Broadcasting is too powerful for revenue to be its only purpose, although that is an obvious goal. It would appear that they've hit the jackpot with the funny news format.
And yes, I don't know anything about Carl Monday, but the Crossfire spectacle was excellent... a bowtie wearing dick. It's priceless stuff, but how many people walked away with a burning sensation that the media (the mainline to government) is a facade vs. those who's stress was merely reduced from (somewhat justifiable) laughter?
It's possible to make people laugh at situations, decisions and individuals that cause failing economies, crumbling infrastructure, bigotry, hate and death... but should they?
Should you laugh, or should you recognize the gravity of their topics?
I've considered the idea that serious and polished news casts have outlived their usefulness as propaganda vehicles... the populace was catching up with the MSM's omissions and lies too quickly due to improvements in our communication tools.
The obsolete methods have to be replaced by a more effective system, i.e. rather than omitting and lying, the truth could be told so long as it is presented as a joke. Jokes are funny, disarming and harmless. Jokes do not require action by the audience. This "funny news" used to be covered by the late night shows, but it isn't their focus and they had no credibility or expectation towards accuracy. So now we have full-time funny truth tellers who cause us to sit laughing hysterically in our comfortable hand basket on its way to hell. I guess that's better than being glassy eyed and bored on the way.
And sure, it's hard to imagine Jon and Steve as scheming assholes. They seem to be good guys who are good at what they do... but maybe they aren't aware of what they're doing. Maybe they're allowed to do what they like to do by someone with ulterior motives. I expect this funny news to become more wide spread.
I wouldn't hope that anyone stop watching, but at least pay attention to what you laugh at - it may not be funny in the next year or day.
I would've guessed that wildlife would've been their last worry. I didn't read the article, but did they mention how a space elevator would WICK THE EARTH'S ATMOSPHERE INTO OUTER SPACE! First person to try and build one of these things is gonna get a swift kick straight to the nuts, so help me...
Supposedly, Firefinder can detect smaller arms fire even though it was designed (30+ years ago) for heavy artillery. However, mouting a piece of equipment the size of a large moving van on a street post my pose a challenge.
Has there been any documented cased of CCTV system abuse in the UK?
If I remember correctly it was only a few months or a year before the US PATRIOT act was used to bust an illegal gambling operation. Gabling=terroism? Common!
None the less, I still think that if CCTVs are installed in public places (not so-much private establishments) that the public should have direct access to the streams and archives... it works along the same lines as the second ammendment of the us constitution where the citizens are equally armed as the government to prevent power abuse (however, I don't think the founders had envisioned nuclear arms).
DNA is a messy thing - it gets all over. Finger prints create quite a bit of litter themselves. So far, these two methods are the prevailing method of identification.
But I wonder - would you mind if identification was verified via retinal scans? If you're doing something in a legally "grey" area you're libale to leave DNA and finger prints all over. However, retinal evidence would be non existant unless the "criminal" was completely ignorant and stuck his eye in a camera (or if technology vastly improves). It's nearly impossible to track.
See, with retinal scans privacy could be [mostly] preserved while identification for employment and government services would be possible and [mostly] secure.
I'd opt for anarchy myself but I see you sissies aren't up for that;)
I should imagine that the reason so many americans are unhealthy is that they are told, repeatedly, by "official" sources, that they are sick.
If I lived in a hazy black and white world where colors might become unnaturally saturated, bright and vivid by taking a pill I might go get some. "If you think you might have any of these symptoms go see your doctor and ask about x... NOW!"
If you go to the doctor enough they will find something wrong with you and they will do something to cure it because you don't have to pay for it and therefore have no incentive to question their judgment. [Many] Doctors have become used car salesmen in white coats with fat wallets (remember Stanly Milgrams "Obedience to Authority"). It's no wonder that a doctors strike in Israel a few years ago caused havoc in the mortuary business after the strike had caused the mortality rate to drop fifty percent... would probably drop seventy-five percent in the states.
I wonder how many americans are sick compared to how many americans are actually sick.
