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Social network | SEO - Social network / Re: Feedback: What do you dislike in Seo-forum-seo-luntan.com?

« on: March 10, 2016, 06:25:00 AM »

I will use this one as the example. Hopefully he won't mind that I used his and not someone else's.



I see his nick as red, not orange, against a lime green background. It makes it hard to see what the name is without highlighting it to read it.

Yes they alternate colors as they advance down the thread.

As I have mentioned earlier, I know that I am partially colorblind and it might just be only me seeing this and having to highlight the red/orange to read the members name. I find I'm more using the avatar to identify who I'm texting to because of this.

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SEO / Re: What is robots.txt used for?

« on: March 10, 2016, 05:48:41 AM »

'SEO spammer'

There's a hidden meaning you are probably aware of in the context of SEO. So many sites have dealt with the unscrupulous on SEO advertising that the initials are linked to spamming as an unspoken but very much agreed on definition. This more than anything is the reason you are receiving such hostility when the initials are brought up. Experience over time has taught the majority of surfers when they hear or see those initials that spam is to follow. Even worse that the spam is liable to be from the unwholesome people who populate the net solely to prey upon others for the money.

So when they arrive and see the title of the forum, their very first impression (and mine the first time I showed up) is that it is a group intent on creating troubles, solely from the name as a first impression. Yes, I know you have a different meaning to the SEO now but I didn't first time I showed up. First time I came here, I saw the title and closed the site without looking further. That first impression is everything and I tell you this as to my initial reaction to seeing the name of the site. It's not what is; it's what is implied it is.

I hope you see the fine line here.

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Social network | SEO - Social network / Re: Feedback: What do you dislike in Seo-forum-seo-luntan.com?

« on: March 10, 2016, 04:58:48 AM »

Oranges? We got oranges? Pray tell, when were we planning to divvy up this new resource? chuckles

Not to be a naysayer but honestly the metals sort of look trashy at first sight. Maybe that's just me and it's an odd ball view. I won't deny that some of my ideas from time to time come off as strange or from the 'tin foil adornments' world.

If there were one thing I've noticed I'd address (and it should be a small one) it is the the colors clash between member nick and background. Red and green combos are a no-no in the artist world unless you are going for a particular effect. Now admittedly, I'm partially colorblind, so maybe it's just me seeing this.

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Other topics / Re: Those who have questions about the USA...

« on: March 10, 2016, 02:22:22 AM »

You've hit on a thorny issue with Snowden and I have no doubt you are aware of this. There are people on both sides of the fence who will defend their viewpoints almost to the death, type thorny.

To me Snowden is a hero. He did what he did, knowing what the results would be and had the courage to stand on his principals regardless. This comes out similar to the oath taken by all public officials as well as all military members. There is a part in there that states to "defend the nation against all enemies, both foreign and domestic". The question coming down to what or who is the enemy.

Our nation, the USA, is supposedly founded on Democratic principals. But if you look around, nearly every nation, no matter what it's political structure is, claims to be democratic.  So the intent and meaning is not set in stone but rather seems to be set in how words can be manipulated into appearing to be misrepresented into that idea.

Take Snowden's case here as something that goes hand in hand with these supposed principals. According to various government officials there are ways to handle misuse of government power or illegal actions where the government is involved. A place to go to and make charges against various top officials, policies, or methods that are in use but are not legal. A place to whistle blow about wrongs within the system where the one revealing these actions are protected against reprisal by those in power. That's the official stance put out for public consumption and what's on the books as a method to deal with these instances. Yet in practice it didn't seem to work for Snowden nor for the other whistle blowers from within. It instead came out to be a way to identify those who would uphold the principals and put the thumbscrews to them while hiding the real problems.

This is why Snowden did what he did because the system in place failed him. Instead of the charges made being investigated, the ones in power used the reports to retaliate against those with the knowledge to know what was wrong and the integrity to say something about it.

Obama has used the system to prosecute more whistle blowers than all other presidents in the history of the US combined. It tells me that coverup and setting the example of what happens to a whistle blower is more important than rectifying wrongs in the system. This is a strong ear mark of corruption. The ability to hide wrong doing and punish those who would seek to correct it. In these actions, we the citizens of this nation see what is and is not important by demonstration and it leads us to believe this country is headed in the wrong direction.

Understand I love my country. The opinions I express are the results of frustration; the inability to alter the course of this nation by a single individual. I have no desire to do terrorism, no desire to start a civil war, no desire to do other than change the direction this nation is headed in by legal means.

But Snowden was a crack in the wall that gave the citizens proof of what they suspected.

