Re: Impress by George W PR then in awe of Obama PR
While I don't argue in the least about the current administrations attempts to control the media agenda, I think it is a bit strong to say they succeed to a great degree. If they were that effective, we would not be inundated with birther stories, Benghazi, etc.
Nothing in this world infuriates me more than the pseudo-intellectual. It's really a shame that Eisler's excellent literary bitch-slap can't be delivered as a literal one.
Kinsley went to all the best schools (Harvard and Geo.Washington Law) and worked at all the best newspapers before becoming a talking head on opinion-based 'news' shows. He has been immersed in the political and journalism realms for decades, and this tripe is his conclusion?
The scary thing is, when he was on Crossfire, he was the 'radical liberal' left-wing counter balance to the right wingnut, noted racist, and holocaust denier Pat Buchanan.
I really fear for our nation when we have Democrats in power who either preach right-wing ideals and hawkish warmongering, Repubs who have spent the last two terms being that horrible child in Wal-Mart screaming for a piece of candy while the parent drags them kicking and screaming, and the vast majority of media playing lapdog to power to the point of attacking the ACTUAL JOURNALISTS doing real reporting.
Get yourself a corporate surplus laptop. Most of the designs that Dell,etc. tailor for large bulk corporate buys are webcam-free (especially for government contractors, as a lot of them operate in areas where cameras are forbidden). The only downside is that these machines also usually have only the native video capabilities, no dedicated cards. They are almost all short-term leases which then get sent to wholesalers to get new harddrives and reconditioned. You can pick one up very cheap.
If your money is 'in bitcoins' you aren't earning any interest. The value may appreciate according to the market, but that is no different than any currency including cash stuffed in a mattress. If you want to put those BTC in a financial account that does earn interest, guess who has those? The banks.
excepting , of course, that a TON of anecdotes are third- or fourth-hand accounts of "data" ... if not outright BS to begin with. They are also notoriously full of non-sequitur (or non-existing) logic, even personal first-hand accounts usually contain tenuous cause-effect links at best.
In this particular instance, I think it would be better stated that "evidence suggests that some individuals..." and leave the 'anecdotal' out, given how much evidence exists and how blatant it usually is.
I can't wait to see what lies the intelligence mouthpieces come up with this time...
Just imagine how different things would be for them now if they had treated Snowden as a proper whistleblower, sacrificed a few figureheads, and pushed Congress to pass a more clearly defined law about domestic spying right from the start.
They would still have secrecy for 90% of their bullshit programs, the administration would get points for working with Congress(and they could put most of the blame on Bush-era decisions and programs), Congress would get a few points for actually doing some work responsive to the public outcry and at least appear to be fulfilling their oversight responsibilities, and the fickle public opinion tide would have easily been manipulated on to the next news cycle.
This is why I rarely give any credence to government conspiracy theorists... If anyone involved in this mess had half a brain for strategy they wouldn't be in this position. They always seem to be just rats in a fancy maze reacting to stimuli with very little forethought on consequences.
Russia is definitely not demonstrating morality here. They are just behaving as any playground bully does when they find out they have something someone else wants an start playing keep-away with it. They knew within 30 minutes of finding out his passport was revoked at the airport that he didn't have any juicy secrets to give them and was not interested in being a propaganda mouthpiece for the FSB. Everything since then is just theater to keep the USA looking foolish on the world stage.
If Kerry/Obama/Clinton told Putin tomorrow that we would shut up about Crimea if they gave us back Snowden, he'd be on a CIA plane within minutes.
it's not cross-pacific data that is the problem, it is the cost of the local Aus data warehousing and local bandwidth needed, on top of the costs of regional programming. Just renting Colo space in an Aus DC for game servers, etc is crazy expensive, obtaining rackspace and local peering bandwidth for Netflix-ish data volumes would be monumentally expensive.
