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Bastard, I wanted to be the first person ever to bump this thread from page 2.
Blip is giving me the "Disable your adblocker or wait 90 seconds!" message even though my adblocker is already disabled.
Fuck this, if you're gonna play these games I'm just gonna enable the damn adblocker again. Apologies to Todd in the Shadows.
So, in the matter of a week or two, a media group got closed down, one of the two most important newspaper's president had his bank accounts frozen, and an assambleist had his parliamentary immunity revoked.
Besides that, the head of a socialist MUD party who presented the second part of Mario Silva's audio won't be presenting he first, presumably due to a negotiation. Another socialist MUD party is doing away with the coalition's candidatures and is launching its own candidates with its own voting card.
You know, the more I think about how it has all come to this or how it's been the last 50 years or so, the more reasons I find to resent socialists and leftists.
Mhhhh-hmmmm, I'm hardly the last to crack jokes about Communists hanging from tree branches myself, but for sake of balance, I'm gonna say right here that you seem to be generalizing.
Well, Nelson Mandela is cool. Besides that, well, like I said I've been thinking and... *shrug*
(Though I guess I should've clarified I didn't mean to include center-left in that.)
Also, clinics are going to be having proceedures under price controls. They expect to close down in the short term if the tentative price isn't changed, and considering all other price controls and how it's probably intentional, well...
I keep on typing a plural for the namespace when typing TV Tropes links. Such a Videogames/SuperMarioBros. Because I apparently think of the namespace as a category, and the appropriate category title for the medium that contains Super Mario Bros. is "videogames", not "videogame".
FYI it's supposed to be Videogame/SuperMarioBros.
Does this happen with Film/ and other namespaces that can be pluralized, or just VideoGame/ ?
It happens with VisualNovel and Creator as well, but not with Anime, Literature, etc. because that can't be pluralized. I haven't had much of any occasion to use the Film namespace, though.
FWIW, it's not consistent. The namespace for userpages is Tropers, not Troper. Though that was one of the earliest namespaces to be created...
Heh, I have the same problem a lot with Tumblr tags. I'm never sure whether I should tag something with "#traffic signal" or "#traffic signals", to name an example.
Either one would be fine, except I have a tendency to be inconsistent...
Character names give me trouble tag-wise too.
"#twilight sparkle"? "#twilight"? "#princess twilight"? "#princess twilight sparkle"?
The character's typical name outside the fandom is Twilight Sparkle, so the correct form is #twilightsparkle. #twilight would refer to the novel.
#curemoonlight #heartcatchprecure #awesome
I luff Roll20
Moar computer problems.
Yaaaaay.
Source of those elusive GIFs tracked down.
Ewww, Tumblr tags with no spaces.
:P
That said, what about a less ambiguous example: "#karkat" vs. "#karkat vantas". There isn't any other "Karkat", at least not that anyone on Tumblr would care about, so which form would be preferred?
I will NOT stop until everyone knows about this
^^ Wait, you were talking about tumblr tags and not twitter tags?
^^ Wait, tumblr has tags?
^^ Wait, tumblr tags have no spaces? Then how are they correctly parsed? Everyone knows that standard text tagging practice is that tags must be a string of standard English keyboard characters excluding symbols and spaces. Spaces are used to delineate borders between tags, because they are visually suggestive of separation. What the heck does tumblr use, pipes?
Tumblr posts can have spaces in their tags. Although the URLs seem to replace spaces with hyphens.
Tags on Tumblr are entered in a separate box below the post content, so parsing isn't much of an issue the same way it is with Twitter hashtags, since they're already separate.
...Really, Tumblr tags are kinda weird. When entering them, you separate them with commas, but it renders them with a hash. So you type "twilight sparkle" and hit the , key and it turns it into "#twilight sparkle". It's not very intuitive, admittedly, but it's something you get used to rather quickly.
Rereading my posts above, I should've probably also clarified that I was referring to politicians/authors/etc., I don't mind it for random uninfluential people because they can't fuck things up.
