Mother nature has already shown us that dog-eat-dog is the best way to adapt, survive, and even thrive.

Except that dogs adapt, survive and thrive by cooperating. In fact I'm pretty sure that a dog that resorts to cannibalism will be put down pretty fast, by humans or other dogs.

The business world is the same way.

Yes: cooperation is the best way to succeed there too. That's why we have anti-trust laws: peaceful cooperation is such a winning strategy that companies will always resort to it unless prevented by force.

I have work to do so my company can kick your company's ass and put them out of business.

I work for a paycheck, and entrepreneurs work for profit, but I guess some men just want to see the world burn.

But doesn't address how we could reshape our educational system to fit that new model. Perhaps make high school six years, with the last two intensive training in trade specialties, for those going that route, and college core courses for those going on.

That would change college from 4 years to 2 and let them focus on specialties, almost like a finishing school.

Everyone goes to school until they're 20, with an option to learn a trade, then you're on your own.

I don't see why two factor authentication isn't standard across the web, what with flash chips being so cheap. i mean if i can get a 16GB USB drive that is so thin and small it fits in the card holder of my wallet why we can't have something similar that works with any website? And public/private keys are frankly more complex than most users could handle, at least from the ones I've looked at.

As for TFA you just hit the nail on the head when you mentioned FB because what I'm seeing is more and more people that let FB handle it and if there isn't a FB option they pass. Should we consider this good or bad? On the one hand FB knows too damned much about people as it is but on the other hand at least they aren't reusing passwords constantly

I don't think so and here is why: When the Wii was released a tablet that could play games cost $500+ and a phone that could play games if you could even find one would have cost a grand, now you get $99 tablets that comes with Angry Birds and a $150 phone can likewise play most if not all the games Android has to offer.

What has screwed Nintendo is that frankly other than a handful of titles there was nothing but crap on the Wii, in fact I know a lot of people who bought the Wii and every single one is rotting in a closet, and after getting burnt buying the Wii only to find a handful of good games and an assload of shovelware most folks aren't gonna take the chance. I mean why should they when that tablet or phone which they wanted for other tasks can play games as well?

So what is wrong with Valve? From what I understand it looks to open consoles up the way competition opened up the PC in that they will come up with the OS and minimum specs but any company that wants to add to that or make it better is welcome to. If someone wants to make a portable? Go right ahead, if somebody wants to make one twice as powerful? That is fine too as the baseline is gonna be just that, a baseline, so you can choose the model and price point that bests fits your needs.

But I don't blame you for hating MSFT on the console as while I think Win 7 is a truly great OS the fact that they charge for MP on X360 is just fucked up IMHO, if you buy a game you shouldn't have to pay a second time just to use a major feature of the game you had already paid for. No need for you to get screwed by Nintendo though, if Valve can even do half as good with their console as they had on the PC it should be a damned nice system.

Yeah I have to say I USED to like Pegg until I read that and what I would have to say to him is thus...if 99 out of a 100 people say you smell like dogshit? Then maybe you should take a fucking bath. When 99 out of a 100 people are going "What the fuck is with all these damned lens flares, its distracting and annoying"? Then maybe your ass might ought to tone that shit down just to be on the safe side.

But of course that is ignoring the dirty truth which is that Abrams and Bay really don't give a flying fuck WHAT the audience thinks as long as they can get enough "sheeple" to buy the shit, the are the ultimate corporate creation, movies by focus groups. As I said at least when people pointed out how much they fucking HATE Jar Jar Lucas put his ass on a bus, when you complain to either Bay or Abrams you can bet your last dollar they'll do whatever you hated twice as much just to flip you the bird.

To me that is the worst part, its all cynical market driven product placement "processed movie product" designed NOT because somebody wanted to tell a good story, had some interesting characters, hell even had just a cool idea they wanted to see on the screen, nope this is all just designed by and for marketing and I have a feeling that in 20 years these films will be looked at as trashy garbage like the serials of the 40s or the cheap sci-fi designed to cash in on Star Wars in the 70s. Just because they have a big budget doesn't make it any good and I honestly don't think either director gives a shit about whether its good or not, its all about how much money they can make on the merchandising.

Oh watch me go off like a mushroom cloud superfly TNT on THAT one, that is one of my biggest WHAT THE FUCK??? moments in the entire history of Star Trek!

In ST:DS9 they said that the gun the Vulcan that snapped and was killing people on the station was using was "one of the last slug throwers" and was old tech...now wait just a fucking minute. You have a gun that lets you 1.- See through walls several layers deep, no matter what the make of the material, 2.- Give you perfect targeting through those walls, and 3.- Allows you to transport a bullet through any object and hit your target perfectly every time...and you are IN A WAR YOU ARE LOSING and you don't fucking use this gun? WHAT THE HOLY FUCK!!!

