OK, after all this rail talk I thought, "man wouldn't it be nice to take my girlfriend on a weekend rail trip somewhere?" I figured KC to Chicago. I picked an arbitrary date about 3 months out. Typical flight is 1 1/2 hours and about $280 for the both of us. On Amtrak with a 2-bed bunk, that's about an 8-hour ride both ways and $760.
Milton Friedman also ran around supporting juntas and authoritarian regimes since they were willing to bash their citizens heads in to get his economic policies in place. Let's stop treating the guy like some sort of economic god, please.
Maybe a week or so ago. He simultaneously stated that there was nothing new or dangerous in the leaked documents, yet called it irresponsible for WikiLeaks for release this information. Normally, I'd take into consideration the "this will harm our intelligence assets" argument, but this has been going on for 9 years and every time we get a peek behind the curtain, we see that the public face on the war is a complete lie.
I've found that going back to many classic FPS games is very disappointing because of monumental leaps made in the last 10-15 years. One exception for me is Half-Life. I enjoyed it just as much as Half-Life 2 which I had played first. Including the fact that it has one of the best final battles in any game.
You say that like it's a bad thing. If there are real ecological concerns with dumping that much heat into the bay, then have at them. It doesn't sound like it would be a problem...until everyone else start doing it that is.
Not to knock you, but I just can't see your scenario being that common an occurrence. The coffee shop underneath our suite only has a handful of tables and even a handful of squatters would be a nuisance. Sure, most business is carry-out, but they're bigger sales tend to be the occasional diners or mothers with litters in tow.
No I DON'T like what Slashdot has become. It's like the National Enquirer of science news now. Maybe I'm wrong about *this* solar power discovery, but I'm tired of reading about phenomenal breakthroughs every couple of weeks; all sound and fury.
Reading these stories is like getting my ass beat by a dominatrix, then discovering I've forgotten the "safe" word. Hey, it was cool when you started but it's not fun anymore. Seriously. Please stop.
I don't know if your post is sarcastic, but in light of the recent oil disaster in the gulf and recent enlightenment on a radiation leak coverup, you should be screaming for MORE regulation. And, don't kid yourself. Nuclear and even the oil industries get gobs of subsidies (including state-financed wars to protect their supply lines).
Lots of people are referencing NYT articles with little to no attribution. So much of those eyeballs are worthless to the NYT as far as business and word-of-mouth are concerned. Rather than have thousands of blogs quoting and talking about the articles *you* paid to produce, the times is saying "OK, we're not going to be a nearly anonymous middle man for the 'new' generation of news coverage. All you guys want to reference our content? Pay us." They're not worried about shutting out 90% of the people reading the paper for free. They're worried about their content getting copied and pasted all over creation.
I totally agree with this as an avid news reader. I'm tired of reading blogs were the original paper and authors get little to no credit for their work. On top of that, often these blogs don't even directly reference the source articles so you can't directly verify the information they're giving you. I've seen too many 2nd- and 3rd-hand news stories that get totally blown out of proportion because some gen-X blogger didn't get past the 1st paragraph. And, I shouldn't just blame blogs. The AP does that crap too.
The internet still hasn't changed the scoop angle IMO. I watch plenty of news coverage as well as reading articles, and the original reporters still get a lot of props (along with their publisher). Pay attention to the talking heads on TV. Usually, the guy or girl who broke the story does a round of interviews like a celebrity pitching a movie. Case in point, Dana Priest did an investigation of the new intelligence lobby and the waste it's created (well waste for the government, and profit for a few) for the Washington Post.
Now, what I don't like are all the so called news blogs that call themselves the next generation of news. Really all they do is regurgitate the news of the day with their own spin on things. And, usually that spin distorts the truth of the story for their own ideological purposes. The NYT realized this and decided, hey we're not going to allow ourselves to be used as a free resource for other outlets to profit off of, when we're the ones taking the financial hit for funding these investigations and paying for our reporters and writers.
I don't go to concerts, but your rant sounds *exactly* like my complaints about sports venues. A bunch of people are showing up at games with money and no interest beyond saying they were there and being seen there (LA Lakers games are the apex of this trend). Working class folks are being priced out of live venues. I'm on a Steelers forum where guys were complaining that for years, they'd try to line up for ticket purchases online as soon as they were available. And, if they were as little as a 30 seconds too late all the available ticket would be scalped and posted for sale at the ticket broker sites.
Whether you like it or not, Don't ask don't tell is the LAW and the President has, at least in this case, taken the position that he's not going to violate the law.
A friend was a huge Prince fan. They way she explained it he had a big contract dispute with his distributor/producer/etc who claimed rights to any music released under his name. So he created a meaningless, unpronouncible symbol to get around it. Of course, he was represented as simply "crazy" by our Corporate Media.
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How come the Free Market didn't promote freedom? I thought it was quintessentially American...
OK, after all this rail talk I thought, "man wouldn't it be nice to take my girlfriend on a weekend rail trip somewhere?" I figured KC to Chicago. I picked an arbitrary date about 3 months out. Typical flight is 1 1/2 hours and about $280 for the both of us. On Amtrak with a 2-bed bunk, that's about an 8-hour ride both ways and $760.
