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These are extreme cases really, and I find the story of the black guy posing as a white supremacist quite funny actually. Yes, the girl commiting suicide is a tragedy but I would assume there were other factors to this, as for the Army...
I waited a very long time before opening a facebook account. I eventually did and got in touch with people I havn't seen or spoken to in 20 years.
There is a dark side to everything, but the sensationalist media would have us believe everything is all dark.

...and then there are stories like this!

That's just brilliant!

Fucking Hilarious!! Thanks

I agree with you.

If a website makes you kill yourself
then maybe you were not wrapped
too tight to begin with, sad but true.

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Tangent Thought:

As for the black guy pretending to be
a white racist - this is a common ploy.

Yesterday on NPR there was an interesting
story telling how the union for prison guards
in California lobbied to get the "3 strikes"
rule which helped contribute to the substantial
increase in the number of inmates and in turn
the average salary of the guards also went up.

FYI - I would not want to be a prison guard.

My point, in case it is not clear, is that people
and organizations always try to stimulate and
sometimes even create their own demand.

Do you think Jesse Jackson really wants there to
be complete peace between races and equality?
No way, he would be unemployed.

Line from "Usual Suspects": If the Devil did not
exist then God would have invented him.

faacebook is black death...

my cousin, a senior in highschool, was suspended from his senior basketball season because of pictures posted on facebook of him and team mates drinking at a new year's party.

My friends and i went to mexico on vacation with several other friends of the female persuasion. nobody told girlfriends. facebook pictures and tagging and networks sortted that our for us.

My facebook account, which i have since deactivated, caused me the loss of my exgirfriend, whom i was trying to win back after the mexico fiasco.

My ex also recently got a job as a head coach on a highschool sports team. She is now going though and editing her security and access on facebook to make sure that any of her athletes who may have connections to her through siblings, family members, friends, etc cannot see pictures of her out drinking, etc.

Bottom line, if you are involved in activities that you'd like kept private, stay off of social networking sites. or better yet, if you don't want people to know about something, see something, or read something, don't say, write, do, or photograph yourself.

the really shitty part, is that people can still access information about you through your friends.

There is far too much information, shared far too easily now. The world is a much smaller place.

Bottom line...if you don't want people to know about
something, see something, or read something,
don't say, write, do, or photograph yourself.

My reply to some of that is carma.

If you in a serious relationship and went off to mexico without her and smoked big fat splifs with half naked chicks, facebook or no facebook, sooner or later it would turn around and bite you back.

If you are in a serious relationship, and go with your girlfriend to Mexico where you sit around half naked smoking big fat splifs, don't take any photos...

I've always questioned WHY certain things get posted on the internet.

would people post the same information/pictures/stories on a bulletin board at school/work/church? I bet not.

the really odd thing, is posting such information on the internet generally makes it available to MORE people than the bulletin board at school/work/church.

internet sites are tools nothing more, nothing less. it is up to the individual to choose how to use the tool. (people can build things with a hammer, or break fingers! it is NOT the hammer's fault, it is only a tool.)

First, it was not my intention to portray myself as an innocent victim of the big bad interwebs. Second, there is a whole host of other complications to the story that don;t serve to further my point.
Lastly, my real point is just be careful what information you share with the world, because you never know when someone may try to use it against you.
Karma indeed.

what is your alterior motive here [TLN]?




btw... it's ulterior
edited to adjust the name, again. -- wwarped

She dosen't need one she is crazy.




edited to adjust the name, again. -- wwarped

crazy enough to have one. id bet money on it.

building opinion or evidence for her "case"

Maybe I'm old school, but you would think that a "journalist" would post something original as opposed to cutting and pasting aggregated internet drivel time after time.

Yea, I know she's done "original" content with the interviews, but you probably don't want my opinion on that...

White House Reviews Names of Recipients of Unsolicited E-Mail on Health Care
After a testy exchange between FOX News and White House spokesman Robert Gibbs over an e-mail list, the White House says it will review names of recipients who received unsolicited information to determine how they ended up on a distribution list sent out by the East Wing.

FOXNews.com

Friday, August 14, 2009

The White House on Friday was looking over a list of names submitted by FOX News of people who say they received unsolicited e-mails on health care from the White House, Barack Obama's presidential campaign or his political organization, Organizing for America.

