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2012/11/18-12/18 [Recreation/Celebrity, Politics/Domestic/911, Computer/SW/Apps/Media] UID:54537 Activity:nil |
11/16 Anonymous responds to be labeled a "terrorist" by Isreali media: http://t.co/0lIgC166 |
2010/1/15-25 [Recreation/Celebrity] UID:53635 Activity:nil |
1/15 I was so out. I thought "Lady Gaga" was a big fat lady singer in her 50's, until I google'd for her image today. I think she should pick a different name. \_ There is some rationale for picking a 2 syllable name if you want it to be remembered. Also, Lady Gaga is now an unbelievably powerful brand, I wouldn't hold my breath for her switching the name. -mrauser \_ I assumed Lady Gaga was a tranny. \_ "Lady Stupid" |
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2007/2/23-27 [Recreation/Celebrity] UID:45799 Activity:nil |
2/22 I don't really care about the 2007 Oscar but I'm betting with a bunch of co-workers. What's the best site that gives the best predictions? I don't care who wins, I'm just looking for the best (consistent and high %) predictions. |
2006/9/1-5 [Recreation/Celebrity, Computer/SW/Apps/Media] UID:44243 Activity:nil 90%like:44239 |
9/1 Cal Thomas, "Al Gore is Right About the Media" http://tinyurl.com/kad79 (realclearpolitics.com) \_ Who the hell is Cal Thomas? |
2006/7/18-20 [Recreation/Celebrity, Computer/SW/Apps/Media] UID:43703 Activity:nil |
7/18 Hey Chicom, are you in on this? It would explain a lot. http://www.asiamedia.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=24609 \_ I happened to value freedom of speech, probably value it more than you do because I have experienced those things. I do curious, though. Putin has done a lot more harming the freedom of speech but why no US media ever bitch about it? \_ Because he's not a commie. \_ Our government has. \_ I've read many articles and editorials about this in the mainstream US media. As with many issues that people whine about not being reported fairly, can you show me evidence that the US media is biased in favor of Putin? |
2006/5/22-28 [Recreation/Celebrity, Computer/SW/Apps/Media] UID:43149 Activity:nil |
5/22 http://www.stormfront.org/forum/showthread.php?t=286756 How the Media Brainwashes White Girls |
2005/7/22-25 [Recreation/Celebrity, Computer/SW/Apps/Media] UID:38777 Activity:nil |
7/22 A bunch of grannies tried to enlist in the armed forces and got arrested. This is not good media exposure. Why can't the armed forces just ask them to fill out an application and hold their files as "pending" forever, instead of arresting them and creating this media debacle? Secondly, why doesn't the armed forces just send them to Iraq and have them cook, or clean up barracks and toilets? http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/07/22/raging.grannies.ap \_ "The group has protested every week for the last three years outside the recruitment center." \_ "This was not a performance, a joke or civil disobedience," she said. "This was an enlistment attempt." That is total BS. |
2005/1/25 [Recreation/Celebrity] UID:35887 Activity:very high |
1/23 Oscar bids for F9/11 = ZERO MUWHWHAHAHA.. \_ Hm, could that be because Moore withheld it from consideration in the documentary section? \_ Keep drinking the kool-aid , it'll help with the pain of defeat \_ How is truth kool-aid? \_ Because it was not, and can not be considered a documentary by any standard. \_ You, and a number of "reports" from conservative sources, make it sound like it was rejected from consideration as a documentary. You're the one with the kool-aid glass half full.. \_ Hence, as poster said, Moore removing it from consideration. Now what kool-aid were you speaking of again? BTW, I thought the movie sucked but you seem to be feigning density and I just wanted to be sure. |
2004/11/22-23 [Recreation/Celebrity, Computer/SW/Apps/Media, Finance/Investment] UID:35026 Activity:high |
11/22 I posted this last week but no one responded (thinking it was a HW problem) so I'll ask again: given a group of several values, is there a way to evaluate or determine if the variability between those numbers are significant or not? And if so, what statistical test should be used? Thanks. \_ Where did the numbers come from? Is there an underlying stochastic (or otherwise) process you can describe? -- ilyas \_ No it's not stochastic. Does it matter, though? Can't you just take the numbers at face value? \_ I don't know what 'variability' means. If it's a normal distribution from which the numbers come, you can estimate the variance, and that's one notion of 'variability.' If the process is not stochastic, and has no stochastic interpretation, why are you interested in 'variability'? -- ilyas \_ OK, so I have a series of about 10 numbers. I want to know if they really are the "same" or not. Let's say I had 3.0, 2.9, and 3.1, I want to determine whether they are actually centering around one central value (in this contrived example, 3). Is it enough to calculate the percent change from one number to the next and note that it's low, or is there a more objective statistical test I can use? \_ If you want