Given the topic being Exchange/Outlook, would you care to enlighten us as to what functionality is seldom used or designed for specific markets? Let's be clear, we're talking about current solutions of which only the Oracle collaboration suite I've seen can hold a candle to it, maybe.... maybe by a long shot Notes but they both have many of the same problems and in the case of the collaboration suite don't even attempt to remove Outlook from the equation.
Parent was trying to say that those are not liberal rallying cries because liberals don't really have any linchpin issues. Al Gore's fearmongering lead nowhere which tells you the level of credence he was given. So yes, you are being disingenuous as your statements about liberals don't reflect reality. Liberals have traditionally been encouraged to think things through and even argue with the merits of topics. This is why the healthcare bill lost the public option as enough liberals couldn't agree on it to push it through with the democratic majority.
You're going to be hard pressed to peg any particular trait on a so-called liberal because the term is much more broadly applied than conservative. There are plenty of people that are traditionally liberal but still don't support abortion for instance. There are plenty of liberals out there that have no problems with guns provided that education is available on how to safely use them.
Of course I freely admit that I'm biased, I'm from Vermont where liberal and conservative views clash all the time but we always manage to get along, have incredibly lax gun laws, and somehow manage to provide healthcare to every child in the state whether we have a democratic governor or a republican one. We go back and forth all the time. Now I'm cast into the abyss that is Arizona where republican linchpin issues have made a private prison industry incredibly profitable at the expense of tax payers.
While I agree that the two parties have the same goals but employ different methods I think you're misguided if you think the democrats are as united as republicans are. While there was a democratic president in the whitehouse, and the two houses had democratic majorities healthcare legislation was totally crippled. Basically not a lot got done compared to the Bush years where republicans had control over everything.
Look at Beck and try to find a liberal personality to compare him too. They don't exist, there is no one that has as many followers, same with Rush, Sean Hannity might be on par with Rachel Maddow but again, no where near the level you see from the other side. For a brief period you may have said Al Gore and for that brief period you might have been right but right now there's no comparison. When most people think pundit, they think Fox News. That doesn't mean the other stations don't have their pundits, the big difference is that on the MSNBC side at least, they are quite open about party affiliations and are free to decent their opinion as they see fit. There is far less control on the MSNBC side over what gets aired and how when compared to Fox. Look at the debacle that was Olberman. He was fired for donating to political causes because that is not in tradition with a news company. Compare that with rallies that Beck has organized over the years and it's really quite a contrast.
I find it amusing that people still compare Steven Colbert and John Stewart of Comedy Central to personalities on 24 hour news stations. There is a fundamental difference in how the information should be received. With that said Steven Colbert is sarcastic on his show, his appearances outside of his show illustrate that he is not a douche. See the press conference after the rally to restore sanity and/or fear. Glenn Beck is never out of character, at least not in the last few years.
I am now going to quit my job as pizza boy as apparently I've got no shot at doing a porn star, way to burst my bubble!
Sounds a bit like the arguments people make for moving to the gold standard replacing one arbitrary form of currency with another because they bought into Beck saying they needed to buy gold. The whole time they forget that Beck and his associates were already invested and so were just pushing up the price and demand for gold higher knowing that it's not sustainable.
I'll bite since I know Israel has misbehaved, the difference is that I don't think its anywhere near the level that has been levied against them. What public bus have they bombed? When has Israel publicly proclaimed any group of people as an inferior race? This is not the rhetoric I've heard both from the Israeli government and from Israeli citizens so I'm curious about these incidents as I'm sure they would be news to many. Also, what central authority poses as a theocracy for the country? The Prime Minister seems to have real powers and is not superseded by some higher authority. If I'm wrong anywhere, please correct me.
I wish more people shared this attitude, kids can understand way more than most people give them credit for and its quite sad honestly holds so little value these days. You don't have to crush them, but suggesting alternative ways they could have achieved their goal or illuminating something that was missing are forms of constructive criticism which is very helpful.
I've spent much of my adult life seeking out constructive criticism in how I build my networks and servers, taking people through the logic and seeing if they can poke holes in it. If they can poke holes then that is a risk I'm taking whether I know it or not and since I'm responsible for it then I'm better for knowing about and mitigating it. The hard part is the honesty equation as most people professionally that evaluate your network are trying to sell you stuff.
