MooPig's Graphics and Rewildings :: TSA Agents Knock-off

Dang it; they Took our Design Again...!
by Pat Darnell | Jan 4, 2013 | Bryan TX

MooPig Graphics and Rewildings Department needs a contingency plan for knock-offs. Yes, it happened again, we design it and mega corporations assume it is theirs to copy. We are just too little, we guess. Everyone picks on us.

BE WARNED: PUBLIC HYSTERIA RESULTS IN CRAPPY TOYS FOR CHRISTMAS :: " ... n case you haven’t gotten enough of the “Are-our-children-safe? Let’s-ban-guns!” conversation going on around-the-clock on cable news these days, don’t assume you can escape the country’s descent into a perpetual police state with a bit of holiday gift-giving. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you… the worst children’s Christmas gifts I’ve ever seen:

Traveling for the holidays? Use Playmobil’s handy “Security Check Point” toy to educate your children on TSA security measures and how best to protect their “junk” from invasive pat-downs. Bomb-sniffing dogs not included: (Posted on December 25, 2012 at 9:18pm by Meredith Jessup. HERE) ... "

That's Eat Up!!!

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http://www.theblaze.com/blog/2012/12/25/be-warned-public-hysteria-results-in-crappy-toys-for-christmas/
Response to JACK Pribek at pribek.net ... Thanks for pointing this one out.

MooPig Site Review :: "Is Your Social Media Experience Being Controlled? | Wake Up World"

[Visit Picture LINK] This picture is not what this article is about, but we like the pun-iliciousness of it.

As the World Turns, enters CrowdSurfing 
Retrieved by Pat Darnell  |  Jan 8 - 21, 2012  |  Bryan TX

EXCERPT  |  " ... This could very well incarnate in politicians, political parties, or special interest groups hiring tens of thousands of crowdsourcers to create a false impression of popular support for an issue, candidate, or whatever they might want to promote.

" ... Sandaha is a younger player in this crowdturfing industry but they still process tens of thousands of dollars every month in transactions.

“This industry is millions of dollars per year already and [shows] roughly exponential growth,” Zhao said.

“I think we’re still in the early stages of this phenomenon,” he added.

This is hardly a reassuring assessment, and I think Zhao is quite right given that the entire globe is experiencing economic turmoil and many will jump at the opportunity to make money from the comfort of their home and in the more impoverished nations they will do so for nearly nothing. (Ruppert, Madison. 18 Jan 2012. HERE) ... "

If the industry continues at this rate of growth, the potential profits very well might become so lucrative that they justify larger, more sophisticated startups which focus on creating realistic internet personas, communities, and dialogues just by paying people ten cents or so for each task.

Is Your Social Media Experience Being Controlled? | Wake Up World:

What's 'the next big thing' you may ask? (Pribek, J. December 3, 2011. HERE)

Using the old idea of sharing files, one creative person could provide employment for the entire cell phone, Kindle, or iPad owning public, worldwide. For example, my best friend does her whole work day on a cell phone. She is a merchandiser in grocery stores. She reports all her activities by controlled questioning on a company supplied cellular. Eh?

For example what if an American blues guitar player cuts a new album, and needs a cheaper method of advertising his accomplishment? He could seek out a person in China to translate the TEXT or BLURB of his album to Chinese via cell phone. Then he would seek out a  crowdsurfing group or crowdturfing He then taps into a 1,348,950,000 person Chinese market. That would become a good base for anymore of his future albums.

'via Blog this'

UPDATE
Just today, Jan 21st, I have noticed that my favorite News Clearing House Site, INFOPIG.com is offline. I don't know if it is permanently gone, but I certainly hope not. You see, many sites that provide large amounts of LINKS as the function of their existence, whether they advertise or not, have been told cease and desist... Other examples of site shut-downs are sites such as those that provide LINKS to copyrighted properties, like movies and music.

We have to draw our each own conclusions about this control method by government agency. It is the basic principle of the Internet to share files of information alongside the spam generators, and viral piracy's of our day. It is the state of the art for now. But is targeting web sites part of controlling our Internet, if we in fact can claim it as ours?

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https://www.technologyreview.com/web/39304/
http://crazyfunnypictures.blogspot.com/2010/10/ridiculous-crowd-surfing-and-stage.html
http://arxiv.org/abs/1111.5654
http://wakeup-world.com/2012/01/18/is-your-social-media-experience-being-controlled/
http://sharingcentre.net/forum/4193-serif-movieplus-x3-v6-0-a/
http://www.mega-films.net/
http://www.movie2k.to/
http://hdmovieplus.com/

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Response to Pribek dot Net [again]

So, you are saying al Queda is a mercenary group: they work for the highest bidder. They are like ready men who ride on buses through the picket lines at factories, when the local has a strike. I get it. Nicely done. Scabs.

But I did not know you cared.

Meanwhile:
Corporate strategists in USA usually write a “Five Year Plan” that comes due fast and they end up hiring mercenaries in the end when the plan does not congeal … or is failing to bear fruit.

