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		<title>Comment on Marketing Advice by ronald</title>
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		<dc:creator>ronald</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2010 04:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Good post.!
I am glad to read it.
I wait for the next post.</description>
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I am glad to read it.<br />
I wait for the next post.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Apologies as I Rant. by Brenton Moore</title>
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		<dc:creator>Brenton Moore</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Apr 2010 14:02:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>This metaphor is loose at best.

Yes you may buy a DVD and it has satire and such, and then maybe on of the actors decides to go off and start doing a political or religious tirade, you can change the channel. Turn it off. It&#039;s as simple as that.

You don&#039;t want the plumber telling you what&#039;s up with the wireing? You tell him you do not wish to hear it. &quot;Shut up. Do the plumbing.&quot;

He can still tell others about the wiring if they want to hear it from them, but you don&#039;t want to, so he doesn&#039;t.

I rarely find Videos or DVD&#039;s or TV programs or anything as such that doesn&#039;t allow you to turn it off when there&#039;s something on there that you&#039;re not interesting in hearing.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This metaphor is loose at best.</p>
<p>Yes you may buy a DVD and it has satire and such, and then maybe on of the actors decides to go off and start doing a political or religious tirade, you can change the channel. Turn it off. It&#8217;s as simple as that.</p>
<p>You don&#8217;t want the plumber telling you what&#8217;s up with the wireing? You tell him you do not wish to hear it. &#8220;Shut up. Do the plumbing.&#8221;</p>
<p>He can still tell others about the wiring if they want to hear it from them, but you don&#8217;t want to, so he doesn&#8217;t.</p>
<p>I rarely find Videos or DVD&#8217;s or TV programs or anything as such that doesn&#8217;t allow you to turn it off when there&#8217;s something on there that you&#8217;re not interesting in hearing.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Apologies as I Rant. by matthewbooks</title>
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		<dc:creator>matthewbooks</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Apr 2010 14:34:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Here&#039;s the thing. If I pay a plumber for service and he suddenly starts blathering on about my wiring I&#039;m going to be upset because I &lt;em&gt;paid&lt;/em&gt; for plumbing to be done. I don&#039;t value the opinion of a plumber on electrician&#039;s work because a plumber isn&#039;t an electrician.

We pay these people to be controversial, to be funny, to be dramatic and satirical so there for I feel ripped off when someone who I support with cold hard cash or with ad revenue and they start to abuse our business relationship and start trying to pitch me something I&#039;m not interested in.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Here&#8217;s the thing. If I pay a plumber for service and he suddenly starts blathering on about my wiring I&#8217;m going to be upset because I <em>paid</em> for plumbing to be done. I don&#8217;t value the opinion of a plumber on electrician&#8217;s work because a plumber isn&#8217;t an electrician.</p>
<p>We pay these people to be controversial, to be funny, to be dramatic and satirical so there for I feel ripped off when someone who I support with cold hard cash or with ad revenue and they start to abuse our business relationship and start trying to pitch me something I&#8217;m not interested in.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Apologies as I Rant. by Brenton Moore</title>
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		<dc:creator>Brenton Moore</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Apr 2010 02:24:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>That&#039;s the thing. A lot of them can&#039;t.  I would rather they be taught to think for themselves, but in large part, most of them aren&#039;t. Is that a good thing? No. But the truth isn&#039;t always pleasant.

So? Just because you didn&#039;t therefore, no one can.

It usually is. Learning is learning everything. Whether it be someone teaching you about their political views to try and help their cause, or anything else they might teach you. You don&#039;t have to listen to them if you don&#039;t want to. So why complain about it? It&#039;s very very easy for you to get away from it. Everything&#039;s filling the TV? Computer. You can&#039;t find something on YouTube that entertains you while not doing anything political? (which I doubt is likely) Try one of the billions of other sites out there, created for the very purpose of entertaining you in just about every way possible. STILL having trouble finding somewhere without politics? Take a walk in the country.

You can&#039;t shut them up, and you don&#039;t have any right to. You can sit and whine about it all you want, but your not ganna. All of them think that their helping the world become a better place by doing what they&#039;re doing and they all think that anyone that disagrees with them is ignorant. So you&#039;re really just going to have to deal with their right to free speech. Sure it&#039;s unfair that they have more of an audience for their speech, but life&#039;s not fair.

Carrot Top&#039;s also an idiot. He couldn&#039;t convince a grilled cheese sandwich into his mouth. Which is likely why he doesn&#039;t try to convince anyone else.

