I imagine that since people reuse username/password combos information retrieved from Gawker might also be useful at a number of other sites that would be more interesting.
These people grew up with only scheduled television, so they'd be most likely to continue using it because it's what they've done the longest.
Poppycock you whippersnapper. I am 61 years old and my home is fully wired to accept programming from cable, OTA HDTV, shortwave, and streaming over IP. Plus I frequently use streamed media from my own media server or physical media (SACD, DVD-A, CD, DVD or BluRay). My experience is that when a new technology is added it gets incorporated into my life in addition to what I already use. The only things that get dropped or avoided are those that have been supplanted by something with much better performance for the same programming. Think 8-track, VHS, cassette tape, LD, LPs etc.
It would be very nice to dump cable but I haven't found a good substitute for HD broadcasts of live sporting events over cable.
My father, who is 88 is a little behind the curve not having bought into streaming yet but I think he is going to get a HTPC this Christmas.
Not to mention everyone and their brother wants in on NATO.
As far as I am concerned the US should pull up its stakes and come home except where there is a clear national interest as there is in the Middle East. Euros, Asians, etc. you name it can go to hell. No more help against Russians who want their old empire back and feel its just fine to shut off the gas to Europe any time they feel like. Ditto for help against North Koreans lobbing shells over the border, and who gives a flying fart what kind of government Taiwan has.
And that etc. includes Canadians looking to for help for their military to push back against the Russians looking to grab the Arctic. I just can't wait to hear the whining from Ottawa when the US tells them no more NORAD bases in Canada or NATO joint maneuvers in the arctic.
Its likely to happen soon enough anyway because of the economic effects of being a soft touch for the rest of the world. Best do it now to stop the financial bleeding.
This is why I prefer physical media. Streaming as a trap and I am sure the studios love pushing back towards subscriptions. The next step will be Netflix going to pay per view.
1. Berlin. So what is your point? Without the West's intervention those 2 million people would have been part of East Germany.
That IN ITSELF is of far more import than anything Wikipedia has done to foster self-determination. And that's just the first item on my list.
2. North Koreans don't, but without the police action North Korea would be a lot larger than it is today. South Koreans were aided immensely here. How is Wikileaks of more impact than that?
I could go on and on, but it would be silly. Your argument is complete hogwash.
You completely ignore the end result which is the simple fact that the world has far fewer totalitarian governments and far greater self determination now than at the end of WWII. That fact is so large, so obvious and so powerfully true that it is staggering to claim that Wikileaks is comparable to the progress that has been made. It speaks of a lack of understanding of history than is hard to comprehend.
Was the progress a smooth and trouble free one? Of course not. Human events don't work that way. But where we are today is very different from 1948.
Assange has done more for Democracy, as in the right of people to direct the actions of their government, than the entire Western world has done since WWII.
So you think this is more important than say the Berlin Airlift, the Korean Police Action, the US involvement in the Greek Civil War, the Brussels Pact, the establishment of NATO, SEATO and the UN, the strategic arms limitation treaties, the opening of China/US diplomatic relations, the founding of the Solidarity Union, and the fall of the Soviet Union and the reunification of Germany. Combined.
I don't have any problem with variable power rates. What I don't like is the idea of the power company having the ability to control how I live. I also don't trust them one bit. The power company I am beholden too has had all sorts of issues with its infrastructure - stray current, frequent power interruptions and all because their infrastructure is terrible.
They seriously need to modernize. I'm willing to see my rates go up to help pay for it. I'm not willing to support approaches that take the decisions related to my power consumption out of my hands, especially when I've made a lot of effort and investment to improve my power consumption efficiency.
We don't need all this drama to know about bank scammers and fraudsters. Anyone with a checking account or a credit card has that figured out already.
I'd rather he pick something novel to go after, say a variety of religious groups including the Church of the Latter Day Saints, the Catholics, and of course anyone supporting the Creation Museum.
The problem is this loon serves a useful purpose - acting as a buffer between China and the US ally S Korea. If N Korea were to collapse or get a rational leader North and South might reunite and China would end up looking at a neighbor that they wouldn't be able to say 'frog jump' to.
The Chinese aren't dumb. They realize N Korea is a lunatic state. But they can't figure out how to smoothly transition to something better.
