BaalChatzaf Posted June 19, 2009 Share Posted June 19, 2009 Ba'al Chatzaf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiaer.ts Posted June 19, 2009 Share Posted June 19, 2009 When presented with a blind link like this I always expect to find rather nasty scat porn, a snuff film, or maybe even something worse, like Sasha Baron Cohen at the other end, and I am not about to follow it. Please provide a minimal decsription. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Grieb Posted June 19, 2009 Share Posted June 19, 2009 Ted; With Ba'al I would expected a speech on the need to kill enemies of the Jews. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brant Gaede Posted June 19, 2009 Share Posted June 19, 2009 Have No Tequila? What's upbeat about that?--Brant Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philip Coates Posted June 20, 2009 Share Posted June 20, 2009 > When presented with a blind link like this I always expect to find rather nasty scat porn, a snuff film, or maybe even something worse, like Sasha Baron Cohen at the other end, and I am not about to follow it. Please provide a minimal decsription. [Ted]I second this. Link ignored:Part of the decline of our culture is a sort of mental laziness in which people can't even take thirty seconds to explain or describe something. Instead, in their arrogance, they "blow off" the fact that watching a video is quite time consuming and requires at least some feeble attempt at motivation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philip Coates Posted June 20, 2009 Share Posted June 20, 2009 It's even sadder when CSPS is practiced by those who have acquaintance with Objectivism. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Stuart Kelly Posted June 20, 2009 Share Posted June 20, 2009 Phil,CSPS?btw - I have tried to get posters to stop doing that. It's like herding cats...Michael Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiaer.ts Posted June 20, 2009 Share Posted June 20, 2009 Phil,CSPS?btw - I have tried to get posters to stop doing that. It's like herding cats...Michael What's up with youtube code on this thread. I tried posting the embed but it wouldn't work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Stuart Kelly Posted June 20, 2009 Share Posted June 20, 2009 Ted,It should work. Here's Bob's cryptic thread-opener: Michael Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brant Gaede Posted June 20, 2009 Share Posted June 20, 2009 Don't you guys read thread titles?--Brant Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Stuart Kelly Posted June 20, 2009 Share Posted June 20, 2009 Brant,I'm still trying to figure out what CSPS means...Do you think it's upbeat, at least? Michael Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiaer.ts Posted June 20, 2009 Share Posted June 20, 2009 Have No Tequila? What's upbeat about that?--Brant I used to love her, but I had tequila... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brant Gaede Posted June 20, 2009 Share Posted June 20, 2009 I got it the first time. Sheesh!--Brant Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiaer.ts Posted June 20, 2009 Share Posted June 20, 2009 I got it the first time. Sheesh!--Brant Well I didn't. Neither Netscape nor Safari seems to work properly now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philip Coates Posted June 20, 2009 Share Posted June 20, 2009 Michael,CSPS means ...it means....... damn I forgot... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Stuart Kelly Posted June 20, 2009 Share Posted June 20, 2009 Phil,Should I put it in the thread title? If no info is going to be there, at least it can be made more intriguing with an acronym... Michael Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Heaps-Nelson Posted June 20, 2009 Share Posted June 20, 2009 Phil,Should I put it in the thread title? If no info is going to be there, at least it can be made more intriguing with an acronym... MichaelMichael,I think the last SPS means short post syndrome. Might as well contribute when I can :-).Jim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Heaps-Nelson Posted June 20, 2009 Share Posted June 20, 2009 (edited) Phil,Should I put it in the thread title? If no info is going to be there, at least it can be made more intriguing with an acronym... MichaelMichael,I think the last SPS means short post syndrome. Might as well contribute when I can :-).JimI think the C stands for congenital. Or is it communicative. Or possibly both ?Jim Edited June 20, 2009 by James Heaps-Nelson Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barbara Branden Posted June 21, 2009 Share Posted June 21, 2009 Phil: "Part of the decline of our culture is a sort of mental laziness in which people can't even take thirty seconds to explain or describe something. Instead, in their arrogance, they 'blow off' the fact that watching a video is quite time consuming and requires at least some feeble attempt at motivation."Good grief, Phil! Don't you think you may be rushing just a bit ahead of the evidence? I don't take Ba'al's failure to provide a description to mean he is mentally lazy, arrogant, or evasive -- nor personally responsible for the decline of our culture. Perhaps, like others who fail to meet your requirements, he simply made a mistake.Barbara Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BaalChatzaf Posted June 21, 2009 Author Share Posted June 21, 2009 Phil: "Part of the decline of our culture is a sort of mental laziness in which people can't even take thirty seconds to explain or describe