China Bureau Chiefs, on the other hand, make “Fifty Year Plans” that you can trace right this very minute back to the 1960′s — a plan that has come due and “is” bearing FRUIT. *[China and kin have billions of population who are treated like immigrants in their own country, is how they accomplish this] But we — including Europe, East Europe, Russia, and Mid-East — haven’t got what it takes to undermine them in any capacity. That is why it feels like a conspiracy… I hate to invoke Nixon, but he was accurate.

How does that relate to al Queda turn about? Well, those clowns make us into fools by their playing dumb. “Can’t anyone in this whole world see the truth?” — I think that is what you are reporting, God love ya’.

However, “turn about” is still “fair play.” Call it Divine Punishment which is what the al Queda’s preaching … it is a perfect ruse — or venue — for turn about, no?

First, one plays like he prays four times a day at the call of some lonesome cowboy crooning from a tower; invoking the great and terrible “unknown.” Second, you corral your women and children, and make them fearful of everything. Third, you steal everything that isn’t tied down. Fourth, you invent an enemy. Fifth, you dump everything you stole on your enemy.

It makes for a lot of dust. Smoke screens for the witless lawmakers, and whiny business people: when the only issue to tackle right now is how to help China start and accomplish its newest fifty year plan.

Report from the Middle :: Have We Come Full Circle Yet ??

According to what Metric Measure has Humanity Progressed?
by Pat Darnell

I choose faceBook, and the recently abandoned, felon-infested, mySpace, as suitable measuring tools this morning.

Note; I was a member of mySpace when a friend asked me to aid in an experiment on "social" network possibilities. His venture into the surrogacy of mySpace led him to many avenues... See Here:

"[On mySpace, eventually] ... artists would also share in the ad revenue. But…only the major label affiliated artists.
But…at some point indie artists would get the same opportunity. You know…big things around the corner type jive.

"And really, it would only be right because there is so much of an indie presence on MySpace," says the author Pribek. [HERE -- MySpace Sucks Even More Than You Think!!]!

"Anyway, MySpace Music has now, finally, started to fulfill that promise and guess what? They found an easy, sleazy, cheesy way to do it. [ Note: Every time a "thing" is posted on a social network, it is already "old news" or "old business" (pdaf)]
Continues author Pribek:
"They [mySpace] are working in partner with TuneCore. Now, as far as I know, this only goes for the ad revenue part of it not the spins. In short, in order to ever have a ghost of a chance to see any dough, an artist has to have a TuneCore account and every song has to be distributed through TuneCore. Doesn’t matter if you’ve had your stuff up for years driving traffic to and filling MySpace’s pockets; you would need to re-upload them and distribute through TuneCore." (Pribek.net)

So basically we are faced by faceBook and mySpace to work within their corporate structure, probably not a social network too. It must be a major stumbling block to our Entrepreneur-ically Insane IT Goth Bots, that for tax evasion purposes, or for lower tax rates, it behooves the company to spin-off a TuneCore Corp to handle the culture-aid promised by the Mother mySpace ... YIKES!!!

I no longer am a member of mySpace, but do vivaciously tour the annals of faceBook. I am looking for ... er ... looking for ... uh ... *[cursor blink blink]* ... well we should get back to that later.** D. C. al Coda [dal Capo al Coda]


I find I most often interject my Middle-aged Authentic Blues into discussions in faceBook -- which is what I mostly did in mySpace. This is peculiar because I never debated verbally, but now think I can graphically. [??]

I have found that my "Code" is now [already] vernacular, and my views are "Old Humor." This I can live with, no problem. The daily problem is that my same-age buddies, who would never tour the sites mentioned, do not see any of this, and show angst when I try to explain "This is our role in social networks today."

** Coda [dal Capo al Coda," or "from the beginning, to the tail]
*[cursor blink blink]*  Let's return to the above question: "I am looking for ... ." Suppose you are boiling some potatoes, and they have just started to boil. You walk away for a few seconds only to return to the pot all madly foamy, and boiling over ... It's a mad dash to move the pot or turn down the temperature... but always a mess that could have been avoided with a little more stirring and watching, or Tender Loving Care.

We all know a watched pot never boils... but this pot is the metaphor of middle-age angst of menopausal men of pause -- that is my group. And Dang 'it anyway.

If you are still reading in this drift with me, you will notice that this boiled-over mess always means "clean up -- now, or afterwards," but guaranteed there will be "clean-ups and burns."

Ante-Conclusion:
What patterns most often encountered in mySpace and faceBook show lukewarm pots of water about to boil over? Adolescent behavior is the Key phrase. The surrogacy of IT social networking finds its kinship in incompleat logic of adolescent human ideology that short circuits every time the pot of potato's boils over. My minority group of crusty old men, is not targeted. Naivety is targeted.

As the spirit of social networking grows older will it banish adolescent behavior? We shall see fifty years from now if so. Good luck with that.
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And that is our Report from the Middle this icy morning. Here in the plush Brazos Valley, where the Men are good-looking; Women are strong, and the children are all above average.
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