“…the couple had no idea that selling their children was illegal.”
Chinese couple sells their children to pay for online game obsession.
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You quickly realize how many nutcases are sharing the planet with you, when you read blog comments attached to posts about pretty rational things.
Take for example, Netflix’s announcement that their unlimited plan that lets you do all of the streaming while having one physical disk out at a time, all for $9.99/month, was going to be eliminated.
Now you can have a $7.99 plan that includes unlimited DVDs (1 out at a time), a $7.99 unlimited streaming plan, or both.
So, for $15.98, you can continue to have what you had yesterday at $9.99.
Oh the humanity! A 60% increase! Overnight! GASP!
The comments sections everywhere, Twitter, and Facebook have erupted into outrage. People talking tough about sticking it to Netflix with threats of taking their business elsewhere. Ingrates are saying that they’ve enjoyed Netflix, but this is it… the relationship is over! There are those complete dopes who can only muster up four-letter words to drop into the comments sections to express their outrage. %&#$ YOU NETFLIX!
Reality: Netflix gives people a ridiculously great bargain for years, and then when they ask for a little more — $5.99/month more to be precise &mdash to cover additional streaming costs, or royalties that have to be paid, people are ready to dump Netflix altogether?
I’ve been a customer since 2000. I love Netflix. I wish they streamed at 1080p instead of 720p, but streaming is convenient. They are really fast at receiving my physical discs and sending out the next one in my queue. They have a great website. They have a huge selection. At $15.98, it’s a great value.
Some of you might be too young to remember having to drive to the local video store to pick up a VHS or DVD, wandering around in the store looking for something worth watching in the store’s horrible selection, picking something out, paying $2.99 for a 2 night rental, forgetting to drive it back on time, getting charged another few bucks for the late fee… And I’m saying this while back in the 80′s my family owned a video rental store.
It still amazes me that there are video rental places that are still in business.
So where are all of the outraged people going to go? I will bet that half of them stay with Netflix, and the other half will go somewhere else, realize how much the alternatives suck, and return to Netflix.
Sure, Amazon has streaming, but you’re paying $2.99-$3.99 per rental, good for only 48 hours (at least that’s how it was the last time I checked). They give Prime members free streaming on a limited selection, but it’s mostly stuff you wouldn’t have paid for anyways.
I will remain a loyal Netflix customer as long as I feel that I’m getting value out of their service. I look at it this way: For the cost of two movie tickets at a theater where I’ll have to deal with uncomfortable seats and other rude theater goers, I can have unlimited movies for an entire month, delivered right to my mailbox or streaming device. If these price hikes ensure Netflix continues to improve and works towards 1080p streaming, they can keep hitting my credit card.
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Get outside:
NEARSIGHTEDNESS CAUSED BY not enough sun? “Researchers suspect that bright outdoor light helps children’s developing eyes maintain the correct distance between the lens and the retina — which keeps vision in focus. Dim indoor lighting doesn’t seem to provide the same kind of feedback. As a result, when children spend too many hours inside, their eyes fail to grow correctly and the distance between the lens and retina becomes too long, causing far-away objects to look blurry. . . . Luckily, there is a simple way to lower the risk of nearsightedness, and today, the summer solstice — the longest day of the year — is the perfect time to begin embracing it: get children to spend more time outside.”
via Instapundit.com
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Hey, and you know what, kids can also install ComputerTime on their parents computers to prevent their parents from spending too much time on the computer!
Source: momfilter – TheLogOff.org
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If you’re sitting in a chair for most of your day, doing your job, you might want to take notice: Just How Dangerous Is Sitting All Day?
Sitting down for extended periods makes you 53% more likely to have a heart attack, according to a study in a medical journal.
Parents with desk jobs are sitting all day long. That’s not good. Kids have to go to school, move between classes, walk from the bus to home and they’re more likely to be moving around and having varied activities. How many office-working adults are on a sports team.
Of course, kids have their summer vacations. Maybe they prefer to stay indoors where the A/C is on and sit for eight hours with only their thumbs moving as they play with a half-dozen friends on some Xbox Live game.
Even adults can make use of ComputerTime to make them get up, stretch, walk around, by setting session limits with mandatory five-minute breaks. The other alternatives are stand-up desks
If you use a stand up desk, tell us how you like it by leaving a comment below.
Do you think stand up desks might be good for your kids too? Do you think they might be less comfortable about spending too much time on the computer if you made them stand while being on the computer?
Maybe the treadmill computer desk is the way to go.
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ALTHOUGH his computer time is limited to half an hour a day, Damian Chuah Tjun Kit, 14, beat over 30,000 readers all over Asia to emerge champion of the The 39 Clues book series online competition.
To make it extra special, Damian received his prize cheque of US$5,000 (RM15,000) on his birthday, April 25.
Nice work Damian!
(Source)
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Not all people feel them. This is article is very interesting:
Who feels chills while listening to music? People “open to experience” (Source: Collision Detection)
I bet this strongly correlates to people who have a need for better quality audio equipment. I know few people who seek out really high quality audio systems for that ultimate music listening experience. They strive to reproduce the most authentic and realistic sound. The put in audiophile headphones, sit, and close their eyes, and completely get lost in the sound.
I had somebody question my need to spend money on high-end equipment many years ago. They said, “I don’t hear that much of a difference.”
I demonstrated, by hooking up a pair of low end speakers that didn’t have that much clarity and had no tightness in the bass, and switched between the to… A… B… A… B…
“I still don’t get it. They sound the same to me.”
So this article about the study linked to above isn’t shocking to me. This person I refer to is the least open to new experiences of any person that I’ve ever met. Been listening to the same kind of music for four decades, been eating the same kind of food for four decades, been partaking in the same activities for over four decades. Present something new to try and the stock response is, “Why would I want to do that? No thanks.”
I wonder about the entire generation of kids being brought up with iPods and their inferior white ear bud headphones. If these kids get chills from listening to certain songs, then they really have to give some higher-end audio a chance. Get a pair of Sennheiser headphones
To me, music hasn’t generally been about the lyrics so much as it’s been about the sonic experience. What’s your experience? Have you noticed the difference in what people hear when they listen to music? Does music give you chills sometimes? Do you actively seek out new forms of music (and food, places to go, thinks to try)?
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