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McDonald's and Sony Offer Music Downloads 446

Posted by michael from the girls-just-want-to-have-lunch dept.
J ROC writes "CNet reports that McDonalds and Sony are teaming up to offer free music downloads to customers who buy a Big Mac Extra Value Meal. The offer, which begins on June 8, offers customers an access code to download one free song at Sony's Connect online music store. Hmmm, let's see, about 600 calories in a Big Mac, an average of 12 songs on a CD, so that's about 7200 calories you will need to consume in order to get an album's worth of music (and I'm not including the calories from the fries and softdrink). Does this offer also include a free gym membership?"
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  • The gym membership (Score:5, Funny)

    by LeBlanc_Joey ( 756213 ) on Friday June 04, 2004 @11:23AM (#9335048)
    The free gym membership comes with the triple bypass.

  • What happened (Score:5, Interesting)

    by Mz6 ( 741941 ) * on Friday June 04, 2004 @11:23AM (#9335058) Journal
    I thought McDonald's was supposed to start promoting it's more healthier meals now? What's the point of tying that to a Big Mac extra value meal? They should put it with their healthier stuff to spark up sales of that since that's where their business looks to be heading...

    • Re:What happened (Score:5, Interesting)

      by afidel ( 530433 ) on Friday June 04, 2004 @11:25AM (#9335080)
      Especially since the active people more attracted to the "healthy" meals are more likely to have a portable mp3 player for exercising.

      • Re:What happened (Score:5, Insightful)

        by Lord_Dweomer ( 648696 ) on Friday June 04, 2004 @11:58AM (#9335498) Homepage
        You could also say that the less active people attracted to the Big Mac meals are more likely to have a desktop computer with Winamp, so I don't really think you have a valid point.

      • Re:What happened (Score:3, Informative)

        by douthat ( 568842 )
        Actually, people touting portable mp3 players, that are non-sony branded, are shit out of luck, too.

        Check it, from connect.com's EULA [connect.com]: (emphasis mine)

        Permitted Uses:
        You may play the Connect Downloads an unlimited number of times on up to three (3) personal computers that are registered with the Connect store, including the personal computer on which the Connect Downloads are originally downloaded. Once downloaded to that personal computer, you may transfer the licensed Connect Downloads an unlimited

    • Re:What happened (Score:5, Funny)

      by DroopyStonx ( 683090 ) on Friday June 04, 2004 @11:32AM (#9335165)
      This is actually a mass murder/genocide plot by the RIAA. Kill/poison "the problem" and it goes away, right?

      In this case, destroy all the evil music downloaders (or as the RIAA calls them, "freeloaders") with greasy fast food. How dare they ruin their overpriced music dreams!

      This whole "online musical revolution" thing has been a thorn in their side for too long and they are ready to DO something!

      Think ABOUT IT, man!

    • Maybe they're trying to kill the music downloaders. That's the first thing that jumped into my head when I saw the headline...
    • I thought McDonald's was supposed to start promoting it's more healthier meals now?

      I saw the funniest thing at a McDonald's last weekend... they were selling an "Adult Happy Meal". It was a bunch of iceberg lettuce, a bottle of water, and a pedometer!

      I wish I was making this up... but it's true.

    • Re:What happened (Score:3, Insightful)

      by DrCode ( 95839 )
      Judging by their commercials, they're promoting their 'healthy' food to the 30-something female crowd, probably trying to encourage moms to give in to their kids' demands to go there.

      The free downloads would appeal more to people in their teens, and they aren't the ones worried so much about fat and calories.
    • Promoting healthy diets is in vogue. Talking about heathy diets is in vogue. Actually eating a healthy diet....well, that's another story.

    • Re:What happened (Score:3, Insightful)

      by dougman ( 908 )
      I can't find any links right now, but I recently read that only 1-2% of their sales are from the "healthy food" product line. I suppose you could view this as a way for McDonalds to promote their healthy stuff, but since Sony is the one paying for the advertising here, I'm sure they want to get their message on the product that falls into the 98% category.
  • ... Is the two-all beef patties song. Imagine playin that while rockin' down the highway.

