CNN isn't "100% Liberal." Lou Dobbs is pretty anti-illegal immigration and supportive of Bush's business practices, which really ticks off a lot of liberals. They brand Wolf Blitzer as either too conservative or incompetant. If CNN was so liberal, why did they trash Dean, or keep running the Swift Boats story?
CNN is careful to balance who they interview. they will try to keep their liberal and conservatice guests 50-50. Remember crossfire? This wasn't a Hannity and Colmes deal, where one is clearly the leader and the other the timid follower.
CNN pisses me off to no end, but because it's incompetant, not because its too liberal or conservative.
I thought public schools had no control over this sort of thing. Didn't the US Supreme Court case Tinker vs Board of Education settle the issue of free speech in schools (provided it didn't disrupt the classes)?
Private schools can do whatever they want, and should. How can public schools legally play cop off the property?
I disagree with you. John Gibson links Iran's leaders with Democrats. Brit Hume slants towards conservative capitalist ideas, Bill O'Reilly claims to be independent but supported Bush for about 6 years. It's pretty Republican-slanted. Sure they'll criticize Alan Keyes or John McCain, but they are arguably not mainstream or majority.
General Miller was sent from Guantanamo to oversee the Abu Ghraib prison system before the scandal hit; he was credited with finding ways of interrogation at Guantanamo and was asked to do the same at Abu Ghraib. Clearly there's a connection.
That's also along with 2 ex-Guantanamo employees who wrote books on their experiences, interviews with former Guantanamo detainees and FBI reports of abuse. Heck, the Department of Defense had to concede of instances of inappropriate actions like a female guard sitting on a detainee's lap and trying to stroke his hair, or throwing red ink on a man and telling him it was menstrual blood.
Ridiculous. Apple hosts hundreds of thousands of tracks. The odds of you downloading the same track as someone else at the same time are either high (you're downloading a Top 10 single, or non-existant (I want the SNL Richard Pryor and Chevy Chase episode, who else is downloading it at the same time as me?)
AFAIK, Apple adds the DRM before you download the iTunes song or video. It's not going to be the same file for everyone. Even so, if someone figured out how to spoof a connection and download un-DRMed content, it would ruin the store. Apple isn't going to do this, maybe for Software Updates and maybe only for OS X server boxes as being torrent peers, but I doubt it.
Think about it. Bush got laughed at for talking about "human animal hybrids" in his 2006 State of the Union speech. He wanted a perfect wedge issue, like how gay marriage helped him get re-elected.
I like Ebert, though you need Roper to counterbalance him. They both argue why a movie is good or bad, and their split decisions reveal a lot about whether I'm gonna like a movie.
"The star rating system is relative, not absolute. When you ask a friend if Hellboy is any good, you're not asking if it's any good compared to Mystic River, you're asking if it's any good compared to The Punisher. And my answer would be, on a scale of one to four, if Superman is four, then Hellboy is three and The Punisher is two. In the same way, if American Beauty gets four stars, then [The United States of] Leland clocks in at about two." (from Wikipedia)
But the Founding fathers never envisioned landmines or dirty bombs.
It's interesting how the same people who support Bush sending Americans to Guantanamo for allegedly planning on building a weapon, but insist on the unconditional right to bear arms.
Ah, I have some bad news for you, but the book in your sig is factually incorrect. A number of experts have proved the allegations in the book wrong. If you could read Arabic (the actual book), we could discuss this further, but I have a feeling you're just trying to spread something you're not quite comprehending.
I repeat my earlier allegation. Did they sit in on an interrogation, or just visit the general's office? Did they talk to detainees (nope) or did they talk to soldiers on the base? I would imagine they don't want to criticize the prison too harshly, for political reasons. Look at what happened to Senator Durbin, the right went after him hard until he had to drop the issue.
The Army fell short about 6,700 recruits in fiscal year 2005, its biggest shortfall since 1979, its worst year ever. In response, the Army has begun to accept more high school dropouts and Category IV recruits - those who make the lowest acceptable scores on the military's entrance exam.
This is quite troubling. The report notes that the army now appears to be meeting its recruiting goals by admitting high school dropouts. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, the worst SecDef in the history of the country, wants the military to move in the direction of high tech. I'd say he needs a high school and a university within the army if the dropouts are eventually going to operate that machinery.
Amnesty International is making a good case; they know people will lie, but are going on the basis of guard testimony, ex-detainee testimony, and US military declassified reports to show their case. They can't show their own reporting, because the US won't let them in to investigate for themselves. Lousy situation, but that's all they can do.
I don't buy the reports from Republican congressmen that Guantanamo is fine and dandy. What, did they go to the base McDonalds and shake hands with the General? Did they sit in on an interrogation or interview actual detainees? I'm fairly confident that they're going to repeat the "Everything's fine" mantra for political reasons and not the actual truth.
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I thought insulting the people you market to was a No-No.
As Lincoln said, we should be on God's side.
You mean like Operation Mincemeat?
