Comments on: Evil Empires

By: JV

JV — Tue, 17 May 2005 17:29:01 +0000

And you call yourself a conservative.

By: bryan

bryan — Tue, 17 May 2005 17:31:57 +0000

Oh, I am. I also understand your point. But there’s a point where monopolist and conservative split.

By: Cindy

Cindy — Tue, 17 May 2005 18:38:46 +0000

I think the most evil of them all would be the insurance companies. You’re screwed if you don’t have insurance (unless you never ever get sick and you never have an accident) and if you have it, you’re screwed, too b/c it’s so incredibly expensive and you still have to pay for the stupid things they don’t cover. I could rant and rave all day about BCBS and send my body into almost heart-attack state, but I’ll refrain. Insurance Companies = VERY BAD!

By: JV

JV — Tue, 17 May 2005 19:21:13 +0000

Maybe you didn’t quite understand my point after all. I also typed, but deleted, the following (because I thought it was obvious):

Don’t you know you’re supposed to hate the poor and the environment?

Your Internet Sarcasm Filter must be turned up too high.

By: Karen

Karen — Thu, 19 May 2005 03:38:02 +0000

Don’t be mad b/c I suck at using a Mac.

By: Zack Scott

Zack Scott — Tue, 24 May 2005 09:46:09 +0000

I would probably add some “major food companies” to the list. McDonald’s didn’t decide to make their food healthier because they were concerned about their customers. They did it because of the bad press. Also, after reading some news about trans fat lately, some companies actually lobbied to not have to label the trans fat amount in foods. Also, if the trans fat amount is less than 0.5 grams, they can get away with saying it has 0 grams per serving. My Ritz crackers that I just bought said 0 grams of trans fat. However, they still have partially hydrogenated cottenseed oil in the ingredients. Plus, a serving is five crackers. Who eats just five crackers? If a serving was ten crackers, then they’d probably have to say it has 1 gram of trans fat.

By: Zack Scott

Zack Scott — Tue, 24 May 2005 10:00:57 +0000

You know, Microsoft would be so much better if it offered a more streamlined OS. Why is it so hard for me to replace IE with say, FireFox? Why isn’t it easier to recognize and remove Windows processes that aren’t essential to what I want to do? I appreciate that they try to give you everything you want as far as software goes, but it should be easier to disable them.

In my opinion, Microsoft has gotten some things correct. I like how when I plug in my camera, it pops up a program interface so that I can easily access my camera. They make it straightforward in how I can disable this automated method to instead access the camera directly. On the other hand, why do I need third party software to do a direct copy of a CD? Windows can handle burning a CD, but not copying one? Shouldn’t they give me some simple option like they do when I plug a camera in?

By: JP Brown

JP Brown — Tue, 24 May 2005 13:47:41 +0000

I think I pretty much agree with your list of “evil empires”. Wal-Mart, for sure!!

By: Zack Scott

Zack Scott — Tue, 24 May 2005 21:54:08 +0000

I would also add North Korea.

By: Zack Scott

Zack Scott — Tue, 24 May 2005 21:59:07 +0000

And seriously, what is with Wal-mart’s hypocrisy? I can’t buy a music CD with bad language. I can’t buy a magazine like Maxim because it is too sexual. However, I can buy a DVD with sex scenes, nudity, bad language, violence, drugs, and the whole works. I can also buy Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas where I can listen to music with bad language (within the game), kill people, have sex with hookers, and all of the rest. I just don’t get Wal-mart.

By: JP Brown

JP Brown — Wed, 25 May 2005 18:22:12 +0000

Hey Bryan, please send your email address to downtownjpbrown@yahoo.com asap.

I have something I want to send you. You’ll like it, I promise! Thanks!

By: Seth

Seth — Sat, 28 May 2005 04:10:53 +0000

10 days with no new posts! I feel deprived. Give me some knowledge or a hack or a quip or a picture or a quote or something!! (I just updated my page a little, so now I can give you a hard time)

By: JDM

JDM — Sat, 18 Jun 2005 03:25:11 +0000

I don’t know if this is exactly an empire but the metric system is evil. Not on it’s own merits but because of what it represents. (Yes, I know that sounds a little whacky)

By: bryan

bryan — Wed, 22 Jun 2005 18:09:25 +0000

Finally someone has quantified this! http://www.knowmore.org/index.php/Wal-Mart_Stores%2C_Inc.

By: whiteblackbear

whiteblackbear — Sat, 05 Nov 2005 16:50:43 +0000

Zacks comment about Microsoft shows how they rot the brain. He likes Windows because its so easy to use. That is what they have done. they have taken computers which are an inheritly complicated machine and made them easy enough to use that morons use them now and cannot live without them. Apple tried this with the Mac. You know Microsoft succeded when you get comments like a suck at using a Mac. How can you suck at using something so easy.

Computers were cool before Windows.