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(Some Blogger) Followup Dallas commissioner adds "blogs" to his list of stuff he doesn't understand. Bonus: He's on the I.T. committee   (gritsforbreakfast.blogspot.com) divider line 44
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Hollywood Cole [TotalFark] 2008-07-17 10:48:52 AM  
Hey! It's the "black hole is a racist term" guy. If he doesn't know WTF a black hole is how the fark could you expect him to understand blogging?

 
Hollywood Cole [TotalFark] 2008-07-17 10:59:37 AM  
ALSO

While the picture is funny as hell and yes this asshole is a race-baiting douchebag idiot, I would like to point out this article is hell-a old.

Tuesday, April 10, 2007

Good Job smitty.

 
emocomputerjock 2008-07-17 11:11:32 AM  
Blogs are the lifeblood of the Web. If you don't respect the blogosphere, expect to be consumed by it.

 
Aamelrons 2008-07-17 11:13:52 AM  
emocomputerjock: Blogs are the lifeblood of the Web. If you don't respect the blogosphere, expect to be consumed by it.

So I have to fear crazy cat ladies, emo kids, nerds, and people with to high of an opinion of themselves.

Alright, so I will just watch out for the men with megaphones shouting drivel, riding black cats dressed like He-mans mount.
/emo kids stay at home, don't have to fear them

 
guilt by association 2008-07-17 11:14:15 AM  
pics.ohlawd.net

 
bwesb 2008-07-17 11:15:11 AM  
Best he should stay away from blogs altogether then - otherwise he is liable to see the term "black hole" a lot.

 
emocomputerjock 2008-07-17 11:16:41 AM  
Aamelrons: emocomputerjock: Blogs are the lifeblood of the Web. If you don't respect the blogosphere, expect to be consumed by it.

So I have to fear crazy cat ladies, emo kids, nerds, and people with to high of an opinion of themselves.

Alright, so I will just watch out for the men with megaphones shouting drivel, riding black cats dressed like He-mans mount.
/emo kids stay at home, don't have to fear them


I'm posting your shiat to LJ.

/personal army
//snark may or may not be involved in my posts regarding the blogosphere

 
ihatedumbpeople 2008-07-17 11:17:01 AM  
I don't understand blogs either. No one cares about your opinion, why are you posting it?

 
filth [TotalFark] 2008-07-17 11:17:32 AM  
Most politicians' web sites have a calendar tab with upcoming events. Commissioner Price's calendar tab links to information about his annual calendar for sale with pictures of himself. This is in no way an encouagement to GIS him.

 
Bloody Templar 2008-07-17 11:17:50 AM  
emocomputerjock: Blogs are the lifeblood of the Web. If you don't respect the blogosphere, expect to be consumed by it.

Aamelrons: So I have to fear crazy cat ladies, emo kids, nerds, and people with to high of an opinion of themselves.

Alright, so I will just watch out for the men with megaphones shouting drivel, riding black cats dressed like He-mans mount.
/emo kids stay at home, don't have to fear them



While emocomputerjock's statement smacks of something like "64 KB is enough for anybody," or "this tech bubble will never burst," there is some truth to it.

While blogging as we know it may not last for the long haul, the world has finally realized what a powerful equalizer the internet can be.

 
vernonFL [TotalFark] 2008-07-17 11:18:14 AM  
the Internet is not something that you just dump something on. It's not a big truck. It's a series of tubes.

 
bwesb 2008-07-17 11:18:29 AM  
media.pegasusnews.com

This is the guy? bwahahahahahhahahahhahaha....

 
Manfred J. Hattan 2008-07-17 11:19:35 AM  
Hollywood Cole: ALSO

While the picture is funny as hell and yes this asshole is a race-baiting douchebag idiot, I would like to point out this article is hell-a old.

Tuesday, April 10, 2007


And after the blogosphere went nuts on the "black hole" thing I'll betcha he knows what they are now.

 
BobXXL 2008-07-17 11:20:43 AM  
ihatedumbpeople: I don't understand blogs either. No one cares about your opinion, why are you posting it?

bp0.blogger.com

 
Super Chronic 2008-07-17 11:22:29 AM  
I read a fascinating article about these "blog" thingies recently. According to this article:

"Anyone with a computer can become their own publisher on the internet. You can create your very own diary online and share personal thoughts or political opinions on anything. Its known as blogging, and it's simple to use and you can do it for free."

