Two different questions there. 1. Does the company that hosts them make money. 2. Are the awards based on merit. Both appear to be true, and they aren't contradictory. So what if the company that hosts the awards makes money?
As to the 1970s - It's a line from the Wiki article. You focused on the less important part of the sentence.
But since you ask, on a geological timescale, no, but 40 odd years is a big chunk out of the typical person's lifespan. Or do you view it differently?
Please expand on that, I'm curious. Is it the bringing up of topics that don't have the progressive stamp of approval? Using sources that march to a different drummer? Should we only be posting the approved truth or talking point of the day? What a strange notion in a forum post complaining about the alleged politicization of science. Isn't the truth important? Diversity of ideas? Or do we all have to think alike?
After a week of revelations about government spying on reporters and the Internal Revenue Service targeting conservatives, most voters feel “like the federal government has gotten out of control and is threatening the basic civil liberties of Americans.”
At the same time, a new Fox News poll finds disapproval of President Obama’s job performance is above 50 percent for the first time in a year, his honesty rating is at a new low and half of voters already think he’s a lame-duck.
More than two-thirds of voters -- 68 percent -- feel the government is out of control and threatening their civil liberties. About one quarter disagree (26 percent).
Nearly half of Democrats (47 percent), as well as large numbers of independents (76 percent) and Republicans (87 percent) feel Uncle Sam is taking liberties with their liberties.
Those who identify with the Tea Party movement, one of the groups targeted by the IRS, are among those most likely to say things are out of control and civil liberties are being threatened: 92 percent of Tea Partiers feel that way.
I would like to think that you value civil liberties enough that you wouldn't stand behind this sort of behavior even if it does have popular support. After all, Nixon enjoyed considerable popular support well into Watergate. What kind of government do you have when the government can select significant segments of the population to disadvantage and harass them based solely on their views regarding the policy they wish to see enacted by peaceful means at the ballot? Normally that sort of behavior is going to come from a country with a different style for the leader, such as Il Duce, El Presidente, or El Caudillo, or perhaps Generalissimo. I'd prefer to not have that sort of language applied to the President of the United States.
Since you enjoy music I was going to have a bit of fun with you by linking this earlier in the post, but I'll play it straight. I enjoyed this: Arthur Prysock - What a difference a day makes Salud
It seems that much of the day to day objection to the Daily Mail isn't necessarily based on the quality of journalism so much as the subject and perspective. It must be comforting to some of the other papers to realize that a clever slogan will result in many people disregarding it.
Paper lands eight awards, including newspaper of the year, campaign of the year and hat-trick for Craig Brown Paul Dacre and the Daily Mail had a good night at the 2012 Press Awards, scooping eight prizes including newspaper of the year. . .
However, overall it was the Daily Mail's night, with editor-in-chief Dacre up on stage three times to accept the campaign of the year and Cudlipp awards for the paper's Stephen Lawrence coverage, as well as the newspaper of the year prize.
Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday writer Craig Brown was the biggest individual winner, becoming the first journalist to win three awards in a single night at the UK newspaper industry's annual awards bash on Tuesday.
You know what? I searched for "fail" in the Guardian's story and it doesn't come up. Maybe you've got it?
Dec. 16: Despite being briefed about the matter six months earlier, Lerner does not divulge the flagging of conservative groups when she and others from the IRS meet staff members of the House Ways and Means Committee to discuss the issue, according to the staff's timeline of events.
Human reproduction is not in any meaningful way like cancer, and it is a temporary condition that "solves itself" after a period of time anyway. I don't recall that cancers or random growths of cells consistently developed their own heart and brain, or consistently exit the body of the mother to eventually walk around, talk, go to school, and perhaps take up bowling. You may also recall that the many varied methods for preventing those "unwanted growths of cells" to begin with are well known.
... Firearm homicides have declined 39 percent since 1993, according to a Bureau of Justice Statistics report released on May 7. A separate study by the Pew Research Center put the decline at an even more impressive 49 percent. Nonfatal gun crime also dropped over two decades—by an eye-opening 69 percent, according to the government...
