It's all about the tv generations of the last 3 decades. It may change with the ongoing story lines that tv shows are getting these days, but people have gotten so used to the TV show mentality that a problem arises and an hour later everyone fixes it and lives happily ever after. Of course unless it was a major problem then it may take into the next day to get wrapped up with a "To be continued..."
This has at least been changing lately with season long story lines and hopefully a lengthening of the attention span of the populace.
you are counting population desity backwards. We don't want overall population density we want to see the diffrence between areas with 200+ people per square km vs areas with less than 200 people per square km. The US most likely has close to 50% people living in each, while S. Korea probably has a split more along the lines of 90/10%
Safari is just not a worthy cause when FF is already open source, free, currently developed, good and Just Works. Internet Explorer didn't fill all of the above so was a worthy cause to replace it with something.
That definition is used when someone wants to explain they enjoy something so much they are addicted to it. It is a form of hyperbole. When looking at the dictionary.com deffinition of addiction
Addiction: n 1. Compulsive physiological and psychological need for a habit-forming substance 2. The condition of being habitually or compulsively occupied with or or involved in something.
Notice how your definition is the "happy go lucky" version while the real definition is much darker and more serious.
As many have said, it isn't the video game that is addictive it is the enjoyment of video games. Using this logic anything can be addictive. He's a work-aholic, Internet addict, TV addict, Sleep, sex, posting pointless posts to slashdot addict. It is the person that is prone to over indulge in behavior he/she finds enjoyable. I personally don't like it because it waters down the therm addiction. Drug addiction and Alcohol addiction are both real and very damaging addictions. With real physical withdrawal symptoms.
How does Canada have 1/10th of is population density? Ohh you're counting the fact that Canada has vast amounts of unoccupied land. Most of the poplutation in Canada is centered in 3 major areas.
I submit that any 10,000 square mile area with zero population doesn't count when calculating population density.
US: X% of people live in Density > than y/square mile or km
where X% is probably close to 53%
and
South Korea: X% of people live in Density then y/square mile or km (where y is the same number as the US portion)
where X% in this case is probably close to 90%
Of course, the more I think about it, if the information was available you could most likely adjust y up and down a scale to make the statistics say what ever you wanted. guess that has to do with the "Lies, damn lies and statistics"
http://kbb.com/ Didn't work for several months but looks to be fixed. That was the one that stuck out in my head because I was trying to get my mother to look up here car value. She was in Safari I was in FF I couldn't figure out why it wasn't working for her.
It does look like it's been fixed. There were several others, many internal corp sites, last time I tried to switch to Safari 2-3 months ago and gave up.
Safari is just not a worthy cause when FF is already open source, free, currently developed, good and "Just Works"
There are far too many sites that just don't function in Safari for me to use it. Whether it is Safari's fault or the sites fault is not of importance, it works in Firefox, not in Safari.
I think that would cripple the ability of Congress to pass laws This would help in detouring the knee-jerk reactions that many of the bad laws seem to be. Bills would be shorter and more concise.
and thus turn into a rubber-stamp-of-approval-fest. Except that then they could be held accountable. No longer would they be able to say "I voted for bill 'x' because it did 'x good things' not because it did 'x bad things' They will rubber stamp their way out of office because their signature would be right next to the items they are saying they are against.
Besides, then each Congressperson would be required to read every line of every bill This is a good thing. Asking that law makers actually read the laws they are forcing on us is bad how?
and that's just asking for the impossible. They don't have to read it but at least the people would be holding them accountable for the letter of the laws they pass.
This is why I've come up with "line item voting" for congress. Similar to line item veto for the president except it doesn't give all the power to one person. When a bill comes up for vote, each member of congress has to mark one of 3 options on each line:
Accepted, Rejected, Required
Accepted: would mean "I don't support this as needed by me, but I don't object to it." Rejected: would mean "I am against this item and will not pass this bill with it here." Required: would mean "If this line doesn't get passed I reject the entire bill."
Give everyone a number at the voting booth that corresponds to their vote. have the number so you can increment it and it would report a false vote for another candidate if needed. That way you could sell votes for all the candidates but only your primary vote would be the real one.
The main problem is that fixing votes that are pen and paper and hand counted is a perfected art and both rarely stirs interest and works beautifully. Fixing votes with voting machines is new and untested so it is harder to do without getting caught. The process will improve and soon we'll be to the ability of fixing votes while voters don't know the same way hand counted ballots have been for the past few hundred years.
I wonder if this is part of the evolution of a society. We have covered most all of the real problems. Now were are moving from a make things better in the future or "thinking society" to a things are pretty damn good now lets find things to bicker about "feeling society"
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It's all about the tv generations of the last 3 decades. It may change with the ongoing story lines that tv shows are getting these days, but people have gotten so used to the TV show mentality that a problem arises and an hour later everyone fixes it and lives happily ever after. Of course unless it was a major problem then it may take into the next day to get wrapped up with a "To be continued..."
