https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/api.php?action=feedcontributions&user=192.136.15.177&feedformat=atomexplain xkcd - User contributions [en]2024-03-28T12:35:56ZUser contributionsMediaWiki 1.30.0https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=1269:_Privacy_Opinions&diff=494791269: Privacy Opinions2013-09-25T11:17:39Z<p>192.136.15.177: /* Transcript */ Added panels 5 & 6. Still leaving the banner until someone confirms/validates my work. --BigMal</p>
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<div>{{comic<br />
| number = 1269<br />
| date = September 25, 2013<br />
| title = Privacy Opinions<br />
| image = privacy opinions.png<br />
| titletext = I'm the Philosopher until someone hands me a burrito.<br />
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==Explanation==<br />
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==Transcript==<br />
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:'''Opinions on Internet Privacy'''<br />
:The Philosopher:<br />
::Megan: "Privacy" is an impractical way to think about data in a digital world so unlike the one in which our soci--<br />
::Ponytail: ''' ''So bored.'' '''<br />
:The Crypto Nut:<br />
::Cueball 1: My data is safe behind six layers of symmetric and public-key algorithms.<br />
::Cueball 2: What data is it?<br />
::Cueball 1: Mostly me emailing with people about cryptogaphy.<br />
:The Conspiracist:<br />
::Cueball [to Megan]: These leaks are just the tip of the iceberg. There's a warehouse in Utah where the NSA has the ''entire'' iceberg. I don't know how they got it there.<br />
:The Nihilist:<br />
::Megan [alone]: Joke's on them, gathering all this data on me as if anything I do means anything.<br />
:The Exhibitionist:<br />
::Off-screen person through surveillance console: ''Mmmm,'' I sure hope the NSA isn't watching me bite into these juicy strawberries!! ''Oops,'' I dripped some on my shirt! Better take it off. Google, are you there? Google, this lotion feels soooo good.<br />
::Cueball [watching the console with Ponytail]: Um.<br />
:The Sage:<br />
::Beret Guy [to Cueball over a chess board]: I don't know or care what data ''anyone'' has about me. Data is imaginary. This burrito is real.<br />
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[[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]<br />
[[Category:Comics featuring Megan]]<br />
[[Category:Comics featuring Ponytail]]<br />
[[Category:Comics featuring Beret Guy]]</div>192.136.15.177https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=1269:_Privacy_Opinions&diff=494781269: Privacy Opinions2013-09-25T11:11:40Z<p>192.136.15.177: /* Transcript */ Panels 1-4, leaving incomplete banner in place --BigMal</p>
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<div>{{comic<br />
| number = 1269<br />
| date = September 25, 2013<br />
| title = Privacy Opinions<br />
| image = privacy opinions.png<br />
| titletext = I'm the Philosopher until someone hands me a burrito.<br />
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==Explanation==<br />
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==Transcript==<br />
{{incomplete transcript}}<br />
:'''Opinions on Internet Privacy'''<br />
:The Philosopher:<br />
::Megan: "Privacy" is an impractical way to think about data in a digital world so unlike the olne in which our soci--<br />
::Ponytail: ''' ''So bored.'' '''<br />
:The Crypto Nut:<br />
::Cueball 1: My data is safe behind six layers of symmetric and public-key algorithms.<br />
::Cueball 2: What data is it?<br />
::Cueball 1: Mostly me emailing with people about cryptogaphy.<br />
:The Conspiracist:<br />
::Cueball [to Megan]: These leaks are just the tip of the iceberg. There's a warehouse in Utah where the NSA has the ''entire'' iceberg. I don't know how they got it there.<br />
:The Nihilist:<br />
::Megan [alone]: Joke's on them, gathering all this data on me as if anything I do means anything.<br />
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[[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]<br />
[[Category:Comics featuring Megan]]<br />
[[Category:Comics featuring Ponytail]]<br />
[[Category:Comics featuring Beret Guy]]</div>192.136.15.177https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:1215:_Insight&diff=38150Talk:1215: Insight2013-05-22T11:24:42Z<p>192.136.15.177: </p>
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<div>Indeed, somebody speaking circa 1895 could have made the same remark but instead of Google Glass the subject could have been something then new such as the Horseless Carriage, a technology now known as the Automobile in which I will soon drive to work.<br />
[[Special:Contributions/24.91.233.200|24.91.233.200]] 09:28, 22 May 2013 (UTC)<br />