Part of the reason Netflix isn't servicing the Aus/NZ region is the re-goddamn-diculous charges for bulk bandwidth the ISP's charge. Datacenter level peering connections cost 5x-10x what they cost in all other regions. If Netflix expands to this area officially, they would have to set up local infrastructure to support the massive amount of traffic it would generate, because the existing network links to Oceania are horrible with latency and packet loss a majority of the time, and downed links will sometimes stay down for weeks.
Given how much media Netflix would be exposing to Aussies for the first time, and the lack of any serious competitors, the market penetration for an official launch there would be huge. Adding something like 30%+ of additional traffic to US-based servers for streaming would rapidly bring the Oceanic ISP's to their knees.
I couldn't even place a guesstimate number on what Netflix would have to pay to offer any kind of reasonable quality of service in that environment, not even counting the new licensing deals for regional content that would have to be sorted out.
"There is no such thing as a Bogus Takedown under DMCA. Google are very strict. Google only remove links under the DMCA after they have validated a claim."
You are either willfully being intellectually dishonest about the well-documented history in this area, or just woefully ignorant of the facts. In either case, you should stop taking people's money to handle lawsuits in the IP field until you study up, or just toss your law diploma in the nearest shredder and find work delivering pizza.
A simple search for "bogus DMCA" will return pages and pages of proof refuting your position...
Re: What's fair for Microsoft is now Fair for Appl
Your logic is a bit flawed in that argument. The lawsuits against M$ have to do with their leveraging the dominance they have in the OS market to push some of their other products and not allowing users to easily choose an alternate piece of software... i.e. bundling everything under the sun with the OS so normal non-geek users don't even know that there IS a competitor for that function.
The iPod is definitely dominant in it's niche, but the alternatives are countless - you yourself have two Sansas, and you can go get a no-name 1 gig player at any drug store for like $19. The choices are out there and thriving, but Apple's product has the features and design the the majority of users appear to prefer. As long as you can take your own music and add it in to your iPod, there is no confilct or leverage being applied. If you don't like shopping at the iTunes store you can buy the cd. Forcing Apple to use the WMA structure is like forcing Sony to make the PS3 play HD-DVD as well as Blu-Ray, which is to say, dumb.
p.s. - you may be able to listen to anything in "a 2 million + dong library" , but i bet they all sound about the same :)
that's gotta be the best typo I've seen this week!
Re: What's fair for Microsoft is now Fair for Appl
Your logic is a bit flawed in that argument. The lawsuits against M$ have to do with their leveraging the dominance they have in the OS market to push some of their other products and not allowing users to easily choose an alternate piece of software... i.e. bundling everything under the sun with the OS so normal non-geek users don't even know that there IS a competitor for that function.
The iPod is definitely dominant in it's niche, but the alternatives are countless - you yourself have two Sansas, and you can go get a no-name 1 gig player at any drug store for like $19. The choices are out there and thriving, but Apple's product has the features and design the the majority of users appear to prefer. As long as you can take your own music and add it in to your iPod, there is no confilct or leverage being applied. If you don't like shopping at the iTunes store you can buy the cd. Forcing Apple to use the WMA structure is like forcing Sony to make the PS3 play HD-DVD as well as Blu-Ray, which is to say, dumb.
p.s. - you may be able to listen to anything in "a 2 million + dong library" , but i bet they all sound about the same :)
that's gotta be the best typo I've seen this week!
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Re: Impress by George W PR then in awe of Obama PR
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Kinsley went to all the best schools (Harvard and Geo.Washington Law) and worked at all the best newspapers before becoming a talking head on opinion-based 'news' shows. He has been immersed in the political and journalism realms for decades, and this tripe is his conclusion?
The scary thing is, when he was on Crossfire, he was the 'radical liberal' left-wing counter balance to the right wingnut, noted racist, and holocaust denier Pat Buchanan.
I really fear for our nation when we have Democrats in power who either preach right-wing ideals and hawkish warmongering, Repubs who have spent the last two terms being that horrible child in Wal-Mart screaming for a piece of candy while the parent drags them kicking and screaming, and the vast majority of media playing lapdog to power to the point of attacking the ACTUAL JOURNALISTS doing real reporting.
