Comment I don't sort (Score 1) 195
Mainly because I'm out of sorts...
Mainly because I'm out of sorts...
Weird outliers exist in every industry, and in every time. It's just that now get mroe examples of it worldwide, in realtime.
Five bits of anecdotal weirdness do not a trend make.
...you mean hundreds of thousands, as numerous pictures from Newspapers and Twitter have shown.
The rest of your post is of similar accuracy.
Now why don't you tell us how Euromaidan in Ukraine is "just a handful of extremists"?
Given the furious pace of technological change, there's no reason to assume any current distribution model will last 50 years. Maybe not even 20.
The following used to be important distribution channels or outlets:
Where are they now? Dead or dying.
Push the timescale out long enough, and the future of Apple, Amazon, YouTube, Time Warner/Comcast, NPR, The New York Times, and broadcast TV are no more assured.
Will they be replaced by Kickstarter? They'll probably be replaced by the thing that replaces the things that replaces Kickstarter...
"Smith!" screamed the shrewish voice from the telescreen. "6079 Smith W.! Yes, YOU! Bend lower, please! You can do better than that. You’re not trying. Lower, please! THAT’S better, comrade."
...than being denied particular coursework on an Internet they're not allowed to access anyway. Things like surviving on $20 a month and avoiding getting arrested for owning unauthorized shrimp.
"For legal reasons, the trucks are always rolling!"
No chance at success. Just like the rest of ObamaCare, a misconceived piece of legislation that managed to take a market plagued by serial distortions of preferential tax treatment for third-party insurance and actually make them worse by larding on an individual mandate and even larger subsidies to insurance companies.
And the worst is yet to come, when some 80 million additional employer-sponsored policies are cancelled.
The failure of the website is just the cherry on top of incompetent conception, planning and execution all along the line. It can take Apple or Microsoft 6 months to fix the bugs in a major release to an X.1 release, and Accenture is supposed to take someone else's far-more-dysfunctional code-base and make it work in 8 weeks?
Not going to happen, and just another example of the serial dishonesty and manifest incompetence of the Obama Administration.
...another small electronic device to hurl across the room and smash into little bits!
We all know that 2014 will be The Year of Linux on the Desktop!
Interesting, because the Dallas Police Department was accused of massaging the crime statistics back when Tom Leppert was Mayor.
"Get in ma belly!"
"#ChompChompChomp"
"Check out Buzzfeed's 27 Best Feeding Frenzies"
"This One Trick Helps You Catch Swimmers" #SharkSpam
"You can't escape!" #NeverGonnaGiveYouUp
"And my teeth are...pearly white..."
"I totally loved Jaws, except for that downer of an ending...
...won't fix. Time-Warner and T-Mobil just need to pony up, and then the crony capitalist decision-making will kick in ala Solyndra, GM, CGI and Serco...
Microsoft should extend support for XP...but only on a cash-for-patch basis. Sell patches at $5 a pop for XP user's, or a one Year Security Update Subscription for $20.
It's a win-win situation....
This would not be the first time. Earlier this year, the Extremely Vocal Minority had Locus Online take down my April Fools piece.
Original feminists had real complaints. Third Wave/Race Critical Theory/Victimhood Identity Politics feminists seem to believe that they have a right not to be offended.
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