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7,000,000,000 people in the world..

..but there were only 3,920,842,735 when i was born! Has nobody heard of contraception?
I was the 78,195,979,093rd person to live since history began.*
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-15391515
Mind=blown?
*not entirely sure what 'history' refers to here. Recorded history? Since the first Homo Sapien? Answers on a postcard..

Meh. The Earth can easily sustain another couple billion before she starts falling apart. And hey if we want to lower the population significantly we can just get rid of India or China.
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DirkGently said:
I was the 78,195,979,093rd person to live since history began.*
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Are you sure about that? I told me that I'm the 3,836,620,365th person which means nearly 75 billion people were born between me and you
Edit: Scratch that - It's me being dumb and misreading the page. I was the 78,061,059,109th person.

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Are you sure about that? I told me that I'm the 3,836,620,365th person which means nearly 75 billion people were born between me and you
Edit: Scratch that - It's me being dumb and misreading the page. I was the 78,061,059,109th person.
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Direct copy/paste! LOL!
Contraception people! Use it!!!
I've heard varying estimates over the years of the maximum number that the planet can sustain. Between 12 and 25 Billion are numbers i've heard, before we 'run out of planet'. Some could reasonably say we've already reached that point already!

that's me:
When you were born, you were the:
5,443,677,780th
person alive on Earth
80,596,424,130th
person to have lived since history began

When you were born, you were the:
1,744,890,692nd
person alive on Earth
72,505,844,764th
person to have lived since history began
Damn...ya'll are youngins.
~Jasecloud4

DirkGently said:
Has nobody heard of contraception?
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Apparently not...
Honestly i don't understand why someone wants more then 3 kids.. after 3 kids either the woman should get the tubes tied or the guy should get vasectomy ,
And also parents should take care of there kids and teach them about birth control... the problem is that they don't believe in birth control cause of their religion or they drink too much and forget to wear one or they just say F*ck it and do it anyway even if they don't have a condem
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When you were born,
you were the:5,063,227,422ndperson alive on Earth
80,001,709,065thperson to have lived since history began

I'm still laughing at the line, "when History began".
What does that even mean?

jasecloud4 said:
Meh. The Earth can easily sustain another couple billion before she starts falling apart. And hey if we want to lower the population significantly we can just get rid of India or China.
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The planet regulates itself. Natural disasters and epidemics. Personally i think it's a good thing. I don't like seeing people die but someone has to go, so mother nature cleans up.

Well thats crp! What do us 100< y.olds do

jasecloud4 said:
When you were born, you were the:
1,744,890,692nd
person alive on Earth
72,505,844,764th
person to have lived since history began
Damn...ya'll are youngins.
~Jasecloud4
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Nah...when I was born, I was the only one on Earth. The population was 1

DirkGently said:
..but there were only 3,920,842,735 when i was born! Has nobody heard of contraception?
I was the 78,195,979,093rd person to live since history began.*
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-15391515
Mind=blown?
*not entirely sure what 'history' refers to here. Recorded history? Since the first Homo Sapien? Answers on a postcard..
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Contraception? What is that?

It's amazing to think that the entire world is reliant on a simple premise that we need ever more young people to sustain our race and our economy. It sounds logical but it's a dangerous and unprecedented runaway effect! Look at it like this:
The Welfare system in the US went something like this. "We in power will want to retire when we're old". "Who will pay for that?". "Well, the young 'uns who are working will pay for that. There's less of us and more of them after all, so each of them pays a fraction, which is enough to sustain us few"
Of course that large group of young people grow old and become a large group of old people. An even larger group of young people are now needed to provide for that ever increasing group of old folk. Even an imbecile can see how badly that logic fails. In it's inception there were 40 young folk providing for each of the elderly. Now its almost completely reversed and the state has to make up the difference.
This is what the worlds economy is based on. Illogical math. It's the same with population. We have a runaway but unsustainable population growth. When the same thing happens in a Deer population for example, when the herd becomes bigger than the habitat can sustain, nature will take over and the herd will reduce it's number naturally. Some will starve of course but they will learn over time that it's not a good time to reproduce and birth rates will fall. All species control their numbers in this fashion.
Oh, with one exception, Humans. We're reliant now on ever increasing numbers to sustain us while simultaneously digging a deeper and deeper hole for ourselves. From a socio-economic standpoint we're the herd that's about to outgrow our habitat. I wonder what natural mechanisms will come into play?
Some already have of course. In the civilised world birth rates are falling. Makes sense as people can only afford two, not four children any more. That's a nice natural control. The problem is we now need six to sustain our economic infrastructure. So on the one hand, we're lightening the load on our fragile resources, but we're dooming ourselves to economic calamity at the same time!
Anybody who can reconcile the two and solve both problems at once will probably end up as not only Nobel Lauriete, but as Supreme Leader and ruler of the planet for life!

