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Sunday, November 20, 2011
Comic 979: Old Problems
[Comic title: Wisdom of the Ancients; alt text: All long help threads should have a sticky globally-editable post at the top saying 'DEAR PEOPLE FROM THE FUTURE: Here's what we've figured out so far ...']
This is pretty much straight up GOOMH-bait. If you are disputing that you are dumb. The weird poem-thing in the left is sufficiently bad at being a poem that I can't tell if it's actually meant to be one, or is just some unnecessary nonstandard formatting. Who knows? The second panel is vaguely amusing, as far as GOOMH-bait goes. It captures the frustration described reasonably well, and in a way which isn't too boring. But GOOMH-bait is still GOOMH-bait.
92 comments:
- AnonymousNovember 20, 2011 at 9:02 PM
What I don't understand is how his computer is still having the same errors someone had in 2003. you'd think new OS, new error messages, right?
Or is that just how badly he's screwed up?
it makes sense in certain contexts, I think. it could be a program error and not an OS error, for instanceReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 20, 2011 at 9:25 PM
Despite his unbelievable obesity, I agree with Rob on this one, he's pandering to programmers. Often when programming you will run into an error and not know how to get around it and therefore ask the gods of the internet. Sometimes, there is already another person who had that problem, and it is frustrating when there is no post describing a fix, particularly when the post is from a long time ago, which means that you can't get a hold of them to ask them how they fixed it. It is perfect GOOMH-bait, because every programmer/wanna-be programmer has run into this and it is apparently their turn for pandering from RandallReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 20, 2011 at 9:27 PM
Also, holy shit that was a terrible poemReplyDelete
(Anon 9:25)
even I've run into it, and xhtml is pretty much the closest thing I've ever done to programmingReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 20, 2011 at 9:32 PM
As a non-programmer, I liked this one. In my family, I am the designated 'computer' person, and as a result I must google errors and other computer issues all the time. I think the message in this comment can be universally understood, with a spice of humor mixed in. 8/10ReplyDelete
I sort of skimmed the stupid pseudo-poem and at first thought this was referring to a person who posted something once then dropped off the internet. I enjoyed my interpretation a lot. When I re-read it it made slightly more sense. Not a bad comic either way though.ReplyDelete
I like the joke, but trying to figure out whether it's supposed to be a poem or not is way too distracting. If 2003 and see didn't rhyme, there'd be no question. But if he wanted to avoid that rhyme, he could have picked, say, any other year.ReplyDelete
This bafflement is keeping me from enjoying the comic.
"I like the joke, but trying to figure out whether it's supposed to be a poem or not is way too distracting. If 2003 and see didn't rhyme, there'd be no question. But if he wanted to avoid that rhyme, he could have picked, say, any other year"ReplyDelete
for me it's the formatting that makes me think it's poem-like. that, and the first two lines of it sound like he's trying to be poetic. but there is nothing poem-like about the rest of it. the words are quotidian, there is no meter, and I didn't notice the rhyme until you pointed it out (I read the poem on the left as separate from the second panel; now you pointed it out I can't not see it). even the cadence of it is not remotely interesting. but it seems so clear that the formatting is meant to be poem-like. it's just not clear why, because if it is a poem it is the worst poem ever written
oh god is it really meant to be a poemReplyDelete
this is worse than buckley's attempt
i can't tell if it's meant to be a poem or notReplyDelete
i think this makes it even worse
I guess the format does suggest poetry, now that you've pointed that out. For me it's mostly the first two and last two lines that made me think this was a poem, but the weird thing is they suggest poetry in different ways. The first two lines are generically poetic. The last two lines rhyme, and I have a hard time believing that it's accidental. So it starts out as one type of poem and ends as another and in the middle is... I don't even know, the middle lacks rhythm of any sort.ReplyDelete
I can't believe this is seriously bugging me now. What the fuck.
It's like that stupid parenthesis comic he posted to deliberately annoy the audience, except this one actually worked.
right? I can cope with bad poetry, but when I can't tell if it's meant to be poetry it just makes me want to cryReplyDelete
To credit bad poets, they at least make things that are recognizable as poems.ReplyDelete
I have no idea what the fuck this is. What would you even call it?? Did he attempt poetry? Or did it end up looking like a poem in some kind of bizarre accident?
I can't even rightly label it as "rambling" because it looks as though it has some sort of structure.
As I reread it yet again I've found something else irritating: the lack of punctuation between "and there's one result / a thread by someone with the same problem". A colon would have been nice. I'd have even accepted a comma. Or, if this were really a poem, some more space suggesting it were a new stanza. It needs a break, somehow, some indication that one thought has ended and a second has begun.
- AnonymousNovember 21, 2011 at 1:58 AM
only retards get confused by whether or not a piece of text is a poemReplyDelete
so which is it?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 21, 2011 at 2:47 AM
"only retards get confused by whether or not a piece of text is a poem"ReplyDelete
Except that's not the question. Anyone can see that it's not a poem. The question is whether it was INTENDED to be a poem or not- something much harder to fathom.
- AnonymousNovember 21, 2011 at 3:25 AM
Also if it is a poem did he mean it to span both panels? Like Rob I read them seperatly but i think awkisopen may be right.ReplyDelete
- SilverSurferNovember 21, 2011 at 3:44 AM
This was actually a pretty good comic in terms of the joke it was trying to tell. Maybe could have been told better.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 21, 2011 at 4:59 AM
it's a bad reminder of how many times anyone has ever looked up a problem on google, only to find five million results on forums of people asking the same question followed by one of the following:ReplyDelete
1. null response (as above)
2. "oh hey nevermind guys I fixed it" (always years ago so you know you will never hear from this soul again)
3. "this question has already been answered, learn how to use the search function" (searching the forum will result in more threads with this response because people are dicks)
That being said, many people have pointed this shit out. Penny Arcade did especially well in taking this GOOMH and making it uniquely funny: http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2011/05/16. Lord Randall did not, he just made another pictoblog. Stop it Randall. Stop it.
Yes Levi we all saw it and read it. Wasn't as interesting as I recall but whatevs. Thanks anyway!ReplyDelete
- Dicksmash McIroncockNovember 21, 2011 at 6:25 AM
That Penny Arcade was shit, 4:59; his mouth extends past the edge of his head in the last panel.ReplyDelete
New xkcd comic.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 21, 2011 at 8:55 AM
RANDAL WTF?? Did you even bother to actually count the dots you drawn in your last "poster"?ReplyDelete
I have never seen so many errors. Not to mention the glaring typographical misses, bad text alignment och unclear scaling of things.
Is there a new xkcd? It's not showing up for me.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 21, 2011 at 9:27 AM
What's GOOHM-bait?ReplyDelete
- That's what sheNovember 21, 2011 at 9:33 AM
GOOMH is Get Out Of My HeadReplyDelete
Re: xkcd 980
Fuck you, Randall. 'Null said.
Shut up, I like 980. I really do. I just wish my STUPID university internet connection would let me download it!ReplyDelete
In fairness to 980 it's not palpably, provably dishonest like his banana dose chart.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 21, 2011 at 10:40 AM
Why do you like 980? How is it supposed to be remotely interesting? I appreciate Randall's effort, but it's just a hodgepodge of random shit and how much it costs represented in graphical form. ...okay?ReplyDelete
the title is randall's museReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 21, 2011 at 11:19 AM
The interface for 980 is fucking terrible.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 21, 2011 at 11:32 AM
Seriously? The "total combined net worth" for 1210 billionaires is less than a trillion?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 21, 2011 at 11:54 AM
yes, yes, we know, randall is the 1%ReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 21, 2011 at 12:04 PM
Another point is that you can't tell if that's supposed to be a poem which is kind of annoying.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 21, 2011 at 12:21 PM
Also, he has managed to either make twice as many dots for the "rap artists" as the numbers say. Or maybe it's the numbers that are too small.ReplyDelete
Also, both the JKRowling and the JKRowling as rap artist show the same number, but different amount of dots.
