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Re: Ageism is becoming an issue for me. (Scripting News)

dongilmore — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 14:51:01 -0000

Ageism is not how you think about yourself, its how others think about you.

Re: Ageism is becoming an issue for me. (Scripting News)

dongilmore — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 14:27:39 -0000

Biological evolution's job is to get us to procreate and then the job is done. After that, it is up to human civilization to include all members, young and old. Our culture remains focused on youthful sex appeal, and ageism is now rampant. Maybe future fMRI technology will demonstrate that the reason so many elderly people feel young in their mind is because their experienced mind can function masterfully - maybe a little slower, but maybe there is more processing going on.

Becoming a superstar takes about 10,000 hours of hard work. If you repeat this process 10 times, few will want to hire you, even if you ask for less than when you first made superstar. WTF?

Re: Various Proposals: Continuation, Subtags, Geoslash

dongilmore — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 15:21:51 -0000

Concerning use of an ellipsis as continuation, '…' is one char; '...' is three. Allow either. Shorter is nice, but who remembers the keystroke? I cut & paste it.

Re: How Will Twitter Be Governed?

dongilmore — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 14:30:42 -0000

Seems to me that "Twitter as a Tool" is easily replaced by a better tool built on google's new Wave, and "Twitter as a Community" is easily moved from one database to another, and "Twitter as Bedrock" can sink without much effect. The Twitter phenomenon has certainly helped us experience a taste of future flow, with ubiquitous real-time connectivity. But when I look one to two years out, I fail to see how Twitter is going to hold onto their users, the people who create all their value. If they have an ace up their sleeves, the suit better be hearts, customer loyalty. Show me a sign.

Meanwhile, has anyone created a mirror database?

Re: Obama's bone-headedness, day 2 (Scripting News)

dongilmore — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 14:07:36 -0000

Unification. I know, let's start things off with a prayerful invocation from someone who is anti-gay, anti-choice, anti-science, someone who believes in merging church and state, someone politically active at removing human rights that had already been granted. That should help set the right symbolic tone for unification.

To quote Sara Posner , "Obama had thousands of clergy to choose from, and the choice of Warren is not only a slap in the face to progressive ministers toiling on the front lines of advocacy and service but a bow to the continuing influence of the religious right in American politics. Warren vocally opposes gay marriage, does not believe in evolution, has compared abortion to the Holocaust and backed the assassination of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. "

Could Obama have Richard Dawkins do the invocation? Nah, too divisive. Need anti-gay, anti-choice, anti-science unifier.