Comment Re:Physical Punishment (Score 2, Funny) 139
Say goodbye to the internet BD/SM crowd in China.
Say goodbye to the internet BD/SM crowd in China.
What's wrong with yours? It randomly type #s?
ill sell my soul to the highest bidder why not the corporations already up here are trying to own everything including my jeans..er genes
no, that'd be SOHOMO
Now how you instill that kind of work ethic into someone I have absolutely no idea, but I'm positive that anyone that isn't mentally handicapped is capable of it--it's a matter of will and perseverance.
You install that work ethic by first removing wealth and privilege, and then adding hope and desire.
He was an A&P. He saw that hard work could pay off. He didn't have a lot of wealth, but he could see the light at the end of the tunnel. Then, he didn't just want to take classes. He wanted to take classes so that he could design airplanes. He had desire.
He had a desire, and saw a way it could be fulfilled. That is the driving force that propels a society forward.
The chorus calling for the "end to US control over the Internet" will morph into the "end of ICAAN control, because they are not subject to oversight." Withe the "solution" being the same - UN oversight.
They are not looking for more freedom - they want more control.
+1 Insightful. Alas, I have no mod points now. =/
... the rest end up working in [jobs you don't respect]...
That's pure horse manure. Student athletes come in all varieties, from the studious to the willfully ignorant, from the meek to the arrogant, and all points on any number of other axes.
I'll offer as a counter example to your statement the son of a friend, who is in his first year at the US Air Force Academy. He was an outstanding high school athlete, an outstanding honors student, and to top it off the most responsible and empathetic young man you'd ever care to meet.
Or for a less glamorous example, myself. I was a passable athlete in school, a varsity track runner. I was a goof-off in class, but managed to graduate and scored well on the standardized tests. After an ignominious beginning to my university career, I managed to retrieve my head from my posterior and graduate with honors. The better part of two decades later, I'm now working as a senior level software developer, which I will assume is a position which carries at least a modicum of respect from the slashdot crowd.
I don't believe either of us falls into this "rest of them" group digging ditches and pining for the glory days of our teen years. Nor do the large majority of former student athletes.
And frankly, you show a lamentable lack of respect for those who work very hard indeed to build the structures you depend on to keep you safe from the big blue room. That's a real job, not this pansy code typing that I do for a living.
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