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"Consistency: It's only a virtue if you're not a screwup"

http://demotivators.despair.com/consistencydemotivator.jpg

There's a demotivator for that:

http://www.despair.com/adaptation.html

and here is the other robot related demotivator:

http://www.despair.com/motivation.html

There's a demotivator for that:

http://www.despair.com/adaptation.html

and here is the other robot related demotivator:

http://www.despair.com/motivation.html

http://www.despair.com/frownonthis.html
DALLAS, TX - January 2nd, 2001 - In a move that has millions across the Internet community frowning, Despair, Inc. today announced that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) had awarded them a registered trademark for the 'frowny' emoticon which serves as their logo.

At a press conference, Despair's COO, Dr. E.L.Kersten, announced his intentions to sue "anyone and everyone who uses the so-called 'frowny' emoticon, or our trademarked logo, in their written email correspondence. Ever."

Despair filed suit yesterday in a U.S. District Court in Dallas, alleging trademark infringement against over 7 million individual Internet users. The company has requested separate injunctions granted against each. It is believed to be the largest single trademark dispute in history. ...
Kersten then intoned gravely, "Let our message to trademark violators be clear. Whether you are a 4th grade nothing using your momma's AOL account, or you are Time Magazine's "Man of the Year", we are going to hunt you down, and when we do, we're really going to give you something to :-(® about."

our Director of sales would take clients down to the production offices to show them THAT server room full of apple servers instead of the real one. Simply because that room looked professional and random Sun+Dell+HP servers look like a hodge podge mess even though it was very clean.

So just marketing as usual.

This is more accurate.

I believe that this aptly describes the problem.

Freedom - I may not agree with what you say, but I respect your right to be punished for it.

Liberty - the price of freedom keeps going up, but the quality keeps deteriorating.

Freedom - I may not agree with what you say, but I respect your right to be punished for it.

Liberty - the price of freedom keeps going up, but the quality keeps deteriorating.

Greetings and Salutations....
Why does this seem like one of those "feel good" laws that politicians pass to get brownie points with their followers, rather than to actually address and fix a problem?

This is by design

I am more and more convinced that attempts to regulate the Net are a bad idea, and, any official that attempts to do this should be voted out of office or recalled.

Yes... but nothing new and it must not be restricted only to the Net.

Greetings and Salutations....
Why does this seem like one of those "feel good" laws that politicians pass to get brownie points with their followers, rather than to actually address and fix a problem?

This is by design

I am more and more convinced that attempts to regulate the Net are a bad idea, and, any official that attempts to do this should be voted out of office or recalled.

Yes... but nothing new and it must not be restricted only to the Net.

I believe this poster fully describes the issue.

Interestingly, that poster also describes Anonymous quite well.

The problem is government .

There, Fixed that for you.

-=Geoskd

The problem is government contractors.

I believe this poster fully describes the issue.

I believe that this poster says it all. The people in call centers already just follow a script so is this any surprise.

This: "GOVERNMENT — If you think the problems we create are bad, just wait until you see our solutions."

I was really hoping you'd go for this one.

Oracle are pushing sun customers onto their upgrade treadmill. The smart ones will see this coming and jump ship right away, the stupid ones will be bled dry.

'Tis called insight

This is called "unparalleled level of service".

Consistency - It's only a virtue if you're not a srew-up.

http://www.despair.com/consistency.html

http://www.despair.com/blogging.html

it hurts with the stupid.

None of us is as dumb as all of us. Wanna proof? How about the last economical crisis?

I was thinking the exact same thing. There are some skilled people who are a part of what Anonymous does. But half are still Photoshop-ing 8-bit penis drawings on celebrity pics, and the other half is trying to create the next big meme over at the Parody Motivator Generator.

Seriously.

This is what I'm thinking: where is yours now? Mine, too, is sold. It reminded me of most of my textbooks. I would rather have the idea easily added to Excel, so that it might be useful not just at school, but maybe at work. Something along these lines: http://www.tushar-mehta.com/excel/software/utilities/iga.html My other thought aligns to this: http://www.despair.com/tradition.html

Just goes to show, science doesn't work if the world is out to get you. =P

Oh, more like my favorite de-motivational poster of all time.

Failure. When your best just isn't good enough.

The science part is fine. ;-)

http://despair.com/innovation.html

It's not just about letting forces communicate and/or let evidence of atrocities leak out.

It's about connecting these people with expectations from government. All that youtubing and facebooking and tweeting gets the word out about how governments of strong successful nations function.

It's the one big thing that *might* prevent these revolutions going down the same shithole most others, from Cuba to Iran to Lebanon to Libya 40 years ago - have gone. Straight into the hands of a just marginally different oppressive, violent and/or otherwise dysfunctional regime.

Continue letting people in there, even a marginal percentage of them, talk with the outside, communicate, let them know where the right paths and the wrong paths from where they are lead, allow them to sidestep the mistakes other emerging nations made and they might stand a chance. Send them weapons and they'll just end up with another four decades and two generations of backwards third world gunk that some irresponsible party instated with these weapons. Guns just don't solve everything.