If you're making six figures exactly how does the government take half of it? Are you also referring to all government or local or federal level? I've heard this many times before from people that conveniently forget history when it comes to social programs. When those people don't get food stamps what do you think they will do? Just die of starvation? That won't happen without violence first which was a real problem for this country before a lot of the social programs were put in place.
I don't know of anyone making 30k/year that has much if any disposable income and I know a lot of people making that much, I live in Phoenix which is a fairly cheap place to live even though it still pales in comparison to say upstate New York.
Also, low income housing ain't exactly nice housing, you'd be hard pressed to call it a good place to live compared to where the average six figure earner will be living, there is a great disparity in this country between those making a lot and those making a little and that will eventually boil over when there is no middle-class left.
There is still the attitude that hard work will pay off in this country. Science has been under attack for a number of years so of course you can see people's attitudes towards it change and those attitudes are changing. There was a time people that knew computers really well were ostracized and now they are rich and heroes to many.
Sure, the ignorant are very loud these days but there are still many people out there working hard every day to achieve the American dream whether they are immigrants, come from a poor family, or are continuing a family legacy, or from any other background you can dream up. Sure it's harder these days but that's to be expected as there are a lot more of us so there is more competition, this isn't a bad thing in my opinion at least.
Back on topic for a second, if science fairs set higher standards than the projects being entered would be of better quality. Of course it's hard to find teachers that are primarily science teachers until you get to the college level and we should look at why that is with dramatic cuts in spending when it comes to education.
Wiretapping only applies to recording and retaining audio, not real-time transmission especially in a public place. Plenty of students across the country will record their classes to refer back to later while studying and there's no need for exceptions in the law to allow for it.
Way to miss the point, disabling anti-spam functionality and IPS during a DDOS attack is hardly removing the protection the firewall offers. Most enterprise firewalls are considered unified threat management devices meaning they perform many more tasks than that of a mere firewall. I can relatively safely remove gateway level antivirus because I have AV further down that pipe, it just remove loads from my mail and file servers which under normal circumstances I'd want to keep to a minimum.
While in the process of mitigating a DDOS attack you're likely to be monitoring closely your other IPS and log watching daemons so you might want to get your mind out of thinking it's all or nothing. Firewalls are incredibly useful tools and are not made better by dropping their supposedly security-critical functionality as that will depend on your definition of better. As I said, Sonicwalls at the enterprise level can handle wirespeed so the bottleneck is the link coming in, not the firewall so you'll never need to drop that functionality, that was just a mitigation technique of the past.
The bottom line is that the bottleneck these days isn't usually the firewall but the load balancer or individual servers assuming you're not bottlenecked at your ISP.
Or you know, you could load balance your firewalls... Sonicwall has had this feature for quite some time and it makes a hell of a lot more sense than removing a layer of security that has proven to be effective in a great many situations. I'm pretty sure you can do this with a pair of Cisco routers, BGP, and a PiX setup or whatever they call it these days.
Sounds to me like someone just trying to buck the status quo without sound reasoning for doing so or at least a grasp of what is gained.
I'm a little curious what enterprise level firewalls you've dealt with if you're saying that firewalls are built on low end hardware. I know the E-Class Sonicwalls can handle a million simultaneous connections individually and you can load balance them to achieve higher workloads. There is nothing low end about the hardware inside as the E6500 at least is running 16 cores which is about the same resources as a typical server these days only they are dedicated to the job at hand. The Sonicwalls at least also have many performance tuning options giving the ability to disable DPI if you're in a high traffic scenario and overwhelming hardware.
Enterprise firewalls these days are much better than even three years ago, three years ago I might have agreed with the stance of trying to make due without, but now the load balancers behind the firewall are where my bottleneck is after the pipe coming into me of course.
Keep in mind it is the job of the senate to confirm the eligibility of the sitting President. There are way too many Republicans in the senate to just let any question stand and on top of that it would be a violation of their oath of office so they would only put their faith in Obama as a citizen if they believed he was in fact a citizen. I can't believe that it's still a question after this long.
