People are afraid of computers, and as usual are unwilling to overcome even the most modest of barriers to learn a new skill.
Not people, but old people. I still have to met somebody under 30 who's not a computer and internet user. And the study was about adult America population. So, its conclusions are blindingly obvious indeed.
Take poor people in third world countries as an example - how long would it take to teach them to use a computer well enough to keep themselves entertained?
Doh? All of five minutes? Like in millions of cyber-cafes?
The stupidity of your comment is stunning, and the worst part is that I suspect you're not trolling, but you really believe it.
SuperKendall, thanks for a very entertaining thread.
For quite a long time now I've been looking at you nailing a very simple and pertinent point time after time, and a bunch of morons? fanbois? astroturfers? doing somersaults trying to avoid the issue. It was at the very least illustrative, and depressing.
I don't know if you're a regular/. dude, or are astroturfing from Sony HQ, but the point is it doesn't matter!!!. Your argument stands by itself, and IMHO it hasn't been refuted so far. TKO, I guess.
Even when learning composition, the subject matter of the paper assignment has to be robust enough to support an interesting paper. If the subject matter of the paper were truly irrelevant, why not assign the paper on the interview in this month's Cigar Aficionado? While it would be possible to find a term paper subject somewhere in there, it's hardly conducive to deep thought.
The link quoted was simply the only table which includes all of the countries passenger mile journeys in the one place.
That's not the point. The point is that the data doesn't offer even a shred of support for your assertion about *why* people don't use public transport. It only supports the assertion that they don't (something I have not disagreed with).
Exactly. You're right, and the other guy is just dancing around your point, being left without a coherent argument. TKO, I'd say.
France were quite content to look the other way on Saddam Hussein's atrocities because they had a nice trade relationship with him. They were widely criticized for this "cheese eating surrender monkey" approach.
They may heve been criticized by a bunch if hicks in the US. The rest of the world just agreed with them.
There were a couple of countries in "the modern era" that were extremely authoritarian in model (Germany, Japan) and who lost a fairly big skirmish to countries that were anything but (USA, England) who both had huge running squabbles between political parties, legislatures, committees, etc. all through their war effort.
In fact, they lost the said skirmish with Stalin's SOVIET RUSSIA (insert joke here), not a shining example of democracy.
And yes, the Western front was really a skirmish in comparison, and opened very, very late. The real war (tm) was fought (and lost) in the Eastern front, against Uncle Joe.
or Neo fly through the air like Superman, we understand it's fiction. It's called "suspension of disbelief." It's what makes movies enjoyable. No one is really going to think that these things happen as regularly (or at all) in real life as they do in the movies.
Maybe I'm wrong, but I thought that the whole point of the movie was that the kung-fu happened in a computer simulation of reality, not in reality itself. Inside this simulation all physical laws are arbitrary, so there's no need for "suspension of disbelief".
Remember the (now totally defunct) NextSTEP guys? Well, they tried to make a user-friendly OS based on Unix and failed... sorta. The company went belly-up, and what they did eventually became OSX -
Duh? Talk about revisionist history. Let's see...
they tried to make a user-friendly OS based on Unix and failed... sorta.
They made it, and they didn't fail. For one, the Web was created on this failed OS... It looks like you have a pretty narrow definition of failed.
The company went belly-up
No, it didn't. Actually, they entered business legend taking over Apple for a negative amount of money. It was the Reality_Distortion_Field's finest hour!
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Not, you're not.
Uruguay is a pretty decent small country, of rather modest means, but not Third World in any meaningful sense.
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CC
Uruguay, AoT, Ur u guay.
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CC
Not people, but old people. I still have to met somebody under 30 who's not a computer and internet user.
And the study was about adult America population.
So, its conclusions are blindingly obvious indeed.
They really do get money for this? Nice racket.
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CC
Doh? All of five minutes? Like in millions of cyber-cafes?
The stupidity of your comment is stunning, and the worst part is that I suspect you're not trolling, but you really believe it.
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CC
You made my friends list.
CC
No disrespect intended, but have you considered a third option, namely: you should have taken Finance 101?
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CC
Calling the 10th GPD in the world "fairly large" seems quite an understatement.
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Ha! We're in, you're out! In your face, Brazil!
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CC
Well, you do a wonderful impersonation of one. I mean, all these talking point at your fingertips...
You had me fooled until your disclaimer, which I believe completely.
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CC
Mandriva 2007.1
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CC
One word: Vista
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SuperKendall, thanks for a very entertaining thread.
/. dude, or are astroturfing from Sony HQ, but the point is it doesn't matter!!!.
For quite a long time now I've been looking at you nailing a very simple and pertinent point time after time, and a bunch of morons? fanbois? astroturfers? doing somersaults trying to avoid the issue. It was at the very least illustrative, and depressing.
I don't know if you're a regular
Your argument stands by itself, and IMHO it hasn't been refuted so far. TKO, I guess.
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Carlos Cesar
Does the word madeleine ring a bell?
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CC
And they would be him an his dog.
The rest is divided between:
"He's a mole"
"He's really, really naïve"
"Both"
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CC
And the Understatement of the Year Award goes to...xtracto!
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CC
The two possibilities aren't mutually exclusive. He's both, and not just a little of each.
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CC
Exactly. You're right, and the other guy is just dancing around your point, being left without a coherent argument.
TKO, I'd say.
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CC
They may heve been criticized by a bunch if hicks in the US.
The rest of the world just agreed with them.
Cheers,
In fact, they lost the said skirmish with Stalin's SOVIET RUSSIA (insert joke here), not a shining example of democracy.
And yes, the Western front was really a skirmish in comparison, and opened very, very late. The real war (tm) was fought (and lost) in the Eastern front, against Uncle Joe.
Cheers,
Maybe I'm wrong, but I thought that the whole point of the movie was that the kung-fu happened in a computer simulation of reality, not in reality itself. Inside this simulation all physical laws are arbitrary, so there's no need for "suspension of disbelief".
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CC
As opposed to MS office's, which works in exactly ONE plataform?
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CC
Duh? Talk about revisionist history. Let's see...
They made it, and they didn't fail. For one, the Web was created on this failed OS...
It looks like you have a pretty narrow definition of failed.
No, it didn't. Actually, they entered business legend taking over Apple for a negative amount of money. It was the Reality_Distortion_Field's finest hour!
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CC
Great one! Are you going to be here all week?
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CC
Killing them tells you... that they're not the monsters. On the other hand, the "scientists"...
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CC
I'd vote 5: all of the above.
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CC