You already lost trying to rely on the points you enumerated again above - restating doesn't help. Wait a minute you said points don't count and you're trying to win on points again - looks like you can't even swallow your own b-llsh-t. "you appear to be the only one in the western world convinced OnStar is important or desirable" well, from OnStar's web site... On average, each month OnStar responds to:
700 air bag notifications
700 stolen vehicle locations
15,000 remote vehicle diagnostics
13,000 roadside assistance calls
28,000 remote door unlocks
260,000 routing calls we can see that a lot of people are spending hundreds of dollars a year because they find the service desirable - another point lost. "You're just wrong." - again, try putting in something to support your argument. "The fact that you do research to prove you're right just makes your even wronger and more moronic." - yes - research is stupid why go with the facts when we can just make it up and pretend we're right?
"My head hurts" - don't overlook the possibility that it us just your hangover. "God realizes what a mistake..." you hear voices - okay - but don't assume they're God. Again - all kidding aside - people should not modify safety equipment based on (potentially incorrect) information from the Internet unless they know they are going to keep their car or plan to fully disclose their hacking of the OnStar system to any future buyers. It is not a big deal - either don't crack the system or don't lie about it if you did.
Go to a store that sells DVDs.
Take one off of the shelf and walk out with it.
If/when they bust you tell them "the cost of a DVD is several hours pay where I am" - I am sure they will figure it out.
Go out to dinner - a nice place - eat food until you've hit the cost of a DVD (or two if you're hungry).
Then walk out of the place.
If/when they bust you tell them "the cost of a meal here is several hours pay where I am" - I am sure they will figure it out.
Walk into a movie theater without a ticket.
When you are walking by the ushers to go sit down and watch a movie for free say to them
"the cost of a movie ticket is several hours pay where I am" - I am sure they will figure it out.
It seems to me you deserve whatever entertainment items you can't afford, why doesn't everyone else understand?
Score of 3 for insightful - people must be looking past the promotion of thievery here and instead indicating that the prices should come down. Use the same logic folks - telling the waiter his $10 spinach pasta should really be $5 isn't going to work. Ordering the $5 burger makes sense. The same goes for the latest multi-million epic $20 DVD vs. the $9.99 bargain bin item or the $10 per ticket THX theater with plush seats vs. the $3 per ticket 3-month past release date and spit wads on the screen type theater. People do not have a right to the best entertainment items just because they don't have much money - insightful - HHHHmmmmmmm wake up people.
The fatal flaw in your reasoning is how many times these things are all paid for. Each CD that is a hit has the record company paying for a lot of misses - that is a lot of production, distrubution and promotional cost that is just about all a loss. People that are simply duplicating CDs have the advantage of duplicating someone else's success and essentially living off of the production and promotion of their few "hits".
You may want to read a book called "Flow - The Psychology of Optimal Experience" by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. It covers the topic of getting deep into your work very well. Basically he says "Flow" it is a state that you enter where you can focus, you get a lot done and you do not notice time going by. It explains why some people are on the order of 10X more productive than others (i.e. they naturally achieve "Flow" easily). Probably every techie has been in this state sometime during their education. What you may be suffering from is that subconsciously you know you're not really "into" it (in "Flow") so you just look for the closest interesting thing (the net) where you can "Flow". This is a different passive kind of "Flow" as time does indeed seem to fly by quickly but other challenges your mind needs are absent. He talks about why this kind of "Flow" is ultimately unrewarding as it does not efficiently "add" much to what you are (similar to TV - you don't move closer to your own goals and you're not adding to your abilities). In your case the close deadline overrides in your mind the fact that you're not really into what you're doing and you force yourself into it. This is also not as good a "Flow" as your brain may be at odds with itself feeling forced to do something (even if it was through your own inaction that you're in this negative position). The book does have some cookbook steps on how to achieve "Flow" at work (make it a game, set rules, create clear doable goals...) but reading the whole book is what is helpful - all of the supporting information gives you a much better shot at being successful following the steps.
