Whoooooaaahhh there, Nelly. I'm quite sure that I specified earlier that I was NOT using the term "liberal" in the same sense that most of the world uses it. Here in the US, we have our own meaning for the word.
Hell, man, half of Europe thinks that Marx was right of center! Or, you might credit him with being centrist.
Liberal, Democrat, Progressive - on this side of the pond, the terms are pretty much synonymous. And, "conservative" over here doesn't mean the same either.
Every news site in the world has it's own slant, if not it's own agenda. Every single one. There are no "unbiased" news sites. There are no unbiased persons. I have my views, you have your views, and so does every other person on this planet. We are all biased, we put our own spin on things.
If you have failed to grasp that concept, then you are a babe in the woods, prey for whatever bad monster comes along.
If you insist on playing the fool, please don't waste my time.
If you have grasped the concept that all news sites are biased, and you still deny that Main Stream Media in the United States is biased toward the liberal point of view*, then you are simply dishonest. The Turners are liberal, Hearst is liberal, and the large majority of other players are also liberal.
* I use the word "liberal" not as most of the world would use it, but as is commonly accepted in the United States, to mean progressive and/or Democrat and/or socialistic.
I think I've covered the best - be aware, some national sites are heavy into propaganda. Pravda very much so, RT somewhat less so.
Depending on your own interests - you might type in some country in a Google search, and add "times" or "post" or "news". From time to time, I do something like that - the earthquake in Tibet for instance. https://duckduckgo.com/?t=pale... That search offered up a number of sites, but I didn't add any of them to my feeds. Note that many of the hits are very politicized, but you can still find Tibetan news sources among them.
You said a mouthful there. Now and then, I am impressed with someone's point of view. I return to their site a few times. Sometimes more than a few. So VERY many of them end up stuffing their foot in their mouths. And, of course, there are some who apparently keep their heads up their asses, and I just happened to catch them on a day they pulled their heads out to breathe.
People worth listening to don't waste a lot of time blathering. They are to busy DOING SOMETHING!
"The crush of news sites today is almost overwhelming."
Call it off-topic, but if you are overwhelmed by the "crush of news sites", then you're probably doing something wrong. Virtually all of the news in the US can be summed up as "MSM". A couple of liberal families own most of the "news" organizations. An ultra-conservative Aussie owns the best-known alternative. There are more main-stream sites available, but most people don't want to hear about them.
In my news feeds, I have two Russian, two Chinese, one Indian, one Kurd, one Arab, one Israeli, 4 British, one Australian, and a mishmash of US MSM. I scan over the MSM, choosing to click on one now and then. Being a conservative at heart, I click Fox more often than I click Hearst or Turner links, but TBH, I don't like Fox much. For the real news, I scroll on down to the "foreign" sources.
Also in my feeds, I have things like Scientific American, Project Censored and - oh, what's this? SLASHDOT?!?! How did that get in there?
Think outside the box that Main Stream Media tries to put you in.
Believe me, I cannot, will not stand in one place any more. I've done it, but never willingly. Today, if I had to stand at a work bench or something all day, I would quit. I can't do it.
That's just age though. A little over a year ago, the wife quit her job on an assembly line. They changed up the line, and she was going to have to run a screw gun again. She did it for years, but that metatarsal thing wore her down. She simply WAS NOT going to run a screw gun again!
No, but it might take a rocket scientist to figure out that BOTH OPTIONS should be available. Hmmmm - how would that work? How 'bout a sturdy work surface, attached to some kind of sturdy arm, anchored to either the floor or the wall, adjustable to any height between about two feet off the floor to about five feet? A short, small person can probably sit cross legged on the floor, and work, and the tallest guy I've ever met could work comfortabley standing up. Throw a chair and/or a stool into the mix, and everyone can find his own posture.
I'm on my feet all day anyway. When I need/want to do some paperwork, I want to SIT DOWN for a little while. Sitting may not be good for you, but standing on a concrete floor all day isn't much better.
All you need are a couple pistons fitted into a block, so that you can run some fuel to the pistons, to turn a shaft, which spins your transmission, which then turns the wheels. I manage just fine with two wheels, and a set of handlebars, powered by an engine produce back in 1982. No automagic turn signal canceling, no power windows, no air conditioning, no heater - although I am somewhat of a sissy, in that I insist on a windshield.
