Food factories have government inspectors who regularly perform checks to ensure quality. Newspapers must perform such checks on their own. In this case, the inspectors were more concerned with advancing the career of a minority than their product quality. Adulterated contents were allowed to be released to the public, and yet the inspectors insist they did their jobs correctly.
The only reason they ran the story is because the fraud was exposed by a third party, the Texas newspaper. A coverup was impossible. The NYT editors are currently denying all responsibility. My favorite quote: "If executive editor Howell Raines were at Enron, his name would be Kenneth Lay." The story also includes a defense from the New Republic, which I find to be rich, rich, rich, as well as utterly hilarious.
Interestingly, here is another story by the Chicago Sun-Times, in which the reporter admits doing exactly what you state, firing reporters quietly and covering everything up.
Because twits with no real life play computer games, and ever since the (recent) advent of fancy graphics, computer games have ceased to run well on all computers. To optimize this requires a large investment in computer hardware, which ages quickly and must be replaced frequently. Choosing hardware has spawned an entire industry of review sites and driver discussions. None of which, of course, has anything to do with the game itself, the only purpose is geeking out.
Needless optimization to a ridiculous extent has long been a character trait of the obsessive in general, and the no-life geek specifically. Sometimes this is good, as when operating systems become optimized. But since the decline of programming as the primary use of computers, people who don't know the first thing about programming are the new, primary users. These folks run games for no other reason than to utilize their computing power.
The whole idea behind Doom 3 isn't to have a great game, it's to provide an exciting new platform that will cause these nerds to buy new, exciting hardware and spend months tinkering with their Windows systems (no programming will be done, naturally!) in order to optimize this new challenge. The actual gameplay is a tertiary concern at best.
Gosh, if they hadn't made any nuclear weapons, they wouldn't be in this mess, eh? But this is easily dispelled by a few minutes of chanting "IT'S ALWAYS AMERICA'S FAULT". There, don't we all feel better now?
With $43,300,000,000.00 in cash on hand (not to mention borrowing ability) Microsoft can discount its sales well into the next century, long after linux and the PC platform it runs on are history. Just in case you need an idea to imagine just how much cash this is, it's enough to:
Pay off the national debt of Russia
Purchase the entire U.S. airline industry
Make 216 box-office flops on the magnitude of Waterworld
Wait...putting reporters in combat units where they can show pictures of dead Iraqis and document U.S. atrocities is a BAD thing?
Or else the reporters could simply work for big leftist newspapers. That way, they can just invent stories. They might get caught, but if their skin is the right color it'll just be brushed aside.
Myself, I listen to any station from 87 to 92 FM. That's the non-commercial band (for now) and while you probably won't find great music there, at least you won't have any commercials. I can stand endless repetition of the same songs on the drive to work, but what makes me change the channel is twenty minutes of commercials and DJ talk every hour. These non-commercial stations frequently play sucky music (college radio) or liberal drivel (NPR), but at least I don't have the god-damned commercials.
We really need to shut down USENET as well, as it's a major conduit for the distribution of warez. FTP is also a big problem. The world wide web is a major, major conduit for the distribution of warez. And don't even talk to me about filesharing networks...all major conduits for the distribution of warez.
It's more the idea of, the U.N. has ceased to represent the views of its member states. When a second-rate power like France can block the will of the world's nations (and make no mistake, France, Germany, and Russia were the only nations not supporting the U.S. but of course the media didn't make it look like that), then perhaps it's time for a re-evaluation of just exactly why the U.N. exists, and what benefits there are to belonging.
What rights does it have to break that contract now and say it doesn't want to be a part of it any longer.
Why, the rights of a soverign nation-state, of course. You're familiar with those, right? Otherwise you wouldn't be shooting your mouth off making yourself look like a fool in a public discussion? The U.N. isn't some super-state that binds the world together, it's really more like a country club. Would you want to be a member of a club who puts Libya and Cuba on its human rights commission?
Bull-honkey...there are lots of other movie stories that are worthwhile. Blotting out the entire category isn't worth it because a slashdot editor thinks Hollywood gossip is interesting.
It's remarkable how parochial and unsohpisticated New Yorkers actually are. The only other places I've ever heard the nearest metropolis called "the city" are way the heck out in rural America, where it's widely known (to New Yorkers) the stupidest people on the planet live.
Agreed, any man who can't laugh at himself being goofy is likely a royal prick. Hollywood seems to breed these types for some reason. Anyone who has lived in L.A. for any period of time can tell a story about how poorly they were treated in a social situaton by an actor, agent, or entertainment lawyer.
