CATCHING UP ON MY FAVORITE TV SHOWS:
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“… something primal, something deeply human being expressed when these characters unconsciously hold hands …”
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“… you’ve laughed a lot …”
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Yup.
… but no one’s had to hold ever again.
Better to have love’d and lost than to have never loved at all.
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Guess I have to begin to get organized about my domains.
I’m a great believer in the “spaghetti theory” of domains. Have a great idea? Throw up a domain or two and see what sticks.
For every “box of nickels” and “box of nickles”, there are a lot of “memetaxonomy”, “auntie collector”, and “ram 1968”.
With the price increase, the cost of being sloppy in going up.
Perhaps, there’s a better deal for registering domain names?
But first one has to have a list of one’s domain names.
Last time I got this bug was when I thought that GODADDY’s soft porn advertising campaign was worthy of some moral outrage. It was bait and switch cause the uncensored version didn’t really show anything …
(Yes, all men are pigs. And, I had to do penance for that near occasion of sin. Just seeking it, as of course a purely IT research activity, was deemed by my priest as “really?”. Can’t get anything by him.)
… and wasn’t even funny!
So, now I have the bug again.
Let the domain hunt begin!
Argh!
(Thus demonstrating I have no life. When a tiny price increase gives my life real meaning. Sort of one step short of those “extreme couponers”?)
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Customer ID: 9113251
Dear Ferdinand Reinke,
1&1 Internet Inc. appreciates your business and strives to consistently provide the best quality domain and web hosting services to our customers.
We are writing today to inform you that as a result of recent price increases by
the major domain registries, we need to increase the annual
rates for .com domains. In order for 1&1 to stay
competitive and continue to offer you excellent services, we have made
the following adjustments to our pricing structure.
For domain renewals and new orders as of 07/01/2012, the following domain
rate changes will apply:
*.com domain renewals will be increased from $9.99
to $10.99 per year.
The new price for your domain(s) will be applied to your next domain
renewal after July 1, 2012.
1&1 is committed to offering very competitive prices and professional
services in the domain environment and we hope to continue to meet and
surpass your service expectations.
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Thank you for choosing 1&1 and we look forward to your continued
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P.S., SPS (i.e., Self Praise Stinks)! “excellent services”? Never, even if true, throw your own bouquets. imho!
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Posted by reinkefj
From the “DOES ANYONE LOOK AT WHST THEY ARE SENDING PROSPECTS” department:
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Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
From: info@campingsurvival.com
Message-Id: <20120509055425.83DE89303D9@318805-web1.eystudios.com>
Date: Wed, 9 May 2012 00:54:25 -0500 (CDT)
X-UI-Loop: V01:ZaJjd++GzFg=:uPTdAQBfIs1BfYyac89qe/i/zfUl9LFzePsrT3aO6mo=
Envelope-To: {Privacy Invoked}
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Hello Ferdinand REINKE, <br/>
Thanks for signing up for an account with us.<br/>
We hope that you find our wishlist feature very useful.<br/>
-Camping Survival
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ROFL!
At least it didn’t say “don’t reply cause we ain’t listening”.
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Six scenarios where the iPad is trouncing the PC
TechRepublic’s Jason Hiner has little use for an iPad. But he’s pinpointed six areas where it’s become people’s preferred device and is disrupting the PC market.
by Jason Hiner May 7, 2012 9:00 AM PDT
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6. The kid machine
For the past couple generations, kids have taken to computers and technology with almost no trouble and with few exceptions. However, with the iPhone this phenomenon started to go a step further — or younger. Suddenly, 2-year-olds could figure out how to swipe to unlock the phone, touch the photo app, and flick their little fingers across the screen to flip through photos. Once we got a big screen version of this experience with the iPad, the sky was suddenly the limit for infants, toddlers, and preschoolers. They had a computer that required no training from their parents. Apps like Intro to Math, by Montessorium took advantage of the iPad interface to deliver software that was inexpensive, easy to learn, fun, and effective.
On the other end of the spectrum, the iPad is easy enough to figure out that plenty of elderly people who never felt comfortable with a computer have been able to use an iPad to do a few basic things. The key to this scenario is the iPad’s multitouch interface, which requires no user manual and no instruction to get started.
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Ever since I saw the YouTube video of a baby trying to stroke a magazine to make the “screen” turn, I knew Apple had a winner.