Cars. I want very little more in a car than I have on my motorcycle. I don't WANT the damned car to do tricks. If I really want any tricks out of the car, I'll invest a few thousands under the hood, and in the transmission. Thank you very much - just a simple engine, tranny, and some wheels will be enough.
I've never owned a real RAID controller. I learned that the fake-RAID controllers common on motherboards are more fake than they are RAID. You can't recover them, unless you can find exactly the same controller. I've learned to trust Linux software RAID - it just works, I've never had a RAID failure. Disk drive fails, no big deal, swap it out and rebuild the RAID. The RAID itself has never failed me though.
Maybe, on the other hand, you're doing something right. I have a minimum of stuff that I even bother to back up. If you were to ask the wife, she has terabytes of shit that need backed up. Just stupid movies, that she can torrent again anytime she wants. Me? Very nearly nothing. Everything I consider worthy of worry will fit on a single hard drive. 250 gig should suffice. Hmmmmmmm - my local backup is on a 320 gig drive, and there's a lot of redundant crap in there that I need to delete. Sifting through it . . . . looks like MAYBE 100 gig is actually important to me. Backups for the sake of backups, again and again - most of it is just junk, really.
Being a LInux distro hopper, I nuke and reinstall pretty frequently anyway. Install to the SSD, browse my backup drive, move over the stuff I need or want, such as my Mozilla profile, and I'm up and running. Passwords and keys are stored in a couple of places, just in case. Phhht.
The better question is, why should all citizens subsidize a business whose model it is to use public facilities to turn a profit?
Perhaps you didn't really comprehend GP's post. Those parking spaces are being monetized by a private corporation. Said corporation throws some chump change at the city government. And, taxpayers are still paying for all that paved area, the corporation has not assumed any responsibilities in providing parking spaces.
Taxpayers are ENTITLED to park on the city streets, because they PAID FOR those streets.
What I read in a related study, is that there is a "sweet spot" for the correctly sized lanes. 10 to 10 1/2 feet in width makes for safer driving. Reducing below 10 feet in width and increasing over 10 1/2 feet both make driving less safe. Those skinny little streets with 8, or even 7 foot wide lanes are definitely UNSAFE.
Farming? That's a lot closer to 50/50 than most city or urban people might think. I'm not saying it is exactly 50/50, just a lot closer than non-farmers would believe. The work has to be done, after all, and the whole family pitches in, and does the work.
In fact, in ancient societies, the women WERE the farmes, and the men only deigned to perform tasks that the women found impossible to do.
Girls and boys are different. Men and women are different. Despite all the gay-wad bullshit with cross-gendered people, the vast majority of men are men, and women are women.
You want female engineers? Give them a fucking REASON to want to be engineers! If that means gender focused toys, tools, or whatever, GIVE IT TO THEM!
There simply are not any women who find all of my activities appealing. That's because they aren't men. The most masculine women in the world thinks that guys are a pain in the ass, and stupid, for all the crap we do.
STOP TRYING TO CHANGE THEM! RESPECT THEM AS THEY ARE!
The ladies have some legitimate complaints about us guys, but you can't turn men into women, either. Sometimes, we're going to get under each other's skins. It happens. Hell, even MEN get under my skin sometimes, and I ARE ONE!
So - ladies, come on in, join the crowd. And, if the odd guy gets to damned obnoxious, just kick him in the nuts. It's doubtful you'll have to repeat it. Word gets around. "That woman ain't going to put up with no shit! Cool it!"
"DPS puffs up its stats the way Donald Trump puffs his hair."
Face it, cops are cops. They get off on the adrenaline rush when the make a bust, and then they get off on bragging about it afterwards. And, of course the bragging gets inflated.
Except, in this case, they never even made a bust!
The problem is, the music isn't the artist's property. The labels claim all the rights. The artists theoretical royalties invariably end up being a shit sandwich, without much bread. The labels signed the deal with Apple, because they know that the artists have signed away all their rights already.
Political speech was the primary form of speech on the founding father's minds. Religious speech would have been secondary. All other forms of speech are included, of course, but political and religious enemies are the most dangerous.
The comment in question falls under political speech. The commenter is commenting on a political candidate, after all. Calling a candidate a pedophile hardly differs from the bipartisan mudslinging that takes place in most elections anyway.