- AnonymousNovember 21, 2011 at 12:53 PM
I glanced over that chart and didn't see anything in the way of humour. I don't have enough faith in Randall's grasp of economics to have any interest in that mass of information he has dumped there. Why would you buy the poster? Imagine having that up on the war in a few years time, when all that information is rendered even more inaccurate. Imagine having to explain to guests that this data was compiled by Randall munroe, a webcomic author with an old unused physics degree.ReplyDelete
I can't understand what the fuck is going on in 980 - there is no explanation, no figure caption to say what he's showing, how he's showing it or why we should care. To me, this giant clusterfuck of information is less than useless.ReplyDelete
All I can say about 980 is, good fucking luck reviewing this one rob.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 21, 2011 at 1:33 PM
It's just a pile of random money stats. And there are loads of errors ("Buri" Khalifa, the $1 per person is actually $1000 per person, etc.)ReplyDelete
And you'd think a big sperg like Randy would know that the most valuable thing by weight is not the treskilling yellow, but antimatter. (Cue joke about Megan's milk being worth a billion dollars a droplet)
I wonder what horror is planned for xkcd #1000.
"All I can say about 980 is, good fucking luck reviewing this one rob."ReplyDelete
I can't be bothered to read it with that shitty java interface. if I don't get a guest review or a link to an actual big image file that will be my review
- AnonymousNovember 21, 2011 at 2:55 PM
The whole thing looks pretty boring, and I can't be bothered to spend much time looking at it with that horrible interface, but what I did see rehashes two of Randall's greatest misses (951 & 854).ReplyDelete
According to Randall, a dinner of homemade rice and pinto beans for 4 costs $41.80 (and dinner for 4 at Outback Steakhouse costs $117.96). Marion Delgado, I'd call that palpably, provably dishonest. Randall claims the ingredients in the rice and pinto beans cost $9.26. Utter bullshit, even if he's cooking a-la 854 and throwing out half the ingredients two months down the road (rice and pinto beans NEVER go bad). The bulk of the $41.80 comes from monetized opportunity cost (see 951). Leaving aside all that's wrong with assigning a cash value to time in that fashion, 2 hrs of labor at $32.52 is still bullshit. I can go to the store for ingredients, cook rice and pinto beans (canned), eat and clean the dishes in an hour. The biggest time expenditure is the trip to the store, but nobody except Randall (854) buys their ingredients one meal at a time.
Of course, if I use dry pinto beans instead of canned, it could take 2+ hours. Holy fucking Jesus fucking Christ fuck you Randall, you're fucking dumb as shit. You're counting the goddamn cooking time for the fucking pinto beans as a fucking goddamn opportunity cost. That's wrong on so many levels. Prep time for rice and pinto beans is 5 fucking minutes. The time they take to cook in the crockpot is not a fucking opportunity cost; I can do anything else I want while they cook; they require no fucking supervision.
Also, even if I accept Randall's fucking asinine assumptions about opportunity cost, the math is wrong and overly simplified. 4 people (presumably 2 adults and 2 kids) eating at Outback Steakhouse isn't a $8 opportunity cost for a half hour of driving. Both adults are spending a half hour in the car, not just one actually driving ($16). Both adults are waiting to order, eat and pay. That's another 2 hours in opportunity cost ($32). Then there's the gas to get to Outback (which should also be factored into the rice&beans grocery store run); let's say $5.
Palpably, provably dishonest.
- AnonymousNovember 21, 2011 at 3:05 PM
Once, I was on x reading a creepypasta. It seemed familiar in some way, but I couldn't put my finger on exactly why. A warning was included in the story to never repost it. I decided to repost it on another message board, just to see what would happen. I didn't really believe anything would happen.ReplyDelete
As soon as I reposted the story, the image on my computer screen suddenly changed and I was back at x, reading a creepypasta. It seemed familiar in some way, but I couldn't put my finger on exactly why. A warning was included in the story to never repost it. I decided to repost it on another message board, just to see what would happen. I didn't really believe anything would happen.
As soon as I reposted the story, the image on my computer screen suddenly changed and I was back at x, reading a creepypasta. It seemed familiar in some way, but I couldn't put my finger on exactly why. A warning was included in the story to never repost it. I decided to repost it on another message board, just to see what would happen. I didn't really believe anything would happen.
- AnonymousNovember 21, 2011 at 3:08 PM
Really this whole chart is just a convoluted justification for his dubious logic in 854 and 951.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 21, 2011 at 7:09 PM
I liked 979, but only because I can relate incredibly.ReplyDelete
Guess that's why it's GOOMH bait
I like how the background for the "trillions" square is several pixels upward of where it should be.
I like how, instead of using Google Maps, he wrote his own excessively shitty javascript viewer. (I love excessive javascript!)
I like how right-clicking zooms me out but left-clicking doesn't zoom me in.
I like how horrendously disorganized the entire thing is and how difficult it is to navigate or make any sense of even on a 1920x1080 monitor.
Really guys, what's not to like??
Although, credit where it's due: I didn't see any stupid jokes shoehorned into it like there usually are with any of his giant infographics or whatever the fuck you want to call them, and I appreciate that the store lists this as "a preorder and should ship around the start of December and will include corrections". Thank fucking Christ for that, I thought he was selling this mistake-ridden piece of shit right off the bat.ReplyDelete
That's all the positive stuff I've got to say. Glad I got that over with.
"I liked 979, but only because I can relate incredibly.ReplyDelete
Guess that's why it's GOOMH bait "
yes. some of his GOOMH-bait is more effective than others, and nobody is truly immune to it, except for me, because I have no thoughts, no desires, no experiences, except for hate
- AnonymousNovember 21, 2011 at 8:09 PM
show of hands, how many people even tried to read 980?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 21, 2011 at 8:18 PM
I tried, but the zoom was so terrible I just gave up. Whatever joke(s) he may have in there just aren't worth it.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 21, 2011 at 9:26 PM
No jokes in 980 that I could see. More of that old suggestion of the Picto-blag. Some of it was hard to wrap my head around though.ReplyDelete
I got the impression that the "poem"(?) was just supposed to be a sort of stream of consciousness narrative.
- AnonymousNovember 22, 2011 at 12:02 AM
So yeah there are some jokes in 980 but they aren't worth looking through all the other rubbish. Not funny, not accurate but at least it looks like he spent more than 30 seconds on it.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 22, 2011 at 1:31 AM
Yeah, cool. Just like most jobs, I guess. I know my boss doesn't give a fuck about me doing a good job as long as I spend ages doing it.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 22, 2011 at 2:08 AM
i cant wait for the review for 980.ReplyDelete
omg the picture is huge. xkcd sucks bcause the pictures so huge. i hate big pictures. they take so much time to look at. randy sucks megans nipples. pictures too big. have to read to find the jokes. pictures too big. xkcd must suck because i can't even put the effort in to criticize it anymore, therefore it sucks. big pictures. wah.
^Ttheres your review. a++ eloquent and pleasure to read
I'm sure his new wife appreciates how much time he's been spending with her... I suppose she probably didn't mind since working on the chart kept him away from her nipples. "But Meg- um I mean , Wikipedia says that you don't need a baby to lactate, I just need to suck them often enough and you'll start producing delicious milk!"ReplyDelete
Apparently driving to Arby's costs a penny less than other places ($8.13), however according to the drawing, the travel cost is: McD $13, Arbys $9, Chilis $9, Outback $12
I was curious on his source for rice and beans costing so much to make (even ignoring the idiotic "cooking and shopping waste $30 of time that could be better spent uploading secretly taken pictures of my wife's nipples to the wikipedia article on breastmilk" claim), but his sources page is useless. It links to a CSV file that is nothing but a list of URLs - no mention of what claims each reference is meant to support. I'm not clicking through 250 links to see if there is one that mentions the cost of beans...
That comment was supposed to have "wife's name" in angle brackets after "Meg- ", but it looked like HTML and was eaten...ReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 22, 2011 at 4:35 AM
If anyone would like to read some of it without dealing with Randy's fucking retarded zoom bullshit, here is the whole thing scaled down to a readable level http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6849076/xkcd_money_zoom.png and the full resolution http://jp.t50.us/ss/xkcd_980.png, provided by some people on the forums.ReplyDelete
Apparently the reason the poster is not going to be available until December is so Randall can have the forums proof-read it for free instead of doing it himself or have someone else do it. And he kind of fucked up a lot of it.
- AnonymousNovember 22, 2011 at 7:17 AM
Does 980 have a point?ReplyDelete
At first glance I thought he might have been teaching us about scale, like in 558. Now I'm not sure. It's not really funny (although it includes some minor joke attempts) and not at all enlightening.
