Again, you're ignoring the actual issue - the fact that it wasn't normal to fire these guys triggered the initial interest and scrutiny, and the executive branch chose a cover-up method rather than just coming out and saying, "Hey, here's why we fired these guys - we were doing favors for political allies that helped us win the last election, and we fired guys taht didn't do enough for us in the last election." They didn't do that - they said "Poor job performance", a claim which was immediately debunked, and which the White House has since backed off from. Add the deleted e-mails and constant "I don't recall, Senator" mantra, and you see why the American public wants to know what the hell is going on that's so bad that the White House felt like a cover-up was necessary in the first place. It has little to do with the initial firings, but that's what defenders of George Bush keep falling back on - "The firings were legal!" Fine, then why not be honest about the reasons? That's all we're asking. And quite frankly, what supporters of Bush should be asking as well.
If the Democrats truly believe that the current US Attorneys are fully qualified and should receive nothing but the highest levels of support, then the Democrats should deviate from past practice and not replace all the US Attorneys if they win the Presidency in 2008. The chances of the Democrats not replacing all of the US Attorneys is zero Wow, I didn't know Karl Rove had such a low UID. How long have you been lurking here Karl ?!?!
On Monday, yeah, 2 days ago, the Deputy AG announced he's resigning. Another sacrificial lamb in a last-ditch attempt to save Gonzales' job, and some face for the White House.
Your arguments sound suspiciously exactly like the standard White House comments, repeated ad nauseam on Fox News, "explaining" the firings. Of course, they and you neglect to address the crux of the issue - it's not normal to fire US attorneys in the middle of a president's term, there is evidence that the administration wanted to replace several of the U.S. Attorneys with people more "in line with" the administration's political agendas and as personal favors to some conservatives, while the White House denies these charges, saying the firings were for "job performance" reasons. It's now considered likely that the "missing" e-mails contain evidence that would show these claims by the White House to be bald-faced lies, so add cover-up to the already existing issue of the atypical dismissals.
You know, I come to Slashdot because usually when someone takes the topic of the story and turns it into their own personal jumping-off point for a political view, it gets modded below my threshold and I can read some relevant posts instead. But this one, for some reason, has exploded into a books' worth of environmentalists vs. "who-gives-a-shit-about-the-environment". I gave up about halfway down.
I, for one, get Slashdot stories via an RSS live bookmark on Firefox, and I don't know that the headline refers to a story at it.slashdot.org - I have to agree that Zonk's headline is extremely misleading, as when I see "Olympics" and "security" I immediately assume the headline refers to physical security.
so it doesn't play xvid or divx but it does play h.264 - does that mean it'll play x264? I can't seem to find a straight answer to that anywhere. It's relevant because, ahem, there might be some x264 content on my hard drive that I might want to watch on my plasma. And I may have gotten that content from the internets.
"In April 2005, "High Voltage" became part of the basic XM subscription. There are no numbers available with respect to the number of premium subscribers. Hughes gave some indication, however, when he told the Long Island press in 2006, 'we went from having a show that was syndicated in 17 major markets to having a few thousand.'"
You, sir, are a huge Opie and Anthony fan. Please try to keep your bias out of future posts. And also unsupported hyperbole like "tens of thousands of loyal listeners."
Considering that by even the most conservative estimates, Howard Stern attracted over 2 million subscribers by himself to Sirius, and Opie and Anthony attracted, by their own admission, less than 10,000 listeners willing to pay the extra $2 a month to hear them, I don't think you can really say that this is "interesting". Is it interesting when a flea bites an elephant?
This is only partially true. While you CAN get whatever format you want on allofmp3, and that's a good thing, the bitrate you choose might end up being a rip-off. Many of the higher-bitrate downloads from allofmp3 end up being transcodes from lower-bitrate versions.
Evidence of the transcoding is readily apparent by importing any such mp3 (or any format) into a program that will show you the audio spectrum of the file.
This is not always the case, but true often enough that it makes paying for higher bitrates at best a gamble, and at worst, a waste of time and $$$ on allofmp3. Just thought you should be aware.
