They pulled a Martin Luther on TV Tropes, if TV Tropes was the Catholic church.
Nicely put.
And we live to fight another day.
Mal ,'Objects In Space'
Natter 72: We Were Unprepared for This
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Amy - Apr 17, 2014 9:25:05 am PDT #25507 of 30000
Because books.
Tom Scola - Apr 17, 2014 9:41:31 am PDT #25508 of 30000
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
From what I can gather:
- TV Tropes is heavily dependent on Google Ads.
- Google Ads has a strong anti-pr0n policy, and will cut off a site at the drop of a hat.
- TV Trope's admins(presumably FE and others) have been engaging in some heavy-handed censorship in order to keep the oxygen supply flowing.
- The admins have instituted a talk-to-the-hand policy when people complain about this.
What I've never seen spelled out is exactly how much money is FE making off of other people's free labor, and where does the money go? (Maybe this is spelled out somewhere on TVTropes, I've never tried to look very hard).
Dana - Apr 17, 2014 10:00:30 am PDT #25509 of 30000
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
I think this chapter I'm working on was written by someone who doesn't know how to use quotation marks, capital letters, or bullets. Not everything should be bulleted! That defeats the point!
Jesse - Apr 17, 2014 10:04:12 am PDT #25510 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Thank you, Tom!
msbelle - Apr 17, 2014 10:05:53 am PDT #25511 of 30000
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
I think this chapter I'm working on was written by someone who doesn't know how to use quotation marks, capital letters, or bullets. Not everything should be bulleted! That defeats the point!
Perhaps mac.
Sophia Brooks - Apr 17, 2014 10:22:14 am PDT #25512 of 30000
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Thanks Tom! That helps.
I just realized the npr reporter is Steve InsKEEP, not Steve Insky.
flea - Apr 17, 2014 10:24:58 am PDT #25513 of 30000
information libertarian
Not to be confused with John Ydstie: [link]
Sophia Brooks - Apr 17, 2014 11:00:27 am PDT #25514 of 30000
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
It still sounds like he is saying "I'm Stevinksy" to me. It reminds me of when I used to take messages and this man kept calling "Joe, from Aldi(the grocery store". I never could figure out why this guy from Aldi was calling my boss, and then I found out his name was actually Joe Fromaldi.
ETA- or the guy at the grocery store who had a charge account that we thought was Pat Pattleinsky. He really owned a business called Pack, Paddle and Ski.
Amy - Apr 17, 2014 11:03:19 am PDT #25515 of 30000
Because books.
For a long time I thought Vin Scelsa was "Vince Gelsa." And I also thought Shane Victorino was "Vic Torino."
Hil R. - Apr 17, 2014 11:04:52 am PDT #25516 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
On the allergy discussion, I've been using Nasacort for the past few months, and it works great. The combination of Zyrtec and Nasacort, plus some allergy eye drops when I need them, works better than any OTC or prescription thing I've ever tried before. (Allegra works slightly better for me than Zyrtec does, but the Allegra pills are huge, and I have trouble swallowing them. Zyrtec comes in dissolvable tablets.)