You seem to be missing my point, which is not that I don't 'like' the news or how mainstream media delivers it.... its that news is a business, and that other entities with far more money determine the shape of the news. The old model was report good story = sell more newspapers. The new model is propaganda for hire. None of the news sources you mentioned are immune from this.
You obviously have no knowledge of the history of news reporting in the U.S. (and I am betting that the rest of the world has similar things in its history). The old model was select a policy outcome that the paper's owner wanted to have happen, report news stories that inflame the public in favor of said policy, profit. See "yellow journalism"
Let me see if I got this straight. You have had two laptops fail while under extended warranty and you still buy equipment from that company?
My philosophy on extended warranty/protection plans is: I'm betting that company X makes good equipment when I lay out the money to buy it, buying an extended warranty is betting that company X makes bad equipment. If I believe the latter enough to lay out the money for the extended warranty, I believe it enough to not lay out the money to buy from them in the first place.
"It doesn't matter if global warming is true or not. We all want cleaner air."
Except that "fighting global warming" isn't about cleaner air. It is about reducing "greenhouse gases", primarily CO2, which is an essential part of the atmosphere. So, it does matter if "global warming" is true, because people like Al Gore are asking us to cripple our economies to reduce CO2 emissions, which are only a problem if global warming is a problem.
Which is a question that I rarely seen discussed. If Global Warming is true, is it really a problem?
Your explanation makes sense, the airline industry is a perfect example of why trying to charge the most the market will bear is often not the best pricing strategy.
most single direction flights are business flights so the airlines know they can charge more.
This is the sort of pricing structure that causes the airlines to have problems. The airlines charge their best customers(business travelers) more. Most industries find it most profitable to give their best customers special deals.
Did you not notice in the summary "two British passports"? Now, I may be mistaken, but I am pretty sure that if you are FROM the USA, you most probably don't have a BRITISH passport.
I thought that you had the right to be secure in your papers and personal effects. Fourth ammendment, google tells me. I hope this raises a big enough stink to become an election issue. The DHS needs to be reigned in something fierce.
The thing everybody seems to overlook is that this is not a new policy. There are only two parts of this that are even vaguely new: The fact that it is DHS policy (the DHS is only a few years old) and the application to electronically stored information. This policy has been around relative to paper documents for most of the history of the country.
In most municipalities the sidewalk is paid for by the owner of the property it passes in front of. In the one's that I am familiar with, if it comes to the attention of the relevant authority that your sidewalk is in disrepair, they send you a letter giving you "x" number of days to fix the problem after which they will either fine you on a daily basis or fix it for themselves for some exorbitant sum that you will be billed for.
So, in the U.S., most sidewalks have always been privatized.
Poppycock. Music and art existed before they could be monetized for mass-production, and they will continue to exist after they can't be monetized in this way anymore.
Yes, they were monetized by the rich who paid for them as status symbols. So, I guess you are proposing a return to the days when only the rich have access to music and art?
Before music and art were monetized for mass-production, most music and art was produced on commission and ended up the sole possession of some individual. If music and art can no longer be monetized by mass-production, chances are good that they will stop being available for the masses.
Two points, speeding is a minor offense, falsifying the radar gun calibration is a fairly serious offense that can cost an officer his career. Second, the officer who uses the gun is not the person who calibrates it. There is a fairly involved paper trail to calibrating a device that involves two or more people.
He doesn't get nervous around "free" services, he gets nervous when people talk about "free" services. You see, he understands that all those "free" services you mention are paid for by somebody. I wonder where you live that get the fire engines for free. The last time the fire company near me was talking about getting a new fire truck, the cost was a couple hundred thousand dollars.
You see the poster you were replying to was a productive member of society and therefore he pays taxes. That means that all of those "free" services you were talking about are paid for out of his pocket.
Most of the Mac owners I know are normal people. Either students that got an imac laptop from their school, older people who wanted an easy to use computer, or an artist (musician, photographer, graphic designer, etc.) who wanted a powerful machine that wouldn't get infected with a ton of spyware and viruses in a week.
