That's a good story. Too bad it's just a fairy tale. Your post smacks of nothing but pop-sociology.
Family dynamics run the gamut of dysfunction that can be attributed to many, many kinds of modern social problems such as affluezna (described above), addictions, abuse, insecurity, depression, genetics, etc, etc.... Some are the cause and some are the symptoms but it's almost always much more complex than you make it out to be. There might actually be a NORMAL family too from time to time (I know, hard to believe).
What I see reported on in the media today are immature parents who project their anxieties onto their children. Parents who allow fear to consume and control them, spreading panic and cries for government to "protect our children". Whether the actual numbers of dysfunctional families have been increasing over the years is hard to say but I image the trend has been on the rise - especially since 9/11.
The real job of a parent is to raise their child to be an adjusted, functional adult. That means functional not only in the physical sense but emotional and spiritual too. The when, where, why and how are the mundane details you go through on a daily basis. The process is slow and the outcomes are uncertain no matter what you do. It certainly helps for the parent also be adjusted and functional too.
I agree with this post as I've become very frustrated with BO3:Takedown recently. I've been playing Takedown off and on for a couple of months and have some thoughts:
1. Load times between events suck balls
2. Some events are impossible to win such as F1 series (hell, it's impossible to drive it much less win)
3. Boosting doesn't seem to really help much. The NPC cars seem to be able to catch up to you no matter how fast you go. Conversely, once you get 6+ seconds behind, it's almost impossible to catch up.
4. Crash mode just got boring. You basically do the the same thing over and over: Drive, Crash, Repeat
5. You can unlock 300 different cars but you only use the same 1 or 2 for all the events. Honestly, why choose the base level car once the Dominator is available for that series?
However, BO3 is still the best driving game I've ever played. Crashing into shit has a certain kind of therapeutic quality to it that keeps me playing and the gameplay is awesome. Compared to shit titles like Gran Turismo, BO3 just plain rocks.
I'm hoping to play Revenge soon to see if it improves on the experience. If it does, I'll be buying it.
This reminds me of a topic discussed Wednesday on NPR's Talk of the Nation about the Baby Boomer generation getting ready to retire soon.
Personally, I can't wait for the older folks (the ones typically who don't know much about computers) to get out of the way and let the people who grew up with the technology and are much more comfortable with it to really begin transforming the workplace.
I waste so much time dealing with people who never got over the fact that there aren't secretaries anymore to take their dictation and can't even send a simple email without screwing it up. Supposedly they have these "invaluable skills" that came to them by virtue of being old that we'll all be losing out when they retire in a few years
Mod me as flamebait but I believe if you can no longer properly use the tools of your business, then you need to get out. You don't see too many NFL running backs in their 40's.
What I find more intersting is how the IFPI (international version of RIAA) has released software that checks for P2P software and automatically deletes copyrighted material from your machine. How long before this is distributed as a trojan by the **AA?
I took my wife, son, and a friend of his to see "Herbie Fully Loaded" (gag!). Stopped at the ATM and got $60 bucks out. Figured I was good on cash - nope!
$30 frikken dollars for tickets ("mattinee price"-whadev!) and $30+ for 2 goddamn large cokes, 2 large popcorns, and Twizzlers (for me).
Couldn't afford the Twizzlers - must be a lesson for life in there somewhere.
Screen was smaller than my big screen at home and the sound kept cutting out. I was so pissed I kept wishing for Herbie to get crushed in the junkyard scene or for Lindsay Lohan's boob to pop out at least!
My point is that I should'nt have to go through that kind of hassle because properly developed applications shouldn't be using agents in the first place.
Try telling Granny what tfswctrl.exe is and what happens if it's disabled.
I really fucking hate how every program you install nowadays has some kind of agent running in the background on startup. What's worse is that a lot of new programs make it impossible to disable them.
You know what? I'll decide when I want a certain program running on my computer, thank you very much!
You just hit upon the number one reason why micropayments will never take hold anytime soon.
Banks and CC processors are addicted to fees. Like a crack whore, they gotta have their fix. $2 bucks for ATMs, $39 late payment, $25 overdraft, etc...
When you use your Visa or MC, it's the merchant that gets screwed for low-value, low-volume transactions. The only reason they even accept CCs is because consumers demand the convenience.
