I doubt that. The real battle is that the RIAA/MPAA style companies are in are to preserve themselves. What they are really afraid of, but you never hear them say so, is the destruction of their business model.
These companies pretend to exist under the banner of "protecting" the artists and IP. In truth, they often take the IP away from the artists themselves, and take by far the lion's share of the profits. Nothing really wrong with that as it is just a standard business practice.
However, with the advent of P2P technologies and the like, distribution is becoming decentralized, which is what the MPAA/RIAA specialize in. Their position as those who control the distribution of media is threatened, and that is their entire business model. If artists sell music directly to the public via P2P or similar technologies, the industries will have no revenue stream, and they will go out of business. The artists will get more revenue, and the distribution companies will get little to none.
In the long run, artists will have more control over their work, and become wealthier for it. A free market for media is arising, and this is just what the distribution companies don't want. So, the "pirating" is giving rise to more of a free market system, and this could destroy the RIAA/MPAA.
If they really wanted to help artists as they claim, they would roll out a distribution system based on P2P, and hand all the control to the artists of this system, and merely monitor the P2P network to keep it working. That of course, would reduce their profits, and make the artists more wealthy, and they cant cut their own revenue stream now can they?
So, instead, the market acts around them, and this system will arise all on it's own, and destroy them just the same. It is just a matter of time.
Very aware, however, I do know of a person who is named Richard Head, seriously. Therefore, I was willing to give the registrar the benifit of the doubt.
According to a few of the news sources he did not even know who owned the site, which is interesting because I found out fairly quickly with a whois:
Subdomain: youthforvolpe.ca Renewal-Date: 2007/05/31 Date-Approved: 2006/05/31 Date-Modified: 2006/06/01 Organization: Mike Hunt Description: Admin-Name: Mr Mike Hunt (-snip-)
So, this domain was up for approximately 2 days before it was nuked by the registrar, this was clearly a very bad move by Volpe - or at least I hope it turns out to be. As a Canadian, and one who owns a.ca domain no less, this behaviour is intolerable.
Due to the way Canadian politics works, I expect that a firestorm will start brewing over this. I doubt it will get swept under the rug, even though it involves technology that many MP's do not understand. And if it does get swept aside, I will be one of the Canadians that will not let it rest. It is not often that my government, or a member of it does something that motivates me to stand up as a citizen, and challenge it. (And, I am quite happy about that I might add.)
I hope that this stink damages Joe Volpe's position because his actions are clearly unacceptable. (But, I am not aware if they are actually illegal in Canada, although they should be.)
NOTE:
Having said all that, a poster on my blog provided the following link to the CIRA.CA story which claims that the CIRA did NOT have any contact with Joe Volpe or his staff. Again, one has no way of knowing if this is true. If it is just a concidence, then of course I withdraw my remarks about Volpe, but we just don't know the truth at this time.
(I also blogged about this too: Canadian.ca Censorship - And yeah, slashdot makes it a rel-nofollow so I am not link whoring it...)
When the last book came out, a friend of mine swore that he was going to stagger around the Barnes & Noble for the midnight release crying and yelling, "Why?!? Why did you have to take Hermione!?!"
Funny you say that, the major character death in book 6, and the individual responsible was revealed to me though a slashdot.sig. And this.sig was in a discussion that had *NOTHING* to do with Harry Potter. I was quite pissed off.
Bastard Operator From 149.156.96.35 (just do nslookup on this address, dummy)
Oh, what has slashdot come to that you need a disclamer such as that within your.sig? Next thing you know, I will have to put a disclamer in with my.sig explaining it too...
*sigh*
(I am assuming you get lots of people just not "getting" your.sig)
2600+ or 2500+ ?? There is a big difference. The 2500+ overclocks much better because of the FSB speed, you cannot correctly overclock a 2600+ to 3200+ due to the FSB...
Either way, did you identify that the chip was in fact the problem? And if so, how much did the damaged chip cost versus the same chip in a 3200+ version? In the case of this article, you can buy at least 8 of these Pentium 805 D chips for a single 3.8 Ghz Extreme... And the 805 D is faster...
You got lucky, that's all. Some chips barely meet 300mhz and some chips actually rate 500mzh but get stamped as 300mzh because they needed more 300's.
