I didn't grow up to be an apple fanatic though, I'm very much a PC person. Even during those times, I was a bigger fan of Atari than I was apple even though I had both at home.
I learned how to program on both, but the atari was way better IMHO. The apple II series had a limited pallete of 7 colors, and the sound system was monophonic. Pretty boring compared to graphics 10 on an atari (or 9 using display list interrupts) and 4 channel pokey sound.
Maybe you're right.. If all I knew was the apple perhaps that's all I would have stuck with.
My dad grew up with Nasa/AMES Lockheed sponsoring the model rocket club at James Lick High school. His brother went to an autoshop sponsored by Ford. Straight out of high school, uncle went to work at the Ford plant in Milpitas, bolting bumpers on Pintos. Dad went to work in the sciences. My generation had nearly free apple II's in school. We grew up to be the dot.com generation.
Somewhere along the line, we decided corporate support of training and equipment wasn't good enough. Greedy school administrators insisted on "Cash only" gifts, citing that corporate support was some evil incapable of having goals that are in tune with the education system. Bullshit, they just wanted to pad their own 6 figure superintendent salaries.
Meanwhile the corporations are moving onto countries where the educational systems have no problems working with schools to produce good workers.
If wanted to fix this problem, we'd ask some of the biotech firms to donate used gene sequencing equipment to high schools, with some training on how to use it. How many students would love to know how to sequence their own genes?
I'm moving to Mexico, where I can fly the American flag and light off fireworks on the 4th of July without getting harassed by some dipshit politically correct cocksucker.
I walked past this arcade machine a few weeks ago at a local movie theater. Object of the game was to cut a string with scissors on a robotic arm, the prize attatched to the string falls down, you win. The prizes were really nice, things like Nintendo DSI's and Ipods.
I thought to myself, "Gee, if I had a laser, I could win." For $200 I could clean out a few barbercut machines for ipod touches, sell them and make my money back fast.
All of its storage is flash memory soldered to the logic board.
Give me a solder sucker, a USB keydrive with a compatible flash chip controller, and I'll have it removed. Just because it's soldered on doesn't mean it's impossible to transfer the flash to something else, plug it in, and read it.
So last year the business I work for started getting AstroTurf by a competing business. I work in an entertainment type venue at night, yadda yadda yadda, whatever...
Our competitor basically said that we were a dull venue, but if folks wanted a non-dull venue to please try theirs. They and their gang would re-write their reviews on a weekly basis just so it would float to the top. To the yelp staff, these fake reviews were deemed credible because one of the ringleaders of this astroturfing had an "Elite" next to his name, I guess that makes him special.
One of my regulars, who is also a yelp "Elite" responded by rewriting his review, but included a ton of links to youtube video of our venue that wasn't staged, showing it was lively. Yelp removed the review saying "It contained to many external links" after the other "Elite" douchebag and his buddies flagged it. (When google was thinking about buying yelp, I sent snail mail letters to the google executive staff with a printout of the review and an explanation. I put in big bold letters googles mission statement of "DO NO EVIL". I hope it changed their minds when it came to buying them out)
Back on subject though. NOTHING got yelp to let up. While all this was happening, we got emails and phone calls from yelp salespeople *CONSTANTLY* promising this would all stop if we joined their ad program. We even tried their "Owner comments" but after a few weeks they banned us because we didn't comment according to *their* guidelines.
One reviewer said, "Your waitress looks like the hooker from hamburger hill, me so horny". I think I said something equally offensive to him. Yelp holds business's at a double standard for how they can comment from the reviewers, it's complete bullshit. We got banned from commenting for responding the way our reviewer did? Why didn't they ban him?
Eventually I got tired of it. I recruited friends to start photoshopping the heads of some of the astroturfers on transvestites, gay porn, whatever. We'd post this weekly on our website. We also started dropping dox on our website on slobbleman and the rest of his crew.
