Well I read another article saying that the television stations are resistant to this as well which means they really have the upper hand, although I have yet to see any evidence that they realize this. Were I the CEO of some network, I would be trying to organize the networks together to fight Hollywood, and it is really quite simple if you ask me. If hollywood says "We won't allow you to show X blockbuster movie," I would say, "OK, we won't advertise that new movie that you've spent 200 million dollars on. Granted that they'll lose a bit of advertising revenue, but after a few failures at the box office I would guess that Hollywood would start to change its tune a bit.
I see the problem here as being not that people are attempting to censor more than they were in the past, but that with the advent of new technologies more people are able to present their oppositions to others ideas. Attempting to quell this is also a form of censorship. If I want to do X and so-and-so doesn't like it, then so-and-so has every right to scream out loud and promote their opposition to my X idea. At the same time, it is sometimes scary to the lenghts at which some will go to to promote their opposition to an idea, using harsh terms such as mass murder in the case presented by Katz.
Also, the art issue is fairly complex. I don't think that my tax dollars should be used to support something that I find offensive. However at the same time, I feel art is an important part of society and needs to be supported in someway.
I have no solution to offer to these problems, but these nonetheless are my opionions.
I had/have carpal tunnel. About three years ago I went to a local doctor who spent all of about 3 minutes looking at my hands and wrists and then said, "You have carpal tunnel, you need to have surgery." Luckily, it was going to be almost a month before I could schedule the surgery, and I did not find it acceptable to wait this long to solve my problems. I then went to another who I had previously gone to. The great thing about this new Doctor, he himself had suffered from carpal tunnel, so he knew all the options having researched them personally for himself. When I went to visit him, he performed some form of standardized tests on my hands/wrists that gave him a feel for how bad my problem was. He told me that my problem was only moderate. He said surgery was definately NOT needed and would NOT solve the problem. What he did do was give me a steroid shot in my wrist (basically cortizone if i recall correctly) that brought the swelling in the tunnels down. This got rid of my symptoms within hours.
He then told me the following: 1. FIX YOUR BAD TYPING HABITS 2. Wear your wrist braces at night ( he said that wearing them during the day was far less important then wearing them while I slept. This seemed counter-intuitive to me, but nonetheless it worked. 3. When your hands/wrists feel slightly bad, do not let the problem build up, take an anti-inflammatory (such as ibuprofin) to keep the swelling of the tunnels down.
I haven't really done number one very well, although I am a little bit better than I used to be. Number two and number three used only when necessary have kept me from having any problems in almost two years.
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Well I read another article saying that the television stations are resistant to this as well which means they really have the upper hand, although I have yet to see any evidence that they realize this. Were I the CEO of some network, I would be trying to organize the networks together to fight Hollywood, and it is really quite simple if you ask me. If hollywood says "We won't allow you to show X blockbuster movie," I would say, "OK, we won't advertise that new movie that you've spent 200 million dollars on. Granted that they'll lose a bit of advertising revenue, but after a few failures at the box office I would guess that Hollywood would start to change its tune a bit.
I see the problem here as being not that people are attempting to censor more than they were in the past, but that with the advent of new technologies more people are able to present their oppositions to others ideas. Attempting to quell this is also a form of censorship. If I want to do X and so-and-so doesn't like it, then so-and-so has every right to scream out loud and promote their opposition to my X idea. At the same time, it is sometimes scary to the lenghts at which some will go to to promote their opposition to an idea, using harsh terms such as mass murder in the case presented by Katz.
Also, the art issue is fairly complex. I don't think that my tax dollars should be used to support something that I find offensive. However at the same time, I feel art is an important part of society and needs to be supported in someway.
I have no solution to offer to these problems, but these nonetheless are my opionions.
I had/have carpal tunnel. About three years ago I went to a local doctor who spent all of about 3 minutes looking at my hands and wrists and then said, "You have carpal tunnel, you need to have surgery." Luckily, it was going to be almost a month before I could schedule the surgery, and I did not find it acceptable to wait this long to solve my problems. I then went to another who I had previously gone to. The great thing about this new Doctor, he himself had suffered from carpal tunnel, so he knew all the options having researched them personally for himself. When I went to visit him, he performed some form of standardized tests on my hands/wrists that gave him a feel for how bad my problem was. He told me that my problem was only moderate. He said surgery was definately NOT needed and would NOT solve the problem. What he did do was give me a steroid shot in my wrist (basically cortizone if i recall correctly) that brought the swelling in the tunnels down. This got rid of my symptoms within hours.
He then told me the following:
1. FIX YOUR BAD TYPING HABITS
2. Wear your wrist braces at night ( he said that wearing them during the day was far less important then wearing them while I slept. This seemed counter-intuitive to me, but nonetheless it worked.
3. When your hands/wrists feel slightly bad, do not let the problem build up, take an anti-inflammatory (such as ibuprofin) to keep the swelling of the tunnels down.
I haven't really done number one very well, although I am a little bit better than I used to be. Number two and number three used only when necessary have kept me from having any problems in almost two years.
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