in the matrix

Apple Imposing Lifetime Limits on iPads

Apple is imposing a two-per-person lifetime limit on iPad purchases. Now, Steve Jobs and company are either:

1) Employing the old artificial scarcity illusion to make their tablet look like it is just so in demand (which it is not)

2) Hiding a problem supply-side

3) Or, more sinister: Steve Jobs is a control freak who likes complete say over media access, rumors, and apps, and now what his costumers can buy.

Steve escapes the "evil" label that Bill Gates has because of all the Apple slaves in the tech media. And we're an Apple company here at CoOlDiGgY! Apple would be eMachines if it were not for its hype machine. Now ask nicely and maybe Steve will allow you to give him your hard-earned money. Full Story

The Daily P.P. Award
Predictive programming - when your TV tells you how's it's gonna be

Today's "winner" is NBC-Universal's entire week of programming (an apt term). It has been "Green Week" at the networks of NBC-Universal (a subsidiary of General Electric and soon to also be own by Comcast). That means every show had a pro-environment message somewhere in the episode. NBC-Universal calls their predictive programming behavior placement.

We here at CoOlDiGgY love Mother Nature and live a green and organic SoCal life without having to give Al Gore a dime. But NBC-Universal wants to shape public opinion to benefit the Earth? No. It's not about a conspiratorial political agenda. It's a PROFIT agenda. Period. So if GE has to use their TV networks to change your politics in order to make profits happen then your TV will nudge you in that direction. Motto: Corrupt the social views for public policies that is advantageous for bottom lines.

So GE gets NBC-Universal to get you to go (their kind of) green. So you buy GE's energy-efficient light bulbs. They have mercury in them but whatever.

Then you can totally live out your dreams of being like Liz Lemon by getting on the Smart Grid (brought to you by GE, of course). Yeah, GE's Smart Grid controls your appliances and spies on you but whatever.

And, of course, the most green thing you can do - nuclear power. At least that's what GE TV is telling you. Yes, GE is in the nuclear business. They even got the President to greenlight funding for the first new nuclear power plants to open in 3 decades (you see-nuclear power is so risky that only the federal government can afford to insure them). Forget that nuclear power, ever so "green" if you don't count the meltdowns and waste, consumes lots of water. So much water, in fact, that numerous states have had to pass on them due to droughts they are already having.

Yeah, it was Green Week at GE's NBC-Universal. But it wasn't to get you green-conscious. Not that kind of green, at least. If you are still touchy-feely about it then just remember that you are only enabling GE to continue being among the biggest war profiteers and skip out on paying their taxes after making almost $11 billion in profits. Green is only universal for GE.

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