Crazy, isn't it?

 
Sefton 2008-07-17 11:23:09 AM  
John Wiley Price is Dallas' answer to Jesse Jackson.

 
Fishflinger 2008-07-17 11:23:40 AM  
I just don't understand why the people of his distric keep voting him in to that office time and time again. Even they have to see how much of an IDIOT the guy is.

 
Littledogg 2008-07-17 11:26:22 AM  
Hollywood Cole: ALSO

While the picture is funny as hell and yes this asshole is a race-baiting douchebag idiot, I would like to point out this article is hell-a old.

Tuesday, April 10, 2007

Good Job smitty.


It's good for the few of us here on fark that don't check the news every year like you elitists.

 
bwesb 2008-07-17 11:26:44 AM  
Yes, comissioner, the Street Fighter people are on the phone, they want their bad guy, Blanka, back... and Berry Gordy left another message for you. According to him it is a copyright infringement for you to keep hollering "Sho nuff!" all the time.

 
Hollywood Cole [TotalFark] 2008-07-17 11:31:10 AM  
Littledogg: It's good for the few of us here on fark that don't check the news every year like you elitists.

It is really really lonely up here at the top.

 
ZachF81 2008-07-17 11:34:12 AM  
media.pegasusnews.com

Hey... this guy looks familiar, I think I've seen him before..

digimills.com

 
Jackpot777 [recently expired TotalFark] 2008-07-17 11:35:58 AM  
bwesb: This is the guy? bwahahahahahhahahahhahaha....

He subscribes to Afrolove magazine.

fashiontribes.typepad.com

For that "what the farking hell day of the week is THIS" man about town.

 
Jackpot777 [recently expired TotalFark] 2008-07-17 11:37:30 AM  
ZachF81: Hey... this guy looks familiar, I think I've seen him before..

www.travelpod.com

Get a haircut, son.

 
poot_rootbeer 2008-07-17 11:39:48 AM  
I understand the value of blog software as a publication mechanism, but I don't understand the overblown significance of "blogging" as a communications medium. Overall, the signal-to-noise ratio is abysmal.

And that goes 1000x for "microblogging" like Twitter. If I want to find out what a friend was doing earlier today, I'll ask him!

/using "voice" technology

 
emocomputerjock 2008-07-17 11:41:12 AM  
poot_rootbeer: I understand the value of blog software as a publication mechanism, but I don't understand the overblown significance of "blogging" as a communications medium. Overall, the signal-to-noise ratio is abysmal.

And that goes 1000x for "microblogging" like Twitter. If I want to find out what a friend was doing earlier today, I'll ask him!

/using "voice" technology


Anyone got the PA comic on Twitter? I can't get the time to search for it.

/poop is coming out

 
dogfood 2008-07-17 11:48:25 AM  
The Dallas city council is retarded.

 
ClemsonChili 2008-07-17 11:56:20 AM  
Wait, an incompetent city official elected just because he was black? This is Dallas, right, not Atlanta?

 
Jim_Callahan 2008-07-17 12:03:19 PM  
Hey, guilt by association, those pipes are in parallel, not in series.

 
Manfred J. Hattan 2008-07-17 12:20:55 PM  
ClemsonChili: Wait, an incompetent city official elected just because he was black? This is Dallas, right, not Atlanta?

Oh, that's not fair. All over the country incompetent city officials are elected for all sorts of reasons.

 
AiryAnne 2008-07-17 12:21:02 PM  
BobXXL: ihatedumbpeople: I don't understand blogs either. No one cares about your opinion, why are you posting it?

Shouldn't that sign be "Coincidence"?dogfood: The Dallas city council is retarded.

He's not on the council, he's a county commissioner, but your observation is still valid.

John Wiley Price is Dallas's Cynthia McKinney or Marion Barry. Batshiat crazy, but virtually untouchable in elections.

 
ClemsonChili 2008-07-17 12:30:43 PM  
Manfred J. Hattan: ClemsonChili: Wait, an incompetent city official elected just because he was black? This is Dallas, right, not Atlanta?

Oh, that's not fair. All over the country incompetent city officials are elected for all sorts of reasons.


Absolutely, this just reminded me of my time living in Atlanta and how absolutely ignorant some of... er... all the elected leaders were.

 
filth [TotalFark] 2008-07-17 12:30:53 PM  
AiryAnne: BobXXL: ihatedumbpeople: I don't understand blogs either. No one cares about your opinion, why are you posting it?

