The mainstream broadcast media has their problems, and certainly biases, but nobody else in broadcast media working on an out-and-out agenda at the scale that Fox works.
They don't? Are you sure you're not confusing opinion with news? Remember two different beasts, and two different things. And yes, CNN has a all out-and-out agenda, so does NBC, so does CBS, and so does ABC. So do all written publications.
The difference is, most people can't figure out what "opinion" is, and what news is. Even when it smacks them in the face. The next person that says, Hannity, O'Rilley, or anything similar are news I'll personally come to your house and teach you about politics, how news organizations work, and how media works in the real world. Then I'll probably smack you into the dirt with a 15 day old trout.
Here's the problem. CBS didn't want to fire him, they were perfectly happy with keeping him on the job until the shit started hitting the fan by everyone on both sides of the political spectrum. Policy isn't law however in the forms of a regulating body. That's why regulatory bodies don't make laws, the only make laws which "act in force." Breaking policy isn't "bad" per-se, unless the general public says it is. This is where you're missing the point, and that is why there's differences. This isn't semantics, this isn't even opinion.
One hand, most people considered it a non-issue(cows don't control nukes). The other, people considered it a direct manipulation of the press with an intention by the media to mislead. That's the difference.
Again, you've got more serious issues if you haven't figured that out already.
If you don't think that attempting to directly influence a national election by direct manipulation is just a "little bias", you have more serious issues then I can deal with in just one post.
You can't exactly blame Rather's team for wanting to nail Bush for deserting his guard duty which he certainly did. They, like everyone else in the world with a brain, didn't want to see that loser get another four years.
Sure can. You do it the right way, or you do it the wrong way. I don't have pity in either direction. Taking shortcuts leads to dead people, disinformation, becoming what you hate, so-on, and so forth.
Then again, considering that he won a second election. I consider that the highest form of irony, especially with Rather being one of the fellows that helped make sure that it happened. But Kerry was an exceptionally weak candidate to begin with. Again, if you look at the current state of the media...welp. No no. I'll let people figure that out on their own. Needless to say, most haven't quite clicked in with the clue bat, how politics works. That includes about 70% of/.
Dan Rather: "Fake but accurate." Thank you, I'll be here all night.
You're just another shill who has a bent, nothing more and nothing less. Take off the rose colored glasses, and stop pretending that only one part of the media manipulates.
Wait WoW stopped ideas? Huh news to me. This is more so a money/shareholder argument on my end by the looks of it. 3rd & 4th quarter results are going to suck, and 1st quarter results are going to as well. So money making games are being delayed until the economy is better.
If you RTFA, you'd know that onboard and external monitoring was used. Onboard means the embedded temperature sensor in the CPU itself. It doesn't get much more accurate then that, we stopped using external CPU monitoring devices for CPU's 5 or 6 years ago when they started increasing the pin count, and figured "What's one or two more pins, when we're designing against thermal runaway."
Depends on where you look but it's more word of mouth here. One thing I have heard through the grape vine is that the feds and provinces are dumping money into funding for this right now. So watch in the montreal(Quebec)/toronto(Ontario)/kitchner&cambridge&waterloo(ontario) areas.
Best I can suggest, but even here in Ontario with all the company layoffs jobs are in short supply. Going west for the most part is better.
Oddly enough I met a former Brit teen, and his family a few weeks ago who moved here because they were tired of the entire nanny state. Nice group of people. They said they'd picked 3 places to move to:
New Zealand: Good choice, but way way too far to move to visit or to be visited by any family in Europe. US: Another good choice, but would be required to go through tougher hoops, and have a longer immigration entry. Canada: Best choice for them, parents were in high demand work field, closest to the former home. Fair immigration policy, easier cultural transition.
Well asshole disease, and anal-retentive speaking disorder are semi-related to each other. The only cure is to pull their head out of their ass and beat with a clue bat. However in this day and age, we do have a few new ones including douchwaffle disease, shit speakers syndrome, and meme disorder.
The last one is particularly vicious, and comes from people who use memes which are 8 months to 3 years out of date, and need to be beat to death with a large spongy bat.
