To make matters worse, the review is anti-consumer.
If you look at the Media Access Page, you will see that the federal courts force the FCC to "re-justify every major ownership rule or strike it from the books" every time there is a review.
The problem here is that the same corporations that want the relaxed rules also are among the largest soft-money donors. They buy the legislators and then demand favors.
...this was result of the 2 year anniversary from the last review
The FCC is supposed to review every 2 years, but the last review was actually 8 year ago. In another 8 years things will be pretty awful if the critics are right.
Also, if the media becomes one great big company, who is really going to go up against it? That company would effectively control politics in this country.
I nominate your post for the first "total idiot" -1 mod.
Until you have been arrested and beaten by police at a peaceful rally, I bet you will continue to think you are free.
Until you are held prisoner in a Cuba death camp, I assume you will continue to believe your country respects human rights.
Until you are in a city that is leveled by a nuclear blast and your grandchild dies of radiation poisoning, I'm sure you will think we drop bombs to save lives.
Until you are enslaved and forced to live without basic human needs so the US can have cheap food, you will also surely believe that prosperity is not on the backs of the brown people you secretly hate.
Don't tell me you believe your own lies. See things from a broader point of view and think before you exploit your brother.
The russians never pulled this off, but maybe a communist red flag next to the stars and stripes might knock the Americans off their high horse, or at least, wake them up.
No flag, but they did have the first landing, 2 rovers, and 24 unmanned probes which even returned samples.
In a lot of respects they beat us pretty well on the moon. I think the technical details of unmanned rovers and returning samples all remotely are very cool.
I actually enjoyed the call.
One thing that may be interesting for those who missed it was the statement that "3 independent code teams" looked at the linux code and found "not just a line or 2, but significant code violations".
What is an insignificant violation? Also, if they felt the need to have 3 teams look at it, that seams to suggest that it's a pretty subjective statement to say there is infringement.
Ecosystems adapt. Their ecosystem has changed to accomidate the rats. Now removing them will cause the ecosystem to have to change back. It just sounds kind of dumb.
I know this is nit-picking, but the ecosystem will never "change back".
That's the neat thing about ecosystems. They evolve.
I hear people talking about changing things back all the time, mostly when discussing societal ills, and it has always disturbed me. Change is something you can't reverse. You may like the past better than the present, but you can never go back.
It's also not a website. W3C can't tell what it is, and a quick look at the source tells me it full of problems, numberone on my list being an extreeme over-use of javascript.
Rich? You decide:
"Others note the hypocrisy of a radical socialist who claims to speak for the common man yet lives in a $1.9 million New York apartment and sends his daughter to a posh private school." -- http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2003/3/30/212203.shtml
I've seen this quoted from a few very biased fascist leaning sources such as the one you mention with no source listed. Until I see some more impressive information, I will reserve my judgement.
There are many upon many examples, this is only one of them.
Show me.
As for the media not being able to record the protestors: What stopped them from walking down the block to the perimeter to do a broadcast
I don't know if you noticed, but the media is really lazy.
I'm sorry, did you really mean cynical and fat? He certainly is NOT rich and powerful. Why else would he have hijacked the Oscars?
Cynical? yes. It's really hard not to be considering our own 'voting irregularities'
As to his weight, I'll pass. I'm sure he is well aware that obesity is dangerous.
I have no idea if he is rich, he does however do a very effective job representing the common man.
As to being powerful, you bet he is. His power is the power of the people. Anyone who raises their voice and gets the kind of resonance his films have deserves to be called powerful.
Hijack the Oscars? I think not. Many Oscar winners stated their opposition to the war, and Moore did so eloquently.
I went and heard Moore speak a few weeks before the Oscars. He proudly stated his intentions of making a politically charged speech if awarded an Oscar, and received a standing ovation from a crowd of 6000+.
I believe that the people who really 'hijacked the Oscars' were the Oakland PD which kept the war protesters far away from the Oscars so the media wouldn't see them.
1. locate every machine connected to 'the internet', a global IP infringment system.
2. find all such systems with open ports for SMTP, FTP, HTTP, etc. as all such systems typicialy connect to a 'linux' system at some point.
3. ???
4. PROFIT!
I started to realize that plugging away and over-pushing my resume was a bad way to do things about my 2nd month out of work.