something. Instead, in their arrogance, they 'blow off' the fact that watching a video is quite time consuming and requires at least some feeble attempt at motivation."Good grief, Phil! Don't you think you may be rushing just a bit ahead of the evidence? I don't take Ba'al's failure to provide a description to mean he is mentally lazy, arrogant, or evasive -- nor personally responsible for the decline of our culture. Perhaps, like others who fail to meet your requirements, he simply made a mistake.BarbaraHava Nagilah is the quintessential upbeat tune. That is why it is played at weddings, bar mitvahs and sometimes, funerals. And the young lady clarinetist in Rieue's orchestra had a very good klezmer noisach (musical style). Ba'al Chatzaf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philip Coates Posted June 29, 2009 Share Posted June 29, 2009 > Good grief, Phil! Don't you think you may be rushing just a bit ahead of the evidence? I don't take Ba'al's failure to provide a description to mean he is mentally lazy, arrogant, or evasive -- nor personally responsible for the decline of our culture. Perhaps, like others who fail to meet your requirements, he simply made a mistake. [barbara]Barbara, I think I'm entititled to 'jump' to a wider problem I see in the culture that this suggests without it being assumed that I mean all of those four adjectives applying to the one person I was criticizing. Or it being based on only one instance. And yes, all of us make mistakes or occasional 'slipshod posts'...so you just have to see if it occurs repeatedly to criticize someone more widely. But on the point of laziness in a particular piece of writing, one can see it sometimes in a single example. Takes a bit more, though, before I will say that one blogger or poster is responsible for the decline of our culture.... :-)(Arrogance I wouldn't attribute to Baal on this one thing. I was generalizing about a wider phenomenon in the culture.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonathan Posted June 29, 2009 Share Posted June 29, 2009 I think the biggest contributor to the decline of our culture is people who like to incessantly bitch about the decline of our culture, especially when they do their bitching without having any knowledge of the specific parts of the culture that they bitch about. A good example would be a person who claims that television has descended into fourth grade-level mindless mediocrity, and then later mentions that he doesn't even have cable and hasn't seen any of the television shows that others cite as being worthwhile. One might as well bitch that science hasn't made any advances since Newton, and then admit that one hasn't paid attention to scientific developments since having been forced to read a book about Newton in the fourth grade.Also, people who don't know how to use the quote function when posting on OL, or refuse to learn. They're also responsible for cultural decline. How fricking hard is it to reply to a post using OL's standard reply-quote method? A baby could do it.I guess what I'm saying is that Phil and other culture-bitchers and quote-function-avoiders like him are the primary cause of our cultural decline.J Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brant Gaede Posted June 29, 2009 Share Posted June 29, 2009 Glad I'm off the hook.--Brant Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barbara Branden Posted June 29, 2009 Share Posted June 29, 2009 Jonathan: "Also, people who don't know how to use the quote function when posting on OL, or refuse to learn. They're also responsible for cultural decline. How fricking hard is it to reply to a post using OL's standard reply-quote method? A baby could do it."I rarely use the quote function because I don't like the fact that it often requires me to quote a lengthy post -- which readers then have to read through a second time -- when I want to respond to only a small part of the post. I quote only the section to which I'm responding. So I'm afraid the culture will just have to keep declining.Barbara Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dragonfly Posted June 29, 2009 Share Posted June 29, 2009 I rarely use the quote function because I don't like the fact that it often requires me to quote a lengthy post -- which readers then have to read through a second time -- when I want to respond to only a small part of the post. I quote only the section to which I'm responding. So I'm afraid the culture will just have to keep declining.But the quote function works just as easily with a small part of the post, you just delete the rest of the original text (taking care that quote tags remain balanced). Or you just select that part you want to quote and click on the quote button (second from the right, the balloon with 3 lines).Suppose the original text is "blablablabl ablablab lablablablab lablablabla blibliblibli blibli blablablab lablablabla blablablabl ablablabla". Too long and you want only to quote the blibliblibli blibli part. Copy it and select it again (so that it appears in reverse video), and click on the quote button. You then get the following code: [quote]blibliblibli blibli[/quote]which gives the following result: blibliblibli blibliTo indicate that the text was written by the Devil *), you edit the code:[quote=The Devil]blibliblibli blibli[/quote]which gives the following result:blibliblibli blibliSimple comme bonjour!*) If you use the "reply" option, this is done automatically for you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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