I think we represent about 5% of the population fairly well.
My daughter and her friends do not have cable television (makes sense- when I was her age, it was $20- 4 hours work-- today it is $78 - 8 hours work). They use netflix or the library for DVDs instead.
Among my non-geeky friends, they have a lot of hobbies (riding horses, crafting things, military training) which preclude watching much TV.
And a lot of my friends- nerd and non-nerd are currently working longer hours. It's like business senses this is the time they can take advantage of us... "Do it or take a hike". So here i am working on a sunday. Happy to have a job. Not on my butt watching TV at home.
I think a lot of folks realized, you watch most DVD's once. Having 400 dvd's takes up a lot of space for things you don't use for years.
I do not have enough time to keep up with what is already being produced.
So I choose the least expensive form of entertainment.
For example-- * MMORG- $16 for a all I can eat monthly gaming. * BSW - all i can eat free boardgaming. * Gametableonline - all i can eat free boardgaming. ** There are several foreign sites that I don't use. * Free movies like "Star Wreck" * Cable TV (I cut back $24 a month worth of services this month) * Free internet sites for... burn notice, heroes, lost. * Free fan films * Webcomics (Cyanide & Happiness, Questionable Content, Lucid TV, etc. ) And that is just the legal stuff.
Then in RL, I have ultimate, work (work is crazy now- not enough people- working on a sunday here), vacations, exercise (4 hours a week I was using for entertainment in 2008-- but now i'm back up to benching 140 and lost 20 pounds), Karoake, Hanging out at the pub (3 hours a week), etc.
If Youtube starts charging, then I just go somewhere else.
Actually. at the beginning, it was pretty clear to me (and a fair amount of others) that Rush was saying the words but didn't really believe them. It was just an act to get an audience. Just like, in Houston, we had this really sweet guy "Allan Van Black" but his radio personality was to infuriate people. People just called to try and argue with him and he would own them in really vicious ways-- but it was an act and when the show ended he reverted to who he was before.
There were a lot of discussions about whether he really believed it and finally he chimed in, said he did, and then he got a lot more serious.
Colbert is funny now- but the naming things is getting a bit creepy.
I saw Rush Limbaugh transform from being a stage personality to being the man and there are similarities.
Some parts of Colbert are very ironic-- but some parts (like the naming) are what they are and pose a risk he will begin believing his own stage persona.
People make their decisions based on what they see today and over the last few years.
Cycles longer than 20 years tend to blind side them.
Right now activity is so low that radio is breaking down (nothing to bounce off of). But in the future, activity will be much higher and interfere in the other direction.
Outlook is blocking other processes when it has network problems. Windows is blocking other processes while it deals with network mapped drives popping in and out of existence. IE (internal) hangs up a lot of stuff when it has internet problems (it's like some of the pieces are single threaded).
Word and other applications go into distress if they were doing work related to the network.
Just today the entire machine hung for over a minute while outlook got stuck. The only response is to just sit and wait and it clears up. If you poke it while its in that state, it will hang longer or just crash the computer entirely.
Win XP - current + Office 2007.
To be fair- many of these problems started 3 months ago when we installed office 2007.
Since you can sell that property for money, it has value to you.
Picture it like this... you don't own a rental car- but you certainly pay taxes on it as part of your fee. They just don't break it out like your phone bills. (and i think the government passed a law two or three years ago that prevents phone companies from breaking out certain taxes to hide the level of taxes you are really paying).
come on-- at least google "automobile property taxes" first.
Automobile and House property taxes are both extremely common.
And you are correct- you do not OWN your house. You only own it as long as you can pay your rent.. er.. property taxes to the government.
I'm against property taxes and for income taxes.
Property taxes really hurt people who lose their jobs or retire badly.
Income taxes only effect people who have jobs.
Sales taxes are objectionable but also acceptable.
But property taxes are really quite evil.
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But you must have taxes of some kind to pay for roads, municipal water, other government services (judges, policemen, city and state government buildings and salaries, etc.)
