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Top suspect in 2015 Ashley Madison hack committed suicide in 2014

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Re: Top suspect in 2015 Ashley Madison hack committed suicide in 2014

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Post by FireBeyond »

pseudo0 wrote: post #36
asynchronous wrote: post #26

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Not to mention the “business” being run was about as shady as you can get.

It's remarkable that they still exist as a functioning company. I would have thought that the lawsuits over the hack, the alleged fake accounts, and the general loss of customer trust would have been enough to push them into insolvency.

> the alleged fake accounts

Way back in the day, a friend of mine, not proud of what she did, but she needed the cash, was paid by a 'sugar daddy' web site to respond to messages on their fake profiles to keep people interested. (Long before the days of chat bots, etc.)

Re: Top suspect in 2015 Ashley Madison hack committed suicide in 2014

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Post by JamesBarney »

hospitalJail wrote: post #66
busterarm wrote: post #41

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Advertising to horny people is hilariously effective.

Its one of the primal needs. Its why some companies are so effective at selling Veblen goods to status seekers. When I was growing up, I got abercrombie/american eagle because it was cool to girls. Today teens get Apple/Nike products. Not that any of these actually change your status, but the marketers were able to sell that idea/feeling. As an adult, you see people buying/leasing Tesla's or more expensive cars to do…

I think it does change your status. If you go on a date a pick a girl up in a Hyundai and test her with an Android phone many will have a different opinion than if you text with apple and pick her up in a audi.

Re: Top suspect in 2015 Ashley Madison hack committed suicide in 2014

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Post by krisoft »

jamiek88 wrote: post #29
noirbot wrote: post #24

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I'm not sure if the OP meant it, but there's a decided different in my mind between "murdering" a series and "ruining" it. A bad new entry doesn't make the old ones worse, but it may effectively foreclose any chance of making another better one later. For people who maybe were hoping for another good Indiana Jones movie in the same vein as the first few, having these last two be received terribly means we're unlikely…

I think the closest I’ve ever seen to ‘murdering’ a series by releasing new media was the final series of game of thrones retroactively killed the cultural phenomenon that it was. It does not live on much in the zeitgeist.

> the final series of game of thrones retroactively killed the cultural phenomenon that it was

I agree with you on the observation. Subjectively I feel the same. I wonder if someone has hard data on this. I wonder if there is some executive somewhere looking at a graph of polling results, or merchandise sales or anything like that and feeling terrible that they have screwed up (at least privately, even if they would never admit publicly).

I believe that the latest few seasons removed from my enjoyment of the whole franchise. It even made the earlier episodes worse, in the same way a flat punch line ruins even the most masterfull lead up of a joke. But does this feeling also appear on the bean counting level? Fundamentally a franchise is a business enterprise with the goal of making money for the owners. Does “ruining” a series this way also effects the bottom line in a way which can be expressed in the accounting?

Re: Top suspect in 2015 Ashley Madison hack committed suicide in 2014

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Post by JimtheCoder »

JamesBarney wrote: post #73
hospitalJail wrote: post #66

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Its one of the primal needs. Its why some companies are so effective at selling Veblen goods to status seekers. When I was growing up, I got abercrombie/american eagle because it was cool to girls. Today teens get Apple/Nike products. Not that any of these actually change your status, but the marketers were able to sell that idea/feeling. As an adult, you see people buying/leasing Tesla's or more expensive cars to do…

I think it does change your status. If you go on a date a pick a girl up in a Hyundai and test her with an Android phone many will have a different opinion than if you text with apple and pick her up in a audi.

"James was totally cool, but when I found out he used an Android phone, I was so over him..."

-some girl to her girlfriends, somewhere, probably...

Re: Top suspect in 2015 Ashley Madison hack committed suicide in 2014

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Post by Rebelgecko »

xwolfi wrote: post #21
OldManRyan wrote: post #8

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Disney+ is a different animal in countries that aren't the US.

I'm in Hong Kong, I don't get what you mean. There's no porn or snuff movies on it here either, how tame is it in the US ? I bought it for my 5yo to get her Disney dose, do you guys buy it for even younger children ? What other countries do you think exist outside the US? Why are there "different animals" of Disney streaming services ? Have you pursued your thought down to even quoting a few examples of what you imag…

In the US it's trying very hard to appear kid/family friendly. To the point where the Disney+ versions of PG movies and many TV shows have extra censorship (you can look around online for lists of content that's been bowdlerized on Disney+)

Re: Top suspect in 2015 Ashley Madison hack committed suicide in 2014

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Post by Rebelgecko »

jiveturkey wrote: post #72

i wonder why bash-a-business.com has a [.] to apparently defeat text parsing? yet it’s actually a link. to the webarchive. and one (and only one) other site has a similar construction to its name.

Maybe to keep someone from registering it for malicious purposes? At one point, archive.org would follow robots.txt retroactively. So if you lost control of the domain, someone else could wipe all of its history.

Re: Top suspect in 2015 Ashley Madison hack committed suicide in 2014

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Post by toomuchtodo »

JimtheCoder wrote: post #75
JamesBarney wrote: post #73

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I think it does change your status. If you go on a date a pick a girl up in a Hyundai and test her with an Android phone many will have a different opinion than if you text with apple and pick her up in a audi.

"James was totally cool, but when I found out he used an Android phone, I was so over him..." -some girl to her girlfriends, somewhere, probably...

https://nypost.com/2019/08/14/sorry-android-users-these-ipho...

https://leafandcore.com/2019/08/24/green-bubbles-are-a-turn-...

Re: Top suspect in 2015 Ashley Madison hack committed suicide in 2014

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Post by bombcar »

mustacheemperor wrote: post #34
majormajor wrote: post #30

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20 years is a bad comparison point for "did Disney kill Indiana Jones." Disney bought Lucas just over 11 years ago. So what was the shape of the franchise at that point? After a well-received film in 1989 and a well-received but niche Fate of Atlantis video game in 1992, and a TV series for a year or so (so not a smashing success, though I remember people liking it) in 1992-1993) it went dark movies/TV-wise, and none…

Your point that the franchise wasn't in a great spot at acquisition is noted, and I'd agree with it. I'm not the same commenter who originally voiced the broad anti-Disney polemic, I'm mostly just chiming in my general disappointment at this one franchise's lifespan in hindsight. But, I'd say it's only gotten worse over Disney's ownership. It's not much of an achievement for any film to be better than Crystal Skull,…

The Lego games in general (across all the various properties) really seem to have been made by actual amateur fans (in the sense of amour) who love the material and respect it whilst poking fun.

I assume they had very little high level management oversight.

Re: Top suspect in 2015 Ashley Madison hack committed suicide in 2014

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Post by bombcar »

jonathankoren wrote: post #61
busterarm wrote: post #46

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> Complaining that a gasp woman could beat up an octogenarian is more of a commentary about you than the inevitable march of time. I think it's more about how anyone _would_ beat up an octogenarian, rather than their ability to do so and it being a woman.

No. It's specifically the "Mary Sue" part that he's annoyed by. That term is never used online to refer to male character. Of course, a dude that can not only be athletic, can read every inscription in every ancient language, is an expert in every ancient civilization, and use a bull whip as a grappling hook at will gets a pass.

Perhaps only because Gary Stue is used. Male Mary Sues certainly exist.
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