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Comment: Re:The usual sloppy reporting (Score 1) 164

I kept getting weird endorsements, like an endorsement for "Perl" from someone who needs help to find the ON button on his computer, and certainly has no idea what Perl is or why I should be endorsed for it.
So I added a new skill to my profile: "Cromulence". Now I can catch all the blind endorsements from people who don't know what they are clicking on.

Comment: Re:People are using the address book feature (Score 1) 164

I met an old acquaintance in a deli that I hadn't seen since grade school. When I got back to my office, my Linked page suggested I might know this person. I looked out at the parking lot to see if there was a LinkedIn van following me! That was creepy. Then I figured out that the person must have looked at my profile, and that was enough to trigger it.

Comment: Re:Fraud (Score 1) 164

I am dealing with a woman who is in court because she has a restraining order and LinkedIn emailed her ex-husband with something that appears to be from her. She knew nothing about it. He is accusing her of contacting him and violating the restraining order. After looking at the email, I can understand their point - it does appear to be from her.

Comment: Re:Really? (Score 1) 108

That would be true if it weren't for one of the unspoken sub-rules of "this", which is the first poster of "this" is stating that the group-think agrees with the statement. Any post stating "this" after the first "this" is uncalled for, repetitive, adds nothing, and goes against the customs and practices of "this" posting.

There can only be one "this", is only slightly less true than there can only be one "first post".

Comment: Re:Really? (Score 3, Informative) 108

Why do you pretend to not understand common slang and shortcuts? Do you also talk like Data from Star Trek?

"This" is shorthand for "I agree very much with this statement". The implication is the statement you agree with is so strongly and obviously true that you don't need to say more than "this".

Sometimes it is followed by additional points you would like to add to the statement.

Comment: Re:I'm only surprised they bothered to label it (Score 2) 149

by hoggoth (#43131617) Attached to: China Using 'State Secrets' Label To Hide Pollution

While I agree that a government of secrets and deception is a terrible problem, you don't have any idea what you are talking about. You half remember a quote you heard once about Marx and opium and have made up a story to explain your fuzzy recollection instead of taking the barest effort to find out what you are talking about before spouting your uninformed opinion. Go look up Marx and opium right now so that in the future, on this one point, you will no longer sound ignorant.

Comment: Re:I'm not even a fan, but (Score 2) 1174

by hoggoth (#43089061) Attached to: Orson Scott Card's Superman Story Shelved After Homophobia Controversy

I was waiting for someone to bring this up.

Orson Scott Card is rabidly anti-gay? Methinks he doth protest too much! Don't forget the trick the naked adolescent boy used in the shower battle was to make himself wet and slippery so the other boy couldn't get a good grip on him. And the adults were watching the naked wet slippery adolescent boys wrestling in the shower over hidden video cameras.

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