Banks are just fine with micropayments - they don't care as long as they get their standard cut. However, as a merchant, there's no way in hell I would sell something for $.01 and expect to take payment via CC.
I've lived in Colorado since '79 and every 10 years or so, somebody brings up oil shale as the next savior for high energy prices
Fact is, producing anything significant from oil shale is a mirage shimmering in the distance - impossible to reach. Like the fabled "hydrogen economy" it's just never gonna happen.
This may be the biggest technological breakthrough in oil shale production since the mid '80's but it's still far cheaper to import from the Persian Gulf. Hell, you can stick a fork in the sand over there and start pumping.
The price of oil today is nothing more than the result of futures speculators spreading fear and paranoia. Big oil was pissed as hell when the price fell to $10/barrel back in '97-'98 that they're using every excuse they can find to drive it up now. Oil executives drop to their knees daily and praise the Lord that their buddy Bush is in the White House now.
You think it's a coincedence that ExxonMobile just reported a whopping 44% increase in quarterly profits - just about the same percentage of gas price increases in the same period?
Look around you, everything is "property" that is owned by someone.
You can argue that ideas are still free but in order to be of any practical use, that idea has to be manifest into some kind of physical representation. That object is guarded, protected, and the owner will assert their "rights" to control their property as they see fit.
I may produce a painting, song, book, whatever and decide to share my artistic creation with the world either by selling copies of it or offering it for free download on the net. But, I fully expect that it is still "my" song or story or painting or whatever; and I expect that others recognize and respect this fact.
Just because you have purchased a copy of it doesn't mean you can take it and redistribute without my permission. Hence the term "copyright".
And to those who say "I share my stuff freely to everyone" - I say you're a hypocrit. Your house has a fence around it, you lock your car doors, and you'll defend your "property" with force if you have to.
Would you allow your house to fall into the public domain after you pay off the mortgage? Ironically, the goverment does have the power to take your house via eminent domain if they need it to build a new stadium, but, they still have to pay you fair market value for it.
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That's a good story. Too bad it's just a fairy tale. Your post smacks of nothing but pop-sociology.
Family dynamics run the gamut of dysfunction that can be attributed to many, many kinds of modern social problems such as affluezna (described above), addictions, abuse, insecurity, depression, genetics, etc, etc.... Some are the cause and some are the symptoms but it's almost always much more complex than you make it out to be. There might actually be a NORMAL family too from time to time (I know, hard to believe).
What I see reported on in the media today are immature parents who project their anxieties onto their children. Parents who allow fear to consume and control them, spreading panic and cries for government to "protect our children". Whether the actual numbers of dysfunctional families have been increasing over the years is hard to say but I image the trend has been on the rise - especially since 9/11.
The real job of a parent is to raise their child to be an adjusted, functional adult. That means functional not only in the physical sense but emotional and spiritual too. The when, where, why and how are the mundane details you go through on a daily basis. The process is slow and the outcomes are uncertain no matter what you do. It certainly helps for the parent also be adjusted and functional too.
Life isn't that black-and-white. My belief is that you can either trust people or you can't.
um, that sounds pretty black-and-white to me
I agree with this post as I've become very frustrated with BO3:Takedown recently. I've been playing Takedown off and on for a couple of months and have some thoughts:
1. Load times between events suck balls
2. Some events are impossible to win such as F1 series (hell, it's impossible to drive it much less win)
3. Boosting doesn't seem to really help much. The NPC cars seem to be able to catch up to you no matter how fast you go. Conversely, once you get 6+ seconds behind, it's almost impossible to catch up.
4. Crash mode just got boring. You basically do the the same thing over and over: Drive, Crash, Repeat
5. You can unlock 300 different cars but you only use the same 1 or 2 for all the events. Honestly, why choose the base level car once the Dominator is available for that series?
However, BO3 is still the best driving game I've ever played. Crashing into shit has a certain kind of therapeutic quality to it that keeps me playing and the gameplay is awesome. Compared to shit titles like Gran Turismo, BO3 just plain rocks.
I'm hoping to play Revenge soon to see if it improves on the experience. If it does, I'll be buying it.
I think it's better to say: In Soviet Russia, responsible jokes use you!
All your ports are belong to us!
This reminds me of a topic discussed Wednesday on NPR's Talk of the Nation about the Baby Boomer generation getting ready to retire soon.