IMO, the Supreme Court has exceeded it's authority in this case.
Whatever you use for a router can do it. I have a Netgear open source router. Flashed it with Tomato firmware, then installed the MVPS Hosts file on it. A startup script updates the Hosts file at boot, and then every four days after booting. Of course, the concept isn't exclusive to Netgear, or to commercial routers. Install it on your gateway, whatever that gateway may be.
I would be interested to hear how much bandwidth you save by blocking advertising for a company. I'd also be interested in learning how much your internet improves in terms of responsiveness. It made a big difference for me, but I don't administer hundreds or thousands of computers.
Yes, of course it is. If I'm browsing YOUR site, then I've implied that I have some trust in YOUR site. Cross site scripting demands that I also trust those other ten, twenty, fifty, or maybe even thousand other sites. If you demand that kind of trust, then I don't need your site. Drive-by installation of malware is far to common for us to trust all those unidentified sites.
Learn wresting on the intartubez? I'm afraid that I won't believe that until it's demonstrated for me. I'm really not sure how serious you are with that though, is it just an example you threw out there?
Atlas at least thinks differently. As I understand it, rather than feed you a zillion links to the same data, it attempts to find your data, and related data. I'm not real sure how good, or how bad that is, but it's different.
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Oh, you wanna get personal. I'm six foot even, and I weigh 200 pounds. I'm not proud of that 200 pounds, I would be perfectly healthy anywhere between 165 and 180, but here I am 200 pounds. Sixty years old, with a pot belly. But - I would argue about being a "fat fuck". Just how fat do you think a man can be, with that height and weight?
And, how about you? Bill Cosby had you in mind when he did his skits about Fat Albert?
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Whoooooaaahhh there, Nelly. I'm quite sure that I specified earlier that I was NOT using the term "liberal" in the same sense that most of the world uses it. Here in the US, we have our own meaning for the word.
Hell, man, half of Europe thinks that Marx was right of center! Or, you might credit him with being centrist.
Liberal, Democrat, Progressive - on this side of the pond, the terms are pretty much synonymous. And, "conservative" over here doesn't mean the same either.
Every news site in the world has it's own slant, if not it's own agenda. Every single one. There are no "unbiased" news sites. There are no unbiased persons. I have my views, you have your views, and so does every other person on this planet. We are all biased, we put our own spin on things.
If you have failed to grasp that concept, then you are a babe in the woods, prey for whatever bad monster comes along.
If you insist on playing the fool, please don't waste my time.
If you have grasped the concept that all news sites are biased, and you still deny that Main Stream Media in the United States is biased toward the liberal point of view*, then you are simply dishonest. The Turners are liberal, Hearst is liberal, and the large majority of other players are also liberal.
* I use the word "liberal" not as most of the world would use it, but as is commonly accepted in the United States, to mean progressive and/or Democrat and/or socialistic.
I dunno if AC will check back or not - but in no particular order:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/
http://www.reuters.com/
http://rt.com/
http://www.cbc.ca/
http://www.news.com.au/
http://www.dailytelegraph.com....
http://news.sky.com/
http://kurdishdailynews.org/
http://rt.com/
http://www.jpost.com/
http://www.aljazeera.com/
http://www.china.org.cn/
http://www.scientificamerican....
http://timesofindia.indiatimes...
http://english.pravda.ru/
http://www.projectcensored.org...
http://www.arabtimesonline.com...
I think I've covered the best - be aware, some national sites are heavy into propaganda. Pravda very much so, RT somewhat less so.
Depending on your own interests - you might type in some country in a Google search, and add "times" or "post" or "news". From time to time, I do something like that - the earthquake in Tibet for instance. https://duckduckgo.com/?t=pale... That search offered up a number of sites, but I didn't add any of them to my feeds. Note that many of the hits are very politicized, but you can still find Tibetan news sources among them.
Have fun!
You said a mouthful there. Now and then, I am impressed with someone's point of view. I return to their site a few times. Sometimes more than a few. So VERY many of them end up stuffing their foot in their mouths. And, of course, there are some who apparently keep their heads up their asses, and I just happened to catch them on a day they pulled their heads out to breathe.
People worth listening to don't waste a lot of time blathering. They are to busy DOING SOMETHING!
