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2007-04-10 -Lurid Crime Tales-

Exclusive: What's Wrong with the Anti-Idiotarian Blogosphere?

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Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2007-04-10 00:11|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Atomic Conspiracy, I'm almost afraid to ask but what is an "Arkancide conspira-loon?"

Posted by Secret Master 2007-04-10 00:51|| 2007-04-10 00:51|| Front Page Top

#2 That is someone who asserts that the Clintons have assassinated something like 50 people (or is it 500?) and gotten away scot-free despite the apparently overwhelming evidence presented in various conspiracy books and websites.
It seems that every unnatural death in the state of Arkansas during the Clinton governorship (and for some time afterward) can somehow be connected to the evil Hildabeast and her nefarious husband.
If the evidence were really as good as claimed, we might reasonably expect Ken Starr or other GOP prosecutors to have pursued it to a conviction, but conspiracists can dodge that too, simply by inventing new conspiracies.
More at Snopes.com

I despise the Clintoons, but this kind of thing is a disgrace and a diversion.
Leftists are delighted with it, for the same reason we are glad to see lefties alleging that Dubya is a disguised reptoid from the fourth dimension and is making massive profits by selling kidnap victims to his fellow aliens for food.

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2007-04-10 01:15|| 2007-04-10 01:15|| Front Page Top

#3 They are the subject of much mirth and derision at Kos, DU, and Huffpo, none of which ever seem to be down or even slow.

It's called 'money', AC. Huffy has sources. So does Kos. I s'pect DU has them as well.

It translates into reliable servers, operated by reliable companies, staffed by reliable people.

Now, Mister Original Opinionist - how does one get that?

Posted by Pappy 2007-04-10 01:19|| 2007-04-10 01:19|| Front Page Top

#4 I think the righty blogs get DOS'd a lot... there's a lot of slacker "hacktivists" who spend a lot of time trying to take down their 'enemies', enemies who rarely if ever fight back.

Lefties really, really hate any opinion they haven't given to you.

The back side of the 'Burg has been hit fairly hard by (spammers, bots, hax0rz, you name it) from overseas and we're waiting for teh hosting company to give us mods the remote kickstart tool. Or else we'll just prop Fred at the keyboard 24/7 and poke him with a sharp stick every 15 minutes.

CJ has many fewer good excuses, though LGF has a much higher profile and many, many determined hataz. CJ has (or had) a big boatload of cash from the PJM launch, and I myself have also been curious about the prolonged downtime and wordy discussions of his server loads.

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2007-04-10 01:35|| 2007-04-10 01:35|| Front Page Top

#5 I'll talk about it anyway Pappy, because money is probably the root of the problem (though LGF at least has plenty of dough for server and bandwidth upgrades).

We seem to be a little too committed to the pure grassroots approach to internet activism, while Kos and his fellow gangsters, though late in arriving, have moved on to the kind of fund-raising associated with major political players.

There is no good reason for these lefties to be better financed than the loyalists. Soros, Buffet, Turner, and others of that ilk are not the only rich people in the world. It seems that wealthy conservatives are far less likely to take the net seriously, possibly because Dubya didn't claim to have invented it.

This is my impression talking to the local fatcats at any rate. Their feelings about the net are often connected to the dot.com bubble (in which some of them lost millions) and its real importance is often lost on them. There is a precedent for this: in the 50s conservatives were slow to accept television as a force to be reckoned with. This is too bad because, unlike TV, the net is tailored to a decentralized and individualistic ideology.

We don't really have to match the lefties' funding, but we do have to get a little closer to the ballpark. LGF, with a budget at the time in the low 5 figure range managed to humble the giga-buck empire of CBS News.

The first step is a small one. That is to make others aware of the problem. It will ripple out from there.

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2007-04-10 01:36|| 2007-04-10 01:36|| Front Page Top

#6 Or... what AC sez.

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2007-04-10 01:37|| 2007-04-10 01:37|| Front Page Top

#7 Its

It is called Linux. Right-wing bloggers think it is right wing to use sh.t like XP or MacOS X.

Posted by JFM">JFM 2007-04-10 01:42|| 2007-04-10 01:42|| Front Page Top

#8 Yeah, no kidding JFM. :( You should have seen the people come out in defense of the horribly evil corporation Microsoft a few days ago. It's an awful system, especially for a web server/database combination. My theory is that it's blind patriotism, supporting the "good" Microsoft against the "evil" other. Obviously these supporters have never encountered the horror that is Microsoft Exchange.

Posted by gromky 2007-04-10 02:32|| 2007-04-10 02:32|| Front Page Top

#9 Rantburg runs on linux.

Posted by 3dc 2007-04-10 02:43|| 2007-04-10 02:43|| Front Page Top

#10 Plus LGF and Anti... have Fatwa's on them demanding death...

Posted by 3dc 2007-04-10 02:44|| 2007-04-10 02:44|| Front Page Top

#11 Besides, it's more likely that conservative bloggers have day jobs. :-)

If you guys insist on using XP, have you thought of using a VNC session through a VPN tunnel or the like to be able to be able to allow a couple more mods to remotely access the kickstart tool, whatever that is? I'm just a user, so I don't know if that's too risky or not.

Posted by gorb 2007-04-10 02:50|| 2007-04-10 02:50|| Front Page Top

#12 Fred, start a 527. Take funds that way.

