I second that. You don't need to look too far to see how braindead PETA's arguments are. At one point, it was revealed that the majority of PETA donors owned at least two pets. This despite the fact that the organization's bylaws specifically prohibited pet ownership, calling it animal slavery or something similar.
Not that they are completely stupid. Leather is by far the most widely distributed form of animal pelts. So why is it that paint throwing PETA activists almost exclusively target women wearing furs? Heck if I had my choice, I'd choose a pouting prima donna over getting my ass kicked by a bunch of bikers any day.
Obviously there is overlap in these (they all cover HMMs for example) but they each approach real computer science problems in detail and from different points of view.
Traditionally almost all bioinformatics tools have been done in perl
Not really. Perl is used a lot for parsing output and tying things together, for the reasons that you have stated above. Also, bioinformatics is very web-centric and a lot of people build web-apps in Perl. Java is used a lot for building GUIs. Most of your heavy duty algorithms are written in C or C++. BLAST is probably the number 1 bioinformatics tool in use today and that is written in C. In short, the programming language chosen is often the one best suited to the job.
Granted, you run into people (primarily in academia) who only program in Perl or Java or Fortran. But the most useful tools are often ported.
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(Assuming you are using Linux:-) For mp3 and.wav files, try Normalize
It will adjust the volume on your files in batch mode. Also, version.7 apparently includes a XMMS plugin.
Of course you can always use notlame, mpg123, sox and other tools to do a variety of other things with mp3s and wavs. For an example of how to do this, take a look at preparing the tracks.
I think your point is somewhat valid but you should recognize that traditionally the vast majority of men also did not have any say in choosing their profession. You were a farmer because you were born on a farm. You were a blacksmith because your father was able to negotiate an apprentiship for you when you were 11. When we point to people who were able to choose their profession they are often isolated examples of people from a privileged class.
Biologists often define different species as distinct populations of animals incapable of interbreeding. However that definition has become more refined in recent years. Some boiologists accept a definition of seperate species where two populations are technically capable of interbreeding but practically incapable (due to differences in mating calls for example).
It would be interesting indeed if such groups were found to exist in humans. Perhaps what silicon valley needs is an agressive program to import supermodels and counteract the current affects.
50,000 years ago our basic occupation consisted of finding an animal that looked tasty and pursuing it until it was dead. Persistance, obsession even addiction were rewarded by a nice mammoth meal that made us stronger and better able to compete.
Men in particular are wired to concentrate on one thing for long stretches of time to the exclusion of all else. It's what makes us good hunters, race car drivers, computer programmers and geeks. I'm not saying that women aren't also affected by this. They are, but not nearly as often (the group is afterall the Ever Quest Widows.)
With apologies to Rob Becker who has based a one man play on this and other "philosophies".
Sterling claims this in his article. It would seem to add some extra cache to his Lessig quotes but it doesn't seem to be true, according to Lessig's cv.
Perhaps this is what confused Sterling. Lessig was asked by Judge Jackson to submit a brief in the Microsoft case and apparently it was quite influential.
This is the sort of thing that Microsoft should be doing as part of their standard charitable giving program. I would be surprised to hear if they don't already donate their used computers to poor schools and charitable organizations. They should also practically give their software away to the poorest organizations who probably just use older versions of their software that has long been paid for.
So if that is the case, any financial experts out there want to comment on the financial benefits derived from classifying this expense as a settlement from a lawsuit as opposed to charitable giving?
In other words, does giving this stuff away as part of the settlement of a lawsuit allow them to deduct a larger portion of it from their bottom line than they would be able to if they just wrote it off as a donation to charity?
Judging from a lot of the messages above not very many people understand what this article is about.
This is not about the antitrust case with the Department of Justice and many states' attourney generals. That is a seperate matter.
