Drudge uses specifically worded one liners in his links to form the bias he wants the reader to get from the article. It's not uncommon to see him harp on something that, when reading the article, you realize was a small one line entry in an entire news story.
Sure/. allows for bias in the summary, but don't get fooled into thinking Drudge isn't manipulating your mindset via his aggregation.
And did you make it through your entire first term?
Oh you've never been elected governor of any US state?
I'd say that makes the GP more qualified than Palin. At least the GP hasn't already proven him/herself to be a failure. Palin checked that one off by bailing on the job.
Nolan is able to pass on 3D because he ultimately drives the Batman saga at the moment. The studio knows the potential backlash of Nolan not directing the third film could kill it before it even starts production.
99% of directors don't have that kind of clout, though; if the studio says jump on 3D, those guys/gals will be forced to say "How high?" with no room for challenging the judgment of the studio.
Let's be truly honest with ourselves here: If anyone's fucking these machines up, its the companies...not some local polling person affiliated with a party.
(Seriously, the more a certain sect of the media brags about it being "grassroots," the more you should be realizing what a load of bullshit the claim is. I've been calling out gov't spending for the past decade but I don't seem to remember Fox News pushing my "grassroots" ideals all over the airwaves, and that has nothing to do with rallies or total participation. It has to do with underlying agenda; in this case, political upheaval puts their guys in power so they support it. The Tea Party is nothing more than political speak of the year, sort of like "flip flopping,", "giving the keys back," "socialist," "terrorist sympathizers," or any number of idiotic catch-phrases they use to dumb down your ability to think and take advantage of people's inclination to be attracted to slogans.)
Its early days and most MMO's start of crippled by bugs. FFXIV seems to be buggered up by an amazingly counter-intuitive UI and extensive learning curve without any form of tutorial.
The biggest problem is that this game is plagued by terrible design choices that would require fundamental redesign (read: more than just a simple patch) of key portions of the game. Better put, they would've been well served to look at what other MMOs are doing right as opposed to ignoring the entire genre and creating something that mires the player in unnecessary garbage just to learn the game let alone try and get deep enough into it to enjoy it.
FF14 can be summed up this way: They created an amazing world and then decided at the last second to have a developer meeting to figure out what the player would actually do in that world. Since they didn't have time to examine competitor's design choices, they went with whatever sounded best and crossed their fingers. The results are as bad as one would expect rushed, uninformed development would be.
While I don't dispute your point that live television presents responsibility problems for parents, let's face some facts here: During any Super Bowl, your kids are being bombarded by scantily clad women in commercials, endless beer ads, and a sport that does involve violent contact amongst the players on the field.
Which is to say, is a second and a half of displayed nipple really the most questionable thing your kids' impressionable young minds saw that night?
Most people like to proclaim they are responsible right up until the point that you try to hold them accountable for their actions. Then it suddenly becomes someone else's fault.
The GP was implying that a Democrat (or "liberals" as you summarize it) is espousing an opinion that counters the First Amendment's intentions; furthermore, said poster implies that the Republicans should've had the balls to call her out for it.
I reminded said poster that these very same Republicans are currently waging their own war against the First Amendment. Obviously they've got their own issues with it too, and perhaps didn't find much error in the idea that someone could take issue with the Amendment's broad brush. (Both sides are tools for thinking like that, but I digress.)
Which brings me to wondering what the hell your comment has to do with anything. Seems like nothing more than a pathetic attempt to attack "liberals" while staying completely off-topic for this line of discussion.
You mean the same Republicans that are currently trying to ration out which religions are worthy of the First Amendment? (This is a reference to the whole mosque thing in NYC)
Perhaps they realized the hypocrisy and decided to shut up. (Ok, yeah, I'm laughing at that one too.)
That's a bit of a stretch. Jon Stewart also, for example, purports to adhere to journalistic standards.
That's complete bull. He specifically declares that he is not a journalist; other people call him one in order to try and make accusations about his "journalistic integrity."
Wow, given a flamebait tag for pointing out a truth that even Fox News, his employer, admits is true*. This facts article gets more accurate by the moment.
* - Fox News designates "News" hours and "Entertainment" hours on their programming schedule. Beck falls under the Entertainment segment.
The majority of claims were tied to Toyotas. Lexus models were mentioned on occasion due to the floor mat issue also existing in those cars, but from what I read there were few claims in regards to those.
We'll have to agree to disagree with respect to the Prius not being low end. When you consider tax rebates and the overall car market price range, Prius' aren't that high priced. In truth, they fit right in with the Camry market.
Surely there must be SOME relationship between the cars this has happened with.
1) They are lower in price.
2) Toyota thus sells more of them.
3) The larger volume of those particular cars on the road means a greater likelihood that there are more bad drivers behind the wheel of that particular car.
(Ok, yes, this is incredibly simplistic...but I do think it is on point)
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If the top 10% fled the country, the government budget would collapse.
You greatly underestimate the gov't and the IRS' ability to tax. They'd still be doing whatever it takes to get their money.
This is the same company that stomped on people over Starcraft LAN tools long before Activision got in the picture.
Drudge uses specifically worded one liners in his links to form the bias he wants the reader to get from the article. It's not uncommon to see him harp on something that, when reading the article, you realize was a small one line entry in an entire news story.
/. allows for bias in the summary, but don't get fooled into thinking Drudge isn't manipulating your mindset via his aggregation.
