Word: virtual
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...rule Hollywood also happen to control most news media in this country and the story is constantly getting spun in their favor,” he says. “We quickly realized we had to get the story out there in a different way, so we created a virtual picket line.”This virtual picket line includes a MySpace page, Facebook pages, and multiple YouTube clips. One video, “The Office is Closed,” stars striking writers and actors from “The Office”—including B.J. Novak...
...analyzes. Another key strength is the unassuming nature of the author’s prose; one does not have to be at all familiar with how the Internet works or what the current laws regarding Internet usage entail to fully enjoy this often saddening chronicle of lives destroyed by virtual gossip.Earlier this year, Miss Teen South Carolina’s unabashedly awful attempt to answer the question of why so many Americans cannot find the United States on a map quickly became an Internet phenomenon. In the years before the Internet, a few might have chuckled as they watched...
...stewards in the stadium and swifter punishments such as enforcing legal sentences and banning people from attending games. There are some signs that clashes have been reduced, as figures released by the government confirm. Still, the basic dynamic in Italy has not changed: organized fan clubs, which hold virtual blackmail power over team owners (they're scared of the threat of violence and other organized protests), are ready to clash with the heavy police presence lined up at stadiums every weekend. And on any given Sunday, more blood is shed between hooligans and money wasted due to costs incurred...
...huge memorial rally in Gaza on Monday, at least six people were killed and 80 wounded when supporters of the Palestinian chairman's successor, Mahmoud Abbas, clashed with Islamic militants of Hamas. Arafat's Fatah organization, now headed by Abbas, has been in the middle of a virtual civil war with Hamas since June. Indeed, they have divided up the two Palestinian enclaves between them, with Hamas dominating the Gaza Strip and Fatah controlling the West Bank...
...learn to live like everyone else, then when the inevitable class revolution comes, we can simply dress up like them, too, and the proletariat will have to be content with smashing Yale and Princeton instead. Play Money, or, How I Quit My Day Job and Struck It Rich in Virtual Loot Farming by Julian Dibbell While hardcore gamers might view gaming as a “night job” akin to prostitution, slam poetry, or overseas military contracting, the rest of us know that the only tangible benefit of playing games all the time is the learned ability...