Like magic, our sort order returned to normal. Yelp stopped calling us, the little shittards that astroturfing us stopped as well.
I hate yelp. I hate slobbleham and his whole fucking extortion scheme. I have no doubt there will be some slashdotters that are "ELITES" that will have a problem with what I say, and what I saw but let me ask you this..
Have you ever worked at a business that was being actively astroturfed by a competitor? Did yelp offer to genuinely help you or did they tell you paraphrasically "Pay us or go fuck yourself?"
That's what they told me, paraphrasically. Fuck you slobbleman, I hope you choke on a dick.
I know some kids are pretty sadistic and would enjoy this immensely.
A while back I was thinking it would be fun to attach cameras to little weaponized robots to stalk neighborhoods (or my garage) for pests. Cockroaches, mice, black widows you name it, would all be game. Just add the camera and weapons and let folks on the net have at em.
Then I remembered my robotics class in the 80's where we put hammers in the hands of 2 Heathkit Hero robots and had them smash each other up. Maybe it wasn't such a hot idea after all. Not to mention I could see people going after the neighborhood cats.
Some of you may remember Uncle Rico from Napoleon Dynamite. He was the uncle that lived in his van, taping himself throwing a football to himself, and was constantly wishing he could go back in time so he could relive one of his football moments and his life would be perfect. I've been having some similar moments (except in my case, there was an ex gf I had in HS, parents kicked me out, and she thought I abandoned her, 20 years later I find her and she's still makes me sigh but she's married with kids, like I am)
So with my slightly smarter than Rico brain I've been exploring the possibility of time travel. I have no physics background, etc.
It started off with a dream I had. I saw what looked like torus's made of water flying past me, like distortion waves. After they passed, I was in the past. I think the inspiration came from the Atlas 5 rocket going through the sundog last month. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsDEfu8s1Lw&feature=player_embedded#
I also know a bit about relativity. If I travel from earth at lightspeed, from my perspective on my spaceship time has stopped on earth.
So I started questioning what would happen if a torus of space time flew past me at the speed of light, and I was in the center of the torus as it passed. Would time stop around me while I remain in a normal time space? What if it went beyond light speed, would time begin to slowly go backwards?
If space/time travelling at 0 = our perceived passage of time. If space/time travelling at 299,792,458 mph = time stopped Then wouldn't space/time travelling at 599,584,916mph = our perceived passage of time in reverse?
Basically saying that at 599,584,916mph it would take me 22 years to get back to my sweetheart. If I wanted to get there in a few hours I'd be looking at getting space time to pass me by at 13,190,868,152,000mph
I'm not trying to say this is a valid theory, like I said I have no physics background at all. It's just something I've been thinking about a lot. The whole torus thing like I said, it was a dream and my thought was the reason you would want to bend space/time into a torus is to keep a region in the center of non bent time/space so you, the traveler would be safe.
There is a man created sea in California called the Salton Sea. Originally freshwater, it was fed from the runoff of the central valley farmers. Eventually the salt levels in the sea rose enough that it went full salt.
Every year there is an algae bloom, as well as a talipia die off. Both of which are currently being investigated for use as biofuel.
We're sorry You'll just have to leave Unemployment runs out after just six weeks How does it feel to be a budget cut? You're snipped You no longer exist
Your number's been purged from our central computer So we can rig the facts And sweep you under the rug See our chart? Unemployment's going down If that ruins your life that's your problem
=====
I guess it's going up, depending on who's perspective you see it from.
I sort of remember at the end of the 90's comdex was grabbing for straws and overstepping its power much the way CES is now. From Wikipedia;
Following COMDEX Fall 1999 (in Las Vegas), organizers made major changes to their criteria for admission of media, rejecting nearly all but those who were on editorial assignment from a handful of "acknowledged" trade papers. Though offered regular "public" attendance, this left hundreds of regular, long-standing press attendees from magazines and newspapers around the world with bad feelings toward the show. As press credentials were necessary to gain the level of access necessary to make the expensive trip worthwhile, most refused to go and many told vendors that they would disregard product announcements made at or in relation to COMDEX.
