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I don't want something good, I want Arrested Development!
Yes, like the Gutenberg press was a tool... Do you understand economies of scale? Detriments to artificial scarcity would've been something I thought was on a great many PAers political agendas.
It is the difference between saying that a person killed the hooker and that a bullet killed the hooker. There is no reason why the both can't be held responsible for the hooker's death.
Look, Sarks, it' not like you'll need an always on connection to play the videos.
(Stop being scared, I am confident it will be funny as hell).
is it the marketing that is making you think new AD will be good/bad? to me it's all a bonus
I of course also don't want it to be bad I was just confused at the connection you made
My little sister's. They're cute, but they're also a pain in the ass to look after so they gotta go.
I talked to the vet day before yesterday, and according to him there aren't many no-kill shelters in Miami. He mentioned one run by the former (current?) owner of the Dolphins, Wayne Huizenga. I'll call there and see if they'll take 'em. My parents also suggested leaving them at the mosque, because apparently there're plenty of cats already living there.
We'd have to fix them first, though, which will be expensive given the number of cats involved.
If anything the internet has fixed it.
People constantly argue that if there's so much information out there, then clearly that will just mean that all the truth will be drowned out by the misinformation.
This has never been shown to actually happen, though. Look at wikipedia! It's more stringent and reliable than ever. The truth has a huge benefit on its side: it's true. We're leaving the days of getting all of our information from a single source. We're increasing the sample size enormously, and we're relying on billions of other people who fundamentally just want to know the truth as much as you do. This is a basic signal processing problem: do you want to be receiving from one strong source that is all biased in the same direction, or do you want to be receiving from dozens of weaker sources that have different noise patterns? With the former, you have no sense of which direction the bias lies, with the latter you can compare and contrast to cancel out the noise.
"Let her and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter?"
If you'd been around in 1513 you'd be all "Eh, the printing press is doesn't do anything that we couldn't do with quills and the oral tradition."
Um, why? In a lot of ways, "artificial scarcity" is a scare term.
completely
Fine fine. Can I call AMFE a bitch, at least? God he's
such
a
Bitch.
If I had been around in 1513 I'd probably have died at birth due to complications.
like
3 or 4 days
just sitting there playing wow for like 14 hours a day
all because they couldn't google how to deliver you
I think the internet is more analogous to telegraph, actual written language and telephone as far as comparisons. It's the approachability and innovation through evolution, and the rapid evolution if a great many memes that've allowed a lot of our sociological changes in the US for the better, in recent memory.
I'd say the average US citizen knows more about China and Africa now, and more about the wars were in, than during the 80s and earl 90s.
but instead will have to say something like "it's great, except for everything after season 3"
I will be sad
well okay yeah
me too
It isn't making us better people. But it is useful for the things that are.
Jesus, I do not give enough of a shit to keep debating this.
@So It Goes
OK, not-chicken and easy. Do this:
get:
1 Leek
Some Bacon
Paprika
Can of Chickpeas
gresh garlic clove
Some Baby Spinach
1 Tilapia Filet
Take only the white part of the leek. Split it and slice the halves into thin strips no smaller than 1/4in. Toss them in a colander and wash them in cold water.
Add olive oil to a pan and medium heat. Toss the leeks in the oil.
In a separate pan make two strips bacon. set them aside and pour off most of the bacon fat, but not all of it.
When the bacon is done, in the leek pan add the chickpeas with most of the water drained. Toss this with the leeks and cover, set aside on medium low for 5-7 minutes.
Add salt + pepper+ smashed / diced garlic to the leeks + chickpeas.
Season the Tilapia to your taste and cook it in the bacon pan with a little butter. I like to do salt + pepper + garlic but you might like rosemary + thyme in addition, or provincial herbs or anything else.
When you flip the fish, taste the chickpeas, they should be getting quite soft and the leeks look like floppy noodles. Add enough paprika to color the dish red red and toss in half the spinach and crumble the bacon over all of it and stir it all and cover it until the fish is done.
Serve mixed with raw spinach for a little bite, or not. Drizzle olive oil over it if you want.
Total should take you less than 20min to prepare.
*hulk smash*
i hate this crap
...you did see that recent poll about where Bengazi is, right?
This is the first time in human history when (almost) any individual can swiftly communicate to an arbitrarily large audience, and that large audience can swiftly respond back.
I kind of see that as a big deal.
No, the marketing is making me excited. The marketing style is also quirky and isn't pandering but feels like it almost is. I am suspicious of this kind of marketing. Like they're trying really hard to hook me, but I'm already hooked by another season in the first place, so it feels like they could be covering something up. Like when a kid is being sweet after they fucked up.
Please elaborate because I can assure you we're all given a very finite amount of time on this earth, and I think the internet has drastically increased the voice of every (wo)man, and is directly correlated with great sociological changes, and it is just the beginning.
Not me.
Good Aryan blood, y'know.
It is a big deal. It is not inherently "Good."
No Mim! Self-harm is never the answer!
#jobless4life
Current Playthroughs: Neverwinter Closed Beta|Let's Build! Sim City
and people will shit on it, rest assured. because it's a big deal and shitting on things is very easy to do.
I feel you're completely wrong about this. The synergy and connectedness, the lowered gatekeeping inherent in easier access to information, the availability of peers across a wider scope of distance and expertise, in a far shorter amount of time...
Believing that the internet is not a driver is a very strange thing. I think you've left off a lot of truths in order to arrive at the idea.
Just find a place you want to work, walking on a monday morning, sit at a desk, and start doing a job. If anyone questions you tell them to take it up with Bill in accounting.
Who said it was inherently good?
I think that knowledge and communication, over the long term, shake out to a net good.
Yes, communication technology facilitates the spread of falsehoods and ignorance just as it facilitates the spread of knowledge, but it seems pretty clear to me that truth eventually wins that fight.
I plan on liking it unless evidence shows me otherwise. I'm not going to plan on it being bad because why? what's the point?