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MSMBC ginning up fake Tea Party is racist story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Katie Couric documentary deceptively edits gun supporters to make them appeared stumped: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

CNN "shorthanded" call for taking black riots to suburbs as call for peace: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

NBC edits call to make Zimmerman look racist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

The New York Times and the narrative:

It was a shock on arriving at the New York Times in 2004, as the paper's movie editor, to realize that its editorial dynamic was essentially the reverse. By and large, talented reporters scrambled to match stories with what internally was often called "the narrative." We were occasionally asked to map a narrative for our various beats a year in advance, square the plan with editors, then generate stories that fit the pre-designated line.

MSMBC ginning up fake Tea Party is racist story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Katie Couric documentary deceptively edits gun supporters to make them appeared stumped: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

CNN "shorthanded" call for taking black riots to suburbs as call for peace: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

NBC edits call to make Zimmerman look racist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

The New York Times and the narrative:

It was a shock on arriving at the New York Times in 2004, as the paper's movie editor, to realize that its editorial dynamic was essentially the reverse. By and large, talented reporters scrambled to match stories with what internally was often called "the narrative." We were occasionally asked to map a narrative for our various beats a year in advance, square the plan with editors, then generate stories that fit the pre-designated line.

MSMBC ginning up fake Tea Party is racist story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Katie Couric documentary deceptively edits gun supporters to make them appeared stumped: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

CNN "shorthanded" call for taking black riots to suburbs as call for peace: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

NBC edits call to make Zimmerman look racist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

The New York Times and the narrative:

It was a shock on arriving at the New York Times in 2004, as the paper's movie editor, to realize that its editorial dynamic was essentially the reverse. By and large, talented reporters scrambled to match stories with what internally was often called "the narrative." We were occasionally asked to map a narrative for our various beats a year in advance, square the plan with editors, then generate stories that fit the pre-designated line.

MSMBC ginning up fake Tea Party is racist story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Katie Couric documentary deceptively edits gun supporters to make them appeared stumped: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

CNN "shorthanded" call for taking black riots to suburbs as call for peace: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

NBC edits call to make Zimmerman look racist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

The New York Times and the narrative:

It was a shock on arriving at the New York Times in 2004, as the paper's movie editor, to realize that its editorial dynamic was essentially the reverse. By and large, talented reporters scrambled to match stories with what internally was often called "the narrative." We were occasionally asked to map a narrative for our various beats a year in advance, square the plan with editors, then generate stories that fit the pre-designated line.

Playlist: Why is PewDiePie Your Enemy? https://www.youtube.com/playli...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

I've got two spoof accounts on Facebook, one for work - we're an agency selling Social Media Marketing among other things,so it's more or less expected of me - and one I established roughly 7 years ago when i started social dancing and constantly meeting people who asked me if I was on Facebook. I looked at Twitter a few months after it came out, thought "wtf?" after 3 minutes and have used it since maybe 4 times or so. No inroads at all with instagram, whatscrap and other data hogs.

Long story short, even though I'm your Type A 80ies computerkid who has never had less than 5 email accounts in the last 2 decades and who was on Fidonet back in the day posting every day, I see a significant difference between me and many many other people. Today *I* am the one who's more away from electronic media than the average - a thing quite unthinkable back in the 90ies. Even though I haven't changed my habits that much.

Facebook I consider particularly evil, as it is a funnel of constant superficial vanity-induced anti-social behaviour that, as far as I can tell, has a significant impact on the general social skills of people growing up with it. Facebook here being a synonym for anything "social" media these days. A fascinating look into someone from this social media native generation is Essena O'Neills account on why she quit her life as an instagram "professional". Yes, you can shake your head in disbelief about the naivity and the obviousness of what she finally realised, but don't forget: these are people who grew up with this - they never knew anyhting else - which makes her account ever more honest, poignant and impressive.

Conclusion:
I see the signs left, right and center: Social media has a significant negative impact on the general publics mental health. To put it in other words: FB is not a social network, it's basically a global mental illness.

My 2 cents.

Corporate media puts out a steady drumbeat of 5 minute hate articles nowadays to control the Overton Window. I'm surprised it didn't turn out even more negative than that.

Like this?

the vast majority of the tablet/phone purchasing world has no clue what you mean by that statement. They. Don't. Care.

That's exactly right. And because these devices are designed down to the level of the ignorant, rather than uplifting them, they don't have to learn. And those of us who could use these devices to a much greater extent remain reined in by this pandering to market. Subfolders are too complicated, the apologists tell us. There's no saving people too stupid to learn what a subfolder is/does. But those who are simply ignorant can learn in seconds. The insistence that this is "too much" is utterly pitiful to hear.

In the end, dumbing everything down is the surest way to the market consisting of the broadest portion of the Gaussian, and therefore, their money. That's why this is happening.

Time to watch the intro to Idiocracy again to remind ourselves why pandering to the lowest common denominator is a really, really bad idea.

He likes rape.

See my subject: "I've got one that can SEE..." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBY6pF42I-c/ I'm w/ you 110% s. petry & so is anyone else w/ an ounce of common-sense who isn't "on the payroll" as many sycophants/cronies are...

