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DynamicSloth posted:Who the hell bothers going to the google front page anymore? Old, technologically-illiterate people. The same people that type in "www.google.com" in the address bar and then do a Google search of the full website address that they actually want to go to.
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Butt Soup Barnes posted:Old, technologically-illiterate people. The same people that type in "www.google.com" in the address bar and then do a Google search of the full website address that they actually want to go to. Pshh, some of my older relatives use the google search bar to search for google then use the main google page to search the address of the website they want to go to. Drives me insane.
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gently caress You And Diebold posted:Pshh, some of my older relatives use the google search bar to search for google then use the main google page to search the address of the website they want to go to. Drives me insane. Every remaining republican voter.txt
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max4me posted:And while I grew up in the central valley I am sure alot of other people in the country arent that aware of him. Chavez and Gompers were about the only labor movement figures I learned about in school. Nowadays I bet even they are rarely spoken of for fear of  SOCIALISM
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The doodle shows up on Google's logo for their search results too. That's how I always see it.
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Walter posted:
That was Michelle Malkin and her twitchy pals. http://www.buzzfeed.com/louispeitzman/people-who-think-google-is-honoring-hugo-chavez
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gently caress You And Diebold posted:Pshh, some of my older relatives use the google search bar to search for google then use the main google page to search the address of the website they want to go to. Drives me insane. The comments on that blog post immediately blew up with hundreds, and then thousands, of people typing in their usernames and passwords, mixed with lots of "GODDAMN IT WHY WONT YOU LET ME LOG ON???" comments.
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FMguru posted:A couple of years ago, Facebook made some dumb changes to their login procedure, and a guy wrote a blog post complaining about it that ended up as the #1 result for "facebook login". Urg, I used to have that page bookmarked and now I can't find it. But yes, it was hilarious. e. VVV Thanks! platedlizard fucked around with this message at 02:28 on Apr 2, 2013 |
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platedlizard posted:Urg, I used to have that page bookmarked and now I can't find it. But yes, it was hilarious. Here you go: http://readwrite.com/2010/02/10/facebook_wants_to_be_your_one_true_login All the funny stuff is buried under pages worth of 'lol look at these idiots!' comments now, though. E: actually, just arrange the comments by oldest first if you want to relive the magic. Good Citizen fucked around with this message at 02:27 on Apr 2, 2013 |
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Grand Prize Winner posted:Every remaining republican voter.txt You're naive if you're discounting the intelligent sociopaths.
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greazeball posted:Obama forced Google to show an image of a socialist organiser instead of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ on Easter. So what, does this mean conservatives will all move to Bing and turn that into their own bizarro Google, like when they mass-migrated from Facebook? Not sure why they're persisting with this Google Hates Jesus tangent since pretty much the entire American IT industry (Microsoft and Bing included) is overwhelmingly left-leaning (http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/28/in-silicon-valley-technology-talent-gap-threatens-g-o-p-campaigns/) Strand fucked around with this message at 07:02 on Apr 2, 2013 |
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There was a time when they wouldn't use Apple products because Al Gore sat on the board and he was working with them to make their weather app show higher temperatures to convince people that global warming is real, so, yeah, it's possible.
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ReindeerF posted:There was a time when they wouldn't use Apple products because Al Gore sat on the board and he was working with them to make their weather app show higher temperatures to convince people that global warming is real, so, yeah, it's possible. These people are demented. There are only so many times you can just pick up and leave because you hate a company or its users' politics. Every tech company in America is fairly liberal and when you bounce between Apple, Google, Microsoft and Facebook with who you hate most, you wind up with some weird cargo cult product like Tea Party Community.
