Usually when Twitter goes over capacity, you see a “fail whale” page with an error message, but today Twitter’s been completely offline for almost an hour, apparently across the whole world. Maybe an intern pushed the wrong button?
The Twitter Status blog has a terse message about it:
Users may be experiencing issues accessing Twitter. Our engineers are currently working to resolve the issue.
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efuseakay Thu, Jun 21, 2012 9:55:18am |
Am I the only one that absolutely refuses to ever use Twitter. Ever?
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Someone Please Beam Me Up! Thu, Jun 21, 2012 9:55:44am |
Does that means there's nothing for twitter users to do now but work?!
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Targetpractice Thu, Jun 21, 2012 9:56:15am |
Some day, we'll tell our grandkids about where we were when Twitter died.
//
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CuriousLurker Thu, Jun 21, 2012 9:56:18am |
Usually when Twitter goes over capacity, you see a “fail whale” page with an error message, but today Twitter’s been completely offline for almost an hour, apparently across the whole world. Maybe an intern pushed the wrong button?
Yeah, as IF you had nothing to do with it. What, do you take us for a bunch of fools??
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efuseakay Thu, Jun 21, 2012 10:00:30am |
Oh Charles. You did this, didn't you? What are the twitter gulag residents going to do now that you shut down the WHOLE site! Evil genius, you.
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Achilles Tang Thu, Jun 21, 2012 10:01:55am |
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makeitstop Thu, Jun 21, 2012 10:02:10am |
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NJDhockeyfan Thu, Jun 21, 2012 10:02:19am |
re: #3 One of the Seventeen
Does that means there's nothing for twitter users to do now but work?!
Good call!
Twitter goes down, productivity skyrockets
You've probably already noticed, but Twitter is down right now. In theory, this means that productivity should skyrocket around the world — as soon as we all stop frantically trying to refresh our Twitter feeds.
Heh.
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Targetpractice Thu, Jun 21, 2012 10:02:54am |
re: #12 NJDhockeyfan
Good call!
Twitter goes down, productivity skyrockets
Heh.
So Obama killed Twitter in order to get the recovery back on track. Diabolical!
//
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allegro Thu, Jun 21, 2012 10:03:04am |
re: #2 efuseakay
Am I the only one that absolutely refuses to ever use Twitter. Ever?
Me, too, neither.
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Achilles Tang Thu, Jun 21, 2012 10:04:30am |
re: #13 Targetpractice
So Obama killed Twitter in order to get the recovery back on track. Diabolical!
//
It's to take attention away from his schemes to take away our guns. Does he think we are stupid?
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efuseakay Thu, Jun 21, 2012 10:05:37am |
Twitter down? Now's the perfect time for Obumna!!!!!!!#$&*%^#&*$#% to institute SHARIA LAWWWWW!!!!!
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wrenchwench Thu, Jun 21, 2012 10:05:41am |
I'm sure most of you Twitter refuseniks don't use Facebook either, but if I had to give one of 'em up, it would be Facebook for sure.
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Targetpractice Thu, Jun 21, 2012 10:06:03am |
re: #19 efuseakay
Twitter down? Now's the perfect time for Obumna!!!#$&*%^#&*$#% to institute SHARIA LAWWW!!!
Begin the revolution!
//
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CuriousLurker Thu, Jun 21, 2012 10:08:06am |
Waaaaiiiit a minute. I know what they're doing now. They took it offline so they can embed some kind spy thing so the socialist Kenyan usurper's sharia-compliant administration can monitor all our tweets 24/7. //
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CuriousLurker Thu, Jun 21, 2012 10:09:34am |
re: #20 wrenchwench
I'm sure most of you Twitter refuseniks don't use Facebook either, but if I had to give one of 'em up, it would be Facebook for sure.
I gave up TV & FB.
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NJDhockeyfan Thu, Jun 21, 2012 10:10:21am |
re: #2 efuseakay
Am I the only one that absolutely refuses to ever use Twitter. Ever?
no. I have no twitter account either. My company blocks twitter too.
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ShaunP Thu, Jun 21, 2012 10:10:33am |
re: #2 efuseakay
Am I the only one that absolutely refuses to ever use Twitter. Ever?