Alter the vaccine to also have a x% change of sterilizing the recipient. Then you get both together.
We had eugenics in Canada at one time. Ugly business that, immoral not to mention highly unethical. There's some lines you shouldn't cross. There's some lines you can't cross, there's some lines that when you do cross, you're just an evil fuck.
He already has it. It's called Asshole disease. In rare cases, it cause a loss in popularity, being socially ostracized, and attempts to win back old friends as society turns their back on you for being a douchebag.
Now, the key question: How likely are they to stop fighting each other?
That, is something I don't have an answer to. Takes a smarter mind then mine to figure it out. Besides, I'm more focused on macro-ethical, and socio-economics than interpersonal, and tribal which is a shame because that's where 90% of all conflict originiates.
Adjusted for you. Zimbabwe remained perfectly productive and stable for more than a decade after Mugabe took power. It wasn't till he became paranoid that the problems started.
He was always insane and power hungry. However like many dictators, you can't crush those under you until you've secured your power base and remove those that have a chance of removing you from power. That consolidation.
It can take months(rarely), years(more often), and decades(the rarest). Just take a look at any dictatorship in the world.
Humanity creates it's own solutions. I can say, I'm not a liberal. But an evil blood sucking conservative. You're faced with a problem, you find a consider, and find a solution. We're pretty good at doing that, don't worry. Population explosions aren't anything to worry about.
You're faced with a need for more food? You continue to modify crops as need be to improve yields. Big shock, we've been doing it for the last 15,000 years. And actually he implied that it should be a choice, I'm at the opposite end of the scale. Severe diseases that cripple or destroy a person, shouldn't be a choice. That's why in many parts of north america if(count on work/school) it's mandatory to be immunized.
How the hell did that post get to +4? Must be heartless mod night on/.
Did you know that Africa could feed itself, and half the world if they simply stopped fighting. Went to modern farming techniques and stopped fighting? That Zimbabwe was once the breadbasket of Africa and fed nearly the entire sub-content before Mugabe came to power. I for one welcome the eradication of diseases that are terrible and crippling.
Perhaps we should just stop all immunizations world wide, and let people drop dead. Well that's fine with me, I'm vaccinated against everything I can be. But tell that to some 4 year old kid who will never walk and live in an iron lung because mommy and daddy had a conscience attack, and refused to give her a polio vaccination.
Things haven't changed as much as people really think. Around here, weather is far less severe then it was in my grandparents, and even in their parents time. 10ft snowstorms, and massive blizzards were the norm. I live in Ontario, and getting hammered into the dirt was the name of the game here.
Nice to look at and pretend, but for some parts of society it'll never happen. Some of us will always end up going into an office, being out on patrol, or dealing with the public when all hell breaks loose.
Fair points. The problem is people don't understand, and we're still jumping over the heads of them. I concede the point that if done correctly they'll never see it. That doesn't always happen. If a help desk is saying "if it's bad, just click anyways" there's a serious issue at the user level of security.
Personally if that's the case, and it seems like it is no matter where you're at. Then we should seriously consider looking at the user security section from the ground up, making it so stupidly simple, removing any type of complex messages unless they need to really know. And giving some type of direct "OMG HELP ME" button, that will explain in simple terms what they should, or shouldn't do.
I don't think it's a problem of not "understanding" computers. Rather that the language used in a lot of cases for the certificates is so verbose, that it confuses people. Remember that when you deal with the average member of the population you're dealing with someone who reads and writes somewhere between a grade 7-10 level. That means that their grasp of language is lower, their understanding is lower, and their frustration level is lower.
If you want to get through to people, you make warnings simpler. Make things simpler, people understand them better, and everyone is happy. Those of us who are in, have been in, the IT field(or associated areas), have a grasp of the English language somewhere around grade 12 to early college, or higher. In other words, this stuff is way beyond what most people can understand.
After all, if you told someone on the street you spent an evening going through a kernel recompile for fun they'd look at like you're an idiot with 3 heads. To them you are; to the rest of us, you're just another geek.
Well the Amiga, Atari and C64 are all dead as gaming platforms. It probably has something to do with the PC, and wide ranging adoption of a single standard among other things. I remember the last Amiga system that rolled out, and it was a glorified PC with a few extra bells.