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I think I pay about $65 a year for auto property taxes and $3k a year for house property taxes. It's a major reason I do not own a bigger house- I could technically afford about twice the house I have but that would be $6k a year (basically $12k out of my gross) just for property taxes alone.
If you have 75k, you can be hit for a property tax on that 75k.
So the situation being presented is this possible future:
Sure, legally it's blizzard's property but the government passed a law that your blizzard bill must include an assessement for in game property. If you don't pay it, then your blizzard account is shut down.
The tax is $10 this year split into 12 easy payments of 80 cents. It would cost your $2,600 to fight the issue in court and you'd probably lose.
The irony of this is that most actual "learning" in college consists of
a) Loading vasts amounts of information really quickly. b) forgetting all of it to make room for next semester.
I could probably relearn it easier but I can't even recall how to derive off the top of my head these days and that's pretty basic stuff. And I aced a very hard calc test back in the day*
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Funny story, the three of us in our study group put in about 27 hours the week before. As a clever idea, we decided to study every example problem in the text book to the point where we could say the *answer* and state the problem and write the solution backwards from the answer to the problem.
Well, the other two guys walked into Dr. Steppe's class who had cleverly made every question on the test an example problem from the book. I still did extremely well-- finished in a half hour dnd aced it- but my study buds literally finished the midterm in under 5 minutes and made 105 and 104 respectively.
extremely funny. even the professor was amused (and i think pleased that they had studied so hard for his class).
Part of the reason I had to study so hard was that Dr Gumpel had basically failed everyone on the first test-- said there would be no curve so there was no way any of us could make an "A" any more (so all the honors students on the first row dropped immediately). In the end the pressure was so intense that she reconsidered and curved after all.
My experiece was that every class was on a curve- whether they said it or not. They were not permitted to give out more than 15% "A"'s and they were usually not permitted to fail 90% of the students (tho one class did fail 75 out of 80 but that was a different issue-- accreditation related)
Our cables never got that long but I do vaguely recall reading that we might need repeaters or something if we went too far.
However, when I said length wasn't not a big issue, I was talking about 17' vs 24' vs 3' vs 12' vs 50' type of length being referred to by the parent poster.
Of course, anyone would assume that some length is "too long". It might have been a mile- it might have been 100m-- but something is too long.
I think the longest cables I can buy are 100' so that's about 33m.
Immortal corporations will make money off of a few popular artists.
The remaining commercial artist's works will be completely forgotten as if they never existed by the time the copyright on their works expires.
Artists who officially release their works to the public domain's will be remembered at higher rates than commercial artists who "protect" their works.
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I think we represent about 5% of the population fairly well.
My daughter and her friends do not have cable television (makes sense- when I was her age, it was $20- 4 hours work-- today it is $78 - 8 hours work). They use netflix or the library for DVDs instead.
Among my non-geeky friends, they have a lot of hobbies (riding horses, crafting things, military training) which preclude watching much TV.
And a lot of my friends- nerd and non-nerd are currently working longer hours. It's like business senses this is the time they can take advantage of us... "Do it or take a hike". So here i am working on a sunday. Happy to have a job. Not on my butt watching TV at home.
I think a lot of folks realized, you watch most DVD's once. Having 400 dvd's takes up a lot of space for things you don't use for years.
"but too many people making too much content, "
And that is the key.
Good old supply and demand.
I do not have enough time to keep up with what is already being produced.
So I choose the least expensive form of entertainment.
For example-- ... burn notice, heroes, lost.
* MMORG- $16 for a all I can eat monthly gaming.
* BSW - all i can eat free boardgaming.
* Gametableonline - all i can eat free boardgaming.
** There are several foreign sites that I don't use.
* Free movies like "Star Wreck"
* Cable TV (I cut back $24 a month worth of services this month)
* Free internet sites for
* Free fan films
* Webcomics (Cyanide & Happiness, Questionable Content, Lucid TV, etc. )
And that is just the legal stuff.
