Absolutely untrue. All of the big TV networks ran pieces on it, and I saw one in the New York Times. There may have been others that I missed. Try not to make stuff up. You're only hurting the already limited credibility of Indymedia and doing a disservice to those in Indymedia who are actually trying to make a difference.
Did anyone else hear about the decision that citizens cannot sue the police for not doing thier job?
Actually, yes. Several million people did. ABC network news did a long piece on it, and it was carried on several hundred TV stations coast-to-coast. If all you watch is CNN, CNBC, and Slashdot you're certainly going to miss stuff. You have to sleep some time.
NPR was the ONLY news outlet that reported on the Supreme Court decisions yesterday CORERECTLY. The decision against P2P was not how 99% of the news outlets reported it
Lesse... There's about 5,000 radio stations with news departments in the U.S...
About 1,000 TV stations producing news...
About 20,000 newspapers...
Maybe 20 cable channels with news on them...
Sounds like you had a busy day listening, watching, and reading 99% of what of American news outlets reported yesterday. It seems to me the possibilities are:
A - You used time travel to fit it all in to 24 hours.
B - You have some kick-ass TiVo the rest of us don't.
C - You're making shit up to suit your point of view.
It's not impossible. It happens every day. To say it never happens is stupid. Not every story is politics or war. Sometimes it's car crashes and other stories that are easy to report as "just the facts." The more complicated the story, the harder it is. But 90% of journalism is day-to-day boring stuff that is very easy to report without bias.
"Underground" -- like illegal? Oh, wait. No. What they do isn't banned by law. Maybe "underground" like subversive? No. Not really. Most of them seem to carry the Liberarian or Democratic party lines. Maybe "underground" means they publish by alternative means? No. Looks like newspapers, radio, web sites, just like everyone else. Maybe "underground" in the sense that they tackle tough issues? Nope. Looks like lots of self-imporant over-hyped exposes on tongue piercing and herbal medicine. Maybe "underground" in that they provide a balance dview? Nope. In fact, they seem to be more slanted, have fewer on-record sources, fewer verifiable claims, and fewer actual facts than what is labeled the mainstream media.
So... it sounds like you meant "underground" in the sense of a 12-year-old suburban white kid with baggy pants, and fake bling pretending he understands the urban experience because he bought a hip-hop CD.
To borrow a line from Billy Joel: "Fist in the air. Head in the sand."
I got an iPod because I don't like what's on radio, and neither AM nor FM work in a subway tunnel, so that's just feature bloat.
I'll totally agree with you about the back of the iPods getting messy easy, but I haven't had any problems with the front of any of mine yet. I have four in the family.
Verizon Avenue: 1 out of 10. Service goes down for several hours every couple of days. It can take over an hour to get through to someone on the phone. Once I asked them to install a second jack, and instead they disconnected my phone then argued with me about it until the state PUC stepped in. Also, not only do they not offer Usenet access, they don't know what it is.
I recently switched to...
A-Net: 10 out of 10 so far. I can get a tech at 3am on the first ring, and it's someone who knows what they're talking about and can fix my problems without going through a script. Also, the speed is five times faster than my old Verizon Avenue, even though both are DSL.
It's too bad I had to change buildings to change ISPs.
What I don't understand is where's the "innovation" in the DV Forge product? It's essentially the same as the one from DLO. How is DLO squashing DV Forge's "innovation?" Maybe they're restricting DV Forge's "knock-off" but I don't see what DV Forge did that counts as unique or special to deserve not to be held accountable. Further, the submitter has not demonstrated that end users are being denied a "far more superior" product, because his product is essentially the same.
Sounds like a cry baby to me.
Maybe if the DV Forge product was demonstrably different or better they might have a case. But then, if they did they wouldn't be moaning on Slashdot.
It's not hard to figure out that Commission Junction and its members might employ unethical practices. There are hundreds and hundreds of messages about it all over the internet. I'm sure a quick Google would turn up plenty.
Finding a reputable company to do business with is as simple as asking another company you know, trust, and respect who they place ads with. Even easier is to contact the site you want to advertise on directly. Often it's cheaper, too.
And the line about being a "small company with little know how in advertising" is totally bogus. Placing on-line ads is so easy, even 15-year-olds with their own blogs do it. This is exactly the kind of thing that Spitzer is talking about where companies pretend they don't know what's going on. You're just making excuses and it makes your company sound slimey.
