Thank you. And I'll take this opportunity to clarify further that it's not a "generational thing:" Angelina Jolie: Iconic. Sylvester Stallone: Iconic. Arnold Schwarzenegger: Iconic. Sigourney Weaver: Iconic. Patrick Stewart: Iconic. Carrie Fisher: Talented, a lovely person I am sure, cute as a button at age 19, but not an "iconic actress." Not meant as a dis, just as a point that words mean something...
Actually, you are incorrect. Many if not most private/public companies, journalists, and politicians all use Twitter to disseminate news, bypassing web sites, which they formerly used to bypass the "formal" press. What, an artist's record label reports that one of their marquee acts has died, and the public is supposed to respond, "yeah, sure, I'll believe it when I read it in the Washington Post?'
Obama will issue all sorts of feel-good proclamations and what-have-you between now and 1/20/17, just because it will look good as part of his legacy, which he is busily imagining and crafting. It's a waste of time to afford these any real discussion. He's not serious about any of this stuff at this point, why should we be?
They came to lower the page ranks of the Holocaust Denier sites, but I said nothing, because I was not a holocaust denier.
They came to lower the page ranks of the Intelligent Design sites, but I said nothing because I didn't believe in Intelligent Design.
They came to lower the page ranks of the Climate Change Denier sites, but I said nothing, because I was not a Climate Change Denier.
They came to lower the page ranks of the Pro-Electoral College Sites, I but said nothing because I believe in One Vote for Each American.
They came to lower the page ranks of the Pro-Gun Ownership Sites, but I said nothing, because I believe in stricter gun control.
They came to lower the page ranks of the Life Begins at Conception sites, but I said nothing because I believed that life begins at birth.
They came to lower the page ranks of the Anti-Assisted Suicide Sites, but I said nothing because I believe assisted suicide is okay.
They came to lower the page ranks of the Anti-One Payer Healthcare sites, but I said nothing because I believe in single payer healthcare.
They came to lower the page ranks of the Sugary Drinks and Fatty Foods sites, but I said nothing because I believe everyone should be eating healthy.
They came to lower the page ranks of the Meat and Dairy Industry sites, but I said nothing because I believe meat and dairy are unhealthy.
They came to lower the page ranks of the Alcohol Industry sites, but I said nothing because I stopped drinking a few years ago. Just in time, right??
They came to lower the page ranks of the Legal Marijuana Industry sites, but I said nothing, because I didn't want my boss to know I smoked weed.
They came to lower the page ranks of the Humor and Satire sites, but I said... wait, what???
They came to lower the page ranks of every few remaining sites outside the walled gardens of a few mega-corporations allied with a global Nanny State with vested interests in controlling what people could read, and I said, "Hey, Now! Wait a minute! What about my Apple Gadget Blog?! Nobody can find my Apple Gadget Blog anymore!
See, the Right (and the Middle, for that matter...) has grown up, for generations, knowing there are Other Serious Opinions Out There. They had no choice, the Leftist slant to the media guaranteed that they knew of, would hear, opinions different than their own. The Righties had their favorite Hollywood actors and musicians -- how could they not? -- and they inevitably were interested in what their opinions were on the news of the day. And with very few exceptions, they learned their celluloid idols thought about politics and the world very differently than they did. And for the most part, the Righties said, "well, okay, then."
But the Lefties have lived in a bubble. Their newsfeeds and pop stars and college professors all had the same slanted worldview. "Who could think otherwise?" they wondered, amused at the very notion. They breathed life into a homunculus, some Midwestern Hyuck-Hyuck'ing Cousin-Marrying Religious Zealot who lived in that central two-thirds of the nation that they had never visited and likely never would, and their pop culture machine turned that dorky strawman into a recurring punchline, a mustache-twirling villain, a sad refrain, a sinister scarecrow.
With the Trump victory, and the extension of their lives into online, "virtual" neighborhoods, the Lefties are slowly -- very slowly, maybe so slowly that some of their media enterprises will in fact go under -- realizing that not only are the Righties not as few in number as they thought, they are just as well educated (not necessarily "schooled," but educated) as they are, and most importantly, they are right there, next to them.
Pebble has always been the best looking of among all the others in the niche, while offering the least functionality. Fitbit could have saved even more money by just hiring away Pebble's design team at triple their salaries. Pebble is set to tank in moments as is, and Fitbit would have grabbed all their users on the upgrade cycle (which for gadgets like this is every 18-24 months).
