I had been thinking of physical evidence (hiding/destroying it?); you seem to be thinking of questionable things said by lawyers or witnesses in court.
So, nobody who supported SOPA gave concert tickets to a Senator whose daughter just loves Bieber? Not one member of the MPAA got a Congressperson's spouse a tour around a movie studio? The Obama kids have never been introduced to a music or movie star by a SOPA supporter? Not a single record label made an introduction between a politician who was up for reelection and an ASCAP rep to talk about public performance rights on the campaign trail?
Are these actual examples or did you make this up for rhetorical purposes? anyway, entertainment/media companies do have disproportionate influence because of the very nature of their product. (Many/.ers have noted that the big labels/studios are relatively small companies compared to the consumer tech giants)
Lying by omission is NOT lying, so long as all the statements are factually correct. It's usually impossible, or at least improbable, to provide all relevant or pertinent data and points. If someone intentionally leaves out parts that may alter your impressions and choices regarding it with intent to do so, that's part of persuasion, but it's still not lying.
(I am not a lawyer)
try doing that in a trial; both the judge and the other side's lawyers will/should take issue with it. The judge would represent some standard of neutrality/fairness, the other lawyers would represent an opposite bias. Both are ways to deal with bias.
okay, thanks for making it clear that you were joking. you might not have been, and other people may or may not have figured it out. heh, a 2x2 matrix.
fewer high level positions = a smaller sample size. Also, statistics wouldn't say why the bias exists. Perhaps there's a problem, perhaps it seems like a problem due to chance, perhaps small differences are magnified at higher levels
as such, looking at the rank and file might be more informative.
One of the comments points out the Michael Bolton character from Office Space, and I'm also reminded of hearing about someone who named their kid Austin Powers years before the Michael Myers movies came out.
Definitely a wrong stereotype. All the Irish people I've met are quite thin. It's us Americans that are thick.
To me, he obviously meant that the stereotype was 'thick' as in stupid/slow/something like that. Though I do like your sense of humor; I've done that myself - see word X used in a certain way, and reply as if word X was used in another manner.
Alfred Nobel saw dynamite as having a sort of mutually-assured-destruction effect (in addition to the civil engineering uses). Right idea, but a few decades too early.
More recently, this economic argument was part of Tom Friedman's _The World Is Flat_.
Godwin's Law simply says that the longer an Internet discussion gets, the more likely a Nazi reference becomes. It gets a bad rap because those Nazi references are often spurious. However, this one seems fairly relevant. The Nazis did have advanced technology (but without enough economy/industry to make full use of it) Education does start young
18 years, you say? Civilization II came out in 1994, and I still play it all the time. Note that you don't even need to have the CD in the drive to play. stresses the CPU/runs the fan for some reason (the game seems to go through DOS, and I'm running XP natively, that might have something to do with it)
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I had been thinking of physical evidence (hiding/destroying it?); you seem to be thinking of questionable things said by lawyers or witnesses in court.
So, nobody who supported SOPA gave concert tickets to a Senator whose daughter just loves Bieber? Not one member of the MPAA got a Congressperson's spouse a tour around a movie studio? The Obama kids have never been introduced to a music or movie star by a SOPA supporter? Not a single record label made an introduction between a politician who was up for reelection and an ASCAP rep to talk about public performance rights on the campaign trail?
Are these actual examples or did you make this up for rhetorical purposes? /.ers have noted that the big labels/studios are relatively small companies compared to the consumer tech giants)
anyway, entertainment/media companies do have disproportionate influence because of the very nature of their product.
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"Morality represents the way we want the world to work. Economics represents the way it actually does work."
-Steven Levitt, Freakonomics
to me, the big point of Nineteen Eighty Four was a warning about political abuse of language
Lying by omission is NOT lying, so long as all the statements are factually correct. It's usually impossible, or at least improbable, to provide all relevant or pertinent data and points. If someone intentionally leaves out parts that may alter your impressions and choices regarding it with intent to do so, that's part of persuasion, but it's still not lying.
(I am not a lawyer)
try doing that in a trial; both the judge and the other side's lawyers will/should take issue with it. The judge would represent some standard of neutrality/fairness, the other lawyers would represent an opposite bias. Both are ways to deal with bias.
I do agree with the general point, although Beck does spin it.
In general, even if you usually disagree with someone, you can usually find a few things to agree on.
This from another right-wing pundit: http://www.addictinginfo.org/2012/02/08/bill-oreilly-compares-pressure-to-fire-ellen-degeneres-for-being-gay-to-mccarthyism-video/
okay, thanks for making it clear that you were joking. you might not have been, and other people may or may not have figured it out. heh, a 2x2 matrix.
fewer high level positions = a smaller sample size.
Also, statistics wouldn't say why the bias exists.
Perhaps there's a problem, perhaps it seems like a problem due to chance, perhaps small differences are magnified at higher levels
as such, looking at the rank and file might be more informative.
uh, brony?
I think an ID of 998013 is from long before that Canadian twerp got famous.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABVmyG6_Ph0
Letterman found 5000 Biebers and 8 Justin Biebers in the latest US census, and had one of them read a Top Ten list about it.
One of the comments points out the Michael Bolton character from Office Space, and I'm also reminded of hearing about someone who named their kid Austin Powers years before the Michael Myers movies came out.
Definitely a wrong stereotype. All the Irish people I've met are quite thin. It's us Americans that are thick.
To me, he obviously meant that the stereotype was 'thick' as in stupid/slow/something like that.
Though I do like your sense of humor; I've done that myself - see word X used in a certain way, and reply as if word X was used in another manner.
Alfred Nobel saw dynamite as having a sort of mutually-assured-destruction effect (in addition to the civil engineering uses). Right idea, but a few decades too early.
More recently, this economic argument was part of Tom Friedman's _The World Is Flat_.
and MegaUpload certainly had one of those
Looking at Wiki:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_deduplication
a sort of compression method, but different from standard compression algorithms
including but not limited to hash checks
Yeah, didn't MegaUpload have some sort of system where identical files were stored once, just with different links pointing to them?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_law
a) and b) are not in the original/basic formulation
Yeah, but the analogy still works, whatever's actually happening with ACTA in the US
Godwin's Law simply says that the longer an Internet discussion gets, the more likely a Nazi reference becomes.
It gets a bad rap because those Nazi references are often spurious.
However, this one seems fairly relevant.
The Nazis did have advanced technology (but without enough economy/industry to make full use of it)
Education does start young
Seems like the US analogy would be as if the President has signed it, but the Senate hasn't ratified it.
darnit, that 'one' was supposed to be 'on'.
yeah, 'something borrowed' shouldn't be a five-digit amount of money (adjust if your country's currency is one a different order of magnitude)
18 years, you say? Civilization II came out in 1994, and I still play it all the time.
Note that you don't even need to have the CD in the drive to play.
stresses the CPU/runs the fan for some reason (the game seems to go through DOS, and I'm running XP natively, that might have something to do with it)
some gave you flamebait/troll, likely thinking you were being serious
cool. I'll keep that in mind if I'm thinking about buying more games
well it's now clear that you were sarcastic instead of actually that dumb. :)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_Law