Exactly. A professional carpenter is just one that does it for the money. That doesn't necessarily mean that person is better than a hobbyist woodworker.
As far as I can tell it starts in High School. I'm amazed at the stories I hear from my high schoolers about the things that are now permissible that never would have been allowed in the late 80s when I was in high school. Then again, the kids who go to their high school aren't exactly the sharpest tools in the shed. One of my daughters was in an 11th grade science class and she was the only one who had ever heard of plate tectonics. Another time she had missed the previous English class and the teacher informed her that the other students had spent the entire previous class broken up into groups of 5 trying to list all the grammar rules they could think of (e.g., start a sentence with a capital letter) and he would give her 5 minutes to do the assignment on her own. She was able to come up with more rules in those five minutes than all the other groups combined.
Wait... what? There are far more computers running a variant of Unix (Linux, Android, iOS, MacOs, and all the other Unix distros) than running Windows. Just the install base for Android outstrips Windows.
I guess that depends on your definition of computers. I haven't used a laptop or desktop or mobile device running Windows since around the turn of the century.
Alphabet/Google - Yeah, it's hard to not use Google Facebook - so far I haven't had a need to set up an account and don't feel like I have been negatively impacted Microsoft - I haven't used Windows in more than a decade, but I'm sure I interact with MS products via ATMs and things like that. Apple - as a consumer this one is pretty easy to avoid (see Android under Alphabet/Google) Amazon - I know a few people who still distrust shopping online and don't use Amazon. So it is possible, but it's so convenient!
So, in my view Google is really the only one that is the most difficult to avoid. The rest are fairly easy to not use.
Revelation 13 17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. 18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.;-)
Except teenagers won't always be teenagers. One of my kids is in college and the other will be starting college next year. They have friends on social media all over the country and none of their friends use facebook anymore. This is the next generation of adults who are eschewing facebook.
According to my teenagers and their friends it already has imploded. They simply don't use it anymore. They've move on to other social media platforms. If you are cool, you don't use facebook.
Why? I don't have a facebook account either. Nor does my wife. Admittedly I don't know many people who don't have a facebook account, but there are some of us out there!
On the other hand, my teenagers do have facebook accounts, but they don't use them anymore. They and their friends have fully moved over to other social media platforms and openly mock anyone who does use facebook.
Supposedly everyone dreams, but after 44+ years I have no recollection of ever dreaming. I'd love for them to scan me while I'm sleeping to see if I actually do dream. I suspect I don't, otherwise why wouldn't I ever remember dreaming?
If I learned anything from the Simpsons it's that nuclear workers eat donuts. The nuclear shutdown would naturally have led to job loss in the donut sector. Now that I think about it, pregnant women not being able to get their donut fix could result in lower birth rates. So maybe the nuclear shutdown really was the cause of the lower birth weights.
I'm obviously not the market for this. We still pay $1.50 to get our movies at Redbox. We maybe watch three movies a month, so about $5 a month on movies (sometimes less when we get a Redbox coupon). Paying even $30 a month would be extreme sticker shock for us. Heck, every Tuesday around here all the theaters have $5 movie day when all movies all day long are $5, even new releases. So it is just $10 for my wife and I to go watch a new release in the theater. $30? Not going to happen.
"the heart of the battery that is all but certainly powering the device on which you are reading this" This I learned - my desktop computer runs off a battery! Guess I'll just unplug this useless power co
It's interesting that the report suggests that the closer you live to the poles (i.e., the farther from the equator) the happier you are in general. Did they include anyone living in Antarctica? I wonder how they would compare;-)
We don't have any kind of subscription service (Netflix, Hulu, Cable, etc.) so our kids only watch shows/movies from DVDs we rent from the library. We were staying at a hotel once and we put the Disney channel on for them. They couldn't understand why the show kept stopping and showing commercials. They kept asking why. My wife and I thought it was hilarious. We had never realized that we were raising our kids without commercials. We were just trying to save some money, it didn't occur to us that there were side benefits.
What does that mean? I accept a 2% annual raise, but I already make a hefty six figure salary that I already feel is too high. And I have been at my company for 15 years, which I assume would make me long in the tooth. What does that have to do with my curiosity? My problem isn't curiosity, but time. I have a backlog of reading on technical topics that is a mile long, but I'm so busy I barely have time to post on Slashdot;-)
"damaging effects of piracy on the media industry"
1. I believe children are damaged by the media industry. 2. Therefore the media industry needs to go away. 3. Piracy has a damaging effect on the media industry. 4. I pirate media content because it is my moral obligation to damage the media industry - for the children.
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I'd like some of what he is smoking please!
Exactly. A professional carpenter is just one that does it for the money. That doesn't necessarily mean that person is better than a hobbyist woodworker.
