Since Real's CEO Rob Glaser is on the board of Air America and a major financial backer of the venture, it's highly unlikely that particular radio network will be climbing out of 1998 anytime soon.
Which is just as well, as the only thing listenable on the whole feed is the Franken show, except for those many periods when his co-host is sucking all the oxygen out of the studio...
Yeah, and lemme take a look at that when you've pieced it together.
"Our?" Who's "us?" Do you mean to imply that there is some commonality among the people posting on slashdot beyond gadget-fetish? The editors would like it if we were all left-leaning anti-copyright urban CTO's (so would their advertisers, for that matter...), but you need only spend 20 minutes here to realize that there is no "typical" poster, that our politics are all over the map, and that today's high school and college kids aren't getting nearly enough exercise and fresh air...
support politics and issues that reiterate our beliefs and values as a community
Stop it. You're killing me.
Hey, no, seriously, what would you say are the shared values of an anti-copyrightist/artists-should-be-paid-only-for- their-performances guy and his comrade on the barricade who has obsessively collected every bit of Boba Fett-related merchandise manufactured since the mid-seventies?
accusing a nonprofit entity like the EFF of bad business practices is bizarre.
How is arranging to have fannishly pro-EFF stories, laden with links making it easy to contribute, placed during quarterly EFF fundraising drives, a "bad business practice?" It's genius. And to an EFF lawyer, for whom it may make the difference between flying coach and business class back-n-forth between SF and DC, it's frickin' brilliant.
To assume that/. does not have some system of quid-pro-quo in place to ensure front-page story placement for a client, especially given all the non-Google/EFF slashvertisements, is bizarrely naive.
I mean, let's face it. Yahoo, Reteurs and many others have been doing this sort of thing for years now. Why is it suddenly news that Google have caught up?>
"News?" Who said anything about "News?"
You can't tell me I'm the only one here believing that money is not changing hands here. Because the Google and EFF stories don't appear in the little boxes off to the top and sides of the page does not make them any less than the paid advertisements they are.
I'm sure the rates are premium as well, cuz this site's paid subscribers can't turn them off as we can the 'traditional' boxed and banner ads.
Like the typical right-wing, dingaling argument, this deserves to be laughed at instead of debated
I'm confused: If you're a leftist, why the heck would you want the government controlling your Internet access? If it's government pipe, how big a stretch is it to imagine *Them* controlling what you can/cannot download? Or *not* controlling what you see, just taking copious notes about who downloads what and when? Do you believe that the case for your "right" to Internet privacy is strengthened or weakened by your "right" to free municipal Internet access?
Because then the person who contributed this story could see that 'cite' is a verb, not a noun. "Contribute a cite"! Ugh!
D00d, the person who contributed this story is probably hard at work right now "architecting a Website" with another "knowledge-worker." Cut him some slack...
This was posted the last time we discussed this topic (which feels like just 20 minutes ago...):
(6) "Professional journalist" shall mean one who, for gain or livelihood, is engaged in gathering, preparing, collecting, writing, editing, filming, taping or photographing of news intended for a newspaper, magazine, news agency, press association or wire service or other professional medium or agency which has as one of its regular functions the processing and researching of news intended for dissemination to the public; such person shall be someone performing said function either as a regular employee or as one otherwise professionally affiliated for gain or livelihood with such medium of communication.
New York State Consolidated Laws, Article 7, Section 79-h (a) (6) [findlaw.com]
Leahy is a lawmaker. Lawmakers make laws. There is no glamor for him in enforcing existing (i.e., someone else's) laws.
How many congresspeople do you know who run for re-election on a platform of, "Hey, y'know, we've pretty much got a law for every possible crime imaginable, I just spent my term minimizing bureacracy so Justice, the cops and the courts could do their thing" ?
It's all about the re-election. "Hey, lookit me! The hip Anti-Phish Candidate! A year ago it wasn't even a word, but last week I wrote a law against it!! Who's your Re-Electable Daddy?!"
