You actually make a very good point. I have always wondered how come violence is so accepted in U.S. and sex is not. Is it the puritanical legacy?
No offense, but I think that betrays a very eurocentric viewpoint.
What I've found is in most cases where someone categorizes the U.S. as unique, especially in a somewhat negative way, they're ascribing qualities that are actually quite common--just not in Europe.
There are many, MANY cultures where violent imagery is culturally accepted, but sexual imagery is even more restricted than in the U.S. I'm thinking of the Middle East and Asia especially.
I bet you have a wonderfully paying job to value your time off at more than $1000 a day.
At my standard billing rate, yes, my day would be worth more than that.
However, since I'm salaried it's not the actual money I'd lose out, but rather my inability to take a day off. I have too much to do. I plan on eventually learning how to drive a stick but right now it doesn't make sense.
Besides which, my car should last a few more years, so any savings would be well down the road.
My main objection was to this hypothesis that people don't learn stick because they think it's too hard, which I thought was silly.
Maybe I'm the only person in the world who has noticed this but many people refuse to learn how to drive a standard because it "seems" too complicated.
I refuse to learn how to drive standard because a) I work for a living, b) value my time off, and c) don't see how paying money and spending time to learn how to drive something I currently don't need to drive would be productive.
No hostility. Facial expressions don't get transmitted well in a text medium, remember?;)
True, and ironically I meant to say that as mildly as possible. I was just surprised at the segue into lawyers.
Med school is 6 years over here. Not 4 or 5.
But it's undergrad, right? You don't have to do a 4 year university degree first, right?
You don't count rotation?
As actual studying? No, that's more along the lines of on-the-job training.
What were you doing during rotation?
Never did it; I'm no physician.
I sure as hell was learning a lot.
Oh, not denying that, I'm just saying that when you add it into your tally of time you spent studying it artificially inflates the number. It's already an impressive educational achievement, I don't think you need to pad the numbers.
Alright, you're including the time you spent studying, which I don't know if I would, because that's going to be different for every person. And my issue with the hostility was the swipe at lawyers, which I didn't understand at all, since nobody had brought them up.
In the Olden Days you used to be able to (usually) copy your characters over to RPG sequels. I don't think they do that that much anymore.
But I have to say, while spending 60 hours on an RPG was great when I was younger, the older I get the more uncomfortable I am about spending too much time on a game.
So when Phil Harrison says that making money off of the sale of a console is "videogame hardware 101," It's obvious that there's only one game company with a passing grade in that class. But I guess saying so is "flamebait."
How is it flamebait? Bashing Sony's PS3 decisions gets you easy +moderation.
I think that's the way it should be, too, but it's kind of a minority viewpoint here. Slashdot has Heroes Who Can Never Do Wrong, and any attempt to impugn them at all is met with negative moderation and impassioned rants.
Funny, if someone said the same thing about Jobs, they are trolls
The REAL funny thing is this hasn't always been true. On slashdot you used to be required to make fun of Apple and IBM, but you couldn't criticize, for example, Transmeta or Google. Now you can sort of criticize Google but you can really let Transmeta have it. Ninendo used to be fair game, but now they can do no wrong.
And of course, interspersed with all this groupthink is the constant assertions by slashdotters how everyone else are "sheep" because they follow the crowd.
Who decides what constitutes evil? So you think an extreme fundamentalist judge can throw you in jail for working on Sunday or drinking alcohol? At what level does an act pass from merely bad into "evil"? You tell a telemarketer you're busy and can't talk to them, isn't that a lie? Are all lies evil? Are you approaching "evil" from a religious or secularist viewpoint?
And what constitutes "do"? Are evil thoughts doing evil? What about words? Speaking and thinking are acts, should you be punished for them?
We (the USA) needs to scrap legal jargon and rewrite the laws plainly, then let a judge decide if the law applies to an act and let the jury decide if they're guilty.
The more plain they are, the more ambiguous. Give me an example of what you would consider a "plainly written" law, and I guarantee I will find ambiguity or loopholes in it.
It's the same principle as how neurosurgeons can charge a lot of money. If the issue is important enough, you want to hire the best, not just anybody with a JD and bar membership.
Look at ANY class action lawsuit against ANY company. The 'remedy' afforded to consumers is on the same level as a few bucks in rebates
Ok, you completely misunderstand what a class action is. It is not limited exclusively to consumers, or especially large numbers--you can have a class action on behalf of just a few people. And there have been plenty of class actions where class plaintiffs each recovered significant amounts of money. Just because something hasn't been reported on slashdot doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
Because these entries routinely show up on the front page, and if you're searching through the encyclopedia as a whole the more entries the more potential results you have to wade through.
