We aren't missing the point. We got the point, almost chuckled at the silly joke, and moved on to a topic with real meat to discuss. Quit trying to be clever.

Unfortunately, ignorance is quickly developing into something much worse.

Willful ignorance.


I encounter people every day who actively refuse to learn anything that takes more than 3 seconds to comprehend.

I won't judge you for the things you never had the chance to learn, but that changes the minute you choose not to think about something.


As for the original discussion, I sincerely hope that society will never reach the point where "it doesn't matter".
That said, hope and belief are two different things.

Grammar is being largely ignored by the masses.
I don't see this changing anytime soon. Like so many things, there is a self-reinforcing feedback loop.
People don't use grammar, so more and more people can "function" without having to learn it.

Conversational Logic and formal debate are also completely ignored by the masses.
That doesn't make them important and useful tools.

Your use of the word douche would not be considered incorrect. To be more specific 'douches' are people who have a sense of un-based superiority. Your definition fits under that umbrella. You may also come across 'douchebag' which is the full term. It references a feminine hygiene product that is anything but hygienic.

The failed to predict the mobile phone camera. They focused on the lower end of the market, and smart phones with their 5-15megapixel cameras blew them out the market.

As someone currently learning traditional Chinese and finding it personally easier, I agree that overall the roman alphabet is superior. The roman alphabet is tied to sound only, and therefore can be used with any spoken language. Minor discrepancies in pronunciation aside, once you know the sounds you can sound out a word you don't know. You can't do that in Chinese. That feature of the alphabet makes it infinitely more adaptable than the character system, where your main choices are memorization and more memorization. It literally is the difference in learning 30-odd characters and 1200. (the 30-odd number is leeway to reintroduce some characters that American English doesn't have at this time, such as one for the 'ch' and the 'sh' sounds.)

And just so you know I personally like the character system better, and I think it is due to my rather severe dyslexia. These roman letters are used over and over again and it can be hard to tell what it is supposed to be. Easiest example to give is 'p', 'b', 'd', and 'q'. Maybe you haven't noticed, but I sure have. They are all the same fucking letter.

Why do you think we should get rid of other languages, specifically? Is it only the inconvenience of translation? And why do you chose English to be the 'standard'?

Here's the pony: http://youtu.be/qAxeOBomNME The guy who did it has done many of them.

ALL people are poor multitaskers

FTFY

Current cars can easily maintain 90mph+ on almost the entire length of interstate 10, yet many areas have the speed limit set to 55.

There are several perfectly straight, 4 lane state highways where I live with 45mph average speed limits, and some towns force traffic down to 15mph.

None of this is necessary, it's done simply to increase revenue from speeding tickets.

With automated cars, the arguments they use to justify these ridiculously low limits won't apply, and if my car automatically slowed down anyway, I wouldn't have to worry about getting pegged by speed traps. (thus destroying that revenue stream completely, and removing the motivation for the low limits.)

Now that you're done ranting about the first paragraph, go read the rest of my post.

The discussion is about whether or not 1 pirate == 1 lost sale.

The only connection piracy has to lost sales is that the media wants there to be.

You're a perfect example. You won't pay money to watch it, and will wait until it's available via free channels.
Either way the MPAA is losing profits.

They probably count you as a sale "lost to piracy" even if you never download anything.

I considered that actually.

Thanks to the internet, most people usually decide right after opening night (or sooner, thanks to pre-showings) whether the movie is worth paying to go see.
I came to the rough conclusion that if the movie was that bad, a significant percentage of veiwers will probably just give it a pass or wait till it's available from netflix/$1 rental/borrowing from a friend.

Group B more than most, as rabid fans who are willing to watch a low quality bootleg just to see the movie early are more likely to refuse to pay to see it on principle.

OR THEY COULD OFFICIALLY RELEASE IT ON DVD!!

From the wikipedia page:
Discotek Media announced on March 12, 2012 that they had licensed the home video rights to the series and plans on releasing both the American series, as well as the Japanese series with English subtitles on separate releases

Send me a message(check my profile), I know a Chinese distributor who took the US release audio and mixed it with the official japanese video. He won't sell it, but he will include it with orders for the official Japanese disks.