Not media bias, but media's thirst for viewers. The more sensational the story, the better. Making Zimmerman look like a racist makes the story more sensational.
But I agree, Zimmerman is a murderer for the exact reason you put forth. And I doubt anybody would have heard of it at all if both of them had been the same race, especially if both were black.
Walmart is certainly not known for its knowledgeable sales people and great customer service.
Neither is Best Buy. Things like laptops and headphones I'll get at WalMart, stuff like drives and memory and such I usually get from JDR in California.
For the most part the 60s movements were abysmal failures which resulted in the decline of America starting in the 1970s with the destruction of the nuclear family, the destruction of the single parent income, etc.
Utter bullshit. The antiwar movement stopped the Vietnam War. The ecology movement got the EPA instituted, and if you were alive then and lived near any factory you know how bad the environment was. The civil rights movement was similarly successful.
What destroyed the nuclear family was the fact that STDs were no longer fatal thanks to antibiotics, birth control was cheap and effective unlike before in the world's history, and they legalized abortion. Hell, in the '70s women would walk up to me and ask "wanna fuck?"
The women's movement did indeed allow corporations to screw us normal working class stiffs over, but having to pay for the war, coupled with the Arab Oil Embargo of 1974 caused the inflation that had more to do with women joining the workforce in droves than the women's movement did. Wages stagnated (helped by Nixon's wage/price controls) while prices skyrocketed. You can't blame any of the '60s movements on that. Greedy rich people were the cause.
If you were alive during that period, you clearly weren't paying attention.
What's worse, they have mod points. Look at the next comment down, lists of things a tiny, teeny, eensy minority of Occupiers are accused of, and the AC is modded "informative".
Did Murdoch buy slashdot, or did they sell mod points to Koch Industries? WTF, sometimes comments piss me off but today the moderations are worse than the trolls.
Resistance? As a cyborg I'll clue you in -- you not only won't resist, you'll pay good money to be assimilated. It cost me over $1000, and that's after insurance. I'll probably get the other eye done in a couple of years.
I'd agree, except the property tax part. I had a friend whose elderly parents lost their home, which had been paid for in full after a 30 year mortgage. Property values had skyrocketed in the 40 years since they moved into their home, and the taxes were three times what they'd paid for mortgage payments.
I just think it's wrong to tax you over and over for the same thing. It's bad enough that they tax you when you earn money, and again when you spend it.
Sales tax is regressive, but property tax is worse. There should be no capital gains tax, capital gains should be taxed as income. Why should someone who makes his money gambling on the stock markey pay a higher rate than someone who earns the same amount risking his life as a roofer or firefighter?
Indeed you can. I just bought the first 6 STOS movies for $40, that's six and a half bucks each. Paramount Studios. WalMart has all kinds of movies (good ones, too) for five bucks, including Paramount releases.
This must be for people with more dollars than sense, who are too lazy to go to the $1 Redbox kiosk.
Damn, I wish I had my copy of DUNE with me... how does it go? "Fear is the mind killer..."
Or how about a real-world quote from Churchill? "We have nothing to fear but fear itself."
Did you mod youself up with your logged in account, mr anonymous COWARD? Fear is indeed not a good thing at all, and too much fear is called PANIC! and can kill people.
Look what happend in Florida, with an armed, cowardly bully who shot some poor unarmed kid because he was a fearful little PUSSY like you?
It's quiet a more complex thing to calculate the sales tax for all locations.
Bullshit, that's what computers and databases are for. Lookup tables are trivial to impliment.
Or maybe I was just a better programmer than you kids? It annoys the hell out of me that forms I fill out require me to type the city name, pick the state from a drop down list, and enter the zip code. Forms I programmed only needed the street address and zip code, and the city and state were populated automatically.
Trivial -- but nobody does it. Why? Lack of skill or lack of giving a damn?
This is an old anecdote from the early 1980s so I don't know what it's like now, but I worked at Disney World then and had free reign over pretty much the whole place.
I was "backstage" as they call it, behind the China pavillion at Epcot and struck up a conversation with a fellow who had just arrived from China. He was excited about our country and its great leader, so I set him straight about that doddering old fool Reagan. The poor fellow got nervous, looking around as if the FBI was going to jump out and drag me away for my blasphemy. I doubt you'll get a truthful opinion about their government from them.
Best Buy wasn't murdered, it committed suicide by treating its customers like garbage. No business can treat its customers badly and stay in business without a monopoly.
