You can make up a Venn diagram if you want, but bloggers certainly can be journalists, and vice versa.
"Journalist" is like "scientist". It's a method, not a certificate. A less well-defined process than science, but it's a lot like porn: you know journalism when you see it.
The comparison to George Lucas isn't that outre. The "Hitchhiker's" brand--and it was a brand, make no mistake--did not necessarily improve with each successive addition. I got the distinct impression that Adams was phoning it in as the series lingered on. I read the later books more out of a sense of obligation than simple entertainment.
Which isn't to say they were terrible, but they did have an odor about them, like Adams was taking the money and running. This edition was yet another attempt at the same, only you don't have going into it Adams's imprimatur. It's more clearly a desperate money-grab, and therefore harsher standards will naturally apply.
"Syncing" isn't a feature checkbox. I've done it on a lot of handheld devices over the years, going back to those Casio organizers. Anything can sync, but syncing well is a hard problem. The iPhone (or in my case, the iPod touch), syncs well, and reliably, even when I'm dicking around with the dock.
The difference between the iPhone and a desktop is still pretty far, granted, but it's almost to the point where you could use an iPhone in place of a basic computer, so long as you don't need to do too much typing. And there's no practical reason why the iPhone can't accept a Bluetooth keyboard or something similar. And I believe there's a projector available for the iPhone, or at least I seem to remember some company demoing one. Again--close.
I'm not saying that the next iPhone will be it, but it is the closest thing we've had for a while. The Palm was probably the closest thing before the iPhone. I know of at least one person who used a Palm IIIxe and an infrared keyboard to do field data entry, and for all practical purposes it could have replaced a general-purpose computer for light computing applications. If I could have the computing power of a low-end Macbook in an iPhone package, with the ability to dock to a larger monitor and keyboard, that would be it. How far are we from that? I don't know, but it's getting close.
You can almost do this with the iPhone through syncing and with apps like Bento. Still not docking the phone, exactly, but it's close. But not quite there yet.
I'd also like to not have to carry money around. Remember those IBM commercials where the girl bought a soda with her phone? When is this gonna get here? Granted I don't want the moneyless future to be where any dipshit with a laptop and a soldering iron can wireless suck my doubloons into their accounts. That's not the kind of moneyless future I want. Something that's about as reasonably secure as what we have now with credit cards, but without the wallet, and simpler to cancel if your gadget goes missing.
So, in summary: American lifestyles could improve. So could American health care. Blame both.
Yes, but American lifestyles also led to American cultural dominance.
Maybe it's more dangerous over here. Sure, I'll accept that. But when the Berlin Wall came down, they East Germans weren't celebrating by sitting around playing French folk music. Little kids around the world aren't hoping to grow up to play polka music--they want to be 50 Cent.
Sure a lot of it is trashy culture, but it's very popular culture nonetheless. And that's a side effect of American multiculturalism, freedom and opportunity. Which, as it happens, includes a lot of racial tension, occasional oppression and the opportunity to fuck yourself over.
I'm very glad that Canada has a great health care system. I'm also happy to accept all the Canadians who cross the border in order to be somebody famous, rather than be "famous in Canada".
You have a point about the cheapness of frozen prepared food and how unhealthy it is. But the idea that produce is hard to find isn't true.
One of the poorest places in the States is the Mississippi Delta. However, if you plant your foot in the dirt there you'll grow more toes. Growing vegetables is easy, very cheap, and foolproof in most of the places where poor people live (the South).
Produce in the grocery store is expensive, true. There are a lot of reasons for that, but frozen vegetables are crazy cheap. They're as healthy as anything fresh. Bad decision making is the primary cause of obesity, not unavailability. And very, very few people are making $0.50 decisions with food. At that level of poverty you're into food stamp territory.
Deaths via violence in the US are heavily weighted towards ethnic minority populations. You cut out the blacks and Hispanics dying from gunshot wounds at 18 and the average life expectancy edges up.
The reasons for why the ethnic minorities are so disproportionately represented in those statistics are pretty debatable and often are. But as, I think, Milton Freidman once remarked to a Swedish economist who boasted about zero poverty in Scandinavia, "That's interesting, because in America, among Scandinavians, we have no poverty either." The average life expectancy for white non-Hispanics is pretty good. But splitting these things out by race looks bad, raises hard questions and incites if anything even more vitriolic debate.
