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Re: Why is Trivago Called Trivago?

kimwilliamson — Mon, 08 Aug 2016 22:22:43 -0000

"Trivago" is a verb, meaning "to name a company in such a foolish way that it will cost millions in marketing moneys to get the business idea across." And that's because "Trivago" is one of the stupidest names in Internet history--and there've been many of them, so in a sense having the stupidest is an achievement. The proof that even the company knows it: Every TV ad, their spokesperson has to say, "Hotel? Trivago," in desperation to connect the two. Viewers are left blinking at the intended association--what does the neologism "trivago" have to do with the word "hotel"? Well, none. Thus the blinking. And thus the millions--add up the cost, for every one of those TV ads, of the time spent on "Hotel? Trivago." Good heavens. It might not be so low IQ if the Trivago service worked well. Which it doesn't. I've tried it, and every time I have I've had to use another booking approach, and profited thereby. Well, Trivago the site has one, if minimal, value: If your booking efforts have resulted only in equaling the very best Trivago can offer, then you know you need to keep trying, because you can do much better. Maybe the first part of "Trivago" means "try, try again"?

Re: Another 'Facebook Is Dead' Study

kimwilliamson — Wed, 22 Jan 2014 14:44:25 -0000

Their science: "To find the best fit curve, an I(t) curve must be generated and then compared to the search query data set. This is achieved by choosing initial input parameters ... and then solving the system of differential equations to determine the corresponding I(t)." Your science: Off the top of your head. I'll go with Princeton, thanks.

Re: Apple Relaxes Some Restrictions On App Developers | paidContent

kimwilliamson — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 11:43:50 -0000

Not nearly enough, is your answer. But: If developers have netted $1 billion for 6.5 billion downloads, that's just 15 cents per. Also not nearly enough.

Re: Google Ready to Abandon Net Neutrality for Verizon Deal

kimwilliamson — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 15:31:29 -0000

What happened to the company whose motto was do no evil? It's almost enough to make one hope that Bing does better. Almost.

Re: Fox News SVP Disagrees with Account of Beck Meeting - mediabistro.com: TVNewser

kimwilliamson — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 19:10:12 -0000

1000% like McGovern. But with 1000% less reason.

Re: The Shot Heard 'Round the Industry. Backpack Journalism on the Rise - mediabistro.com: TVNewser

kimwilliamson — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 21:31:19 -0000

Well, hello back. But why did you end your message with what's made for the start? It's almost like what a 12-year-old would say, mistaking it for intelligent argumentation. In any case, let's say you were writing a book about Mitt Romney, even perhaps in part because you admired him. How would that disqualify you? Writers cover lots of people that interest and draw them; that somehow disqualifies them, or you, from chairing a debate involving them? I'd think you'd be better as a moderator of a debate involving Mr. Romney exactly because you did have indepth knowledge most wouldn't. Of course, you'd have to research the other candidates participating, and just like any moderator of any stripe would have to set aside your personal beliefs so you could do a professional job. If liberal commentators then accused you of bias, well, piffle on them; they'd probably give away (maybe by calling you "Prince") their real upset, which would be that a conservative had been given the dais, and that that somehow "innately" imbalanced the event. Have you seen the episode of Family Guy in which Lois, Peter and pals are playing a card game, and Lois reformulates the game's questions for Peter (who's mentally slow) so that he can win? It would be only on that count--that you as the moderator lobbed softballs to one candidate, hardballs to others, difficult to do when the questions are, you know, the same--that anyone could have complaint about your performance. The rest is all booga boogaing. Which is all you are doing. But then you're a Retardlickon, and that's what Retardlickons do. Goodbye! (See how that works, there?) P.S. Hey, if any fellow young folks are actually reading this far down, this late in the game for a Feb. 26 article: There's nothing wrong with an MBA; just don't think "I Had An MBA" will be anything you want on your tombstone. MFA, maybe. Sure, there's that Harvard Business Review blog that agrees the MFA is the new MBA, but the MFA is happier. I mean, think of yourself in some Dickens/Carol-like moment standing before two potential future tombstones, and one says I Had An MBA, and the other says I Had An MFA. Who would you want to have been?

