Sorry, I should have posted this under your post to begin with.
Sounds like these DVD guys are not quite as slick as FTD.COM, since you actually got *something resembling what you ordered*, at least for a little while.
BTW, the DVD system sounds suspiciously like renting a car with unlimited mileage. Not sure if this counts as "prior art" or not, however the rental patent certainly counts as stupid.
Oh yes, he is real, but in the same sense as astroturfers are. Somehow the NYT can always find him for a quote.
Even talk radio screens out the too-frequent callers!
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As for man-on-the-street interviews, "The Paper of Record" has one of these on perminant retainer: Greg Packer. For example,
Another average individual eager to get Hillary's book was Greg Packer, who was the centerpiece of the
New York Times' "man on the street" interview about Hillary-mania. After being first in line for an
autographed book at the Fifth Avenue Barnes & Noble, Packer gushed to the Times: "I'm a big fan of
Hillary and Bill's. I want to change her mind about running for president. I want to be part of her
campaign."
It was easy for the Times to spell Packer's name right because he is apparently the entire media's
designated "man on the street" for all articles ever written. He has appeared in news stories more than
100 times as a random member of the public. Packer was quoted on his reaction to military strikes
against Iraq; he was quoted at the St. Patrick's Day Parade, the Thanksgiving Day Parade and the
Veterans' Day Parade. He was quoted at not one â" but two â" New Year's Eve celebrations at Times
Square. He was quoted at the opening of a new "Star Wars" movie, at the opening of an H&M clothing
store on Fifth Avenue and at the opening of the viewing stand at Ground Zero. He has been quoted at
Yankees games, Mets games, Jets games â" even getting tickets for the Brooklyn Cyclones. He was
quoted at a Clinton fund-raiser at Alec Baldwin's house in the Hamptons and the pope's visit to Giants
stadium.
--Ann Coulter
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Yea, real hard to find info on that, took me all of 2 seconds. Nope, it is not the NYT article, but you could pay to access the NYT archive and get the original.
When Googling second-superpower we now get articles about your famed "googlewash effect" that whine endlessly about people not using the "Official anti-war Sanctioned Definition by of second-superpower".
I really fail to see the point of this complaint, unless it is an effort by a handful of people to control the language, then I see it quite well. Yes, it is Orwellian and the Orwellians wishing to control the language are the ones bringing up Orwell the most!
There is a different paralell to be found in the book from whence my handle came. A popular grass-roots movement demanding the government censor everything under the sun and a homogonized language. Perhaps this is what you want, but none for me thank you
Section 133(d)(3)(A) of Hatch's bill, burried in the trash, exempts elected officials from having their computers destroyed for pirating software. After all, destroying gov't property, we just can't have that.
If it is truly pirated it is not government property, it is the property of the owner.
However, the Legeslative branch frequently exempts itself from laws uder the seperation of powers issue, prevent the Executive branch from exercising power over them.
This slowed down a bit in the mid-1990's and , curiously, it was the Republicans leading that charge. Predictibly the charge did not last much longer than mounting the horses
How about the government 'supporting open source' by dicting to itself that os be used exclusively in the government?
No matter what kind of a Libritarian you are, you must support some amount of tiny government. If the government wants to make an imposition, let it impose upon itself rather than the citizenry.
Added benefit is the market shift government creates itself in doing what it is supposed to do, only with a different set of tools. Kinda like the government going metric but 'letting' everybody else do what they like. Or the government using only one language (or a small set of languages) but not imposing a general language law on business, etc.
As someone who has rented and used a small jackhammer, I no longer complain when I see 4 or 5 guys waiting their turn. It is the most exhaustive work I have ever done.
LOL, for those that don't know, Jon would frequently reply to critics and take up a good conversation that was much shorter AND more informative than the original article (easily possible).
The king of the knee-jerk reply is Seth. I may have had the only/. post ever to criticize a printed quote of his that did not generate a massive reply campaign. Sorry, can't remember the exact post, it was a few months ago.
Europeans seem every bit as knowledgable of their various beurocracies and psuedo-government agencies as Americans know of parallel orgs here: quote is on NRO
âoeMany Europeans know so little about the EU that the convention's debates would mean nothing to them. A poll taken for Britain's Foreign Office in 2001 discovered that a quarter of Britons did not know that their country was actually a member of the European Union, and 7% thought that the United States was in it. In Germany, a founder member of the Union whose serious papers devote acres of space to EU affairs, another recent poll found that 31% of the public had never heard of the European Commission, the EU's most important institution.â
Sorry for the second-hand refrence. It is from The Economist and I do not have a subscription:( More of Andrew Stuttaford's comments on the article here.