This has at least been changing lately with season long story lines and hopefully a lengthening of the attention span of the populace.
you are counting population desity backwards. We don't want overall population density we want to see the diffrence between areas with 200+ people per square km vs areas with less than 200 people per square km. The US most likely has close to 50% people living in each, while S. Korea probably has a split more along the lines of 90/10%
How about, When it becomes destructive to them selves and/or others?
I'll give you the Suicide one, but the bear one http://www.projectgrizzly.net/
Safari is just not a worthy cause when FF is already open source, free, currently developed, good and Just Works. Internet Explorer didn't fill all of the above so was a worthy cause to replace it with something.
That definition is used when someone wants to explain they enjoy something so much they are addicted to it. It is a form of hyperbole. When looking at the dictionary.com deffinition of addiction
Addiction: n 1. Compulsive physiological and psychological need for a habit-forming substance
2. The condition of being habitually or compulsively occupied with or or involved in something.
Notice how your definition is the "happy go lucky" version while the real definition is much darker and more serious.
Faith? it was intelligently designed into the brain.
As many have said, it isn't the video game that is addictive it is the enjoyment of video games. Using this logic anything can be addictive. He's a work-aholic, Internet addict, TV addict, Sleep, sex, posting pointless posts to slashdot addict. It is the person that is prone to over indulge in behavior he/she finds enjoyable. I personally don't like it because it waters down the therm addiction. Drug addiction and Alcohol addiction are both real and very damaging addictions. With real physical withdrawal symptoms.
How does Canada have 1/10th of is population density? Ohh you're counting the fact that Canada has vast amounts of unoccupied land. Most of the poplutation in Canada is centered in 3 major areas.
I submit that any 10,000 square mile area with zero population doesn't count when calculating population density.
I was thinking something more along the lines of:
US: X% of people live in Density > than y/square mile or km
where X% is probably close to 53%
and
South Korea: X% of people live in Density then y/square mile or km (where y is the same number as the US portion)
where X% in this case is probably close to 90%
Of course, the more I think about it, if the information was available you could most likely adjust y up and down a scale to make the statistics say what ever you wanted. guess that has to do with the "Lies, damn lies and statistics"
http://kbb.com/ Didn't work for several months but looks to be fixed. That was the one that stuck out in my head because I was trying to get my mother to look up here car value. She was in Safari I was in FF I couldn't figure out why it wasn't working for her.
It does look like it's been fixed. There were several others, many internal corp sites, last time I tried to switch to Safari 2-3 months ago and gave up.
Safari is just not a worthy cause when FF is already open source, free, currently developed, good and "Just Works"
There are far too many sites that just don't function in Safari for me to use it. Whether it is Safari's fault or the sites fault is not of importance, it works in Firefox, not in Safari.
I'd like to see a correlation between this data and the total numbers of people living in dense vs. scarcely populated areas.
I wouldn't be a bit surprised if the numbers matched almost identically.
I suppose I should elaborate more:
I think that would cripple the ability of Congress to pass laws
This would help in detouring the knee-jerk reactions that many of the bad laws seem to be. Bills would be shorter and more concise.
and thus turn into a rubber-stamp-of-approval-fest.
Except that then they could be held accountable. No longer would they be able to say "I voted for bill 'x' because it did 'x good things' not because it did 'x bad things' They will rubber stamp their way out of office because their signature would be right next to the items they are saying they are against.
Besides, then each Congressperson would be required to read every line of every bill
This is a good thing. Asking that law makers actually read the laws they are forcing on us is bad how?
and that's just asking for the impossible.
They don't have to read it but at least the people would be holding them accountable for the letter of the laws they pass.
You're arguments seem to be for what I suggest but your tone seems to be against. I am now very confused.
Also note that gun crime is highest in locations with the lowest number of guns per populace.
This is why I've come up with "line item voting" for congress. Similar to line item veto for the president except it doesn't give all the power to one person. When a bill comes up for vote, each member of congress has to mark one of 3 options on each line:
Accepted, Rejected, Required
Accepted: would mean "I don't support this as needed by me, but I don't object to it."
Rejected: would mean "I am against this item and will not pass this bill with it here."
Required: would mean "If this line doesn't get passed I reject the entire bill."
Give everyone a number at the voting booth that corresponds to their vote. have the number so you can increment it and it would report a false vote for another candidate if needed. That way you could sell votes for all the candidates but only your primary vote would be the real one.
Which makes for 10 times the possibility of a corrupted vote.
The main problem is that fixing votes that are pen and paper and hand counted is a perfected art and both rarely stirs interest and works beautifully. Fixing votes with voting machines is new and untested so it is harder to do without getting caught. The process will improve and soon we'll be to the ability of fixing votes while voters don't know the same way hand counted ballots have been for the past few hundred years.
Has anyone ever come up with a real documented case of a burglar sueing a home owner and winning?
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So far it looks like now:
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=2
I wonder if this is part of the evolution of a society. We have covered most all of the real problems. Now were are moving from a make things better in the future or "thinking society" to a things are pretty damn good now lets find things to bicker about "feeling society"
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that happens, and that. There's another one. Again. Another.
the point is, basically nothing. It happens all the time.
Not really. At that length the pole would be like pushing a wet noodle. The other end may never move.