Wow - if you think about it, this isn't a clockless design, it's a mutliclock design! Millions of them! If each stage has a latch output and the time taken to process a given amount of data is consistent then each stage of the process is a stopwatch of itself. That could get confusing... glad someone else is taking care of it.
What an arbitrary number, but maybe that's the point. Maybe the number doesn't mean anything - it's just a symbol attached to an apopolyptic story.
I spend my days working as an electronics technician, a job that will have you spend many hours in front of digital readouts with numbers fluctuating adnauseum. Some years ago my job entailed calibrating pneumatic transducers that converted voltage, current, or pulse width modulated signals to an output of specific pneumatic pressure. The process of watching a gauge quickly transition from 15.00 to 0.00 PSI and back left quite a few instances where I caught the ominous 6.66 on the readout as the value passed by. The volt meters did it. Power meters do it. If we had metric time, clocks would do it too.
I wondered if 666 supposed devoid of any meaning. Maybe some clever writer just decided to throw out any old number realizing that when every single person, object, and action had a number or worth assigned to it that the occurrence of that "magic number" would appear more often. As the number appeared more readily, "the fear" is instilled in the populace at an increasing rate. Eventually people would be driven nuts thereby killing each other in a panicked frenzy.
Tell me why women wear makeup and shave their legs. Bare legs and rosy cheeks are a sign of... hmm, pre-pubescence? So, please do continue, you filthy pedophile (or propagator thereof).
If, by nature, men are nothing but glorified seed spreaders then wouldn't it stand to reason that they would "naturally" seek the most fertile medium, especially if their natural impulses were suppressed during their most active days. Hmm?
Honestly, I don't know it all, but I can say without a doubt that there are some repulsive tendencies in society, legally and religiously sanctioned or not.
Really? Seems to me that a search engine's job is to provide relevant results. Every time you type Tiananmen I'm sure you're thinking massacre, but what about the people who live there?
"Honey, let's go to the Tiananmen massacre square and watch the big new year ceremony."
Yeah, I didn't think they'd say it that way either so why should they have to type it into a search engine that way?
1. When the Chinese search for "Tiananmen" they're probably looking for a laundromat, a restaurant or hotel and might actually be pissed that they can't find one because "Tiananmen" is followed by "Massacre" in the 1st 1000 hits of a search engine. Did you ever think of that? Maybe they have to live over there.
2. Some information is better than no information. Give the Chinese some credit - they're smart enough to read between the lines.
3. Google moved there to give the Chinese faster service - maybe, just maybe it will prove fast enough to outrun the censors.
4. BTW, did these protestors ever think to ask the Chinese people what they thought about Google, or are they using the GWB method of democracy where the results are only valid so long as they follow your own agenda?
5. The US used boycotts in Iraq and while Saddam and friends were never missed a meal it was the people that suffered. Did you not notice that?
6. At the end of the day, my thoughts are summed up as mostly against the insidious nature of US politics and culture. Seems like every hour produces another opportunity to say, "WTF is wrong with these politicians" and, "when are the people going to get off of their dead asses and do something about it all." This whole Google ordeal is not one of those instances. In fact, it's quite the opposite. Oh, and thanks for blemishing what would otherwise be an admirable move by the US.
People make mistakes all the time, but it seems nowdays we blame the law or organization for the actions of a few.
What sort of training do these "officials" receive? Are they just dropped into the position with instructions to get "bad" people?
Aren't hiring practices tight enough to keep the riff-raff out?
Do you need a security clearance for homeland a "security" position?
Are like-minded cronies being hired into positions?
Are laws and organizations in-line with the core principals of the United States Government?
People might be less inclined to blame the law or organization if those entities didn't provide so many blazing examples for abuse of power.
I think someone once called it "eternal vigilance." Of course, if he were alive today he'd be sitting in gitmo.
If the purpose of your murder is to incite fear and terror in all gay people, then yes.
