Resend my activation email : Register : Log in 
BCF: Bike Chat Forums


Is the mainstream media ultimately damaging society?

Reply to topic
Bike Chat Forums Index -> Politics & Current Affairs Goto page Previous  1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
View previous topic : View next topic  
Author Message

Rogerborg
nimbA



Joined: 26 Oct 2010
Karma :

PostPosted: 13:05 - 05 Apr 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote

Lord Percy wrote:
Rogerborg wrote:
Can you explain the difference with a worked example?
[No]

One day you'll astonish me.

Today was not that day. Crying or Very sad
____________________
Biking is 1/20th as dangerous as horse riding.
GONE: HN125-8, LF-250B, GPz 305, GPZ 500S, Burgman 400 // RIDING: F650GS (800 twin), Royal Enfield Bullet Electra 500 AVL, Ninja 250R because racebike
 Back to top
View user's profile Send private message You must be logged in to rate posts

Lord Percy
World Chat Champion



Joined: 03 Aug 2012
Karma :

PostPosted: 13:23 - 05 Apr 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote

Rogerborg wrote:

One day you'll astonish me.

Today was not that day. Crying or Very sad


???

Lord Percy wrote:
If you'd properly read all the other bumf I used to explain this, you would surely have figured it out.
 Back to top
View user's profile Send private message You must be logged in to rate posts

Jewlio Rides Again LLB
World Chat Champion



Joined: 06 Oct 2015
Karma :

PostPosted: 13:39 - 05 Apr 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote

Lord Percy wrote:
Rogerborg wrote:

One day you'll astonish me.

Today was not that day. Crying or Very sad


???

Lord Percy wrote:
If you'd properly read all the other bumf I used to explain this, you would surely have figured it out.


You know how much bnp72 HATES that. Laughing
____________________
Mpd72: I can categorically say i’m Brighter than that, no matter how I come across on here.
HAHAHA HAHAHA Blew Chilly MyCrowSystems
 Back to top
View user's profile Send private message You must be logged in to rate posts
- This post is not being displayed because the poster has bad karma. Unhide this post / all posts.

Rogerborg
nimbA



Joined: 26 Oct 2010
Karma :

PostPosted: 14:16 - 05 Apr 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote

Lord Percy wrote:
Rogerborg wrote:

One day you'll astonish me.

Today was not that day. Crying or Very sad


???

The day where you come up with a simple worked example with real numbers illustrating how your plan is different from a wage cap in practice.

Itchy can do it. We should outsource our communist propaganda to him.
____________________
Biking is 1/20th as dangerous as horse riding.
GONE: HN125-8, LF-250B, GPz 305, GPZ 500S, Burgman 400 // RIDING: F650GS (800 twin), Royal Enfield Bullet Electra 500 AVL, Ninja 250R because racebike
 Back to top
View user's profile Send private message You must be logged in to rate posts

Sun Wukong
World Chat Champion



Joined: 02 Nov 2014
Karma :

PostPosted: 15:40 - 05 Apr 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote

Rogerborg wrote:

Itchy can do it. We should outsource our communist propaganda to him.


I believe Itchy is a chartered accountant, to be fair.

Pleb gets $10/hour, director gets $200/hour.

Director wants to increase to $220/hour, for whichever reason, then pleb should go up to $11.

This sounds farcical, but is a bit strawman.

The reality is pleb would be on $10/hour, middle-management micromanagers would be on $20/hour, and there would be tiers rising up to probably 10 times or 15 times.

Board members and CEO's would get capped to $200 / hour, or however that would work out annually.

The problem with this is, and as Borgy says, it is distorting the market. Supply and demand need to flow, and if not, there will be knock on effects.

When the New World Order comes, it could be possible. But I somehow doubt it would permeate up to the inner-party...

I still do find it pretty demoralising to be told entrepreneurs only do the work they do at the beginning, because in the end they will get rich.

