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First internet porn
A group of tired technicians crowded around a whirring little printer spitting out random blocks of numbers and punctuation, like someone clearing their throat. Everyone shifted from foot to foot with anticipation (except the printer [inanimate]). They waited for it to stop chattering nonsense and produce the first message sent three and a half hundred miles through the experimental and top secret network that would become, someday, the internet.
BUZZZZZZ went a buzzer, indicating data had successfully crawled through the patchwork system they had been fixing and inadvertently breaking for years. The printer hesitated, reversed itself, then rolled out a paper, like a scroll sent down from God.
Message from Operator 4G5XC to Operator 777LP
START MESSAGE.............................................................
Hey Frank, did you get those boobs I sent you? Clipped that shit out of an ad in Juggs. Killer rack, right?
-Stan "The Blast Master"
........................................................END MESSAGEXX37511
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He was a medicine man of great importance. He stood naked before the tribe, took a slow deep breath like he did before every performance, then suddenly howled and began making wild leaps and gesticulating with both spindly arms. This was to indicate that the gods were well pleased with the latest batch of human sacrifice and would now deliver the rain the village desperately needed.
The crowd shrank back as he danced, and suddenly "Half-wit" Hao reached over and stabbed a kid.
"The medicine man says the gods are angry. We must sacrifice more," said Half-wit, as the kid went through the usual post-stab rigmarole (bleeding, gurgling, dying, etc.).
The medicine man stopped dancing and grunted in annoyance. He stomped over to a nearby tree, tore off some of the bark, and scratched a crude caricature of a smiling face onto it. He began to dance again, this time with the smiley face over his face to announce the intended mood of his actions.
"Ooooooh," said the crowd.
"Sorry kid," said Half-wit, but the kid was already dead. These things happen.
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
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By chinkmc on btjunkie.org
The Coen Brothers Burn after Reading
Film Review:
(may contain spoilers)
signal or message embedded in another medium, designed to pass below the normal limits of the human minds perception. These messages are unrecognizable by the conscious mind, but in certain situations can affect the subconscious mind and importantly, the unconscious mind, and can negatively or positively influence subsequent later thoughts, behaviors, actions, attitudes, belief systems and value systems. The term subliminal means "beneath a limen" (sensory threshold). This is derived from the Latin words sub, meaning under, and limen, meaning threshold.
In 1900, Knight Dunlap, an American professor of psychology, flashed an "imperceptible shadow" to subjects while showing them a Müller-Lyer illusion containing two lines with pointed arrows at both ends which create an illusion of different lengths. Dunlap claimed that the shadow influenced his subjects subliminally in their judgment of the lengths of the lines.
Although these results were not verified in a scientific study, American psychologist Harry Levi Hollingworth reported in an advertising textbook that such subliminal messages could be used by advertisers.
During World War II, the tachistoscope, an instrument which projects pictures for an extremely brief period, was used to train soldiers to recognize enemy airplanes.[1] Today the tachistoscope is used to increase reading speed or to test sight.[3]
In 1957, market researcher James Vicary claimed that quickly flashing messages on a movie screen, in Fort Lee, New Jersey, had influenced people to purchase more food and drinks. Vicary coined the term subliminal advertising and formed the Subliminal Projection Company based on a six-week test. Vicary claimed that during the presentation of the movie Picnic he used a tachistoscope to project the words "Drink Coca-Cola" and "Hungry? Eat popcorn" for 1/3000 of a second at five-second intervals. Vicary asserted that during the test, sales of popcorn and Coke in that New Jersey theater increased 57.8 percent and 18.1 percent respectively.[1][4]
It was later revealed, however, that Vicary lied about the experiment. He admitted to falsifying the results, and an identical experiment conducted by Dr. Henry Link showed no increase in cola or popcorn sales. This has led people to believe that Vicary actually did not conduct his experiment whatsoever.[5]
Vicarys claims were promoted in Vance Packards book The Hidden Persuaders,[6] and led to a public outcry, and to many conspiracy theories of governments and cults using the technique to their advantage."Subliminal messages in movies and media". Retrieved on 2008-05-21.[citation needed] The practice of subliminal advertising was subsequently banned in the United Kingdom and Australia,[2] and by American networks and the National Association of Broadcasters in 1958.[4]
But in 1958, Vicary conducted a television test in which he flashed the message "telephone now" hundreds of times during a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation program, and found no increase in telephone calls. In 1962, Vicary admitted that he fabricated his claim, the story itself being a marketing ploy.[7] Efforts to replicate the results of Vicarys reports have never resulted in success.[1]
In 1973, commercials in the United States and Canada for the game H#363;sker D#363;? flashed the message "Get it".[6] During the same year, Wilson Bryan Keys book Subliminal Seduction claimed that subliminal techniques were widely used in advertising.[4] Public concern was sufficient to cause the FCC to hold hearings in 1974. The hearings resulted in an FCC policy statement stating that subliminal advertising was "contrary to the public interest" and "intended to be deceptive".[4] Subliminal advertising was also banned in Canada following the broadcasting of H#363;sker D#363;? ads there.[1]
A study conducted by the United Nations concluded that "the cultural implications of subliminal indoctrination is a major threat to human rights throughout the world."[8]
In 1985, Dr. Joe Stuessy testified to the United States Senate at the Parents Music Resource Center hearings that:
