Yes but this is not the hottest summer in history. Also the overload happened in CANADA not the USA, so how did it spread here? Why didnt we build some kinda backup? You'd think that now, after 911 we would have known better than to get all our power from one place in Canada.
Yes this isnt the first time, I know its happened before, however in the year 2003 and after 911 you'd think that this kinda thing should not happen and if it does happen you'd think we'd be given information on why it happened immediately.
When our government doesnt know for sure, this is bad because it causes people to fill in the blanks themselves. Not everyone trusts the government, so when they say "Its not terrorism" but then they dont know for sure what it is, they'd have been better off not saying anything at all.
Yes its possible that power can be overloaded, but why today? Why in 2003? This is not the hottest summer in history, and also I thought after 1977 they would have changed things to make this domino effect more difficult.
Well, theres no evicence to prove it is or it isnt. Until we have proof either way, you cant really say.
However its logical that it could be, its also logical that it could be a natural occurance. Unlike other people, I am not going to hold my tongue and say for sure that its not terrorism until I know exactly what did happen. Overload? Ok why did the overload happen? We have had hotter summers than this with no overload.
Too many people here, are actually just accepting explainations from Mayors and Government officials who have absolutely nothing to do with the power industry, ok so lets say it is a natural occurance.
Why did it happen? This is not the kinda thing we can afford to have happen in the year 2003, its ridiculous.
So who is responsible for it? I find it hard to believe that its just a freak of nature, that has to be proven to me.
Believe me I have not jumped to conclusions, I just dont trust brief explainations. "Its not terrorism, its nature"
Ok so prove it dont just say it. Thats all I'm saying.
Yes but you'd think in 2003 we would have known better. We have all this technology and something like this happens? This is equal to a quarter of the internet going down for no reason and having everyone wondering why it happened.
Am I the only one who notices that theres a shortage of information? Ok so its not terrorism, what exactly is it? A freak accident? Well how did it happen? I'd consider this a MAJOR accident.
If my power goes out and I dont have a clue why, I'd be pissed, wouldnt you?
I'd like to see it. I dont want to hear government people telling me stuff, show me the evidence, tell us wtf just happened. Then people wont ask if its a terrorist attack.
This happened in Canada not New York. Until I hear the gov of Canada say this is not a terrorist attack, or an act of sabatoge and until we actually see exactly what happened in plain English, There is no evidence to prove either way, its just the governments official speculation vs our unofficial speculation.
This has absolutely nothing to do with politics, if you are thinking of politics right now, this should show how much you truely hate America.
I wonder how many people believe Bush planned 911. I bet the same people who think me being a Dean supporter matters in a situation when power is going out all accross the country for "UNKNOWN" reasons.
I am waiting for the facts, but speculation is good because you cannot expect our government to give us all the facts, maybe some expert who works at a powerplant will post here and tell us what happened. When we find out the reasons then we can rule out terrorism.
Totally incorrect. Did you check that your Intel CPU executes all instructions correctly? No, you take it on the good faith and trust of Intel. Do you verify the CD you just burned? No, you take it on faith and trust that the CD wrote correctly, "
Actually I do not trust Intel, Intel might sell me a CPU that doesnt work just to take my money. I always run tests on my hardware as soon as I get it. I always check the Cd I wrote to make sure it actually burned after burning CDs that didnt work.
Do you check your motherboard with a logic probe to see if it writes data to the RAM/EIDE controllers/Bus correctly?
I test out all my hardware with software usually, the hardware I dont test out is hardware which I wont really need anyway. I like to get my moneys worth and I dont trust any company.
? No, you take it on faith and trust in the motherboard manufacturer, an intermittent fault can always appear.
Thats why there are warrenties and laws in place to allow me to sue.
For a design fault in motherboard/CPU/RAM to cause an OS crash, it has to happen very often, an intermittent bit flip would cause your data to go funny and become unrecognised.
Thats why we complain when things dont work, to warn others so the scam doesnt continue,
If you fit ECC RAM, how do you know that it wasn't made counterfeit by a Chinese company, and it's actually normal RAM? My boss's machine had ECC RAM, and he got bit errors that caused NTFS to write a corrupt MFT (File Allocation Table), he lost everything on his hard disk, the RAM was counterfeight.
