Would like to Alert my fellow sensation users:
Kony 2012.com
This is an interesting read on the situation too.
http://ilto.wordpress.com/2006/11/02/the-visible-problem-with-invisible-children/
nothing to do with sensation, but, after watching Machine Gun Preacher, I would love to play my part ending his terrible methods.
At first I was thinking wtf does this have to do with Sensation. As stated previously by poster above me, I agree, makes me want to join the fight. This is deplorable.
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http://www.topix.com/forum/city/stuart-fl/TQJSGHMES035Q6OI0
Look at Livingstone comment on this article, and understand money machine. People from Africa don't need help, they need instructions.
Uh, yeah, idea here. How about we keep the Sensation XDA subforum about the Sensation?
None of you guys even cared about Africa before. Then all of a sudden you guys are all over it. Bandwagons
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I still don't give a flying
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Shouldnt this belong in htc kony forum?
Anyways watched the movie, wonder how much of the money donated, dissapears in the pockets of the fundraisers.
But on a serious note, XDA got subforums for these kinda things.
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vote kony 2012!!
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To the untrained eye, yes it's a beautiful idea, but where does the donated money really go to? and this changed my mind..
Invisible Children is dodgy as hell. Only 30% of their money goes to African programs and schemes, and a THIRD of that goes to some crap program which only helps 800 kids, which is a tiny amount when compared to the tens of thousands of kids suffering.
Source:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvqFi_HRPmk&feature=g-all-u&context=G2d772dfFAAAAAAAAOAA
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Uh, yeah, idea here. How about we keep the Sensation XDA subforum about the Sensation?
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Sorry but this is general. Thhis is a discussion area not a development one so I don't.see why its bugging u so much
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None of you guys even cared about Africa before. Then all of a sudden you guys are all over it. Bandwagons
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Because we never knew what was going on. I personally thought Africa was a rural natural area to live in
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Shouldnt this belong in htc kony forum?
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Again its a general forum . I didn't put it here to advertise just to show to people who haven't seen it.
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Because we never knew what was going on. I personally thought Africa was a rural natural area to live in
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Watch the worldnews a bit more, see some documentary, lots of places in the world where this is going on. Phillipines, Thailand, China, even some places in europe... All ugly things with Kids involved.
And this kony thing in Uganda, you do realize that Africa is a large place.
Its not only Uganda but several other countries in Africa, youve probably never heard if.
As stated above, 30 percent us going to them, this is just a nice marketing stunt. Politicians and actors are ofcourse willing to help now, since lots of ppl are following this kony project. Meaning making them more famous, more fame makes more money, more money makes more power.
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just sayin' this isn't the place. @webstar1 - sure it's not the development forum, but the topic ain't anything to do with a mobile phone either.
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just sayin' this isn't the place. @webstar1 - sure it's not the development forum, but the topic ain't anything to do with a mobile phone either.
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Oh ill pm a mod see if I'm allowed. I thought of this more as a community.
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To the untrained eye, yes it's a beautiful idea, but where does the donated money really go to? and this changed my mind..
Invisible Children is dodgy as hell. Only 30% of their money goes to African programs and schemes, and a THIRD of that goes to some crap program which only helps 800 kids, which is a tiny amount when compared to the tens of thousands of kids suffering.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvqFi_HRPmk&feature=g-all-u&context=G2d772dfFAAAAAAAAOAA
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Yes but your missing the point. The MAIN aim of this project is awareness so us sends more support or at least keeps the support already sent, and the you haven't specifically said where the other 60% goes? Probably funding the project more.
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Yes but your missing the point. The MAIN aim of this project is awareness so us sends more support or at least keeps the support already sent, and the you haven't specifically said where the other 60% goes? Probably funding the project more.
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Well the other 60% actually goes to staff salaries, video equipment and preparation to actually get that 30 minute movie finished, which, mind you contains images and video which are from 2003 and beyond. And the money also goes helps keep the initiative up & running. They're also supposed to be a "Not-for-profit organisation", and I see alot of profit happening here. I realize the main aim of the project is to raise awareness, but whats the point, if your only feeding the Ugandan army, which is far more worse than Joseph Kony himself.