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Posted by reinkefj
Sunday lunch with the MIX5 gang.
After MIX3 suffered a crushing defeat one – nill where the one came when she was in goal. Objectively, her team allowed the oppo to center the ball about ten feet from the net with no one marking anyone. Once the girl controlled the centering pass, MIX3 was “her lunch meat”.
At dinner afterward, MIX3 was perusing the dinner choices, reading them to MIX2, who then asked her “if she thought everyone was illiterate”. (That was funny?)
Then I asked the young Miss MIX3 what she was having. “Maybe beef, but it’s expensive.”
(Ahh, always nice when people try to save Our Girl some money. Wasn’t like I was paying. After all these are HER relatives. Mine don’t want to socialize with me. Which is cheaper on my wallet. What did Groucho say? “I wouldn’t want to be a member of any club that would have me as a member.” This was coming from Our Girl’s wallet.)
This lead to the topic of “Madame’s menu” or “Ladies’ Menus”.
And, the infamous family story about how when Our Girl would take MIX1, her Mom (Our Girl’s much OLDER sister, who is MIX3’s now ELDERLY grandmother; not young like me), and Brothers (MIX3’s uncles) out for a seafood dinner, MIX’1s Mom would give all the kids the “stink eye” to order something inexpensive. To which, she and Our Girl would discuss “who was paying”.
After that trip, I was ALWAYS instructed to ask for the “Gentlemen’s menu”. Which at most restaurants that had menus, as opposed to signs over the cashier, meant I’d get one with prices and the rest party got the ones without.
MIX1 and her brothers thought that was funny.
Being properly whipped, I, of course, made a big fanfare of giving Our Girl the “Gentlemen’s Menu” in exchange for her “Ladies Menu”. (Hey, I was secure in my sexuality. I knew who she was going home with. VaVaVoom!)
Of course, MIX1 and her brothers thought that was even funnier.
Not that you you couldn’t tell what was the most expensive dishes were. And shrimp cocktails were / are never cheap.
But Our Girl was out for a good time.
So, I explained “Ladies’ Menus” to a bemused MIX3. She, of course, sharp as a tack, re-queried: “But then how does a woman know how much things cost?” I explained that was the point. And threw in that on a date, the Gentlemen never expected a Lady to make her choices based on price. MIX3 ended the lecture with: “That’s dumb!”.
(I forgot to tell MIX3 that back in the Dark Ages, the Sixities, when I was dating, and before there were “credit cards”, I had TWO extra cnotes in my wallet so I’d never be caught short. I only had to use one a few times. The meal was worth it; the date not so much. Reminds me that I “kissed a lot of frogs” in my day. Some of them were really good kissers. But most had their “warts” on their noses and were easy to spot. And just as easy to drop. A few, you had to get to know them well, to see their “warts”. And, no, in my day, there was no undressing involved in order to see “warts”. Marriage was such a quaint institution; with no pre-martial sex. I missed the “free love” era. My wife informed me I missed nothing. And, even if I hadn’t missed it, that I wouldn’t have had a large contribution to make or been in much demand. [I think that was “harsh”.])
(I could have also told MIX3 that Our Girl’s Mom pinned “mad money” to Our Girl’s slip and bra strap. But that was probably TMI for a young pre-teen girl to heard from her “uncle”. I’ll let Mom and Dad handle that; much like I do Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, and other myths and legends. I never did figure out if that “pin money” was supposed to be a lojack of sorts, or the Sixties version of tamper proof packaging. And, in case you’re wondering how I knew — minds out of the gutter — you could feel it when we were dancing. Being “that close” was OK for “steadies” (i.e., no room for the Holy Ghost). Wasn’t until we were engaged, with a wedding date, that her Mom stopped doing that little Irish custom. Maybe her Mom knew just how “hot” Our Girl was. But that’s for another blog post.)
So, upon resting up from my trek down 95, I decided to blog about a casualty of the women’s movement — “the Ladies’ Menu”.
It was a gentler time.
To quote Ms Swift: “Waz it worth it? … … Noooooo!”
Kinda was a simpler and gentler time. When men were allowed to lead. And, women … … were the force behind the throne.
Not so sure that both men and women didn’t lose when that changed.
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http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_REUSABLE_BAG_VIRUS
May 9, 5:26 PM EDT
Oregon norovirus traced to reusable grocery bag
Health Video
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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Oregon investigators have traced an outbreak of norovirus to a reusable grocery bag … …
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On Sunday, team members had lunch in a hotel room, passing around the bag and eating cookies it held. On Monday, six girls got sick.
