People need to start reading "The Foundation" trilogy again. You need the masses to change things and the mob is not quick to stir and doesn't necessarily think intelligently. Just because a few of us see this as a freight train driving us to despair doesn't mean enough other people do.
It takes issues that personally affect individuals to get them worked up enough to give a damn. Anything else and the train keeps running.
All empires are mortal. I am not sure how many more centuries (if that) I am willing to say America has left.
So many people complain that e-mail or im messages can not communicate the intent of certain messages. The most important in my circle of friends was sarcasm so I came up with a solution. Much like emoting actions with * I created ~ for sarcasm.
So if you wanted to say "Nice idea" sarcastically just say ~Nice idea~
I offer this up as a possible solution to solve our electronic sarcasm communications problem.
I was in an Electronics Boutique in NYC today and asked about Playstation2 availability (more to see what they would say then expect to get one).
Well I was shocked and pretty pissed off when I was told there were one left (of course) but if I really wanted one the clerk would sell me his for $900 dollars.
What the heck is that about? The worst part is that all of the employees in the store were doing it. With inside competition like that how can anyone expect to get one.
(This is not a flame versus EB just this particular one.)
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Everyone complains that if you use VOIP it could fail when you need it for 911. Has anyone done the stats on how effective placing a call to 911 is?
What if 4 out of 10 calls to 911 are ineffective and you get shot anyway?
People need to start reading "The Foundation" trilogy again.
You need the masses to change things and the mob is not quick to stir and doesn't necessarily think intelligently. Just because a few of us see this as a freight train driving us to despair doesn't mean enough other people do.
It takes issues that personally affect individuals to get them worked up enough to give a damn. Anything else and the train keeps running.
All empires are mortal. I am not sure how many more centuries (if that) I am willing to say America has left.
I wonder how bad it is to be a Serf?
To quote Yoda:
...*cough*....another....
There is
Jeb Bush for President.
The Horror, the horror.
So many people complain that e-mail or im messages can not communicate the intent of certain messages. The most important in my circle of friends was sarcasm so I came up with a solution. Much like emoting actions with * I created ~ for sarcasm.
So if you wanted to say "Nice idea" sarcastically just say ~Nice idea~
I offer this up as a possible solution to solve our electronic sarcasm communications problem.
Let the ~ comments to this post fly!
I was in an Electronics Boutique in NYC today and asked about Playstation2 availability (more to see what they would say then expect to get one). Well I was shocked and pretty pissed off when I was told there were one left (of course) but if I really wanted one the clerk would sell me his for $900 dollars. What the heck is that about? The worst part is that all of the employees in the store were doing it. With inside competition like that how can anyone expect to get one. (This is not a flame versus EB just this particular one.)