To keep busy I started volunteering for non-profits I like, and even helped to get a candidate for mayor get 43% of the vote in Denver's latest election.
After 5 months of looking, I finally found a job. Now I spend a lot of free time working for NPOs and campaigning for a candidate sure to get the mayor's job in a month.
If nothing else, unemployment brought me a lot of connections I would have never had, and a sense of accomplishment that's just great.
I think the topic at hand was corporate acronyms, not technology abbreviations, but I'll concede that point for now.
GNU -> U really don't see the need for this one. I rarely use the term, and for the most part I think it is useless. I almost always refer to the open source community as open source.
HTML and XML -> These are needed as they refer to descriptive languages which are not easily conveyed in simple terms.
All I'm saying is that on the whole, corporate acronyms are for simple ideas, and just stand in the way of easy communication. Lose your communication skills, and you lose your ability to react.
I've worked for small companies that have grown quickly and with good direction, becoming quite profitable, as well as for one huge company in particular that over managed and wasted stupendous amounts of money and eventually died.
One of the most glaring differences between the two environments is how well management reacted to change. Where management was burdened with lots of BS terms like TCO and EBITDA, they made bad decisions, and made them far too late in the game.
Business is cut-throat, but its not hard. I've run departments before, and I can tell you the best way to manage a company is almost completely a matter of diagnosing problems and adapting.
Sure, time is money, and your environment being down costs something, but observations about efficiency don't require stupid code words.
Those who decide to go create and repeat acronyms instead of paying attention are sooner or later left behind and should be.
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Republicans get just a bit more than the Democrats.
Both sums are really sick though.
To make matters worse, the review is anti-consumer.
If you look at the Media Access Page, you will see that the federal courts force the FCC to "re-justify every major ownership rule or strike it from the books" every time there is a review.
The problem here is that the same corporations that want the relaxed rules also are among the largest soft-money donors. They buy the legislators and then demand favors.
On at least one point...
...this was result of the 2 year anniversary from the last review
The FCC is supposed to review every 2 years, but the last review was actually 8 year ago. In another 8 years things will be pretty awful if the critics are right.
Also, if the media becomes one great big company, who is really going to go up against it? That company would effectively control politics in this country.
I'm keeping my eyes on the boarder for now.
I nominate your post for the first "total idiot" -1 mod.
Until you have been arrested and beaten by police at a peaceful rally, I bet you will continue to think you are free.
Until you are held prisoner in a Cuba death camp, I assume you will continue to believe your country respects human rights.
Until you are in a city that is leveled by a nuclear blast and your grandchild dies of radiation poisoning, I'm sure you will think we drop bombs to save lives.
Until you are enslaved and forced to live without basic human needs so the US can have cheap food, you will also surely believe that prosperity is not on the backs of the brown people you secretly hate.
Don't tell me you believe your own lies. See things from a broader point of view and think before you exploit your brother.
The russians never pulled this off, but maybe a communist red flag next to the stars and stripes might knock the Americans off their high horse, or at least, wake them up.
No flag, but they did have the first landing, 2 rovers, and 24 unmanned probes which even returned samples.
In a lot of respects they beat us pretty well on the moon. I think the technical details of unmanned rovers and returning samples all remotely are very cool.
Yep, its a dupe!
I quickly found this by doing this.
Next time, please search before you post.
hmM I don'T knoW abouT thaT, buT I likE youR usE oF capitalizatioN alittle.
I actually enjoyed the call.
One thing that may be interesting for those who missed it was the statement that "3 independent code teams" looked at the linux code and found "not just a line or 2, but significant code violations".
What is an insignificant violation? Also, if they felt the need to have 3 teams look at it, that seams to suggest that it's a pretty subjective statement to say there is infringement.
For Great Justice, Take off (on) every SCO joke.
This should be real run.
:)
I actualy have a crowd around my desk
Ecosystems adapt. Their ecosystem has changed to accomidate the rats. Now removing them will cause the ecosystem to have to change back. It just sounds kind of dumb.
I know this is nit-picking, but the ecosystem will never "change back".
That's the neat thing about ecosystems. They evolve.
I hear people talking about changing things back all the time, mostly when discussing societal ills, and it has always disturbed me. Change is something you can't reverse. You may like the past better than the present, but you can never go back.
Just adapt and deal with it.
Resell these for ~$500 or so and I know a lot of people would eat this up on this side of the pond.
