I think this guy should be slapped repeatedly. While one might not hit a man with glasses, this blind man is fair game.
I am sick of people with disabilities who have unreasonable expectations and demands. You're blind. We try to accommodate you. And we do a lot as a society. But realize you can't see and that you won't be able to participate in some activities. LIKE DRIVING!!!!!
I hate these lawsuits because they make me hate handicapped people. But then I have to remind myself. This is not because the man is blind, but because he is STUPID!!!
"The problem is that newspaper newsrooms, once packed with reporters, are disappearing, and neither broadcast nor digital media are filling the void."
First off, I'd argue that digital media is not filling the void. Many sections have supplanted the print. Classifieds are not much better served by Craigslist - and cheaper. National and global news is addressed quite well via the internet. Local news is pretty prevalent on my iPhone. In fact, I didn't start reading my newspaper much until I started viewing the articles online via the Associated Press' application. I have Dilbert in my RSS reader.
So I'd argue that what we're really in is a transitional period from print to digital. And of course there will be some who will not move to digital - largely the older generations. But for the rest the transition is coming, and it's happening now.
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"Obama is right when he says that finding a model to pay journalists to question, analyze and speak truth to power "is absolutely critical to the health of our democracy.""
Maybe if the media actually questioned, analyzed and spoke the truth it would not be in such a critical state. But the media which has long been filled with bias has become increasingly one-sided. In taking such biased positions and ostracizing and offending 50% of their potential readership the media has sealed their own fate.
Further add the fact that few in the media even research their articles. Take for example how many times the media refers to some firearm as an AK or fully automatic incorrectly. Do your research if you want respect. Stop just politicking soundbites.
"For the first time in American history, we are nearing a point where we will no longer have more than minimal resources (relative to the nation's size) dedicated to reporting the news."
I would argue that for the first time in nearly a century we are nearing a point where we have an abundance of resources dedicated to reporting the news.
Rather than one or two dedicated papers in a given town or journals on a given issue. We now have thousands of blogs, online papers and franchises reporting. Instead of having photographers taking pictures after the events we have onsite photographers capturing the events as they happen with their cell phones.
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"The prospect that this "information age" could be characterized by unchecked spin and propaganda, where the best-financed voice almost always wins, and cynicism, ignorance and demoralization reach pandemic levels, is real."
This is EXACTLY what many people feel has been going on for decades. I'll give a great case in point. How well did the mainstream media with their leftist bias cover the shooting and murder of pro-life protestors. How did that coverage compare to the incidents where abortion doctors were killed. Why was coverage literally a 1-2 magnitude in difference. The murder of the pro-life protestors nearly ignored by the media. A side note tucked away in back pages.
So the real issue is that the expansion of media and reporting is affecting the ability of the left to control spin, and to deride all opposition with cynicism.
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"Our Constitution is, the Supreme Court reminds us, predicated on the assumption of an informed and participating citizenry. If insufficient news media exist to make that a realistic outcome, the foundation crumbles."
We've already concluded it is not insufficient. If anything we are leaving a period of insufficiency for more coverage.
A moving away from the mega newspaper and media conglomerates back to the "pamphleteers" such as Thomas Payne and Benjamin Franklin - only now they're called "bloggers".
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"Obama, the former constitutional law professor, says, "Government without a tough and vibrant media is not an option for the United States of America.""
Where is this so called tough media? You mean like CNN which leapt to defend Obama from a mild Saturday Night Live skit?
This seems to prove the exact opposite. If the Y chromosone went fairly unchanged, that means few mutations occurred and most of the genetic differences were due to breeding. Breeding also happens to be a code correction system.
So I am not seeing how the title relates to the content provided. Or am I missing something?
What's really sad, is something as simple as a iPhone could have potentially saved them. I've got a GPS app on my iPhone that will give me speed, altitude, etc.
Such a unit could have been used to "check" the instruments. Am I advocating iPhones for airlines. No, not really...but couldn't a basic handheld, self-contained GPS device that provides secondary speed, altitude, etc. Be a useful system to counter-check the flight info during such a crisis?
It's kind of neat to see large companies that are actually able to tell a state to !@#$% off in a good way.