Ouch, a cornea transplant is a lot more complex than a lensectomy. The lensectomy only requires one needle, one hole, no stiches. They shoot ultrasound down the needle to turn the lens (not the cornea, the focusing lens behind the iris) to jelly, suck it out, and put the implant in down the needle.
I'll have to ask my drinking buddy Bill about his transplants. Both corneas and a liver. The guy keeps it up and they'll have replaced all of him.
Since Netflix streams require Microsoft, I won't even rent the damned disks -- just out of annoyance that I have to have MS to stream. If I want a DVD there's a Family Video half a mile away and movies are a buck or two, and there's no way I'd rent five in a month.
I already have a bionic eye implant, and it would work well with these glasses. It would suck having to wear glasses again, though.
I wouldn't want a HUD implanted. You realise you have to have a needle stuck in your eye to get an implant? It doesn't hurt but it does kind of freak you out.
You will be assimilated... if you live long enough. All the cyborgs I know are geezers.
True, but look at the numbers and it's easy to see that they are, in fact, misleading. "Occupier takes a bathroom break in the street". ONE lone asshole in a huge crowd. You want lawbreaking? Look at Kentucky after a god damned basketball game.
At least one person was shot and dozens arrested in Lexington, Ky., early this morning as University of Kentucky students celebrated the schoolâ(TM)s NCAA basketball championship win.
What began as a chaotic celebration quickly turned into mayhem overnight as a crowd of 15,000 people rioted in the streets after the Wildcats defeated Kansas for their eighth championship win. Fire officials in Lexington said they put out more than 40 fires, including a car, several mattresses, couches and piles of garbage that were ignited.
The lone gunman, who left one man injured, remains on the loose.
Battalion Chief Ed Davis of the Lexington Division of Fire and Emergency Services witnessed the shooting firsthand as he was filling out paperwork on a wreck involving a fire engine around 2 a.m. Davis told the Associated Press he heard yelling and then one man firing a gun, âoequite a few times.â
Like gasoline, the price of asphalt has gone up since the 70s, too.
As have wages and the dollar amount of taxes collected. In 1960 the minimum wage was $1.60 per hour, so someone earning the minimum wage is paying five times in taxes what he was then.
And the roads are financed by motor fuel tax, not sales tax. Motor fuel taxes now cost more per gallon than a gallon of gas did in 1970.
Obamacare isn't socialized medicine, it's a gift to the insurance companies and doesn't help the problem at all. The problem is, we have the most expensive health care in the world but by any metric you care to measure it, it's far from the best. The insurance companies themselves are the problem. They're middlemen who siphon cash without adding any value whatever. Medical insurance companies (and their brothers, malpractice insurance) are parasites on the system.
And it has very little to do with free speech, which gives you the right to voice your opinion (valid or not) in a civilised way.
Civilized has nothing to do with it. For example, IMO Sony should fucking DIE and their CEO and board should be imprisoned for rooting my computer, and also in IMO they're evil scumbags. That's not a civilized way to put it, but it is my opinion and I have the right to express it.
What I don't have the right to do is say that Joe Blow is a pedophile unless he actually is. Lies aren't opinions, slander isn't an opinion, and it doesn't matter of your slanderous lies are put forth in a civilized way or not.
In Illinois (and every other state I've been in, and I've been in most, including Arkansas) the roads are paid for by a combination of motor fuel taxes and federal highway grants (paid for by federal fuel taxes). Illinois' motor fuel tax is 19 cents per gallon, federal tax 19.4 cents -- in 1971 I was paying a total, federal and state fuel tax included, of 25 to 30 cents per gallon. Today I pay thirty seven cents in taxes alone!
Some states have low sales tax because they get their revenue elsewhere. Forida's sales taxes are fairly low and they have no state income tax because they tax the hell out of tourists staying in their hotels. Between state, county, and local sales tax Illinois' is pretty much on par with Arkansas. We do get a break on food and drugs, though.
The reason "3D" movies give you headaches is because they're not really 3D. Your eye use more than stereoscopy to determine depth. Actually, the eye doesn't determine depth, the brain does. And it uses many cues from the eyes, including where your eye is focusing.
Say you have a "3D" TV ten feet away from you. Your eyes are focused at ten feet but stereoscopy tells your brain that the butterfly is two feet from your face. That's why you get the headaches, your eyes' muscles are working against themselves.
I doubt they'd have that problem with this, as whatever they're looking at will be in sharp focus with plenty of depth of field.
Holograms are truly 3D, but I doubt we have displays today with high enough resolution. Even film holograms look grainy, even when the same scene shot in a normal 2D photographic process using the same film shows no grain at all. You would need some fantastic resolution to have a decent digital hologram.