The director, Beth Givens, admits 'the number 100 million is largely a fictional number, I suppose that's better than just tossing out a large, fictional number.
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I think he means Grizabella Memory
Again, you're ignoring the actual issue - the fact that it wasn't normal to fire these guys triggered the initial interest and scrutiny, and the executive branch chose a cover-up method rather than just coming out and saying, "Hey, here's why we fired these guys - we were doing favors for political allies that helped us win the last election, and we fired guys taht didn't do enough for us in the last election." They didn't do that - they said "Poor job performance", a claim which was immediately debunked, and which the White House has since backed off from. Add the deleted e-mails and constant "I don't recall, Senator" mantra, and you see why the American public wants to know what the hell is going on that's so bad that the White House felt like a cover-up was necessary in the first place. It has little to do with the initial firings, but that's what defenders of George Bush keep falling back on - "The firings were legal!" Fine, then why not be honest about the reasons? That's all we're asking. And quite frankly, what supporters of Bush should be asking as well.
Your arguments sound suspiciously exactly like the standard White House comments, repeated ad nauseam on Fox News, "explaining" the firings. Of course, they and you neglect to address the crux of the issue - it's not normal to fire US attorneys in the middle of a president's term, there is evidence that the administration wanted to replace several of the U.S. Attorneys with people more "in line with" the administration's political agendas and as personal favors to some conservatives, while the White House denies these charges, saying the firings were for "job performance" reasons. It's now considered likely that the "missing" e-mails contain evidence that would show these claims by the White House to be bald-faced lies, so add cover-up to the already existing issue of the atypical dismissals.
Whatever, Alanis
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There should be a "+1 - Working in a DD-214 reference" moderation option.
You know, I come to Slashdot because usually when someone takes the topic of the story and turns it into their own personal jumping-off point for a political view, it gets modded below my threshold and I can read some relevant posts instead. But this one, for some reason, has exploded into a books' worth of environmentalists vs. "who-gives-a-shit-about-the-environment". I gave up about halfway down.
I, for one, get Slashdot stories via an RSS live bookmark on Firefox, and I don't know that the headline refers to a story at it.slashdot.org - I have to agree that Zonk's headline is extremely misleading, as when I see "Olympics" and "security" I immediately assume the headline refers to physical security.
so it doesn't play xvid or divx but it does play h.264 - does that mean it'll play x264? I can't seem to find a straight answer to that anywhere. It's relevant because, ahem, there might be some x264 content on my hard drive that I might want to watch on my plasma. And I may have gotten that content from the internets.
I swear, if this wasn't Slashdot, that comment woulda been +5 funny in seconds. You non-sports-watching fiends.
"In April 2005, "High Voltage" became part of the basic XM subscription. There are no numbers available with respect to the number of premium subscribers. Hughes gave some indication, however, when he told the Long Island press in 2006, 'we went from having a show that was syndicated in 17 major markets to having a few thousand.'" You, sir, are a huge Opie and Anthony fan. Please try to keep your bias out of future posts. And also unsupported hyperbole like "tens of thousands of loyal listeners."
Considering that by even the most conservative estimates, Howard Stern attracted over 2 million subscribers by himself to Sirius, and Opie and Anthony attracted, by their own admission, less than 10,000 listeners willing to pay the extra $2 a month to hear them, I don't think you can really say that this is "interesting". Is it interesting when a flea bites an elephant?
This is only partially true. While you CAN get whatever format you want on allofmp3, and that's a good thing, the bitrate you choose might end up being a rip-off. Many of the higher-bitrate downloads from allofmp3 end up being transcodes from lower-bitrate versions.
Evidence of the transcoding is readily apparent by importing any such mp3 (or any format) into a program that will show you the audio spectrum of the file.
This is not always the case, but true often enough that it makes paying for higher bitrates at best a gamble, and at worst, a waste of time and $$$ on allofmp3. Just thought you should be aware.
Freelance.
What you mean "we", Kemosabe? Speak for yourself and the other 49% of the USA.