You have a point that a lot of what makes the rounds on the internet doesn't have a large effect on the "real world" at large.
But I think it's pertinent to point out something that gives anonymous a distinct advantage compared to the more conventional opponents of Scientology: Anonymous is not a real organization by any means. As a matter of fact, Anonymous is a joke. It comes from some of the *Chan boards requirements of forced anonymity. It doesn't have an infrastructure, or leaders, or heirarchy or any kind of identity that can actually be attacked. It isn't tied to any particular website that can be taken down, and the effort to seek out individuals will amount to pretty much nothing in terms of hurting the group as a whole.
And aside from that, we must never forget that Anonymous really doesn't play by the rules. After all we're talking about a website that responds to threats of school shootings with "Do it, Faggot." Does anybody expect DMCA notices to be frightening to these people?
Wha? I thought my Futurama knowledge was boundless but I can't for the life of me recall a Schrodinger's Cat parody. The closest I can think of is a reference to Heisenberg in "Luck of the Fryrish."
Racetrack PA announcer: And the winner is number three, in a quantum finish.
Professor Farnsworth: No fair! You changed the outcome by measuring it!
Just to state the immediately fucking obvious: What right do you have to demand that they let you view your website? Way to be a self-entitled hypocrite.
Just to give my 2 Quatlus on the issue of it coming back to "full production," I think the future (not to jinx it) may be kind of bright. Comedy Central bid really high for the rights to air episodes of Futurama and they are going to have the three movies broken up into a series of episodes. Given that it has a built in fanbase and is easily much higher in quality than the -- what, 10 new shows they debut each year that fail miserably? (I put my money on Lil' Bush, that Body Shop show, and that show about the Halfway House not coming back next year) My prediction if Futurama is going to be a smash for comedy central. And given that, it's not hard to imagine they'll want to comission a new season after that.
Last names can be kind of important in certain situations. The profiles I use on myspace and similar sites are mainly to help collect and promote the creative works I'm associated with. If you're trying to become known for something it seems you have to exchange security (maybe only to a small extent) for promotion.
Tinker V. Des Moines, idiot. Stop telling people they don't have a right to free-speach in schools. When associate justice Abe Fortas literally says in the opinion "it can hardly be argued that either students or teachers shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate," how in the Hell do people keep getting this misconception that THE EXACT OPPOSITE IS TRUE?
I've got news for you. Your local record store is not "the music industry" as far as I, and probably most young people, are concerned. Nobody is going to cry because your favorite stupid record store went out of business because it's not our obligation to keep your shitty business model from failing.
Record stores and labels have nothing to do with music or the music industry. They are part of a model for distributing and selling a physical product: plastic discs that pla music when put in an electronic device. If people don't want to buy those stupid plastic discs anymore then tough shit.
How many bands have broken up because they got together and decided they couldn't make a living anymore thanks to piracy? Artists don't have to force people to buy their music and when the generation that has grown up on piracy starts to make up the music industry they probably won't think twice about people "pirating" their music.
If people stop paying to support your stupid business model, guess what: it's because you failed. Stop crying and deal with it.
Uh, did you watch the video? It's obviously not a critical review, it's a satire in the same vein as the show. Al Franken is a satirist himself and is very similar to Colbert in some respects. MoveOn.Org is a left-wing political site. They may be criticizing the persona Colbert plays on his show but they're obviously doing it in a tongue-in-cheek manner. Whether it's protected by Free Speech or not, this is certainly more of a tribute than a parody.
I second this, as it's something a lot of people don't realize. Additionally, if you do some research and you'll find that most companies' marketing departments have entire sections devoted to research of subliminal marketing. A lot of fast food restaurants choose their color schemes based on what their "research" tells them are colors that trigger responses of hunger. So, it may not be the greatest research, or entirely accurate, but a lot of corporations out there are certainly investing in it.
They live in New Jersey so when they wind up in Hell it won't be much different.
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Billy Budd? The Great Gatsby? Animal Farm? The Stranger? Those books are all extremely short. There are unabridged dictionaries thousands of pages long but that doesn't make them good. You think perhaps the length of a book doesn't have any effect on how good it is?
You and pretty much anyone else I've heard talk about cheating seem to be missing out on something essential to the question: for everyone but the laziest, most incompetent people (who will eventually fail in life anyway) the "academic integrity" a student has for a given assignment depends directly on the relevance. If someone who majors in journalism cheats their way through a calculus class why the hell does it matter?
For the majority of students, the best way to stop someone from cheating is to stop wasting their time. I copied friends' homework assignments almost everyday in my Trig class last year because I don't have to work something out 20 times before I understand why it works and how to apply it to different situations. I know exactly when I understand something and at that point I refuse to do anymore work just to prove to someone else that I'm learning it. I have a strong intuitive grasp for math so I aced all the tests and the class anyway.
