Disqus - Latest Comments for anon

Re: The Harvard Crimson :: Opinion :: Give Legacies a Chance

anon — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 22:51:09 -0000

Did Justice Holmes use the word "idiots" or "imbeciles?"

Re: Gift from Coney Island

anon — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 19:51:14 -0000

These pictures of you are not very flattering.

Re: Equal Access: Harvard 1, Yale 0

anon — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 01:38:42 -0000

Socioeconomic diversity? Really? When was the last time you've met a Harvard student who was raised on food stamps in the projects?
This is not meant as a personal attack, but if people in the lowest 5% income at Harvard can afford an apartment in the LES during the summer or couture on a monthly basis, they should consider themselves relatively wealthy and part of the middle class. I surmise that those who truly fall within the lowest income bracket in the US are rarely admitted into Harvard.

Re: Equal Access: Harvard 1, Yale 0

anon — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 20:38:03 -0000

There's no need to be condescending and technical. I am well aware of the difference between haute couture and pret-a-porter. However, much like the misuse of the word "anti-social" in lieu of "asocial" has made the former acceptable, couture is considered to encompass pret-a-porter as well as haute couture to the general population, though not to the ranks of Suzy Menkes and Carine Roitfeld. But kudos to you for preserving a definition that is somewhat depasse. I suppose you claim the title of Bee Shaffer at Harvard?
Your rant aside, perhaps you should focus on the argument at hand.

Re: Nashuatelegraph.com: Teachers contract gets thumbs-down

anon — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 21:37:39 -0000

Instead of strikes, they have the Public Employee Labor Relations Board.

Re: Facebook: The Backlash

anon — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 18:05:15 -0000

I will give Mark some credit, but mostly LUCK IMO, for getting Facebook to where it is today. But to treat a 23-year old as a seasoned executive, that's just plain ridiculous.

Re: Facebook: The Backlash

anon — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 18:12:09 -0000

BTW, Google's "Do No Evil" motto also came from their young inexperienced founders, Larry and Sergey. Again, don't give those 2 credit for where Google is today, that credit goes to the CEO Eric Schmidt. If Larry and Sergey had been successful initially, their technology would have been acquired by Yahoo or other big companies. And I heard Larry and Sergey were vehemently opposed to advertising initially, they wouldn't know how to build a business even if it bit them in the ass. IMO, Google is pure evil and seek to dominate everything in its path and then some.

Re: Facebook: The Backlash

anon — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 21:33:18 -0000

Fred, with all due respect, that's a very small sample you have. The reason why Facebook is valued at $15B is the industry perception that they have untapped potential when it comes to advertising to their users. Companies like Coca-Cola, and now Overstock and Travelocity, pulling out is a big sign that the perception has changed dramatically and will likely deteriorate. Even if Facebook completely reverses itself now and implements full opt-out, the damage is already done. While the users may be happier, it doesn't help Facebook's valuation because they aren't the ones paying the bills.

Re: Facebook: The Backlash

anon — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 02:52:45 -0000

Just to play devil's advocate, here's a different perspective from Facebook users in their 20s, also considered a core user base,
http://www.alleyinsider.com/2007/12/hey-faceboo...

See the comment at the end from Dan Frommer, a 25 year old avid facebook user.

Re: Facebook: The Backlash

anon — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 03:39:24 -0000

If only I had a penny every time I heard a teenager claiming to be a facebook entrepreneur, I would be rich by now. In the meantime, if you wish to bury your head in the sand about how evil Facebook is, read this article titled “Facebook’s Beacon Ad System Also Tracks Non-Facebook Users”

http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,140247-c,onli...

Re: Where It Stood, Where It Stands

anon — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 07:28:41 -0000

@someone who cares:
Dude, did you even read her post before commenting and do you have a-n-y idea that the fact she is feeling down at the moment has nothing to do with her being supposedly fat.
Wanna be nutritionist?? Get a life at least before you embark on your career.
In good faith.

Re: Where It Stood, Where It Stands

anon — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 16:54:05 -0000

“At a place where everyone delivers without fail, how do you tell people you just can’t deal?"

I think deep within most people do struggle at big institutes like harvard, mit and at the same time feeling that others are delivering better than them. So in reality there is no dichotomy here or for that matter here: 'Game, my ass. Some game. If you get on the side where all the hot-shots are, then it's a game, all right--I'll admit that. But if you get on the other side, where there aren't any hot-shots, then what's a game about it? Nothing. No game.'

Most struggle and most don't deliver without fail in their own eyes.