... Firearm homicides have declined 39 percent since 1993, according to a Bureau of Justice Statistics report released on May 7. A separate study by the Pew Research Center put the decline at an even more impressive 49 percent. Nonfatal gun crime also dropped over two decades—by an eye-opening 69 percent, according to the government...
... Cruz also slammed the president for failing to prosecute felons and fugitives who illegally tried to purchase guns, saying in 2010 of 48,000 illegal gun purchase attempts, the administration only prosecuted 44. Instead, Cruz said, Obama is going after the "constitutional rights of the people who are complying with the law."...
...Firearm homicides have declined 39 percent since 1993, according to a Bureau of Justice Statistics report released on May 7. A separate study by the Pew Research Center put the decline at an even more impressive 49 percent. Nonfatal gun crime also dropped over two decades—by an eye-opening 69 percent, according to the government....
I don't think I can agree with you on that. People gravitate toward their interests, not just to what they feel comfortable with. That often results in picking up ever more rarified knowledge, or higher skills. In my experience that can provide plenty of challenge. There are also plenty of people that will strike out in a totally new direction just to learn something about a topic or to acquire a new skill.
People often joke about basket weaving classes, but it is a useful skill with a significant knowledge base and many skills to learn. If you care to master all aspects of the craft there is much to learn about different materials and preparation techniques, suitable construction methods with different materials, etc.
Consider the humble pencil in this classic: I, Pencil
Herbert Stein, chief economic adviser during the administrations of Nixon and Gerald Ford, once remarked: “Probably more new regulation was imposed on the economy during the Nixon administration than in any other presidency since the New Deal.”
How many remember that Nixon was a champion of affirmative action? “Incredible but true”, as Fortune magazine put it in 1994 when Nixon died, “It was the Nixonites that gave us employment quotas.” Though many credit John F. Kennedy or Lyndon Johnson with initiating affirmative action, it was rather Richard Nixon who first sanctioned formal goals and time frames to break barriers to minority employment.
Social Security benefits, a cornerstone of the Democratic Party platform, were also crucial to Nixon’s policies. He ushered in a minimum tax on the wealthy and supported a guaranteed income for all Americans, a move that would rile today’s Republicans to unprecedented heights.
And finally, consider health care: Nixon’s proposed reform would have required employers to buy health insurance for their employees and subsidize those who couldn’t afford it. Nixon’s version of national health care was a far more liberal concept than Bill Clinton’s or Barack Obama’s—and it failed because of Democratic opposition, not lack of support from Nixon’s own party. (Ted Kennedy later said that opposing Nixon’s health-care plan was one of his biggest political regrets.) . ..more
Government regulation can become unduly burdensome for the intended purpose. I remember reading about a reform in government travel regulations a number of years ago that helps illustrate. The government was spending about 30% of the travel budget ensuring that there was no waste, fraud, or abuse in travel, which struck many people at the time as a form of waste, fraud, or abuse. The regulations were changed.
The IRS has been charged with enforcement and will be collecting "enforcement related data". Which will likely be at least medically related.
The IRS will be looking for proof of insurance - do you have an insurance policy in force, not records of tonsil removal or treatment plans for colon polyps.
When you go to the DMV for a license, do you submit gas receipts and oil change records? No. You show proof of insurance - a card from your insurer to show that you have insurance. Same here.
You missed the joke. Last I've read, IRS regulations are added at a rate greater than a human can read. Ignorance of the law is no excuse, even when the law is unknowable.
Maybe you were thinking about Federal regulations, not IRS. The total of the tax code and regulations appears to be readable over a period of months even if it would be immensely tedious and a challenge to sanity.
CCH's printed copy of the rules and regs, covering six volumes, is listed at 13,880 pages. So the code and regulations combined is fewer than 20,000 pages. (By extrapolation, if you downloaded both and printed them with Word, as the TAS did, it would run to about 40,000 pages, still half of what Hinckley says.) --- Our tax code is . . . 80,000 pages [Note: The title is not statement of fact.]
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By the time you finish reading it, you'll be dead, and have violated many of them before you managed to read them (or interpreted them differently than some random judge)
I think you've made an interesting admission against interest here. If the tax code is so enormous and complicated that it is effectively unenforceable in a fair manner, doesn't that demonstrate that it really needs to be greatly reduced and simplified so that mere mortals can grapple with it?
