wickedpheonix

Pirkei Avot (Traditions of our Fathers) writes, "if not now, then when?"

If you keep waiting to get married and "grow up", then when will you do so? You keep putting it off because you're afraid of the commitment it represents. You like that you can go fly off to Los Angeles at the drop of a hat when you so desire, but what do you really get out of having that ability?

If you do finally get married when you're 35, maybe you'll have a kid or two when you're 40, or wait even longer for "financial stability" because you "can't afford a child." Then, when you're 50, you'll discover you hit menopause. Even if you did mention to have a kid before then, you'll never have the strength at 40 and 50 to keep up with a young child running around the place and waiting for his parents to play with him outside. Your kids will end up obese as they adopt your practices of sitting down whenever they can and resort to video games to provide parenthood from parents too old to relate. Kids need YOUNG parents to take care of them.

The disease of individualism is to account for this disaster. Everything you write in your blog post is me, me, me. "I'm" not ready. "I'm" not financially independent. "I'm" not old enough. "I" don't want to settle down yet. Individualism breeds selfish behavior. Marriage and adulthood and settling down is about giving up control, accepting the decisions of your spouse and career's boss, and cooperation. Good luck finding any of them.

(by the way: I'm 19).

I'll be spending Christmas meeting family at the airport :D

@Hydraulics

Does that include Apple's stock price as well?

There's a very big difference between physical goods and digital goods. Physical goods can be counterfeited - anything from money to wallets to watches to furniture to anything else. The thing about physical goods is that if you buy a counterfeit Rolex, you generally buy what you thought was genuine, and then when it falls apart on you you blame Rolex - not the counterfeiters. That's the real problem about physical piracy - is that it harms the reputation of the original makers, because it's passed off as the real thing.

Digital media piracy is different though - trying to regulate internet piracy on the basis of customs and corporate protection is like trying to say that internet piracy should be fought because it does the equivalent of selling scratched discs. That's not what Internet piracy is entirely - pirated materials are (generally) clearly marked in terms of quality - music is anywhere from crap 128 kbps quality to FLAC rips, and movies can be anything from CAMs to DVDRips. When the color or audio sucks on a rip, we know its the fault of the rip - not the content's original producer. Producers of fake Rolex watches have no reputation - producers of pirated materials have names (think aXXo) and reputations and try to uphold them. Trying to fight digital piracy because you're concerned that people downloading Michael Bay's new movie are going to think that it sucks is non sequitur - people will think that the movie sucks because the movie sucks (bad acting or whatever), not because the audio cuts out in the middle of the movie and a "property of Paramount" watermark cuts on-screen.

@Hazdaz

Did you even read my post? Better Place isn't talking about charging stations, it's talking about battery-swap stations.

"many people would still be afraid of being left stranded if there was no backup. "

" electric cars will need some kind of way to extend their range. "

If your "tank" runs low, just pull into a battery swap station where you swap your empty battery for a fully charged up one. Watch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHHvjsFm_88 Electric cars "fill up" FASTER than gasoline cars. Most people will never even need to go to a battery switch station anyways, just plug in at home and work. Watch an average EV user who also DOES need to "fill up" his tank spontaneously and in the middle of the day: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kU7I90AooOE&feature=channel

If you think that we waste billions of dollars in foreign aid to Israel, then you're extremely shortsighted. For all the billions we put in to help keep Israel defended we get TRILLIONS out in everything from Israeli-startups that each of them alone have the capability to drive trillions of dollars worth of capital (imagine if this REPLACED everything we know today) to Intel processors, many of which are manufactured in a fab in Jerusalem and are designed in Haifa. You tell me how much the Intel processor market is alone and then we'll talk about "wasting" taxpayer money on Israel.

American auto companies are doing it all wrong. The battery itself is pointless. Having a gasoline engine in the car is a waste. Going half-assed on what's supposed to get America off foreign oil? Priceless.

Instead, we have to go to Israeli auto. Yeah, that's right - Better Place headed up by Shai Agassi. Charge up not just at home but at WORK - at the parking lot, at the mall, at the movies. What matters is how you pay for electricity not how you carry it around! And if your battery is gone and you need to get going just roll into a battery change station and robotically get a new battery in less time it takes to fill a tank with gas because you don't own the battery - you lease it.

Leave it to the Israelis to come up with a solution that requires NO compromises and actually IMPROVES on owning a gasoline car. It's cheaper because electricity is cheaper and you're not paying upfront for the battery. It's more convenient because you're not taking time out to pull into a gas station every week, you're filling up in the parking lot. And on the rare occasion you need to take a road trip? You're back on the road quicker than your gas guzzlin' buddy.

Sorry, but I look at this stop-gap measure and can't help but be sickened by corporate idiots who lost their vision with Henry Ford after seeing TRUE INNOVATION that's coming out of ISRAEL.

www.betterplace.com

Great!

Up to date IBM Thinkpads?

DROOL

Does this also apply to people who just subscribe to cable internet, and not TV? If so, then great - but otherwise I'm out of luck (of course it makes sense that it wouldn't but eh).

Did Hell freeze over? Need for Speed made by the Burnout developer?

Sounds like someone just divided by zero. In other news, that's awesome =D