who needs access to the banking system to buy things online? Last time I checked pretty much every store I see these days sells prepaid visa, etc "gift" cards that work just the same as a credit or debit card for shopping online
Well i guess you could buy the game for the packaging, leave it unopened, and pirate a DRM free copy for its actual playability... that being said as an avid gamer I will now think twice before purchasing a capcom game. I prefer to patronize companies who at least pay passing respect to that "treat people the way you would like to be treated"
So she should have rode her bike to Israel? and they bought all the fixings for a small bar... I fail to see the problem here, outside of the fact that you've citied no sources, also, you're last objection, that
" * The Department of Defense advanced a CODEL of 56 members of Congress and staff $60,000 to travel to Louisiana and Mississippi July 19-22, 2008, to “view flood relief advances from Hurricane Katrina.” The three-day trip cost the U.S. Air Force $65,505.46, exceeding authorized funding by $5,505.46."
By my math thats roughly $350/day/per member of congress... $350 a day to cover travel, food, and lodging for a member of congress along with at least one member of their staff.... this is unacceptable to you? I feel like you must be a blast at parties.....
thats why i've invented a system that turns your blood into a magnetically reactive metal and, using rare earth magnets implanted in the arches of the feet, is able to simulate the effects of gravity on the body. my lead research scientist, dr. cody, says the system will be ready to go once he figures out why its killed most of the cats he's tested it on!
you seem to be confusing the ALCU taking a case on free speech grounds and the ACLU actively endorsing the viewpoint of whatever wackjob they are representing
The ACLU has defended a lot of doucebags in their time, but one can't argue against their impartiality; they generally fall on the side of rights, regardless of how loony the person or group they are representing. Gotta give them credit for that.
like them or not the ACLU will defend freedom of speech at any cost...this reminds me of when the ACLU took the case of a Neo-Nazi group who had been denied to right to assemble in the Chicago suburb of Skokie at a time when 1 out of 6 residents in that town was a Holocaust survivor. The ACLU took the Nazi's case, and with a Jewish lead attorney, successfully defended the Nazi's in court. The Nazi's never did march and the ACLU lost like 30,000 members because of their defense, but in hindsight you really have to respect standing firm on the grounds of i don't have to like what you say, but i'll defend to the death your right to say it
we came of age during the wild west days of the internet. those days are over... isp's, the mpaa, the riaa, and the corporate powers that be all have a VERY vested interest in being able to control who has access when, as they do with all other forms of entertainment and information distribution on a large scale. money talks, which means an open source community in favor of creativity, innovation, and freedom of expression will lose in Washington. net neutrality is a great idea in the same vein as reasonable copyright laws, but when it comes down to brass tacks money wins over reason, which sucks, but at this point in America we should be used to it. i apologize for the sweeping generalizations but it's sad, and at this point between nafta, gatt, the dmca, patriot act, etc, how are we even surprised by this any more, money trumps the actual best interest of the american people every day of the week and reasonable logical long term solutions will be thrown under the bus in favor of the whims of a company who donates heavily to some career politician's reelection fund.... and THANKFULLY/sarcasm/ the supreme court recently removed those pesky donation limits so corporate persons can feel free to be even more open about what politicians the purchase... our country is in a sad state because of shit like this. net neutrality deserved a fair chance and the internet was the best, last refuge for free expression, but when you have a senile senator heading the committee on it explaining it as a series of tubes, not a dump truck, referring to email as "an internet" only to later be run out of town on corruption charges what the hell do you expect... the only thing i can think to say is thank you to the FCC for their to date entirely reasonable stance on the internet. it is the one thing that the regulate that they honestly got right from the get go, and its sad to see that era end thanks to lobbyists who have more money to spend pulling wool over the eyes of idiots than you or i do... that said please please please keep fighting the good fight EFF, i'll continue to donate when i can... and i have written my congressman about this, whatever difference that makes, all i have is but one vote to give, which doesn't buy ad time come reelection season...
When Monsanto can successfully sue you for patent infringement when a neighbor's seeds blow onto your land, then yes, Monsanto needs to die. If "Roundup Ready" weeds are part of it, bring them on.
He wasn't sued because some seeds blew onto his land. He was sued because he harvested the product of those seeds and replanted 95% of his field with them the following year.
