The three daily papers that we encounter do not have a problem with allowing us to review the quotes.
Quite possibly, but that's not what you wrote previously and what I responded to (quoted below):
meaning the media entity may not run the story with our quotes unless we have reviewed the final draft and approve it for release
To me this says that you are demanding to approve the story itself if it contains any quotes you have supplied, and if you don't like it, you will somehow withdraw the quotes or magically deny them the ability to run the story.
No reputable paper wants to make trouble by misquoting people. But they also aren't going to hand story approval to sources.
As the media spokesperson for the company I work for, we have stopped permitting any written media stories without requiring final draft review authority (meaning the media entity may not run the story with our quotes unless we have reviewed the final draft and approve it for release).
The effect of which would be to limit "authorized" quotes from your company's staff to trade rags and the Podunk County Weekly Advertiser. No reputable newspaper would submit to those conditions unless you were providing the scoop of the century.
And of course you cannot prevent any newspaper from running any quote they happen to come by.
Further, there are only six cities in the US with the population density to support light rail (in the rest, buses would actually be more efficient)... The subway systems in New York, Boston, and DC are incredible.
That's a very authoritative-sounding declaration, and a very specific number, still warm from the aromatic sphincter whence it was plucked. However, you don't even seem to know what light rail is.
Hint: It ain't what they're running on the DC subway tracks.
When I declare citizenship at the border, I state my nation of citizenship, which is Michigan. The same could be said of any of the Founding Fathers of the United States.
Clearly your analysis here is missing some crucial steps, because in its implications it vastly understates the degree to which such behavior marks you as a crackpot but did not have the same effect on the Founding Fathers.
The USA, legally, are in a state of political alliance similar to the EU.
Similar to the EU like bone cancer is similar to a bruised knee. The degree of political integration and centralisation codified by the EU charter is not even in the same ballpark as that written into the Constitution or put in place through 200 years of practice (really, though, about the last 140 years). And the pace of integration has picked up substantially under Bush, the most radical Federaliser since Gus Hall.
What about dogs and wolves? Horses and donkeys? Horses and zebras?
Either you're statement is incorrect or those aren't different species. They're still the same basic body type, for lack of a better term.
The definition in the antecedent post was incomplete. If they're different species, they can't produce fertile offspring.
For example, when Kansas State Board of Education chairman Steve Abrams has sex with monkeys, I would not at all be surprised if offspring are occasionally conceived. And due to his views on abortion, they will of course be brought to term if at all possible. However, those sad little creatures will never produce children of their own, because Steve Abrams is a different species of monkey from those commonly available for fornication in Kansas.
Ahem. "You should have" instead. The "should of" sound you are looking for is the contraction, "should've." Check your own before you check anyone else's.
Someone mod parent funny, quick, before I start two worry that a living, breathing human can actually be as clueless as bibliophage seams to be.
I was just explaining to a friend of mine who works for an online marketing company (they do ad placement) He said I was breaking a social contract by blocking ads - that I am hurting the revenue stream for the content producer, which in turn will hurt my ability to access the content for free. I agree with this, but I object to the terms of the social contract.
I more or less agree with him too, but since I never had a chance to offer input on the terms of the contract, I have taken the liberty of inventing some for myself.
Basically, I will not block ads unless there is one that does something extremely annoying, such as flashing, covering up other content on the page, and so on. The first time that happens, I use Adblock to cut out that ad server entirely, because these things are so annoying that I consider them to be extreme abuse of the social contract from the other side.
As I see it, it's the L3s of the world that have been getting a free ride. They get customers to pay them for access to content they had no part in creating or paying for.
In the same way as the airlines of the world have been getting a free ride? They get customers to pay them for access to destinations, friends, and relatives that the airlines had no part in creating.
I disagree. I just played in an international sporting event which was documented by a team of photographers using wifi-enabled digital cameras. They set up a couple access points around the field area and then the photographers were able to freely shoot unlimited photos without having to worry about passing cards around, running out of space, or coordinating anything with anyone once they had their mission briefing. At some of the related venues, they set up projection screens and displayed photos of events within seconds of them occurring.
To cover a protest or other contentious political event, all they'd need to do is find a high spot to mount their antenna, and they could minimize the number of people who were in the line of fire, as well as the delay between taking the picture and making it available for editorial review/usage.
Malaysia's not all Love and Puppies either. For example, you can't own a business in Malaysia unless one of the owners is an ethnic Malay. I know this, because I have some Singaporean friends who started a company a few years back and ran into this problem. According to them there are Malays who make income by renting themselves out as 'business owners' to Chinese folks who wish to run a company in Malaysia. They take no part in the actual running of the company, but they're there. It's a not-so-subtle defacto tax on Chinese business ownership.
That's only if you want government contracts. There are no restrictions on ethnic ownership of businesses, but it is lucrative to set up as a bumi partnership if you are large enough.
The best burger I've *ever* had was a ramli (sp?) burger cooked by an old woman in a car park off the motorway.
There's nothing quite like a Ramli burger. Anything that good has to be deadly!
Bullshit - they are twice more than the next demographic group. Malay 50.4%, Chinese 23.7%, Bumiputera 11%, Indian 7.1%, others 7.8%. Go look in the CIA factbook. Unless you mean slim majority as in above 50%, but that's a meaningless measure.
That's the only thing the term "slim majority" has ever meant, so I'm not sure what your point is here.
Technically correct, but you make it sound like a swamping.
No I don't. Read the sentence again. "The majority of the city's residents are ethnic Chinese." If I wanted to make it sound like a "swamping", I would have said "the vast majority" or "the overwhelming majority".
Missing the point. In Malaysia, the Chinese are the minority, have greater economic power but no political power. In Singapore, the Chinese are the majority and have both economic and political power. The dynamics are completely different.
Yes, that's a fairly obvious consequence of the difference in proportions.
This is the stupidest thing I've ever heard. I live in KL and probably less than 1% of the number of cars I see are Singaporean.
Where do you live? I live in the city centre. The Singaporeans are not driving up here to hang out in PJ or Mont Kiara.
And don't forget that both Malaysia and Indonesia have very strict anti-Chinese laws on the books that prevent Chinese folks from owning businesses or land
What are you talking about? I live in Kuala Lumpur, the capital of Malaysia. The majority of the city's residents are ethnic Chinese, and they own plenty of businesses and land. In fact, most large businesses throughout Malaysia are owned by Chinese.
Malaysia has strict race-baiting laws very similar to Singapore's, for very much the same reasons. And both Malaysia and Singapore have managed to avoid the devastating race riots and mass mayhem that has plagued Indonesia.
I'm not convinced it's the best thing for people's long-term intellectual growth or for the evolution of a truly egalitarian society, but there is no question the laws have served a purpose.
Seriously, though - Yes. Most Chinese in Singapore *do* believe they're better than their Malaysian neighbors and co-inhabitants. But most of them are also not dumb enough to say so in public, because the Malaysians (esp. under the Good Doctor Mohammed) have Vitriol honed to a fine art.
Dr. Mo is quickly fading into obscurity, and the latest set of scandals (Approved Permits, anyone?) is helping Malaysians to see him as the rest of the world already has for a long time.
But that aside, I wonder whether your view of Singapore-Malaysian relations is oversimplified. For one thing, ethnic Malays only make up a slim majority of the Malaysian population (and are outnumbered by Chinese in the largest cities). So it's not strictly an ethnic thing. Both countries have the same three major races, just in different proportions.
On weekends, Kuala Lumpur is choked with cars bearing Singapore number plates, driven here by people looking for authenticity, better food, and of course lower prices. Then, by Sunday night, they seem about ready to get back to calm traffic, spotless pavements, and peace and quiet. I think that may stand as a metaphor for the general perception between the two places.
Not just Malaysians either - my friend told me that even up to a couple of years ago, you would see signs outside construction sites that said "Indians need not apply".
I sure haven't seen that. I have seen that almost all construction workers are Indian (with some Malays).
How can we as gamers fight back against this type of government action?
I would have thought the answer was obvious. Blow the door off the State Assembly Hall and frag the hell out of everyone in there with your +4 Laser Pistol of Lordly Might.
