>One, the media companies will be effective at giving people what they want.
The news isn't supposed to be about "giving people what they want." It's about creating an informed body public. Media companies have been blurring the lines between entertainment and information so effectively, though, I'm not surprised that people are starting to talk this way.
Given the possibility of an indie licence owner buying one owned by The Big 5 approaches zero (since The Big 5 won't sell by choice, and if they're in dire enough financial straits that they must, well, then it's paradigm-bustin' time)
Given the possibility of the Big 5 buying an additional indie licence > zero (since growth breeds cash)
We can reasonably assume that at some point in the future all FCC licences will be owned by a few companies,
and more importantly, that at a point in the reasonably near future, a LARGE MAJORITY of licences will be owned by one of the Big 5.
An example of this can be seen in Clear Channel, which now owns something like 1,300 stations nationwide, many hundreds greater than its nearest compeditor. And it's been only 7 years since deregulation. Plenty of time.
I'm on your side, man;-) Check around for my note that single-parent (head-of-household) filers don't get a benefit. I'm all for a progressive tax system.
I (married, 1 child) got a massive refund from the government this year (ie, I overpaid and they're giving me back the extra). Should I not get a check for $400?
Think of it this way: in the 2003 tax year, they won't get to keep as much of their money as your friend will. He'll probably end up paying (net) less in taxes than someone earning less than him! Does that help?
Well, it's pretty clear that you're a corporate shill, since you relegate the importance of the public to that of "product." But so it goes. Do try to forget that the spectrum is itself public, and that the FCC is regulating it on the basis of the public good.
> Nobody is shutting anybody down. Nice straw man! That's a good one. No, we're just going to cull the voices off one by one. Why shut them down when we can just buy them up?
Has any point of view been diminished since 1996? Ask the former employees of stations gobbled up by Clear Channel.
A lovely model for deregulation, they use their wealth and clout to buy stations outperforming their own only to shut them down, use their ownership of venues to deny bands who speak out against them the ability to perform, and use their grossly disporportionate marketpace presence to all but guarantee anyone who speaks out against their violently misogynist coroporate culture will "never work in this town again" in defiance of whistleblower and sexual harassment laws. (That's aside from their notorious political leanings and crappy airplay). Won't it be grand when they can buy 3 TV stations and a couple of newspapers? Then we wouldn't be able to hear a bad word said about those good ol' boys (ain't doin' no harm!)
Calling massive corporations with outsized resources and none of your or my moral restraint "boogeyman" may make you feel better at night, but it doesn't make their misbehavior any less real.
My Robin-Hood-ism? If someone making $85k and has lots more disposable income gets the credit, so should someone who makes $20k. Are you're saying the children of the wealthy require more luxurious methods of caretaking ($400 more) than those of the working poor? Because that's what the child credit is for, you know.
$22/wk * 52 = $1144, which, if I recall corrently, is still greater than $400. They did pay that money. Ergo, if we must have refends, then refunds all around, please.
How easy is it to collude amongst 100 people/corporations vs. how easy is it to collude amongst 5?
Think of a standard bell curve -- how reliably does a sample count of 5 map to a curve vs. a sample count of 20? Of 100?
How is the public served by having diminishing points of view? How is the FCC doing is job to protect PUBLIC interests when public opinion is massively against these actions?
$10-25k/year people do pay taxes, genius. It's people who make less than $10k that don't.
A single person making $384/week ($20k/yr) pays $71/week (15% + $13.60 over $187) in federal income taxes. A married person making the same pays $22 (10% over $154).
Of course, this is not counting social security, which you'll pay until you make, what, $65,000? (Which means that these people will never stop paying during the course of a year).
Now, exemptions can reduce these amounts. But in order for someone mayke $20,000 a year to pay NO federal taxes, they'd need to have 4 exemptions.
But I guess a household with 1 kid making $85,000 a year needs that extra $400 (plus the amount from lowering tax rates) more than someone scraping by with $20,000, huh?
Well, there were the married people making between $10,500 and $26,000 who thought they'd be seeing the increase in the child tax credit... but aren't. Sucks to be them, huh? Hah-hah!
Ooh, ooh, or those single parents filing as head-of-the-household who won't see a drop in their tax rate. Serves them right for not living like normal God-fearing people!
I say, hand me another Benjamin, Jeeves: I need to light my cigar.
"Most systems didn't crash; they simply lost network connectivity," said Michael Surkan, a Microsoft program manager for its networking communications group. "There were hundreds of thousands of people who downloaded this, and we know of only a handful of people who had the problem."
Do you think that might be because, without the 'net, most couldn't contact you to complain? If they install an update and "the durn computer broke the Interweb!" do you think they're going to be able to debug and fix the problem in order to alert you?
