Bollocks, one insightful well-spoken yank can't nullify how absurd, obtuse, obese, and flat-out stupid most of the country of america is and its detrimental impact on the world.
I agree this was poor and invasive on netflix's part, but how was "suit known as Doe v. Netflix " "outing a lesbian"? Like netflix released information of a bunch of gay movie rentals??? releasing private info is fail, I just don't see the correlation with the lesbian woman.
while yes americans are revoltingly bureaucratic, paranoid and increasingly orwellian, you also have to question the temperment of someone who actually studies mortuary science. xD.
While I can accept that music would be less distracting that office chatter, I simply don't understand the concept that music is better than silence. I can work with music, but if I need to concentrate on something intensely, like a complex coding problem or making decisions based on a large amount of data, I need silence
This is interesting and I can relate..to an extent.
I've done a lot of experimentation with selective attention (from listening to 4 or 6 audio streams -- a few ebooks, music, some recrodings, audio memos etc) simultaneously and moniotoring productivity and performance.
No official conclusions, but general hunch is that when doing the more "routine stuff" background music makes things much smoother.
I was in a bookstore perusing iphone programming, math, biochem, and atheism books (GREAT section they were all clumped together xD) and they had some weird jazz and then some french music on. I'd never be like "hhmm can I have that soundtrack?!" but for a moment of maybe 3-4 minutes when the music stopped, that once very rich and isnightful section felt really awkward and dead.
Obviously for certain tasks, silence ftw, but for some things music is invaluable.
Maybe it's when around other people, music feels better than dead silence . pregnant pauses. idk lol.
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Bollocks, one insightful well-spoken yank can't nullify how absurd, obtuse, obese, and flat-out stupid most of the country of america is and its detrimental impact on the world.
I'd aim the asteroid at america as well; it's a hollow, sham of a country. Only, of course, after I am safely on aussie territory xD.
I agree this was poor and invasive on netflix's part, but how was "suit known as Doe v. Netflix " "outing a lesbian"? Like netflix released information of a bunch of gay movie rentals??? releasing private info is fail, I just don't see the correlation with the lesbian woman.
while yes americans are revoltingly bureaucratic, paranoid and increasingly orwellian, you also have to question the temperment of someone who actually studies mortuary science. xD.
americans are fail.
I like the same old uniform resource locater system.
While I can accept that music would be less distracting that office chatter, I simply don't understand the concept that music is better than silence. I can work with music, but if I need to concentrate on something intensely, like a complex coding problem or making decisions based on a large amount of data, I need silence
This is interesting and I can relate..to an extent. I've done a lot of experimentation with selective attention (from listening to 4 or 6 audio streams -- a few ebooks, music, some recrodings, audio memos etc) simultaneously and moniotoring productivity and performance. No official conclusions, but general hunch is that when doing the more "routine stuff" background music makes things much smoother. I was in a bookstore perusing iphone programming, math, biochem, and atheism books (GREAT section they were all clumped together xD) and they had some weird jazz and then some french music on. I'd never be like "hhmm can I have that soundtrack?!" but for a moment of maybe 3-4 minutes when the music stopped, that once very rich and isnightful section felt really awkward and dead. Obviously for certain tasks, silence ftw, but for some things music is invaluable. Maybe it's when around other people, music feels better than dead silence . pregnant pauses. idk lol.
...and the only conclusion ever reached by sociologists is: "Some do, some don't!"
a brilliant, veracious, and truthful surmise!