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[MaachaQ]

How many slaves work for you?

Site reveals the human slavery behind your stuff

My slavery profile by geography
By Suzanne Kantra, Techlicious.com

I have 66 slaves working for me. Or at least that’s what Slavery Footprint estimates based on my lifestyle and the size of my family.

For a quick snapshot, you answer 11 pages of questions, including your age, the number of children you have, whether you rent or own a home, what’s in your medicine cabinet, what you eat, the clothing you own, how much jewelry you own and what electronics you have. If you have time, you can fine tune your results by reporting specific number of items. Like how many computers, leather shoes or stuffed animals you have.

Survey questions are graphically based.

For me, the main contributors were my electronics — not a big surprise there, as slavery has a large footprint in mining of raw materials — and my children’s stuffed animals. Now I have a better idea of my impact on human trafficking, and I learned some interesting facts about forced labor while filling out the survey. For instance, did you know that “bonded labor is used in Southeast Asia’s shrimping industry, which supplies more shrimp to the U.S. than any other country?”

The website — which was created by Call + Response, a non-profit dedicated to ending slavery, in collaboration with the U.S. State Department’s Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons — estimates the number of slaves by taking a look at more than 450 products, and breaking them down from the sourcing of raw materials through the manufacturing. And the data is taken from legitimate sources such as the Department of Labor’s List of Goods Produced by Child Labor or Forced Labor 2010, International Labor Organization’s Committee of Experts Reports and Transparency International‘s Corruption Index 2010. Check the site’s Methodology page for a complete explanation and list of sources.

http://digitallife.today.msnbc.msn.c...ind-your-stuff

[Skjie]

Man, only 43. Time to get buying! (Note, did not include the wife)

[Yuri-G]

this almost deserves its own thread... almost.

http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/blog/shu...rn=nfl-wp11074

From the Motown Sound to the Motor City Madman, from the MC5 to Mitch Ryder, from Bob Seger to "Detroit Rock City," from Kid Rock to "8 Mile," the city of Detroit has a rich history when it comes to all kinds of rock and roll. And that's why the NFL really goofed up when it set the entertainment for this year's Detroit Lions Thanksgiving game -- another estimable Motor City tradition.
For the first time in eons, the Lions are a very exciting and competitive team, which means that football fans around the country will not be scheduling their post-Tryptophan naps to coincide with the appearance of Ford Field's home team. It's a marquee game for once, so you'd think that a tribute to some tough Detroit rock would be in order.
Nope. Instead, the league has presented us with halftime entertainment in the form of the inexplicably popular proto-generic post-grunge band Nickelback. That's right -- these seventh-generation Pearl Jammers are set to whine and squall at halftime of the Lions' game against the Green Bay Packers on Thanksgiving Day, and the city of Detroit is not at all happy about it.
Some Lions fans have taken this to the Internet, and created a petition at change.org, begging the NFL to get the band (which is from Canada, by the way — aren't there some CFL games it could inhabit?) out of the picture.

This game is nationally televised, do we really want the rest of the US to associate Detroit with Nickelback? Detroit is home to so many great musicians and they chose Nickelback?!?!?! Does anyone even like Nickelback? Is this some sort of ploy to get people to leave their seats during halftime to spend money on alcoholic beverages and concessions? This is completely unfair to those of us who purchased tickets to the game. At least the people watching at home can mute their TVs. The Lions ought to think about their fans before choosing such an awful band to play at halftime.

http://l.yimg.com/a/p/sp/editorial_i...iving_game.jpgAnd just in case you think this is some sort of Detroit-centric thing, consider that two writers from the Winnipeg Free Press recently begged NHL commissioner Gary Bettman not to put Nickelback on the bill for the "NHL FaceOff" season-opening ceremonies.

As people who love music and love Winnipeg even more, we have a request: Please ensure this does not happen. The return of the NHL to Winnipeg is something we have been dreaming about for 15 years. Please do not sully the celebration with the presence of a band whose existence is antithetical to the very concept of celebration.