Yea, sorry guys. We don't allow any type of political discussion, as they often turn into flame wars etc...
Related
Didn't see that coming.
http://www.macrumors.com/2011/08/24/steve-jobs-resigns-as-apple-ceo/
What are your thoughts?
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Kind of suspicious resigning before the iphone5 release hmmmmm. Who wouldnt want credit for "changing everything once again"
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Why post here of all places?
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Maybe its all the lawsuits or even his health.
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Maybe its all the lawsuits or even his health.
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My guess would be the pancreatic cancer is worse than he's leading on. I wish that on nobody, but if I was in the same situation I'd probably be stepping down too. I'm sure that guy's got one hell of a bucket list
My thought is that apple's shares went down 5% right away... mmmm... and the iphone 5 is about to come out... mmmm...
I've gotta think about it..
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My guess would be the pancreatic cancer is worse than he's leading on. I wish that on nobody, but if I was in the same situation I'd probably be stepping down too. I'm sure that guy's got one hell of a bucket list
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I have to agree. I may not like Mr. Jobs very much but I wouldn't wish that on anyone. I hope things are as well as they can be for him in this dark time. I wish him all the best. Now that that is over. Down with icrap. Lol
Regardless of what one thinks about his products, the man was definitely a visionary and a marketing genius.
I personally think nothing will change with his absence. He will still be in the backgrounds doing quality control.
The guy is dying. That is the only reason he is leaving.
He is leaving at a good time, they are still on top and will only now start to falter. Apple will fall for the exact same reasons they failed in the 80's. It won't be a terminal fall but they will fall.
Even if I don't like him or Apple that much I still respect him and what he did. His health is worsening I believe. I saw him once in Palo Alto and man has he become thin. Good luck towards his health though.
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I wouldn't pity him too much. He has the money for any and all treatments available. It's safe to say he has a panel of the best medical minds looking over his health.
Granted, it's a terrible way to go, but I'm sure he is in good hands due to his company's success.
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Apple has more cash then alot of countries. This reason alone is the reason they won't EVER fail.
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A pity for him, me and many others. Kinda liked that guy his vision on certain things. Wish him the best, with his health I mean.
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Expected Step Down
Given his recent couple of years and the known health battle (without knowing the full extent) it is really no surprise he decided to step down. Will Apple hurt from his step down? Yes! Will Apple continue to fall? Quite possibly but only time will tell.
Regardless of previous posts about how much money he has, it is still a disease that I do not wish to see anyone with. While I did not agree with all of the Apple "mentality" I cannot find fault in Jobs ability to innovate and market the products. I can only imagine if Apple had kept him on from the beginning where Apple would be at now.
What do you mean regardless of previous posts? Nobody has wished this illness on him. All I said was that he is in good hands.
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One thing about Steve Jobs is he paved a nice path for the future, I don't think we would be where we are today if it wasn't for the iPhone and iPad, but just like with any pioneer apples days are numbered..
P.S. I never owned a Apple product
As a person I feel sorry for him. But as a company, I hope apple fails.
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Apple has more cash then alot of countries. This reason alone is the reason they won't EVER fail.
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That's your reason for them never failing? Clearly they aren't teaching history in schools anymore. I will give Apple 2 more years before they go down the drain- and that's only because they have product momentum right now.
Who cares on this forum
Thats for the iphone forum
Go ANDROID !
Is anyone working on bringing cyan to our device?
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Yes.
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It's cyanogenmod. or cm. and do a freakin search.
Wow, you've ran out of arguments so that's what you pull out? Congratulations, you're a man indeed
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MUNDO23 said:
Jez chill dude! U need to get laid!
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You need to chill dude. You're the one who showed how entitled you feel you are by not asking "hmmm... I wonder if this is a common question and I wonder if it's been asked already. To Google I go!". So, for you sense of elitism and entitlement, you got the one word answer and a pissed off answer.
