So is violence on TV just their to promote the tolerance of violence, or is the tolerance and enjoyment of seeing violence what fuels violence on TV? Which do you believe? A conspiracy or natural capitalism?
We are evolution. Our smarts are part of evolution. Evolution usually comes from mass extintictions. All but the strongest die off and the strongest, most evolved for the current habitat, continue to populate the planet.
Ok, think of it like this. You're about say 10 years old. You get home from school and walk in on an argument in the kitchen. Your mother smacks your father across the face and storms out of the room. Gunna bother you some right? Well lets say your about 10 and you walk in to your mother blowing your father???
In this big of a spot light they are in a precarious situation. On one hand they try to be as safe as possible. A check list of something like 3 million items must be signed off on before every launch. (this was reported on slashdot a few years ago.) On the other they have to weed out some things as being too unlikely to go wrong.
When you are listening to 3 million ideas of what needs to be checked and double checked its easy to miss out on a couple of things that maybe werent thought of, or were thought of but ignored due to a combination of more important things and the risk factor being miss judged to low.
This also reminds me of the FBI reports prior to 9/11 about middle easterners training in Arizona and it turned out that they were the 9/11 hijackers. Sure someone knew about it and reported it but how many millions of reports do they get that dont turn out to be hijackers?
I guess it goes back to that old saying Hindsight is 20/20.
"Business-wise, in publishing, a great idea is to Kick out as many thick books as one can with the promise of teaching someone how to do something they don't understand, while basically confusing or intimidating them more is great for business.
It's the consumer that suffers in this. Mainly in their own ignorance."
I think I'm missing some comas in there, but I don't remember the rule for independant and dependant clauses.
My favorite is the (popular product A vs. Popular product B) vs. minor product C Flame fests that seem to be from people that want to be part of the excitment but don't actually use either of the products.
"KDE vs Gnome is stupid, I just use TWM and Xterm to do everything."
That is the problem with government sponsored corporatism. Corporate groupthink is much different than the group that makes it up. I'm sure everyone at Microsoft just wants to make good software. Everyone at Phillip Morris just wants people to relax and have a cigarette. Once there is a faceless corporate persona to take blame peoples honest just and honorable actions eventually get morphed into the lowest possible greed.
While not completely innocent I don't blame the authors they are usually just trying to make a decent living, publishers are caught in that corporate greed, and no it isn't any different than TV or film. You werent trying to use that to improve your argument were you?
Publishing busness wise it's a great idea. Kick out as many thick books with the promise of teaching you how to do something you don't understand while basicly confuseing or intimdating them more is great for busness.
It's the consumer that suffers in this. Mainly in thier own ignorance.
It's not apps. To quote Curly, "One thing." It only takes One thing to make an OS catch on. That one thing has to be needed and has to be failed in other OSs. Linux caught on solely because it was open and unencumbered. It gave a path way to get enough people to cause critical mass and it grew up into a mainstream system.
No matter what you have ot have that "One thing" that will bring the OS to enough people that they'll start useing it for the other general computing tasks that all OSs do. Failing that there is no reason to use a new OS. Even if it can do everything my current system can do it has to do at least One thing significanly better.
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254 Pages worht of advice? My god!! If they'd come up with a Firefox cheatsheet perhaps with a small section on the back on how to find more detailed information on the web.
Either you want to know the basics (ie no more than 50 pages worth but ideally 15-25 pages) or you want to know the details (ie 250-1500 pages worth) a 250 page for dummies book is far to much. Dummies should have to read that much, and it ends up being mostly fluf anyway.
I've only ever heard of two levels, Hero and Stunt, but like you say Hero isn't just for the good guys it refers to any prop that will be seen up close, while Stunt is used for background shots and fast moving shots that may damage a detailed prop.
There may be a third for Tour props. Like the Stormtrooper armor in the auction these are props made to be taken out and show to people. sometimes good sometimes bad, often they are beat up pretty bad by the time they'd get to an auction like this.
You can not prove a theory right. You can gather evidence to support a theory, but you can never prove it right.
You can however prove a theory wrong, and while it happens quite often it is rear that a theory is so wrong as to be thrown out completely. It is usually just altered slightly to reflect the new evidence.
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So is violence on TV just their to promote the tolerance of violence, or is the tolerance and enjoyment of seeing violence what fuels violence on TV? Which do you believe? A conspiracy or natural capitalism?
We are evolution. Our smarts are part of evolution. Evolution usually comes from mass extintictions. All but the strongest die off and the strongest, most evolved for the current habitat, continue to populate the planet.
Ok, think of it like this. You're about say 10 years old. You get home from school and walk in on an argument in the kitchen. Your mother smacks your father across the face and storms out of the room. Gunna bother you some right? Well lets say your about 10 and you walk in to your mother blowing your father???
