You know this is probably true because if you think about it, people leaning towards liberalism are more free spirited, going on vacation, listening to music, doing what makes them feel good, having the attitude of a college student, and whatever they have in their homes is going to reflect that. Conservatives are more about responsibility, working hard, living below your means, advancing your family, being proud of America, and what they put in their homes will also reflect that. In all this is an interesting study.
Well this sounds like a great idea and I am all for keeping people safe from sexual predators but I do not believe this system can function properly unless all of those who must register will be honest and do so. Unfortunately as someone mentioned there is nothing to prevent someone from registering their email address in the registry and then turning around and getting a free email account with a false name. Probably these online sexual predators are using false names anyway. I think that in addition to such a registry, this country needs to fight this problem by discussing the dangers of online social networking in classrooms and demonstrating to the children what kinds of scenarios take place, in much the same way that educational movies on television show how a potential kidnapper says he needs help finding his dog or your mom asked me to pick you up from school so that children will recognize these ploys and learn to stay away from them. Kids think the online social programs are all fun and games and "everyone" is on there and doing that but popular as it is, it is a very bad idea to get mixed up with people you do not know personally. I do not have anything against those sites and they have many good uses. There are many people I know who I am staying in touch with through those sites and I would have lost touch a long time ago if they did not exist so they are good sites. But like anything good there can be a bad side to it and crazy people victimizing our children are ruining it for everybody. That is why the problem needs to be fought through the education system and by teaching the children how to avoid becoming victims. Being that this country spends the most on education in the world and ranks in the toilet in terms of our students' test scores, I think some of that money should be taken away from wherever it goes right now and instead they should invest a little bit of it to teach the kids about the dangers of going on to the online social networking sites and talking to weird strangers over there, as it were. I am putting together this new website and this last sentence will be a shameless plug for it. Right now it is about the upcoming election but I think this subject of social networking and the dangers of it should be documented over there too, as it were. The page is at this location over here. Thanks for reading my long rant. See sometimes the government tries to solve a problem with the best of intentions but they are not the best qualified to solve the problem. See sexual predators will sign up their email to the registry and then get a free email to work around it. Solution? Regulate free email. That will cause some new problem. Solution? Regulate that too. Sooner or later there will be so many regulations that we won't be able to fart without breaking a law somewhere. Instead sure keep the registry it's a good idea but also teach the children through education how to avoid becoming victims. Education and knowledge are the best power.
You definitely have a point there about calling it version 5.5 but it is version 1.0 quality. Better to eschew the version number altogether and just call some name and tack Beta on to the end of it. Then, sell it to customers with free upgrades through version 2.x of the product. They'll buy it because they'll want the free upgrades. And when it does something screwy then they won't be too upset because it's Beta. Maybe that is why everything on the Google site is called Beta too for long lengths of time before the Beta title is removed.
Take a cue from Microsoft and car makers and instead of using a version number, use the number of next year. So your software product if you release it by Christmas should be called Whatever 2009. If you release it after the first of the new year, it should be called Whatever 2010. That causes people to believe that the product is something very advanced and technological. Alternately you could take a cue from Apple and name your product after some animal family. Hey just a shameless plug but check out my new website that I am putting together it's not finished yet but it will talk about the upcoming Election. With so much time left until we go to the polls. Now is the time to put together a site like it. Nothing fancy but I will try to put good information over there. It's over here.
The trouble with big brother sort of things like this is that these programs get out of hand, go out of control, and end up making everyone's lives miserable. And do we really want to live in a world that is so full of cameras and government spying that we can't fart without being caught? And since I'm already on a rant about this sort of thing then what the hell, check out my new web site at this place where I'm going to write about my thoughts about the upcoming election and how I think government should be. Let me sum up by saying that all this government spying over the excuse of doing it to keep us safe well that is not the way I'd solve the security situation around the world. Because you have to find some kind of balance. If you have a government network of ten cameras on every street corner, then, well, you're going to receive so much video data that there won't be enough people in the Universe to watch all of it, much less to pay attention and look for activity that is really suspicious. It just won't work. There is infinity amounts of information in the world. The trick to figure out is how you reject nearly all of it in such a way that most of the remaining information is a positive hit on something suspicious. Unfortunately, governments do not know such boundaries or limits. They pass a law saying there will be fifty cameras on every intersection. They don't stop to think that it will cost millions or maybe even billions of dollars to do it. What do they care anyway? The tax payer will pay for it. This is no way to run a country. It's only a way to take away everyone's liberty without gaining any benefit from it at all. Because governments don't know limits or boundaries, and so they don't know how to do something in moderation. It's too much, too late, ineffective, expensive, and it will accomplish nothing. If only I were running for President right now. Everything would be okay.
