Hey! Just because you've been on the show, doesn't mean you can post your opinion here! Oh and by the way, I TOTALLY agree, Morgan and Megan are really, really nice and damn cute, too!:)
First, I'm saying that we are the very root of the problem. Americans spend money. We don't save. And, like most parents I know, throwing a child a cd or movie during a holiday or anytime they do something that warrants a reward is the norm.
Amen to that brother.
Americans don't save and a good majority of parents overly use "rewards" instead of raising their children. For example, I can't count the number of times I have seen a parent promise their child a "reward" for being quiet in a store this holiday season. What crap. Your child should be quiet because you the parent tell them to be quiet. No reward is necessary, they didn't anything extraordinary... they should be quiet.
Same crap happens at resturants: "oh honey if you're quiet then we'll get [insert stupid toy here]." Bull5hit. A child should exhibit manners at the dinner table all the time; not because they get a toy, but because they have respect for their parents and that respect comes from you the parents.
If your child succeeds a school, they deserve a reward. If your child does something they don't normally do (something you haven't asked them to do) like helping a sibling with homework, they deserve a reward. Etc...
Too many times parents use rewards to escape the reality and responsibility of parenting. Now, before everyone flaims me... I know for a fact that I will be totally guilty of rewarding my kids wrongly at some point, because:
And when your child asks "[Daddy | Mommy], where were you when they took our rights and our democracy away?"
What rights do the MPAA & RIAA threaten? My right to buy a CD? Nope... that's a privilege, not a right.
you can turn around and tell your child it is there fault, for whining about the latest Britney CD, rather than admitting that it wasn't the child asking that was the problem,
I have to agree that there are entirely too many parents that want to be their child's "friend" and not their parent.
it was the spinelessness of an adult who knew better, but chose spoiling their child over education, over their own principles, and over the future of that child's freedom.
Spoiling children instead of educating has nothing to do with the MPAA or RIAA. If you really want to do something for your children, forget the MPAA & RIAA, and focus on your child's school, your child's life, etc...
Since when was Christmas just about how much consumer electronics one can acquire?
Buying presents, spending too much money every December began in 1822 when Clement Clarke Moore wrote Twas a Night Before Christmas. Santa Claus (St Nick) was born and retail merchants rejoiced!
Within a couple of decades, Christmas around the country became the Christmas described in the poem: one in which family gathers together and gifts are given.
These lil' guys are crazy fun! My office used to play Counter Strike every Friday at lunch; until we found these lil' guys. Now we have created an entire racing season (16 races) and have created (with liberal use of desks and chairs) 16 different courses. (Yes we are true geeks)
Let's first address the physical decay facing our nation's schools. The current conditions facing most students and teachers are appalling. We spend more money decorating the White House for annual holidays than most school districts budget for building maintenance.
Do not expect students to know the basics of mathematics, chemistry and physics. Working closely with the teachers' unions, make sure that you dumb down standards so that children who make the most minimal effort still get by with flying colors.
Standardized testing and federal guidelines must challenge our nation's students. In the last 15 years, federal regulations and state authorities have enacted a wave of PC rules that force schools to combine students of varying learning abilities into one large class. In that class, is expected that a student with a reading ability of an 8th grader to complete the same work as a student with a reading ability of a 12th grader.
What happened to Remedial and Honors classes?
Encourage the making of laws and rules by trial lawyers and sympathetic judges, especially through class actions. Bypass the legislative mechanisms that involve elected representatives and a president. This will stop--or at least greatly slow down--innovation, as corporations and individuals hesitate to explore new ideas for fear of getting punished (or regulated to death) by litigation for any misstep, no matter how slight, in the creation of new products and services. Make sure that lawsuits against drugmakers are especially encouraged so that the companies are afraid to develop new lifesaving drugs, lest they be sued for sums that will bankrupt them. Make trial lawyers and judges, not scientists, responsible for the flow of new products and services.
There is no question that this country needs to address Tort reform. In addition, we as a nation need to recognize that regulation is not what the founding fathers had in mind when writing the Constitution. I don't need the FCC protecting my children or me from televised orgies; I am most capable of regulating my children and myself. I don't need lawmakers asking what is popular with the country. I need lawmakers that are not afraid to do what is right, even if it is not what is popular.