You realize that NPR is regional right? NPR in Florida is very different than NPR in Oregon. You're going to need to be more careful but NPR on it's own has no bias, there are deeply conservative NPRs and there are liberal NPRs and there are NPRs that are very much in the middle such as NPR of Vermont.
The point is that the confidential informants were already in danger, this leak gave them time to secure themselves or rather the last leak did.
If the cables were being snooped on by a 3rd party then that information would be quietly sold and the informants actually would die, instead with publication out in the open they can actually prepare themselves and key assets would be retrieved by our men and women still on the ground.
As for whether or not the informants were killed, this is not something the government has to do, any news organization can go find them since presumably the details of such are in the leaked documents. There are plenty of news organizations out there that would do it for all sorts of reasons so I find it difficult to swallow the idea that these leaks killed anybody when an entire year later we've not heard of any consequences. One would think it would be in the government's interests even to make it known that a few people were killed so the anti-wikileaks bills could move forward. Most of the reactions to wikileaks are merely knee-jerk, yes, it would be nice if they didn't have to go to such lengths but they did ask for help redacting everything. What should they do? Just say they have these secret documents? Then they would merely conspiracy theorists and nothing would change. Government transparency is not supposed to just be a pipe dream.
So your saying one statement about a factory making missiles is false because he stated the wrong type of missile? That seems pretty disingenuous there. You could definitely call it inaccurate but saying it's completely false?
Methinks you don't understand that the person who leaked the information and the person that published the information are different people. The governments ability on the world stage needed a wake up call as clearly they were not operating in a secure manner. This would never change as long no one leaked the information. The insecurity of the federal government has been known for a very long time and token theater has been the only reaction since.
How many informants were killed after the first wikidump? There are no articles about it leading me to believe that it is just government fear mongering as they did indeed say the same thing about the first release of information and that was quite a while ago now. I would like to see some follow-up on this before I condemn wikileaks on heresy as you have done. Keep in mind that Wikileaks extended offers even to the Pentagon to redact information, offers which were ignored, dozens of news outlets around the world have been given the same opportunities. All of that was before the leak went public. I think you're hard pressed to paint them as acting in bad faith. It's very embarrassing for the government so you'll have to keep in mind that what they say about the situation is far from the whole story.
While I agree with you, we're talking about radical right versus radical left. I think you're hard pressed to argue Glenn Beck as not far right. That was my original point, the radical right gets far more attention than the radical left despite a lot of mainstream media being slightly left.
I think most people are combination of features with some traditionally liberal beliefs and some conservative beliefs, unfortunately in modern media it is the extremes that get reported and as such you'll far more likely to hear about the tea party versus the green party regardless of which channel you like to watch or paper you like to read.
I think you missed the point, of course the left has it's crazies, they just aren't nearly as loud nor do they reach as many people as they love to trumpet on their shows. I've watched and heard all sides, the loudest voices are conservative voices.
Glenn Beck is popular enough to hold rallies across the country, you will not find a similar left wing crazy that has even remotely that level of reach.
Are you seriously arguing that Olbermann is on the level of Glenn Beck or Rush Limbaugh? They are in different ball parks, you might compare him with O'Reilly but even that is a stretch given the number of books O'Reilly has put out.
None of the people you mention are to the left what Glenn Beck or Rush are to the right, they are figureheads for the party, the left has no such organization as even Clinton couldn't garner the level of support Rush does. Michael Moore is more like Anne Coultier, neither of who are in the public spotlight these days. None of those people are nearly as prevalent. As I said, the left isn't without it's crazies, but on the right they are far more organized and always shout the party line even when it is against their stated beliefs. How many rallies has Olbermann setup versus Glenn Beck? How many rallies has Michael Moore put on? How about Bill Mahr? Not even the same game given the number of people that show up for Beck rallies, they are almost scary given the drivel and revisionist history he spews.
I like that idea a lot, a consumer reports of politicians, it would really help with all of the mud slinging and blatant misrepresentation we see every election cycle.
