If you say that to a qualified Physiotherapist, you'll be needing a funeral director. Chiropractors are quacks. They have zero legitimacy with medical professionals.
Some chiropractors are quacks, but they are not all woo vendors. Careful shopping is needed.
In one study, people who watched The Daily Show were overall better-informed than people who watched news channels.
Eh, that's quite debatable. I'll defer to Politifact on the subject:
We found three Pew studies that superficially rank Fox viewers low on the well-informed list, but in several of the surveys, Fox isn’t the lowest, and other general-interest media outlets — such as network news shows, network morning shows and even the other cable news networks — often score similarly low. The same cannot be said for certain Fox shows, such as The O’Reilly Factor and Sean Hannity’s show, which actually score consistently well, occasionally even outpacing Stewart’s audience.
Jon even acknowledged the veracity of that Politifact blurb on the Daily Show, then went on to talk about the inaccuracy scores Fox got on Politifact as well.
I'm also opposed to monopolization and for unionization (except for Government employees).
Huh. Most people I've heard from who are against unionization dislike unions in the private sector, but think that public sector unions are a much greater abomination and should be banned. Why the public sector exemption, curiously?
The purpose of economic activity is to create goods and services, not "keeping people busy".
There's nothing more important than "keeping people busy." They're PEOPLE, and to do anything in society requires money. They HAVE to have jobs.
As the cost of production is reduced, some combination of the customers, franchisees, and shareholders will have more money to spend on other things, generating jobs elsewhere in the economy
Ahh yes. The big lie, that reducing jobs creates uuhhh.. more jobs, somehow. It's the milder cousin of the thoroughly-debunked trickle-down.
What we've found in the real is that the extra profits go to shareholders, executives and others who do not reinvest, but keep it. Over the last 30-odd years we've seen a massive wealth transfer from the middle class and poor to the upper class. The rich get richer, because they hold enough control to squeeze everyone else.
As I just posted below - before seeing your comment - those idiots need to hit the accelerator when the trailer starts swerving! Any other maneuver is bound to lead to a bad day.
Speeding up does work.
A Hollywood screenwriter just got an idea for Speed 3 and is trying to sign Sandra Bullock and book a wing of an airport.
Having children is already heavily government subsidized. There are tax deductions for people with children, and government spending on public education exceeds $10,000 / child-year in the US. Take away these and other subsidies and the birth rate will fall further (as more adults realize "Hey, we can't afford this.") No need for an even more draconian government.
I wish that was the case, but I don't think it will be. Sure, children are government subsidized, but they're still pretty damned expensive -- far more expensive than not having kids. There are plenty, plenty of people who have quite a few kids who can't afford them now, the financial disincentive doesn't seem to have that much effect. They might -regret- that life with kids is harder, but.. it doesn't stop them from having them and doing their best to raise them.
You mean a comedian didn't provide truthful, unbiased reporting?
I'm shocked.
No, you and they don't get to do that. Jon Stewart used that as a very sad defense of the Daily Show as well. Pretend to be a news show that adds jokes, then hide behind "oh, we're just a poor comedy show, not a news show, and now back to our humorous skewing of the news" if someone points out that you represented them.
I noticed that, too. It tells me that John Oliver allows other people to control what he does.
In as much as the newsmakers control the news reporters. Oliver is more a pundit and not a reporter, but the same principle applies to a lesser degree.
But no one REALLY believes that Oliver thinks his hand was forced. It was another acerbic remark in a show dedicated to acerbic remarks.
Okay, that is useful information to have. I had no idea specific channels could be blocked for non-US users, i've only heard about that for things like Netflix before
Unfortunately, it is the default condition for TV shows and movies, or anything that appears on an old-school cable channel. The distribution rights cost money, and the international distribution rights cost even more. It's common for one company to handle distribution rights in the US, and a totally different one handle that in the UK, with no audience crossover allowed.
half mile depth around the globe, we stack nearly 30k people per square mile in cities already and just the land mass of earth has roughly 200 million sq miles.