This has to do with private class action suits accusing Microsoft of using their monopoly to overcharge consumers. Granted, this settlement is less than a slap on the wrist for Microsoft. It amounts to something that they should be doing as part of their charitable giving program anyway. But then again, the charge that Microsoft used their monopoly to overcharge customers is a fairly weak one. Even if it did hold up in court it would probably result in $600 million dollars spread across 60 million claimants. In other words, the only people who profit are the lawyers.
Class action suits like this are often BS. They are not brought to punish the offending company or to compensate the offended parties. With rare exceptions, they are brought to make work and money for a bunch of lawyers.
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While your assumption (Birth-growth-senility-death) might possibly be true for IT there are many businesses for which this is not true.
It's hard to argue with the success of companies like Coca-Cola and Anheuser-Busch who pretty much invented the concept of soft drinks and cheap, watered down, tasteless beer for the masses, respectively.
Now I suppose that you could argue that these companies have managed to dominate their markets from inception to present day solely through goverment support but I don't see it.
Imagine a world where...
"OPEC is out of business because the price of oil has fallen to five dollars a barrel,"
Currently the vast majority of commodity chemicals are made from crude oil. That means most everything you own, the synthetic fibers in that cotton blend shirt, the plastic in your keyboard, the tires on your car, down to the aspirin that you take after staring at the computer screen all night; all of it is made from oil.
If oil prices dropped to $5 a barrel, the chemical companies would still crack the oil to get at the compounds that they are interested in, and we would be left with a lot of gasoline. What would we do with that? Burn it? Give it away?
This is why oil is such an integral part of our world. Finding a cheap alternative fuel source is only part of the solution.
Or better yet, start out converting animal waste to Methane and once you've perfected that technology move on to converting human waste. Human waste is tougher to do because it is a lot less uniform (think toilet paper, discarded condoms and all that other stuff tat makes it's way into human waste).
When I was doing my undergrad work, this was my dream. I brought it up with some microbiology professors who pointed out many problems in the real world which prevented this from becoming a reality.
Arguments I've heard against this.
The methane produced is so contaminated with sulfur containing compounds that you can't legally burn the stuff even after scrubbing the exhaust.
Small scale power generation is not really a viable business. I think that this has changed somewhat with the introduction of mechanisms for selling power back to the grid.
The equipment costs so much that the return on capitol would be too low to attract investors.
Fluctuating energy markets make it tough for small time producers to stay in business over the long haul
At the time that Star Wars was released it was widely known that this was the 4th in a series of nine stories. There was a lot of buzz about it because the idea of a prequel was strange to people at the time. I think that "A New Hope" was not part of the title on the movie posters, but I think that it appeared at the head of scrolling text that begins the movie.
Who promised to divide Palestine between the Arabs and the Jews? America and Britain jointly, with Britain providing its backing in
exchange for Jewish support during the First World War.
At the time of the Balfour declaration Palestine was a British
protectorate. America didn't really enter into the picture until around
1939 when Britain had already irrevocably botched the job.
Who drew the borders that separated Kuwait from Iraq? America, following its backing of the Shah's regime.
I've not heard that before. Perhaps it's my inadequate American
education, but I was under the impression that Kuwait was a British
protectorate since 1899.
Who left Africa in such a sorry state that most of the countries
there have never recovered? Britain, France, Belgium, Portugal and Holland. However, you are
presuming that they found them in a state that was otherwise.
I wonder if you would grant the same presumption to the United States?
After all that was my point. The world is pretty messed up today. We're
just trying to do the best we can with what we've got.
America's record on foreign affairs has been spotty. We've had some
successes and a lot of failures. But over the last 200 years I'd put our
foreign policy up against that of Britain, Germany, Austria, Belgium,
Portugal, Spain, France, Italy, the Soviet Union or the Ottoman Empire
any day.
And after all of that what's the big crime that the United States
has committed? They got into the colonialism business too late, after it
had already gone out of style. Precisely. Failure to learn from experience is bad.
