I don't know much about the problem but I do know that a buddy of mine who works as an installer supervisor for Comcast in Minneapolis said that his company is very actively trying to take out the attempted city-wide WiFi in Minneapolis. It's simple dollars for them.
(Almost) No one needs landline phone service any more. Lots of people like cable TV (and in Minneapolis there's not much else for choice) but I feel that there's a growing segment of the population that feels they need TV less than they need internet. How many customers (and dollars) would Comcast lose if people could get "free" and easy to access internet from elsewhere?
Yes, that's a nice, cute story. But, the point of my post was not the differences between "types" of deaths, but that there are things that have been worse than natural death in the numbers department. Thankfully they do not happen often, but wouldn't you agree that if something started killing 150-200 million people every year that we should probably have it looked at? If other diseases hadn't been looked at and cured in the past (and in ongoing research) who knows how many more deaths would happen every year?
From your post it seems that you think I have a cold eye on this situation, most likely because I threw out some statitics myself, but I was just re-iterating their statistics in a different form for people to look at and think about differently.
As I said, luckily those catastrophes do not happen often, and we are also lucky that there are many scientists out there right now researching the causes and "cures" to the aging process.
Besides, much current research shows that simple changes in lifestyle can and would extend every humans' life. But, it doesn't seem that people care enough to change themselves--like much else they would rather have a quick. easy fix to the problem. In this case supplied by the government or some pharmacuetical company.
Sure, the numbers are horrifying, but there are way more people *living* nowadays than ever before as well.
Calling natural deaths a "human holocaust" or "greatest catastrophe humankind has ever faced" is a little misleading. To say that losing less than 1% of the population of the world to natural death is worse than losing over 3% of the total population every year to the Black Death (not to mention all of the people dying natural deaths as well) seems a little off. Same thing with the Great Indian Plague, to have 3% of the world die completely unexpectedly seems a little more horrific.
After seeing the stats and reading the claims it was kind of hard to take the rest of the article seriously.
the few hours spent enjoying any of these activites are very nice indeed. but they pale to the amount of time needed (30-40 hours) to finish a huge RPG.
that is the authors point, I believe. even a 3 hour epic movie is a short, sharp chunk compared to most video games.
Why does George think he's the only one that can write/direct? Hopefully he has someone else, even more qualified that Mr. Spielberg, in mind for directing Ep3. Though I'm sure he'll do it himself. Is he the only one in the world who didn't notice how much better the ones where he had others write and direct were?
Alas, even if he writes every piece of crappy dialogue and directs every cheesy block for the actors, I know I'll go see it opening week.
Here in Bozeman, MT (and I assume in many other cities) Hastings has a surprisingly good selection of anime--much better than any Blockbuster I've been in, in both DVD and VHS.
It's where I found out about Trigun and where I finally got to start watching Cowboy Bebop.
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Some people seem to care about what this one says because he has said some things against capitalism.
Why is this a thing? Why must we dumb down everything?
Because Steve Jobs proved you could make a lot of money doing it.
I don't know much about the problem but I do know that a buddy of mine who works as an installer supervisor for Comcast in Minneapolis said that his company is very actively trying to take out the attempted city-wide WiFi in Minneapolis. It's simple dollars for them. (Almost) No one needs landline phone service any more. Lots of people like cable TV (and in Minneapolis there's not much else for choice) but I feel that there's a growing segment of the population that feels they need TV less than they need internet. How many customers (and dollars) would Comcast lose if people could get "free" and easy to access internet from elsewhere?
Dupe, dupe, dupe. We all know, but I find it interesting the Taco predicted this dupe by the dept. he put the story in.
Microsoft had public good will?
From your post it seems that you think I have a cold eye on this situation, most likely because I threw out some statitics myself, but I was just re-iterating their statistics in a different form for people to look at and think about differently.
As I said, luckily those catastrophes do not happen often, and we are also lucky that there are many scientists out there right now researching the causes and "cures" to the aging process.
Besides, much current research shows that simple changes in lifestyle can and would extend every humans' life. But, it doesn't seem that people care enough to change themselves--like much else they would rather have a quick. easy fix to the problem. In this case supplied by the government or some pharmacuetical company.
Calling natural deaths a "human holocaust" or "greatest catastrophe humankind has ever faced" is a little misleading. To say that losing less than 1% of the population of the world to natural death is worse than losing over 3% of the total population every year to the Black Death (not to mention all of the people dying natural deaths as well) seems a little off. Same thing with the Great Indian Plague, to have 3% of the world die completely unexpectedly seems a little more horrific.
After seeing the stats and reading the claims it was kind of hard to take the rest of the article seriously.
the few hours spent enjoying any of these activites are very nice indeed. but they pale to the amount of time needed (30-40 hours) to finish a huge RPG.
that is the authors point, I believe. even a 3 hour epic movie is a short, sharp chunk compared to most video games.
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Why does George think he's the only one that can write/direct? Hopefully he has someone else, even more qualified that Mr. Spielberg, in mind for directing Ep3. Though I'm sure he'll do it himself. Is he the only one in the world who didn't notice how much better the ones where he had others write and direct were? Alas, even if he writes every piece of crappy dialogue and directs every cheesy block for the actors, I know I'll go see it opening week.
Here in Bozeman, MT (and I assume in many other cities) Hastings has a surprisingly good selection of anime--much better than any Blockbuster I've been in, in both DVD and VHS. It's where I found out about Trigun and where I finally got to start watching Cowboy Bebop.