I don't know if it's still the case, but when I was there the article on 'sex' was six paragraphs, three of which were under the heading 'sex in the bible.' Every attempt to extend it was reverted by the admin on the grounds that it was not suitable for a family audience. Yet the article on homosexuality was the size of a novel and included some very graphic descriptions of all the things homosexuals apparently love to do... that was one of about seventy articles with 'homosexuality' in the title, because it was too much to fit in one. The community seemed to be crazily obsessed with homosexuality. They could fill books with their writing on the subject. It dominated the site.
You forgot war-cost. What, really, can the international community do about oppressive governments? There are really only two options. Economic sanctions (Which they can usually just ignore - the government leadership still get to live in luxury, even while the rest of the country falls apart) and forced regime change (Which costs billions, and looks really bad on TV when their own soldiers inevitably start getting killed). Either way, it's easier simply to refuse to acknowledge the situation or to make some ineffective token condemnation than to actually do anything about it.
They did make Conservapedia. I trolled it for a time, before realising that the site is really untrollable. When they say, in all seriousness, that Hitler and the leadership of the nazi party were all gay and that the holocaust was secretly a homosexual conspiracy to exterminate the Jews... what could I possibly say that is crazier than what they already write?
Social conservatives and political conservatives are not the same thing. While political conservatives do indeed oppose censorship, the social ones are happy to cheer it on whenever something they find distasteful is being censored. The factions are forced together by the two-party nature of US politics, but beyond that really have little in common.
I'd go for a hybrid approach of political and technological activism. Fight all you can to stop the oppressive laws... but be prepared to lose, and make sure that if the laws do pass they are very hard to enforce.
There is the possibility of thr Great Filter - some type of unavoidable disaster that destroys civilisations before they can go interstellar. Perhaps there comes a point when technology is advanced enough that anyone with a decent education and access to commonly-available components will be able to build a doomsday machine.
Here we go: http://takimag.com/article/10_hatefacts_for_those_who_hate_facts_gavin_mcinnes/page_2#axzz1rZow0DkJ
"Though there are many blacks who say they were actually better off during segregation and most of them voluntarily practice it now, that debate is a whole other ball of hatewax."
The article itsself makes a valid point, though: There are some real, defendable facts that either the left or the right refuses to acknowledge because the implications would be unbearable.
What about the old bully tactic of authority turnaround?
1. Nonviolently/deniably taunt your target - eg, 'accidentially' kick their bag, obstruct their path, call them names.
2. Wait for them to react and punch you.
3. Run screaming to the teacher. Chances are the victim, as a violent offender, will be harshly punished - while, as you didn't actually assault anyone, you'll get away with a slap on the wrist.
Saw that one a lot when I was at school, with myself on the recieving end. Fortunatly I had very understanding teachers on my side, or I'd have been expelled on a few occasions.
I'm in the UK. I don't know what to call them here! African-American obviously isn't any use, but all the other terms are too potentially offensive, and I can't even rely on any geographic factor because our ethnic minorities come from all over the world. We've a very high immigration rate.
A 1957 article doesn't really reflect on the magazine as it is today. You might be able to find something more recent, but I imagine they are careful enough not to keep their racism subtle and deniable.
You're doing your statistics wrong. You need to look at proportions of race in the criminal population verses the general popularion, or at the criminal rate per capita for different racial groups.
It's really more complicated than even that. If you just look at the stats alone, they paint a really unflattering picture of blacks - it's only when you control for socioeconomic factors that things get muddier. Black parents have black children, poor (financially) parents have poor children - even some time after the end of segregation, it continues to have lingering demographic effects.
There's another theory: It's someone's prank. This is the internet, we have trolls. It's quite likely this is just some basement-dweller's idea of a good time: Pick a target, dig up a little something to use against them (Learning-disabled son? Perfect. Probably read it on some Facebook post or blog), proceed to taunt until they respond with hilarious outrage.
Pornocopia (Or is it pornucopia? I'm not sure) is a Piers Anthony novel. It contains lots of really weird and perverse stuff, but nothing like what you describe (He saves the stuff with kids for some other novels). It's more fantasy porn, involving weird and anatomically-impossible acts with creatures so strange they make furries look tame, all of it written in comedy and to some extent as a parody of more traditional fantasy works. It's been used in mass-mailing attacks because just grabbing a few paragraphs at random is almost sure to come up with something squick-worthy, and being actual english text rather than artificially generated it can get through spam filters with comparative ease.
Wouldn't happen to be extracts from Pornocopia, by any chance? If so, I think I know the program used to send them. It was passed around a bit during the Anonymous action against the Church of Scientology.
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My record is three seconds in the room to fix a ticket complaining that there is no sound when playing DVDs.
Enter room. Turn on speakers. Leave room.
I was followed out by the sound of the class laughing at the teacher who submitted that ticket.
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You replace the cable, then install the antivirus behind their back. If they are that dumb, they wouldn't even notice.
Ron Paul managed to get all the way to the primaries simply because no-one thought to take him seriously enough to attack - even his supporters seemed to know he never stood a chance due to an excess of Teh Crazy.
That's because almost every movie loses money. The industry is rather infamous for their dodgy accounting practices - it's a hollywood tradition. If there are no profits, there is nothing to tax.
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I don't know if it's still the case, but when I was there the article on 'sex' was six paragraphs, three of which were under the heading 'sex in the bible.' Every attempt to extend it was reverted by the admin on the grounds that it was not suitable for a family audience. Yet the article on homosexuality was the size of a novel and included some very graphic descriptions of all the things homosexuals apparently love to do... that was one of about seventy articles with 'homosexuality' in the title, because it was too much to fit in one. The community seemed to be crazily obsessed with homosexuality. They could fill books with their writing on the subject. It dominated the site.
