The definition of privacy, at least in the USA where I reside, has the words reasonable expectation of usually put before it. IF the police deaprtments have used telephoto lenses without a search warrant, then it looks like they are using unusual methods of search. Most police do not sit with binoculars, so therefore, using advanced technology on minor crimes can usually be considered inadmissable in court, and that being the primary evidence of apprehension, be thrown out of court.
But if they are speifically looking for you, then you are, as they say, up shit creek without a paddle.
He is bitchin' all the way to the bank about these movies... so if he has a prob with the way that Hollywood does him, then he needs to get out. Geeeez. He can't have it both ways, y'know, big time writer and not prostituted by the studios.
It is the price you pay for fame. If you think that sincerity is big in Hollywood, you need to see press junket talk in an Electronic Press Kit for a dog movie. Get used to getting exploited. Expect a big smile with the director of Ishtar saying, "this movie is the best I have ever done!"
Also, he was responsible for the basic ideas in Alien Ressurection, so that whole "dialog by actors" crap he is spewing about others destroying the movie is doo-doo. The concepts in Alien Resurrection were horrible... and no matter how he spins it, he is directly responsible for that. Mutant-Alien Sigourney Weaver. That is the worst idea ever.
Please. Even X-men was a direct comic rip... and not a whole new script. It looks almost shot for shot to specific comic scenes that I can remember. Take credit for that.
Ultimately, Whedon said, the new show will have the same moral center as ``Buffy'' and its ``Angel'' spinoff: ``Life is hard. People are good when they want to be. And the universe is a big, scary place just like high school.''
Yeah, but what about the hot pants?
I mean, I ain't going to watch anything like that unless it has space chicks in hot pants. After all, they gotta be hotter and carry bigger guns than Aeryn Sun, and still avoid being cheezy. I see a grim prognosis on this one. Farscape is still some of the best writing around. Space is "just like high school"... hmmmmm.
THE lawyers won't just sue Microsoft, they will also be suing the maker of the "killing object" that M$ software was put in, for being so insane as to not to make a more custom bulletproof application.
When you accuse a nation of being arrogant to look after its self-interests, that's really funny.
Hilarious!
I am not quite sure what kind of strong drugs you are smoking when you accuse the USA of being too pro-USA, and the rest of Europe, China, Russia, and every other nation in the world to be a good neighbor. I don't care where the hell you are from, no one is a good neighbor in international politics. I love you nationalists. You're all such morons that you'll be the ones that drive the whole world in the ground for your personal greed. It'll be fun. Honest. Its working in the USA. And because you're not a US citizen, you're obviously part of God's chosen fucking people.
Yes we can have it both ways. You can too. Being a bunch of duplicitous bastards is the de facto behavior in international affairs.
Just do me a big fucking favor... don't think your people are not fucking over everyone else to get what they want. That is the attitude of fools.
Please tell me what country you are from... then we'll start talking about fairness, holy man.
Honestly, if there is one thing that should bring us together, it should be space. Lets look at it this way...
If another nation doesn't lie our space program and gets competitive the way you say, then how long do you think it would take to ruin several lives and billions in real investment?
Fifteen minutes? Ten minutes with the a really good shot?
C'mon. Space is hostile, and requires people to go up there and live in harmony, or otherwise they all die. It is humanity's pioneer spirit. Don't blow it by saying one country is a bunch of deadbeats... or that they should be in competition when it comes to THE WHOLE PLANET.
That is truly a pathetic thought from a pessimist.
I am a news photographer, and one of my buddies asked the pilot the age of his C-130 that they were going to up in...
"Oh, its five I think."
"What?"
"Yeah, still make em. Have a factory line that they specially keep running at a snails pace so in case we get into major conflict, we can start cranking them out fast again with no opportunity cost downtime. You know, workhorse of the military. They just replace them very slowly."
That is what I would consider good management of resources.
Anyway, thought that was interesting, whether it was perfectly factually correct or not. I wonder if they still make some of the other oddball planes the same way... hmmmm.
Second, it just looks like we disagree. That's fine. I personally believe that if you would show the world this insight to the mainstream media a little more, then you would proably get a lot more attention. I just can't see why I or anyone else would pass up on these stories you say you have. Latin America is still a hotbed of activity... I had a friend that was an Uncle Sam trained killer that is now an alcoholic because of what he did as a young man in "the service of his country." Marine light force recon. He killed a drug lord in his home, and TWO YOUNG BOYS. Why? Because those were his orders, and "apparently someone didn't get paid off in time." Just because I try to remain objective doesn't mean that I don't know. I could never get a way to get a fellow camaraman on the news wihtout him losing his job.
I just don't know about the angry talk part . Its a philisophical thing with me. Personal. I used to be an angry, screeching guy and it did me so little good that I was literally useless.
And when I said leave my mother out of it, I meant it. I don't like to hear anything about that. I can't tell if you are being sarcastic. I personally believe that you still are.
Puedo hablar espanol. Aprendi a hablar por dos anos en un universidad despues de mi vida total en las escuelas con un clase cada dia en espanol.
