My understanding is that, however it has been done, Cuba has a remarkable medical system. Not necessarily insofar as their hospitals and treatments themselves - but at least in the doctor's they produce. I'm not really surprised (by your anecdote, that is).
On the other hand, I've never waited more than 30 minutes to see a doctor and I've never paid more than $10.
It's Canada. What's the point of driving 70mph in an emergency to get to a hospital where you're going to have to wait for six months before they'll see you?:D
I did - but I also considered that there is a wide difference between a bunch of teens and young adults using MySpace as one of those 976 $2.99/min multi-user party lines 24x7 and people who are actually actively doing something on the net (discussing politics, science, technology - or actually creating something like a service - wikipedia.org and so forth).
Some have and would justify MySpace as "well, at least it's interactive! They're not just watching TV!" but I've seen people use MySpace. I have someone crashing at my place right now who has no job, no money, no place to stay, no anything - but can manage to spend hour after hour after hour on MySpace looking for new people to talk to and hook up with and go out with and they always seem to have money for the bar when they go meet the MySpace groups.
I've watched these people and I'm not currently convinced that there is any more brain activity going on when using MySpace than there is watching television.
That's hardly a "fancy GUI". It's exactly the same GUI from Netscape/iPlanet/Sun ONE Directory Servers since, I dunno, about 2000.
And yes there's a command line tool for adding and removing users in all of the above. It's called LDAPMODIFY. Want it to work like a script? Write one that uses LDAPMODIFY . . . It's nothing complex.
If that were the case, these "graffiti artists with high integrity" wouldn't be the slightest bit concerned with these Sony graffitists. After all, how is there any difference in the integrity of two similar illegal acts that have nothing to do with your legal art?
Or maybe they don't have the integrity they claim they do and it's the commercial act rather than the illegal one that they feel affects them.
attempting to co-opt the subculture and possibly even artistic integrity of real graffists
Yes. That admirable artistic integrity that comes with vandelizing other people's property! Oh my - we wouldn't want to unfairly shed such people in a bad light!
The size of the audience doesn't indicate the quality of the subject. There are plenty of crazy red staters that think Bush should get a third term (I'm serious - one came to my house asking me if I was a registered voter and if I would support their cause). That doesn't make them intelligent or right whatsoever.
MTV has a huge audience, too. So what?
MySpace also sucks because it's a bunch of self-involved twats navel-gazing. Someone else commented that "that's what you do when you're young". The hell it is. I'm not that old and I wasn't a pretentious, self-involved drama whore seeking the world's attention on a stage when I was a kid or teenager and neither are my siblings (who are the target MySpace demographic right now). For that matter, I can't think of anyone that really fit that bill when I was in school either, other than a very small handful of people that didn't need MySpace to be drama queens and self-involved aholes.
MySpace has granted a bunch of whiney imbeciles the power to mistakenly believe they are all intelligent, popular and important. It's still nothing more than an AOL chat room based on its presentation, population and content. MySpace is a mix between a crappy journal (and god damn it, whatever happened to writing a journal FOR YORUSELF and not foisting it on humanity?!) and a great place to win friends and alienate friends and be a total douche and do things like make everything think you're going to commit suicide or hook up with some older guy or harass each other or whatever other mundane crap pops into kids head.
Children aren't stupider today. MySpace children certainly are, however. I don't care if there are 40 BILLION of them. They're still retarded and anyone with an ounce of common sense can see that. MySpace is the new AOL when it comes to referencing the worst behavior and people of the internet in a single word.
MySpace is to writing and publishing what a bowel movement is to art. Honestly, I can't even believe you would compare the two.
If someone said "Hey, I wrote this great story" or "Hey, check out this review of the new movie I saw" - I would be interested. But I'm not going to read your block to find out "OMFG I'm so drink!!@!! I just got back from two partys and a consert! ROCK ON!!!!"