If the purpose of your punishment for murder is to incite fear and terror in all people who might concider murdering someone, then no. Murder is murder and I'll be damned if I can remember the last time someone was mudered out of love... and no, you're thinking of mercy killing (can't watch him/her suffer), manslaughter (oops! sorry.), or jealousy (you fuckin' my woman?). Did I miss any?
A camera that shoots constantly while saving the data to a 60 second cirrcular buffer. I say constantly, but that'd obviously have to be disabled for battery life. User points the camera in the right direction then flips through the memory to find the best pose, lighting etc. Sure, not great for flash lighting but...
Although you've perked an interesting idea there, the top of my wish list contains a GPS enabled camera that stamps each photo with date, time and location. Maybe even voice recognition for tagging. I hate getting home to find image001, image002, image003... Ever seen a camera like that?
Oh, and while were on the subject have a thought at this: A camera with a built in gyroscope or accelerometer. Its purpose is to convert the shaking from the users hand into higher resolution! See, for every pair of photo pixels there are a shitload of world pixels lying between that never get captured. However, if the camera knew what direction the user was shaking it could decide when the camera's pixels were pointing at the unrecorded world pixel and save them. See below: "O" is a camera pixel, "." is a world pixel. The first line is the initial exposure while the second line is the same scan line.001 second after initial where the users hand has moved.
According to the "download from the Windows Update site" link, Microsoft doesn't want me to update:
"To use this site, you must be running Microsoft Internet Explorer 5 or later.
To upgrade to the latest version of the browser, go to the Internet Explorer Downloads website."
Truth is, Hollywood doesn't have much to do with the DMCA laws. Same for the RIAA. Sure, they go along with the act because as they say, any publicity is good publicity. If you really want to know the source of these laws look towards the hardware manufacturers and the cabal of smarmy engineers behind them.
Phase 1: The hardware mfrs know that if a DMCA scare is circulated in the press the public will swarm the market to buy the latest technology void of impending DMCA hardware restrictions. It moves product.
Phase 2: When (if) DMCA is incorporated into electronic products it will increase the cost of those products. Price, being a derivative of cost, will be affected in the positive direction.
I'd like to tell you my source, but if I did I couldn't bring you these rumors in the future.
If you have the ability to create studio quality versions of published music, why waste your time on that when you can write your own music?
Publishers have sapped a large chunk of enjoyment from commercial works. Rather than a question of how good a song is you have to wonder how legal it is to posess it, or what kind of spyware they're dropping on your drive. You have to wonder how badly the original artist is getting screwed.
Or you can take your mad MIDI skillz and roll your own. It'll kill more time than browsing so-and-so's latest catalog, take money from the RIAA's clutches and ultimately, if done correctly and widely, force musicians to seek better means of distribution.
Entertain yourself. Self sufficiency is a noble cause.
Hang your head some more. Your post is as far as I'm reading in this thread. Up to this point, I've seen nothing but explanations of the situation and bitching about it. Sure, the explanations are good and necessary and the bitching expected, but for fuck sakes, when someone opens the door to the "well, let's solve it then" conversation the only thing an american (de-capitalized with intent) can think to do is nit-pick spelling. Moreover, if you had spell checked your comment I'm sure it would've veered off into the bush/clinton (see previous capitalization rules) bullshit rhetoric.
The same thing is expected for any other topic of reasonable concern.
Just to stay on topic here's.001% of my solution: Disassociate from your generation's counterpart. Sever ties. Although it may be passé to beat your child as an individual it's in vogue to beat the younger generation as a society. Notice how age discrimination laws are a one-way street that favor older people (e.g. try to become president before age thirty-five). The older generations, generally being frail, reluctant to change and timid of youth has one goliath on their side... networking skills or at least establishment of a grand social network. This manifests itself as government and corporation. This goliath, conscious or not, exists to protect the aged from the strength of youth and the uncertainty of change. While this protection is a desirable trait in nature, considering the benefits of aged wisdom, the pendulum has swung too far in favor of agedness. You might think competition exists between businesses or governments since that is how it's been described, but the truth is that the competition is between generations. Governments govern too much and corporations cooperate too little in order to keep youthful strength in disarray. The result is lack of opportunity and growth for all generations involved. In actuality, all generations rely on each other: the old for their wisdom, the young for their pliability and the middle aged to bridge the two with many layers between. What the country and world need now is fasts against their anti-generation in order to realize the bounty reaped from their cooperation... you have to be pricked in order to smell the rose.
