The maker of the wildly popular Call of Duty video game plans to test just how dedicated its players are. In an industry first, Activision Blizzard will launch a monthly subscription fee this fall for gamers who want extra content that does not come with the $60 game, reports the…
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May’s biggest busybodies are taking it to poker players and teen tanners , but the nation’s top nag has lovers of pink-in-the-middle burgers seeing red. In a stunning blow to all that is juicy and delicious, the Tar Heel state actually prohibits restaurants from serving rare or medium-rare hamburgers . (And if this crime against meat freedom seems especially un-American, keep in mind that it comes… Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : Reason Magazine – Hit & Run Discovery Date : 31/05/2011 16:31 Number of articles : 4
Continue reading …Rush Limbaugh wonders if riots aren’t part of the Obama administration’s “Grand Plan” for the US economy, since he says they are trying to kill the economy. Does that remind you of someone who’s leaving Fox? Limbaugh: inaudible Whadda ya got riots and things happening out there with poets and other people. Long hot summer schedule, and I’m not sure that’s not part of the grand plan. The more unrest and chaos there is out there the more the government will be called on to fix it. Same old thing. I seem to remember a certain summer that had near riots, violence, hate and unrest during the health care town halls and not a peep out of Rush Limbaugh that that was in fact Obama’s plan all along or for the government to stop it. Wisconsin’s response to Gov. Scott Walker’s anti-union legislation has the right wing nervous because other states are also experiencing buyers’ remorse over who they elected, as we’ve been covering on C&L. Polling is coming out every day backing up those concerns. Matt Yglesias: ThinkProgress has done a lot of coverage of controversial policy measures being inaugurated around the country by the new breed of Republican governors elected last fall due to the recession. And according to survey data from Margie Omero at Public Policy Polling, the voters in most of these states (though not all, Nevada’s an exception) aren’t liking the cocktail of budget cuts, union-busting, anti-abortion laws, etc. Polls show voters in battleground states regret having voted for their new Republican Governors. Since February, Democratic firm PPP released surveys in eight states asking voters “if you could do last fall’s election for Governor over again, how would you vote?” In seven of the eight, the Democrat now would win, with all seven showing double-digit improvements in their margin. (Only Rory Reid in Nevada still trails.) The chart below shows both the actual 2010 margin and the new margin, sorted by the shift. John Kasich, one of the first Fox News pundits to get a job from the Roger Ailes-led Tea Party movement, has the worst showing of all the new Governors at this moment in time. As MM notes, Limbaugh’s having a Beck moment.
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We got a hint of Sling’s desire to let users catch their video streams directly on TV without a box during CES 2010, and now there’s video of the company showing off its SlingPlayer for Connected Devices app on Google TV. We caught a a preview at CES earlier this year , but interested Slingbox owners (SOLO and PRO-HD boxes only, just like the mobile apps ) can sign up for the upcoming beta at the link below. The most interesting development however is that it appears to be a web app, likely running on Flash. That means Sling won’t have to wait for the Android Market to open up on Google TV to roll this out, and it could allow for easy porting to other embedded TV platforms with a browser that supports Flash like Samsung’s Smart Hub . Also not lost in the moment is the ability for the Google TV to show some potential, since it desperately needs for the list of things it actually can do to garner more attention than the list of things it’s blocked from doing . SlingPlayer for Google TV teased on video, beta program opens up soon originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 31 May 2011 18:07:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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I was sent this email today from A Babi Gumm: Last night I hacked into the FoxNews news ticker on 6th avenue in NYC. Here’s the video. If you’d like to know why, just read the message in the hack. … Continue reading → Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : Gateway Pundit Discovery Date : 31/05/2011 19:04 Number of articles : 6
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I was sent this email today from A Babi Gumm: Last night I hacked into the FoxNews news ticker on 6th avenue in NYC. Here’s the video. If you’d like to know why, just read the message in the hack. … Continue reading → Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : Gateway Pundit Discovery Date : 31/05/2011 19:04 Number of articles : 6
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I was sent this email today from A Babi Gumm: Last night I hacked into the FoxNews news ticker on 6th avenue in NYC. Here’s the video. If you’d like to know why, just read the message in the hack. … Continue reading → Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : Gateway Pundit Discovery Date : 31/05/2011 19:04 Number of articles : 6
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Is this just plain incompetence, or is Gov. Soylent Green making yet another one of his wingnutty libertarian points? Whatever the explanation, I’m sure it’s just fine. It’s not as if there are any sick or elderly people in Florida anyway! enlarge Gov. Rick Scott continues on his merry wingnut way. It’s not as if there are actual people attached to his policy choices! In March, Gov. Rick Scott’s staff said he would accept a $35.7 million “Money Follows the Person” federal health grant. But the Legislature appears to have decided otherwise. In the 2011-12 budget Scott just signed, lawmakers failed to give the Agency for Health Care Administration budget authority to draw down and spend the money. Patient advocates were dismayed at the omission, because the money was to have been spent on home- and community-care programs that let disabled and elderly people move out of nursing homes or avoid them in the first place. The likely reason seems to be that Scott wants to throw a monkey wrench into the implementation of the Patient Protections and Affordable Care Act: Questions sent to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services press office today drew an unusually cryptic response: “We continue working closely with states to ensure the benefits of more affordable, quality health care choices are available to all consumers.” Patient advocates say the grant money would have served the interests of both taxpayers and patients by keeping patients in the community and out of nursing homes – and letting some who are already in nursing homes be released to less-confining, less-expensive residential care. “You end up spending a ton of money…in long-term care” that could be avoided, said Dave Bruns, communications manager for Florida AARP. McRay and Bruns said they weren’t sure whether the omission was an oversight or a deliberate cut for a program that was re-authorized under the 2010 health law, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Florida is leading a multistate challenge of the law in federal court, saying that it’s unconstitutional because it requires all Americans to obtain health coverage or pay a penalty.