If you don't think that right-wing USA isn't extremely right-wing, and left-wing USA isn't centre-left then you need to go visit any other country (Australia, Canada, anywhere in Europe), as it's blatantly obvious you haven't had any experience of what a political continuum is.
I would be tempted to answer you, but I see another AC post just above this (literally as I see it) that I will direct you to. I think that nicely addresses some aspects of a perceived lack of a "real left" in the US.
Slashdot Mirror
Two different questions there. 1. Does the company that hosts them make money. 2. Are the awards based on merit. Both appear to be true, and they aren't contradictory. So what if the company that hosts the awards makes money?
As to the 1970s - It's a line from the Wiki article. You focused on the less important part of the sentence.
But since you ask, on a geological timescale, no, but 40 odd years is a big chunk out of the typical person's lifespan. Or do you view it differently?
Please expand on that, I'm curious. Is it the bringing up of topics that don't have the progressive stamp of approval? Using sources that march to a different drummer? Should we only be posting the approved truth or talking point of the day? What a strange notion in a forum post complaining about the alleged politicization of science. Isn't the truth important? Diversity of ideas? Or do we all have to think alike?
I see the date on your poll is May 20 2013.
Fox News poll: Obama ratings dip, voters say government 'out of control' - Published May 21
After a week of revelations about government spying on reporters and the Internal Revenue Service targeting conservatives, most voters feel “like the federal government has gotten out of control and is threatening the basic civil liberties of Americans.”
At the same time, a new Fox News poll finds disapproval of President Obama’s job performance is above 50 percent for the first time in a year, his honesty rating is at a new low and half of voters already think he’s a lame-duck.
More than two-thirds of voters -- 68 percent -- feel the government is out of control and threatening their civil liberties. About one quarter disagree (26 percent).
Nearly half of Democrats (47 percent), as well as large numbers of independents (76 percent) and Republicans (87 percent) feel Uncle Sam is taking liberties with their liberties.
Those who identify with the Tea Party movement, one of the groups targeted by the IRS, are among those most likely to say things are out of control and civil liberties are being threatened: 92 percent of Tea Partiers feel that way.
I would like to think that you value civil liberties enough that you wouldn't stand behind this sort of behavior even if it does have popular support. After all, Nixon enjoyed considerable popular support well into Watergate. What kind of government do you have when the government can select significant segments of the population to disadvantage and harass them based solely on their views regarding the policy they wish to see enacted by peaceful means at the ballot? Normally that sort of behavior is going to come from a country with a different style for the leader, such as Il Duce, El Presidente, or El Caudillo, or perhaps Generalissimo. I'd prefer to not have that sort of language applied to the President of the United States.
Since you enjoy music I was going to have a bit of fun with you by linking this earlier in the post, but I'll play it straight. I enjoyed this:
Arthur Prysock - What a difference a day makes
Salud
A time tested strategy: When there is no good counterargument, attack the source and apply negative moderation.
I take it math isn't your strong suit?
2013 - 197[0..9] > 3
From the Wiki:
Established in the 1970s, honours are voted on by a panel of journalists and newspaper executives.
Really?
The Press Awards
You haven't quite got that nailed.
It seems that much of the day to day objection to the Daily Mail isn't necessarily based on the quality of journalism so much as the subject and perspective. It must be comforting to some of the other papers to realize that a clever slogan will result in many people disregarding it.
Ahem
Interesting thing about the Daily Mail.
Press Awards: Daily Mail leads winners - Wednesday 21 March 2012
Paper lands eight awards, including newspaper of the year, campaign of the year and hat-trick for Craig Brown
Paul Dacre and the Daily Mail had a good night at the 2012 Press Awards, scooping eight prizes including newspaper of the year. . .
However, overall it was the Daily Mail's night, with editor-in-chief Dacre up on stage three times to accept the campaign of the year and Cudlipp awards for the paper's Stephen Lawrence coverage, as well as the newspaper of the year prize.
Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday writer Craig Brown was the biggest individual winner, becoming the first journalist to win three awards in a single night at the UK newspaper industry's annual awards bash on Tuesday.
You know what? I searched for "fail" in the Guardian's story and it doesn't come up. Maybe you've got it?
They both exist to keep deranged Wingnuts angry and stupid so they don't wise up and turn back into Conservatives..
Apparently they succeeded. ;D
But, just for fun, here are some more links.
A Timeline Of The IRS's Scrutiny Of The Right
2011
Dec. 16: Despite being briefed about the matter six months earlier, Lerner does not divulge the flagging of conservative groups when she and others from the IRS meet staff members of the House Ways and Means Committee to discuss the issue, according to the staff's timeline of events.
Tea party groups call IRS process 'nightmare'
Higher-Ups Knew of IRS Case
Reality Check Exclusive: Cincinnati agent giving orders in IRS scandal?
It Didn’t End - The IRS is still stringing conservative groups along
Now I'm curious though, when were you last conservative?
We're all just still waiting on the change to come.
The wait is over, it's here.
A special prosecutor in the IRS matter is inevitable
IRS Official Lois Lerner: 'I Have Not Done Anything Wrong'
IRS tea-party bloodbath continues in Congress, as evidence emerges that IRS's own internal probe ended in May 2012, six months before election, but was hidden from legislators
Report: 'Rogue' IRS Agent Claim Unraveling
Referring to a growing baby as a tumor is nonsense, both biologically and ethically.
Human reproduction is not in any meaningful way like cancer, and it is a temporary condition that "solves itself" after a period of time anyway. I don't recall that cancers or random growths of cells consistently developed their own heart and brain, or consistently exit the body of the mother to eventually walk around, talk, go to school, and perhaps take up bowling. You may also recall that the many varied methods for preventing those "unwanted growths of cells" to begin with are well known.
Guns cause violence, more guns cause more violence and NOT the other way around.
Gun ownership in the US is at an all time high, and yet:
Good News on Gun Violence Could Shape Gun Control Debate - May 07, 2013
... Firearm homicides have declined 39 percent since 1993, according to a Bureau of Justice Statistics report released on May 7. A separate study by the Pew Research Center put the decline at an even more impressive 49 percent. Nonfatal gun crime also dropped over two decades—by an eye-opening 69 percent, according to the government...
Florida Crime Rate Tumbles to 42-Year Low
Babies don't grow from tumors.
Just to add a little concrete to what you wrote . . .
Good News on Gun Violence Could Shape Gun Control Debate - May 07, 2013
... Firearm homicides have declined 39 percent since 1993, according to a Bureau of Justice Statistics report released on May 7. A separate study by the Pew Research Center put the decline at an even more impressive 49 percent. Nonfatal gun crime also dropped over two decades—by an eye-opening 69 percent, according to the government...
NRA Director, Ted Cruz Slam Obama on Gun Prosecutions
... Cruz also slammed the president for failing to prosecute felons and fugitives who illegally tried to purchase guns, saying in 2010 of 48,000 illegal gun purchase attempts, the administration only prosecuted 44. Instead, Cruz said, Obama is going after the "constitutional rights of the people who are complying with the law."...
It's really about control, not guns.
Good News on Gun Violence Could Shape Gun Control Debate - May 07, 2013
...Firearm homicides have declined 39 percent since 1993, according to a Bureau of Justice Statistics report released on May 7. A separate study by the Pew Research Center put the decline at an even more impressive 49 percent. Nonfatal gun crime also dropped over two decades—by an eye-opening 69 percent, according to the government. ...
It wasn't just DOS, although that was its stronghold. There were also versions available for: Unix, Macintosh, Windows, and OS/2.
Hmm, didn't know this though: Lotus 1-2-3 : "The charting/graphing routines were written in Forth by Jeremy Sagan (son of Carl Sagan)"
I believe that reference to Forth should be, "the fabulous Forth language."
He probably did do some bragging, just securely, by proxy. "Ha! My friend is 31337 u n00b!! Ur gona get pwn3d!!"
