A few fun links: some halloween Costumes

and bush one finger victory salute

Here is a posting on regulations:

To me we already pay the cost of a regulatory burden. For example we have many restrictions and regulations that reinforce corporate interest over that of individuals. I can't sue a corporation for my child's asthma Even if the child is on my propertie which value is being destroyed via the “unregulated” activity of my neighbor. Does that represent lack of regulation, no the regulation is simply shifted to those with less power. In that case the government/corporations have regulated our relation to air.
You may counter that your free to sue them but remember freedom is in relation to capital so the justice system will naturally favor them regardless of the argument. Which materializes in the high costs of litigation for an individual and the power that they possess with their legal “team”

Corporations put out this image that regulations are bad for business and bad for the worker bad for competitiveness etc. But really corporations adopt regulation and government intervention at all levels of operation whenever it suits them. These regulations occur at the expense of large sectors of the population in order to serve the capital interest of a few.

Naturally corporations only criticize regulations that do not favor their capital interest. They do this as they simultaneously persue favorable government regulations on hugely disproportionate scale relative to the 'benefits' they provide the people they are taking money from (though taxes and regulated monopolies on commodities).
Its just basic power relations... I am confused when people are so egger to give away what little power they might have had by shifting regulations onto the general population that they are often a part of.

-mike