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Fox News on Internet Safety
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" I never knew until that moment how bad it could hurt to lose something you never really had. " ~From the television show The Wonder Years
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My brother, who was nine when he attended a lecture at school about internet safety, had a very smart friend who also attended.
At one point, the teacher talked about how you never "put your name on the internet".
Teacher: "Never put your name on the internet. Ever."
Brother's friend: "...Why?"
"Because someone could find out where you live."
"That's theoretically impossible. You would need to know a lot more than just someone's name."
"That's absolutely not true. All someone needs to find out where you live is your name. Now no more talking."
Also, I'd like to make it a well-known fact that Fox News is the very same corporation that convinced parents the PSP was a tool that could download porn at up to 10 mb/second.
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26 Wrote:SoulRiser Wrote:Quote:Virginia, the first state to mandate that public schools offer Internet safety classes
zOMG, I'm so glad I don't have to attend shit like that. I'm sure it will either be painfully hilarious or will entirely ruin the concept of internet for everyone involved.
It would prolly just be another stupid assembly
Like the following pointless wastes of time:
"Drugs are bad, mkay?"
"Alcohols are bad, mkay?"
"Secks is bad, mkay?"
and coming in 2009:
"Internets is bad, mkay?"
No-one really pays attention to this kind of bull. Although it would be kind of silly to hear in class stuff like "Lulz is a corruption of lol which stands for laugh out loud", and other stuff like that...
laugh out loud
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" I never knew until that moment how bad it could hurt to lose something you never really had. " ~From the television show The Wonder Years
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Because anyone under 18 is definitely dumb enough to go to the park with a boy their age who shares the exact same interest as them and wants to meet them, then drives up in a huge white van. Sometimes I get the sensation that Fox is only being so blatantly biased and retarded that they're just trying to see who's stupid enough to actually watch.
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This is why I don't watch the news.
GOSH, it pisses me the FUCK off. Doesn't it make you wish that you could just go into that broadcasting room and beat the shit at whoever's saying that?
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chemistry_hater Wrote:This is why I don't watch the news.
GOSH, it pisses me the FUCK off. Doesn't it make you wish that you could just go into that broadcasting room and beat the shit at whoever's saying that?
Everytime I see Bill O'Reilly on my screen I want to do that.
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chemistry_hater Wrote:This is why I don't watch the news.
GOSH, it pisses me the FUCK off. Doesn't it make you wish that you could just go into that broadcasting room and beat the shit at whoever's saying that?
Yes...
very yes...
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I remember Fox did a few news shits about Anonymous.
It was hilarious how clueless they were.
Appearantly, anon meets in a secret underground network known only by a few.
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dude thats lulz
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BobManPerson Wrote:I remember Fox did a few news shits about Anonymous.
It was hilarious how clueless they were.
Appearantly, anon meets in a secret underground network known only by a few.
Yeh, they do. It's called the "Internet". Dah.
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liq3 Wrote:BobManPerson Wrote:I remember Fox did a few news shits about Anonymous.
It was hilarious how clueless they were.
Appearantly, anon meets in a secret underground network known only by a few.
Yeh, they do. It's called the "Internet". Dah.
LOL!
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|55555| Wrote:Everytime I see Bill O'Reilly on my screen I want to do that.
Everytime I see Bill O'Reily I respect his opinions even though some differ from mine. And I laugh at how full he is of himself.
My parents watch him most every night.
I don't see what your problem is with Fox News other than the fact it is about as biased as CNN except toward the "right-wing" instead of the "left-wing". You forget the fact both wings are on the same "bird" of corrupt American politics and mass media.
And at least they aren't as blatant as MSNBC, those guys annoy me.
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dogman32 Wrote:You forget the fact both wings are on the same "bird" of corrupt American politics and mass media.
AMEN!!
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Dude, all news is stupid.
Anchor - "And now we go live to Bill at the scene of a highway accident."
Bill - "Here we are at the horror of a drunk driver. 2 are dead, 3 seriously injured..."
People watching gasp in disbelief and horror.
Guess what? By the time the news report is over, another 200+ people will be dead. Fucking bullshit...Anything on the news that actually is important, you'd hear about anyway.
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liq3 Wrote:Guess what? By the time the news report is over, another 200+ people will be dead. Fucking bullshit...Anything on the news that actually is important, you'd hear about anyway.
THIS
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Quote:(goddamnit 55555.....)
Wut I do?
Who am I? Who are YOU?
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|55555| Wrote:Quote:(goddamnit 55555.....)
Wut I do?
THIS
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i know why did you have to do this!
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BobManPerson Wrote:Teacher: "Never put your name on the internet. Ever."
Brother's friend: "...Why?"
"Because someone could find out where you live."
"That's theoretically impossible. You would need to know a lot more than just someone's name."
"That's absolutely not true. All someone needs to find out where you live is your name. Now no more talking."
That's ridiculous. There must be more than one person in the world with the same name as you.
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Bad_Engrish_FalconPunch Wrote:BobManPerson Wrote:Teacher: "Never put your name on the internet. Ever."
Brother's friend: "...Why?"
"Because someone could find out where you live."
"That's theoretically impossible. You would need to know a lot more than just someone's name."
"That's absolutely not true. All someone needs to find out where you live is your name. Now no more talking."
That's ridiculous. There must be more than one person in the world with the same name as you.
OFT thats some bullshit.. MY NAME IS MATTHEW WILSON!!! COME RAPE ME!!!
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willy wonka, that's who.
I think Buenaventura Durruti is a pretty cool guy. eh kills fascists and doesnt afraid of ruins.
The quickest way to kill a revolution is to wait for it.
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what is that willie wonka's elevator?
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It's one-way glass. From the outside, it looks like a giant mirror.
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really? dude thats cool
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so there is a toilet on the outside?
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