But none of the things you mentioned constitute "doom." Therefore, you are not doomed to repeat yourself because you failed to study the past, you are just repeating yourself in a non-doomy sort of way, just like everyone else. No, the "failed to study, doomed to repeat" meme simply does not apply to things such as eating, drinking, and good personal hygiene, although it could sort of apply if you failed to bathe, were socially ostracized due to offensive odors, and failed to learn that bathing is socially necessary.
Still, the important phrase here is "history." As you are not Charlies Sheen, your eating, drinking and personal hygiene are not historical. You could not study the history of your own consumption and grooming, as it is not recorded in historical documents. Bill Gates, on the other hand, has not studied computer history, and therefore is doomed to recreate the mistakes that others have moved beyond. This is known as "windows."
He is also doomed to look like a fool, as it is supposedly his technical savvy that lead to market dominance by Microsoft. Anyone who has studied computer history knows this is par for the course for Microsoft and little Billy Gates. He fails to study the past, and therefore fails to understand the present time and time again. From the Internet to mobile devices to virtualization, little Billy and his company of fools have demonstrated a surprising blindness to developing trends. Luckily for Billy, foresight and technical expertise account for very little, while marketing and image mean everything, and THAT, at least, he is very good at.
Just because something existed in the 70's doesn't necessarily mean people should have known about it or that it had any impact on future developments.
Just because something is unknown to Bill Gates does not mean it is unimportant or failed to impact future developments.
Oh, well hey, I'm totally okay with getting blown up in a hydrogen explosion. It's that nuclear radiation stuff I can't stand, I mean, that stuff will kill you WAY deader than any old explosion will. You'll be super extremely totally dead, not just dead. Clarity in language is a useful trait, if you mean "safe from nuclear radiation but not other things" say that. Don't say "absolutely impossible for anyone to die," because you sound stupid, and if someone does die, then you also sound like an ass.
Here's a thought, how about the pro nuclear and anti nuclear folks SHUT THE HELL UP until this is over and we know how it went down. I'm seeing a ton of uninformed bullshit from both sides, meanwhile, bad things are happening and people are getting hurt or killed, so it's just a little bit insensitive for either side to start up their PR spin machines right yet.
By 'exposed' they mean that the heat is so high that the rods are not bather in liquid water. Not so bad in a boiling water reactor like this one, which has a negative void coefficient, meaning that the presence of liquid water slows down the neutrons enough for them to interact and produce heat. The absence of liquid water actually slows down the reaction. However, the fuel rods can not be 'exposed' while the reactor is full of seawater. Being exposed means NOT being covered in water.
Wait a second, so you are saying that according to the writeup, it is absolutely impossible for anyone to die... unless they were caught in one of several very large uncontrolled hydrogen gas explosions. Do you, ah, do you simply not see the inherent ridiculousness of that statement? "Look, as long as you manage to avoid the terrible dangers, you're perfectly safe," is really stretching the definition of 'safe.'
Nothing wrong with libraries, from these assholes perspective, it's government funded libraries that are accessible to all that are the problem. Anything that potentially helps a poor person, takes customers away from "legitimate" businesses, and "steals" from the rich must be destroyed utterly. Like unions.
It is my opinion that you are some sort of puffer fish, most likely a dickless idjit puffer fish named c64_love. I am also of the opinion that black is white, two plus two equals five, and your mamma so fat they just upgraded her from "planetoid" to "dwarf planet" status. These are my opinions, and they are neither correct nor incorrect, as they are merely viewpoints. If you disagree with me, I will drag you down to a public library and horsewhip you with a VHS tape.
Given that people still ride horses (and whip other consenting adults) horsewhips aren't obsolete. Given that you can still buy VHS players, hook them up to modern hardware, and play tapes for which there is no DVD or Blu-Ray equivalent, VHS tapes aren't obsolete either. Given that you can not get most books for free online, libraries aren't obsolete, and only an elitist douchenozzle, libertarded wealth-licker, or Teahadist suicide boner would want to get rid of them. But given that most humans have evolved to be able to use logic, I would say YOU are obsolete.
I believe the only solution is to give in to them completely, then let evolution work it's magic. In a hundred thousand years or so, these parasites will have devolved to the point where they are all some sort of leach-like creatures that attach themselves to their human hosts and suck. Then we just pull them all off and stomp on them, simple really.