My friend that works as google gave me a droid G3 phone for christmas. I guess they all got the nexus this year so he was giving me last years present. It doesn't have a SIM card in it, and I don't have it activated on a cell network. I don't really have any intentions on doing so either.
I let my 4 year old daughter play with it. There's a coloring book application called Zebra Paint. Today though I hear the phone talking.
"Hello? Heloo? Emergency 911"
I guess even without a phone plan, you can still use these things for 911?
I politely told the 911 operator what happened. He told me to be careful letting my girl play with it and that was that.
Scary thing though, this thing has GPS. If someone really wanted to track me down they could. Even without a cell phone plan or sim card in the device.
FUCK YAH SLASHDOT IT'S A MOTOCYCLE!! I'M GONNA EVIL KENIVIL THAT BITCH! I'M GONNA JUMP THAT THING OVER 20 BUSSES THE GRAND CANYON! WHILE ON FIRE AND THROUGH A FLAMING HOOP! WITH THE SILENT POWER OF MY HYBRID MOTOC-y...Scooter?
Nice way to give me misleading title blue balls. At least the picture of a man/woman in full sarong shittily photoshopped in front of a quickly passing bridge gave me a laugh.
A few others have made the same remarks. I figured I'd fire back with my own yelp experience from a business side.
We've always been reviewed favorably on yelp. Then earlier this year a competitor decided to get in on the yelp gaming action. This competitor had all of their buddies go out and write unfavorable reviews of us. The review would always go like this..
"Toqers business sucks because of ABCDEFG
Oh and since they suck, you should to to X"
X being, a location ran by our competitor. Most of the negative reviews were written by folks with 1 or 2 reviews, no real name or picture. The name and picture thing is important in yelp culture because it's "Real Reviews, by Real People"
Around the same time we started getting calls from yelp salespeople promising if we paid them some outrageous monthly sum, they would make the default sort on our page descending. That way we get all the 5 star reviews first. When we declined somehow the choicest negative reviews floated towards the top.
So we struck back..
I started recruiting my regular customers to start writing their own reviews. My competitor cried foul. I told him I was bringing yelp new users, and there was nothing wrong with that. Me having my customers write good reviews was no worse than him having his friends write false/negative ones.
One of my customers even went as far as to write a review containing a bunch of links to youtube videos. My competitor had said that we were an unlively establishment full of ugly people, and the youtube videos proved that to be completely false.
The flagging wars
So my competitor flagged the review with the youtube links citing yelp policy that "Offsite linking should be limited" That review got taken down. We fired back flagging reviews and citing yelp policy as well. Our competitor made the mistake of writing updates that "Are not new experiences" For example, one girl who became the girlfriend of the leader of these folks initially gave us a great review. When she started getting deep dicked she wrote an update review about how shitty we were. Technically she didn't have a new experience, so she got flagged, review removed. For a while every morning was spent dealing with this bullshit. I tried going through regular yelp channels and it was of no help. I begged yelp "Just take us off your service". They quoted DMCA safe harbor laws. I got sick of it, so I started dropping dox on reviewers, Jeremy Stoppleman, other Yelp Big wigs, etc. Me and some of our regulars started having our own version of photoshop Friday, pasting the faces of some of these douchebags on gay porn and what not. Sure it was childish, but we decided we to could hide behind "DMCA Safe Harbor". Fuck em.
I don't know for sure if that worked, but the slurry of negative reviews stopped. The sort order on our yelp page suddenly changed. The owners son of the business I work at asked me to take down our photoshop friday and dox. Now it seems like we just have a cease fire.
We haven't been asked by yelp again if we want to join their program. Yelp is really sleazy, to me it seems like they condoned our competitors behavior just to pressure us into giving them money.
