Exxon's Brute Squad Hacks the Yes Men 308
tom_evil notes a story up on Infoshop.org about a parody site and the lack of a sense of humor in a large multinational. "One day after the Yes Men made a joke announcement of ExxonMobil's plans to turn billions of climate-change victims into a brand-new fuel called Vivoleum, the Yes Men's upstream internet service provider shut down Vivoleum.com and cut off the Yes Men's email service, in reaction to a complaint whose source they will not identify. 'Since parody is protected under US law, Exxon must think that people seeing the site will think Vivoleum's a real Exxon product, not just a parody,' said Yes Man Mike Bonanno. Exxon's policies do already contribute to 150,000 climate-change related deaths each year,' added Yes Man Andy Bichlbaum. 'So maybe it really is credible. What a resource!'"
Soylent Green fuel (Score:4, Funny)
They Have A Right (Score:5, Funny)
It is their right to have no sense of humor, especially if the joke is at their expense. Please be more sympathetic.
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Re:They Have A Right (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Why not start here? (Score:3, Funny)
But seriously, read the article and see if malnutrition is not mentioned.
Are you thinking of the Gaia hypothesis http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaia_hypothesis [wikipedia.org] as your control mechanism?
Re:*sigh* Corproations have too much power (Score:5, Funny)
No. wait...
Re:News For Nerds How??!! (Score:5, Funny)
See, that's the funny part.
Re:News For Nerds How??!! (Score:3, Funny)
1. Wait about three weeks.
2. The terrorists used low tech non-functioning methods, and were noticeably inept. More of "your government at work" sort of stuff.
Re:*sigh* Corproations have too much power (Score:3, Funny)
It wasn't always like that. If we have the courage to confront the root cause: it's global warming. Human brains only function well within a narrow range of temperature. Since Bush was elected, sending global temperatures skyrocketing, slashbots have been spewing sparks like so many malfunctioning androids.
Or maybe it's because, since the antitrust trial, Microsoft doesn't act that evil any more. Every religion needs a devil. (Almost every).
Re:News For Nerds How??!! (Score:2, Funny)