If you get your news online, you don’t have to wait for them to interrupt the cartoons. (Although this makes me wonder if you have cable.) Between this board, the Times, CNN, and regular use of Google, there’s no need to wait around for the TV news to catch up. TV news usually looks like it’s ahead at first when the Web just has those breaking headlines, but a lot of that is just anchors repeating “if you’re just joining us” and adding speculation and “no, we don’t know yet…” on top.
The key words here are breaking news. Nobody had nothin’ yet. I managed to listen to about ten minutes of CNN before remembering why I haven’t watched their crap for the last ten years, hurling the toaster at the TV and turning it off.
If there were a major tsunami, there would be stories about it on all the news sites. There certainly were in 2004. The fact that there aren’t any such stories can be taken as evidence that there is no major tsunami. Tsunamis happening right now (historical tsunamis may be another matter) are a case where absence of evidence really is evidence of absence.
Unless you’re on the coast and think you might need to evacuate, why do you need to know right now if there is a tsunami, anyway? Why not just check your favorite news sites every so often when you think about it?
Miss the point much? There was an 8.8 earthquake, which is of interest to many people, including me. I was looking for more information and found idiots who seemed obsessed with a tsunami. End of story. I can’t believe I have to explain myself to half a dozen knuckleheads and am finished with this conversation.
I stopped watching TV news after 9/11. I found that I was less tense and anxious about something else bad happening once I did. I never went back to watching TV news- I found I liked the control I have over reading online news a lot better.
This term is going out of style, particularly for engineers in the U.S.
In the U.S., the system of units is now generally referred to as the U.S. Customary System. It is similar but not identical to the old British Imperial System.
Funny coincidence. We were on a Caribbean cruise from February 14-18 (just getting the tail end of the bad weather), and of course, we only live about 25 miles from you.
I don’t know about your husband, but it’s taken this long for me to actually want to go on a cruise. Back when I was in the Navy (on the San Juan), the big joke was a spouse wanting to go on a cruise after you got back from a six-month deployment.
