We see it too. Among social circles of the children of N.A (esp. boys) achievement is usually frowned upon.
Its become worse in recent years, IMO because parents have adopted this attitude that their kid is perfect and shouldn't be subjected to the embarrasment and extra work required to bring up their skill levels (e.g. pass a standardized test, stay back a grade, etc...)
Cars are much more reliable than in the past. Its easy for a modern car to last more than 10 years.
If you read old mags from the 50's they used to rate such features as "door fit" (I guess you couldn't even rely on the doors to shut properly on a new car).
In all this talk about electronic voting machine failures, I still don't comprehend how the process can be so complicated that it has so many failures, requires full featured OS (i.e. Windows), etc...
I mean all voting is a position, list of names, select 1 or more (depending on the type of election).
Couldn't this all be done with code small enough to fit on a ROM or something that would be almost impossible to tamper with? Even votes could be somehow "burned" into a write-once type of memory. Simple network adapter to transfer the results.
I was in Toronto when the blackout first hit. It almost fun at first: beautiful thursday evening and the sidewalks and streets were filled with people. Lots of stores selling ice cream cheap, etc...
On friday morning I learned the office was closed (woo-hoo) and by 10am the power was back on. Unforunately at 10:30 the power was off again.
Turns out the the initial draw was too much for the local station and caused a fire. As most of rest of the city was lit up around me on Friday night, I was still in the dark.
Saturday was nice a humid and Saturday night, still no power and this time the radio was saying, "Everybody has their power back".
Anyway, finally on Sunday afternoon the power came back on. It was fun for the first night, but I can feel for those who lose power for days/weeks during other big disasters.
My biggest frustration is that I have to physically change discs if I want to play another game and/or reset a game. With a modded-Xbox and a large HDD, I can just load my games once onto the hard drive and put the DVD away.
C'mon this is 2004...any requirement to switch physical media is stupid. Hurray for mod chips.
I agree, but knowing that its real and/or expensive matters to many people. There are countless markets where this is true: jewelery, art, fashion, antiques.
Here is a good example. It refers to a painting that has just been verified as authentic and expected to bring in over 5 million at auction. If it couldn't be authenticated or it was a fake it might fetch a few thousand...but its the same item in either case.
No kidding. But life is meant to be lived.
If my girlfriend enjoys owning/staring at an expensive ring more than she enjoys opera, who is too judge? Both could be considered "useless" pursuits as neither are required to sustain life.
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Strangely enough in Canada "The Daily Show" is on network T.V (as well as cable)
We see it too. Among social circles of the children of N.A (esp. boys) achievement is usually frowned upon. Its become worse in recent years, IMO because parents have adopted this attitude that their kid is perfect and shouldn't be subjected to the embarrasment and extra work required to bring up their skill levels (e.g. pass a standardized test, stay back a grade, etc...)
Cars are much more reliable than in the past. Its easy for a modern car to last more than 10 years. If you read old mags from the 50's they used to rate such features as "door fit" (I guess you couldn't even rely on the doors to shut properly on a new car).
In all this talk about electronic voting machine failures, I still don't comprehend how the process can be so complicated that it has so many failures, requires full featured OS (i.e. Windows), etc... I mean all voting is a position, list of names, select 1 or more (depending on the type of election). Couldn't this all be done with code small enough to fit on a ROM or something that would be almost impossible to tamper with? Even votes could be somehow "burned" into a write-once type of memory. Simple network adapter to transfer the results.
Its a call centre...in my experience those jobs only pay half that here. So it seems steep to me.
I was in Toronto when the blackout first hit. It almost fun at first: beautiful thursday evening and the sidewalks and streets were filled with people. Lots of stores selling ice cream cheap, etc...
On friday morning I learned the office was closed (woo-hoo) and by 10am the power was back on. Unforunately at 10:30 the power was off again.
Turns out the the initial draw was too much for the local station and caused a fire. As most of rest of the city was lit up around me on Friday night, I was still in the dark.
Saturday was nice a humid and Saturday night, still no power and this time the radio was saying, "Everybody has their power back".
Anyway, finally on Sunday afternoon the power came back on. It was fun for the first night, but I can feel for those who lose power for days/weeks during other big disasters.
My biggest frustration is that I have to physically change discs if I want to play another game and/or reset a game. With a modded-Xbox and a large HDD, I can just load my games once onto the hard drive and put the DVD away. C'mon this is 2004...any requirement to switch physical media is stupid. Hurray for mod chips.
I agree, but knowing that its real and/or expensive matters to many people. There are countless markets where this is true: jewelery, art, fashion, antiques. Here is a good example. It refers to a painting that has just been verified as authentic and expected to bring in over 5 million at auction. If it couldn't be authenticated or it was a fake it might fetch a few thousand...but its the same item in either case.
No kidding. But life is meant to be lived. If my girlfriend enjoys owning/staring at an expensive ring more than she enjoys opera, who is too judge? Both could be considered "useless" pursuits as neither are required to sustain life.