If you have less than a dozen computers, use whatever neat-o names you like. Comic strips are a gold mine of names. More than a dozen you're likely to run out of names in short order, so use numbers. Use the date they were provisioned, or something. Then keep relevant data in a database or in a file cabinet.
Otherwise you'll fall into some ad hoc Hungarian notation from hell. Fuck that noise, numbers work well as a primary key and as an asset tag.
The only assumption I made was that the parent poster has zero data whatsoever that would demonstrate that the people currently running health care aren't making worse mistakes / decisions.
That was a pretty poor assumption, since I never insinuated any such thing. The point began and ended with noting that the U.S. federal government is well-known for its gaffes, and that they're never referenced in any debate on health reform.
I don't know why you took such a simple idea and ran for the hills with it, but I bet it annoys people around you.
If I had a real point, that would have been one of them. Single-payer proponents all point to a lot of other governments to say how great it is. It's harder to make the case that the U.S. government can do as well. For example, Medicare is enduring severe cost overruns and is rife with corruption.
Nobody ever talks about how great the U.S. government would be. They always say "it's working great in Australia!" Which can be perfectly true, but irrelevant, unless we adopt the Australian system, every jot and tittle--or hire Australia to run our health care system as well.
But while I'm here, another thing nobody ever brings up. Seems every couple of weeks some timeserver leaves his laptop on a train with 300 million records on it. Don't think that'll happen with your medical records? Why is nobody talking about this?
Yeah, I know, health care is different, anything's better that what we've got, etc. I just find it amusing that few single-payer supporters recall all the times the U.S. government completely screwed the pooch. They always want to talk about Australia for some reason.
Okay, how about this: Finland is the size of Montana, with the population of NYC. It's easy to cover Finland. Talk to me when the Finns invade Siberia.
I dunno how to put this, but Australia has about the same population as New York state.
Anybody willing to post to Slashdot should know there's a huge difference between handling, say, 20 million hits and 300 million hits. Complexity does not scale linearly.
But I'm glad to see you were so gracious and thoughtful in your response.
This is where statistics mislead people. Practically all of Finland is in a few urban areas. The rest of the country is utterly empty. There aren't towers out in the tundra. But there are in West Texas.
The temptation to compare one country with another is great, so I guess you can't be blamed for that. But Australia is not the U.S. We've got a much larger and more diverse population, more territory, and a different political history. And gobs more money.
You're basically comparing a high school class with a university campus. There are broad similarities, but the complexity is much greater. IMO the answer for the U.S. has always been more federalism, which breaks us up into more coherent and manageable units.
My synth will happily plod away in interactive mode using about 30% cpu on windows (there's reasons why I can't just boot into windows and run it), and yet it munches about 40% whilst idle in its VST host on linux, and regularly spazzes out at 100% of the interrupt time given to it, requiring me to hit the panic button. That's with the pre-emptive kernel and realtime-everything switched on.
Read that in an old lady voice and you'll see why it's worth paying money to Apple or whoever to not care.
Little advertised fact about science is nearly everything should be appended with "... according to current models," but isn't. Because then it sounds like scientists don't know anything. Which they do know something, at least according to current models, but the truth is complicated and sells poorly.
Unfortunately, not enough scientists on the TV are this honest. Or they're not allowed to be. Whichever, it makes them look like chumps when they assuredly aren't.
My Ducati is too fast to comfortably drive within the city
The Navigator series by Trek is a pretty good alternative too, if you have the space for multiple bikes. It's a little bit off-roady, and a little bit cruisery, and a bit more comfortable than the more aggressive crossover bikes. It isn't geared very high, so you'll never go all that fast, but it's very easy to ride at a leisurely pace. Once it's fitted to you you'll never have to leave the seat unless you want to. The downside would be that it's somewhat heavy, so if you don't have a safe and convenient place to park it you'll get annoyed hauling it around.
I've been very pleased with the Navigator 2.0. You kind of look like a dork on it, but not as dorky as riding around on one of the Faggot 9000 cruiser bikes. And it's a good kind of dorky, like a guy who collects 78 rpm records, rather than the bad kind of dorky, like a guy who collects anime figurines.
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You can make up a Venn diagram if you want, but bloggers certainly can be journalists, and vice versa.
"Journalist" is like "scientist". It's a method, not a certificate. A less well-defined process than science, but it's a lot like porn: you know journalism when you see it.