Yeah. And quality of life will be absolute shit. I don't want to live shoulder to shoulder with little space with a ton of other people... for what? For the stupid goal of packing an ever growing amount of people on the planet? How miserable do we have to be before we decide that maybe.. maybe allowing other folks to pump out that many children is no longer in our interest?
Why is "We can see the planet support over one trillian people" anything resembling a desirable goal?
All of the new users I've dealt with in the 24 years I've used Linux were more confused by the different distributions than any other single thing.
If they're confused by the idea that different people can release slightly tweaked versions of Linux, I submit that they will spend most of their lives confused in any case, and there is nothing that can be done to fix it.
About Linux? Yes. About other things? Not necessary.
There was a British soap opera which portrayed an interracial kiss in 1964. But in the US, there are a few factors at first. Would the kisses between Hispanic Desi Arnaz and White Lucille Ball be considered interracial, or would you say Arnaz is a white male of Cuban ancestry? Probably the latter. An episode of I Spy in 1966 featured a kiss between a white man and a Eurasian actress. The first black/white kiss aired on US television was from Nancy Sinatra and Sammy Davis Jr, a year before the Star Trek episode aired. Star Trek featured the first black/white kiss in US scripted television.
Oh, and btw, explain this: why do we allow the LBGTTTQQIAA to do in the street, during pride parades
The "pride parades" do not reflect most gay/les/bi/whatever people, they are just highly visible, which is why they're so closely associated with "gay people." Even there, such behavior is usually one small subsection of a parade as well. It's part of a very specific subculture among non-straight/etc people, an image that both that subculture promotes (because it's them) and regular culture promotes as well, because most people without gay friends don't have any experience with non-straight folks who look and act like straight folks.
It only is the highest rated network in the U.S., reaches basically the entire U.S. television audience, and has been around for 70 years, producing far more content that is syndicated around the world than Netflix could even dream of.
Oh, if only that was the network that Star Trek: Discovery was airing on. But it's not airing on CBS. It's airing on "CBS: All Access," a subscription service that is obscure even in the realm of subscription services.
It also broadasts on 4 continents, owns among other properties Columbia Records, Simon and Schuster Publishing, Showtime, C-Net, Last.FM, and until recently one of the largest outdoor advertising operations in North America.
Netflix tends to go for simultaneous release - even when they're not the primary producer.
But that's mostly because that's the only way they can legally get ahold of the shows. They get full seasons on DVD, which tends to be the time when full seasons air on streaming. I'm sure Netflix wouldn't mind if they got TV show episodes one at a time as they're actually aired, but no network will release shows to them like that.
I bet you just can't stand FUCKING WHITE MALEs eh?
I just can't stand that when a non-white-male is cast, a certain segment of our society throws a fit and shouts "PC bullshit! SJWs!!!" like white male should always be the default.
My general feeling for the "quality" of BSG -- absolutely excellent for the first 1.5 seasons, culminating in the Pegasus storyline. After the Pegasus arc, Season 2 floundered and stumbled a bit until the end, but the end of Season 2 was excellent, and I think the New Caprica storyline and the exodus was extremely well done as well. Once they escaped New Caprica, the series floundered a lot more and nosedived, never to recover. Even while I liked overall the season 3 ending, the final five thing was a bit ridiculous, as was the final reveal of "the plan." (Actually, The Plan was quite a good movie. I rather enjoyed it) Spoiler: The Cylons' plan was merely to blow up the 12 colonies, and that was about it. All those episodes of BSG that told us the Cylons had a plan.. well, the plan was over at that point. After colonies were nuked, the Cylons were rolling with the punches, reacting to what the humans were doing and trying to sabotage them.
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I sit on a computer
That sounds like bad posture for programming..
If you say that to a qualified Physiotherapist, you'll be needing a funeral director. Chiropractors are quacks. They have zero legitimacy with medical professionals.
Some chiropractors are quacks, but they are not all woo vendors. Careful shopping is needed.
In one study, people who watched The Daily Show were overall better-informed than people who watched news channels.
