I'm just wondering why the editors were asleep at the wheel in February? And the answer is BOTH why not get the word out earlier, and yes I would like some credit for discovering the story first, why not? I also think it's a little ironic that someone who is posting anonymous is calling ME a troll.
I'm not talking about real reporters who work for British newspapers like Fisk, I'm talking about the anchor "personalities" who read corporate propaganda from a teleprompter for CBS/MSNBC/CNN/FOX/ABC. Why am I not holding my breath that Katie Courcic (sp?) will be the next Edward R. Murrow? OTH I suspect we'll be hearing a lot more about kid napped white girls, Tom Cruise, and other such red herring fluff stories in the future.
When Edward R. Murrow brought down McCarthy he was lionized. When Cronkite read the number of soldiers killed in Vietnam he was lionized for telling the truth. It's not that modern reporters can't show guts, it's that they they don't chose to show guts, i.e. they are a bunch of sniveling cowards afraid of losing their fat corporate sponsored pay check. Ironically though as history shows those that show leadership don't end up losing their pay check but go on to greater rewards. Our current batch of blow dry "news anchors," though aren't real reporters and perhaps don't even have the mental tools to show leadership. Hopefully the rise of indy media, blogs, and being humiliated by "fake news," etc will shake them from their complacency in the long run, and they will hire some real reporters and we will receive some real news. One can always dream and in the meanwhile their is the internet and the comedy channel.
Some of us on BOTH the right and left are inherently suspicious of the state and want it to have as little power and control as possible. For example the U.S. government killed at least 2 million people in Vietnam during the Vietnam, and at least 30,000 people during the current conflict with Iraq. If any other organization that committed MASS MURDER wanted ongoing pervasive information about you, you'd be shocked and appalled but because the state has indoctrinated us from an early age with public education that it is good and "legitimate" we give it a pass for it's appalling crimes. Some of us say FUCK that, and want the state to have as little information about us as possible.
You mean developers who destroy habitat unnecessarily to make a quick buck are bad when they think they are good, don't you? Your logic works both ways, much as you wish it didn't.
I suspect that Apple has some sort of licensing agreement with Adobe regarding PDF in Quartz, though maybe not according to this article:
"Quartz does not use Postscript as its internal graphics representation language. Instead, it uses Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) standard which is a superset of Adobe Postscript. PDF has several advantages over Postscript, including better color management, internal compression, font independence, and interactivity. (Check out the PDF specs for more information.) PDF is also is a free and open standard, which saves Apple from paying Postscript licensing fees."
20 dollars, try free, like AVG. AVG is pretty nice it operates in stealth mode so your computers ports are invisible to probes and alerts you when any new program tries tries to phone home. And no I'm not affiliated or invested in AVG in any way I just think it's cool they make a good firewall available for free. Yes it's propitiatory and closed source but at least free as in beer, shrug. Anyway I only run Windows in a virtual pc. sandbox so it won't infect my real O.S.
Compared to any other western democracy the U.S. has no left wing we have right and far right. For example ALL the MSM tee vee news from Fox to CBS/CNN/NYT (the so called left) spread the lies of the neo-cons in the run up to the war against Iraq. All the MSM conspired to destroy Howard Dean who was a moderate Dem who just happened to be a little anti-war. Stop listening to Rush and look at reality, the only left in the U.S. is the streets protesting, the left has NO representation in the MSM, or through politicians. As a consequence we have the longest working hours and fewest labor rights of any western democracy, a shitty public transit system, no plan for global warming or peak oil, and 40 million Americans with no health insurance whatsoever. Of course that's all OK as long as you get to drive an Expedition that gets 12 mpgs, right asshole?
Yes lets spiral down the drain until we have a wealth division that resembles Brazil's, for surely that is how we want to live with the majority living in abject poverty with no health care or housing.
Screw those cheese eating surrender monkey French, with their healthy well fed population with little homelessness, and easy access to public transit, what are they thinking?
It's all good until YOU lose your job to someone in India with a doctorate willing to work for 12 dollars an hour and then you wind up living in your car. Then SUDDENLY I suspect you'd become a foaming at the mouth America first Buchanite protectionist, hmmmmmm.