After a testy exchange Thursday between FOX News' Major Garrett and White House spokesman Robert Gibbs over the e-mail list, the White House said it would review some of the names of recipients to determine how they ended up on the distribution list.

FOX News obtained permission from some of the e-mailers who sent their concerns to FOX News and forwarded them to the White House. No explanation has yet been received.

Click here to read updates and your comments on the White House unit's Row 2, Seat 4 blog

The White House maintains a massive e-mail list as part of its effort to promote its position on pressing issues. On Thursday, senior adviser David Axelrod used the list to send out a "chain" e-mail asking supporters of health care reforms backed by the administration to forward his rebuttal to criticism circulating on the Internet.

The mail offered reasons to support Obama's agenda and tried to debunk what the White House decries as myths in the health care debate.

Axelrod wrote that opponents are relying on tactics including "viral e-mails that fly unchecked and under the radar, spreading all sorts of lies."

"So let's start a chain of e-mail of our own," he said, inviting supporters to forward a message countering claims that Obama's plans would lead to rationing, encourage euthanasia or deplete veterans' health care.

But some people who received the e-mails directly from the White House forwarded them to FOX News and asked how they ended up on the list when they've never been in communication with the Obama administration. Some wondered if visiting the White House Web site automatically places them on an e-mail distribution list.

Gibbs told Garrett on Thursday that he couldn't respond until he saw who received the e-mail because he doesn't have "omnipotent clarity."

Asked whether the White House seeks other pieces of information to identify those who might be curious about health care even though they have never signed up for e-mails or visited the Web site, Gibbs said he would have to see the e-mails to know.

Pressed to explain why he couldn't answer, Gibbs said "Well, I hesitate to give you an answer because you might impugn the motives of the answer."

"Why would you say that?" Garrett asked incredulously.

"Because of the way you phrased your follow up. I'd have to look at what you got, Major. I appreciate the fact that I have omnipotent clarity as to what you've received in your e-mail box today," Gibbs said.

"You don't have to have omnipotent clarity. You don't have to impugn anything," Garrett fired back. "I'm telling you what I got: e-mails from people who said I never asked anything from the White House."

Ending the exchange, Gibbs said, "Let me go someplace else that might be constructive."


Goes to your point,
A bit creepy to think the White House is buying email lists to sent out it's propaganda, huh?

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The Forum Rules:

1. No personal attacks.
2. No jokes about or references to pedophilia. None.
3. No advertising in the forums.
4. Post to the correct forum and stay on topic.

The Forum Rules:

1. No personal attacks.
2. No jokes about or references to pedophilia. None.
3. No advertising in the forums.
4. Post to the correct forum and stay on topic.

The Forum Rules:

1. No personal attacks.
2. No jokes about or references to pedophilia. None.
3. No advertising in the forums.
4. Post to the correct forum and stay on topic.

This thread just makes me miss my internet! I am using the mall where I work's internet and all social networking sites are banned

But, right, really I just don't do things that I would be ashamed of doing, and if I did do them I wouldn't post or let them be posted on the internet....

I think wwarped spelt out what I was trying to say.
I am just not very havng a wayy wiht wrds thats cleverer to say wat i think englihs being my fist langauge and al.

and how is this post "on topic?"


(thankfully I interpret that rule liberally. I still might split this off into it's own thread, if necessary.)

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as for the content...
Congress has received "Franking" privileges for a long time. That means any member of Congress can mail literature to their constituents. It applies whether or not the recipient agrees with their representative or not.

if they can send out unwanted literature, why not the White House?

thus Fox News appears to be trying hard to find fault. something they failed to do during the previous administration.

"Do Not Call Lists" unfortunately
do not apply to political BS

Because as Green points out after your comment,

"Do Not Call Lists" unfortunately
do not apply to political BS"

and apparently using social networking sites and having your email sold on a list adds to the risks of using those sites .


The Forum Rules:

1. No personal attacks.
2. No jokes about or references to pedophilia. None.
3. No advertising in the forums.
4. Post to the correct forum and stay on topic.

I missed the part where it states these rules will be interpreted liberally. The word "No" confused me.

Opps, there I go off topic...

Since there the word "No" does not appear in #4, you should not be confused!

Right, so we can now disregard rules 1-3.

Cool!

Dust off those Michael Jackson pedophile jokes guys.