I think that corporations rely on the apathy of the masses. Rallying points were important when people started unions and women got to vote. But once a society gets to a sustainable level of comfort those people will do nothing that risks that comfort.
People stood up to corporate greed when they abolished sweats shops. In fact they just moved the sweat shops to a less noticeable location. Once rediscovered those same ppl who once fought against sweat shops just said: "meh, not my worry" and went home to their 2.5 kids and 2 car garages.
Apathy is a wonderful way to keep the masses controlled. It works far better than any chain or enslavement could have.
it would have taken a an hour and had a helluva goatsee up for all to see. It only took a day 'cuz they were union and had a power lunch and a massage appt. at 3pm.
Sorry but a TB...wtf? I don't want some low res windows paint shit version of my life. I'd prefer everything to be in HD just as it was created. Why I'd ever want to remember the "good ol' days" in artifact compression is beyond me. But this is just so typical of their line of thinking.
Will they own the rights to the playback of my life?
I always thought it'd be great to be his care nurse, dress up in an ape suit and bring a fire hose in one day and give him a spray. When he started yelling at me I'd hoot and jump up on the dresser and shout: "He speaks, bright eyes speaks!"
Some may find that twisted... but others would just say: "he finally did it. Damn him all to hell."
Next up: Apple sues every gay pride organization and person wearing a rainbow for their old (shitty) logo infringement.
After that: Apple will sue the Universe for Mercury, Silver, Nickel, Tin, Aluminum and Lead all using the colour silver, an obvious infringement upon their new logo.
I suppose Jobs will start suing anyone who wears a turtleneck while giving Keynote presentations.
Please someone (namely the judges), stop the madness.
.sarcasm> They're just protecting the world from terrorists. You know those people who dupe the public into thinking that their personal information is their private information. And then they go and use it against them or, barring that, use it in a "fair use" marketing campaign and never pay for or ask the user for their permission. I believe Adobe will DO NO HARM just like all those other really cool companies with no ulterior motives that want to make the world one big hug fest. ./sarcasm>
Senior citizens across the world are shocked to find their middle aged children finally leaving their basements en masse. One 87 year old woman is quoted as saying: "I thought my son had run away 35 years ago. If I'd had known he was in the damn basement all this time I'd have made him pay rent. This would explain why I ran out of cheetos and mt. dew so fast. I just kept thinking it was my failing memory and I only imagined buying all that junk food..."
I hope I live long enough to see clinical trial of this... and see them go vastly wrong. A zombie plague would be the absolute best thing that could happen to this planet.
1. It is not the "sole cause of surviving" the plague. It is in fact a reason a certain percentage survived it.
2. Yes this is true. Never stated a frequency ratio.
3. Bubonic plague did not, in it's relatively short lifespan, produce any significant selection process. It did, however, help facilitate certain factors. One of which is the proliferation of the Delta 32 marker. Without the plague there would be even less numbers of people with that marker today.
People who survived the Plague in Europe either did not encounter it or almost universally had a genetic anomaly commonly referred to as the delta-32 marker. Their ancestors survive other diseases because of this causing what amounts to an odd protein binding issue on the cellular level. Those people are also naturally immune to HIV.
Different brains are wired for different things. A good programmer is rarely a good designer and vis versa. This was dictated at conception by how we are hard wired. There are somethings in life that will always be outside of each of our abilities. It's best to recognize this and hire someone who excels where you lack.
What's more fascinating to me is that someone got paid for this research. This is just common sense. Anyone that's ever gotten adept at any "tool" does not use it as an other but an addition to ones own body. A painter, a carpenter, a sculptor, a technician... all use their tools in this manner. To waste money to tell us what is so painfully obvious... *sigh*... it's just like studies that say smoking is bad for your lungs.
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I think that corporations rely on the apathy of the masses. Rallying points were important when people started unions and women got to vote. But once a society gets to a sustainable level of comfort those people will do nothing that risks that comfort.
People stood up to corporate greed when they abolished sweats shops. In fact they just moved the sweat shops to a less noticeable location. Once rediscovered those same ppl who once fought against sweat shops just said: "meh, not my worry" and went home to their 2.5 kids and 2 car garages.
Apathy is a wonderful way to keep the masses controlled. It works far better than any chain or enslavement could have.
it would have taken a an hour and had a helluva goatsee up for all to see. It only took a day 'cuz they were union and had a power lunch and a massage appt. at 3pm.
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Sorry but a TB...wtf? I don't want some low res windows paint shit version of my life. I'd prefer everything to be in HD just as it was created. Why I'd ever want to remember the "good ol' days" in artifact compression is beyond me. But this is just so typical of their line of thinking.
Will they own the rights to the playback of my life?
actually help the coral and plankton grow!
I always thought it'd be great to be his care nurse, dress up in an ape suit and bring a fire hose in one day and give him a spray. When he started yelling at me I'd hoot and jump up on the dresser and shout: "He speaks, bright eyes speaks!"
Some may find that twisted... but others would just say: "he finally did it. Damn him all to hell."
Next up: Apple sues every gay pride organization and person wearing a rainbow for their old (shitty) logo infringement.
After that: Apple will sue the Universe for Mercury, Silver, Nickel, Tin, Aluminum and Lead all using the colour silver, an obvious infringement upon their new logo.
I suppose Jobs will start suing anyone who wears a turtleneck while giving Keynote presentations.
Please someone (namely the judges), stop the madness.
.sarcasm>
./sarcasm>
They're just protecting the world from terrorists. You know those people who dupe the public into thinking that their personal information is their private information. And then they go and use it against them or, barring that, use it in a "fair use" marketing campaign and never pay for or ask the user for their permission. I believe Adobe will DO NO HARM just like all those other really cool companies with no ulterior motives that want to make the world one big hug fest.
Senior citizens across the world are shocked to find their middle aged children finally leaving their basements en masse. One 87 year old woman is quoted as saying: "I thought my son had run away 35 years ago. If I'd had known he was in the damn basement all this time I'd have made him pay rent. This would explain why I ran out of cheetos and mt. dew so fast. I just kept thinking it was my failing memory and I only imagined buying all that junk food..."
I hope I live long enough to see clinical trial of this... and see them go vastly wrong. A zombie plague would be the absolute best thing that could happen to this planet.
1. It is not the "sole cause of surviving" the plague. It is in fact a reason a certain percentage survived it.
2. Yes this is true. Never stated a frequency ratio.
3. Bubonic plague did not, in it's relatively short lifespan, produce any significant selection process. It did, however, help facilitate certain factors. One of which is the proliferation of the Delta 32 marker. Without the plague there would be even less numbers of people with that marker today.
People who survived the Plague in Europe either did not encounter it or almost universally had a genetic anomaly commonly referred to as the delta-32 marker. Their ancestors survive other diseases because of this causing what amounts to an odd protein binding issue on the cellular level. Those people are also naturally immune to HIV.
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Different brains are wired for different things. A good programmer is rarely a good designer and vis versa. This was dictated at conception by how we are hard wired. There are somethings in life that will always be outside of each of our abilities. It's best to recognize this and hire someone who excels where you lack.
What's more fascinating to me is that someone got paid for this research. This is just common sense. Anyone that's ever gotten adept at any "tool" does not use it as an other but an addition to ones own body. A painter, a carpenter, a sculptor, a technician... all use their tools in this manner. To waste money to tell us what is so painfully obvious... *sigh*... it's just like studies that say smoking is bad for your lungs.
Perhaps everything slows down because at its core the Earth is just stupid.