A lot of old time yelp regulars are giving up on yelp. Even AT&T has given up on them. In their last "Does your network do this?" Iphone commercial, they say "Find a great restaurant" That segment used to feature yelp, but now features Zagat.
If you google "Yelp is a scam" you will find many many websites supporting this. Google please don't make the mistake of buying yelp.
You take the average gain of the last 30 seconds of a program before it goes to commercial, and don't allow the commercials to be any louder than that.
If I can make karaoke and techno music automatically crossfade with my meager skills(link below)
Milton Waddams: I was told that I could listen to the radio at a reasonable volume from nine to eleven, I told Bill that if Sandra is going to listen to her headphones while she's filing then I should be able to listen to the radio while I'm collating so I don't see why I should have to turn down the radio because I enjoy listening at a reasonable volume from nine to eleven.
177 comments and I'm the first to post that?
No red hairs, no crystals and it looks dry as hell. Sure it's green, but we get stuff like this all the time in the bay area. We call it "Pretindo" (sort of a combination of the words "Pretend" and "Indo"
Some of the shadier dope dealers will sell this crap to you for true chronic prices.
I couldn't help it, this story made me think of an epic scene from the 1982 movie porky's. In the movie a few young men are looking at girls through a peep hole in the girls locker room shower. One young man sticks his talleywhacker through the hole and almost has it torn off by the lesbian'ish PE teacher. Anyways, here's a synopsis of the following scene, courtesy of imdb.
Balbricker: Now, Mr. Carter. I know this is completely unorthodox. But I think this is the only way to find that boy. Now that penis had a mole on it - I'd recognize that penis anywhere. In spite of the juvenile snickers of some, this is a serious matter. That seducer and despoiler must be stopped; he's extremely dangerous. And, Mr. Carter, I'm certain that everyone in this room knows who that is. He's a contemptible little pervert who... Mr. Carter: Miss Balbricker! Balbricker: Well, I'm sorry, but I've got him now, and I'm not going to let him slip through my fingers again. Now, all I'm asking is that you give me five boys for a few minutes. The coaches can be present - Tommy Turner and any four boys you see fit to choose and we... and we... can put a stop to this menace. And it is a menace. [pause] Balbricker: Well, what are you gonna do about it? Mr. Carter: Five young boys in the nude, a police line-up so that you can identify his tallywhacker. Please, please can we call it a "tallywhacker"? Penis is so ppp... penis is so personal. Balbricker: We can put hoods over their heads to avoid embarrassment. Now listen: we have got to do it, as distasteful as it is. I know it's him. That [pause] Balbricker: tallywhacker had a mole on it. And that mole is the key to it. Mr. Carter: Miss Balbricker, do you realize the difficulty of your request? Now, I would be very happy to, uh, to apprehend the young man myself. But can you imagine what the board of education would say if you were granted a line-up in order to examine their private pa... their private parts for an incriminating mole? Balbricker: But Mr. Carter. Coach Brakett: Mr. Carter, I think I have a way out of this. We, uh, call the police, and we have 'em send over one of their sketch artists. And Miss Balbricker can give a description. We can put up "Wanted" posters all over school..."Have you seen this prick? Report immediately to Beulah Balbricker. Do not attempt to apprehend this prick, as it is armed and dangerous. It was last seen hanging out in the girls' locker room at Angel Beach High School."
have been called 'WiFi on steroids.' They offer more bandwidth, over larger areas, than does WiFi.
Someone correct me if I'm mistaken, but doesn't lower frequency (30mhz to 300mhz) mean less bandwidth? I could see bonding several channels at once to achieve a higher bandwidth, but doesn't this mostly offer greater range?
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I didn't grow up to be an apple fanatic though, I'm very much a PC person. Even during those times, I was a bigger fan of Atari than I was apple even though I had both at home.