As a sideinote, Iran is serving a positive purpose, in a grim kind of way:
http://www.despair.com/mis24x30prin.html

He's getting the chance to schmooze with folks, make connections, and probably had personal contact with the people involved, not just second and third-hand reports.

If this was me, I would pull the mod, give B/A the finger and accept the job offer from Riot (or other offers that might be flung my way). It's a principle thing, and Blizzard's damage control afterwards wouldn't mean a thing.

Nothing bad happened to him, no great injustice was performed, simply a case of legal business being worked out.

That it's SOP doesn't make it any more defendable.

This is no different than say the FSF working with some company over GPL compliance.

Except that the FSF does its due diligence before firing shots off the bow.

The sensible course is not to get worked up, but to properly handle affairs with restraint.

Indeed.

http://www.despair.com/demotivation.html

I recommend we start a fund to send those plaques to any department even thinking about implementing this.

They are not talking about generic unhappiness, they are talking about being unhappy with your job/management.

So, complaining about your boss might get you fired? Now there's a recipe for mismanagement waiting to happen.

There's a demotivational poster in there somewhere...

http://www.despair.com/idiocy.html

"Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups"

"It could be that the purpose of your life is only to serve as a warning to others."

http://despair.com/mis24x30prin.html

Many of the demotivator posters fit the bill here.

And someone should create one with a photo of Einstein and his famous quote: "Only two things are infinite---the universe and human stupidity---and I'm not sure about the former."

Many of the demotivator posters fit the bill here.

And someone should create one with a photo of Einstein and his famous quote: "Only two things are infinite---the universe and human stupidity---and I'm not sure about the former."

There's a lot of work to do, people get lazy, skip it, and submit things without properly checking everything

The way I think about it is that there's X work to do, Y time to do it in, Z amount of skills, and [A .. W] amount of information coming in. You can:

• Cut corners on X
• Miss deadline Y
• Do the best you can with Z
• Or process and cull information from [A .. something less than W]

You could apply the 'Meh' principle to any of these.

There's a lot of work to do, people get lazy, skip it, and submit things without properly checking everything

The way I think about it is that there's X work to do, Y time to do it in, Z amount of skills, and [A .. W] amount of information coming in. You can:

• Cut corners on X
• Miss deadline Y
• Do the best you can with Z
• Or process and cull information from [A .. something less than W]

You could apply the 'Meh' principle to any of these.

There's a lot of work to do, people get lazy, skip it, and submit things without properly checking everything

The way I think about it is that there's X work to do, Y time to do it in, Z amount of skills, and [A .. W] amount of information coming in. You can:

• Cut corners on X
• Miss deadline Y
• Do the best you can with Z
• Or process and cull information from [A .. something less than W]

You could apply the 'Meh' principle to any of these.

http://www.despair.com/mis24x30prin.html

http://www.despair.com/motivation.html

You could have said it in two sentences.

Present here: http://www.despair.com/power.html

And smiling at me from the wall above my desk.

Percentages of scientists is not science, that is an opinion poll.

Science is about facts.

Right. It is about facts.

Not about what 97% of scientists say.

Wait a minute. 97% of those scientists have facts to back up what they say. You're making it like sound like it's a public survey of people who are guessing.

Science is not an opinion poll. It is about learning and making our lives better. What if the 3% are right? Thats real science. Question yourself.

Go for it. However, as much as people who deny AGW say this over and over, have you constructed your own models. Do you accept criticism of them, have you collected raw data, etc.? (You being the group that you seem to identify with, not you you).

Today's xkcd was a good example of that for me. http://www.xkcd.com/803/ Yet that is the way air lift is taught and it is wrong.

That is the way lift is taught to children. Children you can't do line integrals and partial differential equations, not engineers.

We should love the fringe dudes. They make real science come to the front. 'but its a waste of time'. Why? You have to defend your position oh and explain it to the commoners? Well boo freeking hoo.

Scientists love explaining their position and backing it up with facts. They have done so. Repeatedly. Over and over and over. In courts, in papers, in speaking engagements, in movies to make it easier to understand. Yet people endlessly accuse them - not presenting dissenting evidence - of conspiracy. They expected challenges, but didn't expect this.

This is just a guess, but has anyone considered that the human vision might have been "horizontally optimized"? I mean our two eyes are placed so we have greater horizontal viewing angle so perhaps horizontal scrolling of the eye causes less of a "blur" effect than vertical scrolling. If so, it could mean that the vertical model was actually the flawed one (demotivator reference here). Just a though I would like to see proofs for or against.

Some xkcd's become clichés for a reason. This is one of them. xkcd 137.

I see your xkcd and raise you TWO demotivators: Dreams and Get To Work.

Some xkcd's become clichés for a reason. This is one of them. xkcd 137.

I see your xkcd and raise you TWO demotivators: Dreams and Get To Work.

I wonder if the Despairware T-shirt was their motivation...
Social Media Venn Diagram T-Shirt

http://despair.com/mis24x30prin.html

They can just rename the "Meetings" poster to "crowds"
"None of us is as dumb as all of us!"

What do you mean new?