How much of the internet is false?
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Topic: How much of the internet is false?
Posted By: Henry Plainview
Subject: How much of the internet is false?
Date Posted: March 12 2012 at 01:21
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You may round.
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Posted By: stonebeard
Date Posted: March 12 2012 at 01:22
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Specify which internet we are talking about here. ------------- http://soundcloud.com/drewagler" rel="nofollow - My soundcloud. Please give feedback if you want! |
Posted By: Henry Plainview
Date Posted: March 12 2012 at 01:27
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stonebeard wrote:Posted By: stonebeard
Date Posted: March 12 2012 at 01:31
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Hey guys, he doesn't know about the other internets.
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Posted By: Dayvenkirq
Date Posted: March 12 2012 at 01:36
Are you talking about, like, .com, .ro, .ru, the webs of other countries? And I think Henry Plainview meant .com .
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Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: March 12 2012 at 02:17
The Internet is a global system of interconnected http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_network" rel="nofollow - computer networks that use the standard http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_protocol_suite" rel="nofollow - Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to serve billions of users worldwide. 95%, I think. |
Posted By: Dayvenkirq
Date Posted: March 12 2012 at 02:42
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Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: March 12 2012 at 03:06
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Probably nowhere near as much as anyone thinks. Unless you think porn is false rather than fake, then okay, yeah, most of it.. ------------- What? |
Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: March 12 2012 at 03:31
Yeah, I went with 25% but I think that's rather high. As a reference source, I can't recall looking up anything that I found to be false. Maybe I'm just not going to the right places. I spend a lot of time at places where opinions are expressed. Unless someone is lying about their opinion, opinions can't be true or false. Porn by it's nature can't be true or false. The only time I encountered a falsehood in shopping was buying an Aphonse Mouzon album that had Larry Coryell listed as being on it and didn't. But I guess it you throw in spam and conspiracy theories 10% might be a fairer number. I would be curious to hear from people who have actual examples of false things they've encountered. ------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened... 
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Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: March 12 2012 at 03:42
Oops, I forgot conspiracy theory sites, but then, like godbotherers, they don't believe they are false - okay I could stretch my 5% up to 6%.
How much of the interwebs does the News Corporation control? ------------- What? |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: March 12 2012 at 04:46
Well even referrence sites like wikipedias are to be taken cautiously.... but then again, is the Encyclopedia Britannica all that trustworthy in itself?? I mean it was first written by christians and has still many slants... What makes it more trustworthy??? because there is a paper-printed version??
Aren't just any kinds of book (scientific ones not excluded) just subjective??
Although HP's question is vague, it's still a fairly interesting debate, but impossible to evaluate, because of our objective/subjective criterias...
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Posted By: irrelevant
Date Posted: March 12 2012 at 04:53
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flase. ------------- https://gabebuller.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow - New album! http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=7385" rel="nofollow - http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=7385 |
Posted By: Barah86
Date Posted: March 12 2012 at 05:59
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If you include 4chan then its something like 100%...
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Posted By: CPicard
Date Posted: March 12 2012 at 07:05
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Yeah, 100%. I mean, even I am a fake, I'm a spambot. Henry is a spambot, too. |
Posted By: tamijo
Date Posted: March 12 2012 at 07:25
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It depends a lot on what you consider false. Is a manipulated picture false, if yes, how do you define real pictures, no degitals, no filters ? You could use this logic at video, music. is a cut sentence from a person real ?. If you tell a story in a very subjective angle, fitting you interest, is it then real ? How about TV, is it real , X-factor, Big Brother ? Is a frosen cemical pizza real ? Is american Vodka real vodka ? If you answer no to most of these questions, most of the internet will be false, not due to a false internet, but due to a false world ------------- Prog is whatevey you want it to be. So dont diss other peoples prog, and they wont diss yours |
Posted By: Equality 7-2521
Date Posted: March 12 2012 at 09:46
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Do all sites have a truth value? Is progarchives false? I think you poorly phrased yoru question.
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Posted By: The T
Date Posted: March 12 2012 at 09:48
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0%. Everything is true. It might come from deeper within, from darker corners of minds and personalities, but everything is true. Except Henry's ponies of course. But the obsession is true.  ------------- 
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Posted By: HolyMoly
Date Posted: March 12 2012 at 09:49
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In the long run, 50%. Currently, about 45%
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Posted By: JJLehto
Date Posted: March 12 2012 at 09:51
| 107.3% |
Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: March 12 2012 at 10:03
I'm intrigued. In what way is porn fake? You mean they aren't really in love? ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: March 12 2012 at 11:22
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Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: March 12 2012 at 11:23
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^How old were you there, Jim? ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: March 12 2012 at 11:31
------------- What? |
Posted By: The Quiet One
Date Posted: March 12 2012 at 12:00
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Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: March 12 2012 at 12:08
Only 17... It was just after I'd been made a member of the Admin Team  -------------
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Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: March 12 2012 at 12:16
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Posted By: CPicard
Date Posted: March 12 2012 at 15:17
Well, it depends by what you mean by "delivering pizza" and "fixing the plumbing", if you see what I mean. |
Posted By: akamaisondufromage
Date Posted: March 12 2012 at 15:34
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Posted By: Rivertree
Date Posted: March 12 2012 at 17:24
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The Internet is almost full, please clear the wastebin ...
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Posted By: Triceratopsoil
Date Posted: March 12 2012 at 18:17
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82% I calculated it |
Posted By: zappaholic
Date Posted: March 12 2012 at 19:07
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The Internet is made of 4 things: 1) pr0n, 2) cats, 3) ponies and 4) political insanity. You do the math. ------------- "Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard." -- H.L. Mencken |
Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: March 12 2012 at 21:25
All of the middle bits. However they are amorphous and the percentages can change at any time. 
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Posted By: HolyMoly
Date Posted: March 13 2012 at 08:34
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The percentage just fell today, thanks to this thread. Good job, folks!
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Posted By: RoyFairbank
Date Posted: March 20 2012 at 23:10
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I think most of the internet has something to offer, and you can gleam wisdom from the most flawed crap. Youtube videos of anything, wikipedia which can tell you a little bit about everything, whether its skewed or not, news websites that lie but lay out the information in the end, school websites and archives, google books, entertaining blogs, prog archives.... In sum its great, maybe 30% of it is has nothing to redeem it. And you got to admit, there's nothing false at all about going from expensive girly mags to unlimited HD video streamed for free. |
Posted By: smartpatrol
Date Posted: April 16 2012 at 13:41
| Depends on the internet. Some of them are like, 95 or 5 or 100 or 10 or whatever... wait, he dosen't know about the other internets?... IVE SAID TOO MUCH! |