You decided.
In this big of a spot light they are in a precarious situation. On one hand they try to be as safe as possible. A check list of something like 3 million items must be signed off on before every launch. (this was reported on slashdot a few years ago.) On the other they have to weed out some things as being too unlikely to go wrong.
When you are listening to 3 million ideas of what needs to be checked and double checked its easy to miss out on a couple of things that maybe werent thought of, or were thought of but ignored due to a combination of more important things and the risk factor being miss judged to low.
This also reminds me of the FBI reports prior to 9/11 about middle easterners training in Arizona and it turned out that they were the 9/11 hijackers. Sure someone knew about it and reported it but how many millions of reports do they get that dont turn out to be hijackers?
I guess it goes back to that old saying Hindsight is 20/20.
Ok, tear this apart. I am honestly trying here:
"Business-wise, in publishing, a great idea is to Kick out as many thick books as one can with the promise of teaching someone how to do something they don't understand, while basically confusing or intimidating them more is great for business.
It's the consumer that suffers in this. Mainly in their own ignorance."
I think I'm missing some comas in there, but I don't remember the rule for independant and dependant clauses.
My favorite is the
(popular product A vs. Popular product B) vs. minor product C
Flame fests that seem to be from people that want to be part of the excitment but don't actually use either of the products.
"KDE vs Gnome is stupid, I just use TWM and Xterm to do everything."
That's because there really isn't anything you can't do in perl in less than 5 lines.
That is the problem with government sponsored corporatism. Corporate groupthink is much different than the group that makes it up. I'm sure everyone at Microsoft just wants to make good software. Everyone at Phillip Morris just wants people to relax and have a cigarette. Once there is a faceless corporate persona to take blame peoples honest just and honorable actions eventually get morphed into the lowest possible greed.
While not completely innocent I don't blame the authors they are usually just trying to make a decent living, publishers are caught in that corporate greed, and no it isn't any different than TV or film. You werent trying to use that to improve your argument were you?
Wow, I thought I spell checked that too. Sorry Spelling/grammar nazis I'll try to do better.
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Publishing busness wise it's a great idea. Kick out as many thick books with the promise of teaching you how to do something you don't understand while basicly confuseing or intimdating them more is great for busness.
It's the consumer that suffers in this. Mainly in thier own ignorance.
It's not apps. To quote Curly, "One thing." It only takes One thing to make an OS catch on. That one thing has to be needed and has to be failed in other OSs. Linux caught on solely because it was open and unencumbered. It gave a path way to get enough people to cause critical mass and it grew up into a mainstream system.
No matter what you have ot have that "One thing" that will bring the OS to enough people that they'll start useing it for the other general computing tasks that all OSs do. Failing that there is no reason to use a new OS. Even if it can do everything my current system can do it has to do at least One thing significanly better.
(stoner voice on) ...Fumbles around a second while other takes it...
"Here take this."
"Ohh wait! don't take that."
"whoa man, you just ate more acid than I've ever seen anyone eat before in my life, man."
Talk about Spelling Nazi!
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254 Pages worht of advice? My god!! If they'd come up with a Firefox cheatsheet perhaps with a small section on the back on how to find more detailed information on the web.
Either you want to know the basics (ie no more than 50 pages worth but ideally 15-25 pages) or you want to know the details (ie 250-1500 pages worth) a 250 page for dummies book is far to much. Dummies should have to read that much, and it ends up being mostly fluf anyway.
You mean like a bus or train?
Nope, missing one bolt and the sites are __WAY!!__ off.
And I'd say "Negitive, it didn't go in. It just impacted on the surface."
I've only ever heard of two levels, Hero and Stunt, but like you say Hero isn't just for the good guys it refers to any prop that will be seen up close, while Stunt is used for background shots and fast moving shots that may damage a detailed prop.
There may be a third for Tour props. Like the Stormtrooper armor in the auction these are props made to be taken out and show to people. sometimes good sometimes bad, often they are beat up pretty bad by the time they'd get to an auction like this.
Check here to get an idea of what was real props and what was used to make them.
I don't know which one he carried then. It could have been the Greedo Killer. I'm not sure. I couldn't see him in the scenes he wasn't in.
You can not prove a theory right. You can gather evidence to support a theory, but you can never prove it right.
You can however prove a theory wrong, and while it happens quite often it is rear that a theory is so wrong as to be thrown out completely. It is usually just altered slightly to reflect the new evidence.
Yea and we can pack more people into thouse filthy terrible places with dense high rise houseing.
It has one I just wish it could be embeded into epiphany's html form text boxes.