You forgot war-cost. What, really, can the international community do about oppressive governments? There are really only two options. Economic sanctions (Which they can usually just ignore - the government leadership still get to live in luxury, even while the rest of the country falls apart) and forced regime change (Which costs billions, and looks really bad on TV when their own soldiers inevitably start getting killed). Either way, it's easier simply to refuse to acknowledge the situation or to make some ineffective token condemnation than to actually do anything about it.
They did make Conservapedia. I trolled it for a time, before realising that the site is really untrollable. When they say, in all seriousness, that Hitler and the leadership of the nazi party were all gay and that the holocaust was secretly a homosexual conspiracy to exterminate the Jews... what could I possibly say that is crazier than what they already write?
I dislike all religions, but I do not dislike all religions equally. The theocratic variation of Islam is right at the top of the list.
Only if you name a stuffed toy.
Social conservatives and political conservatives are not the same thing. While political conservatives do indeed oppose censorship, the social ones are happy to cheer it on whenever something they find distasteful is being censored. The factions are forced together by the two-party nature of US politics, but beyond that really have little in common.
I'd go for a hybrid approach of political and technological activism. Fight all you can to stop the oppressive laws... but be prepared to lose, and make sure that if the laws do pass they are very hard to enforce.
The Mexicans wouldn't bother to steal it, they just use America's beaches.
The French wouldn't bother, until Britain stole it first. Then they'd want it.
I did start there - but as I followed links, I left the site without noticing it.
There is the possibility of thr Great Filter - some type of unavoidable disaster that destroys civilisations before they can go interstellar. Perhaps there comes a point when technology is advanced enough that anyone with a decent education and access to commonly-available components will be able to build a doomsday machine.
Here we go:
http://takimag.com/article/10_hatefacts_for_those_who_hate_facts_gavin_mcinnes/page_2#axzz1rZow0DkJ
"Though there are many blacks who say they were actually better off during segregation and most of them voluntarily practice it now, that debate is a whole other ball of hatewax."
The article itsself makes a valid point, though: There are some real, defendable facts that either the left or the right refuses to acknowledge because the implications would be unbearable.
What about the old bully tactic of authority turnaround?
1. Nonviolently/deniably taunt your target - eg, 'accidentially' kick their bag, obstruct their path, call them names.
2. Wait for them to react and punch you.
3. Run screaming to the teacher. Chances are the victim, as a violent offender, will be harshly punished - while, as you didn't actually assault anyone, you'll get away with a slap on the wrist.
Saw that one a lot when I was at school, with myself on the recieving end. Fortunatly I had very understanding teachers on my side, or I'd have been expelled on a few occasions.
The internet is not representative of society.
I'm in the UK. I don't know what to call them here! African-American obviously isn't any use, but all the other terms are too potentially offensive, and I can't even rely on any geographic factor because our ethnic minorities come from all over the world. We've a very high immigration rate.
A 1957 article doesn't really reflect on the magazine as it is today. You might be able to find something more recent, but I imagine they are careful enough not to keep their racism subtle and deniable.
You're doing your statistics wrong. You need to look at proportions of race in the criminal population verses the general popularion, or at the criminal rate per capita for different racial groups.
It's really more complicated than even that. If you just look at the stats alone, they paint a really unflattering picture of blacks - it's only when you control for socioeconomic factors that things get muddier. Black parents have black children, poor (financially) parents have poor children - even some time after the end of segregation, it continues to have lingering demographic effects.
There's another theory: It's someone's prank. This is the internet, we have trolls. It's quite likely this is just some basement-dweller's idea of a good time: Pick a target, dig up a little something to use against them (Learning-disabled son? Perfect. Probably read it on some Facebook post or blog), proceed to taunt until they respond with hilarious outrage.
Pornocopia (Or is it pornucopia? I'm not sure) is a Piers Anthony novel. It contains lots of really weird and perverse stuff, but nothing like what you describe (He saves the stuff with kids for some other novels). It's more fantasy porn, involving weird and anatomically-impossible acts with creatures so strange they make furries look tame, all of it written in comedy and to some extent as a parody of more traditional fantasy works. It's been used in mass-mailing attacks because just grabbing a few paragraphs at random is almost sure to come up with something squick-worthy, and being actual english text rather than artificially generated it can get through spam filters with comparative ease.
Wouldn't happen to be extracts from Pornocopia, by any chance? If so, I think I know the program used to send them. It was passed around a bit during the Anonymous action against the Church of Scientology.
My record is three seconds in the room to fix a ticket complaining that there is no sound when playing DVDs.
Enter room. Turn on speakers. Leave room.
I was followed out by the sound of the class laughing at the teacher who submitted that ticket.
You replace the cable, then install the antivirus behind their back. If they are that dumb, they wouldn't even notice.
Set to play Never Gonna Give You Up at random intervals, and disable audio controls for the duration.
I imagine that works exactly once per actor. Scam them once, they know what they are in for next time.
Ron Paul managed to get all the way to the primaries simply because no-one thought to take him seriously enough to attack - even his supporters seemed to know he never stood a chance due to an excess of Teh Crazy.
That's because almost every movie loses money. The industry is rather infamous for their dodgy accounting practices - it's a hollywood tradition. If there are no profits, there is nothing to tax.