I might be thinking of the wrong console (I didn't really start gaming until I was an adult, which is when the N64 was out - though I never played a console until the last couple years) -- however, wasn't the DreamCast controller massive? It had like - a huge forehead with an enormous LCD jammed into it?
She listed her interests as soccer, talking on the phone, the beach and partying. "Books are gay," she wrote. She lied about her age, listing it as 17.
A few hours later she allegedly stood by as her boyfriend, David Ludwig, 18, shot and killed her parents.
Uh. A 14 year old girl, lying about her age with an EIGHTEEN YEAR OLD boyfriend who thinks "books are gay" and (if you read her profile) likes "partys".
So mom and dad were oblivious to all of this (mostly the statutory rape thing) because, what, they were too busy obsessing over The SIMS or something?
Maybe it's just me, but I've never met anyone who "enjoyed" the sims line of games any differently than a junkie enjoys her crack. That is to say, there's no sim playing and then there's "disrupting my life" sim playing. I don't think I've seen anything in between.
I happened across some documentary about SIMS players the other night on MTV or some channel like that. The people they profiled actually SCARED me.
Mom and pop game stores have about as much chance of surviving (much less thriving) as mom and pop hardware stores and grocery stores now that Walmart and Homebase are everywhere. Now days, the role of the "small guy" is filled by less successful or powerful corporate stores, edging the mom and pop shop from even beging in the "underdog" slot.
Same here using Camino on OSX. Note that the FAQ on the site does say it works in FF if you have WMV configured properly (I do) and that if you have any problems to contact them so they can try to work it out. It's not like they're not trying or at least giving the impression of trying to work across multiple platforms.
You're seriously posing this question to a forum full of GNAA posts, The Giver links and "frost pist!" comments?!
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Some more of those and MySpace just might win me over!
Do you know what depresses me? Not so much that kids are increasingly stupid. What depresses me is that the whole empowered future of information and autonomy and exploration and massive self-acquired intellect we always dreamed "the future" would be with the help of technology is for naught. What is the future? A bunch of chubby, self-mutilating, impressionable, commiserating children and creepy old men and uneducated consumer tards who can't think for themselves.
I'm just a little older than you and you are understimating the idiotastic power of compound stupidity. When you and I were kids, the stupidity was compounded by ourselves and a small handful of friends. Now, it's compounded by the hundreds of people on your "myspace" list or whatever they use to interconnect people along with all the random people that stumble along and talk with you. And at least we didn't have middle aged perverts trying to pick up on us via email and our pages trying to take advantage of the fact that we're insecure and deprived of daddy's attention and spending all of our time on the internet because we can't face real people and eventually hook up with said creepy old dude.
No good can come of harnessing the vast resource of stupidity.
What we will see is a movement of the stupid from the manufacturing jobs which no longer exist to the service jobs.
You mean the people that work in service jobs today aren't the stupid ones? They get worse?!
I know - there are a lot of service-job people who are intelligent and do great work, but for every person like that there are fifty who thinks "extra pickle" on a burger means "two pickles instead of one" or think "extra pickle - no tomato" means "a folded brown paper bag on the side of the tray" (I shit you not about that last one - twice at Burger King I've asked for extra pickles on my burger and the person just gave me a brown paper bag).
Apparently the mission statement for MySpace is similar to Google's (in a way). That is, the organize and network all the world's idiots.'
Also, why would anyone go meet myspace people? They spend all their time on the stupid thing. Wouldn't you want to meet and befriend or date people that... I don't know... get away from the computer sometimes?
There's a purpose to myspace other than 30 year old men trying to pick up on insecure teenagers and insecure teenagers fawning over each other and hooking up at local myspace meetings?
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I'm an American. That's always the punchline to a metric joke. :)
Well, then in that case there's nothing for anyone to complain about anything.
My understanding is that, however it has been done, Cuba has a remarkable medical system. Not necessarily insofar as their hospitals and treatments themselves - but at least in the doctor's they produce. I'm not really surprised (by your anecdote, that is).
