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  • On the post: Activity Is Not Influence

    Jeni ( profile ), 05 Jun, 2011 @ 06:11am

    Socializing W/O Fraud

    Run a small local forum, keep it totally legit, clean and troll free and see how many real people actually join and participate to give you all this 'influence'.

    Social networking has been taken over by hacks, trolls, fakes, $$$ and in some cases, outright sicko's who can literally harm others - and have.

    Yet, we're expected to be "influential" in the social networking scene.

    Well hell, I might as well go join the Hell's Angels then. At least I'd have "real" people in my "network" who make no bones about who they really are.

  • On the post: Do A Little Dance, Make A Little Love…Get Bodyslammed Tonight (At The Jefferson Memorial)

    Jeni ( profile ), 05 Jun, 2011 @ 05:32am

    Re: Re: Re: Re: Reacting to the wrong thing

    I have an "ilk"? *scratches head*

    "Carrie"? You ARE funny.

    By the way Chris in Utah, interesting profile there - did you create InfoWars.com or something?

  • On the post: Do A Little Dance, Make A Little Love…Get Bodyslammed Tonight (At The Jefferson Memorial)

    Jeni ( profile ), 05 Jun, 2011 @ 05:14am

    Re: Re: dancing at the Jefferson Memorial

    I don't know how anyone can compare a funeral to this instance.

    Funerals are deeply personal and painful to the mourners. They should not have to deal with fringe kook protesters in their time of loss and grief. That's cruel and inhumane, IMHO.

    This is a stone memorial, there are no mourners and it's not a funeral. Quite a different scenario.

  • On the post: Do A Little Dance, Make A Little Love…Get Bodyslammed Tonight (At The Jefferson Memorial)

    Jeni ( profile ), 05 Jun, 2011 @ 04:52am

    Re: Re: I'm not overly sympathetic

    "Instead, the cops gave them the very reaction they were hoping for."

    Exactly! And subsequently, a LOT of nationwide attention to the whole issue. Doesn't help the "cause of the cops" any, that's for sure.

  • On the post: Do A Little Dance, Make A Little Love…Get Bodyslammed Tonight (At The Jefferson Memorial)

    Jeni ( profile ), 05 Jun, 2011 @ 04:47am

    Re: Re: Re: I'm not overly sympathetic

    Please provide us with proof of these allegations. I've never heard them before and no longer believe anything just because someone "says so". Thank you.

  • On the post: Do A Little Dance, Make A Little Love…Get Bodyslammed Tonight (At The Jefferson Memorial)

    Jeni ( profile ), 05 Jun, 2011 @ 04:41am

    Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: I'm not overly sympathetic

    If you had any clue regarding the meaning of respect, you wouldn't say:


    "...believe in imaginary sky fairies that you are"
    all three "a, b, c points"
    "You're delusional, ignorant and disrespectful. You get "persecuted" because you're a self-righteous asshole, not because you're a Christian."


    Respect is a 2-way street.

    Now give me a good reason to show you an iota of respect much less any credibility.

  • On the post: Do A Little Dance, Make A Little Love…Get Bodyslammed Tonight (At The Jefferson Memorial)

    Jeni ( profile ), 05 Jun, 2011 @ 04:38am

    Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: I'm not overly sympathetic

    What vile, weak, narrow-minded, cowardly comments. Consider putting your name behind your statements if you're so proud of being hateful, would you, please?

  • On the post: Do A Little Dance, Make A Little Love…Get Bodyslammed Tonight (At The Jefferson Memorial)

    Jeni ( profile ), 04 Jun, 2011 @ 08:14pm

    Re: Re: Reacting to the wrong thing

    Rekrul, tell me that was a joke. That's so far out there I'm laughing.

  • On the post: French Court Says Merely Having The Word 'Torrent' In Your Domain Means You Are Encouraging Infringement

    Jeni ( profile ), 04 Jun, 2011 @ 11:50am

    Re: Re:

    Oh Bullseye, DogBreath!

  • On the post: Activity Is Not Influence

    Jeni ( profile ), 04 Jun, 2011 @ 11:31am

    Re: Re: Echo...

    You know AC, you're right. In fact, while mopping my floor just now I was thinking how hey, the big daddy gov't goons are giving away grants and bailing out big corps etc., PLUS they think the rich should pay more more more more MORE ...

    Well, the music and movie industry seem to fall under "Rich" to this little poverty peon so hey, why isn't this whole mess reversed? Why shouldn't the gov't encourage RIAA and MPAA and all their cohorts to be more giving, to pay more, to SHARE (as Odrama said to Joe the Plumber)? Makes sense to me.

  • On the post: French Court Says Merely Having The Word 'Torrent' In Your Domain Means You Are Encouraging Infringement

    Jeni ( profile ), 04 Jun, 2011 @ 11:26am

    Re:

    Torrent technology is utterly fascinating to me, a programming challenged sad sack. It's a great tool for sharing large files.

    I so admire those who came up with the technology and hope they keep their creative talents flowing!

    And I even had some silly school kid hack into my wireless and DL some movie via a torrent and I got the nasty letter for it from my ISP, which after initially being stunned beyond belief, I actually had to chuckle at. What a waste of resources and time that was.

    In fact, it was that instance that got me reading up on what these torrents were/are and I was in awe - still am.

  • On the post: Activity Is Not Influence

    Jeni ( profile ), 04 Jun, 2011 @ 11:17am

    Exactly, Marcus. The whole thing is just silly IMHO.

    I have a twitter account that I use for personal interests and that I enjoy and could give a hoot about "influence". And I just "follow" people with the same interests because everyone finds different stories or what-have-you, not because of any "influencing" factor.

    It just all seems as silly to me as being "popular" in High School.