This is a serious question, anybody who thinks they understand the purpose of this thing (humor or education) please tell me. And if the whole thing is supposed to be supporting a point, please tell me what it was.
He's made stuff I didn't like before, but this is the first time I don't understand what he thought was good (or worth making) about it.
And randy, every time you make a statement that pulls information from one of your references you put a (Bullshit et al 2010) or something beside it, that is a citation. If you only have a .csv file with 250 links then do not call them citations, that is a .csv file with 250 links to your sources.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 22, 2011 at 8:36 AM
980 will be the best goatkcd.ReplyDelete
"There, I showed you it."
- AnonymousNovember 22, 2011 at 8:41 AM
Not only is 980 not funny, but it fails as an infographic. There is no consistent, logical flow to it that makes the reader's eye 'progress' within a section or from one to the next. I begin to suspect that Mr. Munroe has some inordinate obsession with making readers do all the work for him, like the pseudointellects that produce most of our so-called 'literary fiction' these days.ReplyDelete
- Charles Augustus FortescueNovember 22, 2011 at 8:46 AM
I had always thought that Hogwarts would be fee-free, funded either by the Ministry of Magic or by an endowment from its founders or subsequent benefactors. Even in the Muggle world, there are some state-funded boarding schools in the UK, so I don't support the automatic assumption that it is independent.ReplyDelete
Furthermore, the source given for that figure appears to be the Daily Mail - hardly a robust foundation on which to construct such an assumption.
- AnonymousNovember 22, 2011 at 8:57 AM
Yeah in the sixth book in a flashback Dumbledore says there's a fund for poor students and hands Tom Riddle a sack of gold.ReplyDelete
And yes I am ashamed that that is all I can contribute to this conversation.
Also Firefox you prick how is "Dumbledore" a real word but science words aren't? Fuck you, Firefox.
- AnonymousNovember 22, 2011 at 9:28 AM
Dumbledore said the fund was for school supplies. When I read it, I got the impression there was no tuition fee.ReplyDelete
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- That's what sheNovember 22, 2011 at 11:12 AM
Firefox is clearly a liberal arts major.ReplyDelete
@8:46 it's not like he's has made a comic about the unreliability of certain sources or anythingReplyDelete
(money causes cancer by the way)
- Sir GentlemanNovember 22, 2011 at 11:55 AM
Randall must be the worst budgeter. I imagine his home life as an episode of I Love Lucy with the roles reversed. The episode where he goes out to buy some rice and beans and gets stuck in the supermarket for two hours is a classic.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 22, 2011 at 12:26 PM
I'm just really not sure where to stand RE: pedophilia (the sexuality, not the act). There are two relevant beliefs that I would have a hard time changing, and those are A: one does not choose one's sexuality, and it is difficult if not impossible to change one's sexuality, so therefore having a particular sexuality cannot be in and of itself immoral, B: an adult having sex with a child is wrong, because children are not capable of giving consent. The thing is, I've yet to meet someone who believes both of these things consistently. Most people seem to instantly assume that if someone is attracted to children then they're evil and will have no qualms about committing child molestation. They may be OK using the "sexuality is not a choice" argument w/r/t LGBT people but those are sexualities they don't see anything wrong with anyway. With pedophilia they start acting like it's not a choice at all. Most people I've encountered arguing position A seem to not want to acknowledge position B, and really just seem to be child molestation apologists. Now it may seem like the obvious choice is to just stick to my position even if no one else agrees with me, but it's kind of hard to know what's "reasonable" when neither side is being reasonable to me. Like, is it rude to tell someone to get psychological help if they say they're attracted to children? Having never encountered someone with this attraction who seems honestly committed to not harming children, I have no idea how effective it is, or how rude this would be. Also, with regards to drawn/animated child porn, it seem based on my beliefs above that it's not in and of itself a bad thing, but people seem to either argue that it somehow legitimizes actual childporn or that it's perfectly OK and so is porn involving actual children. Now I know the latter is wrong but I have no perspective on the former, there's really no equivalent position. The argument doesn't apply to regular porn because that doesn't appeal to a harmful sexuality. BDSM falls into this weird scenario where people either assume they're evil or act like they're only attracted to this weird ritualized roleplay and that implying that they'd actually be turned on by real rape/torture/slavery is horrible of me (even the people who think it's evil seem to take if for granted that the people who are into it wouldn't be turned on by the real thing). There just doesn't seem to be anyone who genuinely believes that someone can be turned on by something wrong and at the same time be a good person. I guess the easy thing to do would just be to agree with them, but ignoring position A up there just isn't something I'm entirely comfortable with.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 22, 2011 at 2:07 PM
The equivalent position to legitimising pedophilic urges through cartoons is watching fictional violence when you're a person predisposed to sadism, or (in a more abstract sense) decorating your house with a bottle of gin when you're an alcoholic. You're basically putting yourself at risk of one day making your urges a reality.ReplyDelete
There's no harm in tactfully advising a person get help with something if you truly believe he or she needs it. I suggest you get help with your uncontrolled concern trolling, for instance. It's stupid.
- AnonymousNovember 22, 2011 at 2:11 PM
"The equivalent position to legitimising pedophilic urges through cartoons is watching fictional violence when you're a person predisposed to sadism, or (in a more abstract sense) decorating your house with a bottle of gin when you're an alcoholic. You're basically putting yourself at risk of one day making your urges a reality."ReplyDelete
Alternatively, you could consider it a release. Sort of like robbing banks and shooting hookers in a video game to get over your temptation to do it for real.
Anonymous I agree in the sense that it's error-riddled. I've seen other errors noted above. I didn't want to dig into it, just making a birds-eye observation.ReplyDelete
What I meant about (it at least not being as bad as) the elaborate banana chart is, given the fact that taking in banana radioactive material pushes out an equivalent amount of bananana radioactive material, and the incoming banana stuff is no more likely to be more radioactive than what you already had than it is to be less radioactive, the usual banana dose is ZERO. And no matter how much you multiply that by, you don't get any equivalents to extra sources of radiation or radioactive material. If Randall's chart was right, taking iodine pills wouldn't shield you from any of the effects of radioactive iodine. It's the same principle. You saturate your thyroid and general system the way you're already saturated for the radioactive potassium in bananas. It makes you markedly safer if exposed to radioactive iodine. Well, your body's already set for banana radioactive potassium.
That made the whole chart a condescending, pretentious, Big Lie. And one with tremendous backing, just as the Josef Oehmen nonsense about Fukushima had.
On the other hand, the errors he made in his money chart are going to reflect badly on him immediately, and he doesn't seem to be trying to convince anyone of something.
@Anon 2:07ReplyDelete
So what you're saying is, it should be okay to watch child porn in cartoons as long as you have no pedophiliac urges? After all, non-violent people are allowed to play violent video games.
[Troll post, not meant to be taken seriously]
- AnonymousNovember 22, 2011 at 3:40 PM
Well, if you're not getting off sexually on fictional drawings of nudey children there really is no harm in viewing them. Their use for shock humour and what-have-you really doesn't hurt anyone at all. A drawing of Lisa Simpson sucking off Homer, for instance, is tasteless comedy but is only really harmful when viewed by a pedo.ReplyDelete
@2:11 it doesn't seem to work that way. The research I've seen tends to point towards a trend of escalated behaviour once you start engaging smaller avenues of release. Of course, simple repression doesn't work either. Can't say I know what the solution is, I'm afraid.
- AnonymousNovember 22, 2011 at 4:40 PM
How is it harmful? The reason child porn is illegal is because it takes advantage of and harms a child.ReplyDelete
Cartoons don't have rights.
- AnonymousNovember 22, 2011 at 4:46 PM
Where did you learn to read, 4:40? Honestly. It's harmful for pedophiles to view because evidence suggests that satisfying their urges on a small scale will lead to an escalation of behaviour ie. they will become more comfortable with the idea of finding real children to molest.ReplyDelete
- Innocent Windowless Van OwnerNovember 22, 2011 at 5:30 PM
4:46, you say that it's harmful because it leads to a harmful act. But it is far easier to simply categorise the act as harmful and the viewing of pornography as not harmful, because the former doesn't necessarily follow the latter.ReplyDelete
I don't know what the current procedure is when child pornography is discovered in someone's possession, but I would hope it would not be a criminal procedure (assuming no children have been harmed by this particular paedophile at this point). It seems an excellent opportunity for intervention and help to protect children and the paedophile.