    • No, no, no, not that song. How about the "I'll take a Big Mac, McBLT, a quarter pounder with some cheese, filet-a-fish, a hamburder, a cheeseburger, a Happy meal....". I can't remember the rest. No one ever seems to remember that promotion.

      • Re:The first song I'm getting (Score:4, Informative)

        by gowen ( 141411 ) <gwowen@gmail.com> on Friday June 04, 2004 @11:38AM (#9335240) Homepage Journal
        I think you mean

        Big Mac, McBLT, a Quarter Pounder with some cheese,
        Filet-O-Fish, a hamburger, a cheeseburger, a Happy Meal, McNuggets, tasty golden French Fries,regular or larger sizes,
        salads, Chef or Garden or a Chicken Salad Oriental, big big breakfast, Egg McMuffin, hot Hotcakes and Sausage,
        maybe Biscuits, Bacon, Egg and Cheese, a sausage, Danish, Hash Browns, too,
        and for dessert, hot Apple Pies, and sundaes, three varieties, a soft serve cone, three kind of shakes, and chocolaty-chip cookies, and to drink, a Coca-Cola, Diet Coke, an orange drink and
        Sprite, and Coffee, decaf too, a lowfat milk, also an orange juice, I love McDonalds, good time great taste, and I get this all at one place.
        I'll get my coat...
      • mcnuggets, tasty golden french fries, regular or larger size, big big breakfast, ...
        that's where my memory taps out.

  • special sauce (Score:5, Funny)

    by ctour ( 645366 ) on Friday June 04, 2004 @11:24AM (#9335069)
    I'd rather pay the 99 cents and get it off iTunes, besides... I don't touch anything with "special sauce".

  • How about a fucking hamburger that tastes good. (Score:2, Interesting)

    by Anonymous Coward
    Why not do that instead?

    Clown. Hamburger. That combination alone is bizzare. Now we're supposed to think Clown+Hamburger+MP3 is sane?

    • Re:How about a fucking hamburger that tastes good. (Score:5, Funny)

      by wass ( 72082 ) on Friday June 04, 2004 @11:59AM (#9335506)
      Yeah, I never really understood all those mcdonalds mascots.

      You've got ronald mcdonald, a scurvy-ridden freak who's the prime representative of mcdonalds to the public. He's got major nutritional problems, besides his chalky-white face he's got bright-red hair and eye problems. Kind of like Joker when he fell into the vat of acid. Makes you want to think twice before biting into that cheeseburger, doesn't it?

      Then you've got grimace, who's name is a synonym for making a face like you just ate something nasty. Actually, merriam-webster gives this definition : "a facial expression usually of disgust or disapproval" And what kind of mutant blob is he supposed to be? How many big macs did his mom eat while she was pregnant, to mutate him so much?

      Fry-guys. Okay, so the french fries there don't even come from potatoes but from some obscure animal lifeform. Are they driven to extinction? Maybe they're last remaining hideout is in some corners of the Amazon rainforest. Or are they a collection of fries that, due to the toxic chemicals they're made from, suddently acquired a collective concious. Hmmm.

      And the hamburgler. Yup, eating at mcdonalds makes you so addicted you resort to stealing to be able to get your next big-mac fix.

      Seriously, what a bunch of weird-ass characters to represent a company. They are like their own X-Men or similar.

  • Sony's format sucks... (Score:5, Interesting)

    by Otto ( 17870 ) on Friday June 04, 2004 @11:25AM (#9335079) Homepage Journal
    Sony's Connect store is the one only offering the ATRAC3 format files, which is only compatible with Sony players.

    I admit that iTunes is only offering DRM Protected AAC, which is almost as bad, but at least AAC has a pretty high quality. By comparison, ATRAC3 sounds like you're hearing the music through a tube. Not to mention that ATRAC3 has some of the worst DRM and restrictive software I've ever seen.. You have to check music into and out of your portable player device, I believe. It's just wacky as hell.

    • Re:Sony's format sucks... (Score:4, Insightful)

      by Alsee ( 515537 ) on Friday June 04, 2004 @12:12PM (#9335687) Homepage
      Exactly.

