I don't believe there's ever been a war that wasn't started by a government or a political leader of some sort. Their reasons for arousing the masses into violent fervor vary with changing cultural winds. Religion has been a popular war cry because most people are religious. Political leaders co-opt religious speech and ideas to gain support.
- Kevin L
War is politics. Modern war is more about greed and coveting resources, land, political maneuvering, just look at how many nations the US has invaded since WWII (religious reasons?). Intolerance and bigotry aren't the exclusive domain of the religions. It's standard atheist operating procedure to point the finger solely at religion, but the facts don't add up - it trivializes the more basic causes.
- Mo Kargas
Democracy is a region... So was communism... Spread and defended with the same passion and hatered as any religion
- Johnny
from iPhone
So the definition widens to any political philosophy, and simplifies to anything people can potentially passionately disagree over.
- Mo Kargas
Oi! Mo's back?!? I feel I should acquiesce just in honor, that is if I didn't know better, hey I teach our world's youth. My re-butt is as follows: ~ A knowledge of history proves otherwise. Nuff said there. Nextly, you're making the mistake of conflating religion with nationalism as samsies this mixed &with a clear misunderstanding of atheism & proper debate mechanisms. Now...
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- The Real sofarsoShawn
from FFHound!
Now on to atheism...Atheism is not a belief or value system, atheism is a rejection of belief in a deity, only. So unlike religion it does not over generalize, ie straw man fallacy (another debate thingy) & point fingers at Muslims, homosexuals, or socialism, anything they regard as different as the cause of all that's wrong with the world: ex if only they believed in Helios, the one true G_D of the sun, then our nation's problems would be solved, we'd be saved & have eternal life. ~what's up next?
- The Real sofarsoShawn
from FFHound!
Don't they point at religion as the cause of all that's wrong?
- Johnny
from iPhone
I didn't actually say religion was the cause of *all* war (as inferred from the number one cause) - in fact I said the politicization of an idea is always the cause of all wars. A knowledge of history does not prove otherwise conclusively - indeed, can you definitively prove that religion is the number one cause. Even the Crusades can be debated as being economically driven. Sure there...
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- Mo Kargas
Okay you're still mistaking or misunderstanding what's already been established. Yes it can be proven conclusively & definitely especially the crusades and even up to this president day, is it 100% science no of course not. No historical account ever is, so does that mean that all history is lie? Ridiculous, one regards historical accounts as facts to the matter, empirical evidence &...
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- The Real sofarsoShawn
If you want an example of religion synonymous with nationalism, you just have to look at Nazi Germany, this *is* well documented. You also haven't answered my point, that any idea that can be politicized can be fought over of which religion is but one cause. Inferring religion is the number one cause of war requires evidence and precedence, which we would get from recorded history, and...
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- Mo Kargas
Sorry MoKa but right now I'm got something important to do, but I'm starting to get what you're meaning to say, so will for get back to you, swear to god :) And good to see you back, if I knew all it took was some religulous one liner post I would've done it sooner. @_@ PEW PEW PEW ~ that's the sound of me blasting you with my lazers (Oi, and yes this isn't just Mo & I's thread anyone feel free to jump in)
- The Real sofarsoShawn
from FFHound!
One of the first things to do is step back and define "religion" -- "The belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power, esp. a personal God or gods." Religion is a belief in a superhuman power, not *exclusive to belief in god*, just *especially* as it applies to a belief in god; however, the actual meaning is reserved for belief in/worship of a superhuman power. Spiritual...
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- Prosey BUTTONS!
I'm going to have to step in here & stop this dumbfounded downard spiral of BS. When hell freezes over and when in political science I have studied a divine book of religion as THE LAW, or if I moved to Iran, then there'd be some merit of truth to this. But we don't and there isn't. Insightful, nonetheless because I better understand now, yesssir, nothing gets through the bubble....