Facebook can do whatever it wants. It built and maintains the walled garden. They have spent millions in tech and marketing, and I don't begrudge them flexing their muscles and blocking whomever they feel threatens them. I wish industry had moved in a different direction (more and more companies aren't even building websites anymore, they are relying solely on social presences), but so it goes. There will one day come a reckoning and a backlash, but I don't think it'll be anytime soon. You've got a full generation of Marketing Chuckleheads who learned FB and Twitter as "The Way" at university, and it'll take a while for them to be convinced enough to unlearn everything their parents paid north of $100K for them to study.
If their market research indicates they can make a profit by streaming American Football and Baseball games into France, I am sure they will. But they should be under no obligation to do so. Why do you believe otherwise?
BeauHD, trashy, salacious gossip about actresses in a SF film is still trashy and salacious gossip. You are single-handedly dragging this once-great site into depths of moronic self-parody unplumbed since the Jon Katz era. Seriously, this is like A Post Too Far. You are in need of an intervention, for the good of your entire organization.
You are correct, sir. The media is intent upon conflating any opinions to the right of Jeb Bush and John Kasich -- i.e., actual conservative opinion -- as "alt-right," and then packaging the term "alt-right" as the 21st century equivalent of Nazi -- especially if the Conservative in question is under 30, or gay. (Because, y'know, all youth and all LBGTQ *MUST* be Liberal, right?) Since many younger conservatives have embraced the term "alt-right" -- mainly because it sounds less fuddy-duddy-ish than "conservative" -- the media hope to get ahead of the curve and manipulate opinions re the language, and so have the alt-right "pre damn" itself in the eyes of the general populace.
I live in a blue state, and it is quite sad how many of the special snowflakes here were not even aware the EC existed until last Tuesday and still believe, even now, that we live in an absolute democracy.
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No, the prez brought to you by a woman with the most smug and incompetent campaign staff in the history of presidential politics.
Same corporations, day in day out. C'mon, editors, *dig* a little! The Web is a big place, cast your story nets a l'il bit wider...
Thank you. And I'll take this opportunity to clarify further that it's not a "generational thing:" Angelina Jolie: Iconic. Sylvester Stallone: Iconic. Arnold Schwarzenegger: Iconic. Sigourney Weaver: Iconic. Patrick Stewart: Iconic. Carrie Fisher: Talented, a lovely person I am sure, cute as a button at age 19, but not an "iconic actress." Not meant as a dis, just as a point that words mean something...
The actress? Not so much. Greta Garbo: Iconic. Bette Davis: Iconic. Carrie Fisher's Mom, Debbie Reynolds: Iconic. But Carrie herself? No.
Actually, you are incorrect. Many if not most private/public companies, journalists, and politicians all use Twitter to disseminate news, bypassing web sites, which they formerly used to bypass the "formal" press. What, an artist's record label reports that one of their marquee acts has died, and the public is supposed to respond, "yeah, sure, I'll believe it when I read it in the Washington Post?'
Get with the times, son...
Obama will issue all sorts of feel-good proclamations and what-have-you between now and 1/20/17, just because it will look good as part of his legacy, which he is busily imagining and crafting. It's a waste of time to afford these any real discussion. He's not serious about any of this stuff at this point, why should we be?
They came to lower the page ranks of the Holocaust Denier sites, but I said nothing, because I was not a holocaust denier.
They came to lower the page ranks of the Intelligent Design sites, but I said nothing because I didn't believe in Intelligent Design.
They came to lower the page ranks of the Climate Change Denier sites, but I said nothing, because I was not a Climate Change Denier.
They came to lower the page ranks of the Pro-Electoral College Sites, I but said nothing because I believe in One Vote for Each American.
They came to lower the page ranks of the Pro-Gun Ownership Sites, but I said nothing, because I believe in stricter gun control.
They came to lower the page ranks of the Life Begins at Conception sites, but I said nothing because I believed that life begins at birth.
They came to lower the page ranks of the Anti-Assisted Suicide Sites, but I said nothing because I believe assisted suicide is okay.
They came to lower the page ranks of the Anti-One Payer Healthcare sites, but I said nothing because I believe in single payer healthcare.
They came to lower the page ranks of the Sugary Drinks and Fatty Foods sites, but I said nothing because I believe everyone should be eating healthy.
They came to lower the page ranks of the Meat and Dairy Industry sites, but I said nothing because I believe meat and dairy are unhealthy.
They came to lower the page ranks of the Alcohol Industry sites, but I said nothing because I stopped drinking a few years ago. Just in time, right??
They came to lower the page ranks of the Legal Marijuana Industry sites, but I said nothing, because I didn't want my boss to know I smoked weed.
They came to lower the page ranks of the Humor and Satire sites, but I said... wait, what???