He should sue whoever is responsible for this or perhaps he should have done his research.
Whenever you buy a computer you trust and have faith in a lot of companies (those same companies that everyone hates because they're globalising). You trust that any manufacturing fault would occur on all units produced, and so other people would complain. What if just your one is manufactured bad?
I dont have faith in any company, Its capitalism that allows me to weight faith. Capitalism is money, I give you money and I know you want as much money from me as possible, you know I wont give you money again if you screw me over, so you know its not in your best interest to do that just like its not in mine, this means logic says both of our best moves are to live up to our deal.
This is how ebay works. I dont trust anyone on ebay, but the ebay system is very logical and proven.
First, alot of the ethiopeans live much happier stress free lives than us, they have problems with disease, but not every ethiopean is sick.
The problem never was with connecting to feel other peoples pain, I do it in movies still, the problem is people like to exploit your emotions. Alot of the movies and pictures you see of africa are designed to make you feel sorry for them and give money, most of the time the money does not even go to the people, just to the government.
The amount of selfishness and hatred in the World can overwhelm any nice person. The US Government didn't sign Kyoto because a lot of the American people think that France, UK, India, Taiwan, Hawaii, Alaska, Russia, China are "up there" connected to Canada. The US Government represents the American people, and the drug dealer in the ghetto gets the same vote as the wisest slashdotter. George Bush represents the people that dropped out of School when they were 16 unable to write English, who get minimum wage and must have a car to get to work, and he represents them well. These people don't post to Slashdot because they're working 3 jobs.
Thats just it, theres too many selfish mean cruel people in the world for any person who values their sanity to attempt to emotionally connect to everyone.
Once you get burned a few times, you learn that lesson.
uh, Hope is called wishful thinking, and faith is called guessing, in science or in the world of computers, in the world of anything logical from math to chess, decisions arent made on hope, emotion, or faith, logical decisions are made based on logic alone.
Kind of an elitist, are you? (By saying that, I'm acting elitist, too, I know.)
Its not that I'm being elitist, its true, you know its true. Why do we keep getting into wars? Why do we always here of people killing people or doing other stupid shit?
Honestly if you think this is an intelligent world you are wrongg, our leaders are fools, and most of the leaders in this world are fools, thats why we have foolish conflicts over weapons of mass destruction, communism, and other stupid crap.
Do we need to have wars in 2003? No, we could solve almost every situation with diplomacy, its only the crazy ignorant leaders who cause the wars, its also the aggressive hawks who think "shoot first, search for weapons later"
We live in an ignorant world, here we are making the military bigger and bigger, to defend ourselves from a few thousand terrorists, losing our freedom we are supposed to be protecting.
Ok enough of the political rant, its not even politics, the main reason why I think like an elitist is because its the truth, I'm not the one killing people, or doing stupid shit, I'm not harming anyone else in this world, you may not agree with my political viewpoint, but I'm not harming anyone, I'm not shooting people, or bullying anyone, I'm not doing any of the stupid shit that people seem to do, I'm emotionally stable most of the time meaning I dont have a short temper, I am not manic depressed, etc etc.
I'm not saying I'm a "better" human than everyone else, I'm just saying I'm living more intelligently than alot of my peers choose to live, if you choose to live your life in a way thats ignorant, spreading hate, killing people, or doing many counter productive things which generally harm us as a species, well I'm not going to assume you are on the same level spirtually.
Then again you might be on the same spirtual level, but then you do stupid things because of some emotional issue, like low self esteem, so you drink yourself sick, drop out of school, etc.
People have ALOT of problems and it burdens me to deal with other peoples problems ALL The damn time.
What you are coming across as here, is that you had one or more bad experiences with other people, so you retreated into your little ball away from the big bad world. You can come out online where you can easily avoid people and situations you don't like. You have chosen to live in a sterile, safe world due to your bad experiences, and assume that everyone else does, too.