And for everyone that whines about "Oh, the decompiled code doesn't have pretty names...!" Who cares? You can puzzle through. Say some method in your app server throwing a NullPointerException... "well, where in the method could that be happening... decompile, put some debug here, and here... ah, that's weird, it's needs this obscure session variable, how did that go missing?" Now isn't that better than screaming "GODDAMN IT WHY DOES THIS CRAP KEEP BREAKING!!" and distressing your co-workers?
"You can make an easy kind of a link that, if you have a protest group protesting a war where the cause that's being fought against is international terrorism, you might have terrorism at that (protest)," said Van Winkle, of the state Justice Department. "You can almost argue that a protest against that is a terrorist act."
Wow. And here I thought that we went into Iraq to Search For WMDs (tm)... I mean, Free The Iraqis (tm),.... I mean, um... what's our rationale today? Dammit, with Ari gone, I can't keep up with the daily White House spin!
This just recently started happening to me, as well. I have Comcast as an ISP, and apparently they got around to sending AOL their list of "dynamic" IPs. Mine has been static for ~10 months now. Ok, all well and good, right, except Comcast doesn't SELL "static" IPs... only dynamic ones that never change. Brilliant!
So that may be what's happening to you. "Dynamic" and "static" are, in the hands of the ISPs, just words after all.
Last I checked, *nix runs java. Wonder of wonders, LimeWire is written in just that.
Of course, I don't know if they still give away the source like they used to back in version ~1.6, and I definitely know LimeWire was selling out (ads, merchandise, etc) back at version 2.4. But the point is, there are clients out there (unless Gnutella died a horrible death while I was using KaZAA Lite)
You can be detained, without being charged, indefinitely, having been investigated under a sealed warrant, an unsigned warrant, or no warrant at all, and then be denied access to a lawyer.
New Zealand is supposed to be quite nice. That's what my wife and I are looking at. And since we're a programmer and a nurse, respoectively, and both btween the ages of 25 and 29, we're in like Flynn, as NZ's immigration policies award extra points for all those categories.
Ah, but WHICH April 23rd, and WHICH July 10th? This is Slashdot-The-Yearless, which means that maybe, just maybe, he's posting in the FUTURE. Think about it.
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>One, the media companies will be effective at giving people what they want.
The news isn't supposed to be about "giving people what they want." It's about creating an informed body public. Media companies have been blurring the lines between entertainment and information so effectively, though, I'm not surprised that people are starting to talk this way.
Media != commodity/product.
Zero-sum game:
Given the possibility of an indie licence owner buying one owned by The Big 5 approaches zero (since The Big 5 won't sell by choice, and if they're in dire enough financial straits that they must, well, then it's paradigm-bustin' time)
Given the possibility of the Big 5 buying an additional indie licence > zero (since growth breeds cash)
We can reasonably assume that at some point in the future all FCC licences will be owned by a few companies,
and more importantly, that at a point in the reasonably near future, a LARGE MAJORITY of licences will be owned by one of the Big 5.
An example of this can be seen in Clear Channel, which now owns something like 1,300 stations nationwide, many hundreds greater than its nearest compeditor. And it's been only 7 years since deregulation. Plenty of time.
I'm on your side, man ;-) Check around for my note that single-parent (head-of-household) filers don't get a benefit. I'm all for a progressive tax system.
I (married, 1 child) got a massive refund from the government this year (ie, I overpaid and they're giving me back the extra). Should I not get a check for $400?
Think of it this way: in the 2003 tax year, they won't get to keep as much of their money as your friend will. He'll probably end up paying (net) less in taxes than someone earning less than him! Does that help?
Well, it's pretty clear that you're a corporate shill, since you relegate the importance of the public to that of "product." But so it goes. Do try to forget that the spectrum is itself public, and that the FCC is regulating it on the basis of the public good.
> Nobody is shutting anybody down.
Nice straw man! That's a good one. No, we're just going to cull the voices off one by one. Why shut them down when we can just buy them up?
Has any point of view been diminished since 1996? Ask the former employees of stations gobbled up by Clear Channel.
A lovely model for deregulation, they use their wealth and clout to buy stations outperforming their own only to shut them down, use their ownership of venues to deny bands who speak out against them the ability to perform, and use their grossly disporportionate marketpace presence to all but guarantee anyone who speaks out against their violently misogynist coroporate culture will "never work in this town again" in defiance of whistleblower and sexual harassment laws. (That's aside from their notorious political leanings and crappy airplay). Won't it be grand when they can buy 3 TV stations and a couple of newspapers? Then we wouldn't be able to hear a bad word said about those good ol' boys (ain't doin' no harm!)
Calling massive corporations with outsized resources and none of your or my moral restraint "boogeyman" may make you feel better at night, but it doesn't make their misbehavior any less real.
My Robin-Hood-ism? If someone making $85k and has lots more disposable income gets the credit, so should someone who makes $20k. Are you're saying the children of the wealthy require more luxurious methods of caretaking ($400 more) than those of the working poor? Because that's what the child credit is for, you know.
$22/wk * 52 = $1144, which, if I recall corrently, is still greater than $400. They did pay that money. Ergo, if we must have refends, then refunds all around, please.