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You know this is probably true because if you think about it, people leaning towards liberalism are more free spirited, going on vacation, listening to music, doing what makes them feel good, having the attitude of a college student, and whatever they have in their homes is going to reflect that. Conservatives are more about responsibility, working hard, living below your means, advancing your family, being proud of America, and what they put in their homes will also reflect that. In all this is an interesting study.
Well this sounds like a great idea and I am all for keeping people safe from sexual predators but I do not believe this system can function properly unless all of those who must register will be honest and do so. Unfortunately as someone mentioned there is nothing to prevent someone from registering their email address in the registry and then turning around and getting a free email account with a false name. Probably these online sexual predators are using false names anyway. I think that in addition to such a registry, this country needs to fight this problem by discussing the dangers of online social networking in classrooms and demonstrating to the children what kinds of scenarios take place, in much the same way that educational movies on television show how a potential kidnapper says he needs help finding his dog or your mom asked me to pick you up from school so that children will recognize these ploys and learn to stay away from them. Kids think the online social programs are all fun and games and "everyone" is on there and doing that but popular as it is, it is a very bad idea to get mixed up with people you do not know personally. I do not have anything against those sites and they have many good uses. There are many people I know who I am staying in touch with through those sites and I would have lost touch a long time ago if they did not exist so they are good sites. But like anything good there can be a bad side to it and crazy people victimizing our children are ruining it for everybody. That is why the problem needs to be fought through the education system and by teaching the children how to avoid becoming victims. Being that this country spends the most on education in the world and ranks in the toilet in terms of our students' test scores, I think some of that money should be taken away from wherever it goes right now and instead they should invest a little bit of it to teach the kids about the dangers of going on to the online social networking sites and talking to weird strangers over there, as it were. I am putting together this new website and this last sentence will be a shameless plug for it. Right now it is about the upcoming election but I think this subject of social networking and the dangers of it should be documented over there too, as it were. The page is at this location over here. Thanks for reading my long rant. See sometimes the government tries to solve a problem with the best of intentions but they are not the best qualified to solve the problem. See sexual predators will sign up their email to the registry and then get a free email to work around it. Solution? Regulate free email. That will cause some new problem. Solution? Regulate that too. Sooner or later there will be so many regulations that we won't be able to fart without breaking a law somewhere. Instead sure keep the registry it's a good idea but also teach the children through education how to avoid becoming victims. Education and knowledge are the best power.
You definitely have a point there about calling it version 5.5 but it is version 1.0 quality. Better to eschew the version number altogether and just call some name and tack Beta on to the end of it. Then, sell it to customers with free upgrades through version 2.x of the product. They'll buy it because they'll want the free upgrades. And when it does something screwy then they won't be too upset because it's Beta. Maybe that is why everything on the Google site is called Beta too for long lengths of time before the Beta title is removed.
Take a cue from Microsoft and car makers and instead of using a version number, use the number of next year. So your software product if you release it by Christmas should be called Whatever 2009. If you release it after the first of the new year, it should be called Whatever 2010. That causes people to believe that the product is something very advanced and technological. Alternately you could take a cue from Apple and name your product after some animal family. Hey just a shameless plug but check out my new website that I am putting together it's not finished yet but it will talk about the upcoming Election. With so much time left until we go to the polls. Now is the time to put together a site like it. Nothing fancy but I will try to put good information over there. It's over here.
The trouble with big brother sort of things like this is that these programs get out of hand, go out of control, and end up making everyone's lives miserable. And do we really want to live in a world that is so full of cameras and government spying that we can't fart without being caught? And since I'm already on a rant about this sort of thing then what the hell, check out my new web site at this place where I'm going to write about my thoughts about the upcoming election and how I think government should be. Let me sum up by saying that all this government spying over the excuse of doing it to keep us safe well that is not the way I'd solve the security situation around the world. Because you have to find some kind of balance. If you have a government network of ten cameras on every street corner, then, well, you're going to receive so much video data that there won't be enough people in the Universe to watch all of it, much less to pay attention and look for activity that is really suspicious. It just won't work. There is infinity amounts of information in the world. The trick to figure out is how you reject nearly all of it in such a way that most of the remaining information is a positive hit on something suspicious. Unfortunately, governments do not know such boundaries or limits. They pass a law saying there will be fifty cameras on every intersection. They don't stop to think that it will cost millions or maybe even billions of dollars to do it. What do they care anyway? The tax payer will pay for it. This is no way to run a country. It's only a way to take away everyone's liberty without gaining any benefit from it at all. Because governments don't know limits or boundaries, and so they don't know how to do something in moderation. It's too much, too late, ineffective, expensive, and it will accomplish nothing. If only I were running for President right now. Everything would be okay.