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2004/10/26 [Uncategorized] UID:34341 Activity:nil |
10/26 Americans burn U.N. flag http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=41094 |
2004/10/26 [Computer/SW/Languages/Misc] UID:34342 Activity:nil |
10/25 Action movie script for dorks: http://mcsweeneys.net/2004/10/5keane.html |
2004/10/26 [Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Iraq] UID:34343 Activity:high |
10/25 How come no liberal magazine can put this so well? Maybe I really am a Buchananite Conservative: http://www.amconmag.com/2004_10_25/feature.html \_ Buchanan has valid points about WWII. That said, one can not project power in the Middle East from aircraft carriers and repeated threats of enforcement become ineffectual if they aren't backed up with force. Assymetrical warfare necessitated a new strategy. \_ Yes, it's preemptively invade Iraq before the UN inspectors can assess Iraq had no WMDs or WMD programs, without enough troops to win the peace, and then still say that we should have still invaded even knowing what we know today! In the meantime, because of our bungling in Iraq, we possess no credible military threat to Iran or N. Korea as they continue building their nuke capability. Yay! \_ Iraq was a military fuckup based on political considerations, just like Vietnam was; fucking up a military action like that is as reprehensible as lying about your reasons for doing so (or, if you choose, going about it in an incompetent manner--they're both unforgivable.) Getting rid of evil dictators, for whatever reason, is not. -John |
2004/10/26-27 [ERROR, uid:34344, category id '18005#2.7' has no name! , , Politics/Domestic/President/Bush] UID:34344 Activity:low |
10/26 "Stolen Honor" uploaded to /tmp for all those interested. You may have silenced Sinclair but not the motd. \_ All extremist trolling aside, the reason for not showing SH on Sinclair just before the election was that it's propaganda on public airwaves; there's nothing wrong with (and indeed much that's laudable in) giving the general public the option of viewing the film at some private venue (or online). Political speech is well and truly a good thing; it was the time and place that marred the Sinclair plan. \_ I thought they might have been able to get away with it if they at least showed advertising during the showing. With no immediate profit motive, it looked really wierd. \_ Does it bother you at all that Kitty Kelly got 3 full days of free air time to push her anti-Bush book on TV? Was that wrong? \_ Two things. 1) Your whine boils down to "The FACTS are partisan!" and 2) Kitty Kelly is credible, and you'll note her "anti-Bush" factual book has not gotten her sued. Contrast with Carltoon Sherwood left to you, bitch. --aaron |
2004/10/26-27 [Computer/HW/Drives] UID:34345 Activity:kinda low |
10/26 Any experiences with Zalman TNN500A cases? Are they worth the huge gobs of cash they cost? -John \_ Holy crap, that's over $1000 for a case... \_ Have you tried the Antec Sonata case ($100) with Zalman CPU fan and Zalman silent video card cooler? It runs pretty quiet. \_ No, but thanks much for the tip. I have given up on finding an external firewire-attached SATA RAID 5 array; the idea for the Zalman was to have a server with about 6 big disks in it. It's nice & solid too, but that Antec case looks nice. -John \_ Arena |
2004/10/26 [Computer/Companies/Apple] UID:34346 Activity:nil |
10/26 please email me sodans working at apple computer corp. -dpetrou |
2004/10/26 [Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers] UID:34347 Activity:nil |
10/26 is it possible/difficult to create a new toolbar button for firefox? I want the "up" button from the google toolbar back. \_ nevermind I found one. http://extensionroom.mozdev.org/more-info/goup |
2004/10/26 [Politics/Domestic/California, Politics/Domestic/President/Bush] UID:34348 Activity:kinda low |
10/26 Insufficient trolling. Please insert troll to continue. \_ I think all illegal aliens should be shot. What do you think? \_ Would you raise taxes to buy the bullets? \_ Here's a good one from OSC http://www.ornery.org/essays/warwatch/2004-10-17-2.html |
2004/10/26 [Uncategorized] UID:34349 Activity:low |
10/26 John Peel, RIP. \_ Who? \_ Siiiiiiiigh. http://www.nme.com/features/110323.htm |
2004/10/26-27 [Politics/Domestic/Election, Politics/Domestic/RepublicanMedia] UID:34350 Activity:high |
10/26 so i asked earlier what major media outlets have actually endorsed bush this time around, besides the washington times and ny post. I was accidentally watching oreilly last night and he was touching on this topic too, and said that the LA Times and NY Times had shockingly endorsed kerry but that it really didn't matter since no one reads the NY Times. Then I decided ilyas needs to rape oreilly with a falafel. - danh \_ Too squishy. -- ilyas \_ Out of curiosity, dan, any liberal figures you think need to be raped with a falafel? -- ilyas \_ probably that coombs guy just for making everyone look bad - danh \_ Who? \_ I've been watching H&C since they started. I've decided Coombs is actually a really smart guy and is a real liberal but he's also honest and has a good heart so he can't force himself to spit out ridiculous DNC talking points like Hannity does for the RNC. I think he's a good, smart and honest man. \_ I would agree with you, but if he were so good and smart he would quit or get someone combative enough to counteract hannity, or quit in disgust. - danh \_ Most people have bills to pay. It's just a job, not a religion. I think that's the difference between him and, well, I won't slam anyone. I like Coombs even though I disagree with 99% of what he says. \_ Maybe Andrew Cockburn. Naomi Klein also comes to mind. That guy on crossfire, too, for being such a shill. !danh \_ I think the guy on crossfire just plays a liberal on TV. -- ilyas \_ Ilya: Why do you hate liberals? \_ Why do you say 'Why do you hate liberals?'? -- ilyas \_ My suspicion that ilyas is actually an eliza program have been confirmed. \_ Tell me about yermom. -- ilyas \_ Poor ilyas can never tell when he's being baited. \_ This is probably related to having no sense of humor. \_ The LA Times hasn't endorsed any candidate (yet). They have not since 1972, but there is discussion about doing it this year. If he were an honest critic, he would mention the Post endorsement. Maybe he did. \_ Big shock, the LAT is going to endorse Bush! \_ Big shock, the Washington Post and the New Republic both endorsed Kerry! \_ Andrew Sullivan also endorsed Kerry. \_ Big shock! \_ Apparently you know nothing about Sully. \_ That he puts his sex politics above all else? Nothing new there. |
2004/10/26-27 [Politics/Domestic/President/Bush] UID:34351 Activity:low |