Maybe I got lucky... However, I also did my homework first too. I knew my odds. And the odds of overclocking a celery 300A were VERY high. Could mine do 466? No. However, for the price to performance ratio, it was well worth the risk.
If I want a gaming machine that I don't care too much about the power bill, then this overclock "as dangerous as it may be" is worth my time. Besides, do the math, how many low end intels will I have to burn though to equal a chip that is ALMOST as powerful as the overclocked?
HINT, where I buy my chips: Intel Pentium 4 Extreme Edition 3.73GHZ $1,318.24
Ok, so you can overclock it to 4.1Ghz.. but how many weeks will it last before it burns out and you need to buy a new one?
What is it with you people?
Here on slashdot no less, a bunch of people decried my overclocking of a Celeron 300A to 450... FYI, its still running right now...
You decried my overclocking of my AMD Barton 2500+ to 3200+... I am still using THAT as my primary machine...
I am aware of the risks of overclocking, but I am also aware of the benifits. I weigh those considerations carefully before doing so. Overclocking not for you? Fine. No problem.
However, it has been working just great for me thanks - and people told me my celeron would just *EXPLODE* or catch fire... or... Whatever...
If you don't like overclocking, don't do it. However, stop whining about the chip frying. If it works, and you keep it cooled, it will probably work for a long time to come.
Let's see, nuclear reactors produce nuclear waste, which you want to put back into the nuclear reactors? Is that kind of like hooking up your car's exhaust pipe to the fuel tank? Sure you could probably recover some uranium from the reactor waste, but at some point it just isn't worth it.
The fuel need not be Uranium - it can be Thorium, Plutonium or many other radioactive materials. With a Breeder reactor http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breeder_reactor The waste becomes the fuel. Much of nuclear "waste" can in fact be used as fuel in a reactor. And after it "steps down" a few notches in the periodic table, it also generally has a much shorter half-life than previous materials. This process greatly reduces the remaining amounts of nuclear waste.
One would think that with the prevalance of technology today, that the availablity of a Geiger counter or dosimeter would be a fairly common device in the future...
If not, then I think it likely that, oh, we have probably nuked ourselves back into the stone or iron age, and knowledge of radioactivity will be fairly moot, not to mention its omnipresence in such a scenario...
Either way, I think it is a far better idea to use Nuclear waste as FUEL in a nuclear reactor, as opposed to just waste... But then that idea just makes too much sense, so we have to consider marking toxic sites...
My girlfriend's only exposure to console gaming was watching her brother play nintendo when she was younger. I showed her to promotional video of the new controller, and she thought it looked like a lot of fun. I told her about the new name for the system, and even she thought it was a really really bad name.
So, now, because of this "bad" name, your GF now has more exposure to gaming consoles. Indeed, if the console was not named Wii, the odds are that she would not have had any exposure to it.
Actually, I personally don't need great growth in my portfolio. But then again my investing style involves picking undervalued companies that pay a good dividend payout and holding them for a long time for the dividend yield, I am not so much into "Buy Low, Sell High" as I am into "Buy and Hold". But that's just my style.
Well i also work 100% with Linux today and from my point of view Linux is always easier to setup, takes half the time and is much easier and cheaper to maintain. People take for granted that linux is harder to use than Windows and other comercial software.
I agree, however, the point of the guy's sig is that it DOES requre some setup, and it does require some training. I can tell you than in 97 when I first started using Linux I was far more efficent with Windows at the time. I had to spend a great deal of my time learning linux to bring my skills to a point where it became a more effective soluiton for me than Microsoft products. So, Linux itself is free, both in beer and in speech, however, not all aspects of it are easy to use without training. And that is what I believe the guy's sig means.
I had a previous co-worker contact me about building a linux based router for the new place where he works, but he does not know much about linux, or much about routing. He would have had to spend quite some time learning the setup, and then choosing smoothwall or some other option, and he probably would have wanted to learn IPTables and all the other associated errata for what he was doing. I just told him to go out and buy a Linksys router. Problem solved.
While he could have built the router from the ground up, for what he gets paid per hour, the cost of the router was signifiantly less than for him to cobble together the "free" solution.
Linux (and Opensource in general) IS always better in price and frequently better in quality than anything MS has originated.