By your bizarre logic, the dude that found the iPhone prototype should have gained the right to duplicate and sell it.
i hope to god you're trolling, in that particular case the farmer had been saving seed for his entire farming career, as many do (and a practice that monsatno is fighting tooth and nail with their so called terminator seeds, which are only viable for one generation) monsanto's seed blew into his field from passing farmers who used it, and against his desire his field was polluted with their product. Monsanto demanded he destroy his entire seed store, which he had been developing his entire life, because their product contaminated his field against his wishes. Not to mention, you iphone example is comically irrelevant, as there are many inherent differences between a living thing that spreads by itself and reproduces ITSELF and a goddamn cell phone, which, unlike canola, wouldn't exist if not constructed by humans. Your logic is flawed beyond defense perhaps you should have at least read up a little about the case before commenting. Maybe then you would have noticed that in 2008 monsanto settled with mr. schmeiser and agreed to pay the clean up cost of removing their product, which he never wanted in the first place, from his fields. He also was not forced to sign the standard monsanto gag order, and the window was left open for him to sue again, should their GM seed contaminate his fields again. This is also a nice precedent for those of us who don't much care for the GM agricultural business. Also who modded this comment interesting? it isn't.
i've never seen so much "won't somebody think of the children" BS on slashdot.... the sentiment here so far seems to be "well i don't speed (liars), so i don't mind the cameras", which is silly, i don't sell crack or run a basement casino but i still appreciate and recognize the importance of 4th amendment protections even though, were the police to kick down my door, they would find nothing amiss. its been mentioned quite a few times already but look at Britain with its mass of CCTV cameras and speed cameras, i don't see how ANYONE can look at that system and think, yes, lets bring that to America! There are times when we need to choose between preservation of personal liberties and nanny state garbage, even if the nanny state garbage could save a few lives in the long run... just in the same way i'm happily willing to face an "increased risk of a terrorist act" if we scuttled the decidedly un-american and hypocritically named Patriot Act in its entirety...
laser disks failed because they were too expensive and impractical, also one must consider VHS, NOT laserdisk was the defacto standard back then. Laser disk was targeted at a niche market who bought into it knowing full well it was going to cost more... so comparing their price to dvd's/bd discs is irrelevant, cool strawman though.... and no one expects people to do their jobs for free, however consumers might be tired of the excesses of Hollywood. go to a damn wal mart and look how far the price of durable goods has been driven down by globalization.... now try to reconcile these genuinely cheap genuinely useful goods with a dvd that costs $25 dollars (the physical disk itself and packaging come in well under a dollar) because they paid tom cruise $50 million dollars to stand there and be short. it cant be done. see hulu and netflix for examples of old media doing new media right and dont try to justify a broken system.
I'm a bartender part time- I'm to work tonight and it has been snowing heavily the past two days, and as result I highly doubt I'll make as much money as i usually do on Tuesday night due to the poor road conditions.... who do I speak to about remuneration, mother nature? i wish i were a multinational corporation that dialogs with governments on the intellectual level of a toddler throwing a temper tantrum....
will you please explain to me why using your phone exactly the way it was marketed to you amounts to a DDOS attack? AT&T has been making money by the boatload by having the monopoly on the iphone, constantly advertise how totally awesome their network is, and is willing to aggressively sue if someone is bold enough to back-sass them about the quality of their network. Yet if you buy an iphone you find that not only does the network kind of suck despite the inordinately expensive plan you've been forced into in order to have unlimited data but also that AT&T, the company that promised you all these great things on their totally awesome network, will eventually begin to tell you that its your fault that your phone doesn't work well and that not only are you ruining it for yourself but your slowing it down for everyone else too....you need to use less data, but do keep paying for that unlimited (unlimited, of course, meaning 5GB/Mo) plan, otherwise we wont have money to hire more Wilson brothers to trick new marks.....
Seriously though it seems like this guy is asking people to use Pandora, not to maliciously inject packets- also they are not trying to deny service to legitimate users- these ARE legitimate users locked into contracts on a network that does not preform anywhere near the way they were led to believe it would. They will use their phones legitimately- ostensibly to run apps that they also paid for simply to prove, at least in the way that I understand it, that AT&T network does not work as advertised, and that its not the fault of some über heavy iphone data users, but that it simply is insufficient to cover the existing customer base. AT&T is treating its best customers the worst, and if their network is unable to be scaled to handle the traffic in a profitable manner why not drop the iphone and other such smart devices and let some poor other wireless provider deal with the impossible task...