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They're completely deluded and live in bubbles where it's possible. I like to read YAHOO comments sometimes because it's a great hoi polloi aggregator site. There are some pretty serious killings up in East Texas - an ADA was killed a month or so ago and last week two prosecutors were killed. The FBI's involved and so on. Now, obviously, this is Northeast Texas (East Texas to Texans), so if you know anything about this part of Texas you're going to suspect some form of militia or hate group, possibly meth dealers or something (or both). Of course the YAHOO comments have been non-stop "It's obviously the cartels!" and "When is OBONGO GOING TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT THESE CARTELS ARE FREEDOMS ARENT SAFE THIS CUNTRY IS DYIN!!!" Today, a story came out that - of course - the investigation is eyeing some particular white supremacy group. What do the comments say? "WHY ARE THEY AFRAID TO TELL US IT'S THE CARTELS!!?!??" I mean we all know these people are like this, but it's just constant. They set themselves up in a house of cards which is constantly blown down by reality just so they can experience the outrage at the world not agreeing with their reality. It's a non-stop torrent of self-inflicted outrage. The government covering up for cartels, Google putting Huge Chavez on its logo, Apple faking weather data, whatever. It's simply amazing to watch - and I can say from personal experience that any number of these people are well-educated, well-traveled people who have a breadth of life experience. Today, though, it's possible to live in a world where your news, your internet, your friends, your local businesses and everything else are all politically aligned. So, you know, they do. Then, on occasion, they step outside that bubble to see what's going on outside so they can get all worked up and tell everyone else, so that those people can get all worked up too. Two minutes hate and that. The bubble phenomenon hardly only applies to the wingnuts. Lefties do it plenty. I think the key difference is the outrage aspect. Lefties seem to prefer to be offended, rather than outraged. Probably has something to do with a personality trait too. Authoritarians being more aggressive and all that. The multicultural diversity on the left also helps weed things out a bit, though it has a different side-effect. Instead of a world that's outraged that everyone doesn't believe exactly the same thing (as long as it's not liberal), they live in a world that's constantly offended that the world doesn't respect any belief that an individual holds (as long as it's not conservative). I don't want to make a false equivalence there, though. There is no uniformity of purpose on the American left, which is pretty obvious. The American left also doesn't spend a huge amount of its time hating minorities, foreigners, science, secular democracy and so on. It tends to have "proactive" (hate that word) excesses, not reactive excesses. Again, surely some characteristic of the kinds of personalities drawn and plenty has been written about the revanchist tendencies of the right. There are, however, Portlands and Berkeleys out there just like there are Orange Countys and Colorado Springses (pluralizing those two is hard for me, heh) and while there's diversity out there in any large population, you know full well when you're in one or the other and exactly what's going on and it can feel just as Orwellian and ridiculous when every experience around you has this oddly scripted feel.
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DynamicSloth posted:Who the hell bothers going to the google front page anymore? I must be getting old. What's the cool way to search on google now?
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Radish posted:I must be getting old. What's the cool way to search on google now? I have a search box in the top right of my browser windows. 
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Radish posted:I must be getting old. What's the cool way to search on google now? Cool kids use the Omnibox.
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Radish posted:I must be getting old. What's the cool way to search on google now? Using Chrome. 
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Strand posted:So what, does this mean conservatives will all move to Bing and turn that into their own bizarro Google, like when they mass-migrated from Facebook? Not sure why they're persisting with this Google Hates Jesus tangent since pretty much the entire American IT industry (Microsoft and Bing included) is overwhelmingly left-leaning (http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/28/in-silicon-valley-technology-talent-gap-threatens-g-o-p-campaigns/) Most conservatives stayed on Facebook, unfortunate as it may be. It turns out conservatives aren't solely the insane ones 
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Radish posted:I must be getting old. What's the cool way to search on google now? I type everything into the url bar. greazeball posted:Obama forced Google to show an image of a socialist organiser instead of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ on Easter. How about us Lefties find a good Latino/Hispanic social worker named Jesus? We can put him up on Google and then what are they gonna do? :P Zuhzuhzombie!! fucked around with this message at 16:06 on Apr 2, 2013 |
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ReindeerF posted:It's a non-stop torrent of self-inflicted outrage. And their instruments of self-inflicted outrage leave absolutely nothing to the imagination:  FYI the above issue was pre-election, pre-Newtown    There's no intellectual heavy-lifting required whatsoever. They only read, watch and listen to poo poo that pushes their buttons in the most comically blunt manner possible. When someone is constantly screaming in your ear at the top of their lungs, you're going to have a hard time not going deaf.
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Those magazine covers are terrible, but still better than I would have expected from a tea party magazine.
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Nat Geo should really just do another "Is evolution wrong? and then have a giant NO. on the second page" issue.
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PhazonLink posted:Nat Geo should really just do another "Is evolution wrong? and then have a giant NO. on the second page" issue. You can't talk about that issue without posting the image:  That is just so amazing. 
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mr. mephistopheles posted:Those magazine covers are terrible, but still better than I would have expected from a tea party magazine. Lucky for your expectations, that's not really what it is. It's the NRA's "pure news" magazine
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Rhesus Pieces posted:And their instruments of self-inflicted outrage leave absolutely nothing to the imagination: My favorite example of this in these images is that the Constitution pretty obviously implies that the right to bear arms is not the 1st freedom just by its placement. In fact, it's probably fifth or sixth depending on how you break up the 1st Amendment. I'm pretty sure high school English classes teach about the significance of juxtaposition in writing. It really is just remarkable how oblivious they are to any complexity.
