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This Man's $600,000 Facebook Disaster Is A Warning For All Small Businesses
Submitted by Mike Krieger of Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,
It continues to amaze me how people are completely ignoring what appears to be an incredible amount of shadiness inherent in Facebook’s business model. Whether or not this is intentional click fraud, it is clear that advertisers are not getting what they think they are getting. They won’t be fooled forever, and once they wake up to the money being wasted on fake “likes” and “clicks,” I’m curious to see what happens to their revenue.
The following article from SF Gate is a perfect followup to my post from a couple weeks ago: How Much of Facebook’s Ad Revenue is From Click Fraud?
Perhaps the most shocking passage from the entire article is the following:
Naturally, Brar began disputing his bill with Facebook. He wanted his clicks audited by a third party, to see how many were genuine. Then he discovered that Facebook’s terms of service forbid third-party verification of its clicks. That’s something all advertisers should be aware of before they spend a penny on Facebook.
Facebook is different from the rest of the online ad industry, which follows a standard of allowing click audits by third parties like the IAB, the Media Ratings Council or Ernst & Young.
Um, ok then…
Now more from the SF Gate:
Raaj Kapur Brar runs a small but successful empire of online fashion magazines from his base just outside Toronto. Some of his titles are huge online brands, such as Fashion & Style Magazine, which has 1.6 million Facebook fans.
That’s more fans than Elle magazine has.
Recently, however, Brar has fallen out of love with Facebook. He discovered that his Facebook fanbase was becoming polluted with thousands of fake likes from bogus accounts. He can no longer tell the difference between his real fans and the fake ones. Many appear fake because the users have so few friends, are based in developing countries, or have generic profile pictures.
At one point, he had a budget of more than $600,000 for Facebook ad campaigns, he tells us. Now he believes those ads were a waste of time.
Facebook declined multiple requests for comment on this story.
Brar’s take is a cautionary one because Facebook has 25 million small businesses using its platform for one marketing purpose or another. Many of them are not sophisticated advertisers — they are simply plugging a credit card number into the system and hoping for the best. This is what can happen if you don’t pay careful attention to contract language, or the live, real-time results your campaigns on Facebook are having.
Here’s how Brar believes it went down: He became interested in advertising on Facebook in 2012, and he took it seriously. He went to Facebook’s local Toronto office where he was trained to use the advertising interface. They set up the campaign, and ran a small “beta” test. Then, in late October Brar pulled the trigger on a massive push through Facebook’s Ads Manager. He used Bitly and Google Analytics to measure the number of clicks his campaign was generating.
The results were disastrous, Brar says.
Facebook’s analytics said the campaign sent him five times the number of clicks he was seeing arrive on his sites, which Brar was monitoring with Bitly, Google Analytics, and his own web site’s WordPress dashboard. There was a reasonable discrepancy between the Bitly and Google numbers, Brar says, but not the five-fold margin between Google’s and Facebook’s click counts.
At one point, data from Facebook indicated his ads had delivered 606,000 clicks, but the site itself registered only 160,000 incoming clicks from Facebook, according to data supplied by Brar. (160,000 clicks is a not insignificant return. After all, these are not clicks on a mere Facebook page, these are users who clicked through to an off-Facebook site.)
“I don’t know what to say, right? This is a huge loss. This ran for four days, then we just stopped the campaign,” Brar says.
Then, things got worse. Even though Fetopolis wasn’t advertising, the likes and new followers kept on piling up. Normally, an advertiser would be pleased at such a result, but every time Brar checked a sample of the new fans he found people with dubious names; a picture of a flower as a profile shot; and fewer than 10 friends — classic signs of a fake profile.
Naturally, Brar began disputing his bill with Facebook. He wanted his clicks audited by a third party, to see how many were genuine. Then he discovered that Facebook’s terms of service forbid third-party verification of its clicks. That’s something all advertisers should be aware of before they spend a penny on Facebook: Facebook has operated this way for a long time, and has a page for advertisers explaining in more depth why third-party click reporting may not match Facebook’s click counts. Essentially, Facebook suggests, if clicks are not measured in exactly the same way over the same time intervals then there will always be discrepancies.
Facebook is different from the rest of the online ad industry, which follows a standard of allowing click audits by third parties like the IAB, the Media Ratings Council or Ernst & Young.
This will all be exposed by the market sooner or later. I’m just shocked it is taking so long for people to put two and two together.
