When you stop using cars that spew out orders of magnitude more crap than even the most dedicated chain smoker, then you can say that without being a hypocrite.
When I say using cars, that includes trucks that bring products to you being used on your behalf.
When you start to feel like rationalizing how the cars and trucks are necessary for survival, just limit the comment to non-essentials, and repeat.
That is revisionist at best. Up until Activision started up from ex-Atari employees, all systems only had first party games. When Activision became the first third party game developer, Atari tried to sue them out of existence. Nintendo, coming after Atari, could see that third parties could make good games, and that MORE games made the system appear more attractive to consumers. They then came up with the idea of trying to use copyright and patents to force every developer to pay them a , and implemented lock out methods. Just review the library of NES games to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that it was not for quality control.
Crappy games did not kill the video game market. The video game market was plenty strong. The 'video game crash' is a myth. What happened was that everyone started moving to more open platforms C64. These systems had both better and worse games, but they did have plenty of games.
You really shouldn't have to even say that, as jail-breaking is just the name for modding being used on the iPhone, and the point is comparing systems that need to be hacked for development vs. systems that are open for development.
I would suggest that one cannot express themselves with words they do not know. I would also suggest that being able to read will increase the odds that you will be exposed to and learn more words. This leads me to believe that if technology improves the ability to read, it will by default improve the kid's ability to express themselves.
What I think gets missed a lot though is that literacy, has diminishing returns. Being able to read a stop sign, or the simple labels on your remote control, greatly expand your world. Being able to read and understand a menu and a job application opens up an even larger world to you. Being able to easily read and understand a novel is better, but is not as big of a deal as the levels before it. In fact, many people live happy productive lives, and have never read a single novel outside of school.
Pretty much everything past what a 7th grade education should provide, while a great thing to have, is largely unnecessary for the vast majority of the population.
I can tell you that I learned to spell correctly from spell checkers. I went from an extremely poor speller at the age of 13 to a pretty good speller by the age of 16. It wasn't a new interest in spelling that did it. It was having instant feedback that was easy to correct instead of a marked up page 3 days later.
I can also say that right now, spell checking, and more importantly, type ahead is MASSIVELY improving my 5 year old's spelling. Going online and doing searches on Google, with it's type ahead, has changed him from a phonetic speller to a reasonably good speller, and he gets better by the day.
Of course, like many things, technology can be a double edged sword. Your kid can gain a huge vocabulary by watching lots of TV, but if they sit and watch the same "educational" episode of Wow Wow Wubbsy, not only will they not get an increased vocabulary, but the vocabulary the do get will be poor. Your kid can learn to read and gain problem solving skills from video games, but you read everything for them. Your kid can learn to read and spell by surfing the internet, but not if you place a set of 2 icons on the desktop that take them directly to PBS Kids and Nickalodian, then only let them go to those sites while you supervise every key press.
So, I only half tongue in cheek coin the phrase "If you want a really smart kid, make sure they get lost of TV, video games and unsupervised time on the internet."
Sure, there are some common words that continue to get misspelled, but now we have a hand full of words that get misspelled instead of thousands. No doubt, "to" and "too" got misused long before the spell checker.
Yes, I hooked my PC and my ROKU to my 50" Plasma via HDMI. The difference was night and day. The PC was almost unwatchable. I certainly would not have shown it to anyone as a way to convice them that Netflix streaming was worth while. It looked like it came off of a VHS tape. The ROKU produced a better picture than my satallite. To be fair, my satillite is SD, but there was no question about the huge difference in picture quality.
The poster needs to forget using a PC for Netflix. The video quality streamed to the PC is VASTLY inferior to what gets streamed to the Roku. Being able to steam to your computer is great on a 17"-22" monitor, but once you start getting up to living room TV sizes, you can really see the lower quality.
at worst it leads to falsifying data to ensure that world sees things the same way you do.
Seriously? No, at worst, they would literally be raising armies, killing people, and destroying the tools of their enemies like power stations and factories. They are claiming that the current path will lead in a very short time to the destruction of mankind. To the painful death of their children and grandchildren. What would you do if you truly believed that someone was going to kill your child in a horrific fashion. If you had absolute proof that they were going to do it if you didn't do something about it.