I was like this for a looooooong time. I only very recently (like, in the past two weeks) have started to find it enjoyable. As long as you don't subscribe to crap, it's a good way to keep track of current events. The trick is to subscribe to a lot of feeds, but not a lot of fluff. Post more relevant items, less crap about what you are eating for lunch...
FB blows...
My $0.02
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Coracle Thu, Jun 21, 2012 10:11:04am |
It's the first step to Obama's long-plotted (ever since he was a boy in Kenya) repeal of the second amendment. You can tell because it is has nothing at all to do with guns and is thus designed to distract us and catch us completely unawares.
An then he's gonna steels all ur moneys and make u gay.
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Tiny Alien Kitties are Watching You Thu, Jun 21, 2012 10:12:42am |
It is a sign of the end times, the Rapture is nigh! Quick before it is too late accept Jesus Christ as your lord and savior and send Pat Robertson a sizable donation to assure your place in the everlasting hereafter!
*This message brought to you by Pat Robertson Ministry Inc. ™ *
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Michael McBacon Thu, Jun 21, 2012 10:12:53am |
The History Eraser Button?
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Eventual Carrion Thu, Jun 21, 2012 10:12:59am |
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CuriousLurker Thu, Jun 21, 2012 10:13:54am |
It's coming back up now. See? I told you. Charles posted his first article less than 20 minutes ago, and Twitter's already back. Coincidence? I think not. //
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Charles Johnson Thu, Jun 21, 2012 10:14:18am |
Twitter has returned.
Sorry, folks - I was oppressing conservatives by imprisoning them in the #TwitterGulag, and well, I just hit the wrong button.— Charles Johnson (@Lizardoid) June 21, 2012
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Gus Thu, Jun 21, 2012 10:17:47am |
You learn a lot when #Twitter is down.For example, my wife left me four years ago.— Andy Borowitz (@BorowitzReport) June 21, 2012
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Bulworth Thu, Jun 21, 2012 10:19:26am |
Fortunately I was charging my stupid phone's battery and missed the Twitter gulag blackout.
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iossarian Thu, Jun 21, 2012 10:21:04am |
Interesting news from Slashdot (don't try the original source article at the moment as it is, indeed, slashdotted):
Gottesser writes with this excerpt from Bev Harris's Black Box Voting:
"I have found and posted the actual voter list software used widely throughout the USA (TN, WI, PA, CO, KS...) for Accenture voter registration and voter histories. I located the files on a magnetic backup tape of the hard drive of a county elections IT employee, part of a 120-gig set of discovery files. The Accenture voter registration / voter history software is highly problematic, and has been reported switching voter parties in Colorado, and losing voter histories in Tennessee. Although it is now widely known that Accenture voter list software gets it wrong, just WHY the program misreports voter information so often has never been explained. I am hoping that by releasing this software to the public, it may shed light on what's really going on with our voter registration systems. I also posted a Tennessee file with work orders and release notes which shows the Accenture software has a history of tripling votes in certain ('random') voter histories, going back to 2004. Except it is not random: Other files I discovered prove it is with primarily suburban Republican precincts that votes are somehow being recorded twice and sometimes three times for certain voters in the voter history report, and this didn't just happen in 2004; it also happened in the 2008 presidential primary and in May and August 2010, and according to election commission notes in Shelby County, also in the 2012 presidential primary. Computer buffs, have at it. Much source code exists within the structure because it is built on MS Access. I do not read source code, though I can see some structural problems with the software (for example, it allows political party ID to be set differently from one precinct to another)."
Republicans and their voter fraud projection syndrome!
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lawhawk Thu, Jun 21, 2012 10:21:43am |
Twitter was down? That would explain the disturbance in the Force that I felt. Millions of right wing voices snuffed out all at once, and suddenly reemerging, as though from #twittergulag amnesty.
Meanwhile, my friend who was diagnosed with cancer got more bad news - it was more prevalent than first indicated, so the course of treatment will have to be much more aggressive. [deleted]
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CuriousLurker Thu, Jun 21, 2012 10:22:49am |
re: #36 lawhawk
Meanwhile, my friend who was diagnosed with cancer got more bad news - it was more prevalent than first indicated, so the course of treatment will have to be much more aggressive. [deleted]
Sorry to hear about that.
