Your analogy is backward. The media 'tax' is as if you were charged monthly by city hall for littering. Dunno about you, but if I paid a tax for littering, I'd damn well be sure to make my fair share of litter and get my moneys worth.
This is just a government backed shakedown of users of storage media by an organization that more closely resembles the mob (Mafia, whatever) than a legitimate business.
I didn't find it particularly fascist. The story line is crap, but the concepts behind it are valid. That's probably where she went wrong. She was a crappy writer as far as story goes.
The asshole cable companies started charging for remote controls after it was ruled they couldn't charge for the descrambler boxes they were previously charging for.
a) If you plug a floppy ribbon cable in backwards, nothing catches fire.
b) Unlike 'a' above, if you plug the floppy POWER connector in backwards... yes, that might cause a fire.
BUT...
A person has to be a real freakin moron to be able to jam that plug upside down (backward, whatever) onto the pins.
They 'could' install a couple of diodes to keep idiots from frying their hardware, but the plug and recepticle are already keyed. Manufacturers can try to idiot proof everything, but there's always a more cunning idiot out there.
" If story or entertainment is all you want from a book"
Yes, from fiction, and information from non-fiction. Anything else is the equivalent of literary lollygagging and/or loitering. Any putz can lollygag and/or loiter. Not just anybody can put it down on paper to tell a story, entertain, or pass information without lollygagging. Eco just simply isn't one of those people that can, and neither was Joyce.
If I wanted to go on a scavenger hunt I'd look for a scavenger hunt. Literature shouldn't be one.
I differ. Like everything, even writing comes down to the age old saying "If you can't dazzle them with your brilliance, baffle them with bullshit."
IMHO, he is long winded and writes complicated on purpose. If he wrote without using obscure phraseology then his texts would be much shorter and easier to understand. He doesn't want to be understood easily, he wants people to say "Gee, he's a smart guy!" This seems to be a mark of the 'new age' writer. His texts just drag out. Much like how Stephen King takes a story that can just as well fit 35 pages, and draws it out to fill 600. The both of them produce nothing but yawners.
I live in sw New Mexico. There are quite a few 'hispanics' (Americans of spanish descent) that dislike Mexicans, call em Mexicans, and do make a differentation between Mexicans as a nationality, and the generalized 'hispanic'.
Closer to Mexico it's that way probably because the Mexican population there is attempting to make the nationality problem a deep and murky area for the benefit of the illegal aliens.
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Of course they opposed the war in Iraq. It's rather difficult to surrender when your on the attacking force.
If Mac's were as popular as windows boxes, Macs would have as much or more problems with virii and other malicious programs.
Nothing there counts as a 'real world' experience.
Ok, so I take it that your problem is that other people demand value from their money?
If I had to pay a fee like that I'd make sure to break every freakin thing on the table.
Your analogy is backward. The media 'tax' is as if you were charged monthly by city hall for littering. Dunno about you, but if I paid a tax for littering, I'd damn well be sure to make my fair share of litter and get my moneys worth.
This is just a government backed shakedown of users of storage media by an organization that more closely resembles the mob (Mafia, whatever) than a legitimate business.
I didn't find it particularly fascist. The story line is crap, but the concepts behind it are valid. That's probably where she went wrong. She was a crappy writer as far as story goes.
The asshole cable companies started charging for remote controls after it was ruled they couldn't charge for the descrambler boxes they were previously charging for.
a) If you plug a floppy ribbon cable in backwards, nothing catches fire.
b) Unlike 'a' above, if you plug the floppy POWER connector in backwards... yes, that might cause a fire.
BUT...
A person has to be a real freakin moron to be able to jam that plug upside down (backward, whatever) onto the pins.
They 'could' install a couple of diodes to keep idiots from frying their hardware, but the plug and recepticle are already keyed. Manufacturers can try to idiot proof everything, but there's always a more cunning idiot out there.
"although computer support pays better it is more stressful and less rewarding than any service job I ever held"
Perhaps you mean, "any other service job I ever held."
You have to be on hallucinagens to want to own one if those things. It's extinction can be predicted with good accuracy.
It sounds slower than Atlas Shrugged, and if so then I find that amazing.
He essentially made you 'reinvent the wheel'. That is wastefull of time. As they say, "Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach."
" If story or entertainment is all you want from a book"
Yes, from fiction, and information from non-fiction. Anything else is the equivalent of literary lollygagging and/or loitering. Any putz can lollygag and/or loiter. Not just anybody can put it down on paper to tell a story, entertain, or pass information without lollygagging. Eco just simply isn't one of those people that can, and neither was Joyce.
If I wanted to go on a scavenger hunt I'd look for a scavenger hunt. Literature shouldn't be one.
I differ. Like everything, even writing comes down to the age old saying "If you can't dazzle them with your brilliance, baffle them with bullshit."
IMHO, he is long winded and writes complicated on purpose. If he wrote without using obscure phraseology then his texts would be much shorter and easier to understand. He doesn't want to be understood easily, he wants people to say "Gee, he's a smart guy!" This seems to be a mark of the 'new age' writer. His texts just drag out. Much like how Stephen King takes a story that can just as well fit 35 pages, and draws it out to fill 600. The both of them produce nothing but yawners.
"Second, why the hell is it so hard for people to have a little empathy, especialy when their own history practicaly dictates that they should. "
Exactly why should I have empathy?
I live in sw New Mexico. There are quite a few 'hispanics' (Americans of spanish descent) that dislike Mexicans, call em Mexicans, and do make a differentation between Mexicans as a nationality, and the generalized 'hispanic'.
Closer to Mexico it's that way probably because the Mexican population there is attempting to make the nationality problem a deep and murky area for the benefit of the illegal aliens.
Bah. A human can endure 16+ hours without urinating. Not that it's comfortable, but it can be done.
Now all we need is a language based on farting!
Not an english equivalent, but a definition of sorts..e day/archi ve/2000/05/10.html
http://dictionary.reference.com/wordofth
Thank you moderators for making my point for me more strongly than I could have imagined.
That is exactly what I am thinking.
But that's all Apple has... fanatics.
Really, it shouldn't matter if it's plugged up to a 'PC' or a Mac. Any 'problem' doing so is placed there artificially.