The Attorney General is guilty of LYING to Congress. He was cold busted. There is no disputing it.
The President and the State Department colluded to hide the fact that known terrorists were behind Benghazi.
The FBI, who is under the direction of the Attorney General, either failed to report to the President that, since March, they had been investigating whether of not the Director the CIA had compromised his security clearance or that they were lying when they said that they first notified the President the day after the election.
I know that you people are not fans of Fox News, but here are three things that the other media WOULD NOT BE TALKING ABOUT if it weren't for Fox News. There are lots of stories out there that the other media would be thrilled to just sweep under the rug were it not for Fox News and believe it or not they do affect you.
So is it your opinion that the only conservative network should be taken off of the air so that conservatives could only get their news from people that YOU think are right? Did it ever occur to you that conservatives aren't adopting Fox's point of view but that Fox is adopting the conservatives point of view and that what you are really talking about is suppressing the point of view of a large chunk of America?
It is easy to be dismissive and just call Fox News a propaganda channel for the right, but it is just as fair to call MSNBC a propaganda channel for the left. Why aren't we calling for the heads of MSNBC. The truth is that one mans propaganda is another man's fact.
If Fox News gets something wrong, we have a million other channels to set the record straight and if they were doing a better job at setting Fox straight, then Fox wouldn't be number one in all the cable news time slots.
This is how we get things done in America. We loudly and clearly express our point of view and let the chips fall where they may. You don't hear conservative calling to have MSNBC taken off the air. We just do the rational American thing. We turn the channel.
I don't know if this qualifies as life but it is could possibly have interesting applications for nano tech. If the structures can be made to self assemble then they can perhaps be made to assemble other things. or create something as a by product of its process.
Maybe they are hyping the story a bit but it is very interesting research.
Ok just to be about this. The Florida Div of Elections does not have a way of connecting for whom a voter cast his vote. The only thing the Division can track is whether or not a particular voter voted in a particular election. There is an intentional disconnect between the official voting system and the statistical system that the "hacker" broke into so to say that this is evidence of a vulnerability is a little disingenuous.
I am not saying that the system is perfect. I am just saying that THIS is not the evidence that we should look for. You can't use weak evidence to fight important battles.
If you are shooting from a 20' skif with nothing stable to shoot from then I agree. You will have a hard time even hitting them.
But if you start dropping.50 BMG rounds with 800 grain Mk 211 Mod 0 High-Explosive-Incendiary-Armor-Piercing (HEIAP) projectiles from an $32,000 Barrett Sniper Rig, I think that you might have someone's attention. Especially when you can do it from 1000 yds beyond their weapons range.
You don't have to hit a person. One of these rounds hits the boat and sets it on fire, they will be so busy bailing and trying to save their own sorry butts they won't really be worried about piracy.
Twenty four months is barely enough time to check out the latest Apple innovations, clumsily integrate them into the OS and try to take credit. Where does all the time go?
Finally a voice of reason. The article does NOT blame the victim. What it does do is try to provide victims with an ability to mitigate the problem. Criticizing this article is like criticizing someone for promoting a self defense class.
As you said, some people are jerks, but their need of therapy is not a justification for not giving a child a means of making himself less of a target. You can be into all of the nerdy disciplines and still socially acceptable.
I was in band, the science club, the chess club and the math club and yet I was reasonably popular. I had friends on the football team and even a girl friend. But none of that happened until the eighth grade when I decided to work on developing social skills.
At the end of the day, I wound up near the middle of the social order and not nearly as picked on as some, but none of it would have been possible had I not learned social skills.
I stood next to a CNN reporter at the Florida election certification as he said that there were as many Gore supporters in the crowd as there were Bush supporters. The problem was that there were maybe fifty Gore supporters at the Capitol building but there were easily two hundred Bush supporters. He was just careful to shoot his video at a narrow spot in the entrance so that the crowds looked even. When I watched the footage aired about a half hour later, it was full of file footage that was shot no where near the area being referenced in the story.
