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Gangs on the Internet
mikesd81 writes "Apparently street gangs have gotten Web-savvy. Web Bangers are posting potentially incriminating photos and taunts on their websites. Police departments suddenly faced with gangs are looking for help on the gangs' own easy-to-find Web sites. The director of the National Gang Crime Research Center has stated "In order to understand any subculture, be it al-Qaida, witches, devil worshippers or gangs, you have to be able to know their own language.'
Knox said it's important for police to learn how to read between the lines on gang Web sites and blogs. Just as time on the streets has given gang investigators the ability to read the hieroglyphics of wall graffiti, time on the Web helps them understand arcane Web clues. Gang identifiers, such as tattoos, graffiti tags, colors and clothing often are embedded in each site."
Publish a Grand Theft Auto MMORPG and use google adsense to advertise it on gang blogs...take real world crime into virtual space....and make money....wonderful.
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How long until gangbangr.com 2.0 websites talking about the gangosphere?
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In order to understand any subculture, be it al-Qaida [sic], witches, devil worshippers or gangs, you have to be able to know their own language.
I'm sorry, but comparing witches to Al-Quaeda is a bit of an ad absurdum. We all know witches are more powerful, which is why we dealt with these terrorists in the 1600's, and did not not deal with the latter terrorists in the 1980's when we could have.
"Web Bangers are posting potentially incriminating photos and taunts on their websites."
You don't frighten us, Crips pig-dogs! Go and boil your bottom, sons of a silly person. I don't wanna talk to you no more, you empty headed animal food trough wiper! I fart in your general direction! Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries! Now, go away, or I shall taunt you a second time-a!
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Oh, so this is why there's so much "tagging" on the Internets nowadays.
If Nalgene water bottles are outlawed, only outlaws will have Nalgene water bottles.
Seriously...secret handshakes?
That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard.
"Yeah man...those 18th street guys are badass. They have secret handshakes and everything..."
The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.
myspace hardly requires any leet geek skills... this is just a sign that the web has got dumb enough for dumb people to use it.
Oh, Please. The article did not say "Wicca." It said "witches." Give it up.
The "Witches are Happy Peaceful People" diatribe is even slighthly more annoying then the "Hackers are Happy Curious People" screed. Both words mean something else in popular parlance, and that's all there is to it. I have more sympathy for the "hackers-are-good" crowd, because they legitimately lost their word to a media gone suddenly cyber-melodramtic, but the Buckland and Gardner crew deliberately took an already negatively charged word, stuck it up there with all the other chips on their shoulders, and tried to win it back -- in the most irritating and condescending way possible -- from all us ignorant "mundanes." Sure, good luck with that...
Oh, yeah, about those Crusades: many, many, centuries ago, my li'l crystal polisher. Better analogy would have been, "Hello... peaceful earth-based religion here. We don't crash airplanes into someone else's building in the name of our goddess..."
oooooh, i'm gonna get modded down so-o-o-o-o fast.....!
Witches !- Wicca. Traditionally in Europe it meant devil worshippers and possible followers of some fairly nasty practices. It also covers African witchcraft which frequently involves murder. You may wish to dissociate Wicca from that. Fair enough. However it is not reasonable for you to expect to redefine the meanings of the words involved in line with your beliefs. Wicca is essentially a modern invention (not one I have much sympathy with but that should not matter to you) and I would need a lot of convincing that it has any meaningful links to either ancient paganism or most old traditions of witchcraft so I do not see any reason to re-define the word witchcraft in line with Wicca. Ancient pagans fought wars, took slaves and slaughtered civilians and in all that thought the gods were backing them. If you claim any link with them you can not then disclaim their bad side.
A new addition to the Law and Order family: Law and Order: Gangs Unit. Watch Ice T surf myspace for an hour. Every mouse click is accompanied by a "Doom Doom."
It's must see TV!
It's not because they can't afford to, it's because they can't budget and most are their own best customers.
When I was a teen, hung on kind of a rough corner. More than a few of the kids were dealers. Mostly pot (though most of them graduated later on to actual harmful drugs). Besides smoking most of their stash, they'd do stupid things like blow money on other drugs or buy Don Perignon, etc.
Two of my friends wanted me to go into "business" with them selling weed. It would have been a pretty sweat deal actually as I really wouldn't have to do much of anything except put up a small amount of cash at the beginning and then just manage the money after and have no liability.
I was tempted, but that's not my thing so I declined, but I did the math on it before saying not, it would have been around $3500 profit a week.
By rights, most of them should own houses.
-William Shatner can be neither created nor destroyed.
Funny, I work at Microsoft and a window in my office got broken today (yes, there were jokes about it)...
That is funny.
Did you put up a blue tarp to cover the screen?
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Are there any good gangs in my timezone that use DKP?
members are seeing something, your seeing an ad
GTA: Web Banger
In which you play the role of a pale pimple-faced nerd with an inhaler, posing as a big bad nigga online. Spend days photoshopping a grand theft auto or grafitti, instead of actually doing it. Brag about your bad-mofo inner-city gangsta exploits, from the safety of your parents' basement in the suburbs. Spend hours playing CS and GTA while listening to wannabe wigger rappers, as material for those bad-mofo gangsta stories. Throw in some porn late at night, after your parents went to sleep, as material for some gangland rape story. Spend a couple of days trying to get the Audigy 2 you got for your birthday to make you sound like a bad-mofo gangsta on voice chat, then give up and revert to typing pseudo-ebonics. Etc.
Yup, the high-tech law-breakin' game of the future. I can just see it.
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"fought wars, took slaves and slaughtered civilians and in all that thought the gods were backing them"
Replace slaves with captives held without reason or trial
and how is this diffrent than the current US Administration?
Replace "wars" with "grandpa," "slaves" with "naps" and "slaughtered civilians" with "baked cookies"
and how is that different from my grandma?
The libertarian solution to the failures of capitalism is to apply more capitalism til the failures are fixed.
What the heck does this mean?
I don't even know what the heck this means.
If you mod me down, I shall become more powerful than you could possibly imagine.
While we're at it, every "pagan" I've ever met follows a fairly recently concocted hodgepodge of dozens of individual, mutually contradictory bits of pre-Christian religions, along with a healthy dose of made-up nonsense. "Wicca" dates back to the 1920s, at best.
So yeah, I look down on it.
Does it make much difference if something was completely made-up out of thin air 50 or 100 years ago, or thousands of years ago?
The libertarian solution to the failures of capitalism is to apply more capitalism til the failures are fixed.