* Google's "Don't be EVIL" is total bullshit - they ARE evil & have betrayed themselves (or just were lying to begin with, which I suspect is truly the case) - they ARE the 'establishment' & have had their day... in their developing this tool of theirs, they're betraying they are afraid of the trend (60++% adbanner view blocking & climbing daily).

APK

P.S.=> Your viewpoint's a HUGE part of the reason I created this https://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10285219&cid=53917669/ in fact - to help stomp out these fascist scumbags @ google + those like them... apk

I'm fine with NASA's manned flights taking more risk to accomplish more and sooner, but it seems like the Dragon capsule is the "safer risk" given it's inherent safety mechanisms.

It's not entirely clear to me why you think Dragon has more "inherent" safety, other than the statements by the manufacturer that their designs are "inherently" safe. I will point out that they also stated that their Falcon-1 design was 99.9% reliable before its first launch because it had reliability designed in.

Dragon has a heat shield designed for orbital reentry. Orion is designed for planetary-return thermal loads, which are about twice as high for lunar missions, and significantly greater than that for Mars. Heat shields are non-trivial; you can't just say "no problem, we'll use this in an environment with twice the energy."

"Another manager threatened to beat an underperforming employee's head in with a baseball bat."

Now, that's what must be a highly motivating work environment :/

One must wonder how their hiring process works, i.e. letting such characters through the gates, since recent reports don't paint a pretty picture.

That sounds like the sort of thing where someone is quoting Bon Qui Qui (Mad TV; https://www.youtube.com/watch?...) and says, "I will cut you!" or something, and the receiving end takes it as a threat.

Granted: The first rule of public speaking (or just about any kind of presentation) is to Know Your Audience. KYA. Applies to everything. You shouldn't tell jokes to people who may not get them, or may take offense at them...unless you're a stand-up comic. KYA. But that sort of professionalism isn't taught at any MBA school, and we have an entire generation or two of managers who are missing fundamental characteristics of leadership.

except this is really old: 2012 was the first hit I found https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Remember when Microsoft Songsmith put Sound Engineers out of work? https://www.youtube.com/watch?... This is really troubling that the same could happen to us programmers.

I would date Siri as shown in http://www.youtube.com/watch?v... ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

One of my favorite Simpsons scenes (Ned's destroyed house has been rebuilt by his neighbors): https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Real Genius

I think it's a sponsored episode of "The Computer Show", a deliberate sendup of "The Computer Chronicles". There were two previous episodes made of this: https://www.youtube.com/channe...

I think we've got plenty of porn to share with them right now (and don't you just wonder where they got those tiny cigarettes they light up afterwards?)

I've been working on putting structure to MIT's OCW courses and filling in the blanks where there's missing courses. If we all tried to just go through what is available out there now and focussed on propulsion, life support systems, systems engineering, etc, I think we could get ourselves off the planet and mining asteroids to build craft that could get to this system without having our work belong to any organizations that could keep it to themselves. I know that's quite collectivist for a capitalist, but I believe that math/basic science shouldn't be patentable, and the only way to do this is to race against those who intend to patent everything. I put my thoughts up on Hive13's wiki and moved them to http://hackereducation.wordpre... I am not a professor and I only had 2 years as a college software system architect, so my understanding of curriculum development may need help, but it doesn't matter if the idea grows into something better. We have a way to use sunlight to fuse glass https://www.youtube.com/watch?... and probably could use these: http://www.growbiointensive.or... guys' ideas to grow food. No idea since I'm a physics/cs guy and not a biologist or doctor. I just wish we'd stop waiting for the government to do everything for us and use the damned hand rectangles that contain all of human knowledge to learn ourselves and then go do it!

self-driving truck and stormed off to Arizona in a self-driving huff,

Do the cars that pick up the people also storm off in a huff? It would be funny if they also call the passengers "meatbags" and tell them to "bite my shiny metal ass"

Surely they can do better than huffs. They've gotta be hell in Phoenix during summer:

Your obsession with what colour (slavery is wrong whatever colour), and baseless insults on education and "worldview" appear irrelevant, and disappointing IMHO.

My original post was a response to this AC.

Yes, we know. And you regurgitated a litany of falsehoods and misconceptions, while purporting to being engaged in education.

No sir, you miseducated.

...Talking about the Founding Fathers.

"Irrelevant" and "baseless"?

I think not.

Of course you are free to disagree. That's one of the freedoms we enjoy because of those so-called "hypocrites" the AC referred to.

No, not really. For example, one of those hypocrites, John Adams, was responsible for the Alien and Sedition Acts. The Dred Scott decision cited many of them to justify declaring that blacks were not citizens under the Constitution.

It's not because of them. It's despite them.

They should not be worshiped, nor their works. If you wish to esteem them for their virtues, you must also condemn them for their faults.

And it was not actually an insult, unless you personally consider pointing out factual errors leading to an erroneous and/or skewed worldview an insult.

Well, you do. Here's your response to being chastised on your errors: And calling me a liar? You can go fuck yourself.

I thought I was actually being informative, and from my original post's score it seems the moderators agree.