Well, I was reffering to stock prices here and modes of investment, as there are limited options for investing in Linux, like RHAT and LNUX and such. So, I should have included "business" as one of the technical merits.
However, I must also include a great sig of a poster here that reads: "Linux is only free if your time is worthless." because it is pretty much true. Note, I don't dislike Linux (I use it for a living!) but, in terms of making money off of investments, Microsoft seems to have been the better choice. I don't see their business dying, I sort of seeing them evolve like IBM has - they are a big company, but some of their core products and core markets are changing, and they must adapt. Which is what the title article is about. Microsoft is restructuring.
Now, knowing that, I guess my question should have been phrased as - "Do you belive Microsoft can restructure itself to bring in bigger proftits in the long run?" Because I don't see them just lying down to die any time soon.
Almost makes MSFT look like a value stock... (That is, if you can evalutate MS on technical merits and not knee-jerk "Linux r00ls M$ SuX0rs!!!" criteria.)
However, I personally wonder if Mac OS X won't take a larger chunk out of MS in the coming future... What do you guys see in the crystal ball for Microsofts Future?
So, they were drilling for fossil fuel? Looks like they knuckled down, and found the source. But still, with the odds of finding a fossil like that, so deep, it almost makes me wonder if the drill was intelligently designed...
Interestingly, I have been banned from moderation for a long time. Apparently for just viewing certain posts or something. I don't remember the details.
Interesting because I have had this account for quite some time, and I (used to) Meta-Moderate on a daily basis. I also used my mod points to mod up, and not down. It was very rare indeed for me to mark someone as a troll or similar. Still, I followed a link to a supposed "forbidden" criticism of slashdot and such, and read all the posts therin, and I have not had moderation privilages since.
I have since stopped meta-moderating as much because, well, while I like slashdot, and it is my homepage on Firefox, I am somehow no longer appreciated or something, or maybe not trusted. I don't know.
Its funny really, when people like you and me are the ones for making slashdot what it is. Sure, there are posts about various stories, but what MAKES slashdot are the comments. For example, I have always found this thread: http://books.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=129489&c id=10801729 to be pure gold.
What digg aspires to be is a more "open" version of slashdot, whether it achives that or not we will see. Either way, the competition has been good, I suppose everyone has noticed the quick little changes in how slashdot works now? When this site has not changed much in the last five years?
No matter the outcome, the shakedown on this is bound to be good... It would be nice though, to have mention of the reason users like me are suddenly not allowed to moderate, as opposed to just having it vanish - apparently for "viewing" the wrong threads...
No one buys oxygen, either, but the economy seems to be holding up okay despite that. Don't give yourself a migraine worrying about oxygen being free, will you?
No, we don't. The technology is pretty much the same. There haven't been any new nuclear plants in the past 20 years and they really haven't updated much of the safety systems. There still isn't a long term way of dealing with the tons of radioactive waste being produced. Don't get me wrong, I think Nuclear is the way to go, but I would really like the storage system to be fixed soon.
Ukraine, put the total predicted number of deaths due to the accident at 4,000 (of which 2,200 deaths are expected to be in the ranks of 200 000 "liquidators") . This predicted death toll includes the 47 workers who died of acute radiation syndrome as a direct result of radiation from the disaster, nine children who died from thyroid cancer and an estimated 3,940 people who could die from cancer as a result of exposure to radiation.
I would settle for the Daily Kos to cease using Ad-Hominim attacks in their posts. So much of their message is undermined by this.
It is almost as if Daily Kos is opposed to the fundamentals of economics in their pursuit of being anti-republican/pro-democrat. And, as a Canadian I don't care much about either party either way. I just find that Daily Kos undermines their position with pointless personal attacks. But then again, Daily Kos is a popular blog because of it, and Fox is popular for a similar reason.
Sad really, it is otherwise an excellent source of political news.
Slashdot Mirror
sooner or later the industry will give in...
I doubt that. The real battle is that the RIAA/MPAA style companies are in are to preserve themselves. What they are really afraid of, but you never hear them say so, is the destruction of their business model.
These companies pretend to exist under the banner of "protecting" the artists and IP. In truth, they often take the IP away from the artists themselves, and take by far the lion's share of the profits. Nothing really wrong with that as it is just a standard business practice.