I don't think I can agree with you on that. People gravitate toward their interests, not just to what they feel comfortable with. That often results in picking up ever more rarified knowledge, or higher skills. In my experience that can provide plenty of challenge. There are also plenty of people that will strike out in a totally new direction just to learn something about a topic or to acquire a new skill.
People often joke about basket weaving classes, but it is a useful skill with a significant knowledge base and many skills to learn. If you care to master all aspects of the craft there is much to learn about different materials and preparation techniques, suitable construction methods with different materials, etc.
Consider the humble pencil in this classic: I, Pencil
I'm enjoying a chuckle at the moment.
Richard Nixon -- the last great liberal
Herbert Stein, chief economic adviser during the administrations of Nixon and Gerald Ford, once remarked: “Probably more new regulation was imposed on the economy during the Nixon administration than in any other presidency since the New Deal.”
How many remember that Nixon was a champion of affirmative action? “Incredible but true”, as Fortune magazine put it in 1994 when Nixon died, “It was the Nixonites that gave us employment quotas.” Though many credit John F. Kennedy or Lyndon Johnson with initiating affirmative action, it was rather Richard Nixon who first sanctioned formal goals and time frames to break barriers to minority employment.
Social Security benefits, a cornerstone of the Democratic Party platform, were also crucial to Nixon’s policies. He ushered in a minimum tax on the wealthy and supported a guaranteed income for all Americans, a move that would rile today’s Republicans to unprecedented heights.
And finally, consider health care: Nixon’s proposed reform would have required employers to buy health insurance for their employees and subsidize those who couldn’t afford it. Nixon’s version of national health care was a far more liberal concept than Bill Clinton’s or Barack Obama’s—and it failed because of Democratic opposition, not lack of support from Nixon’s own party. (Ted Kennedy later said that opposing Nixon’s health-care plan was one of his biggest political regrets.) . . .more
Government regulation can become unduly burdensome for the intended purpose. I remember reading about a reform in government travel regulations a number of years ago that helps illustrate. The government was spending about 30% of the travel budget ensuring that there was no waste, fraud, or abuse in travel, which struck many people at the time as a form of waste, fraud, or abuse. The regulations were changed.
President Obama's stimulus plan has faced many hurdles, rendering it ineffective. A Stimulus Project Gets All Caulked Up
The IRS has been charged with enforcement and will be collecting "enforcement related data". Which will likely be at least medically related.
The IRS will be looking for proof of insurance - do you have an insurance policy in force, not records of tonsil removal or treatment plans for colon polyps.
When you go to the DMV for a license, do you submit gas receipts and oil change records? No. You show proof of insurance - a card from your insurer to show that you have insurance. Same here.
Ah, "good" ole Bill.
William Ayers' forgotten communist manifesto: Prairie Fire
The last section is especially interesting.
You missed the joke. Last I've read, IRS regulations are added at a rate greater than a human can read. Ignorance of the law is no excuse, even when the law is unknowable.
Maybe you were thinking about Federal regulations, not IRS. The total of the tax code and regulations appears to be readable over a period of months even if it would be immensely tedious and a challenge to sanity.
CCH's printed copy of the rules and regs, covering six volumes, is listed at 13,880 pages. So the code and regulations combined is fewer than 20,000 pages. (By extrapolation, if you downloaded both and printed them with Word, as the TAS did, it would run to about 40,000 pages, still half of what Hinckley says.) --- Our tax code is . . . 80,000 pages [Note: The title is not statement of fact.]
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By the time you finish reading it, you'll be dead, and have violated many of them before you managed to read them (or interpreted them differently than some random judge)
I think you've made an interesting admission against interest here. If the tax code is so enormous and complicated that it is effectively unenforceable in a fair manner, doesn't that demonstrate that it really needs to be greatly reduced and simplified so that mere mortals can grapple with it?
If you don't think that right-wing USA isn't extremely right-wing, and left-wing USA isn't centre-left then you need to go visit any other country (Australia, Canada, anywhere in Europe), as it's blatantly obvious you haven't had any experience of what a political continuum is.
I would be tempted to answer you, but I see another AC post just above this (literally as I see it) that I will direct you to. I think that nicely addresses some aspects of a perceived lack of a "real left" in the US.
For further reading:
Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning