Brilliant! Thanks for giving me a much needed chuckle! And my compliments to Monsieur Gunderson.

I am going to guess that walmart will come out with a new, trademark-able mascot in the near future. Since they can't squelch criticism by becoming a better company, they'll do it by legal means. Of course the issue that's most galling for them is the parody. But they'll keep throwing lawsuits hoping to cower the opposition.

So, the way this works is that they'll have computers connected to the streams which are analyzing the conversations and waiting to key in on a list of words that some jackwad has decided are relevant to terrorism. The majority of callers will be ignored although you can be sure that there is a long list of individuals who have committed heinous crimes against America and their calls will always be monitored. People like Philip Zimmerman, Richard A. Clarke, Sibel Edmonds, and William Clinton; subversive anti-american adulterers.

So, the computer searches for keywords and then a human has to intervene! Someone must listen to the context of the conversation to try to understand if what was said was actually a reference to a terrorist act or simply a word that had a similar sound.

I think we should all start talking about the NSA, bombs, airplanes, 9/11 and anything else you can think of that might interest an NSA investigator.

Let's start abusing their manpower allotment. Let's make their job a living, (ricin, firearms, bomb, aircraft) hell.

In the end it probably won't change a damn thing, but it'll be fun to twist their panties.

Donnie, dude, you rock!

My grandfather swore on the benefits of a sea water rinse when he was coming down with a cold. He lived in South Florida, a little easier for him than me here in Settle, but there is that product called Ocean that works OK for me.

We really shouldn't let the telcos get away with this. We need to support Dodd and Impeach Bush & Cheney.

The TSA spends an enormous amount of time and money justifying their jobs. Each and every one of the $10.00/hour stumble bums at the checkpoints wants nothing more that to tell his/her boss how they thwarted the terrorists yet again, confiscated someone's water, threw out someone's mouthwash, whatever the case may be. And the whole point is to make you feel small and insignificant in the face of the greater terrorist threat.

And the greater terrorist threat is just a bogus lie perpetrated on us by Bush and Cheney. They are liars, cheats and thieves who are profiting (profiteering) from the fear and paranoia that they themselves have drilled into you.

And the sad part is, if the vote hadn't have been as close as it was he wouldn't have been able to steal the election in the first place.

HA! I've got a C-64 with a C1540, or maybe it's a C1541, 5.25 floppy in the basement. Probably wouldn't read what's on that floppy tho'.

Stupidest thing I've seen in a long time.

Look at all of the technicians! Suit coats & ties or those great 'Mr. Science' lab-coats and yet again, ties. What a dress code. I remember the IBM technicians in the 80's & early 90's having that dress code. They would show up in the office in a coat and tie to fix the 5150...

Ah, the good old days!

You just have to love a gadget posting that uses the word Tchotchke. And the gadget is pretty cool as well.