You can disparage Fox if you like but you just have to recognize that all of the media outlets air stories according to what their agenda considers "news." That is why media outlets with a liberal point of view ignored the Acorn scandal while Fox was running it as their lead story.
The fact that you don't like the messenger, doesn't mean that their message is always wrong. If Hitler or Stalin told me that the building was on fire, I would at least consider the possibility that it was true.
My favorite "nonstory" now is the way that CNN is sugar coating the budget impact of the Health Care legislation. They continue to push the projected long term savings of the legislation even though the bulk of the "savings" happens in the distant future and the short term numbers have already been brought into question by the CBO. You know the CBO (Congressional Budget Office) the people who came up with the initial projections for the bill.
At any rate, you hear a little blurb about things that oppose their point of view and week long tirades about things that support their point of view.
The problem is that it is not Michael Mann et al's exclusive job to determine the quality of the papers being submitted. I imagine that there were some pretty respected "scientists" back in Galileo's day that were "sure" he was wrong and they were right. That is still not a justification to suppress his work.
At the end of the day, the publication of garbage papers helps bring the truth to light. If they want to truly discredit charlatans and prevent the publication of "garbage papers" they should require that the papers include the entire methodology or at least the entire data set used to support the conclusion being submitted.
The bottom line is that if your theory won't stand up to scrutiny, the problem is not with the critics.
The Chinese culture through the centuries has had explicit disincentives to innovation and independent thought. In America, we say "the squeaky wheel gets the grease." In China they say "the nail that stands up, gets beaten down."
On the other hand they have had remarkable cultural stability along with an ability to recognize the value of technology . Even during regime changes, the new boss was very much like the old boss, culturally. So, their innovations tend come at a slower pace. But, the Chinese have tended to hold on to their technology from regime to regime and have done a very good job of protecting their culture.
The fact that the Chinese have little respect for other peoples IP is not surprising at all. I have done a fair amount of manufacturing in China and another key difference that I have noticed is in the contract process.
When westerners sign a contract, we view that as the end of negotiations. The Chinese that I have contracted with have always viewed that as the beginning of final negotiations. At one point it got so bad, that we bought a small factory in China so that we could fix our cost basis.
I imagine that these type laser weapons will first be seen in UAV's anyway. They are kind of perfect when you think about it because they can attack soft targets so well. Like say a group of miscreants planting a roadside bomb. You just fire the laser and if there is something explosive, it blows up in the face of the person planting it.
You can only call the events that Fox covers contrived if you go to one and it is different than how it is portrayed on Fox. So I would like for you to specify an instance of a contrived story.
I am a little confused. Is it really more important to you to criticize commentators on Fox News for being active participants in the political process than it is to criticize the other media for abjectly ignoring important stories? Which do you think is worse?
Are you honestly subscribing to Anita Dunn's assertion that Fox News is an active architect of Republican policy? As an active member of the Republican party, I can assure you that Fox News VERY often ignores things that the party would like covered and relentlessly pursues things that we wish they would leave alone.
What your are talking abstractly about is the Sean Hannity's, Glen Beck's and Bill O'Reily's, Mike Pappantonio's and Keith Olbermann's of the world. These people are called commentators and they make their living saying outrageous things.
Fox doesn't have to "manufacture support" the proof is in their ratings which they continue to dominate. There was another network that tried to make a living pushing there own agenda. Air America went broke because no one wanted to hear what they had to say.
Before you call these events manufactured, you should probably try attending one.
Before you jump on the bandwagon of libs trying to marginalize Fox News, you have to acknowledge that ALL of the media are guilty of ALL of the practices that you are accusing Fox of.
Case in point. I was in Tallahassee in 2000 at the controversial election certification. If you watched the event on TV, you would think that the Capital was filled with equal numbers of Republicans and Democrats. I watched as a CNN producer asked the crowd if the were for Gore or Bush. There were maybe a hundred Gore supporters but there were easily a thousand Bush supporters. I was surprised to hear the commentator make a comment that the crowd seemed evenly divided.
