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And back to the news - 20-21 April 2011
Apr. 22nd, 2011 09:56 amGreetings. Still smarting from the vandalism and theft, here's some news for you.
We begin today with inside information indicating large game publishers are attempting to control the press about their materials in much the same way politicans can control the media now - by restricting access to sources, and by telling other reviewers that they can't release their reviews unless the big sites and others have given them properly high scores.
In the world today, The United States has pledged $25 million USD in "nonlethal" aid to the rebellion attempting to topple Gaddafi.
Fidel Castro has apparently decided to retire from being the leader of the Cuban Communist Party and has called for more openness in the party.
Domestically, more evidence that the supposedly jobs-and-deficit-focused Republicans have nothing like jobs or the deficit on their minds as priorities, including making sure they have an uninhibited flow of cmapign cash to themselves and little-to-no laws or regulations in the way of unfettered corporatism, and additional evidence that indicates that Wall Street has been taking advantage of the taxpayers to make themselves whole, and to do so in a manner that doesn"t really require them to make good on their loans.
The Central Intelligence Agency finally declassified documents from the first Great War about secret writing techniques and the methods used to decode those secret messages. It only took them more than 90 years to decide it was okay to release them.
Next verse, same as the first - color-coded warnings out, more specific data about threats are in. And apparently, the threshold for triggering alerts is higher, so no need to be at elevated threat levels for years on end.
The messages that Hollywood and its directors and writers send to women are antithetical to the values of strong, competent women and upstanding men.
The Tea Partiers, the Phelps Clan, and the book burners are all too extreme and un-American for...the KKK? Apparently, the KKK wants to be seen as a respectable fringe organization and is distancing itself from others.
Michigan police are using a device that downloads all the data from your phone, even if you have it password-protected, in the time it takes for you to deal with a minor traffic stop. No warrants, just the contents of your phone extracted.
Finally, accused leaker Army PFC Bradley Manning is finally being moved from maxmimum security detention at Quantico to a medium-security facility. Whatever it was they wanted to get out of PFC Manning, they've probably gotten it, and so now they're ready to declare him fit to stand trial.
In technology, according to an annual Verizon study, 2010 consisted of more data breaches but fewer records being exposed, as security precautions in majore clearinghouses appears to have been reasonably good at foiling attackers, forcing them to go after smaller entities without quite as good protection.
Also, a radio-controlled car that can run on the tabs of soda cans. Or: An R/C car that runs on R/C Cola (sort of.)
In opinions, The WSJ argues for the superiority of letting unelected private-sector health care rationing boards determine what kind of care, reimbursement, and cost is associated with elder care over unelected government rationing boards that determine what kind of care, reimbursement, and cost is associated with elder care. Doesn't exactly sound like a winning set of choices, unless you believe that the private sector will suddenly be willing to cover the costs of elder care at a price they can afford.
Mr. Brownfield believes the trend of corporations opening up many more shops overseas is directly tied to the current administrator's policy toward taxes and spending, claiming the United States needs to unregulate their markets and collect even less taxes from businesses if the U.S. wants to keep them in the country.
Mr. Stossel picks a low-hanging fruit and says that citizens have a right to make records of their interactions with the police, no matter what sort of threats or arrests follow from making those records. A fairly sensible position - if the police are allowed to observe and record you, then you should be afforded the saem right when they interact with you.
Mr. Henninger believes he sees a dangerous gap between campaign Obama of 2008 and the current Obama of 2011-2012, because now people have seen him doing the actual work, instead of as the pristine candidate. Something about battle plans and contact with the enemy, I suspect.
The WSJ chides the leaders of the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank for not thinking of themselves as the global currency bank instead of merely the one in charge of the United States' currency flows, and believes that hostile foreign reactions to fed moves are entirely justified, given the way the Fed seems to want to stop having the dollar be the reserve currency of the world. Team America, World Economic Police?
Last out, Mr. Prager insists that christians need to be more vocal about how their fellows are being treated in places predominantly of The Bloodthirsty Religion, instead of mostly silent about that treatment, and that Jews and Muslims need to talk in solidarity with them, the Muslims especially so as to prove they're not part of The Bloodthirsty Religion. Because Everyone Knows once the strongman was gone, persecution of Christians by Muslims is inevitable. We also hope that he has similarly condemning words for the Christians that destroyed art because they found it blasphemous.