Posted by OldSpook 2007-04-10 03:37|| 2007-04-10 03:37|| Front Page Top

#13 If everyone hit Fred's paypal button and gave US$10, it would certainly be a start.

Posted by trailing wife 2007-04-10 04:06|| 2007-04-10 04:06|| Front Page Top

#14 But I don't know how to use Paypal!

Whaddileye do?

Posted by Bobby 2007-04-10 06:08|| 2007-04-10 06:08|| Front Page Top

#15 Ya know what? It's not so hard!

It is easier, however, if you give your correct e-mail address the first time!

Durn computers....they're not so smart...

Posted by Bobby 2007-04-10 06:25|| 2007-04-10 06:25|| Front Page Top

#16 AC: Pajamas Media, which Charles is a member, is going through some problems at the moment. From what I can glean from posts I have read is that member blogs are taking pay cuts severe enough for them to bail. That means that PJM is undergoing financial hardships and I suspect that even those at the top of the $7 million pyramid are in panic mode.

From what Chalres says on his blog, the task to switch over from a flat file system to a database is an arduous task. Remember last year when Fred started switching over and all kinds of technical issues cropped up including DDOSes?

I s'pect Charles is going through the same thing, except he is dealing with an uncertain future with PJM.

Posted by badanov 2007-04-10 07:45|| http://www.freefirezone.org]">[http://www.freefirezone.org] 2007-04-10 07:45|| Front Page Top

#17 Oh, I forgot.

Read this analysis on PJM and Charles Johnson.

Posted by badanov 2007-04-10 07:48|| http://www.freefirezone.org]">[http://www.freefirezone.org] 2007-04-10 07:48|| Front Page Top

#18 AC, I think the left takes the blogs more seriously because of Howard Dean's success in using the web to rally and motivate in a way the right has yet to do.

In the right side the web is used more as a watchdog (see Rathergate) and less to earn money and provide talking points for pundits (which oddly enough is what the left does but claims the Republicans do.)

Posted by rjschwarz 2007-04-10 11:27|| 2007-04-10 11:27|| Front Page Top

#19 Atomic Conspiracy thanks for opening this up for discussion and the info.

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Bobby: Ya know what? It's not so hard!
It is easier, however, if you give your correct e-mail address the first time!
Durn computers....they're not so smart...

open a new account with PayPal. First get a new free e-mail account, Hot-Mail or GMAIL or etc.

go to PayPal and re-register. after they send you a link to the new mail account you can add two more e-mails to your paypal account.

BTW there are tons of PayPal spoof e-mails that look just like paypal so BEWARE only answer emails that you know are coming from https://www.paypal.com. if you have any doubts click on the security center tab at PayPal and follow the instructions.

Posted by RD">RD 2007-04-10 12:22|| 2007-04-10 12:22|| Front Page Top

#20 Gromky,

"You should have seen the people come out in defense of the horribly evil corporation Microsoft a few days ago. It's an awful system, especially for a web server/database combination. My theory is that it's blind patriotism, supporting the "good" Microsoft against the "evil" other. Obviously these supporters have never encountered the horror that is Microsoft Exchange."

Now, that's not fully accurate about the thread a few days back ... At least for my part. I did not defend MS, just pointed out the benefit to near homogenous world on the DESK SIDE which MS/Windows brought ... and the catalyst in the industry MS was (back in the day).

For my part, it is no blind patriotism to MS, far from it, just pointing out the other side of the coin. Been around many a mainframe, mini and micro and the PCs. Like I said, I remember the industry before this time and still recall the pain before the desk side stabilized.

I recognize MS can be a very evil corporation and produce buggy software. But there is the other side of the whole deal that one cannot hide from - MS was a major catalyst to the industry. That was my point, not meant as a defense to MS.

Personally one of my favs, to this day, is VMS. Nice, simple, OS. Little dated, but there are many an VAX/Alpah these days running our backing transactions (well, Big Blue Iron, and some Fujistsu as well). The loss of DEC in the industry was a very sad day.

Linux is great as well, got a few boxes running at home. Still hoping to play with a SCSI based Beowulf cluster ... I have the parts handy, but not the time :(

And yes, I've worked with Exchange ;)

Posted by bombay">bombay 2007-04-10 18:59|| 2007-04-10 18:59|| Front Page Top

#21 I'm not at all comfortable with slamming Charles Johnson for his updates and explanations thereof. He's got a huge amount of work on his plate and this switchover he's managing is a huge task; moreover, he gets DDOSed fairly regularly, not to mention massive hits from Drudge and the odd Instalanche. I'd rather LGF were up more often than it is, but I fell pretty certain that CJ will have things stable soon. (I don't know about PJM; I rarely go there and never thought it was a viable business model in the first place.)

And, yes, most right-wing bloggers have day jobs. Don't laugh; people on the left seem to be more willing to give up (or totally forgo) careers for the sake of supporting a cause. To paraphrase a famous statement, careful tradesmen and dedicated farmers will be more concerned with looking to their tasks than participating in the business of faction.

Posted by Jonathan">Jonathan 2007-04-10 19:22|| 2007-04-10 19:22|| Front Page Top

#22 Eeeeeevvvvvviiilll Micro$oft. Tin foil hats on the right...

Posted by Snish Shock5578 2007-04-10 21:45|| 2007-04-10 21:45|| Front Page Top

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