This world is a very ignorant world, filled with hateful cruel people, who will exploit and abuse you if you try to be a nice person. So please tell me why I should go out of my way to share myself with a world where the majority of the people in it only wish to exploit me for my talents or usefulness to them personally and then toss me aside?
Sorry, but I don't agree. I'm an introvert by nature, not by choice. I can talk to most people, get along, do fine. I'm not afraid of them. I haven't been punched in the face, because I get along well enough not to let them get that mad. I've met far more suicidal people online than off. Actually, most of the things you talk about avoiding (rudeness, ignorance, bigotry, etc.) I see more of online, because people have less incentive to get along. I can be nasty to you without fear of reprisal.
Offline its just as bad, the only difference is people talk shit behind your back. So what? people are the same online and off, at least online you know who doesnt like you.
Many of the things you want to avoid in the real world are what it makes it interesting. When I'm talking to someone, I have to think on my feet. I have just a few seconds to think about what they said, and come up with a response. If I'm skilled, I can make them laugh, smile, or cry when I want to. If I'm not skilled, I might get an emotion that I don't want. It's a game. The most complicated, interactive game in existance. Also the highest stakes.
Actually, the internet is often a VERY non-social forum. Your not meeting people face-to-face. Your ALWAYS dealing with issues instead of the people themselves.
You can make friends with people on the net, the difference is on the net, if someone backstabs you, or treats you bad, you click a button and never see them again.
I don't know what you look like, where you live, what gender you are. I don't have to deal with most of the artifacts of your personality. Most importantly, if I don't WANT to deal with you, I don't have to. I don't even have to hear what is most likely the annoying whine of your voice.
Good, this means you'll respect what I have to say alittle bit more than you would if you were ignorant enough to judge a person based on such factors.
You see, Its not that I dont like exchanging ideas and being social, its that people being as ignorant as they are, take all the fun out of it.
If given a choice between a person and a computer, most introverts would choose the computer. They are mostly non-threatining. They are deterministic, they mostly don't lie. That is why introverts tend to be computer geeks. That is often why introverts tend to post while extroverts are more into chat rooms.
And this is why I say most introverts choose to be introveted due to perosnal experience.
You will probably never meet me. I have no desire to meet or interact with you. The ONLY reason I'm acknowledging your existence is because your spreading a heaping pile of BULL-SHIT that could be read by unsuspecting people. I'm really not talking to "HanzoSan" at all, rather I'm trying to point out the flaws in the self-centered ignorant posts of "HanzoSan" for the benefit of those who may read the posts and not realize that "HanzoSan" is speaking merely from his own experience and not trying to UNDERSTAND the experiences of other people!!!!!
Yes exactly. Thats my point, we dont have to be friends to communicate online, offline its more difficult to communicate unless you are in the clique, and people judge you on looks and everything else outside of your mind.
I never said you were talking to me, I never said I wanted you to talk to me in a personal way, my point is we communicate, and exchange ideas, and its in a formal non threatening way. Try this kinda stuff offline and you could get into a fist fight over what you say or think.
Introverts have no problem writing. Introverts are often naturally good writers. If they weren't introverted, they would probably be off at a party instead of writing.
If most of the people in the extrovert world werent so damn ignorant, violent, cruel, immature, etc, then I would have no problem being part of the extrovert world.
The extrovert world however is an unsafe world of gambling and hoping the odds are in your favor, theres no way to be sure of anything or anyone, you can never really expect people to do whats logical because people get emotional and act illogical, which confuses a person like myself who tries to understand people in a logical way.
Look, when dealing with people, they are so different from me usually that its like dealing with a wild animal or unknown object, its all trial and error, how do you deal with the person with the short temper if you dont have one? you just have to learn from experience, how do you deal with the person with low self esteem? You learn from experience.
The difference between the online and offline world, offline you have a set amount of mistakes you can make before you make a final mistake, online you can make infinite mistakes and never get in trouble.
When you deal with an emotionally unstable person offline(we all are emotionally unstable sometimes but you know what I mean), you never really know if they are violent or not until you get punched in the face and lose a tooth, you never know they are suicidal often until they commit suicide.
In order to have ideas you must be at the intelligence level where you can think for yourself. You forget to mention that most introverts have a higher IQ than extroverts, in most cases.
