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Light day...
As it turned out, the load for the day was just the two Forms 24. If precedent holds, that means that the rest of the radiograms intended for transmittal today will be sent over tomorrow along with all the stuff for tomorrow, resulting in twice the work load.
You can't win.
* * * A pre-LJ acquaintance of mine (LJ friend ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
avva) mentioned yesterday's post of mine in his journal, resulting in a noticeable bump in the number of people who are now following my LJ. Welcome to all, though I don't often post in Russian (а когда пишу на русском, текст записи почти всегда двуязычный).
It turns out that about half of the posts that currently appear on my friends page are in Cyrillic. These posts provide a unique education for me by exposing me to some interesting ideas and modes of expression. I've found some posts (notably a couple byavva) have even been useful in my translations.
* * * Some follow-up thoughts to yesterday's rented Oceans Eleven DVD:
In the final scene, the bad guys are following Our Hero. This leads me to believe that, if the Head Bad Guy really believes Our Hero Did It, all he has to do is commission his henchpersons to stick like glue to Our Hero... forever. At the first sign of untoward prosperity... POW! For a modest ongoing expense of, say, $100,000 per year per "hench," the Head Bad Guy could prevent Our Hero from enjoying his $15 million or so of ill-gotten gains.
This, of course, assumes that the HBG doesn't get tired first and decide to whack OH just for the hell of it.
The second objection I have has to do with fellow LJerjoelgrus's recurring theme of "X can keep a secret if (X-1) of them are dead." I mean, we're talking eleven people here, folks. Eventually, one of them is going to run afoul of the law (and I don't mean by breaking it... I mean by simply doing things with their share of the money). In turn, the law may start to ask all sorts of embarrassing questions, which may ultimately lead to such questions being asked in a small room under a bright light. Since all the perps are pretty much known to each other, the fall of one would entail the fall of all.
But then again, I have to remind myself that this was a story. Nonetheless...
* * * Tonight's entertainment, once I finally got home, was Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles, which was a harmless waste of time. The formula for this film mimics that of the previous two, except that the setting on the "ridiculous" knob seems to have been set a bit higher than in previous outings. Still, it's just good to see that Paul Hogan and Linda Kozlowski both look healthy, at any rate.
* * * Returning home today was a copy of yesterday, with both Lee and Dwayne hard at it. They've gone now, off somewhere to discuss MUD strategy with some friends. I was left to rawrite a Linux boot image for Lee onto a floppy disk, which I did in about 30 seconds. She said something before she left that led me to believe she didn't quite understand what needed to be done. Sometimes, I wonder about the kid...
* * * Time to hit the hay. As I said at the top of the post, I think tomorrow is going to be a humdinger of a day.
Cheers...
You can't win.
avva) mentioned yesterday's post of mine in his journal, resulting in a noticeable bump in the number of people who are now following my LJ. Welcome to all, though I don't often post in Russian (а когда пишу на русском, текст записи почти всегда двуязычный).It turns out that about half of the posts that currently appear on my friends page are in Cyrillic. These posts provide a unique education for me by exposing me to some interesting ideas and modes of expression. I've found some posts (notably a couple by
avva) have even been useful in my translations.In the final scene, the bad guys are following Our Hero. This leads me to believe that, if the Head Bad Guy really believes Our Hero Did It, all he has to do is commission his henchpersons to stick like glue to Our Hero... forever. At the first sign of untoward prosperity... POW! For a modest ongoing expense of, say, $100,000 per year per "hench," the Head Bad Guy could prevent Our Hero from enjoying his $15 million or so of ill-gotten gains.
This, of course, assumes that the HBG doesn't get tired first and decide to whack OH just for the hell of it.
The second objection I have has to do with fellow LJer
joelgrus's recurring theme of "X can keep a secret if (X-1) of them are dead." I mean, we're talking eleven people here, folks. Eventually, one of them is going to run afoul of the law (and I don't mean by breaking it... I mean by simply doing things with their share of the money). In turn, the law may start to ask all sorts of embarrassing questions, which may ultimately lead to such questions being asked in a small room under a bright light. Since all the perps are pretty much known to each other, the fall of one would entail the fall of all.But then again, I have to remind myself that this was a story. Nonetheless...
Cheers...
Re: legal?
So when you consider that news programs on broadcast TV are generally a waste of time (at least in the US), and that entertainment 'news' is generally not news at all, but a series of PR spots for the lastest megabuck movies (a category to which the third Hogan/Kozlowski movie does not belong), it's not surprising that one could miss items like this.
Cheers...
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news programs on broadcast tv are usually a mirror of that what's in the newspapers & online. and although most of the time it's the same stuff about the middle east and afghanistan, sometimes it is something new.
why would you say that they're a waste of time?
also, you're right. i improperly used 'current events'. what i meant by it is anything new that's going on around the world and locally.
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When you combine this circumstance with the fact that news shows must compete with other shows for the almightly "share" of viewers, broadcast journalism becomes an esoteric form of entertainment whose primary purpose is to keep viewers glued to a particular channel.
Let me give you an example.
At my current work place, there is a television tuned perpetually to FOX and another one tuned always to CNN. Over the past week, these channels have spent, it seems, almost their entire broadcast time covering the situation in the Middle East and the idiot college student with his pipe bombs. Now, since I have work to do, I don't watch these sets continuously, but during those odd moments when my eye has wandered to these screens over the past couple of weeks, I have seen no coverage of the election in France, and I have seen no coverage of the assassination of Pim Fortuyn in the Netherlands.
I did, however, notice that at least an hour was devoted earlier this week covering high-speed car chases (live) in Los Angeles.
What's even more indicative of the shallowness of broadcast news is the movement away from telling the viewer what happened, toward some kind of ersatz value-added philosophy that entails telling the viewer why it's important. In this regard, news ceases being news, and becomes simply propaganda, but that's a whole different rant.
Cheers...
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Though then the whole point is irrelevant, since
Wow... i don't know what I'm arguing about. I think i'll shut up now.
Cheers to you too, Alex.
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I haev an agent that gathers anything related to "Afghanistan" from around 100 sources. Then another agent that grabs data from the previous one with a more limited criteria. This tool is making my life so much more informed - without any time wasting.
:) I read slashdot.org occasionally, kuro5hin.org is very good with it's commentaries. I sometimes go to bbcworld.com and so on, but I rely on my agents to get me the news :)
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