This isn't very surprising. Previously logging onto the internet was an actual act on the part of the user. Turn on your PC, load up an ISP's software, and then actively log online.
These days, you just flip open your phone and there you are. Sometimes you have to enter a wifi password but generally it's not all that different than turning on the TV.
I wonder how much of the spread of K-Pop is due to the influence of J-Pop. Japanese pop music has been popular around the world from the spread of various Anime and Japanese video games for close to 30 years now.
Plus these days the "Free to Play" MMO game has much of it's spread due to Korean companies like Nexon, DevCat, and NCSoft. Many of their games feature music from Korean artists.
I don't think the RIAA considers any artist outside of it's rather broad umbrella as a musician. I'd imagine that the dramatic decrease is most likely a drop in the number of acts under the collective labels that have gone independent.
With large record labels, how many people are between the artists and the audience? Teams of lawyers, advertising agents, band managers, stage managers, executives, producers, venues and owners, studio owners, studio staff, distributors, etc. etc.. That's a lot of dead weight to cut if the artists themselves are doing the bulk of the work without the aid of industry players.
“With this RFID, we know exactly where the kid is within the school...”
No. They know exactly where the RFID chip is within the school.
I wonder how long until A Million Moms or some other group decries the use of RFID chips with ties to warnings from Revelations about the "Number of the Beast."
You stated "it can't be both." it is even the title of your post. When in fact it can be both researched and horribly stereotyped at the same time. Especially when given a small sample size, or utilizing faulty data.
The point is that girls will play with whatever they like, regardless of marketing or stylistic design. We can delve into the sociological aspects of feminine design choices if you like, but that's a bit dry for my tastes.
Lionel Trains tried to create and market a train set just for girls in 1957. Most girls were incredibly put off by the pastel train set and the product failed to bring in the sales that Lionel had expected. It was also considered a marketing failure for the company.
Turns out girls at the time wanted the same realistic trains that the boys had.
We owe modern scientific knowledge and the technology that derives from it almost entirely to Christianity.
I did read the article in full. And I found a lot of faults with it and your premise. We owe a lot of knowledge and technology to some Christians. Not to Christianity. Christianity is a doctrine and a dogma. It's a belief system based on a Bronze age set of ideals that has evolved over time to try to stay relevant to how society itself had changed.
The Ancient Greeks did have Science. Science is a process of discovery. A method of finding answers through experimentation has been a process used by humans since our prehistoric ancestors figured out how to crack nuts and utilize (and later create) fire.
Aristotle was known for analytics and logic. Archimedes was a renowned inventor and a pioneer in engineering. Hippocrates is still revered in the field of Medicine, and every Doctor that graduates from Medical School takes an oath which bears his name. Pythagoras was not only a mathematician but also an astromonmer. His observations of the movement of stars and planets helped him try to come up with a geocentric model of the universe and account for the strange orbits of Jupiter and Saturn (he was later proven incorrect).
And it didn't stop there. Islamic Arabs took the Greek systems and the mathematics of Archimedes and Apollonius and expanded on it for geometry, algebra, and continued with trigonometry. When we get to medicine, around the ninth century, Islamic Arabs began to develop and utilize a system of medicine based on scientific analysis and procedures.
And those ancient cultures DID progress beyond a certain point. The Greek influences are with us today in the same fields we mentioned. Not to mention in Legal and Governmental systems of the Western world. The Arabic culture persists to this day and is as vibrant as as it was during the Crusades. Roman culture persists in a lot of our technology, terminology, language, and the fact that most scientific classifications are still written in Latin.
Now I didn't say that Christians did not contribute to modern science and technology. The confirmation of Radio by Édouard Branly was a professor at the Catholic Institute of Paris. Georges Lemaître was a Catholic Priest and Astronomer who postulated the Big Bang theory (as opposed to the Solid State theory). However he also wrote a letter to the Pope asking him not to equate the Big Bang to the Biblical account of Genesis.
And yet, even with all of the contributions provided to us through science by Christians (not Christianity) none of what we are doing now would be possible without the work of Allen Turing. Considered a key individual in the development of computers and computer technology. Allen Turing was an atheist. Linus Torvalds, Bill Gates, Thomas J. Watson, Zhores Alferov, and Philip W. Anderson to name a few join him in the Non-Believers Club.
Their contributions to modern science and technology have nothing to do with their theology or lack, but of their great minds, development, and the works of those who came before them.
we owe science and technology almost in its entirety to Christianity.
Like medicine! No wait...We can thank the Greeks and Middle Eastern cultures for that. Christian Doctrine for centuries sanctioned herbalism and apothecary as heresy.
Well there's advanced mathematics! No...Greeks and Middle Eastern cultures again. Churches used simple mathematics for tax collection. Sorry, Tithe collection.
Well there's engineering! Wait...No. Romans, who took it from the Greeks and Middle Eastern cultures. Due to losing knowledge of engineering, many innovations such as aqueducts, plumbing, and maintaining roads was lost in Europe after the fall of the empire.
How about chemistry? Yeah, sorry. That also predates the Christian movement. Again, with Christian Doctrine, what would become Chemistry was listed under a set of "Black Arts" -- Alchemy. Except in cases where there could be the possibility of giving the Pope eternal life and a lot of gold.
And those examples are just the WESTERN views. There's also the EASTERN developments that were done in Asia completely absent of Christian efforts. And of course the Pre-Colombian Americas weren't exactly a barren wasteland devoid of technology, mathematics, and medicine either.
A lot of that knowledge was lost during the Dark Ages when Christianity ruled Europe. It wasn't until the First Crusade when Europeans invaded the Middle East and brought back knowledge that had been lost for a few centuries.
