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Something to use the other side of your brain.

It'll create more depth and give you a broader base of knowledge to draw from.

Erm, right....emotional maturity of a 12 year old....evidence.....Desperate Housewives!

There are MANY professional entertainers who indeed do have the emotional maturity of a 12 year old, but with that said, there is a huge assumptive leap occurring here. You do realize that actors merely modify the prism of the self to act as a bridge between the character and the actor?

If anything, the success of Desperate Housewives is more indicative of our collective emotional intelligence than of the emotional intelligence of the actor.

And since we're pulling arbitrary evidence out of thin air, do you think Anthony Hopkins has the "emotional intelligence of a 12 year old"? Based on his many varied and compelling performances, I would argue there are very few individuals on this planet with a higher emotional intelligence. It kinda goes hand-in-hand with talented actors ... otherwise they couldn't do what they do and be believable.

It's about as realistic as a physicists who only got up to Algebra.

Disclaimer: Hollywood is full of entertainers who fit the definition described above, but those people are a dime a dozen.

And on that note....

Three engineering students were gathered together discussing the possible designers of the human body.
One said, ``It was a mechanical engineer. Just look at all the joints.''
Another said, ``No, it was an electrical engineer. The nervous systems many thousands of electrical connections.''
The last said, ``Actually it was a civil engineer. Who else would run a toxic waste pipeline through a recreational area?''

Actually, it's standard operating procedure in big business. Most large corporations will have the 5-10 largest/best law firms on retainer throughout the world so as to eliminate the ability of litigants to utilize those firms in their lawsuits. Google, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, along with any other large multinational corporation have strategic plans in place to mitigate the caliber of talent that can be brought against them in these lawsuits. This does not make them immune, but merely hedges their bet and pushes the odds in their favor.

Such is the world we live in.

Rift has many similarities to WoW but to say that they are exactly the same is a gross overstatement. Rift's class system and the ability to tailor make your class to your own desires stands head and shoulders above WoW.

Though the game play, and quest mechanics are eerily like WoW...

Also, the process by which the Rifts and Invasions work makes the game every bit as dynamic as WoW. It's just different.

And people reverse engineer pace makers, without the "bullshit code" due to various motivations. Sounds to me like no one was motivated enough with Darwin.

Since when does releasing something to open source constitute creating a community around that thing? That's not Google's job. That our job, you know ... the community. And if no one in the community, us, takes it upon themselves to make this entity matter, why should it be Google's responsibility to do so?

If Darwin had mattered to the community enough, it would have been taken on by someone. But it didn't, so all we're left with are bitter folks who never tried to do anything for the platform they so loved. Obviously, I'm glossing over some of the finer points, as there are outside influences that can cause an open source project to fail, but at its heart an open source project needs to be spearheaded by a community to be successful.

Google provided the community the rock but didn't push it up the hill ... after all if they did that, they'd be the ones holding the rock at the end of the day and that would be insanity on many many levels.

I would wager that at least 95% of tablet users have no interest in developing custom applications. I suspect that this will never be a major selling point for these devices, sure a niche audience is interested in this ability but most of the users don't care.

And honestly, my 95% estimation is probably on the low end of the spectrum. Its probably much closer to 99%.

Although this is merely anecdotal evidence, I can say that every user that I personally know who utilizes a tablet device will never develop a custom application for these devices. One of them has worked in technology for over 35 years and has been a significant part (programmer) of over 20 game releases in that time period. But this is just a small subset of people and I do not have enough information to speculate accurately on this issue at the macro level.

I would suspect that if you're in the US that the CAN-SPAM Act applies to this situation. Log all your attempts to get them to stop sending your emails, and then forward the information on to the FCC. I was unable to get Domino's to stop sending me text messages advertising their shit pizza. I went through their online complaint system twice and kept getting the messages so in the end I called up customer support and explained the situation to them very clearly, and was sure to add that I would no longer contact them to be removed but instead would start filing complains with the FCC. The texts stopped....

Though this may not apply to your situation, it might be worth a shot :)

My understanding of the issue is that Texas orders such a large number of text books that Texas gets what Texas wants and the rest of the country gets the same thing ... because it's cheaper that way.

They're kinda like Walmart, save this is an issue of education and not consumer goods.

I may be woefully misinformed though...

I agree that drugs aren't the solution to these symptoms, but happiness can be found within the framework of our society. I'm sure I'll be labeled a troll and that many will decry what a heartless, unfeeling bastard I am for the following statement: Depression is a choice.

Before anyone starts pounding the table, I have suffered through depression and for a long time viewed it through the lens of the victim. But a mentor of mine spent eight painstaking years teaching me the power of our belief systems, and once I came to understand what she was really saying the statement above became very clear to me. Depression is the result of faulty belief systems and the conflict that arises within ourselves do to adhering to those belief systems. Once seen, belief systems can be changed or destroyed, but whether seen or not they create our reality. It empowered me to be the protagonist in my own drama and to stop blaming aspects of my life that I was unhappy with on factors outside my control.

Society does not have an answer to this problem, only each individual does.

It's the trend of any product that is manufactured today. Spend less money to manufacture more product so the consumer has to replace said product often. As others say, we now exist in a throw away society, hence in the States we had GW encouraging Americans to rack up debt in the wake of 9/11...gotta protect them share holders!

Although I will not defend the actions of LulzSec for numerous reasons, I also will not give a pass to a CEO. In most cases, the chief executive officer is the highest paid officer in a given company, as such, they bear the greatest burden of responsibility. Leadership is not taking the accolades while passing off blunders. Leadership takes responsibility for the bad while passing praise below to those who helped make it happen. The buck stops with the CEO, and yes I realize they are not responsible for the day-to-day security of the company, they are responsible to the share holders. As such, their fiduciary responsibility requires that they are responsible for making sure that LulzSec et al. has a harder time doing what they do. Your comparison is a straw man argument and meant as an emotional appeal that does not deal with the reality of the CEO's role. Extreme compensation means extreme responsibility, CEO's shouldn't be able to have their cake and eat it too, though that is the world we seem to live in.

What's good for GE is good for GE share holders. If the the board of GE is not acting in this way they are not fulfilling their fiduciary responsibility. GE does not care about America anymore than it cares about any other country. Go away shill.

I think there are many acronyms that exist to represent this dichotomy. We always used PEBKAC (Problem Exists Between Keyboard and Chair).