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	<title>Comments on: From The Desk Of OK Go&#8217;s Damian Kulash: David Foster Wallace’s &#8220;Authority And American Usage&#8221;</title>
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		<title>By: astronaut conspiracy</title>
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		<dc:creator>astronaut conspiracy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jul 2010 08:06:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Blue light def. cannot cure insanity. But wishful thinking there.</description>
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		<title>By: ?</title>
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		<dc:creator>?</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jul 2010 12:03:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Much more dangerous and insidious threat, when you can&#039;t push info through the media at the time that it is most valuable and impending.  The media has always been and always will be controlled and like I said the net is the biggest threat there is to freedom.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Much more dangerous and insidious threat, when you can&#8217;t push info through the media at the time that it is most valuable and impending.  The media has always been and always will be controlled and like I said the net is the biggest threat there is to freedom.</p>
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		<title>By: ?</title>
		<link>http://www.magnetmagazine.com/2010/06/27/from-the-desk-of-ok-gos-damian-kulash-david-foster-wallace%e2%80%99s-authority-and-american-usage/comment-page-1/#comment-64220</link>
		<dc:creator>?</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jul 2010 11:05:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>2000 people perished, to save a corporations ass.</description>
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		<title>By: ?</title>
		<link>http://www.magnetmagazine.com/2010/06/27/from-the-desk-of-ok-gos-damian-kulash-david-foster-wallace%e2%80%99s-authority-and-american-usage/comment-page-1/#comment-64219</link>
		<dc:creator>?</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jul 2010 11:04:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Never heard about that shit in the news did ya. It will never be told about the severely damaging environmental hazards that took place nor will emphasis every be brought upon it until years from now.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Never heard about that shit in the news did ya. It will never be told about the severely damaging environmental hazards that took place nor will emphasis every be brought upon it until years from now.</p>
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		<title>By: ?</title>
		<link>http://www.magnetmagazine.com/2010/06/27/from-the-desk-of-ok-gos-damian-kulash-david-foster-wallace%e2%80%99s-authority-and-american-usage/comment-page-1/#comment-64218</link>
		<dc:creator>?</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jul 2010 11:02:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>That&#039;s the kinda shit why the documentary you guys were working on is important.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>That&#8217;s the kinda shit why the documentary you guys were working on is important.</p>
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		<title>By: ?</title>
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		<dc:creator>?</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jul 2010 11:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>mentally ill people: go hard go fast or go home
It&#039;s unfortunate what happened to Wallace there but from his writing it&#039;s clear he was a genius. BP/manic depression/etc. that kinda stuff, high intel. levels, it usually leads to nothing good. Some shit I&#039;d rather not think about these days, thus I stay away from politics nor caring.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>mentally ill people: go hard go fast or go home<br />
It&#8217;s unfortunate what happened to Wallace there but from his writing it&#8217;s clear he was a genius. BP/manic depression/etc. that kinda stuff, high intel. levels, it usually leads to nothing good. Some shit I&#8217;d rather not think about these days, thus I stay away from politics nor caring.</p>
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		<title>By: ?</title>
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		<dc:creator>?</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jul 2010 10:57:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Fuck it, I&#039;ll say it now for the first time since  I realized a few short days after Hurricane Katrina.

Waterford III plant, I saved the emergency declaration docs right after I wrote the above letter,  the docs were shortly ripped off their website. I knew then there was a reason for the delay and there was.  It&#039;s all bullshit. Everywhere you go, it&#039;s bullshit.

http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/sep2005/2005-09-07-04.html
&quot;Sources of nuclear radiation, including the Waterford III nuclear power plant, have been secured, McDaniel said, and the state is working with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to restart the power plant 20 miles west of New Orleans.&quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Fuck it, I&#8217;ll say it now for the first time since  I realized a few short days after Hurricane Katrina.</p>
<p>Waterford III plant, I saved the emergency declaration docs right after I wrote the above letter,  the docs were shortly ripped off their website. I knew then there was a reason for the delay and there was.  It&#8217;s all bullshit. Everywhere you go, it&#8217;s bullshit.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/sep2005/2005-09-07-04.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/sep2005/2005-09-07-04.html</a><br />
&#8220;Sources of nuclear radiation, including the Waterford III nuclear power plant, have been secured, McDaniel said, and the state is working with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to restart the power plant 20 miles west of New Orleans.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>By: ffggsdfgfg@sd.com</title>
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		<dc:creator>ffggsdfgfg@sd.com</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2010 17:19:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>P.S. sorry about the obsessive crying incident at the Hotel in Tampa when you checked in....you checked in 5 minutes after ME, so you were stalking me, not the other way around.... I&#039;ve been a little OCD lately if you didn&#039;t notice. &amp; yeah I got all emotional when you showed up at the hotel I was at.  :P

