"Mahathir rape Siti Nurhaliza"
Written by johnleemk on 1:52:51 pm Sep 22, 2006.
Categories: Malaysian Politics
What, did you think Mahathir and/or Siti would end up in such a situation? That's a real joke, my friends. No, it's just another conspiracy theory by our dear friend, Jeff Ooi. Apparently the top keywords for the New Straits Times' search engine are (in this order): Mahathir, rape, Siti Nurhaliza. And best of all, the NST software displays the results like so:
Now, this is going to be shorter than the typical rambling, because I'm pressed for time, but just note: Mahathir, rape, and Siti Nurhaliza are all pressing concerns for the average Malaysian with enough time to go online. Nobody cares about the environment, the 2007 budget, or bread (hell, nobody even cares enough about rice for it to show up). People do care very much, however, about the old man, nonconsensual sexual relations, and a young newlywed celebrity.
The results should be obvious. Of course people will search more for stories about a controversial former Prime Minister, their deepest, darkest fantasies, and a young starlet! (They might even search for all three at the same time with the same keywords...) There's no conspiracy involved!
Some smartasses have suggested that the NST software was purposely programmed to produce this result, citing the HTML source code and the lack of something more hi-tech:
It's obviously a handwritten html.. not the so called high tech "search algorithm".. the algo may exist.. i confidence it's not in this case.Er, yeah. Sure.
Does Google handcraft their results too? Have you ever looked at the source code of their search results? It turns out HTML pretty much like this, once you strip away all the Javascript. The fact is, there is no such "algo" displayed in the source code of any search engine results page, as any decent webmaster worth his salt can tell you. Can you see the algo I used to produce this article, ping weblogs.com to notify it of this article's creation, or to set the design of this site in a uniform structure? No. That doesn't mean it's not there; it's just hidden from you on the backend in the PHP code and MySQL database of the server.
If anything, the structure of the source is so uniform that I would suggest it could not have been created by anything but a computer. First of all, note the precision; the size of the text is set to 12 decimal places. No human webmaster would do such a thing when three decimal places is more than enough for the normal person. There is also no deviation from the 12 decimal places except where it's been reduced to 11 (probably due to rounding up/down to a zero for the 12th place). The code for each line of the search result is so uniform that it could only have been produced either by a machine or a webmaster so determined to cover his trail that he went to the trouble of producing something that looks exactly like the real thing.
To prove it, here's some pseudo-code that resembles what would be in the real "algo" on the backend.
<a class="navi" href="/result?src_term={KEYWORD}" style="font-size:{PROPORTION OF SEARCH RESULTS FOR KEYWORD}em;">{KEYWORD}</a>
Every one of the search results' HTML code matches this pattern. This, combined with Occam's razor, should be enough to convince all but the most determined conspiracy theorists that the NST has not defamed Mahathir and/or Siti Nurhaliza.
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johnleemk
Infernally Rambling Thoughtless Mind Head Administrator Posts: 949 IP Logged | Posted at 5:08:42 am Aug 8, 2005
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/4749379.stm If you can't be bothered to read, The local government in Kelantan put a stop to Dollah's performances (of wayang kulit). Likewise traditional dance. All these crafts are being destined to oblivion, not just by conservative Muslims who dress in the Arabic style and frown on their own culture, but also by Malaysia's rapid modernisation. Across the country one sees the evidence of a culture of disapproval. But the saddest encounter I had in Kelantan was with a criminal lawyer. |
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Janice1
Member Posts: 11 IP Logged | Posted at 11:24:23 am Aug 12, 2005
I have been round the world and met many people of different races. I've even met my kind in so many different countries but very few are as kind and hospitable as those Malays in our country. I mean those Malays of the 60s and before. Malays of today have changed, many having become arrogant, rude, self centred and even greedy. It's also ironic they are becoming more religious and Arabised to the extent that they want to shed their culture and former image. What's the point of being religious and have so many weaknesses at the same time? It's not coincident that such weaknesses start to appear with the advent of the NEP and Dr M's rule. Dr M and his race divisive policies really have spoiled the Malays silly, even to the extent that crutches are forever needed to survive. It's really pathetic that some of them wanted to extend the NEP and waving their krises to show they mean business. For many years they blamed everybody especially the Chinese for their failures and very often used other races as their punching bags to shore up support and their Agenda. They failed to see that the real enemies are themselves. Of course their leaders are aware of their shortcomings but for some reasons known to themselves they are unwilling to correct the so many ills of this country and their own race. But thank god I am still able to meet some of these wonderful Malays that I have mentioned in the rural areas. |
