a) the "official record" is easily swayed by those in power (mayor, police chief, the guy who "owns" the town)
b) again, the "official summary" is only what those in power want you to hear. what if the mayor is doing something illegal and there's nobody there to catch him in the act?
c) The bloggers/critics are all one-sided, and if they lost for mayor they most likely have an agenda.
the Internet has devalued content nearly to the point where the business reason to create it is disappearing
...or maybe we're just moving to an open content model (i.e., like FOSS). After all, information does want to be free.
OK, sure, information wants to be free. But guess what: free news comes with a price, and that price is reliability and dependability. Yes, we all know many news companies are biased, sometimes report on frivolous garbage, sometimes go all sensationalist, and *gasp* sometimes don't get it 100% correct. On the other hand, they also uncover many things for us (corruption on behalf of corporations, government, etc) and keep us in the loop when nobody else will, at least while being held to a higher standard. They play major roles in the legal system.
If this information gets to the point where it's free, you're probably paying for it with tax dollars, which means it's got government hands all over it. Are you comfortable with that idea? Do you want to pay many many times more (via taxes) for a quality article you wish to read while blissfully sitting back at home and thinking "well, at least I don't have to pay pennies a day for quality news any more!!"
Get real.
Yes, I know, print is dying. They failed to keep up with the rest of us, or they are always late to the party. But, you have to give them a little bit of a break considering how much things have changed in just the past 10 years. It's unreal. You can barely make a 5-year plan in an industry where the information flows different every 6 months.
I'm not making excuses, but I am trying to paint a realistic picture here. People have so many demands: they want free news, and then they whine about advertising, and they want it on New Device X the day it comes out, which may or may not be around for awhile.
I envision that print will keep dying, and it'll get to a point to where nobody can afford to put out anything good (especially on the local level) so then all you see is shit. If it dies completely it'll be reborn some day when people realize you have to pay not very much to get something of higher quality than Bob Smith's blog.
Some things can exist on advertising revenue. Some things can't. And then others face an audience who are complete assholes about having to be bothered with seeing an ad banner above the story unveiling local government corruption.
We'll have to pay for it eventually because it can't keep going like this.
And no, you cannot compare this to Google. For one, Google has a worldwide audience viewing their ads. Podunk County News does not. Hell, even NYT doesn't have anywhere near the audience Google has for their ads.
Guess what dominates the oceans. I'll give you a hint: it's not us. Until recently when we started overfishing the oceans, it was it's own world that was largely left alone by humans. You can bet it had certain species completely dominating at various times. Did they make some other species go completely extinct directly, acting alone? Probably not directly, but you can bet they played major roles.
Guess what dominated fairly recently ago. Several species of dinosaurs. But oh, I suppose they had zero impact on the survival of less dominant species, huh?
Otherwise, I don't have to name shit. The planet is billions of years old. We're but a drop in the ocean. It's scientific fact that the most dominant species has major impacts on biodiversity. That includes insects. Get over it.
On the bright side, we're the only species that we know of that's capable of protecting and even reversing the destruction of biodiversity. Let's just hope things start leaning more that way and less the other, agreed?
Try growing some balls? LOL. You need to settle down a little.
Yes, in the lifetime of our planet, there has existed many species who had a giant impact on "biodiversity". Seriously, think outside your own little span of a few thousand years. We haven't been here forever you know.
You assume that things exist as they are without humans being there. Don't be so naive and ignorant. We're only a small part of this planet, and while we dominate it right now, we only have for a VERY brief moment in history. Species come and go. It's simply evolution. Every once in awhile a species is introduced that is so overpowering that it goes berzerk and wipes out everything it can use until there's nothing left for it. It's happened thousands of times, and we won't be the last ones to dominate this planet, either.
Lastly, "probable on the dodo"? Based on what? Provide your evidence that humans are the only species responsible for any animal extinction or shut the fuck up.
So what'd we do, kill the dinosaurs now? How about the dodo? Or many many other extinct species?
Weisman has an agenda. Don't kid yourself. We have an impact, yes, but if we leave suddenly it certainly doesn't mean paradise for those poor, poor animals. Another species will come and dominate, and it'll have drastic impacts on whatever local ecological system they happen to be in. It's just how shit works.
1) What if the business doesn't go so well
2) What if the business owner wants to change careers
Re-evaluate at that point and maybe attend school if it would further your goals?
1) You may have a family to support at that time. School and no income is not an option in that case.
2) It's much easier to do it while you're still fresh out of high school.
Google voice has taken over my voicemail... I am no longer able to get my voicemail form T*Mobile! I've tried to fix the problem, but as with all things Google, there is little support and now my VM is in limbo!! Don't do it!!
So, you're blaming someone else for your own decisions and inability to read clear on-screen instructions right inside your GV account. Bravo.
5) Except for health care, and maybe a few other career fields; a foreign degree is just as good as a US degree. So I hope you enjoy training your H-1B replacement, or having your job offshored. Yeah, that degree was sure worth it.
It was worth it, especially as I'm laughing at you on my way to my new job OR career when you're still stuck in the unemployment line when they replaced you with the equivalent of a trained monkey for nearly minimum wage.
