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karohemdCan anyone tell me why the computer is supposed to be a "gay invention" and what this woman's problem is?
What's even more strange, the URL on the sign points to an activist group for equality...
And, if the computer is supposed to be a "Devil Machine", why is the sign advertising an internet site?
What's even more strange, the URL on the sign points to an activist group for equality...
And, if the computer is supposed to be a "Devil Machine", why is the sign advertising an internet site?
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Date: 2/9/05 09:29 am (UTC)And I have proof, I have a photo of him wearing my cowboy hat.
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Date: 2/9/05 09:32 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2/9/05 09:40 am (UTC)I think it's supposed to be a joke....
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Date: 2/9/05 09:46 am (UTC)I think though that the sign is genuine (and intentionally sarcastic), rather than the image being photoshopped.
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Date: 2/9/05 09:54 am (UTC)It does read like something the Onion could come up with.
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Date: 2/9/05 09:58 am (UTC)If you look, the girl is wearing a 'I agreed with teh SJC' badge - the SJC is the Social Justice Council, an organisation so left-wing they had to base it in Canada for fear it would spontaneously combust in the US.
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Date: 2/9/05 10:08 am (UTC)You have to give us time Dave, we're just picking this up.
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Date: 2/9/05 10:23 am (UTC)Awight?
Date: 2/9/05 11:11 am (UTC)Oh, and she's got a rainbow flag - which either means she's the serial killer I mentioned earlier, or she's SUPPORTING gay rights.
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Date: 2/9/05 11:46 am (UTC)You know, like the kids?
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Date: 2/9/05 11:51 am (UTC)http://www.answers.com/topic/alan-turing?method=8
Is there really such a thing as being sentenced to Estrogen treatments?
How does that make someone *less* gay?
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Date: 2/9/05 10:10 am (UTC)Is that what SJC stands for? I thought it was the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court who ruled gay marriage legal (which would make sense in context with the URL and other bits).
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Date: 2/9/05 06:35 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2/9/05 07:11 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2/9/05 08:00 pm (UTC)Anyway, [some] Americans love irony. Check out the indie music scene sometime if you don't believe me. Or get one of various shirts to advertise your appreciation of tongue-in-cheek-ness.
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Date: 2/9/05 01:00 pm (UTC)Satire in the US
Date: 2/9/05 01:03 pm (UTC)(Not to mention that the picture is shown out of context and, knowing what the Southern US is like, it's perfectly possible to believe that this isn't satire on first glance.)
Re: Satire in the US
Date: 2/9/05 01:12 pm (UTC)Maybe for you -- the joke was perfectly obvious to me on first glance as, I suspect, to most people who saw it.
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Date: 2/9/05 01:14 pm (UTC)Mind you, I'm not saying that it's obviously a joke because people like, oh, Fred Phelps don't exist. It's perfectly possible that someone might decide to ban computers because Alan Turing was teh f4g0t. I'm just saying that the rainbow flag is a dead giveaway. It's like a wink.
Which, in fact, is suggestive of weak satire, but there you go.
Re: Satire in the US
Date: 2/9/05 01:17 pm (UTC)Well, OK, maybe not ban computers. That's going a bit far. But there are loonies everywhere. I used to walk to work past Frank Chu, who wanted to impeach Bill Clinton for crimes committed against the goverments of other galaxies. His placard was very professionally done.
I see this a lot, though: someone runs up against something like Game of Satan, or Creation Science Fair, totally misses that it's a joke, and then goes "well, it might have been real. You know what those people are like." I understand feeling defensive because you missed the gag, but come on.
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Date: 2/9/05 10:11 am (UTC)/pedantic
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Date: 2/9/05 10:30 am (UTC)In truth, the computer was never really "invented", rather developed through several stages.
Things and people worth considering
Antikythera Machine
Mueller
Babbage
Turing
Zuse
Atanasoff
Also -
Napier,
Von Neumann