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And Facebook price plunges!
I thought I was the only one with 23 fakebook accounts
Facebook fraud brilliantly explained here by Veritasium: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVfHeWTKjag&feature=share
Brar sounds like a sucker; $600,000.00 to advertise on FakeBook???!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVfHeWTKjag
I made this program that creates FB pages and gives positive remarks for businesses. Its $15,000. FB is a joke. Its a platform to get your face for the face-recognition machines.
I now have a program that creates Up Arrows for ZH comments; I will provide 100 Up Arrows to your comment for the low price of 20 U.S. Dollars.
[now get to work Raji and Ahmed...]
I have one that creates Down Arrows. It's 5 bucks. I have several satisfied customers who would be happy to provide references. Please contact fonestar for further details.
A fonestar is standing by.
I'll give you +1 for being quick on the response.
I gotta give both of you up arrows. How does anyone keep up with all this stuff?
There are now sites that consolidate all the ways to buy fake twitter followers
http://buytwitterfollowersreview.org/
Many of these offer around 100,000 followers for less than $500. That is chump change for anyone that wants to promote themselves by inflating their influence.
Why should you do this? Here is the explaination direct from the website
"Buying Twitter Followers is a shortcut. It’s a way to increase your Twitter Account’s social credibility and can give your business, career a great kick-start, or even an ego boost. While it’s not really socially acceptable, it’s well known that million of people around the world have bought them."
Clear?
Circle jerk anyone?
One circle jerk, coming up!
Google is no better. They keep showing me banner ads for websites that I have already independently visited hoping that I will just click on their banner ads to generate free money for them. In my view this is not in the interest of the advertiser -- why should they pay for a visitor who has already been to their site without google's clickthru? Unethical practice.
In past, Boris is click on ad for free chat with beautiful Thai woman... but is all fake!
Never used Faceboob, but I hear some people like it.
All these deadshits on social media are the same people totally oblivious to what the NSA and the like are up to.
And guess how they vote...
My own FB page. An interesting experience it's been.
Feel free to like... ;-)
https://www.facebook.com/Jeepsigypsy
It has been instructive, some thigns happen just because of th esheer volume of people on the network, also because of all the people that ONLY use FB/WhatsApp for communication.
Was dragged into in kicking and screaming by my team. I'll say this, if you have nothing to hide in your virtual face to the word, it's okay.
ori
Maria Hines Rangel is Borg.....you've been warned.My work is done here.
But Boris, why Thai, when thre are so many beautiful Russian women waiting for you to click them?
I keep clicking around in hopes of getting the Snorg t-shirt redhead to show up in my ad-spaces, but no luck so far.
*sigh*
Yep
I have Schiff Radio ads to the left and right of me. And Im already suscribed to Sciffs show...
Fail Google
Fakebook
So it's not true that 44 Billion people "like" Jason Beeper?
FarceBerg dead ahead!
Seriously, how can this stock be worth moar than a couple of bucks? The share dilution was ridiculous the last year or two.
Up arrows AND down arrows?
Isn't that a perpetual motion machine?
I'll give you +1 for being quick on the response.
f*nestar is a quasi-bot. He's admitted as much.
I just bought 1,000 down ZH arrows on Ebay and flipped them [at a Fat profit] to some guy in DC named sunstein.....
Sunstein is all about the hot algo on algo action
Mirror mirror on the wall.....who's the sexist communist of them all?
Mirror: That would be Van Jones....sorry Cass.
Self deprecating humor helps your cause.
ENRON ANYONE?
Mr. Lay.....are you smoking crack?
"WASTEBOOK!!!!
fonestar, do you have a beeper that goes off every time "fonetar" appears in a ZH comment?
Good one fonestar. Hey BTW have you heard about this new crypto-currency that is called Bitcoin?
I have one that down votes fonestar that's free. Whether or not you even read his post.
Thankyou very much but that would take away the joy I get when downvoting fonestar .
Radiation from Japan's leaking Fukushima nuclear power plant has reached waters offshore Canada, researchers said at the annual American Geophysical Union's Ocean Sciences Meeting in Honolulu.
http://local.msn.com/fukushimas-radioactive-ocean-water-arrives-at-west-...
Never thought I'd see this reported as aHeadline on MSN News web site.
This is garbage
They used very sensitive equipment to measure this shit.
@GENEPARMESAN
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Thewre 'is No' keeping up anymore [thanks for your INQUIRY]...
