I don't agree with that theory. I'd say that going to a movie is simply cheaper than other forms of entertainment. People want entertainment no matter what the economy or what's going on. That's why births tend to spike 9 months after a days-long power outage. Not a whole lot else to do to entertain yourself;)
You do realize that the US has the highest percentage of it's population in jail of any first-world country, right? And we want to add more to that? People can still be productive members of society... zero tolerance like what you speak of has led us to the situation where 3rd-time robbers are better off killing witnesses than letting them live.
Why do people insist on trying to control everything their children do? Of course they'll get around it. The ONLY thing you can realistically do is teach them how to deal with things they may not understand, and educate them on what you don't like and why you don't like it. You're not raising a child. You're raising an adult. Teach them how to deal with life.
I understand completely what you're talking about. The problem is, like I addressed in my original post, is that most people are not like that and can't understand that.
I don't think you actually know large groups of people. Or your large groups are very homogeneous. Those symptoms are relatively uncommon in people as a whole, something you find out when you start getting out of your Engineering type groups. Most people are very much driven by emotion over logic, and simply intuitively understand and love to communicate with other people. About everything. Do you know a girl who calls her mom 5 times a day just to talk? Do you realize that she is at least as common as people with autism-spectrum issues if not more so?
It's completely predictable to her. Just not to most people. She's simply doing what makes her happy... why should other people not have the opportunity to do the same? I mean... everything is just a label. If you call someone a singer, do you think that they might enjoy work singing rather than, say, replacing toilets? They have a skill and a drive a lot of people don't. Same thing with autism... it's a difference in thinking and skills. Why do you insist on thinking that autism is simply a handicap, rather than just an inclination to do certain kinds of things?
BTW, there is no such word as "pidgeon". You mean either "pigeon", as in the bird, or "pidgin", as in a cross-lingual hodge-podge dialect.
Because it takes continual input to create electricity. There is no continual input to create Internet. The only continual input is electricity cost (pretty much non-changing) and maintenance and upgrades (also fairly static costs). Why should they charge per bit when they don't pay more per bit?
How does it capture the proportion of resources a person uses? If I'm renting a house, should it matter whether I'm there every night or not? Is living in daily-rate motels is superior to renting a place monthly for a flat fee? Really... the fees for network maintentance are pretty much a sunk cost. They do not change according to usage. So charge the users for the ACTUAL resource they're taking up, which is bandwidth. Not megabytes.
True. But you still pay the same fees whether your tenants spend all of their time in the house or if they're traveling 3 weeks out of the month. And thus their rent is a fixed fee. Why should Internet not be the same, and be fixed on the bandwidth/size of the house, instead of how long you're actually at the house while renting it?
They're a research supply company. They verify that it's going to an institution. There are a ton of companies out there that don't really cross the public radar.
It's a protein that occurs naturally, and after the treatment is done the muscles are there and the levels of it in the body go back to normal... how could it be tested for?
Ask questions, see how they answer. And actually listen to the answers. That's the biggest thing... figure out how to get people to talk about themselves and you'll soon see if you think they're interesting or not. Ask them what they do, if they like it, ask them why. Just asking why is a HUGE thing.
Honestly? Just go places. I met my wife at the KBCO Kinetics competition (just as a spectator). Any type of event or place that's a draw to intellectually interesting people, and don't be afraid to get shot down. That's all there really is to it.
They don't have to be into science and math to be intelligent. They just have to approve of intellect... be it art, science, literature, whatever. There are a lot more smart women out there than you'd think. Just gotta know how to give 'em a chance to show you how they're smart.
Really... killing most women before 30? Where did that stupidity come from? Childbirth did not oppress women. Men died by the scores in wars, and just general work, much more so as a percentage of the population than women did.
It's pretty much true. The problem is finding a truly smart man... lots of people with an education but no brains. They tend to be the asshole intellectual types...
I personally use an extension to put the tabs at the side of the browser instead of up top. Makes much better use of widescreen monitor space, gives you more vertical reading room and uses that otherwise useless space for something.
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I don't agree with that theory. I'd say that going to a movie is simply cheaper than other forms of entertainment. People want entertainment no matter what the economy or what's going on. That's why births tend to spike 9 months after a days-long power outage. Not a whole lot else to do to entertain yourself ;)
Who says that isn't still the case, even if they are making lots of money?
You do realize that the US has the highest percentage of it's population in jail of any first-world country, right? And we want to add more to that? People can still be productive members of society... zero tolerance like what you speak of has led us to the situation where 3rd-time robbers are better off killing witnesses than letting them live.