I was positing the general case of friends with trucks, not making a specific complaint. But thanks for your common sense advice. And by "common sense" I mean, hopefully, the kind of thing anyone over the age of 21 already knows. Still, can't hurt to remind people that they have mouths, and can use them to communicate their desires to others.
I'm beginning to see a pattern. If others consider your profession a "hobby" rather than a "real" profession, then they may be more likely to ask for free help.
Ah, well, it sounds as though you have a good reciprocal relationship with your family and friends, where you help each other with things in your area of expertise. If that is the case, by all means pitch in. Cooperation is wonderful. The problem comes if you don't have reciprocal relationships, i.e. they ask for free computer help, but come moving day, they and their truck are nowhere to be found. I believe THAT is what the article is complaining about.
Right, and THAT is why we keep getting stuck with this crap: we keep doing it for free. Stop selling yourselves short, when someone asks you for free services, just say no.
You feel better about yourself now that you've insulted every geek and nerd in the place? Personally, I see an antisocial rant like this, I think "projection." And now you can't even get mad at me for insulting you, or you will look like a hypocrite.
Generally, programmers are not asked to program for free by relatives. With mechanics, people know they need pay, they generally don't ask for free services unless you are immediate family, or an old friend who owes them. Accountants never do anyone's taxes for free, and you wouldn't ask a teacher to tutor your kids for free. Do you see the difference? It's not the "people are stupid" part that's the problem, it's the "your skills aren't worth anything" part that upsets the PC fixer.
Even worse than false negatives would be false positives. Maybe those death threats to your boss sound just like you, use the same words you use, the same grammar, everything. That's because your jealous coworker pirated himself a copy of this program, fed some writing of yours through it, and then kept editing those death threats until the program claimed they sounded just like you.
They seriously think an 80% success rate is good enough to be used in court?
Why not? 19 states and many countries still admit polygraph tests into court, despite the fact that they are wildly inaccurate, and people can be specifically taught to deceive them.
Give it up already, stop beating the greasy horse shaped patch on the ground. The flag of the USA is red, white, and blue. You can have the OPINION that it is mauve and chartreuse, but your opinion would be wrong. My point is that his opinion was just OPINION, and a bullshit opinion. I made that point and made it well.
If he feels that "I had to work for my degree. I appreciate it more than the people I have met who didn't have to work for it." then he can either back that up, by showing evidence, or admit he's just talking out his ass. You see, opinions are like assholes, everyone has one, but most people aren't interested in yours.
Personally, I quite enjoy proving that people's opinions are bullshit, and other people shouldn't waste their time by paying attention to the worthless verbal diarrhea spewing from their fetid mouths.
Moreover, the OPINION he was spewing is hateful, hurtful, elitist self serving, self congratulatory bullshit. It is really trying to imply something very evil, without stating it outright: "You shouldn't try to help others, because they won't appreciate what they are given, you should make them work for it, so they appreciate it more." THAT is the sort of vile right wing libertarian/Republican/Teahadist bullshit I will ALWAYS combat, capiche?
Not my problem that you can't put two and two together. Smelch said, "An accusation of being selfish coming from the people trying to take from others. How original." I was trying to explain that taxes are not "taking from others," and only a very immature and selfish person would think that. Taxes are the price you pay for the goods and services you want. Living in a society with others is a privilege, not a right. You need to pay for that privilege, or live by yourself, on your own, alone. There's no such thing as a free lunch, so if living in our society is something you value, you need to pay. Taxes aren't stealing.
I wasn't lying at all. He was saying "I don't want to pay taxes, taxes are stealing from me." He was advocating changing the rules, because he doesn't want to pay his fair share.
As usual, I win and you lose, AC. That's because I have tiger blood, and am a Vatican assassin warlock. I'm tired of pretending I'm not a rock star from Mars.
As I said, I don't have to prove anything here. We can take it as a given that there is no support for the hypothesis that people handed a free education don't appreciate it.
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But none of the things you mentioned constitute "doom." Therefore, you are not doomed to repeat yourself because you failed to study the past, you are just repeating yourself in a non-doomy sort of way, just like everyone else. No, the "failed to study, doomed to repeat" meme simply does not apply to things such as eating, drinking, and good personal hygiene, although it could sort of apply if you failed to bathe, were socially ostracized due to offensive odors, and failed to learn that bathing is socially necessary.