Not bad. Not bad at all. Windows Mobile isn't my favorite, but it's not horrific.
I'd still prefer a more robust iPhone, as I think it's a lot more elegant, especially with iTMS and the App store, but much thanks for the link.
The comparison to George Lucas isn't that outre. The "Hitchhiker's" brand--and it was a brand, make no mistake--did not necessarily improve with each successive addition. I got the distinct impression that Adams was phoning it in as the series lingered on. I read the later books more out of a sense of obligation than simple entertainment.
Which isn't to say they were terrible, but they did have an odor about them, like Adams was taking the money and running. This edition was yet another attempt at the same, only you don't have going into it Adams's imprimatur. It's more clearly a desperate money-grab, and therefore harsher standards will naturally apply.
"Syncing" isn't a feature checkbox. I've done it on a lot of handheld devices over the years, going back to those Casio organizers. Anything can sync, but syncing well is a hard problem. The iPhone (or in my case, the iPod touch), syncs well, and reliably, even when I'm dicking around with the dock.
The difference between the iPhone and a desktop is still pretty far, granted, but it's almost to the point where you could use an iPhone in place of a basic computer, so long as you don't need to do too much typing. And there's no practical reason why the iPhone can't accept a Bluetooth keyboard or something similar. And I believe there's a projector available for the iPhone, or at least I seem to remember some company demoing one. Again--close.
I'm not saying that the next iPhone will be it, but it is the closest thing we've had for a while. The Palm was probably the closest thing before the iPhone. I know of at least one person who used a Palm IIIxe and an infrared keyboard to do field data entry, and for all practical purposes it could have replaced a general-purpose computer for light computing applications. If I could have the computing power of a low-end Macbook in an iPhone package, with the ability to dock to a larger monitor and keyboard, that would be it. How far are we from that? I don't know, but it's getting close.
Yes, somebody wake me when this occurs.
You can almost do this with the iPhone through syncing and with apps like Bento. Still not docking the phone, exactly, but it's close. But not quite there yet.
I'd also like to not have to carry money around. Remember those IBM commercials where the girl bought a soda with her phone? When is this gonna get here? Granted I don't want the moneyless future to be where any dipshit with a laptop and a soldering iron can wireless suck my doubloons into their accounts. That's not the kind of moneyless future I want. Something that's about as reasonably secure as what we have now with credit cards, but without the wallet, and simpler to cancel if your gadget goes missing.
Yes, but American lifestyles also led to American cultural dominance.
Maybe it's more dangerous over here. Sure, I'll accept that. But when the Berlin Wall came down, they East Germans weren't celebrating by sitting around playing French folk music. Little kids around the world aren't hoping to grow up to play polka music--they want to be 50 Cent.
Sure a lot of it is trashy culture, but it's very popular culture nonetheless. And that's a side effect of American multiculturalism, freedom and opportunity. Which, as it happens, includes a lot of racial tension, occasional oppression and the opportunity to fuck yourself over.
I'm very glad that Canada has a great health care system. I'm also happy to accept all the Canadians who cross the border in order to be somebody famous, rather than be "famous in Canada".
You have a point about the cheapness of frozen prepared food and how unhealthy it is. But the idea that produce is hard to find isn't true.
One of the poorest places in the States is the Mississippi Delta. However, if you plant your foot in the dirt there you'll grow more toes. Growing vegetables is easy, very cheap, and foolproof in most of the places where poor people live (the South).
Produce in the grocery store is expensive, true. There are a lot of reasons for that, but frozen vegetables are crazy cheap. They're as healthy as anything fresh. Bad decision making is the primary cause of obesity, not unavailability. And very, very few people are making $0.50 decisions with food. At that level of poverty you're into food stamp territory.
Deaths via violence in the US are heavily weighted towards ethnic minority populations. You cut out the blacks and Hispanics dying from gunshot wounds at 18 and the average life expectancy edges up.
The reasons for why the ethnic minorities are so disproportionately represented in those statistics are pretty debatable and often are. But as, I think, Milton Freidman once remarked to a Swedish economist who boasted about zero poverty in Scandinavia, "That's interesting, because in America, among Scandinavians, we have no poverty either." The average life expectancy for white non-Hispanics is pretty good. But splitting these things out by race looks bad, raises hard questions and incites if anything even more vitriolic debate.
Doubt they could rebuild it in time.
