Yup, except people still only think of themselves.
There is bound to be some scabs, uh, I mean capatalists willing to undercut the brothers/sisters by a few bucks just to get in good with management.
It might jsut kickstart a better union, but I doubt it.
Does that mean that I can ask for the national geographic magazines to be removed, since *I* don't like them too?
It's not like these books are being handed to peple as they walk through the door.
I read a number of books my parents would not have approved of when I was growing up, that didn't make the books bad.
According to Greek mythology there was once a girl named Arachne, who had great talent as a spinner and weaver. But she was arrogant about her talent and challenged the gods to a contest. During the contest she proved to be better at the loom than the goddess Athena, who became jealous and angry. She attacked Arachne and destroyed her work. In humiliation, Arachne hung herself. The goddess took pity on her and used a magic potion to change her into a small creature with many legs. The rope with which she hung herself was turned into a silken thread. It was with this thread that she was permitted to continue her spinning and weaving. Thus the spider was created.
It is from Arachne's name that we get the word arachnid. If you have six legs you're an insect, but if you have eight legs you're an arachnid. Spiders, scorpions and ticks all belong to the class Arachnid. So do mites.
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Good Lord, I've looked over this thread a bunch of times and no punter has mentioned "AfterLife" by Lucas Arts. A game upon the whole concept of religion is it's foundation.
Did I miss it?
and yes, it was sim city like
Who said anything about free speech? Not I Butter-Fly.
BTW, The radio, the subject of all of this, does not represent free speech, it is regulated to heck...I cannot just set up a transmitter, and start broadcsting. I have to be licensed, which involves regulation, you know , the same regulation or at least self-regulaton hat is supposed to prevent this situation. If Radio was free and clear, and the FCC didn't regulate what and who could run it, well, the folks at Barrow wouldn't have to listen to old Maggie if they didn't want to now, would they?
Right?
Free Speech, Meh. This is not about free speech, this is about the enforced lack of the Speakers Corner, the total lack of the easy to use Soapbox.
Sheesh, It's not the lack of outlets, it's the lack of variety. Of course they are entitled to it, they are not guarenteed it, you dolt. You are entitled to eventualy own a car and a house, but if you don't leave your house and get a job or you know, inherit, they you won't get one. I'm not asking for the entertainment fairy to visit each and every community in the US of A, but I am asking the Government to prevent any one body, who is not a licensed broadcaster, from buying X percentage of airtime on a given outlet. (Ryan Seacrest can only go so many places at once sigh
Licensed broadcasters can make said decisions, but it seems to me that the content of said ads should conform to advertising rules.
Now you're thinking, but what about all of those infomercials, fatty? Yeah, you got me. I'm not sure what to say about that. Except, I'm glad to be Canadian, where we have Canadian content rules that guarentee me some form of Candian Entertainment each hour. Yay Canada!
As it happens, you do seem to want to regulate what people hear ayway, or at least your FCC does.
Given the text of the article, it seems possible that a given concern, say, I dunno, maybe Maggie Thatcher got herself the three dollars it costs to buy 24 hours of air time in Barrow. Stick with me here this gets good. Then, those guys who are forced, through lack of bandwidth/cash to listen to the radio for entertainment (the fricking horror) and they are then subsequently forced to listen to the same bilious mouth that spawned your intellect. You can see where things would rapidly go downhill for good old Barrow. I mean imagine it:
"is that stupid c*#t still on the air?" "yeah, but she paid for it so it is oh kay" "Wanna go amuse ourselves with the locals again?" "Sure"
Yes, they do in fact fail to capitalize their sentences, true.
You can see the potential problems for poor old Barrow now, huh? No? You live in Barow you say? No wonder the moose look worried (I've seen the Moose out there, take that as a compliment)
(Hey, I'm not looking to raise the level of debate. I just wanna bring it down to a size small enough that I can drag it into the toilet and give it a swirly)
And if you have read this far and didn't at least smile, I failed and concede defeat...ah me
If nothing else the replies to my post illustrate why this is in fact a real issue. Rather than fight such practices, we are urged to ignore the issue and seek elsewhere. I would like to think that there was some way to, as some have put it, vote with my dollars. As it stands, since an increasingly small number of people control the available airwaves, my choices become ever more limitted.
On an anecdotal note, have you ever been in a workplace where they used a communal sound system, in most cases (especially in rural areas) that communal sound system will be tuned to the one and only radio station that reaches said area.