Oregon scientists determined they had picked up the norovirus from the grocery bag.
Tests turned up the virus on the sides of the bag below the polypropylene handle.
The results of the research have been published in the Journal of Infectious Diseases.
The authors are Kimberly Repp, epidemiologist for Washington County, and William Keene, senior epidemiologist with Oregon Public Health.
Norovirus causes about 21 million illnesses, 70,000 hospitalizations and 800 deaths a year in the United States. It caused 139 of 213 outbreaks of gastroenteritis in Oregon in 2010.
The germ can spread quickly in places like day care centers, nursing homes, and cruise ships.
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Well, we all know how “dirty” human beings are.
And, those reusable grocery sacks may be tempting.
But plastic that you toss won’t transmit a virus. Not around long enough!
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Posted by reinkefj
http://tennisconnected.com/home/2012/05/04/love-tennis-by-hazel-jewelry-line-launches/
Prison road renamed after long-time legislator
KTVB
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Idaho Department of Correction Director Brent Reinke announced Friday that the road through the South Boise Prison Complex will now be named Darrington Way in the senator’s honor. Reinke said Darrington has done more than anyone in recent history to …
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Sorry, but I renew my ranting objection to naming ANYTHING for “long-time legislator”. Those gangsters are well compensated for their “public service”!
Argh!
Dead vets. Preferably privates. They deserve to be remembered! Over paid fat cats, negative!
We’ve got over fourteen hundred dead grunts in this President’s term to honor!
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Posted by reinkefj
http://lewrockwell.com/spl4/re-education-camp-manual.html
Yes, the Re-Education Camp Manual Does Apply Domestically to U.S. Citizens
by Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet
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The most alarming portion of the document appears on page 56 and makes it clear that detention camps will have PSYOP teams whose responsibility will be to use “indoctrination programs to reduce or remove antagonistic attitudes,” as well as targeting “political activists” with such indoctrination programs to provide “understanding and appreciation of U.S. policies and actions.”
Let’s make one thing clear – the manual primarily deals with enemy combatants captured and detained in foreign prison camps run by the U.S. Military. However, another thing that is just as clear from reading the manual in full is the fact that it also applies to citizens detained within the United States, whether they be DCs (displaced citizens) or “civilian internees,” in other words citizens who are detained for, “security reasons, for protection, or because he or she committed an offense against the detaining power.”
Firstly, throughout the manual there are scores of references to how the U.S. Army would work together with the DHS, ICE and FEMA (page 24) to implement the policies “within U.S. territory” as part of “civil support operations” in the aftermath of “man-made disasters, accidents, terrorist attacks and incidents in the U.S. and its territories.” (page 38).
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If this doesn’t convince you, then you truly are one of “We, The Sheeple” and deserve all you get.
OTOH, I and my fellow patriots may go down, but it’s going to be expensive.
See the Oppressors depend on tranquil lambs bath-ing quietly as they go to the slaughter.
“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand? . . .” — Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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http://ncc-1776.org/tle2012/tle668-20120429-05.html
Please Help Ginny
by Jim Davidson
jim@vertoro.com
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Special to L. Neil Smith’s The Libertarian Enterprise
This past Saturday night 21 April, a friend of mine, Ginny Cambron, was at a night club with a friend of hers. As they were leaving, another woman bumped into Ginny and began to get an attitude with her. Ginny’s friend stepped in between the two women to prevent anything from starting. As he did so, the other woman threw her drink in his face. Ginny and her friend immediately turned and left the bar to avoid any conflict. Her friend pushed the door open forcefully, which broke a plate of glass.
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And so starts yet another “bad kop” story.
How many of these will “We, The Sheeple” accept?
Sorry, my “emotional tank” overflowed a long time ago.
DO I believe that every “actor” in these stories? NO!
IS every “actor” the representation of “true goodness” or “true evil”? NO!
IS this blog an evidentiary hearing to uncover the truth as best humans can? No!
This is a social commentary that WHEN the expect levels of a process are targeted at ZERO and the observed results if FAR GREATER than that zero, then this fat old white guy injineer says that the process is “Operating Outside of Acceptable Boundaries” and becomes a “MATTER REQUIRING ATTENTION”.
