I don't think I've ever seen him be unkind to a guest. Even when he pokes fun at a guest, it's never mean spirited. One of his best guests was John McCain.
You're missing the point. Crossfire has hosts that are liberal or conservative in name only, but are really just party operatives and spin doctors. The closest thing there is on CNN to someone who is conservative and yet independent of the Republican party is Lou Dobbs. MSNBC has Chris Matthews, who is a moderate (not a liberal), and seems slightly more independent of either party.
Incidentally, there is a wide spectrum out there in American Politics. If you only believe in Liberal/Conservative, or worse, that Democrat = Liberal and Republican = Conservative, you're doing yourself a huge disservice, and turning important matters into a team sport.
It was rude because he didn't follow Begalla's and Carlson's expectations? It was rude because he criticized them? Have you ever seen Crossfire before?
Was it what he said to Carlson? Carlson practically fed him the lines.
I don't have my opinions feed to me by some silly TV show
Which TV shows do "feed to you your opinions"?
It's like protesters, protesting about Bush all day, but when they're asked why don't they run for president, they just say something dumb like "That's not my job, he's the one who's president!" or some dumb junk like that.
That's pretty good, making stuff up like that. Maybe you should run for office, seeing as how you have such a great creative talent.
The real reason I think John wasn't funny was because he didn't have a team of writers giving him a script to read, he had to do the show live and without a script. There are lots of comedians like that, not funny without their script.
The whole point is that John wasn't being funny, he was being serious, which was his intention. Carlson was the one who was screamingly unintentionally funny. Begalla didn't come off that bad because he didn't give Stewart any big openings.
I think you've also demonstrated that you haven't really watched the Daily Show, so you really don't know what you're talking about.
So, to summarize:
1) Your command of the English language is astounding. 2) Your opinion is "feed" to you buy serious TV shows, not silly ones. 3) You have a talent for making shit up when you want to make a point. 4) You wouldn't know funny if it hit you on the ass. 5) Your opinion matters (especially since it isn't "feed" to you by silly TV shows).
Bush is not an innocent pawn. Don't let the "jes plain folks" image fool you. It's been carefully crafted for your consumption. Does Bush let others (Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rove, etc.) do his dirty work for him? Of course! He's never had to work a day in his life, why should he start now? Make no mistake, however. He's the cancer at the heart of our political sickness.
Sign stealing is about as bad as it gets around here. It happens on both sides and even in the local elections. In fact, in one case, the sign thief was the competing candidate.
I really wish some people would realize that their win-at-any-cost actions (even sign stealing) ultimately do more damage to us all than any possible damage from their candidate losing. This goes for those who spin the truth (which is worse than sign stealing). I hope pudge reads this.
I've got a question in general, but I'll pose it to you since you put targetted in quotes.
Are port scans and other reconnaissance activity considered attacks? Is it correct to call a machine that is the object of such activity targetted? I suspect you'll say no because of the quote marks, but I'm interested in what you and others have to say.
Sorry, looks like hobos are all that's left for Ultimate Games. Too many hunted programmers for their skins, leaving the meat to rot, and not enough practiced catch-and-release, so that the wary geek might live to be hunted again on another day.
Part of the beauty of this scheme (and there are many incredible elements, not the least of which was using the America Votes name), is that the RNC didn't even need to funnel money illegally through a secret slush fund. They could write a check.
That goes to show you how slick these bastards are. They intentionally used the name of a rival organization, so that if/when they were caught, the blow back would hurt the real America Votes. You sort of have to admire such criminal deviousness as well as condemn it.
What about the breakins at Bush Headquarters? This is a pattern- true- but it's a pattern that coveres both sides relatively equally.
Yeah, it's a pattern used by the Republicans themselves.
1) The most famous, the break in of DNC headquarters at the Watergate Hotel.
2) Karl Rove bugging his own office in Texas, then calling a press conference.
While there are examples of Democratic Party chicanerry in our nations history, currently the Republican Party is the institutional master of dirty tricks going back to Nixon. It goes like this: Nixon --> Lee Atwater --> Karl Rove
I'm not saying that there aren't isolated cases of Democrat dirty tricks, but lets face it, the Republicans are masters at this. There's your pattern.
I'm a registered Republican, but I will continue to vote Democrat at the national level until this cancer is removed from my party. Those that support Bush are either dumbasses or pigs, or dumbasses who are so dumb they think they've got a snowball's chance in hell in feeding at George Bush's trough.
