After 20 years of watching the ongoing corporatization and the creation of a conservative media hegemony, I think the word "evil" applies.
I agree that corporatization is a huge problem, but the media are anything but conservative. Most of the larger media companies are liberally biased.
Current forerunner of such: the almost complete adoration of the current president, and the complete lack of criticism of his past, his current policies, or his actual words.
I don't know what media you've been reading, but I see plenty of criticism of Bush. Some of it well deserved, some not.
This is a top-down move from the highest levels of the corporations such as AOL-TW and GE and Disney.
Do you have any evidence of this grand conspiracy you're suggesting? Some source inside these companies with access to "the highest levels" as you put it?
And across the country, in many city papers, editors and reporters that aren't toeing the line are being canned. Think about it: how many reporters and editors were fired for critizing Clinton?
All across the country, huh? Do you have any evidence for this?
Greenland got its name as a joke from its discoverer (Erik the Red, IIRC). He found both Iceland and Greenland and reversed their logical names deliberately, to steer others away from the one that was actually green.
No, it really was green. There've been archaelogical excavations of agricultural settlements (~1000 AD) currently under ice. The mini ice age (~1500-1800 AD) made agriculture impossible there.
This happened to the leader of the Webplayer Co-op a couple years ago.
We had a hundred or so people send him money via PayPal to make the WebPlayer order. They suspected something was fishy and froze his account. You can read the thread from the Webplayer Co-op egroup here.
Eventually they straightened it out, the WebPlayers were shipped and we received them, but PayPal sure delayed the process.
Um, there's no evidence that Walmart is actually saving consumers money on these machines. Quite frankly, I wouldn't be surprised to see them making a profit.
First, the whole point of a corporation is to make a profit. Otherwise they'd go out of business.
Second, the exact same model of computer is $99 more with Windows XP Home Edition.
True, but in many places in the world, unlimited Internet access is not a reality or is unaffordable.
Most publishers create different editions for different countries (US & UK being a prime example). They could include a CD-ROM in some editions, but leave it out in the US edition.
The settlement with the DOJ specifically allows Microsoft to exclude documentation of APIs that relate to security. This new initiative makes damn near anything in some way relate to security.
You've hit the nail on the head. After reading the articles and many of the comments, I still wasn't convinced one way or the other what the purpose behind their new security push was. Now I am.
The settlement requires them to disclose APIs to competitors, unless it has to do with security. Now they'll add to/change their APIs at will, and claim it's for security reasons. Business as usual for MS, this settlement is even weaker than I thought.
Says who? They named the white guys that died at the end of the movie. They didn't name the black guys.
No, you've got it wrong. They named the Americans that died. They didn't name the Somalis. Unfortunately, we don't know the names of most of the Somalis killed, enemy or civilian.
Nooooo. Nothing racist about that!
It's not always about race. Don't try to read into it something that's not there.
It justhappens that the single largest opponent of Open Source and the GPL is also the single largest corporation(I don't have to say the name of the Beast, do I?).
I hope you're not talking about Microsoft. They're far from the largest company. They're 22nd on the Forbes 500, and 79th on the Fortune 500. And those lists only include US companies. If you include foreign companies, Microsoft seems even smaller. However, they control a hugely disproportionate number of computers worldwide.
I chose it because it's one of the most well known lawsuits regarding trademark disputes using the same name. In my search when I made the original post, the Apple Records trademark is listed as dead & abandoned.
People died and most of those people would not have died if they did not have access to a gun (suicide statistics from other countries without guns bear this out).
No, you have no idea what you're talking about. There are many countries with much stricter firearm laws with higher suicide rates. See this map from the World Health Organization for details.
Guns make suicide easy and private. Most suicides would not happen if the person had to poison themselves, jump to their death, etc. That's why we have such a high suicide rate in the U.S.
The US has a relatively low suicide rate. See this page for a map depicting different countries' rates.
If guns weren't used, less people would succeed commiting suicide, but the number of attempts probably wouldn't change. According to this, 4 times more men die of suicide than women, while 3 times more women attempt suicide. That's because 79% of firearm suicide deaths were men, while women usually try less lethal methods.
Why can't the auto manufactures develop a decent HUD. Imagine something that could project the centerline of the road on the window when it is snowing or raining hard. Or perhaps, it could incorporate itself with the collision avoidence systems and show when obstacles are in the way.
This already exists. Some snowplows here in MN (& some in Iowa) have HUDs that show road boundaries & markings so they can plow in even zero visibility.
I did a Google search & found this link to the research done at the Univ of MN. Unfortunately, one of the researchers now works for Microsoft.
This lead to some of the worst atrocities of the century.
Any atrocities caused directly or indirectly by American operations were small potatoes compared to Stalin, Mao, Hitler (dare I invoke Godwin's Law), Pol Pot, or Milosevic.
Lots of people suggest that there's tons of features that "no one ever uses" - what they really mean is features "I never use".
There have been studies done on application usability, where a group of people of varying abilities are given a list of tasks to accomplish in MS Word (& lots of other apps). The Paredo Principle (80/20 rule) generally holds true with any large, complex software like Word; 80% of the users were only familiar with (used regularly) about 20% of the features.
You'd be surprised at the docs I see at work:
large "tables" of info formatted with tabs instead of tables
manually placed numbers at the bottom of every page
lots of carriage returns instead of page breaks
double spacing by using 2 carriage returns after every line
spelling errors and typos (by default it points these out to you!)
and lots more equally ignorant mistakes
One of the reasons I'd guess is that older people tend to use word processors just like a typewriter.
OK...as a vet I can tell you while no death is "classified" the government routinely uses obfuscation to hide it's errors. A soldier KIA on the Korean DMZ is listed as death in a training accident...