In the 'SPIRIT' of your question... There is only one reply...
There 'is' no more 'CHEESE' ~ there are only 'CHEESEPOPES'...
I hope that helps... your friend, H~FS~B...
ZUCKERBERGD!!!!!
no just "Zuckered"
Zucker is a Rothschild heading an army of Fakebook Bots...
Zucked.
Actually it's Zuckolded.
Its a platform to get your face for the face-recognition machines.
Absolutely goddamn right
And thank's to WhatsApp all phone numbers can finally be associated with the sheeple's faces.
How can anyone keep up with all there is to keep up on. The answer is, "They can't, but the machines can..."
Why bother keeping up. The lies are bigger and the fraud expands, but when you boil it all down it's all bullshit.
If you have 100 friends, you have no friends.
Depends on your definitions.
Friend: Someone you call up to help you move a couch.
Good Friend: Some you call up to help you move a body.
pods
Permission to borrow that?
+great quotes
Big Brother has the sheep self reporting with all these apps. Saves HUGE amounts of oney and manpower compiling data. Inever fail to be astounded at what people will post about themselves - crap they'd bve OUTRAGED about if posted by others......'Look at me shitfaced about to pass out.... here I am doing a line of coke....I didn't go to ANY classes this month.....' Then the assholes wonder why nobody will hire them. Hint - it isn't just gov that uses these aps - potential employers look at them too - along with your girlfriend/bopyfriend, spouse plannign for divorce, and a whole lot more....
Amazing how much 'venture capital' funding for 'social networking' came from fronts used by the Pentagon and NSA.
i know so many people that usead blockers so they never see any ad's ever, then they go on to sites like facebook and "like" everything just to distort the data. nothing is as it seems on FB. Advertising on FB is a complete waste of money. Just because i Like a Mercedes 550 cls doesn't mean i have the means or intent to purchase one
"they go on to sites like facebook and "like" everything just to distort the data."
I do the same with Google- I constantly click onto shit I will NEVER buy and Google, like the poorly machined algorith that it is, sends me "information". I am so easily amused.
You would think that advertizers would eventually come to realize that the internet is completely fake.
If the internet ever finds out I like full, natural tits, I'll know this AI shit is for real.
From everything I see, there are always horny single girls in my area!
Yeah, strange how so many beautiful pornstars decided to make rural SW Minnesota their home!
I have simply run out of new porn searches. Apparently there is not one sick disgusting and vile thing that somebody does not use to jack one off. I mean you can put in dead goats-trains-squirrel-dirty shoe-fattie and someone has a fetish for it.
Not only that but I now have have blisters.
I Googled those terms. There is no fetish for what you describe.
There is however a dead goats appreciation society (womyn getting off banging drums).
I let flatmates and friends borrow my laptop. The algos think I spend all my free time on Facebook slot machine games, Warhammer, grotty basement pornos, and watching bitchfights on Youtube. Yup. Plugged into the Matrix I am.
GD, YOU KNOW YOU WANT ONE!!!!
http://blog.vossenwheels.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/IMG_0457-1.jpg
Working in market research, here's what's I've seen happen to budgets over the past, oh, let's call it 7 years now.
Social media obviously has a role to play, and companies with budgets being cut and people being let go are told "Here's a pile of money to spend on social and only social". Traditional methods which worked great just don't have the funding, but social shit does. So how is this to be exploited? Well, they can piss it all away but at the same time they have to be able to show ROI. With traditional methods, there are all kinds of models and methods to determine effectiveness... with social? Not so much. Small brands that cover a tiny niche and have no real money... sure, you can show it. Large brands looking to blow a few million a year on social while blowing hundreds of millions on other advertising... not so much. But you can't show up in a meeting and give your presentation of "here's how much we spent for 'social' and let's pretend we know what it did". I mean, at the crux of it, sure, you can, but you have to be able to justify it somehow. Your suppliers need the projects, your own staff needs the workload, or it all just gets slashed, people are let go and the few remaining are in an even tighter spot than they were already.
