In none of the cases you cite does the entire toolset change and become obsolete on timescales of 5-10 years. A doctor can still be relatively effective - and certainly not in danger of losing his/her job - working with ideas and technology from 2004. So can a lawyer. So can management.
Just try getting by as an application specialist if the last version you touched was in 2004.
Part of the problem with IT is that "keeping your skills ahead of the curve" becomes a big source of time stress in its own right. I don't get paid extra when I spend my evenings and weekends doing online tutorials or reading configuration manuals for a recently released version of $SOFTWARE_APPLICATION. But if I fail to do those things, I risk falling "behind the curve" and losing my employment.
So what you're saying is that because people continue to watch TV after ~60 years, they obviously enjoy commercials at double the volume of the show they're watching.
Where's the link on that site to download movies and music? Because as tempting as it is to believe people want to build a brighter, DMCA-free future and live in a shiny happy world, for most people the overriding concern is "how can I get hold of the latest music/movie/game?"
cc.org, cool and noble though it may be, doesn't address that need and therefore will not resonate with 95% of the people out there. Find a way to make cc.org (or something similar) legitimately compete with the **IA, and you'll be on to something.
Publish a huge volume of information to the internet using your real name so eventually anyone searching for you will only find the good stuff
This.
Contribute magazine articles to online publications big and small. Start a blog. Submit comments and letters to mags and journals. Do lots of product reviews. Provide testimonials. Write open letters to local politicians and post them on opinion sites, etc., etc. Treat this as your new part-time job. I guarantee that by next year, that info from 15 years ago will be so far down the google pages nobody will ever get around to seeing it.
In Canada, there is a sinister political undercurrent that paints the quest for facts and transparency as being somehow unpatriotic - or the domain of meddling busybodies with nothing better to do.
When I was a kid, I used to genuinely believe that humans were on a path to greater wisdom, more profound discourse, and perfect knowledge.
Lately, I just see a bunch of power-hungry assholes doing their utmost to discredit intelligent thought and dumb-down the world around them, so they can continue on an unimpeded path toward greater assholism.
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In none of the cases you cite does the entire toolset change and become obsolete on timescales of 5-10 years. A doctor can still be relatively effective - and certainly not in danger of losing his/her job - working with ideas and technology from 2004. So can a lawyer. So can management.
Just try getting by as an application specialist if the last version you touched was in 2004.
Part of the problem with IT is that "keeping your skills ahead of the curve" becomes a big source of time stress in its own right. I don't get paid extra when I spend my evenings and weekends doing online tutorials or reading configuration manuals for a recently released version of $SOFTWARE_APPLICATION. But if I fail to do those things, I risk falling "behind the curve" and losing my employment.
Really the only thing missing was John Cusack driving a van.
Why not? He only needed a 30-second video.
You mean like this?
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I'll just continue to buy locked phones, and then drop 10 or 20 whole dollars to get them unlocked at the local electronics mall.
Right now, all we can do is pray.
Tossing a few virgins into the caldera probably wouldn't hurt either.
So what you're saying is that because people continue to watch TV after ~60 years, they obviously enjoy commercials at double the volume of the show they're watching.
If the advertiser doesn't want those eyeballs to skip commercials, it might help if they weren't insanely loud or annoying on several other levels.
I have the perfect spot already picked out.
... which the corporate lobby will then blame on piracy.
Where's the link on that site to download movies and music? Because as tempting as it is to believe people want to build a brighter, DMCA-free future and live in a shiny happy world, for most people the overriding concern is "how can I get hold of the latest music/movie/game?"
cc.org, cool and noble though it may be, doesn't address that need and therefore will not resonate with 95% of the people out there. Find a way to make cc.org (or something similar) legitimately compete with the **IA, and you'll be on to something.
The American economy will not recover until those treaties are abandoned and manufacturing comes back to America.
There are at least two ways of interpreting this sentence: the way you meant it, and the cynical one.
You mean natural selection?
On the other hand, as the cancer grows out of control, you just keep getting smarter and smarter.
Publish a huge volume of information to the internet using your real name so eventually anyone searching for you will only find the good stuff
This.
Contribute magazine articles to online publications big and small. Start a blog. Submit comments and letters to mags and journals. Do lots of product reviews. Provide testimonials. Write open letters to local politicians and post them on opinion sites, etc., etc. Treat this as your new part-time job. I guarantee that by next year, that info from 15 years ago will be so far down the google pages nobody will ever get around to seeing it.
Case in point
Only if you maintain proper attribution.
One alternative explanation you haven't explored: you have a twisted world view and you don't actually understand what you're talking about.
It's not just America.
In Canada, there is a sinister political undercurrent that paints the quest for facts and transparency as being somehow unpatriotic - or the domain of meddling busybodies with nothing better to do.
When I was a kid, I used to genuinely believe that humans were on a path to greater wisdom, more profound discourse, and perfect knowledge.
Lately, I just see a bunch of power-hungry assholes doing their utmost to discredit intelligent thought and dumb-down the world around them, so they can continue on an unimpeded path toward greater assholism.
Attention travellers: The Department of Homeland Security Threat Level is currently set to Swirly.
I thought these were shutter technology, not polarized.
Because 2D porn is equally "effective"?