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June 23rd, 2010 — 1389, Obama, Russia, blogging, communism, conservative, counterjihad, cyberwars, forums, politics, secession, smiley, social bookmarking, social media, taxes, terrorism, tyranny
By 1389
Yes, 1389 has been banned again…
I’m not ashamed to say that I’ve been banned from a lot of websites. I’ve been banned from Digg at least three times (for supporting Serbs and opposing jihadis), from Little Green Footballs once (again for supporting Serbs), from BoingBoing (after a single comment criticizing an article written by a left-wing admin), and even from StumbleUpon (my account was hacked and their admins never got around to reinstating me, so I eventually gave up).
Gotta collect ‘em all…
The latest forum that I’ve been banned from is Grouchy Conservative Pundits, a/k/a GCP, formerly Gulf Coast Pundits. No, I am not posting a clickable link here; you can find the link easily enough if you want. The reason I’m blogging about it here is to air my suspicions about what is going on both in public and behind the scenes on some websites and forums, and in some organizations, that portray themselves as conservative, but are not.
Yes, I’ll miss a few people on that board, and those few who miss me should not have any trouble finding me. Most people on the board are happy to see me gone, and have said so, though not in a public thread.
What trash talkers reveal about themselves
I make a point of being plain-spoken, but there is a huge difference between forthrightness and talking trash. Swears and vulgar epithets are not allowed in comments or articles on 1389 Blog, because they encourage bullying and flame wars, lower the tone of discourse, and can rapidly get out of control.
GCP has no such restrictions, but even so, I was amazed at the style of verbiage that GCP admin “Mike C.” used with me. He sounded so much like Charles Johnson (alias CJ) of the turncoat website Little Green Footballs that it wasn’t even funny. I have never been addressed in such a bitchy, snarky, condescending way by any heterosexual male in my entire life. Of course, “Mike C.” is just a screen name, and I have no knowledge of who “Mike C.” actually is and no information about his personal life, and am not interested in anything he may claim to have done that supposedly proves he’s a man. It all comes down to the fact that any male who would directly address a female in such a disgusting, contemptuous way, especially without any real provocation, is not a man.
“Mike C.” enforces a double standard when it comes to another blog admin whose screen name is “Rayra”. (Despite the feminine-sounding name, “Rayra” is, or claims to be, a male with a military background. Yes, I know, on the Internet, you never know who anybody actually is…) Be that as it may, “Rayra” is free to say whatever he wants on the GCP forum, as often as he wants and in as offensive a way as he pleases. On the other hand, women on the site had better confine themselves to echoing the opinions of the male admins, much as CJ’s female minions do with him. It is beneath my dignity to participate in that type of thing.
Neocons are not conservatives
Too many people on GCP seem to be “neocons” as opposed to conservatives, so much so that if truth in labeling applied to blogs and forums, that one should be called Grouchy Neocon Pundits. I have many reasons to avoid the neocons, but my biggest reason is that they can’t seem to figure out that America’s real foreign enemies are the jihadis, not the former Soviet Union, which is dead and gone.
As a person of Slavic descent, the reflexive hatred and suspicion directed toward Russia and other Slavic countries and peoples, particularly Orthodox Slavs, was starting to get old. Slav-bashing is based on a type of racism and bigotry, not on any real evidence. I hasten to say that I don’t approve of every decision that the present-day Russian government has made, but that isn’t the point. On the GCP forum, I did try to point out that Russia is not the Soviet Union, it is not interested in taking over Europe, and if we had not made such a mess of things ever since the Clinton Administration, Russia could potentially be a strong ally against both socialism and jihadism. At least they know what socialism is all about, and they reject it. But whenever I said anything about that, people on GCP would pile in on me like a ton of bricks.
“Conservatives” at the public trough
The major issue that led to my being banned from GCP had to do with my defending the idea that states have the right to secede (and should prepare to do so, as a way to stop the encroachment of socialism) and that Americans have the right to move to other parts of the world and even to become citizens there, if they so desire and if the other country admits them. I said then, and I still say, that declining to participate any further in supporting a tyrannical government, by means of secession or expatriation, can be a valid and principled stand against tyranny.
