Metrics? For representing date information? Are you out of your fucking mind?
Yes, we Americans have "our own" date and time system that isn't metric. (Same with the rest of the world, by the way, except for those idiots at Swatch who just want to sell more cheesy plastic watches.) So I guess we're a bunch of assholes who are too damn stupid to figure out metrics, right??
Am I the only one here on Slashdot who's fed up with the knee-jerk America bashing???
I didn't say the NYT was unbiased. My gripe is with those that conside the media as one collective group. The media is not the borg.
Sorry, I didn't mean to imply you said that. I would have been more accurately reflecting my opinion if I replaced "you" with "one" in my original post.
* we do not include Rush, talk radio, or Fox News (Number 1 in cable news) in our def of the media.
The difference is, when you listen to Rush or talk radio in general, you know you're getting opinions. When you read slanted news stories in the New York Times, you're getting opinions disguised as news.
If you think the NYT is unbiased, then you're in a parallel universe, and there's not much point talking to you about this...
Odd, considering a tornado is likely to take down telephone polls across a wide area, but will only rarely strike a tower. And the mobile phone can come with you anywhere you want.
A tornado will strike a cell phone tower...assuming said tower is situated in a trailer park.
I guess I'm just an alarmist, but when you need to call someone, a land line is significantly more reliable than a cable phone or cell phone.
True. Also, cellular doesn't have enough capacity. On Sept. 11, 2001, it took about 6 hours before the cell circuits would even let one of my calls go through (I live in NYC). Needless to say, it left me with a few rattled relatives.
Some liberal modded this down because he/she didn't like the content, so I'm reposting it:
Economic sanctions mean nothing if one or more countries are willing to ignore them.
There was an arms embargo on Iraq, remember? Well, somehow Iraq ended up with some pretty new French missiles, which were used to fire upon the Baghdad hotel a couple of weeks ago.
Economic sanctions mean nothing if one or more countries are willing to ignore them.
There was an arms embargo on Iraq, remember? Well, somehow Iraq ended up with some pretty new French missiles, which were used to fire upon the Baghdad hotel a couple of weeks ago.
The UN had nothing to do with that...what kept world peace for those years was the nuclear bomb and the balance of power between the U.S. and the Soviet Union.
That's because the public doesn't care. Only people who hang out on Slashdot care. And even then, most of them simply want a product that works rather than one that's Free (remember, most Slashdot users use IE).
Don't forget, though...from the perspective of most users, IE is more free than, say, Mozilla: both cost nothing (again, the average user views IE as being "free" with the OS), but Mozilla requires a download and an install, also known as your time.
So, IE "costs nothing" and so does Mozilla. But Mozilla takes up time, and time is money. Therefore, IE is more free than Mozilla.
This is not flamebait, just a view from the world of your average user.
Just making sure. Most Dean supporters I've run into know very little about his politics...they just like his venom. But I'm glad you've avoided that pitfall.
I take it you also disagree with his statement that he "[wants] to be the candidate for guys with Confederate flags in their pickup trucks."
FOX "News" and its chairman Ailes, and Symantec with this filtering product, are on opposite sides of the political spectrum; but they represent the exact same kind of threat to freedom.
How exactly? Symantec is preventing speech from being heard, in effect reducing the amount of speech in this country by hindering a certain portion of it.
Fox News is adding to the amount of speech out there by presenting viewpoints on issues that the traditional media largely ignores. Fox News is not stifling anyone's speech or in any way reducing the amount of speech.
Funny that you oppose gun rights and you support Howard Dean, who was such a staunch supporter of gun rights (before he decided to seek the Democratic presidential nomination, that is) that he received the highest possible rating from the NRA on guns rights during his tenure as Vermont's governor...
As far as I knew residential phone service was still monoopoly controlled everywhere (and rightly so).
Rightly so? Care to explain to the rest of us what you take as gospel: that monopolies are good things?
While it may be maddening to deal with multiple companies, and while those companies may not always use the most honorable of tactics, my phone service has gotten continuously cheaper since the monopolies were broken here in the U.S.
