Comment Re:Easy alternative (Score 1) 366
Take a while for the production of meat to be reduced to match the reduction in consumption, especially if it's cheaper to reprocess it back into cannibal cow food if humans don't buy it first.
It's all about competition
Among the comments and concepts here, I find that precept to be the most damaging to education. Sports is clearly a competition and is given a higher (some would say artificial) value than, say, philosophy or fine art - both in the school and in society. In my own experience, I achieved greater understanding and had more inspiration (even in non-art venues like ditch digging) when I wasn't gunning for a prize, however all schooling and essentially all of society seems to be motivating people to greatness with the carrot on a stick or be punished by losing method. With whom was Einstein competing? How about the Curries, or Franklin? Maybe a "competition" sense can be assigned to people like Luther or Gutenberg, but I'm still dubious that beating out the Catholics or the Monks was really their motivation for invention and making advances in their fields. Why is it only that commercial values are judged as valuable?
The knowledge is what we need to hold dear, not the artifacts created in search of that knowledge. It's nice in a saccharine sort of way to have tangible evidence of where someone stood, but the real treasure is what that person did. If we sanctify the artifacts we tend to lose sight of the knowledge.
You have simply thrilled me with that insight, thank you; and I hope that other religious, political, and every manner of leader and follower lets it sink in before spouting off some kind of drivel about essentially nothing more than either geography or architecture.
to be fair, I'm not convinced that 'day jobs' will let reporters REALLY do research.
problem is, almost no local paper does research anymore and its only the 'biggies' that can afford it. the biggies are also the ones we cannot trust as they are too much in bed with the subject they are trying to do research on! its a big mess.
smaller independants are more trustable but their budgets are down to near zero now. so where do we get IN DEPTH stories from?
answer: we don't. the gov will soon control the data flow and news flow (in our lifetimes, we'll see this).
we are witnessing a change in info flow but its not all good, folks.
It's called the Ministry of Truth. Everyone else merely feeds off of the "real" IN DEPTH and BREAKING NEWS that's RESEARCHED PROPERLY
The plane comes in and just past my building does a hard bank that no normal 747 on regular business would ever do and from my vantage point appears momentarily to be making a bee line for the tallest building in NJ, 30 Hudson St which is owned by Goldman Sachs, an iconic investment bank that has taken TARP money and a highly likely target...
I see Obama's urging that the financial institutions clean up their act or else is now clear.
So, you have left handed gloves and right handed gloves, and you can't transform one into the other without doing something like flipping it through a fourth spatial dimension (strangely, flipping it through the time dimension will result in an opposite handed glove traveling backwards in time that's made of antimatter) or turning it inside out.
my brain just s'ploded...
When I go to McDonalds and the bill comes to $5.58 and I give the brain dead clerk $6.08 and she starts to cry because she can't figure out the change we have a seriously under educated populace.
i'm just getting sick and fucking tired of parents that want to shove all the problems onto someone else and when that someone else doesn't get it right they sue them.. i'm sorry but that someone else never agreed to raising your child..
It happened when the state started to demand that parents turn their kids over to their schools. You want to fix the problem? Look to the cause of the problem.
Quite the conundrum ya got there. So are the parents supposed to not turn them over to schools in order to to learn math, or is McDonalds supposed to because the schools aren't teaching math since parents are "forced" to turn their kids over to them and have more say about whether math or morality is taught?
So, if a kid spent the majority of his waking day playing games, gets exceptionally good at it, and was able to enter tournaments, win prize money, travel the world etc., would we then talk about his addiction, or would we be talking about his achievement?
Simple, and the answer is the same for every other achievement listed before it - the issue of addiction is not about how much you do a thing, it is about how doing a thing interferes with your healths.
Yes, that's an intentional "s" at the end of "health" because I'm not talking about a "good" or "bad" judgement, I'm talking about the normal functioning of a person's body, mind, relationships, and other aspects of life. Health means functioning normally, it does not mean a "good" function.
Yes, some people will think gaming (or business, or sports, or novelties) are a waste of time, waste of talent, or waste of space. So what? That's them being judgmental and they have to live with it. If an activity is not interfering with anybody's participation in life, it's not unhealthy. If it is, then it's unhealthy.
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