I learned how to program on both, but the atari was way better IMHO. The apple II series had a limited pallete of 7 colors, and the sound system was monophonic. Pretty boring compared to graphics 10 on an atari (or 9 using display list interrupts) and 4 channel pokey sound.
Maybe you're right.. If all I knew was the apple perhaps that's all I would have stuck with.
My dad grew up with Nasa/AMES Lockheed sponsoring the model rocket club at James Lick High school.
His brother went to an autoshop sponsored by Ford.
Straight out of high school, uncle went to work at the Ford plant in Milpitas, bolting bumpers on Pintos. Dad went to work in the sciences.
My generation had nearly free apple II's in school. We grew up to be the dot.com generation.
Somewhere along the line, we decided corporate support of training and equipment wasn't good enough. Greedy school administrators insisted on "Cash only" gifts, citing that corporate support was some evil incapable of having goals that are in tune with the education system. Bullshit, they just wanted to pad their own 6 figure superintendent salaries.
Meanwhile the corporations are moving onto countries where the educational systems have no problems working with schools to produce good workers.
If wanted to fix this problem, we'd ask some of the biotech firms to donate used gene sequencing equipment to high schools, with some training on how to use it. How many students would love to know how to sequence their own genes?
I'm moving to Mexico, where I can fly the American flag and light off fireworks on the 4th of July without getting harassed by some dipshit politically correct cocksucker.
I walked past this arcade machine a few weeks ago at a local movie theater. Object of the game was to cut a string with scissors on a robotic arm, the prize attatched to the string falls down, you win. The prizes were really nice, things like Nintendo DSI's and Ipods.
I thought to myself, "Gee, if I had a laser, I could win." For $200 I could clean out a few barbercut machines for ipod touches, sell them and make my money back fast.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xF7kqi5VbPY
Give me a solder sucker, a USB keydrive with a compatible flash chip controller, and I'll have it removed. Just because it's soldered on doesn't mean it's impossible to transfer the flash to something else, plug it in, and read it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jell-O
So last year the business I work for started getting AstroTurf by a competing business. I work in an entertainment type venue at night, yadda yadda yadda, whatever...
Our competitor basically said that we were a dull venue, but if folks wanted a non-dull venue to please try theirs. They and their gang would re-write their reviews on a weekly basis just so it would float to the top. To the yelp staff, these fake reviews were deemed credible because one of the ringleaders of this astroturfing had an "Elite" next to his name, I guess that makes him special.
One of my regulars, who is also a yelp "Elite" responded by rewriting his review, but included a ton of links to youtube video of our venue that wasn't staged, showing it was lively. Yelp removed the review saying "It contained to many external links" after the other "Elite" douchebag and his buddies flagged it. (When google was thinking about buying yelp, I sent snail mail letters to the google executive staff with a printout of the review and an explanation. I put in big bold letters googles mission statement of "DO NO EVIL". I hope it changed their minds when it came to buying them out)
Back on subject though. NOTHING got yelp to let up. While all this was happening, we got emails and phone calls from yelp salespeople *CONSTANTLY* promising this would all stop if we joined their ad program. We even tried their "Owner comments" but after a few weeks they banned us because we didn't comment according to *their* guidelines.
One reviewer said, "Your waitress looks like the hooker from hamburger hill, me so horny". I think I said something equally offensive to him. Yelp holds business's at a double standard for how they can comment from the reviewers, it's complete bullshit. We got banned from commenting for responding the way our reviewer did? Why didn't they ban him?
Eventually I got tired of it. I recruited friends to start photoshopping the heads of some of the astroturfers on transvestites, gay porn, whatever. We'd post this weekly on our website. We also started dropping dox on our website on slobbleman and the rest of his crew.
Like magic, our sort order returned to normal. Yelp stopped calling us, the little shittards that astroturfing us stopped as well.
I hate yelp. I hate slobbleham and his whole fucking extortion scheme. I have no doubt there will be some slashdotters that are "ELITES" that will have a problem with what I say, and what I saw but let me ask you this..
