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MMS is Microsoft Media Services. You can download the WMV file if you want, usually. However, it's only a small 2K or so file that points the player to the streaming server that the video is hosted on. So you don't actually download the video, just a pointer to it. It's streaming, so you can't right-click save-as and watch it on your hard drive while offline or after the server deletes the video.

Verizon? Yes. -=Mike ...Wireless, not landline I've heard they play the same "We don't need unions" video, but still leave the option open and have some employees who choose to go union. At least, that's what I've been told to believe. If so, Wal-Mart could stand to learn a lot from your example. I don't know if you're aware but in the case of Wal-Mart, employees are being treated so poorly because Wal-Mart is so politically moved to fight unions at all costs. The employees don't get health coverage, so they have to turn to the remaining public-funded health clinics still operating around the country. That means you and I are paying for sick and injured Wal-Mart employees, because Wal-Mart thinks competitively low prices are more important than employee medical coverage. And we're all paying for it, even if we don't go to Wal-Mart. Doesn't that abuse of the public strike your conservative gene just a little and make you a tiny bit upset? Or are you so far to the side of the business owners that it doesn't offend you?

I'll blame STDs.

I am shocked! SHOCKED!!

Once Vince gets word of this, he's going to put his foot down... On Johnny Ace, that is. Why is this guy trying to STOP this? Vince has the WORKED-SHOOT ANGLE OF THE YEAR in the palm of his hands.

Sing it with me! o/` Dream on, dream on, dream on, DREAM ON, DREAM ON, DREAM ON.. o/` I'm guessing that, just like the DS and PSP, I'm not going to buy until I see a game for it that I have to get. I've had Gotta Have It Now syndrome with previous new systems, but SNES had Super Mario World which was worth the launch price, and Xbox and PS2 were simply so different from the previous generation. These new machines, well, PS3 will put Sony in a better position spec-wise with Microsoft, but I don't really predict massive changes. They're now reaching the same plateau that the PC has been at for a while now.

That's wrong. There's a certain shade of gray that's less likely to burn in. Black bars can be a problem. On many HD sports events, 4:3 shots have images on the side (like Monday Night Football does a replay, and ABC logos on a red background appear on the sides.) My Dad used to watch NASCAR races on NBC-HD and while the quality wasn't really great (NBC's HD support is also akin to a comedy of errors), the extra picture did help. When they went to commercials, the sides were a frosty-covered copy of the left and right sides of the 4:3 picture, so as to sort of give the impression that the picture filled your screen when it didn't. But it still kept the motion and colors going on the sides so that black bars wouldn't burn any projection viewers. ESPN-HD used to use black bars all the time except for their occasional 16:9 programs, and even then some programs (notably SportsCenter) have to use 4:3 anytime they show anything other than the anchor. Finally, a few months ago ESPN added an image to the sidebars, to the delight of projection owners. If you want to talk to some people who seriously know projection TVs, I'd start here. Pick the forum for your TV type.

Fair 'nuff. As I told Marney around a year ago, both parties have their crosses to bear, and some of them just happen to be on fire. Actually, I've bitched about Byrd a few times. I know the guy's a closet racist, just like David Duke and, IMHO, Strom and Zell. The last two are simply my own personal opinion formed by my observations of racist older people within my own family. Can you prove otherwise? Makes sense, if this person is one of his earliest followers, he'd have known about them early on well before the paper. I just can't ignore the blatantly obvious. Not at all. I'm pointing out the absurdity that the President believes the liberal media myth (which is easily proven by a number of situations: Cheney called the Post "not a friendly paper," Bush carried Bernie Goldberg's book to his flight shortly after it was published, and more I've seen but don't remember) and yet does not have a problem sitting down for an interview with a paper whose owner has been quoted as saying it promotes the Republican Party. I mean, Fox News at least gets credit for Murdoch and Ailes at all times insisting it's unbiased and impartial.

Yet he quit in the 50s. And when I call Zell Miller out on some of his lovely comments (like that "black porridge" one) or talked about Strom Thurmond you go out of your way to tell me what reformers they are. Yes, you are correct. People forgive some pretty despicable things when it suits them politically. You are a prime example. Can you PROVE it? -=Mike Former editor and early Sun Myung Moon follower Josette Shiner was appointed U.S. Deputy Trade Representative in 2003. Source

I can't remember CNN saying soldiers are targeting journalists, either. I can't remember when this guy's belief, crazy as it is, was reported on CNN-TV. I cannot remember his conspiracy theory being spread by CNN in any form. You're concerned because of the potential of a guy who believes in a conspiracy such as this being an influence in the news you watch, even if CNN isn't breaking in to say "US shoots reporters!" It's the paranoia about the kind of people who are choosing what you'll see and hear from the news. So I'm telling you about some of my paranoia, too.

Like you have room to talk. You've criticised him about it before in political arguements, proving your own point. Considering they got rid of the guy, I'd say they're a much more responsible organization than, say, the group below. Do you not consider he puts followers in important positions?

I'd bet dollars to doughnuts it's free. VOD services, including "networks" that exist only on VOD like The Concert Network or The Anime Network (although recently the latter added their own broadcast variant, it's only provided by one regional carrier in the entire country and no others) are free. The only thing pay on any carrier I heard of are PPVs and the HBO/Starz/Showtime On Demand sections, where you need to be a subscriber of the live channels to get into the VOD sections.

