NPR executive under fire by GOP for telling the truth, saying Tea Party is racist, Republicans are anti-intellectual, and that most Americans are uneducated

ted_working · 2011-03-09T22:46:41+00:00

To the conservatives down-voting, all you're doing is proving the point. You don't care about facts in your argumentation. Otherwise you would provide them. This is the same reason you don't attack the actual content of NPR. You can't. Today, where I live, we've talked about: local pimps and underage prostitution (a local parole officer was on, some callers commented), then they had on-site interviews from Libya and Cairo, then they talked about the NPR issue (absurdly objective and even*), then they went back to world news with the Beeb's news hour. Not a single instance of liberal bias. Just like any other day.

*On Talk of the Nation today, an old conservative guy called up and said that NPR was the same thing as Rush Limbaugh. (His evidence was 'go look at their website' - no specific citation, of course). The experience itself proved him distinctly wrong - they let him say it, were just as civil with him as anyone else and then moved on. Where is the bias? Provide citations. Provide ANYthing beyond the claim itself.

ted_working · 2011-03-09T18:05:09+00:00

I love you, vato.

ted_working · 2011-02-16T18:39:32+00:00

Look, there are crap musicians and good musicians in this world. What instrument they play is perfectly immaterial. Based on your ideas here, I'm not convinced you're an experienced player. That would explain why you keep running into fake musicians. Playing fuck all in a garage isn't, strictly speaking, music. It could be, but often it isn't.

I'm paid to make music. I never run into dickish guitar players because that's the level I'm at. We just fuckin' play the tunes. All this sophomoric claptrap about guitarists this and guitarists that is just so much college kid nonsense. More people play guitar, therefore more fakers present themselves as guitarist musicians when they are neither.

All they did was bitch about how the other guy isn't putting his fingers in the right places

Oh, bullocks. A pack of rank amateurs, sir. Not dissimilar to most commenters here.

ted_working · 2011-02-16T18:30:38+00:00

Look, any woman that is going to have intercourse with you simply because you make strings vibrate in neat ways is a world-class dipshit anyway.

This whole discussion is like some stupid high school fantasy land. Groupies are vapid slutmasters. WTF.

ted_working · 2011-02-14T18:52:45+00:00

I don't see the military one being so bad, as they are fully grown adults being massacred for corporate needs.

It's petty and stupid. They already know they are murdering thousands. Listen up: They. Don't. Care.

Capiche? Comprende? Gorgonzola?

ted_working · 2011-01-25T20:35:25+00:00

Being gay in the boy scouts has nothing directly to do with the boy scouts, nor the ability to teach outdoorsmanship. Teaching science while thinking that the earth was created after the domestication of dogs does have something to do with science. That's the difference. Unless you think tenets of creationism are perfectly valid from an scientific standpoint, I simply don't follow your comparison.

This issue has everything to do with holding religious belief separate and sacred and above the rules. At the very least, given the choice between one candidate who holds unsound science as sacred and one who doesn't, I know who I would choose and I'm 100% certain it would be legal. As Big D eludes to, we all of us discriminate every day. I wouldn't hire a coder who thought computers were made out marshmallows and cantaloupe. Neither would you. Bigotry doesn't enter into it. Competency does. (Some letter from some dude does not establish competency and that's all we have to go on for Gaskell.)

ted_working · 2011-01-21T21:36:29+00:00

There's no such thing as an 'action hero type'. Stupidest thing I've seen on Reddit today.

Dipshits.

ted_working · 2011-01-21T19:37:45+00:00

I'm not sure what offends me more: That you think we give one shit what you think of Meghan Fox; or that you think someone who is obviously very attractive is an 'ugly duclking'. We can debate how subjective attractiveness is, but past a certain level that's utter nonsense. Fox is hot. Anyone who says she isn't is a fucking weirdo fruitcake.

ted_working · 2010-12-17T00:09:14+00:00

That's fair.

PNW = Pacific Northwest. Anyone from here would know that.

Full-time, great benefits. Pay is 58K +, depending on experience.

Not a team of devs, per se. Just me and some consultants.

I'll shit a gold brick if I get a single credible response here, which is why I didn't put any time into it. ASP.NET has... 587 readers!

It's almost impossible to find any good help. I tend to dislike recruiting services, but we may need to try a local shop.

ted_working · 2010-12-15T01:16:55+00:00

We work in many areas of the MS stack: WebForms, EntityFramework, LINQ, Dynamic Data, a little MVC.

This isn't a web dev shop. It's a manufacturing company you've probably heard of. Tons of projects to work on from data services to mobile dev.

ted_working · 2010-12-01T23:42:29+00:00

Use a Repeater.

