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Re: Like A Bad Sugar Rush, Twinkie Black Market is Crashing

Suthnautr — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 07:43:57 -0000

Hollywood must have its time period props. No movie set convenience store will be fully authentic or complete without its pre-2013 period defining Twinkies. How much do you want to bet we'll also see more "casual" Hostess Snowball puchases by movie characters in the future as well? :) Whether Hostess goes bust for sure or not Hollywood, at least, will be buying Twinkies.

Re: Ann Coulter Advocates Shooting Occupy Protesters

Suthnautr — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 10:08:24 -0000

New Spin: Ann Coulter's hidden agenda is on the side of the protestors, she wants them to succeed.

Ann Coulter is voicing her desire that the Occupy movement succeed and that such success in her opinion requires that the government lose control and
that the protestors remain steadfast and prepare to make the ultimate
sacrifices necessary to justify starting and winning a revolution with
the world's approval.

Whatever she claims her words mean is not the point since saying she thinks pouring gasoline on a fire to put it out isn't what the actual end result will be even if everyone she tells her plan to is too ignorant to know it.

Re: Tina Dupuy Takes on the Tampa Tribune for fair payment

Suthnautr — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 20:05:16 -0000

Interesting. I've often sent emails to the editor of Hernando Today (owned by the Tampa Tribune), and am pleased to say that all but one were published. Letters to the editor commonly comment on recently published stories still in the minds of the readers, and make reference to these stories.

Thus it should have been obvious to the Tampa Tribune that the piece written by Tina Dupuy was entirely different in nature from a common comment reacting to just published news, and quite plainly an article for which she deserved and expected payment.

An example to prove the point is that after I took photos of a truck accident I presented them to the editor of the Hernando Today and he instructed me that they could not publish them until they had my social security number so they could pay me $25 for each photo they used. I'm glad Tina Dupuy made a stand and got paid.

This whole episode makes me wonder whether there's some deeper meaning here than simply taking Tina's story and using it without her permission. This one instance alone should give a clue to those at the Tampa Tribune and elsewhere why they're headed down hill.

Newspapers are all crying "broke" and blaming their woes on online newspapers and blogs. What has happened to the famous investigative reporting and "newspaper man" mentality that made newspapers so great in the past? Simply Googling "Tina Depuy" would have brought up the Huffington Post which describes Ms. Depuy as "an award-winning writer, investigative journalist and stand up comic". It takes just five seconds to Google a name - and they should have Google'd both the name and a line or two from her story as well. If they're not taking the time to do even this for every story they receive then they're not making any real effort. What if Tina's submitted work wasn't even her own but somebody else's and that story had already been published under a different name elsewhere? Simply pasting a line or two of Tina Depuy's story into Google might have shown that the content wasn't original and had been copyrighted elsewhere (neither of which happens to be true, of course). But if tomorrow someone calling himself "Ted Bundy" sent the Tampa Tribune part of a speech from Malcolm X and nobody at the paper checked the name and then the story, and then the Tribune went ahead and published it without even trying to contact Ted Bundy - the question is: What kind of junior high school quality newspaper is that?

Re: Judge to Microsoft: OK, You Can Keep Selling Word For a Couple More Days

Suthnautr — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 04:10:00 -0000

Meanwhile, back at the corral, MS Outlook suddenly stopped working with MSN / Hotmail due to their phasing out Web DAV. POP3 is available for those who pay for a "premium account" ($20 for each email address they have) with the recommendation to then "delete your DAV accounts". Some users were informed in June, but only if MS felt they needed to know.

That should infuse MS with their much needed fix of dough to help them stave off starvation should their Office sales drop off - never enough dough though to satisfy, but more than enough to alienate the millions of recession clobbered MS Outlook users who got plenty of "BING!" on their TV sets over the past few months, but not one useful word of warning about how their email would suddenly stop working.

I'm wondering what happens to all those xml documents saved to the hard drives of users who apply the expected MS Office patches? Maybe they'll face the same problems as Microsoft email account users. Doh! Did I say "maybe"?

Re: The Pirate Party Is Coming to Canada

Suthnautr — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 15:17:43 -0000

I'd like to see this party reach the United States. I'm tired of "stock issues" politics where nothing but the same old menu of predefined issues (few of which are important to me personally) are poorly debated. My world and so many other's today revolves heavily around information on the web – Four of the five planks in the Pirate Party platform: copyright reform, respect of privacy, net neutrality and definitely (most definitely) open government fall right into what I think are the most important issues today.