Oh yeah, because now community service is evil? It's really getting me down lately that I live on the same planet with such simps. Right in front of our eyes, the president we currently have has been taking our rights away... but the new guy wants community service and he's starting the Nazi party here at home.
I didn't even vote for Obama, but stuff like this is rock-stupid.
Attacking multiple other countries that may or may not have had anything to do with attacking us is asinine. That is why. Our defense budget is out of line compared to I believe it is all major industrialized nations.
I'm pretty sure plasmas look better for SD. Mine is a Panasonic and it looks MUCH better than most LCD's I've seen, as you can tell that you're watching content that is not at the native resolution of the LCD. Plasmas seem to look a lot smoother and therefore show SD tolerably.
Those 4:3 widescreen broadcasts are really not that bad. I zoom them in and they look fine. Doesn't look like HD, but it's better than regular SD in my opinion.
This is true in the US of some channels. One of them -- maybe TBS, TNT or USA, I can't recall -- actually stretches the 4:3 picture to 16:9. It's pretty horrendous and surely shouldn't get to call itself an HD channel.
I'd go one step further and say that a good 480p plasma does the job. I bought one used off a friend and definitely don't feel like I'm missing much of anything. I've read some reviews too and at least a couple concur that the move from 480i to 480p is much more noticeable than anything above it.
Plus, I can buy a regular DVD player and have all my stuff the same. If I had a real HDTV, I'm sure I'd be wishing I had a Blu-Ray player, and that's just a bunch of shit I don't need to be paying for.
I live about 2 miles from Newark Airport myself (downtown). I don't hear the aircraft at all because I'm not in a flight path (probably a 35 story building that close to the field would be considered a hazard to navigation). There are rare occasions where they fly out to the north and circle back to the south where I hear them somewhat, but I actually get less noise here than when I lived 10 miles out.
I work on a hospital campus in Newark and see a lot of the ambulances. I think the people who drive in this city have less respect for ambulances than anywhere I've ever been. Perhaps it has changed in the last few years and this just happens to be where I've been. I still pull to the side of the road, like the driver's manual says. I think I'm by myself.
Honestly, I don't understand these people. I have some friends who I've heard say "I need to have this noise on to sleep." Umm, no you don't. Get no sleep for 2-3 nights in a row and I think it'll clear you up pretty quick. Sorta like people who say "my dog won't eat that food." You better believe it will when it gets hungry.
Seriously, are we so pampered that we don't even try to adjust anymore? If I left a TV on all night, my parents would have told me to turn it off or pay the electric bill. There was no such thing as "I need."
Don't shop at that awful store, for starters. Shop at a store where they sell reach merchandise. One can still buy plenty of stuff that is made in the USA. It is possible to blame the consumer here. And before folks start in on "that's the only thing around where I live," no one told them to live where that was the only store either.
Agreed there -- neither of them is any good on issues related to corporate influence. This is where America lost even if they think their party won. People don't understand the way the system works now, though. Lots of parts of this economic criss are not well understood by the general public and I think that's muting some of the outrage.
I doubt it's 28:1 (curious if any group has done any real statistics), but when you choose a running mate who can't name the three countries involved in NAFTA and doesn't know that Africa isn't a country (all reported by Republican staffers), you're bound to take some shit in the press.
I don't know if it exists either. If I were a racist, would I care what I said to the person doing the polling? Maybe if the person knew I was a democrat and suddenly couldn't vote for this one... but I don't know who does exit polling. Probably someone they've never met.
Forget about the Bradley effect, what if a whole bunch of people just say "let's see what happens" and all give the opposite answer to the people polling them? You certainly aren't obligated to tell the truth in an exit poll.
That doesn't negate what I said necessarily. Let's say candidate A does 10 bad things and 2 good things while candidate B does 10 good and 5 bad.
Network A covers both good things candidate A does and 2 of the bad things. Fair and balanced, right?
Network B covers 8 of the bad things about candidate A and both of the good ones.
Let's move to candidate B. Let's say network A covers 5 and 5. Fair and balanced again, eh? Meanwhile, Network B covers every good and bad thing. Looks like a slant.