Wanting financial security is one thing (and 20 times an average salary would definitely get you that), but most business I see start out trying to make an impact on the world.

Then the money comes in.
____________________
Top cat
"Hard times lead to hard people. Hard people lead to good times. Good times lead to weak people. Weak people lead to hard times." Smegballs
"Oh and STE balloons would be one of the nicer things we would receive at the office, the amount of dog turd in jiffy bags is not funny." Jsmith86
 Back to top
View user's profile Send private message You must be logged in to rate posts

Jewlio Rides Again LLB
World Chat Champion



Joined: 06 Oct 2015
Karma :

PostPosted: 15:58 - 05 Apr 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote

mpd72 wrote:
Jewlio Rides Again wrote:


Lord Percy wrote:
If you'd properly read all the other bumf I used to explain this, you would surely have figured it out.


You know how much bnp72 HATES that. Laughing


Yep, I have a problem with people who spout bullshit on subjects they know nothing about and have no recent experience of.

(other than when I do it of course!) Wink[/quote]

Exactly. I don't think you have much recent experience of leaving your computer desk, do you? Mr. Green
____________________
Mpd72: I can categorically say i’m Brighter than that, no matter how I come across on here.
HAHAHA HAHAHA Blew Chilly MyCrowSystems
 Back to top
View user's profile Send private message You must be logged in to rate posts
- This post is not being displayed because the poster has bad karma. Unhide this post / all posts.

Jewlio Rides Again LLB
World Chat Champion



Joined: 06 Oct 2015
Karma :

PostPosted: 16:35 - 05 Apr 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote

Sure?

Wink
____________________
Mpd72: I can categorically say i’m Brighter than that, no matter how I come across on here.
HAHAHA HAHAHA Blew Chilly MyCrowSystems
 Back to top
View user's profile Send private message You must be logged in to rate posts
- This post is not being displayed because the poster has bad karma. Unhide this post / all posts.

Jewlio Rides Again LLB
World Chat Champion



Joined: 06 Oct 2015
Karma :

PostPosted: 18:02 - 05 Apr 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote

Think you've got far more to sort out than my direct quotes of you. Mr. Green
____________________
Mpd72: I can categorically say i’m Brighter than that, no matter how I come across on here.
HAHAHA HAHAHA Blew Chilly MyCrowSystems
 Back to top
View user's profile Send private message You must be logged in to rate posts

Lord Percy
World Chat Champion



Joined: 03 Aug 2012
Karma :

PostPosted: 18:28 - 05 Apr 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote

Rogerborg wrote:

Itchy can do it. We should outsource our communist propaganda to him.



Sun Wukong wrote:

Pleb gets $10/hour, director gets $200/hour.

Director wants to increase to $220/hour, for whichever reason, then pleb should go up to $11.



Not a hard one to fathom Mr Borgy, if only you'd...

Lord Percy wrote:
...properly read all the other bumf I used to explain this, you would surely have figured it out


Wink

Sun Wukong wrote:

Wanting financial security is one thing (and 20 times an average salary would definitely get you that), but most business I see start out trying to make an impact on the world.

Then the money comes in.


If I ran a business I would honestly do it with the primary aim being to make money.

But I would hate the thought of any lower level employees feeling undervalued or dispensable. I'd be one of those goody-goody socialist bosses and would be more than happy to try a model like the one I described earlier.

Another thing I would try is having specialist jobs shared by two people who take half the pay but half the workload. e.g. turn that one SQL specialist on £40k a year into two people on £20k who only need to work 15 days in a month, or come to a 6 months on, 6 months off arrangement, or whatever else, which I'm sure some people would love. This to me is the whole "the modern world should bring more freedom" idea in action.

Just need to become a shitlord capitalist business CEO first Laughing
 Back to top
View user's profile Send private message You must be logged in to rate posts

Rogerborg
nimbA



Joined: 26 Oct 2010
Karma :

PostPosted: 18:47 - 05 Apr 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote

And when the CEO decides instead to outsource all the drones in Sector 7G to a shell company who employs them as 0 hour contractors with no benefits?