On an unrelated note, am I the only one getting those "5 signs you'll get Alzheimer's" ads? I'm getting them everywhere, all the time, and that dude's expression is getting on my nerves.
No you're not.
Are they ads served in a cluster by Taboola? Along with stuff like "Billionaire Warns of Financial Ruin" and other highly trustworthy links.
Not that I'm aware.
Anyhow, for the past two months or so the reds has been exalting Chávez' image in a really creepy religious-cultish way (as opposed to in a creepy political-campaigning way) and referring to him as "Christ of the poor", "supreme leader" and "eternal commander" (as usual there's a sarcastic oppository counterpart, "galactic commander"). The good thing is that apparently it's not sticking, and I dearly hope it stays that way.
Anyhow, a lot of importance is being put on the incoming municipal elections, according to a bunch of oppository opinionists (including those who are critical of the MUD) a sound defeat would be a huge blow to the regime's image which it apparently needs to sustain itself. I'm not sure how that works. Regardless, from what I've seen a bunch of oppositors are disheartened due to the MUD calling for voting even though they now officially aknowledge fraud and aren't doing much to change electoral conditions or doing something about presidential elections, and apparently there's going to be a lot of oppository abstention due to that (something the Illegitimate is trying to foment), similar to last year's regional elections right after meekly accepting defeat on presidential elections.
As for the government, as usual they chose their candidates through no primaries and neglecting all officialist parties besides the main one (good, fuck them). What's remarkable this time is that a bunch of their candidates are "rock stars", a baseball player, a TV announcer, and a Mario Silva Jr. (candidate here, that motherfucker mustn't win), and that a lot of their base guys are pissed about it, with protests and shit. It doesn't seem they're going to let Nicolass do what they let the galactic commander get away with.
Either way, president Capriles said he'd no longer wait for the Supreme Tribunal of Justice's long overdue acception or rejection of their cases of election irregularities and would go to international courts for a ruling. I didn't think it'd be a big deal for the government but apparently it hit a nerve, the next day the Tribunal rejected the case, fined him for "offending" the institution, threatened to open a case against him, he was forcibly denied an unrelated plane flight and, more importantly, one of his right hand guys had his home randomly raided by investigators and had a bunch of information confiscated from it.
Clearly, you are a deluded, stupid schoolkid, paid shekels-for-post by your Wall Street employers, who are shaken to no end that Venezuela almost slipped out of their claws.
...eh, I'm trying, but I'm afraid I can't do that kind of crazy rhetoric right.
Do foreigners actually believe transnationals controlled the country before Chávez? Because they stopped having significant power sometime between 1941 and 1976, and that's thanks to the people chavists hate so much.
I know the US government disliked Chávez enough to support the coup attempt in 2002, at least.
Incidentally,
(source: http://www.eenews.net/eenewspm/stories/1059985806/climate_digest , but you'll need a subscription to see it, probably)
Well, shitfuckery is going on in Venezuela anyway, so the rejection would probably delay and make more difficult the production of oil from heavy crude. So I'm okay with this.
^^ Yeah, but not due to support for or from transnationals.
Good times. I've been wondering how things would've turned out if after Chávez' ousting hadn't happened the way it happened, namely without a public reply from Chávez to his offer to resign, which he accepted (if he did), or without Pedro Carmona Estanga (president of the federation of chambers of commerce and one of the heads behind the strike) not disregarding the then-new constitutional line, declaring himself interin president and do away with a bunch of Chávez stuff, an opportunity which he accepted, and giving chavists an excuse to do anything forever.
I wonder if something like this could happen again.
^ I hope it's not rejected. Whatever is bad for the Venezuelan government is good for Venezuela.
Edit: Also, while transnationals aren't powerful nowadays, it's not because the reds haven't tried to make it so, mostly with transnationals from countries under leftist governments.
This guy is brilliant: http://now.msn.com/dmitry-agarkov-outwits-russian-bank-by-writing-own-credit-card-terms
@MadassAlex: @Nova wanted me to tell you this:
@Fuschlatz flagging you too just because you're Australian