now delete my fucking messages asshole</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>P.S. sorry about the obsessive crying incident at the Hotel in Tampa when you checked in&#8230;.you checked in 5 minutes after ME, so you were stalking me, not the other way around&#8230;. I&#8217;ve been a little OCD lately if you didn&#8217;t notice. &amp; yeah I got all emotional when you showed up at the hotel I was at.  <img src='http://www.magnetmagazine.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_razz.gif' alt=':P' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>now delete my fucking messages asshole</p>
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		<title>By: ffggsdfgfg@sd.com</title>
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		<dc:creator>ffggsdfgfg@sd.com</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2010 17:09:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;It is no longer the 1980s, and the Meese Commission mentality that led to a major crackdown on video porn is long gone. Federal task forces and PTA outrage are now focused on the Internet and kiddie porn. But today’s adult industry is still hypersensitive about what it perceives as fascist attacks on its First Amendment freedoms. A specially prepared trailer now runs before many higher-end adult videos, right between the legal disclaimer on the product’s compliance with or exemption from 18 U.S.C §2257 and ads for phone services like 900-666-FUCK. Against shots of flowing flags and the Lincoln Memorial, a voiceover says stuff like:

      Censorship goes against our Bill of Rights and the founding principles of this country. It is an attempt on the part of the government to legislate morality and to stifle free expression.15 This new, “legal” morality is dangerous to all Americans. Vote for those who believe in limiting government intrusion into your personal affairs. Vote against government control of your life and home. Vote against censorship. Only you, the People, can keep the American ideal intact.&quot;

Do you know that with the 2257 laws it requires webmasters to keep full records on performers, including but not limited to copies of drivers licenses, signed auth. forms, and the 2257 basically early on allowed for the FBI to bust down any webmasters door to demand records on who visits what porn, if people didn&#039;t fight it joe smo looks at tits and ass and the government wants his info, they have a right to search and seize webmasters computers, 2257 files, etc. aka giving the government full access to not only the performers but also the clients personal data, credit card info, etc. etc. etc. a full database can be created with shit like that, who likes what kinda porn, used against people later, say joe smo is a politician and later it comes out that he was watching this or that....etc. the amount of shit involved with the early 2257 legislation was very dangerous to peoples personal lives in general. not only that, there are enough government  agencies out there collecting mass data on people and not just companies selling data but the gov has far too much personal info. on everyone&#039;s personal business (one specific i wont mention here is getting way out of control collecting data on everyone, their families, who lives in their house, etc. and they are a huge gov organization collecting so much personal data and everyone&#039;s just giving it to them freely).... basically it&#039;s the gov. peeping in peoples windows as far as im concerned, and if the FBI wants info on someone all they have to do is walk in, confiscate files/computers/etc. and the 2257 made it requirement to collect every bit of data so that the FBI could do just that. it was made up basically that it was a protection against child pornography but in actuality it had very little to do with that and more about requiring full disclosure of anyone involved in porn and their personal records, drivers licenses, etc. etc. and not limited to those viewing the images, their personal data, credit card info, etc. etc.   also laws involving bdsm and stating that it was illegal to portray this act or that act and if people don&#039;t fight that kind of stuff, and give even a little bit of slack, like i said you give an inch and a mile of freedoms are lost.

despite how i feel about porn... it is degradation in some ways  but it&#039;s a choice-- i&#039;ve got mixed feelings on that whatever, it&#039;s not my friggen place to say who can look at what, who can do what, etc. besides child porn which i think everyone agrees on.  what Wallace says about suicides in the industry and such, that is very true, a girl friend of mine just killed herself a few weeks ago.  the industry is a mixture of sadness and also comical at times, human nature, politics, the whole shabang mixed up into a slew of issues. but when it comes to freedoms on the internet, like i said, you don&#039;t fight the bullshit to take away freedoms then you&#039;re basically giving up your own freedoms. agree with/like what you&#039;re seeing or not, freedom of information isn&#039;t free and the net is the biggest threat there is.

