If this caused you to lose faith in the IOC, then it is because of your naivete in trusting sporting organizations. This is nothing compared to the NFL, or some of the shenanigans NCAA pulls, or FIDE. FIDE may be the worst of all.
I'm not at all an expert on the World Chess Federation, in fact I had to look up on Wikipedia that FIDE was a French acronym that means World Chess Federation. Please enlighten me to the shenanigans they pull. Is IBM not allowed to be mentioned at FIDE events because Intel or somebody is their official sponsor?
The answer bag article that you linked doesn't actually say what you claim it says. It says that a disgruntled former employee CLAIMS that she uesd that address. There's also no date on the article, so I can't go and find more about it from a source that might know more than "answer bag" or "The Public Record," whoever they are.
According to the Washington Post, Palin was the subject of 15 ethics probes (of which this was one), 13 of which were resolved with no finding of wrongdoing and the other two were pending as of when this article was written. (That's an almost direct quote from page 2 of the article; my link goes to page 1.) This article was written in July, when she resigned.
Do you have some other, better researched link to there being "boxes and boxes" of state buisness in her personal e-mail account, or is accusation supposed to replace the fact that Palin usually gets found not guilty when her political enemies frivolously accuse her of ethics violations?
The same week they put out a miserable Zune update that caused my Zune to find its way to the trash can.
The last update to the Zune HD firmware was in November. The most recent update to non-HD Zunes was in September. The problem they're talking about happened in February. We're probably not talking about the same issue.
I believe there was a story about Sarah Palin using an unofficial email address when she was governor of Alaska, but that is irrelevant to the question of whether the Obama Administration is more transparent than the Bush Administration.
The key point in that story is that a member of Anonymous, who said he wanted to "derail [Palin's]" campaign," and whose dad happens to be a (Democrat) state representative in Tennessee, hacked into that e-mail address and found that she was using the e-mail address for personal communication and not state business.
i do have horror stories to share. do you need to hear them?
F# isn't in Visual Studio 2008, is it? (I just checked Wikipedia, and no, it will be fully supported for the first time in VS2010.) What you have been working with isn't a production system yet. What horror stories about F# could you possibly have?
For one thing, it's really hard to say that Apple's device innovated the tablet and Microsoft's did not when the Microsoft product was announced 4 months before the Apple one. They were both in development at the same time.
For another thing, the iPad will run things out of the iPhone app store. While this may not have been true when it was released, a new product using that app store is no longer innovative. (By the way, the XBox Live Arcade is essentially an app store, and has been around since before the iPhone. Who created that, again?)
Finally, that link says nothing about what software the Courier will run, nor how it will improve the interface. (Actually, I'd argue that having a hard cover over the screen (which will happen when the device is folded in half) is an improvement to the interface because the interface won't get scratched as often.
I don't know if I could call MSNBC biased the same way that Fox News is...
Certainly most of the "reporters" on MSNBC are biased... But not all in the same direction. Compare Morning Joe to Countdown with Keith Olbermann. Quite the difference of bias there.
Countdown with Keith Olbermann and Morning Joe are not "news" shows, they're commentary. They are intended to be the equivalent of the editorial page in a newspaper, where the organization that runs the newspaper is allowed to give it's opinion. (Fox News's Hannity and The O'Reiley Factor are two editorial page type shows on Fox. CNN has them too, although I can't think of what they are offhand.)
The difference between Fox News and CNN is that if Fox is going to make a mistake, it's going to be to the right. CNN's mistakes tend to be to the left. (That, and CNN is a lot worse about promoting non-news (celebrity bullshit, etc.) stories during what's supposed to be real news time.) To add MSNBC to the discussion, they ARE a mistake to the left.
Say what you want to about Fox, but they don't have their commentary show guys anchor election coverage.
Like China is the only part of the world where censorship is in action. In the west we never heard about the US Black Fleet that was about to conquer Taiwan and got blown out of the water by the Chinese. That happened in 2003 and never hit the news nor the Internet. At least the part of the Internet over here. In China this is all well known. But over here the embarrassment for the USA would be devastating.