you must be new here, people on a site with a heavy slant slant towards open source issues' are pretty well aware of the very basics of the top three linux distros
so wait, you're telling me that Justin Timberlake and Janet Jackson grinding all over each other singing about the hardcore raunchy sex they wish they were having during the break of an American institution sponsored by beer companies where grown men hit each other in the most violent manner possible is perfectly acceptable viewing for your kids, but a few seconds of barely visible nipple (which we all have two of on our very own bodies) crosses every line of good taste and acceptability and requires government to act. This logic is a joke to me, your kid is watching my adult event, the super bowl was never meant to be a family event, its not goddamn Disney, its a bunch of corporate ticket holders and rich guys taking a few days off work to get all juiced up and watch other rich guys beat the living hell out of each other for a trophy, some rings, and more money... broadcast around the world thanks to Budwiser. Drink Budwiser... and yes, you're right, if ABC were to start showing clips of pornography during their Saturday morning cartoons that would merit some action, but that example isn't valid here, because this happened during a flipping JANET JACKSON PERFORMANCE! what, exactly, led you to think a sexually charged duet between her and goddamn Justin Timberlake would be suitable viewing for your kids? I mean the clothes that she did have on was a skintight full body leather gimp suit for the most part, correct? Oh, and MTV was producing. You had every clue in the world from the first few seconds of it it might be time to change the channel for a few minutes if you were that concerned about sheltering your children from the outside world, yet despite all of this you still insist on using the FCC as an extension of your stupidity to go on a crusade over a joke two over-privileged out of touch jackasses played on live TV... That being said I've noticed over the past more or less year there have been a lot more news stories about the FCC pursuing something interesting and good and a hell of a lot less about them trying to legislate morality on public airwaves, which makes me happy.
why on slashdot is someone who has owned 7 laptops, of which only one (1) still works modded +5, seriously? who doesn't keep their old lappies alive for weekend project fun? build a new LAMP server, yes please, add a usb hub for a NAS, why not! home media server, sure! unnecessarily challenging hackintosh? why not.... i know this is off topic, but still, one needs to, i dunno, be green... and if David Foster Wallace wrote Infinite Jest on a computer i would pay a hell of alot for it, just my 2 cents....
as an avid user of craigslist i think you are being pretty bitchy, all you have to do is click on your state/neighboring states and look in the categories of things you interested in available in the areas you're willing to drive, really its not all that hard, I do it all the time, takes like maybe a minute longer than a dedicated search and holds much truer to the original intent of craigslist
normally i hate when people say this but as an avid user of craigslist to buy/sell things without fees I couldn't agree with you, and the overall ethos of craigslist, more and wish I had mod points....
wouldn't this, if true, lead to a pretty massive shakeup in the telcom industry? i would imagine at the very least the pricing of plans would have to change drastically
there is this neat place on the interwebs called newegg, i bet if you look there, using the information from the story, you could probably answer it yourself.... just a suggestion...
NPR/PBS, reliant as they are mostly on voluntary public donations, is a mere shadow of the legislatively-created and taxpayer funded BBC in the UK (or the Australian equivalent, ABC, for that matter). A poor cousin at best. You can't compare them like that, it's chalk and cheese quality-wise.
Not many people see PBS as a high quality or popular channel in the US. But, in Australia the ABC is one of the most-watched and best-quality networks (and has multiple channels in most areas). Ditto with the UK and the BBC.
I think your confusing quality and quantity of programming... yes the BBC has what, 4 television channels along with 5 or so radio channels and as such it is a MUCH larger organization than NPR/PBS, but PBS still produces NOVA, Frontline, Charlie Rose, and the News Hour with Jim Lehrer which is in almost every case higher quality programming than ANY of the "major" US news networks (not even to mention they also make sesame street and antiques roadshow, which have been a cornerstone of entertainment for our country's young and old for decades). NPR also is an invaluable news source, it is a great place to turn if you want actual news presented in an educated well researched manner. Their news stories are relevant, factual, and don't pander for ratings. You are correct in that most Americans don't view NPR and PBS as popular stations, but this has NOTHING to do with the actual quality of the programing. It's sad that people prefer the sensationalist crap that is FOX first and foremost, but all major networks are guilty of to some extent.... just please don't relate people's preferences to quality, because at the end of the day we do still live in a country where NASCAR still claims to be the most popular spectator sport...
