Jimmy Carter claiming the Tea Party is racist is bullshit, not truth. The TP had its origins in Bush's final few months, in protest to the TARP banker bailouts. It had *nothing* to do with race. Therefore I consider his opinion not only wrong, but hateful. Like when Nazis labeled Jews as "dangerous rats".
And yet YOU are still watching MSNBC or CNN even though both have been caught in lies. So if I'm a former FOX viewer/retard, that makes you what? A CURRENT retard?
Stop watching these 3 channels. They lie (or less obviously: distort or censor).
>>> to defend a man that chased down and killed an unarmed teenager.
You have that backwards. - Teen attacked. Man acted in self defense. - Stop voluntarily allowing yourself to be brainwashed by known liars like NBC News.
Yeah they do. Show intros today are often 10 seconds, rather than 1.5 minutes as they were pre-1990. And the end-of-show credits are shortened too.
>>>Bringing up TNG or DS9 here is really stupid..... Those are shows from the 90s that have little relevance
Speaking of stupid: TNG was born in 1987. Mid decade of the 80s. So using it as an example IS relevant for making a comparison/contrast with the 80s versus 60s decades (when Star Trek TOS aired).
Which is why I think the EU and US should institute a 1-child-per-couple policy* to control population. Otherwise come 2050 Mother Nature will be downsizing our population through starvation and suffering. Better we do it ourselves.
* *Maybe a 2 child/couple policy would meet less resistance.
>>>I work at one of those places and I'm one of those IT control freaks.
Probably still using IE6 or 7 too. (Like my company's control freak.) I understand not having time to test firefox or chrome compatibility. I don't understand voluntarily choosing outdated IE6 or 7 with security holes in it.
>>> I have cable internet and phone over which basic cable comes through unfiltered. When I asked the installer about it he told me they do not have filters for that range >>>
Wow. Maybe I should dump my $15 DSL and get Comcast Internet for $40. It would come with free cable tv.
Nah.
Comcast scrambles their channels so even if they came-through, I'd probably not see anything (you need a $7/month box). Besides I was sitting in my hotel last night, flipping through the cable channels, and I came to the realization there's nothing to watch. Back home I use an antenna which gives me 40+ channels.
That's good enough and it doesn't cost me anything. Supplement that free TV with watching 'Being Human' or 'Eureka' on Hulu once a week, and that's all I need. Comcast is obsolete in my house and has been for several years.
>>>When I tried watching TV in the USA, I was amazed anyone put up with it. You had at least twice as many ads as we did when it passed my tolerance threshold.
I put-up with ads on TV because my TV is free. Also I'm a websurfer. When ads come-on I just tune them out and goto slashdot or infowars or some other news site. Or facebook. Or pick-up my Asimov's Science Fiction and read another page. I'd rather have FREE television versus paying ~$300 a year for the bbc. (IMHO)
I don't see the value in pay tv.
I was sitting in my hotel last night, flipping through the cable channels, and I came to the realization there's nothing to watch. I watched Ghost Hunters but thought it was boring, and switched to reading a book. Back home I use an antenna which gives me 40+ channels. That's good enough.
Supplement that free TV with watching 'Being Human' or 'Eureka' on Hulu once a week, and that's all I need. Comcast is obsolete in my house and has been for several years.
>>> I have cable internet and phone over which basic cable comes through unfiltered. When I asked the installer about it he told me they do not have filters for that range >>>
Wow. Maybe I should dump my $15 DSL and get Comcast Internet for $40. It would come with free cable.
Nah.
Comcast scrambles their channels so even if they came-through, I'd probably not see anything (you need a 7/month settop box). Besides I was sitting in my hotel last night, flipping through the cable channels, and I came to the realization there's nothing to watch. I watched Ghost Hunters but thought it was boring.
Back home I use an antenna which gives me 40+ channels. That's good enough and it doesn't cost me anything. Supplement that free TV with watching 'Being Human' or 'Eureka' on Hulu once a week, and that's all I need. Comcast is obsolete in my house and has been for several years.
Star Trek is 51 minutes according to my DVD boxset. That was the standard length for all television shows in the 50s and 60s. By the 1980s it had been chopped down to 46 minutes (episodes of TNG, X-files, Babylon5, etc). Then about halfway through Voyager's run (circa 2000) they shortened to 43 minutes per episode.