Shunned in their own country? You bet your ass. Why foist them instead on the hardworking American public?
Side note: Lions coach Jim Schwartz is one of the more metal-centric NFLers out there, regardless of position or standing. He frequently tweets out his "What I'm listening to on the way to the stadium" choices, and you'll see a lot of Pantera, Metallica, Iron Maiden, and much of the best of 1970s and 1980s arena rock. Schwartz can't be happier about this than the Lions fans are — maybe it's time for the coach to step in and put a stop to this?










you hear that, Nickelback? even Detroit don't want you.

[Melena]

I'll honestly never understand the Nickelback hate. They are not the greatest band out there, but it's not turn off the radio hate induced music like some of the other current crap out there.

[Cail]

I'll honestly never understand the Nickelback hate. They are not the greatest band out there, but it's not turn off the radio hate induced music like some of the other current crap out there.

it is to me!

[Kerberoz]

The difference between offensively horrible music and generic mediocre music is that the former takes effort to create.

[Tyche]

I've been to a Nickelback concert. I had an excuse, Chevelle was opening.

[Skjie]

I'll honestly never understand the Nickelback hate. They are not the greatest band out there, but it's not turn off the radio hate induced music like some of the other current crap out there.

Chad Kroeger is a fucking tool and always has been.

[Cail]

could probably use its own thread idk..

Girl, 3, eats leftovers for 2 days after Mom dies

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — A 3-year-old girl comforted herself with her favorite toy and ate cheese, leftover lasagna and milk for two days after her mother died unexpectedly in their New Zealand home.

The girl's uncle, Pete Silbery, told The Associated Press on Friday that Shylah Silbery managed to open the fridge and comfort herself with a teddy bear named "Possum" after Lauren Silbery, 28, died.

The family last spoke to Lauren Silbery on Oct. 19, he said. Two days later, they were worried enough to call a friend who lived near her Wellington home. The friend could see the girl inside the home, but not the mother, prompting the family to call police, Pete Silbery said.

Police coaxed Shylah to drag a coffee table to the door so she could reach the lock and unlock the door, before she told them, "Mummy won't wake up," Silbery said.

"I can only imagine her in there for that long, trying to wake Mum up as well," he said.

Shylah spent several days in a hospital recovering from dehydration and diaper rash.

"She's doing OK now. She's still bubbly," he said. "When we lowered the coffin into the grave at the cemetery, though, she pointed at it and said 'Mummy's in there.' It was pretty heartbreaking."

Authorities are awaiting the results of an autopsy but don't believe Lauren Silbery's death was suspicious, Wellington police spokesman Victoria Davis said.

[Yuri-G]

"mummy's in there"

oh god, start the waterworks

[Yuri-G]

Chad Kroeger is a fucking tool and always has been.

can you imagine if Chad Kroeger and Scott Stapp had a child together?

[Celestialstrife]

"mummy's in there"

oh god, start the waterworks

:'(

[Fievel]

oh god, start the waterworks

No shit, god damn it Cail way to make me upset.

[Cail]

No shit, god damn it Cail way to make me upset.

its cuz i hate you

Spoiler: show

not rly

[Not Kuno]

"mummy's in there"

oh god, start the waterworks

http://www.assault.it/wp-content/upl...arcophagus.jpg

[Aristio]

she pointed at it and said 'Mummy's in there.'

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[Qalbert]

^beat me to it

[Fievel]

its cuz i hate you

Well now I've gone from upset to heart broken.

[Melena]

Well shit, there goes my happy place now. So sad Reminds me of my little brother after our grandfather passed away. He was only 4 and kept telling nana to not sit in his chair, grandpa will be home soon and that's his chair.

[Kerberoz]

http://images4.fanpop.com/image/poll...87471_full.png
http://bawwbot.net/pix/645.jpg

damn you, I was on youtube looking for it