Did you give up honesty and fairness in favor of win-at-any-cost partisanship? Is the Republican Party and re-electing George Bush so important that you'll sacrifice your integrity? Please, look at where you're going.
As a side note, you may have noticed that every few years someone publishes a paper on a new way to make transparent polycrystalline alumina, then the non-materials-science media (*cough slashdot*) catches wind and assumes alumina is the same thing as aluminum, and suddenly the prophecy of transparent aluminum from Star Trek IV has come true. It's sort of a running joke in the materials science community
So, you're saying I won't be able to see through my hat?
Outfits pulling these kind of shennanigans should be placed out of business and their principals arrested.
You can't be serious. You can't go locking up Vice President Cheney's Energy Task Force and/or major contributors to the President's re-election campaign. No, far better if we just cut out the middle man, and pay our taxes directly to companies like Halliburton.
Perhaps we need to start making a concerted effort to inform the uninformed about technology issues? Next time you're talking to the technologically clueless you might bring up the subject of DRM/SCO/OSS/IP/etc.
I've been doing this for quite some time with great success, as evidenced by not being invited to parties anymore, friends not answering the phone when I call, and the court ordering me not to approach the postman. I miss the days when telemarketers would call.
That would be accurate unless you're a school system that has had to purchase all new Macs or Windows boxes because the software we are required to use is not available in a format that will run on OS9.
Your school has computer equipment that's 7 or more years old that won't run the new software you want? Boo fucking hoo. Don't blame Apple.
Personally, I think linux us a great solution for schools*, but it sticks in my craw when someone complains that their ancient Mac hardware won't run the software they just have to run now.
*especially because of how it gives new life to old hardware.
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I don't think I've ever seen him be unkind to a guest. Even when he pokes fun at a guest, it's never mean spirited. One of his best guests was John McCain.
You're missing the point. Crossfire has hosts that are liberal or conservative in name only, but are really just party operatives and spin doctors. The closest thing there is on CNN to someone who is conservative and yet independent of the Republican party is Lou Dobbs. MSNBC has Chris Matthews, who is a moderate (not a liberal), and seems slightly more independent of either party.
Incidentally, there is a wide spectrum out there in American Politics. If you only believe in Liberal/Conservative, or worse, that Democrat = Liberal and Republican = Conservative, you're doing yourself a huge disservice, and turning important matters into a team sport.
No, I don't see Richard Lewis as VP, but he'd certainly be in the cabinet. National Insecurity Advisor, maybe.
I thought it was Chris Matthews of MSNBC's Hardball that was challenged to the duel.
What he did was rude.
It was rude because he didn't follow Begalla's and Carlson's expectations? It was rude because he criticized them? Have you ever seen Crossfire before?
Was it what he said to Carlson? Carlson practically fed him the lines.
I don't have my opinions feed to me by some silly TV show
Which TV shows do "feed to you your opinions"?
It's like protesters, protesting about Bush all day, but when they're asked why don't they run for president, they just say something dumb like "That's not my job, he's the one who's president!" or some dumb junk like that.
That's pretty good, making stuff up like that. Maybe you should run for office, seeing as how you have such a great creative talent.
The real reason I think John wasn't funny was because he didn't have a team of writers giving him a script to read, he had to do the show live and without a script. There are lots of comedians like that, not funny without their script.
The whole point is that John wasn't being funny, he was being serious, which was his intention. Carlson was the one who was screamingly unintentionally funny. Begalla didn't come off that bad because he didn't give Stewart any big openings.
I think you've also demonstrated that you haven't really watched the Daily Show, so you really don't know what you're talking about.
So, to summarize:
1) Your command of the English language is astounding.
2) Your opinion is "feed" to you buy serious TV shows, not silly ones.
3) You have a talent for making shit up when you want to make a point.
4) You wouldn't know funny if it hit you on the ass.
5) Your opinion matters (especially since it isn't "feed" to you by silly TV shows).
Haven't we basically said to the Iraqis, "Live Free or Die"?
Bush is not an innocent pawn. Don't let the "jes plain folks" image fool you. It's been carefully crafted for your consumption. Does Bush let others (Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rove, etc.) do his dirty work for him? Of course! He's never had to work a day in his life, why should he start now? Make no mistake, however. He's the cancer at the heart of our political sickness.