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wrenchwench Thu, Jun 21, 2012 10:23:00am |
re: #23 CuriousLurker
I gave up TV & FB.
No TV for me. I took a little road trip recently, with motel stays, and I hated having the TV on, except for the four episodes of Big Bang Theory I caught. :)
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Charles Johnson Thu, Jun 21, 2012 10:23:32am |
The wingnuts are already cooking up another conspiracy theory about this.
@Snarky_Basterd ditto.. that's what I'd like to know.Is it a conservative problem only?#TwitterGulag @foxnation— Shilo Anderson (@ShiloAnderson1) June 21, 2012
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Tiny Alien Kitties are Watching You Thu, Jun 21, 2012 10:23:40am |
re: #29 RayFerd
I'm one
I started a twitter channel and linked it "FailBlog" so that everything failblog posts I also post. I think I have maybe made three actual posts to twitter in the last two years, yet I have seven followers...sigh.
I started my twitter channel for the same reason I started a Facebook page, so that no one else could use my screen name to start one and impersonate me with my *millions of adoring fans.
(* ok then, fine, my thousands...err...hundreds, my dozens of...fine be that way...my one fan! There happy now?) ;p
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Coracle Thu, Jun 21, 2012 10:23:42am |
re: #31 Charles Johnson
Twitter has returned.
Sorry, folks - I was oppressing conservatives by imprisoning them in the #TwitterGulag, and well, I just hit the wrong button.
— Charles Johnson (@Lizardoid) June 21, 2012
Stop covering for Obama. I've caught you both red handed. I'm on hold with Issa right now. Just you wait. He's gonna pick up any minute. We're going to blow this conspiracy knee high.
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Bulworth Thu, Jun 21, 2012 10:24:34am |
re: #39 Charles Johnson
The wingnuts are already cooking up another conspiracy theory about this.
Foxnation should be up on this. I'm sure they'll have the answer. /
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HappyWarrior Thu, Jun 21, 2012 10:24:39am |
re: #39 Charles Johnson
The wingnuts are already cooking up another conspiracy theory about this.
[Embedded content]
lol. Such persecution complexes.
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CuriousLurker Thu, Jun 21, 2012 10:24:47am |
re: #38 wrenchwench
No TV for me. I took a little road trip recently, with motel stays, and I hated having the TV on, except for the four episodes of Big Bang Theory I caught. :)
I don't miss it at all. What I can't get via my iPad apps, I can get from news sites, YouTube, or Amazon Prime.
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HappyWarrior Thu, Jun 21, 2012 10:25:22am |
re: #42 Bulworth
Foxnation should be up on this. I'm sure they'll have the answer. /
Yeah they'll blame the blacks like they do whenever something is wrong.
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Gus Thu, Jun 21, 2012 10:25:59am |
re: #39 Charles Johnson
The wingnuts are already cooking up another conspiracy theory about this.
[Embedded content]
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Varek Raith Thu, Jun 21, 2012 10:27:53am |
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Gus Thu, Jun 21, 2012 10:28:21am |
OK kids! You can out and play again!
Resume #war.— Michelle Malkin (@michellemalkin) June 21, 2012
Derp.
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Varek Raith Thu, Jun 21, 2012 10:29:54am |
re: #48 Gus
OK kids! You can out and play again!
[Embedded content]
Derp.
Yes, do continue the war against my brain cells. I don't need them.
/
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Bulworth Thu, Jun 21, 2012 10:32:01am |
re: #47 Varek Raith
Michael Reagan Compares Immigration Policy Shift To Penn State Child Sex Abuse Scandal
...
Of course. Only enlightened conservative derp minds would make that brilliant leap. /
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HappyWarrior Thu, Jun 21, 2012 10:32:04am |
re: #47 Varek Raith
Michael Reagan Compares Immigration Policy Shift To Penn State Child Sex Abuse Scandal
...
