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Brian R. Boyko is a caring and concerned young man running to represent his district in the Texas legislature.
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May 15, 2014 15:34
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Maybe to fix *everything* we need a constitutional amendment.
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May 15, 2014 15:39
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Salt the earth of Harvard Yard.
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May 15, 2014 16:29
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In all seriousness brianboyko this wasn't the right subforum for this you should post your appeal here if you want some serious feedback and discussion.
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https://soundcloud.com/brian-boyko/chainsaw-hands Sheng-Ji Yang fucked around with this message at 16:42 on May 15, 2014 |
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SedanChair posted:In what capacity are you "working with" Lessig? Webmaster? Have you ever talked to him? brianboyko @brianboyko 14h Well, that was something I never thought I'd see - a SCRUM meeting at a super PAC. --bb #SCRUM #agile #MaydayPAC
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SedanChair posted:That doesn't sound very #agile to me Hm did they use SCRUM to organize the workers?
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brianboyko @brianboyko May 10 I've always wondered why there's no such field as "political engineering." "Science is about what is. Engineering is about what CAN be."
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Obama signs order to shut Guantanamo Bay by hrtattxin reddit.com [–]BrianBoyko [-6] 288 points 5 years ago (328|40) Seriously. At this rate, by Day 800, we'll have flying cars. ok ill stop some advice brian - dont use your real name for internet accounts Sheng-Ji Yang fucked around with this message at 18:12 on May 15, 2014 |
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Mayor Dave posted:So let me get this straight - your Mayday PAC, which started May 1st and decided to raise money from leftists in the month of May, has nothing to do with May Day and is instead all about a ship in distress? If that's the case, wouldn't this fundraising effort have been better suited to April for the Titanic? I wouldn't be surprised if these Harvard guys trying to found a Start Up Revolution are totally ignorant of May Day.
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what are my perks if i donate $100 dollars do i get a figurine of a little plutocrat laughing at me
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May 15, 2014 18:42
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move this thread to lf
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May 15, 2014 18:43
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Jagchosis posted:reopening lf is the $44 million stretch goal time for some credit card fraud
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DAD LOST MY IPOD posted:i find this to be a very worthwhile endeavor, do you take donations in bitcoin??? The weird thing, however, is that this just illustrates yet another of what I like to call the “21st Century Problems.” If cryptocurrency is better than our current system of either trading pieces of easily misplaced or stolen paper, or getting charged a fee on every transaction, why is there no movement in our government to make cryptocurrency standard? It would be to the benefit of the many and the detriment of only a few. Well, we can all guess that those few are payment processors and credit card companies – who are quite active in the lobbying of congressional officials and the funding of elected officials’ campaigns. Once again, we see how we are unable to prepare for a rapidly shifting future because we are still being held back by our 20th century problem. Reforming the way that candidates raise money for campaigns really is – and I love to go back to this – the First Issue. It’s not just blocking the left and the right on issues we know about, it is preventing us from taking advantage of technological advances. It is causing the U.S. to fall behind technologically – our last, great reason we can be considered a superpower. This is why campaign finance reform cannot wait for the next generation. We can’t wait for the future. We’re living in the future. So it’s up to us. - Brian Boyko
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Jazerus posted:This topic's catastrophic cratering is a shame because Lawrence Lessig is legitimately a dude with ideas worth funding and D&D is not a bad place to scout for money/talent/etc. for such a project. nah his work is pretty much the definition of ineffective liberal bullshit.
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May 15, 2014 19:57
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This user is a Left-Wing Capitalist & doesn't see any contradiction in it. This user supports the worldwide Pirate Party movement.
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May 15, 2014 20:02
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJqnQELqtzY
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no joke he's a marketing consultant http://blogphilo.com/ wonder what his salary is for htis
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the aboutus is the best, theyre all terrible tech people and a Bush Republican https://mayone.us/about-us/ on the board: the founder of flash game website Kongregate Sheng-Ji Yang fucked around with this message at 20:48 on May 15, 2014 |
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May 15, 2014 20:40
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brian boyko is reddit in human form
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rscott posted:lmao also he was on the board of Americans Elect. this guy knows how to loving scam /r/politics out of millions
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May 15, 2014 21:26
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guys hes found the solution to EVERY POLITICAL PROBLEM IN THE US. every. one. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GoNlrQo2jY
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these are all just... great.