to quantify how much variation there is in your numbers, there are lots of ways: some common ones are range, sample standard deviation, population standard deviation, and average deviation. You have to pick an appropriate measure and an appropriate cutoff point for "the same" based on what the numbers mean. Just looking at your numbers above in isolation, you can't say they're the same at all -- say you were measuring the speed of light in different media, in units of 10^8 m/s. If you got 3.0 for some and 2.9 for others it would conclusively show that the media were different, and if you got 3.1 it would be earth-shattering. --mconst \_ Well the series of values were taken from a biological source, where there actually is some baseline value (in theory). \_ It's called an average... \_ You can't make something from nothing. You need to make assumptions about the numbers (if you don't know how you got them), or think about how the numbers are created. -- ilyas \_ I think the problem is that you're looking for a one size fits all solution to a humongous class of problems for which none exists. Why don't you just put the data in /csua/tmp and let us mess around with it? \_ Any series of numbers can be the "same" for some arbitrary distribution. \_ GIVE US THE GODDAMN DATA! And tell us the context. The whole context. Saying "it's a bunch of numbers" does not constitute giving the context, and saying you want to "determine the variablility" doesn't really tell us what you want to know. \_ You need a statistics education. The motd cannot help. |
2004/11/3 [Recreation/Celebrity, Computer/SW/Apps/Media, Politics/Domestic/President/Bush] UID:34645 Activity:nil |
11/3 So after all that political advertisements, guess who the real winner is? MEDIA COMPANIES. They are like the arms dealer, getting rich from both sides. And now that Bush wins a second term, all the media corporations will be aligned to the current admin. My guess is that the Democratic party will bicker and disintegrate in a few years while the one party US will just get bigger and bigger. Maybe it'll implode, but that'll not happen for many years to come. -troll rant dude |
2004/9/3-4 [Recreation/Celebrity, Computer/SW/Apps/Media, Politics] UID:33343 Activity:nil |
9/3 "The order of events is still unclear. But one eyewitness has told Russian media that one of the many bombs stuck with tape around the gym fell and exploded. The roof caved in and hostages started to run. The attackers fired at them as they fled, prompting the troops outside to shoot back." http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/world/04/russian_s/html/2.stm Outside the school: "Evidence suggesting that Russian forces had not planned a storming of the building could be seen around the two tanks, whose soldiers milled about, evidently in confusion after the initial blast, before rallying and heading into a battle that continued this afternoon. Only after the fighting began did three helicopters appear overhead. There also seemed to be a shortage of ambulances at the scene, as the majority of the wounded were ferried in whatever could move." link:csua.org/u/8x6 (nytimes.com) |
2004/2/27-28 [Recreation/Celebrity] UID:12438 Activity:nil |
2/27 Oscar predictions? \_ No more screeners end up on the internet... \_ The burger will be decent but greasy, and the fries bad. \_ Will continue being grouchy and living in the trash can. \_ Felix will get upset when he messes up the apartment. \_ I predict the ceremony will be pompous and boring. \_ Pound-for-pound will never again be the best boxer in the world. \_ Will remain first name of my bologna. \_ The Perl implementation will probably hang around for a long time. \_ and... motd is spent. \_ A good effort by the Open Cluster Group, but will probably never see broad distribtion. \_ A sadly underrated vintage '80s synthesizer capable of some truly nasty gut-trembling distored bass sounds, the Oscar has seen a resurgence of late via emulated software synthesis: http://www.gmediamusic.com --lye \_ His performance on keyboards will be technically proficient but lacking in character. |
2003/11/2 [Recreation/Celebrity, Computer/SW/Apps/Media] UID:10900 Activity:nil |
11/1 The Hunt for Iraq's Weapons (David Kay corrects Post Writers for misrepresentation). Note this is on A21, Gellmans lead story on front page. http://csua.org/u/4v8 \_ OWNED! \_ Yawn. "I'm sticking by what I wrote in my report! Much work to be done! Can't draw conclusions yet! Needle is still in haystack!" \_ It's important that the lying media be corrected at every turn. The problem is that it's the same media who lied on the front page in an above the fold headline that buries the correction way back on A21. \_ Sure, sure, Jason Blair, yadda yadda yadda. Got it. It's important for Kay's credibility, but it doesn't advance the search for WMD. \_ Jason Blair? Who said anything about Jason Blair? We're talking media bias, not incompetence. And it does advance the search to correct the media lies because without the support and correct understanding of the American people we'll pull out before the job is done. Exactly what your leftist media would like to see happen. |
