By "objectivity" I assume you mean promoting the viewpoint of corporations and big money that buy their advertising. What we are getting with mainstream media is essentially corporate/establishment propaganda.
Never forget that advertising is big media's customer, and we, the viewers are the PRODUCT. This is why blogs are so interesting, relevant, and refreshing, because they aren't tainted with corporate ass-kissery.
Most of what passes for "news" in the corporate media is just prepackaged press-releases and "info-tainment". It's repetetive nonsense. You mentioned NPR, too bad they have lost their funding and must now sell advertising to stay alive. This has given them a very pro-corporate, pro-establishment slant in the last few years.
Just about all print media, newspapers, network and cable news have suffered declining viewership in the last few years. CNN has a suprisingly low audience, and exists mainly as a propaganda outlet for Rupert Murdoch's conservative political views. IMHO, it's because their quality is getting lower and lower. People are tired of tanned news models spouting pointless mindless drollery. I'd give a million news-tainment models for one Walter Cronkite.
Blogs are basically all I trust these days. Without blogs, how would we know how bad Iraq is? How would we know about all the lies surrounding 9/11? How would we know about stolen elections? etc. Sure there is a lot of crap, but you have to read and decide for yourself. In the end, this is much better than someone else deciding for you.
The answer is 42. Didn't they read the book?
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"Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear." --Harry S. Truman
MIHOP/LIHOP. They (neocons) made/wanted it to happen. The Bush regime needed a "catalysing event" to wage war and institute repressive measures in the name of "fighting terrorism". (think Pearl Harbor) It didn't take long for them to then conquer Iraq and establish their 14 military bases at a cost of $300 Billion. Now they are beating the war drums against Iran and threatening the judiciary. Why was it ignored indeed.
I think a few more science classes would help Roland to make more sense and sound less like a pseudo-scientific perpetual-motion troll. I think he has a future in advertising, or maybe he could work for Transmeta.:)
What has our fascist consumer state done since?
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This is depressing. It used to be we had both _technological_ AND _social_ progress. For the last ~30 years, the social progress has flattened out and we are now going backwards, turning into a paranoid fascist consumer/security state with a bunch of robber-barons at the helm. Their slash-and-burn profiteering has now caused the U.S. to lose it's manufacturing and technological lead, so we are also stalled in technological progress also. Their criminal mismanagement is blamed on outsourcing and globalization, instead of bad trade policy and stupidity. Our country is now dumbed-down and medicated on a steady diet of poor public education, glorification of stupidity, media whores, and mind-numbing propaganda. The recent thievery of the national election is a new low point in our descent. RIP American Democracy, we hardly knew ye.
Segway: Cool, but over-hyped solution to a solved problem. The bicycle and motorcycle are much better solutions. Give it up, already.
Anyone remember the days when people like Steve Jobs were saying this gadget would "change the way cities are made"?
Please, let the segway fade into obscurity and die.
I watched and loved the series growing up, and am now a professional engineer. I always liked Scottie's no B.S. practical can-do positive attitude. He was always cheerful, honest, honorable, and loyal. His love of technology and devotion to his job gave him a purity the other characters lacked. He was the prototype "Uber-Techno-Nerd".
It seems Mr. Doohan was even better in real life than his T.V. character.
I wish him and his family the best. He can look back on a life of tremendous positive influence on others, including myself. That is quite an achievement. God Speed, Mr. Doohan. I thank and salute You.
Welcome to the dystopian future of the Bush neocons.
This is like something out of a bad sci-fi novel. How very republican of him to dehumanize the weakest among us. May he rot in hell.
"Men by their constitutions are naturally divided into two parties: 1. Those who fear and distrust the people, and wish to draw all powers from them into the hands of the higher classes. 2. Those who identify themselves with the people, have confidence in them, cherish and consider them as the most honest and safe, although not the most wise depositary of the public interests. In every country these two parties exist, and in every one where they are free to think, speak, and write, they will declare themselves. Call them, therefore, Liberals and Serviles, Jacobins and Ultras, Whigs and Tories, Republicans and Federalists, Aristocrats and Democrats, or by whatever name you please, they are the same parties still and pursue the same object. The last one of Aristocrats and Democrats is the true one expressing the essence of all." --Thomas Jefferson to Henry Lee, 1824.
I'm from Utah. To our everlasting shame, all I can say is that he is sadly representative of lots of republican mormon zealots here. Save me from these right-wing psychos!
BTW, Be sure to VOTE !!! It's the only way to get these guys out!
F_ckin' A !!!