      For the 12 billionth time, who the hell wants a crippled product, even if it *is* "free". Yipee! I have my regular music collection PLUS 4 "free" crippled songs! When I want to play any of those 4 songs I am required to switch to a different crippled music player! Yipee!

      I'll stick with Winamp and shuffleplay ALL of my non-crippled files at once thankyouverymuch.

      -
    • I admit that iTunes is only offering DRM Protected AAC, which is almost as bad, but at least AAC has a pretty high quality.

      You forgot to mention that the DRM that is there is also relatively simple to remove [hymn-project.org].

  • McAlbums (Score:5, Funny)

    by Rufus88 ( 748752 ) on Friday June 04, 2004 @11:26AM (#9335089)
    Customer: I'll have a chocolate shake, Don Henley's Greatest Hits, and, ummmm, The Eagles Greatest Hits to go, please.

    McD: You want Frey's with that?

  • More? (Score:2, Insightful)

    by BigglesZX ( 734765 )
    Sigh, not _yet another_ incentive for kids to eat unhealthy garbage and get fat. McD's could get better kudos by only offering it with "healthy" things like salad.

    But wait, they don't *do* healthy things.
    • And it gets worse. Notice the new "healthy" option for kids? Apple slices with caramel dip. I bet it's great with their deep-fried salad!

  • Required reading (Score:4, Interesting)

    by tji ( 74570 ) on Friday June 04, 2004 @11:26AM (#9335098)
    Before buying any more fast food, check out Fast Food Nation [amazon.com] by Eric Schlosser. I'm reading it right now, it has lots of interesting information about the fast food industry that might effect your desire for their food.

    Of course there is also Super Size Me [supersizeme.com] the movie about the guy who ate nothing but McDonald's for a month & the effects on his body. I haven't seen it yet (I'm waiting to finish "Fast Food Nation" first) but I hear it's good.
    • I went and saw SuperSize me last Saturday. Fantastic documentary, I highly recommend it. Just seeing the guy launch his supersized double quarter pounder meal out the window of his car makes it worth seeing.

    • Re:Required reading (Score:5, Insightful)

      by Slick_Snake ( 693760 ) on Friday June 04, 2004 @11:36AM (#9335214) Journal
      If you're so worried about how unhealthy it is then don't eat it. People are so wrapped up in blaming others for their faults that they don't see the truth. No one is forcing you to eat 1000+ calorie meals. You make the choice and you have to live with the consequences.
      • Read the book...Coca Cola and Pepsi and Burger King striking deals with elementary schools, selling kids Whoppers for lunch in the cafeteria (hey the school sells it, it must be good for me!). As adults we take responsibility, but the book doesn't hide its disgust as the industry preys on kids, all while school administrators look the other way because the school gets badly needed cash.

        The author of Fast Food Nation actually says many times that he likes fast food, but the system that produces your meal a

      • Re:Required reading (Score:5, Insightful)

        by wass ( 72082 ) on Friday June 04, 2004 @12:10PM (#9335669)
        No one is forcing you to eat 1000+ calorie meals. You make the choice and you have to live with the consequences.

        You should see the movie because that's the whole point. Personally I can't stand fast food, and lately my girlfriend and I have been cooking most of our meals, avoiding processed foods, etc.

        But if you see the Supersize Me documentary, it shows you just how 'entrenched' our society is with all this fast-food and junk foods. The movie opens with a large group of little kids singing a song about pizza hut, kfc, and mcdonalds. It's more than just pop culture, fast food images are embedded into their heads through tv commercials, public school meal programs, and even summer-camp songs (as that song demonstrates).

        In the movie they talk with the lobby group (i forget the name) that represents mcdonalds and all the other huge multinational fast-food and other food companies. They have tons of power, and lobby the gubmint to pass favorable legislation for them, etc.

        Another point brought out by the movie is that this crappy food is so cheap that for many people it's what they depend on. And one really does have to go out of their way to avoid it completely (not just mcdonalds but all fast food and other questionable food companies like kraft, heinz, etc that load their foods w/ sugars/fats as well).

        • I haven't seen the movie. I'm guessing it's not a bad documentary, but as a medical experiment, it seems somewhat lacking.

