Oprah is obviously not as powerful as Angela Merkel, but that doesn't stop her from being one of the most powerful women in the world.
Take away her TV program and her "power: would evaporate.
Billy Bulger, the "corrupt midget" as he's been called, was President of the Mass Senate for a number of years. He was thought of as the most powerful man in MA. When he was interviewed by Morley Safer on "60 Minutes", he said "if people think you have the power, you do".
Of course, Oprah doesn't have a gangster brother named Whitey who shot and buried people he didn't like, but really - what power does she exert beyond the television world? She's a good marketer - like Billy Mays.
Except that in most states, a homeowner is not legally allowed to touch the meter in any way.
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I see just the opposite happening. In my area the Boston Glob is hemorrhaging a reported $1,000,000 per week. Almost all of the extra entertainment stuff - science and tech columnists, society, etc - is gone now. The Sunday paper used to be hundreds of page, but now is barely 60 - 70 pages long.
On the other hand, my local paper, run by a chain that publishes a similar paper in about two dozen nearby areas, is thriving, albeit not setting any profitability records.
Local papers have local news and that's what's important to people. It's still a thrill for a parent to see their kid's picture in the local paper. Local merchants need a way to reach local customers.
When the web becomes a truly localized place for most people, then the small papers may disappear. Right now they fill a niche and throughout all of publishing, those are the businesses that are surviving the "onslaught" of the web.
A manufacturer wouldn't ship batteries to Asia or anywhere else if it was for the purpose of assembly. Any battery would add many many pounds of weight to, say, a container of products, and that extra weight translates into dollars spent on shipping.
If the batteries stay in this country and be assembled into the products here, the wages and other fixed costs would be the deciding factor.
The commercial recording industry is an obsolete and dying business model that should be taken off of the government provided life support, and they know it. It's a good time for them to try to get a new source of income from the government, while said government is in a shambles.
Ahhh...are you responding to TFA or discussing the US auto industry.....
I would like to see more discussion on that actually. I understand that anonymity is sort of the thing that makes the internet great.
I'm not so sure that total anonymity is such a great thing. It allows too many cretins to make personal attacks on people, essentially convicting someone of a perceived crime, when none may have occurred. Certainly, those who have been the victims would agree.
Is having a static home address (123 Cherry Lane) preventing anonymity in the real world? Is that a valid comparison?
When you realize that your home can be seen by anyone via Google Earth or similar service, it does call into question how private is your life. Of course, the view is not real time, but it is a snapshot and who knows what was happening that day? I think a closer comparison might be your landline telephone. It's not completely anonymous, can be traced to an physical address in most cases and there are laws that disallow the use of the phone for certain things such as uttering threats or causing a fraud to be perpetrated.
I am in no way condoning the actions of the RIAA, but until the failed business model they were assigned to protect is gone, they have the right to stop the unfettered sharing of copyrighted materials. Just like a trace that can be put on a landline phone, and the identity of the phone subscriber found, the RIAA has an obligation to its client to find out who is causing the client to lose revenue and changing one's MAC or IP address may seem like a cool way to beat it, but the law may not be on your side at this time.
Having said all of that, one has to ask how much longer the recording industry will continue this folly.
What factual information can you cite supporting your assertion? Your opinion is the measures taken are useless. Re-read the first sentence. If the measures haven't worked, then what do YOU suggest will?
I'm in no way defending stupidity in the TSA, and as an occasional traveler, don't like the searches either. But so far, all I've heard on/. is a couple of F-bombs and one pseudo-intellect mod my comments as "Flamebait". It seems when questioned, and an answer is not within easy reach, let's punish the person who asked the question.
I'm fairly certain those were accidents, not the result of an organized group that has declared a "jihad" on the US and been funded by an individual who has delusions about his own importance in the world. That would be Bin Laden, maybe you've heard of him?
Terrorists - at least those from a certain geographical area of the Middle east - are absolutely at war with the US, at least in their own view. It is a pain to go through security at airports, but it's the price we pay for having an open society. If the US was a police state, the attacks probably would never have happened. But, you've failed to answer my question - what rights have you lost? US citizens lose more rights to the courts when hair brained lawsuits are brought to restrict copyright, peacefully assemble, display their religion in public - and the list goes on. So far - and I've checked - no one I know has lost any freedoms as a result of airport searches. Unless of course, you mean the freedom to say "HI JACK" at the airport and then having a TSA guy do a strip search because you were just trying to get the attention of your friend named Jack.
Next time, call him by his last name, unless it's Bomber. Then, I'd suggest using the cell phone.
Airplane terrorism really isn't all that effective.
Oh really.
