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| From | "Gary Littleton" <gary@garylittleton.com> |
| Subject | Re: www.lala.com (and a more significant example) |
| Date | Fri, 7 Apr 2006 17:11:24 -0400 |
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I agree, all I pointed out that it is a mildly deceptive marketing strategy.
Nothing more. Not unlike what Sam's Club did years ago when they opened up
and only allowed companies with "military or related" affiliation to join
initially. SOP again as Michael said. This thread is really about my own
struggle with the moral issues, and I'm not talking about LA LA.
Let me give you a more significant example. My real job has always been to
solve problems, and I love it and I have never considered the moral issues
too much. I'm just a dataholic and have an interesting unified knowledge
biomarker database that I use to help. I have a lot of patents and have led
groups to solve problems no one has ever solved before. (Active X controls,
Java applets, things like that are based on my patents). I've brought home
800K yearly paychecks and been paid millions to do what I'm am very good at,
research. At one point in 1997 doing biomedical research it was obvious to
us that autism was caused mainly by thimerosol in vaccinations. Alzheimers
was mercury and aluminum, ALS, MS also mercury related (but more to the
battery effect of metals). HIV was mercury disrupting the sulphur based
amino acids, and was not a virus in the Koch sense, and people only got sick
when the bodies use of iodine was disrupted. Drugs like AZT would accelerate
this process. I know a researcher at the CDC and he knows the same thing. We
talk about it, and he says it is just politics and the way things work, and
that even if you tried to get the info out, you wouldn't be able to, so just
leave it alone. It's not a conspiracy, it's just the way the money model
works.
So even though a little deception for money doesn't seem bad, I guess I
wonder these days where you should draw the line when it comes to putting
money before respect for people.
Cheers, Gary
-----Original Message-----
From: audities-owner@smoe.org [mailto:audities-owner@smoe.org] On Behalf Of
Stewart Mason
Sent: Friday, April 07, 2006 4:35 PM
To: audities@smoe.org
Subject: Re: www.lala.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gary Littleton" <gary@garylittleton.com>
> Anyway, Here is your very very special only for *you* secret beta test
> invite...
>
> Well *you* and anyone who subscribes or reads usatoday.
>
> http://www.lala.com/invite/usatoday
>
Oh NO! How DARE they try to get more people to join! What on earth are
they thinking, getting thousands of people to put up tens of thousands of
CDs for trade! Don't they know that it's all so much cooler when it's just
you and your four or five buddies???
Or, more succinctly:
What's your point? I joined through a link that came through PC World.
There's probably one for readers of Teen Cosmo, for all I know. Do you
honestly think that *anyone* is thinking "ooh, special secret club, lucky
me!" when they see an invite to join a beta test?
Do you honestly think people are so stupid that we don't know that they're
in this for a buck? (They're getting their VC money from Bain Capital, fer
chrissakes, a company that wouldn't know from moral force if it bit Mitt
Romney in the ass.) Dig: we're getting used CDs for a buck-fifty instead of
$5-$9. That's why we're there. End of story.
S
NP: ECHO POEME: SEQUENCE NO. 2 -- Nurse With Wound
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