For your consumption, have a look at the population age distribution. Those numbers are for the world - the US in 2000 resembles that of the "developed nation" but with a flatter area and lower count from age 0 to 35 with a massive bulge around 45 to 65. The bulge was a major force in bringing us the ability to write and read this as we are now. Unfortunately, that bulge has the characteristics of the goliath protecting the aged. Realizing the strength in numbers, power in wisdom and age of society you may reach my conclusion: the aged have become too powerful.
You've probably heard the insinuation that the youth are getting worse with every generation, hips gyrated by the rock and roll, drug induced stupors, violent video games and school shootings. They're pushing back. With every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. They are getting worse. Can you imagine a time when the general trend and perception is that the youth are getting better with each generation?
There will be a day when government of growth by human limits is replaced by the Encouragement of growth right up against natures limits. The corporations will be replaced by Cooperations. In addition, yes you myopic cretins, we or those after us will live in utopia whether you want to or not.
Seems a bit radical of a solution to fix a broadband problem, doesn't it? The alternative is to slap a band-aid on the problem at hand while the ailing foundation continues to crumble; threatening to swallow the band-aid and everything it holds together.
By the way, the disassociation I write about doesn't necessarily have to be bloody or violent but, just so you know, it's usually known by its native term: revolution.
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Broadcasting is too powerful for revenue to be its only purpose, although that is an obvious goal. It would appear that they've hit the jackpot with the funny news format.
And yes, I don't know anything about Carl Monday, but the Crossfire spectacle was excellent... a bowtie wearing dick. It's priceless stuff, but how many people walked away with a burning sensation that the media (the mainline to government) is a facade vs. those who's stress was merely reduced from (somewhat justifiable) laughter?
Keep those asshole accountable
Sure, I laugh with them, but should I?
It's possible to make people laugh at situations, decisions and individuals that cause failing economies, crumbling infrastructure, bigotry, hate and death... but should they?
Should you laugh, or should you recognize the gravity of their topics?
I've considered the idea that serious and polished news casts have outlived their usefulness as propaganda vehicles... the populace was catching up with the MSM's omissions and lies too quickly due to improvements in our communication tools.
The obsolete methods have to be replaced by a more effective system, i.e. rather than omitting and lying, the truth could be told so long as it is presented as a joke. Jokes are funny, disarming and harmless. Jokes do not require action by the audience. This "funny news" used to be covered by the late night shows, but it isn't their focus and they had no credibility or expectation towards accuracy. So now we have full-time funny truth tellers who cause us to sit laughing hysterically in our comfortable hand basket on its way to hell. I guess that's better than being glassy eyed and bored on the way.
And sure, it's hard to imagine Jon and Steve as scheming assholes. They seem to be good guys who are good at what they do... but maybe they aren't aware of what they're doing. Maybe they're allowed to do what they like to do by someone with ulterior motives. I expect this funny news to become more wide spread.
I wouldn't hope that anyone stop watching, but at least pay attention to what you laugh at - it may not be funny in the next year or day.
This is a testament to that "Constitution" people talk so favorably about...
If it's so great, why does it allow bullshit like this?
I would've guessed that wildlife would've been their last worry. I didn't read the article, but did they mention how a space elevator would WICK THE EARTH'S ATMOSPHERE INTO OUTER SPACE! First person to try and build one of these things is gonna get a swift kick straight to the nuts, so help me...
Supposedly, Firefinder can detect smaller arms fire even though it was designed (30+ years ago) for heavy artillery. However, mouting a piece of equipment the size of a large moving van on a street post my pose a challenge.
Has there been any documented cased of CCTV system abuse in the UK?