Well, I guess living in Mom's basement and playing World of Warcraft all day, then from that perspective, aircraft being crashed into 110 story buildings, killing nearly 2,800 people and directly impacting several million more would not have much impact. Too bad you weren't in NYC that day. Might have given you a different perspective on life.
The problem is: the Toiletry Seizing Agency does not make us safer at all, so any downside to the program (like this) is not offset by any upside at all. This is not a mixed bag, this is pure evil.
So what do you suggest - doing away with all searches and hope that only the best of humankind boards aircraft?
Seems to me that's where the US was on 9/10/01. Of course, if the bleeders in Congress hadn't banned pilots from carrying guns - indeed there should have been a requirement to carry - the hijackings probably wouldn't have occurred.
I'd be all in favor of having armed personnel on aircraft, but the problem is that doesn't help at 35,000 feet when Mohammed and his friends decide to make the trip to heaven to meet the 72 virgins and take a plane load of innocents with them.
It's a Federal crime to steal US mail but the Postal inspectors are always catching a few dishonest employees. The TSA needs to have better oversight of its staff and more severe penalties for inside crimes as described. But, searches are a part of life, or at least until everyone boarding an aircraft is singing "Kumbaya"
my state of new hampshire does its fair share of the "autumnal display" as well......
as i'm north of the Notches (closer to Canada actually)
So do people still gather at the general store to use the internet?
...this moment there is 2ft of snow not more than 40 miles from my house on the Rockpile.
Keep it please.
Seriously, I was just in my favorite state of NH just on Friday on business. Only got as far as the Lakes region, but the colors were looking good there. Still one of the greatest places on this earth.
No, they only have about 5 minutes. Two-hour flight includes ascent and descent. Only 5 minutes of actual Zero gravity. Plenty of time for some people...
And I was commenting on the gist of the article as if intercepting pages is a problem. It's not, in my mind.
My point is that there's only so many dollars out there, and a lot of entities trying to capture them.
Of course, the best part of OpenDNS is allowing users to upload their own image to display when encountering a blocked site or an error. I put my mother-in-law's image there and it's a doozy.
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Oprah is obviously not as powerful as Angela Merkel, but that doesn't stop her from being one of the most powerful women in the world.
Take away her TV program and her "power: would evaporate.
Billy Bulger, the "corrupt midget" as he's been called, was President of the Mass Senate for a number of years. He was thought of as the most powerful man in MA. When he was interviewed by Morley Safer on "60 Minutes", he said "if people think you have the power, you do".
Of course, Oprah doesn't have a gangster brother named Whitey who shot and buried people he didn't like, but really - what power does she exert beyond the television world? She's a good marketer - like Billy Mays.
Except that in most states, a homeowner is not legally allowed to touch the meter in any way.
On the other hand, my local paper, run by a chain that publishes a similar paper in about two dozen nearby areas, is thriving, albeit not setting any profitability records.
Local papers have local news and that's what's important to people. It's still a thrill for a parent to see their kid's picture in the local paper. Local merchants need a way to reach local customers.
When the web becomes a truly localized place for most people, then the small papers may disappear. Right now they fill a niche and throughout all of publishing, those are the businesses that are surviving the "onslaught" of the web.
Ditto
Then again, there's also a bunch of crazy people that say they can hear LCD flat panel displays making a buzzing noise. I can't hear that either.
Oh, those are just the tinfoil hat guys here on /.
A manufacturer wouldn't ship batteries to Asia or anywhere else if it was for the purpose of assembly. Any battery would add many many pounds of weight to, say, a container of products, and that extra weight translates into dollars spent on shipping.
If the batteries stay in this country and be assembled into the products here, the wages and other fixed costs would be the deciding factor.
The commercial recording industry is an obsolete and dying business model that should be taken off of the government provided life support, and they know it. It's a good time for them to try to get a new source of income from the government, while said government is in a shambles.
Ahhh...are you responding to TFA or discussing the US auto industry.....
Unless you're willing to ban at least a third of the world, you're not going to get much out of that.
Yeah, but doing so will make admin-ing your site a whole lot easier. And. it's probably the third that no one likes anyway....
Don't settle for Shampoo, ask for the real poo every time!
Don't you mean Sham WOW!!
I would like to see more discussion on that actually. I understand that anonymity is sort of the thing that makes the internet great.
I'm not so sure that total anonymity is such a great thing. It allows too many cretins to make personal attacks on people, essentially convicting someone of a perceived crime, when none may have occurred. Certainly, those who have been the victims would agree.
Is having a static home address (123 Cherry Lane) preventing anonymity in the real world? Is that a valid comparison?
