If I told you 15 years ago, that George Bush and the CIA were full of shit, and that the Nigerians weren't selling yellow cake to Iraq, nobody would listen, but now it's well known and completely forgotten.
That was well-known within six months of the lie being told. Within three months of the invasion, if not before. Everyone was listening. Certainly many were questioning and disputing the WMD claims well before the invasion.
we have a proliferation of 9-11 truth web sites
That's the best way to deflect attention from a scandal. Promote a much bigger, more sensational, but ultimately meaningless scandal. Those with legitimate questions about what warnings Bush II ignored, were quickly grouped in with the holographic airplane/controlled demolition crowd.
The problem is, students aren't being taught critical thinking.
The problem is, "big lie" techniques work. When people hear the lie from 20 different sources, they believe it. With the right money and Fox, Breitbart and the blogs and social media outlets they feed, the liar has their 20 different sources. AND the ability to discredit the truth and those telling it.
Understand, they don't have to maintain that lie for long. Just a few months until after the invasion/election. That the (yellow) cake was a lie was all over the news three months after the invasion. (Hence the Plame affair). Trump's popularity plummeted not long after the election. By then it didn't matter.
Re: Re: Re: Re: Great piece; here are a few observations
If you want government, then you had better keep it well heeled, or it will turn on you and rip your throat out without a second thought.
Likewise without government, the biggest thug turns on you and rips your throat out without a second thought. And becomes the government.
So you need to keep both the government and the thugs - and polluters, scammers, spammers, etc. - well heeled. There's a word for that. It starts with 'g.'
Look; we did the experiment. Usenet and its tens of thousands of newsgroups had no moderation. The sci.space groups were wonderful - full of people actually working on real launch systems. There were newsgroups where Hollywood producers would hang out, tell anecdotes and answer questions.
Then AOL connected to Usenet, and then the general public all got internet and Usenet access. The sci.space groups filled with infantile conspiracy theorists and trolls attacking the professionals. The same thing happened in other groups. The signal-to-noise level dropped and then disappeared, and the professionals left.
Some moderation - some government - is necessary. Even if it's just the users themselves flagging abuse, trolling and spam to hide it.
That of course doesn't include Trumps sex crime allegations - much of which, from "grab her by the pussy" to walking into teen-age model's dressing rooms - he's corroborated by boasting about it. Or outright fraud like Trump University that he's settled in or out of court.
You must have missed "the memo" this week...
So the Democrats hired Fusion GPS to compile a dossier on Trump. Just like Republicans hired them earlier in the campaign to compile a dossier on Trump and other Republican presidential candidates.
Welcome to what both parties have always done. (Except perhaps for Sarah Palin.)
...pins the actual crimes on unholy cabal of Clinton, FBI, and Obama
As the second link quotes Wolff about Trump's staff:
Hoping for the best, with their personal futures as well as the country's future depending on it, my indelible impression of talking to them and observing them through much of the first year of his presidency, is that they all—100 percent—came to believe he was incapable of functioning in his job.
This will have a bad effect beyond Trump:
The permanent staff and those who take orders from the President are learning how to "handle" him like an infant. When to withhold key information and tell him only what he wants to hear. When to do what they believe Needs To Be Done regardless of what he ordered, since he'll probably change his mind or forget anyway.
This is the culture that the next President will inherit.
India banned Windows 95 when it was discovered that the time zone map had a few pixels of the disputed Kashmir region allocated to Pakistan.
The ban was lifted when Microsoft produced an Indian version with the map removed altogether.... and promised that future versions for the rest of the world would have it removed too.
This could certainly help the administration in the next election campaign.
First you complain when the Russians help Trump by stealing and publishing the Democrats' emails. Now you complain when he reduces his dependence on the Russians. You people are never satisfied.
Much like US definition of "state", the word for what everyone applies to "countries." (Including much of the US federal government: Secretary of State, State Department, etc.)
Or "America" for that matter. The term for the New World - starting with modern-day South America - for about 270 years before some revolutionaries in the British colonies adopted it and claimed to represent all of it.
When searching for clips I can sort by view count.
But that doesn't tell be whether they were "viewed" by folks who watched the whole thing - indicating actual content - or "viewed" for two seconds only - indicating clickbait garbage.
Instead of basing acceptance purely on views, we want to take channel size, audience engagement, and creator behavior into consideration to determine eligibility for ads.
This makes sense, as it would fix a growing problem with YouTube:
TV shows upload clips. Movie studios upload trailers and featurettes. News shows upload stories and interviews. It's promotional, but often worth watching.
But more and more when you search for that content, you get endless crap. Videos with someone simply describing that content (while adding no value whatsoever), or a questionable link to somewhere else.
Those sites generate vast numbers of views - but only for two seconds each before people curse and try the next one. That's enough to monetize them.
Checking for audience engagement - did they actually stick around to watch the video - is needed.
This is why you don't blindly depend on the schools for *all* your kids' education. You need to pass on lessons and experience that the schools won't.
("Yes, popping a paper bag in the mall makes a very loud noise. Yes, you can hear it echoing all through the place, including a strong echo from the very far end of the mall. Yes, mall cops are all dicks.")
That includes the principle you too have rights regarding intellectual property and that a lot of file sharing is neither illegal nor immoral.