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SEO / Re: What is robots.txt used for?

« on: March 10, 2016, 01:48:32 AM »

be ready for future accuses like "You are a spammer!" from some imbeciles in some other websites, because "SEO=spam".

To be honest here, I have no dogs in this tussle. (another way to say no benefit from discussion) My aim was merely to inform on a question. Not to support nor condemn the practices of SEO. I would benefit in no way from providing such a link, now or in the future. Rather it was in the nature of being informative and as a good netizen for a site I seem to have been adopted to.

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Internet / Usenet Provider and BREIN Continue Battle Over Piracy Keyword Filter

« on: March 10, 2016, 01:23:00 AM »

[Not exactly sure where to put this or if it should even be posted on this site. Let me float one out and we will see how it goes.]

Usenet Provider and BREIN Continue Battle Over Piracy Keyword Filter

This is an article over a court fight between the Dutch anticopyright organization called Brein (means brain in Dutch) and a Usenet provider. In it Brein is demanding that keywords be used to eliminate links to infringing material. News-Service.com has said doing so would be too expensive to do and it would have to shut down the service on the internet as a result. The court has issued a stay so that News-Service does not at this point have to initiate the keywords filter while it is being decided in court or to go dark in the internet. Of course Brein wants to say everyone else does it so it has to be done here.

I'd like to point out what is not being said by Brein. News-Service is not posting infringing content. It's users of the service are. This is a case where laws of a nation have carefully been picked as to where to take the case. In the US, this would not hold up in court and would be thrown out. Safe Harbor Law says the hoster of a service is not responsible for the uses of its' service by individuals outside the company.

Since the internet is global in reach, the decision of this court won't just be effective for this one country of The Netherlands but rather, every copyright holder globally will be able to send take down requests and expect News-Service to attend to them. Failure to do so, will have Brein back in court to see it upheld.

The problem News-Service says is it's not feasible to do this keyword filtering. For one thing they have a point. To illustrate it, I'd like to point to Google. Google receives something like 100,000 requests per hour to remove links from the search engine results. Google has the funds to hire a complete section of people to tend to this. This option is not available to smaller outfits.

Worse is there are no penalties for false claims for infringing links. When a mistake is made and caught, those sending in the links just say, "oh well" and continue to send in more links. But often the links are not to a single hyperlink but rather to a site address, meaning that if Google were to ok this request, a site on the internet would just disappear from search results, which is not the purpose for the DMCA law in the US, which similar laws have been inserted into trade treaties signed by other countries to observe. One of the purposes is not to remove sites from search engine results but rather to remove results from that one link.

These submissions are by large not done by human hands but rather by bots that crawl the internet looking for infringing content. The programming of many bots make some serious mistakes, such as using keywords that have sites show up that have nothing to do with infringement. The source site for this article is one such that is often taken off line even though they host no infringement links at all but rather discuss the issues surrounding copyright and it's results to the internet in general.

What becomes a rib tickler at times is the bots will list legal authorized sites such as the home page of one of the labels, studios, or a site for purchasing such digital goods. So mistakes are made and they are not that rare. Google often refuses to take a mistaken link down. This is a chancy move in the US as it opens the company that fails to take a link down on request to the same penalties as the infringer if the infringer is taken to court and found guilty. Those Google refuses to remove are most probably checked over by a legal department before refusal as the owners of the bots do not take Google to court over refusing to remove links. Especially when it is one of the official authorized site links where a mistake has been made.

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SEO / Re: What is robots.txt used for?

« on: March 10, 2016, 12:14:12 AM »

I'll link you to this page, which should explain it for you.

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Other topics / Re: Those who have questions about the USA...

« on: March 09, 2016, 02:30:23 PM »

Which is the most popular sport now there?

Usually it's seasonal with what sport is presently going on. Football (as we American's know it) has ended with the Superbowl. This means that the Basketball playoffs will soon be taking place and will fill the title as most popular in it's turn. Right at the end of Basketball, Baseball will be starting up. Popular sport will then rotate for most to it. It's an annual cycle.

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"General Wesley Clark: Wars Were Planned"

Many of us are having a hard time with all this. It's like our country got stolen some where along the line. What we see government now doing is hiding and covering up stuff to prevent the public from knowing what it's doing.

Much the same occurred during the Nixon years. It ended with the impeachment of Nixon and a total distrust in those in power. Shortly after that, the party and it's Congress critters were pretty much voted out of office. We are now facing the same thing again. Sooner or later the nut will crack and enough will be learned by the public to demand legal answering in court over items such as you are talking of.

