For all I know the slutty and stupid guys fathered way more than 4+ children each.
I don't know the fathers. I only know the women (and now that I think about it.. there is a fourth who I had for gotten about since it's been a couple decades but apparently she had a herd of kids by different father's too).
Doesn't change the point slutty and stupid, promiscuous and stupid... is competing with religious and prolifice for space in the gene pool.
In all seriousness, This is competing with the "slutty and stupid" gene set. I known several women and who each had 4+ children due to sloppiness around birth control and gave up most of them for adoption.
There is nothing soul crushing about doing the job to which are best suited.
We are currently overcompensating some segments of our society because the wealthy have (temporarily) built a ring around certain jobs and then are passing them on to their children. It won't hold. There just is no value to paying a CEO 100 million dollars when the similar CEO in china or india is doing just as good a job for 1 million dollars a year.
Overcompensating them makes people envy them even tho they would be unhappy in those jobs.
There are lots of people of low to average IQ who are happy with a relatively mindless job surrounded by pleasant work buddies.
But you are right- those jobs can be automated. (and are being automated). The end result will not be that those people suddenly become smarter, talented, and capable of doing jobs that require high intelligence or talent.
So what happens to them when their jobs are automated away and there are no other jobs to go to?
They can vote or swing a club or shoot a gun perfectly well. They'll get unhappy when they have nothing to do- no money to spend- and folks act like it's their fault.
At some point, it has to make sense to have some legal way for ISP's to cache the shows and movies locally. Perhaps in an agreed on encrypted form which their netflix users can download.
You could probably set up a bank of 40 terabytes for under $2000 since it's not critical data you could use consumer drives.
You might be able to get a start using the Madoff or Stanford client lists.
But short of fraud, it's very hard for them to go broke these days.
The richest share the same set of private schools these days.
If they don't wake up and start being a little bit less greedy it'll be the french revolution all over again. And that ain't good for anyone at any level.
In other 1st world countries, parents income has a 10% effect on their offspring's income. In the U.S. it is 50%.
In the US it used to be 3 generations from bottom to top to bottom- now it's 5.
Instead of letting people earn money on merit, we have paris hilton's and george bush's leading the nation because their parents were rich. Think about how similar paris and george were.
The children of actors get first shot at all the acting jobs- not because they are good- but because their parents were actors. The CEO's share the same private schools as kinds and refer to playing with other ceo's when they were children.
In the long run- it's bad for the country as a whole to allow rich idiot children to take over the nation because they are friends with each other.
Can you PROVE Bible Study groups are not going to create gangs?
Can you PROVE Education Classes are not going to create gangs?
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It's not even as simple as "The warden gets to set the rules" because in various cases the warden's rules have been overruled. Personally, I think the Warden should be able to veto any recreational activity because they are on the line. It's their responsibility.
But the case was a joke. It could be used to ban any activity and is basically enforcing the warden's religious preferences which means we have a government official enforcing their religion on others.
Yes, I know about Cobb's wedding ring and confirmed on a rewatch that it does disappear and appear suitably.
It would be subject to the same concern tho as the totem behaves consistently with the ring when he thinks to check it and isn't interrupted.
I think of the Ring as Nolan's ultimate clue to reality and non-reality but it could just as easily be "the top level dream vs the lower level dreams".
A key factor (for me) tho is that we have scenes of characters interacting where Cobb isn't present. That overcomes the possible unreliable narrator and says they must be real.
1) 3d doesn't matter to 95% of the film so it's a lot hassle for those few significant 3d moments. 2) 3d is TOO EXPENSIVE. I'd pay a buck for it. I'm not going to pay three bucks for it when I can see the same film for four or five bucks. I'm definitely not going to pay three bucks on top of fourteen dollars for Imax unless it is something exceptional to me (Tron3d has been it so far). 3) My mind remaps the 3d to 2d quickly. I noticed this in the light cycle battles in Tron3d. I noticed it in Avatar. I see a 3d image, but even 2 seconds later, it's stored in my mind in 2d and I sort of see it again as 2d.
It's okay for some films. It's okay for a *SMALL* surcharge. It's not worth 3 bucks.
Ah... okay. Found two ways to get a comments list like the old one. I'm happy now. Seems faster, and the editing boxes are decently sized. Have hated prior changes but this one seems okay.