Have you watched Logan's Run?

xaccers said:
Have you watched Logan's Run?
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All manner of dystopian movies, including that one! I'd be eight years in the grave using that system of population control. If you've read the Stephen King short story, or seen the movie version, 'Children Of The Corn' had the same premise.
The thing is we are kinda living outside of natural controls now. One person i read said that "we no longer evolve as a species, we evolve our tools instead". It's scary but true. The human lifespan was significantly shorter in the age where we had less control over it. Survival of the fittest reigned supreme. If there wasn't enough food to go around, the population stagnated until there were bountiful supplies again.
Now we don't care if there's enough to go around. There isn't, we all know that. But what we have isn't distributed equally. That's the real crime. 10% of the world using 90% of the worlds resources? While the 10% die in poverty?
That my friends is nothing short of ****ed up.

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DirkGently said:
All manner of dystopian movies, including that one! I'd be eight years in the grave using that system of population control. If you've read the Stephen King short story, or seen the movie version, 'Children Of The Corn' had the same premise.
The thing is we are kinda living outside of natural controls now. One person i read said that "we no longer evolve as a species, we evolve our tools instead". It's scary but true. The human lifespan was significantly shorter in the age where we had less control over it. Survival of the fittest reigned supreme. If there wasn't enough food to go around, the population stagnated until there were bountiful supplies again.
Now we don't care if there's enough to go around. There isn't, we all know that. But what we have isn't distributed equally. That's the real crime. 10% of the world using 90% of the worlds resources? While the 10% die in poverty?
That my friends is nothing short of ****ed up.
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We'll jump in generation ships and head out into the galaxy.
Or, once mining asteroids takes off, the creation of space stations, think Rama, or Bab5.

Internet Censorship Bill - CALL/WRITE your representatives!

I didn't see a post for this elsewhere (though some may recall that I have an exceptional ability to miss the obvious ), and you will not hear about this on the news, and it's barely even being covered in print or online. I'm usually too much of a cynic to bother with this sort of activism but this is a big deal, so please grant me 5 minutes of your time; you won't regret it.
The big deal? The "Stop Online Piracy Act" (SOPA). Well wait now, that doesn't sound so bad. We all download music for free here and there, maybe use an "extended trial" of Photoshop, but we know that piracy is technically stealing...so this can't be that bad, right? Wrong. Horribly wrong.
The fact that no news agency is covering this is absolutely insane. We criticize countries like China and Iran for censorship, but at least they don't attempt to conceal it within a vague anti-piracy bill. It is no exaggeration to say that this is one of the most significant bills to come through congress in the past decade, and most people don't even know it exists; much less that discussion began on it today. Of those that do know about it, half of them don't understand why it's a bad thing because H.R.3261 has such an innocuous name (it is also called the Protect IP Act of 2011 in the Senate). Don't be fooled.
"American Censorship Day" - Information on the Internet Blacklist Bills​I urge you to take the time to educate yourself on H.R.3261 "SOPA" and write and/or call your Senators and Congress(wo)men! I guarantee if you spend 10 minutes reading about this, you will understand why I'm using an annoyingly large, bright red font.
The Wikipedia Article has a brief section ("Supporters") that shows--in a nutshell--how some politicians are deceptively framing this as a "pro-jobs" bill, among other pleasant sounding things; this couldn't be further from the truth. This is, in a manner of speaking, trying to apply archaic copyright laws to a 21st century Internet, rather than taking the effort to rewrite the copyright laws to make sense in the modern world.
You can find a lot of information explained very well at "American Censorship Day" website (scroll down past the petition), and I would encourage you to do your own research as well. Sign the petition if you want, but really, it is considerably more effective to call or write (or both!) your representatives.
A few more good links:
"Contacting The Congress" - Easily lookup the names/contact information of your Reps/Senators.
SOPA Wikipedia Article - References - These references link to a variety of websites/articles that are both for and against this bill. I would like to personally point out how most of those in support are entities of a political nature, while those against are largely non-political technology-oriented entities.
Full Text of H.R.3261 [PDF] - A relatively "short" 78 pages.
Hearing Information - House Judiciary Committee - This bill is on "the fastrack," meaning its authors are trying to push it through as quickly as possible...This hearing is where the bill began it's journey today (11/16/11).
I thank you for taking the time to read this; if you choose to reply to this thread, bash me as much as you like, but please keep your responses to each other civil.
Alright, back to rooting my Revo (before doing so is a felony ).
Sincerely,
James