It's the same headline-generating mentality that prompts these bozos to make cellphone-specific anti-driving-while-distracted laws.
"Free" as in Routers are Purchased by Magic Elves?
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Free Wi-Fi Threatened?
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· Score: -1, Redundant
That kind of free?
Or free as "Using Taxpayer Money" kind of free?
If it's the former, then it's a crying shame, and a terrible waste of elves.
If it's the latter, have the taxpayers forking over the dough had any opportunity to vote how they wanted their money used, vis-a-vis large metro-area technology installations?
I've long had suspicions, but this confirms it: The EFF pays slashdot for all the promotion they get here.
I'm guessing this dupe was due to the fact that the weekly quota of EFF stories was not met as of Friday, Noon, Central Time, so some script in the slashcode kicks in and re-posts an EFF story from days past. (Advertiser charge-backs being a bitch, and all that)
Because global warming can only be stemmed through the wacky anti-US industry restrictions of the Kyoto Treaty?
Dude, being anti-Kyoto treaty doesn't necessarily make one anti-environment, although the media would have one believe so (It's in their best interests to dumb down complex issues into a 22-minute Captain Planet cartoon). Pull that Matrix-plug-thingie out of the base of your neck and do your own thinking on this one.
It's a long-established practice: government needs dough? Tax the smoker/drinker/sex worker/'sinner.' This works because society has conditioned 'the sinner' that he is dangerously self-indulgent, and so such singling out, although perhaps not "fair," is quite possibly "just." The "sinner," for his part, not wanting to draw too much attention to his addiction/habit/fun, usually goes along for the ride.
By testing the retro-online waters [first] with a sin tax, they get all the legal precedents set and groundwork covered with minimal radar blippage. "What, you mean smokers were avoiding paying taxes? Screw 'em!"
Come on, you know I'm right: How many people, even here on liberal/libertarian slashdot, will think when they hear about this, "Ha! Stupid smelly bastards!! Nailed 'em!!" -- before realizing books, music, and Boba Fett dolls could just as easily be next? Of course, by the time we're done schaudenfreud'n the smokers, they'll already be well on their way to ticketing us, um, "normal" folk.
I purchased MS-Office! MS has no say in the platform i run it on
Check the product specs on the side of the software box you purchased. I'll wager "WINE atop Linux" is not included as a supported OS. If you can hack around this, more power to you, but MS is under no legal or ethical obligation to support your efforts.
If I get the latest SUSE distro to run on my toaster oven, but have trouble getting the 5.1 audio to play out through the speakers in the dishwasher, no maintenance agreement in the world is going to get them to return my call...
I conceived of a plan to write a series of stories with the same titles as famous sf shorts, which would pick apart the toalitarian [sic] assumptions underpinning some of sf's classic narratives.
What a coincidence! Just this morning, I myself embarked upon a series of drawings intended to undermine the assumptive usage of light and shadow in the French Impressionist movement.
Which is to say, What the Fuck is a Cory Doctorow?
But... "premium members" get access to a version where the articles written by agenda-driven lunatics are color-coded in a red font and the stuff plagiarized and submitted by high school kids on a dare is in blue.
Slashdot Mirror
Does Texas produce anything besides asshats?
Please tell us where you're from.
(I'm certain hilarity will ensue, and I could use a good laugh this morning.)
Since Real's CEO Rob Glaser is on the board of Air America and a major financial backer of the venture, it's highly unlikely that particular radio network will be climbing out of 1998 anytime soon.
Which is just as well, as the only thing listenable on the whole feed is the Franken show, except for those many periods when his co-host is sucking all the oxygen out of the studio...
I know we hate Michael Powell, but have we made up our minds on this guy yet?
Wait a minute, I thought we hated people who assumed everybody on slashdot thought the same way about everything?