I later saw the segment air on CNN and had I not been their myself I would have thought that the crowd was evenly divided.
So the reality is that the media creates the images that they need to support the story that they are telling.
Progressive measures like this are the things that keep innovation down. They don't understand why you need to be on the internet so much so they decide you are sick, deamonize the "illness", and take steps to cure you. Thanks guys. We need you guys on the side line so that we can catch back up.
I would go further to say that if I rent an apartment. It is my space. Under the terms of the lease, the landlord and his employees have the right to periodically enter the apartment for the purpose of conducting maintenance and inspection of the property. Even still, the landlord cannot give the police permission to search my apartment without a warrant.
The `news` was that others had already gained the technology.
The US even sells the technology.
To who England, France, NATO? None of these countries are talking about blowing some one off the earth.
It is 'normal' be to concerned about Iran yet is unheard of for the USA to ask israel to disarm (let alone ask them about their atrocities).
Who talks about deploying a weapon?
Ahmadinejad, the President of Iran.
Do you imply that a US nuclear weapon is less evil?
I am implying nothing. Nukes are simply devices and neither good nor evil. I am specifically saying that the government of Iran is temperamental, petulant, and irresponsible.
We should be carful about the US since they are bankrupt, they migth become instable, like the former USSR; what about the nukes then?
This is just a great argument for having fewer nukes not more nukes. And really, the US is bankrupt. Have you ever been here? For us bankrupt is I might have to turn off the cable TV. The Soviet Union it was we may not be able to pay our government workers for the next six months.
Do you think we 'calmed' down after 09/11? Really!?
If we hadn't calmed down, we would still have a Republican in the White House.
The world has gotten worse after 09/11 because of the way the US of A responded to the evil that they let happen to them. (yes, forgot about the sloppy investigation? the thermite/thermate? non-existing airplanes in the pentagon, same for that ditch out somewhere, etc)
If by let happen, you mean we stopped launching cruise missiles into the camps of the terrorists and tried to "fight fair" with people who have no idea of the concept, then yes you are right we let it happen. That is what you get when you try to treat terrorists like civilized people.
Or do you think the security theatre by DHS etc really helps? Name-checking? Bin Laden could fly out at 09/11, but we cannot fly in without being treated as criminals? As if our names are weapons of mass destruction? Names don't kill, bombs do.
What you are saying is that it since it is easy to pick the lock, you should never lock your door.
The USA is at fault for all of this
And now we have this crisis, and the Iran thing is just to distract. It's a step up to another war.
Talk about FUD. This is what you get when you behave like a spoiled child after other spoiled children have "ruined it" for everyone.
Ok, maybe I am missing something but I thought that we were supposed to be working to reduce the number of nukes in the world. Is your argument that because the US has nukes, we should allow other countries to gain the technology. As I remember, the whole world had a fit when both India and Pakistan demonstrated their nuclear capabilities.
Regardless, I think it is perfectly normal to be concerned that someone who is professing the annihilation of one of your allies is so blatantly developing the technology to do just that.
The real problem is that as these smaller countries begin to develop nuclear technology and try to extort concessions out of the developed world using threats of nuclear weapons, it will only be a matter of time before one of a developed country takes those threats seriously enough to do something about it. If you don't believe that, then ask Saddam.
What could be worse is one of them actually deploying one of these weapons. If you think that the US went crazy when they flew an airplane into the trade center, just wait until someone is actually caught trying to deploy a nuclear weapon.
It took us eight years to calm down after 9/11, and in the wake of all that we destroyed two regimes, had one dictator executed and are still deployed in two foreign countries.
You think this is about hypocrisy. This is about preventing our involvement in yet another stupid foreign war.
I am sure for you that these off the shelf NAS boxes are worthless, but they might have some value for people who have less stringent requirements and don't expose their networks to the wild. If you are aware of a critical flaw, please mention it. Some of us just need a place to store 20,000 photos in a place that the whole family can access.
Remember, one man's trash may be another man's so-so solution.