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Not media bias, but media's thirst for viewers. The more sensational the story, the better. Making Zimmerman look like a racist makes the story more sensational.
But I agree, Zimmerman is a murderer for the exact reason you put forth. And I doubt anybody would have heard of it at all if both of them had been the same race, especially if both were black.
Walmart is certainly not known for its knowledgeable sales people and great customer service.
Neither is Best Buy. Things like laptops and headphones I'll get at WalMart, stuff like drives and memory and such I usually get from JDR in California.
I don't think many of the teachers really are qualified. As to the writers, a BA should be sufficient.
For the most part the 60s movements were abysmal failures which resulted in the decline of America starting in the 1970s with the destruction of the nuclear family, the destruction of the single parent income, etc.
Utter bullshit. The antiwar movement stopped the Vietnam War. The ecology movement got the EPA instituted, and if you were alive then and lived near any factory you know how bad the environment was. The civil rights movement was similarly successful.
What destroyed the nuclear family was the fact that STDs were no longer fatal thanks to antibiotics, birth control was cheap and effective unlike before in the world's history, and they legalized abortion. Hell, in the '70s women would walk up to me and ask "wanna fuck?"
The women's movement did indeed allow corporations to screw us normal working class stiffs over, but having to pay for the war, coupled with the Arab Oil Embargo of 1974 caused the inflation that had more to do with women joining the workforce in droves than the women's movement did. Wages stagnated (helped by Nixon's wage/price controls) while prices skyrocketed. You can't blame any of the '60s movements on that. Greedy rich people were the cause.
If you were alive during that period, you clearly weren't paying attention.
What's worse, they have mod points. Look at the next comment down, lists of things a tiny, teeny, eensy minority of Occupiers are accused of, and the AC is modded "informative".
Did Murdoch buy slashdot, or did they sell mod points to Koch Industries? WTF, sometimes comments piss me off but today the moderations are worse than the trolls.
Resistance? As a cyborg I'll clue you in -- you not only won't resist, you'll pay good money to be assimilated. It cost me over $1000, and that's after insurance. I'll probably get the other eye done in a couple of years.
I'd agree, except the property tax part. I had a friend whose elderly parents lost their home, which had been paid for in full after a 30 year mortgage. Property values had skyrocketed in the 40 years since they moved into their home, and the taxes were three times what they'd paid for mortgage payments.
I just think it's wrong to tax you over and over for the same thing. It's bad enough that they tax you when you earn money, and again when you spend it.
Sales tax is regressive, but property tax is worse. There should be no capital gains tax, capital gains should be taxed as income. Why should someone who makes his money gambling on the stock markey pay a higher rate than someone who earns the same amount risking his life as a roofer or firefighter?
The song's title isn't Teenage wasteland, it's Baba O'Riley, although most people think Teenage Wasteland is the title.
Wow, the Kochsuckers are out in force today. Which bank do you work for, son?
Indeed you can. I just bought the first 6 STOS movies for $40, that's six and a half bucks each. Paramount Studios. WalMart has all kinds of movies (good ones, too) for five bucks, including Paramount releases.
This must be for people with more dollars than sense, who are too lazy to go to the $1 Redbox kiosk.
Damn, I wish I had my copy of DUNE with me... how does it go? "Fear is the mind killer..."
Or how about a real-world quote from Churchill? "We have nothing to fear but fear itself."
Did you mod youself up with your logged in account, mr anonymous COWARD? Fear is indeed not a good thing at all, and too much fear is called PANIC! and can kill people.
Look what happend in Florida, with an armed, cowardly bully who shot some poor unarmed kid because he was a fearful little PUSSY like you?
It's quiet a more complex thing to calculate the sales tax for all locations.
Bullshit, that's what computers and databases are for. Lookup tables are trivial to impliment.
Or maybe I was just a better programmer than you kids? It annoys the hell out of me that forms I fill out require me to type the city name, pick the state from a drop down list, and enter the zip code. Forms I programmed only needed the street address and zip code, and the city and state were populated automatically.
Trivial -- but nobody does it. Why? Lack of skill or lack of giving a damn?
This is an old anecdote from the early 1980s so I don't know what it's like now, but I worked at Disney World then and had free reign over pretty much the whole place.
I was "backstage" as they call it, behind the China pavillion at Epcot and struck up a conversation with a fellow who had just arrived from China. He was excited about our country and its great leader, so I set him straight about that doddering old fool Reagan. The poor fellow got nervous, looking around as if the FBI was going to jump out and drag me away for my blasphemy. I doubt you'll get a truthful opinion about their government from them.