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Yes, we Americans have "our own" date and time system that isn't metric. (Same with the rest of the world, by the way, except for those idiots at Swatch who just want to sell more cheesy plastic watches.) So I guess we're a bunch of assholes who are too damn stupid to figure out metrics, right??
Am I the only one here on Slashdot who's fed up with the knee-jerk America bashing???
I was wondering what that mess was...
MOD PARENT UP: +5, Funny
Here's a tip for ya: if you don't want to get fined, wait for the light to change from red to green before proceeding through the lane.
So you'd mod yourself down if only you could moderate discussions to which you've posted?
Odd how it works over there...the workings of the courts are always the responsibility of the party currently in power???
Sorry, I didn't mean to imply you said that. I would have been more accurately reflecting my opinion if I replaced "you" with "one" in my original post.
Calm down. It's funny.
Yeah, because Al Franken is an unbiased, impartial observer with no political axe to grind...
Puh-leeze...!
* we do not include Rush, talk radio, or Fox News (Number 1 in cable news) in our def of the media.
The difference is, when you listen to Rush or talk radio in general, you know you're getting opinions. When you read slanted news stories in the New York Times, you're getting opinions disguised as news.
If you think the NYT is unbiased, then you're in a parallel universe, and there's not much point talking to you about this...
Get your facts right. Phil Donahue had the worst-rated on cable news in that timeslot.
They are. Even noted leftists Walter Cronkite and Camille Paglia admit it.
A tornado will strike a cell phone tower...assuming said tower is situated in a trailer park.
True. Also, cellular doesn't have enough capacity. On Sept. 11, 2001, it took about 6 hours before the cell circuits would even let one of my calls go through (I live in NYC). Needless to say, it left me with a few rattled relatives.
Economic sanctions mean nothing if one or more countries are willing to ignore them.
There was an arms embargo on Iraq, remember? Well, somehow Iraq ended up with some pretty new French missiles, which were used to fire upon the Baghdad hotel a couple of weeks ago.
With friends like the French, who needs enemas.
There was an arms embargo on Iraq, remember? Well, somehow Iraq ended up with some pretty new French missiles, which were used to fire upon the Baghdad hotel a couple of weeks ago.
With friends like the French, who needs enemas.
If the UN can't tell the difference between a dictatorship and a democracy, well then I sure as hell don't want it controlling the Internet!
The UN had nothing to do with that...what kept world peace for those years was the nuclear bomb and the balance of power between the U.S. and the Soviet Union.
Don't forget, though...from the perspective of most users, IE is more free than, say, Mozilla: both cost nothing (again, the average user views IE as being "free" with the OS), but Mozilla requires a download and an install, also known as your time.
So, IE "costs nothing" and so does Mozilla. But Mozilla takes up time, and time is money. Therefore, IE is more free than Mozilla.
This is not flamebait, just a view from the world of your average user.
I guess nothing except for the military that saved their asses from Hitler.
I take it you also disagree with his statement that he "[wants] to be the candidate for guys with Confederate flags in their pickup trucks."
How exactly? Symantec is preventing speech from being heard, in effect reducing the amount of speech in this country by hindering a certain portion of it.
Fox News is adding to the amount of speech out there by presenting viewpoints on issues that the traditional media largely ignores. Fox News is not stifling anyone's speech or in any way reducing the amount of speech.
Funny that you oppose gun rights and you support Howard Dean, who was such a staunch supporter of gun rights (before he decided to seek the Democratic presidential nomination, that is) that he received the highest possible rating from the NRA on guns rights during his tenure as Vermont's governor...
I wish I had some modifier points to give...
As far as I knew residential phone service was still monoopoly controlled everywhere (and rightly so).
Rightly so? Care to explain to the rest of us what you take as gospel: that monopolies are good things?
While it may be maddening to deal with multiple companies, and while those companies may not always use the most honorable of tactics, my phone service has gotten continuously cheaper since the monopolies were broken here in the U.S.