Hmm... 2003? I seem to remember the US Navy having its hands full with something else in 2003.
Seriously, the US military was stretched seriously thin in 2003. I'm not in on high level military strategy meetings, but I somehow doubt that the US had a spare fleet kicking around for anything. (Especially one that they weren't going to replace. Believe me, if the Navy started ordering a new fleet of ships, we'd know about it.)
And finally, what good would conquering Taiwan be to the US? They don't have appreciable natural resources or particularly strategic territory. Their main export is electronic components, which we already get from them extremely cheaply. The reason Taiwan is important to the US to the extent that it is is because of some combination of "They piss of China, and the US government doesn't like the Chinese government" and "The US supports free people everywhere."
Finally, Wikipedia has a page on the US as a state sponsor of terrorism, where a lot of ridiculously tenuous links made by people with actual death squads are listed. Whatever else you may think of Wikipedia, it doesn't have a pro-US bias. Pro-US censorship is not employed on Wikipedia. It also doesn't have an article on this Black Fleet nonsense you're spouting.
How would Hillary feel about web pages that oppose her "global community" or don't particularly want to be "united"? Based on her political record, I don't think she'd want to see such things.
Let me first state that I'm a pretty conservative person, and wouldn't vote for Hillary Clinton for dogcatcher. (I also wouldn't vote for Al Gore, who's going to show up later in my argument.
Hillary Clinton played a role in shaping the domestic agenda of the (Bill) Clinton administration. The Internet became big and important to the common man during that administration. The Clintons had a chance to nip free speech on the Internet in the bud during that time, and they could have gotten away with it before most people would have noticed the difference. They didn't do it. Instead, they allowed the Internet to become a political arena, one in which her friend and political ally Al Gore was criticized 6 million times in the year before the 2000 election for "claiming that he invented the internet." He never made that claim, but people think he did because that idea spread, mostly over the Internet. Conservatives criticize liberals. Liberals criticize conservatives. Assorted crazies (9/11 truthers come to mind) criticize regular society. People from regular society don't have to fear libel complaints from the assorted crazies. And this is all legal, despite the fact the Clintons had the opportunity to make it not so.
Based on Hillary Clinton's record of not actually censoring the Internet, I'm pretty sure that it's fair to assume she's for an Internet that is not censored for political speech.
The US, though, spends large amounts of the money on defense of the US, and a not insignificant amount of it on the defense of Europe. How much money do European countries spend on defense of the US?
This guy was genetically modifying pea plants in 1865, and had a fairly full understanding of the foundation of modern genetics. Of course, he was trying to figure out how animal husbandry, the practice of putting two animals with desired traits together and hoping they mate and produce offspring with the desired traits, worked. The concept predates him by several hundred years.
As far as Bt being organic when produced by the bacteria but not by the plant, the label "organic" isn't what makes something safer. It's the knowledge that it's been around and used for hundreds of years without ill effects in people. If two things are chemically identical, but one is organic and one is synthetic, they will react the same, whether in a solution or in an animal.
According to Wikipedia, Selective Availability of GPS was eliminated in 2000. Currently produced satellites (i.e. launched since 2007) can't implement the feature even if they wanted to.
Old, old, ass ones don't necessarily have an HDMI port, but there's an adapter you can buy to have an HDMI output from it. All XBoxes manufactured since 2007 have normal HDMI.
Maybe that's why they enshrined the right to protest against the government? How many anti-war protesters were arrested for protesting the war (and not something else) during the Bush administration? How many Tea Party types were arrested for their protests (and again, not for something else?) Neither of those groups were really the victors (in that there's still a war and still a health care bill), but simply protesting the government isn't illegal.
Hey moron: There's two countries in the Americas with "United States" in their name. In fact, they share a border. The northern one, the United States of America, is generally called "America" to avoid confusion with the other one. The southern one, the United Mexican States, is generally called "Mexico" for the same reason.
The reason calling citizens of the northern one Americans doesn't really confuse people is that continents haven't historically had governing structures, (and North America doesn't have one now) so the concept of "a citizen of $CONTINENT" is meaningless.
