feel free to improve my analogy by picking a more liberal talk show shock jockey. I don't listen to any of them Limbaugh or stern anymore. I also avoid opera and 'dr.' Phil. Maybe one of them would be a better choice. I suspect the main premise of the statement remains unchanged regardless of the concrete examples of polarizing emotion driven commentators you choose to represent opposite ends of the spectrum.
However, I would suggest that if your premise is that:
"For every {polarizing emotion driven commentators like Limbaugh, Hannity, Savage, Malkin, etc. etc. etc} loving, ultraconservative, red-neck out there, thier [sic] is a tree hugging {polarizing emotion driven commentator of which I can't even think of a better example than an entirely inappropriate one of Howard Stern} wannabe..."
...then the lop-sided ability to come up with comparable examples on both sides does tend to undermine that premise.
Personally, I hate the entire idea of polarizing left vs. right as I believe it muddies rather than clarifies political discourse, and I do believe "preaching to the choir" is endemic across the political spectrum, but honestly, you are choosing a pretty bad example to make that case.
For every Rush Limbaugh loving, ultraconservative, red-neck out there, thier [sic] is a tree hugging Howard stern wannabe...
I must have missed the memo where Howard Stern was appointed as the "liberal" antipode to Rush Limbaugh. I haven't listened to Stern in years, but my recollection is to the extent Stern was political at all, he was more conservative than liberal, and he was once considered for Libertarian Party nomination for governor of NY. Has the Stern audience really morphed to the point of "tree-hugging", as opposed to the lowest-common-denominator fart-joke connoisseurs I remember?
Am I the only one surprised that no one, as of yet, has made a version of Donkey Kong with the graphics changed so that it's Ballmer throwing chairs, rather than Kong throwing barrels?
Everything in the universe is made of one element, which is a note, a single note. Atoms are really vibrations, you know, which are extensions of THE BIG NOTE... Everything's one note. Everything, even the ponies. The note, however, is the ultimate power, but see, the pigs don't know that, the ponies don't know that...
What's smart about believing that the Earth is 6,000 years old and that man and the dinosaurs walked the Earth together?
Well, any time I think about the fact that a presidential or vice-presidential candidate can profess such a belief and still be taken seriously by the electorate, it really smarts.
How many "computer geeks" out there who complain about users who lack basic knowledge of their PCs, can't change their car's oil? How many can, but say "I have other, more interesting things to spend my time doing"?
On the other hand, how many people expect any car mechanic, plumber, or electrician friends or relatives to render their services for free, as many "computer geeks" included myself have experienced over the years? Very few, in my experience.
If I don't know how or can't be bothered to change my own oil or sweat my own pipes, then I pay someone else to do it. However, there is far too much of a tendency for "non-geeks" to be militantly ignorant about computers, where they stubbornly refuse to learn *anything* about how to use them, and to further expect that someone who *does* know to "just fix it" out of the kindness of their hearts.
Like HeatherD posted above, I refuse to do it anymore. If you want to remain entirely ignorant about your computer, then pay the full freight for professional tech support and see how valuable the time saved by not investing in knowledge of your computer truly is.
Stochastically speaking, there is some solid molecular theory backing up this idea. It's not completely snakeoil.
Don't forget that the inventor has a track record of similar inventions, previously he invented a technique for increasing the potency of cocaine by putting it on a moving train. Or so I've heard...
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Sun Tzu: "Pssst...hey man, it's Sun Tzu, open the door, I got the stuff..."
Chong: "Sun? Sun Tzu? Sun's not here."
Sun Tzu: "No man, I'm Sun!! Now will you open the door, I got the stuff!!"
Chong: "Sun?"
Sun Tzu: "Yes, it's Sun!!!"
Chong: "Sun's not here!!"
-- several iterations later --
Sun Tzu: "It's Sun!!! S-U-N!!! Now will you open the goddamned door?!?!?!"
Chong: "Oh, sure." -- opens door --
Sun Tzu: "What the hell was that about?"
Chong: "Well, you had this note written on the table: 'If your opponent is of choleric temper, seek to irritate him.'"
Sun Tzu: "Damn, I must've really high when I wrote that..."
feel free to improve my analogy by picking a more liberal talk show shock jockey. I don't listen to any of them Limbaugh or stern anymore. I also avoid opera and 'dr.' Phil. Maybe one of them would be a better choice. I suspect the main premise of the statement remains unchanged regardless of the concrete examples of polarizing emotion driven commentators you choose to represent opposite ends of the spectrum.
