{"id":1038,"date":"2003-08-20T09:21:34","date_gmt":"2003-08-20T09:21:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/?p=1038"},"modified":"2024-11-30T03:28:50","modified_gmt":"2024-11-30T08:28:50","slug":"the_scary_side","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2003\/08\/20\/the_scary_side\/","title":{"rendered":"The Scary Side of Capitalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>In the wake of <a href=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/archives\/001240.html\" title=\"The Great Blackout of Aught Three\">Ye Olde Blackoute<\/a>,<\/strong> there was a lot of talk around the office about what a pain it was to walk down 20 flights of stairs that had no emergency lights. One of the women I work with was raving about the usefulness of the great <a href=\"http:\/\/www.selfdefenseproducts.com\/safety_lights\/ASP_sapphire_lights.htm\"  title=\"'The new Elite models have a bright blue 180\ufffd radius LED that helps preserve night vision and is actually visible OVER ONE MILE'\">keychain flashlight<\/a> she owned that sheds a startling amount of light, so Monday morning a bunch of people chipped in and bought a bunch of them.<\/p>\n<p>Curious about the nifty trinket, I took a look at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jlsdp.com\"  title=\"JLUSA.com Featuring Stun guns, Pepper Sprays, Lock Picks, Police Supplies, Blowguns, Knives, Swords, ASP Batons, Martial Arts Supplies and much more\">the website<\/a> where they were ordered, and probably placed myself right at the top of an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fbi.gov\/\"  title=\"The Man\">FBI<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ready.gov\"  title=\"The Man\">Homeland Security<\/a> watchlist the minute the site hit my bowser logs. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discount-blowguns.com\/\" >Discount blowguns<\/a>? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.selfdefenseproducts.com\/hibbencustomseries.htm\" >Knives<\/a> fit for a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geocities.com\/ktesh_kag\/FSknives.htm\" >Klingon<\/a>? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jlspy.com\/\"  title=\"Where's my spy camera? Where's my spy camera?\">Spy cameras<\/a>? Man, who knew it could be so easy to acquire everything needed for a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paratime.ca\/v_and_v\/pics\/utility_belt.jpg\"  title=\"NO sign of shark repellant, however\">superhero utility belt<\/a> or a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/daily\/newsfiles\/waco\/031593.html\"  title=\"Mmmmmm, Texas\">anti-establishment fortress<\/a>. I\u2019m glad I found my flashlight and all, but I get a little squeamish thinking about the endless varieties of suspicious stuff that\u2019s out there for the taking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the wake of Ye Olde Blackoute, there was a lot of talk around the office about what a pain it was to walk down 20 flights of stairs that had no emergency lights. One of the women I work with was raving about the usefulness of the great keychain flashlight she owned that sheds &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2003\/08\/20\/the_scary_side\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Scary Side of Capitalism&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ultrarandom"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1038"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77090,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038\/revisions\/77090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}