Jelly Bean was released in November, making it 4 months old, 5 months by the time the SIV is generally available. Jelly Bean will be obsoleted by Key Lime Pie at Google's I/O developer conference in May so you get a whole month to enjoy being on the current version of Android, that might be some kind of record. After which you get to wait another 4-5 months for Samsung to get the OS up and approved by US carriers.
That's all we need, just one more little bite out of my day. Pretty soon it's going to be go to work - then straight to bed. There should be a government program to build massive structures near the equator to lengthen the day so we can have more free time. Or perhaps they should crack the earth's core along the equator and to make some nice big volcano's there. Sort of killing two birds with one stone, increase the length of the day and expand the amount of usable land on the planet. Sure it would take most of our nuclear arsenal, kill off massive amounts of sea life and quite possibly cause a disaster the scale of which humankind has never seen. But I want my 2.68 microseconds damn it!
You are nitpicking and poorly. In order to discuss homosexuality or breast cancer you don't need to show sex or simulated sex. Nor do you need to describe it in explicit detail. Somewhere there is a reasonable compromise where we can have politically valid discussion of issues and still not have to worry about our kids listening to radio and hearing a couple having sex live on some radio show. (And yes that has been aired)
The OP was speaking about a small group filing thousands of complaints and saying in an alarmist fashion that they were censoring us. What exactally has been censored? That is the question I ask and will continue to ask.
'It means that really a tiny minority with a very focused political agenda is trying to censor American television and radio.'
What's not clear is exactally what effect these complaints are having, and what are they complaining about. First of all, have these complaints actually affected what gets aired in any significant way?
Do I care if...
Janet Jackson's boob is censored? No
Howard Stern can't talk about a woman having sex with a dog on the radio? No
People can't dry f* on shows which are marketed as family entertainment? No
People can't criticise the Bush administration for repeated mistakes in Iraq? Yes
People can't call policians to the table for spending our kids future away? Hell Yes
Perhaps before we start bitching about censorship we start thinking a bit about what censorship is. People seem to think that eliminating Swearing and Sex on the radio is some sort of terrible crime but it is really meaningless. When you look at the bigger issues.
I'm not certain how Lycos' software works or where their pool of server names comes from so it's hard to speak to this instance. But If someone sends SPAM to my email account I don't see how they can complain if I browse their site. Now I guess the real question is where is Lycos getting it's list of spammers? If it's some blacklist in their backroom then it's a DDOS plain and simple, on the other hand if it pulls the addresses from the Junk folder in my inbox then I am just responding to their solicitation.
The goal is to flood the sites with traffic to eliminate their source of income. If they shut the sites down all the better. How can anyone who sends out millions of requests for people to go to their website complain about millions of hits on their server?
-- Dennis
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Jelly Bean was released in November, making it 4 months old, 5 months by the time the SIV is generally available. Jelly Bean will be obsoleted by Key Lime Pie at Google's I/O developer conference in May so you get a whole month to enjoy being on the current version of Android, that might be some kind of record. After which you get to wait another 4-5 months for Samsung to get the OS up and approved by US carriers.
That's all we need, just one more little bite out of my day. Pretty soon it's going to be go to work - then straight to bed. There should be a government program to build massive structures near the equator to lengthen the day so we can have more free time. Or perhaps they should crack the earth's core along the equator and to make some nice big volcano's there. Sort of killing two birds with one stone, increase the length of the day and expand the amount of usable land on the planet. Sure it would take most of our nuclear arsenal, kill off massive amounts of sea life and quite possibly cause a disaster the scale of which humankind has never seen. But I want my 2.68 microseconds damn it!
You are nitpicking and poorly. In order to discuss homosexuality or breast cancer you don't need to show sex or simulated sex. Nor do you need to describe it in explicit detail. Somewhere there is a reasonable compromise where we can have politically valid discussion of issues and still not have to worry about our kids listening to radio and hearing a couple having sex live on some radio show. (And yes that has been aired)
The OP was speaking about a small group filing thousands of complaints and saying in an alarmist fashion that they were censoring us. What exactally has been censored? That is the question I ask and will continue to ask.
-- Dennis'It means that really a tiny minority with a very focused political agenda is trying to censor American television and radio.'
What's not clear is exactally what effect these complaints are having, and what are they complaining about. First of all, have these complaints actually affected what gets aired in any significant way?
Do I care if...
Perhaps before we start bitching about censorship we start thinking a bit about what censorship is. People seem to think that eliminating Swearing and Sex on the radio is some sort of terrible crime but it is really meaningless. When you look at the bigger issues.
-- DennisI'm not certain how Lycos' software works or where their pool of server names comes from so it's hard to speak to this instance. But If someone sends SPAM to my email account I don't see how they can complain if I browse their site. Now I guess the real question is where is Lycos getting it's list of spammers? If it's some blacklist in their backroom then it's a DDOS plain and simple, on the other hand if it pulls the addresses from the Junk folder in my inbox then I am just responding to their solicitation.
-- Dennis
The goal is to flood the sites with traffic to eliminate their source of income. If they shut the sites down all the better. How can anyone who sends out millions of requests for people to go to their website complain about millions of hits on their server? -- Dennis