However, I would suggest that if your premise is that:
"For every {polarizing emotion driven commentators like Limbaugh, Hannity, Savage, Malkin, etc. etc. etc} loving, ultraconservative, red-neck out there, thier [sic] is a tree hugging {polarizing emotion driven commentator of which I can't even think of a better example than an entirely inappropriate one of Howard Stern} wannabe..."
...then the lop-sided ability to come up with comparable examples on both sides does tend to undermine that premise.
Personally, I hate the entire idea of polarizing left vs. right as I believe it muddies rather than clarifies political discourse, and I do believe "preaching to the choir" is endemic across the political spectrum, but honestly, you are choosing a pretty bad example to make that case.
For every Rush Limbaugh loving, ultraconservative, red-neck out there, thier [sic] is a tree hugging Howard stern wannabe...
I must have missed the memo where Howard Stern was appointed as the "liberal" antipode to Rush Limbaugh. I haven't listened to Stern in years, but my recollection is to the extent Stern was political at all, he was more conservative than liberal, and he was once considered for Libertarian Party nomination for governor of NY. Has the Stern audience really morphed to the point of "tree-hugging", as opposed to the lowest-common-denominator fart-joke connoisseurs I remember?
Am I the only one surprised that no one, as of yet, has made a version of Donkey Kong with the graphics changed so that it's Ballmer throwing chairs, rather than Kong throwing barrels?
Monkey Dong?
Then I would ask you - how do you know they haven't done the same as well?
Because they're WRONG, obviously. /sarcasm
That's why I only drink Diet Coke.
You are obviously too young to have grown up with this politically incorrect child's rhyme.
...while throwing a chaise lounge.
Sorry, I can't marklar what you marklar.
George Carlin's line was (to my best recollection): "Selling is legal, and fucking is legal, so why isn't selling fucking legal?"
"That's Willie's retirement fungus!!!"
Do they bleep "you make a dead man come" from "Start Me Up" as well?
No wonder they told us not to bring cameras to all those Key Parties in the '70s. They saw this coming.
This is probably a bad idea, but the article tags did suggest a great new TLD: .wtf.
Everything in the universe is made of one element, which is a note, a single note. Atoms are really vibrations, you know, which are extensions of THE BIG NOTE ... Everything's one note. Everything, even the ponies. The note, however, is the ultimate power, but see, the pigs don't know that, the ponies don't know that ...
Would that be pornometrics?
Mod parent up...for those of who wonder why so much COBOL still runs today, this post explains it.
If 1 Line of Code = 1 Library of Congress, you should acquaint yourself with the Enter key.
15. The Residents - Not Available
If Obama is missing that record, I'd be glad to lend him my copy.
He's got a real purty medulla oblongata...
What's smart about believing that the Earth is 6,000 years old and that man and the dinosaurs walked the Earth together?
Well, any time I think about the fact that a presidential or vice-presidential candidate can profess such a belief and still be taken seriously by the electorate, it really smarts.
How many "computer geeks" out there who complain about users who lack basic knowledge of their PCs, can't change their car's oil? How many can, but say "I have other, more interesting things to spend my time doing"?
On the other hand, how many people expect any car mechanic, plumber, or electrician friends or relatives to render their services for free, as many "computer geeks" included myself have experienced over the years? Very few, in my experience.
If I don't know how or can't be bothered to change my own oil or sweat my own pipes, then I pay someone else to do it. However, there is far too much of a tendency for "non-geeks" to be militantly ignorant about computers, where they stubbornly refuse to learn *anything* about how to use them, and to further expect that someone who *does* know to "just fix it" out of the kindness of their hearts.
Like HeatherD posted above, I refuse to do it anymore. If you want to remain entirely ignorant about your computer, then pay the full freight for professional tech support and see how valuable the time saved by not investing in knowledge of your computer truly is.
Now that's going too far, a day later I may feel differently, though.
Don't forget that the inventor has a track record of similar inventions, previously he invented a technique for increasing the potency of cocaine by putting it on a moving train. Or so I've heard...
A "Windows Cloud"? Damn straight I'm holding my breath.
...until your face turns BSOD?
Project/Code Name?
Since this is Slashdot, how about...
"Insensitive Cloud"