I prefer to think that all the Ewoks died a slow, hideous death because Lucas is evil and that's the secret subtext of the movie.
I know it's a troll, but man, that made me laugh.
A fetishist is not a connoisseur.
For serious.
If you have less than a dozen computers, use whatever neat-o names you like. Comic strips are a gold mine of names. More than a dozen you're likely to run out of names in short order, so use numbers. Use the date they were provisioned, or something. Then keep relevant data in a database or in a file cabinet.
Otherwise you'll fall into some ad hoc Hungarian notation from hell. Fuck that noise, numbers work well as a primary key and as an asset tag.
What's the difference between a private entity and a government one?
One of them you can fire, the other can fire on you.
That was a pretty poor assumption, since I never insinuated any such thing. The point began and ended with noting that the U.S. federal government is well-known for its gaffes, and that they're never referenced in any debate on health reform.
I don't know why you took such a simple idea and ran for the hills with it, but I bet it annoys people around you.
If I had a real point, that would have been one of them. Single-payer proponents all point to a lot of other governments to say how great it is. It's harder to make the case that the U.S. government can do as well. For example, Medicare is enduring severe cost overruns and is rife with corruption.
Nobody ever talks about how great the U.S. government would be. They always say "it's working great in Australia!" Which can be perfectly true, but irrelevant, unless we adopt the Australian system, every jot and tittle--or hire Australia to run our health care system as well.
I like how you leapt from assumption to assumption until you landed at your preferred conclusion.
This is why the health care reform debate is a shit-flinging monkey fight.
You took my snark way too seriously.
But while I'm here, another thing nobody ever brings up. Seems every couple of weeks some timeserver leaves his laptop on a train with 300 million records on it. Don't think that'll happen with your medical records? Why is nobody talking about this?
JQuery's syntax is anything but sugar. It's a hideous mess. It's as if C++ and Lisp fucked and shat out an assbaby.
I like JQuery, for what it does, but for serious...
LET'S LET THEM RUN HEALTH CARE NEXT!
Yeah, I know, health care is different, anything's better that what we've got, etc. I just find it amusing that few single-payer supporters recall all the times the U.S. government completely screwed the pooch. They always want to talk about Australia for some reason.
Okay, how about this: Finland is the size of Montana, with the population of NYC. It's easy to cover Finland. Talk to me when the Finns invade Siberia.
I dunno how to put this, but Australia has about the same population as New York state.
Anybody willing to post to Slashdot should know there's a huge difference between handling, say, 20 million hits and 300 million hits. Complexity does not scale linearly.
But I'm glad to see you were so gracious and thoughtful in your response.
Oh, wait.
This is where statistics mislead people. Practically all of Finland is in a few urban areas. The rest of the country is utterly empty. There aren't towers out in the tundra. But there are in West Texas.
The temptation to compare one country with another is great, so I guess you can't be blamed for that. But Australia is not the U.S. We've got a much larger and more diverse population, more territory, and a different political history. And gobs more money.
You're basically comparing a high school class with a university campus. There are broad similarities, but the complexity is much greater. IMO the answer for the U.S. has always been more federalism, which breaks us up into more coherent and manageable units.
Read that in an old lady voice and you'll see why it's worth paying money to Apple or whoever to not care.
Little advertised fact about science is nearly everything should be appended with "... according to current models," but isn't. Because then it sounds like scientists don't know anything. Which they do know something, at least according to current models, but the truth is complicated and sells poorly.
Unfortunately, not enough scientists on the TV are this honest. Or they're not allowed to be. Whichever, it makes them look like chumps when they assuredly aren't.
The Navigator series by Trek is a pretty good alternative too, if you have the space for multiple bikes. It's a little bit off-roady, and a little bit cruisery, and a bit more comfortable than the more aggressive crossover bikes. It isn't geared very high, so you'll never go all that fast, but it's very easy to ride at a leisurely pace. Once it's fitted to you you'll never have to leave the seat unless you want to. The downside would be that it's somewhat heavy, so if you don't have a safe and convenient place to park it you'll get annoyed hauling it around.
I've been very pleased with the Navigator 2.0. You kind of look like a dork on it, but not as dorky as riding around on one of the Faggot 9000 cruiser bikes. And it's a good kind of dorky, like a guy who collects 78 rpm records, rather than the bad kind of dorky, like a guy who collects anime figurines.