10/26 Creepy. Rat brain cells + computer control F-22 simulation http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20041018/brain.html \- ChimpBrain controls world's largest economy and military. --psb http://csua.org/u/9ni \_ You're one post too high troll boy. \_ Is this the real psb? I didn't think he was this brain dead, and he's supposed to end with "ok. tnx". \_ Don't you know, psb is a 'kantian.' \-IAJS,YSTL. --psb \-Hello, ok tnx. |
2004/10/26-27 [Recreation/Computer/Games] UID:34352 Activity:very high |
10/26 I haven't played any computer games in a very very long time. What is a fun game to play in cooperative mode? I'm primarily looking for first person shooter type games, but would be interested to hear alternative suggestions. \_ Bubble Bobble \_ Star Wars Battlefront allows you to play coperatively, and you're part of a massive group effort. It may start to lose appeal in frequent replays, but right now it's a blast. Also, I just bought Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy, and I'm loving it. There's a multi- player version, but I don't know if it's cooperative; if it were, that would be tres sweet. (And why did this get overwritten?) \_ Cooperative mode as in buddies vs AI or buddies vs other players over the internets [sic]? I've had a lot of fun playing BattleField 1942 on the internets [sic] if you find a good server it's a nice teamwork game (4 players per bomber, 4 per battleship, etc.) \_ BF1942 AI is teh suck, don't bother with coop mode against the computer, but yeah, the teamplay is really nice. Have yet to try BF2. -John \_ BF:Vietnam is fairly additive. With the latest patch, you now have maps that have added tunnels and sewers. There is also a mod that updates the BF:1942 maps to the newer engine with is very fun. Another game thats fun multiplayer is Unreal Tournament 2004 in Onslaught mode. -rollee \_ If the last LAN co-op you played was Serious Sam 2, you haven't missed anything. Not much else. For online team v team co-op, CounterStrike: Source is fun. Unreal Tournament looks fun against bots, but it looks too twitchy to me. There is an Aliens UT mod strictly against the AI, kinda fun. \_ The last good co-op game I played was doom2, haha -!op \_ I've heard co-op in Halo is great (on xbox--co-op isn't available on the PC port). \_ MMOs like world of warcraft are good for coop play. It's required really, to avoid some of the tedious stuff. Still takes too long to play though. \_ Is WOW out yet? \_ Not yet. Will be in open beta soon, I suspect. -geordan \_ Alpha bastard. -- ilyas \_ I know. -geordan \_ MMOs are a niche market, imho. -- ilyas \_ how do you figure? they have many millions of users among them and make lots of money. \_ Well, lots of koreans and japanese play. A typical American kid/teenager/young adult doesn't strike me as a MMO type. *shrug*. MMOs are built on timesinks and 'character-building-as-work.' I don't think that sort of fun is very widespread in American culture. -- ilyas \_ Your suppositions are belied by the facts: http://www.nickyee.com/daedalus/archives/000194.php \_ Wtf? I am well aware of MMO demographics. What does that have to do with my assertion that most young people will not play everquest? How many subscribers do you think everquest has? Do you understand the difference between 'most people who play everquest are young males' and 'most young males do not play everquest'? -- ilyas \_ Don't bring logic to a video game discussion. \_ Video games are still basically a geek thing in the popular culture. But would you consider Diablo a niche market? MMOs have a lot wider appeal than that with some of the same timewasting dynamics. \_ Diablo is much more accessible than a typical MMO. I think Diablo is pretty mainstream. It's about as close to mainstream as an RPG will come. -- ilyas \_ Well I've only tried WoW but based on that you're just wrong. I've seen a lot of interest from young males (again, only a certain class of them even play PC games and a further subset stray from the FPS genre). WoW is very comparable to Diablo in basic "get quest, go kill stuff, keep upgrading weapons/armor/skills" gameplay. The combat is slower paced and doesn't have the action-game aspect of Diablo (frantically clicking and running around). It's just a far more rich game world, and has more to do besides just constant combat. The social aspect is something you can't find in regular games and appeals to a lot of people. The Sims is the best seller and doesn't try to target the teenage boy demographic, which Diablo was all about. \_ Blizzard is a good company, and WoW is a good game. If any MMO has a chance at 'mainstream status,' WoW is it. I don't think it will reach it in the US, simply because most US gamers aren't really into these kinds of RPGs. Anyways, this entire thread is strung out on dorkosterone. I am stopping, before someone trolls me into a long rant about MMO design, that I will later regret. Guildwars is more likely to be mainstream than WoW, I think. -- ilyas \_ fwiw I don't plan to buy WoW and only played a few days. just takes too much time to do anything. Playing in teams is fun but you have to play long periods to make the most of that and find a good group. Or if you make friends in the game you have to keep up with them and regularly stay in touch. I have a real life to attend to thanks. It could work by scheduling times with a friend so you keep in sync. Going solo is unrewarding and the game punishes it. |
2004/10/26 [Politics] UID:34353 Activity:moderate |
10/26 Since yesterday's doonesbury link was deleted, here's a somewhat more humorous one: http://doonesbury.com/strip/dailydose/index.html \_ I don't delete comic links but I don't see a point in posting well known ones like doonesbury. He has a known and very clear perspective that some like and others don't. His fan base is static because he already has every reader he's going to get. \_ Very true, but yesterday's deleted post was specifically about that weird bulge, and how it's starting to get mainstream attention. I wouldn't post it otherwise. |
2004/10/26 [Politics/Domestic/Election, Politics/Domestic/President/Bush] UID:34354 Activity:high |
10/26 BoingBoing has a list of news organizations that typically stay away from political endorsements (or otherwise would predictably be in the Bush camp) that are currently endorsing Kerry: http://www.boingboing.net/2004/10/26/boingboing_endorses_.html \_ My favorite are when they advertise articles from anti-Bush conservatives but when you read closely and look up the authors they're all card carrying libertarians. I got a big kick out of the Cato Institutate article that Salon posted in full for free because they felt the message was "so important". |
2004/10/26 [Politics/Domestic/California, Politics/Domestic/President/Bush] UID:34355 Activity:high |
