Displaying 2,551 To 2,580 Of 19,504 Comments What Issues Are You Passionate About? For which I am enormously grateful. » Posted By AdLib On April 8, 2014 @ 8:09 am Nirek, well done and I share your passion on the environment. Your setting up your solar energy system makes clear that you are committed to actions backing up your words. As to nuclear energy, 60 Minutes ran a segment last night, “Fukushima: Three Years Later” which wasn’t the best done or most investigative piece but did serve as a reminder as to the man made disaster that Japan will be living with for a very long time due to nuclear power. It’s also intended as a shout out to our wonderful Kalima as well: » Posted By AdLib On April 7, 2014 @ 11:33 am True Story Of A Vietnam Veteran Nirek, this story is so enlightening about the psychological compensation some vets feel driven to make after living through such severe carnage in war. There’s a kind of addictive quality to Tom’s need to kill deer at any cost, no matter what laws he has to break or how unprincipled he has to be. He truly appears to need to kill as almost a way to self-medicate the psychological scars he still suffers from. And it is daunting to consider how many young men are churned through the military and wars then end up like Tom, living their lives in a way that keeps the demons at bay. Thanks for this profile, it helps bring home the invisible psychological damage that subjecting people to war brings. » Posted By AdLib On April 11, 2014 @ 11:44 am Dr. Adlib Diagnoses Your Cable News As Having Alzheimer’s Disease Answering your comment above but ran out of room! Fox News is a great example of the most popular being the lowest quality. Same with RW talk radio, it’s got far more listeners and what they hear are the worst lies, racism and chauvinism from “political pundits”. So is Rush Limbaugh the best pundit because he has the largest audience (and pants size)? It’s more typically the opposite, the most popular things are generally of worse quality than something that isn’t as broadly targeted. » Posted By AdLib On May 7, 2014 @ 4:21 pm monicaangela, thank you so much for all the kind things you expressed about The Planet! The atmosphere of The Planet is generated by our members including you. The sense of openness, wisdom, humor, community and being able to genuinely express oneself and receive thoughtful responses is greatly valued by me as a blogger as well. Most of our members came from HP. It does take an adjustment to go from the fast-paced, brief (and quickly disappearing) comments there to the more moderately paced, more substantial and ongoing discussions here. (for example, we’re still having discussions on this thread and it started on the 3rd). For some coming to The Planet, it is a welcome oasis but for others, it doesn’t feel kinetic enough. As I mentioned to Unca, when one takes advantage of all the other features here that are in addition to our conversations on news and issues, it can be a lot more satisfying and varied than HP and other megablogs. I always hope that new members coming from HP give it time to adjust to a new site and will appreciate the differences of what a site like The Planet has to offer. We really like having as many people of substance, principle and conscience as we can have here! And the more diverse opinions, the better! Thanks again monica! Very pleased to have you on The Planet! » Posted By AdLib On May 7, 2014 @ 12:41 pm Unca, it does seem like trying to hold back the ocean but you of course have every right to protest society and the world for applying a definition to the word “avatar” that you find inappropriate. Just FYI, here is the definition of “avatar” as it appears in a Google search which is similar to every definition of it I could find on every other dictionary site: [img]https://planetpov.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Avatar-definition.png[/img] As for your proposition about the computer usage of “avatar” coming from the movie, “avatar” was being used to describe representational images many years prior to the debut of the movie “Avatar” (I was using avatars prior to the movie as well). This is what I found on Wikipedia: The use of the term avatar for the on-screen representation of the user was coined in 1985 by Chip Morningstar in designing Lucasfilm’s online role-playing game Habitat. GIF avatars were introduced as early as 1990 in the ImagiNation Network (also known as Sierra On-Line) game and chat hybrid. In 1994, Virtual Places offered VOIP capabilities which were later abandoned for lack of bandwidth. In 1995, KeepTalking, a product of UNET2 Corporation, was one of the first companies to implement an avatar system into their web chat software. In 1995, Cybertown first introduced three dimensional avatars to internet chat.[citation needed] In 1996 Microsoft Comic Chat, an IRC client that used cartoon avatars for chatting, was released.