I do care. But with my job I try to be objective. I still think that is the way to be. Objective doesn't mean asking creampuff questions or not digging around. You've probably been around enough murders to know that objectivity goes out the window at those things. I still like to nail a good story, just not a person. What they have done is slap enough. As they say on the X-files, the truth is out there.
Honestly man, don't you think you haven't really passed into the activist role? Honestly, in the news business its the easiest thing to do. You have to watch for it. Not pick sides.
It isn't bad being an activist. If you had read my comments a second time I don't think that you would be so upset. Y'know what? I probably would like you if I got to know you. Y'know, talk to you. Listen to you. Did you think that I MIGHT BELEIVE THAT THE NEWS LIFESTYLE WAS GOING TO HELL IN A HANDBASKET TOO BECAUSE OF THE WAY THAT I THINK THAT EVERYONE IS TRYING TO GET IN THE GAME WITH SMART LOOKING SUITS, BIG MONEY, SLANDER, AND RIDICULOUS WEBSITES TO THE POINT WHERE NO ONE KNOWS WHICH WAY IS UP ANYMORE?
Honestly, where are the men we can listen to? Are you the solution or the problem? Are you one of those solutions? Or are you a lone conspiacy theorist? Right now, you just sound angry. I don't talk to angry.
I wish you were going to tell me why Narconews was legit and why I should read it... but now I don't know if I can... not when you just fucking go off on people. Please spare me the ridiculousness of thinking that because my opinions differ that I am the big evil corporate enemy. I have a dead coal-mining grandfather because of that corporate evil you infer that I am supporting.
Apparently I touched a nerve. I didn't say what Fox, now did I? Did I say that I was slumming for O'Reilly or Geraldo Rivera? No... because I am a ground pounder. I work the streets. Every day. My caste-system indeed. I am on the bad side of it. It ain't glamorous. I've now missed three Emmys because I dream it and shoot it, and my awards-conscious reporter submits it without my name for money purposes. My hubris indeed. My dinner is crow, so don't tell me that I am in with that white-bred superiority thing that you just made up and threw on me. Cuz I ain't in "the conspiracy," baby. How many conspirators do you know that read slashdot?
I represent what you aim to topple? Topple? DO I EVEN HAVE TO PROVE THAT YOU HAVE TOTALLY PASSED INTO "ACTIVISM LAND" WHEN YOU SPEAK ABOUT TRYING TO TOPPLE OTHERS? Does a journalist topple anything, or does he observe and report? You know this one, dude. If you've become an activist, be an activist. Support it. Go all out. Be happy with it. Argue until the cows come home. I've thought about it too when I see things I believe in.
And finally, don't EVER bring anyone's family into this, please. I won't bring yours into it either. If I am misinformed or my opinions differ, then tell me what you think I need to know.
"FUCK YOUR MOTHER" gets zero response out of me. I've been spat on too much by rednecks to really have that rattle me. Just tell me why Narconews is worth it... and I'll read it.
I am a journalist. A television photojournalist. I work for mainstream media. Fox to be specific.
The heart of this matter is not in the facts to me. The facts speak to themselves on guilt or innocence. Slander and libel is based upon whether your printed facts are true or "under reasonable expectation."
I would say that Narconews are activists. That doesn't mean that they shouldn't be protected. Just not like broadcast and print (because they are expanded for press because of LEGITIMATE REASONS to stay in business against corporations) and more like regular citizens First Amendment Rights.
I would first like to respond that I respect activists... in a sense that they are promoting what they believe in, and that is altruistic (that causes change in the world, and gives me something to talk about, BRAVO:P). Go ahead, change the world. Be my guest. It is also your priveledge to cover my windshield wipers with fliers. I think that is fine. Print as you please. Whether you can claim "higher journalistic protection" for what you say is another matter.
IMHO the Narconews people are not journalists. They are activists. They are printing for a very tangible, expected outcome of their work. They are observing and placing in OPINION. With a name like Narconews talking about changing drug regulation, you lose your objectivity.
True journalists don't seek a specific outcome.
Seeking an outcome makes you an activist or trade magazine. For example, Cat Fancy Magazine should not necessarily be afforded the higher journalist protections that a non-specific daily newspaper should. Although, this approach might be more appropriate on a story by story basis.
Journalism is about seeking the truth. Journalists should not be concerned about the outcome other than reporting the outcome. In other words, what makes a journalist? Being fair, and not seeking a specific outcome.
In other words, Narconews shouldn't be considered journalists and protected at "the higher level" if their ultimate goal is to publicly smoke "the big fatty." Its not about the groundswell of public support or whether they are right or wrong.
It just doen't ring true to being a journalist. Its similar to saying that carrying a fire extinguisher in your car makes you a firefighter.
I am a broadcast news photographer, and I cover all of the news that all the AP reporters get, and at the same time. Personally, I believe that you are misinformed... nothing wrong, just misinformed.