Once you start down the path of regulation, forever will it dominate your density.

Anyway, back on the original topic of deliberate media divisiveness: more neutral fair and balanced reportage from Al Beeb.

"Critics have branded Mr Bannon - who once managed populist, right-wing Breitbart News - as a white nationalist."

Yes, many of his critics call him that. Their evidence appears to be that many of his critics call him that, and also white nationalists like him, plus, everyone just knows it.

I've yet to see anyone ever point at the actual, you know, evidence behind the slur. But who needs boring old evidence when you can use argumentum ad nauseam?
____________________
Biking is 1/20th as dangerous as horse riding.
GONE: HN125-8, LF-250B, GPz 305, GPZ 500S, Burgman 400 // RIDING: F650GS (800 twin), Royal Enfield Bullet Electra 500 AVL, Ninja 250R because racebike
 Back to top
View user's profile Send private message You must be logged in to rate posts

Lord Percy
World Chat Champion



Joined: 03 Aug 2012
Karma :

PostPosted: 19:02 - 05 Apr 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote

Rogerborg wrote:
I've yet to see anyone ever point at the actual, you know, evidence behind the slur.


I doubt there'll be any exact quotes where the guy puts his hands up and says he's a white nationalist.

I recently saw a video describing his 'old' interests, which was amateur hysterical documentaries with an obvious heavy bias. Kind of a right wing Michael Moore. His documentaries showed an obvious white elitist agenda.

Can't remember where I saw it now though so I'm just adding to the hearsay Very Happy

In the grand scheme of things I don't think Trump or any of his right hand folk, such as Bannon, are anywhere near as bad as the protests are making out. Right wing, yes; World-enders, no.
 Back to top
View user's profile Send private message You must be logged in to rate posts

Rogerborg
nimbA



Joined: 26 Oct 2010
Karma :

PostPosted: 19:07 - 05 Apr 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote

Lord Percy wrote:
His documentaries showed an obvious white elitist agenda.

How many did you watch?
____________________
Biking is 1/20th as dangerous as horse riding.
GONE: HN125-8, LF-250B, GPz 305, GPZ 500S, Burgman 400 // RIDING: F650GS (800 twin), Royal Enfield Bullet Electra 500 AVL, Ninja 250R because racebike
 Back to top
View user's profile Send private message You must be logged in to rate posts

Lord Percy
World Chat Champion



Joined: 03 Aug 2012
Karma :

PostPosted: 19:24 - 05 Apr 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote

Rogerborg wrote:
Lord Percy wrote:
His documentaries showed an obvious white elitist agenda.

How many did you watch?


None Very Happy

The thing I saw was a 3 minute documentary about his documentaries Laughing
 Back to top
View user's profile Send private message You must be logged in to rate posts

Baggyman
Crazy Courier



Joined: 20 Feb 2017
Karma :

PostPosted: 19:39 - 05 Apr 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote

Lord Percy wrote:


specialist jobs shared by two people who take half the pay but half the workload. e.g. turn that one SQL specialist on £40k a year into two people on £20k who only need to work 15 days in a month


so..three quarters of the work for half the pay - looks like you have got the hang of this shitlording thing already Very Happy
____________________
Old fart
Baghira, modded GS1000 and the T150 I bought in 1978 when I was 21
 Back to top
View user's profile Send private message You must be logged in to rate posts

Rogerborg
nimbA



Joined: 26 Oct 2010
Karma :

PostPosted: 19:45 - 05 Apr 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote

Very grudgingly: "the Bannon that emerges in his documentaries is occasionally a contradiction from the Bannon we’ve come to know in recent months. For as much gnashing of teeth as there’s been about Bannon’s white nationalist ties, his documentaries largely steer clear of racial themes".

But, but, everybody says.