At that point, “Rayra” and “Mike C.” completely lost it, big time, and condemned me in every possible way.
No, I’m not going to risk copyright issues by directly quoting any of their nonsense here. Their screen names don’t actually identify them, so they have no cause for complaint about my “outing” them in any way. Obviously, they are forbidden to comment here, and I do not plan to visit, or link to, any other forum where they exert significant control.
- Anybody who goes ballistic over someone entertaining the idea of expatriating (or secession) to avoid ruinous taxation, is no conservative.
- Anybody who, without any evidence, levels a blanket accusation of “tax chicanery” against American expatriates who simply open an overseas bank account, is no conservative.
Evidently, “Rayra”, “Mike C.”, and their supporters seem awfully worried about keeping those federal tax dollars flowing so that they will keep getting their government checks of one sort or another. The very idea that I and others might vote with our feet, take up foreign citizenship, have a decent and peaceful life somewhere else, and stop funding their retirement, is anathema to them.
The very fact that “Rayra” and “Mike C.” went berserk over the very thought of Americans refusing to condemn themselves to a lifetime of poverty and ruin, followed by administrative euthanasia under “Obamacare” in their old age, simply to stave off the fiscal collapse of the federal government, shows where their loyalties really lie. It isn’t to the beleaguered American people, it’s to the federal government, and their quarrel with that government is that they aren’t currently the ones reaping most of the stolen loot.
And if people like “Mike C.” and “Rayra” were running the government instead of the Obaminators, would we be any better off? I doubt it.
Why it’s right to vote with our feet
It only got worse after I pointed out that people who fled the Third Reich after 1933, or the Soviet Union in 1917, had done the right thing. By going somewhere else with their labor and their livelihood, they prevented their efforts and earnings from being used to establish and run a tyrannical socialist regime. Those who voluntarily stayed were later accused of collaborating with the evils that followed.
All of was too much for “Rayra.” He posted a viciously-worded reply, in which he heaped scorn on all those who left the Third Reich, the Soviet Union, and other regimes, blaming them for not having stayed there and killed the dictators. He immediately went on to say that the Obama regime is getting ready to murder millions in the same way. In other words, “Rayra” implied that it is my moral obligation to stay in the US so as to kill off Obama and company.
“Rayra” does not read this blog, or he would know that I’ve already explained why nobody should do anything of the sort. (See “Going Postal” Empowers Evil Tyrants.)
This is not to say that jihadis, socialists, and totalitarians of any stripe, anywhere in the world, deserve anything other than the harshest of all possible fates. But it is not up to me to make that happen! It would be both pointless and counterproductive for individual Americans to put their lives on the line to go out with weapons and kill off the jihadis, the socialists, and the corrupt government officials who are selling us out to them. Okay, maybe I’ve gotten to be too peaceable in my old age, but there is some valid reasoning behind my stance on this matter. The long and the short of it is that any attempt to kill off these evildoers simply gives the current regime more opportunities to smear and demonize dissidents, and to enforce even more repressive measures.
Another reason why beheading the regime won’t work is that the main problem isn’t with Obama and a few people at the top, it’s with the entire American society being foolish enough to let Obama get into power. (See Words of Wisdom from the Czech Republic.)
As far as I know, nobody’s suggesting killing off everybody who was foolish enough to vote for Obama! The figurehead is always expendable, and there’s always another to take his place. Of course, one can only hope that our society will eventually come to its senses and use legal means to impeach and remove all public officials who support America’s enemies and who fail to uphold the Constitution, and then try and punish the perpetrators, along with their financiers and backers, for corruption, treason, et cetera after removing them from office. But such legal housecleaning, however justifiable and appropriate, is not a solution to the folly of the American electorate, simply because it could not possibly succeed until such time as Americans have already awakened from the folly that allowed Obama to get into power in the first place.
Expect to find a plant in every conservative organization
It wouldn’t surprise me if “Rayra” weren’t some sort of agent provocateur who wants to flush people who harbor anti-government thoughts out of the woodwork. While I don’t have any direct evidence that “Rayra” is a plant, suffice it to say that if I were to encounter him in person, I’d bring a watering can!
