However, by making emotional arguments they are winning, even if they are not telling the truth.
I think the word you were looking for is demagoguery. And I think you are right. And I think that demagoguery is not something that a "news channel should be proud of. And as a Canadian I think all your cable, and most of you broadcast, news is over sensationalized drivel that does no service to inform the public. The only national news show in the US even remotely worth watching is the 'News Hour" on PBS.
91% of Canadians have higher levels of the toxic BPA in their bodies then the natural estrogen that BPA mimics. I think it is safe to assume for now that this number is the same for Americans given our similar lifestyles. (albeit with fewer guns and Christians up here)
As a Canadian I am ashamed of our Asbestos exports. That's one of the reasons I vote Green Party, the only party with the guts to deal with it head on.
More about BPA and other toxins in household objects can be found here toxicfreecanada.com They did great work publicizing the dangers of BPA.
I feel compelled to mention that the CBC Radio is a public broadcaster and is not commercial. It carries no ads and is financed with tax dollars. (CBC TV on the other hand does sell ads).
And please, don't say "You can't just make money out of thin air!" That's exactly what the Federal Reserve does.
I think people have a hard time with this idea because they labor under the misconception that money=value.
The Fed does not create value or wealth, they merely increase or decrease the number of tokens we can use to trade value around. If we had the same amount of tokens as we did in the 70's it would be hard to go shopping because there just wouldn't be enough tokens REGARDLESS of the amount of wealth we had.
Montary policy should be taught in every year of high school until it sinks in.
Sounds a lot like cutting off your nose to spite your face. I understand that Photoshop people would probably follow the software rather then the hardware. However it would create so much bad will that Photoshop would be vulnerable to up and comers.
Wrong analogy. How about we take cars off the road that don't meet a minimum safety requirement. It is a good idea and of course we do it (well in more developed nations anyway)
Well I am not a US citizens (praise the six godesses of Rigal 7) but while the 5th amendment protects you against self incrimination, it does necessarily protect you from bearing witness against someone else does it?
For example:
"Mr. Jones, were you on the corner of 6th and main yesterday?"
"Yes"
"Did you see a car racing away from a bank?"
"Yes"
"What color was the car?"
"Not going to tell you."
"What?!"
In that situation wouldn't judge compel the witness to answer under threat of contempt of court? If so then isn't that the same as those nasty Brits passing laws to get inside your head?
They should block all access to website and instead simply show a screen that says. "This computer is malfunctioning and has become a danger to itself and others. Please have it serviced then call this number to have service restored"
This is compounded by the problem that people are presupposing the answer.
Scientific researchers propose hypotheses as explanations of phenomena, and design experimental studies to test these hypotheses wikipedia.
Sounds like a sensible approach to me. I propose that Isreal had the means and the motive to conduct such an attack. I further propose that they have conducted this type of preemptive defense in the past.
Ok, how to test this....examine the code, then invite them over to tea and after plying them with cookies and a few good laughs ask them if they did it.
Wait a minute. Are saying that you think the US Fed Gov pushes around your corporations? I thought your Government was bought and paid for by your corporations?
You bet. If there was only one facility they could have just flown an F-15 over and bombed it like before. But if there are plenty of sites, or your just not sure where they all are, letting a worm sniff them out seems like an effective approach. A lot easier to deny to:)
But wouldn't it be much better to approach the issue as a technological one on the viewer's end, and not a legislative one on the designer's end?
Have you read the accessibility guidelines in 508 and other guides? Because if you go through the exercise you would see that a good portion of the guidelines are to help you make your site usable by the tools used at the viewer end.
For example, use semantic mark up. Jaws and other screen readers will provide the visitor with an outline of the page based on the use of H1, H2, H3 etc tags. So you if your using <div style='big and bold'> for your headings then you are not playing nice with the visitors tools and the visitor will have no idea about the logical outline of your page.
Screen readers also provide a page that lists all the links on a page so the visitor can quickly find what they are looking for. If all your link text's say 'click here' and 'more'. Then that page in the screen reader will be a list of a dozen links called 'more' and will be utterly useless to the visitor.
I have found that when I follow the accessibility guidelines I end up with an all around better website and a website that performs better in the SERPS. Considering how hyper-competitive the WWW is I can't imagine anyone saying "I don't care if 8% of the men who visit my site can't read it because they are color blind, they should use a tech fix on their end for that." Now if you add in those visitors with low or no vision, motor skill issues, literacy issues, etc. It starts to be a substantial percentage of you potential visitors you are turning away.
And on a final note, its just the right thing to do.
Examples? I would like to see your examples of the worst cases of manufactured lies from other news outfits, and then we will put them side by side with FOX and see how they compare.
Put your money were your mouth is and provide some examples.