Because the justice system in the end should be about minimising harm. That means treatment for criminals, not revenge.
To go all the way back to 12:26, I agree with point A, I am not sure about point B. I think point B is too narrow, the point should be "an adult having sex with a child is always wrong". And I think the questions that need to be answered to be sure about B are the following.ReplyDelete
What harms a child about molestation?
Is there any kind of sexual act performed with children that doesn't harm them?
Is it possible to know in the moment whether any sexual act will harm a children?
Is it merely the lack of interest in sex, and that for sex to take place it MUST be forced on them that is the harmful act?
Is the pain of a parent, knowing their child has engaged in sex with an adult, a cultural or biological phenomenon?
There are probably more questions that should be answered. I read Lolita last week, good book, Humbert Humbert is a sympathetic character.
- AnonymousNovember 22, 2011 at 5:54 PM
No he wasn't, you're a fucking idiot with zero reading comprehension skills and quite possibly severely autistic.ReplyDelete
"I apologize for asking this, but I honestly can't find an explanation on the site. What does GOOMH stand for?"ReplyDelete
Get Out Of My Head. Formerly, if not currently, a common utterance on the xkcd forums. Fans of XKCD often feel (jokingly) that Randall has been spying on their thoughts or conversations, because he frequently makes comics about things that they were just thinking about or talking about.
GOOMH-bait, then, are comics which are designed to elicit this response. The emphasis is not on the humor, but on the fact that people will probably have had this experience and will sympathize. This is part of why XKCD is so deeply engrained in nerd culture: it often avoids making jokes and instead makes pandering references, hoping that people will like it because it seems to be made by someone who is Just Like You.
- AnonymousNovember 22, 2011 at 11:30 PM
Or somebody who is exactly the way you like to pretend you are.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 23, 2011 at 12:52 AM
I don't know what the current procedure is when child pornography is discovered in someone's possession, but I would hope it would not be a criminal procedure (assuming no children have been harmed by this particular paedophile at this point). It seems an excellent opportunity for intervention and help to protect children and the paedophile."
The standard procedure is jail time, and not a trivial amount. The demand for child pornography is at least part of the reason that it is produced (the other part being that the producer of it finds it fun maybe? I don't know what the balance between these two is) so the idea is that by being part of the demand they are essentially inflicting harm on the child
Oh, the wonderful arguments by Rob! are back again:ReplyDelete
"Things are as I say they are, and if you disagree, you are dumb".
Not an ounce of sense, but what a solid-rock argument, because... yep, because otherwise you're dumb.
The comic was kinda funny, which doesn't happen too often lately.
some things are self-evidentReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 26, 2011 at 4:14 PM
what's wrong with GOOMH? why do people here seem so against it?ReplyDelete
979 would obviously not be worth posting if nobody else experienced the problem he's talking about.
i just don't get the cynicism in this case.
GOOMH-bait is suspect because it replaces actual humor with the hope that people will identify with the problem. it's not a joke; it's just saying 'man has anyone else ever run into this' and then people say 'YOU ARE SO BRILLIANT I HAVE DONE THIS ALSO'ReplyDelete
it's suspect because at best it's cheap, and at worst it's outright dishonest
Tell 'em, Rob.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 28, 2011 at 11:43 AM
But what if people find humour in what you call the 'GOOMH-bait'? Surely humour is subjective and if a person does find it funny then it is a joke?ReplyDelete
Also, I have no idea how it could ever be described as dishonest. Saying that to me is just melodramatic.
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May 22
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10:30 AM Crude Inventories 05/18 May 22
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JetBrains has announced dotMemory 4.0, its brand new .NET memory profiler.
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The product now offers 10 different criteria to apply to memory usage data; this means that developers can potentially view data from "thousands of different angles" and, if they so choose, then drill-down, dice, slice, or pivot upon that data as needed.
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"Memory profiling is all about code hygiene and maintaining your app's health, proofing against any possible problems ahead of time. We created dotMemory to make this good habit more widespread and accessible to every developer," said Ed Pavlov, dotMemory team lead.
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2012 was a stormy year in many ways. Politics, fiscal policy and then the real deal that hit the New York/New Jersey area, causing hundreds of billions of dollars of damage and perhaps affecting the election. Here is our tongue-in-cheek look at a difficult year.
Presidential election: Not necessarily the outcome depending on your leanings, but its end. See bottoms for our political system.
Year of the Apple — iWhatever: Just a few months after Steve Jobs, the iconic co-founder and leader of Apple died, the firm surpassed the $500 billion valuation level. Apple seems to operate on another plane outside the current fiscally challenged perma-recession environment. New products receive rock star status, with people waiting in line to grab the newest gadget.
Stocks outperform: Despite an economy that continued to sputter and a stubbornly high unemployment rate, stocks continued their four-year rally from the great recession low. The major indexes shook off another May swoon as the Dow finished more than 7% higher on the year, the S&P 500 gained 13% and the Nasdaq posted a better than 15% year.
USA, USA, USA: The Energy Information Administration sharply revised upward its estimates for U.S. crude oil production this fall and the International Energy Agency says the United States could become the world's largest oil producer by 2017 and could stop importing oil altogether by 2035.


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Jeffrey Marzo, chief financial officer of Hong Kong Exchange and Clearing Ltd. (HKEx) announced that he will retire, effective Jan. 13, 2013. Current deputy chief financial officer Kwong Yau Shing will take over Marzo's duties on an interim basis.
Fortress Investment Group Principal and Director Robert Kauffman will leave the company after 15 years with the firm. Kauffman co-founded Fortress in 1998, and has overseen the firm's European private equity investment operations and its long-only fixed-income business during his tenure.
ICAP Securities and Derivatives named Richard Dellabarca, former chief financial officer of Chi-X Global, non-executive director of the board.
Newedge announced several senior appointments in its metals business in London, Hong Kong and New York. Peter Barrowcliff, previously the brokerage's global chief operation officer for metals, will now be global head of metals. Brian Flaherty was hired as U.S. head of metals, based in New York, and Wendy Law and Alan Burr, who both joined the firm from Natixis, have been promoted to co-heads of Asia-Pacific Metals.
Interactive Data Corp. made several appointments to a new regional product management team designed to help the global expansion of its FutureSource market data and analytics platform. James T. Moock, Jr. joined the company as commodities and energy product manager for the Americas, and Daren Robson will hold the same position in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
Dean Backer is now president of Hedge Funds Care, an international non-profit organization which works to prevent and treat child abuse. For the past 10 years, Backer has been a partner at Goldman Sachs, where he is also the global head of sales and capital introduction in the global securities services business.
CBOE Holdings announced changes in its leadership team that will become affective after its annual meeting in May. Longtime Chairman and CEO William Brodsky will step down as CEO and serve as executive chairman for at least one year. President and COO Ed Tilly will take over as CEO and Chief Business Development Officer Edward Provost will succeed Tilly as CBOE President and COO.
Börje Ekholm was named chairman of the NASDAQ OMX Group Inc.'s Board of Directors. Ekholm, who has served as the exchange company's interim chairman since May 25, has been CEO and president of Investor AB since 2005.
Emmanual Roman was appointed CEO of Man Group. Roman previously served as president and chief operating officer of the investment management business. He replaces Peter Clarke, who will leave his post on Feb. 28, 2013.
Peter Lacalamita joined Thalēs Trading Solutions as managing director of sales and relationship management. Lacalamita comes to the Independent Introducing Broker from JPMorgan, where he most recently was managing director of prime broker sales.
Alan Grigoletto was promoted to vice president for Options Industry Council (OIC) Education for the Options Clearing Corporation (OCC). In his new role, he will expand OIC's educational programs to credit unions and CPAs and help to develop European education programs. The OCC also promoted Cindy James to vice president of human resources.
Natasha Stromberg is now manager, regulation of the Futures and Options Association (FOA). She joins the FOA from the Financial Services Authority, where she was a senior associate in FSA's derivatives market infrastructure and policy unit, and lead supervisor of the London Metal Exchange.
