Mark Zuckerberg is dead – Facebook confirmed A day after Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg declared it's a "crazy idea" that fake Facebook news may have influenced the election – never mind the persuasive power of its ads – the web giant took to issuing fake death notices. The piffling cyber-sideshow of holiday photos and made-up headlines plastered remembrance banners atop …
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The "freedictionary" seems more complete than Merriam-Webster regarding the "s-word". Just like the Urban Dictionary is more complete than the freedictionary regarding the "n-word", actually. Better post anonymously.
He's a megalomaniac who is trying to own the www. There are too many suckers in the world helping him to do it. The web should be free and open. Fuck off Zuck.
I don't wish him any ill-fate but I just wish he would stop is land-grab in his own interest and nobody else's.
"He's the 2nd coming and did not even need 3 days for resurrection. On your knees and repent you sinful ignorant bastard."
If anything, that portrait pic the reg had up against a recent article reminds me of the Roman Emperor Caligula.
I was rather hoping for a Grunthos the Flatulent scenario.
@ Gene Cash
Of course it wasn't a mistake, error or cock-up. Zuck wanted to offend and piss off a great many people, wanted to attract peoples ire and have to make grovelling apologies, so obviously would have done it deliberately.
Welcome to the post truth world where you get downvoted for stating the bleeding obvious.
"Of course it wasn't a mistake, error or cock-up. Zuck wanted to offend and piss off a great many people, wanted to attract peoples ire and have to make grovelling apologies, so obviously would have done it deliberately."
In the long run, all publicity is good publicity.
I wonder what the odds are of making that particular mistake on the that particular day?
I had my "I aten't dead" card all ready.
If it will make you fell better, I'll announce your demise in a new thread elsewhere in the forums. After a gushing but sadly inaccurate and unfelt eulogy, all Commentards can express their condolences, share fond memories. Give it a short while, and then you'll be able to play your card.
Everybody will be happy - I'll have issued the sort of codswallop praise the politicians give each other when one joins the queue for the firey escalator, the Commentariat will have come together in grief and sorrow (and undoubtedly raised a glass or two), you'll be able to do your e-Lazarus routine, and then we'll all be relieved that in fact you're still with us.
Is racial targeting a bad thing?
If I was in the business of manufacturing dreidels it'd be reasonably impractical targeting your average Chinese person.
Racial targeting has a place if used correctly.
If it is done in a way that is clearly racist, offensive or derogatory. That is a matter for the people at large to decide not the politically correct brigade to decide.
If I as a businessman know my target demographic should I not be able to specifically target it?
Marketing has always been discriminatory regardless of race. It makes marketing more effective and less wasteful from an economic point of view.
I mean come on who in the real world these days wants extreme political correctness?
A lot of people I know from various different races would rather not bang the political correctness drum.
What needs to be tackled is fundamental inequality.
If you look at scientific funding for example.
A friend of mine who is of Nigerian heritage but holds a British passport is struggling to get funding at the moment. He is an exceptional chap and has done some very interesting research into cardiology. The guy is incredible.
He was researching at the University of North Carolina but he has had numerous funding and visa issues.
In trying to get more funding he discovered that as a black male he is at upto a 60% disadvantage. Regardless of his research. He currently has no funding. He has been working on his research for nearly a decade.
That is truly sickening. Flinging tat via Facebook with racial targeting is bollocks in comparison.
I know a large proportion of the people here will feel the same way.
If I could fund the guy I absolutely would. Who isnt interested in solving the intricate aspects of heart disease?
Just because this guy is black we'll have to wait longer.
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