Also, on the topic of &quot;There is NO God.&quot; I support this blog post. I don&#039;t think anyone can prove that, because you can&#039;t prove an negative, but I don&#039;t think that God exists, I&#039;d like to see your statements on the matter.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>That&#8217;s the thing. A lot of them can&#8217;t.  I would rather they be taught to think for themselves, but in large part, most of them aren&#8217;t. Is that a good thing? No. But the truth isn&#8217;t always pleasant.</p>
<p>So? Just because you didn&#8217;t therefore, no one can.</p>
<p>It usually is. Learning is learning everything. Whether it be someone teaching you about their political views to try and help their cause, or anything else they might teach you. You don&#8217;t have to listen to them if you don&#8217;t want to. So why complain about it? It&#8217;s very very easy for you to get away from it. Everything&#8217;s filling the TV? Computer. You can&#8217;t find something on YouTube that entertains you while not doing anything political? (which I doubt is likely) Try one of the billions of other sites out there, created for the very purpose of entertaining you in just about every way possible. STILL having trouble finding somewhere without politics? Take a walk in the country.</p>
<p>You can&#8217;t shut them up, and you don&#8217;t have any right to. You can sit and whine about it all you want, but your not ganna. All of them think that their helping the world become a better place by doing what they&#8217;re doing and they all think that anyone that disagrees with them is ignorant. So you&#8217;re really just going to have to deal with their right to free speech. Sure it&#8217;s unfair that they have more of an audience for their speech, but life&#8217;s not fair.</p>
<p>Carrot Top&#8217;s also an idiot. He couldn&#8217;t convince a grilled cheese sandwich into his mouth. Which is likely why he doesn&#8217;t try to convince anyone else.</p>
<p>Also, on the topic of &#8220;There is NO God.&#8221; I support this blog post. I don&#8217;t think anyone can prove that, because you can&#8217;t prove an negative, but I don&#8217;t think that God exists, I&#8217;d like to see your statements on the matter.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Testing podcast! by Carmen</title>
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		<dc:creator>Carmen</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Apr 2010 20:34:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Do colors alternate?! That&#039;d be freaking sweet.</description>
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		<title>Comment on Testing podcast! by Carmen The Excellent</title>
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		<dc:creator>Carmen The Excellent</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Apr 2010 19:18:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>WEE!!!!</description>
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		<title>Comment on Apologies as I Rant. by matthewbooks</title>
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		<dc:creator>matthewbooks</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Apr 2010 15:21:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>By saying that not convincing people of your personal beliefs nothing changes is akin to saying people are sheep and can&#039;t think for themselves.

No where did I state any of my personal political views.

You can be entertained while learning, but learning does not constitute shoveling political or even religious opinion down someone else&#039;s throat.

Carrot Top at least has the decency to keep quiet about things that don&#039;t relate to his relationship with the public.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>By saying that not convincing people of your personal beliefs nothing changes is akin to saying people are sheep and can&#8217;t think for themselves.</p>
<p>No where did I state any of my personal political views.</p>
<p>You can be entertained while learning, but learning does not constitute shoveling political or even religious opinion down someone else&#8217;s throat.</p>
<p>Carrot Top at least has the decency to keep quiet about things that don&#8217;t relate to his relationship with the public.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Apologies as I Rant. by Brenton Moore</title>
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		<dc:creator>Brenton Moore</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Apr 2010 03:56:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>If you don&#039;t try and convince people of your own beliefs nothing changes.

If your going to tell anyone to shut up, then you have no right to say anything yourself. Not a single thing.

If you expect to be allowed to spew your own political views, then you have no right to tell anyone to not do so.

If you don&#039;t wish to see a singer, or an entertainer, or any of these things saying politically, or socially relevant, what your basically asking for is them to shove your brain with idiocy. &quot;I don&#039;t wanna be entertained while learnin&#039;. I wanna hear about stupid funny stuff. Give me that stuff.&quot;

Matt, if you don&#039;t want to be entertained while learning, then go look at Carrot Top. He may not be funny in the slightest, but at least he&#039;s shoveling the idiocy you seem to be picketing for.

Nero? Yes Nero was insane but; Just because you can show that using a movie, doesn&#039;t mean that you need to silence all entertainers.

What do you want Actors, singers, hosts, comedians, musicians &amp; entertainers to talk about exactly? Really it&#039;s like your asking for them to talk about . . . Nothing. Your against these people&#039;s freedom of speech? When your at your level your allowed to say whatever you want, but once your an artist, or anywhere in the public eye other then being a politician, OH NO, your not allowed to talk about anything relevant. You&#039;ve got to entertain with everything irrelevant!

