This is mostly accurate. I'm ~$30,000 in debt. I'm still not finished. The only reason I even plan on finishing is because I would feel even worse if I spent all that time and money and didn't even get the degree. Will I get a better job because of grad school? Maybe. I might be able to get a job teaching at a community college. That's a big maybe though. I used to think I wanted to get a PhD. Now, just the thought of looking at my thesis draft turns my stomach. I used to love the material. I used to love reading and thinking. Maybe one day I'll be able to enjoy those things again. In the meantime, I'll be working for the next 20-25 years to pay off loans that went straight into the pockets of university bureaucrats. I feel like I've just been handed a prison sentence. Don't make the same mistake I did. Get a haircut and get a real job. I didn't, and look at me now.
I don't think the tube analogy is even in the ballpark. Allow me to use an example with tubes and gerbils. Usually, we think of tubes as 1) Put in a gerbil, 2) Gerbil comes out of other side of tube. The internet is more like 1) Put gerbil on one side of tube and press a button, 2) A second, identical gerbil is created at the other end of the tube. Of course, this ignores the gerbil clone that is stored in your RAM that is brutally destroyed when your purge the RAM. If you're using BitTorrent, your gerbil will cloned, and that clone will be cut into tiny pieces and then a huge tangle of tubes will vaccuum up the pieces until lots of people each have their own gerbil clone assembled at the end of their tube.
Conclusion: friends don't let friends send gerbils or internets through BitTorrent. Please transport gerbils responsibly.
There are and have been "good" "non-major" record companies for years. Bands would/do get together, record their albums, and distribute them from the same address, therefore having a "record label."
So why do people buy more records from EMI Records than Load Records? Because the "good" companies rely on word-of-mouth social networks (and now the Internet), while the bad ones force their product down your throat through advertisement and product placement.
There are far more independent record companies, but they are smaller. There are far fewer exploitative record companies, but they are larger and have the RIAA.
What's the solution? Do a little research (last.fm maybe?) and find music you like that isn't major. Trust me, it's far more interesting and far less overproduced and clone-sounding. There is so much out there if you just look for it instead of finding out about new music through your radio and T.V.
The agreement covers anyone who bought, received or used CDs containing what was revealed to be flawed digital rights management (DRM) software after Aug. 1, 2003.
I think "malicious" might have been a more accurate word than "flawed."
Bloggers are not the new news media, they are just a bunch of people who have found out a place were people will read their opinions, nod their heads, and help them mentally wack themselves off at how awsome they are and how many people they can get to agree.
And how is that not like the mainstream media?
I wince when I read anyone (especially a professor, researcher, or "expert") saying "girls do this" or "boys do that," not because what they're saying isn't correct, but because the question is never asked "Why is this?" It is just assumed that this is part of their "essence" or "nature" and that's really all they think need to be said about it.
and i didn't double check for grammar, but i noticed that i meant to write "write" instead of "writing" in the last clause of the last sentence of my post. i really should have though.
as a (former, hopefully future) writing instructor, i've got to say that grammar is just about the least important part of writing.
most grammar instruction (AKA prescribed grammar) actually does more harm than good, because people replace the unspoken grammar instruction that they learned from their family and friends with incorrect and confused uses of prescribed grammar.
what *does* work for engineering students (and most other students) is to instruct them on organization. organization separates formal writing from informal writing, and generally, in a writing class, formal writing is taught.
this is informal, so i didn't use caps, and i didn't writing a second draft with consideration for better organization.
Seriously...let's take Gnarls Barkley for example. They have a record contract (I think), but they also allow you to stream music from their album on their Myspace page. So, would they no longer be allowed to do that, since their music is licensed?
It seems like this idea is so bad that even licensed artists will suffer because of it.
On the other hand, my music on my Myspace Music page is not licensed. (what do they mean by 'licensed' anyway? i could put a CC license on it easily.) So, I'm assuming I could still stream my music. Then again, why should I assume that this law will be applied in a logical way?