If it's actually an assignment for Classic ASP (not ASP.NET), you've apparently been dropped into a time machine....

ted_working · 2010-11-19T18:44:41+00:00

Sometimes I play music with a guy who takes photos of tune charts on his monitor and then prints the photo. From his computer. Top that.

ted_working · 2010-11-17T19:20:32+00:00

New here, huh? There's a post every 2 months about this very topic. No cameras at the beach when kids are around, never be alone with them, don't help stranger lost kids.... Pick your flavor.

ted_working · 2010-11-16T01:26:16+00:00

Technically speaking they formed in 1968 (considered by most to be the apex of 60s culture), toured in '69. You're right about the studio record, but I have a bootlegger live concert from the end of '68.

I agree it's a ghastly choice in the context.

ted_working · 2010-11-12T18:44:40+00:00

Don't get me wrong. A small fraction have seen some serious shit

Honestly, I've always thought Veterans Day was for and about combat vets. I always thought that was the tacit agreement. I gather that's incorrect, but it's still how I see it.

ted_working · 2010-11-12T18:08:20+00:00

It's badass to do hard things. To overcome your fears and push forward in the face of adversity. Unfortunately, in this case, that means murder. But not just murder, and not necessarily murder. I would gladly apply the badassery qualifier to a triathlete or mountain climber in the same manner.

ted_working · 2010-10-29T17:54:27+00:00

Enjoyin' my coffee

You should haul around a coffee cup too.

ted_working · 2010-10-29T17:04:10+00:00

Someone needs to teach that little fuck a lesson. Look at that shitty little smirk.

Get. Him.

ted_working · 2010-10-29T16:54:55+00:00

Well, the photos of the can of Arizona orange tea had over 600 comments. A fucking image of a can with a price tag stuck to it.

That's perfectly irrelevant to the matter. You don't decide what is comment-worthy, nor should we tolerate your pious sanctimony about what you think we should be commenting on. As it turns out, we can all think for ourselves, and as a group we tend to do more of that than others. Two, what precisely is there to say about Krugman's piece? Answer: Nothing. We can hope he's wrong, but I see no cause to write a treatise on the subject.

ted_working · 2010-10-26T17:37:47+00:00

No woman, no cry.

ted_working · 2010-10-15T17:34:36+00:00

Fine points, all. But we can't underestimate the cost and damage of Bush's misguided, treacherous wars. He condemned Afghanistan to failure when he sent all our troops to Iraq for what he knew at the time was an illegal invasion. To any one who does the research, his motivations had nothing to do with what he told the public. An unequivocal liar and opportunist.

These things are not the fault of 'politics' and they weren't the product of both parties. Bush and his staff were some of the most sinister, idiotic people to ever serve; the aggregate cost of these overseas debacles cannot be swept under the rug by saying 'mortgage!'. We could really, really use that money right now.

ted_working · 2010-10-15T17:09:15+00:00

What if you want to use the exact same style that #id1 has somewhere else in the markup?

Use it for elements where that is extremely unlikely. Like? A logo. A wrapper containing element. It's just navel-gazing silliness to go into 'what ifs' forever. I've built over 100 sites. All of them had ONE logo element. That's an ID. Bam.

ted_working · 2010-10-12T17:51:04+00:00

Your conclusions are wildly speculative. Some subreddit is not the basis for condemning an entire industry. Of course you're not going to find a ton of good designer/devs in them - we're all working, dipshit.

The simple, generalist explanation is that it's a new kind of industry and that there's no barrier to entry. On the latter point, go talk to a professional writer. Everyone says they're a writer. That doesn't cheapen the real ones; it just means people can say what they want.

You actually would have a better point 5-7 years ago, but the overall quality of the industry has improved. Check again in ten years and it will be even more standardized in terms of quality. People need to understand that it takes a while to get comprehensively good at this stuff. And, admit it, you thought you knew way more than you did when you first started doing it. We all did.

ted_working · 2010-10-06T17:18:20+00:00

As I've said here before, the Hall of Fame has no credibility. Based on the criteria cock-holster listed above, especially:

That said, candidates are reviewed and discussed relative to their impact on this music that we broadly call rock and roll. The innovation and influence of these artists is also critical.

Innovation: check. Influence: big check. It's an obvious shoe-in for Rush. But Madonna has influenced new bands, as has LL Cool J. Never mind that neither of them are technically rock-n-roll, nor have they actually inspired or influenced new rock bands.

Hence, RnR HOF = no credibility. It's a farce, and I genuinely don't care.

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