Posted on 11/18/2006 5:12:46 AM PST by Living Free in NH
Typical Massthink.
Yeah, doesn't Sony know who they are?
If I pull up to a store and there are 100 people on-line to buy this game, that tells me that I'm not getting one at said store. Why these morons gng up by the hundreds is beyond me. THEY are responsible. Nobody, least of all Sony, made them act like a bunch of idjits.
What do you excpect from Boston, though?
Did anyone expect Mumbles to do anything else?
The guy thinks he's a conglomeration of Huey Long and Kennedy. He rules his fiefdom and punishes all who oppose. Who cares if someone died from the Big Dig... as long as his friends made money off of it.
Its Boston. Unruly public gatherings / demonstrations have been going on for over 200 years - just ask some guy named George.
That mayor is no better than the imam in Austrailia that said Muslim men around women in skirts and high heels were like alley cats around a can of tuna, unable to control themselves.
I mean, how can the mayor expect *anyone* to control themselves when a game console is released in limited quantities. Look at *all* the mayhem across the nation in every city these things were delivered /s.
Ahhhhh!
We have a thin veneer of civilization covering our primitve animal drive.
"BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"
Hey mayor, how is it Sony's fault that individuals act like Ma$$holes?
It was ridiculous, you ecumenically ironic moron, because YOU caused the entire situation.
The fools with more money than brains who buy them fuel this kind of fire, but that's what freedom is all about. If you wish to overpay for a toy, it is your right.
The crowd (mob) mentality, reminiscent of South American, and even some European, soccer fans, has been evident in this country for some time. We have riots after national championship games, won or lost, quite frequently.
I do not believe that marketing and advertising execs are totally blameless for this particular phenomenon. Why such a limited number produced? Some people would be reminded of oil-refinery capacity.
No one, of yet, has been able to encapsulate and communicate all of the effects (damage) caused by the modes of thinking and operating, that have become "de rigueur" since the mid 1960’s. There are bits and pieces scattered about, but people would be amazed, IMHO, if they could see the big-picture. Maybe they would stop asking the question: What happened to my culture, my way of life, my very children?
If that's what the mayor thinks, Dot, then he's an idiot. Stockholders aren't some exclusive club. The "public" can buy stock and have their pockets filled too. Or they can be part of a mob. Really, it all boils down to choice.
Sort of like being a Dim politian, isn't it...
This probably won't be a welcomed response, so please refrain the flame. Personally, I cannot see waisting hours on end on an activity so unproductive as playing video games, much less wasting three valuable days of my life camped in front of a store for said video games.
But......to each their own, I suppose.
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