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Comment Don't all businesses say that? (Score 3, Insightful) 27

I mean, if I was entering into the advertising space like that would I say.. I want to be above the bottom 10 advertising companies? I want to be the 6th largest company. No.. You say you want to crush the competition. Does any business like compitition? no. They want 100% of the market.. It is the capitalist way.

Comment Just look at 'Subscriptions' menu in google play (Score 0) 37

Just look at the subscriptions menu option in Google Play. It lists all your subscriptions, the dates they renew, and can cancel them super easy.. Not sure what everyone is griping out.. Its like signing up for anything with a trial period.. You gotta set a calendar reminder before the period to see if you want to cancel it.

Comment Re: So what??? (Score 0) 45

This is bullshit.. By the age of 4, my son taught himself how to count to 100 on his own by playing madden. When I saw a game and Seahawks were beating the cowboys 21-7, I asked him offhanded 'How many points do the Cowboys have to score to tie the Seahawks?'. His answer of '14 points, two touchdowns daddy without missing a beat'. He watches a lot of youtube, and learns a lot of stuff there too.. He watches documentaries, people playing fortnight, and sucks in so much information like a sponge.. He taught himself how to do multiplication (not actually memorizing the math facts) in 1st grade.. That same year he saw his sister learning long division, and he stated. 'Oh division is the opposite of multiplication, like subtraction is to addition'. In 2nd grade, I asked his sister accidentally what is 4 minus 10, which she replied 'You can't do that daddy, the first number needs to be bigger'.. My son 'negative 6?'.. He is reading on an 8th grade level at 152 words per minute.. Each kid is different, but out of my 2 kids, my son has a lot more screen time than my daughter, and he is excelling. And to the point about getting exercise/moving around.. He plays baseball, flag football, soccer and snowboards... He has time for it all.. I feel guilty at times that he spends so much time on the screen.. But when he gets bored, he goes and does something else.. If I am wrong and screen time does dumb kids down, I am happy he got dumbed down because I am not sure I could handle a smarter kid... Nice ./ name btw.... Unfortunately I think my Son may be way smarter than both of us...

Comment I am a horrible parent - but thank goodness. (Score 1) 56

Let my 2nd kid have a crap ton of screen time since the time they could hold a tablet/phone. By age 4 he was playing madden on my xbox. He had taught himself all the numbers from 0-99, memorized probably half the starters in the NFL, their number, and their position. And when I asked him, I see your Seahawks (NFL Football Team) are beating the Cowboys 21-7.. How many points do they need to score? He responded 14 points daddy, 2 touch downs with PATs.. At 4 years old.. By 1st grade he had taught himself how to do multiplication (did not memorize it, but could manually calculate it), and understood the fundamentals that division was the opposite of multiplication (something his older sister unfortunately did not get - she was in 4th grade). I quizzed my son some subtractions, as he liked being quizzed.. 'What is 8 minus 12'. He thought a second, `negative 4 daddy.` My daughter, said that is impossible because numbers can't go less than 0, and then they got into a fight.. He is now in 3rd grade, reading on a 9th grade level at over 150 wpm and comprehending about 98% of what he reads.. He is amazing at sports, taught himself the rules of soccer by inference by playing FIFA on the xbox, and taught himself 2-3 different tricks in a space of a week by duplicating the tricks in the FIFA game. He consumes a crap ton of youtube (watching streamers), but also how to videos, news, documentaries, and movies. At the age of 5 he saw something on Law & Order we were watching (someone getting killed). We told him, to close his eyes and not look.. He said 'Why? it is just an actor pretending to get killed'... I hate being the parent that thinks they have a genius on their hands, but I can't take much more of his brilliance, if Youtube / Screen time dumbed him down.. I am grateful.

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