But then you won't get the closure of knowing if it's your CD drive or the CDs themselves. And if it is some crazy copy protection scheme, that won't work very well.

They actually did specifically mention satellite providers in an earlier press release. I believe they are working on creating an actual broadcast station like I have been nagging for since the beginning.

Double click on the speaker icon in the bottom right corner and make sure the volume knob labeled something like CD or CD Audio is turned up. If that doesn't work, my second guess is that this is some crazy CD copy protection scheme, as more and more of them these days just make the disc completely unplayable in a computer, even in legitimate ways. Try putting in the oldest music CD you have and seeing if it happens there.

You can be against rape like anyone else, or you can be against rape to the extent where you're going through the state's sex offender list and writing addresses so you can go around strangling them in their sleep.

Look, race-hate occurs because people have some sort of complex where they do not like someone because of the color of their skin. While a lot of people say a lot of nasty things about Dr. Rice, not many of them have been inspired because they hate black people. I don't think I've ever heard anyone say "Condi Rice is a liar and a con-artist and holds responsibility for the deaths of so many, but you know why I really don't like her? Because she's black." Get a brain. If you had the proper focus I wasn't saying that this guy's comments weren't a news story. That's even idiotic to suggest, although it's happened before (CNN reporting on Ted Turner's looniest comments, namely.) I mean that despite all the power this guy wields at CNN, you didn't see a Breaking News alert over reports that soldiers are intentionally fitinig at reporters. Whoo. Look what the ownership of the Washington Times believes in. And yet, until Moonie sermons start appearing in that paper, some people will still feel fit to cite it as a legitimate source. Even the President sat down for an interview with them recently.

I think rape is bad. But if I was so passionate that I would be pleasured by lining up rapists and shooting them all dead, then I'd probably go through the proper channels to deal with this. Well, either that or go see a psych about my aggression first.

Ditto this, although I was concerned saying that would be called unfairly criticising the dead or something by others. It's embarassing all the way around, really. Granted, nowadays you probably can't hijack a plane in the US without everyone ganging up and beating you down and tying you up until you land, but that honestly should have been happening before 9/11. It's also sad that because one guy decides to use his shoes as an explosive every flyer has to take off his shoes at the airport check-in, which always looks like it was assembled in 3 minutes in a room that used to be a lobby or a cafe or something, even though Airport Security has existed since the 70s and airports (around here anyway) still don't really have an actual place built specifically for it. This line, when exxagerated, often stretches into the next ZIP code. Fuck it. I say we totally adopt Israel's model. No hour-long security waits while they do everything short of feel your goods, and still security tight enough that nobody would want to fuck with it. It works for them over there, and El-Al has been a much bigger target than American airlines are.

I think it's okay to support a war and not automatically sign up in it. I think if you get to the point where you're so completely caught up in the war that you exhibit the kind of emotional passion for it that Mike does, whereupon you say that you would enjoy killing evildoers that have shrugged off their humanity, it's time to either suit up or deal with people calling you chickenhawk.

Not really. There's little to no chance they'll launch the weapon. The threat of launching a nuke is the only thing NK has to bargain. If they go ahead and do it, it'll be raining bombs from pretty much every global player there is. Their only real tactic is the threatening gestures of having a nuke, and to see exactly what they can milk out of everyone else for that. Also, you lefts who are turning this into Bush/Iraq are derailing the thread. The point that Iraq isn't the most threatening country to us is a good arguement (even if Saddam had WMD, his weapons would have to go longer to reach us than NK's) but getting into what Dumbya did/didn't know is really in the wrong place. Ditto Mike for taking the bait that NoCal and Robo threw out.

Well, if they just said that in classes I guess I'd be happy. But only if they have the instrumental playing on a sound system.

The way I see it, people will always see the Democrats as The Leftist Party, no matter where they're positioned. If they're a centerist in world politics (which they currently are), they're the leftist party. If they're trying to do that Republican US-conservative wannabe thing, they're the leftist party. It does not matter to try and avoid labels as there's a stigma there that exists no matter where they are on the spectrum. The only real goal is to make sure that they're still right to the Greens, because the other stigma is that any party further to the left of the Democrats is nuts.

I'm also a little concerned that: Is not specifically political, therefore it is vague enough that it may open the door to teaching creationism or "evolution is just a theory" talk in college, which is insane and should be left to the likes of Bob Jones Uni.

Again, if this was done because the cartoonists were racist against people with black skin, Colin Powell would have taken a beating, too. In fact, the only time someone DID attack someone in the Bush administration for the color of their skin was when someone called Powell as a house servant. And he was rightly bitched to hell by everyone. Well that's just an obvious conclusion. Reports are that she and he really think alike, despite the fact that she's so well- educated and he talks like a buffoon despite his diplomas. Reportedly, she can finish his senteces before he can quite often and once she almost called him "my husband" at a dinner function before correcting herself. Even the smartest person can be dragged down to yes-man level if offered power, really. Despite this guy's stroke at CNN, it hasn't been reported on that news station. I know you're trying to use this to set up an arguement that any old story can be reported on CNN as fact without any kind of credibility. But you're missing a critical piece, there.