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who needs access to the banking system to buy things online? Last time I checked pretty much every store I see these days sells prepaid visa, etc "gift" cards that work just the same as a credit or debit card for shopping online
Well i guess you could buy the game for the packaging, leave it unopened, and pirate a DRM free copy for its actual playability... that being said as an avid gamer I will now think twice before purchasing a capcom game. I prefer to patronize companies who at least pay passing respect to that "treat people the way you would like to be treated"
So she should have rode her bike to Israel? and they bought all the fixings for a small bar... I fail to see the problem here, outside of the fact that you've citied no sources, also, you're last objection, that " * The Department of Defense advanced a CODEL of 56 members of Congress and staff $60,000 to travel to Louisiana and Mississippi July 19-22, 2008, to “view flood relief advances from Hurricane Katrina.” The three-day trip cost the U.S. Air Force $65,505.46, exceeding authorized funding by $5,505.46." By my math thats roughly $350/day/per member of congress... $350 a day to cover travel, food, and lodging for a member of congress along with at least one member of their staff.... this is unacceptable to you? I feel like you must be a blast at parties.....
"Perhaps people despise her because they feel that her brand of political discourse is damaging to the country. " this
thats why i've invented a system that turns your blood into a magnetically reactive metal and, using rare earth magnets implanted in the arches of the feet, is able to simulate the effects of gravity on the body. my lead research scientist, dr. cody, says the system will be ready to go once he figures out why its killed most of the cats he's tested it on!
you seem to be confusing the ALCU taking a case on free speech grounds and the ACLU actively endorsing the viewpoint of whatever wackjob they are representing
The ACLU has defended a lot of doucebags in their time, but one can't argue against their impartiality; they generally fall on the side of rights, regardless of how loony the person or group they are representing. Gotta give them credit for that.
like them or not the ACLU will defend freedom of speech at any cost...this reminds me of when the ACLU took the case of a Neo-Nazi group who had been denied to right to assemble in the Chicago suburb of Skokie at a time when 1 out of 6 residents in that town was a Holocaust survivor. The ACLU took the Nazi's case, and with a Jewish lead attorney, successfully defended the Nazi's in court. The Nazi's never did march and the ACLU lost like 30,000 members because of their defense, but in hindsight you really have to respect standing firm on the grounds of i don't have to like what you say, but i'll defend to the death your right to say it
are you the guy on /. That keps goats to clear your land? I followed a comment to your blog once, it was interesting
we came of age during the wild west days of the internet. those days are over... isp's, the mpaa, the riaa, and the corporate powers that be all have a VERY vested interest in being able to control who has access when, as they do with all other forms of entertainment and information distribution on a large scale. money talks, which means an open source community in favor of creativity, innovation, and freedom of expression will lose in Washington. net neutrality is a great idea in the same vein as reasonable copyright laws, but when it comes down to brass tacks money wins over reason, which sucks, but at this point in America we should be used to it. i apologize for the sweeping generalizations but it's sad, and at this point between nafta, gatt, the dmca, patriot act, etc, how are we even surprised by this any more, money trumps the actual best interest of the american people every day of the week and reasonable logical long term solutions will be thrown under the bus in favor of the whims of a company who donates heavily to some career politician's reelection fund.... and THANKFULLY /sarcasm/ the supreme court recently removed those pesky donation limits so corporate persons can feel free to be even more open about what politicians the purchase... our country is in a sad state because of shit like this. net neutrality deserved a fair chance and the internet was the best, last refuge for free expression, but when you have a senile senator heading the committee on it explaining it as a series of tubes, not a dump truck, referring to email as "an internet" only to later be run out of town on corruption charges what the hell do you expect... the only thing i can think to say is thank you to the FCC for their to date entirely reasonable stance on the internet. it is the one thing that the regulate that they honestly got right from the get go, and its sad to see that era end thanks to lobbyists who have more money to spend pulling wool over the eyes of idiots than you or i do... that said please please please keep fighting the good fight EFF, i'll continue to donate when i can... and i have written my congressman about this, whatever difference that makes, all i have is but one vote to give, which doesn't buy ad time come reelection season...
He wasn't sued because some seeds blew onto his land. He was sued because he harvested the product of those seeds and replanted 95% of his field with them the following year.
