I don't get why facebook privacy is blown up and discussed as much as it is. It's a private service. If you discover a service doesn't meet your expectations for whatever reason, discontinue using it.
It's a private service, not government supplied. If you do not agree with it's terms of service, then by all means DON'T USE IT! If you didn't bother to read the terms and signed up anyway because everyone else is, then you live with the consequences.
You really don't have to be on facebook... If enough of a consumer base disagree with the practices, a competitor will emerge and users can be divided amongst the various social network websites.
That being said, I do believe that Facebook has to have a reasonable method of informing it's membership to changes of terms of service... but I believe in most cases this has been done. It's just this particular user base (wahhh privacy wahhh) ignored the change and kept using it while whining about it, or didn't bother to keep themselves informed.
I'll bite on that...
I'd say that the type of people you speak of have ALWAYS been around by the droves. Throughout every stage of history there's always been "the masses" and then those who rose above them.
People have always been this way en-masse. Spectators, that at their very best will criticize others but fail to do anything about it themselves.
The peasants of old are now the middle-class society with their televisions and ideas, but with the exactly same *lack* of traction for themselves or their own ideals.
Isn't the point of something like "Semester at Sea" to immerse yourself in the program, and become involved deeply in the studies and the people you're traveling with?
What you're wanting to do is like ordering escargot in a French restaurant and smothering them in ketchup.
So you're advocating not keeping in touch with friends and family via e-mail?
Or what about checking the wikipedia page for the city you're about to dock into? Perhaps a safety-traveling guide for the region?
I appreciate immersion as much as the other, but you're looking at "the internet" as being a form of escape from reality, which isn't true. A lot of times it can simply be a compliment to your reality, much like garlic or parsley can compliment escargot.
Sorry, what's the problem exactly with the gaming industry? Game producers are producing games for which they know they have an audience?
Is it really so wrong to enjoy a game because it looks really, really, ridiculously good? If you don't support these games, don't buy them. If enough share your view then you won't see these games as much, that's just the way that the market works.
I am curious what your current research limitations are (if any), and what may be causing them? Steep slopes caused by political or financial concerns?
Nope, that pretty much _makes_ it a "religious group" in my books. Except, I don't know of any instance where a person has been killed or died righteously in the name of Scientology....
and on a further note, science has yet to ever be proven as fact. there's one assumption that is always made and can never be proven (just as one could say a higher power could never be proven, therefore you can only assume there is or there isn't); you assume that a cause will always have the same effect. the only reason people accept this as true is because no one has disproved it. repeated tests are only circumstantial tests at best. don't get me wrong, i fully believe that science is true, but i'm just saying, there's still the same amount of assumption as there is with a higher power and even moreover, you can believe both science and in a higher power. they are not mutually exclusive. I agree with you to a point, but I must say that science is the closest we've got in terms of measurement towards "fact". Of course it depends on your criteria for "fact" and for something to be "proven". But science brings with it a peer-reviewed and largely-agreed-upon set of criteria for which we may measure facts and "proofs" as evidence in seeking witnessed patterns. Using science as a tool (along with all of the tools within science, ie: empirical method, etc) we can aid our own predictive analysis and make workable assumptions/assertions about reality.
It seems to me your sentiment is that science does not necessarily bring us to some sort of ultimate buck-stops-here truth. I agree completely with this. Everything you can think of in whichever language you have your thoughts in will be like this. It would take reality itself to properly understand reality, 1:1 ratio. The map is not the territory.
When you really think about it though, science is what brings us to the closest approximation in reality-pattern-recognition when weighed against ANY other tool(s) we have at our disposal. Reality is chaos, and we can never hope to understand it in its entirety... we can only slice it up and look at it bit-by-bit until we can reasonably assume (via methods and peer review) we see the patterns. Or at least as close of approximation as possible.
Personally I believe that science and God are (or perhaps Should Be) mutually exclusive. When they are inclusive, God becomes a default end-point for anything that is outside of your current understanding. This is nothing more than a comfort blankey we keep around ourselves to shelter us from the sheer uncertainty we truly face on a day-to-day basis.
Science doesn't actually have much to say about God. That would be the meta-physics department which should be viewed as more of a "testing ground" for theories and hypothesis, not as our closest approximation (science) of reality. It's mostly full of speculation whichever way you look at it.
Science is a tool for our outward exploration. Religion is a tool for our inward exploration. The only role religion has to play in science is within Social Sciences, which is its own bag of fun, seperate from the core sciences. People who look to religion for outward exploration are, IMO, stuck holding onto their security blankets, afraid of not-knowing.
I've used the product in question on a contract a little while ago. It's great for taking an entire office, upgrading all their computers to newer models.. and retaining all the personal settings from the account/profile.
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It's a private service, not government supplied. If you do not agree with it's terms of service, then by all means DON'T USE IT! If you didn't bother to read the terms and signed up anyway because everyone else is, then you live with the consequences.
You really don't have to be on facebook... If enough of a consumer base disagree with the practices, a competitor will emerge and users can be divided amongst the various social network websites.
That being said, I do believe that Facebook has to have a reasonable method of informing it's membership to changes of terms of service... but I believe in most cases this has been done. It's just this particular user base (wahhh privacy wahhh) ignored the change and kept using it while whining about it, or didn't bother to keep themselves informed.
Tony Robbin's was pretty big into NLP, and still uses a lot of the same techniques/concepts.
I love it, thank you.
I'll bite on that... I'd say that the type of people you speak of have ALWAYS been around by the droves. Throughout every stage of history there's always been "the masses" and then those who rose above them. People have always been this way en-masse. Spectators, that at their very best will criticize others but fail to do anything about it themselves. The peasants of old are now the middle-class society with their televisions and ideas, but with the exactly same *lack* of traction for themselves or their own ideals.
My point is why bother remaking anime?
Because they figure they can make a buck.
Isn't the point of something like "Semester at Sea" to immerse yourself in the program, and become involved deeply in the studies and the people you're traveling with?
What you're wanting to do is like ordering escargot in a French restaurant and smothering them in ketchup.
So you're advocating not keeping in touch with friends and family via e-mail?
Or what about checking the wikipedia page for the city you're about to dock into? Perhaps a safety-traveling guide for the region?
I appreciate immersion as much as the other, but you're looking at "the internet" as being a form of escape from reality, which isn't true. A lot of times it can simply be a compliment to your reality, much like garlic or parsley can compliment escargot.
Either you are posting on slashdot while driving, or an 18-wheeler plowed into your house... Either way, volume is the least of your problems.
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Sorry, what's the problem exactly with the gaming industry? Game producers are producing games for which they know they have an audience? Is it really so wrong to enjoy a game because it looks really, really, ridiculously good? If you don't support these games, don't buy them. If enough share your view then you won't see these games as much, that's just the way that the market works.
I am curious what your current research limitations are (if any), and what may be causing them? Steep slopes caused by political or financial concerns?
What the shit? Which slashdot department is this from? I don't know which bias I should read this story with now...
Nope, that pretty much _makes_ it a "religious group" in my books. Except, I don't know of any instance where a person has been killed or died righteously in the name of Scientology....
I've used the product in question on a contract a little while ago. It's great for taking an entire office, upgrading all their computers to newer models.. and retaining all the personal settings from the account/profile.