When you realize that your home can be seen by anyone via Google Earth or similar service, it does call into question how private is your life. Of course, the view is not real time, but it is a snapshot and who knows what was happening that day? I think a closer comparison might be your landline telephone. It's not completely anonymous, can be traced to an physical address in most cases and there are laws that disallow the use of the phone for certain things such as uttering threats or causing a fraud to be perpetrated.
I am in no way condoning the actions of the RIAA, but until the failed business model they were assigned to protect is gone, they have the right to stop the unfettered sharing of copyrighted materials. Just like a trace that can be put on a landline phone, and the identity of the phone subscriber found, the RIAA has an obligation to its client to find out who is causing the client to lose revenue and changing one's MAC or IP address may seem like a cool way to beat it, but the law may not be on your side at this time.
Having said all of that, one has to ask how much longer the recording industry will continue this folly.
it's called The Hindenburg
Yeah, and I still use my shoebox sized cell phone. Makes me feel like Maxwell Smart.
I'm in no way defending stupidity in the TSA, and as an occasional traveler, don't like the searches either. But so far, all I've heard on /. is a couple of F-bombs and one pseudo-intellect mod my comments as "Flamebait". It seems when questioned, and an answer is not within easy reach, let's punish the person who asked the question.
and another basement dweller speaks up.
I'm fairly certain those were accidents, not the result of an organized group that has declared a "jihad" on the US and been funded by an individual who has delusions about his own importance in the world. That would be Bin Laden, maybe you've heard of him?
Terrorists - at least those from a certain geographical area of the Middle east - are absolutely at war with the US, at least in their own view. It is a pain to go through security at airports, but it's the price we pay for having an open society. If the US was a police state, the attacks probably would never have happened. But, you've failed to answer my question - what rights have you lost? US citizens lose more rights to the courts when hair brained lawsuits are brought to restrict copyright, peacefully assemble, display their religion in public - and the list goes on. So far - and I've checked - no one I know has lost any freedoms as a result of airport searches. Unless of course, you mean the freedom to say "HI JACK" at the airport and then having a TSA guy do a strip search because you were just trying to get the attention of your friend named Jack.
Next time, call him by his last name, unless it's Bomber. Then, I'd suggest using the cell phone.
Airplane terrorism really isn't all that effective.
Oh really.
Well, I guess living in Mom's basement and playing World of Warcraft all day, then from that perspective, aircraft being crashed into 110 story buildings, killing nearly 2,800 people and directly impacting several million more would not have much impact. Too bad you weren't in NYC that day. Might have given you a different perspective on life.
So what freedoms have you lost?
The problem is: the Toiletry Seizing Agency does not make us safer at all, so any downside to the program (like this) is not offset by any upside at all. This is not a mixed bag, this is pure evil.
So what do you suggest - doing away with all searches and hope that only the best of humankind boards aircraft?
Seems to me that's where the US was on 9/10/01. Of course, if the bleeders in Congress hadn't banned pilots from carrying guns - indeed there should have been a requirement to carry - the hijackings probably wouldn't have occurred.
I'd be all in favor of having armed personnel on aircraft, but the problem is that doesn't help at 35,000 feet when Mohammed and his friends decide to make the trip to heaven to meet the 72 virgins and take a plane load of innocents with them.
It's a Federal crime to steal US mail but the Postal inspectors are always catching a few dishonest employees. The TSA needs to have better oversight of its staff and more severe penalties for inside crimes as described. But, searches are a part of life, or at least until everyone boarding an aircraft is singing "Kumbaya"
I was in logistics for twenty plus years. With my knowledge of Zip Codes, I'm the life of any party.
You can trust me. I'm not like the others.
in the zip code 01234, where ever that is.
Well, it doesn't exist, but 012 is in western Massachusetts. 01235 is Peru.
Now you know.
my state of new hampshire does its fair share of the "autumnal display" as well...... as i'm north of the Notches (closer to Canada actually)
So do people still gather at the general store to use the internet?
Keep it please.
Seriously, I was just in my favorite state of NH just on Friday on business. Only got as far as the Lakes region, but the colors were looking good there. Still one of the greatest places on this earth.
THAT'S all it took to get rid of them? Man, all that wasted money on lawyers, shoulda just bought some sand.
Mainers are frugal!
Ahhhyup
No, they only have about 5 minutes. Two-hour flight includes ascent and descent. Only 5 minutes of actual Zero gravity. Plenty of time for some people...
Make that married people.
Sources, please
Here's your source
My point is that there's only so many dollars out there, and a lot of entities trying to capture them.
Of course, the best part of OpenDNS is allowing users to upload their own image to display when encountering a blocked site or an error. I put my mother-in-law's image there and it's a doozy.