Enter social bullshittery 101. What happened is some genius out there decided that lacking any real ability to guage ROI, they would focus on telling a narrative composed of "likes" "followers" and the ever invasive bullshit which is "awareness". That's right, I have seen, even given presentations that lay out their ROI in terms of followers and likes. And if a campaign is obviously failing, you take a few hundred bucks and buy those followers and likes. Or pathetic marketing campaigns like "like us and get a coupon". The problem with that of course, is that either it's a deep enough discount that you are sacrificing your margins to get it, or you are targetting people who were already going to buy even without the damned coupon, good job morons. The cruz of marketing is basically slapping lipstick on a pig to make it fuckable. Brand A and Brand B each want to build some loyal base to their basically identical pigs. But the secret is, there is no real loyalty to speak of. It's all just poaching. In fact, by putting shit on sale with those gimmicks, tends to HURT a brand more than help it. It turns it into a commodity, a joke. Miss a sale? Well, now I'm going to wait for the next one. Oh another brand has a sale for the same fucking thing? I'll get that one instead. Once you apply the models and do the math, virtually all of these campaigns do more harm than they help. And therefore, to justify it, you turn to "likes" and "followers" and then do hilarious projections on growth. Once a company starts spamming you with their stupid shit you never wanted in the first place, you just block it. Me personally? I don't just block it, I boycott it. Leave me the fuck alone, I'll buy things when I need them and I refuse to buy a brand, I just want quality and durability. And I'm not alone in this. And it's getting worse. As those projections fail, the result has not been to rethink the idiocy, it's been to go full retard. Larger systems, more data digging, trying to figure out what's wrong with the models and projections and dig into the big data. Those services out there that offer them? 99.9% of them are absolute garbage. And the ones that are actually quite good have limited application. It's the job of consultants to sell it off, link it to the social spend, make the purseholders feel all trendy and hip, and then link any good quarter to social, while selling a narrative on a bad quarter as to why more social is needed. All the while avoid the fact that in the end, it's all bullshit.
Surely, this will end well.
I like quality. However if I see a designer label I don't buy it. What am I a fucking billboard? They are not paying me to advertise their brand. I wwuld never buy Ralph Lauren crap. That horse makes me sick and idiots wear it with pride while RL laughs all the the way to the bank
Exactly. It's one thing if it's a small hidden tag for your own reference. But slapping logos on everything.. you are paying to be a walking billboard, how retarded is that?
Thanks for that comment.. interesting
The impetus for the use of social "tools" is coming from the boardroom. That's all that needs to be said.
Many of them are not sophisticated advertisers — they are simply plugging a credit card number into the system and hoping for the best.
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL and we're supposed to feel sorry for these imbeciles?
Many of them are not sophisticated pirana fishermen-they simply dangle their balls in the river and hope for the best.
That is the only time a fisherman wishes for no bites.
Many of them are not sophisticated pirana fishermen-they simply dangle their balls in the river and hope for the best.
ZH may be losing some of its edge, not the posters.
FB is a joke. Its a platform to get your face for the face-recognition machines.
The reality is FB is probably the biggest repository of cat pictures if anything these days. The NSA should be in the lost and found cat poster business by default since that also means their database has to be clogged with cat pictures including the backups and can associate them with their owners. The stupidty of 'national security'.
Facebook is a relational database.
So? It's a database populated by legions of idiots. Anyone who has used Facebook should realize most of the data is junk.
Brar is just one of millions of business owners to be FaceFukked - it will all come out in the wash, after FaceFart's "shareholders" have been fleeced.
p.s. - Fuckerberg was proclaiming that WhatsApp is worth more than 19 billion USD yesterday - you know, that company Zuck bought that is a relic of a bygone era when people actually had to pay any additional fee for their text message service.
FaceBooks challenge was that they had to find a way to generate ad revenue... and turns out they did.
Suckerberg style...
It, and by it I mean in cahoots, hoped and tried to make NSAbook(s) a utility... Like an old school phone service, or gas bill. Our dollars have gone to subsidize this end. Didn't stick.
Anyone stupid enough to commit $600K of his business...
On nebulous "likes" and "clicks"...
Deserves to get FaceFucked by that slimy Suckerberg!
Pay-per-click advertising is one of the biggest scams to have evolved in the last 15 years. It really went full blown rigged game due to FaceFarce and about the year 2007.
Learning isn't always pleasant.
Or cheap...
Ha! Tuition, I call it.
but all my tuition taught me I did't learn nothn'
wait.
A much better alternative to WhatsApp has been around for some time... and still the Suckerberg bought it for 19 BILLION of the Fed's confetti papers... the only explanation in addition to the Tribe's money channeling out of Farcebook
Telegram Messenger is a Berlin-based, free and partially open source cross-platform messenger with a focus on security.
