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I've got to agree with PBS on this. If it is frivolous for Romney to focus on Big Bird, isn't it just as frivolous for Obama to focus on Romney focusing on Big Bird? I also don't like that the commercial does not explicitly defend public television, it just uses it as a prop. Sesame Street is noble institution that shouldn't be dragged through the mud of politics.

The media would play it up, all right, but from the wrong side. The CBC and BBC, the two most strongly independent outlets of mainstream media have both already done clear hit pieces on Assange, wildly out of character. Strong Independent media like TYT and HuffPost would get dragged through the mud. If you think Tea Party v. OWS was a nation divided, that was nothing.

And the issue is too complex for the average Joe Lunchpail to understand, so it's going to be won, as usual, by bluster. And all the mainstream media together can produce more bluster than all the independent media, and there's not a hope in hell that any but a small portion of independent media outlets will withstand the pressure and put any effort into taking up Assange's case.

Like @Hybrid said, dead man walking.>> ^L0cky:

I'd love to tell Assange to just do it, hand himself over, get extradited, and trigger a huge campaign to have him released; thus bettering society in the long run; etc.
However, I have a funny feeling not enough people would turn out, and the media wouldn't play it up enough; and eventually he'd be left to rot in a cell, all but forgotten; and we'd just be worse off.

Mud again? ...and I taught him to pick up 15 lb rocks last week.

Nice @critical_d. An even more layman explanation:

When your computer tries to load a domain name like "videosift.com" it asks your local Domain Name Servers (usually provided by your ISP) a question like "What is the numeric address of videosift.com?"

The name servers check whatever their records state and that's what they return. In this case, they were returning an old address that is no longer functional, so your computer says, "Okay, I got the address. Let's connect to it," but it fails and your browser goes kaput with "Can't connect!"

When we make a change to our DNS records, it's at a single place: the authority who has control over our domain (e.g., GoDaddy [though, that's intentionally not who we're with]). Once we've made a change, all the DNS servers around the entire planet need to get updated with the new domain-name-to-IP-address translation. Some get updated quickly while others take a very long time (depending on factors we won't cover in this seminar).

For those whose DNS servers take a very long time, there are two loopholes:

1) Before asking a DNS server to translate a domain name, your computer looks at its "hosts" file. If you've specified the address for a domain there, that's the address it will use. (You could really screw with someone by changing the address of google.com, for example, to some other address.)

2) You can change your computer's DNS servers to something like Google's, which are 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4. They tend to get updated pretty quickly in many cases, so when your computer asks for the IP address of videosift.com, it will get the right answer.

Clear as mud?

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quicksand or just mud?

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Next, next
Naked as sin An army towel covering my belly Some of us blush Somehow knees turning to jelly
Next, next
I was still just a kid There were a hundred like me I followed a naked body A naked body followed me
Next, next
I was still just a kid When my innocence was lost In a mobile army whorehouse Gift of the army, free of cost
Next, next
Me, I really would have liked A little bit of tenderness Maybe a word, a smile An hour of happiness
But next, next
Oh, it wasn't so tragic The high heavens didn't fall But how much of that time I hated being there at all
Next, next, next
Now I always will recall The brothel truck, the flying flags The queer lieutenant who slapped Our asses as if we were fags
Next, next
I swear on the wet head Of my first case of gonorrhea It is his ugly voice That I forever hear
Next, next, next
That voice that stinks of whiskey Of corpses and of mud It is the voice of nations It is the thick voice of blood
Next, next, next
And since then each woman I have taken to bed Seems to laugh in my arms To whisper through my head
Next, next
All the naked and the dead Should hold each other's hands As they watch me scream at night In a dream no one understands
Next, next
And when I am not screaming In a voice grown dry and hollow I stand on endless naked lines Of the following and the followed
Next, next, next, next
One day I'll cut my legs off Or burn myself alive Anything, I'll do anything To get out of line to survive
Not ever to be next Not ever to be next

When I do that, at least half the mud ends up on the ground or my boots, two-fifths ends up smeared all over the side of the blocks, and the remaining fifth where it's supposed to be. This is not counting whatever amount I accidentally fling across the room when I'm trying to pick it up with my trowel.

This is why you hire professionals.

http://videosift.com/video/Port-Townsend-WA-my-hometown

If you are on the Olympic Peninsula, be sure to come see Port Townsend...


In reply to this comment by CrushBug:
>> ^bareboards2:

http://videosift.com/video/Permafrost-is-leaving-us-mud-avalan
ches-now-happening
Related?


Not really. The whole west coast has been getting tons of rain for most of June and some of July. I am on vacation this month and we have been going through BC and Washington state. We missed most of the rains of June, but we have seen many highway clearing operations dealing with mudslides.

Permafrost is way up north. This place is east of the Kelowna area, where it has been 28-38 degrees C when we were there, so it was pretty damn hot. Not any permafrost there. :

Ah ha!

Just like a geographically challenged American to not know this.

Although record rains may be related as further climate crisis.


>> ^CrushBug:

>> ^bareboards2:
http://videosift.com/video/Permafrost-is-leaving-us-mud-avalan
ches-now-happening
Related?

Not really. The whole west coast has been getting tons of rain for most of June and some of July. I am on vacation this month and we have been going through BC and Washington state. We missed most of the rains of June, but we have seen many highway clearing operations dealing with mudslides.
Permafrost is way up north. This place is east of the Kelowna area, where it has been 28-38 degrees C when we were there, so it was pretty damn hot. Not any permafrost there.

>> ^bareboards2:

http://videosift.com/video/Permafrost-is-leaving-us-mud-avalan
ches-now-happening
Related?


Not really. The whole west coast has been getting tons of rain for most of June and some of July. I am on vacation this month and we have been going through BC and Washington state. We missed most of the rains of June, but we have seen many highway clearing operations dealing with mudslides.

Permafrost is way up north. This place is east of the Kelowna area, where it has been 28-38 degrees C when we were there, so it was pretty damn hot. Not any permafrost there.

http://videosift.com/video/Permafrost-is-leaving-us-mud-avalanches-now-happening

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