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- The Real sofarsoShawn
CITATION! (http://ff.im/Rm93n) "Ressentiment is a reassignment of the pain that accompanies a sense of one's own inferiority/failure onto an external scapegoat. The ego creates the illusion of an enemy, a cause that can be "blamed" for one's own inferiority/failure. Thus, one was thwarted not by a failure in oneself, but rather by an external "evil." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... by way of Micah's due diligence :)
- The Real sofarsoShawn
Saying the economy has not improved significantly for millions of Americans in the last three years seems like reasonable criticism. Saying the economy has actually gotten worse in the last three years seems like a lie.
If these guys really can't tell the difference between a negative number and a very small but positive number, they shouldn't be allowed to make any decisions, especially not financial ones.
- Victor Ganata
You forget that Washington uses baseline accounting.
- Kevin L
That may be so, but anyone who thinks we would be doing better if we let the banks completely collapse and let the auto industry get annihilated is engaging in magical thinking of epic proportions.
- Victor Ganata
Unchanged from the time Adam Smith wrote The Wealth of Nations, the essential cause of ruinous national debts and deficits in otherwise prosperous countries is war, or what we would euphemistically call defense spending.
Hell no. If I have to choose, I think the 14th Amendment and the Civil Rights Act is a lot more important than balanced budgets.
- Victor Ganata
Hmmm... Reading it now. So, in a state that strips convicted felons of the right to vote, those people ineligible to vote do not count as part of the population when it comes to apportioning Representatives to the House. Considering the high conviction rate in certain segments of the populace, I wonder if that's affected the number of seats for a state.
- DJF
My point mainly is that, we can cut every single social program in existence, but it won't make a damn difference if we don't reign in war expenditures. But if we can somehow buck the trend of history and in fact cut war expenditures drastically, paying for social programs won't be a problem.
- Victor Ganata
In my parents house the router is in the basement in one side of the house and I can get a decent signal on the first floor at the opposite end of the house. Anyway, yes, yes you do. :)
- Zulema ⋅ spicy cocoa tart
I don't know why signal can't get through the walls here. I wonder if it has anything to do with the fact that there's a full-on radio transmitter practically right next door.
- Victor Ganata
I wish I could wave a wand and make all things better. I am so sorry your family is going through this. Know my prayers are being said for all, hoping somewhere they are heard and you and Frank find a moment of comfort and peace.
- Janet-The Bottley Crue
You and Frank are in my thoughts, Jim. Many of us have been where you are, in some fashion, and we yearn to support you. Some of the most meaningful advice I was ever given was simply a reminder that I am not alone, and that it's okay to ask for help. Always remember that you're surrounded. :)
- felicious
Just catching up to this sad news. My thoughts are with Frank, you, and your family, Jim. Having sat this same vigil, there's nothing to say that really helps, I know. Just know we're all thinking about you.
- Trish R
Thinking of you, Frank, and family. Hugs.
- Anne Bouey
I wish there was something I could say or do that would help. I can't imagine how difficult this must be for you, Jim. Know that you and your family are in my thoughts and prayers.
- Curdy G
If you type in "fever, headache, neck stiffness" into Google, it's going to tell you you have meningitis. So you could come in demanding a lumbar puncture to confirm the diagnosis (more information is always better, right?) or we could check your vitals, do a history and physical, and decide whether or not that's actually warranted.
Nah, I just read an article that demonstrates you need both clinical knowledge and experience with computers to come up with a realistic way to integrate IT into health care. If you're missing one or the other, it's not going to work. http://t.co/C43QZgHZ
- Victor Ganata
I see. I agree that medicine needs a human touch. We're not machines, and one size doesn't fit all.
- Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
My biggest hangup is the blind faith assumption that more information is always better. Even an intern can tell you that this idea can actually kill or at least significantly harm people.
- Victor Ganata
Someone who acts like that isn't suffering from too much information; they have too _little_ information. They are only seeing the most covered illness that has those symptoms, not considering other possibilities or the other signs and symptoms of meningitis or their own "local information." When you go to a medical professional, they look for that information. So yes, it is about information and from this perspective more information is good.