As far as I can tell it starts in High School. I'm amazed at the stories I hear from my high schoolers about the things that are now permissible that never would have been allowed in the late 80s when I was in high school. Then again, the kids who go to their high school aren't exactly the sharpest tools in the shed. One of my daughters was in an 11th grade science class and she was the only one who had ever heard of plate tectonics. Another time she had missed the previous English class and the teacher informed her that the other students had spent the entire previous class broken up into groups of 5 trying to list all the grammar rules they could think of (e.g., start a sentence with a capital letter) and he would give her 5 minutes to do the assignment on her own. She was able to come up with more rules in those five minutes than all the other groups combined.
Wait... what? There are far more computers running a variant of Unix (Linux, Android, iOS, MacOs, and all the other Unix distros) than running Windows. Just the install base for Android outstrips Windows.
I guess that depends on your definition of computers. I haven't used a laptop or desktop or mobile device running Windows since around the turn of the century.
Alphabet/Google - Yeah, it's hard to not use Google
Facebook - so far I haven't had a need to set up an account and don't feel like I have been negatively impacted
Microsoft - I haven't used Windows in more than a decade, but I'm sure I interact with MS products via ATMs and things like that.
Apple - as a consumer this one is pretty easy to avoid (see Android under Alphabet/Google)
Amazon - I know a few people who still distrust shopping online and don't use Amazon. So it is possible, but it's so convenient!
So, in my view Google is really the only one that is the most difficult to avoid. The rest are fairly easy to not use.
Revelation 13 ;-)
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.
The dementia lead to drinking diet soda, not the other way around.
Like Lego Batman, unless you are using a dark theme people won't know that you are a serious person.
Um, that's cheap. Health insurance is extremely expensive even if you are in the peak of health.
Except teenagers won't always be teenagers. One of my kids is in college and the other will be starting college next year. They have friends on social media all over the country and none of their friends use facebook anymore. This is the next generation of adults who are eschewing facebook.
So... what's the other name? I honestly don't know anyone who doesn't use gmail or a work email address.
According to my teenagers and their friends it already has imploded. They simply don't use it anymore. They've move on to other social media platforms. If you are cool, you don't use facebook.
Why? I don't have a facebook account either. Nor does my wife. Admittedly I don't know many people who don't have a facebook account, but there are some of us out there!
On the other hand, my teenagers do have facebook accounts, but they don't use them anymore. They and their friends have fully moved over to other social media platforms and openly mock anyone who does use facebook.
Supposedly everyone dreams, but after 44+ years I have no recollection of ever dreaming. I'd love for them to scan me while I'm sleeping to see if I actually do dream. I suspect I don't, otherwise why wouldn't I ever remember dreaming?
Thank good need for Google broadband! Oh...wait.
If I learned anything from the Simpsons it's that nuclear workers eat donuts. The nuclear shutdown would naturally have led to job loss in the donut sector. Now that I think about it, pregnant women not being able to get their donut fix could result in lower birth rates. So maybe the nuclear shutdown really was the cause of the lower birth weights.
I'm obviously not the market for this. We still pay $1.50 to get our movies at Redbox. We maybe watch three movies a month, so about $5 a month on movies (sometimes less when we get a Redbox coupon). Paying even $30 a month would be extreme sticker shock for us. Heck, every Tuesday around here all the theaters have $5 movie day when all movies all day long are $5, even new releases. So it is just $10 for my wife and I to go watch a new release in the theater. $30? Not going to happen.
This sounds like a solution to the card skimmer problem.
"the heart of the battery that is all but certainly powering the device on which you are reading this" This I learned - my desktop computer runs off a battery! Guess I'll just unplug this useless power co
It's interesting that the report suggests that the closer you live to the poles (i.e., the farther from the equator) the happier you are in general. Did they include anyone living in Antarctica? I wonder how they would compare ;-)
We don't have any kind of subscription service (Netflix, Hulu, Cable, etc.) so our kids only watch shows/movies from DVDs we rent from the library. We were staying at a hotel once and we put the Disney channel on for them. They couldn't understand why the show kept stopping and showing commercials. They kept asking why. My wife and I thought it was hilarious. We had never realized that we were raising our kids without commercials. We were just trying to save some money, it didn't occur to us that there were side benefits.
Wouldn't that only benefit public employees? I work for a Fortune 150 company and our holiday schedule is in no way tied to national holidays.
What does that mean? I accept a 2% annual raise, but I already make a hefty six figure salary that I already feel is too high. And I have been at my company for 15 years, which I assume would make me long in the tooth. What does that have to do with my curiosity? My problem isn't curiosity, but time. I have a backlog of reading on technical topics that is a mile long, but I'm so busy I barely have time to post on Slashdot ;-)
"damaging effects of piracy on the media industry"
1. I believe children are damaged by the media industry.
2. Therefore the media industry needs to go away.
3. Piracy has a damaging effect on the media industry.
4. I pirate media content because it is my moral obligation to damage the media industry - for the children.
Well, that should totally hold up in court.