Good stuff the masses don't even realize how important this is
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Basically when this bill passes we have no freedom of speech on the internets. The US government can block websites hosted on servers outside it's borders. And you can get sued for having a song playing on the radio heard in your video posted online.

jaszek said:
Basically when this bill passes we have no freedom of speech on the internets. The US government can block websites hosted on servers outside it's borders. And you can get sued for having a song playing on the radio heard in your video posted online.
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This is ridiculous we must stop them!
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Must stop big brother government before it's too late!

Its getting near time for the guns to come out boys...
Brb, there are strange men in suits at my door....
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Great Job was about to post something about this on here but you beat me to it anyway here are some more links to articles,info and petitions:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-segal/stop-the-internet-blackli_b_739836.html
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http://americancensorship.org/
http://demandprogress.org/blacklist/*
http://demandprogress.org/blacklist/?referring_akid=a2655379.916925._mXAo4&source=auto-taf
P.S keep spreading the word guys!

I think XDA should censor their logo/ and or have the javascript popup to support it http://americancensorship.org/
I have done it to my website for support purposes. come on guys we need this to be halted! So if you have a website/ blog please join the movement and censor your website for a day!

I guess this is the day when we finally found out for sure that govenments can be bought and paid for by greedy corporations.
You are now no longer being ruled by an elected body, but by a fat-cat in a pin-stripe suit.
This is the new world order i guess.

Very well written. I know quite a bit about this topic, since we will get something called "vorratsdatenspeicherung" where I live (austria). Basically The government logs your internet connection and it logs when and who you call/write a sms/ send an email and where you were by doing that.
Should be published on the portal!
I do what i want, because I can.

THIS IS CRAZY

This has to be one of those interpretation of the law issues though surely? I mean... you can't be prosecuted for lying on a dating profile about your height, weight, age etc. There'd be nobody left on match.com

Mykocorum said:
This has to be one of those interpretation of the law issues though surely? I mean... you can't be prosecuted for lying on a dating profile about your height, weight, age etc. There'd be nobody left on match.com
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The way the law is written does allow for scenarios like the one you propose. The retort of the politicians is, "We won't ever (ab)use this power for doing stuff like that, never ever." I don't know about you, but that's not too reassuring for me. If it's not abused now by these politicians, it'll be abused later by future politicians. Not to mention the precedent it sets...Once you give the government a little bit of control, it becomes very easy for them to get a lot of control.
Even if this were solely an interpretation of the law issue I'd still be against it, because Congress shouldn't be writing laws that can be so easily misinterpreted.
A link to the full text is up there, I plan on reading it tomorrow.