Put it this way, if “Rayra” can get people to admit that they also think that killing off the socialist Obama administration would be the right thing to do, then somebody from the goverment can arrest those people, and also use it as an excuse for all sorts of repressive measures against “domestic terrorism.” If you think that’s a stretch, look what happened with the Hutaree people. I find it absolutely despicable for “Rayra” and others to sit back, eat popcorn, and collect their government checks, while goading other people into taking actions that will ruin their lives and will only worsen government tyranny. If “Rayra” actually felt a moral obligation to put his own life on the line by killing Obama, I still would consider it misguided, but it is NOT his business to heap scorn on others such as myself for being unwilling to do the same. But I think that “Rayra” is just a bully and a coward who doesn’t mind getting other people into trouble as long as it doesn’t cause him any inconvenience.
So I decided to call his bluff once and for all. I told “Rayra” that, unless I saw “Rayra” himself, and NOT someone else, on the news as having assassinated Obama, that I would never take seriously anything “Rayra” says. My purpose was either to make “Rayra” reveal what he is up to, or, preferably, to get him to take back his remarks.
Instead, “Mike C.” deleted my comment in a fit of intemperate rage, probably before “Rayra” even got a chance to read it, and shortly after that I was banned.
People can draw whatever conclusions they want from that, but my advice is to watch out for people in any conservative venue who behave like this, and never to trust any of them.
More about this here.
April 7th, 2010 — Blogmocracy, Obama, U.S. Constitution, U.S. Legislature, U.S. law, blogging, conservative, counterjihad, economic collapse, graphic arts, humor, politics, social media, tyranny
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February 28th, 2008 — Facebook, Jenn Sierra (author), social media
Mixx is being touted as the alternative to Digg. Of course there are literally millions (give or take) of new social networking sites wanting to be the next Digg, but Mixx is actually pretty good. It’s user-friendly, and thus far seems to have avoided the whole “bury brigade” fiasco. Also, Mixx has taken steps to interact with other social networking programs…very Web 2.0!
Now, from the Mixx Blog:
Now you don’t have to leave Facebook to submit, comment on and share content from around the web, and you can share with your Facebook and your Mixx Friends at the same time. And by setting your Facebook Interests you’ll get the stuff you want delivered right to your profile page.
It’s easy to link your existing Mixx account to your Facebook account or to create a Mixx account and, once you do, voila! It’s a MiniMixx! You’ll be able to:
If you already have Mixx and Facebook ID’s, the interface is simple. Go to Mixx on Facebook, and follow the directions.
Also, if you’re using the Web Presence application on your Facebook profile, don’t forget to add your Mixx ID to your list of sites.
Also on FHK
January 28th, 2008 — Islam, Israel, Slashdot, anti-Semitism, blogging, counterjihad, e-jihadis, social media, trolls
SmoothStone delivers a delicious rant against the cyberstalkers, trolls, and e-jihadists visiting the excellent Smooth Stone blog:
An open letter to the palestinian thieves, butchers, and mass murderers who are visiting this site from peacepalestine.blogspot.com.
First of all, enjoy your Nakba. You wanted war, now you got it. You wanted war, now you’re paying the consequences…
The language in the rest of the post is a little too raw for me to quote directly, but suffice it to say that 1389 agrees with SmoothStone one hundred percent. Read it all!
Also on 1389 Message Blog.
January 12th, 2008 — CzechRebel (author), IMVU, art and design, chat, social media, tech industry
You may have noticed this ad on 1389 Blog…
By CzechRebel
A cartoon likeness of a young man, standing with an indoor pool in the background accompanies the ad. This author does not look like that in real life, but, yes, he is the same CzechRebel who writes this column.
Normally, we on the 1389 Blog team speak of serious political issues that may affect us all, and we share technical tips to help out in this ever-changing age of innovation. However, diversion is an important part of life too, and some of us on the 1389 Blog team like to slip over into the cartoon land of IMVU for a nice little vacation from reality.