It made a big impression om me, I'll tell you.
Best Buy wasn't murdered, it committed suicide by treating its customers like garbage. No business can treat its customers badly and stay in business without a monopoly.
Ouch, a cornea transplant is a lot more complex than a lensectomy. The lensectomy only requires one needle, one hole, no stiches. They shoot ultrasound down the needle to turn the lens (not the cornea, the focusing lens behind the iris) to jelly, suck it out, and put the implant in down the needle.
I'll have to ask my drinking buddy Bill about his transplants. Both corneas and a liver. The guy keeps it up and they'll have replaced all of him.
Seriously, is this the best you can do?
No, he can mod himself up with his sock puppet account.
Since Netflix streams require Microsoft, I won't even rent the damned disks -- just out of annoyance that I have to have MS to stream. If I want a DVD there's a Family Video half a mile away and movies are a buck or two, and there's no way I'd rent five in a month.
I already have a bionic eye implant, and it would work well with these glasses. It would suck having to wear glasses again, though.
I wouldn't want a HUD implanted. You realise you have to have a needle stuck in your eye to get an implant? It doesn't hurt but it does kind of freak you out.
You will be assimilated... if you live long enough. All the cyborgs I know are geezers.
True, but look at the numbers and it's easy to see that they are, in fact, misleading. "Occupier takes a bathroom break in the street". ONE lone asshole in a huge crowd. You want lawbreaking? Look at Kentucky after a god damned basketball game.
Occupy is a church picnic in comparison.
He said foreign sounding names. Like Smith, Jones, DiCapprio... European names. Chakotay would be a "foreign sounding" name.
Like gasoline, the price of asphalt has gone up since the 70s, too.
As have wages and the dollar amount of taxes collected. In 1960 the minimum wage was $1.60 per hour, so someone earning the minimum wage is paying five times in taxes what he was then.
And the roads are financed by motor fuel tax, not sales tax. Motor fuel taxes now cost more per gallon than a gallon of gas did in 1970.
Obamacare isn't socialized medicine, it's a gift to the insurance companies and doesn't help the problem at all. The problem is, we have the most expensive health care in the world but by any metric you care to measure it, it's far from the best. The insurance companies themselves are the problem. They're middlemen who siphon cash without adding any value whatever. Medical insurance companies (and their brothers, malpractice insurance) are parasites on the system.
And it has very little to do with free speech, which gives you the right to voice your opinion (valid or not) in a civilised way.
Civilized has nothing to do with it. For example, IMO Sony should fucking DIE and their CEO and board should be imprisoned for rooting my computer, and also in IMO they're evil scumbags. That's not a civilized way to put it, but it is my opinion and I have the right to express it.
What I don't have the right to do is say that Joe Blow is a pedophile unless he actually is. Lies aren't opinions, slander isn't an opinion, and it doesn't matter of your slanderous lies are put forth in a civilized way or not.
In Illinois (and every other state I've been in, and I've been in most, including Arkansas) the roads are paid for by a combination of motor fuel taxes and federal highway grants (paid for by federal fuel taxes). Illinois' motor fuel tax is 19 cents per gallon, federal tax 19.4 cents -- in 1971 I was paying a total, federal and state fuel tax included, of 25 to 30 cents per gallon. Today I pay thirty seven cents in taxes alone!
Some states have low sales tax because they get their revenue elsewhere. Forida's sales taxes are fairly low and they have no state income tax because they tax the hell out of tourists staying in their hotels. Between state, county, and local sales tax Illinois' is pretty much on par with Arkansas. We do get a break on food and drugs, though.
The reason "3D" movies give you headaches is because they're not really 3D. Your eye use more than stereoscopy to determine depth. Actually, the eye doesn't determine depth, the brain does. And it uses many cues from the eyes, including where your eye is focusing.
Say you have a "3D" TV ten feet away from you. Your eyes are focused at ten feet but stereoscopy tells your brain that the butterfly is two feet from your face. That's why you get the headaches, your eyes' muscles are working against themselves.
I doubt they'd have that problem with this, as whatever they're looking at will be in sharp focus with plenty of depth of field.
Holograms are truly 3D, but I doubt we have displays today with high enough resolution. Even film holograms look grainy, even when the same scene shot in a normal 2D photographic process using the same film shows no grain at all. You would need some fantastic resolution to have a decent digital hologram.