Yes, I am sure that the Catholic Church is bigger, richer, and an international child molestation ring. It hasn't even been a secret for at least a generation. I know all my life, someone being refered to as an 'alter boy' mean that they were getting buggered.
I assume you are only counting desktops. In my house I have
2 - Windows 7 Desktops
1 - XP nettop
1 - XP Media Box (XBMC)
1 - Linux Desktop
5 - Linux Wireless Routers (2 for a wireless to wireless router when I travel)
2 - Linux TVs
2 - Linux NAS
1 - Linux VOIP adapter
1 - Linux Phone (Android actually, but that sits on top of Linux)
That puts me at 4 Windows and 12 Linux systems in my home, so Linux has a 75% market share here too. I would guess that there are a LOT more people running Linux in their homes than are counted or even realize it.
I agree that having sex with prepubescent kids is despicable. Now, if only we could get the same kind of action taken against the worlds biggest, riches, most powerful child molestation ring. You know, the Catholic Church.
I work with a woman who was a neighbor of the Dividians at the time. Her telling of the story is that they were decent neighbors who didn't bother anyone. They did have large stockpiles of guns, but that as far as anyone could tell, they were legal firearms delivered through normal channels, and that having a bunch of guns wasn't all that unusual for that area.
According to her telling of events, the altercation started when one of the Dividians neighbors complained about the noise from their target practice. The local sheriff went out and asked them to keep it down. She claims the sheriff had already resolved the issue before the Fed decided they had an excuse to assault the church.
Actually, they probably did. The blue screen was chosen at a time that frequent computer crashes were just a fact of life. (and yes, that includes mainframes) It isn't the times that the error screen showed for 2 minutes that they would have been worried about. It is the times that the computer crashed at 7PM on Friday, and nobody noticed it until 8 or 9AM the next Monday. No doubt MS knew that the error screen would be sitting on many monitors for days at a time, and would want to delay the inevitable burn in.
Of course, they may have just thought that blue was a calming color, so chose that instead of a more violent color like red.
Comp time cannot be recognized for salary because when you are paid for a position instead of time, also know as salary, the term is meaningless. It is impossible to have paid time off if you are truly salary, as you are not paid for the time.
The reason you are confused is because you have fallen prey to companies misuse of the term salary. They would like you to think that salary means "x dollars for 40 hours a week and we don't pay you for overtime". If you are docked pay for not showing up, you are an hourly employee, not salary, irrelevant of what your HR department says.
No, "opening up a lot of land to be available for use growing food for humans" is a fairy tale. Every year my aunt get paid NOT to grow food on her farm. Not for animals. Not for humans. Until we stop paying farmers to NOT grow food, any arguments concerning opening land for growing is just smoke and mirrors. This applies to claims of food shortages due to ethanol production as well.
I highly suspect that the massive energy disparity between grain and meat is what has lead to this crazy all sugar diet that is being called "healthy". Some time is the 60's or 70's someone realized that fat contained more calories by volume than grains. So, they 'logically' reasoned that if you replace your meat with an equivalent volume of sugar, you will lose weight. They reasoned that if calories burned is greater than calories consumed, you would lose weight.
What they seemed to have missed is that people's bodies have mechanisms to just start doing less work with fewer calories, thus screwing the starvation dieter. People's bodies also have anuses. They will pass different amounts based on what they eat. People's bodies also have mechanisms to compel them to eat more if they are not getting as many calories as they want.
Besides the portion control that appetite sating fat brings, fat and protein break down slower, so people can actually sit down and have a health meal that they have prepared, knowing that it will last them through to the next meal, instead of eating whatever happens to be within reach because they are constantly starving since they are constantly running out of their sugar fuel.
At least here in California, it cannot be officially recognized, as 'Comp Time' is not legal. If you are hourly, you must be paid for time worked. If you are salary, then you are paid for the position, so taking a day off isn't 'Comp Time', since you are not technically obliged to be there.