Eh, that's quite debatable. I'll defer to Politifact on the subject:
Jon even acknowledged the veracity of that Politifact blurb on the Daily Show, then went on to talk about the inaccuracy scores Fox got on Politifact as well.
I'm also opposed to monopolization and for unionization (except for Government employees).
Huh. Most people I've heard from who are against unionization dislike unions in the private sector, but think that public sector unions are a much greater abomination and should be banned. Why the public sector exemption, curiously?
The purpose of economic activity is to create goods and services, not "keeping people busy".
There's nothing more important than "keeping people busy." They're PEOPLE, and to do anything in society requires money. They HAVE to have jobs.
As the cost of production is reduced, some combination of the customers, franchisees, and shareholders will have more money to spend on other things, generating jobs elsewhere in the economy
Ahh yes. The big lie, that reducing jobs creates uuhhh.. more jobs, somehow. It's the milder cousin of the thoroughly-debunked trickle-down.
What we've found in the real is that the extra profits go to shareholders, executives and others who do not reinvest, but keep it. Over the last 30-odd years we've seen a massive wealth transfer from the middle class and poor to the upper class. The rich get richer, because they hold enough control to squeeze everyone else.
As I just posted below - before seeing your comment - those idiots need to hit the accelerator when the trailer starts swerving! Any other maneuver is bound to lead to a bad day.
Speeding up does work.
A Hollywood screenwriter just got an idea for Speed 3 and is trying to sign Sandra Bullock and book a wing of an airport.
Having children is already heavily government subsidized. There are tax deductions for people with children, and government spending on public education exceeds $10,000 / child-year in the US. Take away these and other subsidies and the birth rate will fall further (as more adults realize "Hey, we can't afford this.") No need for an even more draconian government.
I wish that was the case, but I don't think it will be. Sure, children are government subsidized, but they're still pretty damned expensive -- far more expensive than not having kids. There are plenty, plenty of people who have quite a few kids who can't afford them now, the financial disincentive doesn't seem to have that much effect. They might -regret- that life with kids is harder, but .. it doesn't stop them from having them and doing their best to raise them.
'scuse me, Adolf, that's not a decision you get to make.
Oh no? If it's a direct threat to the rest of us, then maybe we'll collectively decide that perhaps that right isn't so sacred.
You mean a comedian didn't provide truthful, unbiased reporting?
I'm shocked.
No, you and they don't get to do that. Jon Stewart used that as a very sad defense of the Daily Show as well. Pretend to be a news show that adds jokes, then hide behind "oh, we're just a poor comedy show, not a news show, and now back to our humorous skewing of the news" if someone points out that you represented them.
I noticed that, too. It tells me that John Oliver allows other people to control what he does.
In as much as the newsmakers control the news reporters. Oliver is more a pundit and not a reporter, but the same principle applies to a lesser degree.
But no one REALLY believes that Oliver thinks his hand was forced. It was another acerbic remark in a show dedicated to acerbic remarks.
Somehow, "asshat" just doesn't seem to project the same caliber insult as "asshole".
Asshole is just angry. Asshat conveys annoyance and also a dismissal of the target's importance.
Okay, that is useful information to have. I had no idea specific channels could be blocked for non-US users, i've only heard about that for things like Netflix before
Unfortunately, it is the default condition for TV shows and movies, or anything that appears on an old-school cable channel. The distribution rights cost money, and the international distribution rights cost even more. It's common for one company to handle distribution rights in the US, and a totally different one handle that in the UK, with no audience crossover allowed.
He should get the views if they're his videos. You're watching them for a reason.
Sounds like you are opting for space colonization.
Or he's saying that a milder version of China's one-child policy might be a good idea.
half mile depth around the globe, we stack nearly 30k people per square mile in cities already and just the land mass of earth has roughly 200 million sq miles.
Yeah. And quality of life will be absolute shit. I don't want to live shoulder to shoulder with little space with a ton of other people... for what? For the stupid goal of packing an ever growing amount of people on the planet? How miserable do we have to be before we decide that maybe.. maybe allowing other folks to pump out that many children is no longer in our interest?
