You cannot eliminate bias - that is human. You can try to curtail it by having reporters state facts as facts and not offer conjecture. They should make every news piece an opinion piece by selectively withholding facts.
If one side overpowers and basically sidelines the other or multiple other viewpoints it's no longer free.
That would be interesting, but probably not very practical and/or hard to implement. I mean, on the one hand, many events can easily be misinterpreted when presented without context (that is, an idea of what led to the current situation); on the other hand, the bias could easily shift to simply not reporting selected events, which kind of already happens. I think as long as humans are involved there is going to be some bias. I think the US press is free from most government censorship.
It might be true that the press is mostly free from government censorship in the US (though certainly not completely); but as mentioned before, government censorship is only one way to control the media and it's not the primary method used in the west, as far as I can tell. |
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[...] The oldest city in Europe (2nd in the world), the city of Vinkovci   Why is there a cannon near the Cafe/Restaurant? Is it to get the clients that try to run away without paying?  [...] With 35 000 people (23 000 capable of working) 16 000 are unemployed  [...] With that many unemployed, how do people there get by? Is it through unemployment benefits and such? |
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Banned for not being previously banned.
Banned for trying to build a quote pyramid, negatively impacting other user's forum experience. |
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this is a good idea because I'm good at chess aka computer will play for me
When money/btc is involved, this will happen; some people will cheat the system anyway they can and I don't see how you could prevent them from simply using a program to play for them. On the other hand, if you want to reward programming skills, this might be a good idea. |
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It's a relatively small amount, but considering you are still a Junior Member here and have only traded with one forum user before, people will ask you to provide collateral as an assurance, as sana8410 mentioned. Do you have something you can use for that? If you don't, asking for loans is risky and tends to get your account negative trust from some members.
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Banned for being a hero.
Banned for abusing your powers in banning a hero member without proper justification. |
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Don't read below if you're scared of the cold hard truth:
Welp I guess I'm not reading whatever was below Here, I'll soften the blow for you: Dank has been seeing too much Men in Black, the movie.  |
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Here's another quote I like, this time from the movie Waking Life ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0243017/): The trick is to combine your waking rational abilities with the infinite possibilities of your dreams. Because if you can do that, you can do anything. |
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The site is loading slowly here.. it took almost 30 seconds to load completely
It was rather slow here too, though the truth is my net usually sucks.  Anyway, about the site, you could have also added that another way to make btc out of those sites is with referrals, especially since that's what you're doing there. |
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i used google chrome because it more easier and faster and i can change their theme too  Chrome is apparently faster in some areas (javascript for example), and slower in others (page loads for example). Regarding ease of use, from my experience both ff and opera are also very user friendly, unless you have a very specific usage in mind. And of course you can change themes in the other browsers as well (at least ff and opera). EDIT: lynx bro
Lynx ftw. |
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i'm still going with integers.
3!
So you mean 6? My bet is 1/Graham's number. Hey, you stole my joke zimmah. When does this end btc777stone? i'm still going with integers.
3!
Is that 3!, so 6? Anyway, since I'm here, I'll take 16. |
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[...] As for me, a decent PC would do. A PC is better than all other options. If not, the playstation has some very neat exclusive games. Kinect comes at a close second (so xbox) but as its target audience is casual gamers and kids, it's not really for me. Oh, and before anybody goes accusing me of trying to start a flame war, here's why the PC is better Elite Dangerous alpha + TrackIR: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amaI9HWq48U'Nuff said. Computer. That's where these games are made anyway.
Go for a maxed out gaming pc with a 50" Led and a pair or wireless xbox controllers.
We are sorely lacking representation in this poll, ssaillenss. PS: I don't know if you know this, but you can alter the poll options if you want. |
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I was using it to play around with OpenGl and see if I could do something cool with it. Ended up having problems with the GPU instead (it was an old laptop).  |
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10k Satoshi is max in happy hour if Stunna set 10k, then it doesn't matter you are whitelisted or not.
Ah, I see. Oh well, 10k is already pretty cool I guess; too bad I kind of suck at gambling.  |
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MICRO and PJ rewhitelisted everyone on the chat, you'd have to wait for him to wake up and ask.
Sorry, you'll have to live with 10K I guess
Wait, you can get more than the minimum 10k satoshi of the promotion per minute? Do tell me more... Seems like I'm going to have to visit PrimeDice more often. |
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Freedom of Press is a must for better communication but that does not justify illegal means or stolen means. This is why all press members must be able to provide source as the purpose is to serve public interest and the public interest should never jeopardize state interest or national security. If the source provided was in both public and State Interest, then the justice department should seen it as service rendered to humanity but not to business .
I think it's pretty obvious with the treatment of whistleblowers like Manning, Snowden, Drake and many others, what happens to the sources of information the government wants to keep secret: they get harassed, their character assassinated, jailed or exiled, and some of them tortured. And as much as one would hope the justice department would do its job and act on the released information (that often reveals abuse, corruption, and even war crimes), the truth is that they do the establishment's bidding instead. So, to argue that journalists should be able to always present their sources is nice, but quite unrealistic if you look at how things work in the real world. EDIT: and you need Freedom of Press for much more than just better communication between people; you need it to have a functioning democracy. |
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When does this end btc777stone? i'm still going with integers.
3!
Is that 3!, so 6? Anyway, since I'm here, I'll take 16. |
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The press, while free of the overt and covert trappings of authoritarian political system of government, is like many organizations - its own people have conflicting interests.
Including financial and political.
Individual inclinations and personal biases drive the press. Just look at al jahzeera and its constantly thinly veiled racism against many around the world who is non muslim or non pro arab, despite its overt and laughably obvious attempts to pretend it's being objective or fair.
Compared to that bitch fest, I would consider even FOX or CNN (two sides of the same coin) to be fair.
Hmmm not really sure what you mean by thinly veiled racism, always considiered Al Jazeera to be a fairly decent news organization.
Fox News however is the epitome of racism and xenophobia.
I mostly agree with newflesh here. I wouldn't personally trust news from Al Jazeera that concern Qatar or their immediate interests; but other than that I think they are probably the best of its kind, far better than the nonsense that is Fox News to be certain. Can you give us some examples of this supposed "thinly veiled racism" on their part? |
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Am I correct in assuming that if I wrote all 5 section I would receive.4 btc?
That's not the idea I got from it, considering the title of the thread states "paying 0.08 btc"; I think that's for the whole package. Now imagining all that requires only 1000 words (unlikely), that would be 0.00008 btc or about $0.05 per word, at current prices. That's not a very generous offer for what you're asking. I get the feeling people would find better deals than this in sites like odesk, freelancer or the like. |
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