prei26
June 23, 2009, 5:04pm
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using IRL is just a way of saying “it’s good to go outside sometimes” in a sarcastic fashion
chunter
June 23, 2009, 6:35pm
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I first heard it in text MUDs in the 90s to differentiate the role-played character from the person behind the keys.
It’s also “Indy Racing League,” the championship of single-seat open-wheel racing for US and Canada.
choice
June 23, 2009, 6:44pm
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what if we change it to: I really laughed!
would that have to be IRL’d or maybe could we just suplant it with a new meaning?
BYTE-Smasher:
Serious business doesn’t happen on the playground, so I don’t think it really exists
Seriously? SRSLY? Serious business DOES go down on the internet every single day. It happens to be the biggest business in the world right now. There’s real information contained in it, there’s real money being spent and made on it, and there’s realworld implications to every thing that’s happening on it.
That said, EVERYTHING in our world exists. Every single thought you have, though it may not exist outside your head, most definitely exists physically inside of it. The signals that travel between your neurons exist. If those thoughts did not exist, you would not be having them. The internet exists… the information ON the internet exists… the ASSHATTERY that happens on the internet exists, and the DRAMA that ensues most definitely exists.
ONE OF THE MOST DAMAGING THOUGHTS WE CAN HAVE IS THAT OUR ACTIONS (online OR offline) ARE MEANINGLESS
The internet is seriously a reflection of our collective consciousness, and as such, GIGO (Garbage in, Garbage out) is more pertinent than ever.
In the instance of your friend, Plastik Frankenstein, your story is simply about human nature. Noone cared that some random person hacked her account because no real damage was done. There were no nekked pictures of her posted… her secret list of embarrassing fetishes was not released to the public… and there was no dirt released on her friends either. She simply lost her accounts… this is relatively easy to move on from. If, however, something more serious had happened, the implications would be much “more” real.
http://encyclopediadramatica.com/index.php…erious_Business
choice
June 23, 2009, 6:49pm
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lol. i see all that stuff(cept the satellites).i work with that stuff everyday, but what i mean can be summarized in the following story:
this girl i know came to me in tears. every account of hers on the internet got hacked. myspace, facebook, youtube, and assorted others. she told me her life was ruined, she would loose all her friends, loose all credibility cause no one would believe that someone cracked her passwords. i plainly said. don’t worry, the internet isnt real. your life will continue to be the same tomorrow and none of your friends will even care.
i was right, the next day she told me that no one really cared and would just contact her through other means and whatnot.
serious business doesnt happen on the internet. so i dont think it really exists. and i use the term"exists" very loosely
Well I know at least one company offers a satellite connection or did, I think it’s called haynes or something. but, also this may be reaching a bit but there is a also moon net, in which you bounce signals off of the moon it’s used in ham/amatuer radio circles, so theoretically you could use it to bounce network traffic.
The meme “the internet is serious business” is, according to that article, used to remind people how silly it is to get offended over internet mockery… I propose however, that it is silly to get offended at ANY mockery, whether from the internet, or in person communication.
Your linking to a farce site like ED doesn’t prove your point in the slightest, it just indicates that you probably don’t use the internet for anything serious. There are many people here that DO use it for serious business.
I propose a new meme, that covers more ground than the one you linked to, as it also relates to “real life”:
choice
June 24, 2009, 12:53am
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whoops I meant Hughes net: "Hughes Net satellite internet provides broadband service to many, yadda yadda. it’s in use in haines* alaska.
BotB
June 24, 2009, 7:48am
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A big part of it, anyway.
benJam
June 24, 2009, 9:59am
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what’s the opposite to “in real life”?
“Real life” itself isn’t subjective. Such a thing cannot be subjective. It can’t be objective either.
What is entirely subjective is our interpretation of what constitutes real life. There’s no way to avoid that subjectivity, but we can strive to be as objective as possible.
BotB
June 24, 2009, 2:18pm
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Pff… A beautiful Dutch word for this is ‘geneuzel’…
“That’s not an apple, it’s a PICTURE of an appel.”
BYTE-Smasher:
“Real life” itself isn’t subjective. Such a thing cannot be subjective. It can’t be objective either.
What is entirely subjective is our interpretation of what constitutes real life. There’s no way to avoid that subjectivity, but we can strive to be as objective as possible.
Come on, you know thats what i meant. Don’t be so pedantic.
I’ll be pedantic if I wanna be
And i wont go into too much detail if i dont want to.
BotB
June 24, 2009, 4:42pm
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BYTE-Smasher:
Perspective?
What Moss sayd: you knew what he meant
BotB
June 24, 2009, 8:08pm
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A picture of a painting showing a rabbit wearing a hat?
