2012-08-23

koganbot: (Default)
2012-08-23 10:39 am
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"SKorean court ends law requiring real names online"

Associated Press: SKorean court ends law requiring real names online

Paragraph 2:

The online naming law took effect in 2007 under a bipartisan push to curb libeling, the spread of false rumors and abusive comments in the cyber space. South Korea saw a flurry of celebrity suicides allegedly motivated by malicious online comments, which mobilized the move to control the Internet space.
Anybody know anything about these? This was a couple of years before I was paying any attention to South Korean celebrities, suicidal or not.
koganbot: (Default)
2012-08-23 12:16 pm
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"I hate you"

"I hate you"

Person A says to Person B, "I hate you." Is it more likely that Person A is:

(1) expressing affection?

or

(2) expressing hostility?

Let's posit that A and B are each over twenty years old, and that they're speaking English. This is all we know. "More likely" means "probability of at least 50.1%."

Although "expressing a mixture of affection and hostility" is a reasonable third option, I'm not allowing it. Just pick (1) or (2).

See comments.