Yes socialism seems to be the answer for dealing with the digital world, its not the answer for the physical world but definately for the digital world.
I never in my life have felt "lonely" like some people claim they feel. But really I grew up alone most of the time, I had few real friends, so yeah its easy not to feel lonely if you grew up alone.
I dont know, if its nature or nurture.
And its not looks that makes me not like to be social, I never really had a problem with that part, or even in dealing with women, my problem is, being social only brings pain. Most people you talk to arent really your friend, most women you deal with are after your checkbook and not you, and its just a very fake world.
People say the internet is fake but people offline are even more fake, when you open your arms to everyone and welcome everyone as a friend (extrovert) all it does is attract the people who exploit extroverts for their own advantage.
So why be an extrovert? as an introvert those leechers usually never notice you and only people who generally want to be your friend will go through all the effort it takes to do so.
There is the professional life, and the personal life.
I'm forcing myself to be an extrovert in my professional life, but very few people know me on the personal level.
What do I talk with people about? Things that matter, the job, academics, and anything else that matters, perhaps I'll keep up touch with them so I can get a job through them later on.
Thats why you talk to people, you need to network and form good connections, you dont have to let them know you on a personal level or allow them to get close to you, only a few people deserve to know you on a personal level, the majority of people are business partners and you treat them as such.
This means you talk to them for a specific purpose or reason and not for entertainment or fun.
I only have a few people in life who I actually enjoy talking to, almost everyone else I talk to for specific purposes.
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Yes but this is not the hottest summer in history. Also the overload happened in CANADA not the USA, so how did it spread here? Why didnt we build some kinda backup? You'd think that now, after 911 we would have known better than to get all our power from one place in Canada.
Yes this isnt the first time, I know its happened before, however in the year 2003 and after 911 you'd think that this kinda thing should not happen and if it does happen you'd think we'd be given information on why it happened immediately.
When our government doesnt know for sure, this is bad because it causes people to fill in the blanks themselves. Not everyone trusts the government, so when they say "Its not terrorism" but then they dont know for sure what it is, they'd have been better off not saying anything at all.
Yes its possible that power can be overloaded, but why today? Why in 2003? This is not the hottest summer in history, and also I thought after 1977 they would have changed things to make this domino effect more difficult.
Well, theres no evicence to prove it is or it isnt. Until we have proof either way, you cant really say.
However its logical that it could be, its also logical that it could be a natural occurance. Unlike other people, I am not going to hold my tongue and say for sure that its not terrorism until I know exactly what did happen. Overload? Ok why did the overload happen? We have had hotter summers than this with no overload.
Too many people here, are actually just accepting explainations from Mayors and Government officials who have absolutely nothing to do with the power industry, ok so lets say it is a natural occurance.
Why did it happen? This is not the kinda thing we can afford to have happen in the year 2003, its ridiculous.
So who is responsible for it? I find it hard to believe that its just a freak of nature, that has to be proven to me.
Believe me I have not jumped to conclusions, I just dont trust brief explainations. "Its not terrorism, its nature"
Ok so prove it dont just say it. Thats all I'm saying.
How is it idiotic to want to SEE the evidence?
Anyone can come and say "Well we have the evidence but you cannot see it"
If you think this is a serious issue you want to know what happened and why.
Yes but you'd think in 2003 we would have known better. We have all this technology and something like this happens? This is equal to a quarter of the internet going down for no reason and having everyone wondering why it happened.
Am I the only one who notices that theres a shortage of information? Ok so its not terrorism, what exactly is it? A freak accident? Well how did it happen? I'd consider this a MAJOR accident.
If my power goes out and I dont have a clue why, I'd be pissed, wouldnt you?
I'd like to see it. I dont want to hear government people telling me stuff, show me the evidence, tell us wtf just happened. Then people wont ask if its a terrorist attack.
That sucks, hopefully something is done about this before night time. I would HATE to be in Manhattan at night in pitch blackness.
SO you think its sabatoge? When you get power again tell us exactly what hapepend, maybe Slashdot will do an interview.