Agreed. However, I think the value of this project is that it will demonstrate that, when done right, a distributed social network is possible and desirable.
They took 150,000 square kilometers of fishing grounds and put them into a conservation area. So no they didn't stop fishing, they increased the size of their conservation area. Saving that resource for their children and grandchildren. Its the same principal applied in other areas. Leave the fish a place to breed in safety in order to ensure a supply for the future.
They are only some of the first to be feeling the effects of climate change so dramatically and I for one am impressed by their response.
So the number of large scale events likely linked to climate change grows and grows
-Pine beetle infestations in BC Canada
-Floods in Pakistan
-Civil strife (genocide?) in the Sudan
Any more on this list?
The really interesting event will be the flooding of the Mekong river delta with salt water. Say goodbye to a large portion of Rice from the Asian market.
A social network that limits it's audience to a specific group of people isn't very 'social'.
Why would you say it was designed for a limited audience? Sure looks like it's being designed for a mass market. Sure the early adopters will be FOSS and privacy nerds but if the software is even marginally OK I would put my money on this displacing Facebook within 5 years.
Even if diaspora isn't the one to do it, I am confident that facebook will be relegated to "just another community on the web" within 5 years. The funny thing will be how the networking that is facilitated by facebook will be used against itself as word of alternatives spreads through facebook.
Yes and that is a good thing. Because then we won't need carbon taxes because market forces will push us towards suddenly economical alternative fuels.
I can't seem to find the citation right now, however I remember reading about the fact that in Denmark (or the Netherlands) they have public health records going back generations. The records track (among other things) vaccinations and things such as autism rates. The information includes whether the vaccine included mercury or if it didn't (they stopped at some point).
It is basically the motherload of epidemiological information covering 10's of millions of people over a very long time. The result? zero correlation between vaccinations and autism.
That's the end of the story for me. So unless there was some special circumstances in this case (contaminated vaccine?) this settlement is wrong and will only provide inappropriate ammunition for the vaccine=autism faithful.
Doesn't the civil rights act protect persons from discrimination in commerce due to things such as gender, race and/or religious beliefs? If it did then it could make for a funny court case with this quran burning church taking rackspace to court for religious discrimination LOL.
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I think the word you were looking for is demagoguery. And I think you are right. And I think that demagoguery is not something that a "news channel should be proud of. And as a Canadian I think all your cable, and most of you broadcast, news is over sensationalized drivel that does no service to inform the public. The only national news show in the US even remotely worth watching is the 'News Hour" on PBS.
91% of Canadians have higher levels of the toxic BPA in their bodies then the natural estrogen that BPA mimics. I think it is safe to assume for now that this number is the same for Americans given our similar lifestyles. (albeit with fewer guns and Christians up here)
As a Canadian I am ashamed of our Asbestos exports. That's one of the reasons I vote Green Party, the only party with the guts to deal with it head on.
More about BPA and other toxins in household objects can be found here toxicfreecanada.com They did great work publicizing the dangers of BPA.
noscript. Don't leave your LAN with out it.
It's called P3P and its already a W3C standard. P3P
I have been implementing it on all my sites for a few years.
I feel compelled to mention that the CBC Radio is a public broadcaster and is not commercial. It carries no ads and is financed with tax dollars. (CBC TV on the other hand does sell ads).
CBC is also the best radio in Canada IMHO. Of course the no ads part helps a lot but it also has some very high quality programing such as Ideas, Writers and Company, Dispatches, Quirks and Quarks.
I think people have a hard time with this idea because they labor under the misconception that money=value.
The Fed does not create value or wealth, they merely increase or decrease the number of tokens we can use to trade value around. If we had the same amount of tokens as we did in the 70's it would be hard to go shopping because there just wouldn't be enough tokens REGARDLESS of the amount of wealth we had.
Montary policy should be taught in every year of high school until it sinks in.
Sounds a lot like cutting off your nose to spite your face. I understand that Photoshop people would probably follow the software rather then the hardware. However it would create so much bad will that Photoshop would be vulnerable to up and comers.
I would be very surprised if they did this.
Wrong analogy. How about we take cars off the road that don't meet a minimum safety requirement. It is a good idea and of course we do it (well in more developed nations anyway)
Well I am not a US citizens (praise the six godesses of Rigal 7) but while the 5th amendment protects you against self incrimination, it does necessarily protect you from bearing witness against someone else does it?
For example:
"Mr. Jones, were you on the corner of 6th and main yesterday?"
"Yes"
"Did you see a car racing away from a bank?"
"Yes"
"What color was the car?"
"Not going to tell you."
"What?!"
In that situation wouldn't judge compel the witness to answer under threat of contempt of court? If so then isn't that the same as those nasty Brits passing laws to get inside your head?