Oh, we've learned from experience. We have updated the concept of colonialism. In
some ways, we are more deceitful about it, supporting cooperative
governments rather than sending our own Governors. But in other ways, we
are more humane. Are we perfect? No, but who is?
You mean Michael Moorcock writes science fiction and fantasy novels? I've seen his books before but from the name I'd concluded that they had been mis-shelved from the erotica section.
I mean... Michael Moorcock. That's almost as good as Dirk Diggler.
England banned Indian textiles because it couldn't compete on price, then they conquered the country, burned down all the cotton "gins", cut the thumbs of the home-weavers, and reimported massive amounts of cotton back home. Then, and _only_ then, did they proclaim the need for "open" markets.
Those of you who are so quick to blame the Americans for the Third world's hatred of the West would do well to read this and other stories like it. To hear you guys whine, you would think that _we_ were the ones who invented colonialism. It's safe to say that most of the problems that we are dealing with today can trace their roots to European colonialism.
After all:
Who promised to divide Palestine between the Arabs and the Jews?
Who drew the borders that separated Kuwait from Iraq?
Who left Africa in such a sorry state that most of the countries there have never recovered?
So now everybody expects the Americans to go around and clean up after your mess.
And after all of that what's the big crime that the United States has committed? They got into the colonialism business too late, after it had already gone out of style.
The rhetoric from this article seems a bit reactionary and overstates the importance of Cookies.
The legislation has triggered concern in Europe's Internet advertising community. The Interactive Advertising Bureau UK (IAB) said British companies could lose 187 million pounds ($272.1 million) if the directive is ratified.
Meadows-Klue admitted the name sounds a bit childish, but said the ramifications of the EU's directive were serious. It could result in the loss of more jobs and more businesses failing in the already-beleaguered Internet sector, he said.
I don't get it. Without cookies, all of those sites that use them legitimately will have to rewrite their code to use a different method of transaction tracking. This would seem to provide more jobs for out of work programmers not less.
Cookies provide a tool for tracking a user's activity within and across sessions. While this is very useful to someone designing a site it is also a potential security and privacy risk.
Much like any tool (Java,.NET, e-mail macros) there are trade offs between security and ease of use. I think it is a good idea that these issues are being scrutinized by the general public.
Personally I am happy with Cookies as they have been implemented: An option in most browsers which can be turned off. I suspect that this European Commission will come to the same conclusion.
Hyperbole? Maybe, but a good mouse will go a long way. One thing that can ruin a good gaming experience is a dirty mouse ball. So eliminate the ball and go with an optical mouse. Otherwise, you will find yourself hunkered down in a corner hiding, while you desperately take apart your mouse to clean it. Alternately cursing and praying the whole time that nobody finds your crippled ass and frags it.
Given the choice of an optical mouse, cordless is definitely not the way to go. I have a Logitech cordless optical. I like it a lot for desktop use, but it has its quirks. Most notably, when you leave it idle for some time, it seems to go to sleep (at apparently random intervals). You have to give it a wiggle or sometimes even a click to wake it up. This is not so bad when browsing the internet, but I would not in any way recommend it for gaming use. Those unusual starts and stops that give you only a slight pause in the desktop environment will quickly drive you nuts.
I can't speak to the Cordless Mouseman Wheel specifically but I should point out that this site gives it very poor ratings for gaming uses.
My advice: Go with a corded optical mouse. Logitech makes a nice one.
Studies like this are fairly artificial since they often simplify the situation and make some questionable basic assumptions. For example, in the late 80s I remember reading a study that proved that a farm which relied on sunlight, the labor of the farmer and his animals and no other external energy input was not self sustainable. Which leads one to wonder, how did we manage to not only survive, but proliferate in the days before fossil fuel?
In any case, the best answer may be a hybrid coal/methanol system as reported in this recent paper. They claim to be able to reduce coal usage by 2.6 million tons and reduce CO2 emmissions by 2.15 million tons while producing 15.4 billion kWh of electricity.