I on the otherhand am in favor of proactively enabling corporate speak to empower syergistic team oriented strategies to leverage right sized profits in INDIA.
Chavez is an elected leader in fair and monitored elections unlike our own monkey boy Bush, who lost according to exit polls in BOTH 2000 and 2004, hmmmm. Who's the fascist?
"The idea that Venezuela is a dictatorship is absurd, as anyone who has been there in the last six years can attest to. All you have to do is go there, turn on the TV and listen to denunciations of the government on the biggest TV stations, pick up the biggest newspapers and see the same - in fact the media plays a non-journalistic oppositional role in politics that would not be allowed in most European democracies. Even in the United States, the long-lapsed Fairness Doctrine would quickly be brought back, if our media ever got to one-tenth the level of partisan political activity exhibited by Venezuela's major broadcast and print media, which make Fox news look impeccably "fair and balanced" by comparison.
Let me correct one error in Eidelson's description, which he may have gotten from the Foreign Policy article, before proceeding: the government of Venezuela has not been "keeping public databases on citizens' votes." All voting is by secret ballot in Venezuela, and there is no record anywhere of any individual's vote. What he might be referring to is the names of people who signed a petition to recall President Chavez in 2004. These petitions are a matter of public record, as similar petitions generally are in the United States; and in fact not only the government, but Sumate, the U.S.-funded opposition group that organized the recall effort, also kept a record of these signers. A legislator subsequently made the names of signers public, causing considerable controversy.
Now for some of the mistakes in the Foreign Policy piece by Javier Corrales:
"Chavez is "now approaching a decade in office." [p.33] Hugo Chavez took office in February of 1999. I have never seen anyone round up to 10 from a number just under 7. Perhaps the subtitle of this article should have been "Refashioning Arithmetic for an Innumerate Age."
"the poor do not support him [Chavez] en masse." [p.35] This can be refuted by any recent poll, as well as by opposition pollsters themselves. Chavez' recent approval ratings have ranged from 65 to 77 percent. Where does this support come from? The upper classes? Perhaps this is another arithmetic problem. Also, a look at the results of the August 2004 referendum, which Chavez won by 59-41 percent, shows one of the most polarized voting patterns in the hemisphere, with poor areas voting overwhelmingly for Chavez and the richer areas voting overwhelmingly against him.
"Chavez has failed to improve any meaningful measure of poverty, education, and equity." [p.35]As I noted in a prior post, the official poverty rate now stands at 38.5 percent, but that counts only cash income. For example, if the United States were to abolish food stamps and Medicaid, poor people here would be much worse off. Similarly, the subsidized food and free health care now available in Venezuela have significantly increased living standards among the poor. More than 40 percent of the country buys subsidized food, and millions of poor people have access to free health care that was previously unavailable. If these are taken into account, the measured poverty rate would drop well below 30 percent.
The poverty rate when Chavez took office, in the first quarter of 1999, was 42.8 percent. So there is a meaningful measure of poverty reduction, especially if non-cash benefits are taken into account. Also, the government declared in October that 1.48 million Venezuelans have been taught to read as a result of a massive literacy drive that began in 2003. Although there is so far no independent verification of the number, even if it turned out to be significantly overestimated, there is no doubt that a very large number of Venezuelans (total population: 25 million) have learned to read under the program.
"Following the 2004 recall referendum, in which Chavez won 58 percent of the vote, the opposition fell into a coma, shocked not so much by the results as by the ease with which international observers condoned the Electoral Council
"Venezuela's Finance Minister, Nelson Merentes, presented economic data to the National Assembly yesterday, showing that the country's economy had grown by over five percent during the first quarter of 2005. This is the sixth consecutive quarter that the Venezuelan economy has increased by over 5 percent.
Venezuela, the world's fifth largest producer of oil, has benefited from over fifty dollars per barrel oil prices. In 2004, the country's economy grew by 17.3 percent, the largest growth rate in Latin America, and one of the largest in the world."
