It's called "Agitprop" and was frequently used successfully by socialists of the 20th century to achieve their goals. The short version is, you make up some shit that is infuriating and then rile up the people to respond.
Huh? I don't play computer games. I consider them childish and a waste of time - I've simply outgrown them. Once in a while I'll pull out the oldwarez and indulge in nostalgia, but otherwise no. Maybe this guy has his head so far up his ass, he has no idea that other people aren't like him and his friends?
Seriously, fuck computer games. I'm talking about sitting in a Matrix-like pod with IV food supply, automatic waste elimination, and a brain probe that continuously stimulates the pleasure center.
The IOC are a group of corrupt, money-grubbing assholes who would gladly certify a non-sport as a sport for a shockingly low amount of money. You didn't hear about all the journalists who won awards for exposing them to the world a few years back?
Zhang Ziyi's name is typically written in Hanzi, and nonetheless my post here won't be the first result. I'm sure that romanized versions of Asian names exist, even on Google. Finding the story you started from as the first result on Google is always a bad sign that there's very little information available on your subject.
You'd think that, wouldn't you? And yet Google Bot still slurps down 1/8 of my total bandwidth for the month. I must be lying, Google must be right. Down with the people, up with the corporations!
Reductio ad absurdum (Latin: "reduction to the absurd") is a form of argument in which a proposition is disproven by following its implications to a logical but absurd consequence.
Huh? What makes anyone think that Chinese values include life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness? Those are American values. Talk about cultural imperialism, imposing ideals on another culture! It's more like risking your family's prosperity and/or survival.
So, a guy with a 8Gb per month website is now required to have a server with root access and his own copy of apache, which he will then tune like a whistle without even having to read the documentation? Come on, man. Shared host. Non-expert admin that doesn't even like to mess with his Drupal install now that it's working, for fear of breaking it in some subtle yet damaging way. But thanks for shitting all over a novice with that nasty tone, though.
I am having a laugh riot at the idea of a household consisting of a single parent, a 12 year old, a 14 year old, and a 15 year old being run as a democracy.
Google Bot is always indexing your site. I push 8-10Gb of traffic a month (yeah I know it's not a lot, thanks for informing me) and of that, 1Gb is Google. I don't know why Google constantly loads my pages even though they don't change that much, but Google does it.
She's a fraud. The whole thing never happened. It was just wishful thinking on her part because she wanted to write poetry. The narrative was right, but the facts were wrong. "Apparently she didn't go around alone on a motorcycle. She went in a car with her husband and a friend. Elena defends herself, admitting that much of her story was 'more poetry' than reality." It just baffles me how someone can take some cool photos and then ruin the entire thing by lying about it. It's like going to the White House to meet the President, and then you make up a tale about how you went to the bathroom, opened the wrong door, and stumbled into the Situation Room. Your story is already way cool, why the F lie about it? The REALLY sad part is all the people who rushed forward to defend this fraud.
The whole point of my participation on an internet forum is so when people say stupid or incorrect or wrong things (yet inexplicably believe that these things are not stupid or incorrect or wrong), I can interject and point out why those things are stupid or incorrect or wrong.
You're a total dick, man. You are precisely what's wrong with Slashdot commenters.
You do know that Google News is a totally automated service, right? "Google" didn't use the photo, they're not trying to steal from you. Fair use is not publishing. Moreover, tiny images are fair use, Wikipedia does it all the time. Why does it fail to surprise me that a person in the media is ignorant and doesn't check his facts?
Once you've made the decision that people should die for being a certain way, that's it. You've got some really scary company there. What is that certain way? For you, neglectful parents. For others, gypsies, Jews, homosexuals, conservatives, you name the group, it doesn't really matter who they are.
One of the lessons of the last ten years has been that people who talk about shit don't always know what the hell they're doing. Hey, let's question less and have more trust in the future, that sounds like a great idea.
Moreover, what kind of elite engineer spends time on Slashdot flaming people? WTF? Don't you have something exciting to do? You sure you're an engineer and not some kind of coffee-fetcher or janitor on the solar plane project?
I meant that it is more accurate in the way that only bad things can happen: the bus can run off the road and you'll have to start over. Compare this to unlocking achievements, new tracks, upgrading your car, etc. Oh, and also: please don't put words in my mouth, I'm not Jack Thompson and I didn't say shit about FPS's. Don't do this to other people on the internet.
I have often said that driving is the world's most boring video game. Get to your destination, while avoiding a multitude of hazards. Think about it: there is nothing positive that can happen during a drive, and the media keeps us relentlessly up-to-date on the negatives. Driving: "stay between the lines, stay between the lines, stay between the lines...*sigh*..." And if you don't pay attention for just one moment: tragedy. The famous video game Desert Bus is actually a more accurate simulation of driving than any Gran Turismo.
Hel-looo? It's RETRO. Because so many people today are totally out of ideas, they go back to eras in which ideas existed, and steal them for modern-day use. Retro, my friend. Or alternatively, "vintage".
Wow, that was the first and will probably be the last time I visit a web site with a name like "i-want-a-website.com". It just screams "come and get your worms here".
Uh...guy? Yeah, you. If you have trouble "breaking in" to our industry, then you probably shouldn't be there in the first place. These barriers to entry exist for a good reason - to keep out the rednecks and other racists. If you're objecting to this proven system, I can only assume you're one of those Palinite nutbags. So sorry you didn't get that internship you were applying for - but it's all for the best if it keeps out people like you.
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It's called "Agitprop" and was frequently used successfully by socialists of the 20th century to achieve their goals. The short version is, you make up some shit that is infuriating and then rile up the people to respond.
