If you don't have it in you to act heroically when needed, then you have no business stealing the money for not doing the job.
To maybe help put things in perspective for you, I have been called on to act heroically. The first time, I failed, dismally. I chickened out. I got a second, and a third, and a fourth chance to act like a hero, each of them years apart. By that time, I had finished "growing a pair", and managed to do what I expected of a real man.
By the time a man is qualified to be a ship's captain, he should have grown his own pair. If you ain't got them by age 40 or 50, you'll never have them.
I spent five years at sea. No captain can be on the bridge all the time. Godlike, though he may seem, even the captain has to shower, shit, and shave. If he doesn't visit the wardroom often enough, the rumbling of his gastro intestinal system can interfere with giving orders. The bastards even SLEEP like real human people.
A captain who spends to much time on the bridge has a morale problem on his hands, because it's obvious to the junior officers that the captain doesn't trust them to do their jobs.
Nope. Won't work. Ever heard of the fire triangle? You can't just throw a match at some cold diesel fuel, and expect it to burn. Especially when it's in an enclosed space. If you got lucky enough to actually get a blaze, the smoke will smother the fire in short order. You need fuel, oxygen, and an ignition source. The fuel you have, the oxygen you don't have, and the ignition source is going to be tough, because oil isn't really very flammable.
So - who's that dude who was supposed to have been buried in concrete, in Chicago? That sure made the news, but no one has bothered to break out the corpse, and charge anyone with his death yet.
While you blather about complexions and other politically correct nonsense, China is on the path to dominating the world. Your grandfathers would probably roll over in their graves if they knew that you were so naive as to accept that fact, while worrying about someone's perceived prejudices.
Maybe you should look at some dictionaries, to find out what domination is all about. Then, look in some history books. The 1940's would be good, when Japan dominated most all of Asia.
Imagine a world in which the Chinese own everything, and all the white, black, and brown people reside in ghettos, begging their Chinese overlords for scraps of food and clothing. Impossible, you say? Alright, you go on worrying about GGP's complexion.
Why don't we clear up a misconception here? That of "American companies". There aren't very many "American companies" traded on the stock exchanges. Go ahead, try to find some. IBM? Nope - they are a multinational conglomerate. Microsoft? Nope - ditto. I'd have to actually look, before I stick my foot in my mouth about one or another companies, but most of them are multinationals, with absolutely no loyalty to America, or to the American people.
I happen to work for an American company. It is NOT traded on any stock exchange. It is owned by Americans, run by Americans, and all of the people who work here are Americans. More than half are Mexicans, but they are from North America, despite the fact that half (or more) of them are here illegally.
As for losing R&D dominance - what can be expected? America is being raped by the world, predominantly by China, with the full cooperation of these multinational conglomerates. Much of China's so-called R&D is actually a matter of reverse engineering, trying to catch up to American and European tech levels. The rest of their R&D is real R&D of course. Meanwhile, the US just rolls over, to accomodate those who are so busily raping her. We can't be bothered with R&D while we are enjoying a nice, long, and deep rape.
Let me try to see this from your point of view. I'm some kind of male chauvinist pig, I'm stupid, a mysogenist, and more, most likely. And, in my ignorance, I've asked you for enlightenment. And - you refuse to enlighten me? Hmmmm.
Ya know what that sounds like? Sounds very much like some white supremacist who can't be bothered to enlighten the ignorant, because the truth of his racial superiority is self evident. Or, a black racist, I guess. I haven't had as much contact with the black variety of racists, but I'm sure they are the same. Insecure boys who can't believe that they are men, so they spend all their spare time trying to prove their manhood, and their superiority.
Maybe I'll learn someday what that special 10% of the male population is all about. Maybe not. I don't guess it will make any difference in the end.
And, pray tell, just what is this 10% that you refer to? This could get real interesting now. Your "biological exceptions" might refer to gays, in which case it is wrong. Or, it might refer to those men whose mother's hormones and their own caused some unusual conditions during gestation. In which case, your 10% number is even more wrong. 10%, huh? Come on, enlighten us.
You have a very definite problem. I suspect that you don't like being a man, for starters. Among your other problems, you are obviously a liar of sorts, attempting to put words into my post that simply are not there. You bullet number 4 is some kind of an asinine attempt to paint me as a mysogenist.
Why don't you just crawl back under the porch now. No one wants to listen to your shrill chihuahua yapping.
The "issue", if it really is an issue, may be related to the fact that women have full time jobs being mothers, another full time job being wives, and yet another full time job being gainfully employed. Add to those facts, as has already been pointed out, women are much more social creatures than men. So, they don't have TIME to indulge in the trivial pursuits that guys engage in.