net. neut. just runs parallel with the rest of it. nothing is shocking but also you start taking away freedoms to say this or that, adult stuff, then goes adult literature, then goes access to more information...etc. history always repeats itself, people don&#039;t want to believe that.. but things change rapidly before they even know it&#039;s happening. war is also the fastest way to have communication breakdown, you don&#039;t give away the freedoms you have without fighting them nor be fucking oblivious when they are being taken away.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;It is no longer the 1980s, and the Meese Commission mentality that led to a major crackdown on video porn is long gone. Federal task forces and PTA outrage are now focused on the Internet and kiddie porn. But today’s adult industry is still hypersensitive about what it perceives as fascist attacks on its First Amendment freedoms. A specially prepared trailer now runs before many higher-end adult videos, right between the legal disclaimer on the product’s compliance with or exemption from 18 U.S.C §2257 and ads for phone services like 900-666-FUCK. Against shots of flowing flags and the Lincoln Memorial, a voiceover says stuff like:</p>
<p>      Censorship goes against our Bill of Rights and the founding principles of this country. It is an attempt on the part of the government to legislate morality and to stifle free expression.15 This new, “legal” morality is dangerous to all Americans. Vote for those who believe in limiting government intrusion into your personal affairs. Vote against government control of your life and home. Vote against censorship. Only you, the People, can keep the American ideal intact.&#8221;</p>
<p>Do you know that with the 2257 laws it requires webmasters to keep full records on performers, including but not limited to copies of drivers licenses, signed auth. forms, and the 2257 basically early on allowed for the FBI to bust down any webmasters door to demand records on who visits what porn, if people didn&#8217;t fight it joe smo looks at tits and ass and the government wants his info, they have a right to search and seize webmasters computers, 2257 files, etc. aka giving the government full access to not only the performers but also the clients personal data, credit card info, etc. etc. etc. a full database can be created with shit like that, who likes what kinda porn, used against people later, say joe smo is a politician and later it comes out that he was watching this or that&#8230;.etc. the amount of shit involved with the early 2257 legislation was very dangerous to peoples personal lives in general. not only that, there are enough government  agencies out there collecting mass data on people and not just companies selling data but the gov has far too much personal info. on everyone&#8217;s personal business (one specific i wont mention here is getting way out of control collecting data on everyone, their families, who lives in their house, etc. and they are a huge gov organization collecting so much personal data and everyone&#8217;s just giving it to them freely)&#8230;. basically it&#8217;s the gov. peeping in peoples windows as far as im concerned, and if the FBI wants info on someone all they have to do is walk in, confiscate files/computers/etc. and the 2257 made it requirement to collect every bit of data so that the FBI could do just that. it was made up basically that it was a protection against child pornography but in actuality it had very little to do with that and more about requiring full disclosure of anyone involved in porn and their personal records, drivers licenses, etc. etc. and not limited to those viewing the images, their personal data, credit card info, etc. etc.   also laws involving bdsm and stating that it was illegal to portray this act or that act and if people don&#8217;t fight that kind of stuff, and give even a little bit of slack, like i said you give an inch and a mile of freedoms are lost.</p>
<p>despite how i feel about porn&#8230; it is degradation in some ways  but it&#8217;s a choice&#8211; i&#8217;ve got mixed feelings on that whatever, it&#8217;s not my friggen place to say who can look at what, who can do what, etc. besides child porn which i think everyone agrees on.  what Wallace says about suicides in the industry and such, that is very true, a girl friend of mine just killed herself a few weeks ago.  the industry is a mixture of sadness and also comical at times, human nature, politics, the whole shabang mixed up into a slew of issues. but when it comes to freedoms on the internet, like i said, you don&#8217;t fight the bullshit to take away freedoms then you&#8217;re basically giving up your own freedoms. agree with/like what you&#8217;re seeing or not, freedom of information isn&#8217;t free and the net is the biggest threat there is.</p>
<p>net. neut. just runs parallel with the rest of it. nothing is shocking but also you start taking away freedoms to say this or that, adult stuff, then goes adult literature, then goes access to more information&#8230;etc. history always repeats itself, people don&#8217;t want to believe that.. but things change rapidly before they even know it&#8217;s happening. war is also the fastest way to have communication breakdown, you don&#8217;t give away the freedoms you have without fighting them nor be fucking oblivious when they are being taken away.</p>
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		<title>By: mental stramblage</title>
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		<dc:creator>mental stramblage</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2010 07:54:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I like that Wallace thing,  never heard of him, read the wiki &amp; can relate. Above avg. intelligence leads to nothing good.</description>
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