The message [of a piece of heavy metal music] may also be covert or subliminal. Sometimes subaudible tracks are mixed in underneath other, louder tracks. These are heard by the subconscious but not the conscious mind. Sometimes the messages are audible but are backwards, called backmasking. There is disagreement among experts regarding the effectiveness of subliminals. We need more research on that.[9]
Stuessys written testimony stated that:
Some messages are presented to the listener backwards. While listening to a normal forward message (often somewhat nonsensical), one is simultaneously being treated to a back-wards message (in other words, the lyric sounds like one set of words going forward, and a different set of words going backwards). Some experts believe that while the conscious mind is absorbing
The Coen Brothers Burn after Reading
Film Review:
(may contain spoilers)
signal or message embedded in another medium, designed to pass below the normal limits of the human minds perception. These messages are unrecognizable by the conscious mind, but in certain situations can affect the subconscious mind and importantly, the unconscious mind, and can negatively or positively influence subsequent later thoughts, behaviors, actions, attitudes, belief systems and value systems. The term subliminal means "beneath a limen" (sensory threshold). This is derived from the Latin words sub, meaning under, and limen, meaning threshold.
In 1900, Knight Dunlap, an American professor of psychology, flashed an "imperceptible shadow" to subjects while showing them a Müller-Lyer illusion containing two lines with pointed arrows at both ends which create an illusion of different lengths. Dunlap claimed that the shadow influenced his subjects subliminally in their judgment of the lengths of the lines.
Although these results were not verified in a scientific study, American psychologist Harry Levi Hollingworth reported in an advertising textbook that such subliminal messages could be used by advertisers.
During World War II, the tachistoscope, an instrument which projects pictures for an extremely brief period, was used to train soldiers to recognize enemy airplanes.[1] Today the tachistoscope is used to increase reading speed or to test sight.[3]
In 1957, market researcher James Vicary claimed that quickly flashing messages on a movie screen, in Fort Lee, New Jersey, had influenced people to purchase more food and drinks. Vicary coined the term subliminal advertising and formed the Subliminal Projection Company based on a six-week test. Vicary claimed that during the presentation of the movie Picnic he used a tachistoscope to project the words "Drink Coca-Cola" and "Hungry? Eat popcorn" for 1/3000 of a second at five-second intervals. Vicary asserted that during the test, sales of popcorn and Coke in that New Jersey theater increased 57.8 percent and 18.1 percent respectively.[1][4]
It was later revealed, however, that Vicary lied about the experiment. He admitted to falsifying the results, and an identical experiment conducted by Dr. Henry Link showed no increase in cola or popcorn sales. This has led people to believe that Vicary actually did not conduct his experiment whatsoever.[5]
Vicarys claims were promoted in Vance Packards book The Hidden Persuaders,[6] and led to a public outcry, and to many conspiracy theories of governments and cults using the technique to their advantage."Subliminal messages in movies and media". Retrieved on 2008-05-21.[citation needed] The practice of subliminal advertising was subsequently banned in the United Kingdom and Australia,[2] and by American networks and the National Association of Broadcasters in 1958.[4]
But in 1958, Vicary conducted a television test in which he flashed the message "telephone now" hundreds of times during a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation program, and found no increase in telephone calls. In 1962, Vicary admitted that he fabricated his claim, the story itself being a marketing ploy.[7] Efforts to replicate the results of Vicarys reports have never resulted in success.[1]
In 1973, commercials in the United States and Canada for the game H#363;sker D#363;? flashed the message "Get it".[6] During the same year, Wilson Bryan Keys book Subliminal Seduction claimed that subliminal techniques were widely used in advertising.[4] Public concern was sufficient to cause the FCC to hold hearings in 1974. The hearings resulted in an FCC policy statement stating that subliminal advertising was "contrary to the public interest" and "intended to be deceptive".[4] Subliminal advertising was also banned in Canada following the broadcasting of H#363;sker D#363;? ads there.[1]
A study conducted by the United Nations concluded that "the cultural implications of subliminal indoctrination is a major threat to human rights throughout the world."[8]
In 1985, Dr. Joe Stuessy testified to the United States Senate at the Parents Music Resource Center hearings that:
The message [of a piece of heavy metal music] may also be covert or subliminal. Sometimes subaudible tracks are mixed in underneath other, louder tracks. These are heard by the subconscious but not the conscious mind. Sometimes the messages are audible but are backwards, called backmasking. There is disagreement among experts regarding the effectiveness of subliminals. We need more research on that.[9]
Stuessys written testimony stated that:
Some messages are presented to the listener backwards. While listening to a normal forward message (often somewhat nonsensical), one is simultaneously being treated to a back-wards message (in other words, the lyric sounds like one set of words going forward, and a different set of words going backwards). Some experts believe that while the conscious mind is absorbing
Saturday, February 23, 2008
IMDb user chronobrain's comment
(in reguards to the french movie La Moustache (Carrère, 2005))
Don't worry; I have plenty of new stuff to say about La Mustache and its hired goons. You see, I really believe that we have to consider all of our options. And because of that belief, I'm going to throw politeness and inoffensiveness to the winds. In this letter, I'm going to be as rude and crude as I know how, to reinforce the point that it is pointless to fret about the damage already caused by La Mustache's officious, lethargic sentiments. The past cannot be changed. We must cope with the present if we hope to affect our future and seek some structure in which the cacophony introduced by La Mustache's beliefs (as I would certainly not call them logically reasoned arguments) might be systematized, reconciled, and made rational. Sticks and stones may break my bones, but La Mustache should learn to appreciate what it has instead of feeling so oppressed because it can't do everything it wants, every time it wants to.
