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But the frowny is already a trademark!

(p.s. that is one awesome website. the posters are bloody hilarious :)

But the frowny is already a trademark!

(p.s. that is one awesome website. the posters are bloody hilarious :)

Slashdot will be more positive when they install the Happy modchip until then we'll just have to license all our frownies from despair inc. Sadly they took down the order form, and I'm almost running out of Frownies :-( dang used another one...

Never understimate the destructive power of idiots in large groups.

Framed lithograph

Yes.

Your trollish comment reminded me of this wonderful business adage.

Apathy - If we don't take care of the customer, maybe they'll stop bugging us. - E.L. Kersten, Ph.D.

Maybe Despair can release a poster for them. Seeing as they have disaffected collage students and disaffected middle schoolers covered.

Maybe Despair can release a poster for them. Seeing as they have disaffected collage students and disaffected middle schoolers covered.

Maybe Despair can release a poster for them. Seeing as they have disaffected collage students and disaffected middle schoolers covered.

Reminds me of the quote about Consulting from http://www.despair.com/indem.html that reads:

"If you're not a part of the solution,
there's good money to be made in prolonging the problem."

Very true in the case of many "Consulting" firms in our industry.

You need this poster!

None of us is as dumb as all of us. http://www.despair.com/

Reminds me of this (de)motivational poster from despair.com.

For those who haven't seen: Despair.com (and check out the rest of their products!)

I've always wanted to buy a couple of these posters, hang them around the office (replacing exisiting nonsensical motivators), and wait to see if anyone notices.

Here's that poster.

I've purchased some of their calendars (didn't get this year's because it's all old designs), and they're always funny, and far, far too true.

I've purchased some of their calendars (didn't get this year's because it's all old designs), and they're always funny, and far, far too true.

As one of their posters says...

Quitters never win, winnners never quit, but those who never win and never quit are idiots.

Seriously, it's time for these people to hang it up. Insisting that they can still save the show at this point is just pathetic. Look, I appreciate someone who's passionate about something, but enough is enough. Trek is tired, and it needs a rest.

Why can't these fans put this much effort into demanding quality Trek instead of seemingly endless crap like Enterprise?

Sorry? I think the server will have gone into utter, utter meltdown by now.

Actually, the server made the smart thing and 404'd the site. As the demotivator says, "There comes a time when every team must learn to make individual sacrifices".

Finland will be able to warm every household for the remainder of the winter from the heat coming off that server.

It's minus twelve degrees celsius out and dropping. Do your worst.

http://www.despair.com/

Happy now?

Achievement: "You can do anything you set your mind to when you have vision, determination, and an endless supply of expendable labor.

Perfect for: China, china, and of course: China (and disaffected college students)."

Go browse around, it's a really funny website!

Absolute power rocks

You betray your ignorance, though the difference between scientific and popular terminology makes it somewhat understandable. String Theory is not a theory (I know, I know). It is not a theory because it remains unproven. A hypothesis _becomes_ a theory when all the available evidence supports it. String theory will either be raised into glorious theoryhood or fall into obscurity only when we can figure out a way to test it's validity. And we will be using the scientific definition, because the popular definition of 'theory' is inclusive of things like "Some wacky idea I came up with last night while I was stoned out of my gourd".

To say an idea is an 'unprovable theory' is like saying, "It's an idea with a great deal of supporting evidence, only without the supporting evidence". It cannot, by definition, exist. A circle with right angles cannot, by definition, exist. A 'filled up hole' cannot, by definition, exist.

Science is a very good way to describe and categorize everything that you can see or experience. It just doesn't have the right vocabulary for what you can't.

So if you can't see it, can't experience it, can't measure it, can't quantify it, can't observe it's effects in any way, just what on earth makes you think it's there in the first place? And what atheists can't figure out is why anyone would waste more than 10 seconds of their life entertaining the notion, much less going out and trying to change the world on it's basis, when there is, by definition, no way to know whether or not they're totally wrong? (String theory, IIRC, simply lacks a particle accelerator big enough to test it)

Otherwise, I don't care. ... You really should not care. Not "I don't believe", not "I don't like it", not "You shouldn't believe it", just simple old "I don't care".