Have you ever worked at a business that was being actively astroturfed by a competitor? Did yelp offer to genuinely help you or did they tell you paraphrasically "Pay us or go fuck yourself?"
That's what they told me, paraphrasically. Fuck you slobbleman, I hope you choke on a dick.
Where are these "Nasty Ho's" that you speak of? This dry spell has gone on so long that even knotholes in fences are starting to look good.
I know some kids are pretty sadistic and would enjoy this immensely.
A while back I was thinking it would be fun to attach cameras to little weaponized robots to stalk neighborhoods (or my garage) for pests. Cockroaches, mice, black widows you name it, would all be game. Just add the camera and weapons and let folks on the net have at em.
Then I remembered my robotics class in the 80's where we put hammers in the hands of 2 Heathkit Hero robots and had them smash each other up. Maybe it wasn't such a hot idea after all. Not to mention I could see people going after the neighborhood cats.
Some of you may remember Uncle Rico from Napoleon Dynamite. He was the uncle that lived in his van, taping himself throwing a football to himself, and was constantly wishing he could go back in time so he could relive one of his football moments and his life would be perfect. I've been having some similar moments (except in my case, there was an ex gf I had in HS, parents kicked me out, and she thought I abandoned her, 20 years later I find her and she's still makes me sigh but she's married with kids, like I am)
So with my slightly smarter than Rico brain I've been exploring the possibility of time travel. I have no physics background, etc.
It started off with a dream I had. I saw what looked like torus's made of water flying past me, like distortion waves. After they passed, I was in the past. I think the inspiration came from the Atlas 5 rocket going through the sundog last month.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsDEfu8s1Lw&feature=player_embedded#
The next day I read up on bending time/space into a torus. I found out that at the speed of light, this is what happens to time/space naturally.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/17397008/SPINORS-TWISTORS-QUATERNIONS-AND-THE-SPACETIME-TORUS-TOPOLOGY-Paper
I also know a bit about relativity. If I travel from earth at lightspeed, from my perspective on my spaceship time has stopped on earth.
So I started questioning what would happen if a torus of space time flew past me at the speed of light, and I was in the center of the torus as it passed. Would time stop around me while I remain in a normal time space? What if it went beyond light speed, would time begin to slowly go backwards?
If space/time travelling at 0 = our perceived passage of time.
If space/time travelling at 299,792,458 mph = time stopped
Then wouldn't space/time travelling at 599,584,916mph = our perceived passage of time in reverse?
Basically saying that at 599,584,916mph it would take me 22 years to get back to my sweetheart. If I wanted to get there in a few hours I'd be looking at getting space time to pass me by at 13,190,868,152,000mph
I'm not trying to say this is a valid theory, like I said I have no physics background at all. It's just something I've been thinking about a lot. The whole torus thing like I said, it was a dream and my thought was the reason you would want to bend space/time into a torus is to keep a region in the center of non bent time/space so you, the traveler would be safe.
Sweet ET can phone home.
I'm to late for good karma whoring but..
There is a man created sea in California called the Salton Sea. Originally freshwater, it was fed from the runoff of the central valley farmers. Eventually the salt levels in the sea rose enough that it went full salt.
Every year there is an algae bloom, as well as a talipia die off. Both of which are currently being investigated for use as biofuel.
Sources:
http://www.saltonsea.ca.gov/ss101.htm
http://www.sci.sdsu.edu/salton/SaltonSeaHomePage.html
Hey guys found the source, it was a Washington post article.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/11/AR2008071102394.html
I've heard this suggested somewhere before that ISS would make an awesome vehicle for getting to mars.
Quoting Soup is good food by the dead kennedys;
We're sorry
You'll just have to leave
Unemployment runs out after just six weeks
How does it feel to be a budget cut?