Why do people insist on trying to control everything their children do? Of course they'll get around it. The ONLY thing you can realistically do is teach them how to deal with things they may not understand, and educate them on what you don't like and why you don't like it. You're not raising a child. You're raising an adult. Teach them how to deal with life.
And yes, I do have a kid.
I understand completely what you're talking about. The problem is, like I addressed in my original post, is that most people are not like that and can't understand that.
He might like blackjack, but I can't really see him caring about hookers.
I don't think you actually know large groups of people. Or your large groups are very homogeneous. Those symptoms are relatively uncommon in people as a whole, something you find out when you start getting out of your Engineering type groups. Most people are very much driven by emotion over logic, and simply intuitively understand and love to communicate with other people. About everything. Do you know a girl who calls her mom 5 times a day just to talk? Do you realize that she is at least as common as people with autism-spectrum issues if not more so?
It's completely predictable to her. Just not to most people. She's simply doing what makes her happy... why should other people not have the opportunity to do the same? I mean... everything is just a label. If you call someone a singer, do you think that they might enjoy work singing rather than, say, replacing toilets? They have a skill and a drive a lot of people don't. Same thing with autism... it's a difference in thinking and skills. Why do you insist on thinking that autism is simply a handicap, rather than just an inclination to do certain kinds of things?
BTW, there is no such word as "pidgeon". You mean either "pigeon", as in the bird, or "pidgin", as in a cross-lingual hodge-podge dialect.
Because it takes continual input to create electricity. There is no continual input to create Internet. The only continual input is electricity cost (pretty much non-changing) and maintenance and upgrades (also fairly static costs). Why should they charge per bit when they don't pay more per bit?
How does it capture the proportion of resources a person uses? If I'm renting a house, should it matter whether I'm there every night or not? Is living in daily-rate motels is superior to renting a place monthly for a flat fee? Really... the fees for network maintentance are pretty much a sunk cost. They do not change according to usage. So charge the users for the ACTUAL resource they're taking up, which is bandwidth. Not megabytes.
True. But you still pay the same fees whether your tenants spend all of their time in the house or if they're traveling 3 weeks out of the month. And thus their rent is a fixed fee. Why should Internet not be the same, and be fixed on the bandwidth/size of the house, instead of how long you're actually at the house while renting it?
They're a research supply company. They verify that it's going to an institution. There are a ton of companies out there that don't really cross the public radar.
It's a protein that occurs naturally, and after the treatment is done the muscles are there and the levels of it in the body go back to normal... how could it be tested for?
No, it's not gene therapy. It's a protein. You get the injections, you build the muscles, and they just stay after it's gone.
Only poor people would be weak any more... especially considering that 20 micrograms cost $200 or so: http://www.biotangusa.com/bt/product.php?productid=1424
Ask questions, see how they answer. And actually listen to the answers. That's the biggest thing... figure out how to get people to talk about themselves and you'll soon see if you think they're interesting or not. Ask them what they do, if they like it, ask them why. Just asking why is a HUGE thing.
Honestly? Just go places. I met my wife at the KBCO Kinetics competition (just as a spectator). Any type of event or place that's a draw to intellectually interesting people, and don't be afraid to get shot down. That's all there really is to it.
Take off you hoser
They don't have to be into science and math to be intelligent. They just have to approve of intellect... be it art, science, literature, whatever. There are a lot more smart women out there than you'd think. Just gotta know how to give 'em a chance to show you how they're smart.
Ummm... no. You're wrong. Absolutely fucking retardedly wrong. Women breed MUCH more often than men, and much more successfully. We wouldn't exist as a species if most women didn't successfully reproduce:
http://tierneylab.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/08/20/is-there-anything-good-about-men-and-other-tricky-questions/
Really... killing most women before 30? Where did that stupidity come from? Childbirth did not oppress women. Men died by the scores in wars, and just general work, much more so as a percentage of the population than women did.
Can't be thought smart OR dumb if you don't say anything.
It's pretty much true. The problem is finding a truly smart man... lots of people with an education but no brains. They tend to be the asshole intellectual types...
I personally use an extension to put the tabs at the side of the browser instead of up top. Makes much better use of widescreen monitor space, gives you more vertical reading room and uses that otherwise useless space for something.
You also help the poor, scared animals instead of, you know, eating them. I don't know a single farmer that's a vegetarian...
"FarmVille is Harvest Moon simplified enough that the types of people that are frequent Facebook users actually want to play it"?