Mais je suis super sérieuse!

[cerealjoe]

Right. So let's share some more politically incorrect opinions: I don't give a damn about the whole "share the comment/post on FB/Twitter" affair! I'm not worried that somehow my stuff will end up at the end of the universe and somehow my super-duper sworn arch-nemesis will see a link to an entry of mine and use that against me. Then again I don't have a damn arch-nemesis! Woe is me. I want a cool arch-nemesis, dammit! If Stephen Colbert can have Bi/Rain as his arch-nemesis (watch that video, the fun starts about 1:40 in) I want someone just as awesome and badass, I want to have a damn dance-off also. Back to my point. Everyone and their mother is saying that LJ is an arse for putting in that option and they weren't asked about it. This is like H2G2, you probably were asked about but you had to go down to some basement and go past a tiger (metaphorically speaking, in internet terms that means "it was written somewhere at the bottom of a post about potato chips") to actually read about it. What's the main problem most people have? They lose the control of what they've written and their LJ is "theirs". This is the interwebs, nothing belongs to you. These options that were introduced just make it easier for me to spread something... trust me, if I wanted to make fun of your little post and get you some hate mail, I could easily post a link to your entry on some random board with a couple of trolls and public/friends-only/other posts would get spammed. It's a bit like people moaning that their HQ photos are being stolen. Don't want it stolen/made fun of/photoshopped? Don't post it on the interwebs. Easy breezy Cover Girl. Alright, so yes, I'm not taking this whole drama too seriously because LJ has so many other problems which were introduced (ads anyone? ads you can control on your paid account?) and which in my opinion are so much worse. Why the hell get your panties in a twist about something which actually existed before but is now just made easier? Conclusion: LJ, in your next update can you send me my own kpop arch-nemesis with whom I'd totally be able to have a dance-off? We could even go to a norebang now that I can read Hangul very slowly (not that I know what anything means but I can read it)! And in other news, this is for my mum if she'll ever get around to backtracking up to here in my LJ when she's back from her holidays. See, Mum, this is what Linda the bunny was doing while you weren't here! She somehow managed to get past the mesh that's in front of the bottom layer of the garden and she quite enjoyed the food there. She also absolutely ignored me when I told her it was dangerous and that she could fall off easily at any point and she kept on jumping along the edge. Bad bunny! But I guess that's what bunnies do, they jump.

To say that the majority of pet bunnies are in cages and never get to go out and only eat round bunny food! I don't think Linda quite realises what an adventurous life she leads compared to those bunnies.

Comments

Internet Piracy

[pnolan.livejournal.com]

Hmmm . . I guess I'm with you, Gali. I think your basic point is well taken. If you want what you write, or the pictures you take to be private, don't post it on the internet!!! In the U.S., the government monitors the internet (I don't know how?!) AND our phones, etc., all because of the "Patriot Act." And also there are all those hackers and other jerk offs just playing around out there. And it will probably only get worse. So . . . the internet should be used for information gathering (carefully) and sharing. Perhaps the people who use it all the time have come to expect it to be "theirs" but clearly it's not.

Re: Internet Piracy

[cerealjoe.livejournal.com]

Well, the government does not monitor as such the Internet, that would be quite impossible. The Patriot Act basically gives the government the right to log all internet activity but to monitor it 24/7 for everyone would take too many resources both computer and human. Unless you are someone worthy of noticing by some services you don't have much to worry about. The issue with this Patriot Act is that technically anyone could have their activity monitored (that's possible for a limited number of individuals) without them knowing about it... but hey, that's exactly what was possible previously but time was required to get warrants and lawyers could get annoying and saying stuff can't be retroactive.