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UNION CARBIDE, NOT DOW!!! (Score:0)
by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 01,
@05:05PM (#4995193)
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The Bhopal accident occurred at a Union Carbide
plant.
Dow Chemical bought Union Carbide two years ago.
DOW CHEMICAL HAS A GOOD SAFETY HISTORY AND WAS NOT INVOLVED IN
THE BHOPAL ACCIDENT.
Their current actions are
reprehensible, but Dow Chemical DID NOT kill anyone in Bhopal.
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Dow's influence in Michigan Dioxin
cleanup... (Score:0)
by Anonymous Coward on
Wednesday January 01, @07:10PM (#4995840)
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fails so far.
Look closely at what the outgoing
Michigan Governor intended to do: preferentially
decide
that maximum dioxin levels should be doubled
just
for Dow's
sake.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A561
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Downhill from here (Score:0)
by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 01,
@07:27PM (#4995905)
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| Corruption, Greed and Presidents with Sub-100 IQs have
become so commonplace in the US that in 100 years American
will be another pissy minicountry with the same sort of
importance as Pakistan. Dow should stick to slowly killing
women with leaky breast implants. Sure the devil has some nice
live-flaying devices ready for Dow executives when they step
in front of a bus, or their shamed kids push them. and who can
blame them? |
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Meanwhile . . . (Score:0)
by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 01,
@10:26PM (#4996547)
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| The guy that used to own my house killed a bunch of people
. . . |
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Boycott Dow?? (Score:3, Informative)
by Black
Copter Control (464012) <samuel-local
AT bcgreen DOT com> on Wednesday January 01, @11:26PM
(#4996760)
(http://www.bcgreen.com/)
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| Dow is a Corporation. As such, they don't really respond
to moral issues -- only financial issues that fall out of
moral upsets. Saying "oh, Dow are nasty people" won't do much
to get their attention. Cutting Dow purchases by 10%, on the
other hand, would.
If you want to get Dow's attention, tell people to stop
buying their produ cts, and tell them why. At the end of Dow's
2001 financial report [dow.com], they have a partial list
of Dow and associated company trademarks.
I peeled out that data, paired it with the company name,
and then sorted the result.. If you want to boycott Dow
products, these names would probably be a good start.
I'll also place a copy of this list on my website (
http://www.bcgreen.com/dow/trademarks.html [bcgreen.com])
where I can update it as necessary. (147 references so far).
damn lameness filters force reformatting.
Affinity :: The Dow Chemical Company | |
Amerchol :: Union Carbide Corporation, &
subsidiaries
Amplify :: The Dow Chemical
Company | | Aspun :: The Dow Chemical
Company
Attane :: The Dow Chemical
Company | | Betabrace :: Essex Specialty
Products, Inc.
Betadamp :: Essex
Specialty Products, Inc. | | Betafoam ::
Essex Specialty Products, Inc.
Betaguard
:: Essex Specialty Products, Inc. | |
Betamate :: Essex Specialty Products, Inc.
Betaseal :: Essex Specialty Products,
Inc. | | Blox :: The Dow Chemical Company
Calibre :: The Dow Chemical Company | |
Carbowax :: Union Carbide Corporation, &
subsidiaries
Cellosize :: Union Carbide
Corporation, & subsidiaries | | Confirm
:: Dow AgroSciences LLC
Covelle
:: The Dow Chemical Company | | Cyracure
:: Union Carbide Corporation, & subsidiaries
D.E.H. :: The Dow Chemical Company | |
D.E.N. :: The Dow Chemical Company
D.E.R. :: The Dow Chemical Company | |
Daxad :: Hampshire Chemical Corp.