:The same could be said for electrification (utility-provided mains, especially when extended to rural areas), steam locomotives, and industrialization as a whole. '''--BigMal27''' // [[Special:Contributions/192.136.15.177|192.136.15.177]] 11:24, 22 May 2013 (UTC)</div>192.136.15.177https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=1164:_Home_Alone&diff=260051164: Home Alone2013-01-23T14:03:00Z<p>192.136.15.177: /* Transcript */ Missing hyphen in last line</p>
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<div>{{comic<br />
| number = 1164<br />
| date = January 23, 2013<br />
| title = Home Alone<br />
| image = home alone.png<br />
| titletext = Starring Macaulay Culkin.<br />
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==Explanation==<br />
{{w|Home Alone (franchise)|Home Alone}} was a popular movie series in which the child protagonist Kevin McAllister is left in a house unattended while burglars try to rob it. In the movies, the protagonist comes up with a variety of ingenious traps and devices to harass and eventually incapacitate the burglars in each movie. The scene depicted is an adaptation of an iconic scene from the first movie, which was used heavily in advertising. {{w|Macaulay Culkin}} is the actor who played the protagonist in the ''Home Alone'' movies, although he has grown into an adult since the creation of the last ''Home Alone'' movie.<br />
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==Transcript==<br />
:[Aged man standing at the head of a flight of stairs. A paint can on a rope is swinging into a child at the foot of the stairs. A child on the floor is in a semi-fetal position and crying.]<br />
:Child: Ow!!<br />
:Child on floor: Waaaaaaaaa!<br />
:Rejected movie ideas:<br />
:Age-reversed ''Home Alone'' reboot. <br />
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{{comic discussion}}</div>192.136.15.177https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=1164:_Home_Alone&diff=260041164: Home Alone2013-01-23T14:01:05Z<p>192.136.15.177: /* Transcript */ Changed description of second child</p>
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<div>{{comic<br />
| number = 1164<br />
| date = January 23, 2013<br />
| title = Home Alone<br />
| image = home alone.png<br />
| titletext = Starring Macaulay Culkin.<br />
}}<br />
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==Explanation==<br />
{{w|Home Alone (franchise)|Home Alone}} was a popular movie series in which the child protagonist Kevin McAllister is left in a house unattended while burglars try to rob it. In the movies, the protagonist comes up with a variety of ingenious traps and devices to harass and eventually incapacitate the burglars in each movie. The scene depicted is an adaptation of an iconic scene from the first movie, which was used heavily in advertising. {{w|Macaulay Culkin}} is the actor who played the protagonist in the ''Home Alone'' movies, although he has grown into an adult since the creation of the last ''Home Alone'' movie.<br />
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==Transcript==<br />
:[Aged man standing at the head of a flight of stairs. A paint can on a rope is swinging into a child at the foot of the stairs. A child on the floor is in a semi-fetal position and crying.]<br />
:Child: Ow!!<br />
:Child on floor: Waaaaaaaaa!<br />
:Rejected movie ideas:<br />
:Age reversed ''Home Alone'' reboot. <br />
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{{comic discussion}}</div>192.136.15.177https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=1164:_Home_Alone&diff=260021164: Home Alone2013-01-23T13:58:29Z<p>192.136.15.177: /* Explanation */ Added some.</p>
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<div>{{comic<br />
| number = 1164<br />
| date = January 23, 2013<br />
| title = Home Alone<br />
| image = home alone.png<br />
| titletext = Starring Macaulay Culkin.<br />
}}<br />
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==Explanation==<br />
{{w|Home Alone (franchise)|Home Alone}} was a popular movie series in which the child protagonist Kevin McAllister is left in a house unattended while burglars try to rob it. In the movies, the protagonist comes up with a variety of ingenious traps and devices to harass and eventually incapacitate the burglars in each movie. The scene depicted is an adaptation of an iconic scene from the first movie, which was used heavily in advertising. {{w|Macaulay Culkin}} is the actor who played the protagonist in the ''Home Alone'' movies, although he has grown into an adult since the creation of the last ''Home Alone'' movie.<br />
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==Transcript==<br />
:[Aged man standing at the head of a flight of stairs. A paint can on a rope is swinging into a child at the foot of the stairs. A kneeling child is crying.]<br />
:Child: Ow!!<br />
:Kneeling child: Waaaaaaaaa!<br />
:Rejected movie ideas:<br />