Still, the important phrase here is "history." As you are not Charlies Sheen, your eating, drinking and personal hygiene are not historical. You could not study the history of your own consumption and grooming, as it is not recorded in historical documents. Bill Gates, on the other hand, has not studied computer history, and therefore is doomed to recreate the mistakes that others have moved beyond. This is known as "windows."
He is also doomed to look like a fool, as it is supposedly his technical savvy that lead to market dominance by Microsoft. Anyone who has studied computer history knows this is par for the course for Microsoft and little Billy Gates. He fails to study the past, and therefore fails to understand the present time and time again. From the Internet to mobile devices to virtualization, little Billy and his company of fools have demonstrated a surprising blindness to developing trends. Luckily for Billy, foresight and technical expertise account for very little, while marketing and image mean everything, and THAT, at least, he is very good at.
Just because something existed in the 70's doesn't necessarily mean people should have known about it or that it had any impact on future developments.
Just because something is unknown to Bill Gates does not mean it is unimportant or failed to impact future developments.
Oh, well hey, I'm totally okay with getting blown up in a hydrogen explosion. It's that nuclear radiation stuff I can't stand, I mean, that stuff will kill you WAY deader than any old explosion will. You'll be super extremely totally dead, not just dead. Clarity in language is a useful trait, if you mean "safe from nuclear radiation but not other things" say that. Don't say "absolutely impossible for anyone to die," because you sound stupid, and if someone does die, then you also sound like an ass.
Here's a thought, how about the pro nuclear and anti nuclear folks SHUT THE HELL UP until this is over and we know how it went down. I'm seeing a ton of uninformed bullshit from both sides, meanwhile, bad things are happening and people are getting hurt or killed, so it's just a little bit insensitive for either side to start up their PR spin machines right yet.
Okay, so aside from the THREE massive hydrogen gas explosions, the crane accident, and the dozens of injuries, this is all perfectly safe. Gotcha.
By 'exposed' they mean that the heat is so high that the rods are not bather in liquid water. Not so bad in a boiling water reactor like this one, which has a negative void coefficient, meaning that the presence of liquid water slows down the neutrons enough for them to interact and produce heat. The absence of liquid water actually slows down the reaction. However, the fuel rods can not be 'exposed' while the reactor is full of seawater. Being exposed means NOT being covered in water.
Wait a second, so you are saying that according to the writeup, it is absolutely impossible for anyone to die... unless they were caught in one of several very large uncontrolled hydrogen gas explosions. Do you, ah, do you simply not see the inherent ridiculousness of that statement? "Look, as long as you manage to avoid the terrible dangers, you're perfectly safe," is really stretching the definition of 'safe.'
Nothing wrong with libraries, from these assholes perspective, it's government funded libraries that are accessible to all that are the problem. Anything that potentially helps a poor person, takes customers away from "legitimate" businesses, and "steals" from the rich must be destroyed utterly. Like unions.
It is my opinion that you are some sort of puffer fish, most likely a dickless idjit puffer fish named c64_love. I am also of the opinion that black is white, two plus two equals five, and your mamma so fat they just upgraded her from "planetoid" to "dwarf planet" status. These are my opinions, and they are neither correct nor incorrect, as they are merely viewpoints. If you disagree with me, I will drag you down to a public library and horsewhip you with a VHS tape.
Given that people still ride horses (and whip other consenting adults) horsewhips aren't obsolete. Given that you can still buy VHS players, hook them up to modern hardware, and play tapes for which there is no DVD or Blu-Ray equivalent, VHS tapes aren't obsolete either. Given that you can not get most books for free online, libraries aren't obsolete, and only an elitist douchenozzle, libertarded wealth-licker, or Teahadist suicide boner would want to get rid of them. But given that most humans have evolved to be able to use logic, I would say YOU are obsolete.
I believe the only solution is to give in to them completely, then let evolution work it's magic. In a hundred thousand years or so, these parasites will have devolved to the point where they are all some sort of leach-like creatures that attach themselves to their human hosts and suck. Then we just pull them all off and stomp on them, simple really.
King claims the IRA never killed an American. As if that should make a difference, but it isn't even true, the IRA has killed Americans.