2003/3/27 [Recreation/Celebrity, Computer/SW/Apps/Media, Politics/Foreign/Europe] UID:27877 Activity:nil |
3/26 I am outside the US right now. Would you guys be interested in some other stuff I heard from non-US news media? \_ Sure, but what kind of motd poster asks before posting contriversial stuff? \_ a polite one? (a polite motd poster??) \_ Uhm, sure whatever but it's not like we don't have browsers and aren't reading the same stuff you're going to post. Us poor dumb provincials just don't know what's really going on and could use the help of European and Arab media to educatin' us! \_ Thanks. BTW we can also get non-US news media on Channels 26 and 32. |
2003/1/18-19 [Recreation/Celebrity, Computer/SW/Apps/Media] UID:27147 Activity:nil |
1/18 Perhaps the iPodNG will feature removable media: http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,108816,tk,dn011603X,00.asp |
2002/12/2 [Recreation/Celebrity, Politics/Domestic/Election, Computer/SW/Apps/Media] UID:26685 Activity:high |
12/1 [media liberal bias thread deleted. the media is biased to favor the conservative side. if you think it is critical of conservatism, it is only because the rightists are stupid fascist fuckheads, and the media fairly protrays them as such. deal.] \_ fuck you. why don't you just let people debate? pussy. \_Leave it to the leftists to reveal their hypocrisies and inconsistencies in the most embarassing fashion.... you make this too easy. Bad leftist! \_ Ya know I was going to restore the thread but you've done a much better job showing the left for what it is than I ever possibly could. Thanks for your help! --conservative \_ q.q.v. the bit about being fascist fuckheads. \_ hey if someone on the motd calls me a stupid fascist fuckhead it must be because it's true, right? \_ Where is the diversity, love, and peace in this? Someone seems very angry. \_ his bong ran low and after he came down he looked around and noticed jimmy carter wasn't in office anymore and got upset. I'll get him some good shit from oakland and put him safely to bed after he tokes up again. no worries. \_ Multiple times on this thread I have pointed out, with references, how false the conservative statements like "70-80% of all reporters are registered Democrats." Everytime, it gets deleted. And yet the conservatives still claim they are the ones being censored. Ironic, isn't it? |
2002/2/13 [Recreation/Celebrity] UID:23855 Activity:nil |
2/12 one oscar to rulez them all! \_ Put down the ring and go see Black Hawk Down. |
2001/4/12 [Recreation/Celebrity, Recreation/Computer/Games] UID:20944 Activity:high |
4/12 Who can tell me the atomic weight of bolognium? \_ maybe you should look at this hole in ipf? http://false.net/ipfilter/2001_04/0087.html \_ Oooh... delicious? \_ Correct. I would have also accepted snacktacular. \_ Gooooo Oscar Meyer! \_ You can't beat a Coleco, eh? \_ You better get the rust-proofing though. \_ Hi, Super Nintendo Chalmers! I'm learn-ding. |
2001/1/14 [Politics/Domestic/California, Recreation/Celebrity, Computer/SW/Apps/Media] UID:20310 Activity:nil |
1/13 Shockingly biased Palm Beach Post says _Bush_ would have gained more votes than Gore if all votes properly counted in Miami-Dade! I think these right wing hacks should be locked up. The rightward bias in the media must stop. We need new regulations to control the media and stop the lies and yellow journalism. http://www.gopbi.com/partners/pbpost/epaper/editions/today/news_2.html |
2000/11/18-19 [Recreation/Celebrity, Computer/SW/Apps/Media, Consumer/TV] UID:19842 Activity:moderate |
11/17 TV media is reporting that the Texas ballots are 99% *not* punch card style ballots so a manual recount makes more sense and isn't prone to have hundreds of little bits flying this way and that or being manipulated by party partisans. Anyone have a URL for that? \_ URL please. \_ Damn. Learn to read. I was *asking* for a URL to match what the TV media reported. \_ Let's only waste the People's time in states where the elections was close. \_ Uhm, what's your point? |
1998/4/11-13 [Recreation/Celebrity, Computer/SW/Apps/Media] UID:13935 Activity:kinda low |
4/10 From the LA Times today: "Stung by the public relations fallout from antitrust investigations of its business practices, Microsoft Corp. has secretly been planning a massive media campaign designed to influence state investigators by creating the appearance of a groundswell of public support for the company. "The elaborate plan, outlined in confidential documents obtained by The Times, hinges on a number of unusual-and some say unethical-tactics, including the planting of articles, letters to the editor and opinion pieces to be commissioned by Microsoft's top media handlers but presented by local firms as spontaneous testimonials." More info at: http://www.latimes.com/HOME/NEWS/BUSINESS/UPDATES/lat_microsoft0410.htm \_ Does any of this come as a big shock or surprise to anyone here? More info at: http://www.latimes.com/HOME/NEWS/BUSINESS/UPDATES/lat_microsoft0410.htm |
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