Sometimes it's pretty bad though (international press)... I remember sitting in a Thai restaurant during the election. They had a channel on that was some news station overseas. They were right along with the "Obama is the second coming" and how they feel as though he's going to come in and sweep change through the US. I remember someone stating how he's going to change the minds of those "old men."
It wasn't until recently that I saw Stewart actually pointing out something flawed in the current administration. He was fairly on board with the whole "Hope and Change" aspect. I think he's finally starting to come off that high, but the bias is still visible. (Mainly I think a lot of it was driven by viewer fishing...)
Some days it just hurts to watch him twist things, but I still tune in to keep some information coming in.
It's fairly simple. Conservatives are fairly "sticky" when it comes to old methods and ideologies. So it goes to show that they'd enjoy watching someone that bemoaned change.
Now, that's not entirely a bad thing. Too much change can be bad and if we "left" the world to these far "left" people it would quickly turn nightmarish to some people who just want to live their consistent and stable life without too much interference.
Technically, that happens now when they raid your home and take your PC... Although, they need a warrant for that and I assume they probably do not for "internet vaults" yet?
Nothing quite like concentrating on the mysteries of a regex or some insane control flow and then getting to hear someone yelling about yesterday nights football game.
Even better is the Fantasy Football because you know they created a meta-game out of a game so they'd have something to talk about besides actual interesting stuff.
No Nerf guns here, but I have someone who sits a few "cubes" back and always has some sort of crunchy food he's chowing on (and always complaining that his keyboard is a mess...) I also tend to get distracted by him literally sucking the plastic molecules out of his water bottle as well.
I'm lucky enough to be able to put in my in-ear phones and turn on Last.FM on my phone without too much distress from management. (You can't hear a thing outside the music with those in!) The downside is that I sometimes don't hear my phone ring and the light on it is terrible at getting my attention.
(I know it's not apparent, but I'm not disagreeing... but I'm totally expecting to be jumped by a million and a half people claiming how ignorant I am for defying conventional physics theory.)
The pen allows for doing it quicker with a button on the side, but this obviously wouldn't work with a finger unless you are willing to have hand surgery!
The funny part about this is that I always thought you had to have re-constructive surgery to be able to actually use those pen buttons because they are in the most odd positions.
(Yes, I own a tablet with a pen, but I never use it because it's really a PITA and I usually defaulted to cradling the tablet and using the mouse/keyboard.)
You seem to forget about PC Gaming. Porting to *nix would suck. I love *nix and all, but lets face it, with how many distros are out there, the QA departments of game companies would have to be beefed up like crazy.
You know... this argument is thrown out all the time and I don't think it holds water. If someone were really concerned that their game would not run on some specific software configuration (that's all distros are... where are my files again?) they could package their own libraries for their game into their own./lib folder like they sometimes do with Windows. All that you need to specify is what minimum version of the kernel you need and that you use nVidia's binary drivers or ATI's... pretty much anyone that games already does.
The only check mark I give credit to is the whole video driver debacle (and I think that goes away if/when nVidia wakes up.)
How much does one of those magic globes cost that let you foresee what would not have been?
How can you make the determination that the Internet would not have existed and a power company would not run lines to people willing to pay? (It may not look like what it does now, but those are pretty sweeping accusation.)
Public highways... that one I'm a little mixed about. I'm not quite sure I would want to pay tolls to get everywhere even though I technically am, through taxes.
Just because you don't need to do something doesn't mean it's a privilege. I don't need to use a gun, but I have a right to use one in my defense.
Actually, I'd argue that the act of driving is a right, but with provisions (just like gun ownership.) Everyone has the inevitable right to drive unless there's a problem with their body or their history that prevents safe driving.
Today, however, we've given up that right to the states to grant us permission to drive on the roads we pay for. (Which I think is pretty shitty.) So in that regard, sure... it's a privilege TODAY. Heck, guns are slowly creeping into that realm of "privilege" with all the permits.
not against Imperialist actions by the United States but he believes they are only legal if they are initiated by the Congress and not by the Executive Branch.
And technically, he's right. The Executive branch is there to execute the law, not make policy, declare wars, or make laws.
There are some flaws with his staunch religious views, but that's what makes him human. I agree with a good portion of Ron's voting record, but I'd never support him to be king. Anyone that would place 100% faith in any one person should be analyzed for insanity. Anyone that would 100% oppose someone should be analyzed as well.
Slashdot Mirror
If you click on the links at the bottom, some of them show multi-word combos like:
"Before the war, pig-iron"
"On board vessels of war pig-iron"
This is more concerning:
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=pirates%2Cglobal+warming&year_start=1800&year_end=2008&corpus=0&smoothing=3
More pirates should mean less warming!
Also, everything is a crisis nowadays!
War is pretty straightforward...
Way better than signing up for eharmony and having them sell your name and address to magazine publishers.
But doesn't it raise anti-trust concerns?
Couldn't this "consortium" of patent holders be construed as limiting to a new player or a common "enemy"?
With a head the size of the Burger King, you could feed millions.
Great... you have me having thoughts of some "creator" invoking (caddr milky-way) to find 'Earth'.