Shouldn't that sign be "Coincidence"?dogfood: The Dallas city council is retarded.

He's not on the council, he's a county commissioner, but your observation is still valid.

John Wiley Price is Dallas's Cynthia McKinney or Marion Barry. Batshiat crazy, but virtually untouchable in elections.


There are many reasons to make fun of him, but he really hasn't done a bad job on Commissioner's Court. He's nowhere near as stupid as Barry and McKinney, and he's not as crooked as Jackson.

 
sh0kr 11.1 2008-07-17 12:34:17 PM  
emocomputerjock: poot_rootbeer: I understand the value of blog software as a publication mechanism, but I don't understand the overblown significance of "blogging" as a communications medium. Overall, the signal-to-noise ratio is abysmal.

And that goes 1000x for "microblogging" like Twitter. If I want to find out what a friend was doing earlier today, I'll ask him!

/using "voice" technology

Anyone got the PA comic on Twitter? I can't get the time to search for it.

/poop is coming out


www.penny-arcade.com

 
xadrian 2008-07-17 12:34:43 PM  
I almost didn't recognize Guinan without her hat.

 
Walker [TotalFark] 2008-07-17 01:11:32 PM  
You will find that most "IT experts" in the Government and Judicial fields know next to nothing about IT...which is very scary when you think about it. Government passes crazy IT law, Judges say "Yep, looks good to me!" and we're all screwed.

 
MaritimeSpeedskating 2008-07-17 01:48:12 PM  
a little background for anyone who cares...

Dallas city government is totally full of tards. JWP is just one of them. The city council meetings (and school board meetings and ...) are nothing but a screaming yelling match -- sort of like a Fark global warming thread.

The city council has a history of death threats amongst members and kickbacks/corruption (outside of JWP).

JWP has a long history. I dont want to be accused of slander, so lets just say you should look at his arrest history. Make sure you scroll to the next page.

 
vonster 2008-07-17 02:20:17 PM  
bwesb: This is the guy? bwahahahahahhahahahhahaha....

That must be before he went for the R Kelly look.

 
azizabah 2008-07-17 02:53:19 PM  
Walker: You will find that most "IT experts" in the Government and Judicial fields know next to nothing about IT...which is very scary when you think about it. Government passes crazy IT law, Judges say "Yep, looks good to me!" and we're all screwed.

Man. That is the scary truth. Working in Govt IT fresh out of college and having met all of my county's steering committee people.....it makes me nervous that these people are in charge of so much.

 
Bunnyhat 2008-07-17 02:54:06 PM  
I understand how blogs works and what they do.


I don't understand the allure of it. Whats the point? What do so many people get from it?

 
dletter [TotalFark] 2008-07-17 03:21:40 PM  
Bunnyhat: I understand how blogs works and what they do.


I don't understand the allure of it. Whats the point? What do so many people get from it?


The allure from reading them is, if they are interesting enough, they are worth to read as much as any other newspaper or magazine article.

The allure from creating them is, if you get enough readers, you can actually make a decent living from advertising.

Of course, at that point, you are basically a "publisher", just like any other newspaper or magazine, except just publishing your own material.

The term "blogger" should just be set aside for those people who continue to post their thoughts as "articles" on the internet, and only a dozen other people ever read them.

 
johnnyq 2008-07-17 03:47:01 PM  
MaritimeSpeedskating a little background for anyone who cares...Dallas city government is totally full of tards. JWP is just one of them. The city council meetings (and school board meetings and ...) are nothing but a screaming yelling match -- sort of like a Fark global warming thread.
So true. The DISD meetings have always been my personal favorites. Of course, I moved to Dallas right around the time the whole Yvonne Gonzalez thing was breaking, so that may have colored my preferences.

 
Merry Sunshine 2008-07-17 04:05:45 PM  
ZachF81: Hey... this guy looks familiar, I think I've seen him before..

Thank you, I came in here for the Heineken Man references.

/really let himself go, etc.

 
TexasPeace [TotalFark] 2008-07-17 05:09:20 PM  
The blogger whose post is linked is an excellent resource for criminal law news in Texas.

 
xen0blue 2008-07-17 08:53:26 PM  
why do people keep electing him if they know he's a moronic racebater?

one word: democrats

 
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