Right now we have a government that is running our nation's economy into the ground. And their solution is to raise taxes and essentially kill those business that are actually doing well. Those that are managing but not doing great will die under such programs. This will further tank the economy, than those were doing well will start to struggle. Revenues to the government tax coffers will go down. So they will in turn raise more taxes and further kill the economy.
Come on, everyone in Congress should have to play SimCity.
We have enough stinkin' liberals here trying to take everyone's rights away and blaming it always on the conservatives. We don't need another liberal like you, who will want to eliminate our right to bear arms, capitalism, and pillars of America's foundation.
Frankly, state migration is a big part of the problem in America. It started with the mass exodus of New England and the northeast. They moved to California and Florida. They took two states that more closely resembled Texas and turned them into bastions of liberal thought. In the case of California, these migrants from the northeast passed socialism, liberal ideals, and have bankrupted California. Creating another exodus to states like Nevada, & Colorado. They began passing similar laws and legislation. Always trying to build their liberal utopia, and in the process taking away everyone's rights and heaping upon themselves a bureaucratic nightmare of regulations and restrictions,
Now these same liberals are seeking new states to destroy such as Montana, Nebraska and Texas. When are you guys going to figure out that the problem is YOU!!!!
(Sometimes I wish there were no conservatives, than the liberals would have no excuse, no one to blame but themselves.)
"We're on the verge of a serious evolution on the web. Right now, the common way to include video on the web is by use of Flash, a closed-source technology"
What you're saying is HTML is going to add the ability to do what people have been doing for 5 yrs with Flash.
I am sorry if I have serious doubts. I am still waiting for CSS/DOM to be fully and uniformly supported across all browsers. And fear that HTML 5 spec has the potential to become a nightmare if it suffers from a lack of uniformity.
Open Source is NOT the holy grail. It's a good thing. But only if it's done to a uniformity of standards.
Well, since they're changing copyright law from civil to criminal. I think we should raise arms and destroy RIAA as an Enemy of the People threatening the Constitution and the peace of the state.
What if she doesn't have a home? What if she spent the last 15 yrs saving up funds for a down payment and was looking to buy a home in the near future.
Now her dreams ruined.
A $1 million fine for a $10 album is unconstitutional. Frankly, I think it's time we tore down RIAA's offices brick by brick.
(RIAA has stolen more music than all downloader's combined.)
For every complaint, they had thousands who loved the fact that the coffee was hot. Why? Because many put it in thermoses. And it'd stay warm for hours.
She still spilled it...
My father made a cup of tea for a friend of mine. He accidentally knocked it on his lap. Should have have been able to sue for $1 million. For his own folly?
What kind of super-powers he developed afterwards.
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My guess, he did not get hit by the meteorite that made the 1ft crater. Rather, he probably got hit by a small granual fragment that had broken off of the meteorite.
Airbus is built by socialists who believe the state, the institution, etc knows better than the individual. Boeing was (or at least used to be) built by free thinking capitalists who believe in individuality.
This is just a small example of why I dislike socialist philosophy. Because in the end...it'll kill ya! (or your neighbors)
Maybe they mean he wants to go to college for astrophysics.
He's graduating from a community college. Which usually means a 2-yr degree. I do not believe you can get an astrophysics degree in a 2-yr program from a community college. Also, most would argue that an associates is not really what people mean by a college degree.
I have an Associates in Computer Science. But I think few would accept me claiming to be a college graduate. It's like dropping out in the 10th grade and claiming you graduated high school.
I am not trying to knock the kids achievements. Just think the story is misleading and premature. Come back to me in 2 yrs when he graduates with a BS degree.
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Frankly,
I think this guy should be slapped repeatedly. While one might not hit a man with glasses, this blind man is fair game.
I am sick of people with disabilities who have unreasonable expectations and demands. You're blind. We try to accommodate you. And we do a lot as a society. But realize you can't see and that you won't be able to participate in some activities. LIKE DRIVING!!!!!
I hate these lawsuits because they make me hate handicapped people. But then I have to remind myself. This is not because the man is blind, but because he is STUPID!!!
"The problem is that newspaper newsrooms, once packed with reporters, are disappearing, and neither broadcast nor digital media are filling the void."
