MatsieFTW! - Latest Comments

Re: Song of the Moment: The Old Believers - “Granny’s Song”

macgasm — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 22:35:25 -0000

I see your oldbelievers and raise you a http://www.myspace.com/onelittleplane

Re: The Case of the Subliminal

jmcdill83 — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 14:15:51 -0000

yup i do the same thing

Re: Wow! I Can’t Believe It!

jmcdill83 — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 14:14:59 -0000

will do just got paid so i can renew...and i have vacation this week staring Friday so... new keyboards for me...though alliance i feel dirty...he he

Re: I Love Beaker!

logicalextremes — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 22:34:00 -0000

Feist was good of course, but the Carmen ditty had me rollin'

Re: Wow! I Can’t Believe It!

matsie — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 01:06:02 -0000

Please do! I miss playing Family Feud with you in Knapp's class! hahaha. I'm on the Executus server and am always willing to quest with lower leveled players. I'm a human paladin, level 21 right now. Lemme know!

Re: Wow! I Can’t Believe It!

jmcdill83 — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 00:54:56 -0000

Yah i know the feeling...every time i restarted playing WOW its always been with other people...and if they lose interest or whatever i stop playing....but id be willing to give the old hunter another whirl....

Re: Wow! I Can’t Believe It!

devolutionary — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 23:43:39 -0000

bump bumb bump. Another one bites the dust!

Re: Just the Way I Like It.

Mandy — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 23:04:44 -0000

I often wonder what my kids will remember about me. I read this, almost losing it, ok, correction, not almost. I have to think real hard on this for my mother, remembering that she was at work or asleep a lot and lay on a guilt trip to myself to work or sleep! I stayed home when they were little and I remember those times, but they don't.

Thanks for the well-written, beautiful memory!!

Re: That Horse is Dead

maveric9074 — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 22:38:37 -0000

http://www.lesliehall.com/1-leslie.html

That'll cheer ye up!

Re: Truth in Advertising?

maveric9074 — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 22:11:16 -0000

I believe the intent of these commercials is to increase public scrutiny of the big tobacco companies rather than to debunk any specific agenda. Basically, tobacco propaganda has never been and can never be in the public interest, scientifically enlightened or not. Messages from the tobacco companies will always be slanted towards the interest of the tobacco companies, profit. Same for any other business. That's why we hear "enjoy responsibly" with alcohol instead of "don't drink too much of our product" or "know your limit." All of these companies have a long and consistent track record of complying with the minimum of the law, and always trying to push those lines further back. Look in any old Time magazine and find the cigarette ads that proclaim how they "take the edge off after Mr. Johnson finishes a day of firefighting in his asbestos suit." or how any good mother would pass one around the table after dinner to help with digestion. Laughable now, but taken seriously then. So anyways, I think the point of the Truth ad compaign is that we always need to be critical of what we are being fed, and always aware of the man behind the curtain....

Re: That Horse is Dead

matsie — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 00:56:29 -0000

I loved that xkcd. It's actually one of the things that sparked this post.

Re: That Horse is Dead

matsie — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 00:56:04 -0000

Most definitely. It really irritates me how those are the same people who will invoke the First Amendment in order to support their horrible words. Just because you have a freedom does not mean you should abuse it. I have freedom of speech, but I do not go around making libel about people or calling them crude names.

Re: That Horse is Dead

erictruman — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 00:52:48 -0000

people that make those kinds of comments about your stuff goes to show that freedom of speech is followed by freedom of stupidity!

Re: That Horse is Dead

logicalextremes — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 23:02:25 -0000

If only... http://xkcd.com/438/

Re: Truth in Advertising?

devolutionary — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 22:36:23 -0000

I was hoping you'd be on AIM so we could do this faster, but here's some of my general disagreements, then I have to take a nap for realz then I'll reply to your reply later. k?

Businesses shouldn't have anything to do with politics. They shouldn't interrupt politics, that's for sure. But as far as political institutions being a outlet of the public's will, I think it is necessary for politics to protect its constituents.

The problem with just saying companies can lie all they want and that if you buy their stuff you're an idiot for not researching it is harsh. MANY people don't have time to devote the computer hours necessary to know that their kids Dora the Explorer plates are tainted with lead. and actually that is the job of the FDA and EPA to make sure we're not sucking up poison against our will. I'm sure the invisible hand of the market would gladly kill a few thousand "early adopters" so that other people could learn from their mistakes, but that is a horrible dystopic world that I (and I assume many people) do not want to live in.

Re: That Horse is Dead

matsie — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 22:17:44 -0000

haha. I have a few ips for ya then! :-P

Re: That Horse is Dead

macgasm — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 22:08:30 -0000

I hear that. Just log their ip's.... let me deal with them ;)

Re: Truth in Advertising?

devolutionary — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 21:56:55 -0000

Perhaps they used that quote because the thought of shrugging off the injury of a fetus to increase profit is an abomination. Maybe that was the most succinct quote they could find. It's not as if cigarettes have changed in 30 years. No, it's because whistle blowers and other health activists have fought up hill by any means necessary against corporate super powers to expose them. 1978 is not 1928.

Re: Truth in Advertising?

matsie — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 21:41:48 -0000

So? What does that have to do with taking a completely irrelevant quote and using it to stop modern day smoking habits? If they're distorting scientific data so much, use a more recent quote.

It's all propaganda and it's stomach turning to me. The truth ad campaign treats teens like they're idiots.

Re: Truth in Advertising?

devolutionary — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 21:31:10 -0000

Regardless if it's outdated lines they are quoting, the tobacco companies have been distorting scientific data for 50 years. See http://tobaccodocuments.org/

Re: Strange Followers

matsie — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 15:04:48 -0000

I'm not really worried about it. I just think it's very strange that someone I know added me without saying hello and then wrote a weird cryptic message. People are strange. I found it amusing.

Re: Strange Followers

erictruman — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 15:56:25 -0000

I wouldn't worry about it. when I first signed up I deleted the account after about a week. I just didn't get it. Then I joined again and understood. I'd be more worried if they sent you lots of messages instead of just one. I've had people add me on facebook after just joining and never heard from them again(and those are people I KNOW).

Re: Strange Followers

matsie — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 15:41:43 -0000

haha. That's a scary thought! What a horrible way to let me know.

Re: Strange Followers

macgasm — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 15:27:20 -0000

Maybe he "do love"'s you???!??!

Re: All Plurk’d Out!

matsie — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 07:03:08 -0000

I don't see how saying there are people who enjoy the service was necessary. I never said there weren't and I supported those who did. I never said enjoying Plurk was bad, either. By saying that, you are attributing an argument to me that I have not made.

Yes, you should have to sell websites. When you tell someone, "Hey I found this awesome site called Myspace. You should check it out." and they ask what the hell Myspace is and you tell them, you're selling the site. When you help them fill out their bio and learn what the different menu options are, you're selling the site.

Again, you keep attributing an argument to me that I have never made. I have said multiple times that Plurk will retain its own core userbase, but it will fall out of vogue with most of micro-bloggers out there.