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Murdoch Says, "We'll Charge For All Our Sites"
Oracle Goddess writes "In what appears to be a carefully planned suicide, Rupert Murdoch announced that his media giant News Corporation Ltd intends to charge for all its news websites in a bid to lift revenues, as the transition towards online media permanently changes the advertising landscape. 'The digital revolution has opened many new and inexpensive methods of distribution, but it has not made content free. Accordingly we intend to charge for all our news websites,' Murdoch said."
As if I needed one . . .
You don't need to be old in order to see worse after bad. It's not an age thing, it's a looking around, thinking about the information you gathered and forming an opinion thing. You can start that at any time.
The worse thing about it, the dems were campaigning against the republicans on the basis of deficit spending and fiscal irresponsibility. They got control of all three branched of the government and immediately forgot what they claimed was important. Some people think that Obama's current positions as they stand today would create a complete and separate person capable of running against Obama during the elections. This indicates that either Obama and the dems were completely lieing when making campaign promises or that they were clueless to the problems we face and still are struggling to play catchup.
Even today Obama is making claims about his cap and tax and government health care programs that can be refuted by simply referencing the actual bills he is championing in congress. I don't think he has even taken the time to read the legislation floating around in his name to promote his agenda or that his so called constitutional lawyer qualifications even allow him to understand the legislation being presented. It should surprise no one that congress was attempting to push it through with no public input, limited or missing congressional input, safeguards against wrecking what is left of the economy, time to read and understand the bills, or anything that would resemble traditional congressional actions. Of course this comes as no surprise seeing how the tarp legislation allowed massive payout in bonuses with federal monies despite the outcries from the congress critter responsible for the language being in the laws who pretended to not know anything about it. If they aren't even paying enough attention to see if their amendments were accepted and made into law, then how can anyone feel comfortable about the other complex issues before us.
I find it simply amazing that people are willing to ignore that and that people like you think you need to be old in order to care. The problem with that is that by the time you start caring, you will have already been damaged with little hope of reversing it.
This indicates that either Obama and the dems were completely lieing when making campaign promises
I tend to think that Obama meant what he said but is a spineless pussy who is afraid to stand up to the extremist element of his own party on the domestic agenda. In that respect he's not too different from our last President, whom also ran on a campaign of bipartisanship if I recall correctly.
It's amazing to look at Pelosi and the rest of the far-left partisan nutjobs and see just how similar they really are to the far-right partisan nutjobs that were running the place eight years ago. Of course this is the exact way our electoral system is set up. We've allowed these jackasses to draw their own election districts and tilt them in either direction to the point that the election is a mere formality for most Congress-critters. So they pander to the partisan base that comes out for primaries and donates the largest amount of cash. The rest of us don't matter -- except when it comes time to foot the bill for their socialist (democrat) or imperialist (republican) agenda.
Lovely choice we've got, isn't it? We need a viable third party -- failing that we need a divided government so they spend more time arguing with each other and less time implementing the ideology.
I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man.
We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
This is how the rest of the world works. They operate in that giant grey area and evaluate each topic/choice on its own merit rather then instantly defaulting to the partys left/right alignment for decisions.
I think my point may have missed you: The United States is the country with a "grey area". Politics lies on a line from left to right, just as "grey areas" lie on a line from black to white. Did you mean "colored area", or perhaps "coloured area"?
It says "My Computer" 'cause Bill thinks putting MS software on it makes it his.
Obviously. Later post-Bill versions of Windows changed it to just, "Computer"...