Well, you can speak to a young college student from the People’s Republic of China, visit a middle-aged friend in New Zealand, exchange ideas with an elderly person in Germany, all in the same hour that you spend on IMVU. You will be the form of a cartoon character and look 25 again! (Or, if you are a little younger, get a taste of being about 25.) You can travel the world in seconds. Or fly somewhere slowly on a private jet.
You can have romance, even hugs and kisses. If you are looking for anything more, I am sorry, it is PG at most. On the other hand, you can even have a fistfight with someone and it won’t hurt a bit. You can swim even if you have never swum before and come out of the water bone dry. You can dance beautifully, even if you have two left feet. Heck, you can dance if you are laid up in bed with casts on both feet.
You can hang out in large mansion or a small cabin in the autumn woods. You can even take a visit to fairyland. Sound like too much? Well, all you need is a PC. (Sorry, Mac, old PC has got you beat on this one.)
Beyond Chat Rooms and Instant Messaging
- and It Is Free
IMVU provides the traditional features of a chat room with the added bonus of cute cartoon characters that speak in actual cartoon bubbles. There are realistic people, like my CzechRebel character, and fantasy features such as fairies. Some dress in period costumes. Others are furry creatures that are partly human and partly animal.
The basic chat scene is pretty simple: You hit the icon that asks if you want to chat now and you and another character meet in a room. Or you can visit cyber clubs and restaurants. You can chat one-on-one. You can invite friends whom you have met to chat.
Getting Started – Really, it is free
To get started, just click on our IMVU ad. If you use the one with the CzechRebel picture, be sure to click right on the character’s photo.
The first thing you do is to design your character, which is called an “avatar.” You can pick a male or female character, and, trust me on this one: it is a really good idea to make sure you and your avatar have the same sex. This character will become your alter ego.
It is very simple. You select your character’s features and an initial wardrobe of clothing. You also pick a screen name. Next, you select a place where your character will be living. Finally, when you have your character selected and place to live, you set up the account and away you go.
Chatting
IMVU really encourages you to meet new people. You can meet people at random. If you like your visitor, you can add him (or her) to your “buddy list.” If not, feel free to leave at anytime. Each character has an IMVU homepage, so it is possible to see other person’s homepage data to get a better idea of who you are talking to. Most people who play this game list their age and the country they are from. In the US, specific states are specified, but no other personal information is generally available to the public, unless you choose to give it.
Your Buddy List
It does not take long to have a few people who you would not mind speaking to, at least one more time. Whenever you visit IMVU, it is simple to invite a buddy to join you. Or they may invite you.
The Cartoon World of IMVU Even Has Email
Just as in real life, you’ll need to check your email, but you don’t need a separate program. You just display your own homepage, and there it is.
Private and Public Email
When you email a friend, you can make it private or public. Anyone who visits your homepage can see your public email, unless you decide otherwise. However, it is fun to see your friends’ friends’ little messages. If it is a private message, send it as one. If not, share the fun with your friends’ homepage visitors.
Gift Package via Email
Modern science has not yet found a way to email us our Christmas and birthday gifts. However, not so at IMVU! Check your homepage and you may find that an admirer, secret or otherwise, may have sent you a gift.
Some really sweet avatars have even given my avatar a gift or two. And, other people’s generosity does help tend to make us generous with others.
Chat and Email At Once
While you are chatting with one friend, you can still use the IMVU email as an instant messenger system with others. It saves you the trouble of doing an invite to say, “I have to leave in 5 minutes, but will you be on tomorrow after work?”
All Avatars Are Single
It is important to remember that IMVU is only a game.
As with any other chat room, it is extremely unlikely that any online friendship will work out into a real life relationship. Also, the characters do tend to gravitate to avatars of the opposite sex. Regardless of your marital status, your buddy list will most likely reflect this. So, please don’t play if you have a real-life spouse who would get jealous of your cartoon character’s adventures.
You may have someone in real life, but your avatar does not. That does not meant that your real-life special someone cannot join you in cartoon land, but it would be a little silly to join IMVU to chat only with your own mate. So, expect to be “seeing other people.” The avatars don’t come with X-rated features; thus IMVU does not lend itself to infidelity. For all intents and purposes, your avatar is not you, and your avatar will always be single.