Sure 83% is recycled into oil, but the remaining 17% is powdered monkey poo with only minor radiation and a smell like the New Orleans sewers after Mardi Gras and a nasty tendency to become airborne then permanently adhere only to human skin.
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The Attorney General is guilty of LYING to Congress. He was cold busted. There is no disputing it.
The President and the State Department colluded to hide the fact that known terrorists were behind Benghazi.
The FBI, who is under the direction of the Attorney General, either failed to report to the President that, since March, they had been investigating whether of not the Director the CIA had compromised his security clearance or that they were lying when they said that they first notified the President the day after the election.
I know that you people are not fans of Fox News, but here are three things that the other media WOULD NOT BE TALKING ABOUT if it weren't for Fox News. There are lots of stories out there that the other media would be thrilled to just sweep under the rug were it not for Fox News and believe it or not they do affect you.
So is it your opinion that the only conservative network should be taken off of the air so that conservatives could only get their news from people that YOU think are right? Did it ever occur to you that conservatives aren't adopting Fox's point of view but that Fox is adopting the conservatives point of view and that what you are really talking about is suppressing the point of view of a large chunk of America?
It is easy to be dismissive and just call Fox News a propaganda channel for the right, but it is just as fair to call MSNBC a propaganda channel for the left. Why aren't we calling for the heads of MSNBC. The truth is that one mans propaganda is another man's fact.
If Fox News gets something wrong, we have a million other channels to set the record straight and if they were doing a better job at setting Fox straight, then Fox wouldn't be number one in all the cable news time slots.
This is how we get things done in America. We loudly and clearly express our point of view and let the chips fall where they may. You don't hear conservative calling to have MSNBC taken off the air. We just do the rational American thing. We turn the channel.
I don't know if this qualifies as life but it is could possibly have interesting applications for nano tech. If the structures can be made to self assemble then they can perhaps be made to assemble other things. or create something as a by product of its process.
Maybe they are hyping the story a bit but it is very interesting research.
Ok just to be about this. The Florida Div of Elections does not have a way of connecting for whom a voter cast his vote. The only thing the Division can track is whether or not a particular voter voted in a particular election. There is an intentional disconnect between the official voting system and the statistical system that the "hacker" broke into so to say that this is evidence of a vulnerability is a little disingenuous.
I am not saying that the system is perfect. I am just saying that THIS is not the evidence that we should look for. You can't use weak evidence to fight important battles.
If you are shooting from a 20' skif with nothing stable to shoot from then I agree. You will have a hard time even hitting them.
But if you start dropping .50 BMG rounds with 800 grain Mk 211 Mod 0 High-Explosive-Incendiary-Armor-Piercing (HEIAP) projectiles from an $32,000 Barrett Sniper Rig, I think that you might have someone's attention. Especially when you can do it from 1000 yds beyond their weapons range.
You don't have to hit a person. One of these rounds hits the boat and sets it on fire, they will be so busy bailing and trying to save their own sorry butts they won't really be worried about piracy.
Twenty four months is barely enough time to check out the latest Apple innovations, clumsily integrate them into the OS and try to take credit. Where does all the time go?
Finally a voice of reason. The article does NOT blame the victim. What it does do is try to provide victims with an ability to mitigate the problem. Criticizing this article is like criticizing someone for promoting a self defense class.
As you said, some people are jerks, but their need of therapy is not a justification for not giving a child a means of making himself less of a target. You can be into all of the nerdy disciplines and still socially acceptable.
I was in band, the science club, the chess club and the math club and yet I was reasonably popular. I had friends on the football team and even a girl friend. But none of that happened until the eighth grade when I decided to work on developing social skills.
At the end of the day, I wound up near the middle of the social order and not nearly as picked on as some, but none of it would have been possible had I not learned social skills.
By your logic, then you can't trust any of them.