Sign stealing is about as bad as it gets around here. It happens on both sides and even in the local elections. In fact, in one case, the sign thief was the competing candidate.
I really wish some people would realize that their win-at-any-cost actions (even sign stealing) ultimately do more damage to us all than any possible damage from their candidate losing. This goes for those who spin the truth (which is worse than sign stealing). I hope pudge reads this.
I've got a question in general, but I'll pose it to you since you put targetted in quotes.
Are port scans and other reconnaissance activity considered attacks? Is it correct to call a machine that is the object of such activity targetted? I suspect you'll say no because of the quote marks, but I'm interested in what you and others have to say.
Sorry, looks like hobos are all that's left for Ultimate Games. Too many hunted programmers for their skins, leaving the meat to rot, and not enough practiced catch-and-release, so that the wary geek might live to be hunted again on another day.
Part of the beauty of this scheme (and there are many incredible elements, not the least of which was using the America Votes name), is that the RNC didn't even need to funnel money illegally through a secret slush fund. They could write a check.
That goes to show you how slick these bastards are. They intentionally used the name of a rival organization, so that if/when they were caught, the blow back would hurt the real America Votes. You sort of have to admire such criminal deviousness as well as condemn it.
What about the breakins at Bush Headquarters? This is a pattern- true- but it's a pattern that coveres both sides relatively equally.
Yeah, it's a pattern used by the Republicans themselves.
1) The most famous, the break in of DNC headquarters at the Watergate Hotel.
2) Karl Rove bugging his own office in Texas, then calling a press conference.
While there are examples of Democratic Party chicanerry in our nations history, currently the Republican Party is the institutional master of dirty tricks going back to Nixon. It goes like this: Nixon --> Lee Atwater --> Karl Rove
I'm not saying that there aren't isolated cases of Democrat dirty tricks, but lets face it, the Republicans are masters at this. There's your pattern.
I'm a registered Republican, but I will continue to vote Democrat at the national level until this cancer is removed from my party. Those that support Bush are either dumbasses or pigs, or dumbasses who are so dumb they think they've got a snowball's chance in hell in feeding at George Bush's trough.
Pudge,
Did you give up honesty and fairness in favor of win-at-any-cost partisanship? Is the Republican Party and re-electing George Bush so important that you'll sacrifice your integrity? Please, look at where you're going.
So, you're saying I won't be able to see through my hat?
Outfits pulling these kind of shennanigans should be placed out of business and their principals arrested.
You can't be serious. You can't go locking up Vice President Cheney's Energy Task Force and/or major contributors to the President's re-election campaign. No, far better if we just cut out the middle man, and pay our taxes directly to companies like Halliburton.
Perhaps we need to start making a concerted effort to inform the uninformed about technology issues? Next time you're talking to the technologically clueless you might bring up the subject of DRM/SCO/OSS/IP/etc.
I've been doing this for quite some time with great success, as evidenced by not being invited to parties anymore, friends not answering the phone when I call, and the court ordering me not to approach the postman. I miss the days when telemarketers would call.
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock... but it is always nice to have a reference manual handy.
You probably want to look at O'Reilly's How to Rock in a Nutshell.
New iMacs don't have Firewire and you can't put it in there.
Huh?
Ahhhh, the wisdom of Unca Frank.
You must be some sort of fantastic retard, and I mean that in the best possible way. Too fucking funny! =)
1 qubit = 1.5 feet, which is why they look so awkward when they walk.
You make one bad point and one good point.
That would be accurate unless you're a school system that has had to purchase all new Macs or Windows boxes because the software we are required to use is not available in a format that will run on OS9.
Your school has computer equipment that's 7 or more years old that won't run the new software you want? Boo fucking hoo. Don't blame Apple.
Personally, I think linux us a great solution for schools*, but it sticks in my craw when someone complains that their ancient Mac hardware won't run the software they just have to run now.
*especially because of how it gives new life to old hardware.
I too am a content creator. In fact I'm off to the toilet now to create some content. I'll donate it to the public domain though.
Digital content is usually ones and zeros, but yours is either number one or number two?
I was idly speculating that this might be an organized crime hit in retaliation for their recent policies on gambling and sex web businesses.
It's not personal, it's business. (cue Brucia la Terra