Darkwing Duck
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MM is 2000...MMXVI is the current year.
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Is colloquial usage, not technical Roman numerals, to represent millions. My dad said that was commonplace where he worked as a printer to use M for 1000 and MM for "1000 thousands"or a million.
And it also transcribes speech. One thousand dollars. 1000$.
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You mean you don't say dollars one thousand? Freak.
A supervisor was talking the day after the election. This guy is a complete tool and I don't like him very much. Anyway, he said during election night he was flipping between the conservative radio stations and the liberal radio stations. He said that because he like to pretend to be well informed. I stopped him and asked him what the liberal radio station was. Of course I knew what he was going to say because if all you ever do is listen to the conservative radio stations they will tell you that NPR is liberal propaganda. I said NPR is not a liberal station in the same sense that conservative talk radio is. He insisted that they were. I told him that politics is a very very small part of the programming on NPR and he continued to insist that NPR is the liberal equivalent of conservative talk radio.
Here's a list of the programs I typically find on NPR
Science Friday -- A show where they discuss some recent events in the science community
This American Life -- Narrative style storytelling, each week they chose a theme and bring you three stories based on that theme (for fans of the show I'm sure you can hear Ira Glass's voice right now)
Moth Radio -- People telling true stories about their life in front of a live audience with no notes or script
Radiolab -- Usually science and technology based
All things Considered -- News program (sure call this liberal if you want, but it's pretty damn straight laced news coverage)
To The Best of Our Knowledge (tee-tee-book.com) -- a theme based interview program. This week one of the themes is "Traditional Knowledge" And they start by saying that sometimes books are not the best way to learn, sometimes it is better to learn from our elders (yep, liberal scum, obviously)
On The Media -- coverers journalism, technology and the first amendment
They also broadcast BBC news
Anyway, I'd say less than 10% of what they talk about is politics and when they do they don't simply talk about how dumb conservatives are.
So anyway, pet peeve: People who think NPR is liberal radio
Here's a list of the programs I typically find on NPR
Science Friday -- A show where they discuss some recent events in the science community
This American Life -- Narrative style storytelling, each week they chose a theme and bring you three stories based on that theme (for fans of the show I'm sure you can hear Ira Glass's voice right now)
Moth Radio -- People telling true stories about their life in front of a live audience with no notes or script
Radiolab -- Usually science and technology based
All things Considered -- News program (sure call this liberal if you want, but it's pretty damn straight laced news coverage)
To The Best of Our Knowledge (tee-tee-book.com) -- a theme based interview program. This week one of the themes is "Traditional Knowledge" And they start by saying that sometimes books are not the best way to learn, sometimes it is better to learn from our elders (yep, liberal scum, obviously)
On The Media -- coverers journalism, technology and the first amendment
They also broadcast BBC news
Anyway, I'd say less than 10% of what they talk about is politics and when they do they don't simply talk about how dumb conservatives are.
So anyway, pet peeve: People who think NPR is liberal radio
Hotdog
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People who don't admit that most if not all TV is liberal, except of course Fox news.
Yes, most of, if not all radio talk shows are right leaning.
Why is that?
Conservatives are out working. Liberals are at home watching TV.
Case closed.
Interesting point, I would like to learn more. Do you have any data to back that up?
Is that why liberal talk radio is almost non existent and conservative talk radio is everywhere? Is this news shows that you claim to be liberal being watched during the day or at night? Why is Fox news so popular in the day time?
Is Fox news a good news source? Do they have an agenda or a strong bias?
Do conservatives hold more jobs than liberals? Do you have evidence of that? Did Trump receive more or less of the unemployed vote? Does that include kids in school?
Ill leave the case open until you post evidence. I and others have posted some that prove otherwise. NPR has been accused of having a conservative bias quite often as well as a liberal bias. Do they have an agenda?
Is this a troll post?
You mean I can't keep referring to white billionaires as the KKK?
I just got done watching that biased left wing media show Game of Thrones. Now I'm watching left wing propaganda Family Fued on the liberal game show network. I think I'll watch some more left wing propaganda later when Dinners Drive-ins and Dives comes on.
Computer, most the programming on NPR is educational and entertainment, not news, not politics.
Computer, most the programming on NPR is educational and entertainment, not news, not politics.
Windows (computer type) that don't allow themselves to be resized.
Case in point: I was just looking at my antivirus program and it said it had detected a possible threat in a certain location. But the full path to the location was longer than the field in the window allowed. Stupid program doesn't allow me to either resize the field or resize the window.
Case in point: I was just looking at my antivirus program and it said it had detected a possible threat in a certain location. But the full path to the location was longer than the field in the window allowed. Stupid program doesn't allow me to either resize the field or resize the window.