It's official. The cure for Windows is worse than the disease.
Sounds like a Soviet Russia joke waiting to happen.
Imagine telling someone you don't run Norton/McAffee/etc... because it's not secure. Now you have to switch to Linux/OS X for both a more secure operating system, and more secure applications.
heh the GIMP is absolutly free, so why the heck one would pay money to adobe or M$ is beyond me:P
Because they want to get some actual work done and not spend their day fighting the interface, or compiling code? Because they want to be able to exchange files with their peers and other companies that require PSD files?
the US software wouldn't work anyway... Sony love region-locking their stuff.
This is false. I use American games on my Japanese PSP all the time. It's the movies that are locked. If I try to play an American movie in my Japanese PSP I get an unpleasant message.
No, they're supposed to work forever. Or at least that's what my lawyer said when he filed a lawsuit over my nearly four-year-old iPod. It must be true.
NASA are messed up if they can lose stuff in their own buildings for 40 years.
Sounds like you've never worked for a large company. Or a medium sized company. Or a university. Or a school. Or even a church. I've worked for all of them, and I can easily believe this sort of thing would have happened in each of those places.
You diss him for supposedly watching Fox News, and then refute him by citing Z-Mag? You're just as bad as him. How about coming up with some credible sources, not raving lunatic bloggers.
A lot of large multinational companies do a lot more recycling than you do. Just because they're large or operate across borders doesn't make them evil. That's just your personal bias showing through.
Slashdot Mirror
Absolutely untrue. All of the big TV networks ran pieces on it, and I saw one in the New York Times. There may have been others that I missed. Try not to make stuff up. You're only hurting the already limited credibility of Indymedia and doing a disservice to those in Indymedia who are actually trying to make a difference.
Did anyone else hear about the decision that citizens cannot sue the police for not doing thier job?
Actually, yes. Several million people did. ABC network news did a long piece on it, and it was carried on several hundred TV stations coast-to-coast. If all you watch is CNN, CNBC, and Slashdot you're certainly going to miss stuff. You have to sleep some time.
NPR was the ONLY news outlet that reported on the Supreme Court decisions yesterday CORERECTLY. The decision against P2P was not how 99% of the news outlets reported it
Lesse... There's about 5,000 radio stations with news departments in the U.S...
About 1,000 TV stations producing news...
About 20,000 newspapers...
Maybe 20 cable channels with news on them...
Sounds like you had a busy day listening, watching, and reading 99% of what of American news outlets reported yesterday. It seems to me the possibilities are:
A - You used time travel to fit it all in to 24 hours.
B - You have some kick-ass TiVo the rest of us don't.
C - You're making shit up to suit your point of view.
I think the correct answer is C.
It's not impossible. It happens every day. To say it never happens is stupid. Not every story is politics or war. Sometimes it's car crashes and other stories that are easy to report as "just the facts." The more complicated the story, the harder it is. But 90% of journalism is day-to-day boring stuff that is very easy to report without bias.
Or do you only read the headlines?
Ooooh. They're "underground." I'm impressed.
"Underground" -- like illegal? Oh, wait. No. What they do isn't banned by law.
Maybe "underground" like subversive? No. Not really. Most of them seem to carry the Liberarian or Democratic party lines.
Maybe "underground" means they publish by alternative means? No. Looks like newspapers, radio, web sites, just like everyone else.
Maybe "underground" in the sense that they tackle tough issues? Nope. Looks like lots of self-imporant over-hyped exposes on tongue piercing and herbal medicine.
Maybe "underground" in that they provide a balance dview? Nope. In fact, they seem to be more slanted, have fewer on-record sources, fewer verifiable claims, and fewer actual facts than what is labeled the mainstream media.
So... it sounds like you meant "underground" in the sense of a 12-year-old suburban white kid with baggy pants, and fake bling pretending he understands the urban experience because he bought a hip-hop CD.
To borrow a line from Billy Joel: "Fist in the air. Head in the sand."
I got an iPod because I don't like what's on radio, and neither AM nor FM work in a subway tunnel, so that's just feature bloat.
I'll totally agree with you about the back of the iPods getting messy easy, but I haven't had any problems with the front of any of mine yet. I have four in the family.
