Ouch. Sounds like you burned out. Its not a critization, just an observation.
The point being is that I still love computers, but have really burned out on my IT job. Yeah its simple and a monkey or a very short script can do it and thats the problem. When its the samething day in and day out it can really get to you. So what did I do? I'm going back to school (was a college dropout before the economy went crash). To make a long story short (too late), I agree with all the people that say that happiness is more important than money. If all you have is money then your nothing more than a piece of paper backed by faith, and I've never been too big into the faith ideal.
Suck it up Anonymous Coward. We have to do something to keep from going anymore crazy then these times have made us. It might seem a bit barbaric, but destroying without the destruction is a better way to aviod snapping at least in my opinion.
I do hate to say this, but a travisty of this magnitute will have some positive outcomes. Weither it be search and resuce tech and procedure, building arcitecture, or just plain people looking over their shoulder, this was necessacary for humanity to experience even though it blows. Look at the Titanic. Because of that, regulations were created to make sea travel safe.
In short, I've listened to CSPAN all day
today and yesterday. Lots of talk of
war, getting retribution, but no analysis
of what part we have played in this story.
This is probably the best post I've read all day. When I went to class this morning I walked by a group of students. Yeah, I overslept and was late but what they were talking about caught my ear. As I stopped their conversation reached a point where they were talking about invading the middle east and just killing everyone. Not a one of them spoke against it. I want retribution as much as the next guy, but farcking have proof before you point a finger. Retaliation is nothing if its blind.
Nice. Now back up what you said with some good, hard facts. Believe none of what you hear and half of what you see has always been the best advise I've heard for any media.
The obvious mechanical response to violence is more violence... but violence doesn't solve violence - you don't have to be a rocket scientist to figure that out.
Your pure logic astounds me. If you look outside of the little shell you've built, you would realize that humans are more than logical beings. We have emotion that can modify our mindset. I do realize that emotion is 'flawed' by a logical standpoint, but your pure logic is flawed in its detachment from humanity. Have you EVER had to bury one of your friends, or even better your own family? I'm not talking some grandparent that you only see at Christmas but a sister or a parent. If you have, then you would have felt the empty pit that no matter what you do it can never be filled. Its that empty feeling that can lead to the 'eye for an eye' that makes us feel like that hole inside never existed. So you think that just because we, as a species, are advanced enough to realize that war is bad we won't do anything if a group of Neanderthals decide to take our food? Those flowers you're smelling aren't as sweet when you haven't been able to contact a relative all day because the lines are busy and the whole city is shutdown. Do you realize the repercussions if a strike back does not occur? What will the ramifications of that be? Will it be worth calling yourself an American if you ever decide to leave your sea to shining sea or will you be mocked by every other culture more so than we already are? We are still a young, almost childish, culture that uses its long arm like a spoiled child who doesn't want to play with the other children but still wants all the legos in the basket. Are we grown up enough to realize that killing ourselves is a bad thing? Not yet, but neither are most self-righteous cultures. The next step can ONLY occur when everyone decides to take that step together and if that means that some have to take a few steps back, then so be it. You don't have to agree with the idea of it, just think with that flawed logic of yours for a minute. Being human means accepting everything that is human and then working with it. So it didn't happen to you and you offer advice without ever experiencing more than sitting in front of your computer reading about it and watching the footage. It doesn't take a genius of your caliber to realize that the situation is horrible. I would bet that even a child could realize that it was a low-down dirty thing to do. Did you stop to think how a person can feel not knowing if a friend or a relative is alive or dead and probably won't know for some time? This is a brave new world to live in, and we'll probably destroy ourselves tomorrow. This doesn't mean I like it, but I refuse to live in fear. I refuse to look over my shoulder and worry. Fear can be worse than death. But then that is the point of terrorism. One day I do hope that we can put aside our differences. Yesterday that day was close. Today it's a distance sight. We'll probably never find out exactly who did it, but we need that peace of mind as a culture so that we may evolve. We learned a valuable costly lesson, but we learned it.
You might consider this a flame, but you also might deserve it for being flawed in your own right.
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The point being is that I still love computers, but have really burned out on my IT job. Yeah its simple and a monkey or a very short script can do it and thats the problem. When its the samething day in and day out it can really get to you. So what did I do? I'm going back to school (was a college dropout before the economy went crash). To make a long story short (too late), I agree with all the people that say that happiness is more important than money. If all you have is money then your nothing more than a piece of paper backed by faith, and I've never been too big into the faith ideal.
Suck it up Anonymous Coward. We have to do something to keep from going anymore crazy then these times have made us. It might seem a bit barbaric, but destroying without the destruction is a better way to aviod snapping at least in my opinion.
I do hate to say this, but a travisty of this magnitute will have some positive outcomes. Weither it be search and resuce tech and procedure, building arcitecture, or just plain people looking over their shoulder, this was necessacary for humanity to experience even though it blows. Look at the Titanic. Because of that, regulations were created to make sea travel safe.
This is probably the best post I've read all day. When I went to class this morning I walked by a group of students. Yeah, I overslept and was late but what they were talking about caught my ear. As I stopped their conversation reached a point where they were talking about invading the middle east and just killing everyone. Not a one of them spoke against it. I want retribution as much as the next guy, but farcking have proof before you point a finger. Retaliation is nothing if its blind.
Nice. Now back up what you said with some good, hard facts. Believe none of what you hear and half of what you see has always been the best advise I've heard for any media.
You might consider this a flame, but you also might deserve it for being flawed in your own right.