Personally, I can't wait for the older folks (the ones typically who don't know much about computers) to get out of the way and let the people who grew up with the technology and are much more comfortable with it to really begin transforming the workplace.
I waste so much time dealing with people who never got over the fact that there aren't secretaries anymore to take their dictation and can't even send a simple email without screwing it up. Supposedly they have these "invaluable skills" that came to them by virtue of being old that we'll all be losing out when they retire in a few years
Mod me as flamebait but I believe if you can no longer properly use the tools of your business, then you need to get out. You don't see too many NFL running backs in their 40's.
This was posted on BoingBoing yesterday.
What I find more intersting is how the IFPI (international version of RIAA) has released software that checks for P2P software and automatically deletes copyrighted material from your machine. How long before this is distributed as a trojan by the **AA?
That's goddam right!
I took my wife, son, and a friend of his to see "Herbie Fully Loaded" (gag!). Stopped at the ATM and got $60 bucks out. Figured I was good on cash - nope!
$30 frikken dollars for tickets ("mattinee price"-whadev!) and $30+ for 2 goddamn large cokes, 2 large popcorns, and Twizzlers (for me).
Couldn't afford the Twizzlers - must be a lesson for life in there somewhere.
Screen was smaller than my big screen at home and the sound kept cutting out. I was so pissed I kept wishing for Herbie to get crushed in the junkyard scene or for Lindsay Lohan's boob to pop out at least!
My point is that I should'nt have to go through that kind of hassle because properly developed applications shouldn't be using agents in the first place.
Try telling Granny what tfswctrl.exe is and what happens if it's disabled.
I really fucking hate how every program you install nowadays has some kind of agent running in the background on startup. What's worse is that a lot of new programs make it impossible to disable them.
You know what? I'll decide when I want a certain program running on my computer, thank you very much!
You just hit upon the number one reason why micropayments will never take hold anytime soon.
Banks and CC processors are addicted to fees. Like a crack whore, they gotta have their fix. $2 bucks for ATMs, $39 late payment, $25 overdraft, etc...
When you use your Visa or MC, it's the merchant that gets screwed for low-value, low-volume transactions. The only reason they even accept CCs is because consumers demand the convenience.
Banks are just fine with micropayments - they don't care as long as they get their standard cut. However, as a merchant, there's no way in hell I would sell something for $.01 and expect to take payment via CC.
I've lived in Colorado since '79 and every 10 years or so, somebody brings up oil shale as the next savior for high energy prices
Fact is, producing anything significant from oil shale is a mirage shimmering in the distance - impossible to reach. Like the fabled "hydrogen economy" it's just never gonna happen.
This may be the biggest technological breakthrough in oil shale production since the mid '80's but it's still far cheaper to import from the Persian Gulf. Hell, you can stick a fork in the sand over there and start pumping.
The price of oil today is nothing more than the result of futures speculators spreading fear and paranoia. Big oil was pissed as hell when the price fell to $10/barrel back in '97-'98 that they're using every excuse they can find to drive it up now. Oil executives drop to their knees daily and praise the Lord that their buddy Bush is in the White House now.
You think it's a coincedence that ExxonMobile just reported a whopping 44% increase in quarterly profits - just about the same percentage of gas price increases in the same period?
wow. You really taught him a lesson and saved yourself 740 bytes of bandwidth at the same time.
way to go
They haven't conquered anywhere by force
Tell that to the Native Americans and Iraqis
Public Domain? There's no such thing.
Look around you, everything is "property" that is owned by someone.
You can argue that ideas are still free but in order to be of any practical use, that idea has to be manifest into some kind of physical representation. That object is guarded, protected, and the owner will assert their "rights" to control their property as they see fit.
I may produce a painting, song, book, whatever and decide to share my artistic creation with the world either by selling copies of it or offering it for free download on the net. But, I fully expect that it is still "my" song or story or painting or whatever; and I expect that others recognize and respect this fact.
Just because you have purchased a copy of it doesn't mean you can take it and redistribute without my permission. Hence the term "copyright".
And to those who say "I share my stuff freely to everyone" - I say you're a hypocrit. Your house has a fence around it, you lock your car doors, and you'll defend your "property" with force if you have to.
Would you allow your house to fall into the public domain after you pay off the mortgage? Ironically, the goverment does have the power to take your house via eminent domain if they need it to build a new stadium, but, they still have to pay you fair market value for it.
We're closer to the Matrix than we realize.