Wikipedia says there are 4,200 religions in the world. The likelihood that Christianity is the "correct," "true" religions seems scant. So picking 6,000 years isn't logical as I'm sure other religions put the age of the universe at other numbers. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L...
Creationists say the gods created the universe. But who created the gods? They always existed, they say.
See, unnecessary step.
Can simplify it to "Who created the universe? It always existed."
I don't consider excessive regulation to be a problem so much as the general state of the U.S. economy.
Basically since Reagan took office everything's been downhill.
Globalization... decline of unions... technology's influence in the labor market... concentration of wealth among the elite while the masses get poorer and poorer.
If you cannot or will not pay for news at a site like nytimes.com, etc, then you're likely not the kind of reader a news org wants, anyway... people with money and good educations.
Because then they can sell those "eyeballs" to higher end advertisers.
If you wanna know why the original trilogy worked, read about Joseph Campbell's book "The Hero with a Thousand Faces."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hero_with_a_Thousand_Faces
"George Lucas' deliberate use of Campbell's theory of the monomyth in the making of the Star Wars movies is well documented. On the DVD release of the famous colloquy between Campbell and Bill Moyers, filmed at Lucas' Skywalker Ranch and broadcast in 1988 on PBS as The Power of Myth, Campbell and Moyers discussed Lucas's use of The Hero with a Thousand Faces in making his films.[11] Lucas himself discussed how Campbell's work affected his approach to storytelling and film-making."
"I [Lucas] came to the conclusion after American Graffiti that what's valuable for me is to set standards, not to show people the world the way it is...around the period of this realization...it came to me that there really was no modern use of mythology...The Western was possibly the last generically American fairy tale, telling us about our values. And once the Western disappeared, nothing has ever taken its place. In literature we were going off into science fiction...so that's when I started doing more strenuous research on fairy tales, folklore, and mythology, and I started reading Joe's books. Before that I hadn't read any of Joe's books...It was very eerie because in reading The Hero with a Thousand Faces I began to realize that my first draft of Star Wars was following classic motifs...so I modified my next draft [of Star Wars] according to what I'd been learning about classical motifs and made it a little bit more consistent...I went on to read 'The Masks of God' and many other books."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Campbell
I agree. Cell phones and texting and all that jazz is making crashes more common. It's killing people, literally. It's as bad as driving drunk, some people have said.
I just bought a '12 Civic Si and I plan on driving it for 10+ years, so I don't have to worry about tech ruining my ride. Stick shift n' clutch all the way, baby.
Electronic doodads are just a sideshow anyways.
The real advancement in automobile tech will be whatever energy source dethrones these godawful fossil fuels we use to power vehicles.
Who needs employers? Just compete against them. Infiltrate and industry, learn how it works, then launch your own competing business.
Read "How to Get Rich" by Felix Dennis and "Screw It, Let's Do It," by Richard Branson.
Some people think peak oil will come sometime before 2030. So gasoline will be at least $10/gallon before then, and everyone will be driving efficient cars if they're driving at all.
"Employment of computer programmers is expected to decline slowly. Job prospects should be best for those with a bachelor's degree and experience with a variety of programming languages and tools."
http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos110.htm#outlook
But...
"Employment of computer support specialists and systems administrators is expected to increase much faster than the average. Job prospects should be best for those with a college degree and relevant experience."
I'm making the jump myself -- after 11 years in the newspaper business -- into information technology. They pay is better. I'm hoping I can earn somewhere in the $50k+ range as an IT worker, up from the mid-20s to low 30s that a typical newspaper reporter position pays. But I'm not going to college again; I'm just reading a lot of books on my own time and teaching myself.
Ah, local reportage *is* the AP. The Associated Press's news comes from local papers who put their stories on the AP wire, then all other AP member newspapers/TV stations across the world can get a copy of that story and put it on their own newspaper/website/TV station. Srsly.
Get rid of all the local papers and guess what? You just killed 90% of AP news.
Yep, newspapers are not cheap. Think about what it takes to make a single day's newspaper. How long would it take you, personally, to create an identical product? Probably years to learn the reporting, layout, editing and photo processing skills. Then it would take another few years for you to make connections with the people you're covering, and to get to know them and learn how the systems they work for work. Then it would take time to sit through hours and hours of meetings, and hours of poring over documents, then still more hours to write what you've found into a story that's understandable and interesting to the layman. And then do that for stories about 10-20 vastly different subjects.
Then, you have to start selling and designing all the ads to pay for it all... factor in a couple years for that. Put it all together, print it... heck for one metro-sized weekday newspaper (not even a Sunday edition!) it would take a noob probably at least a decade to create it.
Now consider this: You can have all this work done for you, for about 75 cents per day, thanks to the team of people who run newspapers today.
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touch screens are new enough that most people haven't realized that they're a terrible interface.
Perhaps we are the gods.
Wikipedia says there are 4,200 religions in the world. The likelihood that Christianity is the "correct," "true" religions seems scant. So picking 6,000 years isn't logical as I'm sure other religions put the age of the universe at other numbers. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L...
Creationists accept creationism, period. Evolutionists accept evolution, until a better theory comes along.
Creationists say the gods created the universe. But who created the gods? They always existed, they say. See, unnecessary step. Can simplify it to "Who created the universe? It always existed."