The AP reporters are the same that give you the news on television and in the paper. It is a service that almost all contribute to. When they see something on the air that they want to know about, they call us and talk to our reporters and ask us to contribute information, we do the same in return. Newspapers are especially AP heavy, as they cover national and local news... unlike the dilineation of broadcast.
AP does assign individual reporters for events, but that is pretty much it. They are the effective "this thingee happened here" guys.
Really, when someone tells me that generically my work is inadequate because the TV is a load of crap, I get upset. After all, television people only work insane hours for little pay so that you can see something happening WHEN IT IS HAPPENING.
Newspaper people make phone calls about events. Broadcasters go to hell and back to bring it to you. Show you the pain. Show you the players and scams.
Simply put, the mediums are not the same.
Then again, newspapers can't show full motion of a plane hitting a building, the wailing of a mother who lost their child in an errant bombing run, the touchdowns that win superbowls, and most importantly...
The television can let you see the persons face when they are obviously LYING. So that the quote doesn't get taken out of context. Like they do DAILY in ALL newspapers.
I recheck the AP all the time. They get it as wrong just as much as everyone else does from time to time.
I would suggest getting your news from several sources. Ones that you think are the most unbiased. The internet isn't well known for its objectivity... but there are some really good ones out there.
I think that the whole issue about which game system is the best comes down to a lesson my father taught me about of all things, cars.
Its about stability, reliability, and working out the kinks.
He said never, ever buy a car the year the new model comes out. The manufacturers have tested it, but not the way the consumers will. Usually, the best cars to drive are the ones where they are about to change the fundamental design (usually after three years or car generations) a few years after have worked out all of the major complaints brought in, and before they change the design again.
So what does this have to do with video consoles? Well, as I see it, Nintendo has gone through several generations of workign the bugs out in hardware and gameplay, and that in itself is its benefit and reason to buy.
There are at least 3 generations of Nintendo in major US release, even after they made coin ops.
Playstation is on generation 2.
Xbox is on its first generation.
Honestly, I can't even think of a in-house Nintendo game that I was ever dissatisfied with, other than the super-late shipping time.
It has worked so far very well with the cars.
It has done well with consoles.
I know that people say this a thousand times, but the movie/book barrier is something that is always going to be argued by book people until the world ends.
You don't compare ballet with painting, do you? Its hard to do. So we argue the one similarity with books and movies, plot points. If I wrote a bestselling science fiction book and a winning movie about the same thing, you would notice that I would gloss over and pass through things that I talked extensively about in the book.
Matter of fact, I might even leave out characters that are too complex. All of those changes are necessary. Absolutely necessary to make it possible to make art of a movie. Just like backstory and depth is the art of the book.
Books and movies are both art.
I actually love the David Lynch movie because of the art it represents. I like the miniseries because it shows the lonliness of Paul on his quest to change the world. They both have strengths. I own the David Lynch movie. I don't have the miniseries... the spouse had a fit at the store.
A book is a book. They are a different medium than movies. Keep that in mind. I want to see more Dune anything.
What about God? What about your atom bomb?
If you want to heap every rape and murder, every innocent upon a persons religious faith, then I can at least heap on the atom bomb on your "technological truth" you are selling me.
How has that nuke bomb research (probably the one thing the US has put more test money into than anything else) done but make the world a more dangerous place? I'm not talking about reactors or radiology... I'm talking bigger bombs. That is a great example of mature thinking. Just because we can, doesn't mean we should. Your attempt to tell me that it is a fear of the different. Typical scientist. It certainly wasn't Oppenheimers fault. He didn't do anything that anyone else would do. Riiight. Bohr thought the original nuke test was going to kill all life on earth, but they looked at him and pushed the button anyway. Pure monkey genius.
You haven't run into a high school with guns blazing yet, have you? Why? BECAUSE IT IS NOT SANE. Its the same reasoning that keeps you alive. That reasoning should tell you that zebra people are not cool. That some things should be left to nature. Insanity happens on a planetary and scientific level.
"Your God" indeed. Where is yours? Where is any of your aspirations of humanity? My God cares. You, my friend, are hung up on something earthbound, and not looking at God's big infinite picture... and the fact that you are a monkey with a little brain, and will never command the universe. Ever. Not a million years of humanity. Never.
I want my children to be happy humans... you want them to be some kind of modified freaks that think they can beat death. Well, all things die according to their design. Even Galaxies and stars. Twisting humanity's design won't change that. Better is a relative term. I have no problem stopping disease. However, immortality is a hilarious concept... which is what you and other Godless ones are striving for, just like all of us, but it won't save you. Matter of fact it frustrates you.
Your kind of thinking doesn't take into consideration morals. You know what? That's fine. You make your own choices. We all do. Just don't think that I am going to sit by and watch while your "purely scientific" quest for knowledge releases another one of those fucking brilliant atom bomb ideas again.
Even Albert Einstein was a deeply religious person. But according to your criteria, that would make him a fool. Yes. Fool indeed. A brilliant fool.
That was the man that blueprinted the idea of an atom bomb. Spent his whole life trying to put the genie back in the bottle. Think about his perspective. Then think about all things. Science is a discipline, not a God.