Huh? I don't play computer games. I consider them childish and a waste of time - I've simply outgrown them. Once in a while I'll pull out the oldwarez and indulge in nostalgia, but otherwise no. Maybe this guy has his head so far up his ass, he has no idea that other people aren't like him and his friends?
Seriously, fuck computer games. I'm talking about sitting in a Matrix-like pod with IV food supply, automatic waste elimination, and a brain probe that continuously stimulates the pleasure center.
The IOC are a group of corrupt, money-grubbing assholes who would gladly certify a non-sport as a sport for a shockingly low amount of money. You didn't hear about all the journalists who won awards for exposing them to the world a few years back?
Zhang Ziyi's name is typically written in Hanzi, and nonetheless my post here won't be the first result. I'm sure that romanized versions of Asian names exist, even on Google. Finding the story you started from as the first result on Google is always a bad sign that there's very little information available on your subject.
Uh...and that would be a bad thing how, exactly?
You'd think that, wouldn't you? And yet Google Bot still slurps down 1/8 of my total bandwidth for the month. I must be lying, Google must be right. Down with the people, up with the corporations!
Reductio ad absurdum (Latin: "reduction to the absurd") is a form of argument in which a proposition is disproven by following its implications to a logical but absurd consequence.
Huh? What makes anyone think that Chinese values include life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness? Those are American values. Talk about cultural imperialism, imposing ideals on another culture! It's more like risking your family's prosperity and/or survival.
"I once preached peaceful coexistence with Windows. You may laugh at my expense - I deserve it."
-- Jean-Louis Gassée, CEO Be, Inc.
Yeah, I got it. All that does is let Google know to re-index my pages even faster.
So, a guy with a 8Gb per month website is now required to have a server with root access and his own copy of apache, which he will then tune like a whistle without even having to read the documentation? Come on, man. Shared host. Non-expert admin that doesn't even like to mess with his Drupal install now that it's working, for fear of breaking it in some subtle yet damaging way. But thanks for shitting all over a novice with that nasty tone, though.
I am having a laugh riot at the idea of a household consisting of a single parent, a 12 year old, a 14 year old, and a 15 year old being run as a democracy.
Google Bot is always indexing your site. I push 8-10Gb of traffic a month (yeah I know it's not a lot, thanks for informing me) and of that, 1Gb is Google. I don't know why Google constantly loads my pages even though they don't change that much, but Google does it.
Hold my hat, I'm off to the trademark office to register those names and variations, as well as buy the .com .net and .org!
She's a fraud. The whole thing never happened. It was just wishful thinking on her part because she wanted to write poetry. The narrative was right, but the facts were wrong. "Apparently she didn't go around alone on a motorcycle. She went in a car with her husband and a friend. Elena defends herself, admitting that much of her story was 'more poetry' than reality." It just baffles me how someone can take some cool photos and then ruin the entire thing by lying about it. It's like going to the White House to meet the President, and then you make up a tale about how you went to the bathroom, opened the wrong door, and stumbled into the Situation Room. Your story is already way cool, why the F lie about it? The REALLY sad part is all the people who rushed forward to defend this fraud.
The whole point of my participation on an internet forum is so when people say stupid or incorrect or wrong things (yet inexplicably believe that these things are not stupid or incorrect or wrong), I can interject and point out why those things are stupid or incorrect or wrong.
You're a total dick, man. You are precisely what's wrong with Slashdot commenters.
You do know that Google News is a totally automated service, right? "Google" didn't use the photo, they're not trying to steal from you. Fair use is not publishing. Moreover, tiny images are fair use, Wikipedia does it all the time. Why does it fail to surprise me that a person in the media is ignorant and doesn't check his facts?
Once you've made the decision that people should die for being a certain way, that's it. You've got some really scary company there. What is that certain way? For you, neglectful parents. For others, gypsies, Jews, homosexuals, conservatives, you name the group, it doesn't really matter who they are.
Moreover, what kind of elite engineer spends time on Slashdot flaming people? WTF? Don't you have something exciting to do? You sure you're an engineer and not some kind of coffee-fetcher or janitor on the solar plane project?
I meant that it is more accurate in the way that only bad things can happen: the bus can run off the road and you'll have to start over. Compare this to unlocking achievements, new tracks, upgrading your car, etc. Oh, and also: please don't put words in my mouth, I'm not Jack Thompson and I didn't say shit about FPS's. Don't do this to other people on the internet.
I have often said that driving is the world's most boring video game. Get to your destination, while avoiding a multitude of hazards. Think about it: there is nothing positive that can happen during a drive, and the media keeps us relentlessly up-to-date on the negatives. Driving: "stay between the lines, stay between the lines, stay between the lines...*sigh*..." And if you don't pay attention for just one moment: tragedy. The famous video game Desert Bus is actually a more accurate simulation of driving than any Gran Turismo.
Hel-looo? It's RETRO. Because so many people today are totally out of ideas, they go back to eras in which ideas existed, and steal them for modern-day use. Retro, my friend. Or alternatively, "vintage".
Wow, that was the first and will probably be the last time I visit a web site with a name like "i-want-a-website.com". It just screams "come and get your worms here".
Uh...guy? Yeah, you. If you have trouble "breaking in" to our industry, then you probably shouldn't be there in the first place. These barriers to entry exist for a good reason - to keep out the rednecks and other racists. If you're objecting to this proven system, I can only assume you're one of those Palinite nutbags. So sorry you didn't get that internship you were applying for - but it's all for the best if it keeps out people like you.
Well! That totally fucking sucks. And after so much shouting and training of people to send &?print links.