I cheat if I'm filling in blanks in a Latin workbook because frankly I don't give a shit about Latin. I am forced to take a foreign language in order to pass highschool. I don't care whether or not I can translate from Latin to English. I don't cheat on English papers because I do care whether or not I can write effectively.
There are two basic problems with the assumption of your argument: One is that all students require equal amounts of work to have reliably learned something. Not everyone learns the same way. Two is that students usually do not cheat simply because they don't want to do work: they cheat because they don't want to do work that they feel is not useful to them. The fact of the matter is we won't get engineers that cheated their way through their engineering class because nobody would take a damn engineering class unless they wanted to be an engineer.
That is why I simply scoff at all this talk about "cheating epidemics" and the "lack of academic integrity." The reason these problems exist is because our entire system of education is monstrously inefficient and the majority of time spent in school is absolutely useless to today's students.
That's what I did in my CS class year. As a matter of fact the way we got the code from computer to computer was using the Sandbox on wikipedia. We never got caught but then again we never learned anything either because our teacher was completely worthless.
For those of you who are not ultra huge nerds, the analogy that the parent poster made is to the same effect of saying "It's like Stalin helping to take down Hitler."
"Oh, and for the "well, they have an ad showing a black woman beating up on a white one", you go through centuries of slavery, then more decades of racism, then continued glares from people who think that you're a thief just because you're black, or have problems registering to vote or get ticketed for "driving while black" and continued segregation of the schools, *then* tell me if you don't mind the black woman beating up the white one. That one was just as bad in my opinion, and just because you don't find it offensive doesn't mean that it wasn't."
Hey, genius, you realize this is the definition of racism, right? The fact that you intrinsically associate being black with racial subjugation is racist in itself, you imbecile. Racial equality will never actually happen as long as morons like you keep creating arbitrary distinctions like this.
"We Americans are very good at pointing at others and coming up with excuses. But I'll tell you, the Asian students I have aren't good at math because they're Asian, they're good because they (gasp!) actually do homework."
Yes, repetitive busy-work is the best way to learn. This has been proven over and over again.
"Anyway, once people are accustomed to being watched while "out", it's only a matter of time before they start watching people while they are "in". "
No, they won't. There is no "slippery slope" argument to make here because it's just ridiculous to consider putting cameras in the street the same as putting cameras in someone's private property against their will.
One thing people like you fail to consider is that extending my right to privacy to areas where I'm really not in private has adverse effects on other people's liberties. If you are walking down the street absolutely minding your own business I have every right to photograph you because -- get this -- you do not own the street. You are not on your own private property and you should have no expectation of "privacy" when you're in a public area.
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You make a good point, and I agree, but keep in mind that Braniac is the same show that notoriously faked that aklaine metals experiment.
You have a point that a lot of what makes the rounds on the internet doesn't have a large effect on the "real world" at large. But I think it's pertinent to point out something that gives anonymous a distinct advantage compared to the more conventional opponents of Scientology: Anonymous is not a real organization by any means. As a matter of fact, Anonymous is a joke. It comes from some of the *Chan boards requirements of forced anonymity. It doesn't have an infrastructure, or leaders, or heirarchy or any kind of identity that can actually be attacked. It isn't tied to any particular website that can be taken down, and the effort to seek out individuals will amount to pretty much nothing in terms of hurting the group as a whole. And aside from that, we must never forget that Anonymous really doesn't play by the rules. After all we're talking about a website that responds to threats of school shootings with "Do it, Faggot." Does anybody expect DMCA notices to be frightening to these people?
Wha? I thought my Futurama knowledge was boundless but I can't for the life of me recall a Schrodinger's Cat parody. The closest I can think of is a reference to Heisenberg in "Luck of the Fryrish." Racetrack PA announcer: And the winner is number three, in a quantum finish. Professor Farnsworth: No fair! You changed the outcome by measuring it!
Just to state the immediately fucking obvious: What right do you have to demand that they let you view your website? Way to be a self-entitled hypocrite.
Just to give my 2 Quatlus on the issue of it coming back to "full production," I think the future (not to jinx it) may be kind of bright. Comedy Central bid really high for the rights to air episodes of Futurama and they are going to have the three movies broken up into a series of episodes. Given that it has a built in fanbase and is easily much higher in quality than the -- what, 10 new shows they debut each year that fail miserably? (I put my money on Lil' Bush, that Body Shop show, and that show about the Halfway House not coming back next year) My prediction if Futurama is going to be a smash for comedy central. And given that, it's not hard to imagine they'll want to comission a new season after that.
I mean, I don't know about you, but my thumbnails are always nude? Since when is this an issue?