Derakane :: The Dow Chemical Company | |
Derakane Momentum :: The Dow Chemical
Company
Dithane :: Dow AgroSciences LLC
| | Dow :: The Dow Chemical Company
Dowex :: The Dow Chemical Company | |
Dowfax :: The Dow Chemical Company
Dowflake :: The Dow Chemical Company | |
Dowlex :: The Dow Chemical Company
Dowper :: The Dow Chemical Company | |
Dowtherm :: The Dow Chemical Company
Drytech :: The Dow Chemical Company | |
Dursban :: Dow AgroSciences LLC
Elite :: The Dow Chemical Company | |
Emerge :: The Dow Chemical Company
Envision :: The Dow Chemical Company | |
Ethafoam :: The Dow Chemical Company
Ethocel :: The Dow Chemical Company | |
FilmTec :: FilmTec Corporation
FirstRate :: Dow AgroSciences LLC | |
Flexomer :: Union Carbide Corporation, &
subsidiaries
Fortress :: Dow
AgroSciences LLC | | Fulcrum :: The Dow
Chemical Company
Garlon :: Dow
AgroSciences LLC | | Gas/Spec :: INEOS plc
Glyphomax :: Dow AgroSciences LLC | |
Goal :: Dow AgroSciences LLC
Grandstand :: Dow AgroSciences LLC | |
Great Stuff :: Flexible Products Company
Hamposyl :: Hampshire Chemical Corp. | |
Immo
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DOW & VERIO ARE BUTT BUDDIES
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by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January
02, @02:43AM (#4997277)
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Both dow and verio(who supports spam wholeheartedly) can
suck my cock. They are fucking evil bastards who should be
wiped from the face of the earth. Dow should have been put out
of business after Bhopal. They are obviously beyond the law
after all their payoffs. Verio, get a conscience.
I am
sick and tired of big business telling the citizens of the
world how to live. I hope the protesters go in and burn down
every DOW office building in India. And force their govt to
keep Dow out.
SATAN GIVES CRUMMY BLOW JOBS |
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read this (supposed) dow chemicals internal
memo (Score:1)
by jean-guy69
(445459) on Thursday January 02, @04:08AM (#4997417)
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| Dow
Addresses Bhopal Outwage, Explains Position
[internalmemos.com]
cynism at its best...
is this for real ?
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Its been Said before, but (Score:1,
Redundant)
by DjMd (541962) on
Thursday January 02, @05:07AM (#4997507)
(Last Journal: Friday October
18, @11:25AM) |
The website was an affront to our right to Free
Speech, and we immediately contacted the upstream provider
for this false website, gently requesting that our rights be
protected.
The provider, Verio, graciously complied
with our letter citing the Digital Millennium Copyright Act
(DMCA). Not only did they shut down Dow-Chemical.com, but as
a good corporate citizen, they agreed to shut down an entire
network (Thing.net) of websites many of which, while
unrelated to dow-chemical.com,
The web
site was an "affront to our right to Free
Speech".
So something someone else said was an
affront to their right to free speech? How the hell is that
possible? You can talk about slander and liable, but saying
something on a web site is affecting their right to free
speech?
"Not only did they shut down
Dow-Chemical.com, but as a good corporate citizen", I
don't have much to say here but good corporate citizen?
God that just sends chills down my spine. Thank god for those
corporate citizens who kowtow to their corporate
betters.
"appear to serve no commercial purpose, being
dedicated to the unproductive analysis and critique of society
and corporate behaviour. "
How dare they! Serve no
commercial purpose!
But the worst is the statement of
what they do instead of serving a commercial purpose. Analysis
and critique of society and corporate behavior?
All I
can say is Thank God people do that! What the hell is wrong
with Dow for saying any of that?
I used to think that
freedom of speech was one of those protections for the little
guy (individual), to keep the big guy(corps, and gov) from
squelching his point of view.
America is truely
becoming a corporate state, and this is just sad.
Sorry
if its a tad over the top, up at 4 am will do that. |
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Here's a theme song... (Score:2)
by herbierobinson
(183222) on Thursday January 02, @05:12AM (#4997513)
(http://www.curbside-recording.com/hrmusic/index.html)
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I thought it was out of date, but sadly, it
isn't.
Our House is Burnin' (2:57)
A fusion of
African, Japanese and Classic Blues rhythms.
Lyrics
[curbside-recording.com]. download
mp3 [curbside-recording.com] (2.6MB).
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SCREW THE DMCA AND ALL THOSE WHO SUPPORT
IT! (Score:1)
by DSL-Admin
(597132) on Thursday January 02, @09:45AM (#4998324)
(http://www.superrobots.net/)
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| DMCA = Fat Angry Politicans who want more money and who
are too chickenshit to earn it, so they steal it by whining
like a little baby until they get their way... Another example
of this crappy country's ability to get even worse.. |
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Dow indoctrination, "perception is
reality" (Score:1)
by mcdude (303386) on
Thursday January 02, @02:35PM (#5000457)
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When I graduated from college in 1991, I took a job as a
programmer at Dow Chemical. At that time, they sent all new
hires to a week-long indoctrination course, consisting mostly
of how to carefully word memos and email so that The Company
could not be harmed if the memos were brought up in court.