My main problem with Wikipedia is not that too much information is in, but rather there are too many entries, especially about fictional subjects. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine needs one entry. You don't need entries for each character, each race, each planet, etc. It taints the whole encyclopedia itself to have detailed, individual entries on things that in terms of the collection of human knowledge are so important.
It's not bad, but I hope that you'll be living somewhere with a reasonable cost of living. That kind of salary won't go far in a lot of high tech centers. And there are more ingredients in pizza than the sauce. Throw in the dough, and oil, and cheese, and you're looking at a lot more.
Yes, "When". I, like the GP aspire to be rich some day. Having ambition and drive is a good thing
It's unrealistic to assume ambition and drive is enough. Talent and luck play a big part. Luck plays a huge part, though people don't like to hear that.
What exactly are you doing to become rich? Do you have a plan, or just a lot of optimism? There are very few career paths that guarantee wealth. It used to be certain degrees pretty much guaranteed you a very comfortable lifestyle for life: MD, JD, MBA, B.Eng., etc. Not anymore.
If you think you're going to become some kind of entrepreneur, be aware that most entrepreneurial enterprises fail.
I figure when I am rich one day maybe I will eat better again
"When"? Unless that school you mentioned is a medical school, I wouldn't be so sure of eventually being wealthy.
As for poor/unemployed people, those are two different groups. A very large number of poor people work exhausting jobs that are long hours. If you've just spent the night scrubbing floors, the last thing you want to do when you get home is spend an hour making pizza margherite.
As for the unemployed, you're right in that fresh, home-made food is healthier and ultimately probably a little cheaper than frozen stuff. But I don't think you can make a pizza for 2-3 bucks; the cheese itself will probably cost more than that.
I don't have the time to prepare food for myself so I usually get a freezer full of reasonably healthy stuff--frozen vegetables, veggie burgers, etc.--stuff that I can nuke when I get home in a few minutes.
If I become rich, dinner will be the responsibility of my live-in sushi chef.
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You actually make a very good point. I have always wondered how come violence is so accepted in U.S. and sex is not. Is it the puritanical legacy?
No offense, but I think that betrays a very eurocentric viewpoint.
What I've found is in most cases where someone categorizes the U.S. as unique, especially in a somewhat negative way, they're ascribing qualities that are actually quite common--just not in Europe.
There are many, MANY cultures where violent imagery is culturally accepted, but sexual imagery is even more restricted than in the U.S. I'm thinking of the Middle East and Asia especially.
I bet you have a wonderfully paying job to value your time off at more than $1000 a day.
At my standard billing rate, yes, my day would be worth more than that.
However, since I'm salaried it's not the actual money I'd lose out, but rather my inability to take a day off. I have too much to do. I plan on eventually learning how to drive a stick but right now it doesn't make sense.
Besides which, my car should last a few more years, so any savings would be well down the road.
My main objection was to this hypothesis that people don't learn stick because they think it's too hard, which I thought was silly.
Maybe I'm the only person in the world who has noticed this but many people refuse to learn how to drive a standard because it "seems" too complicated.
I refuse to learn how to drive standard because a) I work for a living, b) value my time off, and c) don't see how paying money and spending time to learn how to drive something I currently don't need to drive would be productive.
No hostility. Facial expressions don't get transmitted well in a text medium, remember? ;)
True, and ironically I meant to say that as mildly as possible. I was just surprised at the segue into lawyers.
Med school is 6 years over here. Not 4 or 5.
But it's undergrad, right? You don't have to do a 4 year university degree first, right?
You don't count rotation?
As actual studying? No, that's more along the lines of on-the-job training.
What were you doing during rotation?
Never did it; I'm no physician.
I sure as hell was learning a lot.
Oh, not denying that, I'm just saying that when you add it into your tally of time you spent studying it artificially inflates the number. It's already an impressive educational achievement, I don't think you need to pad the numbers.
Alright, you're including the time you spent studying, which I don't know if I would, because that's going to be different for every person. And my issue with the hostility was the swipe at lawyers, which I didn't understand at all, since nobody had brought them up.
If I wanted a high modded post I would have posted at +1. Actually I expected to get modded down a bit on that post.
In the Olden Days you used to be able to (usually) copy your characters over to RPG sequels. I don't think they do that that much anymore.
But I have to say, while spending 60 hours on an RPG was great when I was younger, the older I get the more uncomfortable I am about spending too much time on a game.
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I still get misty-eyed over Floyd.
Speak for yourself. A medical degree implies both a thesis and 10,000 hours of study. 4,000 more hours than a lawyer. I damned well deserve the title.
Wow, what's with the hostility here? And where's the 10,000 hours come from? Are you counting rotation? If so that seems a little unwarranted...
And please don't tell me you use your title outside of your professional environment.
So when Phil Harrison says that making money off of the sale of a console is "videogame hardware 101," It's obvious that there's only one game company with a passing grade in that class. But I guess saying so is "flamebait."
