>My main problem with the original is the same problem I have with all cyberspace-neuromancer type clones: why in the world would your brain kill your body if you 'thought' you died in some VR-type world? It makes no sense.
Are you familar with shock. If your brain believes that you have lost an arm it changes the way blood flows in your body to preserves as much as possible for the brain to survive as long as possible, shutting off blood flow to many sections of the body.
If there was a way to tell someone's brain that their heart had stoped beating or that it was no longer recieving oxygen who knows what the effect might be.
>> Not voting is nothing more than a big "I don't care."
I can think of at least one reason not to vote that has nothing to do with not caring. I don't vote on anything that I don't have a clue about. Its not that I don't care, but often that it is to difficult to be informed about everything that comes up for a vote. In that way I won't damage the process by voting against or for something that I don't know about. The people that it affects the most will most likely vote for or against it. My vote in this matter would just screw things up.
>>All those other people lose their voice in the matter, and that one person gets to decide all by themselves. And if it happens again the next time, who are the candidates going to care about? The one person who determines who gets the job, or the rest of the population that has shown they're not going to be bothered to vote?
So you are saying that everyone should form an opinion even if it uniformed and vote on it? It doesn't make any sense to me. When the population gets pissed off enough believe me they'll vote. The current candidates are offering the same things in different packages. I guarantee that if one of them started touting genocide in their platform a lot more people would come out and vote for or against them. If the issue does not affect you by voting you are screwing up the process for the people it affects. People that are feel the will be affected by the vote will vote. If you found out that a highway was planed to run through your backyard and there would be a vote about it, I believe you would vote about it. Someone that lives across town probably would not be concerned enough about it to vote because it does not affect him.
>>Next time you're with a group of friends, and they're deciding where to go eat/what to do, try just not participating in the process, see if it does anything useful. It won't.
If I'm not hungry then voting here only screws up the people who are planning on eating. It does not mean that I don't care where we eat, it does mean that the people that are going to be eating will get to choose what they want. I might loathe Chinese food, but if I'm not gonna be eating it will it matter if we go to a Chinese restaurant?
People who are not informed should not vote. They are just screwing things up. If you vote for someone because they bussed you to the voting booth you're an idiot.
I don't think that anyone where I went to high school could understand me and that was the way I wanted it. I was on the football team and a weight lifter, but I spent all my spare time on computers. I showed up to school everyday in my black trenchcoat with a bible tucked under one arm. I was not part of any crowd and never really fit in anywhere and that was the way I preferred it.
I remember reading the Anarchist's cookbook and the poor man's James Bond and thinking wow that's pretty neat. I made tennis ball cannons and small bombs that I blew up in a field near where I lived. It ended up giving me a practical understanding of chemistry and the way things work in the real world. I never had any intentions of killing anyone or anything and was basically a good kid.
I'm sure that if I were in High School now I would be nabbed and toted off to a councilor where it would be discovered that I played Dungeons and Dragons and violent video games. I would be stripped of everything that made me and told to conform with what they could understand.
I don't think that anyone where I went to high school could understand me and that was the way I wanted it. I was on the football team and a weight lifter, but I spent all my spare time on computers. I showed up to school everyday in my black trenchcoat with a bible tucked under one arm. I was not part of any crowd and never really fit in anywhere and that was the way I preferred it.
I remember reading the Anarchists cookbook and the poor man's James Bond and thinking wow that's pretty neat. I made tennis ball cannons and small bombs that I blew up in a field near where I lived. It ended up giving me a practical understanding of chemistry and the way things work in the real world. I never had any intentions of killing anyone or anything and was basically a good kid.
I'm sure that if I were in High School now I would be nabbed and toted off to a councilor where it would be discovered that I played Dungeons and Dragons and violent video games. I would be stripped of everything that made me and told to conform with what they could understand.
Its a shame that our system of government thinks it is their responsibility to make laws concerning things they know very little, if anything, about. As long as they get enough press I suppose it does not matter if they are right or wrong. Maybe if some of their constituents took the time to write about how ludicrous some of their ideas are this would happen less and less.
I cannot say for sure if there is a shortage in IT professionals / programmers. What I can say for sure is that no IT professionals / programmers whom I know are unemployeed. I started working full time my sophmore year in collage and since that time I've had my salary doubled twice. Now I cannot say for sure if this trend is nation wide, but I'm not hurting.
