Old Man Posted December 19, 2017 Report Share Posted December 19, 2017 I found one mention that the train may have hit a truck at a crossing shortly prior to the derailment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ternaugh Posted December 19, 2017 Report Share Posted December 19, 2017 7 hours ago, Christopher said: CNN and MSNBC do report on misdeeds in the Democratic Party and reporting mistakes. That makes them by definition a more reliable newsources then Fox. There's news and then there's pundit shows. Fox News actually does pretty okay on the news part. http://www.slate.com/blogs/watching_fox/2017/11/03/the_lessons_of_watching_fox_news_for_three_weeks_non_stop.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/11/15/shepard-smiths-long-history-of-infuriating-fox-news-viewers/?utm_term=.650507c48100 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hopcroft Posted December 19, 2017 Report Share Posted December 19, 2017 I used to take the Cascades whenever I had a convention in Seattle or Olympia. It just made sense. Now that I've had to give up travel, I miss the relative copmofrt of an Amtrak train if I have to go someplace. I'm pretty sure this will become a convenient way to discourage Amtrak travel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christopher Posted December 19, 2017 Report Share Posted December 19, 2017 53 minutes ago, Ternaugh said: There's news and then there's pundit shows. Fox News actually does pretty okay on the news part. http://www.slate.com/blogs/watching_fox/2017/11/03/the_lessons_of_watching_fox_news_for_three_weeks_non_stop.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/11/15/shepard-smiths-long-history-of-infuriating-fox-news-viewers/?utm_term=.650507c48100 That is one guy going agaisnt everything Fox stands for. Viewers actually called for him to be fired. Yet somehow he has not? Is he the alibi non-pundit to make the whole appear less biased? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ternaugh Posted December 19, 2017 Report Share Posted December 19, 2017 58 minutes ago, Christopher said: That is one guy going agaisnt everything Fox stands for. Viewers actually called for him to be fired. Yet somehow he has not? Is he the alibi non-pundit to make the whole appear less biased? They have a few of them, but they're generally limited to just a few hours in the afternoon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hopcroft Posted December 19, 2017 Report Share Posted December 19, 2017 Guys, we can talk about Fox News some other time? They're not going to change. Of some concern to me as a sports fan is that as part of the deal ESPN will be taking over more than twenty regional sports networks currently run by Fox. (The Murdochs will still control the main broadcast network.) Is it a good thing? Hard to say. One consequence might be that a lot more programming will be available on ESPN's upcoming stand-alone pay service. But not their top content like Major League Baseball and the NBA. Right now each major pro league except the NFL has their own subscription service for out-of-market games. I subscribe to the NHL service and will re-sign with the Major League Baseball service once they're in season. A lot of those are the feeds from Fox regional services. With these now run by ESPN, negotiation for those is going to be tricky. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christopher Posted December 19, 2017 Report Share Posted December 19, 2017 16 minutes ago, Michael Hopcroft said: Of some concern to me as a sports fan is that as part of the deal ESPN will be taking over more than twenty regional sports networks currently run by Fox. Looking it up on Wikipedia, it appears ESPN is 80% owned by Walt Disney. So another expansion of their network. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ternaugh Posted December 20, 2017 Report Share Posted December 20, 2017 7 hours ago, Michael Hopcroft said: Guys, we can talk about Fox News some other time? They're not going to change. Of some concern to me as a sports fan is that as part of the deal ESPN will be taking over more than twenty regional sports networks currently run by Fox. (The Murdochs will still control the main broadcast network.) Is it a good thing? Hard to say. One consequence might be that a lot more programming will be available on ESPN's upcoming stand-alone pay service. But not their top content like Major League Baseball and the NBA. Right now each major pro league except the NFL has their own subscription service for out-of-market games. I subscribe to the NHL service and will re-sign with the Major League Baseball service once they're in season. A lot of those are the feeds from Fox regional services. With these now run by ESPN, negotiation for those is going to be tricky. If there's a market for ESPN to maintain the regional services, I'm sure that they will. And I'm sure that they'll be willing to share out-of-market games for a cut of the revenue (which is probably what the Fox regionals get as well). That said, ESPN's base model (charge everyone for the service as part of a basic cable package) is starting to fail, due to cord-cutting*. That's one of the reasons that they're attempting to go into streaming in a big way. *I don't watch ESPN, but when I had cable, it represented about $8 of my basic cable subscription price**. A few more bucks