If I remember correctly it was only a few months or a year before the US PATRIOT act was used to bust an illegal gambling operation. Gabling=terroism? Common!
None the less, I still think that if CCTVs are installed in public places (not so-much private establishments) that the public should have direct access to the streams and archives... it works along the same lines as the second ammendment of the us constitution where the citizens are equally armed as the government to prevent power abuse (however, I don't think the founders had envisioned nuclear arms).
DNA is a messy thing - it gets all over. Finger prints create quite a bit of litter themselves. So far, these two methods are the prevailing method of identification.
;)
But I wonder - would you mind if identification was verified via retinal scans? If you're doing something in a legally "grey" area you're libale to leave DNA and finger prints all over. However, retinal evidence would be non existant unless the "criminal" was completely ignorant and stuck his eye in a camera (or if technology vastly improves). It's nearly impossible to track.
See, with retinal scans privacy could be [mostly] preserved while identification for employment and government services would be possible and [mostly] secure.
I'd opt for anarchy myself but I see you sissies aren't up for that
I should imagine that the reason so many americans are unhealthy is that they are told, repeatedly, by "official" sources, that they are sick.
If I lived in a hazy black and white world where colors might become unnaturally saturated, bright and vivid by taking a pill I might go get some. "If you think you might have any of these symptoms go see your doctor and ask about x... NOW!"
If you go to the doctor enough they will find something wrong with you and they will do something to cure it because you don't have to pay for it and therefore have no incentive to question their judgment. [Many] Doctors have become used car salesmen in white coats with fat wallets (remember Stanly Milgrams "Obedience to Authority"). It's no wonder that a doctors strike in Israel a few years ago caused havoc in the mortuary business after the strike had caused the mortality rate to drop fifty percent... would probably drop seventy-five percent in the states.
I wonder how many americans are sick compared to how many americans are actually sick.
I have the sudden urge for a cup of tea?
Wow - if you think about it, this isn't a clockless design, it's a mutliclock design! Millions of them! If each stage has a latch output and the time taken to process a given amount of data is consistent then each stage of the process is a stopwatch of itself. That could get confusing... glad someone else is taking care of it.
Animations are better... a wobble yoke in action.
What an arbitrary number, but maybe that's the point. Maybe the number doesn't mean anything - it's just a symbol attached to an apopolyptic story.
I spend my days working as an electronics technician, a job that will have you spend many hours in front of digital readouts with numbers fluctuating adnauseum. Some years ago my job entailed calibrating pneumatic transducers that converted voltage, current, or pulse width modulated signals to an output of specific pneumatic pressure. The process of watching a gauge quickly transition from 15.00 to 0.00 PSI and back left quite a few instances where I caught the ominous 6.66 on the readout as the value passed by. The volt meters did it. Power meters do it. If we had metric time, clocks would do it too.
I wondered if 666 supposed devoid of any meaning. Maybe some clever writer just decided to throw out any old number realizing that when every single person, object, and action had a number or worth assigned to it that the occurrence of that "magic number" would appear more often. As the number appeared more readily, "the fear" is instilled in the populace at an increasing rate. Eventually people would be driven nuts thereby killing each other in a panicked frenzy.
I hope that's not the case, but who knows...
Tell me why women wear makeup and shave their legs. Bare legs and rosy cheeks are a sign of... hmm, pre-pubescence? So, please do continue, you filthy pedophile (or propagator thereof).
If, by nature, men are nothing but glorified seed spreaders then wouldn't it stand to reason that they would "naturally" seek the most fertile medium, especially if their natural impulses were suppressed during their most active days. Hmm?
Honestly, I don't know it all, but I can say without a doubt that there are some repulsive tendencies in society, legally and religiously sanctioned or not.
I want my fucking foreskin back!
Really? Seems to me that a search engine's job is to provide relevant results. Every time you type Tiananmen I'm sure you're thinking massacre, but what about the people who live there?
"Honey, let's go to the Tiananmen massacre square and watch the big new year ceremony."