How am I going to keep my precious negative karma in place if I can't keep getting slammed by cranky Europeans?
I don't think that I can live another day without being called an arrogant, bomb-crazy warhead who likes to kill children... every time I point out that I enjoy being an American.
After all, I do like more than to bomb innocent children with missing limbs, I mean, who doesn't?
Cmon, admit it. Puuuut ooon the Cooowboy Haaat. LOL.
Using a boiler room strategy is not only patently wrong, but it is amazing that he didn't spend time in prison for it. Federal ass-pounding prison. I did not check, but I thought that boiling stocks was as bad as extortion and imbezzelment. Especially on that high amount of money.
Did someone say that he was a minor?
Some people see that as amazing that he got away with it... I see all of the people that he screwed their retirement funds out of.
Uh, that didn't happen. Natives in America were treated poorly, almost as bad as Africans that were imported to be slaves, if not worse.
Natives were not forced to build railroads.
Also, America did not start as a "Capitalist."
America didn't even start as a democracy. It was a colony. It was a king's property. It rebelled to stop the king and become a democracy. Many Americans tried to remove slavery the moment America became a democracy. It took a Civil War and over one hundred years of fighting (stealing and releasing slaves by activists) to stop slavery in America. People owned slaves. The Government did not own slaves.
Please get your American History from American sources. I'll agree to get my Chinese History from Chinese sources to be fair. I am afraid that wherever you read that the Natives were forced to work on railrods might also be full of other facts and propaganda that you might accept as truth. That history is not correct. All history books from government sources (USA included) speak about their gov't speriority, and seem to speak of all the bad moments with other cultures. I am positive that my Chinese history is totally wrong. I am not Chinese. But I will not lecture you on Chinese history.
I understand your argument. The Chinese have the right to pursue their own future. All people do, as long as you don't go decide to attack anyone.
Please keep in mind that the Chinese and the rest of the world influence the US as well. We are pushing hard. So are the Chinese. They push right back. That is the nature of the world. But Americans do not feel that they intentionally doing it, we sometimes don't mean to cause the opinions and backlash that we cause. We are just a very proud people. Proud was a word the Chinese students that I have met use to describe the Chinese people as well.
I know that the Chinese see us as a younger culture. We are passionate about our beliefs and affect great change, and to us that is good. Sometimes like kids, we don't see the future so well. It is part of being an American. We move fast. We think fast. Often times that is not the best way to be. There are advantages to being young in spirit too though.
I see the truths of all people. I don't see the truths of all governments. I am sure that even if I met most people in China that they would be happy and friendly. I just think that they need better say in the future. This is not about morals. I believe that all people try to be the most moral.
After all... China is probably the most safe country in the known world to walk the streets on. That is a good thing, I think. Americans don't hate China. Some Americans (me) hate the idea of flying spy planes over China's coast when we are not at war, and unlike Russia, China has never said that they want to attack us. I would like all of our influences to be diplomatic. Besides, I'd rather visit China with my children some day, instead of sending them off to war because we couldn't get out of each others business.
However, I just don't like the idea that China shoots missiles over Taiwan when they hold democratic elections. That is as bad as the influences you speak to about the USA.
So we are both at fault. You'll never follow George Washington, I'll never follow Mao Tse Tung. Now lets start all over again.
Send some Chinese schoolkids over for a week to take pictures and see museums, and we'll send some kids over to do the same. We should do that as much as possible. And by the time they grow up, China and America might see each other as people instead of Communists and Capitalists.
I didn't realize that Ivan Stang and the Church of the SubGenius still exsisted, but it sure has the stark fist of removal all over it. LOL. JHVH-1 rules.
Well, if you want the enemy to use the technology to guide missiles against us, go right ahead... all of the Euros in the world can argue the fact of "what if America gets in a war?" Trust me, when we turn the GPS system off, you'll be happy that day that we did.
Well, my European friends, when you are worrying about the GPS problem, your ass will be in the middle of a war too. Get used to the idea that America will not get into prolonged warfare without you anymore. The days of Vietnam are over. Bedsides, more than likely, you will be hit first. You're the closest targets. Think about it. I think your GPS talk is Dada.
Well, there is a shock. After all, YOU NASTY LITTLE HACKERS, don't deserve any input.
We, the government, could give a shit about your rights. Brace yourselves. The best is only yet to come, when they enforce Coke over Pepsi in an international treaty. No Soup!
Lets hear it for money... cause apparently someone proved that YOU CAN TAKE IT WITH YOU WHEN YOU DIE. After all, I can't think about why anyone like Gates or any of these other fools would set about ruining people's lives for zeroes that they could never spend. Talk about a living hell. These fools are all teenagers, and need to grow the hell up.
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The definition of privacy, at least in the USA where I reside, has the words reasonable expectation of usually put before it. IF the police deaprtments have used telephoto lenses without a search warrant, then it looks like they are using unusual methods of search. Most police do not sit with binoculars, so therefore, using advanced technology on minor crimes can usually be considered inadmissable in court, and that being the primary evidence of apprehension, be thrown out of court.