Imagine, if you could, a radio station that legally plays nothing but "ads" from one or two sources. They have no restrictions on content, beyond the fact that they are identified as "ads" perhaps an intro to a block of music, like "this 2 hour block of music brought to you by ratbastard records" etc... This is an extreme example, I know, but for those same rural individuals, they do not know of or have a choice outside of what is being played at them.
I find it hard to belive that this particular loophole won't be exploited to provide "information" to these same enclaved folks.
Yes there are other ways to be entertained, but when you are poor and rural, well, the ray-dee-o may be all you have.
Speaking as a kid who grew up with only one Radio Station avaialble for 90% of the time, I have some perspective on the matter.
The sheer mendacity of this reply truly illustrates how little you grasp my point, good work. Please, reply that I am some form of hippie or communist and continue to raise my perceptions of you.
Come on, "just move to another market?"
We aren't talking nomadic agrarian cultures here. No person should be asked to move house and home simply because of a lack of choice in terms of entertainment. One does not change addresses simply to have access to a better library.
The argument is that... you know what, if you can't understand what my original post was trying to put across, there is little I can lay down here that will get through to you after your own blistering reply.
I say, good day to you.
The problem comes in when this comes from a conglomerate such as Clear channel, who, in some smaller markets is really the only choice in radio...there is your "why this is bad"
It's not he concept of pay to play it is the fact that using this concept the choice is no longer there it's listen to this or listen to nothing, and that's not really a choice.
Y'know, I'm just not sure that will be the case. I mean, the DOJ has had such great success prosecuting these same unsavory folks using rico and drug enforcement laws, right? No, I imagine they will go after the larger more "legit" porn producers first, as an example. Remember who you are saying is producing this already illegal porn...criminals. These guys are professional law breakers who have avoided being caught already. This new charge on porn (not really new) is likely to have a chilling effect on the media and the porn world as a whole. See the past few months in the American Media for proof.
From the Article:
Ashcroft, a religious man who does not drink alcohol or caffeine, smoke, gamble or dance, and has fought unrelenting criticism that he has trod roughshod on civil liberties in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks, is taking on the porn industry at a time when many experts say Americans are wary about government intrusion into their lives.
Crazy Mofo, even hates Calico Cats and beliees the media was persecuting him by taking pics of him with the statue of justice behind him.
All the H1-B's that work around my office make more than every other person I work around, their wages are posted on the walls along with their H1-B papers. Hand over fist compared to the rest of us.
Please arthip, cite a source or two. Describe the process in detail. Showing with proof that you are not just saying something that fits your world view.
Thanks!
Yes, you VOL-UN-TEERED!
This is what you chose, not what you were forced into doing. Please remember that you were in the 'forces while a conflict ws winding down and the US was engaged in what may have been called police actions or peacekeeping missions, up until Kosovo, which I don't think you served during, IIRC.
Not too bad, maybe a bit overly graphical by default, did not produce satisfactory results on a side by side comparison with Google.
Maybe in a few months?
You may want to know this (For those of you in 'Soviet Canuckistan' ) that Smarties as we know them are not Smarties here on the West Coast of the US of A. Here, Smarties are those nasty rolls of sugar pills we call Rockets in Canada; you know, those candies some of the bright sparks would crush and snort, or mix with pop? They are not candy coated chocolate.
I really miss real smarties, please send some, today.
The Message Tim is referring to deosn't bemoan Moby's own sales. He is actually talking about weezer, and other alt rock bands. He draws the correlation between having smart fans and lower sales, because, hold on, this is good, because smart fans usually means tech savvy fans. So, many tech savvy fans equals lower sales. Why do you imagine O Brother Where are thou seemed like a golden calf?
I spent a good deal of time in my primary programming (years one - three) courses writing cod eon paper before being allowed to code it on a computer at all. I have to thank my profs for that becuase they forced me to plan out a chunk of code ahead of time before I sat down and had to puzzle it all out later on. This also alloed me to standardize my variables and their uses WAY ahead of time so that I didn't come up with them on the fly.
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Too much of the "wrong" medication. I think "medication" means weed, and by wrong, I mean, absolutley right, if you are a hippy. *wink*
Yup, except people still only think of themselves. There is bound to be some scabs, uh, I mean capatalists willing to undercut the brothers/sisters by a few bucks just to get in good with management. It might jsut kickstart a better union, but I doubt it.
I'm sorry, what was the next big thing for each of those examples you cited? Where do all of the people displaced by the loss of those jobs go?
In this case, I think if you read between the lines I think they are saying "Ignored" or more correctly, "Intentionally Ignored"
Does that mean that I can ask for the national geographic magazines to be removed, since *I* don't like them too? It's not like these books are being handed to peple as they walk through the door. I read a number of books my parents would not have approved of when I was growing up, that didn't make the books bad.
R'ahs Al Ghul, right? "Raysh Al Gool"
According to Greek mythology there was once a girl named Arachne, who had great talent as a spinner and weaver. But she was arrogant about her talent and challenged the gods to a contest. During the contest she proved to be better at the loom than the goddess Athena, who became jealous and angry. She attacked Arachne and destroyed her work. In humiliation, Arachne hung herself. The goddess took pity on her and used a magic potion to change her into a small creature with many legs. The rope with which she hung herself was turned into a silken thread. It was with this thread that she was permitted to continue her spinning and weaving. Thus the spider was created. It is from Arachne's name that we get the word arachnid. If you have six legs you're an insect, but if you have eight legs you're an arachnid. Spiders, scorpions and ticks all belong to the class Arachnid. So do mites.
Good Lord, I've looked over this thread a bunch of times and no punter has mentioned "AfterLife" by Lucas Arts. A game upon the whole concept of religion is it's foundation. Did I miss it? and yes, it was sim city like
Who said anything about free speech? Not I Butter-Fly.
BTW, The radio, the subject of all of this, does not represent free speech, it is regulated to heck...I cannot just set up a transmitter, and start broadcsting. I have to be licensed, which involves regulation, you know , the same regulation or at least self-regulaton hat is supposed to prevent this situation. If Radio was free and clear, and the FCC didn't regulate what and who could run it, well, the folks at Barrow wouldn't have to listen to old Maggie if they didn't want to now, would they?
Right?
Free Speech, Meh. This is not about free speech, this is about the enforced lack of the Speakers Corner, the total lack of the easy to use Soapbox.
Sheesh, It's not the lack of outlets, it's the lack of variety. Of course they are entitled to it, they are not guarenteed it, you dolt. You are entitled to eventualy own a car and a house, but if you don't leave your house and get a job or you know, inherit, they you won't get one. I'm not asking for the entertainment fairy to visit each and every community in the US of A, but I am asking the Government to prevent any one body, who is not a licensed broadcaster, from buying X percentage of airtime on a given outlet. (Ryan Seacrest can only go so many places at once sigh
Licensed broadcasters can make said decisions, but it seems to me that the content of said ads should conform to advertising rules.
Now you're thinking, but what about all of those infomercials, fatty? Yeah, you got me. I'm not sure what to say about that. Except, I'm glad to be Canadian, where we have Canadian content rules that guarentee me some form of Candian Entertainment each hour. Yay Canada!
As it happens, you do seem to want to regulate what people hear ayway, or at least your FCC does.
Given the text of the article, it seems possible that a given concern, say, I dunno, maybe Maggie Thatcher got herself the three dollars it costs to buy 24 hours of air time in Barrow. Stick with me here this gets good. Then, those guys who are forced, through lack of bandwidth/cash to listen to the radio for entertainment (the fricking horror) and they are then subsequently forced to listen to the same bilious mouth that spawned your intellect. You can see where things would rapidly go downhill for good old Barrow. I mean imagine it:
"is that stupid c*#t still on the air?"
"yeah, but she paid for it so it is oh kay"
"Wanna go amuse ourselves with the locals again?"
"Sure"
Yes, they do in fact fail to capitalize their sentences, true.
You can see the potential problems for poor old Barrow now, huh? No? You live in Barow you say? No wonder the moose look worried (I've seen the Moose out there, take that as a compliment)
(Hey, I'm not looking to raise the level of debate. I just wanna bring it down to a size small enough that I can drag it into the toilet and give it a swirly)
And if you have read this far and didn't at least smile, I failed and concede defeat...ah me
If nothing else the replies to my post illustrate why this is in fact a real issue. Rather than fight such practices, we are urged to ignore the issue and seek elsewhere. I would like to think that there was some way to, as some have put it, vote with my dollars. As it stands, since an increasingly small number of people control the available airwaves, my choices become ever more limitted.
On an anecdotal note, have you ever been in a workplace where they used a communal sound system, in most cases (especially in rural areas) that communal sound system will be tuned to the one and only radio station that reaches said area.
Imagine, if you could, a radio station that legally plays nothing but "ads" from one or two sources. They have no restrictions on content, beyond the fact that they are identified as "ads" perhaps an intro to a block of music, like "this 2 hour block of music brought to you by ratbastard records" etc... This is an extreme example, I know, but for those same rural individuals, they do not know of or have a choice outside of what is being played at them.
I find it hard to belive that this particular loophole won't be exploited to provide "information" to these same enclaved folks.
Yes there are other ways to be entertained, but when you are poor and rural, well, the ray-dee-o may be all you have.
Speaking as a kid who grew up with only one Radio Station avaialble for 90% of the time, I have some perspective on the matter.
The sheer mendacity of this reply truly illustrates how little you grasp my point, good work. Please, reply that I am some form of hippie or communist and continue to raise my perceptions of you.
... you know what, if you can't understand what my original post was trying to put across, there is little I can lay down here that will get through to you after your own blistering reply.
I say, good day to you.
Come on, "just move to another market?"
We aren't talking nomadic agrarian cultures here. No person should be asked to move house and home simply because of a lack of choice in terms of entertainment. One does not change addresses simply to have access to a better library.
The argument is that
The problem comes in when this comes from a conglomerate such as Clear channel, who, in some smaller markets is really the only choice in radio...there is your "why this is bad" It's not he concept of pay to play it is the fact that using this concept the choice is no longer there it's listen to this or listen to nothing, and that's not really a choice.
This man needs to learn the meaning of either CUPS or Cod Pieces.... holy damn.
Y'know, I'm just not sure that will be the case. I mean, the DOJ has had such great success prosecuting these same unsavory folks using rico and drug enforcement laws, right? No, I imagine they will go after the larger more "legit" porn producers first, as an example. Remember who you are saying is producing this already illegal porn...criminals. These guys are professional law breakers who have avoided being caught already. This new charge on porn (not really new) is likely to have a chilling effect on the media and the porn world as a whole. See the past few months in the American Media for proof.
From the Article: Ashcroft, a religious man who does not drink alcohol or caffeine, smoke, gamble or dance, and has fought unrelenting criticism that he has trod roughshod on civil liberties in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks, is taking on the porn industry at a time when many experts say Americans are wary about government intrusion into their lives.
Crazy Mofo, even hates Calico Cats and beliees the media was persecuting him by taking pics of him with the statue of justice behind him.
All the H1-B's that work around my office make more than every other person I work around, their wages are posted on the walls along with their H1-B papers. Hand over fist compared to the rest of us.
Please arthip, cite a source or two. Describe the process in detail. Showing with proof that you are not just saying something that fits your world view. Thanks!
Yes, you VOL-UN-TEERED!
This is what you chose, not what you were forced into doing. Please remember that you were in the 'forces while a conflict ws winding down and the US was engaged in what may have been called police actions or peacekeeping missions, up until Kosovo, which I don't think you served during, IIRC.
Wizard Magazine carried a story about the "Final Three Parts" way back in the early nineties... I cannot remember when, just 1994-1996 somewhere....
Not too bad, maybe a bit overly graphical by default, did not produce satisfactory results on a side by side comparison with Google. Maybe in a few months?
What The heck is happing, Slashdot is slow and unstable! Anybody know what is going on?
You may want to know this (For those of you in 'Soviet Canuckistan' ) that Smarties as we know them are not Smarties here on the West Coast of the US of A. Here, Smarties are those nasty rolls of sugar pills we call Rockets in Canada; you know, those candies some of the bright sparks would crush and snort, or mix with pop? They are not candy coated chocolate. I really miss real smarties, please send some, today.
The Message Tim is referring to deosn't bemoan Moby's own sales. He is actually talking about weezer, and other alt rock bands. He draws the correlation between having smart fans and lower sales, because, hold on, this is good, because smart fans usually means tech savvy fans. So, many tech savvy fans equals lower sales. Why do you imagine O Brother Where are thou seemed like a golden calf?
This sounds about right
I spent a good deal of time in my primary programming (years one - three) courses writing cod eon paper before being allowed to code it on a computer at all. I have to thank my profs for that becuase they forced me to plan out a chunk of code ahead of time before I sat down and had to puzzle it all out later on. This also alloed me to standardize my variables and their uses WAY ahead of time so that I didn't come up with them on the fly.