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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."
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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.
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!
"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?
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What the heck does this mean?
I don't even know what the heck this means.
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