tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23662617.post836126366803435729..comments2023-10-12T04:28:37.276-07:00Comments on Graphictruth: #Nymwars: Content is King, and King is Content.Bob Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12331371505961522315noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23662617.post-58944989369496378182011-08-13T02:47:47.120-07:002011-08-13T02:47:47.120-07:00Against Civilization. Rape for sure, and the conce...Against Civilization. Rape for sure, and the concept of a privileged to rape, well, that's rather worse, even if the actual event is rare.<br /><br />Boob jokes, well, that's merely uncivil. Boob jokes intended to inflict psychological harm... see above.Bob Kinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12331371505961522315noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23662617.post-77883872005114565542011-08-13T02:42:00.062-07:002011-08-13T02:42:00.062-07:00I can see the difference. But do you consider a su...I can see the difference. But do you consider a successful exhortation to rape the peasant against civility or against civilisation?Ta bu shi da yuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00750381951662588677noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23662617.post-8323343570479798942011-08-12T22:21:50.951-07:002011-08-12T22:21:50.951-07:00...not that the above should change how you act; w......not that the above should change how you act; whether it's an overt threat or a covert warning.Bob Kinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12331371505961522315noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23662617.post-42647200406317999632011-08-12T22:20:36.690-07:002011-08-12T22:20:36.690-07:00You know, I was going to respond with a bitter hig...You know, I was going to respond with a bitter high five - and then I was reminded of a classic parallel, when Jeremiah Denton spelled out the word "TORTURE" by blinking during a North Vietnamese propaganda "confession."<br /><br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremiah_Denton<br /><br />Perhaps "Don't Be Evil" is a policy that is difficult to live up to - and live. <br /><br />Well, come to think of it, it always has been.Bob Kinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12331371505961522315noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23662617.post-61745833459565976282011-08-12T22:03:07.308-07:002011-08-12T22:03:07.308-07:00Oh I was glad to get linked to here from a Twitter...Oh I was glad to get linked to here from a Twitter post!<br /><br />I am a punk too... or at least a former one (1977-1983) and I know the difference too.<br /><br />I was less afraid in my neighborhoods (East LA; edge of S Central; Koreatown; edge of Compton; downtown LA at 3am) than I am of smiling suits, who pretend to polished civility but show less humanity than some of the local street gangs.<br /><br />When you live with outlaws, there is a code. These Men In Yellow make pretense of laws to cover their vicious gangsterism.<br /><br /><br />*cough* ahem.<br /><br />I had a thought - it is very strange that Google would persist in such a course when they are destroying many years of carefully-built-up trust. I took note of two things said by Google CEO Eric Schmidt the other day:<br /><br /><i>"If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place"</i><br /><br />this is the one that has everyone flipping out; a complete parroting of the "If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear" party line. Ok... but then he says,<br /><br /><i>"The reality is... we are all in the US subject to the P.A.T.R.I.O.T. Act; it is possible that that information could be made available to the authorities.</i>"<br /><br />This one caused me to sit up and run a scenario in my head:<br /><br />What if Google is doing this because the Spooks are insisting on it, under the threats of the beginning anti-trust subpoenas against it? What if this is the way the Feds (and E8) are pressuring Google; with breaking up their business?<br /><br />What if Google is persisting in this hard-line, very-negative-press stance as a covert message: "the spooks are on us and we're trying to let you know"?<br /><br />It was interesting to consider it. The way things are now, I don't think it's very tin-foil-hat to examine the possibility; if a guy in my old 'hood was doing something really weird, against all his previous behaviour, incurring the wrath of many of the people who supported him and made some strange statement like that... I'd think someone had a gun to his head or his wife and he was trying to telegraph extreme danger.<br /><br />Just my thoughts.Miso Susanowahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14628657533849686313noreply@blogger.com