Face it boys and girls - we aren't the same. You may, or may not, at your own pleasure, decide whether our differences make us "better" or "worse", but we are different. And, I happen to like things just the way they are in that respect. If any of you, male or female, are unhappy in your gender, then pray to the funny looking fat guy that you can be the other sex in your next life. Meanwhile, just try to get through this life without making to big a mess of it, alright?
Problem is, software patents are an oxymoron. Software is properly copyrighted, not patented. Until you can understand that point, we'll probably not agree on anything else.
If we ever get past that point, then we'll begin by discussing the concept of a squarish box with rounded corners that don't snag and cut you or your clothing, one face of which is the display, taking up all the room possible on that face. Good grief, there are patents aplenty for real innovation. Patents were never meant to stifle innovation. What did you want Motorola and the rest to do - make a spherical device instead of squarish?
A park in New York is a good example. I didn't know that the city park actually was privately owned. Did you know that before OWS? I read of OWS kids in the park, and ASSumed that they WERE on public property. Only weeks later, did I find that the park was privately owned. Imagine that. Parks, and private property are off limits. All that is left is the streets, and at Brooklyn Bridge the kids were arrested who were on the streets.
So, "You have the right to free assembly, if you can find a place to assemble without getting arrested."
Funny, I think the rules were rather similar before Magna Charta.
You need some serious qualifications to your statement, regarding all adults. The vast majority of adults - people, actually - have no clue to the remifications of SOPA. No clue at all. Those who have a couple of clues have arrived at their opinions based on the word of some stooge whom they like - be that stooge on Fox News, or CNN, or Turner broadcasting. Hell, some brainless twat on American Idol could voice an opinion, and sway a decent percentage of the public with that opinion.
Now, had you said "all informed adults with any technical background, who lack any financial interest in the issue", then you might have been correct.
I dunno - maybe Ethanol is racist, maybe he isn't. But, Obama DID "reluctantly" sign that fucking NDAA, did he not? Ethanol's point stands, racist cockbag or not.
Come on down. Bring a big megaphone, I'll even plug you in to the 110V AC house current. No problem. I'll just dress warmly, fill a thermos full of coffee, and sit on a lawnchair to see what happens.
I give fair odds that some hunter will come out of the woods, and beat you senseless before he breaks your megaphone over your head, because you've been disturbing the game. And, around here, it won't help you much to see what game is "in season". Poaching is a year round tradition here. You frighten a bow hunter's doe away, he's coming after you!
Alright - you define HBGary as "honest" if you like. Meanwhile, they were selling vaporware to the government. Go ahead, research what they were actually selling, then research what they actually had on hand, in stock, ready for use, ready for deployment. The two lists will not match up. Vaporware is basically fraud. HBGary accepted money for products that they couldn't supply immediately. They HOPED that they could actually deploy those products soon, but it was still fraud.
Win2k, WinXP, Vista, and Win7 are all Windows NT. And, I may have erred - I think that I actually did download my first NT OS using a download manager. Sorry if I offered any false facts that were actually pertinent to my point.;^)
As for grabbing "lame warez" - how do you think those hordes of "pirates" were getting their stuff in 199x? There weren't a lot of choices, unless you went out into the streets to buy your copy from another pirate, who actually had downloaded the same "lame warez".
While Ethanol-fueled wasn't off topic or anything, I feel compelled to remind people that HBGary were a bunch of frauds. I'd be far more likely to ask the zit-faced kid down the street for advice, than HBGary. True, that kid has never persuaded otherwise intelligent people to part with millions of dollars, but he is more trustworthy.
How does that thing work with used car salesmen? Asking price is 3600, I think it's worth 1200, but I might be willing to pay 1800 - so we BARTER!!! I drive the car home for 1750 plus tax, licensing, etc, total cost 1900.
I can't see paying full price for software that is used, either. It was written once, and it's been used a zillion times since it was written. Now, the author wants me to pay full price, like it is new or something?
No, I'll pay a used price, or nothing at all. If the author won't come down on his price, then I'll get it somewhere else - like The Pirate Bay. They have a lot of used softwares for ultra-cheap.
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If you don't have it in you to act heroically when needed, then you have no business stealing the money for not doing the job.
To maybe help put things in perspective for you, I have been called on to act heroically. The first time, I failed, dismally. I chickened out. I got a second, and a third, and a fourth chance to act like a hero, each of them years apart. By that time, I had finished "growing a pair", and managed to do what I expected of a real man.