On the other hand, I've never waited more than 30 minutes to see a doctor and I've never paid more than $10.
It's Canada. What's the point of driving 70mph in an emergency to get to a hospital where you're going to have to wait for six months before they'll see you? :D
I did - but I also considered that there is a wide difference between a bunch of teens and young adults using MySpace as one of those 976 $2.99/min multi-user party lines 24x7 and people who are actually actively doing something on the net (discussing politics, science, technology - or actually creating something like a service - wikipedia.org and so forth).
Some have and would justify MySpace as "well, at least it's interactive! They're not just watching TV!" but I've seen people use MySpace. I have someone crashing at my place right now who has no job, no money, no place to stay, no anything - but can manage to spend hour after hour after hour on MySpace looking for new people to talk to and hook up with and go out with and they always seem to have money for the bar when they go meet the MySpace groups.
I've watched these people and I'm not currently convinced that there is any more brain activity going on when using MySpace than there is watching television.
That's hardly a "fancy GUI". It's exactly the same GUI from Netscape/iPlanet/Sun ONE Directory Servers since, I dunno, about 2000.
And yes there's a command line tool for adding and removing users in all of the above. It's called LDAPMODIFY. Want it to work like a script? Write one that uses LDAPMODIFY . . . It's nothing complex.
If that were the case, these "graffiti artists with high integrity" wouldn't be the slightest bit concerned with these Sony graffitists. After all, how is there any difference in the integrity of two similar illegal acts that have nothing to do with your legal art?
Or maybe they don't have the integrity they claim they do and it's the commercial act rather than the illegal one that they feel affects them.
attempting to co-opt the subculture and possibly even artistic integrity of real graffists
Yes. That admirable artistic integrity that comes with vandelizing other people's property! Oh my - we wouldn't want to unfairly shed such people in a bad light!
The size of the audience doesn't indicate the quality of the subject. There are plenty of crazy red staters that think Bush should get a third term (I'm serious - one came to my house asking me if I was a registered voter and if I would support their cause). That doesn't make them intelligent or right whatsoever.
MTV has a huge audience, too. So what?
MySpace also sucks because it's a bunch of self-involved twats navel-gazing. Someone else commented that "that's what you do when you're young". The hell it is. I'm not that old and I wasn't a pretentious, self-involved drama whore seeking the world's attention on a stage when I was a kid or teenager and neither are my siblings (who are the target MySpace demographic right now). For that matter, I can't think of anyone that really fit that bill when I was in school either, other than a very small handful of people that didn't need MySpace to be drama queens and self-involved aholes.
MySpace has granted a bunch of whiney imbeciles the power to mistakenly believe they are all intelligent, popular and important. It's still nothing more than an AOL chat room based on its presentation, population and content. MySpace is a mix between a crappy journal (and god damn it, whatever happened to writing a journal FOR YORUSELF and not foisting it on humanity?!) and a great place to win friends and alienate friends and be a total douche and do things like make everything think you're going to commit suicide or hook up with some older guy or harass each other or whatever other mundane crap pops into kids head.
Children aren't stupider today. MySpace children certainly are, however. I don't care if there are 40 BILLION of them. They're still retarded and anyone with an ounce of common sense can see that. MySpace is the new AOL when it comes to referencing the worst behavior and people of the internet in a single word.
MySpace is to writing and publishing what a bowel movement is to art. Honestly, I can't even believe you would compare the two.
If someone said "Hey, I wrote this great story" or "Hey, check out this review of the new movie I saw" - I would be interested. But I'm not going to read your block to find out "OMFG I'm so drink!!@!! I just got back from two partys and a consert! ROCK ON!!!!"
I might be thinking of the wrong console (I didn't really start gaming until I was an adult, which is when the N64 was out - though I never played a console until the last couple years) -- however, wasn't the DreamCast controller massive? It had like - a huge forehead with an enormous LCD jammed into it?
