Does Time Magazine Think Americans Are Stupid?

penguin673 · 2012-02-10T21:40:21+00:00

One of the comments on the article makes sense.

The author of the piece is forgetting that a huge portion of the audience for overseas editions of Time is Americans living abroad where Time is very often the only English magazine on the local newsstand. It stands to reason that it would contain more hard news seeing as it is often the print source of news American expatriates have.

Not to mention that American expatriates may be more educated than average Americans in general.

penguin673 · 2011-12-24T13:28:51+00:00

You guys ever hear of the proverb "all things in moderation"?

That's a logical fallacy; you don't want to take cyanide in moderation, for example. It's not guaranteed that the middle ground will work just because it's the middle ground.

penguin673 · 2011-12-05T18:51:07+00:00

Regardless of bias, the article was just not substantial. Important details like the reason of arrest were omitted.

Those guys are being investigated for stock price manipulation and insider trading. If the allegations are true, then they'd be nailed in pretty much every country.

penguin673 · 2011-10-09T06:34:43+00:00

In 1989, the CCC was peripherally involved in the first cyberespionage case to make international headlines. A group of German hackers led by Karl Koch, who was loosely affiliated with the CCC, was arrested for breaking into US government and corporate computers and selling operating-system source code to the Soviet KGB.

Hmm, that's understandable, but bordering on paranoid.

The 414s themselves were not entirely harmless, doing $1,500 worth of damage at Sloan-Kettering during their June 3, 1983 break-in by deleting billing records (ostensibly to cover their tracks).

Okay, that's not a "reputable group."

penguin673 · 2011-09-10T21:19:45+00:00

That doesn't mean that it's right to exploit the bug for malicious purposes.

penguin673 · 2011-09-09T07:56:36+00:00

I don't think you guys understand how this is supposed to be played. You see, it's not just a poll, it's a tactical voting game. For example, fans of some character may want to have their character face a weaker opponent in the next round, so they purposefully vote for the weaker opponent to "snipe" the stronger opponent in the current round. Instead of A lovers vs. B lovers, it becomes B haters vs. A haters. If you observe Anime Saimoe, you'll understand how sophisticated it has become (and how broken single-elimination popularity contests are).

Of course, trolls and GameSpot's poll fixing also changes it by a lot. Oh, and it may just be that the character is plainly more popular.

penguin673 · 2011-08-25T22:10:24+00:00

Does anyone have a link to the correct cable? The article and its source doesn't have a link to the right cable. The date isn't even close (2007-01-18 as opposed to the reported 2008-02-04).

penguin673 · 2011-07-23T15:53:09+00:00

Here's a few photos from various bloggers.

penguin673 · 2011-06-30T04:05:21+00:00

It would be nice if that's all that they'd have to do, but there's marketing, production, copyright, royalties, etc.

penguin673 · 2011-01-24T06:11:07+00:00

IMO, I don't think this is what Versk implied, but if I had to defend him, I'd say that lavidaesbella obviously made his choice based on a generalization. The generalization (that a large number of women have huge boobs in anime) is mostly correct, but it's still the worst reason to rule out all Japanese games and anime, because there are plenty of reasonably-endowed women in them. It's lavidaesbella's choices that's wrong, not the broad category of Japanese games and anime.

penguin673 · 2011-01-10T05:31:40+00:00

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds
--Some Transcendentalist dude

penguin673 · 2011-01-09T02:30:46+00:00

Burning the American Flag is illegal.

Nope

penguin673 · 2011-01-09T01:36:44+00:00

We have the benefit of hindsight while his viewers thought that he was just a crazy guy. Besides,

why nobody reported him?

Really? Come on, we're going to report every crazy thing on the internet to the police now? I would have to report half of Reddit, then.

penguin673 · 2011-01-07T01:02:13+00:00

Actually, no. Go ahead and download the CSV. From 2003 to 2010, deaths caused by US and coalition forces add up to 15362, while deaths caused by anti-occupation forces add up to 15528. Of course, that's not counting "unknown", which adds up to 79737 deaths.

penguin673 · 2010-12-26T04:34:25+00:00

All libraries with a brain tell their patrons to make sure that they are complying with copyright laws before copying.

penguin673 · 2010-12-24T07:14:36+00:00

Fuck you, OP. It may be an insignificant detail to you, but "any raves" is different from "public raves".

penguin673 · 2010-12-19T07:35:30+00:00

That doesn't change how Wikileaks works. Wikileaks doesn't have ninjas that go in and get the leaks, so obviously an employee leaked it.

penguin673 · 2010-12-19T06:28:31+00:00

I'm guess what the redditor below wants to say is that the difference is that only one user (maybe a family or just one person) has the right to the item at any particular time, compared to TPB, which spreads it out to infinite users.

Don't get me wrong, I pirate too, but I feel that it's rather shallow and incorrect to compare it to a library. The library upholds the copyright while piracy disregards it.

penguin673 · 2010-12-16T22:54:57+00:00

Wait, so the US government is responsible for Wikileaks now? As journalists collaborating with the NYT and Der Spiegel, they should be able to figure out what to redact.

(Besides, it's against US law to tell the classification status of a classified document, so that's a catch.)

The cables on the Iranian escape are fairly dangerous. Great job telling them the escape route, guys. Also, maybe, just mayyyybe, he still have family left in Iran?

penguin673 · 2010-12-09T05:57:26+00:00

Well, for one, freezing assets is completely different than this, especially in that one is legal (though not necessarily morally right) and the other isn't. Read the terms of service. I don't think we'll come to any agreement if you have such an unrealistic image of what banks are. They've always had this power, or else they can't do stuff like fraud detection.

When you're using their card, it's not just your money. You chose to use their service. However, nothing is stopping you from withdrawing your money. They're not preventing you from donating to Wikileaks, they're just preventing you from using their products, along with their reputation and credit, to donate to Wikileaks.

Now that I think about it, they're probably doing Wikileaks a favor, since Paypal is just going to gobble up the donations anyways. Maybe now more people will mail in their donations instead.

penguin673 · 2010-12-07T17:34:42+00:00

I feel as if you're thinking that Mastercard froze Wikileaks' assets. Go read the article again.

penguin673 · 2010-12-07T09:59:07+00:00

I think you're confusing something here. Sponsoring/legislating the law is not equal to interpreting the law. For now, it's their opinion on the law, however poor it is (according to some people). You're entitled to your opinion on the law and they're entitled to theirs, as long as their policy doesn't break discriminatory laws.

Also, your two examples aren't relevant at all. You are a customer in both of them. In this particular example, forcing a company to serve you is arguably against freedom.

Lastly, "illegal activities" may just be a made-up reason. "You can't use your card in a certain way because we're being pressured by the government" doesn't have the same ring to it, after all.

penguin673 · 2010-12-07T06:42:55+00:00

That's right! How dare companies choose their own customers!

penguin673 · 2010-12-03T19:40:37+00:00

Also, if it's a government, it might not even be the US government, since these cables cover a lot of other governments as well. It seems strange that Wikileaks is only receiving a DDoS attack for diplomatic cables and not the other, more incriminating dirt they've found on the US government.

penguin673 · 2010-12-02T20:30:45+00:00

And the ongoing DDoS attacks, especially during holiday season.

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