It is impossible to teach history if you do not teach about religion. So yes, religion does have a place in school, but it's in history class - where it has pretty much been removed, sadly - not in science class.
Public schools and non-religion based private schools teach evolution. There can be questions and doubt, hopefully eased one way or the other with encouraged outside study, but like in all subjects no push-back is allowed. And like with all subjects the answers the test are what you have been told are the answers to the test, not necessarily what you believe to be the truth, and you will be graded based on your ability to remember what you have been told.
Religion-based schools teach creationism when that is what the particular religion believes. Homeschoolers can teach whichever they prefer. Parents can then choose which schooling is best for their family. If they don't agree with the curricula of a particular school, they can move their child to another school or another from of schooling.
And he also either can not deduce that he should use the internet or books to look it up, and so others must do it for him,. THAT would lead me to call him stupid.
Ever meet someone online? Me too, where are they now?
Well one of them, I'm married to. A few others I talk to daily, much more than I talk to my mother, who doesn't use the internet. Actually I can't think of a single non-related person that I met in real life first that I still talk to...
Starting at 15 and working for 62 years is still a longass time... though I suppose it wouldn't seem as bad if life were longer. But once you start focusing more than 20 minutes a day on it, you have to start looking at it in terms of life enjoyment worth rather than financial worth. Is it more enjoyable to spend 40 minutes a day at my job, or to spend 20 minutes a day exercising? But of course that will vary depending on how much each person likes their job, and if they get to leave 40 minutes early if they choose or if they would be working that 40 minutes anyway.
Oh, and the procedure would have to make you feel as good now as if you exercised daily to be worth it in terms of life enjoyment.
Single-room apartments are common in Japan. And though I have a multi-room house with computers in other rooms, my main computer and router are in the same room.
Guns are not dangerous. A gun that is never touched will never hurt anyone. People can use guns in dangerous ways, same as bittorrent. A person can used bittorrent to move bomb plans or etc. A person can use a gun to shoot someone.
You must sign up for a gun license; it doesn't mean you will buy or use a gun, just that you are able to. You must sign up for internet service; it doesn't mean you are going to get or use bittorrent, just that you are able to.
There are laws against using bittorrent illegally, there are laws against using guns illegally.
That's only CONFIRMED/TRACKED traffic, though. What about all the people that hide what they are downloading? I know plenty of people that use bittorrent only legally, but are paranoid and hide it...
Downloading games to try them out is a completely separate issue than watching shows without ads. If they put hard work into making a GOOD game, then after trying it you would probably buy it. If it is shitty and you didn't try it first, you got ripped off. Didn't you put just as much work into earning your money as they put into making the game? Would you still get paid at your job if you did your job shittily, or would you be told to do it again or maybe even get fired?
On a separate note, I use to be a huge pirate, but I pretty much stopped pirating shows once I got a roku along with netflix and crunchyroll, with Steam's free weekends my game piracy has plummeted greatly, and every since drm-free Japanese MP3s became available for purchase on Amazon I've stopped pirating music.
Except that most new authors' first books, assuming they write them in their spare time while doing another job, takes at least a couple of years to write, and I've been working on my trilogy (which had to be written in its entirety before the first book was published because of the complex relationship between the books) since 2001. I'm not done yet.
5 years from date of first publication would suffice (I would not say a book is created when you begin to write the first words, but let's just take that word out of the equation). When you finally do release book 1 you can release book 2 just after the copyright on 1 is up. Then you can release book 3 just as the copyright on 2 is up. Assuming the books are good enough to keep people coming back, you've got at least 15 years of income on that trilogy just from book selling, and an audience that wants more from you.
You're assuming that if people can get a book/story for free then the author will receive no money, and that just isn't true. If it were, public libraries would have put all authors out of business. Or book piracy would have. Or telling stories by mouth would have.
63 employable years?! Heck I started working at 12 and hope I don't work for 63 years. But anyway -
That would only be if the procedure takes less than 20 minutes. The reality of any procedure of even just prescription currently is that you must take a day off work or give up a day, pay the gas/bus fare/etc. to the doctor/hospital, sit in the waiting room for 20 minutes+, then have the procedure done or the doctor check you out, then pay the gas/bus fare/etc. to drive home and maybe to the drug store. So unless someone is driving to homes doing the procedure at no additional cost, the procedure can be done in less than 20 minutes, AND it cost enough less than $150000 to make up for the time it takes to do the procedure, it is more cost effective to exercise for 20 minutes. And then of course you'd have to have a time machine to ensure the procedure was an option by the time you needed it. How much does a time machine cost?