Doh, you fell for it with regards to the Pravda article. The first part of this story is just basically a lead in for a very predictable, hackneyed version of the old "The Jews control the Media" conspiracy theory.
This stuff is as old as the Nazis who made it popular and not any funnier today than it was back then.
Lets analyze the rest of the story a bit shall we?
An AC has already pointed out how misleading their comments about New Zealand are. They make it sound like NZ withdrew from a treaty with the USA in response to our reaction to the terrorism and that they do not support our actions in Afghanistan. In fact NZ withdrew prior to Sept. 11th and they have indicated support for our recent actions.
Pravda brings up a few examples of anti-American sentiment in foreign countries that did not make front page news in the American papers. Their premise is that since these particular stories were not spelled out in screaming headlines that is proof that the American media is suppressing news of opposition to US policy.
Give me a break.
A good portion of the news lately has been dedicated to the negative responses in other countries. We've seen coverage of demonstrations both inside and outside the USA. To claim that this story is being buried by the media is just silly.
Then they suggest the answer to our problems. State censorship of the media! Hey it worked so well for Pravda back in the day.
I agree that the net can be a great source of diverse opinions but you have to be somewhat critical of those opinions. You can't just swallow
them whole. This article is one which should be taken with a major grain of salt.
I think that a lot of people are missing an important point. The key here is the diversity of the reporting found on the net. Sure, CNN was the best place to go for horrific scenes of planes crashing, towers falling and people fleeing. But the net is the best place for information that goes beyond the attacks, for opinions from other parts of the world, for dissenting views within our own society, etc.
Many of us have known this for a long time. I have family overseas and am interested in the news from there. Last year during the Monica Lewinsky scandal it was extremely fustrating for me. Every day CNN and all the other news stations filled each half hour with 25 minutes of astounding details about Clinton's sex life, something that is neither important nor interesting to me. In the remaining 5 minutes they would cover the rest of the USA and if we were lucky there might be a tidbit about someplace else in the world. Even the damn international news programs focused on international opinions about president Clinton's sex life.
I switched to the net for my news a long time ago.
Not that one does not need to be skeptical of the information on the net. There are a lot of people pushing their own opinions as well as a lot of sloppy reporting. Of course we see plenty of this in the western media as well. But then again, I think that I am smart enough to filter out the propaganda and the hyperbole on both sides and form my own opinion.
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Interesting tidbit. The UCA claims credit for hacking your site. Now look at one of the e-mail addresses that Sherman Austin gives for himself here.
Austin, Sherman (SA7399) uca@NETZERO.NET
Note to self: When hacking sites, try to remember not to include my e-mail address on the hacked page I leave behind.
Not that they are completely stupid. Leather is by far the most widely distributed form of animal pelts. So why is it that paint throwing PETA activists almost exclusively target women wearing furs? Heck if I had my choice, I'd choose a pouting prima donna over getting my ass kicked by a bunch of bikers any day.
What I'd love would be a dissection of the construction of various motif analysis tools, critiquing various impl's of HMMs, really going into detail.
Try Pavel Pevzner's Computational Molecular Biology for an overview of many different algorithms; Durbin et al Biological Sequence Analysis for probabilistic approaches (especially Hidden Markov Models); and Baldi and Brunak's Bioinformatics for a machine learning approach.
Obviously there is overlap in these (they all cover HMMs for example) but they each approach real computer science problems in detail and from different points of view.
Not really. Perl is used a lot for parsing output and tying things together, for the reasons that you have stated above. Also, bioinformatics is very web-centric and a lot of people build web-apps in Perl. Java is used a lot for building GUIs. Most of your heavy duty algorithms are written in C or C++. BLAST is probably the number 1 bioinformatics tool in use today and that is written in C. In short, the programming language chosen is often the one best suited to the job.
Granted, you run into people (primarily in academia) who only program in Perl or Java or Fortran. But the most useful tools are often ported.