- Kevin L
Maybe information is the wrong word. What I mean is data. But this is the same mindset that thinks doing screening tests are always a good idea no matter what.
- Victor Ganata
I agree with you there. But hey, if it's all covered by insurance why not, right?
- Kevin L
Even if insurance covers it, sometimes I can manage to convince people that possible mutilation and poisoning with no guaranteed increase in life span is a bad idea.
- Victor Ganata
A man clings to a light pole on the corner of James and Kitchener streets as a van washes by during today's torrential downpour.
- ☆ Mellyboo ☆
from Bookmarklet
"But many researchers have reached a conclusion that turns conventional wisdom on its head: Americans enjoy less economic mobility than their peers in Canada and much of Western Europe. The mobility gap has been widely discussed in academic circles, but a sour season of mass unemployment and street protests has moved the discussion toward center stage."
- Andrew C (✓)
from Bookmarklet
"By emphasizing the influence of family background, the studies not only challenge American identity but speak to the debate about inequality. While liberals often complain that the United States has unusually large income gaps, many conservatives have argued that the system is fair because mobility is especially high, too: everyone can climb the ladder. Now the evidence suggests that America is not only less equal, but also less mobile. "
- Andrew C (✓)
In the US you're only upward mobile if you have a trust-fund generated bootstrap. The upper class is a very closed circle.
- Rene, Pro Button Pusher
Kevin L, the comments on the second post argue (IMO convincingly) that the stats are not quite as rosy as Perry indicates; the fluctuations of income are relatively low and if you smooth them out over a few years, it's not as much observed mobility. http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011...
- Andrew C (✓)
http://prospect.org/article... "There is considerable income mobility in the U.S., but by no means enough to make the distribution of income irrelevant. For example, Census data show that 81.6 percent of those families who were in the bottom quintile of the income distribution in 1985 were still in that bottom quintile the next...
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- Andrew C (✓)
@Andrew: Anything that comes out of the AEI or Cato (or any other libertarian rag) I take with an enormous grain of salt.
- Rene, Pro Button Pusher
I obviously like a lot of what Ron Paul says on the drug war, on wars period, on national security policy. But I can’t really support a president who is dangerously ignorant of the basic facts of American history. I can’t ever support a president who is pro-life. I can’t ever support a president who thinks America would have been better without... - http://misterjt.tumblr.com/post...
If you read his interviews, he wasn't against repealing discriminatory laws, he is against force anti-discrimination rules on people. Individuals should be free to discriminate or not. Telling people to meet quotas or threatening lawsuits over actual or perceived discrimination only breeds contempt and continues racist attitudes.
- Kevin L
History seems to support the fact that the free market did nothing to weaken Jim Crow. So I think you either have to admit government intervention is necessary, or you have to admit that institutional racial discrimination is in fact the desired result. I honestly don't see any other alternative that isn't fraught with sophistry.
- Victor Ganata
But the end of legal discrimination, both public and private, _preceded_ changes in attitudes by quite some time. The Loving v Virginia decision occurred decades before the majority of Americans were OK with interracial marriages. It seems entirely reasonable to me that the evidence shows that it was actually necessary to enforce an end to legal discrimination to cut down on privately held racist beliefs.
- Andrew C (✓)
As far as I know individuals are free to discriminate, businesses and the government aren't. People are told to meet quotas as part of a business. You don't have a personal quota for how many friends should identify as different races.
- <3Heather<3
I would note that quotas are not part of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. They were implemented after the fact, primarily by Nixon's administration in the 70s, after those in power at the business and government level across the country failed to move substantively towards integration. It is important to note in these conversations that there were schools in parts of the south on into the...
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- Jason Toney
and to put this in personal terms, without the civil rights act and other government moves towards access and integration, my grandmother would not have had access to education which would've left her a maid her entire life, would also have limited her ability to escape her sometimes abusive marriage if she chose. My parents would not have had access to the schools of their choice or...