Well since I can go to the library and read it legally for free, and go to several sites I won't name and illegally get it digitally for free (and I could on THE DAY OF release if not sooner), and also the fact that WAY more of the general public knows about those unnamed sites than knows about Project Guttenburg; I very much doubt it being legally on Project Guttenburg 2 years after release would make much of a difference to Rowling's bank account.
The same reasons many bands enter into an abusive contracts with large record companies.
Well music is a bit different, because of the radio. With music, the radio is a big place to find out about new music, people usually only buy music after hearing and liking it, and you pretty much can't get on the radio without signing with a large record company. With books the big places are Amazon and barnesandnobile.com; and with those, a self-published book can be right along side a book by a big publisher, and there's equal chance for a potential customer to discover them.
With music there's also the RIAA's mafia-esque and monopoly-esque tactics, but those are failing, and would fail much faster if copyright only lasted 5 years. You're combining the real world with the imagined world, though.
I was meaning economically and socially. Okay I self publish a novel. How do I get word out? Same way as I get word of a blog out. Spread it amongst my friends. Try and link to it in relevant forums. Rely on the website I published it through to publicise it however they do that.
So what you meant to say is that novel marketing becomes like blog marketing, not writing. But even then. you're totally wrong. That's not really how you do it with a novel, and if you're talking about professional/career (i.e. money-making) blogging, then that's not even the correct way to do it with blogging. That's how you would spread around a personal blog, but you're not going to make much - if any - money that way.
Now if you can get self publish to work without publicity or catering to short attention span
I'm not saying there is none of this involved, but what counts as publicity and how to take advantage of the short attention span are a little different than traditional publishers do these, and that's not all there is to it.
or you need to grab people's attention fast and for free then build from there which is the blogging method.
You sound like you have been reading those "get rich blogging" bs type of things... that isn't quite the blogging method, and no, that's not what self-publishers rely on either.
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It is impossible to teach history if you do not teach about religion. So yes, religion does have a place in school, but it's in history class - where it has pretty much been removed, sadly - not in science class.
Public schools and non-religion based private schools teach evolution. There can be questions and doubt, hopefully eased one way or the other with encouraged outside study, but like in all subjects no push-back is allowed. And like with all subjects the answers the test are what you have been told are the answers to the test, not necessarily what you believe to be the truth, and you will be graded based on your ability to remember what you have been told.
Religion-based schools teach creationism when that is what the particular religion believes. Homeschoolers can teach whichever they prefer. Parents can then choose which schooling is best for their family. If they don't agree with the curricula of a particular school, they can move their child to another school or another from of schooling.
And he also either can not deduce that he should use the internet or books to look it up, and so others must do it for him,. THAT would lead me to call him stupid.
I've seen porn on youtube. It just gets reported rather quickly.
Ever meet someone online? Me too, where are they now?
Well one of them, I'm married to. A few others I talk to daily, much more than I talk to my mother, who doesn't use the internet. Actually I can't think of a single non-related person that I met in real life first that I still talk to...
Because that DOESN'T provide much entertainment without asking very much in return in terms of money or effort. Have you watched free tv lately?
I don't understand why you would marry someone to which you must explain/rationalize your gaming time...
forcing kids to sit at a desk and focus on one thing doesn't work.
And your internet service contract is kept in the ISP's secure database. What is your point?
I agree with part of what you say, and disagree with another part. It does not have to be all or nothing.
So then how can you prove they all will?
Starting at 15 and working for 62 years is still a longass time... though I suppose it wouldn't seem as bad if life were longer. But once you start focusing more than 20 minutes a day on it, you have to start looking at it in terms of life enjoyment worth rather than financial worth. Is it more enjoyable to spend 40 minutes a day at my job, or to spend 20 minutes a day exercising? But of course that will vary depending on how much each person likes their job, and if they get to leave 40 minutes early if they choose or if they would be working that 40 minutes anyway.
Oh, and the procedure would have to make you feel as good now as if you exercised daily to be worth it in terms of life enjoyment.
Single-room apartments are common in Japan. And though I have a multi-room house with computers in other rooms, my main computer and router are in the same room.
Guns are not dangerous. A gun that is never touched will never hurt anyone. People can use guns in dangerous ways, same as bittorrent. A person can used bittorrent to move bomb plans or etc. A person can use a gun to shoot someone.
You must sign up for a gun license; it doesn't mean you will buy or use a gun, just that you are able to. You must sign up for internet service; it doesn't mean you are going to get or use bittorrent, just that you are able to.
There are laws against using bittorrent illegally, there are laws against using guns illegally.