Telegram users can exchange encrypted and self-destructing messages, photos, videos and DOCUMENTS (ALL file-types supported).
Telegram is officially available for Android and iOS (including tablets and no-wifi devices).
UNOFFICIAL clients for Windows Phone, as well as a WEB version, OS X version and a Windows desktop client are available from independent developers using the Telegram API.
- Powerful: Telegram has NO limits on the size of your media and chats
- Ability to send DOCUMENTS (ALL file-types supported) and multiple photos
- Distributed: Telegram servers are spread worldwide for security and speed
- Open: Telegram has an open API and protocol free for everyone
- Free: Telegram is free forever. No ads. No subscription fees
- Cloud-Based: Telegram lets you access your messages from multiple devices and cloud sync between devices
- Private: Telegram messages are heavily encrypted and can self-destruct
- Has mobile versions, desktop versions and browser extensions
- Groups for 200 members
- Message read status: 1 check = sent, 2 checks = read (opened)
http://telegram.org/dl
Wonder no more how the ponzi lives on.
pool>>>im with you...I run a business....if anyone caught me spending 600k on facebook I would be shot dead...wtf? did joseph jett work there?
Fleecebook
Madoff > Zuckerberg > Greenspan > [GOOGLE Board of Directors] > Bernanke > Blankfein > Yellen > Fisher >Rothschild's > Warburg > Schiff > Kuhn & Loeb > [OR ~ other [NEVER TO BE MENTIONED IN THE 'CONTROLLED' msm' MEDIA families']... of The [non] Federal [non] Reserve]...
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Am I 'POSSIBLY ' missing something here?
Fuck ME ~ by way of a downvote BY 'the shill 'VD' ... for even bringing the subject up!...
Hey HY
You forgot Icahn, Fink, Tepper, Katzenberg, Geffen, Iger, Kohn, Comcast CEO, Linkedin CEO, Yelp CEO holy fuck I am fumbling because you're writing is similar to Francis the great
I don't know anything about Francis... <see below>... I just say what's on my mind...
sir, you are like the beatles....its great no matter what it is...~~
Welcome back, HyB. :)
Welcome back francis , still waltzing tildes ~~~
Waltzing Matilda, waltzing Matilda...
Nobody EVER did it better than Liam Clancy ~~~
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FS always said it was to keep the text below the arrows.
THAT he always did... ALWAYS stay below the arrows... [good idea]!
I was quite the fan of Francis before he got the boot. Too bad ZH went all-PC on him. I guess we found that even amazing sites like the Hedge have masters to please - otherwise F_S would still be ranting on here and opening minds.
My real question is why ZH allows douchebags like homostar and vd to continue yammering their slop from their cock slobbering mouths but F_S got banned??
Are you fucking kidding me? fonestar is three times the virtual man Francis Sawyer was.
well at least both you and francis have the same amount of posters that responds to you...one just gets lots of green arrows and one that gets tons of red arrows.
What did "Francis Sawyer" ever expose? Nothing?
What was fonestar right about (since sub $50 BTC)? Everything.
Yes foney, you exposed what it's like to be a 'cheesedeacon' wannabe.
francis_sawyer 'EXPOSED' nothing...
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There should be NO DOUBT that any 'digital texts' that were EVER produced by this... [OBVIOUS ~ 'BOT' ~ type, that ONLY a 'tech wizard'... such as yourself... could EVER be 'schooled' in ~ HOME~WISE or otherwards... make endeavor to become 'booted' ~ [under the auspices of for the'UNTRUTH'] ~ from a site like ZH ~ which, [apparently], is ONLY interested in the TRUTH... & which... of course... is EVIDENCED ny the NON~STOP click ads for 'MONSANTO' that HYBRASilian has been exposed to for the past 2 weeks...
Hybras, I miss slewie as much as your former digital self
but would rather have any of your re-incarnations talk plain
English or the American pidgin version thereof.
No need to hide nor run, they are on your heels anyway so talk as clearly as your speech would demand.
Slewie.. LongSOUPLine... etc. ~ deserve their day in the sun...
~~~
I'm MOST miffed about hedgeless_horseman... right now... Even though I'm NEW ~ I carry that torch...
He would get some 20 junks on a rather mundane argument,
nothing I have seen before being treated onto HH.
He has been spoiled for long on his special status and this must have truly hurt. He`ll be back, with a vengeance,
rest assured. :-)
no doubt... hedgless_horseman is the one I'm thinking about now...