You were good until your tried to inject your opinion. I don't think anyone is questioning the right of someone to challenge a law, that is indeed a sign of a healthy democracy and as you point out it's not all one sided as well which would not be a sign of good health. Ultimately I think the judges have a desire to reign in the crazy use of the commerce clause and I think that will be good for everyone. As for the law itself, it will probably have to get reworded as a public health issue, either way I'm happy to see proper arguments even though I don't agree with the guy. I am definitely a fan of using the correct laws to justify expansion of power however, such things should never be arbitrary.
I think you're hard pressed to argue that the number of flaming crazies is balanced on both sides of the isle though, at least in terms of public figures these days. Who is the liberal equivalent to Rush Limbaugh or Glenn Beck for instance? The best there was for a while there was Al Gore but he's not in the spotlight anymore now as well or at least not as much as they are.
I'm sorry, that's very ignorant, there are tons of us with faster than 100Mbps access, I'm even in the U.S. I have a SONET link here with a gig pipe and you can be sure that I'm pulling around 850meg which is about as fast as you can go on a gig interface. If I want to go 10gig I can easily get it. Granted you gotta pay quite a bit for it but in a lab you most certainly can get 100Mbps speeds and then some.
There's no need to make apologies for the yachts that the telecom companies were famous for buying with our tax dollars that congress decided not to attach any strings to. We gave them more than 200 billion dollars to build fiber infrastructure to our homes and that was almost 20 years ago. We're just not getting some limited fios options and it is in no way acceptable the speeds we are forced to endure. I'm in a great area for broadband in the U.S. getting 50meg cable at home but a great many out there are in terrible shape. I put on a show in Florida every year and the best I can get there is 3meg DSL, I buy 10 of them and bond them just to get something usable. Everywhere else I go I get 150meg or more of bandwidth.
Residential Internet is in sorry shape, commercial options are better but given the costs still not that great. I deal in California, Arizona, Nevada, and Florida, the southwest seems to do fairly well although Cali is worse than Nevada and AZ from my experience.
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Catch up, we're in 2011 and instant as you type searches are common place with Outlook 2007 and Outlook 2010, 2010 is even quite a bit faster.
Given the topic being Exchange/Outlook, would you care to enlighten us as to what functionality is seldom used or designed for specific markets? Let's be clear, we're talking about current solutions of which only the Oracle collaboration suite I've seen can hold a candle to it, maybe.... maybe by a long shot Notes but they both have many of the same problems and in the case of the collaboration suite don't even attempt to remove Outlook from the equation.
Parent was trying to say that those are not liberal rallying cries because liberals don't really have any linchpin issues. Al Gore's fearmongering lead nowhere which tells you the level of credence he was given. So yes, you are being disingenuous as your statements about liberals don't reflect reality. Liberals have traditionally been encouraged to think things through and even argue with the merits of topics. This is why the healthcare bill lost the public option as enough liberals couldn't agree on it to push it through with the democratic majority.
You're going to be hard pressed to peg any particular trait on a so-called liberal because the term is much more broadly applied than conservative. There are plenty of people that are traditionally liberal but still don't support abortion for instance. There are plenty of liberals out there that have no problems with guns provided that education is available on how to safely use them.
Of course I freely admit that I'm biased, I'm from Vermont where liberal and conservative views clash all the time but we always manage to get along, have incredibly lax gun laws, and somehow manage to provide healthcare to every child in the state whether we have a democratic governor or a republican one. We go back and forth all the time. Now I'm cast into the abyss that is Arizona where republican linchpin issues have made a private prison industry incredibly profitable at the expense of tax payers.
While I agree that the two parties have the same goals but employ different methods I think you're misguided if you think the democrats are as united as republicans are. While there was a democratic president in the whitehouse, and the two houses had democratic majorities healthcare legislation was totally crippled. Basically not a lot got done compared to the Bush years where republicans had control over everything.