As a fellow vet, I agree with you on this point. Sometimes the nature of the circumstances of the death can't be diclosed in the interest of national security.
one dead in a black or grey op had a training accident at Fort Knox or Fort Dix, etc. , when they were actually 3 miles outside of Bagdhad.
They might say "training accident," but their family would definitely know if they were overseas or not.
As to the rest...while it wouldn't surprise me to see SEAL assets on the ground there, my bet is that the teams are on high alert an hour, more or less, airtime from Afghanistan. Just on the off chance that they get a tip on Bin Laden's whereabouts...
That's what those Ranger battalions in Pakistan and Uzbekistan are for. Remember the airborne raid on the airfield in Kandahar in mid-October?
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Really, so stating that special forces ground troops have been in afghanistan since after sept 11th is both paranoid and classfied. I think not. The Washington Post reported the same thing.
No, that's not paranoid or classified. The original post said that US Navy SEALs were there on Sept 12. First, the SEALs aren't operating in Afghanistan. Second, none of our forces that weren't already in Afghanistan got there that fast. The earliest article on cnn.com about special ops in Afghanistan is Sept 28, about conducting short reconaissance missions in & out of the country. I highly doubt any soldiers died on these missions, as their detection alone would make the mission a failure.
Stating that the goverment witholds information from the US citizens is both paranoid and classified? Again, I think not.
I believe the government should keep certain information classified in the interest of national security. However, believing that the government is keeping casualties secret from several wars in some giant coverup is paranoid.
People dying on classified missions? Very likely and certainly happend in Vietnam.
The original post said "We had a lot of casualties" in the gulf war, that's just plain wrong. More people died from vehicle accidents and other normal causes than combat (at least on our side).
In fact the first ground troops in Vietnam were UDT teams, the pre-cursor to SEALS.
No, the first were US Army Special Forces "advising" the South Vietnamese. And please don't remind me about the UDTs preceding the SEALs. I already knew that & my governor won't stop reminding me.
We *know* the seals were the first ones in Iraq, again check the post archives.
No, the first ones in were again US Army Special Forces & British SAS. The SEALs were largely relegated to staging mock amphibious assaults in Kuwait as a diversion to the main thrust of the ground battle. They did some combat search & rescue for downed aircrews however.
Is is so far-fetched to assume that they were onthe gound and dying and we don't know?
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You mean the "Beef Frankfurters." Actually, they're pretty good, if you heat them first.
I don't know what media you've been reading, but I see plenty of criticism of Bush. Some of it well deserved, some not.
Do you have any evidence of this grand conspiracy you're suggesting? Some source inside these companies with access to "the highest levels" as you put it?
All across the country, huh? Do you have any evidence for this?
This happened to the leader of the Webplayer Co-op a couple years ago.
We had a hundred or so people send him money via PayPal to make the WebPlayer order. They suspected something was fishy and froze his account. You can read the thread from the Webplayer Co-op egroup here.
Eventually they straightened it out, the WebPlayers were shipped and we received them, but PayPal sure delayed the process.
Thank you for being a voice of reason. Too many geeks just blindly accept by faith that we'll have conscious, self-aware AI soon.
Or now, it's Boeing.
Second, the exact same model of computer is $99 more with Windows XP Home Edition.
The settlement requires them to disclose APIs to competitors, unless it has to do with security. Now they'll add to/change their APIs at will, and claim it's for security reasons. Business as usual for MS, this settlement is even weaker than I thought.
You're still wrong. Even your reference says so. Rangers are Special Operations Forces, but not Special Forces.
It's not always about race. Don't try to read into it something that's not there.
Doing a search for BSA at the US Patent & Trademark Office yielded 64 trademarks with BSA in it, including this BSA, the Boy Scouts, & others.
Copyrights only protect a specific document. So if you write an article about the BSA (acknowledging their trademark of course) the article's copyright belongs to you. Just look at the bottom of each page on
If guns weren't used, less people would succeed commiting suicide, but the number of attempts probably wouldn't change. According to this, 4 times more men die of suicide than women, while 3 times more women attempt suicide. That's because 79% of firearm suicide deaths were men, while women usually try less lethal methods.
I did a Google search & found this link to the research done at the Univ of MN. Unfortunately, one of the researchers now works for Microsoft.
/. wouldn't be /. without Rob butchering the English language. If he started posting in coherent English, we'd all think something happened to him. :)
"There're" is not a proper contraction in the English language.
You'd be surprised at the docs I see at work:
large "tables" of info formatted with tabs instead of tables
manually placed numbers at the bottom of every page
lots of carriage returns instead of page breaks
double spacing by using 2 carriage returns after every line
spelling errors and typos (by default it points these out to you!)
and lots more equally ignorant mistakes
One of the reasons I'd guess is that older people tend to use word processors just like a typewriter.
They might say "training accident," but their family would definitely know if they were overseas or not.
That's what those Ranger battalions in Pakistan and Uzbekistan are for. Remember the airborne raid on the airfield in Kandahar in mid-October?
I believe the government should keep certain information classified in the interest of national security. However, believing that the government is keeping casualties secret from several wars in some giant coverup is paranoid.
The original post said "We had a lot of casualties" in the gulf war, that's just plain wrong. More people died from vehicle accidents and other normal causes than combat (at least on our side).
No, the first were US Army Special Forces "advising" the South Vietnamese. And please don't remind me about the UDTs preceding the SEALs. I already knew that & my governor won't stop reminding me.
No, the first ones in were again US Army Special Forces & British SAS. The SEALs were largely relegated to staging mock amphibious assaults in Kuwait as a diversion to the main thrust of the ground battle. They did some combat search & rescue for downed aircrews however.
Yes, it is.