OK, Sheeple, what are YOU going to do about it? You’re on notice!
Remember the German Jews, Gypsies, Homosexuals, other “Undesirables”, and any “good people” who objected being loaded on the trains for their death camp.
For those Sheeple that object “Can’t Happen HERE!”. Have you “forgotten” the “Reservations” for the American Indians and the Japanese American Internment. Hell they have you lining up and taking off your shoes at airports. What’s next? Strip searching women. Like the XRAY machines?
Fools!
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http://www.infowars.com/rand-paul-launches-campaign-to-end-the-tsa/
Rand Paul Launches Campaign to End the TSA
New legislation would abolish government involvement in airport security
Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
Thursday, May 3, 2012
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Senator Rand Paul has issued a press release in which he vows to lead the charge to “end the TSA” and put a stop to the needless and humiliating groping of toddlers and grandmothers.
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A good place to start … close the “security theater”!
Argh!
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Catching up on my TV watching!
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Catching up on my TV favorites.
ROFL!
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FUN: “A pretty girl girl like Bernadatte will find a new guy!”
Catching up with TV shows.
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http://ncc-1776.org/tle2012/tle668-20120429-03.html
The Wholesale Slaughter of America’s Family Farms
by Jonathan David Morris
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Case in point: Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis and her unbridled effort to obliterate family farms.
Last August, the Department of Labor looked around, scratched its head, and decided the new thing it should focus on was applying child labor laws to agricultural settings. Offhand, you’re thinking, “Well, shouldn’t they be applied?” Well, sure. In a corporate feed lot. What we’re talking about here is the use of children on farms that those children’s families own. Put into practice, these laws will, in the words of a Department of Labor press release, prohibit children under the age of 18 from “being employed in the storing, marketing, and transporting of farm product raw materials.”
Furthermore, the laws would designate a number of farm-related places as completely off limits to children. Dangerous places like country grain elevators. And silos. And… livestock auctions?
Our country isn’t as loaded with family farms as it used to be hundreds of years ago, but such farms do, indeed, still exist, and these child labor laws would do nothing short of hurt them.
According to Secretary of Labor Solis, the reason for this move is simple. “Children employed in agriculture are some of the most vulnerable workers in America,” she says. “Ensuring their welfare is a priority of the department.” It doesn’t take a genius to know that any time the government cites the children as a reason for an action, all of us should be extraordinarily nervous.
So let’s look at what these laws would accomplish, before we determine why.
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Obviously, just another payoff to “Big Something”.
By “Big Something”, just consult the Sheeple’s dictionary:
“Big Pharma”, who controls the FDA. “Big Labor”, who got the lion’s share of the GM takeover. “Big Banks” who got the bailout to loot the Treasury.
So in this example, the Big Corporate Farmers are getting a subsidy from the taxpayer directly and indirectly. Wonder who pays for the lobbying. And, campaign contributions. Think back as to “cui bono” (i.e., who benefits) from the genius idea to put food plants into our gas tanks when a large chuck of the world’s population is starving? If you think the Consumer or the Taxpayer, then I have a bridge to sell you!
Argh!
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Posted by reinkefj
http://ncc-1776.org/tle2012/tle668-20120429-01.html
Another Letter from A.X. Perez
Anyone who has any doubt about the pro administration bias of the media or the anti gun bias of our media need only look at the current Secret Service scandal. I may be mistaken but it seems to me that over the last two weeks the news have given more time to the fuss created by Secret Service agents trying to cheat prostitutes out of their pay than it has given the Gunwalker Scandal over the last two years.
Anyone who pays attention to things will note that more people have been fired, reprimanded, or allowed to quit over cheapskate gate (doesn’t even rate caps) than have been punished over Operation Fast and Furious. Apparently the Government “error” which caused the deaths of some two hundred or so Mexican citizens, plus American citizens killed because they were visiting kin in Mexico, plus at least two American Law Enfocement agents is less noteworthy than Secret Service agents defrauding whores.
A.X. Perez
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After all “Fast and Furious” only killed a few hundred people that we know about. “Prostitute-gate” allows them to rip the conservative white-male organization as part of the “war on women”.
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Posted by reinkefj
http://lewrockwell.com/north/north1132.html
Health and Free Trade
by Gary North
Tea Party Economist
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Will there be better living through chemistry? Count on it.
Will there be long waits in local doctors’ offices – doctors who still serve Medicare patients? Yes.