April Rudin will serve as chairperson on the Hedge Fund Association's (HFA) newly created High Net Worth Advisory Board, which is charged with developing educational and networking programs for high net worth investors. Ryan Mitchell was also promoted to regional director of HFA's West Coast chapter.
Ed Boyle joined the BOX Options Exchange as senior vice president of business development and strategy. Boyle has more than 20 years of industry experience at companies including TD Securities, LETCO Trading, Getco and NYSE Euronext, where he was an executive vice president.
Christopher Behney is now managing director and head of enterprise production assurance at the Depository and Clearing Corp. (DTCC). Behney, who previously was managing director and region head of UBS's group technology infrastructure organization, will also head up the DTCC's Dallas office.


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Fred Phelps, Sr.'s Estranged Son Releases Powerful Statement Following Death
Fred Phelps, Sr.'s son, Nate Phelps, initially announced to the world this past weekend that his estranged father was near death. Now following the death of his father, Nate, who is also estranged from the Westboro Baptist Church and now serves on the board of Recovering From Religion, has released a statement.
See what Nate Phelps has to say:
Fred Phelps is now the past. The present and the future are for the living. Unfortunately, Fred's ideas have not died with him, but live on, not just among the members of Westboro Baptist Church, but among the many communities and small minds that refuse to recognize the equality and humanity of our brothers and sisters on this small planet we share. I will mourn his passing, not for the man he was, but for the man he could have been. I deeply mourn the grief and pain felt by my family members denied their right to visit him in his final days. They deserved the right to finally have closure to decades of rejection, and that was stolen from them.
Even more, I mourn the ongoing injustices against the LGBT community, the unfortunate target of his 23 year campaign of hate. His life impacted many outside the walls of the WBC compound, uniting us across all spectrums of orientation and belief as we realized our strength lies in our commonalities, and not our differences. How many times have communities risen up together in a united wall against the harassment of my family? Differences have been set aside for that cause, tremendous and loving joint efforts mobilized within hours… and because of that, I ask this of everyone — let his death mean something. Let every mention of his name and of his church be a constant reminder of the tremendous good we are all capable of doing in our communities.
The lessons of my father were not unique to him, nor will this be the last we hear of his words, which are echoed from pulpits as close as other churches in Topeka, Kansas, where WBC headquarters remain, and as far away as Uganda. Let's end the support of hateful and divisive teachings describing the LGBT community as "less than", "sinful", or "abnormal." Embrace the LGBT community as our equals, our true brothers and sisters, by promoting equal rights for everyone, without exception. My father was a man of action, and I implore us all to embrace that small portion of his faulty legacy by doing the same.
What do you think of Nate Phelps' message, Instincters?
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I do not speak religion but faith to you. I has been really hard reading all the judgment, pain and anger in these comments. Understanding the Mercy of our God and Creator I ask you to forgive us the additional pain we are causing you and your family. We are the family of God even when we cause each other pain. We are all imperfect and God has promised to transform us into His image and likeness. When that day comes and the Lord calls us home there will be judgment and then transformation for those who wait on the mercy seat that is the Cross. It is all Jesus and even when we do not do that which the Lord has called us to do, or when we do that which we have been told not to do. There is mercy in and through Jesus. This is the Good News of the Gospel. Salvation does not depend on me or you but on Jesus and He is able to Keep that Which we have committed unto Him. I trust in Jesus that this also means your father. There will be a time of reconciliation and joy.
Nate, I am extremely moved by your statement. Since your father's passing, I have had a mixture of many feelings and thoughts...from visions of his own funeral being picketed to a much softer view of him as a misguided human being. In my own spiritual community, we pray for those who are misguided, even those who rain hatred and loathing upon us or others. I am proud of the path you have taken. Estranged or not, your parents raised a wonderful and loving son. May you and your family find comfort and solace in the time to come.
As a homosexual male I could care less about being accepted into "the church." I'm not trying to join and I don't even believe in god for that matter. So why should the church have a say who I love? Equality for all is a legal issue not church. I don't understand why the church cares so much about what I want legally. I want access to my constitutional rights not what you believe.
Interesting... I had not thought about all the good that came from this man's hatred. Nate is right... it did bring many of us together, and it did bring this conversation to the front pages. When they say God works in mysterious ways, I had no idea that it could actually be through Phelps. Phelps said it was, but he was incorrect in the manner.
Can I just say that God loves you no matter what bad decisions you make. I believe being gay is due to a deep rooted confusion about gender roles. And I do think it is wrong. But other Christians and I sin every day. Who are these people to say that one sin is greater than another. If God loves us He surely loves gay people too, because no one is perfect. A person who holds up a sign saying "God Hates Gays" is committing the worst sin of all-blasphemy.
Seriously, the bible is full of enough verses to make a point one way or another on just about everything. I can use the bible to justify slavery if want to, so your attempt to denigrate gays is pathetic at best.
Your religious viewpoint and what constitutes sin is your point of view. It's not a fact that what you've described as sin is sin, and even if it were, it doesn't mean that being gay should be a crime.
What we demand is to have our constitutional rights respected irrespective of your religious opinions.
1. If you're sinning then you don't have the right to call yourself a Christian. Being a Christian means to be Christ-Like and Christ didn't sin.
2. God doesn't hate anyone, he hates sin. This includes adultery, fornication, lying, cheating, stealing, homosexuality, etc...
3. To those who say being gay is genetic (gay genes have yet to be found) but for the sake of argument we'll say that is is. So what? It doesn't make it any less sinful. We are born predisposed to lie, but that doesn't make lying any less sinful.
4. A man having feelings for another man is not sin, a man having sex with another man is sin. (To all those who say they can't help who they have feeling for), that very well may be the case but unless your a dog in the street you can control your actions. That being said, even dogs know that males mate with other females not males :/
5. Unnatural: contrary to the ordinary course of nature; abnormal. Homosexuality is unnatural. The ordinary course of nature as seen in all the animal kingdom is male and female, sperm and egg. Theres a species of frog where a smaller male with trick a larger male into mating with him... Homosexuality right??!!! Wrong! The smaller male now has the opportunity to mate with the females!
6. Fred Phelps was sadly mistaken and unless he asked God for forgiveness in the final moments of his life the haven is not where is. God is love and he doesn't spread hatred.
7. Am I spreading hatred?... No. I'm spreading truth. Know the truth, and the truth will set you free.
8. Go and sin no more. John 8:11.
This, then, is how you ought to regard us: as servants of Christ and as those entrusted with the mysteries God has revealed. 2 Now it is required that those who have been given a trust must prove faithful. 3 I care very little if I am judged by you or by any human court; indeed, I do not even judge myself. 4 My conscience is clear, but that does not make me innocent. It is the Lord who judges me. 5 Therefore judge nothing before the appointed time; wait until the Lord comes. He will bring to light what is hidden in darkness and will expose the motives of the heart. At that time each will receive their praise from God. 1 Corinthian 4
You have stated the "Holiness Dogma" quite clearly. I prefer to walk with Jesus and not the Dogmas and Doctrines of Man. I say this because I recognize that I have sinned, I do sin and I will sin. This is true of all human beings and is in its self a doctrine as set by the Book of Romans. But Here is the difference Since I know of "My Sin" I also know and accept that Jesus paid the ultimate price in pain, suffering and death to redeem me from "ALL SIN" (Past, Present and Future) I strive by the grace of God not to Sin, not because of the "Holiness Dogma or Doctrine" but because I Love Jesus. I cannot but shudder at the thought of causing Him Pain and yes I know I already did. But in my love of Him and walking with Him I can escape many temptations and walk in confidence of His Grace. I believe that love is the true power to walking in "Holiness" this is hard because in Holiness and expectations of Holiness we tend to judge our brothers, sisters, mothers and fathers. Brother in Jesus our redemption is not of our own effort or absence of any sin. Our Redemption is Jesus. It is not for any of us to judge Fred or any individual. Jesus will judge on that day and it will be true. I walk with Jesus as a person of sin who has been redeemed and that gift is given freely to all who call on Jesus. Walking with Jesus in not religion which is all credos or systems of worship created by man. Walking with Jesus is a matter of walking in faith and what others think mean nothing. Pleasing my God, Saviour, Lord and Friend is all that matters. I do expect to meet Fred in Heaven and He will be a transformed person just like me and all who have accepted the Gift of the Cross (Past, Present and Future). Judgment is very dangerous as when we condemn others we are condemning ourselves.