Create a culture that blames the other guy for everything and discourages any form of individual self-restraint or self-control. Promote litigation to punish tobacco companies on the theory that they compel innocent people to smoke. Make it second nature for someone who is overweight to blame the restaurant that served him fries.
We must encourage and teach our children to take responsibility for their actions. Simple as that. If you drink and drive it is not the responsibility of the bartender, it is your responsibility.
Sneer at hard work and thrift. Encourage the belief that all true wealth comes from skillful manipulation and cunning, or from sudden, brilliant and lucky strokes that leave the plodding, ordinary worker and saver in the dust. Make sure that society's idols are men and women who got rich from being sexy in public or through gambling or playing tricks, not from hard work or patience. Make the citizenry permanently envious and bewildered about where real success comes from.
Continue making music videos that display a non-reality. For example, Jay-Z does not make 10 figures a year and selling 10 millions albums does not make you rich: ask TLC. In addition, be honest and open about the.com millionaires and the damage wrought by that economic boom.
Hold the managers of corporations to extremely lax standards of conduct and allow them to get off with a slap on the wrist when they betray the trust of shareholders. This will discourage thrift and investment and ensure that Americans will have far less capital to work with than other societies, while simultaneously developing that contempt for law and social standards that is the hallmark of failing nations. Hold the management of labor unions to no ethical standards.
Halliburton. WorldCom. Enron. United Airlines. But why are we upset? Why are we surprised? This is not the first time that CEOs have raped us. Oil companies did it in the 70s. Savings and Loans did it in 80s.
While you're at it, discourage respect for law in every possible way. This will dissolve the glue that holds the nation together, and dissuade any long-term thinking. Societies in which the law can be clearly seen to apply to some and not to others are doomed to decay, in terms of innovation and everything else.
I don't imagine that a 31 year-old black woman who shoplifts $5100 in merchandise from Macys would receive probation and community service. I don't imagine that anyone but a star baseball player would be charged and convicted of DUI, possession, and assault 4 different times before seeing the inside of a jail cell. I don't imagine that anyone but a star basketball player could physical assault their coach/boss, and then be offered a 7 figure yearly income with another team/job.
Encourage a mass culture that spits on intelligence and study and instead elevates drug use, coolness through sex and violence, and contempt for school. As children learn to be stupid instead of smart, the national intelligence base needed for innovation will simply vanish into MTV-land.
It is sad when video games outsell books. It is deplorable that most teenage boys can spew more slang for a woman's genital region, than he can name past Presidents.
Mock and belittle the family. Provide financial incentives to people willing to live an isolated existence, vulnerable and frightened. This guarantees that men and women of sufficient character to bring about innovation will be psychologically stifled from an early age.
Why do my wife and I pay a higher percentage of our income in taxes than single people?
Enact a tax system that encourages class antagonism and punishes saving, while rewarding indebtedness, frivolity and consumption. Tax the fruits of labor many times:
First tax it as income. Then tax it as real or personal property. Then tax it as capital gains. Then tax it again, at a staggeringly high level, at death.
This way, Americans are taught that only fools save, and that it is entirely proper for us to have the lowest savings rate in the developed world. This will deprive us of much-needed capital for new investment, for innovation and our own personal aspirations. It will compel us to ask foreigners for ever more capital and allow them to own more of America. It will also promote an attitude of carelessness about the future and, once again, encourage disrespect for law.
There isn't anything I can add here. Ben Stein is dead on. As a young couple and making over $100K a year, my wife and I still don't know how we are going to afford a house, retirement, etc... It sounds far-fetched, but given taxes and more taxes, there is very little that we can save.
Have a socialized medical system that scrimps on badly needed drugs and procedures, resorts to only the cheapest practices and discourages drug companies from developing new drugs by not paying them enough to cover their costs of experimentation, trial and error.
If you don't think we have socialized medicine in the US, then explain to me what an HMO is.
Elevate mysticism, tribalism, shamanism and fundamentalism--and be sure to exclude educated, hardworking men and women--to an equal status with technology in the public mind. Make sure that, in order to pay proper (and politically correct) respect to all different ethnic groups in America, you act as if science were on an equal footing with voodoo and history with ethnic fable.
