Is al jazzera America really that bad? I don't get it where I am but was really excited about its conception because I though it was gonna be a breathe of fresh air from the overwhelming crap from most cable news shows.
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Is al jazzera America really that bad? I don't get it where I am but was really excited about its conception because I though it was gonna be a breathe of fresh air from the overwhelming crap from most cable news shows.
I wouldn't put AJAM at the same level as MSNBC, I have no experience with AJE to compare against though.
RustyNails
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Yeah Ajam is definitely high tier. Their article on mainstream media's obsession with DEADHEAT made a big splash.
zero shift
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From what I've seen on the site, it is essentially a bit better Huffington Post.
Maybe I don't like it as much due to me comparing it to Aljazeera English.
Giant Panda
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I completely disagree. They've had plenty of articles on the UK's and Germany's problems. Just a few months back they had their cover story on things Germany needed to work on and it talked about how Germans have lower living standards and such. Your other problems with the economist just seem to be that they dislike socialism, despite giving it fair treatment in my view at least.
My only problems with the economist is that they are a little aggressive on foreign-policy and that they don't call out Republicans for being stupid as much as I would like.
RustyNails
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You are seriously underplaying Ajam. HuffPo is in the business of generating clicks from reporting on nip slips and top rated reddit stories. Ajam is better than all the current MSM outlets in US. Granted I havent watched it wall to wall. But I would rather it be default news channel than CNN.
speculawyer
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Most of the House GOPers voted to keep the shut-down going. Many seem to think it is great strategy.
The psychology is strange. I guess I get the 'We have to show we are serious with the threat' view in order to make the threat real. But on the other hand . . . it shows they are insane and willing to default on government obligations. Is that really a good political strategy? Polls generally say no but I guess it works in their extremist districts. They do seem content with becoming a regional southern extremist party.
zero shift
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No way. While the Economist occasionally criticizes the U.K. and Germany they are especially hard on France. They pretty much devoted an entire season to the country's "decline".
ClassyPenguin
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Well, they're London based. There's some history between those two countries.
I'm surprised you didn't put Financial Times on that list. They had some amazing articles on the Libor scandal.
I'm surprised you didn't put Financial Times on that list. They had some amazing articles on the Libor scandal.
While the website is a giant clusterfuck and deserves to be criticized completely, it is dishonest to lump it up with the ACA in general, like Fox News is doing.
But, then again... Faux, y'know.
PhoenixDark
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jeez the far right is pissed about Christie "giving up" the fight on gay marriage. What do they want him to do, waste NJ money on infinite challenges that go nowhere, like the House did last year?
theprodigy
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why ask a question you already know the answer to
Aaron Strife
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Or like the House did three weeks ago?
They think all they have to do to stop Obamacare is not show up.
RustyNails
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So the school shooting in Nevada could obviously have been avoided if everyone in the school was armed.
empty vessel
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I think reading the Economist will on balance produce a less knowledgeable and more muddled understanding of the world (and economics).
He failed the litmus test and now has to hand back his tea party purity ring.
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Anyone have any links on the current state of affairs for what happened to healthcare.gov - who developed it, what broke it, etc. ?
The best thing about reading The Economist is that they think so little of you as a reader that they don't even think you'll remember what they wrote 3 weeks ago.
I won't link it because I find extended defenses of Vladimir Putin tiring, but The Exiled used The Economist's treatment of him (and post-communist Russia) as a case study in how warped and disingenuous The Economist's flip flopping is. Worth a read if you don't understand why someone would dislike the periodical.
I won't link it because I find extended defenses of Vladimir Putin tiring, but The Exiled used The Economist's treatment of him (and post-communist Russia) as a case study in how warped and disingenuous The Economist's flip flopping is. Worth a read if you don't understand why someone would dislike the periodical.
speculawyer
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Yes.
As Bill Maher said "Here's the problem with believing the devil exists. It means you see the world divided into teams of good and evil and suspect the wily one, may be on the side of them, and when you start seeing compromising with your opponent as a compromise with evil, well, there's your tea party."
PhoenixDark
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As TPM noted, Linux is 15 million lines of code. 5 million seems like an extremely high estimate bordering on crazy.
Maybe one of their programmers has a really elaborate bracket style?
RustyNails
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5 million? Are they making a web-based Crysis 3? I think it was meant figuratively.
smokeandmirrors
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Big number boogeyman strikes again.