Look at Beck and try to find a liberal personality to compare him too. They don't exist, there is no one that has as many followers, same with Rush, Sean Hannity might be on par with Rachel Maddow but again, no where near the level you see from the other side. For a brief period you may have said Al Gore and for that brief period you might have been right but right now there's no comparison. When most people think pundit, they think Fox News. That doesn't mean the other stations don't have their pundits, the big difference is that on the MSNBC side at least, they are quite open about party affiliations and are free to decent their opinion as they see fit. There is far less control on the MSNBC side over what gets aired and how when compared to Fox. Look at the debacle that was Olberman. He was fired for donating to political causes because that is not in tradition with a news company. Compare that with rallies that Beck has organized over the years and it's really quite a contrast.
I find it amusing that people still compare Steven Colbert and John Stewart of Comedy Central to personalities on 24 hour news stations. There is a fundamental difference in how the information should be received. With that said Steven Colbert is sarcastic on his show, his appearances outside of his show illustrate that he is not a douche. See the press conference after the rally to restore sanity and/or fear. Glenn Beck is never out of character, at least not in the last few years.
I am now going to quit my job as pizza boy as apparently I've got no shot at doing a porn star, way to burst my bubble!
Sounds a bit like the arguments people make for moving to the gold standard replacing one arbitrary form of currency with another because they bought into Beck saying they needed to buy gold. The whole time they forget that Beck and his associates were already invested and so were just pushing up the price and demand for gold higher knowing that it's not sustainable.
I'll bite since I know Israel has misbehaved, the difference is that I don't think its anywhere near the level that has been levied against them. What public bus have they bombed? When has Israel publicly proclaimed any group of people as an inferior race? This is not the rhetoric I've heard both from the Israeli government and from Israeli citizens so I'm curious about these incidents as I'm sure they would be news to many. Also, what central authority poses as a theocracy for the country? The Prime Minister seems to have real powers and is not superseded by some higher authority. If I'm wrong anywhere, please correct me.
I wish more people shared this attitude, kids can understand way more than most people give them credit for and its quite sad honestly holds so little value these days. You don't have to crush them, but suggesting alternative ways they could have achieved their goal or illuminating something that was missing are forms of constructive criticism which is very helpful.
I've spent much of my adult life seeking out constructive criticism in how I build my networks and servers, taking people through the logic and seeing if they can poke holes in it. If they can poke holes then that is a risk I'm taking whether I know it or not and since I'm responsible for it then I'm better for knowing about and mitigating it. The hard part is the honesty equation as most people professionally that evaluate your network are trying to sell you stuff.
If you're making six figures exactly how does the government take half of it? Are you also referring to all government or local or federal level? I've heard this many times before from people that conveniently forget history when it comes to social programs. When those people don't get food stamps what do you think they will do? Just die of starvation? That won't happen without violence first which was a real problem for this country before a lot of the social programs were put in place.
I don't know of anyone making 30k/year that has much if any disposable income and I know a lot of people making that much, I live in Phoenix which is a fairly cheap place to live even though it still pales in comparison to say upstate New York.
Also, low income housing ain't exactly nice housing, you'd be hard pressed to call it a good place to live compared to where the average six figure earner will be living, there is a great disparity in this country between those making a lot and those making a little and that will eventually boil over when there is no middle-class left.
There is still the attitude that hard work will pay off in this country. Science has been under attack for a number of years so of course you can see people's attitudes towards it change and those attitudes are changing. There was a time people that knew computers really well were ostracized and now they are rich and heroes to many.
Sure, the ignorant are very loud these days but there are still many people out there working hard every day to achieve the American dream whether they are immigrants, come from a poor family, or are continuing a family legacy, or from any other background you can dream up. Sure it's harder these days but that's to be expected as there are a lot more of us so there is more competition, this isn't a bad thing in my opinion at least.
Back on topic for a second, if science fairs set higher standards than the projects being entered would be of better quality. Of course it's hard to find teachers that are primarily science teachers until you get to the college level and we should look at why that is with dramatic cuts in spending when it comes to education.
Wiretapping only applies to recording and retaining audio, not real-time transmission especially in a public place. Plenty of students across the country will record their classes to refer back to later while studying and there's no need for exceptions in the law to allow for it.