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- Jason Toney
and, see, the point is that people are free to be as prejudiced as they want. They simply cannot be allowed to use that prejudice and the long overwhelming power of privilege to deny those to which they are prejudiced against the liberties that Ron Paul claims he believes in. That's what these laws and sanctions are meant to correct. Keep your klan hat on, just don't block the fucking door when I'm trying to learn something, make some money, and live a quality American life.
- Jason Toney
I suggest Craig Ferguson's biography. Because he reads it. And his accent makes me all mushy. *nerd*
- Soup in a TARDIS
Oooh, I'll have to suggest that one for my library! I have a non-fiction and a fiction to get me back to GA. I only listen when I'm driving, so Mr. B will probably have the radio for his parts of the trek.
- LB shining
Can you remind me again where to find those stats?
- Brian Johns
Brian, go to "Me" link (http://friendfeed.com/brianjo...) which defaults to the Feed tab. Look at the sidebar on the right, below Discussion.
- Micah
0.75 (926/1226) - still relatively new here
- mikepk
I only see my stats for the last week (17/14 = 1.21) Please tell me your 670 number is for more than just a week!
- Brian Johns
1.44 (566/391) for brianjohns (after week tally you should see a comma then 'all time' count - I can see it on your page)
- Micah
OK, sorry. I'm a total dumbass. I stopped reading after the weekly totals...
- Brian Johns
3.74, which seems way off of everybody else's. I wonder what that says. I comment a lot more than I like.
- Cyrus Lendvay
FFers use FF with their own strategy or simply default tendencies. The ratio is an interesting snapshot of behaviour. Thanks for joining in everyone, hope more keep flowing in.
- Micah
from twhirl
0.66 - I tend to 'like' things without needing to comment further, I guess, and I notice I usually like the things upon which I comment. Well, frequently.
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
.39 (2457/6242) I guess I don't comment much. I do 'like' a lot of things, it would seem.
- Bren
0.62 then again i have over 11,000 comments
- Cee Bee
1.23 (5287/4229) - I am put to shame by Cee Bee's participation, good grief!
- Lindsay
So far: Average: 1.27 | Median: 0.81 ... (if you average 1 comment per like, you'd be 1.0 ... if you're 0.xx you might herd content more than discuss ... if you're whole numbers above 1 you may not 'like' much or discuss plenty or both)
- Micah
InPerpetualMotion(Gina k), I really liked this 'Like' of yours (in a series of pics, so I flickr fav'd it): http://friendfeed.com/e... and commented. Thanks!
- Micah
.68 6986/10194 Someone wrote a great article on the comment-like ratio a few months ago. Search on FriendFeed is crashing on me... I'll try to get the link.
- Mitchell Tsai
Thanks Mitchell (btw, search crashing on me too - lots)
- Micah
1316 comments/20221 likes (0.06), according to Windows Calculator, although I probably screwed up.
- Tyson Key
A recent change in FF: now the comment count shows total number of comments (previously multiple comments in one thread only counted as one) http://friendfeed.com/e... so all the numbers above are from the old methodology....
- David HC Soul
My new ratio: 0.76 all time (old methodology .52).... this week 1.39
- David HC Soul
Looks like my ratio as flipped again (comments back to dominating again). Seems to match my own awareness I've lately been commenting without Liking (commenting is my inherent recognition of value to me and the additional Like is when it merits an extra bump to help discovery by others).
- Micah
Rick, you mean that face with glasses I photoshopped tint into with an apparently disembodied arm which is actually very much attached to my eldest son? It's mostly just me :)
- Micah
Thanks, Michael. Yes, you have a rising tide of comment percentage (oh, wow, you were one of the originals from January - cool!)
- Micah
Yeah, that's a decent upward rise in comments, Nicholas.
- Micah
.6 (6,000/10,000) 3rd update - Now it's time to flip this on its head. My goal is to have (16,000/16,000) next time I post here. Regardless of what happens, I'm just looking forward to the next 10,000 comments, likes, posts, and new relationships I make here. It's all good!
