING SYSTEM
Option 1: Genuine Windows Vista® Home Premium Edition
Option 2: Genuine Windows Vista® Home Premium Edition
DISPLAY
Option 1: High Resolution, glossy widescreen 17.0 inch display (1920 x 1200)
Option 2: High Resolution, glossy widescreen 15.4 inch LCD(1680x1050) & 2MP Camera
VIDEO CARD
Option 1: 256MB NVIDIA® GeForce® 8600M GT
Option 2: 256MB NVIDIA® GeForce® 8600M GT
MEMORY
Option 1: 4GB Shared Dual Channel DDR2 at 667MHz
Option 2: 3GB Shared Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 667MHz (2 Dimms)
HARD DRIVE
Option 1: Size: 250GB SATA Hard Drive (5400RPM)
Option 2: Speed: 200GB 7200rpm SATA Hard Drive Free Fall Sensor
You can see the rest for yourself. I'm confuddled. Help me. Option one looks better, but option two is supposed to be better.
chris hannah says:
whassup poti!
yeah, i've seen that movie. very interesting, especially the interpretation of the origins of christianity. the federal reserve stuff was also interesting, although some economics dude downplayed a bit of the claims to me.
the 9/11 stuff is very familiar to me. the "inside job" theories are very prominent up here in north america. i think the basic premise is plausible (and there is relative precedent for these sort of pretextual events in US history abroad) but i've yet to see anything that meets scientific rigour to *prove* it was anything other than what it appeared: islamic extremists committing an act of violence on US soil in response to many years of acts of violence committed upon theirs by the US.
that's my view in a nutshell!
hope you're doing good too poti! we dream of panama often!
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