You know some artists (musician, photographer, graphic designer, etc) and you say that they are normal people? Good grief most of the geeks I know are closer to normal than the artists I have met.
their agenda. Nah when the power company wants to raise rates it's done in a public forum and it has to be okay'd by whatever governmental committee is in charge of that. Which obviously isn't a perfect system but it works and you don't see massive consumer unrest towards entities with such oversight.
The electric company never uses your paymenys to fund lobbyists? What are you smoking? The electric companies are the telcos' and cable companies' wet dream. What do you think Enron was? That's right it was primarily an electricity and gas company.
What?! Only in a country where a democratically controlled congress passes a bill giving a free pass, sorry for using pass so much, to the telecoms for violating the law would the courts allow a company that illegally collects data to testify in a case without being under oath. Now how about the defendants, they get this free pass too, right?
If you had actually read the summary, you would see that it is not the courts that are asking MediaSentry to testify, it is the North Carolina Private Protective Services Board. This is no more the "courts" than the FCC is on the federal level.
But back on topic, the issue here is not some law might allow the inclusion of intelligent design in science class. The issue is, the legislature shouldn't be setting curriculum.
Um, you do know that the legislature in every state sets the curriculum for that state? This happened at the pressure of the Teachers' Unions (among others). The idea was to standardize the curriculum across the entire state.
No, you are not a racist, you are an idiot. You just took a random excuse to make an anti-Bush/anti-American post. The OP was not making an either-or statement, he was making an argument about why Legaltorrents.com might be successful.
The breakup happened because AT&T wanted to get into other businesses (like computing). If it wasn't for the breakup, AT&T would have done what Microsoft did on a much larger scale.
The problem is that between the courts and the patent office it has become possible to patent things like "a system to move large numbers of people between two places" when you invent the passenger train and then sue an airline for infringement. (I know that this particular patent isn't possible, but there exist patents that have been enforced that are similarly general).
The problem with the patent system as it now exists is the ability to patent "business processes" and software.
Then they promptly overthrew the government that provided us with that help. It was the French monarchy that helped the American Revolutionaries.
Even if you overlook that, the U.S. paid that debt back in WWII
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You seem to be missing my point, which is not that I don't 'like' the news or how mainstream media delivers it.... its that news is a business, and that other entities with far more money determine the shape of the news. The old model was report good story = sell more newspapers. The new model is propaganda for hire. None of the news sources you mentioned are immune from this.
You obviously have no knowledge of the history of news reporting in the U.S. (and I am betting that the rest of the world has similar things in its history). The old model was select a policy outcome that the paper's owner wanted to have happen, report news stories that inflame the public in favor of said policy, profit. See "yellow journalism"
Let me see if I got this straight. You have had two laptops fail while under extended warranty and you still buy equipment from that company?
My philosophy on extended warranty/protection plans is: I'm betting that company X makes good equipment when I lay out the money to buy it, buying an extended warranty is betting that company X makes bad equipment. If I believe the latter enough to lay out the money for the extended warranty, I believe it enough to not lay out the money to buy from them in the first place.
"It doesn't matter if global warming is true or not. We all want cleaner air."
Except that "fighting global warming" isn't about cleaner air. It is about reducing "greenhouse gases", primarily CO2, which is an essential part of the atmosphere. So, it does matter if "global warming" is true, because people like Al Gore are asking us to cripple our economies to reduce CO2 emissions, which are only a problem if global warming is a problem.
Which is a question that I rarely seen discussed. If Global Warming is true, is it really a problem?
Your explanation makes sense, the airline industry is a perfect example of why trying to charge the most the market will bear is often not the best pricing strategy.
most single direction flights are business flights so the airlines know they can charge more.
This is the sort of pricing structure that causes the airlines to have problems. The airlines charge their best customers(business travelers) more. Most industries find it most profitable to give their best customers special deals.
Did you not notice in the summary "two British passports"? Now, I may be mistaken, but I am pretty sure that if you are FROM the USA, you most probably don't have a BRITISH passport.
About 5 months of this nonsense left at the time of this post, and all these wacky rules can be repealed after that, thank goodness:
http://politicalhumor.about.com/library/blbushclock.htm
You do realize that most of these rules are at most rewordings and formalizations of what was already policy in 2000?
WTF is "libertarian socialism"?