Except for the fucktarded controller. What kind of crack were they smoking when they designed THAT?!
She listed her interests as soccer, talking on the phone, the beach and partying. "Books are gay," she wrote. She lied about her age, listing it as 17.
A few hours later she allegedly stood by as her boyfriend, David Ludwig, 18, shot and killed her parents.
Uh. A 14 year old girl, lying about her age with an EIGHTEEN YEAR OLD boyfriend who thinks "books are gay" and (if you read her profile) likes "partys".
So mom and dad were oblivious to all of this (mostly the statutory rape thing) because, what, they were too busy obsessing over The SIMS or something?
Maybe it's just me, but I've never met anyone who "enjoyed" the sims line of games any differently than a junkie enjoys her crack. That is to say, there's no sim playing and then there's "disrupting my life" sim playing. I don't think I've seen anything in between.
I happened across some documentary about SIMS players the other night on MTV or some channel like that. The people they profiled actually SCARED me.
Mom and pop game stores have about as much chance of surviving (much less thriving) as mom and pop hardware stores and grocery stores now that Walmart and Homebase are everywhere. Now days, the role of the "small guy" is filled by less successful or powerful corporate stores, edging the mom and pop shop from even beging in the "underdog" slot.
Same here using Camino on OSX. Note that the FAQ on the site does say it works in FF if you have WMV configured properly (I do) and that if you have any problems to contact them so they can try to work it out. It's not like they're not trying or at least giving the impression of trying to work across multiple platforms.
Oh, I'm all of those things. They just aren't relevant to why MySpace sucks. :)
Good luck competing with Amazon, Best Boy, Circuit City, Gamestop/EBGames, BlockBuster and so on.
I didn't know people who bought SIMS and The Movies games had a political voice. Or at least, one that reached beyond what soda is king.
You're seriously posing this question to a forum full of GNAA posts, The Giver links and "frost pist!" comments?!
Some more of those and MySpace just might win me over!
Do you know what depresses me? Not so much that kids are increasingly stupid. What depresses me is that the whole empowered future of information and autonomy and exploration and massive self-acquired intellect we always dreamed "the future" would be with the help of technology is for naught. What is the future? A bunch of chubby, self-mutilating, impressionable, commiserating children and creepy old men and uneducated consumer tards who can't think for themselves.
I'm just a little older than you and you are understimating the idiotastic power of compound stupidity. When you and I were kids, the stupidity was compounded by ourselves and a small handful of friends. Now, it's compounded by the hundreds of people on your "myspace" list or whatever they use to interconnect people along with all the random people that stumble along and talk with you. And at least we didn't have middle aged perverts trying to pick up on us via email and our pages trying to take advantage of the fact that we're insecure and deprived of daddy's attention and spending all of our time on the internet because we can't face real people and eventually hook up with said creepy old dude.
No good can come of harnessing the vast resource of stupidity.
What we will see is a movement of the stupid from the manufacturing jobs which no longer exist to the service jobs.
You mean the people that work in service jobs today aren't the stupid ones? They get worse?!
I know - there are a lot of service-job people who are intelligent and do great work, but for every person like that there are fifty who thinks "extra pickle" on a burger means "two pickles instead of one" or think "extra pickle - no tomato" means "a folded brown paper bag on the side of the tray" (I shit you not about that last one - twice at Burger King I've asked for extra pickles on my burger and the person just gave me a brown paper bag).
Apparently the mission statement for MySpace is similar to Google's (in a way). That is, the organize and network all the world's idiots.'
Also, why would anyone go meet myspace people? They spend all their time on the stupid thing. Wouldn't you want to meet and befriend or date people that... I don't know... get away from the computer sometimes?
There's a purpose to myspace other than 30 year old men trying to pick up on insecure teenagers and insecure teenagers fawning over each other and hooking up at local myspace meetings?