I totally agree the law should be written so that there is no room for interpretation.. you know if what you are doing is illegal from day one, ignorance is not a defence, but as devils advocate the counter is that you end up with thousands of very specific laws for hundreds of situations whilst occurrences the lawmakers didn't think of at the time are getting through loopholes and running away.
Circumstantially you should really be able to use the end purpose of why you are doing what you are doing as to the criminality of what's going down. I don't think anyone on this board would argue that a 40 year old man pretending to be a 13 year old girl on a forum or website to talk to other teenagers should be made illegal and is a very wrong thing - but who hasn't said they are two inches taller on a dating profile or put their build down as "athletic" rather than "a few extra pounds"

Bear in mind that the UK equivalent to this, the 'Digital Economy Act' was passed into law some time ago with barely a whimper of protest. Just like ProtectIP, it was kept quiet and barely reported on until it was too late. We just woke up one morning to draconian new laws. Again, it was bought and paid for by big media.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Economy_Act_2010
I doubt anything can be done to stop the same happening in the US, but perhaps enough pressure can be brought to bear to force some changes to the act. At least you guys have advanced warning to do something about it.
Edit: Big Content stacks Senate Committee
"US Senators have done their level best to give Big Content the law it wants to basically lock up citizens who might think of piracy or file sharing without having to worry about that pesky thing called constitution. The House Judiciary Committee today held an important hearing on the Stop Online Piracy Act but only those witnesses who would not object to the law being invited. This was designed to give the impression that all the witnesses were in favour of the law."

Bump this baby. Also voted for frontpage!
I do what i want, because I can.

DirkGently said:
Bear in mind that the UK equivalent to this, the 'Digital Economy Act' was passed into law some time ago with barely a whimper of protest. Just like ProtectIP, it was kept quiet and barely reported on until it was too late. We just woke up one morning to draconian new laws. Again, it was bought and paid for by big media.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Economy_Act_2010
I doubt anything can be done to stop the same happening in the US, but perhaps enough pressure can be brought to bear to force some changes to the act. At least you guys have advanced warning to do something about it.
Edit: Big Content stacks Senate Committee
"US Senators have done their level best to give Big Content the law it wants to basically lock up citizens who might think of piracy or file sharing without having to worry about that pesky thing called constitution. The House Judiciary Committee today held an important hearing on the Stop Online Piracy Act but only those witnesses who would not object to the law being invited. This was designed to give the impression that all the witnesses were in favour of the law."
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Thanks for posting this...It's absolutely crazy...I'm sure they'll find a way to completely circumvent a public hearing that gives opponents a chance to speak throughout the entire process.

jamRwoo said:
Thanks for posting this...It's absolutely crazy...I'm sure they'll find a way to completely circumvent a public hearing that gives opponents a chance to speak throughout the entire process.
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As always, the people can have a say.. at the ballot box!
I'm pleased to report that the government that introduced the DEA in the UK, lost in the next election shortly afterwards. (After being in power for thirteen years).
Karma b*tches!