The show creators compensate for the shorter run time by eliminating the 1.5 minute intros and 0.5 minute credits that were common in the old days.
So if Trek TNG or DS9 was 46 minutes total, minus 2 minutes of intro/credits, it had 44 minutes of actual content versus a modern show with 43 minutes of actual content. You're losing some story but not as much as you think.
>>>Firefox acquired on merit and lost on bloat and bugs. I quit using firefox when pages with flash videos would lock it up for 5 seconds at a time
Beat me too it. I'm still using Firefox 4, but it's ridiculous I can't run it on a 1/3rd gig laptop without having to reboot firefox every hour (memory leak). Firefox was supposed to be the alternative to the big bloated Netscape 4, but now it's just as bad.
By the way IE8 freezes-up with flash too. Sucks. I don't like Chrome so I use Opera when I need a small, lightweight browser. Or seamonkey (same Mozilla base as firefox).
Of course not. They don't care if they arrest an innocent person. It's up to the defense lawyer to free you from jail, not the police.
How Police Get the Innocent "In nearly every case, interrogators fed the suspects those details, sometimes even correcting them when they botched a fact. Many of the suspects were mentally impaired or ill, while others were underage or simply caved to police pressure." --- http://www.newser.com/story/100509/how-police-get-the-innocent-to-confess.html
You have a strange definition of "absolutely nothing". QUOTE: "MSnbc.com is the online news outlet for the NBC News family, including network shows such as Today, NBC Nightly News, and Dateline NBC, as well as MSNBC television..... The web site is developed in Redmond, Washington, on the MICROSOFT campus."
We have a right to defend ourselves (regardless if we are white, black, hispanic, asian, etc). You would have us be like sheep, so the criminals could happily stab us over and over 'til dead. You are an idiot.
Too lazy to even *look it up* on wikipedia? "MSnbc.com is the online news outlet for the NBC News family, including network shows such as Today, NBC Nightly News, and Dateline NBC, as well as MSNBC television..... The web site is developed in Redmond, Washington, on the MICROSOFT campus."
Stupid fuck. What the HELL did you think the initials MS in MSNBC meant? Random letters?!?!? Stupid, stupid slashdotter. MSNBC was formed by Microsoft and NBC.
It makes more sense to save our coal/oil reserves, and drain the Mideast wells dry, and thus become the sole source left on the planet with fuel. But that's longterm thinking, and the word "save" is not particularly popular anymore.
Former FOX News fan. I now watch RT - they aren't owned by the corporations (ads). And they don't pretend Ron Paul doesn't exist.
Anyway FOX is not as biased as most people assume. During 2008, 09, 10 during their 6 o'clock news show they aired 36% positive stories for Obama/democrats and 38% positive for McCain/republicans. Most of the bias lies with the commentators (Beck, O'reilly, Hannity), not the actual news shows which is close to even (36-38).
Too bad my electric is coal. According to greenercars.org a coal-powered EV is worse than my gasoline-powered Insight. (Or a diesel-powered Lupo 3L.) (Or a natural gas Civic.)
An electric car that, if you drive long distance, becomes a gasser. Seems okay to me. Just two problems:
- pricetag. I'd probably choose a pluggable Prius or Insight or Civic instead (~$20,000 each).
- government funding. I don't like paying for stuff I'm not using. Hopefully it's just a temporary subsidy to jumpstart GM's hybrid production, not a permanen form of corporate welfare.
>>> I'll bet that they say somewhere in there that they are not liable for any illegal or unauthorized access/control/etc of your domains and property.
Which goes right out the window when the State Law says the opposite. Example: Paypal's EULA said they are not responsible for lost funds, and the judge said that's bullshit and ordered them to return all funds to customers (I got back 100-some dollars).
Plus in this case the stolen domain names were lost through incompetence by the webhost (they accepted incomplete forms). They are liable for damage caused by their inemptitude.
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Jimmy Carter claiming the Tea Party is racist is bullshit, not truth. The TP had its origins in Bush's final few months, in protest to the TARP banker bailouts. It had *nothing* to do with race. Therefore I consider his opinion not only wrong, but hateful. Like when Nazis labeled Jews as "dangerous rats".
And yet YOU are still watching MSNBC or CNN even though both have been caught in lies. So if I'm a former FOX viewer/retard, that makes you what? A CURRENT retard?