If you look really close in the elevator scene you can see two teeny straps or zippers hanging at a 90 degree angle to what they should Everything else- even the 'greased down hair and the 'bun hair' on the girl' was fastened down.
I find CGI for "the big impressive scenes" to be pathetic. It's still not good enough. You can see the knife barely missing the neck isn't real. The huge drop isn't real. they do pull it off from time to time. The cliffhanger opening scene with stallone climbing was a shot that worked-- real cliff, he's really climbing. but he's climbing on a 20' high cliff that's mapped into the 1000' high cliff well enough to hide the seams.
I hadn't read the christianity parallel before (elsewhere in this thread). That was really interesting.
Well, as far as the top goes, Nolan stays on the top until it starts to wobble. Nolan could have cut.5 seconds earlier and there would have been no wobble. That was an intentional editing choice.
Inception was exception for the lack of modern effects.
It looked real and impressed you because it was real.
The fortress was not CGI and it was not a small scale model. The hotel corridor battle had no CGI at all. The hotel restaurant had no CGI except the view out windows The floating elevator scenes (and others) were not CGI.
In your gut, you knew they were real and in your head, you knew they were impossible.
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As Spock said... "I exaggerated."
I stopped buying Sony products i 2001.
It was a horrific customer service incident.
I've gotten by just fine without them.
Bah.
Those are consumer droids.
True geeks make their own maps, their own material.
Where they go, they don't need roads.
For all I know the slutty and stupid guys fathered way more than 4+ children each.
I don't know the fathers. I only know the women (and now that I think about it.. there is a fourth who I had for gotten about since it's been a couple decades but apparently she had a herd of kids by different father's too).
Doesn't change the point slutty and stupid, promiscuous and stupid... is competing with religious and prolifice for space in the gene pool.
"Careful and wise" fails to breed.
In all seriousness,
This is competing with the "slutty and stupid" gene set. I known several women and who each had 4+ children due to sloppiness around birth control and gave up most of them for adoption.
Not everyone grows up to be an astronaut.
Not everyone wants to.
There is nothing soul crushing about doing the job to which are best suited.
We are currently overcompensating some segments of our society because the wealthy have (temporarily) built a ring around certain jobs and then are passing them on to their children. It won't hold. There just is no value to paying a CEO 100 million dollars when the similar CEO in china or india is doing just as good a job for 1 million dollars a year.
Overcompensating them makes people envy them even tho they would be unhappy in those jobs.
There are lots of people of low to average IQ who are happy with a relatively mindless job surrounded by pleasant work buddies.
But you are right- those jobs can be automated. (and are being automated). The end result will not be that those people suddenly become smarter, talented, and capable of doing jobs that require high intelligence or talent.
So what happens to them when their jobs are automated away and there are no other jobs to go to?
They can vote or swing a club or shoot a gun perfectly well. They'll get unhappy when they have nothing to do- no money to spend- and folks act like it's their fault.
So glad to hear they will be lowering tolls to reflect the savings!
At some point, it has to make sense to have some legal way for ISP's to cache the shows and movies locally. Perhaps in an agreed on encrypted form which their netflix users can download.
You could probably set up a bank of 40 terabytes for under $2000 since it's not critical data you could use consumer drives.
Any security barrier creates a clot of people which becomes a target.
You can protect the planes for the most part, but people are tougher.
You might be able to get a start using the Madoff or Stanford client lists.
But short of fraud, it's very hard for them to go broke these days.
The richest share the same set of private schools these days.
If they don't wake up and start being a little bit less greedy it'll be the french revolution all over again. And that ain't good for anyone at any level.
In other 1st world countries, parents income has a 10% effect on their offspring's income.
In the U.S. it is 50%.
In the US it used to be 3 generations from bottom to top to bottom- now it's 5.
Instead of letting people earn money on merit, we have paris hilton's and george bush's leading the nation because their parents were rich. Think about how similar paris and george were.
The children of actors get first shot at all the acting jobs- not because they are good- but because their parents were actors. The CEO's share the same private schools as kinds and refer to playing with other ceo's when they were children.
In the long run- it's bad for the country as a whole to allow rich idiot children to take over the nation because they are friends with each other.
JIM! Why do you keep dropping the soap. You are not even trying to make your roll!
Here's how it went...
Can you PROVE D&D is not going to create gangs?
which is unprovable...
the problem with the ruling?