This happened in Canada not New York. Until I hear the gov of Canada say this is not a terrorist attack, or an act of sabatoge and until we actually see exactly what happened in plain English, There is no evidence to prove either way, its just the governments official speculation vs our unofficial speculation.
This has absolutely nothing to do with politics, if you are thinking of politics right now, this should show how much you truely hate America.
I wonder how many people believe Bush planned 911. I bet the same people who think me being a Dean supporter matters in a situation when power is going out all accross the country for "UNKNOWN" reasons.
I am waiting for the facts, but speculation is good because you cannot expect our government to give us all the facts, maybe some expert who works at a powerplant will post here and tell us what happened.
When we find out the reasons then we can rule out terrorism.
If a riot starts, looting starts, or if this is part of some kinda terrorist attack you are going to feel dumb.
Lets be serious. This is not SCOs fault, its Microsofts fault.
I'm lucky enough to have electricity but I dont know for how long.
I suggest anyone on the east coast, cook your food, prepare for your lights to go out, get your guns ready just in case rioting and looting starts.
Is this a terrorist attack? I understand that doing something like this would completely shut down the US economy.
Believe me there are ways to protect yourself.
Totally incorrect. Did you check that your Intel CPU executes all instructions correctly? No, you take it on the good faith and trust of Intel. Do you verify the CD you just burned? No, you take it on faith and trust that the CD wrote correctly, "
Actually I do not trust Intel, Intel might sell me a CPU that doesnt work just to take my money. I always run tests on my hardware as soon as I get it. I always check the Cd I wrote to make sure it actually burned after burning CDs that didnt work.
Do you check your motherboard with a logic probe to see if it writes data to the RAM/EIDE controllers/Bus correctly?
I test out all my hardware with software usually, the hardware I dont test out is hardware which I wont really need anyway. I like to get my moneys worth and I dont trust any company.
? No, you take it on faith and trust in the motherboard manufacturer, an intermittent fault can always appear.
Thats why there are warrenties and laws in place to allow me to sue.
For a design fault in motherboard/CPU/RAM to cause an OS crash, it has to happen very often, an intermittent bit flip would cause your data to go funny and become unrecognised.
Thats why we complain when things dont work, to warn others so the scam doesnt continue,
If you fit ECC RAM, how do you know that it wasn't made counterfeit by a Chinese company, and it's actually normal RAM? My boss's machine had ECC RAM, and he got bit errors that caused NTFS to write a corrupt MFT (File Allocation Table), he lost everything on his hard disk, the RAM was counterfeight.
He should sue whoever is responsible for this or perhaps he should have done his research.
Whenever you buy a computer you trust and have faith in a lot of companies (those same companies that everyone hates because they're globalising). You trust that any manufacturing fault would occur on all units produced, and so other people would complain. What if just your one is manufactured bad?
I dont have faith in any company, Its capitalism that allows me to weight faith. Capitalism is money, I give you money and I know you want as much money from me as possible, you know I wont give you money again if you screw me over, so you know its not in your best interest to do that just like its not in mine, this means logic says both of our best moves are to live up to our deal.
This is how ebay works. I dont trust anyone on ebay, but the ebay system is very logical and proven.
First, alot of the ethiopeans live much happier stress free lives than us, they have problems with disease, but not every ethiopean is sick.
The problem never was with connecting to feel other peoples pain, I do it in movies still, the problem is people like to exploit your emotions. Alot of the movies and pictures you see of africa are designed to make you feel sorry for them and give money, most of the time the money does not even go to the people, just to the government.
The amount of selfishness and hatred in the World can overwhelm any nice person. The US Government didn't sign Kyoto because a lot of the American people think that France, UK, India, Taiwan, Hawaii, Alaska, Russia, China are "up there" connected to Canada. The US Government represents the American people, and the drug dealer in the ghetto gets the same vote as the wisest slashdotter. George Bush represents the people that dropped out of School when they were 16 unable to write English, who get minimum wage and must have a car to get to work, and he represents them well. These people don't post to Slashdot because they're working 3 jobs.
Thats just it, theres too many selfish mean cruel people in the world for any person who values their sanity to attempt to emotionally connect to everyone.