First off, I'd argue that digital media is not filling the void. Many sections have supplanted the print. Classifieds are not much better served by Craigslist - and cheaper. National and global news is addressed quite well via the internet. Local news is pretty prevalent on my iPhone. In fact, I didn't start reading my newspaper much until I started viewing the articles online via the Associated Press' application. I have Dilbert in my RSS reader.
So I'd argue that what we're really in is a transitional period from print to digital. And of course there will be some who will not move to digital - largely the older generations. But for the rest the transition is coming, and it's happening now.
***
"Obama is right when he says that finding a model to pay journalists to question, analyze and speak truth to power "is absolutely critical to the health of our democracy.""
Maybe if the media actually questioned, analyzed and spoke the truth it would not be in such a critical state. But the media which has long been filled with bias has become increasingly one-sided. In taking such biased positions and ostracizing and offending 50% of their potential readership the media has sealed their own fate.
Further add the fact that few in the media even research their articles. Take for example how many times the media refers to some firearm as an AK or fully automatic incorrectly. Do your research if you want respect. Stop just politicking soundbites.
"For the first time in American history, we are nearing a point where we will no longer have more than minimal resources (relative to the nation's size) dedicated to reporting the news."
I would argue that for the first time in nearly a century we are nearing a point where we have an abundance of resources dedicated to reporting the news.
Rather than one or two dedicated papers in a given town or journals on a given issue. We now have thousands of blogs, online papers and franchises reporting. Instead of having photographers taking pictures after the events we have onsite photographers capturing the events as they happen with their cell phones.
***
"The prospect that this "information age" could be characterized by unchecked spin and propaganda, where the best-financed voice almost always wins, and cynicism, ignorance and demoralization reach pandemic levels, is real."
This is EXACTLY what many people feel has been going on for decades. I'll give a great case in point. How well did the mainstream media with their leftist bias cover the shooting and murder of pro-life protestors. How did that coverage compare to the incidents where abortion doctors were killed. Why was coverage literally a 1-2 magnitude in difference. The murder of the pro-life protestors nearly ignored by the media. A side note tucked away in back pages.
So the real issue is that the expansion of media and reporting is affecting the ability of the left to control spin, and to deride all opposition with cynicism.
***
"Our Constitution is, the Supreme Court reminds us, predicated on the assumption of an informed and participating citizenry. If insufficient news media exist to make that a realistic outcome, the foundation crumbles."
We've already concluded it is not insufficient. If anything we are leaving a period of insufficiency for more coverage.
A moving away from the mega newspaper and media conglomerates back to the "pamphleteers" such as Thomas Payne and Benjamin Franklin - only now they're called "bloggers".
***
"Obama, the former constitutional law professor, says, "Government without a tough and vibrant media is not an option for the United States of America.""
Where is this so called tough media? You mean like CNN which leapt to defend Obama from a mild Saturday Night Live skit?
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"Unfortunately, the marketplace now e
Are so disappointed. We were so looking forward to the end of the world!
When you put one of the most net friendly gadgets on the weakest major cell network in the U.S.
The iPhone would have been so much better on Verizon. AT&T was still on EDGE when Verizon & Sprint had been using EvDO for years.
This seems to prove the exact opposite. If the Y chromosone went fairly unchanged, that means few mutations occurred and most of the genetic differences were due to breeding. Breeding also happens to be a code correction system.
So I am not seeing how the title relates to the content provided. Or am I missing something?
Just wait until that number is "millions" under nationalized healthcare.
They sent me a shipper tag, and repaired and returned my machine. A week later I was back in the game. No big deal....
Didn't cost me anything.
What do they show regarding the antarctic?
Anything there? Or is just the top of the planet getting warmer?
What's really sad, is something as simple as a iPhone could have potentially saved them. I've got a GPS app on my iPhone that will give me speed, altitude, etc.
Such a unit could have been used to "check" the instruments. Am I advocating iPhones for airlines. No, not really...but couldn't a basic handheld, self-contained GPS device that provides secondary speed, altitude, etc. Be a useful system to counter-check the flight info during such a crisis?
It's kind of neat to see large companies that are actually able to tell a state to !@#$% off in a good way.