I remember reading about this research a couple of weeks ago, well, really more like skimmed an article, but, my first thought was "correlation does not imply causation." All the research does is prove that people it asked to play GTA happened to drink and smoke more than the people that were asked to play the other game (it was Sonic or somthing?...my memory is bad, all that drinking and smoking). Tell me again how this is research? Let's do a study to see if people that play Horde like Cheerios while people who play Alliance like Frosted Flakes.
Sadly, some people use that argument. Ironically, other people argue that God put things like that there to test us. I wonder why they don't debate each other in the media more often.
normally i support the organized efforts of sex workers, but i guess this group has caught the "blame video games for stuff that existed before video games" meme.
imagine a slightly different scenario in which a popular video game featured a prostitute as a main character. imagine angry mothers complaining that the game is teaching their children to become prostitutes.
is this a case of fallacy of the single cause / false cause?
i realize i'm preaching to the choir here (i think, anyway). i'm willing to concede that possibly some people will do stupid things in part because they played GTA...but causality is complex, and people have done stupid and violent things since...oh, i don't know, all of recorded history.
i think i'll start a Sex Workers for the Recognition of Causal Complexity Task Force.
all good points. one way that niche has been filled is by people who intentionally level their character to 29 and use them for PvP. of course, these characters also wind up getting the best possible gear for their level, and then the original problem returns.
i PvP mostly with my level 60 mage. i'm not particularly good. i don't do it particularly often. my gear isn't that good. yet, i'm still able to get kills and advance in rank...not very quickly mind you, but i'm doing it for fun, so i'm not in a hurry.
i just designed a guitar with 6 frets and 24 strings...of course, now the tuning pattern is completely different, so i'll call it..uhh..."new standard tuning"!
i wonder if it'll catch on.
How is "top-down control" uniquely socialist? Most corporations are run with "top-down control"...hell, just about every large institution is run top-down.
Consider it an economic food chain or food web.
I like this analogy. However, what so many economists seem to ignore is that these economic networks (markets) do not just spread laterally but also feature large hierarchical (fancy talk for "top-down") institutions.
These include many corporations, the MPAA, RIAA, the IMF, World Bank, really all banks, and not to mention the government and state institutions, financial and otherwise, which are usually labeled "socialist" and "akin to the Soviet Union." Top-down government institutions are akin to the Soviet Union, but most because of their structure. If other institutions with top-down structure can be called "capitalist" (corporate power), then this whole capitalist/socialist labelling scheme is no longer valuable.
Let's start critiquing institutions and policies not with abstruse political labels but rather by looking at the 'shape' or 'structure' -- "is it hierarchical?" should be the question.
I'm with you there. The world needs more people like us. While I certainly do care about keeping ecosystems healthy for our species to live in, I really just don't want to be constantly broke just to have my own private auto.
It seems like there's this ideology, in the U.S. at least and probably to a certain extent in most industrialized (and currently industrializing) countries, that we can somehow express our individuality (whatever that means) by purchasing an automobile.
Language changes over time. Get over your standardization of language. Stop holding us back with your institutionalized language, taken from a snapshot of a language frozen in time and forced on future generations of children.
i suggest reading "postscript to the societies of control" by gilles deleuze...it's a good theoretical breakdown of the ways in which conrol enters our lives through various institutions.
"We are in a generalized crisis in relation to all the environments of enclosure--prison, hospital, factory, school, family. The family is an "interior," in crisis like all other interiors--scholarly, professional, etc. The administrations in charge never cease announcing supposedly necessary reforms: to reform schools, to reform industries, hospitals, the armed forces, prisons. But everyone knows that these institutions are finished, whatever the length of their expiration periods. It's only a matter of administering their last rites and of keeping people employed until the installation of the new forces knocking at the door. These are the societies of control, which are in the process of replacing disciplinary societies."