Beyond that into the modern age, we see science, medicine, mathematics, and engineering as a world-wide collaborative effort. An effort that only grew with the rise and comparative ease of communications.
It is fairly easy to turn fan fiction into original fiction. Just change the names and locations of your writing. I'm pretty sure this is how Eragon came about since it's a lot like Star Wars. And that series itself drew heavily from other works.
Although a lot of times fan fiction, if done well enough can become officially licensed products. I don't remember which titles, but I think I recall some novels written in the Star Trek universe that were later picked up and licensed.
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These days, you just flip open your phone and there you are. Sometimes you have to enter a wifi password but generally it's not all that different than turning on the TV.
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Plus these days the "Free to Play" MMO game has much of it's spread due to Korean companies like Nexon, DevCat, and NCSoft. Many of their games feature music from Korean artists.
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With large record labels, how many people are between the artists and the audience? Teams of lawyers, advertising agents, band managers, stage managers, executives, producers, venues and owners, studio owners, studio staff, distributors, etc. etc.. That's a lot of dead weight to cut if the artists themselves are doing the bulk of the work without the aid of industry players.
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No. They know exactly where the RFID chip is within the school.
I wonder how long until A Million Moms or some other group decries the use of RFID chips with ties to warnings from Revelations about the "Number of the Beast."
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The point is that girls will play with whatever they like, regardless of marketing or stylistic design. We can delve into the sociological aspects of feminine design choices if you like, but that's a bit dry for my tastes.
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Lionel Trains tried to create and market a train set just for girls in 1957. Most girls were incredibly put off by the pastel train set and the product failed to bring in the sales that Lionel had expected. It was also considered a marketing failure for the company.
Turns out girls at the time wanted the same realistic trains that the boys had.
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I did read the article in full. And I found a lot of faults with it and your premise. We owe a lot of knowledge and technology to some Christians. Not to Christianity. Christianity is a doctrine and a dogma. It's a belief system based on a Bronze age set of ideals that has evolved over time to try to stay relevant to how society itself had changed.
The Ancient Greeks did have Science. Science is a process of discovery. A method of finding answers through experimentation has been a process used by humans since our prehistoric ancestors figured out how to crack nuts and utilize (and later create) fire.
Aristotle was known for analytics and logic. Archimedes was a renowned inventor and a pioneer in engineering. Hippocrates is still revered in the field of Medicine, and every Doctor that graduates from Medical School takes an oath which bears his name. Pythagoras was not only a mathematician but also an astromonmer. His observations of the movement of stars and planets helped him try to come up with a geocentric model of the universe and account for the strange orbits of Jupiter and Saturn (he was later proven incorrect).
And it didn't stop there. Islamic Arabs took the Greek systems and the mathematics of Archimedes and Apollonius and expanded on it for geometry, algebra, and continued with trigonometry. When we get to medicine, around the ninth century, Islamic Arabs began to develop and utilize a system of medicine based on scientific analysis and procedures.
And those ancient cultures DID progress beyond a certain point. The Greek influences are with us today in the same fields we mentioned. Not to mention in Legal and Governmental systems of the Western world. The Arabic culture persists to this day and is as vibrant as as it was during the Crusades. Roman culture persists in a lot of our technology, terminology, language, and the fact that most scientific classifications are still written in Latin.
Now I didn't say that Christians did not contribute to modern science and technology. The confirmation of Radio by Édouard Branly was a professor at the Catholic Institute of Paris. Georges Lemaître was a Catholic Priest and Astronomer who postulated the Big Bang theory (as opposed to the Solid State theory). However he also wrote a letter to the Pope asking him not to equate the Big Bang to the Biblical account of Genesis.
And yet, even with all of the contributions provided to us through science by Christians (not Christianity) none of what we are doing now would be possible without the work of Allen Turing. Considered a key individual in the development of computers and computer technology. Allen Turing was an atheist. Linus Torvalds, Bill Gates, Thomas J. Watson, Zhores Alferov, and Philip W. Anderson to name a few join him in the Non-Believers Club.
Their contributions to modern science and technology have nothing to do with their theology or lack, but of their great minds, development, and the works of those who came before them.
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Like medicine! No wait...We can thank the Greeks and Middle Eastern cultures for that. Christian Doctrine for centuries sanctioned herbalism and apothecary as heresy.
Well there's advanced mathematics! No...Greeks and Middle Eastern cultures again. Churches used simple mathematics for tax collection. Sorry, Tithe collection.
Well there's engineering! Wait...No. Romans, who took it from the Greeks and Middle Eastern cultures. Due to losing knowledge of engineering, many innovations such as aqueducts, plumbing, and maintaining roads was lost in Europe after the fall of the empire.
How about chemistry? Yeah, sorry. That also predates the Christian movement. Again, with Christian Doctrine, what would become Chemistry was listed under a set of "Black Arts" -- Alchemy. Except in cases where there could be the possibility of giving the Pope eternal life and a lot of gold.
And those examples are just the WESTERN views. There's also the EASTERN developments that were done in Asia completely absent of Christian efforts. And of course the Pre-Colombian Americas weren't exactly a barren wasteland devoid of technology, mathematics, and medicine either.
A lot of that knowledge was lost during the Dark Ages when Christianity ruled Europe. It wasn't until the First Crusade when Europeans invaded the Middle East and brought back knowledge that had been lost for a few centuries.
Beyond that into the modern age, we see science, medicine, mathematics, and engineering as a world-wide collaborative effort. An effort that only grew with the rise and comparative ease of communications.
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Although a lot of times fan fiction, if done well enough can become officially licensed products. I don't remember which titles, but I think I recall some novels written in the Star Trek universe that were later picked up and licensed.
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