The point isn't that complicated. An affiliate, like an individual franchise, isn't owned by the overall corporation. I dislike the Fox New cable people as much as most moderates, but blaming this on them is showing that you don't understand how franchises work.
You should point out that the station has some unprofessional, lazy-assed reporters, that's true. But faulting Rupert Murdoch for this is the equivalent of stopping eating at any Wendy's after that finger tip in the chili incident.
actually have some sympathy for the reporters involved in this, because they have no clue what they're getting themselves in to.
If reporters don't take the time to properly educate themselves on something before reporting on it, they're not doing their job, plain and simple. I don't have any sympathy for them - mainly because plenty of grandma & grandpa types who've never even heard of 4chan before that report now think their house will get firebombed if they post to the wrong message board.
The fact that it's a Fox affiliate isn't relevant, really. I've seen plenty of stories on local ABC, CBS, or NBC stations that were just as cringe-worthy. Even as computers have become more popular, people who really like (and understand) computers haven't.
The GPP is probably the most dedicated and effective troll Slashdot has ever had.
Well, obviously, he's homeless, so what else does he have to do?
All kidding aside, I think the "he doesn't want help, therefore can't really be homeless" is somewhat specious reasoning. There's plenty of homeless who, while maybe not exactly happy, don't want to change.
One guy went to the La Jolla library (where he claimed to be posting from) and got the library's access blocked. Another has called the library and asked about arranging a donation be made to him, they claimed they had never heard of him.
The latter is also somewhat meaningless - there's few librarians who can keep track of everyone in their library 24/7. The former is a legitimate possibility, if someone actually blocked slashdot from that library. I'd be interested to see some actual proof of that, though.
Your statements have no relation. They can be engineering marvels & still use the under promise/over deliver. It's actually pretty easy to do while being honest, as well - just have the most pessimistic engineer on any project estimate the time to failure. 90% of the time you'll exceed that.
3% of the electricity used in the US is produced by burning petroleum products. Build a few new nuclear plants, and you've reduced the amount of oil being used. It's not nearly as the amount used by automobiles, trains, or ships. But's it's an effect, albiet a small one.
They did leave index on by default, though. So here's all the images they had in their macro/thumbnail list as of earlier this morning. Some quite amusing stuff.
(As you might note, this isn't on foxnews.com anymore, because they did disable it. However, all the links go to still-accessible images on foxnews.com.)
Actually, insurance fraud doesn't require the decision to be premeditated before the purchase of the insurance policy. If I torched my house tomorrow & tried to collect my homeowner's insurance, it would still be fraud, even though when I bought it several years ago I wasn't intending to burn it down.
Also, fraud requires deception. If my insurance policy didn't exclude damage intentionally inflicted by me, I could burn it down & it wouldn't be fraud. So, really, the requirement is lying in order to collect an insurance claim.
E.g., the plan to invade Russia was based on the idea that any country will just throw the hands up when it lost half its army and the enemy is at the doorstep of their capital. Napoleon in Russia was an exception indeed, but that's just the thing: it was an exception.
But there's an important thing about an exception to a rule - if one can replicate a particular historical case (invading Russia when quality of troops, technology, morale... i.e. everything but numbers & terrain... is on your side), one shouldn't be surprised when the exception repeats itself. (Russians prove themselves exceptionally bloody-minded, refuse to admit when they're defeated, and then the weather defeats you.)
I guess the point I'm trying to make here is that underestimating your enemy is bad, but underestimating your enviornment is worse. And the 'enviornment' of the internet is more akin to a thousand connected city-states than a single country (or group of countries.) What does that say about online reputation?
At the risk of tempting Goodwin's law (although it's not a comparison): when a few million Germans cheered about invading the USSR, that was groupthink too. "OMG, I can't let the others think I'm not patriotic."
Don't worry about Godwin in the context. Any sentence with "Germans" and "invading the USSR" says more about not learning from history in the military strategy sense than the nationalism & racism are bad sense.
Seriously, did nobody translate any books on Napoleon to German or something?
are 'strategy' and 'tactics'. That's the reason the RTS genre always seems split in two... there's games that are mostly focused on having the right unit do the right move at the right time. Then there's games that are focused on having the right groups of units in the right place at the right time.
What about people who play RPGs primarily for the story? MMORPGS have a distinct problem with story - the story can't advance at the pace of an individual player. That's the same advantage of a CRPG over a paper RPG - if I want to take a week off work & play Oblivion for 16 hours a day, I can get all the story I can stay awake for. Not so much with WOW or D&D. (Although with the latter, I could get a whole group of people to take a week off of work, but you know what I mean.)
the budget is set by law - so if the law says "$50 goes here and $100 goes here" I don't see how it is possible to take it from any one of those buckets without passing another law that overrides it. Can someone please explain this?
For federal agencies, the law specifies that per fiscal
quarter, a particular division will have a specific amount of money available. If, in a quarter, all that money isn't spent, it will sometimes be allowed to carry over to the next quarter. There's usually a 'cushion' that needs to be spent at the end of the year - I remember writing up many a purchase order in September for new tools & such, since a specific amount of extra was released on 1 September. Often, though, it's a case of use it or lose it - money from previous quarters can get moved from one division or agency to another if it's not all spent. I wouldn't be surprised if something similair was going on here.
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The point isn't that complicated. An affiliate, like an individual franchise, isn't owned by the overall corporation. I dislike the Fox New cable people as much as most moderates, but blaming this on them is showing that you don't understand how franchises work.
You should point out that the station has some unprofessional, lazy-assed reporters, that's true. But faulting Rupert Murdoch for this is the equivalent of stopping eating at any Wendy's after that finger tip in the chili incident.
It's not FOX's national news that did this report, it was a local affiliate. Check out your local ABC or NBC station for more examples of idiocy.
And the last half doing poor math? :P
I've got nothing, really.
The fact that it's a Fox affiliate isn't relevant, really. I've seen plenty of stories on local ABC, CBS, or NBC stations that were just as cringe-worthy. Even as computers have become more popular, people who really like (and understand) computers haven't.
Well, obviously, he's homeless, so what else does he have to do?
All kidding aside, I think the "he doesn't want help, therefore can't really be homeless" is somewhat specious reasoning. There's plenty of homeless who, while maybe not exactly happy, don't want to change.
The latter is also somewhat meaningless - there's few librarians who can keep track of everyone in their library 24/7. The former is a legitimate possibility, if someone actually blocked slashdot from that library. I'd be interested to see some actual proof of that, though.
Your statements have no relation. They can be engineering marvels & still use the under promise/over deliver. It's actually pretty easy to do while being honest, as well - just have the most pessimistic engineer on any project estimate the time to failure. 90% of the time you'll exceed that.
3% of the electricity used in the US is produced by burning petroleum products. Build a few new nuclear plants, and you've reduced the amount of oil being used. It's not nearly as the amount used by automobiles, trains, or ships. But's it's an effect, albiet a small one.
Wait, did I just feed the intentionally-screwed-up movie quote troll?
(As you might note, this isn't on foxnews.com anymore, because they did disable it. However, all the links go to still-accessible images on foxnews.com.)
Also, fraud requires deception. If my insurance policy didn't exclude damage intentionally inflicted by me, I could burn it down & it wouldn't be fraud. So, really, the requirement is lying in order to collect an insurance claim.
But there's an important thing about an exception to a rule - if one can replicate a particular historical case (invading Russia when quality of troops, technology, morale... i.e. everything but numbers & terrain... is on your side), one shouldn't be surprised when the exception repeats itself. (Russians prove themselves exceptionally bloody-minded, refuse to admit when they're defeated, and then the weather defeats you.)
I guess the point I'm trying to make here is that underestimating your enemy is bad, but underestimating your enviornment is worse. And the 'enviornment' of the internet is more akin to a thousand connected city-states than a single country (or group of countries.) What does that say about online reputation?
Damned if I know. Just pointing it out.
Don't worry about Godwin in the context. Any sentence with "Germans" and "invading the USSR" says more about not learning from history in the military strategy sense than the nationalism & racism are bad sense.
Seriously, did nobody translate any books on Napoleon to German or something?
It sounds perfect, but then it goes up against another of those feminine habits - the need to decorate & make everything look nice.
encourage the dog to lick guest's exposed skin. Then ask them if they left the toilet lid up or down.
mention, "Heh, if this works, we'll be really, really, really rich. In about three decades."
I still can't get the smell out.
are 'strategy' and 'tactics'. That's the reason the RTS genre always seems split in two... there's games that are mostly focused on having the right unit do the right move at the right time. Then there's games that are focused on having the right groups of units in the right place at the right time.
Wait... catnip works on people? Why have I been feeding it to the stupid kittidiot all these years?
What about people who play RPGs primarily for the story? MMORPGS have a distinct problem with story - the story can't advance at the pace of an individual player. That's the same advantage of a CRPG over a paper RPG - if I want to take a week off work & play Oblivion for 16 hours a day, I can get all the story I can stay awake for. Not so much with WOW or D&D. (Although with the latter, I could get a whole group of people to take a week off of work, but you know what I mean.)
For federal agencies, the law specifies that per fiscal quarter, a particular division will have a specific amount of money available. If, in a quarter, all that money isn't spent, it will sometimes be allowed to carry over to the next quarter. There's usually a 'cushion' that needs to be spent at the end of the year - I remember writing up many a purchase order in September for new tools & such, since a specific amount of extra was released on 1 September. Often, though, it's a case of use it or lose it - money from previous quarters can get moved from one division or agency to another if it's not all spent. I wouldn't be surprised if something similair was going on here.
Being pedantic on Slashdot is just as much a tradition as being immature on digg. I just enjoy the former more than the latter.