You can't really compare lines of code across products that fundamentally do different things, nor is it sincere to say "x lines is too many" for a program. For example if I wanted to be malicious I could take the output of a program as assembly/byte code (the instructions right before the actual 1's and 0's) or machine code (the actual 1's and 0's) and that will be several orders of magnitude more than your normal more human readable code. Does that mean I'm wrong if I say, instead of Linux being 15 million lines of C code, it's 50 million(who knows the actual number) lines of machine code? No, it just means I'm being a dick and finding ways to scare people with supposed complexity of a computer program
AKA lines of code as a metric for a program is useless and completely wrong to use as a metric and no one knows what they hell they are talking about.
Edit: Although it is dependent on how shitty the code is, but even then saying X lines is bad isn't the whole truth of it all.
You can't really compare lines of code across products that fundamentally do different things, nor is it sincere to say "x lines is too many" for a program. For example if I wanted to be malicious I could take the output of a program as assembly/byte code (the instructions right before the actual 1's and 0's) or machine code (the actual 1's and 0's) and that will be several orders of magnitude more than your normal more human readable code. Does that mean I'm wrong if I say, instead of Linux being 15 million lines of C code, it's 50 million(who knows the actual number) lines of machine code? No, it just means I'm being a dick and finding ways to scare people with supposed complexity of a computer program
AKA lines of code as a metric for a program is useless and completely wrong to use as a metric and no one knows what they hell they are talking about.
Edit: Although it is dependent on how shitty the code is, but even then saying X lines is bad isn't the whole truth of it all.
Randolph Freelander
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Bad programmers do a lot of copy and paste. Functions that should exist once end up existing a dozen times, possibly more. That's going to blow up your LOC. Plus think of trying to manage multiple teams each producing functionality, probably each going about it their own way and not reusing some shared components, and the whole thing just grows even more.
None of what I'm reading about healthcare.gov surprises me. In fact, it's largely ringing familiar.
CoffeeJanitor
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I think he was just making the point that the website is pretty damn screwed up.
I hope.
I hope.
Angry Fork
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I hate liberals so much. Reading the comments on huffpost in response to Richard Trumka's threat to dems makes my head want to burst. They are spewing tons of false equivalency about how unions are now being just as radical as the tea party, that we should all stop the threats and work together to achieve things so on and so on. Insufferable.
It gets to me because I know these are the people responsible for preventing progress, and so many of them exist and will defend the center-right Obama cult of personality to the end. The thought of people being anti-union or anti-worker (what!? YOU ARE A WORKER) makes so little sense it's intolerable.
Then they were going on about the type of shit I'd hear people in here say during election time. "WELL DO YOU THINK REPUBS WOULD BE ANY BETTER!? HUH!?!?!?!? why don't you try electing them and they'll privatize social security all together ! so ha! you better support Obama!!!"
But to be fair most of the comments I've seen have supported him, so it's not all bad. Just those runts that keep the current pro-business dem coalition in power.
It gets to me because I know these are the people responsible for preventing progress, and so many of them exist and will defend the center-right Obama cult of personality to the end. The thought of people being anti-union or anti-worker (what!? YOU ARE A WORKER) makes so little sense it's intolerable.
Then they were going on about the type of shit I'd hear people in here say during election time. "WELL DO YOU THINK REPUBS WOULD BE ANY BETTER!? HUH!?!?!?!? why don't you try electing them and they'll privatize social security all together ! so ha! you better support Obama!!!"
But to be fair most of the comments I've seen have supported him, so it's not all bad. Just those runts that keep the current pro-business dem coalition in power.
actually... the exchanges are their own operating system, which you will need to eventually install on your computer in order to use... this is how they are going to verify your income, by watching everything you buy
That's just the Linux Kernel. The Chevy Volt runs 10 Million lines of code to power a single vehicle.
ridethepiggy
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The GOP is running with the story that Carney told a reporter that certain people who are not able to use the federal exchange will be exempt from the penalty for not having insurance at the end of the year. One guy on FB even said 'SEE UNIVERSAL MANDATE DELAY COMING!'.
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I'm guessing this is pertaining to the current bullshit being pulled in Indiana?
ridethepiggy
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No. Someone asked Carney how the administration can require people pay for having coverage when they can't sign up on the website to get it.
Carney basically said that the goal of the administration is to fix the website problems. That if they cannot and there are people in states where medicaid wasn't expanded those people may qualify for the exemption. That folks who were unable to sign up on the exchange also may qualify for one under certain circumstances.
Joe Molotov
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Check the minimum system requirements to see if you can run Heathcare.gov.
What is the current bullshit being pulled in Indiana?
Black Mamba
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Ohio just expanded medicaid for about 300k people.
Good on them.
http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2013/10/21/Medicaid-expansion-vote.html
Good on them.
http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2013/10/21/Medicaid-expansion-vote.html
Why would dir *.exe bring up instructions? It'll just list the executables.