Sometimes it's pretty bad though (international press)... I remember sitting in a Thai restaurant during the election. They had a channel on that was some news station overseas. They were right along with the "Obama is the second coming" and how they feel as though he's going to come in and sweep change through the US. I remember someone stating how he's going to change the minds of those "old men."
The Daily Show has been pretty left leaning.
It wasn't until recently that I saw Stewart actually pointing out something flawed in the current administration. He was fairly on board with the whole "Hope and Change" aspect. I think he's finally starting to come off that high, but the bias is still visible. (Mainly I think a lot of it was driven by viewer fishing...)
Some days it just hurts to watch him twist things, but I still tune in to keep some information coming in.
It's fairly simple. Conservatives are fairly "sticky" when it comes to old methods and ideologies. So it goes to show that they'd enjoy watching someone that bemoaned change.
Now, that's not entirely a bad thing. Too much change can be bad and if we "left" the world to these far "left" people it would quickly turn nightmarish to some people who just want to live their consistent and stable life without too much interference.
Technically, that happens now when they raid your home and take your PC... Although, they need a warrant for that and I assume they probably do not for "internet vaults" yet?
Nothing quite like concentrating on the mysteries of a regex or some insane control flow and then getting to hear someone yelling about yesterday nights football game.
Even better is the Fantasy Football because you know they created a meta-game out of a game so they'd have something to talk about besides actual interesting stuff.
No Nerf guns here, but I have someone who sits a few "cubes" back and always has some sort of crunchy food he's chowing on (and always complaining that his keyboard is a mess...) I also tend to get distracted by him literally sucking the plastic molecules out of his water bottle as well.
I'm lucky enough to be able to put in my in-ear phones and turn on Last.FM on my phone without too much distress from management. (You can't hear a thing outside the music with those in!) The downside is that I sometimes don't hear my phone ring and the light on it is terrible at getting my attention.
They needed to change the color of the water bottles... obviously.
*cough* speed of light/red shift *cough*
(I know it's not apparent, but I'm not disagreeing... but I'm totally expecting to be jumped by a million and a half people claiming how ignorant I am for defying conventional physics theory.)
A decent non-contract/unlocked tablet with wifi (possibly video) VOIP is a telco's nightmare.
This feels like a loaded question, but you do know you can do just that with a Galaxy tab? (And you can buy the unlocked versions of it...)
The pen allows for doing it quicker with a button on the side, but this obviously wouldn't work with a finger unless you are willing to have hand surgery!
The funny part about this is that I always thought you had to have re-constructive surgery to be able to actually use those pen buttons because they are in the most odd positions.
(Yes, I own a tablet with a pen, but I never use it because it's really a PITA and I usually defaulted to cradling the tablet and using the mouse/keyboard.)
You seem to forget about PC Gaming. Porting to *nix would suck. I love *nix and all, but lets face it, with how many distros are out there, the QA departments of game companies would have to be beefed up like crazy.
You know... this argument is thrown out all the time and I don't think it holds water. If someone were really concerned that their game would not run on some specific software configuration (that's all distros are... where are my files again?) they could package their own libraries for their game into their own ./lib folder like they sometimes do with Windows. All that you need to specify is what minimum version of the kernel you need and that you use nVidia's binary drivers or ATI's... pretty much anyone that games already does.
The only check mark I give credit to is the whole video driver debacle (and I think that goes away if/when nVidia wakes up.)
Officer: "Were you out drinking tonight?"
You: "Yes, Officer."
Officer: "Please step out of the car."
You: "No, Officer." ... Damn, I messed something up.
How much does one of those magic globes cost that let you foresee what would not have been?
How can you make the determination that the Internet would not have existed and a power company would not run lines to people willing to pay? (It may not look like what it does now, but those are pretty sweeping accusation.)
Public highways... that one I'm a little mixed about. I'm not quite sure I would want to pay tolls to get everywhere even though I technically am, through taxes.
Just because you don't need to do something doesn't mean it's a privilege. I don't need to use a gun, but I have a right to use one in my defense.
Actually, I'd argue that the act of driving is a right, but with provisions (just like gun ownership.) Everyone has the inevitable right to drive unless there's a problem with their body or their history that prevents safe driving.
Today, however, we've given up that right to the states to grant us permission to drive on the roads we pay for. (Which I think is pretty shitty.) So in that regard, sure... it's a privilege TODAY. Heck, guns are slowly creeping into that realm of "privilege" with all the permits.
Then again, what would he know about medical procedures. He's just a politician.
And a Physician. He obtained his Doctorate of Medicine from Duke University, School of Medicine.
not against Imperialist actions by the United States but he believes they are only legal if they are initiated by the Congress and not by the Executive Branch.
And technically, he's right. The Executive branch is there to execute the law, not make policy, declare wars, or make laws.
There are some flaws with his staunch religious views, but that's what makes him human. I agree with a good portion of Ron's voting record, but I'd never support him to be king. Anyone that would place 100% faith in any one person should be analyzed for insanity. Anyone that would 100% oppose someone should be analyzed as well.
It helped us in the War for Independence. ;)
Granted, the technology gap wasn't too far apart then.