Good grief. And Michael Reagan can stop acting like Latinos are only immigrants.
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Bulworth Thu, Jun 21, 2012 10:35:06am |
re: #47 Varek Raith
Michael Reagan Compares Immigration Policy Shift To Penn State Child Sex Abuse Scandal
...
So Reagan thinks Rubio's immigration bill is just like Penn State scandal?
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Targetpractice Thu, Jun 21, 2012 10:36:17am |
Romney says he will ‘replace and supersede’ Obama’s immigration plan
Mitt Romney criticized President Barack Obama's immigration plan on Thursday, saying that as president, he would "put in place my own long-term solution that will replace and supersede the president's temporary measure." While that plan is still vague, it does not involve a path to legalization for any of the country's estimated 11 million illegal immigrants except for people who enlist in the military, according to a release from the campaign.
"Service guarantees citizenship! Would you like to know more?"
"As president, I won't settle for a stopgap measure," he said during his speech to the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials (NALEO) Annual Conference in Orlando, Fla. "I will work with Republicans and Democrats to find a long-term solution. I will prioritize measures that strengthen legal immigration and make it easier. And I will address the problem of illegal immigration in a civil but resolute manner."
Pull the other one, it has bells on its.
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HappyWarrior Thu, Jun 21, 2012 10:36:39am |
re: #53 Bulworth
So Reagan thinks Rubio's immigration bill is just like Penn State scandal?
Or that his father who granted amnesty is like Sandusky. Oh that's right. Ronnie gets held to different standards than Obama because he's a political saint.
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wrenchwench Thu, Jun 21, 2012 10:37:48am |
re: #54 Targetpractice
And I will address the problem of illegal immigration in a civil but resolute manner.
Does that mean free haircuts before deportation?
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HappyWarrior Thu, Jun 21, 2012 10:38:24am |
re: #54 Targetpractice
Romney says he will ‘replace and supersede’ Obama’s immigration plan
"Service guarantees citizenship! Would you like to know more?"
Pull the other one, it has bells on its.
This is typical Romney.
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Varek Raith Thu, Jun 21, 2012 10:38:45am |
re: #54 Targetpractice
Romney says he will ‘replace and supersede’ Obama’s immigration plan
"Service guarantees citizenship! Would you like to know more?"
Pull the other one, it has bells on its.
His plan is to do something, somehow. Maybe.
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NJDhockeyfan Thu, Jun 21, 2012 10:39:02am |
One anti-Semitic racists bigot endorses another one...
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wrenchwench Thu, Jun 21, 2012 10:39:37am |
re: #47 Varek Raith
Michael Reagan Compares Immigration Policy Shift To Penn State Child Sex Abuse Scandal
...
I can't type any of the colorful thoughts I have about M. Reagan right now...
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Bulworth Thu, Jun 21, 2012 10:40:47am |
I will work with Republicansand Democratsto find a long-term solution.
Fxd
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Targetpractice Thu, Jun 21, 2012 10:41:57am |
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Coracle Thu, Jun 21, 2012 10:41:58am |
Romney's claiming he'll do what Obama tried to do and was stopped from doing by Romney's party's monolithic opposition. Romney is either assuming (super)majorities in Congress, or that his congresses won't be as dickishly and ideologically partisan as Obama's. The latter would in fact be more likely. I don't think the Democrats have the stomach for the kind of destructive obstructionism the Republicans are willing to subject the country to.
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HappyWarrior Thu, Jun 21, 2012 10:42:07am |
re: #59 NJDhockeyfan
One anti-Semitic racists bigot endorses another one...
His opponent should use that.
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iossarian Thu, Jun 21, 2012 10:42:53am |
re: #57 HappyWarrior
This is typical Romney.
"I take a lot of credit for ending the needless deportation of the law-abiding children of immigrants."
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Kragar Thu, Jun 21, 2012 10:43:51am |
re: #63 Targetpractice
Attica! Attica!
//
And this Château le Blanc '68 is supposed to be served slightly chilled! This is room temperature! What do you think we are, animals?
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Killgore Trout Thu, Jun 21, 2012 10:44:51am |
re: #59 NJDhockeyfan
One anti-Semitic racists bigot endorses another one...
Heh. Strange bedfellows.
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Kragar Thu, Jun 21, 2012 10:45:06am |
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HappyWarrior Thu, Jun 21, 2012 10:45:54am |
re: #66 iossarian
"I take a lot of credit for ending the needless deportation of the law-abiding children of immigrants."
Oh he'll do that if the Dream Act is signed and works. I mean this is a guy who wrote an editorial in the nation's biggest paper in plain English suggesting that we let the automobile industry fail and then the automoble industry recovers, the guy claims it was thanks to him.
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HappyWarrior Thu, Jun 21, 2012 10:47:30am |
re: #69 Kragar
Gaffney: The Muslim Brotherhood is Waging 'Pre-Violent' Jihad Against America
I would like someone to refudiate is claims.
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Targetpractice Thu, Jun 21, 2012 10:48:08am |
re: #71 Gus
Uh oh. Apparently Obama ordered another Twitter shut-down.
Are we sure this doesn't mean that Skynet has begun its takeover?
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Varek Raith Thu, Jun 21, 2012 10:49:10am |
re: #74 Targetpractice
Are we sure this doesn't mean that Skynet has begun its takeover?
No.
Trust me.
;)
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Kragar Thu, Jun 21, 2012 10:50:28am |
George Zimmerman’s Own Words: ‘The Dispatcher Told Me Not To Follow The Suspect’
George Zimmerman heard the message loud and clear: Don’t follow Trayvon Martin.
In a statement he gave to police the same night he shot and killed the unarmed teen, Zimmerman wrote that he was returning to his vehicle after a police dispatcher told him over the phone to stop pursuing Martin.
“The dispatcher told me not to follow the suspect and that an officer was in route,” Zimmerman wrote in the statement, which was released to the public for the first time on Thursday morning. “As I headed back to my vehicle, the suspect emerged from the darkness and said ‘you got a problem?’”
Florida prosecutors who later charged Zimmerman with second-degree murder have a different take. In an affidavit filed in April, special prosecutor Angela Corey wrote that Zimmerman kept following Martin through the gated community despite being told to stop.
“Zimmerman disregarded the police dispatcher and continued to follow Martin who was trying to return to his home,” the affidavit said. “Zimmerman confronted Martin and a struggle ensued.”
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Kragar Thu, Jun 21, 2012 10:51:13am |
re: #75 Varek Raith
No.
Trust me.
;)
All the cool kids use non-networked lobotomized servitors nowadays any way.
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NJDhockeyfan Thu, Jun 21, 2012 10:52:05am |
re: #71 Gus
Uh oh. Apparently Obama ordered another Twitter shut-down.
Twitter is down; people may start talking to each other
...Don't be surprised if you pass many people under 40 shouting random and sometimes witty things to the heavens about what they had for lunch or the idiotic thing their boss said.
I wonder how many people know how to carry on a conversation?
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Bulworth Thu, Jun 21, 2012 10:52:25am |
The dreaded Fairness Doctrine is killing Twitter. That and net neutrality. Or not net neutrality. One of those. /
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Charles Johnson Thu, Jun 21, 2012 10:52:26am |
I had to take Twitter offline again for a little while to finish replacing all those wingnut accounts with secret liberal double agents with the same name. Stand by.
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Kragar Thu, Jun 21, 2012 10:53:43am |
re: #81 Charles Johnson
I had to take Twitter offline again for a little while to finish replacing all those wingnut accounts with secret liberal double agents with the same name. Stand by.
They Keyser Soze of Twitter strikes again
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wrenchwench Thu, Jun 21, 2012 10:55:43am |
Stupidest sentence on the internet of the day so far:
If you have not registered for Interbike / HFB 2012, click Continue to get started.
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Kragar Thu, Jun 21, 2012 10:56:01am |
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Gus Thu, Jun 21, 2012 10:56:22am |
re: #79 NJDhockeyfan
Twitter is down; people may start talking to each other
I wonder how many people know how to carry on a conversation?