1) What if the business doesn't go so well
2) What if the business owner wants to change careers
In either situation, it's far more beneficial to have any degree in your hands. By deciding against any higher education in order to build some kind of landscaping business, you're sort of putting all your eggs in one basket. With a degree, you have more options. Sure, it's not for everybody, but if you can do it, do it.
Even further, the "realistic" theories only include "traveling" to the future - aka your perception of time is much slower relative to everything else around you. Anything going back is just retarded. Why is this even on/.?
Or we could just not play the role of Captain Hindsight. They had backups, emergency backups, and emergency backup backups. They did everything within reasonable human planning, including sea walls. Really, the sea walls were the only part that failed at doing their job.... but only because a quake hit that was well over 10x more powerful than ever recorded, or at least 6x more powerful than any earthquake's estimated power in any signs of history they could find (8.1-8.3 in 869... yes, 869).
Are we going to start building levies in New Orleans that are 5x higher than the worst that we could ever imagine could happen in the area? If they do, what happens when we get something even more powerful than THAT? Are we going to point fingers and say "horrible planning, tsk tsk"? There's just no end to it. They planned well, but what happened, happened. All we/they can do now is go "well, I guess we learned how this can be avoided in the future" and move on. You can't blame them when over-the-top measures were being taken to prevent disaster.
You can plan for the "worst" all you want, but Mother Nature is a vicious bitch that'll show your arrogant ass how shit gets done around here.
It's kind of depressing if you think about it. Any animal on top of the food chain is a bigger scourge to biological diversity than massive doses of radiation.
Yeah, plus, having some luck with one game that very closely resembles another that existed before (innovation?) gives you credibility. Talk about patting yourself on the back.
OK guy, here's the difference between Halo and Angry Birds: I'm still playing Halo.
You're thinking far too small. By the time a USB 8.0 would come around at the current rate of development, we'll have 3TB in a tiny, tiny little cube due to quantum holographic 3-dimensional storage (35bits per electron quantum space x2... seriously!!). A mere 3.76975415 × 10^11 electron quantum spaces:)
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No, no it doesn't.
a) the "official record" is easily swayed by those in power (mayor, police chief, the guy who "owns" the town)
b) again, the "official summary" is only what those in power want you to hear. what if the mayor is doing something illegal and there's nobody there to catch him in the act?
c) The bloggers/critics are all one-sided, and if they lost for mayor they most likely have an agenda.
I can only hope you were joking.
the Internet has devalued content nearly to the point where the business reason to create it is disappearing
...or maybe we're just moving to an open content model (i.e., like FOSS). After all, information does want to be free.
OK, sure, information wants to be free. But guess what: free news comes with a price, and that price is reliability and dependability. Yes, we all know many news companies are biased, sometimes report on frivolous garbage, sometimes go all sensationalist, and *gasp* sometimes don't get it 100% correct. On the other hand, they also uncover many things for us (corruption on behalf of corporations, government, etc) and keep us in the loop when nobody else will, at least while being held to a higher standard. They play major roles in the legal system.
If this information gets to the point where it's free, you're probably paying for it with tax dollars, which means it's got government hands all over it. Are you comfortable with that idea? Do you want to pay many many times more (via taxes) for a quality article you wish to read while blissfully sitting back at home and thinking "well, at least I don't have to pay pennies a day for quality news any more!!"
Get real.
Yes, I know, print is dying. They failed to keep up with the rest of us, or they are always late to the party. But, you have to give them a little bit of a break considering how much things have changed in just the past 10 years. It's unreal. You can barely make a 5-year plan in an industry where the information flows different every 6 months.
I'm not making excuses, but I am trying to paint a realistic picture here. People have so many demands: they want free news, and then they whine about advertising, and they want it on New Device X the day it comes out, which may or may not be around for awhile.
I envision that print will keep dying, and it'll get to a point to where nobody can afford to put out anything good (especially on the local level) so then all you see is shit. If it dies completely it'll be reborn some day when people realize you have to pay not very much to get something of higher quality than Bob Smith's blog.
Some things can exist on advertising revenue. Some things can't. And then others face an audience who are complete assholes about having to be bothered with seeing an ad banner above the story unveiling local government corruption.
We'll have to pay for it eventually because it can't keep going like this.
And no, you cannot compare this to Google. For one, Google has a worldwide audience viewing their ads. Podunk County News does not. Hell, even NYT doesn't have anywhere near the audience Google has for their ads.
Guess what dominates the oceans. I'll give you a hint: it's not us. Until recently when we started overfishing the oceans, it was it's own world that was largely left alone by humans. You can bet it had certain species completely dominating at various times. Did they make some other species go completely extinct directly, acting alone? Probably not directly, but you can bet they played major roles.
Guess what dominated fairly recently ago. Several species of dinosaurs. But oh, I suppose they had zero impact on the survival of less dominant species, huh?
Otherwise, I don't have to name shit. The planet is billions of years old. We're but a drop in the ocean. It's scientific fact that the most dominant species has major impacts on biodiversity. That includes insects. Get over it.