You're snipped
You no longer exist
Your number's been purged from our central computer
So we can rig the facts
And sweep you under the rug
See our chart? Unemployment's going down
If that ruins your life that's your problem
=====
I guess it's going up, depending on who's perspective you see it from.
History repeating?
My friend that works as google gave me a droid G3 phone for christmas. I guess they all got the nexus this year so he was giving me last years present. It doesn't have a SIM card in it, and I don't have it activated on a cell network. I don't really have any intentions on doing so either.
I let my 4 year old daughter play with it. There's a coloring book application called Zebra Paint. Today though I hear the phone talking.
"Hello? Heloo? Emergency 911"
I guess even without a phone plan, you can still use these things for 911?
I politely told the 911 operator what happened. He told me to be careful letting my girl play with it and that was that.
Scary thing though, this thing has GPS. If someone really wanted to track me down they could. Even without a cell phone plan or sim card in the device.
http://video.adultswim.com/robot-chicken/no-power.html That's good ham.
FUCK YAH SLASHDOT IT'S A MOTOCYCLE!!
I'M GONNA EVIL KENIVIL THAT BITCH!
I'M GONNA JUMP THAT THING OVER 20 BUSSES
THE GRAND CANYON!
WHILE ON FIRE AND THROUGH A FLAMING HOOP!
WITH THE SILENT POWER OF MY HYBRID MOTOC-y...Scooter?
Nice way to give me misleading title blue balls. At least the picture of a man/woman in full sarong shittily photoshopped in front of a quickly passing bridge gave me a laugh.
A few others have made the same remarks. I figured I'd fire back with my own yelp experience from a business side.
We've always been reviewed favorably on yelp. Then earlier this year a competitor decided to get in on the yelp gaming action. This competitor had all of their buddies go out and write unfavorable reviews of us. The review would always go like this..
"Toqers business sucks because of
ABCDEFG
Oh and since they suck, you should to to
X"
X being, a location ran by our competitor. Most of the negative reviews were written by folks with 1 or 2 reviews, no real name or picture. The name and picture thing is important in yelp culture because it's "Real Reviews, by Real People"
Around the same time we started getting calls from yelp salespeople promising if we paid them some outrageous monthly sum, they would make the default sort on our page descending. That way we get all the 5 star reviews first. When we declined somehow the choicest negative reviews floated towards the top.
So we struck back..
I started recruiting my regular customers to start writing their own reviews. My competitor cried foul. I told him I was bringing yelp new users, and there was nothing wrong with that. Me having my customers write good reviews was no worse than him having his friends write false/negative ones.
One of my customers even went as far as to write a review containing a bunch of links to youtube videos. My competitor had said that we were an unlively establishment full of ugly people, and the youtube videos proved that to be completely false.
The flagging wars
So my competitor flagged the review with the youtube links citing yelp policy that "Offsite linking should be limited" That review got taken down. We fired back flagging reviews and citing yelp policy as well. Our competitor made the mistake of writing updates that "Are not new experiences" For example, one girl who became the girlfriend of the leader of these folks initially gave us a great review. When she started getting deep dicked she wrote an update review about how shitty we were. Technically she didn't have a new experience, so she got flagged, review removed. For a while every morning was spent dealing with this bullshit. I tried going through regular yelp channels and it was of no help. I begged yelp "Just take us off your service". They quoted DMCA safe harbor laws. I got sick of it, so I started dropping dox on reviewers, Jeremy Stoppleman, other Yelp Big wigs, etc. Me and some of our regulars started having our own version of photoshop Friday, pasting the faces of some of these douchebags on gay porn and what not. Sure it was childish, but we decided we to could hide behind "DMCA Safe Harbor". Fuck em.
I don't know for sure if that worked, but the slurry of negative reviews stopped. The sort order on our yelp page suddenly changed. The owners son of the business I work at asked me to take down our photoshop friday and dox. Now it seems like we just have a cease fire.
We haven't been asked by yelp again if we want to join their program. Yelp is really sleazy, to me it seems like they condoned our competitors behavior just to pressure us into giving them money.