But if they are speifically looking for you, then you are, as they say, up shit creek without a paddle.
He is bitchin' all the way to the bank about these movies... so if he has a prob with the way that Hollywood does him, then he needs to get out. Geeeez. He can't have it both ways, y'know, big time writer and not prostituted by the studios.
It is the price you pay for fame. If you think that sincerity is big in Hollywood, you need to see press junket talk in an Electronic Press Kit for a dog movie. Get used to getting exploited. Expect a big smile with the director of Ishtar saying, "this movie is the best I have ever done!"
Also, he was responsible for the basic ideas in Alien Ressurection, so that whole "dialog by actors" crap he is spewing about others destroying the movie is doo-doo. The concepts in Alien Resurrection were horrible... and no matter how he spins it, he is directly responsible for that. Mutant-Alien Sigourney Weaver. That is the worst idea ever.
Please. Even X-men was a direct comic rip... and not a whole new script. It looks almost shot for shot to specific comic scenes that I can remember. Take credit for that.
Ultimately, Whedon said, the new show will have the same moral center as ``Buffy'' and its ``Angel'' spinoff: ``Life is hard. People are good when they want to be. And the universe is a big, scary place just like high school.''
Yeah, but what about the hot pants?
I mean, I ain't going to watch anything like that unless it has space chicks in hot pants. After all, they gotta be hotter and carry bigger guns than Aeryn Sun, and still avoid being cheezy. I see a grim prognosis on this one. Farscape is still some of the best writing around. Space is "just like high school"... hmmmmm.
Good Luck! You're going to need it.
THE lawyers won't just sue Microsoft, they will also be suing the maker of the "killing object" that M$ software was put in, for being so insane as to not to make a more custom bulletproof application.
When you accuse a nation of being arrogant to look after its self-interests, that's really funny.
Hilarious!
I am not quite sure what kind of strong drugs you are smoking when you accuse the USA of being too pro-USA, and the rest of Europe, China, Russia, and every other nation in the world to be a good neighbor. I don't care where the hell you are from, no one is a good neighbor in international politics. I love you nationalists. You're all such morons that you'll be the ones that drive the whole world in the ground for your personal greed. It'll be fun. Honest. Its working in the USA. And because you're not a US citizen, you're obviously part of God's chosen fucking people.
Yes we can have it both ways. You can too. Being a bunch of duplicitous bastards is the de facto behavior in international affairs.
Just do me a big fucking favor... don't think your people are not fucking over everyone else to get what they want. That is the attitude of fools.
Please tell me what country you are from... then we'll start talking about fairness, holy man.
Honestly, if there is one thing that should bring us together, it should be space. Lets look at it this way...
If another nation doesn't lie our space program and gets competitive the way you say, then how long do you think it would take to ruin several lives and billions in real investment?
Fifteen minutes? Ten minutes with the a really good shot?
C'mon. Space is hostile, and requires people to go up there and live in harmony, or otherwise they all die. It is humanity's pioneer spirit. Don't blow it by saying one country is a bunch of deadbeats... or that they should be in competition when it comes to THE WHOLE PLANET.
That is truly a pathetic thought from a pessimist.
I am a news photographer, and one of my buddies asked the pilot the age of his C-130 that they were going to up in...
"Oh, its five I think."
"What?"
"Yeah, still make em. Have a factory line that they specially keep running at a snails pace so in case we get into major conflict, we can start cranking them out fast again with no opportunity cost downtime. You know, workhorse of the military. They just replace them very slowly."
That is what I would consider good management of resources.
Anyway, thought that was interesting, whether it was perfectly factually correct or not. I wonder if they still make some of the other oddball planes the same way... hmmmm.
First of all, thank you for speaking clearly.
Second, it just looks like we disagree. That's fine. I personally believe that if you would show the world this insight to the mainstream media a little more, then you would proably get a lot more attention. I just can't see why I or anyone else would pass up on these stories you say you have. Latin America is still a hotbed of activity... I had a friend that was an Uncle Sam trained killer that is now an alcoholic because of what he did as a young man in "the service of his country." Marine light force recon. He killed a drug lord in his home, and TWO YOUNG BOYS. Why? Because those were his orders, and "apparently someone didn't get paid off in time." Just because I try to remain objective doesn't mean that I don't know. I could never get a way to get a fellow camaraman on the news wihtout him losing his job.
I just don't know about the angry talk part . Its a philisophical thing with me. Personal. I used to be an angry, screeching guy and it did me so little good that I was literally useless.
And when I said leave my mother out of it, I meant it. I don't like to hear anything about that. I can't tell if you are being sarcastic. I personally believe that you still are.
Puedo hablar espanol. Aprendi a hablar por dos anos en un universidad despues de mi vida total en las escuelas con un clase cada dia en espanol.
