Where do you work that people are stealing stuff all the time? I'd hazard a guess that it's not people stealing stuff all the time. I'd hazard a guess that it's just something that's happened to the OP, or one of his colleagues, and whoever legally owns the equipment in question, he doesn't feel like seeing hours or days of work wasted by a light-fingered cow-orker.
I sure know that anything artistic I produce would be better if I had more mechanical artistic talent. I can see the pictures in my head, hear the sounds, but just cant quite make them stick when I try and draw / record / play them. Not comparing myself to any great artists but it should apply at all levels.
Being sociable doesn't mean hanging out with any old randoms. Find the right crowd (generally ones that know how to relax and have fun a little) and maybe you'll find that there's more to 'other people' than your stereotypical Joe Average. I'd suggest going traveling, alone, in a foreign country. It'll broaden your horizons no end, I know it did mine.
The pleasurable effect of drinking alcohol is, as you might imagine, a purely subjective experience. Obviously watching someone else get drunk isn't going to help you understand what it's like to be drunk and why it could be enjoyable, any more than watching someone watch a movie will tell you what's going on onscreen. The side-effects you mention generally come from overindulging, and are avoidable if you have any sort of self-control while under the influence (if you can 'handle your drink', not everyone can). Also, it seems to be strongly genetics dependent - some people will have a couple of beers and just get a headache, others get a real kick out of it. If you don't have the chemistry to enjoy booze, then it's never going to be worth it for you and you'll probably never understand why it is for others.
Compare drinking to, say, eating cream donuts. As far as I can tell by watching others, eating cream donuts makes you fat, pimply, gets sugar and cream all over your face, and eventually can kill you via heart disease. So why do people eat them? Because they taste good, and that's not something you can explain adequately in words. There are negative effects for overindulging in everything (even breathing, try it sometime:P )
As for social drinking, humans are social animals, and pretty much everything there is to do is better enjoyed in a group (sometimes only a group of two, of course). Drinking alcohol is no different. I can see that you put great store by, and probably derive a fair amount of your sense of self-worth from, your intellect. I can understand and empathize with that - but there's more to life. Also, while alcohol may temporarily impair your judgment, it doesn't 'impair' your personality. Far from it, in fact I've found that you can generally get to know the real person a lot better when they're drunk and don't have their shields up, so to speak. In the end, though, if you're with your friends and you're having a good time, that's what matters, not whether you drink while you're at it.
I don't see how I'm using the wrong word. They installed a greek on the server ('trojan' is a misnomer too, and it bugs me:P ) and it manipulated flags to send a message...
As for shifting body clock, my body clock shifts itself by 8 hours in a week on its own if I'm on holidays. Within a week of a normal (get up at 8-9am, sleep around midnight-1am) I'm going to sleep at 6-7am and waking up mid-afternoon.
Besides, I F*#$ing sick of all the blue lights gratuitously stuck all over the place -- like in the front of an otherwise nice quality DVD player. I'm sick of having to tape over blue lights or prop up DVD covers to right this idiocy about bright blue light. I think a lot of the problem here is that most blue LEDs used are ultrabright models that can comfortably if dimly illuminate a whole mid-sized room, and are far overkill for simply indicating power or status. Designers just whack 'em in because they're the first ones they come across in the catalogue.
Reminds me of that story a while back where they found out that keyboard indicators for caps/num/scroll lock were bright enough to semaphore a message out of a server room and down the hall.
If I proclaimed that my faith exempted me from paying taxes, the IRS would gently suggest that perhaps this isn't the right country for me to live in. Well put. While you live, your physical "assets" are yours. When you die, why should your corpse be treated any differently to your other material possessions? If you have made a legal will regarding the distribution of your organs, then that should be followed, otherwise the corpse belongs to the next of kin (who I can't imagine wanting it) or the state, just as your house or whatever would if no will was given.
Explain to me how that ISN'T the same thing as a cancer. Something to do with the new cells (a) not reproducing in an uncontrolled manner, and (b) not spreading to other parts of your body and proceeding with point (a)?
All the best organs are from people who would otherwise still need them. Car crash fatalities provide a lot of them, because someone who died from head trauma (for instance) will still have nicely functional liver/kidneys/heart/lungs and probably retinas.
Unless you mean 'before your time' as in 'before god willed it' in which case it's not possible to die before then. If you're fatally injured and God doesn't want you to die, you despawn at 40%, saying "A terrible and costly mistake you have made. It is not my time, mortals."
Naw, he meant his brother's mother's sister's nephew. His cousin. Things sure get complicated when you have a family directed-acyclic-graph instead of a family tree.
