This is an honest question, so please don't misread me. Are you in the business at all? To what extent are the resources of a large media organization helpful to the fact checking process?
I'm also interested in how useful the internet would be in terms of war correspondence. Again, just out of curiosity.
If you don't know, no worries... Just pondering life's little mysteries.
I have been sort of randomly asking people on here... do you know of a tool, organization, whatever, that sort of takes issues like these, or say like Demand Progress, and works to take them to local, street level activism?
" Private capital is more expensive than bank capital because people are not allowed to lend money they do not have. Banks are."
Kickstarter is private capital. Kickstarter cannot, on its own authority or the collective authority of any number of people, simply create new money.
That's what banks do. That is their function. They create new money, or in some limited circumstances, destroy money to lessen the total amount in circulation.
Kickstarter is a good thing, a sweet tool. I am not dissing Kickstarter. I am simply pointing out that it is no replacement for bank generated financial support.
The problem is they never were that good. Centralized as they are, they fall into the trap of doing the bidding of their owners. They are, in fact, selected for promotion in no small part based on their track record of anticipating what is wanted from them and doing it without asking. It gives the higher ups a metric f-ton of plausible deniability when accused of manipulating coverage. They're always under pressure to complete stories on a deadline. The facts are secondary.
"If you sit down quietly, wherever you are, close your eyes, quiet your heart, and listen closely enough, you'll be able to hear someone somewhere talking about how journalism is dead and the internet killed it. "
I love your writing style. How many times have I heard that or something like it. Reminds me of the Wikipedia haters too.
The trend is to pay for the same thing over and over and over again. Everything is a subscription now. Heck, it's even better than designed obsolescence.
I know Techdirt has a sort of loose affiliation with Demand Progress, or some would say more than that, but is there anyone here that sort of uses this place as a platform for organizing political action locally?
I reached out to the local Occupy people and didn't hear back concerning an interest in organizing for his prosecutor to be investigated. I got no response as yet. Now your post makes me think even this law could use some protest.
I just really want to organize and am clueless how to start or where.
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I didn't just say it was NRA. I said the reasoning behind it being anti-NRA is bogus. Because it is anti-NRA and the rationale is bogus, one then begins to go through the mental checklist as to why anyone would bother writing it.
In case you haven't heard, there've been a few very public shootings lately, and the Democratic party is going gonzo trying to push more restrictive gun control laws.
Into this atmosphere steps a writer, writing on a tech blog no less, dogging out the biggest player in defense of gun ownership, and over nothing. "Oh GOD, they made video games OF THEIR OWN! Where people... SHOOT... THINGS!!! Oh HOW HYPOCRITICAL!!!!"
(oh, btw they're games don't depict people shooting people but that really doesn't matter I love the 2nd amendment go usa)
Pfft.
Look at the thread where lawmakers are promoting a law to label video games - labeling the games already have. That thread is dead. Know why? Because there's nothing in it that can be seen as anti-anything but stupid laws. That and its not about anything that anyone is up in arms about.
The fault for this thread getting bogged down on 2nd amendment issues is not the readers. It's the writer.
Pro tip - if you have to preface your writing with, "believe me, I have no problem with such and such," you're about to piss off all the people who like such and such.
Exactly. We need regulation, but we need RATIONAL regulation. If some home programmer puts something up for download that is pornographic, you don't need a labeling law to go for him.If your 6 year old is unsupervised on the internet and finds it, it's your fault, not the internet's.
This issue has been solved so many times... why does nothing ever stay solved?
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You know what. You're a waste of time. You know you're wrong, which is why you're pretending I don't know how slaves got to America.
This thread needs to die the death.
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There's not one fact checker, there's many. The whole community. And if you weren't honest, the others who vouch for you are held accountable as well.
On the internet, that accountability turns out to be which sites, groups, etc turn out to be right the most.
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I'm also interested in how useful the internet would be in terms of war correspondence. Again, just out of curiosity.
If you don't know, no worries... Just pondering life's little mysteries.
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Um... or anyone here from Austin, TX? lol
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Kickstarter is private capital. Kickstarter cannot, on its own authority or the collective authority of any number of people, simply create new money.
That's what banks do. That is their function. They create new money, or in some limited circumstances, destroy money to lessen the total amount in circulation.
Kickstarter is a good thing, a sweet tool. I am not dissing Kickstarter. I am simply pointing out that it is no replacement for bank generated financial support.
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Old Media
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Link Problem
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Awesome opening
I love your writing style. How many times have I heard that or something like it. Reminds me of the Wikipedia haters too.
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Exactly
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I liked all of those. (Had signed two already).
Thanks.
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Pfft
Damn straight milk baby.
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Heh heh
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I reached out to the local Occupy people and didn't hear back concerning an interest in organizing for his prosecutor to be investigated. I got no response as yet. Now your post makes me think even this law could use some protest.
I just really want to organize and am clueless how to start or where.
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Re: Influence of video games
But ROFL!
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In case you haven't heard, there've been a few very public shootings lately, and the Democratic party is going gonzo trying to push more restrictive gun control laws.
Into this atmosphere steps a writer, writing on a tech blog no less, dogging out the biggest player in defense of gun ownership, and over nothing. "Oh GOD, they made video games OF THEIR OWN! Where people... SHOOT... THINGS!!! Oh HOW HYPOCRITICAL!!!!"
(oh, btw they're games don't depict people shooting people but that really doesn't matter I love the 2nd amendment go usa)
Pfft.
Look at the thread where lawmakers are promoting a law to label video games - labeling the games already have. That thread is dead. Know why? Because there's nothing in it that can be seen as anti-anything but stupid laws. That and its not about anything that anyone is up in arms about.
The fault for this thread getting bogged down on 2nd amendment issues is not the readers. It's the writer.
Pro tip - if you have to preface your writing with, "believe me, I have no problem with such and such," you're about to piss off all the people who like such and such.
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Forced Monopoly
Like Monsanto actually pushing for stricter EPA laws.
http://www.mindfully.org/GE/Monsanto-Paid-Protection-EPA.htm
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This issue has been solved so many times... why does nothing ever stay solved?
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