I was positing the general case of friends with trucks, not making a specific complaint. But thanks for your common sense advice. And by "common sense" I mean, hopefully, the kind of thing anyone over the age of 21 already knows. Still, can't hurt to remind people that they have mouths, and can use them to communicate their desires to others.
I'm beginning to see a pattern. If others consider your profession a "hobby" rather than a "real" profession, then they may be more likely to ask for free help.
What, you mean rebooting it and reinstalling the operating system is not the first, last, and only solution to computer problems?
Ah, well, it sounds as though you have a good reciprocal relationship with your family and friends, where you help each other with things in your area of expertise. If that is the case, by all means pitch in. Cooperation is wonderful. The problem comes if you don't have reciprocal relationships, i.e. they ask for free computer help, but come moving day, they and their truck are nowhere to be found. I believe THAT is what the article is complaining about.
Right, and THAT is why we keep getting stuck with this crap: we keep doing it for free. Stop selling yourselves short, when someone asks you for free services, just say no.
You feel better about yourself now that you've insulted every geek and nerd in the place? Personally, I see an antisocial rant like this, I think "projection." And now you can't even get mad at me for insulting you, or you will look like a hypocrite.
Generally, programmers are not asked to program for free by relatives. With mechanics, people know they need pay, they generally don't ask for free services unless you are immediate family, or an old friend who owes them. Accountants never do anyone's taxes for free, and you wouldn't ask a teacher to tutor your kids for free. Do you see the difference? It's not the "people are stupid" part that's the problem, it's the "your skills aren't worth anything" part that upsets the PC fixer.
"It's not a lie if _you_ believe it."
In totally unrelated news, my dick is a foot long.
Well I'd like to see that stand up in court.
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Even worse than false negatives would be false positives. Maybe those death threats to your boss sound just like you, use the same words you use, the same grammar, everything. That's because your jealous coworker pirated himself a copy of this program, fed some writing of yours through it, and then kept editing those death threats until the program claimed they sounded just like you.
They seriously think an 80% success rate is good enough to be used in court?
Why not? 19 states and many countries still admit polygraph tests into court, despite the fact that they are wildly inaccurate, and people can be specifically taught to deceive them.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polygraph#Validity
Give it up already, stop beating the greasy horse shaped patch on the ground. The flag of the USA is red, white, and blue. You can have the OPINION that it is mauve and chartreuse, but your opinion would be wrong. My point is that his opinion was just OPINION, and a bullshit opinion. I made that point and made it well.
If he feels that "I had to work for my degree. I appreciate it more than the people I have met who didn't have to work for it." then he can either back that up, by showing evidence, or admit he's just talking out his ass. You see, opinions are like assholes, everyone has one, but most people aren't interested in yours.
Personally, I quite enjoy proving that people's opinions are bullshit, and other people shouldn't waste their time by paying attention to the worthless verbal diarrhea spewing from their fetid mouths.
Moreover, the OPINION he was spewing is hateful, hurtful, elitist self serving, self congratulatory bullshit. It is really trying to imply something very evil, without stating it outright: "You shouldn't try to help others, because they won't appreciate what they are given, you should make them work for it, so they appreciate it more." THAT is the sort of vile right wing libertarian/Republican/Teahadist bullshit I will ALWAYS combat, capiche?
Not my problem that you can't put two and two together. Smelch said, "An accusation of being selfish coming from the people trying to take from others. How original." I was trying to explain that taxes are not "taking from others," and only a very immature and selfish person would think that. Taxes are the price you pay for the goods and services you want. Living in a society with others is a privilege, not a right. You need to pay for that privilege, or live by yourself, on your own, alone. There's no such thing as a free lunch, so if living in our society is something you value, you need to pay. Taxes aren't stealing.
I wasn't lying at all. He was saying "I don't want to pay taxes, taxes are stealing from me." He was advocating changing the rules, because he doesn't want to pay his fair share.
As usual, I win and you lose, AC. That's because I have tiger blood, and am a Vatican assassin warlock. I'm tired of pretending I'm not a rock star from Mars.
The pilot project was working for about a year or two.
As I said, I don't have to prove anything here. We can take it as a given that there is no support for the hypothesis that people handed a free education don't appreciate it.