Because it is important that we return school prayer. Forget that schools cannot afford textbooks and some children cannot afford lunch, we have to work together to return school prayer. School prayer will make everything better.
And make sure that we give equal time to Darwin and the Book of Genesis when discussing the origins of the Universe.
But I stopped at a dozen because I realized that this is already, in large measure, the program of so many of our elected representatives. The debauchery of our tort system is already in place, and the rest of the agenda is under way.
Oh you bastard! You ruined the whole thing! I'm calling Steven right now. I'm sure he'll have a few choice words for Zemeckis and Hanks; so I doubt very much you'll get your audition for The Polar Express.
Your absolutely correct: bonuses are never a guarantee. However, a bobblehead resembling the boss (especially if said boss preaches corporate economic woe, but takes a bonus) is insulting.
Personally, my company is not in position this year to give cash bonuses. Instead our management team decided to give the entire company the 23rd off (giving all of us a 5 day weekend, paid).
Darmok wasn't quite watcher friendly, but you have to admit that it was a great concept and probably a lot of fun to write.
Too bad we never saw those aliens again. If you think about it, we never got to see a lot of aliens twice. However, we were forced to endure a lot of stupid aliens over and over.
The need to be politically correct and to have a diverse, apartheid-like management team has trumped the business requirement to have competent managers who understand what their engineers are working on.
Huh? "Apartheid-like" & "Diverse" management? Two completely opposite-minded philosophys, which are you promoting?
Only when Asians are promoted into management, as Americans are, and can have their voices heard will most tech companies start to understand what they are doing and begin to turn a profit.
Again... huh? When did the failing of LiquidAudio become a "race" thing? Please correct me if I am reading your post wrong, but are you telling me that had "Asians" managed LiquidAudio, there would be no threat of bankruptcy? That all would be "good" in the world?
Liquid Audio sued two dissident shareholders, including MM Companies Inc., for allegedly violating federal securities laws in their efforts to block the online music company's planned merger with media distributor Alliance Entertainment Corp.
The merger died last month and two MM Companies executives now sit on Liquid Audio's board of directors.
Liquid Audio's suit against MM Companies has been dropped, Doig said.
Does that seem a little unethical to anyone else? Maybe what is killing Liquid Audio is poor management and outside investor influence.
I was busy earning some of that money that gets put in my spreadsheet. When you are out of high school and mom cuts off your allowance, you'll understand about "work".
Straight up, you're an idiot. You're an idiot for having a Cartman UID and accusing someone of being a racist for making a South Park joke. If you're that sensitive, maybe you should stick to the Powerpuff Girls.
You're an idiot for making the assumption that GMHowell is in high school and he doesn't know "work." Try thinking (and maybe reading) before you type a response, you f$#%ing moron.
And thank you for the "tip" on spreadsheets. Wow. Can you get me a good deal on Quattro Pro? Do you think AOL is a good ISP for a small business? 'Cause that would just be "da bomb."
Man, you know all the c00l, l33t, h@x@rs lingo! You're my new h@x@r h3r0!
At $1,200 per diem fee and a booked calander, it's a fun way to be a geek. Using things I learn on slashdot is good money making FUN.
By the way, the correct spelling is: c-a-l-e-n-d-a-r and Slashdot is capitalized. Thanks for playing...
Does it really matter what anyone else thinks of him? I mean, other than some Studio Executives? Because like him or not: he's still working and he's still pretty damn wealthy.
At 61, does anyone really think he gives a damn what the public (or Trekkies) think of of him?
then Speilberg looked it over and tried to alter it ever so slightly IN THE POST PRODUCTION!
And thank god he did. When I first heard about this mini-series I was afraid that it would be another "Dinotopia" fiasco. I am so relieved that 1) Speilberg is obviously in control and 2) one of the 3 primary netowrks is not showing it.
Something that most/.'ers may not be aware of is that for three months before Taken aired, SciFi mailed thousands of brochures and pamphlets to high schools. My wife is a teacher, so of course we ordered everything offered. They sent us lesson plans, videos, handouts, etc... An unbelievable amount of information for free... and none of it had one bit of commercialism attached (other than a couple of SciFi channel promotions). Pretty dame good stuff I must say.