All that means is random people who have made no demonstration of their substantial analysis of your words, can click a button.

People who have looked at them, have rebutted them quite firmly, you have made errors as to facts, dates, and events in plenty. Only one of your errors have you admitted to, which is a step forward, but you have numerous more to address.

You lied. You lied while pretentiously claiming that others should educate themselves. Teacher, I say, first teach thyself!

Here, I suggest you watch something besides Glenn Beck: Emmett Till.

HP fail: compare your product to something that no competitor should be worse than by far.

This is like how- in the United Kingdom at least- Duracell are still selling their (alkaline) batteries by comparing them against zinc batteries. (#) I mean, really?

That might have been valid thirty years ago when alkalines were semi-premium and zinc carbons *were* the competition, but nowadays zincs are relegated to the dirt-cheap-but-underpowered-for-most-real-uses market segment. Alkalines are mainstream and I can get four or six of them for a quid from Poundland.

How do your batteries compare against those? Twenty percent more capacity for two and a half times the price or something? Doesn't sound so good... but then, neither does relying on comparisons to an archaic technology to make yourselves look better.

(#) This advert is three years old, but I'm sure I saw a similar one less than a year ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

You can preorder them on newegg. Release is apparently Thurs/Fri next week.

12345?

In the video Linus did https://www.youtube.com/watch?... the difference was 99.xx vs 112.yy seconds.

But I don't think that one used a 7700K but a 6800K.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

This made me think of Karl Pilkington's super power https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

The order was not well supported by other internet service providers in Sweden, as it appears they don't like the idea of becoming copyright policemen.

Policemen in Sweeden don't like the idea of becoming policemen! That would be wasist!

Sweden is a definate refuge from the rule of law!

As someone else said, lies are pretty easy to detect but you have to go find sources. It is amazing how media today does not provide actual sources, but layers of links to other sites repeating the same lie they themselves repeat. It is very time consuming to find actual truths, but I find it necessary today. Media has become masterful, sadly, at removing context to create a narrative based on a sliver of truth. Unfortunately, that is not the only way they lie (see below).

You are right that good bullshit appeals to emotion, but it's not quite as simple usually as reading an appeal to emotion fallacy. I think the telling thing is how people react when you suggest that people look for full sets of facts or provide a contrary opinions/conclusions. The hostility, especially from the left today, should set off people's bullshit meters.

This is an education video on how the media lies. This is also true of Politicians, just to be clear. A funny note here is that Sargon is a left of a true Liberal. I disagree with him at an intellectual level, but we could debate the disagreements. The leftists however, tend to hate him and slander him. "Dangerous thoughts" and all that.

Here is what what I do for fun. Shooting rats with N_I_G_H_T ViSiOn!!!

Did you see this? Gatebox Azuma Hikari https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

As soon as you mention llamas, it's time for an Obligatory Reference
to the Monty Python Llama Sketch -- one of my favourites:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

-- Anon C.

There is no clear, universally agreed definition of what a continent is.

There is only one solution: we need an international committee to define what a continent is, and then decide that NZ is a dwarf continent.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uBcq1x7P34

Guy shooting rats with NIGHT VISION!

This is so totally Rainbow Snitch whacks Milo! LOL!

Advertisers don't want you to know this weird trick for stopping click-bait discovered by Wisconsin Mom.

women are still being paid less for the same job as men.

Whoops

well educated man.

Whoops, again. Don't confuse the years you spent memorizing and regurgitating what someone else told you with "education".

It appears Hollywood may have also essentially done a remake set on the ISS in "Life" due out next month, complete with a 155 second Youtube trailer that seems to pretty much give the entire plot away. As if that's not bad enough, it's entirely possible there may also be some kind of message about the current political situation regarding illegal aliens in there too just for good measure, but at least it looks pretty...

Thing is last time I checked a CDT can be recycled for profit. At the very least the lead can be relatively easily extracted from the glass for reuse.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

The rubber chicken did it.

I use Linux on the desktop for everything other than gaming.

Dota 2: faster and less stuttering on Linux than Windows. What else really matters?

It's not exactly concise, but this video shows what it can do. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Seems like robot animals are appropriate.

It was the Japanese.

Tell that to people born schizoprenic : https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

But judging by the quality of your tap water, yeah most babies are born with PTSD right now. At least now we know this is entirely hereditary, luck of the drawer of sorts, but whats your excuse to don't even fucking know what schizophrenia is? feelings? trauma? These are people hallucinating shit 24/7, this is some brain malfunction where it literally flips the bird to your senses and proceeds to mix shit at random in the buffer before your perception.

Sound like someone's salty with schizos, takes a special kind of loser to hold any grief against people not completely aware of their self.

If you're interested, most people would agree that when you connect to a defcon wifi network you should probably be... cautious. Let's face it, Defcon is to RSA from an info-risk pov as walking in downtown NY at 1am is to walking around the North/South Korean DMZ at 1am. Both are hazardous, but one of them is just plain insane.

Now watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

That's the 'so what'.

And keep in mind that most ppl are still using the same passwords on multiple sites.

Oops.

Min