My point is that the BBC could have described him as a small government free market anti-regulation capitalist conservative Christian, which he certainly is. But they went with "white nationalist", because, you know. We're not saying he's a Nazi, but... you know.
____________________
Biking is 1/20th as dangerous as horse riding.
GONE: HN125-8, LF-250B, GPz 305, GPZ 500S, Burgman 400 // RIDING: F650GS (800 twin), Royal Enfield Bullet Electra 500 AVL, Ninja 250R because racebike
 Back to top
View user's profile Send private message You must be logged in to rate posts

Lord Percy
World Chat Champion



Joined: 03 Aug 2012
Karma :

PostPosted: 20:01 - 05 Apr 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote

Baggyman wrote:
Lord Percy wrote:


specialist jobs shared by two people who take half the pay but half the workload. e.g. turn that one SQL specialist on £40k a year into two people on £20k who only need to work 15 days in a month


so..three quarters of the work for half the pay - looks like you have got the hang of this shitlording thing already Very Happy


Ha, oops Laughing Cheers.
 Back to top
View user's profile Send private message You must be logged in to rate posts

Sload
World Chat Champion



Joined: 28 Aug 2011
Karma :

PostPosted: 11:55 - 13 Apr 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote

Trump thread, media thread Trump thread, decisions.

Oh well, https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/apr/12/melania-trump-accepts-damages-and-apology-from-daily-mail

The Bannon angle is an interesting one. A fairly larger portion of Trumps support is actually Bannons support. And recent events make them unhappy.
____________________
Honda Varadero >> Triumph Speed Four >> Honda CBR1100xx
 Back to top
View user's profile Send private message You must be logged in to rate posts

Rogerborg
nimbA



Joined: 26 Oct 2010
Karma :

PostPosted: 12:45 - 13 Apr 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote

Sload wrote:

But, but, everybody said. Good on her, although I'm surprised that she settled for so little. Bit of a cheap prozzie model.


Sload wrote:
The Bannon angle is an interesting one. A fairly larger portion of Trumps support is actually Bannons support. And recent events make them unhappy.

The hard core Brietbarteers, yes. But by putting the boot into Syria and sabre rattling on North Korea's doorstep, Trump gained a lot more approval from the centre/lefties than he lost by hacking off some small-State libertarians.

In fact, the more they disavow him, the better it plays to the centre/left.

The key thing to understand about Trump is that he hires and fires people, and he does it ruthlessly and constantly. Bannon was useful to get him elected. Now that he's in the Big Chair, not so much. He's got no real role there now.
____________________
Biking is 1/20th as dangerous as horse riding.
GONE: HN125-8, LF-250B, GPz 305, GPZ 500S, Burgman 400 // RIDING: F650GS (800 twin), Royal Enfield Bullet Electra 500 AVL, Ninja 250R because racebike
 Back to top
View user's profile Send private message You must be logged in to rate posts

Sload
World Chat Champion



Joined: 28 Aug 2011
Karma :

PostPosted: 13:19 - 13 Apr 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote

Rogerborg wrote:
The key thing to understand about Trump is that he hires and fires people, and he does it ruthlessly and constantly. Bannon was useful to get him elected. Now that he's in the Big Chair, not so much. He's got no real role there now.


Pragmatic as hell.
____________________
Honda Varadero >> Triumph Speed Four >> Honda CBR1100xx
 Back to top
View user's profile Send private message You must be logged in to rate posts

Lord Percy
World Chat Champion



Joined: 03 Aug 2012
Karma :

PostPosted: 21:39 - 18 May 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote

On the topic of dangerous press, news bias and 'The Tories', we have this which has been slipped into their 88 page block of a manifesto:

https://scontent-lht6-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/18555876_905972165088_3014641357578877507_n.jpg?oh=2551013395200eceafa3e4941d4a55e7&oe=59B69748

I wonder who benefits Thinking
 Back to top
View user's profile Send private message You must be logged in to rate posts