CNN isn't "100% Liberal." Lou Dobbs is pretty anti-illegal immigration and supportive of Bush's business practices, which really ticks off a lot of liberals. They brand Wolf Blitzer as either too conservative or incompetant. If CNN was so liberal, why did they trash Dean, or keep running the Swift Boats story?
CNN is careful to balance who they interview. they will try to keep their liberal and conservatice guests 50-50. Remember crossfire? This wasn't a Hannity and Colmes deal, where one is clearly the leader and the other the timid follower.
CNN pisses me off to no end, but because it's incompetant, not because its too liberal or conservative.
I thought public schools had no control over this sort of thing. Didn't the US Supreme Court case Tinker vs Board of Education settle the issue of free speech in schools (provided it didn't disrupt the classes)?
Private schools can do whatever they want, and should. How can public schools legally play cop off the property?
I disagree with you. John Gibson links Iran's leaders with Democrats. Brit Hume slants towards conservative capitalist ideas, Bill O'Reilly claims to be independent but supported Bush for about 6 years. It's pretty Republican-slanted. Sure they'll criticize Alan Keyes or John McCain, but they are arguably not mainstream or majority.
While your definition of terrorism matches that of the US State department, don't forget the "terror" root in "terrorist."
Are you talking about ECHELON?
Tivo has had Rocketboom podcasts since December 2005 at least. It was a promising start, and I hoped for more.
Nobody disses the Woz!
General Miller was sent from Guantanamo to oversee the Abu Ghraib prison system before the scandal hit; he was credited with finding ways of interrogation at Guantanamo and was asked to do the same at Abu Ghraib. Clearly there's a connection.
That's also along with 2 ex-Guantanamo employees who wrote books on their experiences, interviews with former Guantanamo detainees and FBI reports of abuse. Heck, the Department of Defense had to concede of instances of inappropriate actions like a female guard sitting on a detainee's lap and trying to stroke his hair, or throwing red ink on a man and telling him it was menstrual blood.
You sure you don't mean Mentok, the Mind-taker? OOO-WWEE-OOO.
Ridiculous. Apple hosts hundreds of thousands of tracks. The odds of you downloading the same track as someone else at the same time are either high (you're downloading a Top 10 single, or non-existant (I want the SNL Richard Pryor and Chevy Chase episode, who else is downloading it at the same time as me?)
AFAIK, Apple adds the DRM before you download the iTunes song or video. It's not going to be the same file for everyone. Even so, if someone figured out how to spoof a connection and download un-DRMed content, it would ruin the store. Apple isn't going to do this, maybe for Software Updates and maybe only for OS X server boxes as being torrent peers, but I doubt it.
Wanna see a longer errors page? Check out Spiderman. Comic geeks trounced it.
You can always encode in a lossless format. The iPod takes WAV, AIFF, and Apple Lossless codec.
I smell a campaign issue in 2008!
Think about it. Bush got laughed at for talking about "human animal hybrids" in his 2006 State of the Union speech. He wanted a perfect wedge issue, like how gay marriage helped him get re-elected.
Actually, I think Apple bought their shares back from Microsoft some years ago.
But the Founding fathers never envisioned landmines or dirty bombs.
It's interesting how the same people who support Bush sending Americans to Guantanamo for allegedly planning on building a weapon, but insist on the unconditional right to bear arms.
Ah, I have some bad news for you, but the book in your sig is factually incorrect. A number of experts have proved the allegations in the book wrong. If you could read Arabic (the actual book), we could discuss this further, but I have a feeling you're just trying to spread something you're not quite comprehending.
I repeat my earlier allegation. Did they sit in on an interrogation, or just visit the general's office? Did they talk to detainees (nope) or did they talk to soldiers on the base? I would imagine they don't want to criticize the prison too harshly, for political reasons. Look at what happened to Senator Durbin, the right went after him hard until he had to drop the issue.
This is quite troubling. The report notes that the army now appears to be meeting its recruiting goals by admitting high school dropouts. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, the worst SecDef in the history of the country, wants the military to move in the direction of high tech. I'd say he needs a high school and a university within the army if the dropouts are eventually going to operate that machinery.
My post didn't say anything about paying for it. I was just saying you're implying that Afghans came in and stole it (hard to do on a military base).
I agree with the other poster, a harsh military action will only make things worse. Get the government to mandate their return or something.
Why so quick to say Afghans stole it? How do you know Joe Dropout didn't try pawning them for some heroin?
Amnesty International is making a good case; they know people will lie, but are going on the basis of guard testimony, ex-detainee testimony, and US military declassified reports to show their case. They can't show their own reporting, because the US won't let them in to investigate for themselves. Lousy situation, but that's all they can do.
I don't buy the reports from Republican congressmen that Guantanamo is fine and dandy. What, did they go to the base McDonalds and shake hands with the General? Did they sit in on an interrogation or interview actual detainees? I'm fairly confident that they're going to repeat the "Everything's fine" mantra for political reasons and not the actual truth.