Thank you for posting your opinion on this matter. If you would get out from under that book you wouldn't be narrow minded. We already know that God doesn't spread hate, it's people like you and a large percentage of Born again Christians spreading all the hate. That book you referenced? It has caused more hate and pain and intolerance than anything else. It's a book that too many people are too scared to step out from under and experience the world and think for themselves. Stay in your paper prison and enjoy it.
"We're all mad here."
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
Alice, while it is good to see a Christian not hammering on gay people, even in your statement of 'love' you hold judgement.... believe me, there is NO confusion in being gay, only simple genetic reality. We are not sinners for being gay any more than you are for being straight. We are all humans who love, and who do not expect 'acceptance' but deserve total equality. Simple reality.
All of you people wanting to protest a funeral that will not take place are no better than the Westboro bunch. Fred my no longer be on this earth but his legacy is alive and well in Topeka.
Don't lower yourself to their standards. The best thing would be to just let this all go, don't speak his name or the name of the bunch in Topeka they thrive on the publicity. Don't feed the animals in the cage.
On a side note, if you really want to do something and live in Kansas a number of the Westboro folks are employed by the State of Kansas with several being in the Dept. of Justice working with youth as probation/diversion officers. OUR tax dollars are helping to fund the efforts of this group through the paychecks they receive.
We need to get them all fired from their jobs. I detest knowing that I am aiding and abetting the efforts of these people.
If you want to protest... there ya go protest them being employed by the state.
Nate, thank you for stating what many of us are thinking. I can't imagine the pain of not being able to see your father in his final days regardless of who or what he was to the community, he was your father.
I am a firm believer in Karma and know in my heart that those who denied you access and continue to spew the hatred will get their just rewards in one way or another.
As a country we need to revisit were we are in regards to compassion, empathy and love for our fellow human beings. There is way to much discord in the world and the civility of our nation is dwindling each day.
I wish for you only the best.
Humanity wins here. May Fred Phelp's God have mercy on his soul and may his children and followers find peace with themselves and the world around them. I sincerely hope they will all discover the error of their ways. And if they cannot find that peace, may the world around them demonstrate that peace the rest of their days. Hatred and bigotry cannot be fought with more hatred and bigotry.
Despite the fact that this man was brought up with such hate he managed to overcome. Please do not hate nor pass judgment for his relationship with his father. He wasn't asked to be born into that family and it is evident he did not walk away with their beliefs. Together we will all overcome and embrace our commonality.
Wow younger Phelps that was truly a moving commentary and you hit a nail upon its head you said for over twenty years as we all know how long he spat out his vitriol his hate and animosity and it is after all this time you wish the LGBT community to do what exactly? Forgive the man? and forgive your brethren for the future vitriol that they will undoubtedly espouse? that's a mighty tall order sir are you going to try to convince your siblings not to continue the family business do you hold that kind of sway your family has built a legacy one of hate pure unadulterated prejudice and we are suppose to just allow this to continue I say no sir we will not we can not we shall not allow it to continue!
clearly, you do not understand what "forgiveness" is. refusing to forgive, as the sage said, is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.
do you know what happens to a person who refuses to forgive the adult that molested them when they were a child? they spend a lifetime living with that person. they trap themselves in a groundhog day where the relive the event over and over and over again. do you know what happens to the adult that committed the crime? they move on with their life and forget that person even existed. so who is being punished by refusal to forgive?
forgiveness has nothing to do with the offender and everything to do with the victim. it's not saying "it's okay" because it's NOT okay and it will never be okay - it's saying "this is the line beyond which i will not carry this burden any further".
but hey, if you want to keep fred phelps senior and the WBC alive and well in your life, that's the great thing about having a choice.
I think it's too little, too late.
Estranged or not, the son could have countered the father in print long before he died.
Had this been my father, saying and doing and standing for the awful things Mr Phelps stood for, I would not have waited until he died to let the world know that not all of his family thought that way.


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Oil prices bucked the trend of weakness in the commodity markets because of a series of rising risks. We have seen more problems with refineries and fear that the civil war in Syria might spread to Turkey. Oil also got a boost when it was reported that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called for early elections. While the main reason given by the Prime Minister for disbanding his right-wing government was because of a budget disagreement within his own party, the oil trade saw it more as Netanyahu solidifying his power and making this a possible referendum on war. With reports that Iran is only months away from having a nuclear weapon, Netanyahu wants to win an election handily to give him a mandate to do what he has to do to stop the Iranian threat.
According to Anshel Pfeffer writer of "The Axis" the specific timing of the next Israeli elections may have been determined by the circumstances of the 2013 state budget, but the main agenda of the election campaign will almost certainly be Iran. He says that the parties vying for our votes will be divided into two groups. The first will have an interest in the Iran emphasis and includes of course Likud and Netanyahu's two rivals who are also former IDF chiefs of staff, Kadima lead by Shaul Mofaz and Ehud Barak's Atzmaut. Each leader will try and convince voters that they are the safest pair of hands to defuse the Iranian bomb. Netanyahu will claim to have proven himself by putting the ticking nuclear clock firmly on the world's agenda, where it supplanted the Palestinian issue which no-one hears about nowadays. Barak will slyly imply that only his presence in the cabin, sitting next to the driver, kept Israel out of mortal trouble for the last four years and if we don't have him back in the Defense Ministry on the other end of the elections, we will regret it. And Mofaz, as he has done practically every day for the last three years, (aside from the seventy days he spent in coalition) will warn of the impending disaster caused by the Bibi-Barak duo's strategic mishandling.
And then there's the second group of parties, those not headed by a prime minister or an ex-general, whose line to voters will be: Iran is dangerous, but the real danger to Israel is the economic disparity/education crisis/non-participation of Haredim in workforce and army service/lack of Jewish values/treacherousness of Israeli Arabs/no progress in the peace process/not enough building in the settlements. Each party already has its single-issue platform set out. All they have to do now is convince the public that there are other things to worry about besides Iran. Their success, or lack of it, will decide the size of Likud and the relative degree of power Netanyahu (should he win) will wield within his next coalition.
There are also problems in Syria adding to the Mideast tensions. Reuter's is reporting that Turkey's military will respond with greater force if shelling from Syria continues to hit its territory, its chief of staff said on Wednesday, as clashes between the Syrian army and rebels intensified along the border. Several mortar bombs landed outside the Syrian border town of Azmarin early on Wednesday and heavy machine gun fire could be heard from the Turkish side. Plumes of smoke rose into the sky and cries of "God is greatest" rang out between the bursts of gunfire, a Reuters witness said.
The oil market is taking this situation more seriously as it may disrupt supply from the world biggest up and coming producer, Iraq. The International Energy Agency says that Iraqi oil production could hit 6.1 million barrels a day by 2020 and 8.3 million barrels a day by 2035 from just over 3 million barrels a day now. That will make Iraq "by far the largest contributor to global supply growth" over the next 20 years, taking the place of Russia as the world's second-largest oil exporter.
European problems and China slowdown talk has been put to the back burner, at least temporarily. Still if we get a sense that Europe can't make progress then that is the biggest threat to the rally.


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a few people have suggested I put up a FAQ (whatever that is) about what this blog is for and what I expect in terms of behavior from commenters.
Well honestly 99.9% of the comments are fine with me and that's how many I post. I don't care, obviously, if people want to dissent and argue - to a point - as is evident from all the arguments in the comments.
However now and then I won't post a comment if it's really extreme or slanderous, so I thought I'd explain once for posterity just what kind of comments I'm not interesting in sharing with decent and mannered folk.
1) Extreme cursing:
I would ask you not to use the F word or even other foul language. It's rarely needed and you can get your points across without it. I've slipped a couple times myself and will avoid it from now on. I don't want the kids who are learning to draw from the Preston Blair books to be banned by their God-Fearing Parents. Really, any unnecessary cursing I would avoid. You may have already lost an otherwise good comment just because of an unfortunate word.
