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Friendster Back from the Dead?
garzpacho writes "With a fresh infusion of $10 million in funding, Friendster is making a bid to rejoin the social networking A-list. The cash, from VC firm DAG Ventures, accompanies plans for a complete project redesign, a focus on adult users and a newly awarded patent for social networking. A real comeback might be unlikely, though: 'Turnaround stories for companies that draw on advanced Web technology known collectively as Web 2.0 remain unprecedented, says David Sze, a general partner at Greylock who specializes in consumer Internet companies but does not invest in Friendster. Still, Sze says Friendster doesn't need to have a MySpace-size traffic explosion to turn a profit. Says Sze in an e-mail, 'If those users are reasonably valuable and monetizable, I think [investors] can make money on their investment.''"
I need to tell you a little about how John McCain is a bacillus in the self-satisfied gut of absolutism. And so I shall. What follows is a set of observations I have made about what I call contemptuous polluters.
McCain is the type of person that turns up his nose at people like you and me. I guess that's because we haven't the faintest notion about the things that really matter, such as why it would be good for him to make incorrect leaps of logic. On rare occasions, in order to preserve their liberties, sometimes people must nail people to trees. McCain does that even when his liberties aren't being threatened. The term "idiot savant" comes to mind when thinking of him. Admittedly, that term applies only halfway to him, which is why I claim that it seems that no one else is telling you that the hysteria and witch-hunts fueled by McCain's diatribes will twist my words six ways for Sunday as soon as our backs are turned. So, since the burden lies with me to tell you that, I suppose I should say a few words on the subject. To begin with, my love for people necessitates that I fight the warped, distorted, misshapen, unwholesome monstrosity that McCain's plaints have become. Yes, I face opposition from McCain. However, this is not a reason to quit but to strive harder. McCain's behavior might be different if he were told that addlepated yahoos thrive on hatred rather than love. Of course, as far as McCain's concerned, this fact will fall into the category of, "My mind is made up; don't confuse me with the facts." That's why I'm telling you that he has two imperatives. The first is to twist our entire societal valuation of love and relationships beyond all insanity. The second imperative is to control what we do and how we do it.
We are observing the change in our society's philosophy and values from freedom and justice to corruption, decay, cynicism, and injustice. All of these "values" are artistically incorporated in one person: John McCain. It is disgraceful that, with a wink and a smile, he has signified his approval of frowzy, pigheaded parvenus who create an ideological climate that will enable him to delegitimize our belief systems and replace them with a counter-hegemony that seeks to provide cover for a jealous agenda.
Most of us who have been around for a while realize that McCain acts as if he were King of the World. This hauteur is astonishing, staggering, and mind-boggling. All of these things are related: absenteeism, McCain's warnings, and the general breakdown of our society. I'll even tell you how they're related. It's really very simple. In essence, McCain maintains that he can absorb mana by devouring his nemeses' brains. This is hardly the case. Rather, there is growing evidence that says, to the contrary, that once one begins thinking about free speech, about rotten, reckless toughies who use ostracism and public opinion to prevent the airing of views contrary to their own smarmy beliefs, one realizes that he is trying to brainwash us. He wants us to believe that it's irresponsible to uplift individuals and communities on a global scale to educate the public on a range of issues; that's boring; that's not cool. You know what I think of that, don't you? I think that if we fight to the end for our ideas and ideals, then the sea of snobbism, on which McCain so heavily relies, will begin to dry up.
If there's a rule, and McCain keeps making exceptions to that rule, then what good is the rule? I mean, for McCain's cocky plans to succeed, he needs to "dumb down" our society. An uninformed populace is easier to control and manipulate than an educated populace. By the end of the decade, schoolchildren will stop being required to learn the meanings of words like "overintellectualization" and "unextinguishableness". They will be incapable of comprehending that McCain's tracts are like a Hydra. They continually acquire new heads and new strength. The only way to stunt their growth is to focus on the major economic, social, and political forces that provide the setting for the expression
Dude, you have to say something funny first.
This is not a sig. This is a llama-duck. Quack.
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Here is the About Us page. He considers it really "pre-launch" still because he's waiting before advertising and a real media push until he adds some more really cool stuff that's coming (development is Fast), but if you want to check it out give some feedback, this is my profile page and they have a to give the developers feedback.
Maybe someday it will get posted on the frontpage of
The North Vietnamese would have done U.S. "democracy" a favor had they shipped McCain to the Soviet Union .
McCain is nothing more , nothing less than a drone for the world's most dangerous "leader".
Have a day,
Kilgore
Actually his show is more newsy than most 6:00 broadcasts in the States. You get World news, interesting events, and facts. And I'm not talking only the Wikipedia "facts" that he strews about, but his journalism exceeds most legitimate non-comdey newscasters. And he's involving the blogsophere and "netizens" in his broadcasts too, which is a clever move.
He could have a bazillion friends on a social networking site, and put the horde to good use. Perhaps by telling them to all vote independent next elections, because that's what the Bears wouldn't want.
Oh You POS