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avatar_%28computing%29 The movie, “Avatar” premiered in 2009, around 20 years after the first usages of avatars in the computer world. It actually was the other way around from what you were thinking, the concept and title of the movie grew out of the use of computer avatars which gave users an alternate identity to “live” in. Coincidentally, I just published a new article that in a (hopefully) humorous way, makes the point that in pursuing an agenda, we can assign our own meanings to any words we choose but in doing so, we obscure the original meanings and sometimes communication itself. The McDonalds allegory I offered was intended to illustrate how the lowest common denominator usually attracts the most people but usually represents the lowest quality product. McDonalds’ burgers are made of cheap and poor quality substances with many artificial chemicals, engineered to appeal to the masses. So, more people eat McDonalds hamburgers than any others. That doesn’t mean their burgers are better than a local diner’s…in fact they aren’t better. So to complete the circle, it seems inaccurate to me to attribute an entity’s quality with the quantity of people patronizing it. Just because a website like HP is so popular and has thousands of people loyally “buying” what they sell, it doesn’t make HP a “better” site. A site that currently has the following front page headlines alongside news story headlines is hardly what I would consider a quality site, instead, HP clearly prides itself on appealing to the lowest common denominator: The Secret To Heavy Drinking Without Getting Wasted Alan Simpson Doles Out The Sex Advice You Didn’t Want Stars Of ‘Clueless’ Reunite After 19 Years Bradley Cooper Doesn’t Look Like This Anymore The Creepiest Mother’s Day Gift Of All Time 4 Ways To Find Joy In A Sexless Marriage WHOA These Things Would Be Deal Breakers If We Didn’t Love Our Spouses So Much Fox News. Wow. No, That’s Not Ice Cream, It’s A Pizza Cone! I appreciate that you feel strongly about the issues above so if you find none of this convincing, I guess we will just have to agree to disagree on all of this but no hard feelings. » Posted By AdLib On May 7, 2014 @ 12:20 pm Unca, PlanetPOV is a community-driven site and is operated by those motivated by conscience who volunteer their time to post and run this site. It’s actually a bit ironic, instead of using a comment to criticize the membership and site for not having the degree of participation and content you’d like to see, you could have contributed those kinds of things you want to see more of here in a post or a comment. What’s also bewildering is that you acknowledge the kindness of people at this site towards you yet your response to their hospitality and generosity is to express negative criticism of their site and a declaration not to continue here. These members both provide original content at this site and contribute financially so that it operates and was available for you to have come to and use freely. I think that’s at least worthy of not being disrespected on that same site. As Kalima explained, The Planet is not a site that just reposts the same news stories found at every other site, we assume our members know their many options for that and don’t need the redundancy here. Instead, they can post articles and comments on their opinions about the news, the world and life. And here, as you’ve experienced, members can have and continue longer and more substantive discussions with smart and thoughtful people on issues they care about. Without also participating in Vox Populi, Morning Blog, The Weekend Music Thread or The Sunday Funnies, one might not “get” The Planet fully and miss a lot of what this community and site are about. It is unfortunate that your misunderstanding of what an avatar is has been a cause of such frustration. Just so you understand, an avatar is any image that you associate with yourself online, at a blog, in online gaming, or any website. Whether it is a picture (even an actual picture of yourself), a cartoon or whatever image you’ve chosen to represent you, it is called an avatar. Your avatar/picture hasn’t been and can’t be lost by us since you say you uploaded it as you were supposed to at Gravatar.com (which is a separate site from PlanetPOV). Though I do like avatars, it surprises me that something as ancillary at a political blog as a brief delay in one’s avatar appearing is such an issue. PlanetPOV is a unique site in the blogosphere, it is not corporately owned and soulless and it is not a site where the disingenuous or hostile can find a comfortable perch. It is a site run by and for bloggers, where freedom of expression is highly respected and members are empowered to post front page articles on any topic that they care about. Admittedly, PlanetPOV is more of a select citizens’ think tank than a news and comments supermarket like HP where an individual is pretty irrelevant and thoughts expressed are as disposable as candy wrappers. There are those who prefer a busy mall with big stores to a boutique and vice versa. Where I differ is that I think that both have their plusses. What I would offer though is that judging the quality of a blog by the quantity of members posting is like saying McDonalds makes the best-tasting hamburgers in the world because more people eat there than the great local diner down the block. In any case, I hope you find what you are looking for wherever you land and wish you the best. » Posted By AdLib On May 5, 2014 @ 7:26 pm Cheers, KT. Quite a compliment, thanks! » Posted By AdLib On April 4, 2014 @ 3:44 pm Shamon indeed! Thanks James! » Posted By AdLib On April 4, 2014 @ 3:43 pm James, loved it, very clever! How about this one: Your bit is lyin’ Come on You’re giving us Well they say it’s just tv Because you’re bad, you’re bad, come on » Posted By AdLib On April 4, 2014 @ 2:34 pm Indeed James, we just might do that! » Posted By AdLib On April 4, 2014 @ 1:34 pm James, puts a lot of badly needed perspective out there. I didn’t study journalism but have always held in in such high regard and like you, saw Woodward and Bernstein as very inspirational…along with Murrow and a few others. It is a genuine tragedy to see what corporate control of the news has wrought, the hollowing out of journalistic standards and integrity. The Founders saw the press as the unspoken fourth branch of government, if the three other branches failed, the press would be the final safety net that would protect the public…hence the very first Amendment protecting the freedom of the press. There are those