The ironically named "Patriot Act" is a sinister civil-rights disaster.
"Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear." --Harry S. Truman
I'm sorry the word "cult" offends you. Nothing personal, but I think it's a good term here. See above for definition.
avoid work? are you kidding me? how much work does it require to do all the things he did? like getting killed?!
This is another interesting story, now that you bring it up.
The reason Joseph Smith was jailed was because he ordered his band of thugs, called the "Danites," to destroy and burn a local newspaper publishing house that was printing things he didn't like. This paper was called the "Nauvoo Expositor."
Being incarcerated, he was vulnerable to his enemies who took advantage of the situation to rid themselves of him. A mob formed, composed of Free Masons who felt Smith had betrayed their secret rituals, and locals who had been swindled out of land and possessions. After a brief gun battle in which Smith and his companions got a few of them, and after Smith ironically gives the Masonic ritual petition for sanctuary to an unsympathetic mob, Smith is killed.
If I'm wrong, I apologize. Please enlighten me.
If we stop looking for the supernatural cause and effect in everything, if we can drop the idea that everything is a reward, trial or punishment from a capricious deity, we can get down and deal with the reality of the situation. We can take control instead of hoping and praying for magic to rescue us. And we become better prepared to deal with future problems. -Stray Mutt, from exmormon.org
In other words, you're saying "I'm a Mormon, and I'm outraged!!! You don't agree with the propaganda I've been fed!!! There's no way I've been lied to, It's YOU! You're dumb!"
Yeah, whatever. I know it doesn't seem possible to you, but there is a lot you haven't been told. All I can say is that the internet is your friend. Use it to find out more. I know I won't change your mind, but I wish you luck. Remember: "One man's conspiracy theory is another man's bussiness plan."
Here is a great quote:
"... religions are tough. Either they make no contentions which are subject to disproof or they quickly redesign doctrine after disproof. The fact that religions can be so shamelessly dishonest, so contemptuous of the intelligence of their adherents, and still flourish does not speak very well for the tough- mindedness of the believers. But it does indicate, if a demonstration was needed, that near the core of the religious experience is something remarkably resistant to rational inquiry." -- Carl Sagan, Broca's Brain
BTW, Here is the definition of cult. I think the term is very appropriate, given the devotion of Mormons to their "authoritarian charismatic" Prophet.
CULT:
1a. A religion or religious sect generally considered to be extremist or false, with its followers often living in an unconventional manner under the guidance of an authoritarian, charismatic leader. b. The followers of such a religion or sect.
2. A system or community of religious worship and ritual.
3. The formal means of expressing religious reverence; religious ceremony and ritual.
4. A usually nonscientific method or regimen claimed by its originator to have exclusive or exceptional power in curing a particular disease.
5a. Obsessive, especially faddish, devotion to or veneration for a person, principle, or thing. b. The object of such devotion.
6. An exclusive group of persons sharing an esoteric, usually artistic or intellectual interest.
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antivirus software companies on the sly. Hey, they have to keep the level of fear up to sell software. Follow the money.
Never forget that advertising is big media's customer, and we, the viewers are the PRODUCT. This is why blogs are so interesting, relevant, and refreshing, because they aren't tainted with corporate ass-kissery.
Most of what passes for "news" in the corporate media is just prepackaged press-releases and "info-tainment". It's repetetive nonsense. You mentioned NPR, too bad they have lost their funding and must now sell advertising to stay alive. This has given them a very pro-corporate, pro-establishment slant in the last few years.
Just about all print media, newspapers, network and cable news have suffered declining viewership in the last few years. CNN has a suprisingly low audience, and exists mainly as a propaganda outlet for Rupert Murdoch's conservative political views. IMHO, it's because their quality is getting lower and lower. People are tired of tanned news models spouting pointless mindless drollery. I'd give a million news-tainment models for one Walter Cronkite.
Blogs are basically all I trust these days. Without blogs, how would we know how bad Iraq is? How would we know about all the lies surrounding 9/11? How would we know about stolen elections? etc. Sure there is a lot of crap, but you have to read and decide for yourself. In the end, this is much better than someone else deciding for you.
Sheesh!
"Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear." --Harry S. Truman
Stop watching FOX news propaganda and find out what's really going on. Sheep like you are killing America.
That's why they had to attack him personally, because they couldn't factually disagree with anything in F911. He had Bush pegged.
MIHOP/LIHOP. They (neocons) made/wanted it to happen. The Bush regime needed a "catalysing event" to wage war and institute repressive measures in the name of "fighting terrorism". (think Pearl Harbor) It didn't take long for them to then conquer Iraq and establish their 14 military bases at a cost of $300 Billion. Now they are beating the war drums against Iran and threatening the judiciary. Why was it ignored indeed.