I'm confused. Where do I report for hive-mind re-programming?
consolidate our beliefs
- their-performances guy and his comrade on the barricade who has obsessively collected every bit of Boba Fett-related merchandise manufactured since the mid-seventies?
Yeah, and lemme take a look at that when you've pieced it together.
"Our?" Who's "us?" Do you mean to imply that there is some commonality among the people posting on slashdot beyond gadget-fetish? The editors would like it if we were all left-leaning anti-copyright urban CTO's (so would their advertisers, for that matter...), but you need only spend 20 minutes here to realize that there is no "typical" poster, that our politics are all over the map, and that today's high school and college kids aren't getting nearly enough exercise and fresh air...
support politics and issues that reiterate our beliefs and values as a community
Stop it. You're killing me.
Hey, no, seriously, what would you say are the shared values of an anti-copyrightist/artists-should-be-paid-only-for
Is there a wiki for that?
accusing a nonprofit entity like the EFF of bad business practices is bizarre.
/. does not have some system of quid-pro-quo in place to ensure front-page story placement for a client, especially given all the non-Google/EFF slashvertisements, is bizarrely naive.
How is arranging to have fannishly pro-EFF stories, laden with links making it easy to contribute, placed during quarterly EFF fundraising drives, a "bad business practice?" It's genius. And to an EFF lawyer, for whom it may make the difference between flying coach and business class back-n-forth between SF and DC, it's frickin' brilliant.
To assume that
YES! Now I can at long last get rid of that stupid, pointless Sports category!!
Right On!! With the time you save not having to pagedown past the Sports Section, you'll have more time to write in your blog!
I mean, let's face it. Yahoo, Reteurs and many others have been doing this sort of thing for years now. Why is it suddenly news that Google have caught up?>
"News?" Who said anything about "News?"
You can't tell me I'm the only one here believing that money is not changing hands here. Because the Google and EFF stories don't appear in the little boxes off to the top and sides of the page does not make them any less than the paid advertisements they are.
I'm sure the rates are premium as well, cuz this site's paid subscribers can't turn them off as we can the 'traditional' boxed and banner ads.
Like the typical right-wing, dingaling argument, this deserves to be laughed at instead of debated
I'm confused: If you're a leftist, why the heck would you want the government controlling your Internet access? If it's government pipe, how big a stretch is it to imagine *Them* controlling what you can/cannot download? Or *not* controlling what you see, just taking copious notes about who downloads what and when? Do you believe that the case for your "right" to Internet privacy is strengthened or weakened by your "right" to free municipal Internet access?
Because then the person who contributed this story could see that 'cite' is a verb, not a noun. "Contribute a cite"! Ugh!
D00d, the person who contributed this story is probably hard at work right now "architecting a Website" with another "knowledge-worker." Cut him some slack...
It didn't include the word jedi.
It's a science fiction dictionary.
The fantasy dictionary is a different project.
This was posted the last time we discussed this topic (which feels like just 20 minutes ago...):
(6) "Professional journalist" shall mean one who, for gain or livelihood, is engaged in gathering, preparing, collecting, writing, editing, filming, taping or photographing of news intended for a newspaper, magazine, news agency, press association or wire service or other professional medium or agency which has as one of its regular functions the processing and researching of news intended for dissemination to the public; such person shall be someone performing said function either as a regular employee or as one otherwise professionally affiliated for gain or livelihood with such medium of communication.
New York State Consolidated Laws, Article 7, Section 79-h (a) (6) [findlaw.com]
...but are these "three online publishers" journalists?
I'll vote 'No.'
Leahy is a lawmaker. Lawmakers make laws. There is no glamor for him in enforcing existing (i.e., someone else's) laws.
How many congresspeople do you know who run for re-election on a platform of, "Hey, y'know, we've pretty much got a law for every possible crime imaginable, I just spent my term minimizing bureacracy so Justice, the cops and the courts could do their thing" ?
