That is true. But it's not reasonable, nor does it make sense, to assume that averag American should or would live like the average Chinese. That would mean a *massive* decrease in comforts.
Oh no. Think of the comforts. What ever will we do?
It would certainly mean a massive change in what you're used to, but you may be surprised to learn that most Chinese enjoy life.
But I don't really get all worked up about this. I've resigned myself to the fact that a big goal in my later life will be to avoid being eaten by the young after oil supplies run out. It'll be the ultimate sugar crash on a grand scale.
Goodbye cars, hello horses. Goodbye corporate farming, hello local growers. Goodbye massive chunk of formerly supportable population (here's where I hope I'm not in the massive chunk).
You might not think that when you discover that your mortgage office, which stores an obscene amount of personal info, has all of that personal information on desktop computers on an unsecured wireless network.
Yes, I have worked as a mortgage loan officer for such a place. Yes, I insisted on that being changed (to extremely computer clueless management). Yes, I eventually quit for these and other questionable practices.
What did the XBox do to ruin your gaming experience? How has Microsoft made a mess of everything?
I'm a gamer, I like to choose games that I like to play. More choice = more chance I will find fun. This has been true all the way back to ye olde Atari vs Commodore days.
I love adventure games, unfortunately for me they are out of public favor at the moment (though a few fun titles came out this year, joy!). But the release of lots of games in sports, mmorpgs, and other genres I don't particularly care for does nothing to ruin the fun of the games I do enjoy.
Indeed. Since the advent of spotlight I find myself organizing files and folders less and less. I still bulk separate them into "Pictures" "Documents" "Movies" etc, but I'm already thinking that they're all just files so why not let them all sit in one huge directory and be smart sorted and organized to my whims on the fly?
Lilo and Stitch wasn't really a Disney product anymore than a Pixar movie is. It was created by Disney's now shutdown FL studio and was a skunkworks project until it scored *big* with test audiences and the suits took notice.
Disney hasn't made a decent movie in over eight years. Even if you do count Lilo and Stitch, then that's just one hit in that timeframe.
On the other hand, were Britney Spears more my thing, I'd likely want the videos, ideally without sound as, let's face it, her success was never about the music.
This is what happens when you recycle jokes from 1999.
Meh, the Ultimate (ha ha) open ended game is still Ultima VII. You could, if you so desired, stop adventuring and get a job delivering farm goods, or baking bread, etc.
Your primary insight is, perhaps inevitably and certainly excusably, tainted with the perspective of the "western" world. A more stable---some would say stagnant---culture would absorb a change of this nature better.
Even in such a culture, overcrowding would be a serious problem; although I'm sure environmental stresses would serve to alter the state of our society until we think that breeding before one is one or two hundred years old is unseemly.
The research the article describes also indicates that cell decay (i.e. aging) would be severely slowed. So, in effect, we would age at a much lessened pace than we would "naturally". So your description of a terrible life with hundreds of years spent in a wheelchair is irrelevant.
If you can't remember to delete the pictures you downloaded from your camera, tell iPhoto to delete them after it copied them for you. It also doesn't "re-download" until you click the "Import" button so perhaps there's some kind of other problem.
If I connect the camera with the same pictures then it's because there is some kind of problem (oops, didn't mean to save the crazy edit to the original file) and I *want* to "re-download" the picture.
Insightful means drawing insight from the facts at hand:
1) Christmas pledge time is coming 2) Environmentalist pledge based company needs pledges 3) (insight)
That's what passes for insightful anywhere with a dictionary or reasonable level of intelligence.
Informative means offering more facts, as you seem to want. There is a moderation for that too, but inappropriate here.
You argument makes an unwarranted simplification. I could just as easily, and more accurately say, that "these people" are training to protect humans. Your statement says nothing to counter the grandparent's assertion that they Navy aren't uncaring brutes.
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That is true. But it's not reasonable, nor does it make sense, to assume that averag American should or would live like the average Chinese. That would mean a *massive* decrease in comforts.
Oh no. Think of the comforts. What ever will we do?
It would certainly mean a massive change in what you're used to, but you may be surprised to learn that most Chinese enjoy life.
But I don't really get all worked up about this. I've resigned myself to the fact that a big goal in my later life will be to avoid being eaten by the young after oil supplies run out. It'll be the ultimate sugar crash on a grand scale.
Goodbye cars, hello horses. Goodbye corporate farming, hello local growers. Goodbye massive chunk of formerly supportable population (here's where I hope I'm not in the massive chunk).
That's silly. As if humans are some kind of foreign extraterrestrial invasion that need to be counteracted.
You might not think that when you discover that your mortgage office, which stores an obscene amount of personal info, has all of that personal information on desktop computers on an unsecured wireless network.