"The crush of news sites today is almost overwhelming."
Call it off-topic, but if you are overwhelmed by the "crush of news sites", then you're probably doing something wrong. Virtually all of the news in the US can be summed up as "MSM". A couple of liberal families own most of the "news" organizations. An ultra-conservative Aussie owns the best-known alternative. There are more main-stream sites available, but most people don't want to hear about them.
In my news feeds, I have two Russian, two Chinese, one Indian, one Kurd, one Arab, one Israeli, 4 British, one Australian, and a mishmash of US MSM. I scan over the MSM, choosing to click on one now and then. Being a conservative at heart, I click Fox more often than I click Hearst or Turner links, but TBH, I don't like Fox much. For the real news, I scroll on down to the "foreign" sources.
Also in my feeds, I have things like Scientific American, Project Censored and - oh, what's this? SLASHDOT?!?! How did that get in there?
Think outside the box that Main Stream Media tries to put you in.
On a related note - http://dontbubble.us/
Maybe I should have advised you to think outside the bubble, instead?
Believe me, I cannot, will not stand in one place any more. I've done it, but never willingly. Today, if I had to stand at a work bench or something all day, I would quit. I can't do it.
That's just age though. A little over a year ago, the wife quit her job on an assembly line. They changed up the line, and she was going to have to run a screw gun again. She did it for years, but that metatarsal thing wore her down. She simply WAS NOT going to run a screw gun again!
"It doesn't take a rocket scientist"
No, but it might take a rocket scientist to figure out that BOTH OPTIONS should be available. Hmmmm - how would that work? How 'bout a sturdy work surface, attached to some kind of sturdy arm, anchored to either the floor or the wall, adjustable to any height between about two feet off the floor to about five feet? A short, small person can probably sit cross legged on the floor, and work, and the tallest guy I've ever met could work comfortabley standing up. Throw a chair and/or a stool into the mix, and everyone can find his own posture.
I'm on my feet all day anyway. When I need/want to do some paperwork, I want to SIT DOWN for a little while. Sitting may not be good for you, but standing on a concrete floor all day isn't much better.
All you need are a couple pistons fitted into a block, so that you can run some fuel to the pistons, to turn a shaft, which spins your transmission, which then turns the wheels. I manage just fine with two wheels, and a set of handlebars, powered by an engine produce back in 1982. No automagic turn signal canceling, no power windows, no air conditioning, no heater - although I am somewhat of a sissy, in that I insist on a windshield.
Cars. I want very little more in a car than I have on my motorcycle. I don't WANT the damned car to do tricks. If I really want any tricks out of the car, I'll invest a few thousands under the hood, and in the transmission. Thank you very much - just a simple engine, tranny, and some wheels will be enough.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I've never owned a real RAID controller. I learned that the fake-RAID controllers common on motherboards are more fake than they are RAID. You can't recover them, unless you can find exactly the same controller. I've learned to trust Linux software RAID - it just works, I've never had a RAID failure. Disk drive fails, no big deal, swap it out and rebuild the RAID. The RAID itself has never failed me though.
Maybe, on the other hand, you're doing something right. I have a minimum of stuff that I even bother to back up. If you were to ask the wife, she has terabytes of shit that need backed up. Just stupid movies, that she can torrent again anytime she wants. Me? Very nearly nothing. Everything I consider worthy of worry will fit on a single hard drive. 250 gig should suffice. Hmmmmmmm - my local backup is on a 320 gig drive, and there's a lot of redundant crap in there that I need to delete. Sifting through it . . . . looks like MAYBE 100 gig is actually important to me. Backups for the sake of backups, again and again - most of it is just junk, really.
Being a LInux distro hopper, I nuke and reinstall pretty frequently anyway. Install to the SSD, browse my backup drive, move over the stuff I need or want, such as my Mozilla profile, and I'm up and running. Passwords and keys are stored in a couple of places, just in case. Phhht.
The better question is, why should all citizens subsidize a business whose model it is to use public facilities to turn a profit?
Perhaps you didn't really comprehend GP's post. Those parking spaces are being monetized by a private corporation. Said corporation throws some chump change at the city government. And, taxpayers are still paying for all that paved area, the corporation has not assumed any responsibilities in providing parking spaces.