- Michael Fidler
1.76 (7539/4290) My commenting habits haven't chanced much, but it felt like I clicked Like a lot less, and this ratio confirms that for me.
- Micah
.82 as of right now. edit: on January 8th it was 0.39 -- when I saw that, I decided to make more of an effort to comment. When I hit 10k "likes" I decided I wouldn't "like" anything else until I also had 10k comments.
- Bren
Jimminy, I'm copyrighting every single number. It's kind of a honeypot ;) Actually, it was curiosity mostly, but I also hope to build a sampling (small and self-selecting as it may be) for anyone who might want to analyze it.
- Micah
Wow I didn't realize I was so out of whack!! 12.23 that's got to be a record (and I don't even import my feeds with the summary as a comment)!!
- Chris Myles
Thanks JA, Chris (wow, 12+ is unusual :), Serkan and Nine!
- Micah
Micah.. I told you I take my likes seriously; ). You *might* want to ask (in a separate post) what percentage of likes were used to "bookmark" a post or save it for later VS actually "liking it". I NEVER used like for that.. but I did use a private group that if filled with my own topics (and comments)..
- Chris Myles
Likes are down relative to comments, which matches my much lower frequency of liking. I'm a more selective liker than ever.
- Micah
I don't think I could argue that any particular kind of ratio is "best", because if Lurkers like to Lurk and cultivate (via Likes) and the Chatty-ites love to chat, to pump out much many more comments than Likes, each can be happy and make for a great social experience.
- Micah
wow, what a difference time makes, when i 1st posted on this thread, 6.43%, now = 1.25%, for a 5.18% difference, :o (and this is the earliest post to date i've recovered of my activity on ff)
- chaz2b
chaz, I think there's been a big fluctuation for most people (maybe not that much). This is the oldest post on which you commented that you've recovered?
- Micah
that was my third post... It's interesting to see how the number has changed. of course, I manipulated the number to a degree, because I stopped "liking" things for a while...
- Bren
Bren, the other thing that can seriously throw off someone's stats is a feed that upon each item it imports adds a comment automatically.
- Micah
true. that can seriously inflate comment stats, of course. Then you have someone like RAPatton, who posts a gazillion comments, in part because of his playlist posts where he will list each song in a separate comment. I found, after this post in fact, that I tended to "like" things much more frequently than comment on them, that I was lurking instead of participating. I have changed the way I use ff rather considerably, and I think for the better.
- Bren
In 4 days it will be 1 year since my first recorded stat here. My comments/like were almost a 1:1 ratio then. Now comments are almost double likes for me.
- Micah
75,415 comments/1,286 likes = 58.64 - i wish the auto inserted comments didn't get counted... the true number is probably much much close ot my number of likes
- Chris Heath
1.97%. thanks again micah, this has been a great metric to measure my first year here on ff. As the year went (this being the first record of me being here that i've found): , 6.43%:1.25%:1.97%
- chaz2b
Chris, Bren, thank you. And chaz2b, thank you too - glad it's a special marker for you. :)
- Micah
63.58 (97,534/1,534) -- interesting that my last three digits are the same there, eh? (note, i already posted a month or two ago when i first saw this thread)
- Chris Heath
Last year my comments were around 7000 and likes around 2500, for a ratio of 2.80. I consciously chose to do more liking over the last year. As of today my comments number 10,782 and likes number 7,666, for a ratio of 1.41.
- Stephen Mack
Jason, Stephen - cool. Thanks for keeping updated here. :)
- Micah
Okay, Micah. <----I had to resist the urge not to post that because I know it's going to up my comment count. ;)
- Jenny R
But how many of those primordial, high interest posts are still active. Uh huh. :)
- Micah
Thanks, Morton. BTW, when you posted in February, it was exactly 0.13 also.
- Micah
Jenny, resistance is futile; embrace the rising tide of comments.