Can you PROVE Bible Study groups are not going to create gangs?
Can you PROVE Education Classes are not going to create gangs?
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It's not even as simple as "The warden gets to set the rules" because in various cases the warden's rules have been overruled. Personally, I think the Warden should be able to veto any recreational activity because they are on the line. It's their responsibility.
But the case was a joke. It could be used to ban any activity and is basically enforcing the warden's religious preferences which means we have a government official enforcing their religion on others.
Just a few weeks ago, there was a "Change your profile to a cartoon character for child abuse campaign". Lots of cartoon characters.
My profile picture after that was a pretty girl with a pig. No idea who she is. Liked the picture. Another friend's picture is her feet. Etc.
Princess Leia: The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more star systems will slip through your fingers.
I am getting really darn sick of Facebook.
I'm down to posting an interesting picture every few days.
I no longer play any of the games.
I do NOT WANT TO BE UNIQUELY IDENTIFIED.
I WANT MY PRIVATE LIFE PRIVATE.
I DO NOT WANT TO BE JUDGED BY EMPLOYERS AND OTHER PEOPLE IN 10 YEARS FOR THINGS I DID TODAY.
Click your name- and instead of being in the middle- it's a box called "comments" over on the right. it brings up a list of comments and responses.
Likewise, on another screen there is just the word "comments" on the left side in a list. Click it and you get the old list.
Yes, I know about Cobb's wedding ring and confirmed on a rewatch that it does disappear and appear suitably.
It would be subject to the same concern tho as the totem behaves consistently with the ring when he thinks to check it and isn't interrupted.
I think of the Ring as Nolan's ultimate clue to reality and non-reality but it could just as easily be "the top level dream vs the lower level dreams".
A key factor (for me) tho is that we have scenes of characters interacting where Cobb isn't present. That overcomes the possible unreliable narrator and says they must be real.
I'm almost 50, I have no problems with 3d films.
1) 3d doesn't matter to 95% of the film so it's a lot hassle for those few significant 3d moments.
2) 3d is TOO EXPENSIVE. I'd pay a buck for it. I'm not going to pay three bucks for it when I can see the same film for four or five bucks. I'm definitely not going to pay three bucks on top of fourteen dollars for Imax unless it is something exceptional to me (Tron3d has been it so far).
3) My mind remaps the 3d to 2d quickly. I noticed this in the light cycle battles in Tron3d. I noticed it in Avatar. I see a 3d image, but even 2 seconds later, it's stored in my mind in 2d and I sort of see it again as 2d.
It's okay for some films. It's okay for a *SMALL* surcharge. It's not worth 3 bucks.
Ah... okay. Found two ways to get a comments list like the old one. I'm happy now.
Seems faster, and the editing boxes are decently sized. Have hated prior changes but this one seems okay.
I like it but I am having a hell of a time reading existing threads I was in.
If you look really close in the elevator scene you can see two teeny straps or zippers hanging at a 90 degree angle to what they should Everything else- even the 'greased down hair and the 'bun hair' on the girl' was fastened down.
I find CGI for "the big impressive scenes" to be pathetic. It's still not good enough. You can see the knife barely missing the neck isn't real. The huge drop isn't real. they do pull it off from time to time. The cliffhanger opening scene with stallone climbing was a shot that worked-- real cliff, he's really climbing. but he's climbing on a 20' high cliff that's mapped into the 1000' high cliff well enough to hide the seams.
I hadn't read the christianity parallel before (elsewhere in this thread). That was really interesting.
Well, as far as the top goes, Nolan stays on the top until it starts to wobble. Nolan could have cut .5 seconds earlier and there would have been no wobble. That was an intentional editing choice.
There is just no other way to put it.
Perfect voice acting, perfect writing, perfect plot.
It was truly the third act and just incredibly well done.
I think I will watch it again several more times in my life.
A man (Decaprio) gets on a plane, first class to america.
The movie starts with his really vivid dream about the other people in 1st class.
He wakes up, gets off the plane and goes home to his children.
Inception was exception for the lack of modern effects.
It looked real and impressed you because it was real.
The fortress was not CGI and it was not a small scale model.
The hotel corridor battle had no CGI at all.
The hotel restaurant had no CGI except the view out windows
The floating elevator scenes (and others) were not CGI.
In your gut, you knew they were real and in your head, you knew they were impossible.