some questions

on news shows, when they're talking about smoking, why do they refuse to show the face of the person smoking? they'll show tons of footage of people puffing, but you see their mouths and hands -- never their face. why?

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and ... what right does government have to ban smoking?

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is it always wrong to use nazi analogies when discussing non-nazi subjects? such as: if a company has a department-wide meeting and starts it off by showing that company's commercials, to fire up the workers ... is it fair to analogize that to the nuremburg rallies?

if i pointed out that a company (like a state) relies on the common worker for its power and legitimacy ... if i pointed out that a company (like a state) often imposes rules on the common workers that might not make sense, or even seem onerous, to those workers ... and if i pointed out that a company (like a state) often relies on pushing inspiring imagery on its workers to remind them of the alleged benefits of working for that company ...

well, if i pointed all this out, and said "well, that's what the nazis did at nuremburg," would it be out of the bounds of decency?

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i think my all-time favorite dashboard has to be the vw new beetle, especially because it uses a bastardized form of Futura and Futura Condensed for the dials.

that's me -- noticing fonts everywhere. it's a wonder i'm not still a virgin.