However, with the advent of P2P technologies and the like, distribution is becoming decentralized, which is what the MPAA/RIAA specialize in. Their position as those who control the distribution of media is threatened, and that is their entire business model. If artists sell music directly to the public via P2P or similar technologies, the industries will have no revenue stream, and they will go out of business. The artists will get more revenue, and the distribution companies will get little to none.
In the long run, artists will have more control over their work, and become wealthier for it. A free market for media is arising, and this is just what the distribution companies don't want. So, the "pirating" is giving rise to more of a free market system, and this could destroy the RIAA/MPAA.
If they really wanted to help artists as they claim, they would roll out a distribution system based on P2P, and hand all the control to the artists of this system, and merely monitor the P2P network to keep it working. That of course, would reduce their profits, and make the artists more wealthy, and they cant cut their own revenue stream now can they?
So, instead, the market acts around them, and this system will arise all on it's own, and destroy them just the same. It is just a matter of time.
Meanwhile, Japanese Scientists take this technology and invent the Hentai bot...
*ducks*
Very aware, however, I do know of a person who is named Richard Head, seriously. Therefore, I was willing to give the registrar the benifit of the doubt.
According to a few of the news sources he did not even know who owned the site, which is interesting because I found out fairly quickly with a whois:
.ca domain no less, this behaviour is intolerable.
.ca Censorship - And yeah, slashdot makes it a rel-nofollow so I am not link whoring it...)
Subdomain: youthforvolpe.ca
Renewal-Date: 2007/05/31
Date-Approved: 2006/05/31
Date-Modified: 2006/06/01
Organization: Mike Hunt
Description:
Admin-Name: Mr Mike Hunt
(-snip-)
So, this domain was up for approximately 2 days before it was nuked by the registrar, this was clearly a very bad move by Volpe - or at least I hope it turns out to be. As a Canadian, and one who owns a
Due to the way Canadian politics works, I expect that a firestorm will start brewing over this. I doubt it will get swept under the rug, even though it involves technology that many MP's do not understand. And if it does get swept aside, I will be one of the Canadians that will not let it rest. It is not often that my government, or a member of it does something that motivates me to stand up as a citizen, and challenge it. (And, I am quite happy about that I might add.)
I hope that this stink damages Joe Volpe's position because his actions are clearly unacceptable. (But, I am not aware if they are actually illegal in Canada, although they should be.)
NOTE:
Having said all that, a poster on my blog provided the following link to the CIRA.CA story which claims that the CIRA did NOT have any contact with Joe Volpe or his staff. Again, one has no way of knowing if this is true. If it is just a concidence, then of course I withdraw my remarks about Volpe, but we just don't know the truth at this time.
(I also blogged about this too: Canadian
When the last book came out, a friend of mine swore that he was going to stagger around the Barnes & Noble for the midnight release crying and yelling, "Why?!? Why did you have to take Hermione!?!"
.sig. And this .sig was in a discussion that had *NOTHING* to do with Harry Potter. I was quite pissed off.
Funny you say that, the major character death in book 6, and the individual responsible was revealed to me though a slashdot
I think this is great! So, how do I start leeching money from the torrents? ;)
Bastard Operator From 149.156.96.35
.sig? Next thing you know, I will have to put a disclamer in with my .sig explaining it too...
.sig)
(just do nslookup on this address, dummy)
Oh, what has slashdot come to that you need a disclamer such as that within your
*sigh*
(I am assuming you get lots of people just not "getting" your
Took a working Athlon XP 2600+ to 3200+ speeds
2600+ or 2500+ ?? There is a big difference. The 2500+ overclocks much better because of the FSB speed, you cannot correctly overclock a 2600+ to 3200+ due to the FSB...
Either way, did you identify that the chip was in fact the problem? And if so, how much did the damaged chip cost versus the same chip in a 3200+ version? In the case of this article, you can buy at least 8 of these Pentium 805 D chips for a single 3.8 Ghz Extreme... And the 805 D is faster...
You got lucky, that's all. Some chips barely meet 300mhz and some chips actually rate 500mzh but get stamped as 300mzh because they needed more 300's.
Maybe I got lucky... However, I also did my homework first too. I knew my odds. And the odds of overclocking a celery 300A were VERY high. Could mine do 466? No. However, for the price to performance ratio, it was well worth the risk.