2) Long-winded comments:
Some folks like to post 1,000 word diatribes - sometimes without even a paragraph break. It's easy to make paragraphs, but if your post goes on for an interminable amount of scrolling, it's not fair to other posters or readers of comments.Usually it turns them away from the whole list of other people's comments and kills the thread. So...my suggestion is - if you really want to write a long long post (or 4 in a row) why not write a really good teaser paragraph to draw interest to your subject, and then post a link to your own blog for the rest of your story. Then you will also get the benefit of all the other folks who want to really get into your detailed subject with you.
3) Argument for argument sake:
There are a couple of commenters who just instantly take the opposite position of anybody else's statement and then go on to argue about it for no other reason. If I say black, Debate genius says white. If I say white, then it's black. Then they argue about who knows the correct way to argue and who is an expert at reasoning until the original point of what was being argued is lost. This is of course an internet staple. Almost every thread on every site has long long circles of people yelling at each other about who is the best debater. I usually let these comments go by and just roll my eyes, but if the pest is persistent, then I get tired of it and just reject the string of redundant circular arguments. No one wants to read that stuff except the pest who posts it.
I remember pointing out that someone who doesn't draw but says he thinks visually can never prove it - without getting an artist to dig it out of his head, but that wasn't good enough, so he kept coming back with no way to prove his point except to say trust him, he sees pictures in his head.
4) Psychotic Rage:
There are obviously a handful of pure mental cases who use this and other blogs just to vent their rage against any and all comers. One has even admitted being in and out of mental hospitals and then goes on to blame the people who disagree with his screaming for picking on him just when they let him out. Yeesh. What am I supposed to do with that kind of stuff?
5) Those who can't do telling those who can that they are bums:
There is a small handful of wanna be artists who can barely scrawl a stick figure who get on and yell at top professionals present and past and pronounce with complete certainty who is good at what and who isn't - as if it's a fact. I say, if you are gonna criticize someone with actual skill and talent, you better be able to back it up with your own drawings and considerable experience in performing the same or similar tasks, so you know what you are talking about. Post a link to your own drawings and I'll make a post featuring your work and your criticism of someone who has achieved something amazing.
I'm all for arguments between skilled pros. For example, Pete Emslie and I might argue about the contrasting merits between Disney and Warner Bros. cartoons. We back up our arguments not only with our reasons, but a lot of experience doing our own work and teaching others.
It's OK to like one style over another, no matter whether you are a pro or haven't a talented bone in your body - and to freely say so. That's not the same thing as yelling with fury at respected artists with absolute certainty that masters are overrated or bums. I've seen this kind of outrageous stuff said about such giants as Rod Scribner, Grim Natwick, Ollie Johnston and many more people and I have no tolerance for that - and neither should anybody else.
6) People Who Try To Start Fights Just For Laughs
There are a couple psychos who are huge fans and collect all kinds of Spumco art who have nothing better to do than to try to revive long dead feuds between people who made some of their favorite cartoons. I have zero tolerance for that. To these people I say, take your pills, see your Dr. and go back to your hospital for treatment.
This kind of thing does nothing positive. Most of the artists they admire (and hate at the same time) are doing their best to try to make more cartoons in the style that these obsessed fans love. Trying to do good in a business that does nothing but offer obstacles in the way of making cartoons like Ren and Stimpy, Cow and Chicken, Dexter, etc.
7) Harassers and Stalkers
One has been caught by the cops so far. 2 more are being closed in on.
What this blog is for:
I've stated this a few times, but now I think I will remind people.
It's not to convince the world that there is only one kind of cartoon - my kind. I have no problem with there being room for unfunny flat cartoons, sentimental CG cartoons, retreads of Disney formula features, non-cartoony prime time cartoons and whatever other genres exist in animation.
For people who like any of those genres, there are tons of blogs and sites where you can go and talk or argue about who's the best arguer.
All I want to see happen is to have our business make at least a small place where cartoony cartoons can exist and flourish. There is no place at all right now, yet pure cartoons are what founded the whole business in the first place and made it the newest and most popular art of the 20th century.
We have been completely kicked out of the world our ancestors created. Is that fair? Is it too much to ask to have at least 10% of our business back?
Everything I have ever done in cartoons has been with that goal in mind - to make a place where cartoonists can be cartoonists and invent entertainment that can only happen in the magical creative world of cartooning.
I created characters in the 80s that completely went against everything everyone else was doing and 9 years later beat the unbeatable odds and finally sold Ren and Stimpy - then had to create a system from scratch that would allow cartoonists to do something they had never been allowed to do before and to constantly be encouraged to improve at it. I graciously invited lots of other cartoonists to jump in and take advantage of the whole setup I had put together and for awhile it changed the business and proved that regular people in the audience liked cartoony cartoons again. This led to a big boom in the TV business and for a few years cartoonists had it better than they had had it in 30 or 40 years.
But in the last few years that momentum has declined and cartoony cartoons - well drawn and acted ones have again all but vanished.
So in the meantime I have created this blog with the purpose of slowly building up an encyclopedia of cartoony techniques, clips of great cartoons, samples of great comic artists and illustrators. All for free with the hope that a few other like minded cartoonists and fans who miss the old qualities could learn about them on their own with the aid of my trial and error experiences and the introduction to tons of great cartoonists they might never have heard of.
Am I biased? Sure, but not as biased as most sites. I promote a ton of different cartoon styles:
My theory is, this could give the industry a chance again in the future because there might be enough really good funny cartoonists who can bring back what the readers of this blog enjoy about classic cartoons.
Would I rather be making lots of cartoons and keeping my mouth shut and not stirring up controversy? Sure. But since no one has encouraged it who is in a position to, in the meantime I'll give away information about how you can do it if you ever get a chance.
Maybe I'll even be able to take advantage of it before I kick off.
I started the private cartoon college blog for the first few artists that have really shown interest, talent, hard work and dedication. Those artists are improving with leaps and bounds and I'm sure they'll be happy to tell you so.
So with all this boring verbal crap, I'm letting everyone know that I welcome comments and even dissent and argument; I don't believe in "censorship" - but rudeness, psychosis, 3rd hand gossip and attacks intended to tear down honest attempts at bringing back cartoons are not going to be welcomed. Obviously.
If you love old cartoons and cartoony stuff, I would expect you to support this and all the other blogs and cartoonists who actually put their money where their mouths are.
Most of you do and I thank you for it.
This is about cartoons and that's what we share an interest in. So let's stick to it. If not, maybe I'll make the whole blog by invite only.


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The Zotac is connected by HDMI with a nvidia card.First time installation as MD.Everythings works fine until the message:NVIDIA Installation. Please wait a while.After this disappears, there is a console prompt on TTY1.Which reloads every now an then, but not a progress at all.Does anyone has a clue?M.
If Remote Assistance is turned on and you can leave that MM powered up I will see if someone can take a look at whats's happening.
Dear Andrew,did someone find time to look at the md?Now i connected a Sony 1080p TV, thought, maybe its an issue with the old tv, but now if i choose 1080p in av wizard, the screen is very big, after chaning the resolution the av wizard is only showing the upper left quarter.and i i press enter, it will immidiately loads the linuxmce launch manager.......all very strangeMurcel
Which MD is the Zotac?Andrew
Device #108
your NC & MM are using different DNS's by the way
Andrew,i deleted the MD completely. Now its device 125.After recreating it, i can switch to 1080p in av wizard (btw, now the naming of the connectors is different anyway).I choose the second - longer - soundcard and get both dd sound, but no stereo through hdmi.Marc
Dear Andrew,sorry bout that, but it was hanging for more than 3 hours at the "nvidia installing" message, so i thought, that you have gone away :-)But know, i only have one problem....(and yes i have read your wiki, its like a bible to me :-))HDMI works for dtsBut it does not work for stereo.Mean i can't hear any cds or mp3s and even movies with stereo won't work.All other things like dvd with dolby digital sound is no problem.Furthermore all mkv files are not working anymoreThanks for your supportMarc
Hi Marc,OK let us look at the new MM and see why that audio issue is happening. Can you confirm the device ID for the MM to me?All the bestAndrew


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Market Basket turmoil
Market Basket turmoil
On Wednesday, protesters show their support for Arthur T. Demoulas outside of the Market Basket store in Somerville.
Business at Market Basket stores across Massachusetts slowed to a trickle as employees continued their protests.
Employees have issued calls for another rally on Friday at the chain's Tewksbury headquarters at 10 a.m.