Lastly, one of the brochures stated that if your students did not have access to the SciFi channel, they would send copies of the mini-series to show in class (of course it is not the entire 20 hour series, but an abridged version) for free.
Tom Hanks did the same thing (not quite as much material) with From The Earth to The Moon.
I watched Taken last night and SciFi was running a promotion for their new line up of shows and Farscape was included. So... is Farscape cancelled or not?
And you are right, it is pseudo-ficticious... it is an ideal, something that may not be perfectly attainable, but one for which I believe all people should strive.
Scarey... I agree with you. Whoa. Hope this isn't a trend.:)
As usual you vilify everything Capitalist and romanticize everything Benzapist.
You advocate a return to the (fictious) time of no one answering to anyone (sort of pseudo-anarchy). At the same time you freely admit that poor countries are only poor because the have no system of justice of property rights.
Is it your position then, that America should be a nation with no laws and no organized system of leadership? If so, how do you propose to motivate investment in agriculture or industry, if 1) What you miss is these countries are poor because they have no system of justice or property rights. No one bothers doing anything like large scale agriculture or any other economic activity because there is no inscentive
2) Most crops require careful cultivation and investment in the land to grow enough to make a profit. This investment is not feasible when a virtual anarchy exists?
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Hey! Just because you've been on the show, doesn't mean you can post your opinion here! Oh and by the way, I TOTALLY agree, Morgan and Megan are really, really nice and damn cute, too! :)
Out.
What ever happened to an editor's duty to check factual accuracy of a /. story?
First, I'm saying that we are the very root of the problem. Americans spend money. We don't save. And, like most parents I know, throwing a child a cd or movie during a holiday or anytime they do something that warrants a reward is the norm.
Amen to that brother.
Americans don't save and a good majority of parents overly use "rewards" instead of raising their children.
For example, I can't count the number of times I have seen a parent promise their child a "reward" for being quiet in a store this holiday season. What crap. Your child should be quiet because you the parent tell them to be quiet. No reward is necessary, they didn't anything extraordinary... they should be quiet.
Same crap happens at resturants: "oh honey if you're quiet then we'll get [insert stupid toy here]." Bull5hit. A child should exhibit manners at the dinner table all the time; not because they get a toy, but because they have respect for their parents and that respect comes from you the parents.
If your child succeeds a school, they deserve a reward. If your child does something they don't normally do (something you haven't asked them to do) like helping a sibling with homework, they deserve a reward. Etc...
Too many times parents use rewards to escape the reality and responsibility of parenting. Now, before everyone flaims me... I know for a fact that I will be totally guilty of rewarding my kids wrongly at some point, because:
1. I'm tired, or
2. Stressed, or
3. See #1.
Out
Ummm... over-react, much?
And when your child asks "[Daddy | Mommy], where were you when they took our rights and our democracy away?"
What rights do the MPAA & RIAA threaten? My right to buy a CD? Nope... that's a privilege, not a right.
you can turn around and tell your child it is there fault, for whining about the latest Britney CD, rather than admitting that it wasn't the child asking that was the problem,
I have to agree that there are entirely too many parents that want to be their child's "friend" and not their parent.
it was the spinelessness of an adult who knew better, but chose spoiling their child over education, over their own principles, and over the future of that child's freedom.
Spoiling children instead of educating has nothing to do with the MPAA or RIAA. If you really want to do something for your children, forget the MPAA & RIAA, and focus on your child's school, your child's life, etc...
E-l-i-o-t! Ouuuccchhh! Sorry, I know I know that was bad, but I couldn't resist. :)
Since when was Christmas just about how much consumer electronics one can acquire?
Buying presents, spending too much money every December began in 1822 when Clement Clarke Moore wrote Twas a Night Before Christmas. Santa Claus (St Nick) was born and retail merchants rejoiced!
Within a couple of decades, Christmas around the country became the Christmas described in the poem: one in which family gathers together and gifts are given.
If you want to read more, pick up a copy of The Battle for Christmas.
Damn, now that is funny.