- Micah
Comments are more difficult and time consuming than Likes. I'd be happy about a high comment:likes ratio except that many are surely imported from feeds, while every Like is manual.
- Mike Chelen
it has changed to 2.2256 now as Sep, 6 2010.Labor Day. :) I added the date for future references.
- ۳۰ مرغ Loves Y'ALLLLL
Two years later and my ratio has climbed from 3.4 to 4.675. I've got a lot to say, apparently.
- Kevin Fox
Funnily, I didn't notice until after leaving that comment that when I reported my stat in 2009 I also followed it up with "I've got stuff to say." I didn't say it was *new* stuff...
- Kevin Fox
2.91; 6.43% (@ 2yrs ago) 2.33% (@ 1yr ago). for history's sake, this thread was started shortly after i found friendfeed, or friendfeed found me, so it holds a special place in my heart. thanks for keeping it around mr micah
- chaz2b
You're certainly welcome, chaz2b. In some way it feels like a living heirloom to me. :)
- Micah
3 (2.991) (and now the list has become too lengthy for me to track my progress, ;) [dumb me, i have a post not 10 lines ago in history, from 090711 2.91; 6.43% (@ 2yrs ago) 2.33% (@ 1yr ago) ;) ]
- chaz2b
"Brain is small laboratory rat who is trying to conquer the world. He has a oversized brain, and is very intelligent and brilliant. However, his plans always fail, mostly because of his partner and only friend Pinky, who is very dumb and always messes the plans."
- Amit Patel
from Bookmarklet
No!! Brain's plans fail because he's incompetent.
- Amit Patel
There are many plans that went wrong because of luck, and he could've tried them again and gotten it right. Instead of analyzing the failure, he abandons the entire thing.
- Amit Patel
And from what I remember, Pinky's plan succeeded and all of Brain's plans failed.
- Amit Patel
What are we going to do tonight, FriendFeed?
- David Lounsbury
Same thing we do every night, David: try to take over Facebook.
- Kevin L
I'm watching the third DVD set. It's wacky. One episode is from Pinky's point of view. One episode has Brain and Pinky realizing they're just actors. One episode has Brain becoming an actor. There are more "musical" episodes. There are more jokes about Hollywood. And then season 4 starts out with a complex three parter. I can't imagine kids understanding any of this. It's not long after these episodes that Elmyra joins and ruins everything :(
- Amit Patel
"One of the more interesting memes to come out of 4chan are posts of rudimentary drawings of inventions or scenarios that, at first glance, seem to violate the laws of physics and allow for something supernatural to occur. One of the most common types of of these posts are ones related to “free energy” or perpetual motion. We’ve taken ten of these images and asked Steve Nelson, a Physics professor who holds a Ph. D. from Duke University in physics, to explain why these somewhat intuitive ideas fall flat in real life."
- AJ Batac :)
from Bookmarklet
That one is going downwind, not upwind. But yeah, cool stuff.
- Otto
They plan on using the same principle to make an upwind-travel vehicle: "Next summer - we go directly UP-wind faster than the wind." http://www.fasterthanthewind.org/
- Bruce Lewis
Now you're just getting lazy with your scripts!
- Mike Nayyar
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- Tinfoil 2.0
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- Tinfoil 2.0
So it's since Tuesday huh? The ultimate thread. How will the thread die then? We must have a limit for that, let's say 24h without one comment.
- Zu from AOD
As a side note, I do have to applaud the endurance and pettiness of those of us on FriendFeed. No one on Facebook gave this status update a second look!
- Mike Nayyar
We pride ourselves in our pettiness and obsessiveness. Um, wait.
- Tinfoil 2.0
Remember. It's not whole Scoble likes. It's who likes Scoble.
- Akiva
According to FriendFeed, that's everyone. And some Twitter marketers and SEO experts.
- Mike Nayyar
Mike will get in the last word. Eventually. Everyone else is an idiot for playing his little game. Me included. :-)
- Robert Scoble
I'm not actually playing. Or, if I am, I'm playing to lose.