By the time a man is qualified to be a ship's captain, he should have grown his own pair. If you ain't got them by age 40 or 50, you'll never have them.
I spent five years at sea. No captain can be on the bridge all the time. Godlike, though he may seem, even the captain has to shower, shit, and shave. If he doesn't visit the wardroom often enough, the rumbling of his gastro intestinal system can interfere with giving orders. The bastards even SLEEP like real human people.
A captain who spends to much time on the bridge has a morale problem on his hands, because it's obvious to the junior officers that the captain doesn't trust them to do their jobs.
I listened to the audio recordings of the Coasties ordering the captain back aboard. What you read, seems to be correct.
I'd rather float the damned ship, and drive it right up his ass.
Nope. Won't work. Ever heard of the fire triangle? You can't just throw a match at some cold diesel fuel, and expect it to burn. Especially when it's in an enclosed space. If you got lucky enough to actually get a blaze, the smoke will smother the fire in short order. You need fuel, oxygen, and an ignition source. The fuel you have, the oxygen you don't have, and the ignition source is going to be tough, because oil isn't really very flammable.
Odd that you should phrase it that way. One of my G+ friends just posted this little gem. http://thecnnfreedomproject.blogs.cnn.com/2012/01/19/child-slavery-and-chocolate-all-too-easy-to-find/
So - who's that dude who was supposed to have been buried in concrete, in Chicago? That sure made the news, but no one has bothered to break out the corpse, and charge anyone with his death yet.
While you blather about complexions and other politically correct nonsense, China is on the path to dominating the world. Your grandfathers would probably roll over in their graves if they knew that you were so naive as to accept that fact, while worrying about someone's perceived prejudices.
Maybe you should look at some dictionaries, to find out what domination is all about. Then, look in some history books. The 1940's would be good, when Japan dominated most all of Asia.
Imagine a world in which the Chinese own everything, and all the white, black, and brown people reside in ghettos, begging their Chinese overlords for scraps of food and clothing. Impossible, you say? Alright, you go on worrying about GGP's complexion.
Why don't we clear up a misconception here? That of "American companies". There aren't very many "American companies" traded on the stock exchanges. Go ahead, try to find some. IBM? Nope - they are a multinational conglomerate. Microsoft? Nope - ditto. I'd have to actually look, before I stick my foot in my mouth about one or another companies, but most of them are multinationals, with absolutely no loyalty to America, or to the American people.
I happen to work for an American company. It is NOT traded on any stock exchange. It is owned by Americans, run by Americans, and all of the people who work here are Americans. More than half are Mexicans, but they are from North America, despite the fact that half (or more) of them are here illegally.
As for losing R&D dominance - what can be expected? America is being raped by the world, predominantly by China, with the full cooperation of these multinational conglomerates. Much of China's so-called R&D is actually a matter of reverse engineering, trying to catch up to American and European tech levels. The rest of their R&D is real R&D of course. Meanwhile, the US just rolls over, to accomodate those who are so busily raping her. We can't be bothered with R&D while we are enjoying a nice, long, and deep rape.
ROFLMAO - you're a circus!
Let me try to see this from your point of view. I'm some kind of male chauvinist pig, I'm stupid, a mysogenist, and more, most likely. And, in my ignorance, I've asked you for enlightenment. And - you refuse to enlighten me? Hmmmm.
Ya know what that sounds like? Sounds very much like some white supremacist who can't be bothered to enlighten the ignorant, because the truth of his racial superiority is self evident. Or, a black racist, I guess. I haven't had as much contact with the black variety of racists, but I'm sure they are the same. Insecure boys who can't believe that they are men, so they spend all their spare time trying to prove their manhood, and their superiority.
Maybe I'll learn someday what that special 10% of the male population is all about. Maybe not. I don't guess it will make any difference in the end.
And, pray tell, just what is this 10% that you refer to? This could get real interesting now. Your "biological exceptions" might refer to gays, in which case it is wrong. Or, it might refer to those men whose mother's hormones and their own caused some unusual conditions during gestation. In which case, your 10% number is even more wrong. 10%, huh? Come on, enlighten us.
You have a very definite problem. I suspect that you don't like being a man, for starters. Among your other problems, you are obviously a liar of sorts, attempting to put words into my post that simply are not there. You bullet number 4 is some kind of an asinine attempt to paint me as a mysogenist.
Why don't you just crawl back under the porch now. No one wants to listen to your shrill chihuahua yapping.