Once you get burned a few times, you learn that lesson.
I dont hate anyone. Unlike Buddha I cannot handle the burden of trying to connect emotionally to everyone either.
uh, Hope is called wishful thinking, and faith is called guessing, in science or in the world of computers, in the world of anything logical from math to chess, decisions arent made on hope, emotion, or faith, logical decisions are made based on logic alone.
Kind of an elitist, are you? (By saying that, I'm acting elitist, too, I know.)
Its not that I'm being elitist, its true, you know its true. Why do we keep getting into wars? Why do we always here of people killing people or doing other stupid shit?
Honestly if you think this is an intelligent world you are wrongg, our leaders are fools, and most of the leaders in this world are fools, thats why we have foolish conflicts over weapons of mass destruction, communism, and other stupid crap.
Do we need to have wars in 2003? No, we could solve almost every situation with diplomacy, its only the crazy ignorant leaders who cause the wars, its also the aggressive hawks who think "shoot first, search for weapons later"
We live in an ignorant world, here we are making the military bigger and bigger, to defend ourselves from a few thousand terrorists, losing our freedom we are supposed to be protecting.
Ok enough of the political rant, its not even politics, the main reason why I think like an elitist is because its the truth, I'm not the one killing people, or doing stupid shit, I'm not harming anyone else in this world, you may not agree with my political viewpoint, but I'm not harming anyone, I'm not shooting people, or bullying anyone, I'm not doing any of the stupid shit that people seem to do, I'm emotionally stable most of the time meaning I dont have a short temper, I am not manic depressed, etc etc.
I'm not saying I'm a "better" human than everyone else, I'm just saying I'm living more intelligently than alot of my peers choose to live, if you choose to live your life in a way thats ignorant, spreading hate, killing people, or doing many counter productive things which generally harm us as a species, well I'm not going to assume you are on the same level spirtually.
Then again you might be on the same spirtual level, but then you do stupid things because of some emotional issue, like low self esteem, so you drink yourself sick, drop out of school, etc.
People have ALOT of problems and it burdens me to deal with other peoples problems ALL The damn time.
What you are coming across as here, is that you had one or more bad experiences with other people, so you retreated into your little ball away from the big bad world. You can come out online where you can easily avoid people and situations you don't like. You have chosen to live in a sterile, safe world due to your bad experiences, and assume that everyone else does, too.
This world is a very ignorant world, filled with hateful cruel people, who will exploit and abuse you if you try to be a nice person. So please tell me why I should go out of my way to share myself with a world where the majority of the people in it only wish to exploit me for my talents or usefulness to them personally and then toss me aside?
Sorry, but I don't agree. I'm an introvert by nature, not by choice. I can talk to most people, get along, do fine. I'm not afraid of them. I haven't been punched in the face, because I get along well enough not to let them get that mad. I've met far more suicidal people online than off. Actually, most of the things you talk about avoiding (rudeness, ignorance, bigotry, etc.) I see more of online, because people have less incentive to get along. I can be nasty to you without fear of reprisal.
Offline its just as bad, the only difference is people talk shit behind your back. So what? people are the same online and off, at least online you know who doesnt like you.
Many of the things you want to avoid in the real world are what it makes it interesting. When I'm talking to someone, I have to think on my feet. I have just a few seconds to think about what they said, and come up with a response. If I'm skilled, I can make them laugh, smile, or cry when I want to. If I'm not skilled, I might get an emotion that I don't want. It's a game. The most complicated, interactive game in existance. Also the highest stakes.
Actually, the internet is often a VERY non-social forum. Your not meeting people face-to-face. Your ALWAYS dealing with issues instead of the people themselves.
You can make friends with people on the net, the difference is on the net, if someone backstabs you, or treats you bad, you click a button and never see them again.
I don't know what you look like, where you live, what gender you are. I don't have to deal with most of the artifacts of your personality. Most importantly, if I don't WANT to deal with you, I don't have to. I don't even have to hear what is most likely the annoying whine of your voice.
Good, this means you'll respect what I have to say alittle bit more than you would if you were ignorant enough to judge a person based on such factors.
