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Seems like the MPAA has found a group that does not plan to bend over and smile while they force their special brand of litigious love in places where it was not meant to go.
200 liters of Diet Coke and more than 500 Mentos mints make for an interesting Bellagio substitute.
Ok some of you may have seen this but I love this website. I especially love the the "Read these classics or go to hell" and the one about the children's Art work is classic. If you have already seen this site sorry for bringing it up but if you hadnt take a look…
Interesting, article, which does bring up the question of whether or not the soldiers themselves wanted to be memorialized in a “in your face” sort of fashion. Does it make the message sender less compassionate for indiscriminately using the names to promote his “compassionate” issue?
A more interesting point that I seem to have missed up until now (actually I think I heard about it a while back) is that the Army has built a free online game. I wonder if it is/could be used for selective recruiting/marketing for superior players?
The site the article is on was down all day, so I will post it as a comment for archival purposes. Please visit the original site first, as they deserve the hits/commerce.
There are items that have not proven to do much, but it doesn’t hurt to try… :)
This article also has a nice bite sized breakdown of what web 2.0 really is and some clues as to why there is so much money in internet sites with no business model (much like before the great .bomb bust of the late 90’s).
I always plan to learn how to really use a camera…. Of course I never take the time to learn… ;-)
I’ve been wondering what sort of tactics would be applied to candidates for national office in order to get them to pay attention to states assumed to be in the pocket of one party. I should have known it would originate in California, where so much of our political change has originated. I find it a bit creepy at first read, but they are attempting to tinker with something that hasn’t seen much tinkering in a very long time. I did not follow the link because the LA Times requires information in exchange for reading the full article. We’ll certainly hear more about it as time goes by, particularly if it frightens potential candidates and the political parties, which it should. If California succeeds and gets other states to follow suit, campaigns will change considerably or risk losing votes thought secure.
I still think the best thing that could happen in American politics would be creation and viability of more political parties whose candidates can win some elections. The American electorate, from all appearances, is not especially interested and prefers to keep it simple: ie, two parties that strongly resemble each other when you take a critical look. Most Americans appear to limit themselves to reacting only to emotionally charged issues and reacting only with emotion. This is easy to manipulate because it doesn’t require much by way of data, rather it requires only a few images, key words & issues to crank up the emotions of those you wish to manipulate. I keep hoping this state of affairs will change. I’d love to see the “country club” and “bible thumping” Republicans split into two parties for a start. The Democrats probably have so many divisions that they could split into 10 or more parties. That would certainly liven up political discourse and our range of choices among candidates.
Extortion virus code gets cracked
The 30-digit password locking the files is “mf2lro8sw03ufvnsq034jfowr18f3cszc20vmw”. Using the password should restore all the hijacked files.
These guys must have a really wild national convention.