Not quite accurate. Teddy apparently opposes the wind farm, but hasn't actively worked against it. And the article doesn't say whether or not Kerry opposes the wind farm, just that the opponents are unlikely to get help from him. The article doesn't say whether or not Kerry owns property in
Nantucket, either.... Article quotes follow:
Was not referring at all to that particular article at all. Sorry if that threw any readers, but if I were referring to that particular article I would have mentioned it and/or quoted. I was referring to the several accounts of these guy's positions that have been reported over the past week or so throughout the general medi
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Who's right?
In this case, none of them are right but there is a high hypocracy quotient.
Some other players in this battle for two faces are Sen.s Edward Kennedy and John F. Kerry. Both bashing any effort to increase US oil production, both wanting to preserve the scenic views of their porperty in Nantucket by opposing wind power there.
In the first place, this wind power business is fine for experimenting at this time, even large scale, but don't fool yourself into thinking it can dent the energy requirements of the US. Same with solar and biomass, it is just so much hot air and BS.
My vote is for wacky schemes like these to be constructed on the property of the politician wishing to impose it on the rest of us. Obviously the Kennedy/Kerry alliance wants the issue for something to complain about. The longer it is delayed the more they can complai
The 9/11 group had demonstrated the education ability level required for their task. Folks who's only demonstrated education ability is memorizing phrases from a religous book tend to be fundamentalist footsoldiers (across many cultures) but frequently are not trainable to the technical level required to take over an aircraft and use it as a weapon.
Atta & company were fundamentalists, by all accounts, but had demonstrated the ability, in advance, to be good religious fundamentalist candidates could learn how to fly an airplane.
If this combination were more common I have no doubt that there would have been many more hijacked airplanes on 9/11/0
it is a right-wing attack on independent journalists however.
I believe Independant should be in italics and capitalized, since that is who the dolt was writing for when he got caught spinning his BS for the verbing of his name.
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Sorry, I should have posted this under your post to begin with.
Sounds like these DVD guys are not quite as slick as FTD.COM, since you actually got *something resembling what you ordered*, at least for a little while.
Oh yes, there is hope after all.
The FTD.COM system:
1. Take order.
2. Jam in a second choice for crap nobody wants.
3. Pretend to deliver second choice crap.
4. Deliver the second choice crap the next day.
5. Profit!
Oh yes, no refunds either, but they will gladly deliver more crap you did not want to order as a consolation gift.
Details here (several journal entries cover it).
BTW, the DVD system sounds suspiciously like renting a car with unlimited mileage. Not sure if this counts as "prior art" or not, however the rental patent certainly counts as stupid.
Oh yes, he is real, but in the same sense as astroturfers are. Somehow the NYT can always find him for a quote.
Even talk radio screens out the too-frequent callers!
Yea, real hard to find info on that, took me all of 2 seconds. Nope, it is not the NYT article, but you could pay to access the NYT archive and get the original.
When Googling second-superpower we now get articles about your famed "googlewash effect" that whine endlessly about people not using the "Official anti-war Sanctioned Definition by of second-superpower".
I really fail to see the point of this complaint, unless it is an effort by a handful of people to control the language, then I see it quite well. Yes, it is Orwellian and the Orwellians wishing to control the language are the ones bringing up Orwell the most!
There is a different paralell to be found in the book from whence my handle came. A popular grass-roots movement demanding the government censor everything under the sun and a homogonized language. Perhaps this is what you want, but none for me thank you
You fooled me!
I thought you were going to suggest that the NYT sell it's reporters for liquor.
Section 133(d)(3)(A) of Hatch's bill, burried in the trash, exempts elected officials from having their computers destroyed for pirating software. After all, destroying gov't property, we just can't have that.
If it is truly pirated it is not government property, it is the property of the owner.
However, the Legeslative branch frequently exempts itself from laws uder the seperation of powers issue, prevent the Executive branch from exercising power over them.
This slowed down a bit in the mid-1990's and , curiously, it was the Republicans leading that charge. Predictibly the charge did not last much longer than mounting the horses
How about the government 'supporting open source' by dicting to itself that os be used exclusively in the government?
No matter what kind of a Libritarian you are, you must support some amount of tiny government. If the government wants to make an imposition, let it impose upon itself rather than the citizenry.
Added benefit is the market shift government creates itself in doing what it is supposed to do, only with a different set of tools. Kinda like the government going metric but 'letting' everybody else do what they like. Or the government using only one language (or a small set of languages) but not imposing a general language law on business, etc.
