Opening Ceremony Show of Beijing Olympic Games

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BillChin wrote:I thought the original post here was weird. It is sanitized and saying nothing.
That's normal for spam-bottery, but usually, they include a link they're trying
to get you to click on. I did wonder if it was some sort of weird Chinese "Hey,
watch our Olympics, dangit!" propoganda...

I missed the Phelps ceremony SNAFU, but I did see (sports reporter) Bob
Costas interviewing Pres. Bush. That was kind of surreal, for some reason.
I guess I never thought of Costas as a "Journalist", but he was asking some
decent questions. Earlier, Costas also filed a report from Tiananman Square,
where some sort of silent, motionless protest was occurring. It looked like
the sort of thing Falun Gong practitioners would have done, but I missed the
explanation. Can anyone fill me in?

EDIT: I just realized this would be an interesting version of marketing
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less "canned" than having subjects sit in a room with punch and cookies
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jamison364 wrote: China’s brand-new National Stadium, also nicknamed Bird’s Net
The identical passage, including typo, on a stack of other websites as found by Google. Spambot it is!
And now there was no doubt that the trees were really moving - moving in and out through one another as if in a complicated country dance. ('And I suppose,' thought Lucy, 'when trees dance, it must be a very, very country dance indeed.')

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fearfaoin wrote:
BillChin wrote:I thought the original post here was weird. It is sanitized and saying nothing.
That's normal for spam-bottery, but usually, they include a link they're trying
to get you to click on. I did wonder if it was some sort of weird Chinese "Hey,
watch our Olympics, dangit!" propoganda...

I missed the Phelps ceremony SNAFU, but I did see (sports reporter) Bob
Costas interviewing Pres. Bush. That was kind of surreal, for some reason.
I guess I never thought of Costas as a "Journalist", but he was asking some
decent questions. Earlier, Costas also filed a report from Tiananman Square,
where some sort of silent, motionless protest was occurring. It looked like
the sort of thing Falun Gong practitioners would have done, but I missed the
explanation. Can anyone fill me in?

EDIT: I just realized this would be an interesting version of marketing
research: post about a subject and see what people say about it. It's a lot
less "canned" than having subjects sit in a room with punch and cookies
to watch your commercial...
Are you sure it was a protest? When I saw him broadcasting from Tiananman Square, there was a whole bunch of tai chi masters behind him...he even mentioned them briefly. They weren't protesting...just preparing to do kata. But maybe you saw a different broadcast?

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Redwolf wrote:Are you sure it was a protest? When I saw him broadcasting from Tiananman Square, there was a whole bunch of tai chi masters behind him...he even mentioned them briefly. They weren't protesting...just preparing to do kata. But maybe you saw a different broadcast?
No, I'm not sure at all. I tuned in right in the middle of Costas saying that
China was worried about protests in Tiananman, for obvious reasons. So,
I guess I assumed that what was going on was a protest, but that doesn't
necessarily follow from his statement...

I would have rather seen the TaiChi demonstration than some of the sports
I sat through.
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Missed the spam thing, guys.

It will take some checking, but it may not actually be a 'bot, but a person, posting prearranged info. At this time we've got a system that has practically eliminated spambottage altogether, unless bot programs are getting cleverer. The few spam posts that have gotten through I've chalked up to actual fingers on a keyboard, right or wrong.

Anyway, suffice it to say that spam in general has been vastly more under control than in the not-so-distant past when it became so rampant it was nearly a deluge. Some of you may recall those happy times. The mods were zapping spambots at a rate of roughly thirty or more a day. Now, hardly ever. So that's why I think it's a person. But the Geek Oracle may know more on this.
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The original post was suppose to come with photos hence the spacing between paragraphs. Of course Jamison is spelt with an "e" :pint:
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It turns out that the opening ceremony fireworks display was FAKE

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And now there was no doubt that the trees were really moving - moving in and out through one another as if in a complicated country dance. ('And I suppose,' thought Lucy, 'when trees dance, it must be a very, very country dance indeed.')

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Re; fake stuff

Hey, you're making me think of the Iranian rocket launch and I'm laughing and it hurts (I got a bruised rib from a bike accident).

Crynoutloud. Damn 'em. It was good enough with all the human stuff on the field and the wacky scrim thing. And the flying torch lighter guy dancing in the air.
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More deception in the opening ceremonies:

http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/0 ... index.html

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"The reason was for the national interest." Nyuk.
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