          The hook for the movie is that the guy tried an all fast-food diet for a month, and he blimped. Gained something like fifty pounds. But he was eating approximately 5000 calories a day. It doesn't really matter what form those calories take. I don't care if you're on Atkins, or a vegetarian, or eating an all snail diet: at 5000 calories a day, you're going to get supersized.

    • It's funny, but it's not "good". (Score:5, Insightful)

      by Otto ( 17870 ) on Friday June 04, 2004 @11:47AM (#9335356) Homepage Journal
      I haven't seen it yet (I'm waiting to finish "Fast Food Nation" first) but I hear it's good.

      It's very funny and well made, but his point utterly fails. First off, he does something inordinately stupid.. he comes up with "rules" that virtually guarantee he'll eat the biggest, most fattening thing that they offer. And then when he becomes sick, he expects you to have not expected this in the first place.

      This is one of those "well, duh" moments. It's like when researchers announce that they've done some 3 years of studies and found that kids don't like to go to school. Well, duh.

      If you eat nasty fattening shit all day, every day, you won't be healthy. If you override your body's desires for foods that it needs with some arbitrary set of rules, you won't be healthy.

      Health isn't a matter of what kind of foods you eat. Not really. Health is a matter of balance. Sometimes you need fat in your meal. Other times you need salad. If you eat the same damn thing all the time, it doesn't matter *what* it is, you're not eating healthy by definition.

      He's trying to make a point that this food is unhealthy. In this, he fails miserably. The food is not unhealthy. His behavior in eating nothing but that food is unhealthy. If he wanted to prove that any particular chain was unhealthy, he should have tried to eat a balanced diet using only foods from that chain. They have a big menu for a friggin' reason. They do offer salads. They do offer healthy choices (admittedly, not many). Just because they offer a lot of fatty foods doesn't mean you have to eat nothing but those fatty foods.

      So the movie, while funny, utterly fails to make any commentary that has any real meaning. It's a mockumentary at best. He didn't actually prove anything that anybody wouldn't have known from hearing the premise. "Well, duh."
  • Some time ago, there was a similar deal with the iTunes music service. See here [macobserver.com].
    • This looks like a bandwagon. The promotion must have gone well with iTunes Store so they are jumping on the next company.

      Only problem is i doubt the Sony setup will be to the same quality as the iTMS setup.
  • McDonalds and Sony are teaming up to offer free music downloads to customers who buy a Big Mac Extra Value Meal

    This is sad, before I started reading the article the first thing that came to mind was making a joke that they would be offering free music downloads to customers who buy a Big Mac Extra Value Meal.

  • Well, the Adult Happy Meals ... (Score:5, Funny)

    by burgburgburg ( 574866 ) <splisken06@@@email...com> on Friday June 04, 2004 @11:28AM (#9335114)
    do feature a pedometer. So after you stumble to the emergency room during the major cardiac infarction, the coroner will eventually be able to tell how many steps you walked before your untimely demise.
    • The pedometers they give away are not all that accurate. My wife got two of them and clipped them both on her belt for a day. At the end of the day one registered 5,000 steps (5,000 metric steps) and the other registered 10,000 steps (whatever that works out to in metric).
    • they aren't even worth the $0.25 that they must have cost - the pedometer couldn't count steps accurately, or even close (about one step read for every three taken). So, unless you believe that Republican budget math is accurate (in which case these will work just fine at counting your steps in the same way), the McPedometers don't work well and aren't worth the plastic they're made of. The coroner won't be able to get anything out of the Adult Happy Meal pedometer after your untimely demise other than that

  • Wonder... (Score:3, Funny)

    by manavendra ( 688020 ) on Friday June 04, 2004 @11:28AM (#9335115) Homepage Journal
    ..how long will it be, before McDonald's is accused of fattening people by luring them with music then?
  • "Hmmm, let's see, about 600 calories in a Big Mac, an average of 12 songs on a CD, so that's about 7200 calories you will need to consume in order to get an album's worth of music (and I'm not including the calories from the fries and softdrink). Does this offer also include a free gym membership?"

    You do not have to consume the food in order to get the free song. Therefore, your math is completely wrong.

