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Originally Posted by oldpmaguy View Post
Agitprop ultimately means agitation propoganda, and I'm applying it to you!

Despite its dramatic/communist associations, any propoganda that attempts to sway opinion by means of creating dissention and rift in a way that gives the appearance of being merely unintentional, is agitprop. Hence, I'm using it here in the more modern and common sense of the term, and not the oft-seen "first dictionary definition" sense.

Actually, it dismays me that the word doesn't get more usage, seeing as how much agitprop we are all bombarded with in our time (I'm a North American, so I speak primarily from a US perspective, but I presume all people are subject to it in this day and age of media saturation).

Here's a link or two to get you more formally acquainted with this fine word, one which you otherwise are already familiar with, so it seems!

http://www.websters-online-dictionar.../agitprop.html
(check the "specialty definition" - there's nothing really "special" about it in this day and age, though, but then again, that's probably just the way The Man likes it!)
http://www.wordnik.com/words/agitprop/examples
(Some - admittedly lame - examples)

And as a special bonus, I'll also associate your original post with the term stealth marketing
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stealth_marketing

Happy propagandizing, friend!
8^)
Thanks for the education there fella...

...and thanks for all them dandy links to dictionaries and whatnot but could you please link to or at least quote my post where you believe I am doing whatever it is you think I'm doing and please post why you think so.

I'm a simple guy so please use simple words. I can communicate in several languages but again, only as a simple guy. Savvy?

What I think you are implying is that I am somehow "buzz marketing" or shilling in someway for Nokia. Is this correct?

If so, you have hurt my feelings somewhat.

I'll provide you with a link to perhaps invite you to consider otherwise. Fortunately our forum has an app for that >> HERE <<
Start at the beginning and see how our hero was educated right on this here forum.

You sound like you may not be getting all that you can out of your device. Perhaps like me you are primarily a Windows user. You also sound as if you have some understanding of how things work.

If so, the best thing you can do is install a program like ExpanDrive on your Windows machine, install Openssh on your N900, establish an ssh connection and then get in there and poke around.

Go to places like N900:\usr\share\applications\hildon open a few desktop files in a clean text editor and see how things are done. Make your own pointing to a favorite web page:

Code:
[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Version=1.0
Name=YoGmail
Comment=Open Google Mail Mobile
Exec=dbus-send --print-reply --dest=com.nokia.osso_browser /com/nokia/osso_browser/request com.nokia.osso_browser.open_new_window string:http://mail.google.com/mail/x
Icon=yogmail
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=System;TerminalEmulator;
X-HildonDesk-ShowInToolbar=true
#X-Osso-Service=xterm
X-Osso-Type=application/x-executable
... and see what happens.

Use some of that common sense you speak of and have fun...


Did ya see what I did there?
I gave you links to information found on this forum...

Also: As I said earlier, I'm a simple guy so in the future if you're going to call me something, please use a simple word that has a well defined meaning in the western language of your choice. (Where I have learned the meanings of some of the things I've been called in the past. If it is going to be nasty, I prefer Italian because even the nasty stuff somehow sounds poetic in Italian.)

This will save us both some time.

Edit:: I realize that I just spent a lot of time preparing a useful post in response to someone who basically called me out because I didn't agree or posted contrary to whatever his views are. Although I did get to read why he thinks obscure terms first used in Russia in the early part of the last century are "common sense" and should be used more often. I didn't actually understand his point.

My response was more for the good of the forum and to provide support for my statement that I didn't think I was going to find anything as easy to modify to suite my needs in the near future.

This by no means was designed to make me out as some kind of forum "Albert Schweitzer". I could have just as easily gone "Philadelphia" on his *** and reserve all rights to do so in the future, as required.
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