Yes, I have worked as a mortgage loan officer for such a place. Yes, I insisted on that being changed (to extremely computer clueless management). Yes, I eventually quit for these and other questionable practices.
That's why I don't own an iPod.
Because mp3s are proprietary?
Because before file sharing the RIAA/MPAA were very popular organizations? Was it unexpected when they started suing file sharers?
What did the XBox do to ruin your gaming experience? How has Microsoft made a mess of everything?
I'm a gamer, I like to choose games that I like to play. More choice = more chance I will find fun. This has been true all the way back to ye olde Atari vs Commodore days.
I love adventure games, unfortunately for me they are out of public favor at the moment (though a few fun titles came out this year, joy!). But the release of lots of games in sports, mmorpgs, and other genres I don't particularly care for does nothing to ruin the fun of the games I do enjoy.
Did an XBox run over your dog or something?
So far I've been labelled as a Sony fanboy, a Nintendo fanboy and an XBox fanboy. Go figure.
That's crazy. You are obviously a videogame fanboy.
Indeed. Since the advent of spotlight I find myself organizing files and folders less and less. I still bulk separate them into "Pictures" "Documents" "Movies" etc, but I'm already thinking that they're all just files so why not let them all sit in one huge directory and be smart sorted and organized to my whims on the fly?
Oh man, I hate those things. It's like a sonic drill going through my eardrum. It's simultaneously a very odd and very painful experience.
I refuse to pay to be a captive audience for advertisements, no matter how well they fit my profile.
Better lose your Internet connection and cable tv subscription then.
BTW, am I the only one thinking that Halloween is getting overdone to the point where the fun has been driven out of it?
:-)
From your post it seems pretty clear that you're just getting more gloomy. Cheer up eh? It's all for fun!
Lilo and Stitch wasn't really a Disney product anymore than a Pixar movie is. It was created by Disney's now shutdown FL studio and was a skunkworks project until it scored *big* with test audiences and the suits took notice.
Disney hasn't made a decent movie in over eight years. Even if you do count Lilo and Stitch, then that's just one hit in that timeframe.
On the other hand, were Britney Spears more my thing, I'd likely want the videos, ideally without sound as, let's face it, her success was never about the music.
This is what happens when you recycle jokes from 1999.
So nowhere near the brilliance of the Zombie Survival Guide? That's a shame.
Why was level 60 the goal? Was the fun of the game not merit enough?
Is the point of a piece of music to reach the finale?
When you dance is it to arrive at a particular spot on the floor at the end?
Presumably because in at least one point of our cultural history it was worthy enough to merit such consideration.
Meh, the Ultimate (ha ha) open ended game is still Ultima VII. You could, if you so desired, stop adventuring and get a job delivering farm goods, or baking bread, etc.
Agreed. For an unseen product with only a commerical to show for it, I find it strange that I am so eager for its release.
Your primary insight is, perhaps inevitably and certainly excusably, tainted with the perspective of the "western" world. A more stable---some would say stagnant---culture would absorb a change of this nature better.
Even in such a culture, overcrowding would be a serious problem; although I'm sure environmental stresses would serve to alter the state of our society until we think that breeding before one is one or two hundred years old is unseemly.
The research the article describes also indicates that cell decay (i.e. aging) would be severely slowed. So, in effect, we would age at a much lessened pace than we would "naturally". So your description of a terrible life with hundreds of years spent in a wheelchair is irrelevant.
Can't do much more than crop? Are you sure about that?
If you can't remember to delete the pictures you downloaded from your camera, tell iPhoto to delete them after it copied them for you. It also doesn't "re-download" until you click the "Import" button so perhaps there's some kind of other problem.
If I connect the camera with the same pictures then it's because there is some kind of problem (oops, didn't mean to save the crazy edit to the original file) and I *want* to "re-download" the picture.
...aren't so outrageous if you don't know what either a placebo or an analgesic is.
Then you won't understand the story or the joke, so it doesn't matter either way.
I've always wondered about the possibility of recreating the brain. Can we truly analyze the very thing that's doing the analyzing?
To be fair, the oldest American corporations can by definition only be a little more than 200 years old.
Corporations in Japan are based off of family holdings going back for centuries.
Plus there is the whole western view of the world as an artifact vs. the oriental view of the world as an organism that I won't even get into.
Point? No point.
Insightful means drawing insight from the facts at hand:
1) Christmas pledge time is coming
2) Environmentalist pledge based company needs pledges
3) (insight)
That's what passes for insightful anywhere with a dictionary or reasonable level of intelligence.
Informative means offering more facts, as you seem to want. There is a moderation for that too, but inappropriate here.
You argument makes an unwarranted simplification. I could just as easily, and more accurately say, that "these people" are training to protect humans. Your statement says nothing to counter the grandparent's assertion that they Navy aren't uncaring brutes.
Only, like, everyone.