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You need to chill dude. You're the one who showed how entitled you feel you are by not asking "hmmm... I wonder if this is a common question and I wonder if it's been asked already. To Google I go!". So, for you sense of elitism and entitlement, you got the one word answer and a pissed off answer.
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Elitism was probably a poor word choice for your argument, mate.
I mean, I don't mind chastising people for asking questions that have already been answered, really - even when it takes about 5 seconds of effort to just answer it again. But "elitist" is probably a bunch of internet addicts flipping their **** over the fact that someone DARED to violate the sacred holy rule that you don't dare ask a question twice... or thrice.... or.... three thousand times.
Guy 1: Hi Guys! Gee, when's CM coming out?
The Community: RAAAAAAAAAR! HULK SMASH! LOL U R TOO STUPID TO SERCH GOGLE WHAT A NOOB. COMMON GUYS LET'S GO BACK TO CLUBHOUSE
Mostly, I'm just fooling around. I want people to search first and not make stupid posts too.... but the thing is, I AM and elitist. The guy asking the innocent question - probably not so much.
Keep in mind that this forum's search feature SOMETIMES doesnt work. Ive seen many times that it was either down or claiming to have found no results when it knows damn well that there are results. Its pretty frustrating.
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this is true, but had he even GONE to the dev thread, he would have seen 1 cm thread and 2 gb2.3.5 ASOP threads on the first page alone..."searching" doesnt always entitle usage of the search function, but just simply browsing the appropriate threads
Wow all this comotion just for a little question seriously? All it takes is a yes or a no thanx anyways!
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MUNDO23 said:
Wow all this comotion just for a little question seriously? All it takes is a yes or a no thanx anyways!
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Yeah it seems u still don't get the point they are try'n to make to you. When u have a ? It's best practice to search first.because chances are ur not the only 1 with that ? In mind.
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I mean, I don't mind chastising people for asking questions that have already been answered, really - even when it takes about 5 seconds of effort to just answer it again. But "elitist" is probably a bunch of internet addicts flipping their **** over the fact that someone DARED to violate the sacred holy rule that you don't dare ask a question twice... or thrice.... or.... three thousand times.
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Well said my friend. The unfortunate fact of the internet is that in every forum (without fail) there is a very small group of self righteous pricks that troll around looking for people to "yell" at. Instead of simply ignoring a thread like hundreds or even thousand of other members do, they claim to speak "for the community" and insist on making a big scene and being obnoxious. Clearly the less duplicate threads on a given board the better, but the effort some of these guys put into not actually answering (or helping) someone is astonishing.
I like apples.
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I like apples.
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STRIKE HIM DOWN!
Sorry, what were we talking about?
A simple google search would have resulted in a sufficient answer. No need to waste peoples time when they could have find the answer on their own.
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The unfortunate fact of the internet is that in every forum (without fail) there is a very small group of self righteous pricks that troll around looking for people to "yell" at. Instead of simply ignoring a thread like hundreds or even thousand of other members do, they claim to speak "for the community" and insist on making a big scene and being obnoxious.
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this is a terrible fact of XDA these days, and while ignoring it is easy enough, there are LOTS of ppl who feel that this is their "home" turf, that must be defended at all cost (im not one of them )
but the bigger problem is new members who dont even read the rules or guidelines for using the forums, they just register, dump their Q's or demands and expect an easy answer, when the answer is sitting literally right in front of them.
i do repect what aspects of the "community" that are left here with some of the most amazing devs for anything that ive seen in a long time, their ingenuity and determination is second to none (and that includes OEM manufacturers )
having said all that, this thread is dead and delt with, and hopefully the OP now knows to do a just a *little* browsing before asking a question he might/should already know the answer to, unless he's a troll, in which case, back under the bridge with him
Wow. All the effort spent to put this brother on blast could have been spent helping him. Love the negativity you clowns present.
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Wow. All the effort spent to put this brother on blast could have been spent helping him. Love the negativity you clowns present.
