I'm glad you are happy with your Psion device. I am happy with my Palm based Kyocera Smartphone. It has increased my personal productivty to levels I have never seen before. My battles against the ever raging forces of Procrastination are finally winnable now. I am a new man. I will never forget what my PDA has done for me. GO PALM!
I know you are serious and I don't mean to belittle you but its not that big of a deal for society at large, really. Whether someone uses Outlook Express or Eudora, IE or Mozilla, Windows or Linux, the world will survive regardless. None of this is going to matter diddly squat for their "children's future".
Maybe you could take a day's break away from the computer. Just hang out with some friends or go see a few movies, eat out, do something. But you're in way too deep in the whole "computer" thing.
Where ever the broadband hogs go, tiered pricing will follow them. Do you think wireless and DSL providers are going to allow people to get away with the broadband abuse that the Cable companies would not tolerate? What makes you think DSL and wireless companies are going to want to eat the costs of all that broadband usage and basically lose money for you?
The more people who sign up for broadband, the more overal bandwidth is used. That means higher costs for the broadband companies. I don't know why you would think costs would come down as more people sign up. Feel free to stop being stupid at any time now.
$10 a month is $120 a year. The POOR in this country can afford that. HOMELESS people can afford that. What about folks who have Cable TV. Are they stupid too? Are you one of these useless "I don't have a TV or radio" fucks who's counter-culture just to be cool? What the hell is wrong with wanting sat radio in a big city? Clear Channel has pretty much subjugated the entire US. You NEED Sat radio just to hear something good and uninterrupted by commercials. (XM has very very very very few commercials, Sirius has none).
Hey don't get mad at me. I'm not one of the people who chased after the CS dream. But you make it sound like anyone who majors in anything for the sake of money is somehow "bad". Thats bull. Money is a great reason to do anything.
Comparing the USA to Switzerland is retarded. We simply do not have the option of being neutral in international affair such as the Swiss are. A country of our size, power and influence just cannot abide such a policy. Has the pre World War II era taught you nothing?
That doesn't sound very appealing. Thats like working in a factory all day assembling cars then when you go home you somehow fabricate your own cars and then give them away.
So someone should go to school for 4 years and earn highly lucrative skills only to end up living a humble muscians lifestyle? Yeah THAT sounds appealing...
What gap? Do you think if you don't read x amount of books per month that there's some gap in your life? They're probably doing what everyone else is doing. Watching TV, having sex, going to work, hanging out, drinking, clubbin and otherwise living their lives. Who needs books?
In the future, should a colony of Earth choose to rebel then the United Earth Directorate U.E.D. will send its greatest soldier, Admiral Gerard DuGalle and his first officer, Vice Admiral Alexei Stukov of the U.E.D. Expiditionary Forces to quickly quell any insurgencies. Hopefully our brave men and women won't encounter any Protoss or Zerg interference.
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Oh for fucks sake, you're complaining about watches chiming on the hour now? Are you that much of a prick? And you call OTHERS self-centered?
So whats the criteria for deciding who's really important and who isn't?
What hospitals? No hospitals in Boston do.
Oh save your trendy US hate for your filthy Eurotrash friends. If you think the US is well connected you should see Singapore or Japan.
I still love you anyway my wayward European brother!
I'm glad you are happy with your Psion device. I am happy with my Palm based Kyocera Smartphone. It has increased my personal productivty to levels I have never seen before. My battles against the ever raging forces of Procrastination are finally winnable now. I am a new man. I will never forget what my PDA has done for me. GO PALM!
I have a Palm. You can install all of those same apps on a Palm or WindowsCE powered device.
I know you are serious and I don't mean to belittle you but its not that big of a deal for society at large, really. Whether someone uses Outlook Express or Eudora, IE or Mozilla, Windows or Linux, the world will survive regardless. None of this is going to matter diddly squat for their "children's future".
Maybe you could take a day's break away from the computer. Just hang out with some friends or go see a few movies, eat out, do something. But you're in way too deep in the whole "computer" thing.
So what kind of jobs are there that you can keep until retirement? And are they in any way better then minimum wage?
Provide evidence that everyone else made that assumption.
Where ever the broadband hogs go, tiered pricing will follow them. Do you think wireless and DSL providers are going to allow people to get away with the broadband abuse that the Cable companies would not tolerate? What makes you think DSL and wireless companies are going to want to eat the costs of all that broadband usage and basically lose money for you?
The more people who sign up for broadband, the more overal bandwidth is used. That means higher costs for the broadband companies. I don't know why you would think costs would come down as more people sign up. Feel free to stop being stupid at any time now.
$10 a month is $120 a year. The POOR in this country can afford that. HOMELESS people can afford that. What about folks who have Cable TV. Are they stupid too? Are you one of these useless "I don't have a TV or radio" fucks who's counter-culture just to be cool? What the hell is wrong with wanting sat radio in a big city? Clear Channel has pretty much subjugated the entire US. You NEED Sat radio just to hear something good and uninterrupted by commercials. (XM has very very very very few commercials, Sirius has none).
Um how would an XM-like service based on advertising revenue be any fucking different from current FM/AM today?
It all depends on what you want in life. If you're happy with little you don't need to make a lot.
Hey don't get mad at me. I'm not one of the people who chased after the CS dream. But you make it sound like anyone who majors in anything for the sake of money is somehow "bad". Thats bull. Money is a great reason to do anything.
Comparing the USA to Switzerland is retarded. We simply do not have the option of being neutral in international affair such as the Swiss are. A country of our size, power and influence just cannot abide such a policy. Has the pre World War II era taught you nothing?
That doesn't sound very appealing. Thats like working in a factory all day assembling cars then when you go home you somehow fabricate your own cars and then give them away.
So someone should go to school for 4 years and earn highly lucrative skills only to end up living a humble muscians lifestyle? Yeah THAT sounds appealing...
That has to be the best definition of envy I've seen in a long time.
Why should there be an overlap?
Why do people hate the rich? Is there something inherently evil about having a lot of money?
What gap? Do you think if you don't read x amount of books per month that there's some gap in your life? They're probably doing what everyone else is doing. Watching TV, having sex, going to work, hanging out, drinking, clubbin and otherwise living their lives. Who needs books?
In the future, should a colony of Earth choose to rebel then the United Earth Directorate U.E.D. will send its greatest soldier, Admiral Gerard DuGalle and his first officer, Vice Admiral Alexei Stukov of the U.E.D. Expiditionary Forces to quickly quell any insurgencies. Hopefully our brave men and women won't encounter any Protoss or Zerg interference.
You couldn't have bothered to think of asking someone already in the profession what it was like BEFORE you majored in it?
We've been thru a civil war before. The rebels lost. If there are any new rebels, they'll lose as well.