    • No.. (Score:2)

      by Mz6 ( 741941 ) *
      In that case you might as well just buy the songs and forego the food part all together. Capece?
      • "In that case you might as well just buy the songs and forego the food part all together. "

        Maybe. But if you're buying lunch for your friend or something, you don't have to consume it.
        In any event, that comment was meant as satirical.

  • Oh, the mainstreaming of /.... (Score:5, Funny)

    by clontzman ( 325677 ) on Friday June 04, 2004 @11:29AM (#9335128) Homepage
    In what dimension do Slashdotters care about counting calories? I'd have thought that the discussion would be about how to circumvent the Sony DRM. or building a beowulf cluster of McDonalds pedometers -- something more befitting of this community.

    Be proud of the ketchup stains on your t-shirt, goddammit!
    • It's in style these days to bash unhealthy fast food.

      It's just another thing for the people who don't believe in personal responsibility to latch on to... The evil corporations are forcing people to eat fat! How dare they!

      I wouldn't be surprised if that new "documentary" about the guy that ate only fast food for a month wasn't funded by the various lawyers that stand to benefit from class action suits against fast food.

      Fast food is the next tobacco in the real life slippery slope of litigation that hing

  • As Jerry Seinfeld once said, (Score:4, Funny)

    by elid ( 672471 ) <.moc.liamg. .ta. .dopi.ile.> on Friday June 04, 2004 @11:29AM (#9335131)
    "I usually like mine with an angioplasty."

  • but wait... (Score:3, Interesting)

    by ThePretender ( 180143 ) on Friday June 04, 2004 @11:30AM (#9335136) Homepage
    maybe they'll be adding a tie-in with Dance Dance Revolution for the Playstation 2, for the Adult Happy Meals? That would counteract the calories a little better.

  • A Rant (Score:5, Funny)

    by ahoehn ( 301327 ) * <andrew&hoe,hn> on Friday June 04, 2004 @11:31AM (#9335150) Homepage
    I wish everyone would quit their bitching about how unhealthy McDonalds is. I don't mean to be a defender of bad food, in fact, I'm a vegetarian and eat at McDonalds once or twice a year, but it's not like McDonalds ever pretended that their food was healthy. If the American public is too retarded to tell that eating a jucy burger, deep FAT fried french fries, and a calorie-sugar-caffene laden soda isn't good for them, the maybe they deserve to have their arteries clogged.
    Sure, it's a bit sad that they market their product so strongly to children - but adults have no reason to complain. If you don't want horribly unhealthy food, don't eat there - or at least get one of their moderately healthy parfaits or salads or the new veggie burger.
    The only thing that really pisses me off about McDonalds is that when they finally started making a Veggie Burger, they made it taste like shit. There's lots of veggie burgers out there that taste great, but McDonalds had to make one that could never compete in taste with their real meat patties.
    This is Andrew Q Ranter, signing off.
    • It's not only a bitch about McDonald's but all of these fast food places. Years ago, they really didn't offer any healthy alternatives. Speaking in a highly realtive American mindset, us Americans are always GO GO GO.. Therefore we want food that can be served and eaten at that same pace. The only places that offered that were McDonald's BK, Wendy's, etc... However, they really had NO alternative healthy choices years ago. Now that everyone is dieting and eating somewhat healthier these fast food places

      • A rant answering a rant... (Score:4, Interesting)

        by Mitleid ( 734193 ) on Friday June 04, 2004 @12:04PM (#9335568)
        I really don't think anyone is eating healthier or dieting... Take a look around, America is still a pretty fat place. The recent jazz about the Atkins diet is just that; jazz. Diets like that have no lasting effects because people do not learn the CONCEPTS before they implement. They hear "Atkins sez: Don't eat bread, eat meat!" so they go eat 2 lbs of ground beef wrapped in cheese and covered with bacon. "It's cool", they say. "...No BREAD!".

        I was a vegetarian for about 4 years of my life, and it made me much more selective and concious of what I was eating, and thus I lost a considerable amount of weight and became more aware of my body's needs calorically, etc. Then, about 2 years ago, I went back to eating meat, and ballooned up at least 20 pounds. Why? Because it just became food food food all over again. Burgers, steaks, whatever. Much like you stated with the common American food consumption mentality, you get in a mindset where it becomes so hard to moderate yourself, you really lose a grip on your food intake and just go hog wild. Even an INCREDIBLY active person can not sucessfully maintain a healthy body if they were to participate in the diet of "fat" Americans.