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You already lost trying to rely on the points you enumerated again above - restating doesn't help. ..." you hear voices - okay - but don't assume they're God.
Wait a minute you said points don't count and you're trying to win on points again - looks like you can't even swallow your own b-llsh-t.
"you appear to be the only one in the western world convinced OnStar is important or desirable" well, from OnStar's web site...
On average, each month OnStar responds to:
700 air bag notifications
700 stolen vehicle locations
15,000 remote vehicle diagnostics
13,000 roadside assistance calls
28,000 remote door unlocks
260,000 routing calls
we can see that a lot of people are spending hundreds of dollars a year because they find the service desirable - another point lost.
"You're just wrong." - again, try putting in something to support your argument.
"The fact that you do research to prove you're right just makes your even wronger and more moronic." - yes - research is stupid why go with the facts when we can just make it up and pretend we're right?
"My head hurts" - don't overlook the possibility that it us just your hangover.
"God realizes what a mistake
Again - all kidding aside - people should not modify safety equipment based on (potentially incorrect) information from the Internet unless they know they are going to keep their car or plan to fully disclose their hacking of the OnStar system to any future buyers. It is not a big deal - either don't crack the system or don't lie about it if you did.
Take one off of the shelf and walk out with it.
If/when they bust you tell them "the cost of a DVD is several hours pay where I am" - I am sure they will figure it out.
Go out to dinner - a nice place - eat food until you've hit the cost of a DVD (or two if you're hungry).
Then walk out of the place.
If/when they bust you tell them "the cost of a meal here is several hours pay where I am" - I am sure they will figure it out.
Walk into a movie theater without a ticket.
When you are walking by the ushers to go sit down and watch a movie for free say to them
"the cost of a movie ticket is several hours pay where I am" - I am sure they will figure it out.
It seems to me you deserve whatever entertainment items you can't afford, why doesn't everyone else understand?
Score of 3 for insightful - people must be looking past the promotion of thievery here and instead indicating that the prices should come down.
Use the same logic folks - telling the waiter his $10 spinach pasta should really be $5 isn't going to work. Ordering the $5 burger makes sense.
The same goes for the latest multi-million epic $20 DVD vs. the $9.99 bargain bin item or the $10 per ticket THX theater with plush seats vs. the $3 per ticket 3-month past release date and spit wads on the screen type theater.
People do not have a right to the best entertainment items just because they don't have much money - insightful - HHHHmmmmmmm wake up people.
The fatal flaw in your reasoning is how many times these things are all paid for. Each CD that is a hit has the record company paying for a lot of misses - that is a lot of production, distrubution and promotional cost that is just about all a loss. People that are simply duplicating CDs have the advantage of duplicating someone else's success and essentially living off of the production and promotion of their few "hits".
You may want to read a book called "Flow - The Psychology of Optimal Experience" by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi.
It covers the topic of getting deep into your work very well.
Basically he says "Flow" it is a state that you enter where you can focus, you get a lot done and you do not notice time going by.
It explains why some people are on the order of 10X more productive than others (i.e. they naturally achieve "Flow" easily).
Probably every techie has been in this state sometime during their education.
What you may be suffering from is that subconsciously you know you're not really "into" it (in "Flow") so you just look for the closest interesting thing (the net) where you can "Flow". This is a different passive kind of "Flow" as time does indeed seem to fly by quickly but other challenges your mind needs are absent. He talks about why this kind of "Flow" is ultimately unrewarding as it does not efficiently "add" much to what you are (similar to TV - you don't move closer to your own goals and you're not adding to your abilities).
In your case the close deadline overrides in your mind the fact that you're not really into what you're doing and you force yourself into it. This is also not as good a "Flow" as your brain may be at odds with itself feeling forced to do something (even if it was through your own inaction that you're in this negative position).
The book does have some cookbook steps on how to achieve "Flow" at work (make it a game, set rules, create clear doable goals...) but reading the whole book is what is helpful - all of the supporting information gives you a much better shot at being successful following the steps.