I am a bit surprised that 'on call' work has not been brought up as a class action lawsuit. Certainly, waiting to answer a phone is work, and thus should legally be compensated as work.
I agree with your point, but the last paragraph about not being able to predict tomorrows weather, so how can we predict the weather in 100 years, works against you. Some predictions are a lot easier when you are just predicting the average over a huge sampling. That is how casinos can successfully run most of their games. While they cannot predict whether you will win the next round or not, they can predict with pretty good accuracy, how many rounds on average you will win over the next 30,000 rounds.
So, I am not saying our conclusion is wrong, and I don't think your point hinges on that last paragraph, so you might want to consider not using it as an argument.
I never said anything implying that recognition of past racism is racist. Treating people differently today based on their race is. Your attempt to make YOUR current racism ok because somebody else was an ass in the past is just poor rationalization. I argued FOR the avoidance of further infractions, and you argued AGAINST it. So, the second half of your sentence makes no sense.
Your attempt to redefine the word 'racist' doesn't fly. You are arguing that treating people differently based on race is not racist and that treating them the same is. That's just Newspeak, and it is just wrong.
Rationalizing why it is ok to treat one group different from another based on their race is the very definition of racism. You can pretend like you are not a racist while you dibbie up society based on skin color all you want, but that doesn't change the fact that YOU are defining people by the color of their skin. And before you start talking about racial sensetivity, would you get just as offended if by a picture of Bush dressed like a Viking or Cheney dressed like a nazi? Doubtful. Have you petitioned your local municipality to remove the language that uses a racial group as the very definition of a class of crime? Should everyone with any Eastern Germanic heritage start complaining and suing over the blatantly racist act of refering to destruction of public property as 'Vandalism'?
I highly doubt you are nearly as offended by a white group being literally defined in the dictionary as "one who willfully or ignorantly destroys, damages, or defaces property belonging to another or to the public".
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When you stop using cars that spew out orders of magnitude more crap than even the most dedicated chain smoker, then you can say that without being a hypocrite.
When I say using cars, that includes trucks that bring products to you being used on your behalf.
When you start to feel like rationalizing how the cars and trucks are necessary for survival, just limit the comment to non-essentials, and repeat.
Until my aunt stops getting a check every year to NOT grow food on her farm, claims of bio-fuels competing with food for farmland hold no water.
That is revisionist at best. Up until Activision started up from ex-Atari employees, all systems only had first party games. When Activision became the first third party game developer, Atari tried to sue them out of existence. Nintendo, coming after Atari, could see that third parties could make good games, and that MORE games made the system appear more attractive to consumers. They then came up with the idea of trying to use copyright and patents to force every developer to pay them a , and implemented lock out methods. Just review the library of NES games to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that it was not for quality control.
Crappy games did not kill the video game market. The video game market was plenty strong. The 'video game crash' is a myth. What happened was that everyone started moving to more open platforms C64. These systems had both better and worse games, but they did have plenty of games.
You really shouldn't have to even say that, as jail-breaking is just the name for modding being used on the iPhone, and the point is comparing systems that need to be hacked for development vs. systems that are open for development.
I would suggest that one cannot express themselves with words they do not know. I would also suggest that being able to read will increase the odds that you will be exposed to and learn more words. This leads me to believe that if technology improves the ability to read, it will by default improve the kid's ability to express themselves.
What I think gets missed a lot though is that literacy, has diminishing returns. Being able to read a stop sign, or the simple labels on your remote control, greatly expand your world. Being able to read and understand a menu and a job application opens up an even larger world to you. Being able to easily read and understand a novel is better, but is not as big of a deal as the levels before it. In fact, many people live happy productive lives, and have never read a single novel outside of school.
Pretty much everything past what a 7th grade education should provide, while a great thing to have, is largely unnecessary for the vast majority of the population.
I can tell you that I learned to spell correctly from spell checkers. I went from an extremely poor speller at the age of 13 to a pretty good speller by the age of 16. It wasn't a new interest in spelling that did it. It was having instant feedback that was easy to correct instead of a marked up page 3 days later.