I do care. But with my job I try to be objective. I still think that is the way to be. Objective doesn't mean asking creampuff questions or not digging around. You've probably been around enough murders to know that objectivity goes out the window at those things. I still like to nail a good story, just not a person. What they have done is slap enough. As they say on the X-files, the truth is out there.
Honestly man, don't you think you haven't really passed into the activist role? Honestly, in the news business its the easiest thing to do. You have to watch for it. Not pick sides.
It isn't bad being an activist. If you had read my comments a second time I don't think that you would be so upset. Y'know what? I probably would like you if I got to know you. Y'know, talk to you. Listen to you. Did you think that I MIGHT BELEIVE THAT THE NEWS LIFESTYLE WAS GOING TO HELL IN A HANDBASKET TOO BECAUSE OF THE WAY THAT I THINK THAT EVERYONE IS TRYING TO GET IN THE GAME WITH SMART LOOKING SUITS, BIG MONEY, SLANDER, AND RIDICULOUS WEBSITES TO THE POINT WHERE NO ONE KNOWS WHICH WAY IS UP ANYMORE?
Honestly, where are the men we can listen to? Are you the solution or the problem? Are you one of those solutions? Or are you a lone conspiacy theorist? Right now, you just sound angry. I don't talk to angry.
I wish you were going to tell me why Narconews was legit and why I should read it... but now I don't know if I can... not when you just fucking go off on people. Please spare me the ridiculousness of thinking that because my opinions differ that I am the big evil corporate enemy. I have a dead coal-mining grandfather because of that corporate evil you infer that I am supporting.
Apparently I touched a nerve. I didn't say what Fox, now did I? Did I say that I was slumming for O'Reilly or Geraldo Rivera? No... because I am a ground pounder. I work the streets. Every day. My caste-system indeed. I am on the bad side of it. It ain't glamorous. I've now missed three Emmys because I dream it and shoot it, and my awards-conscious reporter submits it without my name for money purposes. My hubris indeed. My dinner is crow, so don't tell me that I am in with that white-bred superiority thing that you just made up and threw on me. Cuz I ain't in "the conspiracy," baby. How many conspirators do you know that read slashdot?
I represent what you aim to topple? Topple? DO I EVEN HAVE TO PROVE THAT YOU HAVE TOTALLY PASSED INTO "ACTIVISM LAND" WHEN YOU SPEAK ABOUT TRYING TO TOPPLE OTHERS? Does a journalist topple anything, or does he observe and report? You know this one, dude. If you've become an activist, be an activist. Support it. Go all out. Be happy with it. Argue until the cows come home. I've thought about it too when I see things I believe in.
And finally, don't EVER bring anyone's family into this, please. I won't bring yours into it either. If I am misinformed or my opinions differ, then tell me what you think I need to know.
"FUCK YOUR MOTHER" gets zero response out of me. I've been spat on too much by rednecks to really have that rattle me. Just tell me why Narconews is worth it... and I'll read it.
I am a journalist. A television photojournalist. I work for mainstream media. Fox to be specific.
:P). Go ahead, change the world. Be my guest. It is also your priveledge to cover my windshield wipers with fliers. I think that is fine. Print as you please. Whether you can claim "higher journalistic protection" for what you say is another matter.
The heart of this matter is not in the facts to me. The facts speak to themselves on guilt or innocence. Slander and libel is based upon whether your printed facts are true or "under reasonable expectation."
I would say that Narconews are activists. That doesn't mean that they shouldn't be protected. Just not like broadcast and print (because they are expanded for press because of LEGITIMATE REASONS to stay in business against corporations) and more like regular citizens First Amendment Rights.
I would first like to respond that I respect activists... in a sense that they are promoting what they believe in, and that is altruistic (that causes change in the world, and gives me something to talk about, BRAVO
IMHO the Narconews people are not journalists. They are activists. They are printing for a very tangible, expected outcome of their work. They are observing and placing in OPINION. With a name like Narconews talking about changing drug regulation, you lose your objectivity.
True journalists don't seek a specific outcome.
Seeking an outcome makes you an activist or trade magazine. For example, Cat Fancy Magazine should not necessarily be afforded the higher journalist protections that a non-specific daily newspaper should. Although, this approach might be more appropriate on a story by story basis.
Journalism is about seeking the truth. Journalists should not be concerned about the outcome other than reporting the outcome. In other words, what makes a journalist? Being fair, and not seeking a specific outcome.
In other words, Narconews shouldn't be considered journalists and protected at "the higher level" if their ultimate goal is to publicly smoke "the big fatty." Its not about the groundswell of public support or whether they are right or wrong.
It just doen't ring true to being a journalist. Its similar to saying that carrying a fire extinguisher in your car makes you a firefighter.
But you should be doubly scared by someone named "Ranchero" or "Pinto."
Lol. You got me.
I am a broadcast news photographer, and I cover all of the news that all the AP reporters get, and at the same time. Personally, I believe that you are misinformed... nothing wrong, just misinformed.
The AP reporters are the same that give you the news on television and in the paper. It is a service that almost all contribute to. When they see something on the air that they want to know about, they call us and talk to our reporters and ask us to contribute information, we do the same in return. Newspapers are especially AP heavy, as they cover national and local news... unlike the dilineation of broadcast.
AP does assign individual reporters for events, but that is pretty much it. They are the effective "this thingee happened here" guys.
Really, when someone tells me that generically my work is inadequate because the TV is a load of crap, I get upset. After all, television people only work insane hours for little pay so that you can see something happening WHEN IT IS HAPPENING.
Newspaper people make phone calls about events. Broadcasters go to hell and back to bring it to you. Show you the pain. Show you the players and scams.
Simply put, the mediums are not the same.
Then again, newspapers can't show full motion of a plane hitting a building, the wailing of a mother who lost their child in an errant bombing run, the touchdowns that win superbowls, and most importantly...
The television can let you see the persons face when they are obviously LYING. So that the quote doesn't get taken out of context. Like they do DAILY in ALL newspapers.
I recheck the AP all the time. They get it as wrong just as much as everyone else does from time to time.
I would suggest getting your news from several sources. Ones that you think are the most unbiased. The internet isn't well known for its objectivity... but there are some really good ones out there.
I think that the whole issue about which game system is the best comes down to a lesson my father taught me about of all things, cars.
Its about stability, reliability, and working out the kinks.
He said never, ever buy a car the year the new model comes out. The manufacturers have tested it, but not the way the consumers will. Usually, the best cars to drive are the ones where they are about to change the fundamental design (usually after three years or car generations) a few years after have worked out all of the major complaints brought in, and before they change the design again.
So what does this have to do with video consoles? Well, as I see it, Nintendo has gone through several generations of workign the bugs out in hardware and gameplay, and that in itself is its benefit and reason to buy.
There are at least 3 generations of Nintendo in major US release, even after they made coin ops.
Playstation is on generation 2.
Xbox is on its first generation.
Honestly, I can't even think of a in-house Nintendo game that I was ever dissatisfied with, other than the super-late shipping time.
It has worked so far very well with the cars.
It has done well with consoles.
I know that people say this a thousand times, but the movie/book barrier is something that is always going to be argued by book people until the world ends.
You don't compare ballet with painting, do you? Its hard to do. So we argue the one similarity with books and movies, plot points. If I wrote a bestselling science fiction book and a winning movie about the same thing, you would notice that I would gloss over and pass through things that I talked extensively about in the book.
Matter of fact, I might even leave out characters that are too complex. All of those changes are necessary. Absolutely necessary to make it possible to make art of a movie. Just like backstory and depth is the art of the book.
Books and movies are both art.
I actually love the David Lynch movie because of the art it represents. I like the miniseries because it shows the lonliness of Paul on his quest to change the world. They both have strengths. I own the David Lynch movie. I don't have the miniseries... the spouse had a fit at the store.
A book is a book. They are a different medium than movies. Keep that in mind. I want to see more Dune anything.
What about God? What about your atom bomb?
If you want to heap every rape and murder, every innocent upon a persons religious faith, then I can at least heap on the atom bomb on your "technological truth" you are selling me.
How has that nuke bomb research (probably the one thing the US has put more test money into than anything else) done but make the world a more dangerous place? I'm not talking about reactors or radiology... I'm talking bigger bombs. That is a great example of mature thinking. Just because we can, doesn't mean we should. Your attempt to tell me that it is a fear of the different. Typical scientist. It certainly wasn't Oppenheimers fault. He didn't do anything that anyone else would do. Riiight. Bohr thought the original nuke test was going to kill all life on earth, but they looked at him and pushed the button anyway. Pure monkey genius.
You haven't run into a high school with guns blazing yet, have you? Why? BECAUSE IT IS NOT SANE. Its the same reasoning that keeps you alive. That reasoning should tell you that zebra people are not cool. That some things should be left to nature. Insanity happens on a planetary and scientific level.
"Your God" indeed. Where is yours? Where is any of your aspirations of humanity? My God cares. You, my friend, are hung up on something earthbound, and not looking at God's big infinite picture... and the fact that you are a monkey with a little brain, and will never command the universe. Ever. Not a million years of humanity. Never.
I want my children to be happy humans... you want them to be some kind of modified freaks that think they can beat death. Well, all things die according to their design. Even Galaxies and stars. Twisting humanity's design won't change that. Better is a relative term. I have no problem stopping disease. However, immortality is a hilarious concept... which is what you and other Godless ones are striving for, just like all of us, but it won't save you. Matter of fact it frustrates you.
Your kind of thinking doesn't take into consideration morals. You know what? That's fine. You make your own choices. We all do. Just don't think that I am going to sit by and watch while your "purely scientific" quest for knowledge releases another one of those fucking brilliant atom bomb ideas again.
Even Albert Einstein was a deeply religious person. But according to your criteria, that would make him a fool. Yes. Fool indeed. A brilliant fool.
That was the man that blueprinted the idea of an atom bomb. Spent his whole life trying to put the genie back in the bottle. Think about his perspective. Then think about all things. Science is a discipline, not a God.
Trolling on these subjects is not that hard.
Pick a tougher subject to troll on please.
Good troll by the way. But really, shouldn't you be getting to bed? Mom says tomorrow is a school day.
How am I going to keep my precious negative karma in place if I can't keep getting slammed by cranky Europeans?
I don't think that I can live another day without being called an arrogant, bomb-crazy warhead who likes to kill children... every time I point out that I enjoy being an American.
After all, I do like more than to bomb innocent children with missing limbs, I mean, who doesn't?
Cmon, admit it. Puuuut ooon the Cooowboy Haaat. LOL.
Ahh, anonymous cowards. That pretty much answers how proud he is of his statements.
Using a boiler room strategy is not only patently wrong, but it is amazing that he didn't spend time in prison for it. Federal ass-pounding prison. I did not check, but I thought that boiling stocks was as bad as extortion and imbezzelment. Especially on that high amount of money.
Did someone say that he was a minor?
Some people see that as amazing that he got away with it... I see all of the people that he screwed their retirement funds out of.
Uh, that didn't happen. Natives in America were treated poorly, almost as bad as Africans that were imported to be slaves, if not worse.
Natives were not forced to build railroads.
Also, America did not start as a "Capitalist."
America didn't even start as a democracy. It was a colony. It was a king's property. It rebelled to stop the king and become a democracy. Many Americans tried to remove slavery the moment America became a democracy. It took a Civil War and over one hundred years of fighting (stealing and releasing slaves by activists) to stop slavery in America. People owned slaves. The Government did not own slaves.
Please get your American History from American sources. I'll agree to get my Chinese History from Chinese sources to be fair. I am afraid that wherever you read that the Natives were forced to work on railrods might also be full of other facts and propaganda that you might accept as truth. That history is not correct. All history books from government sources (USA included) speak about their gov't speriority, and seem to speak of all the bad moments with other cultures. I am positive that my Chinese history is totally wrong. I am not Chinese. But I will not lecture you on Chinese history.
I understand your argument. The Chinese have the right to pursue their own future. All people do, as long as you don't go decide to attack anyone.
Please keep in mind that the Chinese and the rest of the world influence the US as well. We are pushing hard. So are the Chinese. They push right back. That is the nature of the world. But Americans do not feel that they intentionally doing it, we sometimes don't mean to cause the opinions and backlash that we cause. We are just a very proud people. Proud was a word the Chinese students that I have met use to describe the Chinese people as well.
I know that the Chinese see us as a younger culture. We are passionate about our beliefs and affect great change, and to us that is good. Sometimes like kids, we don't see the future so well. It is part of being an American. We move fast. We think fast. Often times that is not the best way to be. There are advantages to being young in spirit too though.
I see the truths of all people. I don't see the truths of all governments. I am sure that even if I met most people in China that they would be happy and friendly. I just think that they need better say in the future. This is not about morals. I believe that all people try to be the most moral.
After all... China is probably the most safe country in the known world to walk the streets on. That is a good thing, I think. Americans don't hate China. Some Americans (me) hate the idea of flying spy planes over China's coast when we are not at war, and unlike Russia, China has never said that they want to attack us. I would like all of our influences to be diplomatic. Besides, I'd rather visit China with my children some day, instead of sending them off to war because we couldn't get out of each others business.
However, I just don't like the idea that China shoots missiles over Taiwan when they hold democratic elections. That is as bad as the influences you speak to about the USA.
So we are both at fault. You'll never follow George Washington, I'll never follow Mao Tse Tung. Now lets start all over again.
Send some Chinese schoolkids over for a week to take pictures and see museums, and we'll send some kids over to do the same. We should do that as much as possible. And by the time they grow up, China and America might see each other as people instead of Communists and Capitalists.
I didn't realize that Ivan Stang and the Church of the SubGenius still exsisted, but it sure has the stark fist of removal all over it. LOL. JHVH-1 rules.
(Sound of a whirring fishing pole)
Got one! Its a biggun! I think French!
Well, if you want the enemy to use the technology to guide missiles against us, go right ahead... all of the Euros in the world can argue the fact of "what if America gets in a war?" Trust me, when we turn the GPS system off, you'll be happy that day that we did.
Well, my European friends, when you are worrying about the GPS problem, your ass will be in the middle of a war too. Get used to the idea that America will not get into prolonged warfare without you anymore. The days of Vietnam are over. Bedsides, more than likely, you will be hit first. You're the closest targets. Think about it. I think your GPS talk is Dada.
Well, there is a shock. After all, YOU NASTY LITTLE HACKERS, don't deserve any input.
We, the government, could give a shit about your rights. Brace yourselves. The best is only yet to come, when they enforce Coke over Pepsi in an international treaty. No Soup!
Lets hear it for money... cause apparently someone proved that YOU CAN TAKE IT WITH YOU WHEN YOU DIE. After all, I can't think about why anyone like Gates or any of these other fools would set about ruining people's lives for zeroes that they could never spend. Talk about a living hell. These fools are all teenagers, and need to grow the hell up.