Matt, please come up with a logical platform to stand on before you get on your soap box. You end up looking quite stupid. Just because you don&#039;t want to hear them, doesn&#039;t mean no one&#039;s allowed to say them.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you don&#8217;t try and convince people of your own beliefs nothing changes.</p>
<p>If your going to tell anyone to shut up, then you have no right to say anything yourself. Not a single thing.</p>
<p>If you expect to be allowed to spew your own political views, then you have no right to tell anyone to not do so.</p>
<p>If you don&#8217;t wish to see a singer, or an entertainer, or any of these things saying politically, or socially relevant, what your basically asking for is them to shove your brain with idiocy. &#8220;I don&#8217;t wanna be entertained while learnin&#8217;. I wanna hear about stupid funny stuff. Give me that stuff.&#8221;</p>
<p>Matt, if you don&#8217;t want to be entertained while learning, then go look at Carrot Top. He may not be funny in the slightest, but at least he&#8217;s shoveling the idiocy you seem to be picketing for.</p>
<p>Nero? Yes Nero was insane but; Just because you can show that using a movie, doesn&#8217;t mean that you need to silence all entertainers.</p>
<p>What do you want Actors, singers, hosts, comedians, musicians &amp; entertainers to talk about exactly? Really it&#8217;s like your asking for them to talk about . . . Nothing. Your against these people&#8217;s freedom of speech? When your at your level your allowed to say whatever you want, but once your an artist, or anywhere in the public eye other then being a politician, OH NO, your not allowed to talk about anything relevant. You&#8217;ve got to entertain with everything irrelevant!</p>
<p>Matt, please come up with a logical platform to stand on before you get on your soap box. You end up looking quite stupid. Just because you don&#8217;t want to hear them, doesn&#8217;t mean no one&#8217;s allowed to say them.</p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Apr 2010 20:21:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Comment on Are Our Children Entitled to Connectivity? by matthewbooks</title>
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		<dc:creator>matthewbooks</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 00:16:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>While I agree with you on many points I disagree with your view of kids and technology. I grew up along side the PC and the video game console and I&#039;m not a selfish vagabond. Like you said  though it&#039;s the parents that make all the difference.

The thing we have to learn to work with now is that instead of wanting to ride our bikes around the neighborhood, like I wanted to do, the children of today would rather interact with their friends in their favorite virtual space. Now that could be a war game or it could be something less volatile like Club Penguin.

The Internet is a dominant force now and it&#039;s just going to continue to be one until we grow old and die. To treat it like rock N&#039; roll was in the 50&#039;s shows we didn&#039;t learn from our parents and their parents and if we&#039;re not learning from the previous generations mistakes then what&#039;s this whole procreation thing for anyway?

My biggest problem is with kids on bikes you can spot the trouble maker with the foul mouth right away. Currently our technology doesn&#039;t allow us to make the bad kids go away. Even the most unskilled individual can figure out how to unmute someone should they really want to. So in my opinion we can only police the situation so far if the companies that create these entertainment platforms don&#039;t give the proper tools to allow parents and guardians to keep watch properly there&#039;s going to be mistakes.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>While I agree with you on many points I disagree with your view of kids and technology. I grew up along side the PC and the video game console and I&#8217;m not a selfish vagabond. Like you said  though it&#8217;s the parents that make all the difference.</p>
<p>The thing we have to learn to work with now is that instead of wanting to ride our bikes around the neighborhood, like I wanted to do, the children of today would rather interact with their friends in their favorite virtual space. Now that could be a war game or it could be something less volatile like Club Penguin.</p>
<p>The Internet is a dominant force now and it&#8217;s just going to continue to be one until we grow old and die. To treat it like rock N&#8217; roll was in the 50&#8242;s shows we didn&#8217;t learn from our parents and their parents and if we&#8217;re not learning from the previous generations mistakes then what&#8217;s this whole procreation thing for anyway?</p>
<p>My biggest problem is with kids on bikes you can spot the trouble maker with the foul mouth right away. Currently our technology doesn&#8217;t allow us to make the bad kids go away. Even the most unskilled individual can figure out how to unmute someone should they really want to. So in my opinion we can only police the situation so far if the companies that create these entertainment platforms don&#8217;t give the proper tools to allow parents and guardians to keep watch properly there&#8217;s going to be mistakes.</p>
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