I can also say that right now, spell checking, and more importantly, type ahead is MASSIVELY improving my 5 year old's spelling. Going online and doing searches on Google, with it's type ahead, has changed him from a phonetic speller to a reasonably good speller, and he gets better by the day.
Of course, like many things, technology can be a double edged sword. Your kid can gain a huge vocabulary by watching lots of TV, but if they sit and watch the same "educational" episode of Wow Wow Wubbsy, not only will they not get an increased vocabulary, but the vocabulary the do get will be poor. Your kid can learn to read and gain problem solving skills from video games, but you read everything for them. Your kid can learn to read and spell by surfing the internet, but not if you place a set of 2 icons on the desktop that take them directly to PBS Kids and Nickalodian, then only let them go to those sites while you supervise every key press.
So, I only half tongue in cheek coin the phrase "If you want a really smart kid, make sure they get lost of TV, video games and unsupervised time on the internet."
Sure, there are some common words that continue to get misspelled, but now we have a hand full of words that get misspelled instead of thousands. No doubt, "to" and "too" got misused long before the spell checker.
I run faxes over Vonage VIOP periodically, and my satellite reciever runs it's modem over it as well.
Yes, I hooked my PC and my ROKU to my 50" Plasma via HDMI. The difference was night and day. The PC was almost unwatchable. I certainly would not have shown it to anyone as a way to convice them that Netflix streaming was worth while. It looked like it came off of a VHS tape. The ROKU produced a better picture than my satallite. To be fair, my satillite is SD, but there was no question about the huge difference in picture quality.
The poster needs to forget using a PC for Netflix. The video quality streamed to the PC is VASTLY inferior to what gets streamed to the Roku. Being able to steam to your computer is great on a 17"-22" monitor, but once you start getting up to living room TV sizes, you can really see the lower quality.
Multi-user systems? If 1 user can max out a dual core processor now, what would happen if you put 48 people on that same system?
at worst it leads to falsifying data to ensure that world sees things the same way you do.
Seriously? No, at worst, they would literally be raising armies, killing people, and destroying the tools of their enemies like power stations and factories. They are claiming that the current path will lead in a very short time to the destruction of mankind. To the painful death of their children and grandchildren. What would you do if you truly believed that someone was going to kill your child in a horrific fashion. If you had absolute proof that they were going to do it if you didn't do something about it.
By having the Feds already waiting for an excuse to assault.
Yes, I am sure that the Catholic Church is bigger, richer, and an international child molestation ring. It hasn't even been a secret for at least a generation. I know all my life, someone being refered to as an 'alter boy' mean that they were getting buggered.
I assume you are only counting desktops. In my house I have 2 - Windows 7 Desktops 1 - XP nettop 1 - XP Media Box (XBMC) 1 - Linux Desktop 5 - Linux Wireless Routers (2 for a wireless to wireless router when I travel) 2 - Linux TVs 2 - Linux NAS 1 - Linux VOIP adapter 1 - Linux Phone (Android actually, but that sits on top of Linux) That puts me at 4 Windows and 12 Linux systems in my home, so Linux has a 75% market share here too. I would guess that there are a LOT more people running Linux in their homes than are counted or even realize it.
I agree that having sex with prepubescent kids is despicable. Now, if only we could get the same kind of action taken against the worlds biggest, riches, most powerful child molestation ring. You know, the Catholic Church.
I work with a woman who was a neighbor of the Dividians at the time. Her telling of the story is that they were decent neighbors who didn't bother anyone. They did have large stockpiles of guns, but that as far as anyone could tell, they were legal firearms delivered through normal channels, and that having a bunch of guns wasn't all that unusual for that area.
According to her telling of events, the altercation started when one of the Dividians neighbors complained about the noise from their target practice. The local sheriff went out and asked them to keep it down. She claims the sheriff had already resolved the issue before the Fed decided they had an excuse to assault the church.
Actually, they probably did. The blue screen was chosen at a time that frequent computer crashes were just a fact of life. (and yes, that includes mainframes) It isn't the times that the error screen showed for 2 minutes that they would have been worried about. It is the times that the computer crashed at 7PM on Friday, and nobody noticed it until 8 or 9AM the next Monday. No doubt MS knew that the error screen would be sitting on many monitors for days at a time, and would want to delay the inevitable burn in.