  • On the post: Lady Gaga Says $0.99 Albums Make Sense, Especially For Digital

    Jeni ( profile ), 04 Jun, 2011 @ 10:13am

    Good Gaga

    Well, while she looks ridiculous to these tired middle aged eyes, and that name! But the girl's got some brains under her fluff.

    Had to laugh at the idiot interviewing her; he sounded so appalled at the 99 cent deal. LOL

    To me her music has zero value as I've only just heard of her about 2 weeks ago and am not at all interested (yeah, I know, never mind...) but more power to her. May she never travel the path of Brittany Spears.

  • On the post: Entertainment Industry Lawyer: The Public Domain Goes Against Free Market Capitalism

    Jeni ( profile ), 04 Jun, 2011 @ 09:42am

    The copyright laws as they stand now are just plain crazy. Just like news, music gets "old". Granted, some news may always be interesting and some music always "good" but it shouldn't have to be paid for over and over and over eternally and forevermore. Nothing in this world is worth that just like "nothing is new under the sun".

    BTW, this guy makes the case for using Tor...

  • On the post: French Court Says Merely Having The Word 'Torrent' In Your Domain Means You Are Encouraging Infringement

    Jeni ( profile ), 04 Jun, 2011 @ 09:27am

    Went and looked it up on dictionary.com just out of curiosity. It basically says a strong 'stream' of something so I guess that's another "bad" word.

    The insanity just keeps coming like a torrent. OOPS

  • On the post: Activity Is Not Influence

    Jeni ( profile ), 04 Jun, 2011 @ 09:10am

    Re:

    "But, can you have influence with no activity? No."

    True. Absolutely. But if the biggest SE in the world doesn't think you are "active" enough, which supposedly means "influential", and drops your rankings so low no one can find your "stuff" any more, you can't have any influence, either, no matter how helpful or "good" your content is.

    It's a 2 way street. Activity can take many other forms than a social link, too. Email, for one. Letters, for another. Newsletters, phone calls...

  • On the post: Activity Is Not Influence

    Jeni ( profile ), 04 Jun, 2011 @ 08:47am

    Echo...

    In my head - Mike, this is why I enjoy reading your writings SO much - not once have you failed to echo a thought or sentiment of my own that I can only sit here and think (and too often get upset about with no outlet).

    Anyway, this has been an issue that has driven me batty for years. Now it's costing me web site rankings for what I do online since Google's Panda update. I am NOT into the "social marketing" scene - now I'm paying for that. Literally and dearly.

    Thankfully I have some resources that will hopefully allow me to get by but suffice it to say this has greatly affected my ability to give and to donate and to SHARE as I've always so loved to do and that, in turn, is so frustrating. For example, I do a local Dial-A-Prayer site and love to donate the hosting/domain; I had to ask for the $ this year. I hated that. I REALLY hated that.

    You see, I would far more like to work than sit around "socializing". If I sit here and "socialize" all the day long, I can't work - am a one-woman operation here and can only stretch myself so thin. I would far rather work on quality content and good web design skills that need constant updating as anyone who's done that work knows but now I find myself babysitting "twitter" and considering other avenues should I ever have the time. But it goes against everything in me and I can't afford - especially now - to outsource this.

    And really sorry for rambling but please just a sec or two more - I was surfing a site called freelancer.com to see what the deal is and what do I see? People PAYING others to write content. People paying others to tweet, to post FB profiles and get "fans" - NONE OF IT IS EVEN FOR REAL; IT IS ALL FOR "SCORES" OR "RANKING" SO HOW DO WE EVEN KNOW WHO IS FOR REAL MUCH LESS HOW "GOOD" THEY ARE!?

    Sorry. Didn't mean to shout. Deep breathes...

    /offsoapbox

  • On the post: RIAA Wants To Put People In Jail For Sharing Their Music Subscription Login With Friends

    Jeni ( profile ), 03 Jun, 2011 @ 05:29am

    Re: Re: Re:

    Agree totally, although in a way the big nasty gov't of today is helping me boycott all big business by stealing all my money via taxation so I have nothing left to buy anything with.

    It's crumbling. Slowly, systematically, step by step - and I literally pray every day we have the last laugh.

    Sometimes I, too wonder if a total revolution would be the only way to fix all the horrible wrongs, IDK... .

    These perps - RIAA/MPAA - they can't get enough and don't know how or where to stop the insanity. The people may just be bullied into stopping it themselves. Just sayin'.

  • On the post: RIAA Wants To Put People In Jail For Sharing Their Music Subscription Login With Friends

    Jeni ( profile ), 03 Jun, 2011 @ 05:19am

    Re: Soon we will all be criminals

    LOL - look out granny, especially if granny allows the grand-kiddies to watch a Disney flick. Double trouble!

  • On the post: RIAA Wants To Put People In Jail For Sharing Their Music Subscription Login With Friends

    Jeni ( profile ), 03 Jun, 2011 @ 05:12am

    Re:

    That is the stupidest attempt at an argument I've seen in a long time.

    First, how on earth can you compare a physical object to an online subscription - that's like trying to mix oil and water.

    To use your logic, one could also then say when a man and woman marry they become one, therefore both should be able to use the same "entertainment subscription".

    Or that no one should ever invite anyone over to watch a copy of a DVD. Instead everyone who joins a get together should bring their own copy even though only one will be played. That's dumb. Are we all supposed to police our company now and make sure they OWN a copy of every song, every movie, every book etc., that we do simply because they may be on the same premises where a copy is? Good grief!!!

    This is crazy. Unless I'm misunderstanding something here (never had an "entertainment subscription - trolls like Darryl entertain me for free) couldn't several college "roomies" just subscribe and all be sure to use one computer and one log in?

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