Personal Information
IMVU does allow you to post certain other data, such as marital status. However, you do not need to show it, as it can be a lose-lose situation when people make hasty and often unwarranted assumptions. For example, “He (she) is married; must be here to find some on the side.” “She is divorced; must be easy to take to bed.” “He is widowed; must have some insurance money at least.” “She is 33 and single; wonder if she is so ugly that in real life no one would think of marrying her.”
So, it is probably best to leave your marital status blank in your profile. However, there are true romantics who hope that disclosing their available stats, or single, widowed or divorced status, might lead to finding a cyber mate who could be promoted to real-life spouse. More power to them!
For a woman, disclosing the status of being married is also pretty safe. The boys will still play with you, but the chances of their trying to get too fresh with you will be much lower.
Paid Upgrades
You can play with IMVU for free for an unlimited period of time, but if you really love your new hobby, there are some paid upgrade features. One is called an AP pass; it allows the avatar to hug and kiss in a little more romantic fashion. It is not really all that dirty, but only paying adults can use it. IMVU does a good job of keeping their game relatively wholesome. Anything too risqué for the 1950s world of Beaver Cleaver is unavailable without an AP pass. Even with the AP pass, it is still a fairly respectable fantasyland, at least as far as I have seen. And, even if you do add some of the slightly more racy characteristics to your avatar, only those with their own AP pass can ever see the results.
You can have your age verified, so that others will know that you are old enough to play this game, or too old to play with them. Right now, age verification is free with the AP pass.
You can also official join, own your own screen name, and be able to have more prompts and features than those who do not pay. However, most of the players are playing for free, so you really don’t miss that much if you never invest a dime in this hobby.
If this is the right hobby for you, and you are going to spend some quality time in cartoon land, you may want to consider VIP membership. It will allow your character to make certain moves that regular avatar cannot. You are also invited to participate in special activities. This includes ownership of your screen name as well. But play for a while first and see whether you like it enough.
Credits, the Fantasy Currency of IMVU
Just like in real life, IMVU has an economy. It provides a certain amount of “credits” just for showing up and playing the game each day when you start out. If you do want to spend real money on this hobby, you can also buy more credits.
What Are Those Credits For?
The basic avatar and his or her dwelling are OK. You also get some places to take your guests, such as a virtual Starbucks-like coffee bar. However, you may want a nice house or apartment to meet your guest. Your basic clothing is fine, but you might like more of a wardrobe. You can even have a vacation spot, a car, a motorcycle or even a jet plane. You may also want to play music for both yourself and your guests, or show your creativity and style by putting decorations on your IMVU homepage.
All these things and more can be obtained for IMVU credits. You may get some for free, or you may buy more if you like.
Making the Most of Free Credits
IMVU is very generous with provide initial credits. We highly recommend that you join when you are in a position to visit IMVU on four consecutive days. You don’t have to chat long, but each of four days earns progressively more credits. You get 200 for day one, 400 for day two, 800 hundred for day three, and a whooping 3,600 for the fourth day. So, if you join knowing that you won’t be able to chat on the fourth day, it will cost you 3,600 credits.
Once that period of generosity has passed, you will still be able to earn credits here and there. You can get some credits by chatting with new people. You can get 50 credits for seeing what is new in the catalog. There are other free promotional credits too, but noting is as good as those first four days.
Buying Credits
Credits are not too expensive when purchased direct from IMVU. However, people who make and sell things to be used on IMVU generally sell them at a discounted rate. Those people are called “developers.” Also, joining IMVU as an official member of their VIP club includes 5,000 credits per month at no extra charge.
Giving and Receiving Gifts
Many IMVU people love to give and receive gifts. Only credits that you pay for can be used to provide gifts. However, many players give gifts to their friends who would not be in a position to purchase credits.
Shopping and Wish Lists
You can use both your free credits, and any that you purchase, to buy your props form the IMVU catalog. It takes seconds, and your avatar can have a new house, a coat, or even a jet plane right on the spot.