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This is mostly accurate. I'm ~$30,000 in debt. I'm still not finished. The only reason I even plan on finishing is because I would feel even worse if I spent all that time and money and didn't even get the degree. Will I get a better job because of grad school? Maybe. I might be able to get a job teaching at a community college. That's a big maybe though. I used to think I wanted to get a PhD. Now, just the thought of looking at my thesis draft turns my stomach. I used to love the material. I used to love reading and thinking. Maybe one day I'll be able to enjoy those things again. In the meantime, I'll be working for the next 20-25 years to pay off loans that went straight into the pockets of university bureaucrats. I feel like I've just been handed a prison sentence. Don't make the same mistake I did. Get a haircut and get a real job. I didn't, and look at me now.
I don't think the tube analogy is even in the ballpark. Allow me to use an example with tubes and gerbils. Usually, we think of tubes as 1) Put in a gerbil, 2) Gerbil comes out of other side of tube. The internet is more like 1) Put gerbil on one side of tube and press a button, 2) A second, identical gerbil is created at the other end of the tube. Of course, this ignores the gerbil clone that is stored in your RAM that is brutally destroyed when your purge the RAM. If you're using BitTorrent, your gerbil will cloned, and that clone will be cut into tiny pieces and then a huge tangle of tubes will vaccuum up the pieces until lots of people each have their own gerbil clone assembled at the end of their tube. Conclusion: friends don't let friends send gerbils or internets through BitTorrent. Please transport gerbils responsibly.
There are and have been "good" "non-major" record companies for years. Bands would/do get together, record their albums, and distribute them from the same address, therefore having a "record label." So why do people buy more records from EMI Records than Load Records? Because the "good" companies rely on word-of-mouth social networks (and now the Internet), while the bad ones force their product down your throat through advertisement and product placement. There are far more independent record companies, but they are smaller. There are far fewer exploitative record companies, but they are larger and have the RIAA. What's the solution? Do a little research (last.fm maybe?) and find music you like that isn't major. Trust me, it's far more interesting and far less overproduced and clone-sounding. There is so much out there if you just look for it instead of finding out about new music through your radio and T.V.
Oh don't worry about her during hurricane season. She has a private helicopter. She'll be fine.
The agreement covers anyone who bought, received or used CDs containing what was revealed to be flawed digital rights management (DRM) software after Aug. 1, 2003. I think "malicious" might have been a more accurate word than "flawed."
Bloggers are not the new news media, they are just a bunch of people who have found out a place were people will read their opinions, nod their heads, and help them mentally wack themselves off at how awsome they are and how many people they can get to agree. And how is that not like the mainstream media?
I don't think you're aware of how serious this breasts issue is. Even infants are being exposed to breasts on a daily basis!
I wince when I read anyone (especially a professor, researcher, or "expert") saying "girls do this" or "boys do that," not because what they're saying isn't correct, but because the question is never asked "Why is this?" It is just assumed that this is part of their "essence" or "nature" and that's really all they think need to be said about it.
and i didn't double check for grammar, but i noticed that i meant to write "write" instead of "writing" in the last clause of the last sentence of my post. i really should have though.
as a (former, hopefully future) writing instructor, i've got to say that grammar is just about the least important part of writing. most grammar instruction (AKA prescribed grammar) actually does more harm than good, because people replace the unspoken grammar instruction that they learned from their family and friends with incorrect and confused uses of prescribed grammar. what *does* work for engineering students (and most other students) is to instruct them on organization. organization separates formal writing from informal writing, and generally, in a writing class, formal writing is taught. this is informal, so i didn't use caps, and i didn't writing a second draft with consideration for better organization.
Seriously...let's take Gnarls Barkley for example. They have a record contract (I think), but they also allow you to stream music from their album on their Myspace page. So, would they no longer be allowed to do that, since their music is licensed? It seems like this idea is so bad that even licensed artists will suffer because of it. On the other hand, my music on my Myspace Music page is not licensed. (what do they mean by 'licensed' anyway? i could put a CC license on it easily.) So, I'm assuming I could still stream my music. Then again, why should I assume that this law will be applied in a logical way?
I remember reading about this research a couple of weeks ago, well, really more like skimmed an article, but, my first thought was "correlation does not imply causation." All the research does is prove that people it asked to play GTA happened to drink and smoke more than the people that were asked to play the other game (it was Sonic or somthing? ...my memory is bad, all that drinking and smoking). Tell me again how this is research? Let's do a study to see if people that play Horde like Cheerios while people who play Alliance like Frosted Flakes.