Then in RL, I have ultimate, work (work is crazy now- not enough people- working on a sunday here), vacations, exercise (4 hours a week I was using for entertainment in 2008-- but now i'm back up to benching 140 and lost 20 pounds), Karoake, Hanging out at the pub (3 hours a week), etc.
If Youtube starts charging, then I just go somewhere else.
It goes on the list right after
paying for slashdot commentary on my posts.
I'd go even further and say a 1940-1970 (maybe 1980) affectation.
Friend of mine told me the spanish flu came in 3 waves
wave 1 was weak and contagious.
wave 2 was strong and contagious.
wave 3 was virulent and contained itself by killing the host before it could spread.
Apparently, there were a lot of survivors of wave 3 among those who had gotten sick in wave 1 or 2.
I always thought that these contagions got weaker as they spread (or less likely to kill the host at least).
anyone have some good links about this particular subject? I googled but didn't find much.
And I find myself highly addicted and excited by 2d pieces of green and salmon colored paper.
So it will be "ironic" when it all goes to Colbert's head and he starts believes his own storyline.
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And besides that, I think there is a lot of support for the view that Colbert is ironic.
For example, here:
http://www.pacificviews.org/weblog/archives/001989.html
"Why Colbert's Irony Was So Effective"
http://www.electricstory.com/reviews/editorials.aspx?id=6
"That's Colbert's ironic message."
etc... on and on for pages.
So in some sense, you are like any wordsmith hanging on the old dictionary meaning of a word while actual usage is changing.
Is there irony in defending the meaning of irony when it is changing as you defend it?
Actually. at the beginning, it was pretty clear to me (and a fair amount of others) that Rush was saying the words but didn't really believe them. It was just an act to get an audience. Just like, in Houston, we had this really sweet guy "Allan Van Black" but his radio personality was to infuriate people. People just called to try and argue with him and he would own them in really vicious ways-- but it was an act and when the show ended he reverted to who he was before.
There were a lot of discussions about whether he really believed it and finally he chimed in, said he did, and then he got a lot more serious.
I only wish I could experience 3d more in my day to day life.
Why must I have to wear special glasses and go into a darkened theater to experience 3d? Why?
Colbert is funny now- but the naming things is getting a bit creepy.
I saw Rush Limbaugh transform from being a stage personality to being the man and there are similarities.
Some parts of Colbert are very ironic-- but some parts (like the naming) are what they are and pose a risk he will begin believing his own stage persona.
Once the solar cycle hits it's next phase.
People make their decisions based on what they see today and over the last few years.
Cycles longer than 20 years tend to blind side them.
Right now activity is so low that radio is breaking down (nothing to bounce off of).
But in the future, activity will be much higher and interfere in the other direction.
There is more entertainment than I can watch.
One criteria for selection is how convenient it is.
Happens at my work--
I think what is happening is...
Outlook is blocking other processes when it has network problems.
Windows is blocking other processes while it deals with network mapped drives popping in and out of existence.
IE (internal) hangs up a lot of stuff when it has internet problems (it's like some of the pieces are single threaded).
Word and other applications go into distress if they were doing work related to the network.
Just today the entire machine hung for over a minute while outlook got stuck. The only response is to just sit and wait and it clears up. If you poke it while its in that state, it will hang longer or just crash the computer entirely.
Win XP - current + Office 2007.
To be fair- many of these problems started 3 months ago when we installed office 2007.
You let it stream to the break point, then rewind and watch it without any stuttering.
I use this to avoid most the commercials (I start them and walk out of the room- just like i did with TV)-- then I come back and watch the show.
Or I flip over and read the news while it plays.
Or any number of variants.
Plus--- The collapse of the internet has been predicted many times. I think tales of the internet's demise are greatly exaggerated.
They follow a fully developed system of ethics does not have the same conclusions as our own.
The scientist in question may be behaving ethically.
And if the scientist followed our ethical standards, he might be behaving unethically.
Since you can sell that property for money, it has value to you.
