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I like the prizewinning papers in Economics and Medical Education. 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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Fake TripAdvisor reviewer jailed | LinkedIn[^]
LinkedIn The owner of a business that wrote fake TripAdvisor reviews has been jailed in Italy for nine months. The criminal court in Lecce found the unnamed man, who was also fined around $10,000, tried to sell more than 1,000 positive reviews to hundreds of businesses across Italy. TripAdvisor has praised the “landmark ruling,” and says businesses that paid for fake reviews have been hit with penalties. This is the first time such a case has resulted in jail time.
Do you know about the massive number of fake reviews on Amazon, paid for by authors?
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raddevus wrote: Do you know about the massive number of fake reviews on Amazon, paid for by authors?
No, but for a small fee I'll gladly upvote your post. 
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Upvote today and I'll gladly send you PayPal on Tuesday. 
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Sounds like an offer he can't refuse.
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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I'm going to report you to the nearest Italian deli.
/ravi
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Well I have reviewed a lot of them.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Lol, you gave him a pizza your mind.
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Oooh, that's cheesy humor. I like the way you deep dish it out.
/ravi
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Gouda agree with you on those ones.
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We don't do that kind of stuff around here...how mush we talkin?
Everyone has a photographic memory; some just don't have film. Steven Wright
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Well for a large fee I'll upvote it - my price reflects my reputation, of course.
(I knew it had to be useful for something)
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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You accept bitcoin?
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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Never mind Amazon, check the 9 ~ 10 star reviews on IMDB for total crap movies. That's where the real money is.
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Some people really do like crap movies. Personally never had any interest in watching The Godfather, and really did car for Shawshank Redemption or Schindler's List
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"Great" movies and books are to be avoided.
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even worse when critics speak for 'the people.'
for instance some reviewer declared that [steaming POS movie] Titanic "gave everybody everywhere closure."
(1) it was same story already told, what did the movie change apart from make Sealion Dying a 'Vegas icon' (also FFS, why??? bunch of wailing crap)
but even more
(2) I, and many people I know never had any opensure(??) for the Titanic event, WTF was there to close??
dumb ass critic - it was a totally complete and utter steaming shite movie and for sure he don't speak for me.
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: "Great" movies and books are to be avoided.
I still haven't seen Avatar. When "they" were saying, "All 5 billion people on earth love this movie", I was like, "haven't seen it". 
Still haven't.
modified 14-Sep-18 13:11pm.
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I started the movie but never ended it. Seemed pretty stupid. Still pissed that Scyfy kept killjoys and killed both Dark Matter and The Expanse (at least the Expanse has been picked up). Killjoys is just so stupid, but I guess if you keep Warehouse 13 and Eureka on for years and also have wrestling on, you can be a serious SciFi channel.
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Infosys Irvine wrote: Still pissed that Scyfy kept killjoys and killed both Dark Matter and The Expans
Yeah, I never understand how they make those choices...but then if you think about the fact that they killed Star Trek (TOS) after only 3 seasons you know that the Television/Movie Moguls know nothing.
Nothing!
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there are even worse stories, like they killed I think it was the Addams Family because the wife of one of the big wigs liked Gunsmoke, which I never did. Only 2 seasons, and they made two movies after it, and none for Gunsmoke. Did not like I think it was Angelica Houston as Morticia, but loved Carolyn Jones. Actually so many of the actors in the original were so great, and it was just like the comic. However did like Christina Ricci a lot better than the one that played in the show, but the kids really did not impact the show much either. Never a fan of the Monsters, but that only lasted two seasons also, and Gilligan's Island I think only lasted 3. So many forgettable shows instead.
The worst story was Firefly which took a long time for audiences to find because of its time, and when it started getting a following they canceled it instead of moving it. Not my favorite space show by far, but I think it was better than
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A show I was also not big on was 2001 A space Odyssey. But a big reason is that the screwed the hell out of the models so that could not possibly represent the outside of the sets, the dialog seemed very stilted, and so much of the plot was worthless.
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I don't know what these people are complaining about. Real reviewers doing fake reviews is nothing. With AI pretty soon we'll have fake reviewers doing real reviews.
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j snooze wrote: Real reviewers doing fake reviews is nothing. With AI pretty soon we'll have fake reviewers doing real reviews
That's true, because the opinion of a fake entity is real, because it is programmed to be that way.  
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