Right now we have a government that is running our nation's economy into the ground. And their solution is to raise taxes and essentially kill those business that are actually doing well. Those that are managing but not doing great will die under such programs. This will further tank the economy, than those were doing well will start to struggle. Revenues to the government tax coffers will go down. So they will in turn raise more taxes and further kill the economy.
Come on, everyone in Congress should have to play SimCity.
Please...whatever you do. DO NOT move to the U.S.
We have enough stinkin' liberals here trying to take everyone's rights away and blaming it always on the conservatives. We don't need another liberal like you, who will want to eliminate our right to bear arms, capitalism, and pillars of America's foundation.
Frankly, state migration is a big part of the problem in America. It started with the mass exodus of New England and the northeast. They moved to California and Florida. They took two states that more closely resembled Texas and turned them into bastions of liberal thought. In the case of California, these migrants from the northeast passed socialism, liberal ideals, and have bankrupted California. Creating another exodus to states like Nevada, & Colorado. They began passing similar laws and legislation. Always trying to build their liberal utopia, and in the process taking away everyone's rights and heaping upon themselves a bureaucratic nightmare of regulations and restrictions,
Now these same liberals are seeking new states to destroy such as Montana, Nebraska and Texas. When are you guys going to figure out that the problem is YOU!!!!
(Sometimes I wish there were no conservatives, than the liberals would have no excuse, no one to blame but themselves.)
"We're on the verge of a serious evolution on the web. Right now, the common way to include video on the web is by use of Flash, a closed-source technology"
What you're saying is HTML is going to add the ability to do what people have been doing for 5 yrs with Flash.
I am sorry if I have serious doubts. I am still waiting for CSS/DOM to be fully and uniformly supported across all browsers. And fear that HTML 5 spec has the potential to become a nightmare if it suffers from a lack of uniformity.
Open Source is NOT the holy grail. It's a good thing. But only if it's done to a uniformity of standards.
Well, since they're changing copyright law from civil to criminal. I think we should raise arms and destroy RIAA as an Enemy of the People threatening the Constitution and the peace of the state.
Because they fund the political campaigns of Democrats and Republicans.
Riigghttt.....
Correct me if I am wrong. But it's Obama that has appointed like 5 RIAA lawyers to prominent posts.
That should be their appeal case...
No...just off of every highway exit. And every other corner.
Have you noticed the little white tubular cameras all over the country, or at least the east coast of America?
"We discovered that we could vote ourselves money."
What if she doesn't have a home? What if she spent the last 15 yrs saving up funds for a down payment and was looking to buy a home in the near future.
Now her dreams ruined.
A $1 million fine for a $10 album is unconstitutional. Frankly, I think it's time we tore down RIAA's offices brick by brick.
(RIAA has stolen more music than all downloader's combined.)
Read the facts....
For every complaint, they had thousands who loved the fact that the coffee was hot. Why? Because many put it in thermoses. And it'd stay warm for hours.
She still spilled it...
My father made a cup of tea for a friend of mine. He accidentally knocked it on his lap. Should have have been able to sue for $1 million. For his own folly?
What kind of super-powers he developed afterwards.
***
My guess, he did not get hit by the meteorite that made the 1ft crater. Rather, he probably got hit by a small granual fragment that had broken off of the meteorite.
Worlds in Collision
While I think he had a lot kooky wrong ideas. I think it's interesting his comments on Mars and Earth having closer encounters.
Airbus is built by socialists who believe the state, the institution, etc knows better than the individual. Boeing was (or at least used to be) built by free thinking capitalists who believe in individuality.
This is just a small example of why I dislike socialist philosophy. Because in the end...it'll kill ya! (or your neighbors)
Maybe they mean he wants to go to college for astrophysics.
He's graduating from a community college. Which usually means a 2-yr degree. I do not believe you can get an astrophysics degree in a 2-yr program from a community college. Also, most would argue that an associates is not really what people mean by a college degree.
I have an Associates in Computer Science. But I think few would accept me claiming to be a college graduate. It's like dropping out in the 10th grade and claiming you graduated high school.
I am not trying to knock the kids achievements. Just think the story is misleading and premature. Come back to me in 2 yrs when he graduates with a BS degree.
So what number "stem cell" treatment discovery is this. And once again it's based upon adult stem cell. :P
I'd rather be a troll, than an ogre!