You see, Its not that I dont like exchanging ideas and being social, its that people being as ignorant as they are, take all the fun out of it.
If given a choice between a person and a computer, most introverts would choose the computer. They are mostly non-threatining. They are deterministic, they mostly don't lie. That is why introverts tend to be computer geeks. That is often why introverts tend to post while extroverts are more into chat rooms.
And this is why I say most introverts choose to be introveted due to perosnal experience.
You will probably never meet me. I have no desire to meet or interact with you. The ONLY reason I'm acknowledging your existence is because your spreading a heaping pile of BULL-SHIT that could be read by unsuspecting people. I'm really not talking to "HanzoSan" at all, rather I'm trying to point out the flaws in the self-centered ignorant posts of "HanzoSan" for the benefit of those who may read the posts and not realize that "HanzoSan" is speaking merely from his own experience and not trying to UNDERSTAND the experiences of other people!!!!!
Yes exactly. Thats my point, we dont have to be friends to communicate online, offline its more difficult to communicate unless you are in the clique, and people judge you on looks and everything else outside of your mind.
I never said you were talking to me, I never said I wanted you to talk to me in a personal way, my point is we communicate, and exchange ideas, and its in a formal non threatening way. Try this kinda stuff offline and you could get into a fist fight over what you say or think.
Introverts have no problem writing. Introverts are often naturally good writers. If they weren't introverted, they would probably be off at a party instead of writing.
If most of the people in the extrovert world werent so damn ignorant, violent, cruel, immature, etc, then I would have no problem being part of the extrovert world.
The extrovert world however is an unsafe world of gambling and hoping the odds are in your favor, theres no way to be sure of anything or anyone, you can never really expect people to do whats logical because people get emotional and act illogical, which confuses a person like myself who tries to understand people in a logical way.
Look, when dealing with people, they are so different from me usually that its like dealing with a wild animal or unknown object, its all trial and error, how do you deal with the person with the short temper if you dont have one? you just have to learn from experience, how do you deal with the person with low self esteem? You learn from experience.
The difference between the online and offline world, offline you have a set amount of mistakes you can make before you make a final mistake, online you can make infinite mistakes and never get in trouble.
When you deal with an emotionally unstable person offline(we all are emotionally unstable sometimes but you know what I mean), you never really know if they are violent or not until you get punched in the face and lose a tooth, you never know they are suicidal often until they commit suicide.
People are impossible to predict
In order to have ideas you must be at the intelligence level where you can think for yourself. You forget to mention that most introverts have a higher IQ than extroverts, in most cases.
Yes socialism seems to be the answer for dealing with the digital world, its not the answer for the physical world but definately for the digital world.
Lets subsidize the music industry too because everyone wants free music, hey heres an idea, lets just subsidize everything!
I never in my life have felt "lonely" like some people claim they feel. But really I grew up alone most of the time, I had few real friends, so yeah its easy not to feel lonely if you grew up alone.
I dont know, if its nature or nurture.
And its not looks that makes me not like to be social, I never really had a problem with that part, or even in dealing with women, my problem is, being social only brings pain. Most people you talk to arent really your friend, most women you deal with are after your checkbook and not you, and its just a very fake world.
People say the internet is fake but people offline are even more fake, when you open your arms to everyone and welcome everyone as a friend (extrovert) all it does is attract the people who exploit extroverts for their own advantage.
So why be an extrovert? as an introvert those leechers usually never notice you and only people who generally want to be your friend will go through all the effort it takes to do so.
There is the professional life, and the personal life.
I'm forcing myself to be an extrovert in my professional life, but very few people know me on the personal level.
What do I talk with people about? Things that matter, the job, academics, and anything else that matters, perhaps I'll keep up touch with them so I can get a job through them later on.
Thats why you talk to people, you need to network and form good connections, you dont have to let them know you on a personal level or allow them to get close to you, only a few people deserve to know you on a personal level, the majority of people are business partners and you treat them as such.
This means you talk to them for a specific purpose or reason and not for entertainment or fun.
I only have a few people in life who I actually enjoy talking to, almost everyone else I talk to for specific purposes.