Which is almost always larger than the bandwidth you have.
That's only CONFIRMED/TRACKED traffic, though. What about all the people that hide what they are downloading? I know plenty of people that use bittorrent only legally, but are paranoid and hide it...
Downloading games to try them out is a completely separate issue than watching shows without ads. If they put hard work into making a GOOD game, then after trying it you would probably buy it. If it is shitty and you didn't try it first, you got ripped off. Didn't you put just as much work into earning your money as they put into making the game? Would you still get paid at your job if you did your job shittily, or would you be told to do it again or maybe even get fired?
On a separate note, I use to be a huge pirate, but I pretty much stopped pirating shows once I got a roku along with netflix and crunchyroll, with Steam's free weekends my game piracy has plummeted greatly, and every since drm-free Japanese MP3s became available for purchase on Amazon I've stopped pirating music.
Except that most new authors' first books, assuming they write them in their spare time while doing another job, takes at least a couple of years to write, and I've been working on my trilogy (which had to be written in its entirety before the first book was published because of the complex relationship between the books) since 2001. I'm not done yet.
5 years from date of first publication would suffice (I would not say a book is created when you begin to write the first words, but let's just take that word out of the equation). When you finally do release book 1 you can release book 2 just after the copyright on 1 is up. Then you can release book 3 just as the copyright on 2 is up. Assuming the books are good enough to keep people coming back, you've got at least 15 years of income on that trilogy just from book selling, and an audience that wants more from you.
You're assuming that if people can get a book/story for free then the author will receive no money, and that just isn't true. If it were, public libraries would have put all authors out of business. Or book piracy would have. Or telling stories by mouth would have.
Which part do I have backwards, then?
How can you have an advantage if they know everything you know?
If my enemy knew everything I know they would probably see that it is better to work together rather than try to fight each other.
If everything were open, when someone implements something cheaper than you could, you now know how to implement it cheaper.
That's easy in theory, but what about companies that have employees around the country/world?
63 employable years?! Heck I started working at 12 and hope I don't work for 63 years. But anyway -
That would only be if the procedure takes less than 20 minutes. The reality of any procedure of even just prescription currently is that you must take a day off work or give up a day, pay the gas/bus fare/etc. to the doctor/hospital, sit in the waiting room for 20 minutes+, then have the procedure done or the doctor check you out, then pay the gas/bus fare/etc. to drive home and maybe to the drug store. So unless someone is driving to homes doing the procedure at no additional cost, the procedure can be done in less than 20 minutes, AND it cost enough less than $150000 to make up for the time it takes to do the procedure, it is more cost effective to exercise for 20 minutes. And then of course you'd have to have a time machine to ensure the procedure was an option by the time you needed it. How much does a time machine cost?
Well since I can go to the library and read it legally for free, and go to several sites I won't name and illegally get it digitally for free (and I could on THE DAY OF release if not sooner), and also the fact that WAY more of the general public knows about those unnamed sites than knows about Project Guttenburg; I very much doubt it being legally on Project Guttenburg 2 years after release would make much of a difference to Rowling's bank account.
The same reasons many bands enter into an abusive contracts with large record companies.
Well music is a bit different, because of the radio. With music, the radio is a big place to find out about new music, people usually only buy music after hearing and liking it, and you pretty much can't get on the radio without signing with a large record company. With books the big places are Amazon and barnesandnobile.com; and with those, a self-published book can be right along side a book by a big publisher, and there's equal chance for a potential customer to discover them.
With music there's also the RIAA's mafia-esque and monopoly-esque tactics, but those are failing, and would fail much faster if copyright only lasted 5 years. You're combining the real world with the imagined world, though.
I was meaning economically and socially. Okay I self publish a novel. How do I get word out? Same way as I get word of a blog out. Spread it amongst my friends. Try and link to it in relevant forums. Rely on the website I published it through to publicise it however they do that.
So what you meant to say is that novel marketing becomes like blog marketing, not writing. But even then. you're totally wrong. That's not really how you do it with a novel, and if you're talking about professional/career (i.e. money-making) blogging, then that's not even the correct way to do it with blogging. That's how you would spread around a personal blog, but you're not going to make much - if any - money that way.
Now if you can get self publish to work without publicity or catering to short attention span
I'm not saying there is none of this involved, but what counts as publicity and how to take advantage of the short attention span are a little different than traditional publishers do these, and that's not all there is to it.
or you need to grab people's attention fast and for free then build from there which is the blogging method.
You sound like you have been reading those "get rich blogging" bs type of things... that isn't quite the blogging method, and no, that's not what self-publishers rely on either.