How easy is it to collude amongst 100 people/corporations vs. how easy is it to collude amongst 5?
Think of a standard bell curve -- how reliably does a sample count of 5 map to a curve vs. a sample count of 20? Of 100?
How is the public served by having diminishing points of view? How is the FCC doing is job to protect PUBLIC interests when public opinion is massively against these actions?
$10-25k /year people do pay taxes, genius. It's people who make less than $10k that don't.
A single person making $384/week ($20k/yr) pays $71/week (15% + $13.60 over $187) in federal income taxes. A married person making the same pays $22 (10% over $154).
Of course, this is not counting social security, which you'll pay until you make, what, $65,000? (Which means that these people will never stop paying during the course of a year).
Now, exemptions can reduce these amounts. But in order for someone mayke $20,000 a year to pay NO federal taxes, they'd need to have 4 exemptions.
But I guess a household with 1 kid making $85,000 a year needs that extra $400 (plus the amount from lowering tax rates) more than someone scraping by with $20,000, huh?
Well, there were the married people making between $10,500 and $26,000 who thought they'd be seeing the increase in the child tax credit... but aren't. Sucks to be them, huh? Hah-hah!
Ooh, ooh, or those single parents filing as head-of-the-household who won't see a drop in their tax rate. Serves them right for not living like normal God-fearing people!
I say, hand me another Benjamin, Jeeves: I need to light my cigar.
Yay! I'm glad someone else is reading things I like :) I was just thinking of the exact same part of the book.
"Most systems didn't crash; they simply lost network connectivity," said Michael Surkan, a Microsoft program manager for its networking communications group. "There were hundreds of thousands of people who downloaded this, and we know of only a handful of people who had the problem."
Do you think that might be because, without the 'net, most couldn't contact you to complain? If they install an update and "the durn computer broke the Interweb!" do you think they're going to be able to debug and fix the problem in order to alert you?
You want JAD
And for everyone that whines about "Oh, the decompiled code doesn't have pretty names...!" Who cares? You can puzzle through. Say some method in your app server throwing a NullPointerException... "well, where in the method could that be happening... decompile, put some debug here, and here... ah, that's weird, it's needs this obscure session variable, how did that go missing?" Now isn't that better than screaming "GODDAMN IT WHY DOES THIS CRAP KEEP BREAKING!!" and distressing your co-workers?
Best/scariest quote from that:
.... I mean, um... what's our rationale today? Dammit, with Ari gone, I can't keep up with the daily White House spin!
"You can make an easy kind of a link that, if you have a protest group protesting a war where the cause that's being fought against is international terrorism, you might have terrorism at that (protest)," said Van Winkle, of the state Justice Department. "You can almost argue that a protest against that is a terrorist act."
Wow. And here I thought that we went into Iraq to Search For WMDs (tm)... I mean, Free The Iraqis (tm),
Sounds like your classic Garden-of-Eden-variety fall from grace to me.
Thank god!
(I don't even know where my irony ends anymore... sad.)
AtomicLong? Born in the heart of a nuclear furnace, endowed with the power of the atom, it's a bird, it's a plane, it's AtomicLong!
;)
Sounds like a "super" class to me.
Or, "a stitch in time saves nine."
This of course assumes that there are any JOBS for novelists and playwrights. Perhaps someone is not familiar with the term "starving artist"? :)
This just recently started happening to me, as well. I have Comcast as an ISP, and apparently they got around to sending AOL their list of "dynamic" IPs. Mine has been static for ~10 months now. Ok, all well and good, right, except Comcast doesn't SELL "static" IPs... only dynamic ones that never change. Brilliant!
So that may be what's happening to you. "Dynamic" and "static" are, in the hands of the ISPs, just words after all.
Last I checked, *nix runs java. Wonder of wonders, LimeWire is written in just that.
Of course, I don't know if they still give away the source like they used to back in version ~1.6, and I definitely know LimeWire was selling out (ads, merchandise, etc) back at version 2.4. But the point is, there are clients out there (unless Gnutella died a horrible death while I was using KaZAA Lite)
I think Nelson put it best when he said, "HAH-ha!"
You can be detained, without being charged, indefinitely, having been investigated under a sealed warrant, an unsigned warrant, or no warrant at all, and then be denied access to a lawyer.
And that is un-American. Period.
New Zealand is supposed to be quite nice. That's what my wife and I are looking at. And since we're a programmer and a nurse, respoectively, and both btween the ages of 25 and 29, we're in like Flynn, as NZ's immigration policies award extra points for all those categories.
Ah, but WHICH April 23rd, and WHICH July 10th? This is Slashdot-The-Yearless, which means that maybe, just maybe, he's posting in the FUTURE. Think about it.
Nah, it's just one of those old-style, 18th-century 'S'es
I agree, but the fact that they had a perfectly good rendering engine ready to go, and decided on KHTML instead irks me.