Bumping this due to some developments...
Well, this is finally seeing the light of day and getting coverage by some news agencies; caught these articles on Drudge Report.
I just want to say that I hope Chris Dodd dies in a fire. Slowly. FYI: He's a former Senator spearheading this bill AND the new head of the MPAA. Primarily by attempting to bribe members of Congress. Gotta love that the Hollywood/Record Label lobbyists are getting all the airtime, while the people who actually understand this stuff are being silenced as much as possible.
Not too late to call/write your representatives. You can also share these links with your friends...tweet them, facebook them, reddit them, do whatever. If these links don't scare the living s**t out of you, well...idk...too many benzos perhaps. Feel free to copy this post and use it wherever, if you wish.
All of these articles are great and cover a different aspect (with some overlap) of the consequences of this legislation. Props to The Hill for giving this so much coverage; glad someone's doing it.
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MPAA Head Chris Dodd on Online Censorship Bill: China's the Model -- http://bit.ly/u7kgXy
"When the Chinese told Google that they had to block sites or they couldn't do [business] in their country, they managed to figure out how to block sites."
Google chairman says online piracy bill would 'criminalize' the Internet -- http://bit.ly/tRWEnj
"It's not a good thing. I understand the goal of what SOPA and PIPA are trying to do," Schmidt said of the Senate counterpart bill, the Protect IP Act. "Their goal is reasonable, their mechanism is terrible. They should not criminalize the intermediaries. They should go after the people that are violating the law."
Internet piracy bill: A free speech 'kill switch' -- http://bit.ly/tY6o6f
Consider this: Under the proposed legislation all that’s required for government to shutdown a specific website is the mere accusation that the site unlawfully featured copyrighted content. Such an accusation need not be proven – or even accompanied by probable cause. All that an accuser (or competitor) needs to do in order to obtain injunctive relief is point the finger at a website.
Legal expert says online piracy bill is unconstitutional -- http://bit.ly/tNBUDH
"Conceivably, an entire website containing tens of thousands of pages could be targeted if only a single page were accused of infringement," Tribe writes. "Such an approach would create severe practical problems for sites with substantial user-generated content, such as Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, and for blogs that allow users to post videos, photos, and other materials."
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God, do I hate politicians.
P.S. For those interested in a more detailed analysis of how this is a flagrant violation of free speech: Laurence Tribe, a Harvard law professor and Supreme Court advocate, wrote a memo detailing how SOPA does exactly that -- http://scr.bi/sFSRBg

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Another reason to love Google!

Check it out guys...
Google Launches Gay Rights Campaign ‘Legalize Love’
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Google wants to further gay rights across the world, launching a new campaign called “Legalize Love” on Saturday.
The tech giant hopes to advance marriage rights for gay, lesbian and bisexual people in countries where it has offices, beginning in Poland and Singapore.
Google exec Mark Palmer-Edgecumbe introduced the campaign at the Global LGBT Workplace Summit in London, reports dot429.
“We want our employees who are gay or lesbian or transgender to have the same experience outside the office as they do in the office,” Palmer-Edgecumbe said. “It is obviously a very ambitious piece of work.”
Google plans to develop relationships between companies and support grass-roots campaigning. Legalize Love will focus primarily on countries with homophobic laws and cultures.
“‘Legalize Love’ is a campaign to promote safer conditions for gay and lesbian people inside and outside the office in countries with anti-gay laws on the books,” Google wrote in a statement.
Palmer-Edgecumbe says Google is beginning the push in Singapore because the country is striving to be a global financial leader.
This is hardly Google’s first step toward advancing gay rights. Last month, during international Gay Pride celebrations, the search tool released a charming Easter egg. In a 2008 blog post written by co-founder Sergey Brin, Google also publicly expressed its opposition to California’s Prop. 8, the state constitutional amendment that took away the right of same-sex couples to marry.​
The story is from here: http://mashable.com/2012/07/08/google-gay-legalize-love/

I like this much better than their "It gets better" campaign geared towards gay teenagers and/or high schoolers. I think it would have been better for that campaign if they would have focused on ALL teenagers or high schoolers and not just the gay ones. A good portion of high schoolers have depression and suicide issues, my teenage cousin hung herself a few years back, and I have had other acquaintances kill themselves. Everybody needs the "it gets better" message, they should have included all teenagers regardless of sexual preference. As far as this campaign I support it. Legalize love!

I can't wait for the inevitable "BOYCOTT GOOGLE!!!!!11!!!1!" posts. Have using yahoo or whatever janky search engine.

I honestly don't think that I could care less. Personally I say just let them do what they want. I am so sick of having this gay rights crap shoved down my throat. Mostly because I'm straight and don't like things shoved down my throat. So just legalize it so that they will shut the hell up.

Mod edit: Offensive and childish comment removed. Post something like that again and I'll have words in private with you.