About 6 months ago, GameSpot or one of those sites ran a story about the push to get this law passed.. and on the right of the article was a banner ad featuring the ultra-violent first-person shooter, Terminator 3, featuring Arnold Schwarzenegger.
If Ahnold signs a bill saying violence in games/movies begets violence in kids, he needs to go out back and lynch himself, because he's done more than any ten of us.
Sorry, when did Schwarzenegger insist that the game he featured in should be available to minors?
You think no bartender should be allowed to support a minimum drinking age? No sexually active adult should be allowed to support statutory rape laws?
Considering that "the public" is never asked for their opinion beyond "Republican or Democrat?" I don't see how you can pin this one on them so easily.
You're talking about California, where everything down to the brunch menu at the Governor's Mansion is decided by ballot measure?
Btw holy fucking paid advertisement batman. Every page is about 15% content and 85% ads. What a shitty shitty website. I'll never go there ever again.
I must agree with you. It's one of those rare web sites that is so shitty I put a 127.0.0.1 entry for it in my/etc/hosts file so there was no danger of me accidentally wasting my time waiting for it to load the next time they pull off a Slashdot shill job.
I strongly suspect said firewall is placed at country level (think Arab countries, or North Korea) and said "morons" are the boyz from the Interior - or whatever - Ministry. Now you were talking about taking up with the "management"...?
I've been behind every national Arab firewall besides Libya (not sure whether they have one at the country level) and never had problems with NTP (or SSH or anything else, except a few web sites). Never been to North Korea but I doubt many people in North Korea are able to post to Slashdot and yet not use network time.
Slashdot Mirror
Quite possibly, but that's not what you wrote previously and what I responded to (quoted below):
To me this says that you are demanding to approve the story itself if it contains any quotes you have supplied, and if you don't like it, you will somehow withdraw the quotes or magically deny them the ability to run the story.
No reputable paper wants to make trouble by misquoting people. But they also aren't going to hand story approval to sources.
The effect of which would be to limit "authorized" quotes from your company's staff to trade rags and the Podunk County Weekly Advertiser. No reputable newspaper would submit to those conditions unless you were providing the scoop of the century.
And of course you cannot prevent any newspaper from running any quote they happen to come by.
DC Metro uses identical track gauge to Amtrak (1.435m). Have you ever seen the trains? They are not toys.
It's heavy rail. Light rail would be modern tram systems and the like.
ING Direct is paying 3.75% right now.
That's $37,500 per year for sitting on his ass.
That's a bit of pocket change short of the median family income in the USA, and similar in the UK.
He can easily sit back on that if he wants to.
That's a very authoritative-sounding declaration, and a very specific number, still warm from the aromatic sphincter whence it was plucked. However, you don't even seem to know what light rail is.
Hint: It ain't what they're running on the DC subway tracks.
Clearly your analysis here is missing some crucial steps, because in its implications it vastly understates the degree to which such behavior marks you as a crackpot but did not have the same effect on the Founding Fathers.
Similar to the EU like bone cancer is similar to a bruised knee. The degree of political integration and centralisation codified by the EU charter is not even in the same ballpark as that written into the Constitution or put in place through 200 years of practice (really, though, about the last 140 years). And the pace of integration has picked up substantially under Bush, the most radical Federaliser since Gus Hall.
The definition in the antecedent post was incomplete. If they're different species, they can't produce fertile offspring.
For example, when Kansas State Board of Education chairman Steve Abrams has sex with monkeys, I would not at all be surprised if offspring are occasionally conceived. And due to his views on abortion, they will of course be brought to term if at all possible. However, those sad little creatures will never produce children of their own, because Steve Abrams is a different species of monkey from those commonly available for fornication in Kansas.
This is why we don't let people score their own IQ tests.
Someone mod parent funny, quick, before I start two worry that a living, breathing human can actually be as clueless as bibliophage seams to be.
I more or less agree with him too, but since I never had a chance to offer input on the terms of the contract, I have taken the liberty of inventing some for myself.