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The only downside is that these machines also usually have only the native video capabilities, no dedicated cards. They are almost all short-term leases which then get sent to wholesalers to get new harddrives and reconditioned. You can pick one up very cheap.
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In this particular instance, I think it would be better stated that "evidence suggests that some individuals..." and leave the 'anecdotal' out, given how much evidence exists and how blatant it usually is.
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Just imagine how different things would be for them now if they had treated Snowden as a proper whistleblower, sacrificed a few figureheads, and pushed Congress to pass a more clearly defined law about domestic spying right from the start.
They would still have secrecy for 90% of their bullshit programs, the administration would get points for working with Congress(and they could put most of the blame on Bush-era decisions and programs), Congress would get a few points for actually doing some work responsive to the public outcry and at least appear to be fulfilling their oversight responsibilities, and the fickle public opinion tide would have easily been manipulated on to the next news cycle.
This is why I rarely give any credence to government conspiracy theorists... If anyone involved in this mess had half a brain for strategy they wouldn't be in this position. They always seem to be just rats in a fancy maze reacting to stimuli with very little forethought on consequences.
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If Kerry/Obama/Clinton told Putin tomorrow that we would shut up about Crimea if they gave us back Snowden, he'd be on a CIA plane within minutes.
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Re: Re: Aus bandwidth
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Aus bandwidth
Given how much media Netflix would be exposing to Aussies for the first time, and the lack of any serious competitors, the market penetration for an official launch there would be huge. Adding something like 30%+ of additional traffic to US-based servers for streaming would rapidly bring the Oceanic ISP's to their knees.
I couldn't even place a guesstimate number on what Netflix would have to pay to offer any kind of reasonable quality of service in that environment, not even counting the new licensing deals for regional content that would have to be sorted out.
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Re: Uh, why are they called trolls?
The file sharing debate has been going on long enough now that anyone who claims otherwise qualifies as a troll in their own right.
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Re: No Such Thing as a Bogus Takedown
You are either willfully being intellectually dishonest about the well-documented history in this area, or just woefully ignorant of the facts. In either case, you should stop taking people's money to handle lawsuits in the IP field until you study up, or just toss your law diploma in the nearest shredder and find work delivering pizza.
A simple search for "bogus DMCA" will return pages and pages of proof refuting your position...
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Re: Old news to me and Mike: his Ivy League "school" was no better.
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Re: What's fair for Microsoft is now Fair for Appl
The iPod is definitely dominant in it's niche, but the alternatives are countless - you yourself have two Sansas, and you can go get a no-name 1 gig player at any drug store for like $19. The choices are out there and thriving, but Apple's product has the features and design the the majority of users appear to prefer. As long as you can take your own music and add it in to your iPod, there is no confilct or leverage being applied. If you don't like shopping at the iTunes store you can buy the cd. Forcing Apple to use the WMA structure is like forcing Sony to make the PS3 play HD-DVD as well as Blu-Ray, which is to say, dumb.
p.s. - you may be able to listen to anything in "a 2 million + dong library" , but i bet they all sound about the same :)
that's gotta be the best typo I've seen this week!
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Re: What's fair for Microsoft is now Fair for Appl
The iPod is definitely dominant in it's niche, but the alternatives are countless - you yourself have two Sansas, and you can go get a no-name 1 gig player at any drug store for like $19. The choices are out there and thriving, but Apple's product has the features and design the the majority of users appear to prefer. As long as you can take your own music and add it in to your iPod, there is no confilct or leverage being applied. If you don't like shopping at the iTunes store you can buy the cd. Forcing Apple to use the WMA structure is like forcing Sony to make the PS3 play HD-DVD as well as Blu-Ray, which is to say, dumb.
p.s. - you may be able to listen to anything in "a 2 million + dong library" , but i bet they all sound about the same :)
that's gotta be the best typo I've seen this week!
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way different
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