A lot of old time yelp regulars are giving up on yelp. Even AT&T has given up on them. In their last "Does your network do this?" Iphone commercial, they say "Find a great restaurant" That segment used to feature yelp, but now features Zagat.
If you google "Yelp is a scam" you will find many many websites supporting this. Google please don't make the mistake of buying yelp.
You take the average gain of the last 30 seconds of a program before it goes to commercial, and don't allow the commercials to be any louder than that.
If I can make karaoke and techno music automatically crossfade with my meager skills(link below)
http://www.facebook.com/v/203775860215
Then surely a TV station or broadcast network could make commercials stay at the same gain as the programming.
Milton Waddams: I was told that I could listen to the radio at a reasonable volume from nine to eleven, I told Bill that if Sandra is going to listen to her headphones while she's filing then I should be able to listen to the radio while I'm collating so I don't see why I should have to turn down the radio because I enjoy listening at a reasonable volume from nine to eleven. 177 comments and I'm the first to post that?
No red hairs, no crystals and it looks dry as hell. Sure it's green, but we get stuff like this all the time in the bay area. We call it "Pretindo" (sort of a combination of the words "Pretend" and "Indo"
Some of the shadier dope dealers will sell this crap to you for true chronic prices.
I couldn't help it, this story made me think of an epic scene from the 1982 movie porky's. In the movie a few young men are looking at girls through a peep hole in the girls locker room shower. One young man sticks his talleywhacker through the hole and almost has it torn off by the lesbian'ish PE teacher. Anyways, here's a synopsis of the following scene, courtesy of imdb.
Balbricker: Now, Mr. Carter. I know this is completely unorthodox. But I think this is the only way to find that boy. Now that penis had a mole on it - I'd recognize that penis anywhere. In spite of the juvenile snickers of some, this is a serious matter. That seducer and despoiler must be stopped; he's extremely dangerous. And, Mr. Carter, I'm certain that everyone in this room knows who that is. He's a contemptible little pervert who...
Mr. Carter: Miss Balbricker!
Balbricker: Well, I'm sorry, but I've got him now, and I'm not going to let him slip through my fingers again. Now, all I'm asking is that you give me five boys for a few minutes. The coaches can be present - Tommy Turner and any four boys you see fit to choose and we... and we... can put a stop to this menace. And it is a menace.
[pause]
Balbricker: Well, what are you gonna do about it?
Mr. Carter: Five young boys in the nude, a police line-up so that you can identify his tallywhacker. Please, please can we call it a "tallywhacker"? Penis is so ppp... penis is so personal.
Balbricker: We can put hoods over their heads to avoid embarrassment. Now listen: we have got to do it, as distasteful as it is. I know it's him. That
[pause]
Balbricker: tallywhacker had a mole on it. And that mole is the key to it.
Mr. Carter: Miss Balbricker, do you realize the difficulty of your request? Now, I would be very happy to, uh, to apprehend the young man myself. But can you imagine what the board of education would say if you were granted a line-up in order to examine their private pa... their private parts for an incriminating mole?
Balbricker: But Mr. Carter.
Coach Brakett: Mr. Carter, I think I have a way out of this. We, uh, call the police, and we have 'em send over one of their sketch artists. And Miss Balbricker can give a description. We can put up "Wanted" posters all over school..."Have you seen this prick? Report immediately to Beulah Balbricker. Do not attempt to apprehend this prick, as it is armed and dangerous. It was last seen hanging out in the girls' locker room at Angel Beach High School."
Why don't we fire tax wasting superintendents like this one BEFORE we raise taxes? http://www.mercurynews.com/bay-area-news/ci_13734717
Someone correct me if I'm mistaken, but doesn't lower frequency (30mhz to 300mhz) mean less bandwidth? I could see bonding several channels at once to achieve a higher bandwidth, but doesn't this mostly offer greater range?