Word: reals
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...Olatunde Osunsanmi wants you to believe that everything he shows you that's not reenacted by professionals really happened, and is documented by the omnipresent video cameras. It's a device used far more successfully in Paranormal Activity, which had the added benefit of being a good movie. The real touchstones here are the "documentaries" about psychic phenomena on the "History" Channel, and of the Alien Autopsy fraudumentary that Fox ran a few times to high ratings in 1995. All of these mix reenactments with grainy, blurry purportedly true footage, and score neither as science nor as entertainment...
...Here's how it works. You join FarmVille, a game on Facebook in which you can create a virtual farm by growing crops and livestock and tilling the earth. Through your toil, you earn virtual money, but to farm more efficiently or quickly, you can also invest real cash (through PayPal or a credit card) to buy virtual goods, such as seed or a tractor. Should you not have any real cash to spare on things that after all do not actually exist, you can instead accept an offer from one of the advertisers on the game site...
...against Zynga in the last 12 months. But most of these have not been about advertising scams, and Zynga has raised its BBB rating to a B+ from an F. Offerpal has a B rating. Industry figures suggest that roughly 90% of social-networking game players neither spend any real money nor click on any ads. And Facebook and MySpace say they monitor all applications closely and have suspended companies that violate its advertising protocols. In the last several days, both companies have revised their guidelines to be more stringent. (See the 10 worst video game movies...
Democrats privately have been hoping that the surprisingly powerful economic turnaround will start producing real job growth by next spring, and the declining pace of job losses backs that hope up. "With the economy growing again, things should feel more solid by spring, and that should start working to our advantage," says a senior Treasury official. Friday's report offers some comfort on that front, in that the monthly job-loss number continues to trend downward, and also because the 10.2% jobless rate gives the Federal Reserve little reason to begin raising interest rates anytime soon, which augurs well...
...past, when the Americans came, they would talk to the generals and go home," said Farahnaz Ispahani, a government spokeswoman and Member of Parliament. "Clinton's willingness to meet with everyone, hostile or not, has made a big impression - and because she's Hillary Clinton, with a real history of affinity for this country, it means so much more...