This has been going on since AOL became popular. Most of the kids I see have their eyes glued to their iPhones either checking their messages, texting, or talking at 100 decibels about what shirt they're going to wear at the club that evening. But of course carrying a conversation soon became difficult after the popularity of television. I think focusing on Twitter is just part of a mis-directed popular sense of self with a large dose of denial.
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Kragar Thu, Jun 21, 2012 10:57:46am |
The GOP doesn't really get the whole minority outreach thing, do they?
New York GOP Hired Anti-Zionist For Jewish Outreach
The New York Republican Party hired an ultra-religious Jewish consultant to boost its image in a state that contains the single biggest Jewish enclave outside of Israel. Unfortunately, that same person may not believe in Israel’s existence.
Yossi Gestetner, a Hasidic political strategist and prominent gadfly in New York media, stepped down Wednesday after being confronted by news station The Jewish Channel over his past work for groups opposed to the Jewish state. Gestetner resigned before the program aired, saying on Twitter he had become “a distraction” for the state party.
Some Hasidic Jews opposed Israel’s formation in 1948 on religious grounds, believing that only the coming of the messiah can end the world Jewish population’s millennia-long diaspora, and continue to treat the country as illegitimate. Last year, Gestetner took a contract with a group called True Torah Jews Against Zionism that declares in its materials that “the Zionist idealogy [sic] is totally contrary to traditional Jewish law and beliefs and the teachings of the Holy Torah.” In The Jewish Channel’s interview, Gestetner said he had no problem with Israel remaining safe, but refused to say whether he considered himself a Zionist.
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NJDhockeyfan Thu, Jun 21, 2012 10:58:14am |
re: #86 Gus
This has been going on since AOL became popular. Most of the kids I see have their eyes glued to their iPhones either checking their messages, texting, or talking at 100 decibels about what shirt they're going to wear at the club that evening. But of course carrying a conversation soon became difficult after the popularity of television. I think focusing on Twitter is just part of a mis-directed popular sense of self with a large does of denial.
I friend of mine said her two kids text each other while sitting on a couch together.
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wrenchwench Thu, Jun 21, 2012 10:59:03am |
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Gus Thu, Jun 21, 2012 10:59:58am |
re: #91 wrenchwench
It's been all down hill since then.
I blame the invention of books and magazines.
//
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Sheila Broflovski Thu, Jun 21, 2012 11:00:01am |
re: #88 Kragar
The GOP doesn't really get the whole minority outreach thing, do they?
MJ Rosenberg was unavailable for comment.
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Charles Johnson Thu, Jun 21, 2012 11:01:41am |
re: #92 Gus
I blame the invention of books and magazines.
//
It started with Gutenberg, that bastard. People used to tell stories to each other. Now they just read them.
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Sheila Broflovski Thu, Jun 21, 2012 11:02:29am |
re: #94 Charles Johnson
It started with Gutenberg, that bastard. People used to tell stories to each other. Now they just read them.
It started with the invention of writing!
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makeitstop Thu, Jun 21, 2012 11:03:17am |
re: #95 Learned Mother of Zion
It started with the invention of writing!
Those cave painters messed everything up.
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Gus Thu, Jun 21, 2012 11:03:50am |
re: #95 Learned Mother of Zion
It started with the invention of writing!
It was those damn cave painters. Artists. Pfft.
//
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Targetpractice Thu, Jun 21, 2012 11:03:57am |
re: #96 makeitstop
Those cave painters messed everything up.
Honestly, who thought this whole "language" business was a good idea?
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Gus Thu, Jun 21, 2012 11:04:33am |
re: #96 makeitstop
Those cave painters messed everything up.
I wonder though. Did arm gestures precede the cave painting?
//
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wrenchwench Thu, Jun 21, 2012 11:05:27am |
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Gus Thu, Jun 21, 2012 11:06:30am |
re: #100 wrenchwench
Single finger gestures.
Why are there no cave paintings of early man/woman flipping the bird?
//
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makeitstop Thu, Jun 21, 2012 11:06:43am |
And grunting. Grunting was the beginning of the end.
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Gus Thu, Jun 21, 2012 11:07:26am |
re: #102 makeitstop
And grunting. Grunting was the beginning of the end.