Way to miss the point, disabling anti-spam functionality and IPS during a DDOS attack is hardly removing the protection the firewall offers. Most enterprise firewalls are considered unified threat management devices meaning they perform many more tasks than that of a mere firewall. I can relatively safely remove gateway level antivirus because I have AV further down that pipe, it just remove loads from my mail and file servers which under normal circumstances I'd want to keep to a minimum.
While in the process of mitigating a DDOS attack you're likely to be monitoring closely your other IPS and log watching daemons so you might want to get your mind out of thinking it's all or nothing. Firewalls are incredibly useful tools and are not made better by dropping their supposedly security-critical functionality as that will depend on your definition of better. As I said, Sonicwalls at the enterprise level can handle wirespeed so the bottleneck is the link coming in, not the firewall so you'll never need to drop that functionality, that was just a mitigation technique of the past.
The bottom line is that the bottleneck these days isn't usually the firewall but the load balancer or individual servers assuming you're not bottlenecked at your ISP.
Or you know, you could load balance your firewalls... Sonicwall has had this feature for quite some time and it makes a hell of a lot more sense than removing a layer of security that has proven to be effective in a great many situations. I'm pretty sure you can do this with a pair of Cisco routers, BGP, and a PiX setup or whatever they call it these days.
Sounds to me like someone just trying to buck the status quo without sound reasoning for doing so or at least a grasp of what is gained.
I'm a little curious what enterprise level firewalls you've dealt with if you're saying that firewalls are built on low end hardware. I know the E-Class Sonicwalls can handle a million simultaneous connections individually and you can load balance them to achieve higher workloads. There is nothing low end about the hardware inside as the E6500 at least is running 16 cores which is about the same resources as a typical server these days only they are dedicated to the job at hand. The Sonicwalls at least also have many performance tuning options giving the ability to disable DPI if you're in a high traffic scenario and overwhelming hardware.
Enterprise firewalls these days are much better than even three years ago, three years ago I might have agreed with the stance of trying to make due without, but now the load balancers behind the firewall are where my bottleneck is after the pipe coming into me of course.
Keep in mind it is the job of the senate to confirm the eligibility of the sitting President. There are way too many Republicans in the senate to just let any question stand and on top of that it would be a violation of their oath of office so they would only put their faith in Obama as a citizen if they believed he was in fact a citizen. I can't believe that it's still a question after this long.
You realize that NPR is regional right? NPR in Florida is very different than NPR in Oregon. You're going to need to be more careful but NPR on it's own has no bias, there are deeply conservative NPRs and there are liberal NPRs and there are NPRs that are very much in the middle such as NPR of Vermont.
That seems unlikely as we'd then have to spend our time and money on building roads ourselves.
The point is that the confidential informants were already in danger, this leak gave them time to secure themselves or rather the last leak did.
If the cables were being snooped on by a 3rd party then that information would be quietly sold and the informants actually would die, instead with publication out in the open they can actually prepare themselves and key assets would be retrieved by our men and women still on the ground.
As for whether or not the informants were killed, this is not something the government has to do, any news organization can go find them since presumably the details of such are in the leaked documents. There are plenty of news organizations out there that would do it for all sorts of reasons so I find it difficult to swallow the idea that these leaks killed anybody when an entire year later we've not heard of any consequences. One would think it would be in the government's interests even to make it known that a few people were killed so the anti-wikileaks bills could move forward. Most of the reactions to wikileaks are merely knee-jerk, yes, it would be nice if they didn't have to go to such lengths but they did ask for help redacting everything. What should they do? Just say they have these secret documents? Then they would merely conspiracy theorists and nothing would change. Government transparency is not supposed to just be a pipe dream.
So your saying one statement about a factory making missiles is false because he stated the wrong type of missile? That seems pretty disingenuous there. You could definitely call it inaccurate but saying it's completely false?
Methinks you don't understand that the person who leaked the information and the person that published the information are different people. The governments ability on the world stage needed a wake up call as clearly they were not operating in a secure manner. This would never change as long no one leaked the information. The insecurity of the federal government has been known for a very long time and token theater has been the only reaction since.
