“Al Jazeera International, the English version of leading news broadcaster, Al Jazeera, announced the selection of a wide range of Apple products to deliver a comprehensive, end-to-end solution for the media organization,” AME Info reports.
“Catering to a wide range of media requirements, the Apple-based technology project is set to deliver a total solution ranging from editing to storage needs. With a reputation for using cutting-edge technology, Al Jazeera plans to use the latest from Apple’s portfolio of solutions to revolutionize the functioning of the TV station’s video network,” AME Info reports. “Al Jazeera International is 24-hour English language news and current affairs channel headquartered in Doha, Qatar. A subsidiary of Al Jazeera, Al Jazeera International is the world’s first English language news channel to be headquartered in the Middle East.”
AME Info reports, “Partnering with Apple’s Independent Marketing Company for the Middle East, Arab Business Machine Ltd… Al Jazeera chose cutting edge technology which includes 41 MacBook Pro and Final Cut Studio for journalists, a 70 TB Apple storage solution using 10 Apple Xserve 7 TB XRAID and 14 Apple Xsan Software Licenses, plus 12 PowerMac G5 Quad, 2 PowerMac G5 Dual Core and 19 Apple Cinema HD Display 23′ for editing and design.”
Full article here.
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I actually thoroughly enjoyed Tim’s post. Much better than your pathetic comeback always wrong.
robiwan??????? you are a twurp. stick you’re pathetic advice up your ass dip shit!
That’s funny robiWane,
I found the posts to show the exact opposite of what you saw. The libs are the cry baby, temper tantrum throwing, nut jobs. I don’t think you really bothered to read the posts here. You’re just saying what you want to make people think not what actually is going on. Typical lib.
Liberals are gross.
“As of yet, my demographic doesn’t have a heavily biased 24 hour news channel.” – obviously my son has never heard of CNN
Here’s some fun liberal reading.
http://www.nypost.com/seven/11202006/postopinion/opedcolumnists/pelosis_slap_at_security_opedcolumnists_josh_manchester.htm
http://www.nypost.com/seven/11132006/postopinion/editorials/are_dems_bolton_already__editorials_.htm
“All of the liberal and liberal foreigner posters here are really very, very creepy…”
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Another brilliant post. Soon, we’ll hear “scary, very scary”.
Be sure to catch Ted Koppel’s 2 hr special on The Discovery Channel -(oooh, I’m sorry, is that a LIBERAL CHANNEL? Yeah, must be. You know, science and all, facts-stuff like that)- shows what has always been the case, in that the frenzied fervor you see by these “we hate America” scenes on TV are really not heartfelt by the populace (I am NOT spealikng of jihadists here).
The average Iranian kid likes rock musice, and actually goes to an internet cafe to enjoy coffee and, the internet.
loganson,
I agree with you except on one point – the Church is suffering through a massive moral crisis. The treatment of God’s children by paedophilic priests is a huge problem. Covering it up just compounds it.
G W Bush – yes you did find the WMD, it’s called religious fundamentalist.
Constant Refresher
Its jerks like you that make Canadians and otherworld citizens loathe americans…or more specifically that type of American that thinks the sun revolves our the US and that no other countries exist or are important. Thank god not all americans are like that.
We won the WWII so we can afford to be jerks??? Who won????? In one felled swoop, you have revised history and forgotten all the Canadians, British, Aussies, and French amongst others (especially those you lost their lives) who actually fought and helped with the war. Hell Canadians were in there fighting and dying before you guys even bothered to join.
Man I hate that crap and ingnorant self centred people like you.
MW…peace…..yeah right.
Great post Always Right.
G-spank,
First, you are not nearly as informed as your friends let you believe you are.
For your information, while Dwight Eisenhower’s use of the term “Military Industrial Complex” in his farewell speach in 1961 is the most famous, he did not coin the phrase.
It was first used in 1914, by Sir Charles Trevelyan in the Pacifist Manifesto of the Union of Democratic Control. It was used to describe the military-industrial complexes of England and France in the 1880s and 1890s. These were closely followed by the military industrial complexes of Germany, Japan, and the US prior to WWI.
As for the rest of your points, I won’t bother “spinning” anything, as you are obviously too convinced of your own opinions to have a rational discussion with. If this wasn’t the case, you possibly would have interpreted my earlier posts quite differently, a.as there was nothing in either of them that an unbiased reader would take as a justification for doing anything inIraq. All I said was that countries do what is in their own best interests. This has nothing to do with whether it was right or whether the administration gave true reasons for doing it.
In any case, based on YOUR reasoning, there are many other countries we should have attacked before we attacked Iraq, i.e. those with stronger ties to al queda, those confirmed to have WMD, those who are non-secular. I guess we should have nuked Iran and Pakistan instead.
Congratulations, we finally agree on something.
Boy this thread is fun.
BTW, for an excellent take on the modern military-industrial complex, see Eugene Jarecki’s documentary “Why We Fight”. Leans a bit to the left, but very thought provoking.
Thank you, G-Spank!
It’s cool, critic, it is a fun thread, and thanks for the further info on who coined the term. Anyway, it has always been in my opinion the strongest tactic would have been to invade Afghanistan and do it right, and end it there. It is well known that Osama won the war against Russia because he bled ’em dry. Why leverage all of our greatest resources (world behind us, etc.) to fight him with an outlaw war? It was one of the most brain dead strategic maneuvers ever. So why would a group of people as smart as the group up there are (Cheney, Rummy, Rice, Wolfowitz, etc.) do such a outright dumb thing?
The military industrial complex, that’s why. It’s all about the money.