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They don't? Are you sure you're not confusing opinion with news? Remember two different beasts, and two different things. And yes, CNN has a all out-and-out agenda, so does NBC, so does CBS, and so does ABC. So do all written publications.
The difference is, most people can't figure out what "opinion" is, and what news is. Even when it smacks them in the face. The next person that says, Hannity, O'Rilley, or anything similar are news I'll personally come to your house and teach you about politics, how news organizations work, and how media works in the real world. Then I'll probably smack you into the dirt with a 15 day old trout.
Here's the problem. CBS didn't want to fire him, they were perfectly happy with keeping him on the job until the shit started hitting the fan by everyone on both sides of the political spectrum. Policy isn't law however in the forms of a regulating body. That's why regulatory bodies don't make laws, the only make laws which "act in force." Breaking policy isn't "bad" per-se, unless the general public says it is. This is where you're missing the point, and that is why there's differences. This isn't semantics, this isn't even opinion.
One hand, most people considered it a non-issue(cows don't control nukes). The other, people considered it a direct manipulation of the press with an intention by the media to mislead. That's the difference.
Again, you've got more serious issues if you haven't figured that out already.
If you don't think that attempting to directly influence a national election by direct manipulation is just a "little bias", you have more serious issues then I can deal with in just one post.
Sure can. You do it the right way, or you do it the wrong way. I don't have pity in either direction. Taking shortcuts leads to dead people, disinformation, becoming what you hate, so-on, and so forth.
Then again, considering that he won a second election. I consider that the highest form of irony, especially with Rather being one of the fellows that helped make sure that it happened. But Kerry was an exceptionally weak candidate to begin with. Again, if you look at the current state of the media...welp. No no. I'll let people figure that out on their own. Needless to say, most haven't quite clicked in with the clue bat, how politics works. That includes about 70% of /.
Dan Rather: "Fake but accurate." Thank you, I'll be here all night.
You're just another shill who has a bent, nothing more and nothing less. Take off the rose colored glasses, and stop pretending that only one part of the media manipulates.
Wait WoW stopped ideas? Huh news to me. This is more so a money/shareholder argument on my end by the looks of it. 3rd & 4th quarter results are going to suck, and 1st quarter results are going to as well. So money making games are being delayed until the economy is better.
If you RTFA, you'd know that onboard and external monitoring was used. Onboard means the embedded temperature sensor in the CPU itself. It doesn't get much more accurate then that, we stopped using external CPU monitoring devices for CPU's 5 or 6 years ago when they started increasing the pin count, and figured "What's one or two more pins, when we're designing against thermal runaway."
Could be interesting. I've been quoted in several news articles(CP, AP, and AFP). I wonder if they owe me royalties now.
Can we buy tickets to this death match, or will it only be on PPV?
Depends on where you look but it's more word of mouth here. One thing I have heard through the grape vine is that the feds and provinces are dumping money into funding for this right now. So watch in the montreal(Quebec)/toronto(Ontario)/kitchner&cambridge&waterloo(ontario) areas.
Best I can suggest, but even here in Ontario with all the company layoffs jobs are in short supply. Going west for the most part is better.
Come to Canada, we'd welcome you here.
Oddly enough I met a former Brit teen, and his family a few weeks ago who moved here because they were tired of the entire nanny state. Nice group of people. They said they'd picked 3 places to move to:
New Zealand: Good choice, but way way too far to move to visit or to be visited by any family in Europe.
US: Another good choice, but would be required to go through tougher hoops, and have a longer immigration entry.
Canada: Best choice for them, parents were in high demand work field, closest to the former home. Fair immigration policy, easier cultural transition.
Well asshole disease, and anal-retentive speaking disorder are semi-related to each other. The only cure is to pull their head out of their ass and beat with a clue bat. However in this day and age, we do have a few new ones including douchwaffle disease, shit speakers syndrome, and meme disorder.
The last one is particularly vicious, and comes from people who use memes which are 8 months to 3 years out of date, and need to be beat to death with a large spongy bat.