Slewie got real cryptic there in the end. Wish I was smart enough to figure out what the hell he was talking about.
What happened to HH? I must have missed something. Always enjoyed his posts - although I am a little jealous of the resources he clearly has. Must be a boomer who rode the wave the right way. Kudos to him of course. I am an X-er who missed that wave and only caught the yard sale.
Slewie was in crazy crypic mode a while back and started talking about options. I asked him an options question and he gave me a completely lucid and non cryptic answer. It blew me away.
As for HH. He said when FS got booted that he was going to go find a new watering hole. Then he disappeared. Then after a while he came back. Then he was basically a contributing author on here. Now he's gone again. I just hope anyone that find another watering hole reports back, because this sure seems like the only one.
I don't know of any other solid places either. Seen quite a few people get the ban hammer here over the last couple of years though. Some after quite a long time of posting the same messages. As if something changed here at ZH as opposed to the messages. That is a bit concerning of course. This place has been waaaaayyyyyy toooooo confirmation bias for my taste lately.
@fonz [you know that YOU, kito, Dr. Engali & many others REALLY HAD IT GOING ON around here]... Well ~ Here...
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Within the last 6 posts that hedgeless_horseman ever posted...
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-01-30/myra-propaganda-begins-start-se...
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Now ~ I don't know about anything [because I'm NEW here]... But WTF?
But ALAS ~ you have 'VD, Flakmeister, & fonestar' [so you have THAT going 4u]... Shit like that MATTERS [in some universe]...
& on that note...
Ask yourself whatever happened to:
Potemkin Villiage Idiot
Dethrone the Dictaphone
Richard Parker
HYBRASIL may sink under the seas yet again [I'm afraid] :-(... It's a PHANTOM [even, probably, as you read this]...
I remember that thread. Fonz was right on about MyRA. His concerns are front and center here.
HH I think tipped a little towards the jewish thing at one point I think (didn't check to see if my memory is solid here... too lazy). If that was the cause for any ban, god help us. I could only hope he left on his own then.
Me and Centerline and Doc and Kito etc are just like a poker game that runs in perpetuity. You sit down with us and have a beer and throw a few bucks down and make fun of each other. Some of these other guys were real characters, Not many got the chance to know him but I speak to Whiteshadowmovement aka dimeshowmenthatwove offline. Hands down the smartest person I have run into in this world. Hybrasil you and him ran into each other once and after a few back and forths you had a friendly go of it.
as it SHOULD be... as ALWAYS... between MEN... [may ZH 'keep' you fonz & kito & Doc]... You're what it makes it worth logging on... ~HB
much appreciated man. Same goes both ways. Always did. You know what's interesting? That dude I referenced, who has since become a very good friend of mine, signed on to ZH because of a conversation he saw you and I having. You were pounding on me about something and at the same time you understood the prdicament I was in (having to try to "make some coin in this world"). So that conversation with you ended up being a game changer for me. So I owe you one for that.
You don't OWE me anything [Isn't that the POINT of the discourse of EACH & EVERY ONE of us ~ ' NOT to 'owe']?...
~~~
I'd only want want [for you & your daughters & your wife], what you'd want for my elderly parents, sisters, brothers, neices & nephews...
PEACE... & [the chance] for prosperity...
I don't wish for ANY especial 'LUCK' in this endeavor... Just... PLEASE!... If you don't work AGAINST me, then I'm your FRIEND!... f_s
Listen someone is starting to junk us, prob for going OT. So let's get back to the very important topic of the fuckin moron who spent 600k for fake likes and then was surprised to find out it was not lucrative. How does that make you feel?
FUCK DAT DUDE :-) ~ lol... [& his MOM] ~ juss tryin 2 keep da quality control up in up heah!
That serial junker was around quite some time ago. No worries. lol.
Thanks for the kind words Fonz.
Is okay if I feel sort of numb about they guy who spent 600k on Faceplant? (Maybe ought to check my pulse here - or have another beer... mmmm.... I'll take the beer).
Just to add on...
Trav666 loved to get on about minorities. FS was all over the jewish angle. I never noticed a long time ago the racial (religous) discrimination disclaimer here on ZH. I dont know when it popped up. But I do recall posters throwing it out like they were policing the joint. Lots of people disappearing over the last year or so as well.