Taxpayers are ENTITLED to park on the city streets, because they PAID FOR those streets.
What I read in a related study, is that there is a "sweet spot" for the correctly sized lanes. 10 to 10 1/2 feet in width makes for safer driving. Reducing below 10 feet in width and increasing over 10 1/2 feet both make driving less safe. Those skinny little streets with 8, or even 7 foot wide lanes are definitely UNSAFE.
Derp-a-derp - women are smarter than that. Haven't you been paying ANY attention?
Farming? That's a lot closer to 50/50 than most city or urban people might think. I'm not saying it is exactly 50/50, just a lot closer than non-farmers would believe. The work has to be done, after all, and the whole family pitches in, and does the work.
In fact, in ancient societies, the women WERE the farmes, and the men only deigned to perform tasks that the women found impossible to do.
Great link. Thank you for it!
Girls and boys are different. Men and women are different. Despite all the gay-wad bullshit with cross-gendered people, the vast majority of men are men, and women are women.
You want female engineers? Give them a fucking REASON to want to be engineers! If that means gender focused toys, tools, or whatever, GIVE IT TO THEM!
There simply are not any women who find all of my activities appealing. That's because they aren't men. The most masculine women in the world thinks that guys are a pain in the ass, and stupid, for all the crap we do.
STOP TRYING TO CHANGE THEM! RESPECT THEM AS THEY ARE!
The ladies have some legitimate complaints about us guys, but you can't turn men into women, either. Sometimes, we're going to get under each other's skins. It happens. Hell, even MEN get under my skin sometimes, and I ARE ONE!
So - ladies, come on in, join the crowd. And, if the odd guy gets to damned obnoxious, just kick him in the nuts. It's doubtful you'll have to repeat it. Word gets around. "That woman ain't going to put up with no shit! Cool it!"
"DPS puffs up its stats the way Donald Trump puffs his hair."
Face it, cops are cops. They get off on the adrenaline rush when the make a bust, and then they get off on bragging about it afterwards. And, of course the bragging gets inflated.
Except, in this case, they never even made a bust!
The problem is, the music isn't the artist's property. The labels claim all the rights. The artists theoretical royalties invariably end up being a shit sandwich, without much bread. The labels signed the deal with Apple, because they know that the artists have signed away all their rights already.
Political speech was the primary form of speech on the founding father's minds. Religious speech would have been secondary. All other forms of speech are included, of course, but political and religious enemies are the most dangerous.
The comment in question falls under political speech. The commenter is commenting on a political candidate, after all. Calling a candidate a pedophile hardly differs from the bipartisan mudslinging that takes place in most elections anyway.
IMO, the Supreme Court has exceeded it's authority in this case.
Whatever you use for a router can do it. I have a Netgear open source router. Flashed it with Tomato firmware, then installed the MVPS Hosts file on it. A startup script updates the Hosts file at boot, and then every four days after booting. Of course, the concept isn't exclusive to Netgear, or to commercial routers. Install it on your gateway, whatever that gateway may be.
I would be interested to hear how much bandwidth you save by blocking advertising for a company. I'd also be interested in learning how much your internet improves in terms of responsiveness. It made a big difference for me, but I don't administer hundreds or thousands of computers.
Yes, of course it is. If I'm browsing YOUR site, then I've implied that I have some trust in YOUR site. Cross site scripting demands that I also trust those other ten, twenty, fifty, or maybe even thousand other sites. If you demand that kind of trust, then I don't need your site. Drive-by installation of malware is far to common for us to trust all those unidentified sites.
Learn wresting on the intartubez? I'm afraid that I won't believe that until it's demonstrated for me. I'm really not sure how serious you are with that though, is it just an example you threw out there?
http://www.atlasify.com/
Atlas at least thinks differently. As I understand it, rather than feed you a zillion links to the same data, it attempts to find your data, and related data. I'm not real sure how good, or how bad that is, but it's different.
Oh, you wanna get personal. I'm six foot even, and I weigh 200 pounds. I'm not proud of that 200 pounds, I would be perfectly healthy anywhere between 165 and 180, but here I am 200 pounds. Sixty years old, with a pot belly. But - I would argue about being a "fat fuck". Just how fat do you think a man can be, with that height and weight?
And, how about you? Bill Cosby had you in mind when he did his skits about Fat Albert?