Sadly, some people use that argument. Ironically, other people argue that God put things like that there to test us. I wonder why they don't debate each other in the media more often.
normally i support the organized efforts of sex workers, but i guess this group has caught the "blame video games for stuff that existed before video games" meme. imagine a slightly different scenario in which a popular video game featured a prostitute as a main character. imagine angry mothers complaining that the game is teaching their children to become prostitutes. is this a case of fallacy of the single cause / false cause? i realize i'm preaching to the choir here (i think, anyway). i'm willing to concede that possibly some people will do stupid things in part because they played GTA...but causality is complex, and people have done stupid and violent things since...oh, i don't know, all of recorded history. i think i'll start a Sex Workers for the Recognition of Causal Complexity Task Force.
all good points. one way that niche has been filled is by people who intentionally level their character to 29 and use them for PvP. of course, these characters also wind up getting the best possible gear for their level, and then the original problem returns.
i PvP mostly with my level 60 mage. i'm not particularly good. i don't do it particularly often. my gear isn't that good. yet, i'm still able to get kills and advance in rank...not very quickly mind you, but i'm doing it for fun, so i'm not in a hurry.
player vs. player? remember...the reason people play games online? to play with/against other people?
if you're not on a PvP server, why get better gear?
why do anything?
i just designed a guitar with 6 frets and 24 strings...of course, now the tuning pattern is completely different, so i'll call it..uhh..."new standard tuning"! i wonder if it'll catch on.
ahh, i wasn't logged in. great. now i'm a coward because i can't get an error message when i mistype my password.
anyway, enough of my complaining. i'm the one who just posted about antimarkets.
How is "top-down control" uniquely socialist? Most corporations are run with "top-down control" ...hell, just about every large institution is run top-down.
Consider it an economic food chain or food web.
I like this analogy. However, what so many economists seem to ignore is that these economic networks (markets) do not just spread laterally but also feature large hierarchical (fancy talk for "top-down") institutions.
These include many corporations, the MPAA, RIAA, the IMF, World Bank, really all banks, and not to mention the government and state institutions, financial and otherwise, which are usually labeled "socialist" and "akin to the Soviet Union." Top-down government institutions are akin to the Soviet Union, but most because of their structure. If other institutions with top-down structure can be called "capitalist" (corporate power), then this whole capitalist/socialist labelling scheme is no longer valuable.
Let's start critiquing institutions and policies not with abstruse political labels but rather by looking at the 'shape' or 'structure' -- "is it hierarchical?" should be the question.
I'm with you there. The world needs more people like us. While I certainly do care about keeping ecosystems healthy for our species to live in, I really just don't want to be constantly broke just to have my own private auto. It seems like there's this ideology, in the U.S. at least and probably to a certain extent in most industrialized (and currently industrializing) countries, that we can somehow express our individuality (whatever that means) by purchasing an automobile.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Matrix:_Anti-capi talist_Database
Language changes over time. Get over your standardization of language. Stop holding us back with your institutionalized language, taken from a snapshot of a language frozen in time and forced on future generations of children.
i suggest reading "postscript to the societies of control" by gilles deleuze...it's a good theoretical breakdown of the ways in which conrol enters our lives through various institutions.
e uze-societies.cfm
http://www.watsoninstitute.org/infopeace/vy2k/del
a brief excerpt:
"We are in a generalized crisis in relation to all the environments of enclosure--prison, hospital, factory, school, family. The family is an "interior," in crisis like all other interiors--scholarly, professional, etc. The administrations in charge never cease announcing supposedly necessary reforms: to reform schools, to reform industries, hospitals, the armed forces, prisons. But everyone knows that these institutions are finished, whatever the length of their expiration periods. It's only a matter of administering their last rites and of keeping people employed until the installation of the new forces knocking at the door. These are the societies of control, which are in the process of replacing disciplinary societies."