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>My main problem with the original is the same problem I have with all cyberspace-neuromancer type clones: why in the world would your brain kill your body if you 'thought' you died in some VR-type world? It makes no sense.
Are you familar with shock. If your brain believes that you have lost an arm it changes the way blood flows in your body to preserves as much as possible for the brain to survive as long as possible, shutting off blood flow to many sections of the body.
If there was a way to tell someone's brain that their heart had stoped beating or that it was no longer recieving oxygen who knows what the effect might be.
>> Not voting is nothing more than a big "I don't care."
I can think of at least one reason not to vote that has nothing to do with not caring. I don't vote on anything that I don't have a clue about. Its not that I don't care, but often that it is to difficult to be informed about everything that comes up for a vote. In that way I won't damage the process by voting against or for something that I don't know about. The people that it affects the most will most likely vote for or against it. My vote in this matter would just screw things up.
>>All those other people lose their voice in the matter, and that one person gets to decide all by themselves. And if it happens again the next time, who are the candidates going to care about? The one person who determines who gets the job, or the rest of the population that has shown they're not going to be bothered to vote?
So you are saying that everyone should form an opinion even if it uniformed and vote on it? It doesn't make any sense to me. When the population gets pissed off enough believe me they'll vote. The current candidates are offering the same things in different packages. I guarantee that if one of them started touting genocide in their platform a lot more people would come out and vote for or against them. If the issue does not affect you by voting you are screwing up the process for the people it affects. People that are feel the will be affected by the vote will vote. If you found out that a highway was planed to run through your backyard and there would be a vote about it, I believe you would vote about it. Someone that lives across town probably would not be concerned enough about it to vote because it does not affect him.
>>Next time you're with a group of friends, and they're deciding where to go eat/what to do, try just not participating in the process, see if it does anything useful. It won't.
If I'm not hungry then voting here only screws up the people who are planning on eating. It does not mean that I don't care where we eat, it does mean that the people that are going to be eating will get to choose what they want. I might loathe Chinese food, but if I'm not gonna be eating it will it matter if we go to a Chinese restaurant?
People who are not informed should not vote. They are just screwing things up. If you vote for someone because they bussed you to the voting booth you're an idiot.
I don't think that anyone where I went to high school could understand me and that was the way I wanted it. I was on the football team and a weight lifter, but I spent all my spare time on computers. I showed up to school everyday in my black trenchcoat with a bible tucked under one arm. I was not part of any crowd and never really fit in anywhere and that was the way I preferred it.
I remember reading the Anarchist's cookbook and the poor man's James Bond and thinking wow that's pretty neat. I made tennis ball cannons and small bombs that I blew up in a field near where I lived. It ended up giving me a practical understanding of chemistry and the way things work in the real world. I never had any intentions of killing anyone or anything and was basically a good kid.
I'm sure that if I were in High School now I would be nabbed and toted off to a councilor where it would be discovered that I played Dungeons and Dragons and violent video games. I would be stripped of everything that made me and told to conform with what they could understand.
That would have driven me over the edge.
I don't think that anyone where I went to high school could understand me and that was the way I wanted it. I was on the football team and a weight lifter, but I spent all my spare time on computers. I showed up to school everyday in my black trenchcoat with a bible tucked under one arm. I was not part of any crowd and never really fit in anywhere and that was the way I preferred it.
I remember reading the Anarchists cookbook and the poor man's James Bond and thinking wow that's pretty neat. I made tennis ball cannons and small bombs that I blew up in a field near where I lived. It ended up giving me a practical understanding of chemistry and the way things work in the real world. I never had any intentions of killing anyone or anything and was basically a good kid.
I'm sure that if I were in High School now I would be nabbed and toted off to a councilor where it would be discovered that I played Dungeons and Dragons and violent video games. I would be stripped of everything that made me and told to conform with what they could understand.
That would have driven me over the edge.
Where I live you can also find out the SSN of the person(s) buying the house.
Its a shame that our system of government thinks it is their
responsibility to make laws concerning things they know
very little, if anything, about. As long as they get enough
press I suppose it does not matter if they are right or wrong.
Maybe if some of their constituents took the time to write
about how ludicrous some of their ideas are this would
happen less and less.
Arizona State Legislature
I cannot say for sure if there is a shortage in IT professionals / programmers. What I can say for sure is that no IT professionals / programmers
whom I know are unemployeed. I started working full time my sophmore year in collage and since that time I've had my salary doubled twice. Now I cannot say for sure if this trend is nation wide, but I'm not hurting.