We now have a torrent running to get the demo distributed and take the load of off the official servers
Why are they using M$ servers for an Apple thingie?
As someone who has rented and used a small jackhammer, I no longer complain when I see 4 or 5 guys waiting their turn. It is the most exhaustive work I have ever done.
You are probably holding your tounge wrong.
Are you in Georgia? That is where this story is set.
I suspected it was too good to be true! Well, unless there is a GOOD engineering reason to do this.
Have you guys any idea how much it rains in much of Georgia? If you "vacume up the water" you might as well get an Ark to float it on.
Oh, perhaps because they might get more work done by using 8 crews and the State hiring another guy to make it a full 16?
:-)
They might have to work nights if 8 crews only have 2 machines?
They might get to work many more years in good health, including good hearing?
They are still experiencing trauma from the demise of the buggy whip, gas light and candle industries?
Just guesses of course
BTW, I think GA is a "right to work State", so Unions have less power to keep work in the dark ages.
With all those syllables, this sounds like a good fit.
LOL, for those that don't know, Jon would frequently reply to critics and take up a good conversation that was much shorter AND more informative than the original article (easily possible).
/. post ever to criticize a printed quote of his that did not generate a massive reply campaign. Sorry, can't remember the exact post, it was a few months ago.
The king of the knee-jerk reply is Seth. I may have had the only
quote is on NRO Sorry for the second-hand refrence. It is from The Economist and I do not have a subscription
Not quite accurate. Teddy apparently opposes the wind farm, but hasn't actively worked against it. And the article doesn't say whether or not Kerry opposes the wind farm, just that the opponents are unlikely to get help from him. The article doesn't say whether or not Kerry owns property in
Nantucket, either.... Article quotes follow:
Was not referring at all to that particular article at all. Sorry if that threw any readers, but if I were referring to that particular article I would have mentioned it and/or quoted. I was referring to the several accounts of these guy's positions that have been reported over the past week or so throughout the general medi
Who's right?
In this case, none of them are right but there is a high hypocracy quotient.
Some other players in this battle for two faces are Sen.s Edward Kennedy and John F. Kerry. Both bashing any effort to increase US oil production, both wanting to preserve the scenic views of their porperty in Nantucket by opposing wind power there.
In the first place, this wind power business is fine for experimenting at this time, even large scale, but don't fool yourself into thinking it can dent the energy requirements of the US. Same with solar and biomass, it is just so much hot air and BS.
My vote is for wacky schemes like these to be constructed on the property of the politician wishing to impose it on the rest of us. Obviously the Kennedy/Kerry alliance wants the issue for something to complain about. The longer it is delayed the more they can complai
The 9/11 group had demonstrated the education ability level required for their task. Folks who's only demonstrated education ability is memorizing phrases from a religous book tend to be fundamentalist footsoldiers (across many cultures) but frequently are not trainable to the technical level required to take over an aircraft and use it as a weapon.
Atta & company were fundamentalists, by all accounts, but had demonstrated the ability, in advance, to be good religious fundamentalist candidates could learn how to fly an airplane.
If this combination were more common I have no doubt that there would have been many more hijacked airplanes on 9/11/0
it is a right-wing attack on independent journalists however.
I believe Independant should be in italics and capitalized, since that is who the dolt was writing for when he got caught spinning his BS for the verbing of his name.
Yep. Fisking is ideology neutral.
Maybe Apple Records (the Beatles) can dust off their threatened lawsuit against Apple (that was settled with licensing IIRC)?
Is this acceptable, or another mis-step down the slippery slope?
No, it is not acceptable.
Slipper slope is not the proper phrase (but please excuse some of my improper spelling), this is a bad policy.
Slippery-slope implies some difference between the top and the bottom.
Umm, backiiing up a little, since when do lawful investigations need to be anounced to the targets anyway?
This has to be the funniest set of threads to ever appear under one of my posts.
Thank you one and all!
Then we get to keep genetically modified food!
:(
Oh yea, you want us to keep that anyway
Okay, we keep cars that run, chicks with teeth, who bathe and who shave so silky smooth.
You keep drafty castles.
We keep well heated homes with hot water on demand.
We keep $1.35 gasoline AND Moble 1.
You keep Socialism.
We keep Capitalism.
You keep monarchy.
We keep Democratic Republicanism.
Can we give you Northern California and Manhattan-south-of-Harlem? No trade needed, they just act so much like france that it is really annoying.
NO YOU CAN NOT GIVE US france!