:Age reversed ''Home Alone'' reboot. <br />
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{{comic discussion}}</div>192.136.15.177https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=1164:_Home_Alone&diff=260001164: Home Alone2013-01-23T13:56:18Z<p>192.136.15.177: /* Explanation */ Fixed initial link</p>
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<div>{{comic<br />
| number = 1164<br />
| date = January 23, 2013<br />
| title = Home Alone<br />
| image = home alone.png<br />
| titletext = Starring Macaulay Culkin.<br />
}}<br />
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==Explanation==<br />
{{w|Home Alone (franchise)|Home Alone}} was a popular movie series in which the child protagonist Kevin McAllister is left in a house unattended while burglars try to rob it. In the movies, the protagonist comes up with a variety of ingenious traps and devices to harass and eventually incapacitate the burglars in each movie. {{w|Macaulay Culkin}} is the actor who played the protagonist in the ''Home Alone'' movies, although he has grown into an adult since the creation of the last ''Home Alone'' movie.<br />
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==Transcript==<br />
:[Aged man standing at the head of a flight of stairs. A paint can on a rope is swinging into a child at the foot of the stairs. A kneeling child is crying.]<br />
:Child: Ow!!<br />
:Kneeling child: Waaaaaaaaa!<br />
:Rejected movie ideas:<br />
:Age reversed ''Home Alone'' reboot. <br />
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{{comic discussion}}</div>192.136.15.177https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:1156:_Conditioning&diff=24571Talk:1156: Conditioning2013-01-04T12:19:49Z<p>192.136.15.177: </p>
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<div>... the main problem with this idea is that the probability of any particular driver to driver repeately around that place is not so high. Of course, if similarly conditioned animals would be on multiple places ... -- [[User:Hkmaly|Hkmaly]] ([[User talk:Hkmaly|talk]]) 08:48, 4 January 2013 (UTC)<br />
:Depending on the animal (species), and assuming a stable or growing "local wildlife" population, the conditioned ones may 1) eventually fan out (including migration) and teach other individuals or 2) breed, teach their offspring, and the offspring will fan out. Eventually -- we can only hope -- the average density EVERYWHERE per square mile of individuals would be above a given threshold to be effective 24/7. Problem solved! --BigMal27 / [[Special:Contributions/192.136.15.177|192.136.15.177]] 12:19, 4 January 2013 (UTC)</div>192.136.15.177https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=1140:_Calendar_of_Meaningful_Dates&diff=202951140: Calendar of Meaningful Dates2012-11-28T15:07:45Z<p>192.136.15.177: /* Explanation */ Added tax day -- 15 April is pretty obscure for non-US persons</p>
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<div>{{comic<br />
| number = 1140<br />
| date = November 28, 2011<br />
| title = Calendar of Meaningful Dates<br />
| image = calendar of meaningful dates.png<br />
| imagesize = <br />
| titletext = In months other than September, the 11th is mentioned substantially less often than any other date. It's been that way since long before 9/11 and I have no idea why.<br />
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==Explanation==<br />
The calendar used in the comic is the standard {{w|Gregorian calendar}} used by most of western civilization. The comic looks at the frequencies of certain dates appearing in English writings indexed in the {{w|Google Ngram Viewer}}.<br />
*September 11 is the date of the {{w|September 11 attacks|2001 terrorist attacks}}.<br />
*July 4 is {{w|Independence Day (United States)|US Independence Day}}.<br />
*April 15 is {{w|Tax Day|US Individual Income Tax return filing day}}.<br />
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:'''Calendar of Meaningful Dates'''<br />
:Each date's size represents how often it is referred to by name (e.g. "October 17th") in English-language books since 2000<br />
:(Source: Google ngrams corpus)<br />
:[A regular Gregorian calendar laid out in a grid, with some numbers larger than others.]<br />
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<div>Maybe I'm just splitting hairs, but I'm not sure that's Megan. Her hair looks a little shorter. --[[User:Joehammer79|Joehammer79]] ([[User talk:Joehammer79|talk]]) 20:55, 21 September 2012 (UTC)<br />
:The ''coif de mode'' is for the camera; she's gussied up for the event! -- [[User:IronyChef|IronyChef]] ([[User talk:IronyChef|talk]]) 15:29, 22 September 2012 (UTC) <br />
