He might not have admitted it, but go look at the history, theme and language.
In Chesterton's Lepanto with the Black Azrael and Ariel and Ammon on the wing to the black riders of the Nazgul.
You have Southrons and Black Orcs speaking a unfamilar and uncouth lingua franca who come out of an Asia Minor shaped Mordor to besiege Vienna...I mean Minas Tirith, the siege it and because of a treaty, between two nations that don't see eye to eye in all matters (Austria and Poland/Lithuana), Jan Sobieski's Poles/Rohan ride to the rescue, they break the siege and it's over.
Saruman/Suleiman, also known as Sharku/Sheik.
Tolkien was a devout Roman Catholic and he undoubtably would have been familiar with the events between Europe and the Ottoman Empire over the centuries.
Lord of the Rings were about the Christian Armies stopping the Ottoman Empire at the battle of Vienna.
The Rohan force is a fictional version of Jan III Sobieski, King of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and his reinforcments that won the day and broke the siege.
(Speaking as a gay married man, I find it very easy to hate christianity.)
Yea? Try that in Saudi Arabia or Iran. I ran into this alot in the election cycle. people equating Bush with Islamic fundamentalists because of his wearing his faith out in the open. The United States Government has some strong Christians in it, but Christianity isn't nearly as fundamentalist and strictly adhering to the Bible at this point in time as say much of Islam sticks to the Koran.
Also, since some sub-divisions of Christianity support gay marriage, abortion, insert cause here, it's pure ignorance to have chrisianity as a whole. There is no Priest/Reverend/Minister of Christianity saying whatever is bad.
I've exchanged email with NOAA about hurricane photos and have been told that some of them are inface ISAR radar images that have been colored.
The blurb there for the story sounds like a Press Release there from Mr Nair, chairman of the Bangalore-based Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro).
Unless you are looking at the Russian/Ukranian famines in the 1930s or pretty much anything in the last 6 or 7 years with the raft of new reporters they've got at the times making shit up, stealing pieces from other sources.
I also subscribe to a number of magazines. Play, Beaverage World, Whiskey, Spirit Journal, Airforces Journal, Airliner, American Rifleman, Sports Illustrated, The Sporting News and South Dakota Magazine.
Theres a slant in the Times, Reuters, CNN, BBC, everyone has a slant. The problem is that NY Times, Reuters, CNN and the BBC have an aura of being "untouchable", mediums of "record". It's easy to rail against Fox News because they wear thier bias on thier sleave, instead of the whore in the alley or the "escort" Fox News is the hooker on the corner smoking a cig, hiking up it's skirt.
So you can rail against Fox News, but if I were to say Reuters has as much bias as Fox News because of Reuters word selections in say, terrorists, I have to write 1000 words on it and even then I'm ignorant. But if I say...Fox News sucks! That's all that needs to be said.
I never said that Drudge or/. or Fark do thier own reporting. They are conduits to other free sites for the most part, which was the point of my response to the other poster.
The traditional media's creation of it's product is what I don't like. While everyone rails against, oh say FoxNews, for having a bias, they think nothing of picking up the New York Times or reading the BBC and thinking that's the goddamned truth. It's not, it's a crafted product. New York Times has been doing it for decades. Walter Duranty, the Times' chief correspondent in Moscow from 1922 to 1941, who was widely praised in his day for his "dispassionate, interpretative reporting of the news from Russia." Duranty willingly participated in the Soviet campaign to cover up and deny the disaster, he then also spearheaded the effort to slander those correspondents who reported accurately on the famine.
Peter Arnett made up quotes from American Soliders in Vietnam, including the famed ""We had to destroy the village in order to save it." He made up Operation Tailwind and remained able to work in the Traditional Media. Jayson Blair and Charlie LeDuff get to make up quotes, steal stories and they become the "record" from these created productions.
Well, newspapers werre very important to our society because they had a monopoly on the news and they had the place of being where legal statements were to be posted (name changes, arrests, that sort of thing).
They've let that status to go thier head, in the case of the NY Times and in the case of other "vital" news agencies like Reuters and the BBC so that they feel they can craft the news or spin it how they feel is right.
As for the TV and Radio news being paid for by advertisers...gee...last time I looked in the NY Times or Wall Street Journal there were advertisements in those mediums as well.
The News should be free. The archives should be free.
I might be an old timer, but holy hell,/.'s quality is way, way up from the Hotgrits days of 1999 or the angst and crap of Jon Katz and the hate that came with his posts about nothing.
The discussion level is up, the editorial level isn't.
Should have been from the uncle-sam-isn't-listening to many dept.
Here come the slide to Nazi Germany and whatnot posts.
"Apparently judges have found that law enforcement is unbelievably perfect as they rubber-stamped approvals on every single request they received." Or maybe Judges demanded a crapload of extra evidence for the tiny number of wire taps approved.
For the US/Mexico/Canada markets, they did move away from 747s. Those are used for high cap long haul. I flew 747 to Hawaii from the Twin Cities, but alot of the routes flown by 747 and MD-11 have been replaced with A380, 777, 757 and 767.