Basically, I will not block ads unless there is one that does something extremely annoying, such as flashing, covering up other content on the page, and so on. The first time that happens, I use Adblock to cut out that ad server entirely, because these things are so annoying that I consider them to be extreme abuse of the social contract from the other side.
Innocuous things like Google ads, I never block.
That's excellent, thanks.
In the same way as the airlines of the world have been getting a free ride? They get customers to pay them for access to destinations, friends, and relatives that the airlines had no part in creating.
I disagree. I just played in an international sporting event which was documented by a team of photographers using wifi-enabled digital cameras. They set up a couple access points around the field area and then the photographers were able to freely shoot unlimited photos without having to worry about passing cards around, running out of space, or coordinating anything with anyone once they had their mission briefing. At some of the related venues, they set up projection screens and displayed photos of events within seconds of them occurring.
To cover a protest or other contentious political event, all they'd need to do is find a high spot to mount their antenna, and they could minimize the number of people who were in the line of fire, as well as the delay between taking the picture and making it available for editorial review/usage.
That's only if you want government contracts. There are no restrictions on ethnic ownership of businesses, but it is lucrative to set up as a bumi partnership if you are large enough.
There's nothing quite like a Ramli burger. Anything that good has to be deadly!
That's the only thing the term "slim majority" has ever meant, so I'm not sure what your point is here.
No I don't. Read the sentence again. "The majority of the city's residents are ethnic Chinese." If I wanted to make it sound like a "swamping", I would have said "the vast majority" or "the overwhelming majority".
Yes, that's a fairly obvious consequence of the difference in proportions.
Where do you live? I live in the city centre. The Singaporeans are not driving up here to hang out in PJ or Mont Kiara.
What are you talking about? I live in Kuala Lumpur, the capital of Malaysia. The majority of the city's residents are ethnic Chinese, and they own plenty of businesses and land. In fact, most large businesses throughout Malaysia are owned by Chinese.
Malaysia has strict race-baiting laws very similar to Singapore's, for very much the same reasons. And both Malaysia and Singapore have managed to avoid the devastating race riots and mass mayhem that has plagued Indonesia.
I'm not convinced it's the best thing for people's long-term intellectual growth or for the evolution of a truly egalitarian society, but there is no question the laws have served a purpose.
Dr. Mo is quickly fading into obscurity, and the latest set of scandals (Approved Permits, anyone?) is helping Malaysians to see him as the rest of the world already has for a long time.
But that aside, I wonder whether your view of Singapore-Malaysian relations is oversimplified. For one thing, ethnic Malays only make up a slim majority of the Malaysian population (and are outnumbered by Chinese in the largest cities). So it's not strictly an ethnic thing. Both countries have the same three major races, just in different proportions.
On weekends, Kuala Lumpur is choked with cars bearing Singapore number plates, driven here by people looking for authenticity, better food, and of course lower prices. Then, by Sunday night, they seem about ready to get back to calm traffic, spotless pavements, and peace and quiet. I think that may stand as a metaphor for the general perception between the two places.
I sure haven't seen that. I have seen that almost all construction workers are Indian (with some Malays).
I would have thought the answer was obvious. Blow the door off the State Assembly Hall and frag the hell out of everyone in there with your +4 Laser Pistol of Lordly Might.
Sorry, when did Schwarzenegger insist that the game he featured in should be available to minors?
You think no bartender should be allowed to support a minimum drinking age? No sexually active adult should be allowed to support statutory rape laws?
You're talking about California, where everything down to the brunch menu at the Governor's Mansion is decided by ballot measure?
I must agree with you. It's one of those rare web sites that is so shitty I put a 127.0.0.1 entry for it in my /etc/hosts file so there was no danger of me accidentally wasting my time waiting for it to load the next time they pull off a Slashdot shill job.
Cuba? Belarus? A Stan?
I've been behind every national Arab firewall besides Libya (not sure whether they have one at the country level) and never had problems with NTP (or SSH or anything else, except a few web sites). Never been to North Korea but I doubt many people in North Korea are able to post to Slashdot and yet not use network time.
Wow, you live near a coffeeshop with a 55 megabit connection to the internet? How much is a coffee there, $80?