Sure
And did you make it through your entire first term?
Oh you've never been elected governor of any US state?
I'd say that makes the GP more qualified than Palin. At least the GP hasn't already proven him/herself to be a failure. Palin checked that one off by bailing on the job.
but what he can do is say "look I am trying to work with republicans they wont have any of it."
The people he'd be trying to convince wouldn't care anyway. It'd be a complete waste of his time.
Nolan is able to pass on 3D because he ultimately drives the Batman saga at the moment. The studio knows the potential backlash of Nolan not directing the third film could kill it before it even starts production.
99% of directors don't have that kind of clout, though; if the studio says jump on 3D, those guys/gals will be forced to say "How high?" with no room for challenging the judgment of the studio.
So, you haven't worked with users before. Duly noted.
Because testing has never failed to identify user stupidity...
If Democrats are pulling this
Let's be truly honest with ourselves here: If anyone's fucking these machines up, its the companies...not some local polling person affiliated with a party.
Care to purchase it?
(Seriously, the more a certain sect of the media brags about it being "grassroots," the more you should be realizing what a load of bullshit the claim is. I've been calling out gov't spending for the past decade but I don't seem to remember Fox News pushing my "grassroots" ideals all over the airwaves, and that has nothing to do with rallies or total participation. It has to do with underlying agenda; in this case, political upheaval puts their guys in power so they support it. The Tea Party is nothing more than political speak of the year, sort of like "flip flopping,", "giving the keys back," "socialist," "terrorist sympathizers," or any number of idiotic catch-phrases they use to dumb down your ability to think and take advantage of people's inclination to be attracted to slogans.)
Its early days and most MMO's start of crippled by bugs. FFXIV seems to be buggered up by an amazingly counter-intuitive UI and extensive learning curve without any form of tutorial.
The biggest problem is that this game is plagued by terrible design choices that would require fundamental redesign (read: more than just a simple patch) of key portions of the game. Better put, they would've been well served to look at what other MMOs are doing right as opposed to ignoring the entire genre and creating something that mires the player in unnecessary garbage just to learn the game let alone try and get deep enough into it to enjoy it.
FF14 can be summed up this way: They created an amazing world and then decided at the last second to have a developer meeting to figure out what the player would actually do in that world. Since they didn't have time to examine competitor's design choices, they went with whatever sounded best and crossed their fingers. The results are as bad as one would expect rushed, uninformed development would be.
80? really? Wow, that's fast.
Nah, that's not fast. That's rush hour speed along some DFW highways.
Spot on, fuck that "offtopic" nonsense from the mod.
Is that Jeff Zynga's brother?
While I don't dispute your point that live television presents responsibility problems for parents, let's face some facts here: During any Super Bowl, your kids are being bombarded by scantily clad women in commercials, endless beer ads, and a sport that does involve violent contact amongst the players on the field.
Which is to say, is a second and a half of displayed nipple really the most questionable thing your kids' impressionable young minds saw that night?
Most people like to proclaim they are responsible right up until the point that you try to hold them accountable for their actions. Then it suddenly becomes someone else's fault.
Maybe we'll even get to hear Peter Jennings complain that middle class white men just threw a temper tantrum again.
Either this is a magnificent troll or someone's a complete jackass.
The GP was implying that a Democrat (or "liberals" as you summarize it) is espousing an opinion that counters the First Amendment's intentions; furthermore, said poster implies that the Republicans should've had the balls to call her out for it.
I reminded said poster that these very same Republicans are currently waging their own war against the First Amendment. Obviously they've got their own issues with it too, and perhaps didn't find much error in the idea that someone could take issue with the Amendment's broad brush. (Both sides are tools for thinking like that, but I digress.)
Which brings me to wondering what the hell your comment has to do with anything. Seems like nothing more than a pathetic attempt to attack "liberals" while staying completely off-topic for this line of discussion.
You mean the same Republicans that are currently trying to ration out which religions are worthy of the First Amendment? (This is a reference to the whole mosque thing in NYC)
Perhaps they realized the hypocrisy and decided to shut up. (Ok, yeah, I'm laughing at that one too.)
Citing ACs means even less.
That's a bit of a stretch. Jon Stewart also, for example, purports to adhere to journalistic standards.
That's complete bull. He specifically declares that he is not a journalist; other people call him one in order to try and make accusations about his "journalistic integrity."
Wow, given a flamebait tag for pointing out a truth that even Fox News, his employer, admits is true*. This facts article gets more accurate by the moment.
* - Fox News designates "News" hours and "Entertainment" hours on their programming schedule. Beck falls under the Entertainment segment.
The majority of claims were tied to Toyotas. Lexus models were mentioned on occasion due to the floor mat issue also existing in those cars, but from what I read there were few claims in regards to those.
We'll have to agree to disagree with respect to the Prius not being low end. When you consider tax rebates and the overall car market price range, Prius' aren't that high priced. In truth, they fit right in with the Camry market.
Surely there must be SOME relationship between the cars this has happened with.
1) They are lower in price.
2) Toyota thus sells more of them.
3) The larger volume of those particular cars on the road means a greater likelihood that there are more bad drivers behind the wheel of that particular car.
(Ok, yes, this is incredibly simplistic...but I do think it is on point)
"This country deserves a better class of crazy, and I'm gonna give it to 'em."
Thank you for making my day a lot better with this line