Lots of it will be unable to be taken to court due to the Statue of Limitations. But some charges have no time limit, ever.

During this election season, it's not good to be part of the status quo or what is known as a Washington insider. It is believed by much of the population that is where the problem is. Those in power are fearful of loosing that power with good reason. Not that there are better choices as far as candidates go but that the citizenry is fed up with how the government has been run and some heads are going to roll this election season.

It is things such as you mention that the government stonewalling on preventing the truth from being exposed. Everything that comes up in court can not be a National Security issue. At some point even the most foolish must come to the realization that we the public are being lied to.

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Social network | SEO - Social network / Re: Questions (and answers, probably) about China

« on: March 09, 2016, 02:11:14 PM »

The general rule of thumb to live within your means here has for a generation to spend no more than 25% of your monthly wages on housing, be that buying a place or renting one. This has fallen by the way side due to two factors.

One of them is all the jobs that open up are part time, minimum wage jobs. The second one is because of the house bubble crash, prices on rentals have gone through the roof. Forget buying a house unless you are fairly well off.

Today's reality is that on one working at minimum wage, full time, can afford to rent. In a survey I believe done last year, there was no state in the nation where you could find a two bedroom apartment for minimum wage, if you spent all your monthly wage on it. One might ask why a two bedroom but if you are a woman with child, then you understand the need.

Fact is it takes at least two minimum wage jobs to pay for the rent and utilities. In part this is why no one on minimum wage is actually making ends meet. All the  middle class jobs are leaving or have already left and all that remains are those jobs in service or jobs that can't be exported such as digging a ditch. When the government reports how many new jobs opened up for the month, they fail to mention that those are all minimum wage jobs. They like to paint it as the economy is getting better by new jobs opening up.

In the last economic crash over the bubbles, once it started getting better, the workers didn't see it. All the money went to the rich and the corporations. Nothing filtered down to the workers. So for them, this recession has never actually ended since it started. Times just keep getting tougher. It's also key to why there is a large and growing homeless population. Once in the homeless trap, it's hard to get out of it. To have an interview for a job, one must have an address, a contact number to be reached. Without income that's not feasible. It's a Catch 22.

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Philosophy / Re: Nonsense words

« on: March 09, 2016, 11:20:00 AM »

what he found was another person with an identical nickname.

Which is what will happen each and every time someone would try that. The nicks are not unique and will lead to someone other than I. I use a VPN, I don't do most social sites, so the info they find would be a slim lead at best, more often someone else.

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Philosophy / Re: Words of wisdom, wise quotes, inspiring words...

« on: March 09, 2016, 11:17:11 AM »

Every man dies but not every man truly lives. ~  William Wallace

"The problem with the Internet is that you can never tell if quotes are attributed correctly" ~ George Washington

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.  ~ John F. Kennedy

Don't let schooling interfere with your education. ~ Mark Twain

I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks, but I do fear the man who has practised one kick 10,000 times. ~ Bruce Lee

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.  ~ Jiddu Krisnamurti

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Food / Cheese Wafers

« on: March 09, 2016, 11:14:59 AM »

Cheese Wafers

Ingredients

2 c flour, sifted
1 lb cheddar cheese, sharp, grated
1 1/2 tsp red pepper
1 tsp hot sauce
1 stick margarine
1/2 tsp salt
1 c pecans, chopped

Directions

Mix all together, shape, chill, slice, bake at 400 F for about 10 minutes.

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Food / Re: Cole Slaw

« on: March 09, 2016, 09:37:18 AM »

We want to cook it at home.

Ah, there is no cooking involved. All vegetables are raw. The pepper mentioned is black pepper. I don't normally add black pepper. If I use a pepper it will be a pepper sauce, which I did not use on this. It's all grating and knife work.

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Plants / Wild Flowers

« on: March 09, 2016, 09:26:45 AM »

These are wild flowers that spring up in the yard every year. These will be out for a week or so, then some of the new varieties will show up. These were taken in my yard just to show you as they are now blooming. Some didn't come out due to poor photographic skills and a bright sun that washed out the view screen so I could not tell exactly what I was imaging.

A little later in the season, the purple ones you see in the last image will be everywhere. When you look at it from a long distance angle you won't see grass, you'll see a purple ground cover.

I mowed my grass last week. That's how fast this stuff grows.

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Other topics / Re: Those who have questions about the USA...

« on: March 09, 2016, 05:56:39 AM »

Actually no, I've not had any experiences with cactus as a food supplement. I once knew of a gentleman who made cactus wine. His ingredients called for cactus flowers which happen only once a year.