In other news, has anyone else noticed that a few slashdot pages (especially repy / preview) load a buttload of page components from media.senses / ad.doubleclick before they display? Maybe it's a Firefox thing (I've been away for a month or two) but it sure seems strange to have it sit there on loading 'reply to post' for 5 minutes churning through ads that never get displayed. Not that I'd prefer that they were, of course.
Either you've never been properly drunk (in the enjoyable sense) or you don't have the right genes to enjoy alcohol. You don't drink in order to fit in, or because everyone else is doing it, or 'just cuz'. You drink because it has a pleasurable effect on your nervous system. If it didn't, then why the hell would anyone do it?
I didn't drink until I was 20ish, and I only noticed recently (I'm 26) that my most creative, productive work was before I started drinking. Of course it was also before I started working full time instead of pursuing my own projects, which was 2 years before I started drinking, so cause-and-correlate what you may. I would say that working full time on someone else's boring commercial project kills more brain cells than the odd beer or six.
Social drinkers drink because alcohol enhances the social experience. Simply put, you have more fun. From personal experience, when you change from nondrinker to social drinker you enjoy parties more, make more friends, meet more girls. Realise that alcohol is not a new thing and that we humans evolved with alcohol for a good portion of the archaeologically-recent past. Individually we can make great achievements but socially is where our real fulfillment and quality of life lies.
I've lost a smidgen of the sharp edge I had when I was 20. That could be because I've been drinking regularly since then, but it could also be because I'm 4 years older, or because my brain's been smothered in crap from my various day jobs and I've stopped exercising it properly. I just started at a new job that actually requires intelligence and I can literally feel brain cells waking up out of their coma, and myself getting smarter again.
1) they are unrelated
2) more drinking => bad scientist
3) bad scientist => more drinking 4) (Lower IQ | Fewer nerdy teetotaller friends | Better social life | Better luck with women | More appreciation for live music) => more drinking AND bad scientist.
Haha only serious. If you don't know what you're missing, you don't miss it. Before meeting my fiancee, I'd gone... let's see, 8 months, and a before that episode, years. I obviously would have liked more nookie but it was dealable. Now that we've been living together, a couple of DAYS and I'm getting jumpy.:P
So yeah, many slashdotters may be comfortable spending extended periods of time with Rosie Palm and the internets, and thus suitable for long space flights... hell, it's not like the stereotypical geek goes outside all that often anyway.:P
If I were a mechanic who didn't know anything about rotary engines, and someone brought one to me, I'd look the damn things up and learn about them. Then again I guess that's part of what makes me not a mechanic - although some mechanics will do this. Also, remember that doctors are people too. Half of all doctors are below average competence... 10% are 3x worse than normal.
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Man, how old are you? 40? :P
You mean he just wants to safeguard his Iocaine powder?
I sure know that anything artistic I produce would be better if I had more mechanical artistic talent. I can see the pictures in my head, hear the sounds, but just cant quite make them stick when I try and draw / record / play them. Not comparing myself to any great artists but it should apply at all levels.
Being sociable doesn't mean hanging out with any old randoms. Find the right crowd (generally ones that know how to relax and have fun a little) and maybe you'll find that there's more to 'other people' than your stereotypical Joe Average. I'd suggest going traveling, alone, in a foreign country. It'll broaden your horizons no end, I know it did mine.
The pleasurable effect of drinking alcohol is, as you might imagine, a purely subjective experience. Obviously watching someone else get drunk isn't going to help you understand what it's like to be drunk and why it could be enjoyable, any more than watching someone watch a movie will tell you what's going on onscreen. The side-effects you mention generally come from overindulging, and are avoidable if you have any sort of self-control while under the influence (if you can 'handle your drink', not everyone can). Also, it seems to be strongly genetics dependent - some people will have a couple of beers and just get a headache, others get a real kick out of it. If you don't have the chemistry to enjoy booze, then it's never going to be worth it for you and you'll probably never understand why it is for others.
:P )
Compare drinking to, say, eating cream donuts. As far as I can tell by watching others, eating cream donuts makes you fat, pimply, gets sugar and cream all over your face, and eventually can kill you via heart disease. So why do people eat them? Because they taste good, and that's not something you can explain adequately in words. There are negative effects for overindulging in everything (even breathing, try it sometime
As for social drinking, humans are social animals, and pretty much everything there is to do is better enjoyed in a group (sometimes only a group of two, of course). Drinking alcohol is no different. I can see that you put great store by, and probably derive a fair amount of your sense of self-worth from, your intellect. I can understand and empathize with that - but there's more to life. Also, while alcohol may temporarily impair your judgment, it doesn't 'impair' your personality. Far from it, in fact I've found that you can generally get to know the real person a lot better when they're drunk and don't have their shields up, so to speak. In the end, though, if you're with your friends and you're having a good time, that's what matters, not whether you drink while you're at it.