This was during the time when their silicone breast implants
were failing and customers were suing (and winning).
At
first it all sounded like good business sense but gradually I
realized what they were saying. One session drilled home the
idea that "perception equals reality" - and therefore, if can
make the public to PERCEIVE them as being safe and clean, and
all will be good.
In other words, don't fix the
problem, just word things so that The Company looks like it's
doing the right thing, and so that they cannot be held liable
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who cares? (Score:1)
by joeszilagyi
(635484) on Wednesday January 01, @12:43PM (#4994052)
(http://www.szilagyi.us/)
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| About the abuse of America through the DMCA, or the abuse
of the people by Dow overall? Lots of people, I'd wager.
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Re:in soviet russia.... (Score:0)
by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 01,
@12:44PM (#4994056)
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This is offensive. Don't you know that Bhopal tragedy
is ...well... very very tragic? |
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Re:in soviet russia.... (Score:1)
by spazoid12
(525450) on Wednesday January 01, @12:51PM (#4994089)
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I think rainman does care, but he's upset that he was
close to first-post...but not quite.
Take it easy
rainman, you'll get your chance someday. |
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Re:Go to bed micheal! (Score:0, Troll)
by spazoid12
(525450) on Wednesday January 01, @01:03PM (#4994137)
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| hahaha. That one is pretty funny, too. Oh man, I wish I
were the only one with mod points to correctly score these.
Somebody is being far too sensitive... often, a trollish
flamebait is appropriate and funny. here's one. |
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Re:Go to bed micheal! (Score:0)
by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 01,
@01:06PM (#4994151)
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four quadringentsexoctogintillion, seven hundred eighty
two quadringentquinoctogintilliard
Shut the
fuck up you stupid fucking limey.
Leave it to the
fucking Brits, after a thousand years of continuous
civilization, to still have trouble with the decimal system.
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Re:Go to bed micheal!
(Score:2)
by os2fan
(254461) on Wednesday January 01, @07:10PM (#4995842)
(http://www.geocities.com/os2fan2/index.html)
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| The author ofthe number is not using the british
system, but the European system. This is evident from
the use of -illards, the absence of 'and', and a few
other things.
The selected number here is 2^64, the decimal
expansion of which is 18 446 744 073 709 551 616.
USA = eighteen pentillion, four hundred forty six
quadrillion, seven hundred forty four trillion,
seventy three billion, seven hundred nine million,
five hundred fifty one thousand six hundred sixteen.
EUR = eighteen trillion, four hundred forty six
billiard, seven hundred forty four billion, seventy
three milliard, seven hundred nine million, five
hundred fifty one thousand six hundred sixteen.
UK = eighteen trillion, four hundred and forty-six
thousand, seven hundred and forty-four billion,
seventy-three thousand, seven hundred and nine
million, five hundred and fifty-one thousand six
hundred and sixteen.
NEW = three hundred and sixtynine billion, one
cention, fiftyseven thousand, thirtyone hundred and
eleftynine million, fifty centions, seven thosand,
ninety hundred and sixteen.
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Re:Go to bed micheal!
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by Anonymous Coward on Thursday
January 02, @12:56PM (#4999639)
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the decimal expansion of which is 18
446 744 073 709 551 616. Would you mind
not posting my telephone number on Slashdot? |
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Re:no dow = no computer. no greenpeace =
better wo (Score:0)
by Anonymous Coward on
Wednesday January 01, @01:55PM (#4994311)
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| Sad twat! |
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LOL (Score:0)
by Anonymous
Coward on Wednesday January 01, @02:08PM (#4994377)
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I don't know if you're responsible for some of the other
anti-michael posts lately, but I just wanted to say "thanks".
Anyone that continually harasses that whining, flamebaiting
pile of pseudoliberal pus is a hero to me.
To
reiterate: michael is a whining, flamebaiting cunt. Just look
at cetan's journal for proof. |
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Re:greenpeace (Score:1)
by
grishnav
(522003) <grishnav&croxnp,net>
on Wednesday January 01, @05:38PM (#4995384)
(http://croxnp.net/~grishnav)
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Agreed.
But out concern here at
/. isn't really with the environmental issues
(though, some /.ers may have concern with
that), but rather with the free speeach issues. |
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i'm a linux user (Score:0)
by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 01,
@07:44PM (#4995964)
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| i don't obey laws |
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