10/26 Why are you a Democrat? Why are you a Republican? What is the top reason you belong to either party? \_ I am independent but I hate Democrats because they want to decide everything for you, except what happens in the bedroom. \_ I am a democrat for exactly one reason: George W. Bush. I was always an independent before. \_ Yes, I am precisely democrat for the same reason. I was pretty neutral before, but GWB truely showed me what Republicans are made of. \_ I wouldn't go that far. If anything, i've become much more willing to listen to moderate republicans over the last four years, and I have in fact found that I have far more in common with them than I would have thought. It's just that one man, and some of his more wingnut cabinet members. \_ You are right, it is also men like Tom Delay and Bill First. The moderates are totally cowed by the extreme wing of the party, and until that changes there is no moderate republican party. \_ I'm a Democrat because I want to work within the system to improve it. The Republican Party is full of assholes who justify their beliefs and actions with survival of the fittest - and who wants to party with people like that? If Republicans were just about smaller government and having a safety net for the poor without this asshole attitude and the derived characteristics, I'd probably be a Republican. Why not just be an independent? You can always vote for the other guy or criticize other Democrats as a Democrat. \_ Independents get no say in the primaries. \_ I grew up poor, and I believe in the "democrat" policies that helped poor families like mine and now my family is pretty well off. I don't mind paying more taxes to paybackk for the government services I received in school like financial aid. I am democrat. \_ I am democrat because I hate Republicans. They tend to be arrogant and have no respect for other people. \_ Nice troll! \_ http://www.slate.com/id/2108561 \_ I am a Republican because I am stupid and evil. Once, a long time ago, I was smart and good and a Democrat just like you. \_ I was ignorant and blandly neutral until I came to Cal. After a few years of seeing the left completely unfiltered, I found them deeply intellectually dishonest, hostile, angry, mean, bitter, and unworthy of serious consideration. I vote Republican because they're the other major party and I've never met Republicans as vicious and mean spirited as the left I met at Cal. \_ I didn't have this experience when I attended 92-97, but I would say (like Affirmative Action by Any Means Necessary) they're just stupid liberals, and stupidity is common to both parties, and to independents as well. I would actually say my experience (during Cal and since Cal) has actually been the opposite of yours. -liberal \_ I have the impression that states tend to be more strongly polarized Repulican or Democratic. What are the top R and D states? Do R or D states tend to do better (not in the fun-to- live-in sense, but in the fiscal/crime/social services/education sense)? CA is pretty screwed up. Is the equivalent Republican state (TX?) equally screwed up? Does anyone know of relevant research? \_ I realize this is not exactly what you're talking about, but it's interesting: http://www.bea.gov/bea/regional/gspmap/mappage.asp Blue states have higher per capita state domestic product. If you broke it down by county, I think you'd see something much more dramatic. When you actually look at the numbers, it's the republicans who are the non-productive welfare whores. Just look at the water projects in the western states. \_ Do you really need to ask motd? \_ Most D states are along the coasts. R states are anywhere in between. You be the judge. \_ You don't know either, huh? \_ What you have to understand is that there are really three American political parties, the Republicans, Democrats and Appropriators (to quote Dick Armey and Trent Lott). Most Dems are Appropriators, and alot of Repubs (RINOs) are also. The fiscal discipline (and other successes) of the 1990s resulted when the small government conservative contingent of Congress was able briefly take control in the 1994 elections, aka the Contract with America. After Newt left, Congress slowly returned to normal, although with a different letter in charge. \_ Fine. The question remains though. Which states are doing better? Is TX as screwed up as CA? Is NY as screwed up as GA? |
2004/10/26 [Recreation/Dating] UID:34356 Activity:high |
10/26 What's with this constant "my wife...." on Soda? This is the CSUA for crying out loud. If you want to brag about the fact you have a gf/wife, remember this, "A man is never complete until he gets married, he is then finished!" Hahaha. -lonely sodan. \_ I agree, enough about this "my wife blabla" shit. No offense to anyone, but bragging about your wife is not welcome here. \_ Well, if you live with someone and spend most of your spare time with them, it can be difficult not to mention them. Would you find it less offensive if we said "roommate", like gay couples do when introducing their S/O to their asshole conservative relatives? \_ I haven't seen anyone "bragging" about a wife. What's your problem? \_ I wouldn't attack op like this myself, but I am curious what has upset him. Could sb post a reference to a particularly offending post or posts? Myself, I want to know whatever happened to bdg. \_ Trust me, your joke is accurate. If you had a wife, you'd know that mentioning her in a post is not bragging; it's more like a cry for help or for commiseration. \_ BDG, is that you?! --BDG #3 fan \_ I'd say I am the BMG, but then every married guy is a BMG... \_ My wife and I don't see anything wrong with mentioning a wife if it is in context. What does your wife think about it? Having a wife isn't "bragging". It is a legal and social state that you'll never find yourself in as long as you see a wife as an ownership object and not a person you're sharing your life with. Why would anyone want to share their life with a bitter person? \_ Misery loves company. \_ My wife says you're a moron. \_ The wife part just makes the motd looks like some place that old people hang out. We need more talks about how to get girls, not my wife this and my wife that. |
2004/10/26-27 [Politics/Domestic/California] UID:34357 Activity:nil |
10/26 Just to get away from the presidential trolling, what do people think of Prop 1A? The counter arguments in my voter guide just talk about lack of oversight for how the money is used, but I don't really see how that applies to normal general use tax funds. motd, Yea or Nay? \_ When in *any* doubt I vote "nay" on everything. |
2004/10/26 [ERROR, uid:34358, category id '18005#8.67931' has no name! , , Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Iraq] UID:34358 Activity:nil |
