Sentences with phrase «on consumerist»

In an update posted Monday on The Consumerist, one of the residents of this condo named Dave says he and his neighbors have tried to fight back by posting signs alerting residents to the issue and planning to attend the next HOA meeting.

While I have never had any problems with Skype, a post about Skype on Consumerist this weekend made me sit up and take notice.

To that quickly growing list, I would like to add my own thanks to Popken for his terrific work on The Consumerist.

On the flip side of today's Service Dog Law Watch, there is a report today on Consumerist from a person who was surprised to see a very large, 80 - pound dog sitting in a booth (with his paws on the table) near him and his wife at Outback Steakhouse.

But as commenter «lizbeth» notes on a Consumerist post on the subject, perhaps the new policy presents an opportunity for some entrepreneurial unemployed / underemployed person to «provide a service where for a small fee vendors can call in and get someone to relieve them so they can relieve themselves.

According to prior discussions on Consumerist, the store's right to mess with you (or not) depends on two things: (1) whether the store is membership - based and has required members to agree to a search in the contract (i.e., Sam's Club / Costco), and (2) whether the shopper in question has given the store probable cause to believe he or she has committed shoplifting.

A commenter on the Consumerist writes «We had a big bag of sun chips in my office once.

Back in January, when Jetblue passenger Carl Larson got hit with a $ 50 charge for his folding bike, he fought back, got the story on Consumerist, and Jetblue folded as fast as my Strida, noting:

Yesterday I read on the consumerist that capital one was closing inactive accounts.

There would be nothing wrong with that, of course, but for a good hour or so Payne makes both excellent sight gags and interesting comment on consumerist society.

Target's got a lot of bad blood on its hands, a lot of stuff on consumerist about crummy working conditions.I hope JC Penny becomes a better place, Ron Johnson made Apple Retail great, so there's a lot of hope to be had.

I found your blog on the Consumerist and now I've spent my morning paging through your yummy recipes.

Common among many of the critical comments from the «churched» was the assumption that the «un-churched» had left church, or were in transition between churches, because of unrealistic expectations based on a consumerist mindset.

Not exact matches

The «answer» was to financialize the U.S. economy with vast increases in credit, debt and leverage, enabling a hyper - consumerist economy built on a pyramid of debt and leverage.

by Lori Gottlieb — a single mother who conceived her only child with donor sperm rather than miss out on motherhood as she has on marriage — is a frank and excruciatingly personal look into some of the sexual revolution's lonelier venues, including the creation of children by anonymous or absent sperm donors, the utter corrosiveness of taking a consumerist approach to romance, and the miserable effects of advancing age on one's sexual marketability.

There is enough here for you to find a career provided our pro tern political leaders will transform themselves into statesmen, encourage indigenous research, inhibit consumerist hi - tech, and put your talent to developmental projects based on appropriate technology, not multinational gluttony.

On the other hand, Cary writes, «The church, when it's not seduced by consumerist spirituality, is in the business of cultivating ordinary Christians...» Try that for a mission statement.

The deterioration of neighborhoods in our inner cities, the decline of elemental safety — never mind education — in many of our schools, the burgeoning of jail populations (to the point that we have the highest percentage of incarcerated citizens of any country in the industrial world), the great strains on the family, the general slackening of discipline, which a consumerist and media - driven society relentlessly encourages, and a huge transfer of wealth In the 1980s and «90s (during this period, the upper 1 percent of Americans more than doubled its wealth, while the lowest 20 percent suffered an actual decline)-- all these changes signal a community at risk.

Unfortunately, our views on adoption can be colored by our consumerist culture.

As more parents express concerns about the consumerist and hedonistic youth culture that their children are exposed to in mass media, they naturally favor schools that filter out its worst elements and focus young minds on worthier things.

TV and tablets make your brain run out of your ear onto your pillow at night and turns us all into angry consumerist zombies who pour Mountain Dew on crops and then wonder why they die.

NASA should then build a page on FaceBook to appease these tuned - out, hyper - individualistic shallow consumerists.

I agree on the fewer but better quality here in North America — in regards to everything consumerist!

But whereas Warhol's «Campbell's Soup Cans» made waves in 1962 as a commentary on post-war consumerist society, today's fashion creatives are much more complicit.

It is superbly executed and, for all its pitilessness, it's an intelligent dramatization of the impact that consumerist values have had on the psyche of the North American middle class at the end of the 20th century.

by Walter Chaw George Romero's Dawn of the Dead is a groundbreaking satire of our consumerist state, says the party line, the first film to be shot in that new phenomenon of a shopping mall and full of cogent commentary on how capitalism has become at once a Skinner box and religion instead of merely an organizing principle.