These lil' guys are crazy fun! My office used to play Counter Strike every Friday at lunch; until we found these lil' guys. Now we have created an entire racing season (16 races) and have created (with liberal use of desks and chairs) 16 different courses. (Yes we are true geeks)
Great great great fun!
Allow schools to fall into useless decay.
.com millionaires and the damage wrought by that economic boom.
Let's first address the physical decay facing our nation's schools. The current conditions facing most students and teachers are appalling. We spend more money decorating the White House for annual holidays than most school districts budget for building maintenance.
Do not expect students to know the basics of mathematics, chemistry and physics. Working closely with the teachers' unions, make sure that you dumb down standards so that children who make the most minimal effort still get by with flying colors.
Standardized testing and federal guidelines must challenge our nation's students. In the last 15 years, federal regulations and state authorities have enacted a wave of PC rules that force schools to combine students of varying learning abilities into one large class. In that class, is expected that a student with a reading ability of an 8th grader to complete the same work as a student with a reading ability of a 12th grader.
What happened to Remedial and Honors classes?
Encourage the making of laws and rules by trial lawyers and sympathetic judges, especially through class actions. Bypass the legislative mechanisms that involve elected representatives and a president. This will stop--or at least greatly slow down--innovation, as corporations and individuals hesitate to explore new ideas for fear of getting punished (or regulated to death) by litigation for any misstep, no matter how slight, in the creation of new products and services. Make sure that lawsuits against drugmakers are especially encouraged so that the companies are afraid to develop new lifesaving drugs, lest they be sued for sums that will bankrupt them. Make trial lawyers and judges, not scientists, responsible for the flow of new products and services.
There is no question that this country needs to address Tort reform. In addition, we as a nation need to recognize that regulation is not what the founding fathers had in mind when writing the Constitution. I don't need the FCC protecting my children or me from televised orgies; I am most capable of regulating my children and myself. I don't need lawmakers asking what is popular with the country. I need lawmakers that are not afraid to do what is right, even if it is not what is popular.
Create a culture that blames the other guy for everything and discourages any form of individual self-restraint or self-control. Promote litigation to punish tobacco companies on the theory that they compel innocent people to smoke. Make it second nature for someone who is overweight to blame the restaurant that served him fries.
We must encourage and teach our children to take responsibility for their actions. Simple as that. If you drink and drive it is not the responsibility of the bartender, it is your responsibility.
Sneer at hard work and thrift. Encourage the belief that all true wealth comes from skillful manipulation and cunning, or from sudden, brilliant and lucky strokes that leave the plodding, ordinary worker and saver in the dust. Make sure that society's idols are men and women who got rich from being sexy in public or through gambling or playing tricks, not from hard work or patience. Make the citizenry permanently envious and bewildered about where real success comes from.
Continue making music videos that display a non-reality. For example, Jay-Z does not make 10 figures a year and selling 10 millions albums does not make you rich: ask TLC. In addition, be honest and open about the
Hold the managers of corporations to extremely lax standards of conduct and allow them to get off with a slap on the wrist when they betray the trust of shareholders. This will discourage thrift and investment and ensure that Americans will have far less capital to work with than other societies, while simultaneously developing that contempt for law and social standards that is the hallmark of failing nations. Hold the management of labor unions to no ethical standards.
Halliburton. WorldCom. Enron. United Airlines. But why are we upset? Why are we surprised? This is not the first time that CEOs have raped us. Oil companies did it in the 70s. Savings and Loans did it in 80s.
While you're at it, discourage respect for law in every possible way. This will dissolve the glue that holds the nation together, and dissuade any long-term thinking. Societies in which the law can be clearly seen to apply to some and not to others are doomed to decay, in terms of innovation and everything else.
I don't imagine that a 31 year-old black woman who shoplifts $5100 in merchandise from Macys would receive probation and community service. I don't imagine that anyone but a star baseball player would be charged and convicted of DUI, possession, and assault 4 different times before seeing the inside of a jail cell. I don't imagine that anyone but a star basketball player could physical assault their coach/boss, and then be offered a 7 figure yearly income with another team/job.
Encourage a mass culture that spits on intelligence and study and instead elevates drug use, coolness through sex and violence, and contempt for school. As children learn to be stupid instead of smart, the national intelligence base needed for innovation will simply vanish into MTV-land.