Japan uses alot of 747s, some of them configured for shorter range and very high capacity, and 747s are being used for long over ocean flights quite a bit.
The issue is, what the future of commerical aviation is. Megaplanes (747 Stretch and A380), or a mix of long range (777-ER) and point to point, the 787, 777, A319-340, Regionals.
India and China don't have that strong of an aviation industry. Russia's is in the toilet, Brazil has a strong Regional Jet industry.
If you are such a sucker for uncompressed source materials, why are you listening to ogg then? It's been compressed. So no MPEG or JPEG for you either.
In other words, you are not the type of customer Apple is marketing towards, so really they shouldn't care and neither should you.
I'm with you the whole way...but 100% of electricity doesn't come from Coal. 70% comes from Fossil Fuels, most of that coal.
We get much more radiation from natural sources like Radon, or our bodies, than we get from coal or nuclear power. http://www.epa.gov/radiation/docs/ionize/4 02-f-98- 010.htm http://www.ag.ohio-state.edu/~rer/rerhtml /rer_22.h tml
This was all over in the summer of '01. I think the problem was that the focus was on the Genoa summit, they thought the hit was going to be there, so then after nothing happened there was a lull. I remeber Drudge carrying this report on his big font banner in middle to late August for a few days.
Hell, the language of the ruling class of Rome was Greek, and since Byzantium was Rome and in the East there is no probably about it, they spoke and wrote Greek.
Slashdot Mirror
He might not have admitted it, but go look at the history, theme and language.
In Chesterton's Lepanto with the Black Azrael and Ariel and Ammon on the wing to the black riders of the Nazgul.
You have Southrons and Black Orcs speaking a unfamilar and uncouth lingua franca who come out of an Asia Minor shaped Mordor to besiege Vienna...I mean Minas Tirith, the siege it and because of a treaty, between two nations that don't see eye to eye in all matters (Austria and Poland/Lithuana), Jan Sobieski's Poles/Rohan ride to the rescue, they break the siege and it's over.
Saruman/Suleiman, also known as Sharku/Sheik.
Tolkien was a devout Roman Catholic and he undoubtably would have been familiar with the events between Europe and the Ottoman Empire over the centuries.
Lord of the Rings were about the Christian Armies stopping the Ottoman Empire at the battle of Vienna.
The Rohan force is a fictional version of Jan III Sobieski, King of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and his reinforcments that won the day and broke the siege.
(Speaking as a gay married man, I find it very easy to hate christianity.)
Yea? Try that in Saudi Arabia or Iran. I ran into this alot in the election cycle. people equating Bush with Islamic fundamentalists because of his wearing his faith out in the open. The United States Government has some strong Christians in it, but Christianity isn't nearly as fundamentalist and strictly adhering to the Bible at this point in time as say much of Islam sticks to the Koran.
Also, since some sub-divisions of Christianity support gay marriage, abortion, insert cause here, it's pure ignorance to have chrisianity as a whole. There is no Priest/Reverend/Minister of Christianity saying whatever is bad.
I'm not going back to the damned DMV to pay more money for bad customer service for a bad picture.
The Long Duration Exposure Facility and a handful of satellites before Challenger was lost.
Huh?
How are systems like what the X-Prize is meant to encourage "ICBMs"?
Nothing thats on the horizon from what I've seen of the X-Prize participants has anything near the range of an ICBM.
Current US ICBM - LGM-30G Minuteman III
700 miles up she goes on three stages with a 6,000-plus mile range
Weather Radar on birds with ISAR can do this.
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http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/2004-09/1094
I've exchanged email with NOAA about hurricane photos and have been told that some of them are inface ISAR radar images that have been colored.
The blurb there for the story sounds like a Press Release there from Mr Nair, chairman of the Bangalore-based Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro).
If you mean me, I'm not. I don't watch Fox News, don't go to the website for it, don't care about it.
However I think it's hypocrtical to attack Fox News for it's slant when CNN, Reuters, BBC and whomeverelse are just as slanted.
Unless you are looking at the Russian/Ukranian famines in the 1930s or pretty much anything in the last 6 or 7 years with the raft of new reporters they've got at the times making shit up, stealing pieces from other sources.
I also subscribe to a number of magazines.
Play, Beaverage World, Whiskey, Spirit Journal, Airforces Journal, Airliner, American Rifleman, Sports Illustrated, The Sporting News and South Dakota Magazine.
Theres a slant in the Times, Reuters, CNN, BBC, everyone has a slant. The problem is that NY Times, Reuters, CNN and the BBC have an aura of being "untouchable", mediums of "record". It's easy to rail against Fox News because they wear thier bias on thier sleave, instead of the whore in the alley or the "escort" Fox News is the hooker on the corner smoking a cig, hiking up it's skirt.
So you can rail against Fox News, but if I were to say Reuters has as much bias as Fox News because of Reuters word selections in say, terrorists, I have to write 1000 words on it and even then I'm ignorant. But if I say...Fox News sucks! That's all that needs to be said.