Stop watching these 3 channels. They lie (or less obviously: distort or censor).
>>> to defend a man that chased down and killed an unarmed teenager.
You have that backwards.
- Teen attacked. Man acted in self defense.
- Stop voluntarily allowing yourself to be brainwashed by known liars like NBC News.
>>>No they don't.
Yeah they do. Show intros today are often 10 seconds, rather than 1.5 minutes as they were pre-1990. And the end-of-show credits are shortened too.
>>>Bringing up TNG or DS9 here is really stupid..... Those are shows from the 90s that have little relevance
Speaking of stupid:
TNG was born in 1987. Mid decade of the 80s. So using it as an example IS relevant for making a comparison/contrast with the 80s versus 60s decades (when Star Trek TOS aired).
>>>"a population and economic crash."
Which is why I think the EU and US should institute a 1-child-per-couple policy* to control population. Otherwise come 2050 Mother Nature will be downsizing our population through starvation and suffering. Better we do it ourselves.
*
*Maybe a 2 child/couple policy would meet less resistance.
>>>I work at one of those places and I'm one of those IT control freaks.
Probably still using IE6 or 7 too. (Like my company's control freak.) I understand not having time to test firefox or chrome compatibility. I don't understand voluntarily choosing outdated IE6 or 7 with security holes in it.
>>> I have cable internet and phone over which basic cable comes through unfiltered. When I asked the installer about it he told me they do not have filters for that range
>>>
Wow. Maybe I should dump my $15 DSL and get Comcast Internet for $40. It would come with free cable tv.
Nah.
Comcast scrambles their channels so even if they came-through, I'd probably not see anything (you need a $7/month box). Besides I was sitting in my hotel last night, flipping through the cable channels, and I came to the realization there's nothing to watch. Back home I use an antenna which gives me 40+ channels.
That's good enough and it doesn't cost me anything. Supplement that free TV with watching 'Being Human' or 'Eureka' on Hulu once a week, and that's all I need. Comcast is obsolete in my house and has been for several years.
>>>When I tried watching TV in the USA, I was amazed anyone put up with it. You had at least twice as many ads as we did when it passed my tolerance threshold.
I put-up with ads on TV because my TV is free.
Also I'm a websurfer. When ads come-on I just tune them out and goto slashdot or infowars or some other news site. Or facebook. Or pick-up my Asimov's Science Fiction and read another page. I'd rather have FREE television versus paying ~$300 a year for the bbc. (IMHO)
I don't see the value in pay tv.
I was sitting in my hotel last night, flipping through the cable channels, and I came to the realization there's nothing to watch. I watched Ghost Hunters but thought it was boring, and switched to reading a book. Back home I use an antenna which gives me 40+ channels. That's good enough.
Supplement that free TV with watching 'Being Human' or 'Eureka' on Hulu once a week, and that's all I need. Comcast is obsolete in my house and has been for several years.
>>> I have cable internet and phone over which basic cable comes through unfiltered. When I asked the installer about it he told me they do not have filters for that range
>>>
Wow. Maybe I should dump my $15 DSL and get Comcast Internet for $40. It would come with free cable.
Nah.
Comcast scrambles their channels so even if they came-through, I'd probably not see anything (you need a 7/month settop box). Besides I was sitting in my hotel last night, flipping through the cable channels, and I came to the realization there's nothing to watch. I watched Ghost Hunters but thought it was boring.
Back home I use an antenna which gives me 40+ channels. That's good enough and it doesn't cost me anything. Supplement that free TV with watching 'Being Human' or 'Eureka' on Hulu once a week, and that's all I need. Comcast is obsolete in my house and has been for several years.
Being nitpicky:
Star Trek is 51 minutes according to my DVD boxset. That was the standard length for all television shows in the 50s and 60s. By the 1980s it had been chopped down to 46 minutes (episodes of TNG, X-files, Babylon5, etc). Then about halfway through Voyager's run (circa 2000) they shortened to 43 minutes per episode.
The show creators compensate for the shorter run time by eliminating the 1.5 minute intros and 0.5 minute credits that were common in the old days.
So if Trek TNG or DS9 was 46 minutes total, minus 2 minutes of intro/credits, it had 44 minutes of actual content versus a modern show with 43 minutes of actual content. You're losing some story but not as much as you think.