I stood next to a CNN reporter at the Florida election certification as he said that there were as many Gore supporters in the crowd as there were Bush supporters. The problem was that there were maybe fifty Gore supporters at the Capitol building but there were easily two hundred Bush supporters. He was just careful to shoot his video at a narrow spot in the entrance so that the crowds looked even. When I watched the footage aired about a half hour later, it was full of file footage that was shot no where near the area being referenced in the story.
You can disparage Fox if you like but you just have to recognize that all of the media outlets air stories according to what their agenda considers "news." That is why media outlets with a liberal point of view ignored the Acorn scandal while Fox was running it as their lead story.
The fact that you don't like the messenger, doesn't mean that their message is always wrong. If Hitler or Stalin told me that the building was on fire, I would at least consider the possibility that it was true.
My favorite "nonstory" now is the way that CNN is sugar coating the budget impact of the Health Care legislation. They continue to push the projected long term savings of the legislation even though the bulk of the "savings" happens in the distant future and the short term numbers have already been brought into question by the CBO. You know the CBO (Congressional Budget Office) the people who came up with the initial projections for the bill.
At any rate, you hear a little blurb about things that oppose their point of view and week long tirades about things that support their point of view.
"The space agency says the WISE spacecraft will circle Earth over the poles, scanning the entire sky one-and-a-half times in nine months."
Maybe I am missing something but isn't 1.5 times in nine months the same thing as once every six months?
Why would you express something like that? It's like saying that gas costs 3.75 per 1.5 gallons.
The problem is that it is not Michael Mann et al's exclusive job to determine the quality of the papers being submitted. I imagine that there were some pretty respected "scientists" back in Galileo's day that were "sure" he was wrong and they were right. That is still not a justification to suppress his work.
At the end of the day, the publication of garbage papers helps bring the truth to light. If they want to truly discredit charlatans and prevent the publication of "garbage papers" they should require that the papers include the entire methodology or at least the entire data set used to support the conclusion being submitted.
The bottom line is that if your theory won't stand up to scrutiny, the problem is not with the critics.
The Chinese culture through the centuries has had explicit disincentives to innovation and independent thought. In America, we say "the squeaky wheel gets the grease." In China they say "the nail that stands up, gets beaten down."
On the other hand they have had remarkable cultural stability along with an ability to recognize the value of technology . Even during regime changes, the new boss was very much like the old boss, culturally. So, their innovations tend come at a slower pace. But, the Chinese have tended to hold on to their technology from regime to regime and have done a very good job of protecting their culture.
The fact that the Chinese have little respect for other peoples IP is not surprising at all. I have done a fair amount of manufacturing in China and another key difference that I have noticed is in the contract process.
When westerners sign a contract, we view that as the end of negotiations. The Chinese that I have contracted with have always viewed that as the beginning of final negotiations. At one point it got so bad, that we bought a small factory in China so that we could fix our cost basis.
He got off light. Hanging is to goo for him.
I imagine that these type laser weapons will first be seen in UAV's anyway. They are kind of perfect when you think about it because they can attack soft targets so well. Like say a group of miscreants planting a roadside bomb. You just fire the laser and if there is something explosive, it blows up in the face of the person planting it.
Awwww. He fall down and go boom.
You have provided general allegations with no specific cases.
You can only call the events that Fox covers contrived if you go to one and it is different than how it is portrayed on Fox. So I would like for you to specify an instance of a contrived story.
I am a little confused. Is it really more important to you to criticize commentators on Fox News for being active participants in the political process than it is to criticize the other media for abjectly ignoring important stories? Which do you think is worse?
Are you honestly subscribing to Anita Dunn's assertion that Fox News is an active architect of Republican policy? As an active member of the Republican party, I can assure you that Fox News VERY often ignores things that the party would like covered and relentlessly pursues things that we wish they would leave alone.
What your are talking abstractly about is the Sean Hannity's, Glen Beck's and Bill O'Reily's, Mike Pappantonio's and Keith Olbermann's of the world. These people are called commentators and they make their living saying outrageous things.
Fox doesn't have to "manufacture support" the proof is in their ratings which they continue to dominate. There was another network that tried to make a living pushing there own agenda. Air America went broke because no one wanted to hear what they had to say.