If I want a gaming machine that I don't care too much about the power bill, then this overclock "as dangerous as it may be" is worth my time. Besides, do the math, how many low end intels will I have to burn though to equal a chip that is ALMOST as powerful as the overclocked?
HINT, where I buy my chips:
Intel Pentium 4 Extreme Edition 3.73GHZ $1,318.24
Intel Pentium D 805 2.66GHZ Dual Core $171.74
Do the math.
Ok, so you can overclock it to 4.1Ghz.. but how many weeks will it last before it burns out and you need to buy a new one?
What is it with you people?
Here on slashdot no less, a bunch of people decried my overclocking of a Celeron 300A to 450... FYI, its still running right now...
You decried my overclocking of my AMD Barton 2500+ to 3200+... I am still using THAT as my primary machine...
I am aware of the risks of overclocking, but I am also aware of the benifits. I weigh those considerations carefully before doing so. Overclocking not for you? Fine. No problem.
However, it has been working just great for me thanks - and people told me my celeron would just *EXPLODE* or catch fire... or... Whatever...
If you don't like overclocking, don't do it. However, stop whining about the chip frying. If it works, and you keep it cooled, it will probably work for a long time to come.
Let's see, nuclear reactors produce nuclear waste, which you want to put back into the nuclear reactors? Is that kind of like hooking up your car's exhaust pipe to the fuel tank? Sure you could probably recover some uranium from the reactor waste, but at some point it just isn't worth it.
The fuel need not be Uranium - it can be Thorium, Plutonium or many other radioactive materials. With a Breeder reactor http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breeder_reactor
The waste becomes the fuel. Much of nuclear "waste" can in fact be used as fuel in a reactor. And after it "steps down" a few notches in the periodic table, it also generally has a much shorter half-life than previous materials. This process greatly reduces the remaining amounts of nuclear waste.
One would think that with the prevalance of technology today, that the availablity of a Geiger counter or dosimeter would be a fairly common device in the future...
If not, then I think it likely that, oh, we have probably nuked ourselves back into the stone or iron age, and knowledge of radioactivity will be fairly moot, not to mention its omnipresence in such a scenario...
Either way, I think it is a far better idea to use Nuclear waste as FUEL in a nuclear reactor, as opposed to just waste... But then that idea just makes too much sense, so we have to consider marking toxic sites...
My girlfriend's only exposure to console gaming was watching her brother play nintendo when she was younger. I showed her to promotional video of the new controller, and she thought it looked like a lot of fun. I told her about the new name for the system, and even she thought it was a really really bad name.
So, now, because of this "bad" name, your GF now has more exposure to gaming consoles. Indeed, if the console was not named Wii, the odds are that she would not have had any exposure to it.
So, from a marketing perspective, "Wii" is a win.
Actually, I personally don't need great growth in my portfolio. But then again my investing style involves picking undervalued companies that pay a good dividend payout and holding them for a long time for the dividend yield, I am not so much into "Buy Low, Sell High" as I am into "Buy and Hold". But that's just my style.
"Linux is only free if your time is worthless."
Well i also work 100% with Linux today and from my point of view Linux is always easier to setup, takes half the time and is much easier and cheaper to maintain. People take for granted that linux is harder to use than Windows and other comercial software.
I agree, however, the point of the guy's sig is that it DOES requre some setup, and it does require some training. I can tell you than in 97 when I first started using Linux I was far more efficent with Windows at the time. I had to spend a great deal of my time learning linux to bring my skills to a point where it became a more effective soluiton for me than Microsoft products. So, Linux itself is free, both in beer and in speech, however, not all aspects of it are easy to use without training. And that is what I believe the guy's sig means.
I had a previous co-worker contact me about building a linux based router for the new place where he works, but he does not know much about linux, or much about routing. He would have had to spend quite some time learning the setup, and then choosing smoothwall or some other option, and he probably would have wanted to learn IPTables and all the other associated errata for what he was doing. I just told him to go out and buy a Linksys router. Problem solved.
While he could have built the router from the ground up, for what he gets paid per hour, the cost of the router was signifiantly less than for him to cobble together the "free" solution.
Linux (and Opensource in general) IS always better in price and frequently better in quality than anything MS has originated.
Well, I was reffering to stock prices here and modes of investment, as there are limited options for investing in Linux, like RHAT and LNUX and such. So, I should have included "business" as one of the technical merits.