Re: Fishbowl5 With Jonathan Krohn: 14-year-old on a Mission for Conservative Values - mediabistro.com: FishbowlDC

kimwilliamson — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 20:35:58 -0000

Thanks! I thought so too.

usw: und so weiter: and so on.

Re: The Shot Heard 'Round the Industry. Backpack Journalism on the Rise - mediabistro.com: TVNewser

kimwilliamson — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 18:29:05 -0000

Thanks, methuselah--we don't need the hoary advice. We can do better than an MBA. And you might pick up a pamphlet on ethics; there is no conflict of interest in the situation you describe. You just don't like PBS because it has people who didn't, you know, settle for an MBA.

Re: Fishbowl5 With Jonathan Krohn: 14-year-old on a Mission for Conservative Values - mediabistro.com: FishbowlDC

kimwilliamson — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 15:52:10 -0000

The lady doth protest too much. By the way, the hem of your guilt is showing.

Re: Prank Call Makes It On Air at CNN - TVNewser

kimwilliamson — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 20:10:01 -0000

Oh, yes, please do "science" for us.

Re: What’s Palm’s Next Move? | mocoNews

kimwilliamson — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 12:36:03 -0000

Hi! Nice. So you might want to fix a few unintended errors. In the below, you should make it "it's a wonder," not "no wonder," which has the opposite meaning, and both "there's" should be "there're," because naturally you mean "there are three/others" and not "there is three/others."

"...In fact, it’s no wonder something hasn’t happened already.
There’s three potential suitors that immediately jump to mind, and likely there’s others, too...."

Re: Fishbowl5 With Jonathan Krohn: 14-year-old on a Mission for Conservative Values - mediabistro.com: FishbowlDC

kimwilliamson — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 20:31:34 -0000

No, no, don't give up. We all have our weaknesses. But one I don't have is defining Americans--that was done for all of us by the founding fathers...you know, equality, freedom, usw. So one gets tired of people who are American by accident of birthplace only, who have no understanding of what America is--those who today, e.g., want to control who marries who, and who gets to decide birth choices--based on their (mis)interpretation of their particular religion, and who would be happy to make their religion the law of the land, going *against* one of the very reasons people came to America in pre-colonial times. Just as their politicial predecessors were *against* ending slavery, were *against* women's suffrage (but spent pre-World War II *for* the American Bund), were *against* civil rights, were *against* the ERA, were...well, the litany of the crimes *against* America by the right wing is pretty long. And the crimes they tally against "the left"--which is their definition, the left is really just America--are those we've done to protect America from them, nothing more. So you probably can understand....

Re: Fishbowl5 With Jonathan Krohn: 14-year-old on a Mission for Conservative Values - mediabistro.com: FishbowlDC

kimwilliamson — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 22:35:20 -0000

And in neither, however you over-define the land, do conservatives have a place. Except at the gate, boarding for Out. Talk about classic--classic Retardlickon effort to evade the point, that you are not American in any way except by accident of birthplace. Next?

Re: Fishbowl5 With Jonathan Krohn: 14-year-old on a Mission for Conservative Values - mediabistro.com: FishbowlDC

kimwilliamson — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 19:08:17 -0000

Excellent! This is a conservative I could like--an IQ 47 points above the average for conservatives, and someone whose physical age is already 4 years above the average conservative's mental age. And he actually uses diverse sources for information! Impressive, really. Maybe he'll read all those history books about the 1776 Revolution, in which a bunch of liberals got together and invented the United States of America and American democracy.

Re: Maddow Tells Beck to 'Back Off' - mediabistro.com: TVNewser

kimwilliamson — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 16:16:41 -0000

Gosh, that's excellent education, and your life experience sounds wonderful. Then why is it all you can muster is "GED nation"-level thinking?--that you don't even have the guts to admit to. Instead, you hide behind c.v. claims. It's an ad hominmen error, made in reverse. Think of it this way: Our previous national executive can now say he's been president of the United States--a resume line far greater than anything you've managed--but, you know, he too is still retarded.