It will adjust the volume on your files in batch mode. Also, version
Of course you can always use notlame, mpg123, sox and other tools to do a variety of other things with mp3s and wavs. For an example of how to do this, take a look at preparing the tracks.
Because nobody would pay $20 for a bottle of wine made in Nebraska, no matter how much it tasted like expensive French wine.
I think your point is somewhat valid but you should recognize that traditionally the vast majority of men also did not have any say in choosing their profession. You were a farmer because you were born on a farm. You were a blacksmith because your father was able to negotiate an apprentiship for you when you were 11. When we point to people who were able to choose their profession they are often isolated examples of people from a privileged class.
Biologists often define different species as distinct populations of animals incapable of interbreeding. However that definition has become more refined in recent years. Some boiologists accept a definition of seperate species where two populations are technically capable of interbreeding but practically incapable (due to differences in mating calls for example).
It would be interesting indeed if such groups were found to exist in humans. Perhaps what silicon valley needs is an agressive program to import supermodels and counteract the current affects.
50,000 years ago our basic occupation consisted of finding an animal that looked tasty and pursuing it until it was dead. Persistance, obsession even addiction were rewarded by a nice mammoth meal that made us stronger and better able to compete.
Men in particular are wired to concentrate on one thing for long stretches of time to the exclusion of all else. It's what makes us good hunters, race car drivers, computer programmers and geeks. I'm not saying that women aren't also affected by this. They are, but not nearly as often (the group is afterall the Ever Quest Widows.)
With apologies to Rob Becker who has based a one man play on this and other "philosophies".
Sterling claims this in his article. It would seem to add some extra cache to his Lessig quotes but it doesn't seem to be true, according to Lessig's cv.
Perhaps this is what confused Sterling. Lessig was asked by Judge Jackson to submit a brief in the Microsoft case and apparently it was quite influential.
This is the sort of thing that Microsoft should be doing as part of their standard charitable giving program. I would be surprised to hear if they don't already donate their used computers to poor schools and charitable organizations. They should also practically give their software away to the poorest organizations who probably just use older versions of their software that has long been paid for.
So if that is the case, any financial experts out there want to comment on the financial benefits derived from classifying this expense as a settlement from a lawsuit as opposed to charitable giving?
In other words, does giving this stuff away as part of the settlement of a lawsuit allow them to deduct a larger portion of it from their bottom line than they would be able to if they just wrote it off as a donation to charity?
While your assumption (Birth-growth-senility-death) might possibly be true for IT there are many businesses for which this is not true.
It's hard to argue with the success of companies like Coca-Cola and Anheuser-Busch who pretty much invented the concept of soft drinks and cheap, watered down, tasteless beer for the masses, respectively.
Now I suppose that you could argue that these companies have managed to dominate their markets from inception to present day solely through goverment support but I don't see it.
A quote from the article:
...
Imagine a world where
"OPEC is out of business because the price of oil has fallen to five dollars a barrel,"
Currently the vast majority of commodity chemicals are made from crude oil. That means most everything you own, the synthetic fibers in that cotton blend shirt, the plastic in your keyboard, the tires on your car, down to the aspirin that you take after staring at the computer screen all night; all of it is made from oil.
If oil prices dropped to $5 a barrel, the chemical companies would still crack the oil to get at the compounds that they are interested in, and we would be left with a lot of gasoline. What would we do with that? Burn it? Give it away?
This is why oil is such an integral part of our world. Finding a cheap alternative fuel source is only part of the solution.
When I was doing my undergrad work, this was my dream. I brought it up with some microbiology professors who pointed out many problems in the real world which prevented this from becoming a reality.
Arguments I've heard against this.
Actually, some high profile people have done just that. Ed Begley Jr. comes to mind.
At the time that Star Wars was released it was widely known that this was the 4th in a series of nine stories. There was a lot of buzz about it because the idea of a prequel was strange to people at the time. I think that "A New Hope" was not part of the title on the movie posters, but I think that it appeared at the head of scrolling text that begins the movie.
