Actually, Rupert Murdoch's networks in the US, Austrailia, and everywhere they operate are pushing right wing politics. Most people support this war because TV told them to. The media can make most people believe anything. They say they are just giving the public what they want, but do so only after telling the public what to want. I wonder, though if Fox will keep Bill O'Reilly, now that he has pulled a Trent Lott.
Bush, Ashcroft et al are on the right side of this issue? Amazing, especially since Fox News is their ministry of propaganda. I think that in the near future, only historians will know what the public domain even was. Here is a piece I wrote when the Eldred vs. Ashcroft case went the wrong way.
College-age kids, and younger are the RIAA's target market, and are the ones who can put them in their place by boycotting the recording industry. Once they go broke, the RIAA and record company execs won't have the resources to bring DMCA lawsuits or any others. Once the current greed for greed's own sake driven record racket dies, a new recording industry run by people who love music can rise from the ashes of the old. That is the way it was back in the day.
The jury is still out on whether El Chupacabra are aliens. They maybe a result of genetic tinkering, or a yet undiscovered species, but those cattle mutilations are El Chupacabra for sure. The worst parts are that El Chupacabra can breed with dogs, and that a Chupa Pup has been on a rampage in New England! Read more,and more, and still more.
Kentucky's do not call list works! Now that California is starting one, all California slashdotters should sign up. You will be glad you did. They will never interrupt your dinner to pitch you something again. The worst telemarketers were burglar alarm pitchmen. They would use a scary tone of voice and abrupt language to make you wonder if the caller was really a burglar casing your house. I am so glad I don't get those any more.
Cnet and ZDnet have been inaccessible for most of the day for the last two weeks. They must have really cut back on bandwidth to save money, or switched from Apache to IIS.
The big problem is that the network refused to take sci-fi seriously, and wanted to make a chilren's show. Also, they ripped off Star Wars, Star Trek, and every other space opera that had ever been produced. It seemed every episode included "Oh No! Boxie and his daggit are in trouble!" Once the Cylons were replaced by the Eastern Alliance, it was too stupid even for young children.
The only space opera that escaped network executives' meddling to any degree was Babylon 5.
Yes, that could get you profiled as a terrorist. Guilt by association. The Patriot act and Patriot act II are worse than any paranoid delusion conspiracy theorists ever cooked up, and they are real! Welcome to The Fourth Reich.
Stryper? Hair bands were not heavy metal. They were just boy bands with a girlish appearance and a fuzzbox. Slayer, Motorhead, Iron Maiden, Megadeth, Metallica, Black Sabbath. That's heavy metal!
If Dubya, Jerry Falwell, and all their fundie lunatic friends get their way, the Apocalypse will happen this year. They were bummed when Y2K fizzled. They thought they'd have their harps and wings, and be shaking hands with their good buddy Jesus by now. Why is Bush, A born again Christian, obsessed with Iraq, which poses no danger to us, and ignoring North Korea, who have nukes, the means to deliver them, and an increasingly belligerent tone? Because the Korean Peninsula is not mentioned anywhere in The Book of Revelations, but Iraq is Babylon. The fundies want their armageddon, and they want it now! They pray for it every day. The end of time is their sole obsession. Don't believe me? Hang out with some of them, or read their literature. These people are as dangerous as Osama, and one of them is in the White House!
Is that the print edition, or are you paying to read time.com? A printed magazine is tangible. People expect to have to pay for that. A website is intangible. Beyond paying an ISP for access, people expect the web to be free. It will be hard to change that.
I like Salon, but not enough to pay to read a website. That is a flawed business model. If advertising won't pay the bills, their demise is probably inevitable. Now, only a generous philanthropist willing to give them a huge grant can save them. Too bad I'm dirt poor, or that might be me.
I have a consumer advocacy website, dontbuycds.org on Fidelity Hosting. They have never given me any grief about the content of that site. They also have left alone my online tabloid, The Uncoveror. I can't complain about them.
So, they are retiring the Ariane-4, which has always worked, and going to the Ariane-5, which is unreliable. Maybe they should just follow NASA's lead and build a giant catapult to launch satellites into space.
The keyboard layout would be much less confusing if Milton Crane would stop whining about his intellectual property, and let manufacturers mark the "Any" Key.
Because of that warning, and the whole orange alert, the recession is over for the survival gear industry. It's Y2K all over again for them. I surmise that the Office of Homeland Security isn't talking about Asteroids, because we face a much greater threat from Space Invaders.
My favorite tech joke is answering technically illiterate people who ask where the "any key" is. The obviously fake virus warnings that idiots keep forwarding are good for a laugh, too.
The saddest thing is that the Canadian parliament, just like all the legislators on the globe will ignore George Radwanski, and others like him. They will not let this opportunity to grab power pass. Global totalitarianism will probably come to pass, followed by World War III, which will probably be Christianity vs. Islam, followed by a new dark age. Einstein said he did not know how we would fight World War III, but he did know how we would fight World War IV. With sticks and stones.
It's a hoax! Deep Junior was only a prop. He was really playing against Boris Spassky. Deep Blue was also just a prop. It was Bobby Fischer who beat Kasparov. Read More.
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Bush isn't going to issue ID cards, he is going to make us get are national ID numbers tatooed on.
Actually, Rupert Murdoch's networks in the US, Austrailia, and everywhere they operate are pushing right wing politics. Most people support this war because TV told them to. The media can make most people believe anything. They say they are just giving the public what they want, but do so only after telling the public what to want. I wonder, though if Fox will keep Bill O'Reilly, now that he has pulled a Trent Lott.