Why is "We can see the planet support over one trillian people" anything resembling a desirable goal?
Please, allow me to show you how links work. This way, people don't have to visit imdb just for you to make a joke.
Prometheus
Prometheus was not a very good joke..
All of the new users I've dealt with in the 24 years I've used Linux were more confused by the different distributions than any other single thing.
If they're confused by the idea that different people can release slightly tweaked versions of Linux, I submit that they will spend most of their lives confused in any case, and there is nothing that can be done to fix it.
About Linux? Yes. About other things? Not necessary.
Done. Most of us have no issue with it in a production environment. Try again.
There was a British soap opera which portrayed an interracial kiss in 1964.
But in the US, there are a few factors at first. Would the kisses between Hispanic Desi Arnaz and White Lucille Ball be considered interracial, or would you say Arnaz is a white male of Cuban ancestry? Probably the latter.
An episode of I Spy in 1966 featured a kiss between a white man and a Eurasian actress.
The first black/white kiss aired on US television was from Nancy Sinatra and Sammy Davis Jr, a year before the Star Trek episode aired.
Star Trek featured the first black/white kiss in US scripted television.
Oh, and btw, explain this: why do we allow the LBGTTTQQIAA to do in the street, during pride parades
The "pride parades" do not reflect most gay/les/bi/whatever people, they are just highly visible, which is why they're so closely associated with "gay people." Even there, such behavior is usually one small subsection of a parade as well. It's part of a very specific subculture among non-straight/etc people, an image that both that subculture promotes (because it's them) and regular culture promotes as well, because most people without gay friends don't have any experience with non-straight folks who look and act like straight folks.
Derp derp. CBS is an obscure channel!
It only is the highest rated network in the U.S., reaches basically the entire U.S. television audience, and has been around for 70 years, producing far more content that is syndicated around the world than Netflix could even dream of.
Oh, if only that was the network that Star Trek: Discovery was airing on. But it's not airing on CBS. It's airing on "CBS: All Access," a subscription service that is obscure even in the realm of subscription services.
It also broadasts on 4 continents, owns among other properties Columbia Records, Simon and Schuster Publishing, Showtime, C-Net, Last.FM, and until recently one of the largest outdoor advertising operations in North America.
Like I said, obscure!
It doesn't matter what the parent company owns.
Netflix tends to go for simultaneous release - even when they're not the primary producer.
But that's mostly because that's the only way they can legally get ahold of the shows. They get full seasons on DVD, which tends to be the time when full seasons air on streaming. I'm sure Netflix wouldn't mind if they got TV show episodes one at a time as they're actually aired, but no network will release shows to them like that.
I bet you just can't stand FUCKING WHITE MALEs eh?
I just can't stand that when a non-white-male is cast, a certain segment of our society throws a fit and shouts "PC bullshit! SJWs!!!" like white male should always be the default.
To be fair, in the ST universe, we had WWIII before we conquered all that bullshit.
And the Eugenics Wars, which I think were separate from WWIII. Depending on which series' description of the timeline you want to believe. :-)
My general feeling for the "quality" of BSG -- absolutely excellent for the first 1.5 seasons, culminating in the Pegasus storyline. After the Pegasus arc, Season 2 floundered and stumbled a bit until the end, but the end of Season 2 was excellent, and I think the New Caprica storyline and the exodus was extremely well done as well. Once they escaped New Caprica, the series floundered a lot more and nosedived, never to recover. Even while I liked overall the season 3 ending, the final five thing was a bit ridiculous, as was the final reveal of "the plan." (Actually, The Plan was quite a good movie. I rather enjoyed it) Spoiler: The Cylons' plan was merely to blow up the 12 colonies, and that was about it. All those episodes of BSG that told us the Cylons had a plan.. well, the plan was over at that point. After colonies were nuked, the Cylons were rolling with the punches, reacting to what the humans were doing and trying to sabotage them.