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That was well-known within six months of the lie being told. Within three months of the invasion, if not before. Everyone was listening. Certainly many were questioning and disputing the WMD claims well before the invasion.
That's the best way to deflect attention from a scandal. Promote a much bigger, more sensational, but ultimately meaningless scandal. Those with legitimate questions about what warnings Bush II ignored, were quickly grouped in with the holographic airplane/controlled demolition crowd.
The problem is, "big lie" techniques work. When people hear the lie from 20 different sources, they believe it. With the right money and Fox, Breitbart and the blogs and social media outlets they feed, the liar has their 20 different sources. AND the ability to discredit the truth and those telling it.
Understand, they don't have to maintain that lie for long. Just a few months until after the invasion/election. That the (yellow) cake was a lie was all over the news three months after the invasion. (Hence the Plame affair). Trump's popularity plummeted not long after the election. By then it didn't matter.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Great piece; here are a few observations
Likewise without government, the biggest thug turns on you and rips your throat out without a second thought. And becomes the government.
So you need to keep both the government and the thugs - and polluters, scammers, spammers, etc. - well heeled. There's a word for that. It starts with 'g.'
Look; we did the experiment. Usenet and its tens of thousands of newsgroups had no moderation. The sci.space groups were wonderful - full of people actually working on real launch systems. There were newsgroups where Hollywood producers would hang out, tell anecdotes and answer questions.
Then AOL connected to Usenet, and then the general public all got internet and Usenet access. The sci.space groups filled with infantile conspiracy theorists and trolls attacking the professionals. The same thing happened in other groups. The signal-to-noise level dropped and then disappeared, and the professionals left.
Some moderation - some government - is necessary. Even if it's just the users themselves flagging abuse, trolling and spam to hide it.
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Re: WHAT ARE THESE "serious allegations of wrongdoing by Trump, his family, and his associates"???
Same old claim, same old response:
Wikipedia: Links between Trump associates and Russian officials
128 citations.
Wikipedia: Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections
403 citations.
That of course doesn't include Trumps sex crime allegations - much of which, from "grab her by the pussy" to walking into teen-age model's dressing rooms - he's corroborated by boasting about it. Or outright fraud like Trump University that he's settled in or out of court.
So the Democrats hired Fusion GPS to compile a dossier on Trump. Just like Republicans hired them earlier in the campaign to compile a dossier on Trump and other Republican presidential candidates.
Welcome to what both parties have always done. (Except perhaps for Sarah Palin.)
Now you're just giving in to fantasy.
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As the second link quotes Wolff about Trump's staff:
This will have a bad effect beyond Trump:
The permanent staff and those who take orders from the President are learning how to "handle" him like an infant. When to withhold key information and tell him only what he wants to hear. When to do what they believe Needs To Be Done regardless of what he ordered, since he'll probably change his mind or forget anyway.
This is the culture that the next President will inherit.
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India banned Windows 95 when it was discovered that the time zone map had a few pixels of the disputed Kashmir region allocated to Pakistan.
The ban was lifted when Microsoft produced an Indian version with the map removed altogether.... and promised that future versions for the rest of the world would have it removed too.
Big markets bring power.
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Re: Taiwan
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First you complain when the Russians help Trump by stealing and publishing the Democrats' emails. Now you complain when he reduces his dependence on the Russians. You people are never satisfied.
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Re: Re: Re: Imagine in the U.S...
Or "America" for that matter. The term for the New World - starting with modern-day South America - for about 270 years before some revolutionaries in the British colonies adopted it and claimed to represent all of it.
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Re: Imagine in the U.S...
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I suspect that his remedy for that forgetfulness may be simpler than ours.
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Re: In modern Amerika... Youtube watches YOU! -- Or: Cesspools have gates, both in and out! -- Or: "Free" means "rigid controls"!
I'm certain that by "conservative" or "pro-American" you mean extremist or alt-right views that any actual conservative would consider anti-American.
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I'm expecting a new competitor: "Security cameras of Walmart."
Like YouTube, anyone can (and already does) add content. They'll handle the uploading, and monetize it with your purchases.
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But that doesn't tell be whether they were "viewed" by folks who watched the whole thing - indicating actual content - or "viewed" for two seconds only - indicating clickbait garbage.
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This makes sense, as it would fix a growing problem with YouTube:
TV shows upload clips. Movie studios upload trailers and featurettes. News shows upload stories and interviews. It's promotional, but often worth watching.
But more and more when you search for that content, you get endless crap. Videos with someone simply describing that content (while adding no value whatsoever), or a questionable link to somewhere else.
Those sites generate vast numbers of views - but only for two seconds each before people curse and try the next one. That's enough to monetize them.
Checking for audience engagement - did they actually stick around to watch the video - is needed.
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Like Stephen "the President's powers are very substantial and will not be questioned" Miller.
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Someone alert Charles Carreon: This is what a professional lawsuit extortion looks like.
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("Yes, popping a paper bag in the mall makes a very loud noise. Yes, you can hear it echoing all through the place, including a strong echo from the very far end of the mall. Yes, mall cops are all dicks.")
That includes the principle you too have rights regarding intellectual property and that a lot of file sharing is neither illegal nor immoral.
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Re: That explains politeness
The difference is that winning in court means bankrupting the name-caller rather than obtaining a favorable judgement.
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