That charter is a leftover from the bygone age of the Clausewitzian concept of war between nations. We're in a new age now of asymmetric war between nations and non-state actors. The U.N.'s role in refusing to accept change was a major reason it was consigned to the dustbin of history.
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Food factories have government inspectors who regularly perform checks to ensure quality. Newspapers must perform such checks on their own. In this case, the inspectors were more concerned with advancing the career of a minority than their product quality. Adulterated contents were allowed to be released to the public, and yet the inspectors insist they did their jobs correctly.
Interestingly, here is another story by the Chicago Sun-Times, in which the reporter admits doing exactly what you state, firing reporters quietly and covering everything up.
Needless optimization to a ridiculous extent has long been a character trait of the obsessive in general, and the no-life geek specifically. Sometimes this is good, as when operating systems become optimized. But since the decline of programming as the primary use of computers, people who don't know the first thing about programming are the new, primary users. These folks run games for no other reason than to utilize their computing power.
The whole idea behind Doom 3 isn't to have a great game, it's to provide an exciting new platform that will cause these nerds to buy new, exciting hardware and spend months tinkering with their Windows systems (no programming will be done, naturally!) in order to optimize this new challenge. The actual gameplay is a tertiary concern at best.
If you can't trust the New York Times, how the heck can you trust a shady corporation like Microsoft?
Gosh, if they hadn't made any nuclear weapons, they wouldn't be in this mess, eh? But this is easily dispelled by a few minutes of chanting "IT'S ALWAYS AMERICA'S FAULT". There, don't we all feel better now?
Who the hell brought up Fox News? Are they inventing stories and refusing to discipline reporters who are the right color?
It's not a bad thing morally. It's a bad thing for anyone who listens to radio.
Or else the reporters could simply work for big leftist newspapers. That way, they can just invent stories. They might get caught, but if their skin is the right color it'll just be brushed aside.
Myself, I listen to any station from 87 to 92 FM. That's the non-commercial band (for now) and while you probably won't find great music there, at least you won't have any commercials. I can stand endless repetition of the same songs on the drive to work, but what makes me change the channel is twenty minutes of commercials and DJ talk every hour. These non-commercial stations frequently play sucky music (college radio) or liberal drivel (NPR), but at least I don't have the god-damned commercials.
AOL has 'rooms'. IRC has channels.
We really need to shut down USENET as well, as it's a major conduit for the distribution of warez. FTP is also a big problem. The world wide web is a major, major conduit for the distribution of warez. And don't even talk to me about filesharing networks...all major conduits for the distribution of warez.
Why hasn't Outlook been fixed yet? What happened to Microsoft's legendary quick fix responses to exploits?
So, I'm curious to ask, how does this worm get in? Ten to one, it's a MS OS bug?
Oh wait, slashdot staff doesn't read comments. Right. My mistake.
What rights does it have to break that contract now and say it doesn't want to be a part of it any longer.
Why, the rights of a soverign nation-state, of course. You're familiar with those, right? Otherwise you wouldn't be shooting your mouth off making yourself look like a fool in a public discussion? The U.N. isn't some super-state that binds the world together, it's really more like a country club. Would you want to be a member of a club who puts Libya and Cuba on its human rights commission?
I wonder how many people, offered his place, would have also refused. I'm guessing, "zero".
Bull-honkey...there are lots of other movie stories that are worthwhile. Blotting out the entire category isn't worth it because a slashdot editor thinks Hollywood gossip is interesting.
It's remarkable how parochial and unsohpisticated New Yorkers actually are. The only other places I've ever heard the nearest metropolis called "the city" are way the heck out in rural America, where it's widely known (to New Yorkers) the stupidest people on the planet live.
Agreed, any man who can't laugh at himself being goofy is likely a royal prick. Hollywood seems to breed these types for some reason. Anyone who has lived in L.A. for any period of time can tell a story about how poorly they were treated in a social situaton by an actor, agent, or entertainment lawyer.
Yeah but if you subject your co-workers, even lower-ranking ones, to abuse you'll be disciplined. Not so in Hollywood.
That charter is a leftover from the bygone age of the Clausewitzian concept of war between nations. We're in a new age now of asymmetric war between nations and non-state actors. The U.N.'s role in refusing to accept change was a major reason it was consigned to the dustbin of history.
Yeah that's what I mean. They're next to impossible to find unless you're in a downtown area of a major city.
What U.N. resolution did this violate?