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Is this just plain incompetence, or is Gov. Soylent Green making yet another one of his wingnutty libertarian points? Whatever the explanation, I’m sure it’s just fine. It’s not as if there are any sick or elderly people in Florida anyway! enlarge Gov. Rick Scott continues on his merry wingnut way. It’s not as if there are actual people attached to his policy choices! In March, Gov. Rick Scott’s staff said he would accept a $35.7 million “Money Follows the Person” federal health grant. But the Legislature appears to have decided otherwise. In the 2011-12 budget Scott just signed, lawmakers failed to give the Agency for Health Care Administration budget authority to draw down and spend the money. Patient advocates were dismayed at the omission, because the money was to have been spent on home- and community-care programs that let disabled and elderly people move out of nursing homes or avoid them in the first place. The likely reason seems to be that Scott wants to throw a monkey wrench into the implementation of the Patient Protections and Affordable Care Act: Questions sent to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services press office today drew an unusually cryptic response: “We continue working closely with states to ensure the benefits of more affordable, quality health care choices are available to all consumers.” Patient advocates say the grant money would have served the interests of both taxpayers and patients by keeping patients in the community and out of nursing homes – and letting some who are already in nursing homes be released to less-confining, less-expensive residential care. “You end up spending a ton of money…in long-term care” that could be avoided, said Dave Bruns, communications manager for Florida AARP. McRay and Bruns said they weren’t sure whether the omission was an oversight or a deliberate cut for a program that was re-authorized under the 2010 health law, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Florida is leading a multistate challenge of the law in federal court, saying that it’s unconstitutional because it requires all Americans to obtain health coverage or pay a penalty.
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Is this just plain incompetence, or is Gov. Soylent Green making yet another one of his wingnutty libertarian points? Whatever the explanation, I’m sure it’s just fine. It’s not as if there are any sick or elderly people in Florida anyway! enlarge Gov. Rick Scott continues on his merry wingnut way. It’s not as if there are actual people attached to his policy choices! In March, Gov. Rick Scott’s staff said he would accept a $35.7 million “Money Follows the Person” federal health grant. But the Legislature appears to have decided otherwise. In the 2011-12 budget Scott just signed, lawmakers failed to give the Agency for Health Care Administration budget authority to draw down and spend the money. Patient advocates were dismayed at the omission, because the money was to have been spent on home- and community-care programs that let disabled and elderly people move out of nursing homes or avoid them in the first place. The likely reason seems to be that Scott wants to throw a monkey wrench into the implementation of the Patient Protections and Affordable Care Act: Questions sent to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services press office today drew an unusually cryptic response: “We continue working closely with states to ensure the benefits of more affordable, quality health care choices are available to all consumers.” Patient advocates say the grant money would have served the interests of both taxpayers and patients by keeping patients in the community and out of nursing homes – and letting some who are already in nursing homes be released to less-confining, less-expensive residential care. “You end up spending a ton of money…in long-term care” that could be avoided, said Dave Bruns, communications manager for Florida AARP. McRay and Bruns said they weren’t sure whether the omission was an oversight or a deliberate cut for a program that was re-authorized under the 2010 health law, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Florida is leading a multistate challenge of the law in federal court, saying that it’s unconstitutional because it requires all Americans to obtain health coverage or pay a penalty.
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