Last names can be kind of important in certain situations. The profiles I use on myspace and similar sites are mainly to help collect and promote the creative works I'm associated with. If you're trying to become known for something it seems you have to exchange security (maybe only to a small extent) for promotion.
Tinker V. Des Moines, idiot. Stop telling people they don't have a right to free-speach in schools. When associate justice Abe Fortas literally says in the opinion "it can hardly be argued that either students or teachers shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate," how in the Hell do people keep getting this misconception that THE EXACT OPPOSITE IS TRUE?
If you do it with your arm it's not technically "mating."
Record stores and labels have nothing to do with music or the music industry. They are part of a model for distributing and selling a physical product: plastic discs that pla music when put in an electronic device. If people don't want to buy those stupid plastic discs anymore then tough shit.
How many bands have broken up because they got together and decided they couldn't make a living anymore thanks to piracy? Artists don't have to force people to buy their music and when the generation that has grown up on piracy starts to make up the music industry they probably won't think twice about people "pirating" their music.
If people stop paying to support your stupid business model, guess what: it's because you failed. Stop crying and deal with it.
Uh, did you watch the video? It's obviously not a critical review, it's a satire in the same vein as the show. Al Franken is a satirist himself and is very similar to Colbert in some respects. MoveOn.Org is a left-wing political site. They may be criticizing the persona Colbert plays on his show but they're obviously doing it in a tongue-in-cheek manner. Whether it's protected by Free Speech or not, this is certainly more of a tribute than a parody.
I second this, as it's something a lot of people don't realize. Additionally, if you do some research and you'll find that most companies' marketing departments have entire sections devoted to research of subliminal marketing. A lot of fast food restaurants choose their color schemes based on what their "research" tells them are colors that trigger responses of hunger. So, it may not be the greatest research, or entirely accurate, but a lot of corporations out there are certainly investing in it.
"Peter Solis lied about his age on MySpace to gain the confidence the confidence of a 13-year old girl."
Or as those of us who aren't pretentious call it: "anger."
They live in New Jersey so when they wind up in Hell it won't be much different.
Billy Budd? The Great Gatsby? Animal Farm? The Stranger? Those books are all extremely short. There are unabridged dictionaries thousands of pages long but that doesn't make them good. You think perhaps the length of a book doesn't have any effect on how good it is?
For the majority of students, the best way to stop someone from cheating is to stop wasting their time. I copied friends' homework assignments almost everyday in my Trig class last year because I don't have to work something out 20 times before I understand why it works and how to apply it to different situations. I know exactly when I understand something and at that point I refuse to do anymore work just to prove to someone else that I'm learning it. I have a strong intuitive grasp for math so I aced all the tests and the class anyway.
I cheat if I'm filling in blanks in a Latin workbook because frankly I don't give a shit about Latin. I am forced to take a foreign language in order to pass highschool. I don't care whether or not I can translate from Latin to English. I don't cheat on English papers because I do care whether or not I can write effectively.
There are two basic problems with the assumption of your argument: One is that all students require equal amounts of work to have reliably learned something. Not everyone learns the same way. Two is that students usually do not cheat simply because they don't want to do work: they cheat because they don't want to do work that they feel is not useful to them. The fact of the matter is we won't get engineers that cheated their way through their engineering class because nobody would take a damn engineering class unless they wanted to be an engineer.
That is why I simply scoff at all this talk about "cheating epidemics" and the "lack of academic integrity." The reason these problems exist is because our entire system of education is monstrously inefficient and the majority of time spent in school is absolutely useless to today's students.
That's what I did in my CS class year. As a matter of fact the way we got the code from computer to computer was using the Sandbox on wikipedia. We never got caught but then again we never learned anything either because our teacher was completely worthless.
Your welcome.
The PCRM is a puppet organization set up by PETA to create propaganda under the guise of "objective" research. Source: one, and two.
Uh, we're not killing death row inmates because they have nowhere else to go...
Hey, genius, you realize this is the definition of racism, right? The fact that you intrinsically associate being black with racial subjugation is racist in itself, you imbecile. Racial equality will never actually happen as long as morons like you keep creating arbitrary distinctions like this.
Yes, repetitive busy-work is the best way to learn. This has been proven over and over again.
Actually, I don't think this is true.
No, they won't. There is no "slippery slope" argument to make here because it's just ridiculous to consider putting cameras in the street the same as putting cameras in someone's private property against their will.
One thing people like you fail to consider is that extending my right to privacy to areas where I'm really not in private has adverse effects on other people's liberties. If you are walking down the street absolutely minding your own business I have every right to photograph you because -- get this -- you do not own the street. You are not on your own private property and you should have no expectation of "privacy" when you're in a public area.