My point is, the news itself can be biased. If you're covering an asshole, he might turn out to look like an asshole. Going out of your way to create coverage to make him look like a person with his good and bad points when they aren't really there is not more fair and balanced. The news should be covering the truth, no matter who it favors. McCain was arguably the worse candidate. Is Obama a great one? Not in my opinion. Neither news network, I bet you, covered how biased the candidates are toward corporate money. Newscorp and GE certainly are not interested in exposing the evils of corporate money in campaigns.
I'll admit that I don't really either, but think about it... you can say that it's classism, which it is... but it would have to be an awfully large coincidence that classism tends to very disproportionately affect minorities. Could that really happen by accident? If it's classism that falls essentially along racial lines, I think it's defacto racism.
O'Reilly claims to be an independent while registered Republican.
And lastly, the editorial pages are not the news. (which you say in your last line, essentially)... so I don't see the connection with the Amherst thing.
No, it really doesn't -- I got a decent education in my school, and if you live in a middle-class area, you probably got one in yours too (if you attended). We aren't talking about the same thing -- we're talking about education more becoming of a real third-world country... and this is Louisiana just 50 years ago.
Well, we give white ones preference over black ones in many other ways (take my city, Newark, where it's gotta be hard to get ahead if you grew up here), so how is evening it out any less fair? I realize two wrongs don't make a right, but the other wrong is a little harder to fix.
I suppose that depends on what you call institutional. You could certainly call the fact that the school systems and public services in poor areas are in a shambles (in my area, they certainly are) a form of institutional racism. Or the fact that minorities (and women, for that matter) make less than whites... or the fact that somehow we have a majority of blacks in jail when they're a minority of the population (though you could call that a symptom)... etc.
They're not written on paper, but they're certainly institutionalized.
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What was it they said? You can't impose democracy with a big stick?
For profit is really working, isn't it?
Show me the other choices.
(cue the rants about how we'll all be waiting in line with compound fractures)
Oh yeah, because now community service is evil? It's really getting me down lately that I live on the same planet with such simps. Right in front of our eyes, the president we currently have has been taking our rights away... but the new guy wants community service and he's starting the Nazi party here at home.
I didn't even vote for Obama, but stuff like this is rock-stupid.
Attacking multiple other countries that may or may not have had anything to do with attacking us is asinine. That is why. Our defense budget is out of line compared to I believe it is all major industrialized nations.
I'm pretty sure plasmas look better for SD. Mine is a Panasonic and it looks MUCH better than most LCD's I've seen, as you can tell that you're watching content that is not at the native resolution of the LCD. Plasmas seem to look a lot smoother and therefore show SD tolerably.
Those 4:3 widescreen broadcasts are really not that bad. I zoom them in and they look fine. Doesn't look like HD, but it's better than regular SD in my opinion.
This is true in the US of some channels. One of them -- maybe TBS, TNT or USA, I can't recall -- actually stretches the 4:3 picture to 16:9. It's pretty horrendous and surely shouldn't get to call itself an HD channel.
I'd go one step further and say that a good 480p plasma does the job. I bought one used off a friend and definitely don't feel like I'm missing much of anything. I've read some reviews too and at least a couple concur that the move from 480i to 480p is much more noticeable than anything above it.
Plus, I can buy a regular DVD player and have all my stuff the same. If I had a real HDTV, I'm sure I'd be wishing I had a Blu-Ray player, and that's just a bunch of shit I don't need to be paying for.
I live about 2 miles from Newark Airport myself (downtown). I don't hear the aircraft at all because I'm not in a flight path (probably a 35 story building that close to the field would be considered a hazard to navigation). There are rare occasions where they fly out to the north and circle back to the south where I hear them somewhat, but I actually get less noise here than when I lived 10 miles out.
There's a lot of information on the web.
You can get a couple of chapters of an eBook here about buying American: http://www.howtobuyamerican.com/index.php
You can buy online a lot of places -- though I suppose it's not too easy to tell whether the place is being honest:
http://www.buydirectusa.com/
http://www.usstuff.com/
http://www.madeinusa.com/
http://www.americanapparel.net/
Shopping at Walmart should really be the absolute last option (below not buying whatever thing at all).
And here's a blog where a guy appears to be attempting to make a list:
http://madeintheusabyamericans.blogspot.com/2008/04/my-new-blog.html
I work on a hospital campus in Newark and see a lot of the ambulances. I think the people who drive in this city have less respect for ambulances than anywhere I've ever been. Perhaps it has changed in the last few years and this just happens to be where I've been. I still pull to the side of the road, like the driver's manual says. I think I'm by myself.