I personally detest Bill Owens (for unrelated reasons, mostly relating to pushing the city's around), but I applaud this step.
I have to say I am feeling very happy about being able to send this message through my NAT-enabled DSL router using SSH legally .
Good job EFF!!!
This post is totally off topic and full of hateful, xenophobic, and racist rhetoric.
An insightful mod is totally inappropriate.
Seth's a fucking troll. If you think otherwise, read his stupid journal.
It's also not a website. W3C can't tell what it is, and a quick look at the source tells me it full of problems, numberone on my list being an extreeme over-use of javascript.
Well, I would refer you to the well thought out book on the subject, Stupid White Men by Michael Moore
Hmm... I have to disagree here. Many people I talk to would be on the inspired list, so I would say he both inspired and irritated people.
Hopefully he irritated people enough to start questioning the Bush regime.
Rich? You decide:0 /212203.shtml
"Others note the hypocrisy of a radical socialist who claims to speak for the common man yet lives in a $1.9 million New York apartment and sends his daughter to a posh private school." -- http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2003/3/3
I've seen this quoted from a few very biased fascist leaning sources such as the one you mention with no source listed. Until I see some more impressive information, I will reserve my judgement.
There are many upon many examples, this is only one of them.
Show me.
As for the media not being able to record the protestors: What stopped them from walking down the block to the perimeter to do a broadcast
I don't know if you noticed, but the media is really lazy.
I'm sorry, did you really mean cynical and fat? He certainly is NOT rich and powerful. Why else would he have hijacked the Oscars?
Cynical? yes. It's really hard not to be considering our own 'voting irregularities'
As to his weight, I'll pass. I'm sure he is well aware that obesity is dangerous.
I have no idea if he is rich, he does however do a very effective job representing the common man.
As to being powerful, you bet he is. His power is the power of the people. Anyone who raises their voice and gets the kind of resonance his films have deserves to be called powerful.
Hijack the Oscars? I think not. Many Oscar winners stated their opposition to the war, and Moore did so eloquently.
I went and heard Moore speak a few weeks before the Oscars. He proudly stated his intentions of making a politically charged speech if awarded an Oscar, and received a standing ovation from a crowd of 6000+.
I believe that the people who really 'hijacked the Oscars' were the Oakland PD which kept the war protesters far away from the Oscars so the media wouldn't see them.
Simple.
1. locate every machine connected to 'the internet', a global IP infringment system.
2. find all such systems with open ports for SMTP, FTP, HTTP, etc. as all such systems typicialy connect to a 'linux' system at some point.
3. ???
4. PROFIT!
I started to realize that plugging away and over-pushing my resume was a bad way to do things about my 2nd month out of work.
To keep busy I started volunteering for non-profits I like, and even helped to get a candidate for mayor get 43% of the vote in Denver's latest election.
After 5 months of looking, I finally found a job. Now I spend a lot of free time working for NPOs and campaigning for a candidate sure to get the mayor's job in a month.
If nothing else, unemployment brought me a lot of connections I would have never had, and a sense of accomplishment that's just great.
This is stupid. Opt-out just increases spam.
Why not just make all unrequested commercial email illeagal?
Lets see here...
I think the topic at hand was corporate acronyms, not technology abbreviations, but I'll concede that point for now.
GNU -> U really don't see the need for this one. I rarely use the term, and for the most part I think it is useless. I almost always refer to the open source community as open source.
HTML and XML -> These are needed as they refer to descriptive languages which are not easily conveyed in simple terms.
All I'm saying is that on the whole, corporate acronyms are for simple ideas, and just stand in the way of easy communication. Lose your communication skills, and you lose your ability to react.
I've worked for small companies that have grown quickly and with good direction, becoming quite profitable, as well as for one huge company in particular that over managed and wasted stupendous amounts of money and eventually died.
One of the most glaring differences between the two environments is how well management reacted to change. Where management was burdened with lots of BS terms like TCO and EBITDA, they made bad decisions, and made them far too late in the game.
Business is cut-throat, but its not hard. I've run departments before, and I can tell you the best way to manage a company is almost completely a matter of diagnosing problems and adapting.
Sure, time is money, and your environment being down costs something, but observations about efficiency don't require stupid code words.
Those who decide to go create and repeat acronyms instead of paying attention are sooner or later left behind and should be.