063_XOBX said:
I can't wait for the inevitable "BOYCOTT GOOGLE!!!!!11!!!1!" posts. Have using yahoo or whatever janky search engine.
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Those people will also have to boycott these companies:
Allstate
Amazon
American Airlines
Apple
Applebee's
Best Buy
Clorox
Coca-Cola
Costco
Delta Airlines
Ford
Gap
General Motors
Gerber Baby Products
Hilton Hotels
Home Depot
IMB
Levi's
Marriot International
McDonald's
Microsoft
Nationwide
Nike
Olive Garden
Pepsico
Proctor and Gamble
Red Lobster
Rite Aid
Sears
Southwest Airlines
Starbucks
State Farm
Target
United Airlines
UPS
Walgreens
Walt Disney Company

Absolutely lovely to hear!
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Im still pissed off at google for sensoring searches for firearms related items.
Im also not happy with apple but i run android on my tablet and use an iphone, both rooted/jailbroken of course.
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WiredPirate said:
I like this much better than their "It gets better" campaign geared towards gay teenagers and/or high schoolers. I think it would have been better for that campaign if they would have focused on ALL teenagers or high schoolers and not just the gay ones. A good portion of high schoolers have depression and suicide issues, my teenage cousin hung herself a few years back, and I have had other acquaintances kill themselves. Everybody needs the "it gets better" message, they should have included all teenagers regardless of sexual preference. As far as this campaign I support it. Legalize love!
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It Gets Better works very closely with STOP Teen Suicide and while they don't directly associate their campaigns and products with them, the two pretty much go hand in hand.
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deerhurst said:
Im still pissed off at google for sensoring searches for firearms related items.
Im also not happy with apple but i run android on my tablet and use an iphone, both rooted/jailbroken of course.
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I had not heard about that, that doesn't make me happy at all, I am very pro-firearm.
thelowend said:
It Gets Better works very closely with STOP Teen Suicide and while they don't directly associate their campaigns and products with them, the two pretty much go hand in hand.
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I was not aware of that, I wish they would have directly associated the two campaigns.

StormMcCloud said:
I honestly don't think that I could care less. Personally I say just let them do what they want. I am so sick of having this gay rights crap shoved down my throat. Mostly because I'm straight and don't like things shoved down my throat. So just legalize it so that they will shut the hell up.
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StormMcCloud said:
I honestly don't think that I could care less. Personally I say just let them do what they want. I am so sick of having this gay rights crap shoved down my throat. Mostly because I'm straight and don't like things shoved down my throat. So just legalize it so that they will shut the hell up.
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+1
No one cares which way you swing and all this nonsense about pro-gay societies/groups is getting really old...
Pin it to Win it.

deerhurst said:
Im still pissed off at google for sensoring searches for firearms related items.
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I am still extremely mad at Google for that as well....just not mad enough to use bing or yahoo...lol.

StormMcCloud said:
I am still extremely mad at Google for that as well....just not mad enough to use bing or yahoo...lol.
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They only censored them in their shopping results.
From google on things not allowed in shopping results (ie Google Shopping).....
Affiliates, cataloged drop-shipping programs, and multi-level marketing
The promotion of affiliate or pay-per-click links, products sold through a commission-based relationship, or sites that bulk list products fulfilled through drop-ship consolidators is not allowed. This includes item pages that are made up almost entirely of advertisements, or pages where advertisements obstruct the view of the submitted product. The promotion of multi-level marketing (MLM) business products is also not permitted, such as businesses that recruit members and offer them rewards for recruiting others and/or selling services
Services
Services are not allowed on Google Shopping.
Examples of listings disallowed:
•Event tickets
•Subscriptions, such as magazine subscriptions or any kind of service subscription.
•Online courses
Other prohibited categories
The following products are not allowed on Google Shopping:
•Vehicles
•Guns, ammunition and knives
•Tobacco and cigarettes
•Traffic devices (Learn more)
•Products related to casino and gambling
•Products or digital goods that require additional software installation in order to be purchased.
•Products bundled with service plans. (Note: The only products that are allowed to be submitted with a service plan are mobile devices.)
Marketplaces, Marketplace sellers and Aggregators
EDIT: Left this out by mistake.....
Family status
Google assigns a family status to all products to make sure that content is shown to an appropriate audience. All products must be "family safe". All products in the "non-family safe" or "adult" categories are not allowed on Google Shopping.
For example, the following products are non-family safe or adult:
•Adult sexual products and content (including product images and/or landing pages containing nudity or adult sexual content)
•Alcohol
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Hmm...Well at least Google is very open.