journalists still fighting the good fight, sometimes at great personal risk, but the corporately-owned tv talk show hosts masquerading as journalists are what Americans see most. No matter people are less informed today about current events than previous generations. They’re inundated with corporate-mindful blather and the very trivial (“What mokey business are Miley, Bieber and the Kardashians up to today???”) Don’t know where we’d be today if there wasn’t an internet, if these corporate news shows had a total monopoly on the public discourse. » Posted By AdLib On April 4, 2014 @ 1:31 pm Hey James, nice one! Back at ya… “I watched the news today, oh boy. » Posted By AdLib On April 4, 2014 @ 1:19 pm Nirek, sorry to say but this condition is mostly irreversible and all case studies seem to point to the condition worsening over time. Don’t be surprised to find your cable news eventually regressing to the point of simply making funny noises and needing frequent diaper changes. » Posted By AdLib On April 4, 2014 @ 1:09 pm ppo, I was actually thinking that I may need to post a new glossary for modern day tv news terms, such as: BREAKING NEWS » Posted By AdLib On April 4, 2014 @ 1:06 pm Really appreciate it, ppo! But I thought it was the Babble Prize I would be up for. Have to say, I’m very interested in your research on morning shows and their transformation into children’s-styled shows. I think that muppet that’s named Matt Lauer really helps make that case. Cheers! » Posted By AdLib On April 4, 2014 @ 1:03 pm Kalima, as a pretend physician, I try not to get emotional about my patients. It’s just a good thing my pretend nurse was able to pull the 2 x 4 out of my hands before I whacked all of them over the head. I will be looking for that medal! It will look great next to my medical license from the Cheerios box. You can call me Adlib, PHD (Pretend Head Doctor). » Posted By AdLib On April 4, 2014 @ 12:57 pm KT, I think I could also make a case for schizophrenia for cable news as well! Thanks pal!!! » Posted By AdLib On April 4, 2014 @ 12:54 pm Under New Texas Law, Pregnant Women To Be Highly Regulated Assumed, it could indeed happen. Heh, one of my more successful April’s Fools posts…because it’s so close to Republican reality! » Posted By AdLib On April 16, 2014 @ 1:54 pm Heh! Thanks James! I’m thinking of it more now as a real article from the future. » Posted By AdLib On April 2, 2014 @ 2:16 pm PPO, wouldn’t that be great? Oh, the damage I could do over there! » Posted By AdLib On April 2, 2014 @ 2:13 pm jj, that’s even a step further than my prank post! I’ve heard of these lunatics proposing such bills but I couldn’t imagine even Repub legislators being willing to have their own wives and daughters arrested and convicted of murder for a miscarriage. Then again, they are Republicans… » Posted By AdLib On April 2, 2014 @ 2:12 pm Kalima, isn’t it amazing how “wrong” and absurd it seems to have Republicans saying true or reasonable things? Why am I smiling at each of your quotes? If they had come from Dems I’d just be nodding. Pretty simple and direct proof of how awful the GOP has become. » Posted By AdLib On April 2, 2014 @ 2:09 pm As long as the Republican Party has a convention overseas, couldn’t it be in The Black Hole of Calcutta? » Posted By AdLib On April 2, 2014 @ 2:01 pm Kalima, imagine what RWs would post on their site on April Fool’s Day, “Republicans to be Reasonable and Work to Make the Nation Better.” Or, “Tea Party Bars Racists From Being Members.” Trying to simulate Repub thinking requires restrained lunacy while simulating Republicans pranking on April Fool’s Day just requires expressing common sense. I don’t think RW’s would be pleased by reading this post and comments, just confused at why the post would be seen as an outrage. Happy Day After April Fool’s Day! » Posted By AdLib On April 1, 2014 @ 10:46 pm Just that little old April Fool, me. » Posted By AdLib On April 1, 2014 @ 10:26 pm Thanks PPO, I owe you a round of blood pressure tablets! » Posted By AdLib On April 1, 2014 @ 10:25 pm Kes, it’s ridiculous but true, I’ll be keeping my eyes peeled too! I was considering blowing out the post at the end just as you described, requiring women to eat BBQ and carry guns to fully protect their unborn baby, we do think a lot alike! » Posted By AdLib On April 1, 2014 @ 10:20 pm Yep, it is an April Fool’s Day joke, jj…at least for the time being but what’s parody one day becomes Texas law the next! » Posted By AdLib On April 1, 2014 @ 10:09 pm Thanks Nirek! Wanted to go just a half step above reality to make it work but a half step beyond reality is just 6 months ahead of actual Republican thinking! » Posted By AdLib On April 1, 2014 @ 2:42 pmComments Posted By AdLib
Gonna tell you right
You show your farce
On broadcast nights
I’m telling you
We’ve had our fill
You’ve hurt our minds
Don’t smile, you shills
Come on
Don’t play it on me
All right
IQs of three
So just get stuffed
Or let news be
I’m telling you
Won’t watch your shows
We know your game
You’re just news ho’s
And to me that’s really true
But my friend you have seen nothin’
Just wait ’til we get through
You know you’re bad, you’re bad, come on, you know
You know you’re bad, you’re bad, come on, you know
And the whole world has to
Answer right now
Just to tell you once again
You’re bad!
Four dozen hacks on networks, everywhere
And though their minds were rather small
They had to show them all
Now they know how many hacks it takes to fill the newsroom hall
I’d love to turn you off.”
Definition: The retitling of previously broadcast story in order to make it appear as something new that could entice viewers from leaving a channel that mostly recycles previous broadcast stories.
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