Of course, they may have just thought that blue was a calming color, so chose that instead of a more violent color like red.
Comp time cannot be recognized for salary because when you are paid for a position instead of time, also know as salary, the term is meaningless. It is impossible to have paid time off if you are truly salary, as you are not paid for the time.
The reason you are confused is because you have fallen prey to companies misuse of the term salary. They would like you to think that salary means "x dollars for 40 hours a week and we don't pay you for overtime". If you are docked pay for not showing up, you are an hourly employee, not salary, irrelevant of what your HR department says.
No, "opening up a lot of land to be available for use growing food for humans" is a fairy tale. Every year my aunt get paid NOT to grow food on her farm. Not for animals. Not for humans. Until we stop paying farmers to NOT grow food, any arguments concerning opening land for growing is just smoke and mirrors. This applies to claims of food shortages due to ethanol production as well.
I highly suspect that the massive energy disparity between grain and meat is what has lead to this crazy all sugar diet that is being called "healthy". Some time is the 60's or 70's someone realized that fat contained more calories by volume than grains. So, they 'logically' reasoned that if you replace your meat with an equivalent volume of sugar, you will lose weight. They reasoned that if calories burned is greater than calories consumed, you would lose weight.
What they seemed to have missed is that people's bodies have mechanisms to just start doing less work with fewer calories, thus screwing the starvation dieter. People's bodies also have anuses. They will pass different amounts based on what they eat. People's bodies also have mechanisms to compel them to eat more if they are not getting as many calories as they want.
Besides the portion control that appetite sating fat brings, fat and protein break down slower, so people can actually sit down and have a health meal that they have prepared, knowing that it will last them through to the next meal, instead of eating whatever happens to be within reach because they are constantly starving since they are constantly running out of their sugar fuel.
At least here in California, it cannot be officially recognized, as 'Comp Time' is not legal. If you are hourly, you must be paid for time worked. If you are salary, then you are paid for the position, so taking a day off isn't 'Comp Time', since you are not technically obliged to be there.
I am a bit surprised that 'on call' work has not been brought up as a class action lawsuit. Certainly, waiting to answer a phone is work, and thus should legally be compensated as work.
I agree with your point, but the last paragraph about not being able to predict tomorrows weather, so how can we predict the weather in 100 years, works against you. Some predictions are a lot easier when you are just predicting the average over a huge sampling. That is how casinos can successfully run most of their games. While they cannot predict whether you will win the next round or not, they can predict with pretty good accuracy, how many rounds on average you will win over the next 30,000 rounds.
So, I am not saying our conclusion is wrong, and I don't think your point hinges on that last paragraph, so you might want to consider not using it as an argument.
I never said anything implying that recognition of past racism is racist. Treating people differently today based on their race is. Your attempt to make YOUR current racism ok because somebody else was an ass in the past is just poor rationalization. I argued FOR the avoidance of further infractions, and you argued AGAINST it. So, the second half of your sentence makes no sense.
Your attempt to redefine the word 'racist' doesn't fly. You are arguing that treating people differently based on race is not racist and that treating them the same is. That's just Newspeak, and it is just wrong.
Rationalizing why it is ok to treat one group different from another based on their race is the very definition of racism. You can pretend like you are not a racist while you dibbie up society based on skin color all you want, but that doesn't change the fact that YOU are defining people by the color of their skin. And before you start talking about racial sensetivity, would you get just as offended if by a picture of Bush dressed like a Viking or Cheney dressed like a nazi? Doubtful. Have you petitioned your local municipality to remove the language that uses a racial group as the very definition of a class of crime? Should everyone with any Eastern Germanic heritage start complaining and suing over the blatantly racist act of refering to destruction of public property as 'Vandalism'?
I highly doubt you are nearly as offended by a white group being literally defined in the dictionary as "one who willfully or ignorantly destroys, damages, or defaces property belonging to another or to the public".