Reality has a liberal bias.
So says a man with a liberal bias.
Without looking it up, what is the circumference of the earth?
I thought that you had the right to be secure in your papers and personal effects. Fourth ammendment, google tells me. I hope this raises a big enough stink to become an election issue. The DHS needs to be reigned in something fierce.
The thing everybody seems to overlook is that this is not a new policy. There are only two parts of this that are even vaguely new: The fact that it is DHS policy (the DHS is only a few years old) and the application to electronically stored information. This policy has been around relative to paper documents for most of the history of the country.
In most municipalities the sidewalk is paid for by the owner of the property it passes in front of. In the one's that I am familiar with, if it comes to the attention of the relevant authority that your sidewalk is in disrepair, they send you a letter giving you "x" number of days to fix the problem after which they will either fine you on a daily basis or fix it for themselves for some exorbitant sum that you will be billed for.
So, in the U.S., most sidewalks have always been privatized.
Two points, speeding is a minor offense, falsifying the radar gun calibration is a fairly serious offense that can cost an officer his career. Second, the officer who uses the gun is not the person who calibrates it. There is a fairly involved paper trail to calibrating a device that involves two or more people.
He doesn't get nervous around "free" services, he gets nervous when people talk about "free" services. You see, he understands that all those "free" services you mention are paid for by somebody. I wonder where you live that get the fire engines for free. The last time the fire company near me was talking about getting a new fire truck, the cost was a couple hundred thousand dollars.
You see the poster you were replying to was a productive member of society and therefore he pays taxes. That means that all of those "free" services you were talking about are paid for out of his pocket.
Most of the Mac owners I know are normal people. Either students that got an imac laptop from their school, older people who wanted an easy to use computer, or an artist (musician, photographer, graphic designer, etc.) who wanted a powerful machine that wouldn't get infected with a ton of spyware and viruses in a week.
You know some artists (musician, photographer, graphic designer, etc) and you say that they are normal people? Good grief most of the geeks I know are closer to normal than the artists I have met.
their agenda. Nah when the power company wants to raise rates it's done in a public forum and it has to be okay'd by whatever governmental committee is in charge of that. Which obviously isn't a perfect system but it works and you don't see massive consumer unrest towards entities with such oversight.
The electric company never uses your paymenys to fund lobbyists? What are you smoking? The electric companies are the telcos' and cable companies' wet dream. What do you think Enron was? That's right it was primarily an electricity and gas company.
What?! Only in a country where a democratically controlled congress passes a bill giving a free pass, sorry for using pass so much, to the telecoms for violating the law would the courts allow a company that illegally collects data to testify in a case without being under oath. Now how about the defendants, they get this free pass too, right?
If you had actually read the summary, you would see that it is not the courts that are asking MediaSentry to testify, it is the North Carolina Private Protective Services Board. This is no more the "courts" than the FCC is on the federal level.
But back on topic, the issue here is not some law might allow the inclusion of intelligent design in science class. The issue is, the legislature shouldn't be setting curriculum.
Um, you do know that the legislature in every state sets the curriculum for that state? This happened at the pressure of the Teachers' Unions (among others). The idea was to standardize the curriculum across the entire state.
No, you are not a racist, you are an idiot. You just took a random excuse to make an anti-Bush/anti-American post. The OP was not making an either-or statement, he was making an argument about why Legaltorrents.com might be successful.
Great, let's create a transportation monopoly since it works so well with phone, electric, and cable television service.
It is not scale, it is market share. In both of your examples, the cartel has dominant market share in the market (the affected city).
The breakup happened because AT&T wanted to get into other businesses (like computing). If it wasn't for the breakup, AT&T would have done what Microsoft did on a much larger scale.
The problem is that between the courts and the patent office it has become possible to patent things like "a system to move large numbers of people between two places" when you invent the passenger train and then sue an airline for infringement. (I know that this particular patent isn't possible, but there exist patents that have been enforced that are similarly general).
The problem with the patent system as it now exists is the ability to patent "business processes" and software.
Then they promptly overthrew the government that provided us with that help. It was the French monarchy that helped the American Revolutionaries.
Even if you overlook that, the U.S. paid that debt back in WWII