10/26 <DEAD>www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6323933<DEAD> (NBC News, dated today) "At the Pentagon, an official who monitors developments in Iraq said U.S.-led coalition troops had searched Al-Qaqaa in the immediate aftermath of the March 2003 invasion and confirmed that the explosives, which had been under IAEA seal since 1991, were intact. The site was not secured by U.S. forces, the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity. ... Mohammed J. Abbas, a senior official at Iraq's Ministry of Science and Technology, reporting the theft of the explosives. The materials were lost through 'the theft and looting of the governmental installations due to lack of security,' the letter said. The letter informed the IAEA that since Sept. 4, 2003, looting at Al-Qaqaa had resulted in the loss of 214.67 tons of HMX, 155.68 tons of RDX and 6.39 tons of PETN explosives. It was not clear how Iraqi authorities arrived at that date." "Reporter Lai Ling Jew ... embedded ... 'There wasn't a search ... The mission that the brigade had was to get to Baghdad. That was more of a pit stop there for us. And, you know, the searching, I mean certainly some of the soldiers headed off on their own, looked through the bunkers just to look at the vast amount of ordnance lying around. But as far as we could tell, there was no move to secure the weapons nothing to keep looters away.'" \_ Woops, once again NYtimes and CBS are exposed as frauds http://www.dailyrecycler.com/blog/2004/10/nytrogate.html \_ I can't tell if you are being ironic or not, please help me. - danh \_ "Cliff May over at the Corner writes ... Sent to me by a source in the government: 'The Iraqi explosives story is a fraud. These weapons were not there when US troops went to this site in 2003. ...'" Uh, I think "government source" just saw the first NBC News article (incorrectly reporting HMX/RDX as already missing) and echoed that. |
2004/10/26 [Politics/Domestic/President/Bush, Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Iraq] UID:34359 Activity:nil |
10/26 Media Watchdog: 'October Surprise' Blows Up in Faces of NY Times NyTimes pulls a CBS http://csua.org/u/9no \_ "Cybercast News Service"? Whoizzat? \_ right-wing news outlet. Media Research Center is a right-wing source as well. You better believe the right-wing is spinning this as much as they can: Dubya lost 380 tons of HMX and RDX (not just artillery shells and general-use explosives) at a site we knew about and that the IAEA explicitly warned the U.S. about before the invasion ("hey dumbshits, don't forget about the Al-Qaqaa site with the stuff that can start a fissile reaction"). \_ Uhh, it is becoming increasingly clear that the NBC story was wrong. The troops were jsut there for a resting stop and no inspections were done. If there were 380 TONS of high explosives taken from the facility in the month leading up to the start of the war don't you think people would have known? I mean shit you don't think we had every single satalite we could looking at places like MAJOR AMMO DUMPS. you can spin away but it might be better if you jsut faced facts for once. There was NO postwar planning. Bush and co really thought that the iraqis would rush to love us and everythin would be wonderful. The fact that they are still refusing to admit their mistakes is leading to disaster after disaster in Iraq. \_ Like the Bush ANG memos eh? I should just believe the 'facts', as in whatever the Jayson Blair says is a fact. \_ NBC pulled the story. Get a grip. \_ Uh, hardly any of the oil refineries were affected during the same time period, unlike Al-Qaqaa; the "it was gone before we got there" excuse is incredibly stupid. \_ Of course it was gone before we got there. If you take your sweet ass time guarding sites other than the oil ministry it gives the bad guys plenty of time to steal explosives. The only alternative "It was stolen right under our noses" makes no sense because if you actually assigned people to guard the stuff nobody could have simply waltzed off for it. Saying "It was gone before we got there" is a bit like saying "Things are always in the last place you look". \_ Uh, it was last seen before the war, like 5 years before. Do you have any clue about this story at all? Let's blame Bush for the missing gas Saddam used on the Kurds. After all, it could have been there JUST before the Americans got there... \_ What was last seen before the war, like 5 years before? Are you talking about the RDX and HMX at Al-Qaqaa? \_ No it was last seen shortly before gulf war 2. There were inspectors in iraq shortly before the US told them to bug out because war was coming. This was one of the sites they had under inspection. |
2004/10/26 [Politics/Domestic/Election] UID:34360 Activity:nil |
10/26 Discovered papers: Hanoi directed Kerry http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=41106 \_ Yes, but what is Weekly World News' take on the story? \_ KERRY IS A SPACE ALIEN! \_ ALIENS ARE TAKING ORDERS FROM THE COMMIES! \_ WWN >> WND |
2004/10/26 [Recreation/Computer/Games] UID:34361 Activity:moderate |
10/26 PC Computer Games? Xbox? PS2? \_ Context? \_ what do you prefer to play/buy. \_ PC. I like turn-based strategy games which are few and far between on consoles, and for non-action games, keyboard+mouse input is really nice to have. \_ Nectaris: military madness is an awesome PS1 turn-based strategy game. \_ Gamecube. My favorite system for get-togethers, with the most fun 4-player games (Super Smash Bros Melee, Mario Kart, etc) \_ gamecube = teh gay \_ whoops. sorry. lemme go back to my games where i blow shit up and endlessly accumulate frags. \_ You've been baited -troll \_ Donkey Konga! |
2004/10/26-27 [Consumer/Audio] UID:34362 Activity:nil |
10/26 Might be lost amidst the hype over ipod photo and ipod U2, but the new iTunes can locate duplicated music files and optionally delete them. I think about 50% of my music files are duplicates. \_ Oh, fuck this... it's just name id3 tag matching. I want MD5 hashes (with and without consideration for id3/meta data) and heuristics for determining how close a song is to a duplicate. |
2004/10/26-27 [Computer/SW/OS/FreeBSD] UID:34363 Activity:nil |
10/26 I need a few standard icons for a small web app I'm doing (up/down arrows, +/-, that sort of thing). Is there some sort of BSD-licensed collection of these online? \_ I'd just find some BSD app with ones you like and rip-off theirs. When I needed something along these lines I just spent an hour or so in an image editing program using simple geometry tools. Also, have you considered just using the icons from Apache (which has a BSD-style license)? |
2004/10/26-27 [Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Israel] UID:34364 Activity:nil |
10/26 Knesset approves Sharon plan to yank out the settlers: http://csua.org/u/9nr (Bloomberg) |
2004/10/26-27 [Politics/Domestic/Election, Politics/Domestic/President/Bush] UID:34365 Activity:very high |
