Between inline spellcheckers and T9 input on my phone, I actually find my spelling improving.
An inline spell checker will tell you every time, patiently you've spelled a word wrong (as long as you don't have one that auto-corrects you), so the repetition teaches effectively. With T9, it's actually easier at times to spell out the whole word instead of trying to hack it to spell out the short hand phrases that used to be most efficient.
To say nothing of the fact that Netscape is the direct ancestor of Mozilla Firefox. Some defeat; it's like open licensing makes the browser undead.
If you measure "defeat" as a business game, where the losers are liquidated or go bankrupt, sure. But business isn't a measure of success users often concern themselves with.
Drop a guy in the wilderness, and prohibit him from making of tools.
Real smart.
The question is, how cheap ubiquitous are what tools? Sure, you might lose your phone - but teaching kids to weave cloth is not exactly an efficient use of their time.
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oh. ok. right.
WORK LESS.
If you spend so much time working that you literally can't afford to stay healthy, then YOUR WORK IS BAD FOR YOU. Don't start fooling yourself just because everybody is forced to work that much. Cut your hours.
I suppose I can understand if it's censorship if Wales, et al., were interfering with consensual, non-duressed communication of wikipedians posting about the kidnapping and the wiki audience. But how is it censorship if the details of the kidnapping remain in publicly-accessible revision history?
I never understood why this is supposedly frustrating. In short, ineffectiveness is job security. I remember having a self-drawn roadmap at my last job. Every time I'd be called down for must-do sales support quick fix project, I would tell them how much time this would take off of accomplishing my larger projects. I t was all the same to me, just as long as nobody could blame me for missing deadlines I wasn't allowed to abide by.
Eight hours is eight hours. If I'm not the one prioritizing my projects, I'm not going to sweat the results of those priorities.
There. One post to Slashdot elicits critics galore.
Happy now?
"ESPN cuts itself off from Internet viewers"
Good luck with that business model, guys.
Hm... I sense a new business model coming on.
1) First, we give everyone guns.
2) Then, we fine them every time they shoot someone.
3) PROFIT!!
It's brilliant, mate.
So because it was "human nature" that slaves would just naturally not want to be slaves, you think you can denigrate the struggle for abolition as "a farce?".
Nice logic, asshole. Having something to gain does not somehow magically de-legitimize struggles for justice.
So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of money? -- Ayn Rand