Milton Friedman also ran around supporting juntas and authoritarian regimes since they were willing to bash their citizens heads in to get his economic policies in place. Let's stop treating the guy like some sort of economic god, please.
"No force on earth is a match for...Nature! Gone! Mad! Mwahahahaha!"
Only an elite team of Joes can stop us now. Wait, does that make us the bad guys?
The obviously solution is to convert the population to Hinduism and give the figures 6 arms.
So, if there's nothing new in this information, then why the concern? It's about the scope, not the empirical information.
Maybe a week or so ago. He simultaneously stated that there was nothing new or dangerous in the leaked documents, yet called it irresponsible for WikiLeaks for release this information. Normally, I'd take into consideration the "this will harm our intelligence assets" argument, but this has been going on for 9 years and every time we get a peek behind the curtain, we see that the public face on the war is a complete lie.
I'm here for the commentary, not news.
"The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which."
I've found that going back to many classic FPS games is very disappointing because of monumental leaps made in the last 10-15 years. One exception for me is Half-Life. I enjoyed it just as much as Half-Life 2 which I had played first. Including the fact that it has one of the best final battles in any game.
You say that like it's a bad thing. If there are real ecological concerns with dumping that much heat into the bay, then have at them. It doesn't sound like it would be a problem...until everyone else start doing it that is.
Not to knock you, but I just can't see your scenario being that common an occurrence. The coffee shop underneath our suite only has a handful of tables and even a handful of squatters would be a nuisance. Sure, most business is carry-out, but they're bigger sales tend to be the occasional diners or mothers with litters in tow.
what if he's war-driving from a remote controlled helicopter.
Damn dude, finish THIS story!
No I DON'T like what Slashdot has become. It's like the National Enquirer of science news now. Maybe I'm wrong about *this* solar power discovery, but I'm tired of reading about phenomenal breakthroughs every couple of weeks; all sound and fury.
Reading these stories is like getting my ass beat by a dominatrix, then discovering I've forgotten the "safe" word. Hey, it was cool when you started but it's not fun anymore. Seriously. Please stop.
I don't know if your post is sarcastic, but in light of the recent oil disaster in the gulf and recent enlightenment on a radiation leak coverup, you should be screaming for MORE regulation. And, don't kid yourself. Nuclear and even the oil industries get gobs of subsidies (including state-financed wars to protect their supply lines).
Oh, there are police states in the US. Depends on what neighborhood you live in.
So, what they're really saying is they'll be releasing an Android copy.
And, there's a big difference between 10X as many people reposting all over creation for free.
Lots of people are referencing NYT articles with little to no attribution. So much of those eyeballs are worthless to the NYT as far as business and word-of-mouth are concerned. Rather than have thousands of blogs quoting and talking about the articles *you* paid to produce, the times is saying "OK, we're not going to be a nearly anonymous middle man for the 'new' generation of news coverage. All you guys want to reference our content? Pay us." They're not worried about shutting out 90% of the people reading the paper for free. They're worried about their content getting copied and pasted all over creation.
I totally agree with this as an avid news reader. I'm tired of reading blogs were the original paper and authors get little to no credit for their work. On top of that, often these blogs don't even directly reference the source articles so you can't directly verify the information they're giving you. I've seen too many 2nd- and 3rd-hand news stories that get totally blown out of proportion because some gen-X blogger didn't get past the 1st paragraph. And, I shouldn't just blame blogs. The AP does that crap too.
The internet still hasn't changed the scoop angle IMO. I watch plenty of news coverage as well as reading articles, and the original reporters still get a lot of props (along with their publisher). Pay attention to the talking heads on TV. Usually, the guy or girl who broke the story does a round of interviews like a celebrity pitching a movie. Case in point, Dana Priest did an investigation of the new intelligence lobby and the waste it's created (well waste for the government, and profit for a few) for the Washington Post.
Now, what I don't like are all the so called news blogs that call themselves the next generation of news. Really all they do is regurgitate the news of the day with their own spin on things. And, usually that spin distorts the truth of the story for their own ideological purposes. The NYT realized this and decided, hey we're not going to allow ourselves to be used as a free resource for other outlets to profit off of, when we're the ones taking the financial hit for funding these investigations and paying for our reporters and writers.
Backup snapshots are wasting space 99% of the time!
I don't go to concerts, but your rant sounds *exactly* like my complaints about sports venues. A bunch of people are showing up at games with money and no interest beyond saying they were there and being seen there (LA Lakers games are the apex of this trend). Working class folks are being priced out of live venues. I'm on a Steelers forum where guys were complaining that for years, they'd try to line up for ticket purchases online as soon as they were available. And, if they were as little as a 30 seconds too late all the available ticket would be scalped and posted for sale at the ticket broker sites.
But, that's the free market at work.
Whether you like it or not, Don't ask don't tell is the LAW and the President has, at least in this case, taken the position that he's not going to violate the law.
A friend was a huge Prince fan. They way she explained it he had a big contract dispute with his distributor/producer/etc who claimed rights to any music released under his name. So he created a meaningless, unpronouncible symbol to get around it. Of course, he was represented as simply "crazy" by our Corporate Media.