The "issue", if it really is an issue, may be related to the fact that women have full time jobs being mothers, another full time job being wives, and yet another full time job being gainfully employed. Add to those facts, as has already been pointed out, women are much more social creatures than men. So, they don't have TIME to indulge in the trivial pursuits that guys engage in.
Face it boys and girls - we aren't the same. You may, or may not, at your own pleasure, decide whether our differences make us "better" or "worse", but we are different. And, I happen to like things just the way they are in that respect. If any of you, male or female, are unhappy in your gender, then pray to the funny looking fat guy that you can be the other sex in your next life. Meanwhile, just try to get through this life without making to big a mess of it, alright?
Nahhhhh - don't put them out of business. Just put a huge dent in their money bags.
It's clear to a shill that patents were violated.
Problem is, software patents are an oxymoron. Software is properly copyrighted, not patented. Until you can understand that point, we'll probably not agree on anything else.
If we ever get past that point, then we'll begin by discussing the concept of a squarish box with rounded corners that don't snag and cut you or your clothing, one face of which is the display, taking up all the room possible on that face. Good grief, there are patents aplenty for real innovation. Patents were never meant to stifle innovation. What did you want Motorola and the rest to do - make a spherical device instead of squarish?
A park in New York is a good example. I didn't know that the city park actually was privately owned. Did you know that before OWS? I read of OWS kids in the park, and ASSumed that they WERE on public property. Only weeks later, did I find that the park was privately owned. Imagine that. Parks, and private property are off limits. All that is left is the streets, and at Brooklyn Bridge the kids were arrested who were on the streets.
So, "You have the right to free assembly, if you can find a place to assemble without getting arrested."
Funny, I think the rules were rather similar before Magna Charta.
You need some serious qualifications to your statement, regarding all adults. The vast majority of adults - people, actually - have no clue to the remifications of SOPA. No clue at all. Those who have a couple of clues have arrived at their opinions based on the word of some stooge whom they like - be that stooge on Fox News, or CNN, or Turner broadcasting. Hell, some brainless twat on American Idol could voice an opinion, and sway a decent percentage of the public with that opinion.
Now, had you said "all informed adults with any technical background, who lack any financial interest in the issue", then you might have been correct.
So - post something bonch. And, please, try not to post more shill shit when you do it.
I dunno - maybe Ethanol is racist, maybe he isn't. But, Obama DID "reluctantly" sign that fucking NDAA, did he not? Ethanol's point stands, racist cockbag or not.
Come on down. Bring a big megaphone, I'll even plug you in to the 110V AC house current. No problem. I'll just dress warmly, fill a thermos full of coffee, and sit on a lawnchair to see what happens.
I give fair odds that some hunter will come out of the woods, and beat you senseless before he breaks your megaphone over your head, because you've been disturbing the game. And, around here, it won't help you much to see what game is "in season". Poaching is a year round tradition here. You frighten a bow hunter's doe away, he's coming after you!
Alright - you define HBGary as "honest" if you like. Meanwhile, they were selling vaporware to the government. Go ahead, research what they were actually selling, then research what they actually had on hand, in stock, ready for use, ready for deployment. The two lists will not match up. Vaporware is basically fraud. HBGary accepted money for products that they couldn't supply immediately. They HOPED that they could actually deploy those products soon, but it was still fraud.
Win2k, WinXP, Vista, and Win7 are all Windows NT. And, I may have erred - I think that I actually did download my first NT OS using a download manager. Sorry if I offered any false facts that were actually pertinent to my point. ;^)
As for grabbing "lame warez" - how do you think those hordes of "pirates" were getting their stuff in 199x? There weren't a lot of choices, unless you went out into the streets to buy your copy from another pirate, who actually had downloaded the same "lame warez".
While Ethanol-fueled wasn't off topic or anything, I feel compelled to remind people that HBGary were a bunch of frauds. I'd be far more likely to ask the zit-faced kid down the street for advice, than HBGary. True, that kid has never persuaded otherwise intelligent people to part with millions of dollars, but he is more trustworthy.
How does that thing work with used car salesmen? Asking price is 3600, I think it's worth 1200, but I might be willing to pay 1800 - so we BARTER!!! I drive the car home for 1750 plus tax, licensing, etc, total cost 1900.
I can't see paying full price for software that is used, either. It was written once, and it's been used a zillion times since it was written. Now, the author wants me to pay full price, like it is new or something?
No, I'll pay a used price, or nothing at all. If the author won't come down on his price, then I'll get it somewhere else - like The Pirate Bay. They have a lot of used softwares for ultra-cheap.
"would expose me to everyone in the swarm."
Careful now, you'll find yourself on the sex offender's list like that!