Sorry to break it to you, but Speakeasy and Bway are both corporation, too.
Verizon Avenue: 1 out of 10. Service goes down for several hours every couple of days. It can take over an hour to get through to someone on the phone. Once I asked them to install a second jack, and instead they disconnected my phone then argued with me about it until the state PUC stepped in. Also, not only do they not offer Usenet access, they don't know what it is.
I recently switched to...
A-Net: 10 out of 10 so far. I can get a tech at 3am on the first ring, and it's someone who knows what they're talking about and can fix my problems without going through a script. Also, the speed is five times faster than my old Verizon Avenue, even though both are DSL.
It's too bad I had to change buildings to change ISPs.
On mine, Command-Space changes it to AZERTY layout with the corresponding French flag in the menu bar.
You mean your brain can run without noisy external cooling. Lucky you ;-)
;)
He must be a Mac head.
I almost agree.
What I don't understand is where's the "innovation" in the DV Forge product? It's essentially the same as the one from DLO. How is DLO squashing DV Forge's "innovation?" Maybe they're restricting DV Forge's "knock-off" but I don't see what DV Forge did that counts as unique or special to deserve not to be held accountable. Further, the submitter has not demonstrated that end users are being denied a "far more superior" product, because his product is essentially the same.
Sounds like a cry baby to me.
Maybe if the DV Forge product was demonstrably different or better they might have a case. But then, if they did they wouldn't be moaning on Slashdot.
It's not hard to figure out that Commission Junction and its members might employ unethical practices. There are hundreds and hundreds of messages about it all over the internet. I'm sure a quick Google would turn up plenty.
Finding a reputable company to do business with is as simple as asking another company you know, trust, and respect who they place ads with. Even easier is to contact the site you want to advertise on directly. Often it's cheaper, too.
And the line about being a "small company with little know how in advertising" is totally bogus. Placing on-line ads is so easy, even 15-year-olds with their own blogs do it. This is exactly the kind of thing that Spitzer is talking about where companies pretend they don't know what's going on. You're just making excuses and it makes your company sound slimey.
Your ID calls you a "Recovering Hater." I'd say you still have a long way to go in your recovery.
although you do need your own ExtraCare card
Do I really, or can I use the cashier's? Yesterday at CVS I told the checkout guy that the dog ate my card, and he just scanned his.
And best of all... In space, no one can hear you break the glass.
Sword fighting with the dogs and letting the well run dry while making mud pies for the dogs to eat.
Your dogs swordfight and make mud pies? That's cool. I guess that's what mine would do if he had thumbs.
Look, for all the naysaying going on...
ObSimCityQuote: "Naysayers Say Nay"
Sorry. Every time I see that word, I think of Sim City.
It's official. The cure for Windows is worse than the disease.
Sounds like a Soviet Russia joke waiting to happen.
Imagine telling someone you don't run Norton/McAffee/etc... because it's not secure. Now you have to switch to Linux/OS X for both a more secure operating system, and more secure applications.
Strawman!
Oh... Sorry. I got a little excited there. Eveyone else on Slashdot misuses that word. I didn't want to be left out.
heh the GIMP is absolutly free, so why the heck one would pay money to adobe or M$ is beyond me :P
Because they want to get some actual work done and not spend their day fighting the interface, or compiling code? Because they want to be able to exchange files with their peers and other companies that require PSD files?
Because Photoshop is better?
the US software wouldn't work anyway... Sony love region-locking their stuff.
This is false. I use American games on my Japanese PSP all the time. It's the movies that are locked. If I try to play an American movie in my Japanese PSP I get an unpleasant message.
Rechargeable batteries cease to work
No, they're supposed to work forever. Or at least that's what my lawyer said when he filed a lawsuit over my nearly four-year-old iPod. It must be true.
NASA are messed up if they can lose stuff in their own buildings for 40 years.
Sounds like you've never worked for a large company. Or a medium sized company. Or a university. Or a school. Or even a church. I've worked for all of them, and I can easily believe this sort of thing would have happened in each of those places.
You diss him for supposedly watching Fox News, and then refute him by citing Z-Mag? You're just as bad as him. How about coming up with some credible sources, not raving lunatic bloggers.
A lot of large multinational companies do a lot more recycling than you do. Just because they're large or operate across borders doesn't make them evil. That's just your personal bias showing through.