Sad to say but you don't need Wikileaks to uncover shady business practices on the part of major banks like BofA. My issue with these guys came when they sold my elderly father a bunch of BS services like identity theft protection. Completely legal and horribly unethical dirt bags.
It's going to have to be something really bad to surprise anyone. I actually hope it is because I'd like to see them roasted. Ideally there are lots of state attorney generals gearing up to draw and quarter these bastards.
Being a registered toxic substance != banned. What it means is that it is subject to regulation. In this case it means Canada is examining initial regulation of BPA, particularly in the case of occupational exposure (workers in factories making articles containing BPA).
The Fed != Federal Government. Nor is it using Federal Government funds to purchase these bonds.
Profit and loss associated with Fed activity is rather meaningless since they control the supply of money by printing it or not depending on what they want interest rates and the money supply to be.
That's fine with me. I am pretty proactive when it comes to energy efficiency. Three stage A/C and condensing gas furnace with state of the art triple glazed windows. It really annoyed me to make those sorts of investments and then have the electric company come around wanting to control my A/C.
Let those not making capital improvements pay for it. My energy consumption is likely going down faster than the power company will increase rates to pay for infrastructure.
Short sighted of course. Germany's economy is very export driven. Bring the rest of Europe down and you will have no-one to trade with thereby destroying yourself.
China made a really bad mistake in that regard. They bought bonds issued by the US government rather than hard assets with their piles of USD from their trade imbalance. Now everyone knows that in the long run you are better off buying the the business (i.e. stock) rather than loaning the business money for operations. Not to mention in the case of dollars the US is running the printing presses overtime and full on right now. Holding a lot of dollars just doesn't make a lot of sense right now.
I think now they have learned their lesson and are gradually liquidating in favor of hard assets like land, raw materials etc.
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I imagine that since people reuse username/password combos information retrieved from Gawker might also be useful at a number of other sites that would be more interesting.
We need a new phrase... media neutrality?
These people grew up with only scheduled television, so they'd be most likely to continue using it because it's what they've done the longest.
Poppycock you whippersnapper. I am 61 years old and my home is fully wired to accept programming from cable, OTA HDTV, shortwave, and streaming over IP. Plus I frequently use streamed media from my own media server or physical media (SACD, DVD-A, CD, DVD or BluRay). My experience is that when a new technology is added it gets incorporated into my life in addition to what I already use. The only things that get dropped or avoided are those that have been supplanted by something with much better performance for the same programming. Think 8-track, VHS, cassette tape, LD, LPs etc.
It would be very nice to dump cable but I haven't found a good substitute for HD broadcasts of live sporting events over cable.
My father, who is 88 is a little behind the curve not having bought into streaming yet but I think he is going to get a HTPC this Christmas.
No doubt this sort of analysis will soon be used to plan terrorist attacks.
No one is asking you to do the heavy lifting
Poppycock. We hear all the time how people resent the US being slow to get into WWII, or how Europeans want US bases to stay:
http://www.toytowngermany.com/lofi/index.php/t124887-90.html
Not to mention everyone and their brother wants in on NATO.
As far as I am concerned the US should pull up its stakes and come home except where there is a clear national interest as there is in the Middle East. Euros, Asians, etc. you name it can go to hell. No more help against Russians who want their old empire back and feel its just fine to shut off the gas to Europe any time they feel like. Ditto for help against North Koreans lobbing shells over the border, and who gives a flying fart what kind of government Taiwan has.
And that etc. includes Canadians looking to for help for their military to push back against the Russians looking to grab the Arctic. I just can't wait to hear the whining from Ottawa when the US tells them no more NORAD bases in Canada or NATO joint maneuvers in the arctic.
Its likely to happen soon enough anyway because of the economic effects of being a soft touch for the rest of the world. Best do it now to stop the financial bleeding.
60 years of that sort of baloney is enough.
This is why I prefer physical media. Streaming as a trap and I am sure the studios love pushing back towards subscriptions. The next step will be Netflix going to pay per view.
1. Berlin. So what is your point? Without the West's intervention those 2 million people would have been part of East Germany.
That IN ITSELF is of far more import than anything Wikipedia has done to foster self-determination. And that's just the first item on my list.
2. North Koreans don't, but without the police action North Korea would be a lot larger than it is today. South Koreans were aided immensely here. How is Wikileaks of more impact than that?
I could go on and on, but it would be silly. Your argument is complete hogwash.
You completely ignore the end result which is the simple fact that the world has far fewer totalitarian governments and far greater self determination now than at the end of WWII. That fact is so large, so obvious and so powerfully true that it is staggering to claim that Wikileaks is comparable to the progress that has been made. It speaks of a lack of understanding of history than is hard to comprehend.
Was the progress a smooth and trouble free one? Of course not. Human events don't work that way. But where we are today is very different from 1948.
But of course you choose to ignore that.
Your kitchen is a home chem lab.
The governments that were being contained or overthrown by these actions definitely would not acknowledge the existence of that right.
Assange has done more for Democracy, as in the right of people to direct the actions of their government, than the entire Western world has done since WWII.
So you think this is more important than say the Berlin Airlift, the Korean Police Action, the US involvement in the Greek Civil War, the Brussels Pact, the establishment of NATO, SEATO and the UN, the strategic arms limitation treaties, the opening of China/US diplomatic relations, the founding of the Solidarity Union, and the fall of the Soviet Union and the reunification of Germany. Combined.
Poppycock.
For the upcoming World Cup in Russia.
It will probably make it cloudy over the Sahara.
I don't have any problem with variable power rates. What I don't like is the idea of the power company having the ability to control how I live. I also don't trust them one bit. The power company I am beholden too has had all sorts of issues with its infrastructure - stray current, frequent power interruptions and all because their infrastructure is terrible.
They seriously need to modernize. I'm willing to see my rates go up to help pay for it. I'm not willing to support approaches that take the decisions related to my power consumption out of my hands, especially when I've made a lot of effort and investment to improve my power consumption efficiency.
We don't need all this drama to know about bank scammers and fraudsters. Anyone with a checking account or a credit card has that figured out already.
I'd rather he pick something novel to go after, say a variety of religious groups including the Church of the Latter Day Saints, the Catholics, and of course anyone supporting the Creation Museum.
The problem is this loon serves a useful purpose - acting as a buffer between China and the US ally S Korea. If N Korea were to collapse or get a rational leader North and South might reunite and China would end up looking at a neighbor that they wouldn't be able to say 'frog jump' to.
The Chinese aren't dumb. They realize N Korea is a lunatic state. But they can't figure out how to smoothly transition to something better.
Sad to say but you don't need Wikileaks to uncover shady business practices on the part of major banks like BofA. My issue with these guys came when they sold my elderly father a bunch of BS services like identity theft protection. Completely legal and horribly unethical dirt bags.
It's going to have to be something really bad to surprise anyone. I actually hope it is because I'd like to see them roasted. Ideally there are lots of state attorney generals gearing up to draw and quarter these bastards.
Being a registered toxic substance != banned. What it means is that it is subject to regulation. In this case it means Canada is examining initial regulation of BPA, particularly in the case of occupational exposure (workers in factories making articles containing BPA).
Well, I'll take a few allergies if the end result is an expected longevity 30 years more than an allergy free life.
The Fed != Federal Government. Nor is it using Federal Government funds to purchase these bonds.
Profit and loss associated with Fed activity is rather meaningless since they control the supply of money by printing it or not depending on what they want interest rates and the money supply to be.
That's fine with me. I am pretty proactive when it comes to energy efficiency. Three stage A/C and condensing gas furnace with state of the art triple glazed windows. It really annoyed me to make those sorts of investments and then have the electric company come around wanting to control my A/C.
Let those not making capital improvements pay for it. My energy consumption is likely going down faster than the power company will increase rates to pay for infrastructure.
Yeah, but UPS will cheerfully accept 5 gallon plastic containers of concentrated neurotoxins.
And lose them.
A new twist on the old aphorism that there is no such thing as bad publicity.
You should have read the response to the article. The 'shell-game' accusation is factually quite incorrect.
Short sighted of course. Germany's economy is very export driven. Bring the rest of Europe down and you will have no-one to trade with thereby destroying yourself.
China made a really bad mistake in that regard. They bought bonds issued by the US government rather than hard assets with their piles of USD from their trade imbalance. Now everyone knows that in the long run you are better off buying the the business (i.e. stock) rather than loaning the business money for operations. Not to mention in the case of dollars the US is running the printing presses overtime and full on right now. Holding a lot of dollars just doesn't make a lot of sense right now.
I think now they have learned their lesson and are gradually liquidating in favor of hard assets like land, raw materials etc.