Re: Maddow Tells Beck to 'Back Off' - mediabistro.com: TVNewser

kimwilliamson — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 17:45:53 -0000

Kudos! Excellent point about the signs. Why, there really weren't that many signs--a bunch of American flags, to show the participants' oh-so-pure Americanism, but not that many signs--in the 1925 Ku Klux Klan march on Washington, which the Tea Party march most closely resembles, both in fetid fervor and in political (mis)belief. Not that many signs. But still that many unAmericans, every one of them. Just like you and yours. Remember every day you awake, every night you go to sleep: America was founded by LIBERALS. If you had known how to read in fifth grade, you would have learned this from your history books.

Re: Bay Area Native and MoveOn.org Alum Takes Down Glenn Beck - mediabistro.com: BayNewser

kimwilliamson — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 19:23:25 -0000

1. Learn to spell. (Menace; advertisers)
2. Learn to spell your supposed hero's name. (Glenn)

Re: Bay Area Native and MoveOn.org Alum Takes Down Glenn Beck - mediabistro.com: BayNewser

kimwilliamson — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 19:21:25 -0000

And all the Retardlickon, right-wing, nutjob efforts against advertisers for so many years on other issues, you complained mightily about those, correct? And you'll lead the charge against those types in the future, correct? Or you should just shut yourself up, correct?

Re: Bay Area Native and MoveOn.org Alum Takes Down Glenn Beck - mediabistro.com: BayNewser

kimwilliamson — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 19:18:06 -0000

Nice try. If you're of Irish descent but born in America you are Irish-American--which means you're an American of Irish descent. What you're saying would be akin to saying, I'm American, not male. Unless you're sharing a secret?

The trick with Retardlickons is to nail them when they're trying to pass off their own ignorance as supposed proof of their extra-special super-dupery better-than-thou patriotism. Like I said: Nice try. Whack!

Re: CNN Responds to Lou Dobbs Radio Waves About Barack Obama Birthplace - mediabistro.com: TVNewser

kimwilliamson — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 18:16:27 -0000

Remember when Dobbs used to "be" somebody? He was okay covering business. Now he's just a pontificator so self satisfied he can't be bothered with analysis. Just as for the Retardlickons, for Dobbs what he wishes were true is thereby true. Say JAY-zuz! Whereas it's what he supports at his witless best that is most easily discerned as untrue. There's also the hilarity of his facial expression at his most pompous; if a dictionary ever needed an image to go with its definition of onanism, his face would be it.

Re: CNN Responds to Lou Dobbs Radio Waves About Barack Obama Birthplace - mediabistro.com: TVNewser

kimwilliamson — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 18:01:05 -0000

Esq.? You mean like, "Esquses" for so insistently being a retard?

Re: CNN Responds to Lou Dobbs Radio Waves About Barack Obama Birthplace - mediabistro.com: TVNewser

kimwilliamson — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 17:58:59 -0000

I don't follow--brain "transplants"? For Retardlickons? Oh, I see. But for them you mean brain "introductions."

Re: Sarah Palin as Read by William Shatner - mediabistro.com: FishbowlLA

kimwilliamson — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 18:12:01 -0000

I know of Shatner--he was on the 1960s fictional TV show Star Trek that was cancelled after a few years. But who's this Sarah Palin?

Re: FNC Responds to Glenn Beck Calling Pres. Obama a “Racist” - TVNewser

kimwilliamson — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 18:10:02 -0000

It's the look you get when you have to live a life with such an impossibly tiny penis. Why do you think all the NRA morons look that way too?

Re: FNC Responds to Glenn Beck Calling Pres. Obama a “Racist” - TVNewser

kimwilliamson — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 18:07:07 -0000

Gosh, do we have to hear about their crimes yet again? I mean, come on. Sure, they should have been put in the slammer a year into their administration, and the profoundly un-American people who voted for such ilk should have been incarcerated with them. I mean, duh! But do we have to hear about it again? It's so incredibly obvious to anyone who isn't a right-wing retard. You know the type: The ones who are so stupid they never learned it was LIBERALS who founded America. I mean, can you imagine an America invented by the Retardlickons? It is to laugh.