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CORRECT. "The Streisand effect is an unintended consequence of attempts to hide, remove, or censor information, where the effort instead backfires by increasing public awareness of the information. The effect is named for American singer and actress Barbra Streisand, whose attempt in 2003 to suppress a photographer's publication of a photograph showing her clifftop residence in Malibu, California, taken to document coastal erosion in California, inadvertently drew far greater attention to the previously obscure photograph.[" "The Streisand effect is an example of psychological reactance, wherein once people are aware that some information is being kept from them, they are significantly more motivated to acquire and spread it." That's courtesy of the wikipedia page on the effect. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect
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"YouTube is free. YouTube “entrepreneurs” need about 250k subscribers to even make a partial living, which is about 150k more than the greatest reach the cult ever had. He is at 500. " [Sorry, I need to correct that. As always, vpw wildly exaggerated his importance. He claimed the 100,000 figure as total number of people who EVER SIGNED UP for pfal. That number is higher than the number of people who showed up for Session 1, which is higher than the number of people who showed up for Session 12 and "graduated", which is higher than the number of people who stuck around for at least 3 months after that, which is higher than the number of people who stuck around for a whole year (if not MUCH higher, that last one is still higher.) The best estimate for total number of people in twi at any time was double the ROA attendance of any year. IIRC, that gave us a ceiling of 47,000=48,000 on their most populous year, so rounded up to give them the benefit of the doubt, that gave them the greatest reach of 50,000, not 100,000. So, the "partial living" figure is about 200k more than the greatest reach twi ever had, at least concerning US figures. Figures overseas are harder to get because of so many factors making the numbers fluctuate. (vpw complained about "rice Christians" in "the Dilemma of Foreign Missions", but he had no compunctions on using them later for twi, inflating his numbers by those who weren't there because of their faith, but there for what they could get from twi.] "He is not an isolated instance either. Paul talking about the family faith being made shipwreck, you probably have even up to a hundred other mini moglets from a Way background with their own little isolated mental realities teaching their version of Way interpreted scripture, paying homage to “the doctor” and trying to carve out their own little subsistence off of shipwrecked tithes. " [I agree, but this is largely self-correcting over time. A number of those moglets have dropped dead of old age by now. More will do so in the next 20-40 years, and twi itself is increasingly more of a footnote in history, something where an asterisk directs you to the bottom of the page, where their name is mentioned, but not worth including in the main body of the text.]
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While we wait..... One celebrity learned- the hard way- not to be offended that something is knowable, and respond by throwing a public tantrum. That only results in everyone trying to find what you're talking about- which means you ADVERTISED what you wanted left unknown. This celebrity saw a number of photos of an area, and the photos included a number of houses. They became OUTRAGED that their house was included, since they didn't want its location known. (Even though none of the photos indicated whose house this was at all, and the photographer didn't know either.) What did they do? They made a public spectacle. Naturally, the public all began looking for it, and the result was the celebrity as good as announcing their street address online. This cause-and-effect situation has become known with the last name of this celebrity, because of this situation. Which celebrity was this?
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Yes, it is.
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While we wait..... One celebrity learned- the hard way- not to be offended that something is knowable, and respond by throwing a public tantrum. That only results in everyone trying to find what you're talking about- which means you ADVERTISED what you wanted left unknown. This celebrity saw a number of photos of an area, and the photos included a number of houses. They became OUTRAGED that their house was included, since they didn't want its location known. What did they do? They made a public spectacle. Naturally, the public all began looking for it, and the result was the celebrity as good as announcing their street address online. Which celebrity was this?
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Yes. Too easy?
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Ok, next round.... Josh Pence David Warner Siddig el-Faddil Peter Woodward Oded Fehr Lance Reddick
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Ok, some British song I probably should know better than I do. (Scratch "Aerosmith" since they're not British.) On the other extreme, I don't think it fits Pink Floyd. Somebody prolific. Possibly The Who.
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Consider a different author.
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It sounds Beatle-ish, but I'm probably far off.
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Gran Torino???
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No, but you're not terribly far off.
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That's it. Plans to include Alan Scott (the Golden Age GL) fell through.
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If it's true, DC is sensibly ignoring it and pretending it doesn't exist. That way, most people don't hear about it and it goes away. If DC says something, they will draw attention to it and put it on the map.
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Michael Clarke Duncan Temuera Morrison Geoffrey Rush Tim Robbins Angela Bassett -The main actor for the movie (arguably the title role) clashed with the director, and was glad the movie performed poorly. -The director wanted Bradley Cooper for the main actor, but he wasn't available. An early version of the script included Pierce Brosnan making a brief appearance as Alan.
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"We've all become God's Madmen. All of us." "I have crossed oceans of time to find you." "Our ways are not your ways. And to you there shall be many strange things." I... love you too much to condemn you." "Absinthe is the aphrodisiac of the self. The green fairy who lives in the absinthe wants your soul. But you are safe with me." "Blood, and the diseases of the blood such as syphilis, will concern us here. The very name "venereal diseases", the "diseases of Venus", imputes to them divine origin. They are involved in that sex problem about which the ethics and ideals of Christian civilization are concerned. In fact, civilization and syphilization have advanced together." "My dear Jonathan has been gone almost a week and, although I was disappointed we could not marry before his departure, I am happy that he got sent on this important assignment. I am longing to hear all the news. It must be so nice to see strange countries. I wonder if we, I mean Jonathan and I, shall ever see them together..." "I suggest you use your big Bowie knife." "I was hoping not to get that close to him."
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I still haven't sat down to watch "Black Adam." I think it has a lot to do with them including Cyclone/Maxine Hunkel and the actress looking nothing like the original. Now I wish I'd completed all the seasons of "LoT." Let's see. No Pierce Brosnan, so not "Dr Fate." John Constantine would be an odd choice for "Black Adam." The trick is, who's been in the JLA (so in "Smallville") and also in the JSA (so in "Black Adam"), a guy, and not Dr Fate. Oh! How about "HAWKMAN"???? (If you watched "Legends of the Superheroes", the roast included an actress playing Hawkman's mother! Oddly enough, that came to mind the other day. )
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Since we're in the realm of wild guesses, how about "Christopher Columbus"?
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*walks in late to the party* Ah, "Mean Girls"?????
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No. Ann Rice had nothing to do with this movie.
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"We've all become God's Madmen. All of us." "I have crossed oceans of time to find you." "Our ways are not your ways. And to you there shall be many strange things." I... love you too much to condemn you." "Absinthe is the aphrodisiac of the self. The green fairy who lives in the absinthe wants your soul. But you are safe with me." "Blood, and the diseases of the blood such as syphilis, will concern us here. The very name "venereal diseases", the "diseases of Venus", imputes to them divine origin. They are involved in that sex problem about which the ethics and ideals of Christian civilization are concerned. In fact, civilization and syphilization have advanced together." "My dear Jonathan has been gone almost a week and, although I was disappointed we could not marry before his departure, I am happy that he got sent on this important assignment. I am longing to hear all the news. It must be so nice to see strange countries. I wonder if we, I mean Jonathan and I, shall ever see them together..."
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Any chance for another clue?
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"Why don't you all f-fade away." "And don't try to dig what we all s-s-say."
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Ok, Explains how I don't know it better. (I've heard the "Let's Dance" album.)