10/26 So now that almost every major newspaper has endorsed Kerry does this prove the notion of a liberal media? Why would newspapers controlled by mega-national corporations throw in with Kerry? \_ No, and because Bush is a radical. \_ Dude! I totally agree! Bush is gnarly! \_ If you're not trolling, you may wish to look up the word 'radical' \_ Try googling "define:joke" \_ This will be only the 3rd time that the democrat presidential candidate has had more endorsements from newspapers than the republican, since Editor and Publisher magazine started tracking them in 1940 (the other two were Johnson in 1964 and Clinton in 1992). At least 35 papers that endorsed Bush in 2000 are endorsing Kerry this time, while only four who endorsed Gore are endorsing Bush. And this is despite a tendency of papers to endorse sticking with incumbents. So no, it doesn't "prove the notion of a liberal media," it helps demonstrate just how terrible Bush has been. \_ Nooo! Do not you bring your facts here! They are not compatible with my blind partisan indoctrination!!! -op \_ Question: if Bush wins, does that mean the print media is out of the mainstream? Shouldn't the paper endorsements roughly follow the country's nearly-even split? \_ Yes. No, unless you want the papers to tell the people what they already think. \_ BZZZT! on point 2. These are editorial opinions. If the newspaper people are "just like the rest of us" then they should have roughly the same opinion split. Unless of course you feel newspaper people are somehow more enlightened and posses superior intellect and moral status. If you believe that you haven't met enough newspaper people. \_ newspaper editors have significantly more education than the general population, and also pay more attention to the news; therefore they should, on average, have "better" opinions than the median American. -tom \_ Am I the only one who sees a certain circularity to this argument? \_ No, it's just a tom thing. At least he's honest about his mistaken belief that newspaper people are better than the rest of us. \_ What is mistaken about my belief? Specifically, I think newspaper editors have more education and pay more attention to the news than the median American. I think they are more likely to know Kerry's and Bush's positions on the issues, for example. I don't think they are "better"; they just have a more educated and informed opinion than the general population. The same is probably true of computer programmers. -tom \_ Here tom, let me spell it out for you. Newspaper editors help create the news we see. Therefore, when the editors 'pay attention to the news' as you say, they are paying attention to something that other newspaper editors helped create. There is a circularity in this system. \_ I gave a specific example; I think newspaper editors are more likely to know what Bush and Kerry's positions on the issues really are. I don't have a poll of newspaper editors to show you, but there are a number which show that the American public has no fucking clue. -tom \_ You guys should be arguing specifics, say, the Washington Post. I don't think you'll get anywhere talking about "newspaper editors" and "the median American", apart from irritating each other. \_ Link? Which papers? I don't care about the Podunk Review in Lincoln, Nebraska. I disagree with the definition of 'major' below but certainly it is not so wide as to have 35 papers flipflop. I am not sure the universe includes 35 papers. \_ You should care about the Podunk Review. Millions of people read the PR across America and take it seriously. \_ http://csua.org/u/9nv [editorandpublisher] \_ Thanks. So what do you think a reasonable cut-off for circulation is? \_ Since the circulation numbers are being rigged (they're outright fabrivations to boost ad dollars), it doesn't outright fabrications to boost ad dollars), it doesn't make sense to have a circulation based cut-off. \_ The alternative? I imagine they are 'rigged' equally. Only relative size matters, not absolutes. \_ Why do you imagine all newspapers are equally criminal? But let's follow your reasoning anyway: a newspaper with a real 100,000 readers inflates by 10%, another one with 1,000,000 readers inflates by 10%. The first has created 10k non-existing people, the second has created 100k. \_ Uh, so? The idea is to identify the largest papers, not to guess at their actual circulation. \_ Your "universe" is small and tiny, as yermom described among other things. \_ Even if we grant that newspaper people may know better what each candidate's beliefs and policies are (which I still dispute but enough on that), to know more about a topic is not the same as being correct about ones conclusions on that topic. Having knowledge does not make one's opinion more "right". Don't confuse raw fact oriented knowledge with wisdom. \_ The major newspapers are: The Washington Post, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, USA Today, and the Wall Street Journal. (the latter three have not made an endorsement) \_ Don't forget The San Francisco Examiner and the Washington Times. \_ These are tier 2 or lower, along with: the Chicago Tribune, the Boston Globe, and all the other newspapers. \_ Tribune owns the LA Times. \_ These aren't even second tier. Neither one is in the top 100 papers in the country by circulation. \_ The Washington *Times* has endorsed Kerry? Seriously? \_ Follow the sub-thread, please! The topic is: Identifying the major newspapers. \_ funny, how most of these majors also called Kerry a crackpot for making a link between Iran/Contra and CIA cocaine trading, and after the CIA said it was true years later, put the news well behind the front page. irony. \_ What are you talking about? The CIA has never admitted links to cocaine trafficking. \_ CIA Inspector General Fred Hitz admitted that "there are instances where the CIA did not, in an expeditious or consistent fashion, cut off relations with individuals supporting the contra program who were alleged to have engaged in drug trafficking activity." \_ Which is nothing like, "The CIA engaged in the cocaine trade to fund secret off-book programs" which is what the original accusation is about. The Cold War was a dirty fight for survival. The CIA existed to do exactly that sort of dirty work and deal with those sorts of people. Lesser of two evils and all that. \_ Shrug. The original thread was about how Kerry was not off his rocker about there being a link. It also directs evidence against the guy who wrote "What are you talking about? The CIA has never admitted links to cocaine trafficking". \_ A "link"? Of course there was "a link". That is who the CIA was created to deal with, duh. Did you really prefer the Carter version of Cold War intel where the CIA wasn't supposed to talk to "bad people"? You're still mixing two different issues: a "link" vs "selling" cocaine. A "link" is meaningless FUD. \_ You're off-topic, sodan. The comment was directed toward the "CIA never admitted" guy. \_ Isn't it obvious by now... based on Sandy Berger, Jayson Blair, ANG Memos, SVFT, Kerry's post war activities and now this 