Will thousands of physicians cease to take new patients because too many new patients will be on Medicare? Yes.
Start making plans to shift to the medicine of the future. It will be cross-border medicine. That is where the savings will be. That is where the innovation will be. That is where the FDA won’t be.
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One can only hope.
Having “lost” Frau Reinke to an know blood disorder, during which some very smart and dedicated people gave her their best effort, “medicine” is still at best and art. At worst, it’s a corrupt system where no one cares.
I attribute that to the lack of “greed”. Remember “Greed is good” as a meme because it get that species, which is characterized by its usual uncooperativeness and irritability, to work together to satisfy as many needs and wants has possible.
Perfect?
Not by any means. But the minute “we” stray away from that essential motivation, “we” get sub-par results. You can count on it!
Argh!
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Posted by reinkefj
Shutterfly only bidder for Kodak Gallery customer accounts
by John Ribeiro, IDG News Service Apr 26, 2012 10:00 am
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Online photo service Shutterfly has emerged as the only bidder for the customer accounts and images of Kodak Gallery online photo services business, the companies said Wednesday.
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Only last year, I urged folks to get their backup in order.
The times are a changin’!
KodakGallery is on life support.
And, that’s the part of “put everything in the cloud” that people forget.
This is the last month for folks use Apple’s IWEB to publish web pages.
Don’t be a sucker. Stick to open standards and non-proprietary software like what you get from Apple and Microsoft.
Don’t be lured to the “Dark Side”.
Like the Gooferment, NO ONE is here to HELP YOU!
Apple, Microsoft, and all the ISPs want to lock you in.
No matter how cheap and easy it is to start, it’s always painful at the end.
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OK!
I was thanks to DRIVESLIM ($, not free) able to free enough space on the slender MACBOOKAIR which I cam McBahh1.
I was then able after 3 password resets finally get an MAC APP STORE id that would work.
I was then able to download the LION MAC OSX UPGRADE ($). That I had already paid for. Thankfully, I didn’t have to pay for it again.
I was then able to perform the UPGRADE.
An hour later, while I was doing other things, McBahh1 dinged like an oven timer and it was done.
Observation: McBahh1 is now running “sprightly”. No more performance like a nursing home resident. We’ll see if any of the old problems return (i.e.: “I’m too tired to compute; I’m taking my union break for as many minutes as I feel like”; “There’s no free disk space; deal with it.”, or my perennial favorite “Year, I rebooted; what of it?”)
Casualties: NVU (free) no longer runs; I quickly found BLUE_GRIFFON (free) to replace it.
Observation: BLUE_GRIFFON doesn’t do file transfer like NVU did. (Argh!)
New method: FILEZILLA dusted off to upload. New version of FILEZILLA installed. Works.
Casualties: MAC OSX 10.7.3 aka LION in the FINDER utility no longer displays the amount of free space. (Or it’s not obvious how to do it.)
Opinion: Well worth it. But what a hassle. Months of hassle to get to this point. Exponential number of Arghs.
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SERVICE: FACEBOOK shoots itself in the foot
Sunday, May 6, 2012http://techcrunch.com/2012/05/05/facebooks-positive-comment-policy-irrelevant-inappropriate-censorship/
Is This Censorship? Facebook Stops Users From Posting ‘Irrelevant Or Inappropriate’ Comments
Colleen Taylor
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Updated. Today was just another Saturday morning in blog land when Robert Scoble, the well-known tech startup enthusiast, went to post a comment on a Facebook post written by Carnegie Mellon student (and TechCrunch commenter extraordinaire) Max Woolf about the nature of today’s tech blogging scene. Scoble’s comment itself was pretty par-for-the-course — generally agreeing with Woolf’s sentiments and adding in his own two cents.
But when Scoble went to click post, he received an odd error message:
“This comment seems irrelevant or inappropriate and can’t be posted. To avoid having comments blocked, please make sure they contribute to the post in a positive way.”
Now, Facebook makes no apologies for working to create a safe and clean environment on its corner of the web by shutting down abusive or harassing behavior, content such as pornography, or generally spamming of the system. This particular method policing “inappropriate” comments may be new, but it would fall within the same general realm.
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I love it when these tech giants step in it.
Like this!
Haven’t seen it personally, but I can imagine some developers buying the midnight oil to fix it and then again being “burned at the stake” on Monday morning,
Great “fun”!
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