Tell you what ASSHOLE lets strip you of your western possesions and dump you in a third world country where you don't speak the language where you can work for U.S. based multinational for less than 4 dollars a day. Oh, you are reluctant to take that deal that you would offer to those whopse skin is brown, what a fucking shock. ASSHOLE!!!!!!!!!!!!
Mac gama isn't "goofy" it was the choice of professionals graphic designers for almost 20 years. Windows just happened to win with an inferior standard that is higher contrast, darker, and has less range of bright to dark that looks better on cheap monitors, much like the inferior VHS beat Beta.
Open source BSD and Safari/Konquerer, ring a bell? Not to mention that OS X can run fink on top of the open source BSD Unix base to run KDE and GNOME, etc. Try that on your stock Dell notebook. And no cygwin is NOT Unix.
Your logic is like saying I only beat my slaves two days a week, the other guy beats them four days a week, therefore I'm good. It leaves out the fact that beating slaves or exploiting the most vulnerable people in the world is sick and wrong.
Lets's "start you out" at 2 dollars a day buddy, how do you feel about that? Don't like it? What a shock. And no you aren't "more productive" than someone working 10 hours in unsafe working conditions making shoes.
I have no sympathy for heartless scum who even refuse to pay people 4 dollars a day when they are making billions. Would you work for 4 dollars a day even if your living expenses were ZERO? I didn't think so, pretty easy to say that's OK for those brown people, eh? When you treat people like SHIT don't be surprised when they rise up and vote in people who ban "global trade." Morales and Chavez ring a bell asshole? I thought so...
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I'm just wondering why the editors were asleep at the wheel in February? And the answer is BOTH why not get the word out earlier, and yes I would like some credit for discovering the story first, why not? I also think it's a little ironic that someone who is posting anonymous is calling ME a troll.
rejected my submission on this rather aged but very important topic over TWO months ago.
"Govt. mandated spying will cost $700 per student
Sunday February 26, @02:34AM Rejected"
Why yes I am complaining about the arbitrary nature of which articles get accepted if you don't like it too bad...
I'm not talking about real reporters who work for British newspapers like Fisk, I'm talking about the anchor "personalities" who read corporate propaganda from a teleprompter for CBS/MSNBC/CNN/FOX/ABC. Why am I not holding my breath that Katie Courcic (sp?) will be the next Edward R. Murrow? OTH I suspect we'll be hearing a lot more about kid napped white girls, Tom Cruise, and other such red herring fluff stories in the future.
When Edward R. Murrow brought down McCarthy he was lionized. When Cronkite read the number of soldiers killed in Vietnam he was lionized for telling the truth. It's not that modern reporters can't show guts, it's that they they don't chose to show guts, i.e. they are a bunch of sniveling cowards afraid of losing their fat corporate sponsored pay check. Ironically though as history shows those that show leadership don't end up losing their pay check but go on to greater rewards. Our current batch of blow dry "news anchors," though aren't real reporters and perhaps don't even have the mental tools to show leadership. Hopefully the rise of indy media, blogs, and being humiliated by "fake news," etc will shake them from their complacency in the long run, and they will hire some real reporters and we will receive some real news. One can always dream and in the meanwhile their is the internet and the comedy channel.
Some of us on BOTH the right and left are inherently suspicious of the state and want it to have as little power and control as possible. For example the U.S. government killed at least 2 million people in Vietnam during the Vietnam, and at least 30,000 people during the current conflict with Iraq. If any other organization that committed MASS MURDER wanted ongoing pervasive information about you, you'd be shocked and appalled but because the state has indoctrinated us from an early age with public education that it is good and "legitimate" we give it a pass for it's appalling crimes. Some of us say FUCK that, and want the state to have as little information about us as possible.
You mean developers who destroy habitat unnecessarily to make a quick buck are bad when they think they are good, don't you? Your logic works both ways, much as you wish it didn't.