Samsung is Evil

I stood behind Samsung when Apple bringing unjust charges on against them. I thought Samsung was the defender of Android and the truth but I was WRONG.
Recently, I learned that Samsung promised to take a blogger to the IFA as an independent reporter. This means that the blogger could basically cover whatever he wanted. However, Samsung LIED to him. He was taken to the IFA but he was only allowed to demonstrate Samsung products to the press. He was not actually able to review any products and instead was treated as a Samsung employee.
They even told him that if he doesn't do what he is told then Samsung will leave him in this foreign country. EVIL!!!
Don't believe me? Take a look at the source:
Samsung is Evil

Scratch that. It's definitely true, however,
Behavior such as Samsung’s is not uncommon in the world of tech coverage. It’s perhaps considered more normal in some parts of the world, but even we here at TNW are regularly offered to have our travel and accommodations covered in hopes that we’ll write about a specific brand during our overall coverage of an event.
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And that's from the site the blogger is from.
Article here.

Nothing true about that noy a single facts pretty sure it was written by some isheep in hopes that it would make appke look less of a monster.
Use some common sense next time please though i suspect we both knew this was bs lol dumb isheep.
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That article is posted by you. Nobody is going to believe you until you provide a link to a reputable source.

063_XOBX said:
Since your source is an article written by somebody called Super2cool (sounds familiar?) I'm gonna just call this trolling.
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Its not trolling.. its posted all over the web.
Don't be in blind trust of a corporation... They are not humans.
Take a look here if you don't believe me:
http://thenextweb.com/insider/2012/...oggers-halfway-around-world-threatened-leave/

Yeah, 'slave labor'; I recall an article about all those slaves being flown across the world, put up in a hotel, all expenses paid and such. So the guy couldn't have covered IFA on his own in his free time? [sarcasm]What a horrible life [/sarcasm]

MissionImprobable said:
Yeah, 'slave labor'; I recall an article about all those slaves being flown across the world, put up in a hotel, all expenses paid and such. So the guy couldn't have covered IFA on his own in his free time? [sarcasm]What a horrible life [/sarcasm]
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Ok I guess did exaggerate a bit!
However, it is still unacceptable for Samsung to lie to him and then threaten him to leave him in Berlin where the IFA was hosted.

Sounds more like the Blogger was trying to catch a free round trip to IFA on Samsung's dime without offering anything to them in return. I am waiting for Samsung to chime in (they will) and hear both sides. Then I'm waiting for the inevitable leak of emails or call records or whatever. Then once I know the actual story I will have an opinion.

063_XOBX said:
Sounds more like the Blogger was trying to catch a free round trip to IFA on Samsung's dime without offering anything to them in return. I am waiting for Samsung to chime in (they will) and hear both sides. Then I'm waiting for the inevitable leak of emails or call records or whatever. Then once I know the actual story I will have an opinion.
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It seemed too good to be true.. but still Samsung should have been more clear of what they expected from the blogger.

This is what happens when you agree with the terms and conditions and choose to ignore them after you've signed. Don't expect Samsung to hold their word when you don't.
(I'm assuming there were some papers that needed to be signed {that you didn't read}. Samsung is after all a multi billion dollar corporation)
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LordManhattan said:
This is what happens when you agree with the terms and conditions and choose to ignore them after you've signed. Don't expect Samsung to hold their word when you don't.
(I'm assuming there were some papers that needed to be signed {that you didn't read}. Samsung is after all a multi billion dollar corporation)
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Yeeah.. they were some papers to sign and this all probaly legal when looking at the papers.
However, it still unethical when you are knowingly trying to scam a person (sort of a scam.. I guess? ..don't know exactly what to call it)

Super2cool said:
Yeeah.. they were some papers to sign and this all probaly legal when looking at the papers.
However, it still unethical when you are knowingly trying to scam a person (sort of a scam.. I guess? ..don't know exactly what to call it)
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What is unethical about somebody paying for your trip and lodging and expecting something in return? Samsung has no obligation to pay for bloggers to travel to big events.