Don't forget drums and smoke signals. That was the first version of Twitter.
//
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Targetpractice Thu, Jun 21, 2012 11:08:47am |
re: #103 Gus
Don't forget drums and smoke signals. That was the first version off Twitter.
//
Yes, the dreaded drum circle, where all bad thoughts and ideas began.
//
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lawhawk Thu, Jun 21, 2012 11:09:12am |
re: #101 Gus
And with the birth of the first artist came the afterbirth... the art critic. /
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makeitstop Thu, Jun 21, 2012 11:09:25am |
re: #103 Gus
Don't forget drums and smoke signals. That was the first version of Twitter.
//
So this outage is the modern equivalent of a fire going out or a broken drum head?
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wrenchwench Thu, Jun 21, 2012 11:09:43am |
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wrenchwench Thu, Jun 21, 2012 11:10:43am |
re: #101 Gus
Why are there no cave paintings of early man/woman flipping the bird?
//
CAVE PAINTERS GULAG!!!1
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Kragar Thu, Jun 21, 2012 11:10:50am |
Rove ‘Makes A Mockery’ Of Law: Super PAC Co-Founder To Attend Romney Strategy Session This Weekend
A Saturday panel on “media insight” will feature American Crossroads and Crossroads GPS co-founder Karl Rove. The Crossroads reportedly plan to spend a stunning $300 million to help Romney defeat President Barack Obama this November, but they are legally prohibited from coordinating this effort with Romney’s campaign.
Back in December, Romney decried the rise of Super PACs like Rove’s American Crossroads, saying they have been a “disaster” for the political system. He said at the time:
Super PACs have to be entirely separate from a campaign and a candidate. I’m not allowed to communicate with a super PAC in any way, shape or form… If we coordinate in any way whatsoever, we go to the big house.
Mary Boyle, vice president for communications at Common Cause, told ThinkProgress that having one of the leaders of an allied Super PAC at at campaign event with major donors “seems to make a mockery of the rule that bans coordination between a super PAC and a candidate.”
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makeitstop Thu, Jun 21, 2012 11:13:18am |
re: #111 Kragar
Rove ‘Makes A Mockery’ Of Law: Super PAC Co-Founder To Attend Romney Strategy Session This Weekend
It's what he does.
/
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dragonath Thu, Jun 21, 2012 11:13:57am |
re: #88 Kragar
Huh, he has a twitter:
Yossi Gestetner @YossiGestetner
It's a scandal how the Spring Valley Police Department ignores endless Black-on-Jews hate crimes. Where is Holder?
IT'S ALL OBAMA'S FAULT
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iossarian Thu, Jun 21, 2012 11:15:56am |
re: #111 Kragar
Rove ‘Makes A Mockery’ Of Law: Super PAC Co-Founder To Attend Romney Strategy Session This Weekend
Antonin Scalia was heard to comment: "Pass the gravy."
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HappyWarrior Thu, Jun 21, 2012 11:16:04am |
re: #113 Be Zorch, Daddio
Huh, he has a twitter:
IT'S ALL OBAMA'S FAULT
Guy is a real gem. Another chip off of NR's block.
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Gus Thu, Jun 21, 2012 11:17:55am |
Fast & Furious proves it's treason to sell weapons to bad guys, unless... twitter.com/JohnFugelsang/...— John Fugelsang (@JohnFugelsang) June 21, 2012
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Daniel Ballard Thu, Jun 21, 2012 11:18:04am |
So this outage is the modern equivalent of a fire going out or a broken drum head?
The the next SciFi movie idea might be "The Day The Internet Stood Still" and instead of a big robot it's a code monkey. re: #107 makeitstop
Millions die of boredom
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wrenchwench Thu, Jun 21, 2012 11:19:39am |
Pocho Ocho other things banned in Houston beside piñatas:
8. Eating tacos without a fork
7. Parking cars on blocks
6. Sleeping under a cactus
5. Dancing in or around the vicinity of a large hat
4. Wearing fruit on your head
3. Leaning like a cholo
2. Frying beans more than once
And the numero uno thing banned in Houston besides piñatas is …
Discharging a chancla within city limits
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dragonath Thu, Jun 21, 2012 11:19:57am |
Alabama Public Television Apparently Heading Far Right
Last week, the two top executives of the network were summarily fired by the Alabama Educational Television Commission, APT’s governing body, after they resisted an effort by a new commissioner to air DVDs produced by a far-right theocrat who has been roundly condemned by historians. In the days that followed, three members of a foundation set up to raise money for APT also resigned.
