Ubiquitous Internet weakens significance of FCC change

The Kansas City Star ^ | June 3, 2003 | E. Thomas McClanahan

[RAT Patrol]

Kansas Ping! I thought everyone might enjoy this one.

[Jeff Chandler]

>>Ubiquitous Internet weakens significance of FCC change<<

What does "ubiquitous" mean? I see that word everywhere.

[fightinJAG]

Today's technology and the human urge to defy received wisdom will always carve a path to an audience. Once let loose in the marketplace, telling facts and valid insights can't be ignored by mainstream media or these media will run the risk of diminished credibility.

LET FREEDOM RING!

Look how often "valid insights" and "telling facts" get discussed on FR and end up influencing the debate in the lamestream media.

[RAT Patrol]

Existing or being everywhere at the same time; omnipresent

[RAT Patrol]

Yep. He did a great job on this columnn.

[Jeff Chandler]

I await your "D-oh!"

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

One entry found for ubiquitous. Main Entry: ubiq·ui·tous
Pronunciation: yü-'bi-kw&-t&s
Function: adjective
Date: 1837
: existing or being everywhere at the same time : constantly encountered : WIDESPREAD
- ubiq·ui·tous·ly adverb
- ubiq·ui·tous·ness noun

[RAT Patrol]

Nah. I had to look it up myself. LOL!

[Jeff Chandler]

Maybe I'm being too subtle.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Only Foxnews reported this Great Story ( but only on the Weekend ):

Commentary: Hoping Americans stay forever

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Wanting to make sure I was not simply getting the feelings of a long oppressed minority - the Assyrians - I spoke to dozens of people. What I was not prepared for was the sheer terror they felt at speaking out.

Over and over again I would be told `We would be killed for speaking like this` and finding out that they would only speak in a private home or where they were absolutely sure through the introduction of another Iraqi that I was not being attended by a minder.

From a former member of the Army to a person working with the police to taxi drivers to store owners to mothers to government officials without exception when allowed to speak freely the message was the same - `Please bring on the war. We are ready. We have suffered long enough. We may lose our lives but some of us will survive and for our children's sake please, please end our misery.

On the final day for the first time I saw the signs of war. For the first time sandbags began appearing at various government buildings but the solders putting them up and then later standing within the small circle they created gave a clear message they could not dare speak.

They hated it. They despised it. It was their job and they made clear in the way they worked to the common people watching that they were on their side and would not fight.

Near the end of my time a family member brought the word that guns had just been provided to the members of the Baath Party and for the first time we saw the small but growing signs of war.

[e_engineer]

LOL, you caught two so far, remember the bag limit is five.

[alfa6]

Thanks for the ping

Regards

alfa6 ;>}

[Steel Eye]

Get yourself a dictionary. Dictionaries are ubiquitous.

[Jeff Chandler]

That's three!

[Steel Eye]

~That's three!

Nope. Your not that subtle.

[Jeff Chandler]

>>~That's three! <<

>>Nope. Your not that subtle.<<

Ah, you were just testing me!

[Steel Eye]

I'm the one who needs the dictionary.

Your should be You're.

Sigh.

[Tamzee]

Am in the same boat... "obfuscate" has always confused me :-(

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

We have:

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One entry found for obfuscate.

Main Entry: ob·fus·cate
Pronunciation: 'äb-f&-"skAt; äb-'f&s-"kAt, &b-
Function: transitive verb
Inflected Form(s): -cat·ed; -cat·ing
Etymology: Late Latin obfuscatus, past participle of obfuscare, from Latin ob- in the way + fuscus dark brown -- more at OB-, DUSK
Date: 1577
1 a : DARKEN b : to make obscure
2 : CONFUSE
- ob·fus·ca·tion /"äb-(")f&s-'kA-sh&n/ noun
- ob·fus·ca·to·ry /äb-'f&s-k&-"tOr-E, &b-, -"tor-/ adjective