the random musings not worthy of new thread thread

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

Hey, it's better than Monestat or Massengil.

[BigEd76]

Jobing.com and University of Phoenix are two more

[Cerevant]

You can add pollution to the reasons why we shouldn't be sending our money to China.

City officials are backtracking from their pledge to provide safe tap water to all of Beijing for the Olympics; they now say that they will provide it only for residents of the Olympic Village. They have announced drastic stopgap measures for the duration of the Games, such as banning 1m of the city's 3m cars from the streets and halting production at factories in and around Beijing (some of them are resisting).

Let's put a happy face on things for the Olympics now...

[Susquehanna Birder]

China is a dump. No huge surprise there.

[Diomedes]

A dump full of our trash.

[MDS]

yea lets not help other countries out, lets just invade them

[Seabiscuit36]

farg you all for your great advice

[Cerevant]

yea lets not help other countries out, lets just invade them

I'm all for helping other countries, but that's not what is happening in China.  Manufacturing is going to China because it is cheaper.  Why is it cheaper?  Because labor and environmental regulations in China are roughly equivalent to those of the late 19th century in the US.  Sweatshop labor and "dump your toxic waste in the river" mentality.

Don't they teach history at Temple?

[reese125]

farg it, I got Air Max on my feet--Im good

[PhillyGirl]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071113/hl_nm/aids_survey_dc

wtf?

[Sgt PSN]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071113/hl_nm/aids_survey_dc

wtf?

In a nine-country survey released today, more than 40 percent of respondents did not understand that AIDS is always a fatal disease.

Hi

[SunMo]

lucky bastich

[Sgt PSN]

I don't know who that is but I love his hair. 

[PhillyGirl]

lucky bastich

Damn, he's been dead for a long time. Forgot about him. Ryan Smith was his name right?

[SunMo]

Ryan White