'missing explosives' fraud?? \_ I can't see all that through the bottom of my kool aid glass. \_ When the media pushes Kerry as hard to sign Form 180 as they beat up Bush over his military records, I'll believe they're something other than partisan left wing hacks. When they tell us about Kerry meeting Madame Binh in Paris while still an active duty officer for the US military, I'll believe. When they say they're sorry and they fucked up with the bogus Bush documents instead of spinning it into some bullshit "false but accurate" which only an extreme leftish partisan finds acceptable, I'll believe. When they stop write large print headlines in response to positive Bush admin job news that say, "BONDS DROP ON JOBS REPORT!", I'll believe. The list goes on, but my fingers are getting sore. You get the idea. \_ It's hard work. I know how hard it is. \_ Yes, being an honest and unbiased media person is hard work. Our mainstream media has failed miserably. Mostly, because they're not even trying. \_ Bush still has not signed his form 180 and Bush documents are still leaking out. \_ Thank you for making my point. The media has bashed the shit out of Bush on this issue but has completely ignored it in Kerry's case. In trying to attack Bush you have made my point on this thread's topic which is about the biased Media. \- Does anybody know how many papers that endorsed BUSH2000 are endorsing KERRY04. Are there any papers that endorsed ALGOR who are now endorsing BUSH? Even 1? [chicago?] --psb \_ There are about 37 switches for kerry. i can't remember how many for bush. one of the links above has the totals. http://csua.org/u/9nv --scotsman http://csua.org/u/9nv Better: http://csua.org/u/9o7 --scotsman \_ The Denver Post endorsed Gore and is endorsing Bush. There are two others. \_ Fortunately, the people decide, not newspaper editors in this country. Endorsements will carry little weight as most papers have a bias which leads to readship which shares that bias. The SF Chron wouldn't survive in OC, for example. The OC Register wouldn't make it in SF. \_ you don't think nazi sympathizing and union busting would play in OC? The SF Chron recently fired a reporter for attending an anti-war rally; they are not any kind of liberal bastion. -tom |
2004/10/26-27 [Reference/Military, Politics/Domestic/Crime, Politics/Domestic/911] UID:34366 Activity:high |
10/26 Awesome. Children's puppet show encourages massacre. http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=41091 \_ I love You, You love me We'll murder the Zionist Enemy... \_ that's hilarious, sad it's true.. sheesh.. \_ If your livelihood was an olive grove, maybe you'd want to shoot the people ripping it out. \_ Oh please. Did you catch the palestinians were using the trees to hide rocket launchers? \_ I knew that, but the people firing rockets from olive groves are not the same people who live/work there. The Israeli Army's distinct lack of sympathy for innocent farmers is not exactly winning them friends. \_ And how would you suggest an army deal with this situation? Ask them to stop? \_ Look, if they feel the need to destroy an olive grove for security reasons, that's OK, but you need to pay them a fair-market price if you're going to take away their means of earning a living. From what I've heard they just send in the buldozers and say 'tough shit'. \_ Did you know that if the police destroy your property while pursuing a suspect, etc. they are not liable for damages? Sounds like you don't know much about established law. \_ From what you've heard? Still reading dailykos? Or is that the PLO website? \_ Wow, the governments on your planet must be really fucking cool. Could you kindly cite an actual example of any existing government compensating individuals (in this case non-citizens!) for property destroyed/seized for security reasons within a reasonable timeframe following the destruction/seizure? \_ The US Army routinely reimburses non-citizens for property damage incurred during training. I know this for a fact, since I saw it happen in Panama. -Vet \_ I am unaware of any police department deciding they are in the business of punishing people, that is a matter for our correctional system. \_ If the army flattened your house while persuing terrorists in this country, you would probably be reimbursed but it isn't guaranteed. If your property was being used to hide weapons and you didn't report it and the military destroyed your house, tough shit. \_ Actually, you probably wouldn't be reimbursed, even in the case where you were just an innocent bystander. \_ There's no need to speak hypothetically here. One word: Waco. \_ But they were religious nutters so they don't have any rights. Just because Reno could have had Koresh picked up in town when he made shopping trips, usually alone, twice a week. \_ yea, easy for you to say. report it, and the next day, you will be killed by those bastards for "collaborating with the enemy". |
2004/10/26-27 [Politics/Domestic/Election] UID:34367 Activity:insanely high |
10/26 Lawrence O'Donell exposes O'Neill of SVFT as a liar. This must be what the media means when it says these guys have been discredited. http://64.91.230.181/~recycler/videos/windbag.WMV \_ Well O'Donell is also the guy who has stated he doesn't care if troops in Iraq become demoralized, that they should shut up. \_ This sounds like either a quote taken out of context, or a very liberal paraphrase. Do you have a URL or decent news source showing the quote and its surrounding context? Honestly, both of those gentlemen strike me as partisan mouthpieces furthering The Party's agenda with, at best, coincidental regard for the truth. \_ "MR. O'DONNELL: Look, it's not our job to lie about war to make troops feel good. And I don't care what they feel." "MR. O'DONNELL: I don't care if they're demoralized. They have to go to war and be prepared ..." \_ gee I wonder why you didn't provide the context. -tom \_ It's a McLauglin group transcript.. search for it, I don't want to corrupt you with the link I'd give. \_ what's so bad about http://www.mclaughlin.com/library/transcript.asp?id=434? All he's saying is that you can't bury your head in the sand and squash all debate about whether the war is a good idea, just because you need to "support the troops." Lying about the war doesn't support the troops. -tom \_ True, lying about the war doesn't support the troops. Write a letter. Ask your media to tell us both the good and the bad, not just the bad. \_ This is yucky, and really proves nothing -- aside from the fact that both sides are pretty passionate. \_ Well O'Donell is also the guy who has stated he doesn't care if troops in Iraq become demoralized, that they should shut up. \_ This sounds like either a quote taken out of context, or a very liberal paraphrase. Do you have a URL or decent news source showing the quote and its surrounding context? Honestly, both