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I would like to officially submit the major motion picture "Olympus Has Fallen" as a piece of right-wing media (constant use of the American flag as a piece of imagery, the Pledge of Allegiance, multiple references to God); I would like to also officially submit it as a movie where almost EVERY technical detail is wrong or misleading(self-destructing a nuclear missile causes the nuclear reaction, North Korea has a million-man army on the border to South Korea, the Secret Service carries handguns and not uzis, etc). The absolute best (worst) part of the movie was a scene where the villain looks at the President of the United States and says "I've read your Bible" like it's some obscure book, which is a very sneaky way of saying "terrorists aren't Christians!". There is no lead-up discussion about religion prior to this; the villain just happens to throw it out there that he's thumbed through a Bible once or twice and remembered a passage or two. He was presumably raised in South Korea, which has a 30% Christian population. The movie is an utter waste of time and serves as nothing but a nationalist rally. As a veteran I thought the movie was poo poo, but another veteran heard me talking about it in the office this morning and said to me "Didn't the first part [the part where the bad guys are winning and are secret service agents are getting poo poo on] make you really mad?" I guess it reaches its target audience then  .
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So Rush was going off on a Gallup poll about "what's wrong with the GOP" today. Results one and two were something like "too ideologically rigid" and "unwilling to compromise". Something like that. Number three was "caves in too easily/abandons their conservative principles too quickly". I'm paraphrasing and going form memory here. According to Rush, the poll is invalid bullshit because answer number three invalidates the results since the GOP can't be too rigid and too wish washy at the same time. This was mind-bogglingly stupid reasoning to listen to, even for Rush, and completely ignores the fact that the third answer is totally accounting for people like Rush and his listeners who think the GOP is not conservative enough. The two MAIN answers were that Republicans were too ideologically rigid and intolerant but the third most popular one was the hardcore tea party line, but apparently the poll is invalid because it proves that people are sharply divided politically, I guess. MOST Americans think the GOP is uncompromising and a smaller segment of the population finds them to be not conservative enough.
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BiggerBoat posted:So Rush was going off on a Gallup poll about "what's wrong with the GOP" today. Results one and two were something like "too ideologically rigid" and "unwilling to compromise". Something like that. Number three was "caves in too easily/abandons their conservative principles too quickly". I'm paraphrasing and going form memory here. Heard & thought the exact same thing today. In other words, "ditto" to you, Great American. Let's be fair, Rush does tie half his brain behind his back, so maybe his analysis would have been a bit more cogent with his full brainpower at his command.
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BiggerBoat posted:So Rush was going off on a Gallup poll about "what's wrong with the GOP" today. Results one and two were something like "too ideologically rigid" and "unwilling to compromise". Something like that. Number three was "caves in too easily/abandons their conservative principles too quickly". I'm paraphrasing and going form memory here. The numbers are even worse than you'd expect if you look at them closely. The unwilling to compromise and too rigid answers account for 33% while the caves in answers only account for 9%. There's also an explicit too conservative answer that received 3% and a too liberal answer that received 1%. Really though, you also need to account for the people (17%) that answered that there was nothing wrong with the GOP. That closes the gap a bit.
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Eulogistics posted:He was presumably raised in South Korea, which has a 30% Christian population. I thought they were supposed to be North Korean terrorists/special forces/bogeymen.
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PeterWeller posted:I thought they were supposed to be North Korean terrorists/special forces/bogeymen. The reason the villain is so mad at America is because his mom was killed by an American landmine as she tried to sneak across the border, as well as something about how America is directly causing the famine in North Korea. I took that to mean that he made it to South Korea (and was raised there) and him and his buddies were all some kind of sleeper agents for the North. Eulogistics fucked around with this message at 20:34 on Apr 2, 2013 |
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We learn all that in a scene chewing monologue I hope.
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Good Citizen posted:Really though, you also need to account for the people (17%) that answered that there was nothing wrong with the GOP. That closes the gap a bit. 
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PeterWeller posted:We learn all that in a scene chewing monologue I hope. I wonder if the actor went home every day after shooting and just gave himself a long hard look in the mirror.
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Also, Herman Cain today was stressing the importance of voter ID laws because "if our elections become corrupt then our democracy will be corrupt". Not even sure where to start with that since they're is no voter fraud and our democracy is already corrupt. Cain's show is really bad, not in a "it makes me angry" way but just in a boring, tired way. It always cracks me up that the GOP, the party of smaller government, wants more government oversight and control over elections through government issued ID's. Or does the free market provide the ID's?
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Herman Cain's radio personality is just a weak attempt to mimic Glen Beck's which is sad because Beck's show is also really boring. Sure, he says something crazy every once in a while but try listening to any one show straight through. It's schizophrenic trying to be several things at once and only succeeds in being lame.
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The response to the Gallop poll reminds me of something from the Philip K Dick book, "Radio Free Albemuth" A survey is sent out from the gov't where the protagonist figures that there is no way you can answer some of the multiple choice questions without having your answer potentially used against you looking like a communist or anti-American.
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