I wonder what the GP really meant.
Mr. Hitchens was a professional, which is why he was prolific. It's certainly not difficult to write at a high rate and quality when you've been doing it for decades. There are plenty of examples from sci-fi (Asimov) to popular (King) downright "literary" (Burgess) who were prolific and wrote really well (much of the time).
Also, well, he was a journalist. And journalists often have editors. These help. A lot.
That's the point... it's not just a factory here and there. Unless you've got a factory that can take beach sand and petroleum in one end and pump iPad's out the other, you need an entire community to work around your factory to keep things flowing. That community is pretty much gone.
Shh! I've also got a bunch of land in Florida I can use.
They overworked their stamp licking team and had to pay insurance costs for saliva gland transplant surgery.
Oh, you laugh. You wouldn't laugh if your tongue was as dry as the Sahara (pardon the cliche). You would _try_ to laugh, but all that would come out would be a puff of dust.
I don't care. I've had the same DVD at home for 2 months that I haven't had a chance to watch (maybe tomorrow). This will affect me little if at all. I just won't have to worry about moving that DVD mailer around.
False dichotomy. Straw man. Whatever. Gates isn't just a Christian going to church and doing nothing, nor is he taking the idea of working tirelessly in the background for little change seriously. He's making the most change that he can and driving results. It might not be my business what Steve Jobs supports, but he's not being a good supporter if he isn't doing more (if he can being, admittedly, sick and all) to bring more awareness to his issues.
Bill Gates is performing charity and telling people what he's doing. If you have someone with the public face backing that up with cash, that's huge. Better him that who? Bono. What?
Maybe he changed. I mean, what is he gonna do next, realistically, besides give his fortune away? Run for president? What a waste for little return on investment.
Still not a fan of what he did to get where he is, but...
Like a note saying "Hi
I talk to the girl at subway a few days a week. I don't even know her name (no name-tag). I have little personal investment in her. I mean, sure, I hope she's doing well, but not any more than any other near stranger.
On IRC and other internet forums, there are a couple people I talk to regularly; mostly just...whatever. I don't touch base with each twitter follower every day. That would be...burdensome. Even if I only have 300 something. Who are mostly spam-bots.
I do not like to get my philosophy from t-shirts. However, I did see one that said "Beware of stupid people in large groups." If you want a little more fanciful take on it, watch a zombie movie. The paranoia is infectious. Hang out with one of them for 10 minutes and listen to them seriously. Take their (largely invisible to them) presuppositions as true. You will be scared.
Of course I don't know enough tea-partiers to determine their average intelligence, but the ones I do know are loud, boorish, and ignorant of all the facts. They are just like the rest of humanity.
Where there is still a need to have a handwritten/typed form and a computer cannot do it, then I would imagine a typewriter could suffice. Government-regulated industries (such as pharma) might have one or two for whatever due to validation and other such reasons.
I know people in my high school that never took a physics class. That was almost 20 years ago. I think it's probably worse now.
This is not something to be proud of.
I can speak with certainty.
I don't talk on the phone, so I don't care about VoIP, but they offer at least one Android phone (samsung intercept, IIRC; there may be another one), and so while it's not exactly a speed demon, I can install apps from (and without) the market just fine. Also use MP3s for ring tones, etc.
I also live in the boonies, so the Sprint-backed (?) network is...spotty. I cannot speak about that. It works fine for light use.
Just posting to clarify what Virgin Mobile is. I don't have a solution for OP.
We're already uncompetitive in a weird way, because we're not working 12 hours a day, 6 days a week. Contrast this with, for example, Germany (I won't say France). At least they have mandated vacations of reasonable time.
The question is: is this the kind of competition you want to even be involved in? It's a race to the bottom; do you really want to be first?
Have I seen? Very few. That's not a good question. They do happen to have a regular cartoon on the Disney Channel...
Why are you here? There are journals and user names and "friend"s...
Well, the cop is from New Jersey.
"If I do not want others to quote me, I do not speak." -- Phil Wayne