I suspect that Apple has some sort of licensing agreement with Adobe regarding PDF in Quartz, though maybe not according to this article:
a cos-x-gui-4.html
"Quartz does not use Postscript as its internal graphics representation language. Instead, it uses Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) standard which is a superset of Adobe Postscript. PDF has several advantages over Postscript, including better color management, internal compression, font independence, and interactivity. (Check out the PDF specs for more information.) PDF is also is a free and open standard, which saves Apple from paying Postscript licensing fees."
http://arstechnica.com/reviews/1q00/macos-x-gui/m
Anyone else more in the know care to comment?
This even above and beyond the fact that Apple makes most of it's money from hardware, blah, blah.
DOH I ment Zonealarm, sigh... More coffee, must have more coffee...
20 dollars, try free, like AVG. AVG is pretty nice it operates in stealth mode so your computers ports are invisible to probes and alerts you when any new program tries tries to phone home. And no I'm not affiliated or invested in AVG in any way I just think it's cool they make a good firewall available for free.
Yes it's propitiatory and closed source but at least free as in beer, shrug.
Anyway I only run Windows in a virtual pc. sandbox so it won't infect my real O.S.
Compared to any other western democracy the U.S. has no left wing we have right and far right. For example ALL the MSM tee vee news from Fox to CBS/CNN/NYT (the so called left) spread the lies of the neo-cons in the run up to the war against Iraq. All the MSM conspired to destroy Howard Dean who was a moderate Dem who just happened to be a little anti-war. Stop listening to Rush and look at reality, the only left in the U.S. is the streets protesting, the left has NO representation in the MSM, or through politicians. As a consequence we have the longest working hours and fewest labor rights of any western democracy, a shitty public transit system, no plan for global warming or peak oil, and 40 million Americans with no health insurance whatsoever. Of course that's all OK as long as you get to drive an Expedition that gets 12 mpgs, right asshole?
Fox is the most mainstream having the most viewers, and the most biased being owned by hard right tycoon Rubert Murdoch.
I wish I could mod you up to 100, this is EXACTLY the sort of information Americans need to wake them up from the narcotic that is MSM tee vee news.
Yes lets spiral down the drain until we have a wealth division that resembles Brazil's, for surely that is how we want to live with the majority living in abject poverty with no health care or housing.
Screw those cheese eating surrender monkey French, with their healthy well fed population with little homelessness, and easy access to public transit, what are they thinking?
You want some fries with your can do attitude mister?
It's all good until YOU lose your job to someone in India with a doctorate willing to work for 12 dollars an hour and then you wind up living in your car. Then SUDDENLY I suspect you'd become a foaming at the mouth America first Buchanite protectionist, hmmmmmm.
I on the otherhand am in favor of proactively enabling corporate speak to empower syergistic team oriented strategies to leverage right sized profits in INDIA.
Chavez is an elected leader in fair and monitored elections unlike our own monkey boy Bush, who lost according to exit polls in BOTH 2000 and 2004, hmmmm.
Who's the fascist?
Don't forget to lie harder next time asshole:
"The idea that Venezuela is a dictatorship is absurd, as anyone who has been there in the last six years can attest to. All you have to do is go there, turn on the TV and listen to denunciations of the government on the biggest TV stations, pick up the biggest newspapers and see the same - in fact the media plays a non-journalistic oppositional role in politics that would not be allowed in most European democracies. Even in the United States, the long-lapsed Fairness Doctrine would quickly be brought back, if our media ever got to one-tenth the level of partisan political activity exhibited by Venezuela's major broadcast and print media, which make Fox news look impeccably "fair and balanced" by comparison.
Let me correct one error in Eidelson's description, which he may have gotten from the Foreign Policy article, before proceeding: the government of Venezuela has not been "keeping public databases on citizens' votes." All voting is by secret ballot in Venezuela, and there is no record anywhere of any individual's vote. What he might be referring to is the names of people who signed a petition to recall President Chavez in 2004. These petitions are a matter of public record, as similar petitions generally are in the United States; and in fact not only the government, but Sumate, the U.S.-funded opposition group that organized the recall effort, also kept a record of these signers. A legislator subsequently made the names of signers public, causing considerable controversy.