        I went back to being a vegetarian about 3 months ago and have also gotten my ass on a treadmill, and I'm starting to shed off those pounds I gained from when I started eating meat again. I'm not advocating that vegetarianism is the means to lose weight here. Rather, I'm just stating that personally, for me, being a vegetarian puts me in a mindset where I'm just so much more concious of what I'm eating that I see HOW BAD most food sold in America really is. And the sad thing is, it seems people aren't necessarily always living to eat rather than eating to live, but they just can't get a decent healthy meal anywhere else.

    • Re:A Rant (Score:2, Funny)

      by ch-chuck ( 9622 )
      deep FAT fried french fries

      but ... we need more french fry consumers so we'll have enough waste oil for our enviro-friendly biodiesel autos!

    • Re:A Rant (Score:5, Funny)

      by Hatta ( 162192 ) on Friday June 04, 2004 @11:55AM (#9335456) Journal
      in fact, I'm a vegetarian and eat at McDonalds once or twice a year

      Isn't that kind of like claiming your a virgin because you've only slept with 4 or 5 people?

  • The question is... (Score:3, Funny)

    by Shamanin ( 561998 ) on Friday June 04, 2004 @11:32AM (#9335174)
    what size server farm will be able to live up to their "Over a Billion Served" claim.
  • I am not so sure this free music thing is going to work. I was excited when Apple announced the Pepsi deal, but it proved unsuccessful by most people's measure. Though they laid the blame on distribution channel issues, I think there are a few things to be learned:

    (1) Do people want to go to 'all that trouble' for a free song? When you have to download software, setup an account, (and perhaps provide a credit card), then find the song you want and download it, just to be unable to play it on your choice of

  • Slightly OT, but... (Score:5, Insightful)

    by pcaylor ( 648195 ) on Friday June 04, 2004 @11:33AM (#9335181)
    Why are people so worked up about McDonald's food these days? It's never been a big secret that fast food isn't healthy. After all, it's called Junk Food for a reason. Heck, McDonald's has had nutritional information posted in their restaurants for twenty years. (And it's on their website too.) Anybody who cares the slightest about what they eat has all the information they need to make an informed decision. McDonald's doesn't hold a gun to your head and make you buy/eat their food. It's not addictive. If they want to gorge and eat an UltraMegaSized Triple Big Mac with extra mayo, why should you care?

    If you don't like the food at McDonald's, buy your food somewhere else. Is it too much to ask people to accept some personal responsibility for their lifestyle choices?

  • Wait a minute (Score:5, Funny)

    by Prince Vegeta SSJ4 ( 718736 ) on Friday June 04, 2004 @11:35AM (#9335197)
    Hmmm, let's see, about 600 calories in a Big Mac, an average of 12 songs on a CD, so that's about 7200 calories you will need to consume in order to get an album's worth of music

    You forgot to factor in what scientists and dieticians like to refer to as the BAAM factor (not to be confused with Emeril's [emerils.com] BAM!). Which many believe is McDonalds way to actually decrease the weight of their customers, a diet of sorts.

    BAAM is expanded as Barf At Abhorrent Music, which would not only eliminate the 600 Big Mac calories, but whatever else that had not yet been digested. Depending on which Pop band's CD you buy, you can actually end up at negative calories for the day.

  • Don't eat the food (Score:2, Informative)

    by fermion ( 181285 )
    It seems that for some of the exclusive offers, such as the disney characters, it has been reported that adults will buy the meals and then, quite sensible, throw the so-called food away and keep the toy.

    And, BTW, a big mac extra value meal is probably closer to 1000-1500 calories depending on the drink. For those that don't know, that supplies at least 75% of the calories that many of us need for the entire day, as well as most of the fat. However, it supplies much less than 50% many other nutrients.