Before you call these events manufactured, you should probably try attending one.
Before you jump on the bandwagon of libs trying to marginalize Fox News, you have to acknowledge that ALL of the media are guilty of ALL of the practices that you are accusing Fox of.
Case in point. I was in Tallahassee in 2000 at the controversial election certification. If you watched the event on TV, you would think that the Capital was filled with equal numbers of Republicans and Democrats. I watched as a CNN producer asked the crowd if the were for Gore or Bush. There were maybe a hundred Gore supporters but there were easily a thousand Bush supporters. I was surprised to hear the commentator make a comment that the crowd seemed evenly divided.
I later saw the segment air on CNN and had I not been their myself I would have thought that the crowd was evenly divided.
So the reality is that the media creates the images that they need to support the story that they are telling.
Progressive measures like this are the things that keep innovation down. They don't understand why you need to be on the internet so much so they decide you are sick, deamonize the "illness", and take steps to cure you. Thanks guys. We need you guys on the side line so that we can catch back up.
I would go further to say that if I rent an apartment. It is my space. Under the terms of the lease, the landlord and his employees have the right to periodically enter the apartment for the purpose of conducting maintenance and inspection of the property. Even still, the landlord cannot give the police permission to search my apartment without a warrant.
Of course Barrack was awarded the peace prize. This years prize also includes a set of Ginsu steak knives and 10 free car washes.
To who England, France, NATO? None of these countries are talking about blowing some one off the earth.
Ahmadinejad, the President of Iran.
I am implying nothing. Nukes are simply devices and neither good nor evil. I am specifically saying that the government of Iran is temperamental, petulant, and irresponsible.
This is just a great argument for having fewer nukes not more nukes. And really, the US is bankrupt. Have you ever been here? For us bankrupt is I might have to turn off the cable TV. The Soviet Union it was we may not be able to pay our government workers for the next six months.
If we hadn't calmed down, we would still have a Republican in the White House.
If by let happen, you mean we stopped launching cruise missiles into the camps of the terrorists and tried to "fight fair" with people who have no idea of the concept, then yes you are right we let it happen. That is what you get when you try to treat terrorists like civilized people.
What you are saying is that it since it is easy to pick the lock, you should never lock your door.
Talk about FUD. This is what you get when you behave like a spoiled child after other spoiled children have "ruined it" for everyone.
Ok, maybe I am missing something but I thought that we were supposed to be working to reduce the number of nukes in the world. Is your argument that because the US has nukes, we should allow other countries to gain the technology. As I remember, the whole world had a fit when both India and Pakistan demonstrated their nuclear capabilities.
Regardless, I think it is perfectly normal to be concerned that someone who is professing the annihilation of one of your allies is so blatantly developing the technology to do just that.
The real problem is that as these smaller countries begin to develop nuclear technology and try to extort concessions out of the developed world using threats of nuclear weapons, it will only be a matter of time before one of a developed country takes those threats seriously enough to do something about it. If you don't believe that, then ask Saddam.
What could be worse is one of them actually deploying one of these weapons. If you think that the US went crazy when they flew an airplane into the trade center, just wait until someone is actually caught trying to deploy a nuclear weapon.
It took us eight years to calm down after 9/11, and in the wake of all that we destroyed two regimes, had one dictator executed and are still deployed in two foreign countries.
You think this is about hypocrisy. This is about preventing our involvement in yet another stupid foreign war.
I am sure for you that these off the shelf NAS boxes are worthless, but they might have some value for people who have less stringent requirements and don't expose their networks to the wild. If you are aware of a critical flaw, please mention it. Some of us just need a place to store 20,000 photos in a place that the whole family can access.
Remember, one man's trash may be another man's so-so solution.
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Sure 83% is recycled into oil, but the remaining 17% is powdered monkey poo with only minor radiation and a smell like the New Orleans sewers after Mardi Gras and a nasty tendency to become airborne then permanently adhere only to human skin.
But at least we will have cheap gas.