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" > 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 ======================================================================= Detailed Audities-List information: To manage your Audities List settings or unsubscribe: