While a Brit, thank God I live in Switzerland, where the populace is educated, public data secure and FOSS is ever more popular while the Bundesrat can't pass laws the people don't like. [sing along now!]
And I'm proud to live in Switzerland, where they've got big holes in cheese! And I won't forget the cows whose milk made this dairy treat for me!
If the left-wing is so popular, why is it so difficult for Air America to stay afloat?
Boy, that's a loaded question. I could answer it in so many ways. Instead, I'll ask another question: Does the ability to 'shout down' your opponent through the media because you have more money make you right?
Radio and television frequencies were handed out a long time ago (in the 40's and 50's). The conglomerates that own them won't sell them. Why would they? "Owning" (although, again, they are technically subject to the FCC) the spectrum is like printing money. At the very least, the FCC should drop all pretense of ownership and auction off the broadcast spectrum to the highest bidder, as they do with cell phone frequencies.
Even so, there is nothing that would stop a group (or has stopped a group) from starting up their own "radio network" that espouses any sort of political ideals. Getting that "network" commercially viable, however, is not a trivial task. The conservative hosts seem to have figured it out, and the liberal ones haven't.
The barrier to entry is too high. If the government mandated a change in modulation to a more efficient standard, that might be possible. Instead, they just switched to ATSC and HD-radio, both of which are actually more difficult to receive and decode.
I don't advocate demolishing the commercial system. I just think there should be a strong national public access component to go along with it.
The size of the American Nazi party has nothing to do with the support of Hitler by Americans. Many wealthy industrialists including IBM, Disney, Prescott Bush (grandfather of our current president) and Henry Ford opportunistically supported the Nazi regime. It was about the money, not the ideology. There was also a significant isolationist movement that opposed any intervention in Europe.
If you want balance, you do it through freedom and liberty, not control. If the Washington Post prints Obama-loving articles, than you counterbalance that with your own paper which prints McCain-loving articles. You then leave it to the People to decide, for themselves, where the truth lies. Not some authoritarian censor.
"Freedom of the press only applies to those who can afford a press."-A.J. Liebling
Do you think the incredibly wealthy are going to "leave it to the People" to decide? No, they are going to shout their philosophy loudest because they have access to the broadest amount of media. They are the gatekeepers, they don't want a marketplace of ideas! And don't try to say the Internet is the great equalizer, because it isn't. Even people that get their news from the Internet tend to get it from cnn.com, foxnews.com, etc.
The fact is, without laws restricting media consolidation, we cannot possibly be presented with a diversity of opinions through our media.
McCain's plan would have removed tax exemptions from employer-provided health benefits. That would have caused many businesses to withdraw benefits from employees. Many people with good benefits would be forced to pay out-of-pocket, and would have ended up with a lower level of healthcare overall. Wonder what "Joe the Plumber" would have thought about that?
The free market? The person with the most money gets to shout the loudest. Right wing talk radio is nothing but propaganda by the incredibly wealthy trying to convince the people to vote against their own interests. You don't need healthcare! You don't need labor laws! That's all the work of pesky liberals. You're either with us, or against us.
The funniest part is that the public airwaves are a limited resource. They are supposed to serve the public good, but oddly enough 95% of the spectrum is dedicated to commercial radio, which is either explicit (talk-radio) or implicit (commercial radio) propaganda. And this unbelievable powerful broadcast conduit, this window into nearly every American home, office, and vehicle, is available completely free for the big media companies, besides some nominal licensing fees.
Someone mod this guy insightful. "Unbiased" news cannot be gathered and disseminated by humans. Even the very choice of what to cover and what not to cover is highly biased.
It's better to have a variety of voices with their own, well-known slants than to have a single, "unbiased" voice with a hidden agenda. We need people on the left writing stories about racism and exploitive labor practices, and people on the right writing about gun laws and political correctness. And we all need delicious gummi bears. We need to stay up late, pounding handful after gooey handful into our mouths, until all of us, as a nation, have diabetes.
Give me a break, no one uses names like "Jill" and "Steve" for their avatars! They use names like xXDeath_StalkerXx and KillMurder_415 and awesome stuff like that. This patent ain't worth a case of Bawls.
Yeah, me neither. Of course, I was pretty baked when I saw it. I think it had Mel Gibson in it, and like, there was a chase scene where he yelled "Give me back my son!" That was a pretty good movie, if I'm thinking of the same one.
All console operating systems allow game manufacturers to disallow copying certain files. Thus, many games (such as the Rock Band downloads) may not be copied to a backup. This is the future of console gaming, unfortunately.
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So, to summarize your post:
Crap...looks like crap, which is impressive considering...crap?
That's smurfy!
But I really got it to play Tempest 2000.
And I gladly stand up
And hide Jew gold today
Cause I'm proud to live in Switzerland
God bless the old Swiss franc
While a Brit, thank God I live in Switzerland, where the populace is educated, public data secure and FOSS is ever more popular while the Bundesrat can't pass laws the people don't like.
[sing along now!]
And I'm proud to live in Switzerland, where they've got big holes in cheese!
And I won't forget the cows whose milk made this dairy treat for me!
If the left-wing is so popular, why is it so difficult for Air America to stay afloat?
Boy, that's a loaded question. I could answer it in so many ways. Instead, I'll ask another question: Does the ability to 'shout down' your opponent through the media because you have more money make you right?
Radio and television frequencies were handed out a long time ago (in the 40's and 50's). The conglomerates that own them won't sell them. Why would they? "Owning" (although, again, they are technically subject to the FCC) the spectrum is like printing money. At the very least, the FCC should drop all pretense of ownership and auction off the broadcast spectrum to the highest bidder, as they do with cell phone frequencies.
Even so, there is nothing that would stop a group (or has stopped a group) from starting up their own "radio network" that espouses any sort of political ideals. Getting that "network" commercially viable, however, is not a trivial task. The conservative hosts seem to have figured it out, and the liberal ones haven't.
The barrier to entry is too high. If the government mandated a change in modulation to a more efficient standard, that might be possible. Instead, they just switched to ATSC and HD-radio, both of which are actually more difficult to receive and decode.
I don't advocate demolishing the commercial system. I just think there should be a strong national public access component to go along with it.
The size of the American Nazi party has nothing to do with the support of Hitler by Americans. Many wealthy industrialists including IBM, Disney, Prescott Bush (grandfather of our current president) and Henry Ford opportunistically supported the Nazi regime. It was about the money, not the ideology. There was also a significant isolationist movement that opposed any intervention in Europe.
If you want balance, you do it through freedom and liberty, not control. If the Washington Post prints Obama-loving articles, than you counterbalance that with your own paper which prints McCain-loving articles. You then leave it to the People to decide, for themselves, where the truth lies. Not some authoritarian censor.
"Freedom of the press only applies to those who can afford a press."-A.J. Liebling
Do you think the incredibly wealthy are going to "leave it to the People" to decide? No, they are going to shout their philosophy loudest because they have access to the broadest amount of media. They are the gatekeepers, they don't want a marketplace of ideas! And don't try to say the Internet is the great equalizer, because it isn't. Even people that get their news from the Internet tend to get it from cnn.com, foxnews.com, etc.
The fact is, without laws restricting media consolidation, we cannot possibly be presented with a diversity of opinions through our media.
McCain's plan would have removed tax exemptions from employer-provided health benefits. That would have caused many businesses to withdraw benefits from employees. Many people with good benefits would be forced to pay out-of-pocket, and would have ended up with a lower level of healthcare overall. Wonder what "Joe the Plumber" would have thought about that?
The free market? The person with the most money gets to shout the loudest. Right wing talk radio is nothing but propaganda by the incredibly wealthy trying to convince the people to vote against their own interests. You don't need healthcare! You don't need labor laws! That's all the work of pesky liberals. You're either with us, or against us.
The funniest part is that the public airwaves are a limited resource. They are supposed to serve the public good, but oddly enough 95% of the spectrum is dedicated to commercial radio, which is either explicit (talk-radio) or implicit (commercial radio) propaganda. And this unbelievable powerful broadcast conduit, this window into nearly every American home, office, and vehicle, is available completely free for the big media companies, besides some nominal licensing fees.
Someone mod this guy insightful. "Unbiased" news cannot be gathered and disseminated by humans. Even the very choice of what to cover and what not to cover is highly biased.
It's better to have a variety of voices with their own, well-known slants than to have a single, "unbiased" voice with a hidden agenda. We need people on the left writing stories about racism and exploitive labor practices, and people on the right writing about gun laws and political correctness. And we all need delicious gummi bears. We need to stay up late, pounding handful after gooey handful into our mouths, until all of us, as a nation, have diabetes.
Give me a break, no one uses names like "Jill" and "Steve" for their avatars! They use names like xXDeath_StalkerXx and KillMurder_415 and awesome stuff like that. This patent ain't worth a case of Bawls.
Apple chips are bland and only favored by dieters and health nuts. Now if the company was called 'Tortilla,' well, then...that would be delicious!
H4x0r Jim Duggan is an awesome username.
Those elite "PC gaming circles" working out for you?
What with EA, LucasArts, etc moving away from the platform, and stores giving less and less floor space?
Soon they'll be dead. I'll light a candle for them.
The Houston Area Arcade Owners Group Expo is next weekend. It's very similar to the shows you described.
Mathematics?
You didn't already know how to count to 4?
Your post is whining and self-contradictory. At least Paul never thought he was Jesus Christ.
Once enough people "misspeak" the expression, it reaches critical mass and becomes proper usage.
And thus, the English language evolves.
Yeah, me neither. Of course, I was pretty baked when I saw it. I think it had Mel Gibson in it, and like, there was a chase scene where he yelled "Give me back my son!" That was a pretty good movie, if I'm thinking of the same one.
Now I can finally register clownpenis.fart !
(internet high five)
All console operating systems allow game manufacturers to disallow copying certain files. Thus, many games (such as the Rock Band downloads) may not be copied to a backup. This is the future of console gaming, unfortunately.
Seriously, George Lucas? More Star Wars?
Give it a rest. Although, at least this one won't be a prequel.
You can't copy everything from your hard drive to a backup. A lot of it is disallowed by the OS.