It is sad when video games outsell books. It is deplorable that most teenage boys can spew more slang for a woman's genital region, than he can name past Presidents.
Mock and belittle the family. Provide financial incentives to people willing to live an isolated existence, vulnerable and frightened. This guarantees that men and women of sufficient character to bring about innovation will be psychologically stifled from an early age.
Why do my wife and I pay a higher percentage of our income in taxes than single people?
Enact a tax system that encourages class antagonism and punishes saving, while rewarding indebtedness, frivolity and consumption. Tax the fruits of labor many times:
First tax it as income.
Then tax it as real or personal property.
Then tax it as capital gains.
Then tax it again, at a staggeringly high level, at death.
This way, Americans are taught that only fools save, and that it is entirely proper for us to have the lowest savings rate in the developed world. This will deprive us of much-needed capital for new investment, for innovation and our own personal aspirations. It will compel us to ask foreigners for ever more capital and allow them to own more of America. It will also promote an attitude of carelessness about the future and, once again, encourage disrespect for law.
There isn't anything I can add here. Ben Stein is dead on. As a young couple and making over $100K a year, my wife and I still don't know how we are going to afford a house, retirement, etc... It sounds far-fetched, but given taxes and more taxes, there is very little that we can save.
Have a socialized medical system that scrimps on badly needed drugs and procedures, resorts to only the cheapest practices and discourages drug companies from developing new drugs by not paying them enough to cover their costs of experimentation, trial and error.
If you don't think we have socialized medicine in the US, then explain to me what an HMO is.
Elevate mysticism, tribalism, shamanism and fundamentalism--and be sure to exclude educated, hardworking men and women--to an equal status with technology in the public mind. Make sure that, in order to pay proper (and politically correct) respect to all different ethnic groups in America, you act as if science were on an equal footing with voodoo and history with ethnic fable.
Because it is important that we return school prayer. Forget that schools cannot afford textbooks and some children cannot afford lunch, we have to work together to return school prayer. School prayer will make everything better.
And make sure that we give equal time to Darwin and the Book of Genesis when discussing the origins of the Universe.
But I stopped at a dozen because I realized that this is already, in large measure, the program of so many of our elected representatives. The debauchery of our tort system is already in place, and the rest of the agenda is under way.
Enough said. Out.
Oh you bastard! You ruined the whole thing! I'm calling Steven right now. I'm sure he'll have a few choice words for Zemeckis and Hanks; so I doubt very much you'll get your audition for The Polar Express.
Your absolutely correct: bonuses are never a guarantee. However, a bobblehead resembling the boss (especially if said boss preaches corporate economic woe, but takes a bonus) is insulting.
Personally, my company is not in position this year to give cash bonuses. Instead our management team decided to give the entire company the 23rd off (giving all of us a 5 day weekend, paid).
Are the /. editors going to keep posting this same story every week?
12/6 Story: HOWTO: Annoy a Spammer
11/25 Story: Spam King Lives Large off Others' E-Mail Troubles
11/22 Story: Another Millionaire Spammer Story
11/13 Story: The Economics of Spam
Enough already.
Darmok wasn't quite watcher friendly, but you have to admit that it was a great concept and probably a lot of fun to write.
Too bad we never saw those aliens again. If you think about it, we never got to see a lot of aliens twice. However, we were forced to endure a lot of stupid aliens over and over.
I saw that ad last night as well. I bet they'll run the same ad tonight. Kind of funny. :)
I have to agree. A $2500+ sale and he accepts COD? Those annoying infomercial companies don't accept COD for $29.95, let alone 2 grand!
That aside, it was nice to hear about so many people coming together to help this one person in need.
The need to be politically correct and to have a diverse, apartheid-like management team has trumped the business requirement to have competent managers who understand what their engineers are working on.
Huh? "Apartheid-like" & "Diverse" management? Two completely opposite-minded philosophys, which are you promoting?
Only when Asians are promoted into management, as Americans are, and can have their voices heard will most tech companies start to understand what they are doing and begin to turn a profit.
Again... huh? When did the failing of LiquidAudio become a "race" thing? Please correct me if I am reading your post wrong, but are you telling me that had "Asians" managed LiquidAudio, there would be no threat of bankruptcy? That all would be "good" in the world?