Bush, Ashcroft et al are on the right side of this issue? Amazing, especially since Fox News is their ministry of propaganda. I think that in the near future, only historians will know what the public domain even was. Here is a piece I wrote when the Eldred vs. Ashcroft case went the wrong way.
College-age kids, and younger are the RIAA's target market, and are the ones who can put them in their place by boycotting the recording industry. Once they go broke, the RIAA and record company execs won't have the resources to bring DMCA lawsuits or any others. Once the current greed for greed's own sake driven record racket dies, a new recording industry run by people who love music can rise from the ashes of the old. That is the way it was back in the day.
The jury is still out on whether El Chupacabra are aliens. They maybe a result of genetic tinkering, or a yet undiscovered species, but those cattle mutilations are El Chupacabra for sure. The worst parts are that El Chupacabra can breed with dogs, and that a Chupa Pup has been on a rampage in New England! Read more, and more, and still more.
Kentucky's do not call list works! Now that California is starting one, all California slashdotters should sign up. You will be glad you did. They will never interrupt your dinner to pitch you something again. The worst telemarketers were burglar alarm pitchmen. They would use a scary tone of voice and abrupt language to make you wonder if the caller was really a burglar casing your house. I am so glad I don't get those any more.
Everybody needs to support the Balance act, and not buy any CDs.
Cnet and ZDnet have been inaccessible for most of the day for the last two weeks. They must have really cut back on bandwidth to save money, or switched from Apache to IIS.
The big problem is that the network refused to take sci-fi seriously, and wanted to make a chilren's show. Also, they ripped off Star Wars, Star Trek, and every other space opera that had ever been produced. It seemed every episode included "Oh No! Boxie and his daggit are in trouble!" Once the Cylons were replaced by the Eastern Alliance, it was too stupid even for young children. The only space opera that escaped network executives' meddling to any degree was Babylon 5.
Yes, that could get you profiled as a terrorist. Guilt by association. The Patriot act and Patriot act II are worse than any paranoid delusion conspiracy theorists ever cooked up, and they are real! Welcome to The Fourth Reich.
Stryper? Hair bands were not heavy metal. They were just boy bands with a girlish appearance and a fuzzbox. Slayer, Motorhead, Iron Maiden, Megadeth, Metallica, Black Sabbath. That's heavy metal!
If Dubya, Jerry Falwell, and all their fundie lunatic friends get their way, the Apocalypse will happen this year. They were bummed when Y2K fizzled. They thought they'd have their harps and wings, and be shaking hands with their good buddy Jesus by now. Why is Bush, A born again Christian, obsessed with Iraq, which poses no danger to us, and ignoring North Korea, who have nukes, the means to deliver them, and an increasingly belligerent tone? Because the Korean Peninsula is not mentioned anywhere in The Book of Revelations, but Iraq is Babylon. The fundies want their armageddon, and they want it now! They pray for it every day. The end of time is their sole obsession. Don't believe me? Hang out with some of them, or read their literature. These people are as dangerous as Osama, and one of them is in the White House!
Is that the print edition, or are you paying to read time.com? A printed magazine is tangible. People expect to have to pay for that. A website is intangible. Beyond paying an ISP for access, people expect the web to be free. It will be hard to change that.
I like Salon, but not enough to pay to read a website. That is a flawed business model. If advertising won't pay the bills, their demise is probably inevitable. Now, only a generous philanthropist willing to give them a huge grant can save them. Too bad I'm dirt poor, or that might be me.
Blair and the British government are BPs bitches. Case in point, their harassment of grease car drivers.
You can count on any RIAA sponsored study to produce fudged statistics. I wonder what impact consumer boycotts are having on CD sales?
New life on Mars? Only if the old life on Mars, the Zhti Ti Kofft decide to tolerate newcomers. They have been very unfriendly, historically.
I have a consumer advocacy website, dontbuycds.org on Fidelity Hosting. They have never given me any grief about the content of that site. They also have left alone my online tabloid, The Uncoveror. I can't complain about them.
Interesting stuff. Kasparov still think he is playing against computers. He doesn't know that he's been had.
So, they are retiring the Ariane-4, which has always worked, and going to the Ariane-5, which is unreliable. Maybe they should just follow NASA's lead and build a giant catapult to launch satellites into space.
The keyboard layout would be much less confusing if Milton Crane would stop whining about his intellectual property, and let manufacturers mark the "Any" Key.
Because of that warning, and the whole orange alert, the recession is over for the survival gear industry. It's Y2K all over again for them. I surmise that the Office of Homeland Security isn't talking about Asteroids, because we face a much greater threat from Space Invaders.
My favorite tech joke is answering technically illiterate people who ask where the "any key" is. The obviously fake virus warnings that idiots keep forwarding are good for a laugh, too.
The saddest thing is that the Canadian parliament, just like all the legislators on the globe will ignore George Radwanski, and others like him. They will not let this opportunity to grab power pass. Global totalitarianism will probably come to pass, followed by World War III, which will probably be Christianity vs. Islam, followed by a new dark age. Einstein said he did not know how we would fight World War III, but he did know how we would fight World War IV. With sticks and stones.
It's a hoax! Deep Junior was only a prop. He was really playing against Boris Spassky. Deep Blue was also just a prop. It was Bobby Fischer who beat Kasparov. Read More.