I never said that Drudge or /. or Fark do thier own reporting. They are conduits to other free sites for the most part, which was the point of my response to the other poster.
The traditional media's creation of it's product is what I don't like. While everyone rails against, oh say FoxNews, for having a bias, they think nothing of picking up the New York Times or reading the BBC and thinking that's the goddamned truth. It's not, it's a crafted product. New York Times has been doing it for decades. Walter Duranty, the Times' chief correspondent in Moscow from 1922 to 1941, who was widely praised in his day for his "dispassionate, interpretative reporting of the news from Russia." Duranty willingly participated in the Soviet campaign to cover up and deny the disaster, he then also spearheaded the effort to slander those correspondents who reported accurately on the famine.
Peter Arnett made up quotes from American Soliders in Vietnam, including the famed ""We had to destroy the village in order to save it." He made up Operation Tailwind and remained able to work in the Traditional Media. Jayson Blair and Charlie LeDuff get to make up quotes, steal stories and they become the "record" from these created productions.
Free websites for the most part
d it ion/front_page/rss.xml
Here are the sites in my News pull down
http://www.drudgereport.com/
http://www.slashdot.org/
http://www.jpost.com/
http://www.maarivintl.com/index.cfm
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/
http://www.arabnews.com/
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/
http://news.google.com/
http://www.kcna.co.jp/index-e.htm
feed://newsrss.bbc.co.uk/rss/newsonline_world_e
http://www.globalsecurity.org/
I also hit CNN.com, some of the other British papers on the web, occasionally the local news TV station's websites.
My focus is on the Middle East, so I hit alot of Israeli papers. I go to about 1 blog everyother day, other than Fark.
Well, newspapers werre very important to our society because they had a monopoly on the news and they had the place of being where legal statements were to be posted (name changes, arrests, that sort of thing).
They've let that status to go thier head, in the case of the NY Times and in the case of other "vital" news agencies like Reuters and the BBC so that they feel they can craft the news or spin it how they feel is right.
As for the TV and Radio news being paid for by advertisers...gee...last time I looked in the NY Times or Wall Street Journal there were advertisements in those mediums as well.
The News should be free. The archives should be free.
Dive in quality?
/.'s quality is way, way up from the Hotgrits days of 1999 or the angst and crap of Jon Katz and the hate that came with his posts about nothing.
I might be an old timer, but holy hell,
The discussion level is up, the editorial level isn't.
Mine is on the FedEx truck for delivery! Right now, archiving my Users folder.
I don't mess around with "clean installs" but I'm backing up my data
"...surged 19% in 2004 to 1,710."
/ us.html#Comm
1710 taps , how many phone lines in the US?
Telephones - main lines in use: 181,599,900
Telephones - mobile cellular: 158.722 million
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos
340 million lines in the US.
Should have been from the uncle-sam-isn't-listening to many dept.
Here come the slide to Nazi Germany and whatnot posts.
"Apparently judges have found that law enforcement is unbelievably perfect as they rubber-stamped approvals on every single request they received."
Or maybe Judges demanded a crapload of extra evidence for the tiny number of wire taps approved.
Not played it since I had a 800 MHz iMac with 768MB of RAM, but TA is awesome and it is the game that you can bring any machine to it's knees.
Macledge.com used to have a TA map of the week deal, got good maps from there
I meant 340...
For the US/Mexico/Canada markets, they did move away from 747s. Those are used for high cap long haul. I flew 747 to Hawaii from the Twin Cities, but alot of the routes flown by 747 and MD-11 have been replaced with A380, 777, 757 and 767.
Japan uses alot of 747s, some of them configured for shorter range and very high capacity, and 747s are being used for long over ocean flights quite a bit.
The issue is, what the future of commerical aviation is. Megaplanes (747 Stretch and A380), or a mix of long range (777-ER) and point to point, the 787, 777, A319-340, Regionals.
India and China don't have that strong of an aviation industry. Russia's is in the toilet, Brazil has a strong Regional Jet industry.
If you are such a sucker for uncompressed source materials, why are you listening to ogg then? It's been compressed. So no MPEG or JPEG for you either.
In other words, you are not the type of customer Apple is marketing towards, so really they shouldn't care and neither should you.
Break out the turntable and the tube amps.
I'm with you the whole way...but 100% of electricity doesn't come from Coal. 70% comes from Fossil Fuels, most of that coal.
4 02-f-98- 010.html /rer_22.h tml
We get much more radiation from natural sources like Radon, or our bodies, than we get from coal or nuclear power.
http://www.epa.gov/radiation/docs/ionize/
http://www.ag.ohio-state.edu/~rer/rerhtm
This was all over in the summer of '01. I think the problem was that the focus was on the Genoa summit, they thought the hit was going to be there, so then after nothing happened there was a lull. I remeber Drudge carrying this report on his big font banner in middle to late August for a few days.
Hell, the language of the ruling class of Rome was Greek, and since Byzantium was Rome and in the East there is no probably about it, they spoke and wrote Greek.