of those gentlemen strike me as partisan mouthpieces furthering The Party's agenda with, at best, coincidental regard for the truth. \_ "MR. O'DONNELL: Look, it's not our job to lie about war to make troops feel good. And I don't care what they feel." "MR. O'DONNELL: I don't care if they're demoralized. They have to go to war and be prepared ..." \_ gee I wonder why you didn't provide the context. -tom \_ It's a McLauglin group transcript.. search for it, I don't want to corrupt you with the link I'd give. \_ what's so bad about http://www.mclaughlin.com/library/transcript.asp?id=434? All he's saying is that you can't bury your head in the sand and squash all debate about whether the war is a good idea, just because you need to "support the troops." Lying about the war doesn't support the troops. -tom \_ Wow. That O'Donnell is a fruitcake. When someone talks over his opponent, it pretty much proves to me that he doesn't know what he's talking about. \_ Shrug. It suggests to me that the guy is too emotional at the time to make a reasoned argument, unless he does it all the time. \-Hmmmmm ... ok, I sort of agree LO'D went a little nuts there, but your characterization of his comments on McL Groups is preposterous [I saw the show]. If anything I think Bush's comment during the 3rd debate: BUSH: The best way to take the pressure off our troops is to succeed in Iraq. is more incoherent and insensitive. That comment is also in line with his view "it's not a draft if we dont call it a draft". The troops are not demoralized because of Kerry suggesting Iraq has bogged down, or has suggested our allies are few and far between, but because they are being kept there longer than promised and are being blown up. To be a little more charitable than LO'D: you are either a liar or stupid. --psb \_ The military vote is roughly 80% for Bush, that should \- what %age of teachers vote for the "education president" ? \_ wrong question. "what %age of parents vote for the education president?" is what you're looking for. \- the military is the group paid to deliver "national security" ... everyone is a comsumer of national security. similarly parents are the consumers of ecucation, not the agents to deliver it. anyway, my point was that military number doesnt mean much. --psb \_ That's fine about the military number. My point about parents still stands. I don't care in particular if teachers like/dislike the president as a block. They're a left wing union group. I do care if parents are happy with the education system. They are not an organised political block. Parents are real people, not an axe grinding PAC. tell you something. The military is especially cognizant that Kerry, in his antiwar antics and petitioning to completey abandon Saigon, is a traitor. You can not sign on to war and then say, 'oh that's not what I really intended' - its a complete disgrace and is not behavior befitting a CIC.Exactly which allies are you pining about? The French, who in GWI sent an aircraft carrier with no planes? \- i am not pining for any allies. i think the un and the rest of the world fairly reasonably see this as america's mess to clean up. if a serviceman feels he can never forgive kerry for his antiwar activities after vietnam i think that is reasonable enough, just like i think people are entitled to have been anti-clinton on the grounds he was a draft-dodger who also cheated on his wife. i just think it is odd they are not equally disgusted with a coke addled rich kid who used family connections to not even set foot "in country". --psb \_ You were ok until the last line. At that point you became "false, but accurate" as CBS would say. \_ Could you post a URL for that 80%? All I found was this: <DEAD>www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5964655<DEAD> which gives 57% Rep among soldiers, in general (I think) and 66% Rep among officers. Those show a stronger lean than the country at large but far from 80%. The same article also mentions that "Rep officers outnumber their enlisted counterparts 9:1" according to "surveys" (no source given) -- ulysses \_ Why do Cons love to go over and over how they have "the military vote"? Do soldiers count for more vote or something? I think it is an implicit coup threat, personally. If we have another Florida 2000 on our hands, do you plan on calling out the troops to enforce election results when half the country goes ballistic? \_ Coup threat? Damn, dude, stop eating tinfoil! You're supposed to wear it on your head. It is not a food product. \_ Why do Libs love to go over and over how they have the "insert random small demographic here" vote? Does "random small demographic" count for more vote or something? The point is the military is just another of those demographics. There isn't a plot. Stop eating tinfoil. Wear it on your head for safety. \_ You see, I remember a time when two people on a news show would not shout over each other, when a moderator would not put up with such behavior, when guests would not hog the mic, when longwinded discourse actually lost you credibility, and when the integrity and logic of your argument counted for more than the volume of your voice. When did we agree to accept the opposite? \_ When ratings went up with all the yelling on certain shows. I agree they've gone way too far and I see it swinging back the other way now. \_ God, I hope you're right. |
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10/26 apple corp employees, please send me an email. -dpetrou \_ why should they? \_ Because King David has decreed it. MOTD rules do not apply. |
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10/26 estupid request for $company employees deleted until further explanation produced. |
2004/10/26-27 [ERROR, uid:34370, category id '18005#6.21875' has no name! , ] UID:34370 Activity:nil |
10/26 Litigate the vote 2004! http://www.kron4.com/Global/story.asp?S=2456879 |
2004/10/26-27 [Politics/Domestic/President/Bush, Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Iraq] UID:34371 Activity:moderate |
10/26 Majority of Bush supporters believe things that simply are not true: http://www.pipa.org \_ http://Pipa.org? \_ Being a Bush supported would have to mean you at least partially believe that "Bush is a good President", so you're already in a world of make-believe! |
2004/10/26-27 [Politics/Domestic/Election, Politics/Domestic/President/Bush] UID:34372 Activity:very high |