But you knew all that already, and are just a dick on the internet. I hope that's what they deported you to Australia for.
I was first licensed to drive in NJ, so I took the NJ version of Driver's Ed. The form you have to fill out has a yes or no option. (I have no idea what happens if you leave the question blank.) Also, the gym teacher teaching the class told us all to put down that we would be organ donors. I don't think he "enforced" it, but he certainly went beyond asking.
This was about 10 years ago in a public school. Your experience may vary.
Shane dot H, sorry, I thought you were the original poster./. should really render better on Firefox. In the first paragraph I just posted, I mean that the post I replied to talked about Fox News = bad and MSNBC = good. (BTW, in my experience, CNN is about equal to Fox in terms of bias (although CNN usually makes its mistakes to the left and Fox makes its mistakes to the right. MSNBC is way the fuck out there.)
My criticisms of the OP's links and logic stand, as do my criticisms of claiming Joe Scarborough hosts the kind of show where he just gives his opinion.
Compare Fox News to MSNBC when Fox News gives 15 hours per week of airtime to a former Democratic Congressman's opinion show. Then we'll talk equivalence.
You originally said that MSNBC didn't insert political opinions into its news shows, but Fox did. You then posted three examples of Fox opinion hosts having political opinions on opinion shows. (Opinion shows, by definition, are not news shows.) The link I posted, on the other hand, was allegedly straight news and not an opinion show.
As far as Joe Scarborough is concerned, he has a show, but it's not just his opinion on the show. Morning Joe is a panel show. There's usually at least one liberal on the panel. (As there should be. If everyone on the panel always agrees with each other, the show would be boring.) Fox News has a similar show in the same timeslot. Trying to portray Morning Joe as the equivalent to Sean Hannity's show is disingenuous. Once you stop doing that, we can talk equivalence.
You missed his point. The Iranian government was spreading propaganda about how the US will use Iraq as a base to invade Iran because the US hates Iran and Islam so much. And we could. Like you and the OP agree, we clearly have the ability. Of course we didn't actually invade Iran, because we don't particularly hate Iran or Islam. We have an issue with the current regime's drive towards nuclear weapons and it's suppression of the rights of its citizens, but we're not going to invade it because we hate Islam. The lack of US tanks within Iran is getting more and more obvious to the Iranian people. They are currently realizing, or so the OP argues, that the Iranian government is lying to them about how much the US hates them. And if they're being lied to about that, what else isn't their government telling them?
After all this complaining about how awful the name GIMP is, pretty much since the name was instituted, and it gets replaced with a program called F Spot? As in "One Version Inferior to the G Spot?"
Seriously, if in doubt, let someone else name your programs.
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If this caused you to lose faith in the IOC, then it is because of your naivete in trusting sporting organizations. This is nothing compared to the NFL, or some of the shenanigans NCAA pulls, or FIDE. FIDE may be the worst of all.
I'm not at all an expert on the World Chess Federation, in fact I had to look up on Wikipedia that FIDE was a French acronym that means World Chess Federation. Please enlighten me to the shenanigans they pull. Is IBM not allowed to be mentioned at FIDE events because Intel or somebody is their official sponsor?
According to the Washington Post, Palin was the subject of 15 ethics probes (of which this was one), 13 of which were resolved with no finding of wrongdoing and the other two were pending as of when this article was written. (That's an almost direct quote from page 2 of the article; my link goes to page 1.) This article was written in July, when she resigned.
Do you have some other, better researched link to there being "boxes and boxes" of state buisness in her personal e-mail account, or is accusation supposed to replace the fact that Palin usually gets found not guilty when her political enemies frivolously accuse her of ethics violations?
The same week they put out a miserable Zune update that caused my Zune to find its way to the trash can.
The last update to the Zune HD firmware was in November. The most recent update to non-HD Zunes was in September. The problem they're talking about happened in February. We're probably not talking about the same issue.
I believe there was a story about Sarah Palin using an unofficial email address when she was governor of Alaska, but that is irrelevant to the question of whether the Obama Administration is more transparent than the Bush Administration.
