That's pride fucking with you. You are a perfectionist, you don't want to fail on your first attempt, so you never bother to try things that you don't know you can do right on the first try.
You're right, those people probably can't compete with you in the environment you have been pruning your brain for over the last 25 years. You should take LSD, you might still be able to stop yourself from being such a cunt.
Kind of, I'm telling you they come out of their mothers vagina with a unique physical and mental phenotype and are then nurtured through infancy by their parents, and then childhood and adolescence largely by the state before being drafted by employers.
I'm also telling you that there is such a thing as natural talent. Peoples physical traits and idiosyncracies make them more suitable for some roles than others, and many people deny their nature.
Nobody is created equal. You are a product of your genetics and your environment. Back to school with you buddy. Come join the 21st century, it's quite nice.
"All men are created equal -- naked, ugly, screaming moochers. Then you get a job. Or you don't, so fuck you."
You think people come off a production line like a blank CD ready to be pressed and packaged and sold to the consumer... but everyone is quite different.
I can certainly see how you could be tricked into this way of thinking, given the culture you are immersed in.
What you call 'luck' is what the rest of us call 'a combination of known unknowns and unknown unknowns'. It absolutely is calculatable, given enough data and research.
The reason people don't sell downloaded music is because anyone can download anything. Economics of abundance make trying to sell downloaded music stupid. It's not because they don't 'think they could get away with it'.
Nope... people seem to be waking up to what is going on all around the world. In the last few years I have started working less, making more stuff for myself, fixing more of my own things and generally trying to make my life simpler by using technology in new ways. I'm 28 and I'm still finding out just how deep the brainwashing goes in consumerland ('the West').
Toilet seats are expensive for good reason. When the military buys a toilet seat, they buy replacement screws, replacement toilet seats etc, for the life of whatever it is they are putting the toilet on. The cost of planes has replacement parts and scheduled maintenance included.
Really? I dont expect my online banking to be 100% secure. I expect my bank to do their best but I realise that the internet is an open system and it is actually impossible to completely control information from end point to end point without huge investment or great loss of usability.
You shouldn't expect anything from anyone. Just be happy when everything works how you want it, because in my experience it almost always doesn't.
I hope you realise that the rest of the world mocks you for driving giant behemoth cars around. I've driven a few fast rear wheel drive Toyotas and Nissans.
They're light - most of them are under 1600kg, MANY of them are under 1300kg.
They have independant rear suspension since the late 70s - GM was still putting leaf springs on Corvettes up until the second most recent model.
Many have front double wishbone suspension - the Toyota Supras have double wishbone suspension front and rear.
Their motors are the double-overhead-cam type, often with variable valve duration. Does GM still use pushrods in the LS3? They did in the LS1 and 2.
So basically, I will take a 1983 Toyota Corolla GT-S, or a 1989 Nissan Skyline GTS-t, or a 1998 Toyota Supra JZA80 over any American car that I could not immediately swap for one of these.:)
As a smoker of copious amounts of ganja, I have no reason whatsoever to be out carrying 20 grams of weed in public. Seriously... keep the big bag at home, fill a small one each day. For fucks sake...
There's this algae that lives in some ponds in the Nelson region of New Zealand that you can't really see during the day but at night time it fluoresces when the water is disturbed.
It's incredibly awesome whether you think its magic sparkly water or whether you understand the biological processes that are going on but all the people in the former category were very angry with me when I explained it.
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That's a shame, you'd probably be really good at socialising and getting what you want out of people and making them want it. If you practised...
That's pride fucking with you. You are a perfectionist, you don't want to fail on your first attempt, so you never bother to try things that you don't know you can do right on the first try.
You're right, those people probably can't compete with you in the environment you have been pruning your brain for over the last 25 years. You should take LSD, you might still be able to stop yourself from being such a cunt.
People who don't *love* music don't go out of their way to find it. And so the pop comes to them. :(
Kind of, I'm telling you they come out of their mothers vagina with a unique physical and mental phenotype and are then nurtured through infancy by their parents, and then childhood and adolescence largely by the state before being drafted by employers.
I'm also telling you that there is such a thing as natural talent. Peoples physical traits and idiosyncracies make them more suitable for some roles than others, and many people deny their nature.
Nobody is created equal. You are a product of your genetics and your environment. Back to school with you buddy. Come join the 21st century, it's quite nice.
That view is so American it's almost cute. :)
"All men are created equal -- naked, ugly, screaming moochers. Then you get a job. Or you don't, so fuck you."
You think people come off a production line like a blank CD ready to be pressed and packaged and sold to the consumer... but everyone is quite different.
I can certainly see how you could be tricked into this way of thinking, given the culture you are immersed in.
What you call 'luck' is what the rest of us call 'a combination of known unknowns and unknown unknowns'. It absolutely is calculatable, given enough data and research.
The reason people don't sell downloaded music is because anyone can download anything. Economics of abundance make trying to sell downloaded music stupid. It's not because they don't 'think they could get away with it'.
Nope... people seem to be waking up to what is going on all around the world. In the last few years I have started working less, making more stuff for myself, fixing more of my own things and generally trying to make my life simpler by using technology in new ways. I'm 28 and I'm still finding out just how deep the brainwashing goes in consumerland ('the West').
:( you guys managed to get all that?
They're depressing for kids too. But it's all part of the game - check out the Underground History of American Education.
Toilet seats are expensive for good reason. When the military buys a toilet seat, they buy replacement screws, replacement toilet seats etc, for the life of whatever it is they are putting the toilet on. The cost of planes has replacement parts and scheduled maintenance included.
Limewire was pretty easy to use, torrents seem quite hard to figure out for a lot of people (probably not slashdot readers).
No, because you're unable to form new memories, you would never know for more than about 10 - 15 seconds at a time.
80 is the new 60. At this point in life, many of us revert to the "and 1/2" definition favored by 5 year-olds. I'm 77 and three quarters.
That's the dementia starting.
Let's just hope they aren't eligible for student loans, because we know they aren't going to pay them back.
You shouldn't expect anything from anyone. Just be happy when everything works how you want it, because in my experience it almost always doesn't.
They're light - most of them are under 1600kg, MANY of them are under 1300kg.
They have independant rear suspension since the late 70s - GM was still putting leaf springs on Corvettes up until the second most recent model.
Many have front double wishbone suspension - the Toyota Supras have double wishbone suspension front and rear.
Their motors are the double-overhead-cam type, often with variable valve duration. Does GM still use pushrods in the LS3? They did in the LS1 and 2.
So basically, I will take a 1983 Toyota Corolla GT-S, or a 1989 Nissan Skyline GTS-t, or a 1998 Toyota Supra JZA80 over any American car that I could not immediately swap for one of these. :)
and then you did it anyway, right? :D
Thanks, I should think so!
When I need news about things like business and politics, I read a business or political blog. I don't need slashdot to be everything.
As a smoker of copious amounts of ganja, I have no reason whatsoever to be out carrying 20 grams of weed in public. Seriously... keep the big bag at home, fill a small one each day. For fucks sake...
Right to broadband exists in Finland. Won't be long before all the backwards nations of the world catch on to the importance and follow suite.
I used to live near a geothermal plant in New Zealand and it worked a treat. Guess it depends on who's in charge.
There's this algae that lives in some ponds in the Nelson region of New Zealand that you can't really see during the day but at night time it fluoresces when the water is disturbed.
It's incredibly awesome whether you think its magic sparkly water or whether you understand the biological processes that are going on but all the people in the former category were very angry with me when I explained it.