The illustrated novel follows a runaway teenager and her toy robot on a journey through an alternate - reality 1997 USA, where the high - tech consumerist society is in decline.

Holed up in this consumerist dream space, they play dress - up, host a dinner, are visited by ghosts, watch coverage of their attack on display model TVs, and act out fantasy lives — only to have it all come to a halt when Nocturama reveals itself as the bleak, desperate genre movie it's been all along.

Important considerations here are that food security (and sovereignty) requires as much of the provisioning as possible to happen through localized production and consumption networks, that agriculture is based on organic, biologically diverse inputs, that the enormous waste of food characterizing the consumerist class is eliminated, and that for the extreme poor who do not have access to either the means of production or food itself, there needs to be rights - based schemes ensuring such access.

A few days later, The Consumerist pushed back and the battle was on.

In August of 2015, The Consumerist reported on the quickening pace of a variety of loan types.

A recent article at The Consumerist reminded me on an interesting moment I had.

The couple's story is similar to one that Consumerist reported last July, in which parents not only became the caretakers for their three grandchildren after their daughter's death, but also took on more than $ 100,000 in med school student loans.

Like, you pay a little bit more, and you're not just a consumerist, but you do also your duty towards the environment, the poor, starving people in Africa, and so on and so on.

As the press text explains, «Stefania Fersini's paintings offer meditations on representations of women in fashion magazines and the linchpin consumerist node of appearance.

This move toward consumerist decadence precipitated sudden and astonishing attention on the artist.

A fortuitous homage to the very structures of exchange in the Essex market, the installation makes the visitor reflect on their own needs and provides respite from a consumerist condition of coerced supply and demand.

Felix Plaza's consumerist shopping bags are devoid of interior contents that need to be provided, whereas So Yoon Lym's disconnected tattooed limbs present themselves aggressively on an enigmatic, narrative triptych, and Kymia Nawabi's couple in Nook (2012) cuddle, arms outstretched toward each other, in an attempt to embrace an evanescent bubble.

Mellor states that «The paintings of this fashioned minority group of camp icons are vulnerable to my own diarist situations... overloaded collusions of identity, bombardment of consumerist products and imagery, psychological trauma, political and financial impotency and so on as a catalogue of felt experiences of the isolation, frustration and anxiety of the urban condition.»

German artist Hans - Peter Feldmann collects in order to appropriate and challenge aesthetic sensibility, Richard Hamilton's use of pre-existing photographic imagery is linked with pop's consumerist strategies, and Dieter Roth, German - Swiss conceptual artist and long time collaborator with Hamilton, alighted most particularly (nay obsessively) on the postcard format, exemplified in Postkarte.

«Resistance - Subjecter», enclosed in glass windows, show under the neon light that stereotype of femininity imposed by the Western consumerist world, a figure that is actually the most common representation of the woman nowadays; Hirschhorn's women literally corrode this model presenting themselves as an army of modified human beings carrying the evidence of an interior cancer crystallized on their frigid bodies.

During these same years, the reflections on prehistoric art by the French archeologist and historian André Leroi - Gourhan gave contemporary artists an opportunity to rethink manual work and the value of an object's fabrication in a consumerist world.

Warhol moved to New York in 1949 to work in illustration and advertising, and quickly began producing some of the most astute commentary on postwar American consumerist society, collapsing some of the perceived barriers between counterculture and high art.

Pop - art may have been one of the first contemporary art movements to appropriate consumerist imagery, but Kruger's postmodern conceptual art - which also appeared on billboards and T - shirts - was the first to explore and analyze how the mass media presents, distorts and objectifies issues concerning identity, sexuality and the portrayal of women.

The images in the new solo exhibition in Paris see the street artist working in Posca markers on catalogue pages, the beautifully drawn classical figures contrasting magnificently with the consumerist advertising of the modern world.

Leading off with early paintings, the Serpentine will feature Metzger's notable metaphors for our ineluctable journey on the Oblivion Express — his notorious «auto - destructive» pieces (disintegrating sculptures, acid - splashed canvases) begun in the late»50s — in addition to his presciently eco-minded critiques of consumerist excess via accumulations of used materials.

Which then leads to a very different characterization of the problem in which carbon emissions are really just a by - product of a cheap energy consumerist society, and the problem isn't to reduce emissions, it is to restructure our entire societies (and our conceptions of them) so that we no longer depend on growth in resource consumption as our definition of human progress.

In essence, fossil fuels reinforce a consumerist mindset of prideful, greedy and gluttonous (yet, false) control over nature — that humanity can extract and consume fossil fuels on our own terms (some would say, «dispatchable generation»).

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Via Consumerist comes the news that Deutch is on the wrong side of the «v.» in a suit seeking $ 34 million in restitution for Deutch clients who claim that the «tax relief» she promised never quite materialized.