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I think the title text "distraction" is not about a literal buzz, but about the movie in question: the mindless Hollywood "entertainment" is supposed to distract us from our problems of total, eventual annihilation at the hands of a mindless, uncaring universe. --BigMal27 / [[Special:Contributions/192.136.15.177|192.136.15.177]] 12:41, 24 September 2012 (UTC)<br />
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=== Existential? ===<br />
I think the comic is existential, and perhaps even mocking fatalism. Everything Megan says is technically true, but also immediately irrelevant and the terms used, and even bringing it up is over-the-top bleak.<br />
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Then again. It might make fun of news, since being over the top about things that often doesn't matter is a big part of what they do. So perhaps what news would be like if the reporters where more knowledgeable but still acted as stupid? <br />
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Take your pick. I am not adding it to the explanation yet, since it is only two of several interpretation, but existentialism has been a feature of many other xkcd strips. [[User:Carewolf|Carewolf]] ([[User talk:Carewolf|talk]]) 14:50, 22 September 2012 (UTC)<br />
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:Personally, I would consider the limited livespan of Sun to be more important that the movie. Less pressing, of course. The movie stars will be dead sooner ... unless you consider them live as long as their films are showing, in which case they may last as long as our civilisation. --[[User:Hkmaly|Hkmaly]] ([[User talk:Hkmaly|talk]]) 07:55, 24 September 2012 (UTC)</div>192.136.15.177https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:1107:_Sports_Cheat_Sheet&diff=11774Talk:1107: Sports Cheat Sheet2012-09-12T17:33:53Z<p>192.136.15.177: </p>
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<div>Thanks to whoever added the hockey mention ("no love" in the comic, for sure). Maybe the comic needs another column for Canada, where hockey can be argued about year-round. (Yes, it's an exaggeration for comic effect.) As for the rest of the world, or at least ex-Commonwealth and neighboring countries (e.g. Australia, India, New Zealand), what about rugby and cricket? --'''BigMal27''' (no account) / [[Special:Contributions/192.136.15.177|192.136.15.177]] 15:29, 12 September 2012 (UTC)<br />
:Forgot to mention that these sports don't have to be professional in nature. I know of plenty US collegiate arguments in both football (e.g. Michigan vs. Notre Dame or Michigan State or Ohio State) and basketball (everyone vs. everyone during the NCAA tournament a.k.a. "March Madness" (TM)). --'''BigMal27''' / [[Special:Contributions/192.136.15.177|192.136.15.177]] 17:33, 12 September 2012 (UTC)<br />
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The problem with the suggestion in the mouse over text is that everyone would have the same opinion on the same day! A better idea would be to have an App which selects from two or more oposing opinions and feed you a random one each day. (Personally being 'European' I'd prefer it to be more like the US! Sooo fed up with football discussions.) Steve B<br />
:Then you run into the problem of two people who rely in that app falling into a sports discussion with each other rather than something else. If I were to find someone expressing the same canned opinion that I have from the twitter feed, at least I can say "who cares about sports, let's talk about something important: vi or emacs?". The twitter feed is best for someone who wants to fake sports knowledge to fit in. [[User:Blaisepascal|Blaisepascal]] ([[User talk:Blaisepascal|talk]]) 16:12, 12 September 2012 (UTC)<br />
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What is with the sports bent that Randall is on? Two sports comics in three weeks? Has this happened before? [[User:Lcarsos|lcarsos]] ([[User talk:Lcarsos|talk]]) 15:36, 12 September 2012 (UTC)</div>192.136.15.177https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:1107:_Sports_Cheat_Sheet&diff=11761Talk:1107: Sports Cheat Sheet2012-09-12T15:29:45Z<p>192.136.15.177: Created page with "Thanks to whoever added the hockey mention ("no love" in the comic, for sure). Maybe the comic needs another column for Canada, where hockey can be argued about year-round. (..."</p>
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<div>Thanks to whoever added the hockey mention ("no love" in the comic, for sure). Maybe the comic needs another column for Canada, where hockey can be argued about year-round. (Yes, it's an exaggeration for comic effect.) As for the rest of the world, or at least ex-Commonwealth and neighboring countries (e.g. Australia, India, New Zealand), what about rugby and cricket? --'''BigMal27''' (no account) / [[Special:Contributions/192.136.15.177|192.136.15.177]] 15:29, 12 September 2012 (UTC)</div>192.136.15.177