The videos were produced by David Barton, an evangelical propagandist who claims falsely that America was founded as a Christian nation and has also become Glenn Beck’s unofficial — and completely untrained — “historian.” The DVDs were suggested by commissioner Rodney Herring, an Opelika-based chiropractor who was appointed to the panel last year and elected its secretary in January.
Pledge week was never the same again.
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lawhawk Thu, Jun 21, 2012 11:20:39am |
re: #88 Kragar
More on Gestetner's claims here - along with photos of the incident in question. Seems someone threw a rock at a school bus carrying kids from yeshiva. One of the kids was injured - Gestetner disputes the severity of the injuries sustained (he says they're more severe) and thinks that the crime should be treated as a hate crime. His claims about the incident differ sharply from news reports of same.
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allegro Thu, Jun 21, 2012 11:22:12am |
re: #111 Kragar
Rove ‘Makes A Mockery’ Of Law: Super PAC Co-Founder To Attend Romney Strategy Session This Weekend
And who else will be there?
1. The Romney Campaign
2. The Founder of American Crossroad
3. Two Employees from the Weekly Standard
4. Three Employees from Fox News
5. One employee from CNN
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HappyWarrior Thu, Jun 21, 2012 11:23:29am |
re: #119 Be Zorch, Daddio
Alabama Public Television Apparently Heading Far Right
Pledge week was never the same again.
Alabama: Doing its best to keep up with Arizona as America's derp bin.
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ArchangelMichael Thu, Jun 21, 2012 11:25:04am |
re: #122 HappyWarrior
Alabama: Doing its best to keep up with Arizona as America's derp bin.
They were probably pissed that they lost the title and got so far behind.
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Joanne Thu, Jun 21, 2012 11:25:32am |
Lre: #113 Be Zorch, Daddio
Huh, he has a twitter:
IT'S ALL OBAMA'S FAULT
Wheres Holder? Dicking around with congress.
As to social media, I hate Facebook and their many severe privacy issues, but Twitter is a must. You get breaking news long before traditional media. When Obama announced his Special Speech where he announced the bin Laden raid, I knew via Twitter what happened two hours before other media reported it.
Also, because there is a wide variety of users, each having their own interests, it's like Pages (which I love) on a multinational (and larger user population) scale. Twitter is addictive for this knowledge warrior.
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HappyWarrior Thu, Jun 21, 2012 11:26:57am |
re: #123 ArchangelMichael
They were probably pissed that they lost the title and got so far behind.
Heh yes
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Kragar Thu, Jun 21, 2012 11:28:48am |
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Well played sirs. Well played.
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Tiny Alien Kitties are Watching You Thu, Jun 21, 2012 11:32:18am |
re: #119 Be Zorch, Daddio
Alabama Public Television Apparently Heading Far Right
Pledge week was never the same again.
And then two velociraptors came to the baby Jesus in the manger and they did bow to him. Later when Jesus was a man and entered Jerusalem on Palm Sunday he rode upon one of the Velociraptors as if it were a donkey while the other tore the roman soldiers who tried to block his path limb from limb and feasted upon their entrails.
There you have it...positive biblical truth that proves evolution to be nothing but a Satanic lie!11! "This has been PBS..."
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abolitionist Thu, Jun 21, 2012 11:33:33am |
re: #95 Learned Mother of Zion
It started with the invention of writing!
I've read that it may have originated with the Scorpion King and his plans for maintaining property and tax records.
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Daniel Ballard Thu, Jun 21, 2012 11:48:12am |
re: #116 Gus
Twitter down... I guess so as soon as A- Holder loses his job like Ollie North did and B-The cartels release a bunch of hostages I'll be far more impressed with the comparison than I am now.
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