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Look, I'm just studying cartooning and design now - so I'm hoping that someone can come in and do a more detailed analysis. But I wondered why Equestria Girls provoked such a strong reaction from the fandom - despite the fact that all we've seen are a couple of character designs. Well... the thing about animation is that you can tell a lot about a character from their character design. Especially if the character is human. In just about any beginner textbook on illustration or cartooning, the size of a human being is measured in "heads" - that is, an average character's height is going to be about 6.5 (for women) to 7 times the size of their head. That's for normal proportion. But for the type of proportion you typically find in animation, or comics, the head is about 8 times as tall as the body. This is the superheroic or "ideal" proportion. There are exceptions - "The Thing" is six heads tall, but Stan Lee calls the character "cute and cuddly" without irony - the character design, with the larger head, smaller height, does make the character far less threatening, than, say, the Hulk (a very similar "type" of hero.) But let's take a look at the Equestria Girls. Their proportions are 4.25 heads - if we're being generous! That type of proportion is usually used for children. Teenagers - young teenagers - will usually go down no farther than 5 heads. Let's look at some other cartoon characters and see how they're designed. Daria Morgandorfer is also supposed to be a "teenager." She is just a little shy of five heads - or about .75 heads taller than Rainbow Dash (EG). The problem is that Daria is designed to be a diminutive character - that is, she is the underdog and put-upon protagonist of the absurd environment which she has absolutely no control over. Her lack of height serves a purpose, and you will notice that despite being the "hero," she is often portrayed as smaller than her peers, equating her social status with her height. On the other hand, you have someone like Hank Hill. He's a little over 5.5 heads. Certainly not tall, but not by any means a child-proportioned character. You can easily contrast that because King of the Hill does have a child character, Bobby, who is coming in at just over 4 heads. Hank Hill, of course, is designed as an everyman. His height, however, is 5.5 heads. These are "short" by animation standards. An imposing character like Batman is going to get the full eight heads that superheroes traditionally get, of course. Now, there ARE exceptions to the rule. Wreck it Ralph, for example, provides numerous examples. Wreck it Ralph himself is 4.25 heads. But look at how interestingly he is developed. His wide bulk (He is also 4.25 heads wide!) shows a stocky, powerful character. Nevertheless, he is looked down upon in his society, and ultimately is not important (at least at the start of the story) But look at what happens when you compare him to his cohorts. Fix it Felix is 3 heads tall - very diminutive. But that establishes Ralph as a clear "threat" within his world. It's the same type of proportions you'd find between the old arcade Mario and Donkey Kong. And of course, the little raga-mcguffin of the whole piece, Vanellope, is maybe 2 heads tall! Let's also take a look at Felix in relation to the Nicelanders. It can be argued that the Nicelanders ARE just one head with feet! So you see a pecking order emerge: Felix is the hero to the Nicelanders, and Ralph is a clear threat the underdog hero must overcome. (As a point of fact, tough-as-nails Calhoun is 7 heads tall - that's tall enough to qualify as a "superheroic" woman.) So, let's talk what all this means for Equestria Girls. With diminutive main characters (all six are the same height, head-wise), you end up with characters meant to evoke sympathy, not to inspire leadership. They seem diminutive because they are diminutive, and we equate them with low status. I think that most fans of the show do not equate the MLP characters with low status at all. There's also some other weirdness going on with the body design, for example, the characters all have emphasized legs. I might understand that on ONE of the characters - how else to show that Rainbow Dash is a fast runner, for example? But when it's on all the characters, it loses meaning. Indeed, the characters vary so LITTLE between one another that it's hard to even think of them as characters so much as the same template in six different costumes. I think what we were hoping to see in the character design of Equestria Girls was some aspect of the characters we know and love from MLP. Maybe we want to see a broad-shouldered Applejack. Maybe Rarity is designed with sleeker lines to define grace and elegance. Maybe Twilight's got a big noggin to show she's smart. Maybe Fluttershy's a head smaller than the rest of them, Maybe Pinkie has a "fluffier," rounder look. And maybe RD's more aerodynamic. Instead, the character with the broadest shoulders is Twilight (due to her puffy shoulder pads), AppleJack looks like a hard day's work would break her, quite literally, in half down her spine. Pinkie's hair is okay (a holdover from MLP) but other than that, she's got the aerodynamic, sleek lines of a serious student. That all said and done, if the writing's good, I'll watch it.
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Jagchosis posted:ahhh okay mayonnai.se
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AATREK CURES KIDS posted:Quick, someone register brianboyko.tumblr.com and threaten Obama! unsurprisingly its taken
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBxm-LcQyt0 A video asking John McCain to explain the statements of staffer Michael Goldfarb, denegrating D&D players.
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yeah thats definitely his greatest work
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTYet-qf1jo half a million views whining about windows 8 trying to copy yahtzee
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May 16, 2014 17:57
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hes pretty much a character from the office but real
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Slo-Tek posted:Did we determine if this guy was actually on the clock when he social-media-professionaled us? or does he get (D)CTO credit for putting a website together for free, and is on his own time? im betting his  was from the million dollars they just scammed from reddit
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the actual mayonnaise campaign is p ridiculous itself “Yes, we want to spend big money, to end the influence of big money,” Lessig said in his fundraising video. “Ironic. I get it. But embrace the irony—because with enough of us, we can easily build a super PAC bigger and more effective than the super PACs of the billionaires. So please help us. Pledge.” ... “He wants 50 patriotic billionaires to pony up $20 million to $40 million each (provided their fellow tycoons do the same),” Miller wrote a year ago, championing an earlier version of the money bomb. “Toss in contributions from less well-heeled folks who believe in the cause. Presto: You have a $1 billion to $2 billion war chest devoted to making grassroots public funding of campaigns a viable path to office.” guys we have to stop billionaires influencing politics, hopefully we can get 50 billionaires on our side
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