What good is a glut of information when the majority of the people don't have the brains to handle it???
Don't you think the phrase - "Not-For-Dummies" in the title of the book is there for a reason? As for the dummies - "The Information Revolution: for dummies" is in print as we speak...
I do think opening more schools would decrease the problem...
Yes, sounds like a simple idea. But there is a lot more required for a school to start. First of all you need quality teachers or in case of universities - professors. Then there is the issue of facilities - all require money. You can always say that opening more schools now can alleviate the shortage of teachers down the road, but what about now? If you have crappy or insufficient amount of professors, you are going to produce crappy graduates. And again there is the issue of paying your professors. If a person has PhD, s/he can get paid 10 times more if they teach in US or other industrialized nations. And in fact if you are that qualified, no country will say no to that brain power, especially US. Besides, in countries like China and India the competition is not just to get in to university but a particular field in the university for e.g IT related or medicine.
Finally, I think that there should be some competition. So the number of schools should be less (not too less as is case in developing countries) as far I am concerned, so that we can keep the bar high enough.
How long before some of these lawmakers start dying off from old age and natural causes
So at this point, you have basically given up. What ever happened to the America I used to know, which questioned and challenged every thing and fought for its rights? I sincerely do hope you are not in your 20s or younger. Because if you are, God really save America!
Funny, actually most of the world knows World Cup but not many know super bowl or world series. By the way you do realize that "world" in world series is a cruel joke right? oh well...
No sir, I think you don't understand what is being implied. Video games are fantasy. Period, no arguments about it. In fantasy, legality doesn't apply. I don't care how you wann try to spin it - being it morality or legility - fantasy is just that - fantasy. If you are afraid that your kid is getting the wrong education from video games, well don't buy him/her xbox and ps3. Impose all your morality on him/her, I can care less. But for the love of god, please stop bitchin that the other people are enjoying it.
I think there should be a law that says the minute that a government employee complains about his pay or his budget, he gets fired. Roll the money to someone else.
"...but if the tech is there and economical, the content will follow..."
I wonder how AT&T and Verizon will try to extort money for this to happen. Are they gonna track ITunes bittorrent traffic and charge Apple for it? If they can demand money from Google, Amazon etc for their content, which is incedentally less amount of data (per request probably megs at max) than a HD movie (gigs of data per request), I don't see why these cartels wouldn't eye Apple as their next target.
I like the way he talks about the liberating power of technology... so long as you don't want to discuss anything that the government doesn't agree with... or want to find out what happened in Tianamen square, or if you want to have unrestricted access to other webpages. But appart from that it does makes people completely free, free as a (caged) bird
Ok now let me change two words in your argument:
"I like the way he talks about the liberating power of technology... so long as you don't want to discuss anything that the government doesn't agree with... or want to find out what happened in Iraq, or if you want to have unrestricted access to other webpages. But appart from that it does makes people completely free, free as a (caged) bird"
Now tell me, are we talking about China or good 'ol USA?
If it is not, then let us make it OK! In this case particularly, he should not be alone. He definitely has balls to be a whistle blower (either that or he is an idiot to get himself in trouble). Regardless, if we leave him alone and let him fight this battle alone, Americans should be ashamed of themselves. You do realize that if this doesn't make news, eventually your vote really doesn't amount to any thing when every election is managed or upstaged by Diebold. This is not about following law any more and I don't believe you should be following law when it is designed to only screw you no matter what.
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Don't you think the phrase - "Not-For-Dummies" in the title of the book is there for a reason? As for the dummies - "The Information Revolution: for dummies" is in print as we speak...
Yes, sounds like a simple idea. But there is a lot more required for a school to start. First of all you need quality teachers or in case of universities - professors. Then there is the issue of facilities - all require money. You can always say that opening more schools now can alleviate the shortage of teachers down the road, but what about now? If you have crappy or insufficient amount of professors, you are going to produce crappy graduates. And again there is the issue of paying your professors. If a person has PhD, s/he can get paid 10 times more if they teach in US or other industrialized nations. And in fact if you are that qualified, no country will say no to that brain power, especially US. Besides, in countries like China and India the competition is not just to get in to university but a particular field in the university for e.g IT related or medicine.
Finally, I think that there should be some competition. So the number of schools should be less (not too less as is case in developing countries) as far I am concerned, so that we can keep the bar high enough.
So at this point, you have basically given up. What ever happened to the America I used to know, which questioned and challenged every thing and fought for its rights? I sincerely do hope you are not in your 20s or younger. Because if you are, God really save America!
You mean freeipod.com?
Funny, actually most of the world knows World Cup but not many know super bowl or world series. By the way you do realize that "world" in world series is a cruel joke right? oh well...
No sir, I think you don't understand what is being implied. Video games are fantasy. Period, no arguments about it. In fantasy, legality doesn't apply. I don't care how you wann try to spin it - being it morality or legility - fantasy is just that - fantasy. If you are afraid that your kid is getting the wrong education from video games, well don't buy him/her xbox and ps3. Impose all your morality on him/her, I can care less. But for the love of god, please stop bitchin that the other people are enjoying it.
In case if you still didn't get it, it's your job to keep that stuff away from your kid. And now stop getting in my way of blowing shit up.
Hi, I am Apu from India. Can I get that job?
at least now, can we electrocute those dumb idiots?
NOT TRUE. If it were, lot of men would be married to lot of women.
Actually, it makes perfect sense. Universities are full of foreigners ;)
I wonder how AT&T and Verizon will try to extort money for this to happen. Are they gonna track ITunes bittorrent traffic and charge Apple for it? If they can demand money from Google, Amazon etc for their content, which is incedentally less amount of data (per request probably megs at max) than a HD movie (gigs of data per request), I don't see why these cartels wouldn't eye Apple as their next target.
Its otherwise known as fantasy. Why would I want to pay 10 bucks to see ugly fat women in movies and games?
"I like the way he talks about the liberating power of technology... so long as you don't want to discuss anything that the government doesn't agree with... or want to find out what happened in Iraq, or if you want to have unrestricted access to other webpages. But appart from that it does makes people completely free, free as a (caged) bird"
Now tell me, are we talking about China or good 'ol USA?
I think you are full of shit, and the rest of the world needs to update its views about you, too...
How about a first post spam filters? May be we don't require law to make slashdot do this...or do we?
Isn't snort open source? What am I missing?
I dunno about you, but I really like to be within reach of my computer when I am playing...
I take it that you are not in to Chinese porn.
If it is not, then let us make it OK! In this case particularly, he should not be alone. He definitely has balls to be a whistle blower (either that or he is an idiot to get himself in trouble). Regardless, if we leave him alone and let him fight this battle alone, Americans should be ashamed of themselves. You do realize that if this doesn't make news, eventually your vote really doesn't amount to any thing when every election is managed or upstaged by Diebold. This is not about following law any more and I don't believe you should be following law when it is designed to only screw you no matter what.
Thats because US is not in EU. Otherwise, we'd have kicked your butt without breaking a sweat.
May be no one told you, this is slashdot not AOL's customer service forum!
outsource your job to them ;)
FP
Uh..to get the first post?
Screw them.
I think their mothers taught them that. That is why they are hell bent on screwing us