They should block all access to website and instead simply show a screen that says. "This computer is malfunctioning and has become a danger to itself and others. Please have it serviced then call this number to have service restored"
off topic mini-rant. Why couldn't they keep REST. OpenAuth on my platform is a major drag.
Scientific researchers propose hypotheses as explanations of phenomena, and design experimental studies to test these hypotheses wikipedia.
Sounds like a sensible approach to me. I propose that Isreal had the means and the motive to conduct such an attack. I further propose that they have conducted this type of preemptive defense in the past.
Ok, how to test this....examine the code, then invite them over to tea and after plying them with cookies and a few good laughs ask them if they did it.
Wait a minute. Are saying that you think the US Fed Gov pushes around your corporations? I thought your Government was bought and paid for by your corporations?
You bet. If there was only one facility they could have just flown an F-15 over and bombed it like before. But if there are plenty of sites, or your just not sure where they all are, letting a worm sniff them out seems like an effective approach. A lot easier to deny to :)
Have you read the accessibility guidelines in 508 and other guides? Because if you go through the exercise you would see that a good portion of the guidelines are to help you make your site usable by the tools used at the viewer end.
For example, use semantic mark up. Jaws and other screen readers will provide the visitor with an outline of the page based on the use of H1, H2, H3 etc tags. So you if your using <div style='big and bold'> for your headings then you are not playing nice with the visitors tools and the visitor will have no idea about the logical outline of your page.
Screen readers also provide a page that lists all the links on a page so the visitor can quickly find what they are looking for. If all your link text's say 'click here' and 'more'. Then that page in the screen reader will be a list of a dozen links called 'more' and will be utterly useless to the visitor.
I have found that when I follow the accessibility guidelines I end up with an all around better website and a website that performs better in the SERPS. Considering how hyper-competitive the WWW is I can't imagine anyone saying "I don't care if 8% of the men who visit my site can't read it because they are color blind, they should use a tech fix on their end for that." Now if you add in those visitors with low or no vision, motor skill issues, literacy issues, etc. It starts to be a substantial percentage of you potential visitors you are turning away.
And on a final note, its just the right thing to do.
Examples? I would like to see your examples of the worst cases of manufactured lies from other news outfits, and then we will put them side by side with FOX and see how they compare.
Put your money were your mouth is and provide some examples.
Agreed. However, I think the value of this project is that it will demonstrate that, when done right, a distributed social network is possible and desirable.
They took 150,000 square kilometers of fishing grounds and put them into a conservation area. So no they didn't stop fishing, they increased the size of their conservation area. Saving that resource for their children and grandchildren. Its the same principal applied in other areas. Leave the fish a place to breed in safety in order to ensure a supply for the future.
They are only some of the first to be feeling the effects of climate change so dramatically and I for one am impressed by their response.
So the number of large scale events likely linked to climate change grows and grows
-Pine beetle infestations in BC Canada
-Floods in Pakistan
-Civil strife (genocide?) in the Sudan
Any more on this list?
The really interesting event will be the flooding of the Mekong river delta with salt water. Say goodbye to a large portion of Rice from the Asian market.
Sure sort of the way that pretty much 100% of us use email that is stored and routed by any number of intermediaries.
The difference between FB and Diaspora is that no one seed need be big enough to have enough social graph to be able to sell it.
Why would you say it was designed for a limited audience? Sure looks like it's being designed for a mass market. Sure the early adopters will be FOSS and privacy nerds but if the software is even marginally OK I would put my money on this displacing Facebook within 5 years.
Even if diaspora isn't the one to do it, I am confident that facebook will be relegated to "just another community on the web" within 5 years. The funny thing will be how the networking that is facilitated by facebook will be used against itself as word of alternatives spreads through facebook.
No it's this kind of nonsense that enriches some sleazy MBA who overcharges for bad solutions.
Please don't malign the majority of us honest operators by implying that all IT is just a massive rip-off as this likely is.
Yes and that is a good thing. Because then we won't need carbon taxes because market forces will push us towards suddenly economical alternative fuels.
I can't seem to find the citation right now, however I remember reading about the fact that in Denmark (or the Netherlands) they have public health records going back generations. The records track (among other things) vaccinations and things such as autism rates. The information includes whether the vaccine included mercury or if it didn't (they stopped at some point).
It is basically the motherload of epidemiological information covering 10's of millions of people over a very long time. The result? zero correlation between vaccinations and autism.
That's the end of the story for me. So unless there was some special circumstances in this case (contaminated vaccine?) this settlement is wrong and will only provide inappropriate ammunition for the vaccine=autism faithful.
Doesn't the civil rights act protect persons from discrimination in commerce due to things such as gender, race and/or religious beliefs? If it did then it could make for a funny court case with this quran burning church taking rackspace to court for religious discrimination LOL.
Well doesn't IE support OLE?