I don't consider excessive regulation to be a problem so much as the general state of the U.S. economy. Basically since Reagan took office everything's been downhill. Globalization ... decline of unions ... technology's influence in the labor market ... concentration of wealth among the elite while the masses get poorer and poorer.
EXACTLY. I have my private pilot's license. I rent planes when I fly. It's an expensive hobby. I think owning a horse might be cheaper.
If you cannot or will not pay for news at a site like nytimes.com, etc, then you're likely not the kind of reader a news org wants, anyway ... people with money and good educations.
Because then they can sell those "eyeballs" to higher end advertisers.
"I wonder if it will be friends with me?" - Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
like in a print newspaper or magazine or something.
1) "How to Get Rich," by Felix Dennis 2) "Screw it, Let's do it," by Richard Branson
TL;DW Prefer text, since it can be scanned rapidly. Video is sooooooo sllooooooooooooooowwwwwwwww. Omg. So slow.
So I'm supposed to do InDesign and Photoshop with a touchscreen instead of a mouse and keyboard. That'll work out real well. Not.
If you wanna know why the original trilogy worked, read about Joseph Campbell's book "The Hero with a Thousand Faces." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hero_with_a_Thousand_Faces "George Lucas' deliberate use of Campbell's theory of the monomyth in the making of the Star Wars movies is well documented. On the DVD release of the famous colloquy between Campbell and Bill Moyers, filmed at Lucas' Skywalker Ranch and broadcast in 1988 on PBS as The Power of Myth, Campbell and Moyers discussed Lucas's use of The Hero with a Thousand Faces in making his films.[11] Lucas himself discussed how Campbell's work affected his approach to storytelling and film-making." "I [Lucas] came to the conclusion after American Graffiti that what's valuable for me is to set standards, not to show people the world the way it is...around the period of this realization...it came to me that there really was no modern use of mythology...The Western was possibly the last generically American fairy tale, telling us about our values. And once the Western disappeared, nothing has ever taken its place. In literature we were going off into science fiction...so that's when I started doing more strenuous research on fairy tales, folklore, and mythology, and I started reading Joe's books. Before that I hadn't read any of Joe's books...It was very eerie because in reading The Hero with a Thousand Faces I began to realize that my first draft of Star Wars was following classic motifs...so I modified my next draft [of Star Wars] according to what I'd been learning about classical motifs and made it a little bit more consistent...I went on to read 'The Masks of God' and many other books." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Campbell
Get a job first. Infiltrate this business; learn how things work. Then quit and start your own company. Read "How to Get Rich" by Felix Dennis.
I agree. Cell phones and texting and all that jazz is making crashes more common. It's killing people, literally. It's as bad as driving drunk, some people have said. I just bought a '12 Civic Si and I plan on driving it for 10+ years, so I don't have to worry about tech ruining my ride. Stick shift n' clutch all the way, baby. Electronic doodads are just a sideshow anyways. The real advancement in automobile tech will be whatever energy source dethrones these godawful fossil fuels we use to power vehicles.
Who needs employers? Just compete against them. Infiltrate and industry, learn how it works, then launch your own competing business. Read "How to Get Rich" by Felix Dennis and "Screw It, Let's Do It," by Richard Branson.
Some people think peak oil will come sometime before 2030. So gasoline will be at least $10/gallon before then, and everyone will be driving efficient cars if they're driving at all.
It's more likely to be copyrighted than to be released to the public domain.
"Employment of computer programmers is expected to decline slowly. Job prospects should be best for those with a bachelor's degree and experience with a variety of programming languages and tools."
http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos110.htm#outlook
But ...
"Employment of computer support specialists and systems administrators is expected to increase much faster than the average. Job prospects should be best for those with a college degree and relevant experience."
http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos268.htm#outlook
I'm making the jump myself -- after 11 years in the newspaper business -- into information technology. They pay is better. I'm hoping I can earn somewhere in the $50k+ range as an IT worker, up from the mid-20s to low 30s that a typical newspaper reporter position pays. But I'm not going to college again; I'm just reading a lot of books on my own time and teaching myself.
Ah, good advice here. :) Listen to this guy.
Ah, local reportage *is* the AP. The Associated Press's news comes from local papers who put their stories on the AP wire, then all other AP member newspapers/TV stations across the world can get a copy of that story and put it on their own newspaper/website/TV station. Srsly. Get rid of all the local papers and guess what? You just killed 90% of AP news.
Yep, newspapers are not cheap. Think about what it takes to make a single day's newspaper. How long would it take you, personally, to create an identical product? Probably years to learn the reporting, layout, editing and photo processing skills. Then it would take another few years for you to make connections with the people you're covering, and to get to know them and learn how the systems they work for work. Then it would take time to sit through hours and hours of meetings, and hours of poring over documents, then still more hours to write what you've found into a story that's understandable and interesting to the layman. And then do that for stories about 10-20 vastly different subjects.
... factor in a couple years for that. Put it all together, print it ... heck for one metro-sized weekday newspaper (not even a Sunday edition!) it would take a noob probably at least a decade to create it.
Then, you have to start selling and designing all the ads to pay for it all
Now consider this: You can have all this work done for you, for about 75 cents per day, thanks to the team of people who run newspapers today.
http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=computer+waste&btnG=Search+Images&gbv=2
Now, does paper look so bad? Newp!