By your bizarre logic, the dude that found the iPhone prototype should have gained the right to duplicate and sell it.
i hope to god you're trolling, in that particular case the farmer had been saving seed for his entire farming career, as many do (and a practice that monsatno is fighting tooth and nail with their so called terminator seeds, which are only viable for one generation) monsanto's seed blew into his field from passing farmers who used it, and against his desire his field was polluted with their product. Monsanto demanded he destroy his entire seed store, which he had been developing his entire life, because their product contaminated his field against his wishes. Not to mention, you iphone example is comically irrelevant, as there are many inherent differences between a living thing that spreads by itself and reproduces ITSELF and a goddamn cell phone, which, unlike canola, wouldn't exist if not constructed by humans. Your logic is flawed beyond defense perhaps you should have at least read up a little about the case before commenting. Maybe then you would have noticed that in 2008 monsanto settled with mr. schmeiser and agreed to pay the clean up cost of removing their product, which he never wanted in the first place, from his fields. He also was not forced to sign the standard monsanto gag order, and the window was left open for him to sue again, should their GM seed contaminate his fields again. This is also a nice precedent for those of us who don't much care for the GM agricultural business. Also who modded this comment interesting? it isn't.
i've never seen so much "won't somebody think of the children" BS on slashdot.... the sentiment here so far seems to be "well i don't speed (liars), so i don't mind the cameras", which is silly, i don't sell crack or run a basement casino but i still appreciate and recognize the importance of 4th amendment protections even though, were the police to kick down my door, they would find nothing amiss. its been mentioned quite a few times already but look at Britain with its mass of CCTV cameras and speed cameras, i don't see how ANYONE can look at that system and think, yes, lets bring that to America! There are times when we need to choose between preservation of personal liberties and nanny state garbage, even if the nanny state garbage could save a few lives in the long run... just in the same way i'm happily willing to face an "increased risk of a terrorist act" if we scuttled the decidedly un-american and hypocritically named Patriot Act in its entirety...
laser disks failed because they were too expensive and impractical, also one must consider VHS, NOT laserdisk was the defacto standard back then. Laser disk was targeted at a niche market who bought into it knowing full well it was going to cost more... so comparing their price to dvd's/bd discs is irrelevant, cool strawman though.... and no one expects people to do their jobs for free, however consumers might be tired of the excesses of Hollywood. go to a damn wal mart and look how far the price of durable goods has been driven down by globalization.... now try to reconcile these genuinely cheap genuinely useful goods with a dvd that costs $25 dollars (the physical disk itself and packaging come in well under a dollar) because they paid tom cruise $50 million dollars to stand there and be short. it cant be done. see hulu and netflix for examples of old media doing new media right and dont try to justify a broken system.
I'm a bartender part time- I'm to work tonight and it has been snowing heavily the past two days, and as result I highly doubt I'll make as much money as i usually do on Tuesday night due to the poor road conditions.... who do I speak to about remuneration, mother nature? i wish i were a multinational corporation that dialogs with governments on the intellectual level of a toddler throwing a temper tantrum ....
will you please explain to me why using your phone exactly the way it was marketed to you amounts to a DDOS attack? AT&T has been making money by the boatload by having the monopoly on the iphone, constantly advertise how totally awesome their network is, and is willing to aggressively sue if someone is bold enough to back-sass them about the quality of their network. Yet if you buy an iphone you find that not only does the network kind of suck despite the inordinately expensive plan you've been forced into in order to have unlimited data but also that AT&T, the company that promised you all these great things on their totally awesome network, will eventually begin to tell you that its your fault that your phone doesn't work well and that not only are you ruining it for yourself but your slowing it down for everyone else too....you need to use less data, but do keep paying for that unlimited (unlimited, of course, meaning 5GB/Mo) plan, otherwise we wont have money to hire more Wilson brothers to trick new marks..... Seriously though it seems like this guy is asking people to use Pandora, not to maliciously inject packets- also they are not trying to deny service to legitimate users- these ARE legitimate users locked into contracts on a network that does not preform anywhere near the way they were led to believe it would. They will use their phones legitimately- ostensibly to run apps that they also paid for simply to prove, at least in the way that I understand it, that AT&T network does not work as advertised, and that its not the fault of some über heavy iphone data users, but that it simply is insufficient to cover the existing customer base. AT&T is treating its best customers the worst, and if their network is unable to be scaled to handle the traffic in a profitable manner why not drop the iphone and other such smart devices and let some poor other wireless provider deal with the impossible task...
you must be new here, people on a site with a heavy slant slant towards open source issues' are pretty well aware of the very basics of the top three linux distros
this story reminded me of this http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/08/video-wiimote-controlling-a-15-ton-grapple/ ... its amazing how many uses there are for what is marketed as a toy for children and the elderly....