Now for some of the mistakes in the Foreign Policy piece by Javier Corrales:
"Chavez is "now approaching a decade in office." [p.33] Hugo Chavez took office in February of 1999. I have never seen anyone round up to 10 from a number just under 7. Perhaps the subtitle of this article should have been "Refashioning Arithmetic for an Innumerate Age."
"the poor do not support him [Chavez] en masse." [p.35] This can be refuted by any recent poll, as well as by opposition pollsters themselves. Chavez' recent approval ratings have ranged from 65 to 77 percent. Where does this support come from? The upper classes? Perhaps this is another arithmetic problem. Also, a look at the results of the August 2004 referendum, which Chavez won by 59-41 percent, shows one of the most polarized voting patterns in the hemisphere, with poor areas voting overwhelmingly for Chavez and the richer areas voting overwhelmingly against him.
"Chavez has failed to improve any meaningful measure of poverty, education, and equity." [p.35]As I noted in a prior post, the official poverty rate now stands at 38.5 percent, but that counts only cash income. For example, if the United States were to abolish food stamps and Medicaid, poor people here would be much worse off. Similarly, the subsidized food and free health care now available in Venezuela have significantly increased living standards among the poor. More than 40 percent of the country buys subsidized food, and millions of poor people have access to free health care that was previously unavailable. If these are taken into account, the measured poverty rate would drop well below 30 percent.
The poverty rate when Chavez took office, in the first quarter of 1999, was 42.8 percent. So there is a meaningful measure of poverty reduction, especially if non-cash benefits are taken into account. Also, the government declared in October that 1.48 million Venezuelans have been taught to read as a result of a massive literacy drive that began in 2003. Although there is so far no independent verification of the number, even if it turned out to be significantly overestimated, there is no doubt that a very large number of Venezuelans (total population: 25 million) have learned to read under the program.
"Following the 2004 recall referendum, in which Chavez won 58 percent of the vote, the opposition fell into a coma, shocked not so much by the results as by the ease with which international observers condoned the Electoral Council
"Venezuela's Finance Minister, Nelson Merentes, presented economic data to the National Assembly yesterday, showing that the country's economy had grown by over five percent during the first quarter of 2005. This is the sixth consecutive quarter that the Venezuelan economy has increased by over 5 percent.
Venezuela, the world's fifth largest producer of oil, has benefited from over fifty dollars per barrel oil prices. In 2004, the country's economy grew by 17.3 percent, the largest growth rate in Latin America, and one of the largest in the world."
http://www.voltairenet.org/article124950.html
Yeah looks Venezuela is doing really badly under Chavez, try harder next time reactionary prick.
Tell you what ASSHOLE lets strip you of your western possesions and dump you in a third world country where you don't speak the language where you can work for U.S. based multinational for less than 4 dollars a day. Oh, you are reluctant to take that deal that you would offer to those whopse skin is brown, what a fucking shock. ASSHOLE!!!!!!!!!!!!
Mac gama isn't "goofy" it was the choice of professionals graphic designers for almost 20 years. Windows just happened to win with an inferior standard that is higher contrast, darker, and has less range of bright to dark that looks better on cheap monitors, much like the inferior VHS beat Beta.
Open source BSD and Safari/Konquerer, ring a bell? Not to mention that OS X can run fink on top of the open source BSD Unix base to run KDE and GNOME, etc. Try that on your stock Dell notebook. And no cygwin is NOT Unix.
Your logic is like saying I only beat my slaves two days a week, the other guy beats them four days a week, therefore I'm good. It leaves out the fact that beating slaves or exploiting the most vulnerable people in the world is sick and wrong.
Lets's "start you out" at 2 dollars a day buddy, how do you feel about that? Don't like it? What a shock. And no you aren't "more productive" than someone working 10 hours in unsafe working conditions making shoes.
I have no sympathy for heartless scum who even refuse to pay people 4 dollars a day when they are making billions. Would you work for 4 dollars a day even if your living expenses were ZERO? I didn't think so, pretty easy to say that's OK for those brown people, eh? When you treat people like SHIT don't be surprised when they rise up and vote in people who ban "global trade." Morales and Chavez ring a bell asshole? I thought so...