G-Spank
Tried to tell you I came out swinging at Frank, not at the rest of you. I enjoy the banter with you, Always Right, Cubert, and a few more leftest friends. Of course I enjoy plenty of the ones on the right, but not the hit and run, gotta out cuss you, and leave without a point people from either side. Nor do I have the ability to refrain from going after Frank, the Chief of the P.C. Police Department, who had his “Haggard” moment last night.
Now on this business of AJ using Macs, I don’t trust them in the long run, but will wait and see. I can’t imagine Apple asking for an endorsement from them either, if you know what I mean.
And an aside to robhiwan-
ask yourself this when deciding about crying babies-why where these the first national elections since at least ’98 that there were no major disputes over the elections? Because the Republicans lost, in most cases, with a little grace.
and a PS to Frank-
don’t sign on as me to make a stupid comment and I will gladly continue debating you. And what was with that post last night? Too much Ripple?
Dear Towertone,
Ah, my sweet Titty, ’twas not I pretending to be thee. And which post are you talking about the makes you look like an idiot, because they all seem to do that.
Nay, I know not which post to which thou refer. Perhaps you are ashamed of the “niggardly illiterate” comment? That was pretty embarrassing, but to attribute it to me makes you look even stuuuuupider.
Really, Titty, I have to say you’ve been pretty good about your posts lately. Not that much offensive and bigoted sayings. Thanks very much. To that, I give you credit.
I see a whole bunch of well versed but absolutely ignorant people here. Good on you, people! Go on like this and we shall see America be rid of anything else but ignorance. Wait a minute, it already is.
Stewie
you kinda glossed over why Iran, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, or Israel (kidding) abandoned their Muslim brothers in Afghjanistan to the USSR. Iran was in a war with Iraq over their exportation, as they are doing now, of fundalmentalism. Well that tied up two nations, except that war started after the invasion. Pakistan? Indonesia? Come on, just a little money and some fighters. Saudis? Egyptians? Why were we the ones who helped with aid, but you claim,as maybe we should have, not helped after the Ruskies left? I don’t buy the idea that the West owed them, any more than the US should be in Bosnia so the Europeans won’t get their hands dirty.
Also, I was not considering military aid. That is not what we give most countries. Yes, we sell to many, and give a lot, but you are neglecting moneys through churches, private donations, Red Cross, UN funding, and many other forms that so many take for granted, just because we give it away.
No Frank, post you made weeks ago claiming to be me.
And the post from last night at 9:40 and 9:46 are a pricelees study of the kettle calling the pot black. Biggotry abounds in those words, yet you hide behind your “moral authority” to redefine what a person is saying while trying to hide your own hatred.
I would much rather debate you and others without someone trying to change my meanings, and I am sure most people are tired of reading about our fued. So lets back off the tit for tat, and take others for what they say.
And if my typing is worse than usual, then I apologize. I am on the road with a crappy Dell laptop, and man, that ain’t fun.
Congratulations, MDN. This thread scored!
And now this from elsewhere:
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I look back on that moment when so many of us wanted to trust our president and I wonder:
Who would have imagined in their worst nightmares that these political usurpers would employ the human catastrophe of 9/11 to continue the terrorists work for them?
Who would have imagined that they would embark on a course that would eventually kill more Americans than died on 9/11 in wars that do nothing to ensure the nation’s security but much to inspire more Arabs to hate us and wish to attack us?
Who would have imagined they would dissipate the global solidarity and support the world had offered us?
Who would have imagined that, having ignored all of the signs of a certain attack, they would continue to ignore the most obvious steps to protect us against future catastrophe, leaving our ports, our nuclear facilities, our chemical facilities invitingly unguarded?
Who would have imagined that they would willingly allow bin-Laden to escape?
Who would have imagined they would lie to the rescue workers about the health effects of the air they were breathing.
Who would have imagined that they would put the fate of the nation in the hands of a group of lying, conniving, rats like “curveball,” Ahmad Chalabi and the INC?
Who would have imagined a political campaign in which a man like Max Cleland, a man who lost three limbs in Vietnam, would be branded as insufficiently patriotic by right-wing politicians and pundits who never sacrificed so much as a chicken dinner for their country?
Who would have imagined they would use homeland security as pure pork money, doling out millions for Red State fire houses while leaving tens of millions who live near obvious targets—and were attacked last time—unprotected?
Who would have imagined they would emulate our enemies, employing methods of torture and massacre?
Who would imagine they would force our brave soldiers to die fighting phantoms, without even proper body armor?
Who would have imagined they would outlaw photographs of military funerals, or that the president could not find time to attend a single one of them?
Who would have imagined they would use the attacks to create a domestic spying regime, a series of secret prisons and tribunals, and the declare the right to abrogate any and all American civil liberties whenever it struck their fancy?
Who would have imagined, in other words, that they would exploit these tragic deaths to seek to undermine our Constitution, our Bill of Rights, indeed the very foundations of the same “freedom” that allegedly inspired the terrorists in the first place? And finally,
Who would have imagined that our vaunted “liberal media” and nonpartisan political establishment would cheer them along the way, failing to ask the difficult questions and attacking the patriotism and even sanity of those with the courage and foresight to do so?
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MW: “act” as in thank you for voting.
Can you imagine Iraq left as Vietnam was?
Can you imagine Iran with the bomb?
Can you imagine Israel wiped off the earth?
Can you imagine our economy wrecked from no oil?
Can you imagine Kerry, Clinton and the rest voting for a war and then undermining it?
Can you imagine POW’s and terroist given trials during war?
Can you imagine a solution without simply stretching the truth?
Unfreaking believable. These people are hear illegally, they have no rights.
http://www.foxnews.com/wires/2006Nov20/0,4670,DayLaborLawsuit,00.html
I hate Libs!
Freddy
Welcome to our future.