  • Continuation of collaboration.... (Score:2, Funny)

    by Anonymous Coward
    This is only continuation of their great symbiosis. Even recently, if you do not feel very well after going to McDonalds, you can not be sure it was caused by BigMac or Britney you were feed with during the visit.
  • Why waste time at Mc Donald's when there are tons of free websites giving the music away for free anyways. For instance http://www.myglobalsound.com [myglobalsound.com] has new free music for download every month. I mean Pepsi did it with Apple [apple.com] and they did it right way the first time. In my opinion this Mc Donald's and Sony deal is just not going to work out as expected. I'm not going to buy a big just cause I want free song. Having to collected piece to go to a website and use is no good. The best way is like Apple and Peps

  • Fast Food is not the enemy... (Score:5, Insightful)

    by TEMM ( 731243 ) on Friday June 04, 2004 @11:37AM (#9335237)
    Excessive consumption of fast food IS the enemy. It is easy to blame people health problems on fast food companies but when it comes down to it, the problem is really with the mental state of people today. We want everything right now, and we want LOTS of it. If everyone ate fast food in moderation and got some exercise there wouldnt be any problem. The same goes with drinking, drugs, partying, eating OTHER food, sex, porn.. etc etc etc... Its all too east to OVERindulge in something that has the perceived benefit of being fast, or makes you feel good. There is a healthy balance, and once people figure this out there wont be a problem anymore. But we dont have to worry about that happening anytime soon. I personally think we should worry about cutting down on people smoking. More people die annually because of smoking then they do of obiesity. If we can get people to give up smoking, which people have been doing for ages, it should be easy enough to get people to realize the dangers of eating fast foor every day.
    • Excessive consumption of fast food IS the enemy.

      Is McDonald's marketed as an indulgence, or as something that should be daily consumed? Here are the themes from McDonald's advertising:

      McDonald's is Your Kind of Place (1967)
      You Deserve a Break Today (1971)
      We Do it All for You (1975)
      Twoallbeefpattiesspecialsaucelettucechees e pickleso nionsonasesameseedbun (1975)
      You, You're The One (1976)
      Nobody Can Do It Like McDonald's Can (1979)
      Renewed: You Deserve a Break Today (1980 & 1981)
      Nobody Makes Your Day Lik
  • How can I get it to work with my iPod?

    If it can't, then I don't care. I paid $500 for that ipod and I'm not going to pay even more for a silly Sony device. And the last Sony Device I bought was my Clie, wow you got to love their support for products.

    Ted Tschopp
    p.s. It's called sarcasim.
  • When going to the download section of the site, I just get a message saying something like "You need to run Windows 98SE or higher, we have no intention on making this work on other OS's so screw you". But I'm running Linux, which is definitely higher than Windows 98SE!

  • And the artist get . . . (Score:3, Funny)

    by JustAnotherReader ( 470464 ) on Friday June 04, 2004 @11:47AM (#9335352)
    CNet reports that McDonalds and Sony are teaming up to offer free music downloads to customers who buy a Big Mac Extra Value Meal

    The artist who wrote, performed, recorded, published, and promoted the music will get a coupon for a free super size upgrade.

  • I want to be able to get 99 cents off of the price if I don't want the song. That's the disturbing thing here... McDonald's is NOT paying 99 cents per song, so why should we have to???
  • Set aside the sucky iTunes song quality, and the fact they screw over musicians. [downhillbattle.org], and setting aside that Fatty Fast foods are addicting, [bbc.co.uk] and bad [msn.com] for [blurofinsanity.com] you. [mcspotlight.org] The cost of a Big Mac is in upwards of 3 dollars, and one song on iTunes is $1.00. Why not buy two songs from iTunes, and go buy a hot dog from a hot dog stand.

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    by account_deleted ( 4530225 ) on Friday June 04, 2004 @12:50PM (#9336114)
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  • man.. the super size guy must be ticked (Score:3, Insightful)

    by enrico_suave ( 179651 ) on Friday June 04, 2004 @12:51PM (#9336123) Homepage
    the SuperSize Me [supersizeme.com] guy must be ticked... he coulda at least got some song downloads for all his trouble/liver damage =)

    e.

  • Comment removed (Score:3, Insightful)

    by account_deleted ( 4530225 ) on Friday June 04, 2004 @01:01PM (#9336230)
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