Liquid Audio sued two dissident shareholders, including MM Companies Inc., for allegedly violating federal securities laws in their efforts to block the online music company's planned merger with media distributor Alliance Entertainment Corp.
The merger died last month and two MM Companies executives now sit on Liquid Audio's board of directors.
Liquid Audio's suit against MM Companies has been dropped, Doig said.
Does that seem a little unethical to anyone else? Maybe what is killing Liquid Audio is poor management and outside investor influence.
I think it should be abundantly clear by now that you're an idiot and flat out wrong.
The only thing you should be typing is an apology to GMHowell.
I was busy earning some of that money that gets put in my spreadsheet. When you are out of high school and mom cuts off your allowance, you'll understand about "work".
Straight up, you're an idiot. You're an idiot for having a Cartman UID and accusing someone of being a racist for making a South Park joke. If you're that sensitive, maybe you should stick to the Powerpuff Girls.
You're an idiot for making the assumption that GMHowell is in high school and he doesn't know "work." Try thinking (and maybe reading) before you type a response, you f$#%ing moron.
And thank you for the "tip" on spreadsheets. Wow. Can you get me a good deal on Quattro Pro? Do you think AOL is a good ISP for a small business? 'Cause that would just be "da bomb."
Man, you know all the c00l, l33t, h@x@rs lingo! You're my new h@x@r h3r0!
At $1,200 per diem fee and a booked calander, it's a fun way to be a geek. Using things I learn on slashdot is good money making FUN.
By the way, the correct spelling is: c-a-l-e-n-d-a-r and Slashdot is capitalized. Thanks for playing...
Does it really matter what anyone else thinks of him? I mean, other than some Studio Executives? Because like him or not: he's still working and he's still pretty damn wealthy.
At 61, does anyone really think he gives a damn what the public (or Trekkies) think of of him?
I still giggle at the thought of Shatner sliding off the hood of the police car in "Showtime."
:)
So I've slowly come to think that I'm wonderful.
I merely sought to make an impression.
Damn wouldn't we all seek to make an impression on Nichelle Nichols... emmmmmmm.
I look forward to some personal time with you.
Whoa. A little too much info there.
then Speilberg looked it over and tried to alter it ever so slightly IN THE POST PRODUCTION!
/.'ers may not be aware of is that for three months before Taken aired, SciFi mailed thousands of brochures and pamphlets to high schools. My wife is a teacher, so of course we ordered everything offered. They sent us lesson plans, videos, handouts, etc... An unbelievable amount of information for free... and none of it had one bit of commercialism attached (other than a couple of SciFi channel promotions). Pretty dame good stuff I must say.
And thank god he did. When I first heard about this mini-series I was afraid that it would be another "Dinotopia" fiasco. I am so relieved that 1) Speilberg is obviously in control and 2) one of the 3 primary netowrks is not showing it.
Something that most
Lastly, one of the brochures stated that if your students did not have access to the SciFi channel, they would send copies of the mini-series to show in class (of course it is not the entire 20 hour series, but an abridged version) for free.
Tom Hanks did the same thing (not quite as much material) with From The Earth to The Moon.
I watched Taken last night and SciFi was running a promotion for their new line up of shows and Farscape was included. So... is Farscape cancelled or not?
And you are right, it is pseudo-ficticious... it is an ideal, something that may not be perfectly attainable, but one for which I believe all people should strive.
:)
Scarey... I agree with you. Whoa. Hope this isn't a trend.
As usual you vilify everything Capitalist and romanticize everything Benzapist.
You advocate a return to the (fictious) time of no one answering to anyone (sort of pseudo-anarchy). At the same time you freely admit that poor countries are only poor because the have no system of justice of property rights.
Is it your position then, that America should be a nation with no laws and no organized system of leadership? If so, how do you propose to motivate investment in agriculture or industry, if
1) What you miss is these countries are poor because they have no system of justice or property rights. No one bothers doing anything like large scale agriculture or any other economic activity because there is no inscentive
2) Most crops require careful cultivation and investment in the land to grow enough to make a profit. This investment is not feasible when a virtual anarchy exists?