you must be a blast at parties...
so wait, you're telling me that Justin Timberlake and Janet Jackson grinding all over each other singing about the hardcore raunchy sex they wish they were having during the break of an American institution sponsored by beer companies where grown men hit each other in the most violent manner possible is perfectly acceptable viewing for your kids, but a few seconds of barely visible nipple (which we all have two of on our very own bodies) crosses every line of good taste and acceptability and requires government to act. This logic is a joke to me, your kid is watching my adult event, the super bowl was never meant to be a family event, its not goddamn Disney, its a bunch of corporate ticket holders and rich guys taking a few days off work to get all juiced up and watch other rich guys beat the living hell out of each other for a trophy, some rings, and more money... broadcast around the world thanks to Budwiser. Drink Budwiser... and yes, you're right, if ABC were to start showing clips of pornography during their Saturday morning cartoons that would merit some action, but that example isn't valid here, because this happened during a flipping JANET JACKSON PERFORMANCE! what, exactly, led you to think a sexually charged duet between her and goddamn Justin Timberlake would be suitable viewing for your kids? I mean the clothes that she did have on was a skintight full body leather gimp suit for the most part, correct? Oh, and MTV was producing. You had every clue in the world from the first few seconds of it it might be time to change the channel for a few minutes if you were that concerned about sheltering your children from the outside world, yet despite all of this you still insist on using the FCC as an extension of your stupidity to go on a crusade over a joke two over-privileged out of touch jackasses played on live TV... That being said I've noticed over the past more or less year there have been a lot more news stories about the FCC pursuing something interesting and good and a hell of a lot less about them trying to legislate morality on public airwaves, which makes me happy.
why on slashdot is someone who has owned 7 laptops, of which only one (1) still works modded +5, seriously? who doesn't keep their old lappies alive for weekend project fun? build a new LAMP server, yes please, add a usb hub for a NAS, why not! home media server, sure! unnecessarily challenging hackintosh? why not .... i know this is off topic, but still, one needs to, i dunno, be green... and if David Foster Wallace wrote Infinite Jest on a computer i would pay a hell of alot for it, just my 2 cents....
as an avid user of craigslist i think you are being pretty bitchy, all you have to do is click on your state/neighboring states and look in the categories of things you interested in available in the areas you're willing to drive, really its not all that hard, I do it all the time, takes like maybe a minute longer than a dedicated search and holds much truer to the original intent of craigslist
normally i hate when people say this but as an avid user of craigslist to buy/sell things without fees I couldn't agree with you, and the overall ethos of craigslist, more and wish I had mod points....
wouldn't this, if true, lead to a pretty massive shakeup in the telcom industry? i would imagine at the very least the pricing of plans would have to change drastically
there is this neat place on the interwebs called newegg, i bet if you look there, using the information from the story, you could probably answer it yourself.... just a suggestion...
NPR/PBS, reliant as they are mostly on voluntary public donations, is a mere shadow of the legislatively-created and taxpayer funded BBC in the UK (or the Australian equivalent, ABC, for that matter). A poor cousin at best. You can't compare them like that, it's chalk and cheese quality-wise.
Not many people see PBS as a high quality or popular channel in the US. But, in Australia the ABC is one of the most-watched and best-quality networks (and has multiple channels in most areas). Ditto with the UK and the BBC.
I think your confusing quality and quantity of programming... yes the BBC has what, 4 television channels along with 5 or so radio channels and as such it is a MUCH larger organization than NPR/PBS, but PBS still produces NOVA, Frontline, Charlie Rose, and the News Hour with Jim Lehrer which is in almost every case higher quality programming than ANY of the "major" US news networks (not even to mention they also make sesame street and antiques roadshow, which have been a cornerstone of entertainment for our country's young and old for decades). NPR also is an invaluable news source, it is a great place to turn if you want actual news presented in an educated well researched manner. Their news stories are relevant, factual, and don't pander for ratings. You are correct in that most Americans don't view NPR and PBS as popular stations, but this has NOTHING to do with the actual quality of the programing. It's sad that people prefer the sensationalist crap that is FOX first and foremost, but all major networks are guilty of to some extent.... just please don't relate people's preferences to quality, because at the end of the day we do still live in a country where NASCAR still claims to be the most popular spectator sport...
you're a pretty shitty person, pretty sure you belong in /b/ over at 4chan, certainly not here though....