On the bright side, we're the only species that we know of that's capable of protecting and even reversing the destruction of biodiversity. Let's just hope things start leaning more that way and less the other, agreed?
Try growing some balls? LOL. You need to settle down a little.
Yes, in the lifetime of our planet, there has existed many species who had a giant impact on "biodiversity". Seriously, think outside your own little span of a few thousand years. We haven't been here forever you know.
You assume that things exist as they are without humans being there. Don't be so naive and ignorant. We're only a small part of this planet, and while we dominate it right now, we only have for a VERY brief moment in history. Species come and go. It's simply evolution. Every once in awhile a species is introduced that is so overpowering that it goes berzerk and wipes out everything it can use until there's nothing left for it. It's happened thousands of times, and we won't be the last ones to dominate this planet, either.
Lastly, "probable on the dodo"? Based on what? Provide your evidence that humans are the only species responsible for any animal extinction or shut the fuck up.
So what'd we do, kill the dinosaurs now? How about the dodo? Or many many other extinct species?
Weisman has an agenda. Don't kid yourself. We have an impact, yes, but if we leave suddenly it certainly doesn't mean paradise for those poor, poor animals. Another species will come and dominate, and it'll have drastic impacts on whatever local ecological system they happen to be in. It's just how shit works.
I'm not saying it's 100% universal, but in general it's still the case. You can't argue with statistics.
1) What if the business doesn't go so well 2) What if the business owner wants to change careers
Re-evaluate at that point and maybe attend school if it would further your goals?
1) You may have a family to support at that time. School and no income is not an option in that case. 2) It's much easier to do it while you're still fresh out of high school.
Google voice has taken over my voicemail... I am no longer able to get my voicemail form T*Mobile! I've tried to fix the problem, but as with all things Google, there is little support and now my VM is in limbo!! Don't do it!!
So, you're blaming someone else for your own decisions and inability to read clear on-screen instructions right inside your GV account. Bravo.
my two potential suitors are Sprint and Virgin at the moment.
They're the same network...
With clearly different plans, prices, customer support, etc etc etc.
Explain this? The call-forwarding required to set up GV voicemail has been free for awhile from Sprint.
5) Except for health care, and maybe a few other career fields; a foreign degree is just as good as a US degree. So I hope you enjoy training your H-1B replacement, or having your job offshored. Yeah, that degree was sure worth it.
It was worth it, especially as I'm laughing at you on my way to my new job OR career when you're still stuck in the unemployment line when they replaced you with the equivalent of a trained monkey for nearly minimum wage.
1) What if the business doesn't go so well
2) What if the business owner wants to change careers
In either situation, it's far more beneficial to have any degree in your hands. By deciding against any higher education in order to build some kind of landscaping business, you're sort of putting all your eggs in one basket. With a degree, you have more options. Sure, it's not for everybody, but if you can do it, do it.
With the worst compression imaginable.
This could be solved by IPv6.
We're working on it.
Even if it's caused by human activity AND the entire planet is covered by water, there's still a very rich and diverse marine life.
Have you learned nothing from Event Horizon??? DISASTER!
Zero. And that includes humans. However, local biological diversity is a different story, and ecological imbalances happen all the time.
Things balance out when the dominating species runs out of resources (e.g. food).
Even further, the "realistic" theories only include "traveling" to the future - aka your perception of time is much slower relative to everything else around you. Anything going back is just retarded. Why is this even on /.?
Or we could just not play the role of Captain Hindsight. They had backups, emergency backups, and emergency backup backups. They did everything within reasonable human planning, including sea walls. Really, the sea walls were the only part that failed at doing their job.... but only because a quake hit that was well over 10x more powerful than ever recorded, or at least 6x more powerful than any earthquake's estimated power in any signs of history they could find (8.1-8.3 in 869... yes, 869).
Are we going to start building levies in New Orleans that are 5x higher than the worst that we could ever imagine could happen in the area? If they do, what happens when we get something even more powerful than THAT? Are we going to point fingers and say "horrible planning, tsk tsk"? There's just no end to it. They planned well, but what happened, happened. All we/they can do now is go "well, I guess we learned how this can be avoided in the future" and move on. You can't blame them when over-the-top measures were being taken to prevent disaster.
You can plan for the "worst" all you want, but Mother Nature is a vicious bitch that'll show your arrogant ass how shit gets done around here.
I didn't realize GE was responsible for keeping this thing running, updating it, and providing maintenance on it. For 40 years. Huh.
It's kind of depressing if you think about it. Any animal on top of the food chain is a bigger scourge to biological diversity than massive doses of radiation.
FTFY
Yeah, plus, having some luck with one game that very closely resembles another that existed before (innovation?) gives you credibility. Talk about patting yourself on the back.
OK guy, here's the difference between Halo and Angry Birds: I'm still playing Halo.
While sacrificing reliability and performance? Nah...
You're thinking far too small. By the time a USB 8.0 would come around at the current rate of development, we'll have 3TB in a tiny, tiny little cube due to quantum holographic 3-dimensional storage (35bits per electron quantum space x2... seriously!!). A mere 3.76975415 × 10^11 electron quantum spaces :)
Yeah, but the latency is horrible!