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johnleemk
Infernally Rambling Thoughtless Mind Head Administrator Posts: 949 IP Logged | Posted at 9:48:02 am Aug 15, 2005
Actually, some of my best friends in primary school were Malays. I don't know many "traditional" (in the sense that they adhere to their old customs in addition to their Muslim ones) Malays, though, but the ones I met in primary school were at least more open-minded. |
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Vamp
Flamer Administrator Posts: 456 IP Logged | Posted at 2:10:39 am Sep 9, 2005
Malays seems so cool now  |
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celtic-frost
Member Posts: 2 IP Logged | Posted at 6:49:10 pm Dec 28, 2005
Nice forum you have here John. So yes, on this topic, the Malays have been blindly apeing the Arabs over the last decade. What can you expect? The education system and the pro-bumi policies have reduced Malay society to a group of people who cannot think critically, constantly needing someone to tell them what to do and when to do it, etc. No surprise that all it takes are a few authority figures to go "Arab" and the rest of the lemmings take the leap. On average, the Malays have terribly failed in education, in large businesses, in technology, etc. There isn't one sphere of society in which they haven't been trumped by the non-Malays. And this says nothing about Malays per se, only the system that keeps them down...look at Malays who migrated overseas and Singapore Malays for a stark contrast. The one thing they can outdo the non-Malays in, and giving themselves a sense of strong identity and something to be proud of, is their religion. So they are all out in excelling at it....but in the mindless sheeple way of following some Arab, instead of moulding and adapting it to the cultural realites of the Malay. And the strong reactions by non-Muslims, although warranted, only feeds this growing and rabid spread of Islamic fundamentalism, better described as Islamo-Fascism. It gives this ever-growing segment of Islamo-Fascist Malay society a sense of importance, something they lack in all other spheres of society outside of politics and crony business deals. My prediction is that in about 20 - 30 years time, the population of non-Malays in the peninsula will have dwindled down to about half or less of its current size. If China's economic growth and increased liberalization is anything to go by, we're going to see a lot of non-Malays move there, and I don't mean just the Malaysian Chinese. The gateway to opportunity this time is nearer, compared to previously being in Western nations. And within China, there will be a launchpad of opportunities for these folks to move elsewhere in the world. The Malay culture as we know it today will be non-existent, or near extinction. The current trend points towards a pseudo-Arab society with ultra-conservative Islamic policies in place. This decay of society, together with the mass migrations mentioned above, will be IMHO, due to the dwindling resources of oil and natural gas in Malaysia. There will be no more Petronas to bankroll the country, and foreign investments in the technology and industrial sector would have been long gone to China or elsewhere. The pitiful state of tertiary education in Malaysia would have ensured that the brightest of students (both Malay and non-Malay) had left to pursue an overseas education and stayed on to enjoy the opportunities of their host nation. Those products of the local universities, especially the Malays, will be completely unqualified and incapable to develop, maintain and transfer new technologies that will crop up in the coming decades...be it in business, biotechnology or advanced quantum physics. Malaysia, the peninsula at least, will become a complete basket case run by a bunch of ulamaks, or people very close to resembling them. Perhaps Sabah and Sarawak might secede, who knows. Those non-Malays unfortunate enough to remain in Malaysia will face increasing restrictions on their lives and cultures both in their public and private domains of existence. And that would merely be the best case scenario. The worst case is when the Islamo-Fascist ideology brings together the troublemakers in Indonesia and Southern Thailand together with their Malaysian brethren. They will most likely start terrorist campaigns in order to destabilize Singapore, and probably even Thailand, in probably what will be the world's worst mix of Islamic fundamentalism and rabid nationalism for the creation of an Islamic Malay archipelago. I'm sure this all sounds very pessimistic. But this is a possibility when a nation does nothing but cultivate a dumbed-down majority that responds only to racial and religious baiting. I might sound racist to some, and for that, please forgive me. I am not a racist. But I am also not politically correct. I call it like it is. If it walks like a duck.... Looking forward to a lively debate. |
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Arachnid
Member Posts: 7 IP Logged | Posted at 5:29:36 am Jan 9, 2006
Singapore malays are ok. But when I went to malaysia, I noticed that most of the malays and non-malays didn't mingle very much. At least not like they do here. I've noticed the same trend in Amreica,save it was between the whites and the blacks instead. There may not be racial strife now, but if the people continue to segragate themselves, it cannot be long in coming. The only differences between races are those they make up themselves. |