Seems to me that something changed here. Probably not the first time either that some "chain" has gotten yanked. And that feeling bothers me. This isn't the old ZH. This is something different.
f_s WAS NOT all about the jewish angle... If there was an 'agenda' there ~ it was all about 'WHY THE MATHEMATICAL IMPOSSIBILITY'? [which is, the underlying case of about 100% of the 'conspiracy THEORY turn 'CONSPIRACY FACT' topics threads EVERY SINGLE FUCKING DAY on ZH]!...
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f_s asked questions...
NONE of those questions were ever addressed [even upon PLEADING to do so]... MsCreant & kito made the best efforts towads that end... BOTH of them are 'COOL'...
None of these questions ~ I suspect ~ will EVER be answered [in our lifetimes]... There IS NO FINAL 'SOLUTION' [there are only questions & responses]... If everyone could get on base with that, then we could strive towards BALANCE... If not [& even if the 'power numerator' of that equation SKEWS, unfairly, in the other direction], there will be IMBALANCE...
It's for people MORE INTELLIGENT [than myself] to determine that outcome...
Personally ~ I have ZERO BIAS other than TRUTH... MY NAME IS
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Marcus Aurelius had a DREAM for Rome... This is not it... THIS IS NOT IT!
point taken...wont claim my interpretation is perfect (as I also won't claim to be any sort of intellectual).
In diverting to the bigger question, it is a paradox I think. There is no real solution. There is no utopia.
BUT, why build systems that have mathematical flaws? Because they are consistent with nature? Or because they can exploit it? Human nature suggests the latter I think. We are animals at the core. I think we will get our answer though. I just dont think we will do anything to address it. We are not ready. Maybe never will be.
There is a 'DREAM' that was Rome [ZH] ~ it shall be realized!...
Oh no WAIT! [fonestar, VD, & Flakmeister think OTHERWISE]...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
big search engines like google will not link your site if it is deemed non-pc. its how mind control works in a NWO fascist world. you don't need governments to censor... the channels of communication are corporate owned, and they can easily strangle you if you are a commercial site.
oops - double post thing.
Who stole the cookies from the cookie jar & the 375 million from Mt. Gox?
Where's Satoshi?
What color is the boat house at Hereford and what's in the case?
The line is crossed when people start bad mouthing the Tylers. They tolerate a lot of shit, but you better not insult them. That's what did in Cult of Reason, methinks.
Yeah he just dissappeared. I noticed the boards have less crap being posted. Fonestar still here though but then again, I have never down arrowed him once.
Cunt of Treason out ?
Good riddance if it were true.
But you know: first they came for the cults, then reason,
then the rest of all those guilty by association for hanging
out at the very same site...
CoR is still here, bitchin about russians over the weekend.
francis_sawyer helped to wake me up.
Rock On HyBr
Stack On
This is supposed to be fight club.
ahh, a serial junker. Now that is more like it!
Who is this "Francis"?
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An idiot. People on here revere idiocy.
Ahh, fonestar, you just fell into a trap!
http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/2014-02-25/why-trolls-start-flame-w... (GW's blog article at top)
Not my red though. Have a green even though I disagree with you here. Remember, they are watching you...
Yep, that's why you fit right in. Like a yappy little dog, you need kicking all the time.
Yeah yeah. But... Fonestar has been a breath of fresh air. A willing punching bag. Drawing heat and doing it in style.
I am a Fonestar fan. Not because I believe in what he believes in (or so he says). But purely on style. Rock on Fonestar!
Strange as it may be... I gotta "+1" that...
"Who is this "Francis"?"
You got it wrong... his name was Francis Sawyer.
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And now a martyr.
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Sure can count on you, to warm up the ovens on ZH
.....and kito....and his family............
kito, you're too poor, un-connected and un-jewish like to be included to that list sorry dude.
I don't know what ANYBODY has to say... but...
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KITO [was a 'friend' of mine]...
kito ~ you're STILL a friend of mine... h_b
Divided States,
you had a great comment before the censorship for the master race deleted lots of useful posts here. How can I contact you privately?
you can reach me here:
wingobyte@gmail.com
I love you, man. Prefect circle jerk of fakes.
That's what this era reminds me of, a total fake job on all levels including (and a sorry excuse it is) those damned bras that make ALL women look like they have a heft set of double dees ...
I see you man, welcome back! /wink cheesepope (i'm fucking amazed nobody noticed, yet they are yelling for you to be ALLOWED back).
I have more Facebook accounts for my dogs than mine.