They came to lower the page ranks of every few remaining sites outside the walled gardens of a few mega-corporations allied with a global Nanny State with vested interests in controlling what people could read, and I said, "Hey, Now! Wait a minute! What about my Apple Gadget Blog?! Nobody can find my Apple Gadget Blog anymore!
Not only did a protestor *not* lose an arm to a grenade, but you've lost all your credibility in this conversation due to believing fake news.
See, the Right (and the Middle, for that matter...) has grown up, for generations, knowing there are Other Serious Opinions Out There. They had no choice, the Leftist slant to the media guaranteed that they knew of, would hear, opinions different than their own. The Righties had their favorite Hollywood actors and musicians -- how could they not? -- and they inevitably were interested in what their opinions were on the news of the day. And with very few exceptions, they learned their celluloid idols thought about politics and the world very differently than they did. And for the most part, the Righties said, "well, okay, then."
But the Lefties have lived in a bubble. Their newsfeeds and pop stars and college professors all had the same slanted worldview. "Who could think otherwise?" they wondered, amused at the very notion. They breathed life into a homunculus, some Midwestern Hyuck-Hyuck'ing Cousin-Marrying Religious Zealot who lived in that central two-thirds of the nation that they had never visited and likely never would, and their pop culture machine turned that dorky strawman into a recurring punchline, a mustache-twirling villain, a sad refrain, a sinister scarecrow.
With the Trump victory, and the extension of their lives into online, "virtual" neighborhoods, the Lefties are slowly -- very slowly, maybe so slowly that some of their media enterprises will in fact go under -- realizing that not only are the Righties not as few in number as they thought, they are just as well educated (not necessarily "schooled," but educated) as they are, and most importantly, they are right there, next to them.
Ye gods, that's hysterical! Or absolutely terrifying, not sure which yet... We've gone completely down the rabbit hole..
And Obama and both Clintons were once anti-gay rights. What's your point?
Ah, yes... Angry, frothing ad hominems randomly all-capitalized. The clear, dead giveaway of a religious zealot on the internet...
Authorized by whom, fool? Trump's not in office yet. You're guessing that Obama made the call on behalf of his good buddy Trump?
Pebble has always been the best looking of among all the others in the niche, while offering the least functionality. Fitbit could have saved even more money by just hiring away Pebble's design team at triple their salaries. Pebble is set to tank in moments as is, and Fitbit would have grabbed all their users on the upgrade cycle (which for gadgets like this is every 18-24 months).
Nice, albeit self-centered rant, but you have the reading comprehension of a knob. Also, you wrote "sheeple," so we deduct 10 points.
Facebook can do whatever it wants. It built and maintains the walled garden. They have spent millions in tech and marketing, and I don't begrudge them flexing their muscles and blocking whomever they feel threatens them. I wish industry had moved in a different direction (more and more companies aren't even building websites anymore, they are relying solely on social presences), but so it goes. There will one day come a reckoning and a backlash, but I don't think it'll be anytime soon. You've got a full generation of Marketing Chuckleheads who learned FB and Twitter as "The Way" at university, and it'll take a while for them to be convinced enough to unlearn everything their parents paid north of $100K for them to study.
If their market research indicates they can make a profit by streaming American Football and Baseball games into France, I am sure they will. But they should be under no obligation to do so. Why do you believe otherwise?
Jargon will always be thick in a tech site. What you are hip-deep- in here are lazy and/or poorly trained editors who do not properly frame the story.
I'll chill out if you promise never to say "cute inside look" ever again. Deal?
BeauHD, trashy, salacious gossip about actresses in a SF film is still trashy and salacious gossip. You are single-handedly dragging this once-great site into depths of moronic self-parody unplumbed since the Jon Katz era. Seriously, this is like A Post Too Far. You are in need of an intervention, for the good of your entire organization.
A private company can do as they wish unless they don't want to bake a cake for someone. Then it's a Hate Crime.
You are correct, sir. The media is intent upon conflating any opinions to the right of Jeb Bush and John Kasich -- i.e., actual conservative opinion -- as "alt-right," and then packaging the term "alt-right" as the 21st century equivalent of Nazi -- especially if the Conservative in question is under 30, or gay. (Because, y'know, all youth and all LBGTQ *MUST* be Liberal, right?) Since many younger conservatives have embraced the term "alt-right" -- mainly because it sounds less fuddy-duddy-ish than "conservative" -- the media hope to get ahead of the curve and manipulate opinions re the language, and so have the alt-right "pre damn" itself in the eyes of the general populace.
>>where they can't be seen and can whiter and die.
Freudian Slip Much...?
I live in a blue state, and it is quite sad how many of the special snowflakes here were not even aware the EC existed until last Tuesday and still believe, even now, that we live in an absolute democracy.
to wide what??