We had eugenics in Canada at one time. Ugly business that, immoral not to mention highly unethical. There's some lines you shouldn't cross. There's some lines you can't cross, there's some lines that when you do cross, you're just an evil fuck.
He already has it. It's called Asshole disease. In rare cases, it cause a loss in popularity, being socially ostracized, and attempts to win back old friends as society turns their back on you for being a douchebag.
That, is something I don't have an answer to. Takes a smarter mind then mine to figure it out. Besides, I'm more focused on macro-ethical, and socio-economics than interpersonal, and tribal which is a shame because that's where 90% of all conflict originiates.
He was always insane and power hungry. However like many dictators, you can't crush those under you until you've secured your power base and remove those that have a chance of removing you from power. That consolidation.
It can take months(rarely), years(more often), and decades(the rarest). Just take a look at any dictatorship in the world.
Humanity creates it's own solutions. I can say, I'm not a liberal. But an evil blood sucking conservative. You're faced with a problem, you find a consider, and find a solution. We're pretty good at doing that, don't worry. Population explosions aren't anything to worry about.
You're faced with a need for more food? You continue to modify crops as need be to improve yields. Big shock, we've been doing it for the last 15,000 years. And actually he implied that it should be a choice, I'm at the opposite end of the scale. Severe diseases that cripple or destroy a person, shouldn't be a choice. That's why in many parts of north america if(count on work/school) it's mandatory to be immunized.
How the hell did that post get to +4? Must be heartless mod night on /.
Did you know that Africa could feed itself, and half the world if they simply stopped fighting. Went to modern farming techniques and stopped fighting? That Zimbabwe was once the breadbasket of Africa and fed nearly the entire sub-content before Mugabe came to power. I for one welcome the eradication of diseases that are terrible and crippling.
Perhaps we should just stop all immunizations world wide, and let people drop dead. Well that's fine with me, I'm vaccinated against everything I can be. But tell that to some 4 year old kid who will never walk and live in an iron lung because mommy and daddy had a conscience attack, and refused to give her a polio vaccination.
Don't you mix songs to a tape? Everyone still has their copy of "Summer of Love 1986" don't they?
Things haven't changed as much as people really think. Around here, weather is far less severe then it was in my grandparents, and even in their parents time. 10ft snowstorms, and massive blizzards were the norm. I live in Ontario, and getting hammered into the dirt was the name of the game here.
I'm personally happy with less severe weather.
Nice to look at and pretend, but for some parts of society it'll never happen. Some of us will always end up going into an office, being out on patrol, or dealing with the public when all hell breaks loose.
And people actually believe this shit still. I knew I joined the wrong cult.
Fair points. The problem is people don't understand, and we're still jumping over the heads of them. I concede the point that if done correctly they'll never see it. That doesn't always happen. If a help desk is saying "if it's bad, just click anyways" there's a serious issue at the user level of security.
Personally if that's the case, and it seems like it is no matter where you're at. Then we should seriously consider looking at the user security section from the ground up, making it so stupidly simple, removing any type of complex messages unless they need to really know. And giving some type of direct "OMG HELP ME" button, that will explain in simple terms what they should, or shouldn't do.
I don't think it's a problem of not "understanding" computers. Rather that the language used in a lot of cases for the certificates is so verbose, that it confuses people. Remember that when you deal with the average member of the population you're dealing with someone who reads and writes somewhere between a grade 7-10 level. That means that their grasp of language is lower, their understanding is lower, and their frustration level is lower.
If you want to get through to people, you make warnings simpler. Make things simpler, people understand them better, and everyone is happy. Those of us who are in, have been in, the IT field(or associated areas), have a grasp of the English language somewhere around grade 12 to early college, or higher. In other words, this stuff is way beyond what most people can understand.
After all, if you told someone on the street you spent an evening going through a kernel recompile for fun they'd look at like you're an idiot with 3 heads. To them you are; to the rest of us, you're just another geek.
Well the Amiga, Atari and C64 are all dead as gaming platforms. It probably has something to do with the PC, and wide ranging adoption of a single standard among other things. I remember the last Amiga system that rolled out, and it was a glorified PC with a few extra bells.