However, IMVU allows you to create a wish list. This will allow you to shop, compare, and contemplate, just like in real life. What is even better is that your friends will know what you are thinking about buying. So, something from your wish list may appear as a gift.
The Downside to IMVU – Problems and What to Do
The worst thing that I can say about IMVU is that it very easy to spend too much time there. However, you need to be aware of a few other things.
Saying Goodbye to Strange People
The vast majority of people with whom you chat on IMVU will be decent. However, anyone with a computer can play this game. And you may have a few problems. It is simple to remove someone from your buddy list. And if you remove them, you come off their list, too.
You can also block someone who continues to give you a hard time. This should be sufficient in almost all cases. However, there is always the creep who thinks of something that no decent person would ever imagine. IMVU had a special line to report abuse and IMVU is very good about getting back to people who have a problem.
I Am a Mac and Cannot See PC on IMVU
For the time being, you must have a PC to play IMVU. However, IMVU hopes to have Mac software in the relatively near future. So, when you see that cute Apple ad, remember that Mac cannot yet do everything that old PC can.
Rude People
The other serious problem is that some people carry real-life rudeness into IMVU. Ladies, there is nothing wrong with telling a guy who show shows up bare-chested that you will talk to him only after he puts his shirt on. Gentlemen, if you don’t like women in real life who are a little too quick to kiss, who want to be too close too soon, and who ask for expensive gifts, you don’t need to play with them on IMVU either. There are plenty of nice people for everyone on IMVU.
One caveat: IMVU is not geared to young kids – it’s for people who are old enough to have some savvy about conversing with adults of both sexes.
If you come to visit IMVU, you may chat with me in cartoon land. I ordinarily don’t mention politics there, but would be glad to talk about a blog post or an issue that we cover on the 1389 blog, if pressed. But, come to have fun too, please. Life is too short.
CzechRebel, the character, is real ladies’ man on IMVU. It didn’t start out that way. However, as in other online venues, a man who will be nice to the women can become pretty popular, and the image has stuck. When asked how many “girl friends” my avatar has, he said, “I don’t number them. They are all unique and special to me as individuals.”
That is my character; “the man behind the curtain” of the CzechRebel avatar is a good friend, just as in real life. I am interested in hearing about my IMVU friends’ real-life problems and joys.
But ladies, I strongly advise you: don’t kiss and tell. I never do. Your secrets are safe with me. IMVU is only a game and my character is really sweet to ladies. In fact, if he were to meet 1389 herself in a chat room, he would try to sweet talk her a bit. After all, she works day and night to make this blog possible. If she ever gets time to visit cartoon land, it would be just the thing to get her mind off politics and computers.
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December 18th, 2007 — YouTube, social media, video
David Cohn says that Google may own YouTube, but there should be an alternative video player. Competition means accoutability – and competition offers an end run around attempts to censor political speech. And open source is a good way to go.
Just over a year ago NewAssignment.Net interviewed the founders of the Participatory Culture Foundation about their open source media player Democracy. Recently I had a chance to run into Nicholas Reville and thought it would be a good chance to find out what has happened in the last year. For starters, the OS media player called Democracy is now known as Miro. Let’s begin.
Q: What has happened in the last year in terms of growth?
Nicholas Reville: In the last year, we’ve gone from being a beta project with a relatively small user base to being a mainstream application. We’ve had almost 2 million downloads this year and we expect to have at least 5 times that next year. The 1.0 release in November really brought us to a new level.
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October 7th, 2007 — Digg, Orlando (author), social media, tech industry
The redoubtable Fort Hard Knox Blog has been receiving a lot of traffic lately from Propeller, f.k.a. “Netscape.” According to its “about” page,
Propeller.com is a service of Weblogs, Inc. and part of the AOL Network owned and operated by AOL, LLC, a Time-Warner company.
Propeller is a social bookmarking/networking site, similar to Digg.com, with some differences that we like. There are a lot more categories, and users can tag their stories, so that readers can more easily find topics of interest. If you’re wondering where some of your Digg.com friends have gone – it’s possible that they’re now on Propeller. Propeller is user-friendly, and quite interesting. Check it out! Cross-posted at:
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