Yeah, I didn't think they'd say it that way either so why should they have to type it into a search engine that way?
www.Google.cn with "Tiananmen massacre"
Has it occurred to any of these "people"* that:
1. When the Chinese search for "Tiananmen" they're probably looking for a laundromat, a restaurant or hotel and might actually be pissed that they can't find one because "Tiananmen" is followed by "Massacre" in the 1st 1000 hits of a search engine. Did you ever think of that? Maybe they have to live over there.
2. Some information is better than no information. Give the Chinese some credit - they're smart enough to read between the lines.
3. Google moved there to give the Chinese faster service - maybe, just maybe it will prove fast enough to outrun the censors.
4. BTW, did these protestors ever think to ask the Chinese people what they thought about Google, or are they using the GWB method of democracy where the results are only valid so long as they follow your own agenda?
5. The US used boycotts in Iraq and while Saddam and friends were never missed a meal it was the people that suffered. Did you not notice that?
6. At the end of the day, my thoughts are summed up as mostly against the insidious nature of US politics and culture. Seems like every hour produces another opportunity to say, "WTF is wrong with these politicians" and, "when are the people going to get off of their dead asses and do something about it all." This whole Google ordeal is not one of those instances. In fact, it's quite the opposite. Oh, and thanks for blemishing what would otherwise be an admirable move by the US.
*Just gotta love the stupidity of mob mentality.
People make mistakes all the time, but it seems nowdays we blame the law or organization for the actions of a few.
What sort of training do these "officials" receive? Are they just dropped into the position with instructions to get "bad" people?
Aren't hiring practices tight enough to keep the riff-raff out?
Do you need a security clearance for homeland a "security" position?
Are like-minded cronies being hired into positions?
Are laws and organizations in-line with the core principals of the United States Government?
People might be less inclined to blame the law or organization if those entities didn't provide so many blazing examples for abuse of power.
I think someone once called it "eternal vigilance." Of course, if he were alive today he'd be sitting in gitmo.
lesser of two evils, etc.
These situations will not improve until people learn to count higher than two.
If the purpose of your murder is to incite fear and terror in all gay people, then yes.
If the purpose of your punishment for murder is to incite fear and terror in all people who might concider murdering someone, then no. Murder is murder and I'll be damned if I can remember the last time someone was mudered out of love... and no, you're thinking of mercy killing (can't watch him/her suffer), manslaughter (oops! sorry.), or jealousy (you fuckin' my woman?). Did I miss any?
A camera that shoots constantly while saving the data to a 60 second cirrcular buffer. I say constantly, but that'd obviously have to be disabled for battery life. User points the camera in the right direction then flips through the memory to find the best pose, lighting etc. Sure, not great for flash lighting but...
.001 second after initial where the users hand has moved.
...o......o......o......o......o
Although you've perked an interesting idea there, the top of my wish list contains a GPS enabled camera that stamps each photo with date, time and location. Maybe even voice recognition for tagging. I hate getting home to find image001, image002, image003... Ever seen a camera like that?
Oh, and while were on the subject have a thought at this: A camera with a built in gyroscope or accelerometer. Its purpose is to convert the shaking from the users hand into higher resolution! See, for every pair of photo pixels there are a shitload of world pixels lying between that never get captured. However, if the camera knew what direction the user was shaking it could decide when the camera's pixels were pointing at the unrecorded world pixel and save them. See below: "O" is a camera pixel, "." is a world pixel. The first line is the initial exposure while the second line is the same scan line
o......o......o......o......o
According to the "download from the Windows Update site" link, Microsoft doesn't want me to update:
"To use this site, you must be running Microsoft Internet Explorer 5 or later.
To upgrade to the latest version of the browser, go to the Internet Explorer Downloads website."
I guess Firefox isn't good enough.
I think you're referring to a Bitter magnet. There's a video of it and the frog at that link. Check out the rest of the site too.
Truth is, Hollywood doesn't have much to do with the DMCA laws. Same for the RIAA. Sure, they go along with the act because as they say, any publicity is good publicity. If you really want to know the source of these laws look towards the hardware manufacturers and the cabal of smarmy engineers behind them.