However, I must also include a great sig of a poster here that reads: "Linux is only free if your time is worthless." because it is pretty much true. Note, I don't dislike Linux (I use it for a living!) but, in terms of making money off of investments, Microsoft seems to have been the better choice. I don't see their business dying, I sort of seeing them evolve like IBM has - they are a big company, but some of their core products and core markets are changing, and they must adapt. Which is what the title article is about. Microsoft is restructuring.
Now, knowing that, I guess my question should have been phrased as - "Do you belive Microsoft can restructure itself to bring in bigger proftits in the long run?" Because I don't see them just lying down to die any time soon.
MSFT took a hammering today as it lost 11% of its value today - it remains to be seen if this is a permanent fall or not.
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[url]http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/060428/microsoft.htm
Almost makes MSFT look like a value stock... (That is, if you can evalutate MS on technical merits and not knee-jerk "Linux r00ls M$ SuX0rs!!!" criteria.)
However, I personally wonder if Mac OS X won't take a larger chunk out of MS in the coming future... What do you guys see in the crystal ball for Microsofts Future?
Your comment about Mr. Rimmer makes me very angry, I know what I should do with you, but who would clean up the mess?
-- Mr. Flibble
So, they were drilling for fossil fuel? Looks like they knuckled down, and found the source. But still, with the odds of finding a fossil like that, so deep, it almost makes me wonder if the drill was intelligently designed...
Interestingly, I have been banned from moderation for a long time. Apparently for just viewing certain posts or something. I don't remember the details.
c id=10801729 to be pure gold.
Interesting because I have had this account for quite some time, and I (used to) Meta-Moderate on a daily basis. I also used my mod points to mod up, and not down. It was very rare indeed for me to mark someone as a troll or similar. Still, I followed a link to a supposed "forbidden" criticism of slashdot and such, and read all the posts therin, and I have not had moderation privilages since.
I have since stopped meta-moderating as much because, well, while I like slashdot, and it is my homepage on Firefox, I am somehow no longer appreciated or something, or maybe not trusted. I don't know.
Its funny really, when people like you and me are the ones for making slashdot what it is. Sure, there are posts about various stories, but what MAKES slashdot are the comments. For example, I have always found this thread: http://books.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=129489&
What digg aspires to be is a more "open" version of slashdot, whether it achives that or not we will see. Either way, the competition has been good, I suppose everyone has noticed the quick little changes in how slashdot works now? When this site has not changed much in the last five years?
No matter the outcome, the shakedown on this is bound to be good... It would be nice though, to have mention of the reason users like me are suddenly not allowed to moderate, as opposed to just having it vanish - apparently for "viewing" the wrong threads...
No one buys oxygen, either, but the economy seems to be holding up okay despite that. Don't give yourself a migraine worrying about oxygen being free, will you?
Tell that to This Guy
No, we don't. The technology is pretty much the same. There haven't been any new nuclear plants in the past 20 years and they really haven't updated much of the safety systems. There still isn't a long term way of dealing with the tons of radioactive waste being produced. Don't get me wrong, I think Nuclear is the way to go, but I would really like the storage system to be fixed soon.
Instead of a storage system, Breeder reactors should be used: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breeder_reactor
This eliminates the problem of "only" 50 years more Uranium, and uses "waste" as fuel.
According to Wikipedia:
Ukraine, put the total predicted number of deaths due to the accident at 4,000 (of which 2,200 deaths are expected to be in the ranks of 200 000 "liquidators") . This predicted death toll includes the 47 workers who died of acute radiation syndrome as a direct result of radiation from the disaster, nine children who died from thyroid cancer and an estimated 3,940 people who could die from cancer as a result of exposure to radiation.
Perhaps he is talking about direct result here?
I would settle for the Daily Kos to cease using Ad-Hominim attacks in their posts. So much of their message is undermined by this.
It is almost as if Daily Kos is opposed to the fundamentals of economics in their pursuit of being anti-republican/pro-democrat. And, as a Canadian I don't care much about either party either way. I just find that Daily Kos undermines their position with pointless personal attacks. But then again, Daily Kos is a popular blog because of it, and Fox is popular for a similar reason.
Sad really, it is otherwise an excellent source of political news.
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