Wrong. His birthday was last week. Which led to a deluge of death threats.
http://twitchy.com/2014/07/06/rot-a...s-68-unhinged-leftists-turn-to-usual-tactics/
This is a common occurrence EVERY time he's in the news.
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Wrong. His birthday was last week. Which led to a deluge of death threats.
http://twitchy.com/2014/07/06/rot-a...s-68-unhinged-leftists-turn-to-usual-tactics/
This is a common occurrence EVERY time he's in the news.
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FredLeonard
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Twitchy???? That's your source? A right-wing blog run by some woman on Fox News. And what's her source? Tweets? Doesn't the University of Wyoming has a journalism school?
The Tweets speak for themselves. Just mention George W. Bush online and that's what you get.
You and your little buddies here are just as bad with the personal attacks. You really should grow up.
No. No. No.
We have some posts here close to drivel, we have some posts here that stink a little bit..... but things posted in these forums are not even in the same league with the sewage on Twitchy.
Because I maintain a web site for a liberal group, my little "throw-away" e-mail address that appears there for those who wish to contact the Webmaster gets some very interesting "electronic junk mail". And then someone shares their mailing list and I get even crappier "EJM". This cycle has been going on now for about six years.
I could ask to be removed from their lists, but it has become interesting just to see how outrageous, how stupid, how brazen some people are. It is interesting to see what Neanderthals are trying to influence the world of politics. It is interesting to see which religious groups are in on this sharing of mailing lists.
It's a free speech thing however. You and I can't tell these people they have to stop. Every time I drive into my own little town, I drive past this very common, ordinary, innocent looking little church building. But the "Rev" who leads this church is connected with the most aggressive of these little mailing-list clearinghouse organizations.
So what does this have to do with the conversation of our thread? I see the fingerprints of these wack-a-doodle on-line sources showing up in legitimate primary election campaign materials this election season. The most notorious example would be the jerks who broke into the nursing home in Mississippi to take pictures of a woman who has been a patient there 16 years.... the wife of one of the candidates.
Personal character attacks on the spouses of candidates has shown up in the phone calls and campaign mail I get for races in my own county.
If the Twitchy site is your idea of an example for basing our opinions.... I may have to take back anything nice I've ever said about you.
I didn't know the name of the arrow was the "Go to first new post" arrow. I assumed it's name was "Take me to the most recent post".
Are you a (computer) programmer? (Amateur hacker on a PC or a pro on a mainframe... it doesn't matter.) The software doesn't need to know as much about you and when you were last here to just take you to the "most recent post". Can you visualize what kind of a storage array mechanism it would take for the computer to know that you hadn't been here for six weeks, and it needed to be prepared to take you to the first UNREAD message in maybe 30 or 40 different threads? And how long does the computer keep adding to that array mechanism if you don't come back for four months, seven months or a year? And it is going to store place-markers for several hundred active participants?
I worked on a main-frame big-time project like that a couple of decades ago. The grizzly old consultant sitting next to me in a program planning meeting one day leaned over and said: "If they implement that feature, the lights in the entire norther half of Indianapolis will dim for a few seconds everytime someone hits that search-and-calculate button. That was a 20-million dollar project in 1990-something dollars.
What would it cost today? Slightly beyond the budget of a discussion board where none of us are paying a fee to be here.
Twitchy is just reporting what people are posting on Twitter. Nothing more.
And no, the bile we have here is nowhere near the bile Twitchy digs up, but it's still bile nonetheless.
Interesting story: That loon is in jail now. But it's hardly the "most" notorious as scummy as it was.
He committed suicide last month.
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stevensonair
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Twitchy is a professional trolling site. They select nasty remarks to make their opponents look rotten and give those ideologically aligned with them a warm fuzzy feeling about how much better they are than "the libruls." It's emotional pornography for the right. Run by a woman who defended internment camps, no less.
For every nasty liberal tweet they find, I could find a conservative one. Or a death threat to a legislator for not hewing to their religious orthodoxy that the Constitution was a perfect text written by perfect men, if not handed down from Mt. Sinai itself and should be read exactly the same by everyone for all of times - ironic, given that they claim to dislike top down government, and yet are perfectly fine with generations hundreds of years later being bound by an "orthodoxy" of men they didn't elect despite cultural and technological change on a massive scale.
Don't give me the left does it, the right does it. Nasty, flawed, selfish, ignorant human beings do it. You can use politics, religion, left, right or fringe group as cover, but NO side has a monopoly on this bad behavior.
One of the first clues of that I ever saw was when Rush Limbaugh had a television show and referred to Chelsea Clinton (at the time a minor) as the "White House dog." Completely inappropriate. As if Chelsea had anything to do with her parents' politics. She was a child. There are some things civilized people don't do.
For every nasty liberal tweet they find, I could find a conservative one. Or a death threat to a legislator for not hewing to their religious orthodoxy that the Constitution was a perfect text written by perfect men, if not handed down from Mt. Sinai itself and should be read exactly the same by everyone for all of times - ironic, given that they claim to dislike top down government, and yet are perfectly fine with generations hundreds of years later being bound by an "orthodoxy" of men they didn't elect despite cultural and technological change on a massive scale.
Don't give me the left does it, the right does it. Nasty, flawed, selfish, ignorant human beings do it. You can use politics, religion, left, right or fringe group as cover, but NO side has a monopoly on this bad behavior.
One of the first clues of that I ever saw was when Rush Limbaugh had a television show and referred to Chelsea Clinton (at the time a minor) as the "White House dog." Completely inappropriate. As if Chelsea had anything to do with her parents' politics. She was a child. There are some things civilized people don't do.
As if he bears no responsibility....
Good catch, I do seem to remember that. Won't lose any sleep over it.
On side has a NEAR monopoly on getting away with it.
If you hover your mouse pointer over the arrow you'll see a hover box that says, "Go to first new post," -- so for the sake of accuracy that's how I referred to it. In other forums it says, "Go to first unread post," and it actually does that. Apparently it's not the daunting, nearly impossible programming challenge you describe. It's based on the miracle called, "cookies!"
On this forum the two arrows in the headers list, although named differently, do the same thing -- they both take you to the last post.
Good points. My programming days (for pay) predated the explosion of cookies and web sites and my amateur efforts at programming more recently didn't lead me into that patch.
Currently I am using only one computer but in the past I have logged into Discussion Forms at work and at home and my memory is that no matter which machine I was on, it knew what I had and had not read.
I think of cookies living on the PC rather than the host. Does the host have the ability to know that an hour ago I read this morning messages on Computer A and now that I have arrived home, I can log in on Computer B and the system knows what I have and have not read?
Curious minds just have to know things like that.
Tee hee. Maybe they can engrave at the bottom of my tombstone: "No Unread Messages Available".
That's a very good point. You're probably correct that cookies aren't the key here. But I do know that other forums remember which posts I've read (no matter on what computer or mobile device) and let me enter the thread at that point. They must have a huge staff working round-the-clock to make that happen. ;-)
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