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we did help him, and hopefully he learned something along the way. i consider "iron fist" the responsibilty of not just mods/admins, but all experienced forum goers.
and if you saw sensation forum before and just after the sensation came out, you would be mildly pestered with posts like this...im not saying were better than him at all, but i, like many others, had to learn the hard way when it came to the etiquette of XDA.
5 minutes of browsing (not even searching) could have avoided this fiasco of a thread, which i do admit im mildly ashamed to be continuing, but i digress, it may have seemed harsh, but it could have been A LOT worse
Please if your rooted just leave a small message. I'm doing a survey to see how many android users are rooted. Only one reply please.
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Good luck getting every single rooted person to post in this topic.
What is the survey for?
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This is about the dumbest thread I've seen in a while and that's saying something. Survey says?.....dumb!
ropodope
Decks v1.3d + LEE!
*looks at feet* Nope, I'm not rooted. I dont think I've ever been. My phone is though.
Most of the people here on XDA have rooted phones. What are you going to use the data for? You can't do much with the data you will collect here.
Ask Carl Sagan...billions & billions & billions....
I'm going to compare people rooted to the number of android phones currently used. I'm a computer science major and im arguing that there are more people rooted then others think. Also my main point is the benefits of root
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It's probably going to be like a 100,000:1 ratio. Vast majority run stock.
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this wont prove anything, the majority of people that own rootable phones dont even know what rooting is. and asking on xda whos phone is rooted to compare to rest of the android users isnt a fair proportion.... most ppl on xda root their phones but xda users represent the minority of the population of people that own android devices.
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I'm going to compare people rooted to the number of android phones currently used. I'm a computer science major and im arguing that there are more people rooted then others think. Also my main point is the benefits of root
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If you want to do a real survey, you would have to randomly select at least 500 android users. You probably want 800-1000 users to keep the margin of error reasonable.
What you're doing here is the wrong way to do a survey. You will get very skewed, worthless results.
I want the survey to be bias and favor me. But this forum isn't turning out well. All I wanted was a simple yes I'm rooted. Not explanation. So please close
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I'm a computer science major and im arguing that there are more people rooted then others think.
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papi92 said:
I want the survey to be bias and favor me.
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Please don't go into science and choose another profession.
Computer science major!?! Pmsl.
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y dun TS just make a poll @@
is much easier
Every poll about this is pointless. Sure here on xda we're all rooted, but truth is most people in the world don't. Just my 2 cents...
I have to agree. Polls like this will prove nothing and as you stated that you only posted this to try and lean the report in your favor instead of real facts. I will close this.
http://www.xda-developers.com/annou...8th-at-8am-you-can-help-bring-us-back-online/
Please click the link. And read. We all want xda to stay up and running. Thanks.
Ok I read it, but not following, how does taking down the site for the day prove anything when that's what the government wants? Damn if I would black my site out.
You didn't read the whole thing did you...it clearly says that they are taking down the website to raise awareness in order to get more people to voice their opinion on SOPA. I for one WILL be supporting you guys, and I am EXTREMELY happy with the amount of fighting that various big name websites are doing to help put an end to this before it even starts.
Thank you. As am i. The government is wayyyy over stepping there intended purpose wih this one. And most people do not realize the affect this would have on the entire internet/ free speech. Which is why large websites are trying to spread awareness. I mean this would probobly shutdown websies like xda you tube and many many others.
I really hope I don't have any problems with my phone on Wednesday then...
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While I have no problem with their cause, the solution of "pledge or xda wont go back up" is kind of harsh
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Well if it goes through and people are just to lazy to fight it craigslist. Youtube. Xda. And many of the sites we visit everyday are in jeopardy of being shutdown . Most people arent seeing how serious this is
http://m.cnn.com/primary/wk_article...ed:1&branding=&category=cnnd_tech&pagesize=10 , what does this mean compared to xda shutting down?
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Discuss!!!!!
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Off topic. Nuff said.
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Meh!??
I'm so glad I don't follow athletes and their every moves, same with teams.
They make hundreds of millions, I don't.
I have better things to worry or think about.
Good luck to Ray and all the other insanely/grossly overpaid whiney athletes of the world.
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