Last for tonight, a gesture of peace and happiness.
We begin today with inside information indicating large game publishers are attempting to control the press about their materials in much the same way politicans can control the media now - by restricting access to sources, and by telling other reviewers that they can't release their reviews unless the big sites and others have given them properly high scores.
In the world today, The United States has pledged $25 million USD in "nonlethal" aid to the rebellion attempting to topple Gaddafi.
Fidel Castro has apparently decided to retire from being the leader of the Cuban Communist Party and has called for more openness in the party.
Domestically, more evidence that the supposedly jobs-and-deficit-focused Republicans have nothing like jobs or the deficit on their minds as priorities, including making sure they have an uninhibited flow of cmapign cash to themselves and little-to-no laws or regulations in the way of unfettered corporatism, and additional evidence that indicates that Wall Street has been taking advantage of the taxpayers to make themselves whole, and to do so in a manner that doesn"t really require them to make good on their loans.
The Central Intelligence Agency finally declassified documents from the first Great War about secret writing techniques and the methods used to decode those secret messages. It only took them more than 90 years to decide it was okay to release them.
Next verse, same as the first - color-coded warnings out, more specific data about threats are in. And apparently, the threshold for triggering alerts is higher, so no need to be at elevated threat levels for years on end.
The messages that Hollywood and its directors and writers send to women are antithetical to the values of strong, competent women and upstanding men.
The Tea Partiers, the Phelps Clan, and the book burners are all too extreme and un-American for...the KKK? Apparently, the KKK wants to be seen as a respectable fringe organization and is distancing itself from others.
Michigan police are using a device that downloads all the data from your phone, even if you have it password-protected, in the time it takes for you to deal with a minor traffic stop. No warrants, just the contents of your phone extracted.
Finally, accused leaker Army PFC Bradley Manning is finally being moved from maxmimum security detention at Quantico to a medium-security facility. Whatever it was they wanted to get out of PFC Manning, they've probably gotten it, and so now they're ready to declare him fit to stand trial.
In technology, according to an annual Verizon study, 2010 consisted of more data breaches but fewer records being exposed, as security precautions in majore clearinghouses appears to have been reasonably good at foiling attackers, forcing them to go after smaller entities without quite as good protection.
Also, a radio-controlled car that can run on the tabs of soda cans. Or: An R/C car that runs on R/C Cola (sort of.)
In opinions, The WSJ argues for the superiority of letting unelected private-sector health care rationing boards determine what kind of care, reimbursement, and cost is associated with elder care over unelected government rationing boards that determine what kind of care, reimbursement, and cost is associated with elder care. Doesn't exactly sound like a winning set of choices, unless you believe that the private sector will suddenly be willing to cover the costs of elder care at a price they can afford.
Mr. Brownfield believes the trend of corporations opening up many more shops overseas is directly tied to the current administrator's policy toward taxes and spending, claiming the United States needs to unregulate their markets and collect even less taxes from businesses if the U.S. wants to keep them in the country.
Mr. Stossel picks a low-hanging fruit and says that citizens have a right to make records of their interactions with the police, no matter what sort of threats or arrests follow from making those records. A fairly sensible position - if the police are allowed to observe and record you, then you should be afforded the saem right when they interact with you.
Mr. Henninger believes he sees a dangerous gap between campaign Obama of 2008 and the current Obama of 2011-2012, because now people have seen him doing the actual work, instead of as the pristine candidate. Something about battle plans and contact with the enemy, I suspect.
The WSJ chides the leaders of the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank for not thinking of themselves as the global currency bank instead of merely the one in charge of the United States' currency flows, and believes that hostile foreign reactions to fed moves are entirely justified, given the way the Fed seems to want to stop having the dollar be the reserve currency of the world. Team America, World Economic Police?
Last out, Mr. Prager insists that christians need to be more vocal about how their fellows are being treated in places predominantly of The Bloodthirsty Religion, instead of mostly silent about that treatment, and that Jews and Muslims need to talk in solidarity with them, the Muslims especially so as to prove they're not part of The Bloodthirsty Religion. Because Everyone Knows once the strongman was gone, persecution of Christians by Muslims is inevitable. We also hope that he has similarly condemning words for the Christians that destroyed art because they found it blasphemous.
Last for tonight, a gesture of peace and happiness.