Who promised to divide Palestine between the Arabs and the Jews?
America and Britain jointly, with Britain providing its backing in
exchange for Jewish support during the First World War.
At the time of the Balfour declaration Palestine was a British
protectorate. America didn't really enter into the picture until around
1939 when Britain had already irrevocably botched the job.
Who drew the borders that separated Kuwait from Iraq?
America, following its backing of the Shah's regime.
I've not heard that before. Perhaps it's my inadequate American
education, but I was under the impression that Kuwait was a British
protectorate since 1899.
Who left Africa in such a sorry state that most of the countries
there have never recovered?
Britain, France, Belgium, Portugal and Holland. However, you are
presuming that they found them in a state that was otherwise.
I wonder if you would grant the same presumption to the United States?
After all that was my point. The world is pretty messed up today. We're
just trying to do the best we can with what we've got.
America's record on foreign affairs has been spotty. We've had some
successes and a lot of failures. But over the last 200 years I'd put our
foreign policy up against that of Britain, Germany, Austria, Belgium,
Portugal, Spain, France, Italy, the Soviet Union or the Ottoman Empire
any day.
And after all of that what's the big crime that the United States
has committed? They got into the colonialism business too late, after it
had already gone out of style.
Precisely. Failure to learn from experience is bad.
Oh, we've learned from experience. We have updated the concept of colonialism. In
some ways, we are more deceitful about it, supporting cooperative
governments rather than sending our own Governors. But in other ways, we
are more humane. Are we perfect? No, but who is?
You mean Michael Moorcock writes science fiction and fantasy novels? I've seen his books before but from the name I'd concluded that they had been mis-shelved from the erotica section.
I mean... Michael Moorcock. That's almost as good as Dirk Diggler.
England banned Indian textiles because it couldn't compete on price, then they conquered the country, burned down all the cotton "gins", cut the thumbs of the home-weavers, and reimported massive amounts of cotton back home. Then, and _only_ then, did they proclaim the need for "open" markets.
Those of you who are so quick to blame the Americans for the Third world's hatred of the West would do well to read this and other stories like it. To hear you guys whine, you would think that _we_ were the ones who invented colonialism. It's safe to say that most of the problems that we are dealing with today can trace their roots to European colonialism.
After all:
Who promised to divide Palestine between the Arabs and the Jews?
Who drew the borders that separated Kuwait from Iraq?
Who left Africa in such a sorry state that most of the countries there have never recovered?
So now everybody expects the Americans to go around and clean up after your mess.
And after all of that what's the big crime that the United States has committed? They got into the colonialism business too late, after it had already gone out of style.
The rhetoric from this article seems a bit reactionary and overstates the importance of Cookies.
.NET, e-mail macros) there are trade offs between security and ease of use. I think it is a good idea that these issues are being scrutinized by the general public.
The legislation has triggered concern in Europe's Internet advertising community. The Interactive Advertising Bureau UK (IAB) said British companies could lose 187 million pounds ($272.1 million) if the directive is ratified.
Meadows-Klue admitted the name sounds a bit childish, but said the ramifications of the EU's directive were serious. It could result in the loss of more jobs and more businesses failing in the already-beleaguered Internet sector, he said.
I don't get it. Without cookies, all of those sites that use them legitimately will have to rewrite their code to use a different method of transaction tracking. This would seem to provide more jobs for out of work programmers not less.
Cookies provide a tool for tracking a user's activity within and across sessions. While this is very useful to someone designing a site it is also a potential security and privacy risk.
Much like any tool (Java,
Personally I am happy with Cookies as they have been implemented: An option in most browsers which can be turned off. I suspect that this European Commission will come to the same conclusion.
It's all about the mouse...
Hyperbole? Maybe, but a good mouse will go a long way. One thing that can ruin a good gaming experience is a dirty mouse ball. So eliminate the ball and go with an optical mouse. Otherwise, you will find yourself hunkered down in a corner hiding, while you desperately take apart your mouse to clean it. Alternately cursing and praying the whole time that nobody finds your crippled ass and frags it.