063_XOBX said:
What is unethical about somebody paying for your trip and lodging and expecting something in return? Samsung has no obligation to pay for bloggers to travel to big events.
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Well.. its cause its not what he was expecting. He did not get to review the IFA. He was just showing Samsung products to the press... under a threat.
What I am asking is that...
Is it wrong to expect Samsung to tell him straight up.."we want you to show off our products..not review the IFA"?
Instead..Samsung lied to him.

I don't see anything unreasonable about Samsung saying
You can either be a part of this and wear the uniform, or you’ll have to get your own tickets back home and handle your hotel stay from the moment this call ends
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It's not nice, but according to the article it's a pretty common practice for Handset makers to fly bloggers to events to cover their devices. Why would Samsung spend their money to help other gadgets get publicity?
I wouldn't waste a penny providing advertisements for my COMPETITORS.

063_XOBX said:
I don't see anything unreasonable about Samsung saying .
It's not nice, but according to the article it's a pretty common practice for Handset makers to fly bloggers to events to cover their devices. Why would Samsung spend their money to help other gadgets get publicity?
I wouldn't waste a penny providing advertisements for my COMPETITORS.
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He actually wasn't able to review what happened that day..
“None of this should leave Berlin. Or Reach India”
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Super2cool said:
He was taken to the IFA but he was only allowed to demonstrate Samsung products to the press. He was not actually able to review any products and instead was treated as a Samsung employee.
EVIL!!!
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Someone has to evil, dont they? not everyone can be as honest and goody-goody like apple, now.. You gotta be the bad boy sometimes, take one for the customers..

King ACE said:
Someone has to evil, dont they? not everyone can be as honest and goody-goody like apple, now.. You gotta be the bad boy sometimes, take one for the customers..
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lol @ Apple is very honest
How does Samsung lying help customers?
I am sorry but you guys need to realize what Samsung did was evil and they should be punished (I doubt this will happen)

Why would Samsung even fly bloggers for free? They're a company, a business. Of course it will benefit them, they will make it benefit them in some ways even if it is a little unethical. So in this way, all mobile phone manufacturers are evil? :/

I'm not sure what you thought it would be like. Vacation with free alcohol and prostitutes? No, you were brought in to do a job, and you failed big time. I would fire you on the spot.
Let's break it down:
- Samsung offers you a job as a promoter
- You accept it
- They cover the hotel and travel costs, which is a lot of money
- You refuse to do the job
- You want them to cover the flight home, which is a lot of money
I'm not sure you know what a promoter is or does. A promoter promotes a company's products. NOT reviewing and promoting the competitors' products. Also, Samsung took its time to hire you and on top of that spend money on you. Then you quit. You're the jerk here, not Samsung.
Not sure what part of Narnia you're from, but this is the real world. Welcome.

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I don't understand what to do? What are your thoughts? What would you do?

Submit a claim
Looks like a standard class action notification.
You probably will see little benefit anyway.

I got that a few days ago, just deleted it lol..
Edit: Said screw it and just filled it out.
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Just checked my email thats connected to fb, no lawsuit stuff in there.
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I got the same email about 2 weeks ago. I deleted it.
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I got the same email about. A week to a week and a half ago. I just ignored it for now because I wasn't quite sure why I got it Lol.
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Fill it out. Not much gain to you, max ten bucks, but if they get too many people, the few million they have to give out from this will go to charity.

The key words there are "may have been". Guess what, you probably weren't.....
Look how many people here got that same message from a tiny cross section of Facebook users.
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it's prolly a free pony!
sign it! sign it now gaddamit!

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TheSkinnyDrummer said:
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Truer words have yet to be spoken :laugh:

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SO true
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TheSkinnyDrummer said:
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Truly words of wisdom, that's why I posted this pic on facebook, tweeted, and added an effect on instagram and showed it off.