Actually I meant 40:97 bits 0-3. ;)
I don't see how I'm using the wrong word. They installed a greek on the server ('trojan' is a misnomer too, and it bugs me :P ) and it manipulated flags to send a message...
I love that song. Then that retard sampled it and got way more airplay just for trying to be black. :(
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As for shifting body clock, my body clock shifts itself by 8 hours in a week on its own if I'm on holidays. Within a week of a normal (get up at 8-9am, sleep around midnight-1am) I'm going to sleep at 6-7am and waking up mid-afternoon.
Reminds me of that story a while back where they found out that keyboard indicators for caps/num/scroll lock were bright enough to semaphore a message out of a server room and down the hall.
My god, it's full of... OH SHI-
All the best organs are from people who would otherwise still need them. Car crash fatalities provide a lot of them, because someone who died from head trauma (for instance) will still have nicely functional liver/kidneys/heart/lungs and probably retinas.
Unless you mean 'before your time' as in 'before god willed it' in which case it's not possible to die before then. If you're fatally injured and God doesn't want you to die, you despawn at 40%, saying "A terrible and costly mistake you have made. It is not my time, mortals."
Naw, he meant his brother's mother's sister's nephew. His cousin. Things sure get complicated when you have a family directed-acyclic-graph instead of a family tree. In other news, has anyone else noticed that a few slashdot pages (especially repy / preview) load a buttload of page components from media.senses / ad.doubleclick before they display? Maybe it's a Firefox thing (I've been away for a month or two) but it sure seems strange to have it sit there on loading 'reply to post' for 5 minutes churning through ads that never get displayed. Not that I'd prefer that they were, of course.
Either you've never been properly drunk (in the enjoyable sense) or you don't have the right genes to enjoy alcohol. You don't drink in order to fit in, or because everyone else is doing it, or 'just cuz'. You drink because it has a pleasurable effect on your nervous system. If it didn't, then why the hell would anyone do it?
I didn't drink until I was 20ish, and I only noticed recently (I'm 26) that my most creative, productive work was before I started drinking. Of course it was also before I started working full time instead of pursuing my own projects, which was 2 years before I started drinking, so cause-and-correlate what you may. I would say that working full time on someone else's boring commercial project kills more brain cells than the odd beer or six.
Social drinkers drink because alcohol enhances the social experience. Simply put, you have more fun. From personal experience, when you change from nondrinker to social drinker you enjoy parties more, make more friends, meet more girls. Realise that alcohol is not a new thing and that we humans evolved with alcohol for a good portion of the archaeologically-recent past. Individually we can make great achievements but socially is where our real fulfillment and quality of life lies.
I've lost a smidgen of the sharp edge I had when I was 20. That could be because I've been drinking regularly since then, but it could also be because I'm 4 years older, or because my brain's been smothered in crap from my various day jobs and I've stopped exercising it properly. I just started at a new job that actually requires intelligence and I can literally feel brain cells waking up out of their coma, and myself getting smarter again.
I like the cut o' yer jib, sir!
2) more drinking => bad scientist
3) bad scientist => more drinking 4) (Lower IQ | Fewer nerdy teetotaller friends | Better social life | Better luck with women | More appreciation for live music) => more drinking AND bad scientist.
Hell, there's no concrete, uncontested objective definition of intelligence, let alone something more abstract like creativity.
Found in Exhibit E (Masterpieces of Murder) on page 38:
"See page 252 in Hom."
Found in Exhibit F (Homocide) on page 252:
"Also see page 38 in M of M".
To the same elevator phonebooth that you stepped into half an episode ago?
Great, I now have a mental picture of a big ass-screwdriver. Thanks. :P
http://xkcd.com/37/
Haha only serious. If you don't know what you're missing, you don't miss it. Before meeting my fiancee, I'd gone... let's see, 8 months, and a before that episode, years. I obviously would have liked more nookie but it was dealable. Now that we've been living together, a couple of DAYS and I'm getting jumpy. :P
So yeah, many slashdotters may be comfortable spending extended periods of time with Rosie Palm and the internets, and thus suitable for long space flights... hell, it's not like the stereotypical geek goes outside all that often anyway. :P
If I were a mechanic who didn't know anything about rotary engines, and someone brought one to me, I'd look the damn things up and learn about them. Then again I guess that's part of what makes me not a mechanic - although some mechanics will do this. Also, remember that doctors are people too. Half of all doctors are below average competence... 10% are 3x worse than normal.