Alabama NT Josh Chapman Is injured

Basically, if you’re paraphrasing a lot of stats and information or a small snippet of breaking news, its proper etiquette to provide a clickable link to that source, that way the information is traceable to the original source. Like, if you have a lot of stats in a post, you could put “stats from nfl.com” at the bottom of the story with a link to that page. Or as Jaxon has done here, created a link to the breaking news within the article.

It rewards people for being lazy. Why bother to do your own study and research, when you can just wait till someone does it for you? Of course those same people that are to lazy to do their own research are probably too lazy to even click on a link as well. It just goes against my belief in honesty for freeloaders, looking for a free ride on the backs of others, to profit from their only lazy lack of effort.

It’s like the scientist on a Science Channel program I saw around 2 years ago, forcasting that by the end of this century everyone will be linked to “the World Wide Mind”, a Star Treck Borg like linking of all minds for instently shaired thoughts. They even interviewed some nut in the UK who had already had a “Johnny Mnemonic” like computer connection installed at the base of his skull, and connected to his brain (in around 2009).

While some wii say great, I can’t wait, that defies human nature. It would be the death of human creativity and culture. Why make a movie, write a book, or make music, if the moment you think it, everyone else does as well, so that you have no market to sell the product of your labor, because it’s already been given away for free. Why bother to try to create anything, when the preeminent experts in the field will be thinking your thoughts right along with you, and doing it much better, your work will have been wasted for no purpose. Then over time people will realize all creative thought (unless your one of the very small handful of the most brillant in each field of study) is a wast of time, when all you have to do is just depend on the smart people that are left, until one day all the last smart people are gone.

It’s already started, and It can’t be stopped. Here are 2 examples. During the anthrax scare almost a decade ago, a co-worker told me “I’ve told everyone that I don’t waste my time reading, watching, or listening to the news, I just tell them that I watch you, and if I suddenly see you take off running, I’ll be right behind you”. It was the same in many Army classes, with many just kicking back and going to sleep during class, saying “Why should I listen, when you are, I’ll just do what you do, now let me go back to sleep”.

If you would like to see a good comedy about this dark future, watch “Idiotocracy” (I’m not sure if that’s the correct spelling). It’s about a totally average (or below) slacker, who gets frozen, and thaws out around 500 years in the future, where his IQ in the 80’s makes him the smartest man in the world (no one else is above the 60’s in IQ). It’s really funny, until you realize it’s probably true.

Sorry for going off topic Jaxon, but that’s just How I feel. Feel free to delet it if it’s not PC.