Phase 1: The hardware mfrs know that if a DMCA scare is circulated in the press the public will swarm the market to buy the latest technology void of impending DMCA hardware restrictions. It moves product.
Phase 2: When (if) DMCA is incorporated into electronic products it will increase the cost of those products. Price, being a derivative of cost, will be affected in the positive direction.
I'd like to tell you my source, but if I did I couldn't bring you these rumors in the future.
If you have the ability to create studio quality versions of published music, why waste your time on that when you can write your own music?
Publishers have sapped a large chunk of enjoyment from commercial works. Rather than a question of how good a song is you have to wonder how legal it is to posess it, or what kind of spyware they're dropping on your drive. You have to wonder how badly the original artist is getting screwed.
Or you can take your mad MIDI skillz and roll your own. It'll kill more time than browsing so-and-so's latest catalog, take money from the RIAA's clutches and ultimately, if done correctly and widely, force musicians to seek better means of distribution.
Entertain yourself. Self sufficiency is a noble cause.
Hang your head some more. Your post is as far as I'm reading in this thread. Up to this point, I've seen nothing but explanations of the situation and bitching about it. Sure, the explanations are good and necessary and the bitching expected, but for fuck sakes, when someone opens the door to the "well, let's solve it then" conversation the only thing an american (de-capitalized with intent) can think to do is nit-pick spelling. Moreover, if you had spell checked your comment I'm sure it would've veered off into the bush/clinton (see previous capitalization rules) bullshit rhetoric.
.001% of my solution: Disassociate from your generation's counterpart. Sever ties. Although it may be passé to beat your child as an individual it's in vogue to beat the younger generation as a society. Notice how age discrimination laws are a one-way street that favor older people (e.g. try to become president before age thirty-five). The older generations, generally being frail, reluctant to change and timid of youth has one goliath on their side... networking skills or at least establishment of a grand social network. This manifests itself as government and corporation. This goliath, conscious or not, exists to protect the aged from the strength of youth and the uncertainty of change. While this protection is a desirable trait in nature, considering the benefits of aged wisdom, the pendulum has swung too far in favor of agedness. You might think competition exists between businesses or governments since that is how it's been described, but the truth is that the competition is between generations. Governments govern too much and corporations cooperate too little in order to keep youthful strength in disarray. The result is lack of opportunity and growth for all generations involved. In actuality, all generations rely on each other: the old for their wisdom, the young for their pliability and the middle aged to bridge the two with many layers between. What the country and world need now is fasts against their anti-generation in order to realize the bounty reaped from their cooperation... you have to be pricked in order to smell the rose.
The same thing is expected for any other topic of reasonable concern.
Just to stay on topic here's
For your consumption, have a look at the population age distribution. Those numbers are for the world - the US in 2000 resembles that of the "developed nation" but with a flatter area and lower count from age 0 to 35 with a massive bulge around 45 to 65. The bulge was a major force in bringing us the ability to write and read this as we are now. Unfortunately, that bulge has the characteristics of the goliath protecting the aged. Realizing the strength in numbers, power in wisdom and age of society you may reach my conclusion: the aged have become too powerful.
You've probably heard the insinuation that the youth are getting worse with every generation, hips gyrated by the rock and roll, drug induced stupors, violent video games and school shootings. They're pushing back. With every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. They are getting worse. Can you imagine a time when the general trend and perception is that the youth are getting better with each generation?
There will be a day when government of growth by human limits is replaced by the Encouragement of growth right up against natures limits. The corporations will be replaced by Cooperations. In addition, yes you myopic cretins, we or those after us will live in utopia whether you want to or not.
Seems a bit radical of a solution to fix a broadband problem, doesn't it? The alternative is to slap a band-aid on the problem at hand while the ailing foundation continues to crumble; threatening to swallow the band-aid and everything it holds together.
By the way, the disassociation I write about doesn't necessarily have to be bloody or violent but, just so you know, it's usually known by its native term: revolution.