Re: Miss Anthrope - FYI

anon — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 17:58:22 -0000

yooo

Re: Has OmniDrive joined the deadpool?

anon — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 11:37:08 -0000

For clarity none of the editors of blognation were employees. We were all independent suppliers.

Re: Silicon Valley Arrogance

anon — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 19:08:14 -0000

Now you know how the rest fo the world feels when Americans preach to the rest of us about the web.

Re: Epoch Fail

anon — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 17:30:42 -0000

Oh noes.

Re: Villani Family

anon — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 19:11:45 -0000

Cute kids! The girl looks like a handfull though.

Re: How I started Seesmic and raised $6 million

anon — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 14:41:35 -0000

Congrats Loic. Having such a group of rich friends surely must have taken time to cultivate but clearly all that arse kissing has proved worthwhile and with your garlic flair and charm that was easy.

Although I think your hard work starts now because you have taken money from "friends" and they trust you to return it with a successful sale of seesmic. So no pressure then, just your reputation.

In launching seesmic and raising the money you proved two things.

1. It is more about who you know and not what you know. Seesmic is an ok solution technically in search of a mass market but somehow people have given you $6m to show it can return $600m. There are better ideas out there that will not get this level of funding.

2. It is where you live that matters. The names you drop in the post above show that you have to be in the "in-crowd".

I do wish you well and now wonder who will buy you. Perhaps Microsoft now they have $45bn spare.

Re: Fear bombs of 2008 (Scripting News)

anon — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 18:38:32 -0000

When was the last time ANY presidential candidate was able to "control" their party?

Bush obviously can't (nor could his father). Clinton couldn't. Reagan maybe, but I doubt it. And those are just the winners... could Kerry, Dean, or Kucinich control the Dems last year? Heh.

Just saying so doesn't make it true. Parties make the candidates, not vice versa.

Re: Jake Hurwitz

anon — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 02:23:15 -0000

Speak for yourself. I would've said yes on the spot ;)

Re: Omnidrive sinks beneath the waves

anon — Sun, 04 May 2008 19:25:13 -0000

Mathew, I have no bone to grind but you need to check out some of your facts. Blognation did get their funding - ask Paul Walsh http://twitter.com/PaulWalsh/statuses/677809402 - or check with mark[at]versatile-connections.com who arranged it. The question is why did Sam reject it?

As for the sponsor monies. Clive Gringas Director at Olswang and/or Judy Gibbons at Accel will both confirm that all the sponsor monies were given directly to TCUK not Sam.

See the TCUK site and you will see the Olswang advert. Many things went badly wrong with blognation but you need to sort out the fact from the fiction.

Re: An "FUGW" Sign Can Get You Arrested | The Progressive

anon — Sat, 17 May 2008 12:29:17 -0000

FU Platteville Police

Re: Teen linked to murder of Lawrence High student is shot to death

anon — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 15:23:18 -0000

I knew this kid, he was a little gang banger & its obvious by reading the story that he was, since he was also link to the other kid's death. So that wasn't a racist comment. It's what happens when you come from a town where its like "survival of the fittest" and you always feel like you have something to prove. Most of these kids (not all) have no one to teach them the right way, so they become these thugs from the streets; And unfortunately, this is where they end up.

Re: Two-Minute Nostalgia Sublime

anon — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 14:18:47 -0000

Wow. That's just the worst game show of all time. Even if you're (somehow) able to set aside the rampant sexism and the horrid concept, it's just unwatchably bad. Of course, this type of garbage was rampant throughout TV in the late 60's, 70's, and 80's. I won't let my 6 year old daughter watch the boomerang network (cartoons from that era), it's just horribly sexist, Penelope Pitstop, etc.

Re: reader mail

anon — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 18:40:08 -0000

the beatles are actually the greatest band of all time, but not for "Sgt. Peppers" or "Revolver" which really haven't stood the test of time. No one has ever come close to writing songs like the ones on Please Please Me, Meet the Beatles, or With the Beatles. It just simply has not been done. And I'm not even old, I'm 22.

Re: The Harvard Crimson :: Opinion :: Take the Money and Run

anon — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 00:51:27 -0000

What a well-written story!! Wow - for a second I forgot I was reading the Crimson and thought I was reading something which was NYT/New Yorker quality. Great job!!

Re: Meshure Smit Spetznaz I Lift my Cup

anon — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 21:19:39 -0000

this is the shizz

Re: Meshure Smit Spetznaz I Lift my Cup

anon — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 00:09:32 -0000

Meshure Shit

Re: why i broke into the code and enabled comments

anon — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 20:12:33 -0000

It's not true. I went to Columbia, too, and I think he should post more.