Sing it brother! Nice summary of our sorry state.
please report to the dance floor!
I think he got confused while paraphrasing Kurzweil et. al. and claiming their ideas as his own.
I think a few more science classes would help Roland to make more sense and sound less like a pseudo-scientific perpetual-motion troll. I think he has a future in advertising, or maybe he could work for Transmeta. :)
Shhesh, go date a girl or something.
This is depressing. It used to be we had both _technological_ AND _social_ progress. For the last ~30 years, the social progress has flattened out and we are now going backwards, turning into a paranoid fascist consumer/security state with a bunch of robber-barons at the helm. Their slash-and-burn profiteering has now caused the U.S. to lose it's manufacturing and technological lead, so we are also stalled in technological progress also. Their criminal mismanagement is blamed on outsourcing and globalization, instead of bad trade policy and stupidity. Our country is now dumbed-down and medicated on a steady diet of poor public education, glorification of stupidity, media whores, and mind-numbing propaganda. The recent thievery of the national election is a new low point in our descent. RIP American Democracy, we hardly knew ye.
Segway: Cool, but over-hyped solution to a solved problem. The bicycle and motorcycle are much better solutions. Give it up, already. Anyone remember the days when people like Steve Jobs were saying this gadget would "change the way cities are made"? Please, let the segway fade into obscurity and die.
Word.
I watched and loved the series growing up, and am now a professional engineer. I always liked Scottie's no B.S. practical can-do positive attitude. He was always cheerful, honest, honorable, and loyal. His love of technology and devotion to his job gave him a purity the other characters lacked. He was the prototype "Uber-Techno-Nerd". It seems Mr. Doohan was even better in real life than his T.V. character. I wish him and his family the best. He can look back on a life of tremendous positive influence on others, including myself. That is quite an achievement. God Speed, Mr. Doohan. I thank and salute You.
Welcome to the dystopian future of the Bush neocons.
This is like something out of a bad sci-fi novel. How very republican of him to dehumanize the weakest among us. May he rot in hell.
"Men by their constitutions are naturally divided into two parties: 1. Those who fear and distrust the people, and wish to draw all powers from them into the hands of the higher classes. 2. Those who identify themselves with the people, have confidence in them, cherish and consider them as the most honest and safe, although not the most wise depositary of the public interests. In every country these two parties exist, and in every one where they are free to think, speak, and write, they will declare themselves. Call them, therefore, Liberals and Serviles, Jacobins and Ultras, Whigs and Tories, Republicans and Federalists, Aristocrats and Democrats, or by whatever name you please, they are the same parties still and pursue the same object. The last one of Aristocrats and Democrats is the true one expressing the essence of all." --Thomas Jefferson to Henry Lee, 1824.
I'm from Utah. To our everlasting shame, all I can say is that he is sadly representative of lots of republican mormon zealots here. Save me from these right-wing psychos! BTW, Be sure to VOTE !!! It's the only way to get these guys out!
Nelson: Ha-Haaa! Comic Book Store Guy: Worst. President. Ever.
Is it just possible you *do suck?*
If the site requires teacher reviews and posts to be funny, wouldn't it be "parody" which is immune from lawsuit?
and you manage to screw it up. Tsk. And ironically ranting about the uneducated Slashdot masses.
This is another interesting story, now that you bring it up.
The reason Joseph Smith was jailed was because he ordered his band of thugs, called the "Danites," to destroy and burn a local newspaper publishing house that was printing things he didn't like. This paper was called the "Nauvoo Expositor."
Being incarcerated, he was vulnerable to his enemies who took advantage of the situation to rid themselves of him. A mob formed, composed of Free Masons who felt Smith had betrayed their secret rituals, and locals who had been swindled out of land and possessions. After a brief gun battle in which Smith and his companions got a few of them, and after Smith ironically gives the Masonic ritual petition for sanctuary to an unsympathetic mob, Smith is killed.
If I'm wrong, I apologize. Please enlighten me.
Yeah, whatever. I know it doesn't seem possible to you, but there is a lot you haven't been told. All I can say is that the internet is your friend. Use it to find out more. I know I won't change your mind, but I wish you luck. Remember: "One man's conspiracy theory is another man's bussiness plan."
Here is a great quote:
BTW, Here is the definition of cult. I think the term is very appropriate, given the devotion of Mormons to their "authoritarian charismatic" Prophet.