How many informants were killed after the first wikidump? There are no articles about it leading me to believe that it is just government fear mongering as they did indeed say the same thing about the first release of information and that was quite a while ago now. I would like to see some follow-up on this before I condemn wikileaks on heresy as you have done. Keep in mind that Wikileaks extended offers even to the Pentagon to redact information, offers which were ignored, dozens of news outlets around the world have been given the same opportunities. All of that was before the leak went public. I think you're hard pressed to paint them as acting in bad faith. It's very embarrassing for the government so you'll have to keep in mind that what they say about the situation is far from the whole story.
While I agree with you, we're talking about radical right versus radical left. I think you're hard pressed to argue Glenn Beck as not far right. That was my original point, the radical right gets far more attention than the radical left despite a lot of mainstream media being slightly left.
I think most people are combination of features with some traditionally liberal beliefs and some conservative beliefs, unfortunately in modern media it is the extremes that get reported and as such you'll far more likely to hear about the tea party versus the green party regardless of which channel you like to watch or paper you like to read.
I think you missed the point, of course the left has it's crazies, they just aren't nearly as loud nor do they reach as many people as they love to trumpet on their shows. I've watched and heard all sides, the loudest voices are conservative voices.
Glenn Beck is popular enough to hold rallies across the country, you will not find a similar left wing crazy that has even remotely that level of reach.
Are you seriously arguing that Olbermann is on the level of Glenn Beck or Rush Limbaugh? They are in different ball parks, you might compare him with O'Reilly but even that is a stretch given the number of books O'Reilly has put out.
None of the people you mention are to the left what Glenn Beck or Rush are to the right, they are figureheads for the party, the left has no such organization as even Clinton couldn't garner the level of support Rush does. Michael Moore is more like Anne Coultier, neither of who are in the public spotlight these days. None of those people are nearly as prevalent. As I said, the left isn't without it's crazies, but on the right they are far more organized and always shout the party line even when it is against their stated beliefs. How many rallies has Olbermann setup versus Glenn Beck? How many rallies has Michael Moore put on? How about Bill Mahr? Not even the same game given the number of people that show up for Beck rallies, they are almost scary given the drivel and revisionist history he spews.
I like that idea a lot, a consumer reports of politicians, it would really help with all of the mud slinging and blatant misrepresentation we see every election cycle.
You were good until your tried to inject your opinion. I don't think anyone is questioning the right of someone to challenge a law, that is indeed a sign of a healthy democracy and as you point out it's not all one sided as well which would not be a sign of good health. Ultimately I think the judges have a desire to reign in the crazy use of the commerce clause and I think that will be good for everyone. As for the law itself, it will probably have to get reworded as a public health issue, either way I'm happy to see proper arguments even though I don't agree with the guy. I am definitely a fan of using the correct laws to justify expansion of power however, such things should never be arbitrary.
I think you're hard pressed to argue that the number of flaming crazies is balanced on both sides of the isle though, at least in terms of public figures these days. Who is the liberal equivalent to Rush Limbaugh or Glenn Beck for instance? The best there was for a while there was Al Gore but he's not in the spotlight anymore now as well or at least not as much as they are.
I'm sorry, that's very ignorant, there are tons of us with faster than 100Mbps access, I'm even in the U.S. I have a SONET link here with a gig pipe and you can be sure that I'm pulling around 850meg which is about as fast as you can go on a gig interface. If I want to go 10gig I can easily get it. Granted you gotta pay quite a bit for it but in a lab you most certainly can get 100Mbps speeds and then some.
There's no need to make apologies for the yachts that the telecom companies were famous for buying with our tax dollars that congress decided not to attach any strings to. We gave them more than 200 billion dollars to build fiber infrastructure to our homes and that was almost 20 years ago. We're just not getting some limited fios options and it is in no way acceptable the speeds we are forced to endure. I'm in a great area for broadband in the U.S. getting 50meg cable at home but a great many out there are in terrible shape. I put on a show in Florida every year and the best I can get there is 3meg DSL, I buy 10 of them and bond them just to get something usable. Everywhere else I go I get 150meg or more of bandwidth.
Residential Internet is in sorry shape, commercial options are better but given the costs still not that great. I deal in California, Arizona, Nevada, and Florida, the southwest seems to do fairly well although Cali is worse than Nevada and AZ from my experience.