So we have a 51/49% ratio for happiness and crazy in relation to child rearing. And this is for a middle to upper class person who wanted kids in the first place. Kids are crazy, generally make the gf/wife look 15y older after they have had em, and allow said gf/wife to have ultimate control (child support and divorce) which essentially robs a man of his independance and ability to have fun. There is a damn good reason that there are family sections of restraunts... Also, consider bars/leaving bong & vape on the coffee table/leaving porn and condoms out/leaving booze out/leaving good food out (kids are less behaved than kitties in most ways)/leaving expensive tech out (kiddies going to puke on that MBP)....ad nauseum. There is really no point to having kids, although social convention aka parents in some cultures sometimes advocates them, but it is a matter of rational self interest to disagree with this notion. 99% chance your kids will put you in a rest home, rather than take care of you, thats how the cookie crumbles.
This Article is crazy. Has demonoid or the private trackers stopped hosting FLAC torrents? I am cheap, there is a snowballs chance in hell of getting caught, arrr. That goes for Ugs nx 6, autocad, adobe cs master collection, server 2008r2, vs2010, everything until a superior open source alternative is developed.
Thinkpad T series, DELL Latitude (some at least), most business-class laptops meaning integrated graphics and lots of ram, and possibly a SSD. These don't change as fast, if you want a cooler laptop don't get anything with a discreet graphics card or that is advertised as being made for gaming.
So what is the point of this article? Wymin will or have already taken over and men are either puppies or thugs. End result: a whole bunch of feminists running the matriarchy of the USA and possibly south Korea, they decide men are beneath them and become lesbians. Then the USA either starts a war and drafts some of the wymin and recovers or stagnates and turns into a failed socialist state, like Canada.
If technology continues to increase at the current rate will global warming (if it is even caused by humans) and diseases caused by a westernized culture be an issue? Think about the ~1.5 degrees possible surface temperature change on the earth versus the possibility for space travel and colonization.
Heh, that article is crazy. Have fun with your 20 acre plot 3 kids and pony... Who wants to get married in today's society? Your kids will just send you to an "adult home" anyway. I'd rather be driving a high end bimmer/mercades and be dating a woman 20 years younger than me when those years come around. The "American dream" is a fabrication, have fun with your 20+ years of kids leaching off you, 9-5 job, and all. How about legalizing prostitution, drugs, getting rid of speed limits, compulsory education (12 years of brainwashing) -- then there might be some fun.
If as you say "consumers really need more self control", then why does the content itself encourage the sort of apathy that you appear to be so opposed to? Look at most any torrent (latest Hollywood garbage, warez TPB top 100) and they are all encouraging apathy.
However, how a bout this -- what if torrents are encouraging efficiency. Think about this, the top (could have changed since I have been typing this) torrent on TPB is the 1080p version of avatar. Never mind all of the gag tv torrents That is 10900mbyte/(20mbit/sec/8(to mbyte))=4954.5sec (assuming.05mbit overhead 4954.5sec/60 = 82.6 min. So a bit more than an hour. What about going to purchase avatar 1080p on blu-ray? Thats waiting for the bus/paying for gas or buying it on amazon for $20 (with insane DRM restrictions)
so: waiting 80min to get a file that will play as many times as I want on whatever I want vs. waiting 48 hours for amazon to ship it out on a good day...
I don't know anyone with a twitter account. When I was a teenager (2 years ago heh) all I used was msn/irc. Facebook/gmail chat seems to be a bit more popular among the kiddes these days though.