It's all about the re-election. "Hey, lookit me! The hip Anti-Phish Candidate! A year ago it wasn't even a word, but last week I wrote a law against it!! Who's your Re-Electable Daddy?!"
It's the same headline-generating mentality that prompts these bozos to make cellphone-specific anti-driving-while-distracted laws.
That kind of free?
Or free as "Using Taxpayer Money" kind of free?
If it's the former, then it's a crying shame, and a terrible waste of elves.
If it's the latter, have the taxpayers forking over the dough had any opportunity to vote how they wanted their money used, vis-a-vis large metro-area technology installations?
I'm just askin'...
So why are we worried?
Because the EFF wants you to be worried.
The more worried you are, the more likely you are to donate to them.
...although I prefer "shadowy cartel" myself...
Never paid for it in my life, and I'm not about to start. I guess I can be proud of that.
Whaddya proud of? That you're 12 years old? Sure, great, here's a cookie...
They got pudge working on sump'n like this, even as I type:
IF [article_title] contains EFF and [user_name] = "RobotRunAmok" THEN MODIFY (Message_Score) = "-1 Flamebait"
I've long had suspicions, but this confirms it: The EFF pays slashdot for all the promotion they get here.
I'm guessing this dupe was due to the fact that the weekly quota of EFF stories was not met as of Friday, Noon, Central Time, so some script in the slashcode kicks in and re-posts an EFF story from days past. (Advertiser charge-backs being a bitch, and all that)
Am I right, or am I right?
Because global warming can only be stemmed through the wacky anti-US industry restrictions of the Kyoto Treaty?
Dude, being anti-Kyoto treaty doesn't necessarily make one anti-environment, although the media would have one believe so (It's in their best interests to dumb down complex issues into a 22-minute Captain Planet cartoon). Pull that Matrix-plug-thingie out of the base of your neck and do your own thinking on this one.
It's a long-established practice: government needs dough? Tax the smoker/drinker/sex worker/'sinner.' This works because society has conditioned 'the sinner' that he is dangerously self-indulgent, and so such singling out, although perhaps not "fair," is quite possibly "just." The "sinner," for his part, not wanting to draw too much attention to his addiction/habit/fun, usually goes along for the ride.
By testing the retro-online waters [first] with a sin tax, they get all the legal precedents set and groundwork covered with minimal radar blippage. "What, you mean smokers were avoiding paying taxes? Screw 'em!"
Come on, you know I'm right: How many people, even here on liberal/libertarian slashdot, will think when they hear about this, "Ha! Stupid smelly bastards!! Nailed 'em!!" -- before realizing books, music, and Boba Fett dolls could just as easily be next? Of course, by the time we're done schaudenfreud'n the smokers, they'll already be well on their way to ticketing us, um, "normal" folk.
I purchased MS-Office! MS has no say in the platform i run it on
Check the product specs on the side of the software box you purchased. I'll wager "WINE atop Linux" is not included as a supported OS. If you can hack around this, more power to you, but MS is under no legal or ethical obligation to support your efforts.
If I get the latest SUSE distro to run on my toaster oven, but have trouble getting the 5.1 audio to play out through the speakers in the dishwasher, no maintenance agreement in the world is going to get them to return my call...
and we'll end up buying our cars and power systems from them
"Buying?"
heh.
I conceived of a plan to write a series of stories with the same titles as famous sf shorts, which would pick apart the toalitarian [sic] assumptions underpinning some of sf's classic narratives.
What a coincidence! Just this morning, I myself embarked upon a series of drawings intended to undermine the assumptive usage of light and shadow in the French Impressionist movement.
Which is to say, What the Fuck is a Cory Doctorow?
Keep it free. No ads either.
But... "premium members" get access to a version where the articles written by agenda-driven lunatics are color-coded in a red font and the stuff plagiarized and submitted by high school kids on a dare is in blue.
Whaddya think?