Re: i am neurotic. - my father, the bear

anon — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 02:25:39 -0000

When I was little, I used to leave room in my bed for my guardian angel to sleep next to me.

Re: Fat Princess Update

anon — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:58:23 -0000

Know whats really hilarious? the stunning similarity between the looks of the writer of this post, and the fat princess in the game. Coincidence? I think not.

Re: Lettre de motivation

anon — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 17:42:41 -0000

Et bah avec une lettre de motiv' comme ça, je t'embauche direct p'tit gars ! Tu feras un bon bouffon au Puy Du Fou !

Re: Power Fix

anon — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 21:44:20 -0000

i'm honestly curious what technical problem could result in your rating dropping. what other blogs on the list might be affected like yours? hey, maybe daily(ad)biz is actually in the top ten and isn't being properly recognized.

Re: One Business Worse than Mahalo.com - Avatars!

anon — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 16:18:03 -0000

But kids love that $hit, you mean to tell me that my 11 year old can't read the great Howard Lindzon no more?

Re: Power Fix

anon — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 15:03:19 -0000

Tom,

Ad Age and a number of its blogs (Bob Garfield, etc.) are ranked in the list. Most of them failed to crack the 200 mark.

Re: Depois dessa, eu me APOSENTO.

anon — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 03:14:56 -0000

OMG MORRA HEREGE

Re: Venture Fund Performance - The Best Funds In The Ugly Years

anon — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 19:53:44 -0000

"I find the 1x figure strange. I would have assumed that the top funds would be finally realizing decent gains from the bad years.

It's not like there were zero good managers and zero good ideas back then.

Did they invest all that money right away or not anticipate how long the bad times would last?"

I was an investor in an "entrepreneur" side fund in 1999 and our fund had a lot of deals "warehoused" at the close, so a big chunk of the fund was invested at 1999 valuations, with another big chunk invested at 2000 era valuations. Hard to come back from that as you have already deployed a lot of the fund's capital, even when better deals came along in later years. We have received $.65 on each dollar invested (capital fully called as of this year), and I doubt we will get much more. The fund reports claim "top quartile" performance, and the managers (unbelievably) mention that they are among the top performers in the top quartile for 1999 era funds in every report, even though they are under water on the fund, like this should make it easier to take.

Re: Around the web - Dec 2, 2007

anon — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 12:38:12 -0000

The one in the post, and yes, its off by default. But when you do hit play, it sticks and repeats a lot.

Re: Give Fleet Owner your feedback

anon — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 14:37:22 -0000

Thanks! I think this is a great idea.

Re: Cummins to use SCR across the board in 2010

anon — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 17:16:13 -0000

What does it cost to add SCR system? What was the break point in diesel price that made Cummins decide it was more cost effective to go for better fuel economy with SCR rather than lower initial price with just EGR?

Re: Congressmen: Not Computer Experts

anon — Sat, 19 Nov 2005 03:59:10 -0000

... he was joking about the 4s and 5s, and it would be just as simple to remove the identifyers

Re: Facebook to Become the Web OS

anon — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 23:50:39 -0000

thank god for that. dont think i could deal with it if sites like www.fbchicks.com didnt have anywhere to get material from!

Re: The web as platform: Design your own synthetic genes

anon — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 09:30:05 -0000

Question...what do you do with synthetic genes once you've bought them? Use them for the next generation? Coz I can't figure out any other use..

Re: The Blue Brain

anon — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 08:43:13 -0000

Wow..thats super cool. Might take a while before things get exciting enough, though.

Re: Around the web - Dec 2, 2007

anon — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 12:16:35 -0000

I know you love mogulus and all that, but it keeps doing this stick-repeat thing that wasn't there on kyte. Not the most pleasant viewer experience.

Re: If you haven’t seen xkcd you must

anon — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 12:14:50 -0000

Lol..heard about them yesterday in my Wordsmith email (yeah, I do things like that). And here you are.

Re: Is Obama worship merely due to a 'cult of personality?'

anon — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 12:50:28 -0000

Would that make it OK?

Re: Mazy Kazerooni

anon — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 03:32:44 -0000

zing

Re: Political Wire: Palin Opposes Condoms For Married Couples

anon — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 10:26:51 -0000

To be fair to Huckabee....

It sounds like he is only opposed to birth control that destroys an already fertilized egg. This would include things such "the morning after pill" (brand name "Plan B"). He doesn't seem to have any problem with standard oral contraceptives that prevent eggs from being ferilized (or even ovulated) in the first place.