Workers are seeking the reinstatement of former chief executive Arthur T. Demoulas.
Tim Tobin took part in the protest in Somerville.
On Tuesday, protesters set up outside of a Market Basket in Lowell.
Deirdre O'Connor, of Lowell, normally a Market Basket shopper, had to visit the Hannaford across the street.
Market Basket workers held signs outside their Stadium Plaza store.
Market Basket workers (left to right) Michelle Mailloux, Liz Cochrane, and Idalisse Garcia took part in the protest.
Market Basket worker Antonia Rosa mopped a relatively empty aisle in Lowell.
Protesting Market Basket employees took their fight right to the beleaguered grocery chain's 71 stores in the region.
Marie Chuang and her granddaughter Olivia Bunten of Burlington were at the Burlington store on Monday.
John Garon, a front end manager in Burlington, looked at an empty produce cooler.
Matthew Dirico sat outside the Market Basket store in Burlington.
A notice was seen at a store in Tewksbury.
Juan Acevedo of Lowell, a seven-year employee, held a sign in Tewksbury.
Steve Paulenka, who was just fired from Market Basket, held up a stack of petitions he said were signed by customers in support of bringing back the former CEO Arthur T. Demoulas.
State Senator Barry Finegold took part in the rally for the ousted leader of Market Basket.
Thousands of workers at Market Basket grocery stores throughout the region poured in for a rally in Tewksbury on Monday.
Dean Joyce, a former warehouse manager for Market Basket, spoke at the protest.
Police officers directed traffic as helicopters flew overhead and protestors chanted "Artie T.! Artie T.!"
Yogesh Patel, a janitor at store 170 in Billerica, was among those at the protest.
One organizer put the crowd at around 5,000.
At least eight Market Basket employees were fired Sunday, including organizers of a protest.
More than 2,000 supporters of ousted chief executive Arthur T. Demoulas gathered outside the chain's Tewksbury headquarters Friday.
Stephen Distasio is the store manager at the Raynham Market Basket.
Distasio has worked for the company for 32 years.
There was no immediate comment from Demoulas' leadership, or from former chief executive Arthur T. Demoulas.
Market Basket workers from two Fitchberg stores were transported to the rally Friday.
On the bus with the protesters.
The recent showdown is the latest extraordinary turn in a decades-long feud between two branches of the Demoulas family.
Despite threats of being fired by the company, employees gathered to demand the return of Arthur T. Demoulas.
Protesters raised their fists in a show of support for the ousted leader.
The employees vowed to rally again Monday and to gather outside the headquarters every day until he is reinstated as chief executive.
A dozen managers and workers spoke at Friday's two-hour rally.
The family of Market Basket worker Doug Hicks were among the protesters.
People made their way to Friday's protest.
A sign backing the ousted president.
Protesters streamed toward the company's corporate offices Friday morning.
Larry Frost, of Lowell, a cashier at a Billerica store, had a black stripe on his badge in support of Arthur T. Demoulas.
Braedyn Greenan, 6, of Lowell, was taking part in the Friday protest to support his dad.
Brian Mamczak, 27, works at a Market Basket store in Milford, N.H.
Arthur T. Demoulas was fired by a board controlled by his cousin and chief rival, Arthur S. Demoulas.


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The Delaware Division of Public Health (DPH) wants the communities input on the major health needs in Delaware.
The Delaware Division of Public Health (DPH) wants the communities input on the major health needs in Delaware.
DPH recently worked with non-profit and medical provider partners to create a draft statewide health assessment (SHA). The SHA is a careful examination of the health of our population which then is used to identify key problems and assets in Delaware.
There are four documents that comprise the SHA:
Communities Themes and Strengths Assessment- Provides an understanding of the issues felt important by answering the questions: "What is important to our community?" "How is the quality of life perceived in our community?" For more information, visit www.dhss.delaware.gov/dhss/dph/files/shactsa.pdf.Community Health Status Assessment – Identifies priority community health and quality of life issues. Questions: "How healthy are our residents?" and "What does the health status of our state look like?" For more information, visit www.dhss.delaware.gov/dhss/dph/files/shachsa.pdf.Forces of Change Assessment- Focuses on identifying forces such as technology and other impending changes that affect the context in which the state and its public health system operates. Questions: "What is occurring or might occur that impacts the health of our community?" and "What specific threats or opportunities are generated by these occurrences?" For more information, visit www.dhss.delaware.gov/dhss/dph/files/shafoca.pdf.Goal and Strategies- Based on the above assessments, broad strategies are identified for addressing issues and achieving goals related to the community's vision. For more information, visit www.dhss.delaware.gov/dhss/dph/files/shagasr.pdf.
All comments will run through Jan. 31. To open an form on which you can record and send your comments, visit www.dhss.delaware.gov/dhss/dph/files/shaform.pdf. For more information, call (302) 744-4703.


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USDOT finalizes changes to New Starts/Small Starts programWritten by Jenifer Nunez, assistant editor
The Federal Transit Administration (FTA) finalized changes to its approach for administering New Starts/Small Starts program.
The program, one of the largest competitive grant programs in the U.S. government, funds roughly half the cost of new and extended light rail and commuter rail.
"Now more than ever, Americans need quality transportation choices that improve mobility, enhance access to jobs and encourage sustainable communities," said U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood.
The new approach ( found at http://www.fta.dot.gov/grants/12304.html) is the product of more than two years of public outreach to identify ways to cut red tape, reduce regulations for communities seeking federal funds and help get critical transit projects under construction more quickly without compromising a stringent project review process. The changes are estimated to save taxpayers almost $500,000 annually by requiring less time-consuming paperwork and allowing communities to pre-qualify for certain projects. Additional savings may result from accelerating project delivery.
"The changes we're making to the New Starts capital investment program are a huge win for communities that want to see more of their local transportation priorities become reality," said FTA Administrator Peter Rogoff. "We'll be in a position to save federal and local taxpayers' money and put more Americans to work by allowing good projects to begin construction more quickly."
Four key changes are being made to the New Starts/Small Starts program:
• FTA is adopting a simpler, more straightforward approach for measuring a proposed project's cost-effectiveness. FTA will no longer require communities to compare a proposed project's travel time savings against a hypothetical alternative project. Instead, FTA will look at the estimated cost to construct the project communities intend to build compared against a rigorously analyzed estimate for the number of passengers the project will serve.
• FTA is expanding the range of environmental benefits used to evaluate proposed projects. In addition to taking into account the Environmental Protection Agency's regional air quality designations, FTA will also look at the dollar value of the anticipated benefits to human health, energy use, air quality (such as changes in total greenhouse gas emissions and other pollutants) and safety (such as reductions in accidents and fatalities).
• FTA is adding new economic development factors to its ratings process. FTA currently looks at local plans and policies already in place to encourage economic development and how well they're working in a given area. Going forward, a broader set of economic impacts will be included, such as whether local plans and policies maintain or increase affordable housing.
• FTA is streamlining the project evaluation process by reducing regulations and red tape. FTA will allow project sponsors to forgo a detailed analysis of benefits that are unnecessary to justify a project. For example, projects that receive a sufficient rating on benefits calculations will not be required to do an analysis to forecast benefits out to some future year. Similarly, FTA is developing methods that can be used to estimate benefits using simple approaches.


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WASHINGTON — President Obama presented the Medal of Honor to relatives of Father Emil Kapaun on Thursday, calling the priest from Pilsen, Kan., "an American soldier who didn't fire a gun, but who wielded the mightiest weapon of all . a love for his brothers so pure that he was willing to die so they might live."
More than 60 people attended the White House ceremony. Obama gave the medal to Ray Kapaun, one of Emil Kapaun's nephews.
Emil Kapaun, who died in May 1951 in a North Korean prisoner of war camp, was honored for his actions on Nov. 1 and 2, 1950, at the battle of Unsan, where his 8th Cavalry regiment was overrun by Chinese forces. He helped aid those wounded in battle with no regard for his own safety.
Witnesses said Kapaun ran 200 to 300 yards outside a shrinking defensive perimeter to rescue wounded American soldiers despite fierce enemy fire.
Kapaun also stayed behind and let himself be captured by Chinese forces to care for wounded American soldiers. He was initially awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for his actions, the Army's second-highest military honor. That was upgraded to the Medal of Honor.


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