How is it flamebait? Bashing Sony's PS3 decisions gets you easy +moderation.
I think that's the way it should be, too, but it's kind of a minority viewpoint here. Slashdot has Heroes Who Can Never Do Wrong, and any attempt to impugn them at all is met with negative moderation and impassioned rants.
Funny, if someone said the same thing about Jobs, they are trolls
The REAL funny thing is this hasn't always been true. On slashdot you used to be required to make fun of Apple and IBM, but you couldn't criticize, for example, Transmeta or Google. Now you can sort of criticize Google but you can really let Transmeta have it. Ninendo used to be fair game, but now they can do no wrong.
And of course, interspersed with all this groupthink is the constant assertions by slashdotters how everyone else are "sheep" because they follow the crowd.
How about: Do no evil.
Who decides what constitutes evil? So you think an extreme fundamentalist judge can throw you in jail for working on Sunday or drinking alcohol? At what level does an act pass from merely bad into "evil"? You tell a telemarketer you're busy and can't talk to them, isn't that a lie? Are all lies evil? Are you approaching "evil" from a religious or secularist viewpoint?
And what constitutes "do"? Are evil thoughts doing evil? What about words? Speaking and thinking are acts, should you be punished for them?
We (the USA) needs to scrap legal jargon and rewrite the laws plainly, then let a judge decide if the law applies to an act and let the jury decide if they're guilty.
The more plain they are, the more ambiguous. Give me an example of what you would consider a "plainly written" law, and I guarantee I will find ambiguity or loopholes in it.
Laws are structured for precision.
How are you getting screwed? You're getting compensated for what you've suffered, which in this case isn't a whole lot.
You think you should make a million dollars because you had to pay $100 for Microsoft software?
It's the same principle as how neurosurgeons can charge a lot of money. If the issue is important enough, you want to hire the best, not just anybody with a JD and bar membership.
Look at ANY class action lawsuit against ANY company. The 'remedy' afforded to consumers is on the same level as a few bucks in rebates
Ok, you completely misunderstand what a class action is. It is not limited exclusively to consumers, or especially large numbers--you can have a class action on behalf of just a few people. And there have been plenty of class actions where class plaintiffs each recovered significant amounts of money. Just because something hasn't been reported on slashdot doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
And don't bitch about the actual cost of doing the litigation, because that is BS and you know it!
Do you have some understanding of litigation costs that you want to share with us? Are you speaking from personal knowledge?
Because these entries routinely show up on the front page, and if you're searching through the encyclopedia as a whole the more entries the more potential results you have to wade through.
My main problem with Wikipedia is not that too much information is in, but rather there are too many entries, especially about fictional subjects. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine needs one entry. You don't need entries for each character, each race, each planet, etc. It taints the whole encyclopedia itself to have detailed, individual entries on things that in terms of the collection of human knowledge are so important.
I've always been curious about that. How long do most ISPs carry logs?
It's not bad, but I hope that you'll be living somewhere with a reasonable cost of living. That kind of salary won't go far in a lot of high tech centers. And there are more ingredients in pizza than the sauce. Throw in the dough, and oil, and cheese, and you're looking at a lot more.
they either need to lower the outrageous ticket price
I don't know, I honestly don't find $10 THAT egregious a price. For 2 hours of entertainment?
Yes, "When". I, like the GP aspire to be rich some day. Having ambition and drive is a good thing
It's unrealistic to assume ambition and drive is enough. Talent and luck play a big part. Luck plays a huge part, though people don't like to hear that.
What exactly are you doing to become rich? Do you have a plan, or just a lot of optimism? There are very few career paths that guarantee wealth. It used to be certain degrees pretty much guaranteed you a very comfortable lifestyle for life: MD, JD, MBA, B.Eng., etc. Not anymore.
If you think you're going to become some kind of entrepreneur, be aware that most entrepreneurial enterprises fail.
I figure when I am rich one day maybe I will eat better again
"When"? Unless that school you mentioned is a medical school, I wouldn't be so sure of eventually being wealthy.
As for poor/unemployed people, those are two different groups. A very large number of poor people work exhausting jobs that are long hours. If you've just spent the night scrubbing floors, the last thing you want to do when you get home is spend an hour making pizza margherite.
As for the unemployed, you're right in that fresh, home-made food is healthier and ultimately probably a little cheaper than frozen stuff. But I don't think you can make a pizza for 2-3 bucks; the cheese itself will probably cost more than that.
I don't have the time to prepare food for myself so I usually get a freezer full of reasonably healthy stuff--frozen vegetables, veggie burgers, etc.--stuff that I can nuke when I get home in a few minutes.
If I become rich, dinner will be the responsibility of my live-in sushi chef.