- Akiva
HAHA! You see that? Robert Scoble acknowledges I will eventually win! HAHA! FINALLY! For once in my life, I win! :) :) :) :) Unless Logical shows up...
- Mike Nayyar
Only mostly dead. There's a big difference between mostly dead and all dead. Mostly dead is slightly alive. With all dead, well, with all dead there's usually only one thing you can do.
- Tinfoil 2.0
We're testing the limit on the number of comments.
- DGentry
Nah, the FFundercats live chat pushed that one way over the top. We are, however, testing the limits oh how sick people are getting of setting my face.
- Mike Nayyar
This thread has a lot of comments, that must mean Mike is an expert of some kind...or maybe an A-Lister. Must stalk^H^H^H^H^Hinvestigate him...
- Rah-PM 2012
Olympus too? Good thing Logical doesn't know any Japanese mythological figures.
- Mike Nayyar
All right, if you're going to play that way, Raijin AND Ajisukitakahikone are BOTH mad at you. And Raijin was especially unhappy because you interrupted his NOMmage of children's bellybuttons.
- Tinfoil 2.0
Dude, my best friend's sister's boyfriend's brother's girlfriend heard from this guy who knows this kid who's going with the girl who saw Raijin put down the platter.
- Tinfoil 2.0
We'd be content, of course, if you (Mike) issued a public retraction of the assertion in your post, followed by allowing someone else to post the last comment in the thread ;-)
- Tinfoil 2.0
805 comments!! I'm afraid to click on the more link....
- Jeff P. Henderson
Nicholas, as long as it's not Mike, it's irrelevant.
- Tinfoil 2.0
I'm sad that Logical saw this Facebook status.
- Mike Nayyar
You know at some point, expanding this comment will really put a strain on mortal browsers. It already has a 3 second pause to expand it.
- Mark Philpot
I wonder if at some point we will hit a soft limit and FF won't let it keep going. That or they look at this as a great high-bounds test case for the system.
- Sparky, lurking
Great experiment there, I'm somewhat scared opening the thread here. Funny thing, Even the explosion of words spawned through this, making it a wordle madness. http://www.wordle.net/gallery...
- Zu from AOD
I'm scared to expand the comment thread :)
- Roberto Bonini
There are few computers with the processing power capable of handling the comments in this thread. Except for, you know, quantum computers.
- Mike Nayyar
from iPhone
i'm afraid to click on the link to see all comments. so i'm just typing this so another guy (or gal) can read it and comment to make this comment disappear.
- Alfredo 亜瑠布れっど
If anyone gets these emails in their gmail and got sick and tired of them like me, just press 'm' to mute the conversation (if you have keyboard shortcuts enabled) (haha i got the last word)
- Daniel Morgan
No you just don't know I posted this.
- John D Reasor
cant the person that started this block the comments now? and thereby win.
- Morgan
If you can get buddy buddy with mike and figure out his schedule, you can prevent him from stopping the comments because you'll always be able to get the last word in. We must prevail for great justice!
- Jonathan Hardesty
That would be cheating, and he knows it :)
- Tinfoil 2.0
That's how the FriendFeed Mob rolls. :-D
- Steven Perez
from IM
you didn't disable the comments yet? you could comment and then do it and then you really would get the last word. but then again, that's cheating. and cheaters never prosper.
- Trish Haley
You're not supposed to make sense of it. It exits only as an opaque, monolithic data structure that is constantly being updated and evolving. ;)
- Tyson Key
Attempting to parse it in a manner that is not approved by FriendFeed, Inc may result in disruption of the space-time continuum, and a series of Bad Things(R) occurring.
- Tyson Key
not only does it make julian fries, but it slices and dices in in seconds. ORDER NOW and you'll get this special gift ABSOLUTELY FREE!!!!!!11!!1ONE!
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
from email
this is the thread that doesn't end, yes it goes on and on my friend, Mike started it not knowing what it was, and it'll keep on going no matter what just because this is the thread that doesn't end, yes it goes on and on my friend, Mike started it.....