Rogerborg
nimbA



Joined: 26 Oct 2010
Karma :

PostPosted: 22:08 - 18 May 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote

Lord Percy wrote:
On the topic of dangerous press, news bias and 'The Tories', we have this which has been slipped into their 88 page block of a manifesto:

https://scontent-lht6-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/18555876_905972165088_3014641357578877507_n.jpg?oh=2551013395200eceafa3e4941d4a55e7&oe=59B69748

I wonder who benefits Thinking

https://i.imgur.com/6i43mhF.pnghttps://i.imgur.com/64abctI.png
____________________
Biking is 1/20th as dangerous as horse riding.
GONE: HN125-8, LF-250B, GPz 305, GPZ 500S, Burgman 400 // RIDING: F650GS (800 twin), Royal Enfield Bullet Electra 500 AVL, Ninja 250R because racebike
 Back to top
View user's profile Send private message You must be logged in to rate posts

hellkat
Super Spammer



Joined: 12 Jul 2004
Karma :

PostPosted: 20:39 - 20 May 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote

Suntan Sid wrote:
No it's not the mainstream media, they've been at it for centuries!
It's social media, in particular Facebook!
Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, however when opinions cannot be backed up with real facts they're just meaningless words on a screen!
There is no real debate taking place, people have merely formed themselves into groups of like minded people who agree with each other!
Dissent is not allowed on Facebook, there is no "Dislike" button only the "Like" button, consequently these groups of people feel that their views are validated, whether or not their views have any basis in reality, or not!
Over the last three decades there has been a nasty trend to belittle anyone who has views that don't conform to the mainstream!
The language used to describe people who hold opposite views or do not conform to mainstream views is quite despicable and is used, specifically, to demonise these people!
You can see this language used here, on BCF, it's particularly noticeable in any of the "Brexit" threads!

The problem is, there are now multiple outlets were any crackpot fruit loop can publish their views and find a ready made audience.
Remember if you tell a lie repeatedly, for long enough, eventually your audience will come to see it as the truth, that's how propaganda works! Think about that for a moment and reflect on how that has been used in the media, by politicians, by PR gurus and advertisers and you'll see how the social media shitstirrers have cottoned on to it!

To make matters worse, it's obvious, if you digest any mainstream media that they're trawling social media sites, on a daily basis, and reporting what they see as actual "news", FFS!
It's a self perpetuating, bullshit, headline generator!


Anyone with half a brain knows this.

Anyone with half a brain ignores such things and finds news sources that they prefer, and participates in FB for what it should be*, not what it is prone to become.

The problematic thing, of course, is that the ones without half a brain are the ones who will vote us back into the Dark Ages.







*pics of dogs, dinner, pints with too much foam, people trying desperately not to look as old/young as they really are, and grandchildren.

Oh, and baby goats in onesies.
____________________
Not nearly as interesting in real life.
 Back to top
View user's profile Send private message Send e-mail You must be logged in to rate posts
Old Thread Alert!

The last post was made 6 years, 335 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful?
  Display posts from previous:   
This page may contain affiliate links, which means we may earn a small commission if a visitor clicks through and makes a purchase. By clicking on an affiliate link, you accept that third-party cookies will be set.

Post new topic   Reply to topic    Bike Chat Forums Index -> Politics & Current Affairs All times are GMT + 1 Hour
Goto page Previous  1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Page 8 of 8

 
You cannot post new topics in this forum
You cannot reply to topics in this forum
You cannot edit your posts in this forum
You cannot delete your posts in this forum
You cannot vote in polls in this forum
You cannot attach files in this forum
You cannot download files in this forum

Read the Terms of Use! - Powered by phpBB © phpBB Group
 

Debug Mode: ON - Server: birks (www) - Page Generation Time: 0.10 Sec - Server Load: 0.26 - MySQL Queries: 17 - Page Size: 151.77 Kb