Given the choice of an optical mouse, cordless is definitely not the way to go. I have a Logitech cordless optical. I like it a lot for desktop use, but it has its quirks. Most notably, when you leave it idle for some time, it seems to go to sleep (at apparently random intervals). You have to give it a wiggle or sometimes even a click to wake it up. This is not so bad when browsing the internet, but I would not in any way recommend it for gaming use. Those unusual starts and stops that give you only a slight pause in the desktop environment will quickly drive you nuts.
I can't speak to the Cordless Mouseman Wheel specifically but I should point out that this site gives it very poor ratings for gaming uses.
My advice: Go with a corded optical mouse. Logitech makes a nice one.
Studies like this are fairly artificial since they often simplify the situation and make some questionable basic assumptions. For example, in the late 80s I remember reading a study that proved that a farm which relied on sunlight, the labor of the farmer and his animals and no other external energy input was not self sustainable. Which leads one to wonder, how did we manage to not only survive, but proliferate in the days before fossil fuel?
In any case, the best answer may be a hybrid coal/methanol system as reported in this recent paper. They claim to be able to reduce coal usage by 2.6 million tons and reduce CO2 emmissions by 2.15 million tons while producing 15.4 billion kWh of electricity.
Following your example to its logical conclusion, the solution would be to make methanol production more fun.
Makin' babies has got to be one of the least efficient things that people do, but it sure does set those pleasure centers a'jangling.
Doh, you fell for it with regards to the Pravda article. The first part of this story is just basically a lead in for a very predictable, hackneyed version of the old "The Jews control the Media" conspiracy theory.
This stuff is as old as the Nazis who made it popular and not any funnier today than it was back then.
Lets analyze the rest of the story a bit shall we?
An AC has already pointed out how misleading their comments about New Zealand are. They make it sound like NZ withdrew from a treaty with the USA in response to our reaction to the terrorism and that they do not support our actions in Afghanistan. In fact NZ withdrew prior to Sept. 11th and they have indicated support for our recent actions.
Pravda brings up a few examples of anti-American sentiment in foreign countries that did not make front page news in the American papers. Their premise is that since these particular stories were not spelled out in screaming headlines that is proof that the American media is suppressing news of opposition to US policy.
Give me a break.
A good portion of the news lately has been dedicated to the negative responses in other countries. We've seen coverage of demonstrations both inside and outside the USA. To claim that this story is being buried by the media is just silly.
Then they suggest the answer to our problems. State censorship of the media! Hey it worked so well for Pravda back in the day.
I agree that the net can be a great source of diverse opinions but you have to be somewhat critical of those opinions. You can't just swallow
them whole. This article is one which should be taken with a major grain of salt.
I think that a lot of people are missing an important point. The key here is the diversity of the reporting found on the net. Sure, CNN was the best place to go for horrific scenes of planes crashing, towers falling and people fleeing. But the net is the best place for information that goes beyond the attacks, for opinions from other parts of the world, for dissenting views within our own society, etc.
Many of us have known this for a long time. I have family overseas and am interested in the news from there. Last year during the Monica Lewinsky scandal it was extremely fustrating for me. Every day CNN and all the other news stations filled each half hour with 25 minutes of astounding details about Clinton's sex life, something that is neither important nor interesting to me. In the remaining 5 minutes they would cover the rest of the USA and if we were lucky there might be a tidbit about someplace else in the world. Even the damn international news programs focused on international opinions about president Clinton's sex life.
I switched to the net for my news a long time ago.
Not that one does not need to be skeptical of the information on the net. There are a lot of people pushing their own opinions as well as a lot of sloppy reporting. Of course we see plenty of this in the western media as well. But then again, I think that I am smart enough to filter out the propaganda and the hyperbole on both sides and form my own opinion.