Shit, man, I'd like to shake your hand. I've been saying for _years_ that Apathy needs to be officially reclassified as a virtue!

Check it out! I think that says it all.

I have no formal (or any other, for that matter) management training.

I think you should hang motivational posters everywhere and put a big sign above your desk that reads "The floggings will continue unitl morale improves!"

Also talk behind peoples backs. Say one thing and do another. Promote paranoia and backstabbing. Fire people who make you look bad. And start asking people "Did you get the memo? It's just that we've started using these new cover sheets for our TPS reports."

It's a sign of the times.

Despair.com (http://www.despair.com/consulting.html) sums this up perfectly: "If you can't be part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem"

we should send the new owners a nice gift.

If you aren't part of the solution, there's good money to be made prolonging the problem.

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

You know what they say about consulting work.

I don't know what I'm doing wrong.. :)

Maybe it's just you

Note: This is intended to be funny, not flamebait.

I dunno, having someone like that around can be useful

I took three years off to travel around the world. Yeah, it was harder to find a job when I got back, but so what. During those three years I stood in the Himilayas, watched an eclipse in Madagascar and swam in the ocean off of Fiji.

Reminds me of this wall poster.

Like the guy who manufactures Frownies?

No, more like this.

I think this one is even more apt. Damn I love those posters. I wonder if it would be acceptable to get one for my cube...

...would probably be something like this

... there's good money to be made in prolonging the problem.

I thought you were going to link to this one.

Other motivational stuff

I saw this article, and immediately thought of this poster. Apparently, truer words were never spoken.

I almost agree with you, here. It doesn't get any closer than Bush vs. Gore, but I don't think we're going to see a landslide for another 12 years. In other words, get used to these legal battles.

You lose me when you start with a salient point, but conclude with partisan BS. There were dozens of lawsuits filed by/on behalf of Bush and Gore, with respect to different issues, in Florida. Republicans initiated many of these suits, but Democrats initiated the rest. IIRC, the majority of these suits were brought by Democrats, and many of them had little or no factual or legal basis whatsoever.

And, let's not forget, we do NOT live in a democracy, so the tired battle cry of "Gore won the popular vote," means nothing. While we can sit here and maybe even be strangely comfortable with a purely democratic system amongst ourselves, a relatively small community of people that share a number of common ideals, the situation is a bit more complex when you take into account the number of people that vote purely on emotion/ego/peer-pressure. Surely, you don't want to bow to the popular opinion of all the people that think Farenheit 9/11 is an unbiased, upstanding representation of facts, just as you probably don't want to subjugate yourself to the will of people that hate Kerry solely based on his post-war activities.

Now, as you are reading this and thinking about what a Republican puppet I am, you can realize that the Electoral College is there to insulate you somewhat from the massive defection that might be caused by my release of a video showing Kerry having goat.cx with a bunch of ketchup bottles, while still giving a great deal more than lip service to your trumpet about democratic values.

As someone over at Despair, Inc. realized, "Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups." I personally like the footnote there about disoriented Palm Beach voters.

Sincerely, a Palm Beach Libertarian

The second I saw devil-worshipper, I thought of the owner of despair.com

May I redirect your attention to their faq and check out the "What's the deal section" where we see questions similar to the ones Claw919 talked about for type 1. However, that FAQ is a mixture of humour and useful information such as poster sizes.

You missed the last half of the quote: Gates is phenomenally good at pleasing consumers--that is, at creating wealth for others.

Think about it: how much money is spent by corporations annually to hire consultants to fix their Windoze boxes after they have been exploited? This man's a genius! Look at all that wealth he has created! As the saying goes, If you're not part of the solution, there's good money to be made in prolonging the problem.

I believe you might like this.

http://www.despair.com/demotivators/med24x30prin.h tml/

As depair.com says,

"If you're not a part of the solution, there's good money to be made by prolonging the problem."

"...I just don't think working "harder" matters very much though. For some people working harder would get them into an elite school, but working harder only leads to working harder..."

Ahhh!!! This reminds me of my all time favorite despair poster: "Incompetence"

As ilustred by them procrastination can be good.