BertramCooper
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Good news in the fight for Medicaid expansion in Ohio!
Ohio Controlling Board gives OK to use of federal money to pay for Medicaid expansion in Ohio
I mentioned it a few days ago, but Governor Kasich (R) has come out strongly in favor of Medicaid expansion, but the douchebags in our General Assembly have been stonewalling the effort. They even forbade it in our state budget passed a few months ago, but Kasich line item vetoed it.
To get around them, Kasich is using our Controlling Board to accept the funding on the state's behalf. The board approved it today, but GOP lawmakers are threatening to sue.
Long story short, the Ohio GOP is a massive clusterfuck.
EDIT: Beaten.
Ohio Controlling Board gives OK to use of federal money to pay for Medicaid expansion in Ohio
I mentioned it a few days ago, but Governor Kasich (R) has come out strongly in favor of Medicaid expansion, but the douchebags in our General Assembly have been stonewalling the effort. They even forbade it in our state budget passed a few months ago, but Kasich line item vetoed it.
To get around them, Kasich is using our Controlling Board to accept the funding on the state's behalf. The board approved it today, but GOP lawmakers are threatening to sue.
Long story short, the Ohio GOP is a massive clusterfuck.
EDIT: Beaten.
speculawyer
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Looks like an Obamabot malfunctioned.
Rhomega Beta
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But also if it wasn't a gun-free zone. Naturally, shooters decide to make mass shootings there because they know no one's going to fight back.
Except that Navy Yard...
Black Mamba
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New CNN Poll:
http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2013/images/10/21/10-21-2013.poll.-.4pm.pdf
A. Seniors favor Dem Generic Ballot 51-44 lol
B. Indies only +2 Dem
C. 75% believe GOP Congress members should not be re-elected, only 54% Dem
D. 56% believe GOP is too extreme (highest), only 37% mainstream (lowest); Tea PArty is 60/27
E. Dems +9 generic, +8 RV
F. 35% of conservatives think GOP is too extreme, 43% of them say same of Tea Party!
http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2013/images/10/21/10-21-2013.poll.-.4pm.pdf
A. Seniors favor Dem Generic Ballot 51-44 lol
B. Indies only +2 Dem
C. 75% believe GOP Congress members should not be re-elected, only 54% Dem
D. 56% believe GOP is too extreme (highest), only 37% mainstream (lowest); Tea PArty is 60/27
E. Dems +9 generic, +8 RV
F. 35% of conservatives think GOP is too extreme, 43% of them say same of Tea Party!
Aaron Strife
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http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/21/politics/cnn-poll-shutdown-re-election/
D+8 Generic ballot
edit: lol
If Democrats are winning with seniors it's over guys. They have the most reliable turnout of any age group. They swung hard against Bush in 06 and they're about to do it again.
D+8 Generic ballot
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If Democrats are winning with seniors it's over guys. They have the most reliable turnout of any age group. They swung hard against Bush in 06 and they're about to do it again.
Black Mamba
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Dems +11 on 50+ year olds.
Armoured Priest
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Well, in general, you don't want to make that group worry about their VA/Social Security/Disability checks. The shut down did exactly that.
CHEEZMO
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Always Combat Liberalism.
Giant Panda
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Well you seem to disagree with them on a lot of fundamental issues so I can see why you say that.
NYCmetsfan
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No it won't. Its a pretty good magazine, full of editorials that tend to have a certain bent which they admit and sometimes contradict each other (the articles are written by different authors so this isn't surprising, do people not disagree?). Its not a factual disinterested reporting outlet. I enjoy reading it even when disagree. Reading more can never make someone less knowledgeable people aren't robots without thinking skills.
zero shift
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Here are more examples of why the Economist can really really suck sometime.
This one excerpt that actually made the magazine about Occupy.
Here is them talking about how Occupy is violent, at least with the video they posted.
The worst part is how people subscribe to it like gospel. Its the magazine that every economics major buy who thinks that they know everything about economics. Everything apparently causes inflation to them.
This one excerpt that actually made the magazine about Occupy.
Here is them talking about how Occupy is violent, at least with the video they posted.
The best thing about reading The Economist is that they think so little of you as a reader that they don't even think you'll remember what they wrote 3 weeks ago.
I won't link it because I find extended defenses of Vladimir Putin tiring, but The Exiled used The Economist's treatment of him (and post-communist Russia) as a case study in how warped and disingenuous The Economist's flip flopping is. Worth a read if you don't understand why someone would dislike the periodical.
The worst part is how people subscribe to it like gospel. Its the magazine that every economics major buy who thinks that they know everything about economics. Everything apparently causes inflation to them.
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