roboneal

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by roboneal 16y ago
"they are doing what they need to be doing: leaking material." My overarching point is they are not "leaking" raw material - they are pushing "produced" and "edited" material to advocate a single viewpoint. Those statements (w/timestamps) w
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by roboneal 16y ago
The "Climategate" CRU emails.
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by roboneal 16y ago
-- "Do you advocate invading countries that pose no threat to you?" Smells a little like "When did you stop beating your wife?" Nice troll bait - I think I'll pass.
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by roboneal 16y ago
Wikileaks presented their "full" version as "uncut" but is actually missing 30 minutes -- Gawker covered this in some detail: http://gawker.com/5513068/the-full-version-of-the-wikileaks-... In addition, there is a lot of "context" in the
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by roboneal 16y ago
You missed my point entirely. If they want to leak material showing the government doing "bad things", go ahead. Leak it. All of it. The more the better. But selectively EDITING video and hyping it under the "Collateral Murder" banner e
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by roboneal 16y ago
We need organizations that are true watchdogs of the government. Governments should be made uncomfortable by the press. However, WikiLeaks lost me when they released selectively edited video, spliced in editorial overlays, registered a dom
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by roboneal 16y ago
No-knock raids should be all but eliminated in this country. I can only think of two legitimate reasons for such - matters related to national security and active hostage situations. Do some detective work, gather your evidence, and arrest
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by roboneal 16y ago
I'm not even trying here... So these beheadings never happened? http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1839576,00.htm... http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=359559&Categor... http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/wor
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by roboneal 16y ago
Nice crusade you are on here - I guess you can put me in your somewhat implausible "knowingly ignorant" group. Maybe you were modded down for being in the "knowingly troll-ish" group.
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by roboneal 16y ago
T-mobile has built in apps deployed with their "skin" like "My Account" and "Genius Button" - that will always "hang around" if not killed. Your mileage may vary from phone to phone.
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by roboneal 16y ago
I count myself among the "Android crowd" and Advanced Task Killer has nearly tripled the battery life on my T-Mobile MyTouch slide post-installation. I can't cite a single negative side-effect of using it for the past 3 months.
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by roboneal 16y ago
We need a massive increase in LEGAL immigration (and the resources dedicated to processing them) and an equally massive crackdown on ILLEGAL immigration. If either side is honest in their position, this would be the best solution.
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by roboneal 16y ago
"Failed state" in the past tense may be harsh, but "failing state" seems appropriate. I'm finding it hard to distinguish Mexico 2010 from Iraq 2003. Gun battles in broad daylight, murdered political candidates, rampant corruption, beheading
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by roboneal 16y ago
Quote from Phil Jones: “We have 25 years or so invested in the work. Why should I make the data available to you, when your aim is to try and find something wrong with it?” Maybe "conspired to hide it" is too nuanced.
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by roboneal 16y ago
Is it safe to assume from your resulting graph that "warming" in England has been fairly steady from 1750 and the mean temperature actually rose more dramatically from 1750-1850 than in modern times?
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by roboneal 16y ago
"All universities (bar one) are publically funded." That's a problem isn't it. Maybe the UK should fix that.
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by roboneal 16y ago
The number and "tone" of the requests is irrelevant. If they want to ignore or not "fully comply" with FOI requests - they shouldn't take public funds.
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by roboneal 16y ago
If you listen to the media mantra, these were all of "Bush's tax cuts for the rich" - there are a lot of average people in the 10,15,25% tax brackets.
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by roboneal 16y ago
Calling this "hypocrisy" is way overblown. When they block and threaten legal action against a company for writing a custom "importer" to pull content from Posterous - then you have hypocrisy.
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by roboneal 16y ago
What about a well funded startup that allows developers to port existing Facebook apps with little or no modifications?
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by roboneal 16y ago
I follow key reporters, newsmakers, pundits, blogs, and wire services on Twitter. Sort of a "build your own" linkfarm like DrudgeReport.
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by roboneal 16y ago
We've practically made "attending college" a universal expectation for every American high school graduate. Realistic options such as trade schools, community colleges, military enlistment, and good old fashion "on the job training" need to
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by roboneal 16y ago
Despite all the disclaimer's that this is some sort of loose collection of "ideas" -- the beginning of the report contains about 4 pages of FTC "staff’s key observations and conclusions to date". Reading that is makes it clear to me that th
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by roboneal 16y ago
The fact that the FTC feels that journalism NEEDS "reinventing" indicates a bias. Journalism is reinventing itself with market forces alone and doesn't NEED the Federal government to "fix" it.
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by roboneal 16y ago
Agreed the source document labels itself as "POTENTIAL POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS TO SUPPORT THE REINVENTION OF JOURNALISM". So I don't see why the bashing of the Washington Times Editorial as "TOTALLY DISHONEST" -- which CLEARLY makes refere
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by roboneal 16y ago
Straight out of the source document -- "Nonetheless, a compulsory license places an effective tax on certain conduct." A tax by any other name is still a tax -- and if these ideas are enacted there would be an effective "news aggregrator" t
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by roboneal 16y ago
Hey - it's your article citation - did you even read it? That list contains TOP schools some of which were founded in the 1600 and 1700s and who are so selective that some reject 80% of applicants. That was not a typical list of private sc
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by roboneal 16y ago
Your citation is about the top 10 private schools in Manhattan with 1:4 - 1:10 student teacher ratios is a bit misleading. First NYC is larger than Manhattan and there are plenty of schools with 20-25:1 teacher ratios that would provide a b
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by roboneal 16y ago
Bottom line from the article, it's costing an estimated $19,358 per student per year to educate, or maybe we should say fail to educate, in the NYC public school system. By comparison, average private school tuition is $6600 and Catholic sc
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by roboneal 16y ago
Lost in all these borderline hysterical comments is that very few people get bitten by coral snakes - so few - that the remaining stock is expiring on the shelves. No Demand = No Supply.

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