That is when I had to stop watching because it was pissing me off too much, every single Dominion war death could be blamed on leadership too fucking STUPID to hand out a weapon that could easily help them win the war...morons, the entire federation is made up of morons.

Again its a story so I'll buy your bullshit as long as its consistent bullshit. Yes we all know the ONLY way to actually go backwards would be to calculate the EXACT point in time and space that you are trying to hit, which frankly would make the flying time machine in BTTF II more believable as it would be easier to give or take a thousand feet in the air than to figure up the exact point to have the tires perfectly meet the road, but again its a story so okay, I'll let that slide.

What I WILL NOT LET SLIDE and what nobody else should either is when their time travel also refuses to fucking acknowledge the power that they have just been given and thus making the time traveler be the biggest dumbass in the universe. I mean in Star Trek generations HOW many times could he have had Sauron without risking anybody AND saving his family? yet he chooses to go back 3 fucking minutes? Or a time ship in Voyager that travels all the way back to the 23rd century from the 29th but the pilot actually says "no time to explain"...WHAT THE FUCK?????

Even Bill and fucking Ted knew that time travel gave you a hell of an advantage but we are supposed to buy that somebody that has the ability to go back in time is too God damned stupid to understand that concept? Really? For the love of God you have ALL OF TIME, from the beginning to the end, so fixing something like his planet exploding? trivial, he has tons of time to warn his race, get his family off the planet, hell they got fricking warp drives and his knowledge of how the next 30 years are supposed to play out, they would be building statues in his honor on Romulus II and that would be the end of it.

With suspension of disbelief there ARE limits, sure I'll believe a world where there are vampires, or where aliens live among us, hell you can spin just about any tale as long as you are consistent in universe. But when you are trying to sell us that 1.- Someone has gone back in time and 2.- he blames somebody for something that hasn't even happened yet and which HE CAN PREVENT thanks to his having knowledge of future events? yeah i gotta throw the red flag and call bullshit on the field, sorry.

Guess this would of ended better if you had done some minor investigation instead of stormtroopering in because you got a "tip" that pot was there? Sure, a bad tip sucks, but what sucks worse is this idea that law enforcement has to go in kicking down doors and destroying a mans business instead of doing some basic fact checking first.

How about someone make IR Glasses, that when you wear, make it too bright for anyone to record the features of your face? Sure, they still see you and your actions, but won't be able to make out the face.

Why is not the same as having a movie or music background in a youtube video? Because with a movie, or music it can be argued that the person could get it for free by viewing the video. That is not the same for games. No matter what video of a game i find, it's not the same as playing it. I don't get enjoyment watching someone else play video games. No one does. We get it from playing them.

Nintendo loses nothing but free advertising from these videos. Expect now they are losing goodwill, because this is a dick move, which doesn't seem legal, since video games are to be played, not watched.

Actually that is a yes. If someone is playing thru the whole game, they are teaching you.

A section you are stuck on? You can fast forward it, see how it's done, then do it yourself. In fact, this is the modern version of a walkthru. Instead of a text document, you got a video of it.

So yes, it could be argued that it's Academic.

You are kidding right? he had a fricking TIME MACHINE and he doesn't go to warn everybody, maybe give them plenty of time to move, nope he goes to blow up the federation? That is as stupid as the time ship that attacked Voyager saying "there is no time to explain" or Picard going back to 3 minutes before he got his ass handed to him in ST:Generations instead of just grabbing Sauron on the bridge and saying his family from the fire../facepalm/

There should be a law that if you are gonna do a time travel story you have to show you understand the concept and realize that you have just given a character a giant reset button. I mean how sad is it when the last movie i saw that realized this was Back To The Future, where Marty goes "Duh, I'm in a time machine!" and goes back before he left to save Doc. If you have a functional time machine? Its pretty damned hard to lose. And don't give me that alternate dimension crap but if that is the case then it should be the case for every other time they have used it, but its not. I have to agree with Chuck at SFDebris in that "I'll buy your bullshit, time travel, clones, alien invaders, just be consistent with your bullshit".

That is because both Abrams and Bay can't seem to write any character but differing levels of douchebag and for the love of God will somebody PLEASE make him stop with the damned lens flares? I don't know which is worse, Abrams making everything bright and throwing lens flares in all over the place or bay's ultra fast cuts but they are both annoying as hell to set through.

At the end of the day though lets face it, its all about marketing. you'll never see a film "Wrath of Khan" quality from either director because its not about telling a good story, or making a great movie, its about turning out a product that can be slapped on everything from t-shirts to mouse pads and selling the hell out of that. While this can work the movie has to come first but if the second one is anything like the first the whole thing felt like an excuse to get scenes that would work in the trailers.

And maybe its just me but do these movies have this undercurrent of cynicism to anybody else? I watch films by Abrams and Bay and get this "Meh, it'll be good enough for the sheeple" feeling when I watch them, it just feels to me that its done with the absolute minimum of effort required to make a marketable product, like filming by focus group.