Picture it like this... you don't own a rental car- but you certainly pay taxes on it as part of your fee. They just don't break it out like your phone bills. (and i think the government passed a law two or three years ago that prevents phone companies from breaking out certain taxes to hide the level of taxes you are really paying).
Dude...
come on-- at least google "automobile property taxes" first.
Automobile and House property taxes are both extremely common.
And you are correct- you do not OWN your house. You only own it as long as you can pay your rent.. er.. property taxes to the government.
I'm against property taxes and for income taxes.
Property taxes really hurt people who lose their jobs or retire badly.
Income taxes only effect people who have jobs.
Sales taxes are objectionable but also acceptable.
But property taxes are really quite evil.
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But you must have taxes of some kind to pay for roads, municipal water, other government services (judges, policemen, city and state government buildings and salaries, etc.)
---
I think I pay about $65 a year for auto property taxes and $3k a year for house property taxes. It's a major reason I do not own a bigger house- I could technically afford about twice the house I have but that would be $6k a year (basically $12k out of my gross) just for property taxes alone.
If you have 75k, you can be hit for a property tax on that 75k.
So the situation being presented is this possible future:
Sure, legally it's blizzard's property but the government passed a law that your blizzard bill must include an assessement for in game property.
If you don't pay it, then your blizzard account is shut down.
The tax is $10 this year split into 12 easy payments of 80 cents. It would cost your $2,600 to fight the issue in court and you'd probably lose.
What action you take:
The irony of this is that most actual "learning" in college consists of
a) Loading vasts amounts of information really quickly.
b) forgetting all of it to make room for next semester.
I could probably relearn it easier but I can't even recall how to derive off the top of my head these days and that's pretty basic stuff.
And I aced a very hard calc test back in the day*
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Funny story, the three of us in our study group put in about 27 hours the week before. As a clever idea, we decided to study every example problem in the text book to the point where we could say the *answer* and state the problem and write the solution backwards from the answer to the problem.
Well, the other two guys walked into Dr. Steppe's class who had cleverly made every question on the test an example problem from the book. I still did extremely well-- finished in a half hour dnd aced it- but my study buds literally finished the midterm in under 5 minutes and made 105 and 104 respectively.
extremely funny. even the professor was amused (and i think pleased that they had studied so hard for his class).
Part of the reason I had to study so hard was that Dr Gumpel had basically failed everyone on the first test-- said there would be no curve so there was no way any of us could make an "A" any more (so all the honors students on the first row dropped immediately). In the end the pressure was so intense that she reconsidered and curved after all.
My experiece was that every class was on a curve- whether they said it or not. They were not permitted to give out more than 15% "A"'s and they were usually not permitted to fail 90% of the students (tho one class did fail 75 out of 80 but that was a different issue-- accreditation related)
Okay I'll grant you that!
Our cables never got that long but I do vaguely recall reading that we might need repeaters or something if we went too far.
However, when I said length wasn't not a big issue, I was talking about 17' vs 24' vs 3' vs 12' vs 50' type of length being referred to by the parent poster.
Of course, anyone would assume that some length is "too long". It might have been a mile- it might have been 100m-- but something is too long.
I think the longest cables I can buy are 100' so that's about 33m.
Seriously...
My daughter now has a 42" television which looks exactly like a monitor to the computer.
So there is absolutely no way to prevent displaying content on a television in the living room any more.
All you need is a TV with PC video inputs.
Not really.
Back when we ran cables length was not a consideration at all.
You either put the ends on the cable correctly or not.
Immortal corporations will make money off of a few popular artists.
The remaining commercial artist's works will be completely forgotten as if they never existed by the time the copyright on their works expires.
Artists who officially release their works to the public domain's will be remembered at higher rates than commercial artists who "protect" their works.
Corporations are immortal.
You can't even cut their heads off with a sword.
And wouldn't that at most apply for 50 to 100 years after his death?
Then his works are in the public domain (even by today's ridiculous copyright standards) and folks can use them to create new works.
It might be a lot less-- look what happened to Leona Helmsly's will.