- T-Bone Tsali, FF Cherokee
from IM
welcome back my friends, to the thread that never ends, we're so glad you could attend, step inside, step inside.
- Mike Nencetti
MISSILES FOR ALL! Gun control is for unarmed wussies! Blow away comment limits! Damn the torpedoes! FULL STEAM AHEAD!!!
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
from email
Test conducted to see how long this can last.
- Ashish
it'll never die, with all the wireless cards out there transmitting this, it'll reach alpha centuari in about 300 years.
- T-Bone Tsali, FF Cherokee
from IM
It's not because I'm a person who wants to have the last word, but just because you people keep me reminding that there are others that do want that very badly, that causes me to comment here once again. HI! I'M BETTER THAN MIKE NAYYAR!!!!!!! LOSER! :-)
- Ton Zijp
This IS the time and place to announce a gathering of the societal beginnings of the intrepid adventures of... Wait... sorry, this isn't the place? Oh, okay, I'll go back home then.
- T-Bone Tsali, FF Cherokee
I was able to expand this thread on my Droid incredible, and post this comment at the end. Nice test of Dolphin HD browser.(edit - I use the default FF web page.)
- Mike Nencetti
from Android
If I get the last word in, will I get .LAG's World Series tix???
- Lisa L. Seifert | FHG™
It's been a while, Mr. LastWordThreat. I did some good things these recent months. Care to share some of your insights while you were on that trip? TLDR. 8) (2K+ comments is massive hehe, we're getting to your second b-day)
- Zu from AOD
All I want for Christmas are my two front teef.
- Mike Nayyar
Eventually, you will win. Because you're not married to this thread. But if you ever marry...your trend of always getting the last word will end. Painfully.
- Bubba Botts
This thread must go away!!! What if it kills FF!?
- SAM
this thread could go away right now. but you people keep posting comments...wait....didn't I just do the same thing? OK, nevermind. Long live this Thread!!!!
- Morgan
I heard Nayyar had to get in the The Last Word, always. I talked to the casting director, and Mike Nayyar got the lead in The Last Word.
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
this is the last one -------------->>> WORD!
- .LAG liked that
Every middle brings another middle. When the world ends, will this comment be toward the end of the thread, or toward the beginning?
- John E. Bredehoft
You guys!!! This post will forever break FF if we're not careful.
- SAM
Yeah, we should all totally stop bumping this post.
- Slippy
I'm surprised Friendfeed can still expand this thread.
- Morton Fox
OMG, doesn't even want to image what would happen if Nayyar tried to use #fftop20. Actually I kind of do, but I bet it would be slow. Scores would be off the charts though.
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
Probably still under 9000, people should try harder.
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
All of the above responses are from your friendly neighborhood spam-bot. Have a good day.
- Elena
from iPhone
All the boring old relatives left and we're having the "real" party now.
- m9m, Crone of FriendFeed
I'm actually here because I deactivated my facebook for the time being...I needed to get away from there for a while, going through some junk that facebook wouldn't help.
- Josh Aaron Willis
Are you getting divorced? It seems to be the trending topic in FriendFeed lately.
- Akiva
Not divorced, just broke up with my girlfriend of a year and a half though, lots of extra baggage that go's with the story, it's a story full of sighs.
- Josh Aaron Willis
Even then, you've come to the right place. Vent away, sir. We're here for ya.
- Akiva
I have FriendFeed on the left and part of the tinychat window on the right. It's funny seeing my own face brighten when I see Johnny's picture.
- Bruce Lewis
YES! There is no inequality crisis! "The Gini coefficient [a measure of income INequality] for full-time workers increased [that is, became less "equal"] gradually through the 1960s, 1970, 1980s, and then stabilized in the mid-1990s (after rising from 34% in 1967 to 39.5% in 1994, see top chart) and hasn't changed at all in the sixteen-year period from 1994 (39.5%) to 2010 (39.7%)."
- Kevin L