>>>Firefox acquired on merit and lost on bloat and bugs. I quit using firefox when pages with flash videos would lock it up for 5 seconds at a time
Beat me too it. I'm still using Firefox 4, but it's ridiculous I can't run it on a 1/3rd gig laptop without having to reboot firefox every hour (memory leak). Firefox was supposed to be the alternative to the big bloated Netscape 4, but now it's just as bad.
By the way IE8 freezes-up with flash too. Sucks. I don't like Chrome so I use Opera when I need a small, lightweight browser. Or seamonkey (same Mozilla base as firefox).
One fits in /.'s character limit and the other does not?
This is disappointing. I have a used Xbox filled with somebody's private credit information. Oh well.
Of course not. They don't care if they arrest an innocent person. It's up to the defense lawyer to free you from jail, not the police.
How Police Get the Innocent
"In nearly every case, interrogators fed the suspects those details, sometimes even correcting them when they botched a fact. Many of the suspects were mentally impaired or ill, while others were underage or simply caved to police pressure." --- http://www.newser.com/story/100509/how-police-get-the-innocent-to-confess.html
You have a strange definition of "absolutely nothing". QUOTE: "MSnbc.com is the online news outlet for the NBC News family, including network shows such as Today, NBC Nightly News, and Dateline NBC, as well as MSNBC television..... The web site is developed in Redmond, Washington, on the MICROSOFT campus."
I'd say that's significantly more than nothing.
See the Seinfeld episode about "good naked" versus "bad naked".
We have a right to defend ourselves (regardless if we are white, black, hispanic, asian, etc). You would have us be like sheep, so the criminals could happily stab us over and over 'til dead. You are an idiot.
>>>MSNBC. No relation to Microsoft.
Too lazy to even *look it up* on wikipedia? "MSnbc.com is the online news outlet for the NBC News family, including network shows such as Today, NBC Nightly News, and Dateline NBC, as well as MSNBC television..... The web site is developed in Redmond, Washington, on the MICROSOFT campus."
Stupid fuck. What the HELL did you think the initials MS in MSNBC meant? Random letters?!?!? Stupid, stupid slashdotter. MSNBC was formed by Microsoft and NBC.
>>>Hispanic is not a race.
Holds-up Census form.
"Race:
- White
- Black
- Hispanic
- Asian
Apparently you are wrong, and Hispanic is considered a race within the U.S. and its government.
It makes more sense to save our coal/oil reserves, and drain the Mideast wells dry, and thus become the sole source left on the planet with fuel. But that's longterm thinking, and the word "save" is not particularly popular anymore.
Keeping workers at home saves ~10 gallons of gas per person per week. Which is 200 fewer pounds per person per week of CO2.
Former FOX News fan.
I now watch RT - they aren't owned by the corporations (ads).
And they don't pretend Ron Paul doesn't exist.
Anyway FOX is not as biased as most people assume. During 2008, 09, 10 during their 6 o'clock news show they aired 36% positive stories for Obama/democrats and 38% positive for McCain/republicans. Most of the bias lies with the commentators (Beck, O'reilly, Hannity), not the actual news shows which is close to even (36-38).
Too bad my electric is coal. According to greenercars.org a coal-powered EV is worse than my gasoline-powered Insight. (Or a diesel-powered Lupo 3L.) (Or a natural gas Civic.)
An electric car that, if you drive long distance, becomes a gasser. Seems okay to me. Just two problems:
- pricetag. I'd probably choose a pluggable Prius or Insight or Civic instead (~$20,000 each).
- government funding. I don't like paying for stuff I'm not using. Hopefully it's just a temporary subsidy to jumpstart GM's hybrid production, not a permanen form of corporate welfare.
>>> I'll bet that they say somewhere in there that they are not liable for any illegal or unauthorized access/control/etc of your domains and property.
Which goes right out the window when the State Law says the opposite. Example: Paypal's EULA said they are not responsible for lost funds, and the judge said that's bullshit and ordered them to return all funds to customers (I got back 100-some dollars).
Plus in this case the stolen domain names were lost through incompetence by the webhost (they accepted incomplete forms). They are liable for damage caused by their inemptitude.
VIDEO FROM MSNBC
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYKQJ4-N7LI
By the way NBC received funding from Obama's administration, as part of the 2009 stimulus bill. Why? Who knows but no other media organization did.