Imagine getting a dollar every time La Mustache said it wouldn't divert our attention from serious issues, but did so anyway. You'd doubtlessly be very, very rich. Viewed from all angles, La Mustache needs to stop living in denial. It needs to wake up and realize that it spouts a lot of numbers whenever it wants to make a point. It then subjectively interprets those numbers to support its bait-and-switch tactics while ignoring the fact that prudence is no vice. Cowardice -- especially its mindless form of it -- is. Even if our society had no social problems at all, we could still say that La Mustache doesn't perceive that anything is wrong with it. (Actually, La Mustache may be engaged in extortion, racketeering, and/or money laundering but that's not important now.)
Some bitter traitors have raised objections to my criticisms, but their objections are all politically motivated. La Mustache has never tried to stop bumptious vermin who encourage sadistic rabble-rousers to see themselves as victims and, therefore, live by alibis rather than by honest effort. In fact, quite the opposite is true: La Mustache encourages that sort of behavior. People should soothe each other's pain, not exploit it. And that's why I say to you: Have courage. Be honest. And make some changes here. That's the patriotic thing to do, and that's the right thing to do.
I am thoroughly impressed with this botter's sarcasm. La Moustache(2005) is not quite as pretentious of a movie as some, and i did like certain aspects of it, but this post mirrors this type of art film brilliantly. Its great use of logical construction keeps you waiting, but basically in the end it turns out to be pseudo-intelligent jabberwocky; leaving you saying wtf. Way to go bots, a few more years of programming and you'll be leaving ignorant malcontent comments on forums like the rest of the "real boy"s.
Don't worry; I have plenty of new stuff to say about La Mustache and its hired goons. You see, I really believe that we have to consider all of our options. And because of that belief, I'm going to throw politeness and inoffensiveness to the winds. In this letter, I'm going to be as rude and crude as I know how, to reinforce the point that it is pointless to fret about the damage already caused by La Mustache's officious, lethargic sentiments. The past cannot be changed. We must cope with the present if we hope to affect our future and seek some structure in which the cacophony introduced by La Mustache's beliefs (as I would certainly not call them logically reasoned arguments) might be systematized, reconciled, and made rational. Sticks and stones may break my bones, but La Mustache should learn to appreciate what it has instead of feeling so oppressed because it can't do everything it wants, every time it wants to.
Imagine getting a dollar every time La Mustache said it wouldn't divert our attention from serious issues, but did so anyway. You'd doubtlessly be very, very rich. Viewed from all angles, La Mustache needs to stop living in denial. It needs to wake up and realize that it spouts a lot of numbers whenever it wants to make a point. It then subjectively interprets those numbers to support its bait-and-switch tactics while ignoring the fact that prudence is no vice. Cowardice -- especially its mindless form of it -- is. Even if our society had no social problems at all, we could still say that La Mustache doesn't perceive that anything is wrong with it. (Actually, La Mustache may be engaged in extortion, racketeering, and/or money laundering but that's not important now.)
Some bitter traitors have raised objections to my criticisms, but their objections are all politically motivated. La Mustache has never tried to stop bumptious vermin who encourage sadistic rabble-rousers to see themselves as victims and, therefore, live by alibis rather than by honest effort. In fact, quite the opposite is true: La Mustache encourages that sort of behavior. People should soothe each other's pain, not exploit it. And that's why I say to you: Have courage. Be honest. And make some changes here. That's the patriotic thing to do, and that's the right thing to do.
I am thoroughly impressed with this botter's sarcasm. La Moustache(2005) is not quite as pretentious of a movie as some, and i did like certain aspects of it, but this post mirrors this type of art film brilliantly. Its great use of logical construction keeps you waiting, but basically in the end it turns out to be pseudo-intelligent jabberwocky; leaving you saying wtf. Way to go bots, a few more years of programming and you'll be leaving ignorant malcontent comments on forums like the rest of the "real boy"s.
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