Counterpoint: Nature doesn't actually assimilate steel girders in any useful way. We use nature for recycling, where nature is good at it. Animal waste for fertilizer, bacteria for waste-water treatment, but it's not some intelligent entity that's "better" at it than us.
Every utopian prediction for the future from the most authoritarian to anarchist depends on humanity getting very good at recycling. Every new process that can get something valuable from *ahem* unsorted wastes is a step to a positive need-free future.
I think you're overestimating the rate at which life on the planet can consume atmospheric carbon dioxide. It's actually quite slow, compared to which burning fossil fuels can put it out.
And if bloatware on your phone is eating your private messages and sending them off to a company you never signed up for an account with, would you know?
This is the dumbest line of reasoning for new corporate abuses. "Think about what those 0.1% of private citizens might do if they had similar access!"
Rather than, "Your ours now, since you've ever used our service." I'm not entirely sure the facebook bloatware that comes on cell phones won't provide this data back for even non-users like me. You just can't prove it, since the walled-garden prevents you from installing your own security measures.
The big corporations feel entitled to our private lives, and we can't stop them.
It matters to me. I have an opinion. I understand and don't hold hostility to those who didn't have the same opinion.
As to being "predominantly a multiplayer game" that still doesn't necessity online activity(and in terms of game performance, it's a liability when you just want a LAN game). It's still a completely unnecessary restriction I'm not going to support.
You've put a few sentences in there, but they seem to range from tangentially related to completely unrelated to each other. Are you sure you have a cohesive point?
There were two references to things that could be called "toys" in the article, and neither is a resounding support of what you just said.
One: "junk such as wood, tyres and an old fire hose." Such amazing new toys there. WOOD! TIRES! whoooooooooooooa. Two: Skateboarding allowed(as opposed to skateboards provided, I guess). Which is a change in rules, not supplies.
"Idle hands do the devils work" was the dumb excuse for the existing plan of having recess be teacher led activities. If anything this study is contrary evidence to the principle.
That is one of those things. If you do any sort of double blind study on education, the students in the control group invariably do better than unstudied typical students because the increased focus on performance tends to boost it.
Teaching is a profession dominated by meticulous organizers, you know ENFJ types, because they're pretty much the only ones that can cope with the amount of personal planning it takes. So that mentality ends up being projected onto students too, who don't do as well that way.
(I just looked up ENFJ, it's apparently called the "teacher" personality type, funny)
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Counterpoint: Nature doesn't actually assimilate steel girders in any useful way. We use nature for recycling, where nature is good at it. Animal waste for fertilizer, bacteria for waste-water treatment, but it's not some intelligent entity that's "better" at it than us.
Oh no. There needs to be a law keeping us from running out of "chemicals."
I hereby call on congress to mandate the conservation of mass, in case we run out.
Every utopian prediction for the future from the most authoritarian to anarchist depends on humanity getting very good at recycling. Every new process that can get something valuable from *ahem* unsorted wastes is a step to a positive need-free future.
Yeah, I'm going to plead justified ignorance. I have no clue what you're talking about.
Blithely accusing others of naivety, in defense of the scientifically unfounded: an activity I'm tired of dealing with.
Since we're pretending this isn't just a joke:
I think you're overestimating the rate at which life on the planet can consume atmospheric carbon dioxide. It's actually quite slow, compared to which burning fossil fuels can put it out.
People disincentivized into buying electric cars, increasing CO2 emissions, raising planetary temperatures until electric cars work.
And if bloatware on your phone is eating your private messages and sending them off to a company you never signed up for an account with, would you know?
This is the dumbest line of reasoning for new corporate abuses. "Think about what those 0.1% of private citizens might do if they had similar access!"
Rather than, "Your ours now, since you've ever used our service." I'm not entirely sure the facebook bloatware that comes on cell phones won't provide this data back for even non-users like me. You just can't prove it, since the walled-garden prevents you from installing your own security measures.
The big corporations feel entitled to our private lives, and we can't stop them.
Yes. It does. Given the whole. "New system? What new system? That's not allowed" nonsense it would put you through. I'm not putting up with it.
And I think they deserve every single possible PR burn for it. It doesn't need to be insightful. It just needs to not reward them for being douches.
It matters to me. I have an opinion. I understand and don't hold hostility to those who didn't have the same opinion.
As to being "predominantly a multiplayer game" that still doesn't necessity online activity(and in terms of game performance, it's a liability when you just want a LAN game). It's still a completely unnecessary restriction I'm not going to support.
Yes, because a single-player campaign, for example, is totally identical to an MMO(that I also don't play).
Um, they cost a lot more than just hiring more teachers.
What does that have to do with playing a single player game?
But that doesn't support his fundamental principle that "A bunch of shiny new toys fixed everything, and rules had nothing to do with it"(paraphrased)
Except the one thing keeping me from buying your product. Cut the stupid DRM, idiots.
You've put a few sentences in there, but they seem to range from tangentially related to completely unrelated to each other. Are you sure you have a cohesive point?
There were two references to things that could be called "toys" in the article, and neither is a resounding support of what you just said.
One:
"junk such as wood, tyres and an old fire hose."
Such amazing new toys there. WOOD! TIRES! whoooooooooooooa.
Two:
Skateboarding allowed(as opposed to skateboards provided, I guess). Which is a change in rules, not supplies.
I feel like basically every other post in this entire discussion would be a better one for you to reply to with that point, in terms of relatedness.
And if you don't play at your job, you'll get fired.
"Idle hands do the devils work" was the dumb excuse for the existing plan of having recess be teacher led activities. If anything this study is contrary evidence to the principle.
That is one of those things. If you do any sort of double blind study on education, the students in the control group invariably do better than unstudied typical students because the increased focus on performance tends to boost it.
Teaching is a profession dominated by meticulous organizers, you know ENFJ types, because they're pretty much the only ones that can cope with the amount of personal planning it takes. So that mentality ends up being projected onto students too, who don't do as well that way.
(I just looked up ENFJ, it's apparently called the "teacher" personality type, funny)
That's some hella inlflation for 20 years.