Rev. Falwell's free speech? And his right to his own name?
Well, since the existence of this website in no way restricted Falwell's freedom of speech, I'd say that's a non-issue. As for his right to his name, well, his name is Falwell, not Fallwell. Again a non-issue.
sigh. Every time slashdot runs an article dealing, however tangentially, with questions of piracy, digital rights management, etc., we go through the same cycle. Someone defends the pirates, someone makes the same cynical retort that "you'd be against this if it was software licenses instead of music/movies/whatever," then the radical information freedom crowd has to come back by saying that no, in fact, software licenses are just as evil as DVD restrictions. Can we just take it as read, and maybe throw in a good Soviet Russia joke for good measure?
What this economic analysis leaves out is the large quantities of corn, soybeans, and other oil-rich vegetables which are left in fields to rot because the government wishes to help the poor farmers by artificially inflating the price of those goods. In other words, the supply of vegetable oil is just fine, in fact it is so high relative to demand that the politicians feel tricks are needed to keep prices up. If there were an alternate use for these crops, such as biodiesel, they wouldn't need to let the crops rot. Biodiesel manufacturers would be able to buy the oil at a reasonable price, and the farmers would still make money.
I'm surprised they leave out the Bellamy Salute. Apparently, in its original form the pledge was recided with right arm extended; this was changed to right arm held over heart after the rise of National Socialism.
Anyone else notice how this guy just aged overnight? I mean, he played thirtysomethings for twenty years, and then one day you see him on TV and he's ready for Metamucil and Depends. Scary.
Local authorities not having the right phone number - sounds to me like the local govt. screwed up there, not the media
The very passage you quoted says that "no one was answering the Clear Channel phone"-- not "the police called the wrong phone number". The point seems to be that, with the "local" station being little more than a relay for the nationwide network, it is less responsive to local needs.
How the heck do you expect a "city" (a town, really) to support a whole bunch of radio and tv stations?
Well, again according to the passage you quoted, this town is apparently big enough to support more than six radio stations. The question is, why are six stations in this one small town controlled by the same company?
First of all, the grandparent post was not expressing the view that American fundamentalist Christians are equally extreme; he was simply saying that that is what Europeans generally think. You have no reason to get upset with him.
Second, I can think of several fundamentalist Christian individuals and groups in answer to your queries, from those who bomb abortion clinics, to Fred Phelps preaching the extermination of all homosexuals. Of course, you can always argue that those individuals and groups don't "really" represent Christian fundamentalism, but then, that's what everyone's been saying about Muslim terrorists as well. Only by a kind of arbitrary ideological gerrymandering can you make it look like your religion is absolutely clean while the other guys account for all the murderers and lunatics.
Seeing as most autistics tend to be very very good with mathmatics
A lot of people believe this, probably due to the popularity of the movie Rain Man, but the fact is that so-called "idiot savants" are fairly rare among autistics. Most autistics do not have exceptional mathematic abilities.
I think that you missed the point; I could easily see that happening in say, Indiana, but... the bay area?
The Sikh attack to which I referred took place in New York, one of the most ethnically diverse parts of America. The church burning was, if I recall, in a major California city, not sure which one (however, there aren't many Syrian Orthodox churches in America, and few or none lie outside ethnically diverse areas.)
Judging by the sheer volume and amount of people in the Bay Area of Asian, Indian, etc. etc. descent who have brown skin, it would seem highly unlikely that Wozniak's son would pick a fight with a random dude and tell him to go back to Iraq.
You seem to be making the surprising assumption that racism is well-informed. Remember, shortly after September 11, a Sikh from India was beaten and a Syrian Orthodox Church was burned by people who wanted to get revenge against the Muslims and A-rabs. Plus I've seen whites tell Native Americans to "go back where you came from." This doesn't sound unlikely to me at all.
Star Trek DS9: "To boldly go... no where. We're on a freaking space station people.
Ironically, I thought DS9 actually did more exploring than later TNG. On DS9, they were always taking the runabouts through the wormhole and actually going where no one had gone before, whereas the typical plotline for a TNG episode was "We're on a routine mission delivering toilet paper to the outpost on Squeblakron 12" followed by either an omnipotent alien playing games with them, some systems malfunction which almost destroys the ship, some virulent alien disease which turns the crew into howler monkeys, some goofball holodeck adventure, or Data getting reprogrammed/taken over just to give Brent Spiner an excuse to try to act. They never actually got around to discovering any new planets.
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Actually, the animal featured in the movie was indeed a ferret. The Dude may have called it a "marmot," but he was pretty stoned at the time.
Rev. Falwell's free speech? And his right to his own name?
Well, since the existence of this website in no way restricted Falwell's freedom of speech, I'd say that's a non-issue. As for his right to his name, well, his name is Falwell, not Fallwell. Again a non-issue.
Didn't you see the commercials? They replaced him with Leonard Nimoy. How ironic. :)
I see someone else went to the Alanis Morissette School of Not Knowing What the Word "Ironic" Means.
sigh. Every time slashdot runs an article dealing, however tangentially, with questions of piracy, digital rights management, etc., we go through the same cycle. Someone defends the pirates, someone makes the same cynical retort that "you'd be against this if it was software licenses instead of music/movies/whatever," then the radical information freedom crowd has to come back by saying that no, in fact, software licenses are just as evil as DVD restrictions. Can we just take it as read, and maybe throw in a good Soviet Russia joke for good measure?
What this economic analysis leaves out is the large quantities of corn, soybeans, and other oil-rich vegetables which are left in fields to rot because the government wishes to help the poor farmers by artificially inflating the price of those goods. In other words, the supply of vegetable oil is just fine, in fact it is so high relative to demand that the politicians feel tricks are needed to keep prices up. If there were an alternate use for these crops, such as biodiesel, they wouldn't need to let the crops rot. Biodiesel manufacturers would be able to buy the oil at a reasonable price, and the farmers would still make money.
Taken sticks of RAM out of a running computer to see when it would notice?
Did that. Eventually it just sang "Daisy" really slow and shut down.
I'm surprised they leave out the Bellamy Salute. Apparently, in its original form the pledge was recided with right arm extended; this was changed to right arm held over heart after the rise of National Socialism.
Harrison Ford just turned 62 a few weeks ago.
Anyone else notice how this guy just aged overnight? I mean, he played thirtysomethings for twenty years, and then one day you see him on TV and he's ready for Metamucil and Depends. Scary.
Local authorities not having the right phone number - sounds to me like the local govt. screwed up there, not the media
The very passage you quoted says that "no one was answering the Clear Channel phone"-- not "the police called the wrong phone number". The point seems to be that, with the "local" station being little more than a relay for the nationwide network, it is less responsive to local needs.
How the heck do you expect a "city" (a town, really) to support a whole bunch of radio and tv stations?
Well, again according to the passage you quoted, this town is apparently big enough to support more than six radio stations. The question is, why are six stations in this one small town controlled by the same company?
The guy claims to have invented the Internet, the television, radar, automobiles, and any other technology the country has.
That Al Gore joke would just be too easy.
First of all, the grandparent post was not expressing the view that American fundamentalist Christians are equally extreme; he was simply saying that that is what Europeans generally think. You have no reason to get upset with him.
Second, I can think of several fundamentalist Christian individuals and groups in answer to your queries, from those who bomb abortion clinics, to Fred Phelps preaching the extermination of all homosexuals. Of course, you can always argue that those individuals and groups don't "really" represent Christian fundamentalism, but then, that's what everyone's been saying about Muslim terrorists as well. Only by a kind of arbitrary ideological gerrymandering can you make it look like your religion is absolutely clean while the other guys account for all the murderers and lunatics.
Seeing as most autistics tend to be very very good with mathmatics
A lot of people believe this, probably due to the popularity of the movie Rain Man, but the fact is that so-called "idiot savants" are fairly rare among autistics. Most autistics do not have exceptional mathematic abilities.
You, on the other hand, smear both Americans and Bush voters as being like this racist idiot guy. Pot Kettle Black.
*ahem* That's "Pot Kettle African-American," you insensitive clod.
how the hell did you get "country musician" out of a search for Jello Biafra?
I don't suppose there are any /.'ers out there in or near Afghanistan. Are there?
I hope so... I was wondering how you say "you insensitive clod" in Pashto.
If slashdot start to give an annual "honorific life membership" he should be one of the first to get the title. Kudos to the guy! :)
/. membership? I thought the article said he was "semi-literate."
What would he do with a
He might put the rest of us at a disadvantage...
However, you might see people disagree over, say, [[2001 presidential election]].
I, for one, disagree that there even was such a thing. I mean, we'd just had an election in 2000.
In order to make this possible, you're donations are greatly needed.
7:18, 7 Jul 2004 Colonel Cholling m (Changed "you're donations" to "your donations")
RTFFAQ.
So a student can easily take their work home, regardless of whether they have a mac, windows, linux, whatever.
I've got a Kaypro running CP/M, you insensitive clod!
"Remember, Love Fist are in town right now... Love fist is in town... whatever. I flunked school 'cause I'm hard core."
I'd use it to hunt down and kill all the people who forward me this crap.
I think that you missed the point; I could easily see that happening in say, Indiana, but... the bay area?
The Sikh attack to which I referred took place in New York, one of the most ethnically diverse parts of America. The church burning was, if I recall, in a major California city, not sure which one (however, there aren't many Syrian Orthodox churches in America, and few or none lie outside ethnically diverse areas.)
Judging by the sheer volume and amount of people in the Bay Area of Asian, Indian, etc. etc. descent who have brown skin, it would seem highly unlikely that Wozniak's son would pick a fight with a random dude and tell him to go back to Iraq.
You seem to be making the surprising assumption that racism is well-informed. Remember, shortly after September 11, a Sikh from India was beaten and a Syrian Orthodox Church was burned by people who wanted to get revenge against the Muslims and A-rabs. Plus I've seen whites tell Native Americans to "go back where you came from." This doesn't sound unlikely to me at all.
Star Trek DS9: "To boldly go... no where. We're on a freaking space station people.
Ironically, I thought DS9 actually did more exploring than later TNG. On DS9, they were always taking the runabouts through the wormhole and actually going where no one had gone before, whereas the typical plotline for a TNG episode was "We're on a routine mission delivering toilet paper to the outpost on Squeblakron 12" followed by either an omnipotent alien playing games with them, some systems malfunction which almost destroys the ship, some virulent alien disease which turns the crew into howler monkeys, some goofball holodeck adventure, or Data getting reprogrammed/taken over just to give Brent Spiner an excuse to try to act. They never actually got around to discovering any new planets.