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It's really part of a bigger picture - the mindless hyping of every event. Every storm seems to be a storm-of-the-century (I exaggerate, but only a bit).
You have several groups at fault:
- News crews with nothing to really report - so they just talk (learned from sport casters).
- Pundits with nothing to say so they create endless scenarios, competing with one another.
- Sponsors who'll pay the above to to do what they do. These three consider it entertainment.
- Critics who will bitch if it's understated or hyped, because they need to complain about the
media as though they hate what they need to complain to validate their existence.
- But most to blame is a world-wide public who's every more witless in their interpretation of
information.
I just look at the NOAA[^] for reports without an agenda. Just probabilities.
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This made me laugh. I needed that. 
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Keep safe people, and stay updated! ![Java | [Coffee]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/coffee.gif)
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All they have to do is repeat this a few more times and everyone will just ignore them... crying wolf, etc. The ridiculous repetition....
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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The media has it's own cloud now.
In Word you can only store 2 bytes. That is why I use Writer.
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I think folks like the ones in CNN, would be more happy to see destruction happen.
If the hurricane swirl on the map just took some turn and moved away from your country, the reactions inside their rooms would be like "Oh sh*t this swirl of cr*p changed its mind, we need to get back to some other boiling hot news". If nothing's boiling, of course they can make one do.
We got a lot of CNNs in India.
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy Falcon.
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Munchies_Matt wrote: CNN, at the bottom of the screen, replaying endlessly the same animated pattern. Utterly fake.
It is easily believable that CNN would be inaccurate but what makes you think the wind meter is wrong?
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Well . . . he was there, too, and his complaining is because he didn't get on TV to give the results of his own pinwheel anemometer (wind meter). He just bought a new raincoat for his TV appearance, too!
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In general, I liked the coverage (CNN and local networks that sent reporters down there) ; I watch couple of minutes here and there all over the day yesterday, and it was enough.
I would not have spend the whole day watching it though.
As much as I would have liked to be in the wind there (tied up and fully dressed with a fullface helmet), I was happy to be lounging at home.
For what it's worth, It was very impressive !!
I'd rather be phishing!
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Munchies_Matt wrote: that fake wind speed meter on CNN, at the bottom of the screen, replaying endlessly the same animated pattern
MS could actually use this as another indeterminate progress monitor. 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Meh. If the video showed how to turn base metals into gold, now... 
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
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But I have to supply my own gold-bearing rocks.  
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Sorry if I have mislead you, but the one to blame is the maker of the YouTube video, I propose to sue him, any votes for this ? 
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Or even better... some green[^]
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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It's either fake or illegal. You know that because of the fake voice. They are hiding their identity.
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Nurdrage's a long standing science account; run by multiple people[^]. The founder is out of the closet; not sure if any of the others are. I've never seen anything illegal; but a lot of it is dangerous if you don't know what you're doing. I suspect an initial desire for psuedo-anonymity for that reason, along with keeping the presentation the same regardless of who produces any given episode now that there're multiple presenters is why the voice's masked.
(reposted because it's too early in the morning and my brain's not fully online yet.)
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Ahhh - the song of the amateur.
They try all sorts of solvents and found one that works - from the list mentioned, our speaker apparently hasn't every studied coordination chemistry. With knowledge of what they were looking for, they'd have sought (in the literature, first!) organic solvent that do not react with sodium and do form coordination complexes (particularly w/Group IIa metals).
For those with historical interests, Napoleon once served his guests on Aluminum dishes, which at the time, was more impressive then, for example, gold dishes. The Hall Process (electrolysis of molten salts) had yet to be invented. "If memory serves me", they used what is effectively the Goldschmidt process (familiar to lovers of Thermit) on aluminum oxide using potassium metal.
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Very impressive!
/ravi
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But Chris says he cannot stand Lenovo makes :/
Lenovo does make cheap ones but I believe, they've managed to keep up the honor for Thinkpad series. 
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy Falcon.
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Has the tool ever become an object of desire in any other industry?
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Ever seen US cops comparing guns?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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