The key point in that story is that a member of Anonymous, who said he wanted to "derail [Palin's]" campaign," and whose dad happens to be a (Democrat) state representative in Tennessee, hacked into that e-mail address and found that she was using the e-mail address for personal communication and not state business.
i do have horror stories to share. do you need to hear them?
F# isn't in Visual Studio 2008, is it? (I just checked Wikipedia, and no, it will be fully supported for the first time in VS2010.) What you have been working with isn't a production system yet. What horror stories about F# could you possibly have?
It was a joke. Was it that non-obvious?
Exactly. Until they give a proper demo of the end software that will run on the Courier, it's had to say how innovative it really is.
But we know what software the iPad will run. Is running things out of the iPhone App Store innovative?
I, for one, use the command line.
For another thing, the iPad will run things out of the iPhone app store. While this may not have been true when it was released, a new product using that app store is no longer innovative. (By the way, the XBox Live Arcade is essentially an app store, and has been around since before the iPhone. Who created that, again?)
Finally, that link says nothing about what software the Courier will run, nor how it will improve the interface. (Actually, I'd argue that having a hard cover over the screen (which will happen when the device is folded in half) is an improvement to the interface because the interface won't get scratched as often.
I don't know if I could call MSNBC biased the same way that Fox News is...
Certainly most of the "reporters" on MSNBC are biased... But not all in the same direction. Compare Morning Joe to Countdown with Keith Olbermann. Quite the difference of bias there.
Countdown with Keith Olbermann and Morning Joe are not "news" shows, they're commentary. They are intended to be the equivalent of the editorial page in a newspaper, where the organization that runs the newspaper is allowed to give it's opinion. (Fox News's Hannity and The O'Reiley Factor are two editorial page type shows on Fox. CNN has them too, although I can't think of what they are offhand.)
The difference between Fox News and CNN is that if Fox is going to make a mistake, it's going to be to the right. CNN's mistakes tend to be to the left. (That, and CNN is a lot worse about promoting non-news (celebrity bullshit, etc.) stories during what's supposed to be real news time.) To add MSNBC to the discussion, they ARE a mistake to the left.
Say what you want to about Fox, but they don't have their commentary show guys anchor election coverage.
Like China is the only part of the world where censorship is in action. In the west we never heard about the US Black Fleet that was about to conquer Taiwan and got blown out of the water by the Chinese. That happened in 2003 and never hit the news nor the Internet. At least the part of the Internet over here. In China this is all well known. But over here the embarrassment for the USA would be devastating.
Hmm... 2003? I seem to remember the US Navy having its hands full with something else in 2003.
Seriously, the US military was stretched seriously thin in 2003. I'm not in on high level military strategy meetings, but I somehow doubt that the US had a spare fleet kicking around for anything. (Especially one that they weren't going to replace. Believe me, if the Navy started ordering a new fleet of ships, we'd know about it.)
And finally, what good would conquering Taiwan be to the US? They don't have appreciable natural resources or particularly strategic territory. Their main export is electronic components, which we already get from them extremely cheaply. The reason Taiwan is important to the US to the extent that it is is because of some combination of "They piss of China, and the US government doesn't like the Chinese government" and "The US supports free people everywhere."
Finally, Wikipedia has a page on the US as a state sponsor of terrorism, where a lot of ridiculously tenuous links made by people with actual death squads are listed. Whatever else you may think of Wikipedia, it doesn't have a pro-US bias. Pro-US censorship is not employed on Wikipedia. It also doesn't have an article on this Black Fleet nonsense you're spouting.
How would Hillary feel about web pages that oppose her "global community" or don't particularly want to be "united"? Based on her political record, I don't think she'd want to see such things.
Let me first state that I'm a pretty conservative person, and wouldn't vote for Hillary Clinton for dogcatcher. (I also wouldn't vote for Al Gore, who's going to show up later in my argument.