10/26 http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/24/politics/campaign/24points.html (username / pw = bobbob) Mr. Bush's score on the Air Force Officer Qualifying Test at age 22 again suggests that his I.Q was the mid-120's, putting Mr. Bush in about the 95th percentile of the population, according to Mr. Sailer. Mr. Kerry's I.Q. was about 120, in the 91st percentile, according to Mr. Sailer's extrapolation of his score at age 22 on the Navy Officer Qualification Test. \_ The difference is that Kerry didn't spend his 20s and 30s doing blow. \_ That explains a lot. :-P \_ Boy, it sure is a good thing that IQ tests and ratings are such a meaningful and credible measure of an individual's intelligence. I'm glad I can estimate either candidate's intellectual fiber based on this decisive piece of information. -John \_ Whoops, there's a small problem here. Gottfredson, the psych. prof. who made the correlation, took the candidates' rankings on their respective Officer Qualifying Tests and directly correlated those ranks to IQ tests. Since Bush was in the 95th percentile of his class for the AFQT, Gottfredson extrapolated that he had an IQ of corresponding rank. However, the 1960s AFQT, like the ASVAB, was an aptitude test, not an IQ test. Drawing correlations between the two is more like comparing Fujis to Grannies than apples to oranges, but it's still prone to significant errors. What the AFQT does tell us, however, is that GWB is not a moron, but Bush-watchers already knew that; he's much too cunning to misunderestimate. \_ psb said Bush was a ChimpBrain. Surely, the great psb was not wrong. You have a fault in your reasoning somewhere. \- When Bush first emerged on the scene, I thought he looked like Alfred E. Newman. I have since decided he looks more like a Chimp. I do not believe he is an especially bright fellow, but I also dont believe most people are especially bright. I agree that he is smarter than a lot of the people who call him an idiot ... same goes for Rush Limbaugh. Most of the people calling them idiots could not give a 30min talk and a fair number of them probably could not tell you who Francois Mitterand was. Of the presidents since 1980, Bill Clinton is the only one I would call "really smart". BUSH's and RUSH have serious character defects but they arent idiots [which doesnt make them geniuses either]. It's actually fun to ask people ranting about how dumb Bush is "do you think he is dumber than <name some dull acquaintance>". As I asked on wall previously, "who would you rather have as president: bush or saarp?" --psb \-BTW, I also think intellectual curiosity counts for a lot. A friend of mine at Berkeley who used to get A+ in upper div physics classes [including from people like Steiner, if that means anything to you] once said "I thought Cambodia was in Africa ... because that is where all the starving people are." This guy was a genius when it came to physics problem sets but you dont want him running the world. I am not sure I want somebody who says "jesus is my favorite philosopher" or "sovereignty is sovereignty" running much of the planet. Yes, I know Bush understand legislative nuance and is being disingenuous with comments like "he voted for/against it". Yes I agree not one person in 50 who laughed at the sovereignty comment could have defined sovereignty. --psb \_ Wait, not being a moron somehow equates to not being a chimp- brain? Being smart is no defense against being wrong and morally bankrupt (cf. Richard Cheney). \_ I'm confused. I keep hearing Bush is stupid and incompetent. If so, how did he get the Whitehouse, is ahead in polls for a second term, foll John Kerry and others into voting for the war, fool millions of Americans and the media on a continuous basis and pack the supreme court with right wing partisans? \_ You *are* confused, but it has nothing to do with the fallacious "points" you bring up. \_ Could you please explain? Thank you. \_ Sure. You believe that getting into the White House, maintaining a good approval rating, and lying to a bunch of Senators about how he's only going to use war as a last resort somehow requires intelligence and the ability to be a good President. It doesn't. You can do much the same with a well-oiled political machine, a popular tough-guy image, and a heaping serving of arrogance and bravado. That's where you're confused. You're welcome. \_ Hey confused boy: Dubya delivered his GOP convention speech very well, spreading the gap as much as 51% Dubya, 39% Kerry. Yet, he looked like a total d00f during the debates, especially debate 1. Therein will you find your answer. \_ Who would win in a debate between W and PSB? \_ That's easy, PSB would just get thrown in Gitmo. As for "foll [sic] Kerry ... into voting for the war", Kerry voted for war authority, not for war. Purportedly only the President has the best intelligence and perspective to make the final call to take the country to war. Let me remind you that the Senate never saw conflicting reports on aluminum tubes from the Energy department, unlike the President. \_ Kerry wouldn't have seen any reports anyway since he hardly ever showed at any Senate Intelligence meetings. \_ Now I'm reaaaally confused. Since the polls you're implicitly citing changed their voter mix calculations at the same time as the debates and I keep reading that the polls don't mean anything anyway, at least when GWB is up. Please help! \_ Where do you keep reading this? Certainly not on the motd. Wherever you keep going to read misinformation, stop it. \_ It's standard (D) spin. I watch the news shows, I see the Kerry people saying the polls don't matter. The Kerry campaign is my source of misinformation. |
2004/10/26-27 [Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Iraq] UID:34373 Activity:high |
10/26 Woops http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/04/04/iraq/main547667.shtml \_ I read it... didn't get it. What's noteworthy here? \_ Meaning that someone who stockpiles large amounts of nerve agent antidote and documents on how to "engage in chemical warfare" is likely to possess large amounts of actual nerve agent, which is likely to be floating around somewhere, and is probably a whole lot easier to thieve or hide than 380 tons of conventional explosives, meaning it's likely to be a Bad Thing (tm). -John \_ Sorry, are you suggesting that the 380 tons of conventional explosives reportedly stolen may have actually been nerve agent and that no one wants that out in public? That's scary. \_ No, I think he's saying that there are stockpiles of Iraqi WMD floating around somewhere that Bush never found. \_ Sorry, the WMD that EVERY SINGLE REPORT says do not exist? \_ Look, the reports just say they never found any, nor did they locate evidence to the contrary. Relax, nobody is saying GWB & co. knew something you didn't. But c'mon, we (or at least the Kurds and Iranians) know that the Iraqis had poison gas at some point, and this sort of thing sure makes me wonder whether there still isn't a bunch of it around somewhere. Plus, weren't the WMD inspectors looking for some grand nukular bomb building scheme? -John \_ I thought you were on our side, John! WTF?! \_ This was posted as evidence of NYTimes fraud on the missing explosives as an exposition of the timeline. -op |
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