went to the regional Fox Sports channel, which also was something that I didn't watch. I got tired of paying about a quarter of my cable bill as a subsidy for other people's viewing habits, so I cut the cord, and went with various streaming and over the air options. **It's been estimated that ESPN would cost about $20/month if not subsidized Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted December 20, 2017 Report Share Posted December 20, 2017 Major ISPs increase internet access prices in wake of net neutrality repeal because they are effectively monopolies and there's nothing you can do about it Enforcer84 and Lawnmower Boy 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christopher Posted December 20, 2017 Report Share Posted December 20, 2017 59 minutes ago, Old Man said: Major ISPs increase internet access prices in wake of net neutrality repeal because they are effectively monopolies and there's nothing you can do about it Reminds me of this: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted December 20, 2017 Report Share Posted December 20, 2017 Maybe they'll let us stream a movie for free! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted December 20, 2017 Report Share Posted December 20, 2017 On 19/12/2017 at 2:19 AM, Michael Hopcroft said: I used to take the Cascades whenever I had a convention in Seattle or Olympia. It just made sense. Now that I've had to give up travel, I miss the relative copmofrt of an Amtrak train if I have to go someplace. I'm pretty sure this will become a convenient way to discourage Amtrak travel. I doubt that. There have several accidents over the years in Britain that did not stop rail travel. There will be no difference in America. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christopher Posted December 20, 2017 Report Share Posted December 20, 2017 1 hour ago, death tribble said: I doubt that. There have several accidents over the years in Britain that did not stop rail travel. There will be no difference in America. There is apparently a huge difference. I only learned it this year myself. Indeed the only reason Passenger Transport even exists in America is legal obligations: BoloOfEarth 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christopher Posted December 20, 2017 Report Share Posted December 20, 2017 A child was born. Nothing unusual, except it was conceived 24 years ago. Making it from some point of view one year younger then her mother: http://edition.cnn.com/2017/12/19/health/snowbaby-oldest-embryo-bn/index.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmjalund Posted December 20, 2017 Report Share Posted December 20, 2017 3 hours ago, Christopher said: A child was born. Nothing unusual, except it was conceived 24 years ago. Making it from some point of view one year younger then her mother: http://edition.cnn.com/2017/12/19/health/snowbaby-oldest-embryo-bn/index.html Inconceivable! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christopher Posted December 20, 2017 Report Share Posted December 20, 2017 4 hours ago, dmjalund said: Inconceivable! The conception is such a old hat, it literally happened in the last milennium Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted December 28, 2017 Report Share Posted December 28, 2017 The weather strikes again http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-42505903 Also no-one has gotten Sweden's goat http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-42502375 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted December 28, 2017 Report Share Posted December 28, 2017 Houston's Water Spinach Village is Fighting for its Life Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted December 29, 2017 Report Share Posted December 29, 2017 Treated 'worse than animals': thousands of Indian women feared trapped in ashrams Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hermit Posted December 29, 2017 Report Share Posted December 29, 2017 42 minutes ago, Cygnia said: Treated 'worse than animals': thousands of Indian women feared trapped in ashrams Yup.. Gonna need a larger rage emoji : Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmjalund Posted December 29, 2017 Report Share Posted December 29, 2017 DasBroot, Hermit and Enforcer84 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wcw43921 Posted December 29, 2017 Report Share Posted December 29, 2017 Florida Man Strikes Again! Literally! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enforcer84 Posted December 30, 2017 Report Share Posted December 30, 2017 Marvel will let you set up your own Marvel Universe! Sounds too good to be true? It is. https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2017/12/28/16827356/marvel-comics-create-your-own-platform-terms-restrictions?utm_campaign=theverge&utm_content=entry&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter It's true...but it's bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enforcer84 Posted December 30, 2017 Report Share Posted December 30, 2017 http://www.kansas.com/news/local/crime/article192111974.html Police kill unarmed man and blame video games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted December 30, 2017 Report Share Posted December 30, 2017 So, no devil worshippers around to blame? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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