Hillary Clinton played a role in shaping the domestic agenda of the (Bill) Clinton administration. The Internet became big and important to the common man during that administration. The Clintons had a chance to nip free speech on the Internet in the bud during that time, and they could have gotten away with it before most people would have noticed the difference. They didn't do it. Instead, they allowed the Internet to become a political arena, one in which her friend and political ally Al Gore was criticized 6 million times in the year before the 2000 election for "claiming that he invented the internet." He never made that claim, but people think he did because that idea spread, mostly over the Internet. Conservatives criticize liberals. Liberals criticize conservatives. Assorted crazies (9/11 truthers come to mind) criticize regular society. People from regular society don't have to fear libel complaints from the assorted crazies. And this is all legal, despite the fact the Clintons had the opportunity to make it not so.
Based on Hillary Clinton's record of not actually censoring the Internet, I'm pretty sure that it's fair to assume she's for an Internet that is not censored for political speech.
The US, though, spends large amounts of the money on defense of the US, and a not insignificant amount of it on the defense of Europe. How much money do European countries spend on defense of the US?
As far as Bt being organic when produced by the bacteria but not by the plant, the label "organic" isn't what makes something safer. It's the knowledge that it's been around and used for hundreds of years without ill effects in people. If two things are chemically identical, but one is organic and one is synthetic, they will react the same, whether in a solution or in an animal.
According to Wikipedia, Selective Availability of GPS was eliminated in 2000. Currently produced satellites (i.e. launched since 2007) can't implement the feature even if they wanted to.
Old, old, ass ones don't necessarily have an HDMI port, but there's an adapter you can buy to have an HDMI output from it. All XBoxes manufactured since 2007 have normal HDMI.
Did I miss a joke here or something?
Maybe that's why they enshrined the right to protest against the government? How many anti-war protesters were arrested for protesting the war (and not something else) during the Bush administration? How many Tea Party types were arrested for their protests (and again, not for something else?) Neither of those groups were really the victors (in that there's still a war and still a health care bill), but simply protesting the government isn't illegal.
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Hey moron: There's two countries in the Americas with "United States" in their name. In fact, they share a border. The northern one, the United States of America, is generally called "America" to avoid confusion with the other one. The southern one, the United Mexican States, is generally called "Mexico" for the same reason.
The reason calling citizens of the northern one Americans doesn't really confuse people is that continents haven't historically had governing structures, (and North America doesn't have one now) so the concept of "a citizen of $CONTINENT" is meaningless.
But you knew all that already, and are just a dick on the internet. I hope that's what they deported you to Australia for.
This was about 10 years ago in a public school. Your experience may vary.
My criticisms of the OP's links and logic stand, as do my criticisms of claiming Joe Scarborough hosts the kind of show where he just gives his opinion.
Compare Fox News to MSNBC when Fox News gives 15 hours per week of airtime to a former Democratic Congressman's opinion show. Then we'll talk equivalence.
You originally said that MSNBC didn't insert political opinions into its news shows, but Fox did. You then posted three examples of Fox opinion hosts having political opinions on opinion shows. (Opinion shows, by definition, are not news shows.) The link I posted, on the other hand, was allegedly straight news and not an opinion show.
As far as Joe Scarborough is concerned, he has a show, but it's not just his opinion on the show. Morning Joe is a panel show. There's usually at least one liberal on the panel. (As there should be. If everyone on the panel always agrees with each other, the show would be boring.) Fox News has a similar show in the same timeslot. Trying to portray Morning Joe as the equivalent to Sean Hannity's show is disingenuous. Once you stop doing that, we can talk equivalence.
MSNBC makes shit up too.
You missed his point. The Iranian government was spreading propaganda about how the US will use Iraq as a base to invade Iran because the US hates Iran and Islam so much. And we could. Like you and the OP agree, we clearly have the ability. Of course we didn't actually invade Iran, because we don't particularly hate Iran or Islam. We have an issue with the current regime's drive towards nuclear weapons and it's suppression of the rights of its citizens, but we're not going to invade it because we hate Islam. The lack of US tanks within Iran is getting more and more obvious to the Iranian people. They are currently realizing, or so the OP argues, that the Iranian government is lying to them about how much the US hates them. And if they're being lied to about that, what else isn't their government telling them?
Seriously, if in doubt, let someone else name your programs.