Honestly, I don't understand these people. I have some friends who I've heard say "I need to have this noise on to sleep." Umm, no you don't. Get no sleep for 2-3 nights in a row and I think it'll clear you up pretty quick. Sorta like people who say "my dog won't eat that food." You better believe it will when it gets hungry.
Seriously, are we so pampered that we don't even try to adjust anymore? If I left a TV on all night, my parents would have told me to turn it off or pay the electric bill. There was no such thing as "I need ."
Don't shop at that awful store, for starters. Shop at a store where they sell reach merchandise. One can still buy plenty of stuff that is made in the USA. It is possible to blame the consumer here. And before folks start in on "that's the only thing around where I live," no one told them to live where that was the only store either.
I'm pretty sure it's 10,000 ft, not 30,000. Some flights don't even hit 30,000 feet cruising.
Agreed there -- neither of them is any good on issues related to corporate influence. This is where America lost even if they think their party won. People don't understand the way the system works now, though. Lots of parts of this economic criss are not well understood by the general public and I think that's muting some of the outrage.
I doubt it's 28:1 (curious if any group has done any real statistics), but when you choose a running mate who can't name the three countries involved in NAFTA and doesn't know that Africa isn't a country (all reported by Republican staffers), you're bound to take some shit in the press.
I don't know if it exists either. If I were a racist, would I care what I said to the person doing the polling? Maybe if the person knew I was a democrat and suddenly couldn't vote for this one... but I don't know who does exit polling. Probably someone they've never met.
Forget about the Bradley effect, what if a whole bunch of people just say "let's see what happens" and all give the opposite answer to the people polling them? You certainly aren't obligated to tell the truth in an exit poll.
That doesn't negate what I said necessarily. Let's say candidate A does 10 bad things and 2 good things while candidate B does 10 good and 5 bad.
Network A covers both good things candidate A does and 2 of the bad things. Fair and balanced, right?
Network B covers 8 of the bad things about candidate A and both of the good ones.
Let's move to candidate B. Let's say network A covers 5 and 5. Fair and balanced again, eh? Meanwhile, Network B covers every good and bad thing. Looks like a slant.
My point is, the news itself can be biased. If you're covering an asshole, he might turn out to look like an asshole. Going out of your way to create coverage to make him look like a person with his good and bad points when they aren't really there is not more fair and balanced. The news should be covering the truth, no matter who it favors. McCain was arguably the worse candidate. Is Obama a great one? Not in my opinion. Neither news network, I bet you, covered how biased the candidates are toward corporate money. Newscorp and GE certainly are not interested in exposing the evils of corporate money in campaigns.
I'll admit that I don't really either, but think about it... you can say that it's classism, which it is... but it would have to be an awfully large coincidence that classism tends to very disproportionately affect minorities. Could that really happen by accident? If it's classism that falls essentially along racial lines, I think it's defacto racism.
Does FOX even HAVE any of the latter anymore?
O'Reilly claims to be an independent while registered Republican.
And lastly, the editorial pages are not the news. (which you say in your last line, essentially)... so I don't see the connection with the Amherst thing.
I agree with you -- I just don't think we're even close to that date at this point.
What have you got that's worse than this?
http://www.bumpshack.com/2008/03/18/pastor-jeremiah-wright-controversy-quotes/
No, it really doesn't -- I got a decent education in my school, and if you live in a middle-class area, you probably got one in yours too (if you attended). We aren't talking about the same thing -- we're talking about education more becoming of a real third-world country... and this is Louisiana just 50 years ago.
Well, we give white ones preference over black ones in many other ways (take my city, Newark, where it's gotta be hard to get ahead if you grew up here), so how is evening it out any less fair? I realize two wrongs don't make a right, but the other wrong is a little harder to fix.
Which I find pretty peculiar, honestly... calling an election based on what people feel like telling you on the way out of the booth.
So many people that I know buy it, I at least have to point it out. :)
I suppose that depends on what you call institutional. You could certainly call the fact that the school systems and public services in poor areas are in a shambles (in my area, they certainly are) a form of institutional racism. Or the fact that minorities (and women, for that matter) make less than whites... or the fact that somehow we have a majority of blacks in jail when they're a minority of the population (though you could call that a symptom)... etc.
They're not written on paper, but they're certainly institutionalized.