But then why would you say that it ISN'T groupthink? Indeed, the whole universal-ness would help show that it is a construct of everyone. Well, everyone that isn't a psychopath at least.
Well ok. Go buy a N900 (or 800 or 810) from, uh... ebay? and call up T-mobile.
If T-mobile isn't in your area, or has crappy service, you might be out of luck. I dunno if anyone else services the N series, or what other devices run Maemo. Sadly, you might have to shop around rather then just handing money to the girl in cell-hut at the mall.
And there's nothing wrong with being born poor, other then an elevated tendency to grow up into a crack-addled homeless and jobless loser. Indeed it's a lot like being born rich. There's nothing wrong with it other then an elevated tendancy to be a spoiled useless brat who's a drain to society. Or worse, a boss.
Yeah, some items are so universal that they were even agree upon BEFORE Moses came down the hill. Like murder. I'm pretty sure murder was bad before Moses, and I'm pretty sure that murder was bad in China and India. So it didn't really originate as a religious commandment. Don't get me wrong, I think it's swell that it got made official and written down. "In stone" so to speak. For that little group.
But your statement makes you a troll for trying to claim that something as universal as "murder is bad" is the sole domain of one particular religious group. Actually, the "badness" of murder is kind of built into the term. So the first creator was really whoever first came up with the concept to differentiate different kinds of killing. Although it might have been a group effort, and it was certainly recreated by others.
You're religious, that's fine. You're christian, that's fine too. But the point you start making factual errors and claim ownership of a universal concept? And then get modded up for it? That's the point I have to call bullshit. So as to not ruffle your feathers too much, let me put it this way: There are the Mandarin, Indian, and Summarion words for murder. None of those peoples had any interaction with Moses or the commandments, so how did these groups of people know how to define murder?
Soooo, when phone-shaped devices are beefy enough to run a full-fledged OS, people are going to stick with the trimmed down embedded platform. Why? Is it to preserve battery life or something? Because they like having to run a separate application to go visit a website? Oh, maybe it's because they just love all the crap that manufacturers dump into the device along with it.
And um, just in case you missed it, Linux is pretty malleable. It can be made to run on anything. It's kinda one of those memes on slashdot. So, linux does run on smartphones. One flavor is called Maemo.
Good thing you remembered to cherry-pick the parts of the bible you agree with while finding rationalizations and excuses for the parts you don't, otherwise you'd have a internal inconsistency.
Yeah, that's fucking awesome, but mostly because it's simply applying DC to the outside of people's skulls and without having to resort to skull-fuckery.
But when I first read the title, my knee-jerk reaction was: oh, so they discovered caffeine?
Well, these people are learning more about the brain BY screwing around with it. How else do you learn things? Unfortunately, we're missing the user's manual.
Economically speaking, you owe me $50 since you didn't buy my crappy rogue-like game.
Also, let's set up a system where everyone copies everyone else, GENERATING PROFIT, so that we can simply erase the national debt. Computers make copying real easy after all.
Actually, for a while there after I bought the house I was looking into setting up a wireless network with my neighbors. A community net for easy sharing and whatnot. Something like Netsukuku. But then I rediscovered that I'm a shut-in and haven't really had an excuse to even say hello to most of them.
Actually it's a old form of English called weaselese where random words get replaced with euphemisms that don't sound as bad. For example, which sounds better to you:
"A lack of synergy will commit us to depublishing your works and down-sizing your position. Thanks to competitive agreements with neighbors, we've cornered the market in potential employment with a bonus outreach to family members." OR
"Since you don't share in the corporate culture around here, you're going to be censored and eventually fired. If you try to work in this city again, we'll skull fuck you and your whole family."
That's the slashdot server telling you to stuff it already, we've had enough.
Yes, and instead of the $30 Billion that the whole fiasco is going to cost us, the FDIC would have to pay out EVERYONE'S BANK ACCOUNTS. I honestly don't know how much that is, but I imagine that it's more then $30B.
Uh, we've been running up debt at a ludicrous rate since the 1980's. Well, it was also pretty bad during WWII, but that's a pretty good justification. Arguably, running up debt has been covering it up since then.
Oh sure, wipe out everyone's bank accounts. That'll fix the problem. That is what you wanted right? Closing the banks? You can't get your money out of a closed bank, and they sure as hell didn't have enough assets to pay everyone. Yessiree, once everyone is dead broke, that'll avert the oncoming econopocalypse and will magically transform people's housing investments back into premium material and not usher in the next great depression.
Brilliant really.
And you're plus +4 insightful. Fantastic. Nothing like completely ignoring the consequences of your actions just to stoke the fire a little, eh?
So I guess the ancestor poster needs to append his list. It's fear, ignorance, and hate.
Well ok, but is the gist still correct? Is Fedora 14 for the elite uber-admins? While I'd like to be the sort of person who knows his box back and forth, I'd also like to just plug in [wireless-card/mic/spleunky/starcraft2/maptool/softwareRaid/Audacity/whatnot] and simply have it work. Those don't exactly go hand in hand. You know when you're on a date and you go to play a movie, but the sound isn't working and you try to fix it and she walks off around the point you start opening man pages? Yeah, I've been there and I don't particularly want to go back.
Oh for sure, hounding the HR of companies with daily phone calls and following them home, that'll force them to hire me...
Sorry, but I don't live in Chicago. There are jobs in Chicago, great jobs, jobs I could go out and hunt after. But unfortunately, my wife has a far more selective job then mine, there's only so many foundries in America. Since her's pay is better, and I can find SOME kind of work in my field nearly anywhere, I follow her. So I don't live in Chicago. I'm sorry, but the dream job really just isn't there, and you're coming off as ludicrously optimistic. The sort of motivational speaker you want to punch in the face. The one who is getting paid millions to tell people how to stop being so poor.
And I'm not trying to be overly pessimistic either, I have a job, it's passable. A few things could be better. And so I go job hunting every now and then for a better one. I few weeks ago I thought I was a shoe-in for an embedded C position, that would have been awesome (as long as it didn't transform into a liaison position between the boss and the Indian programmers). But the point is I AM trying to make my own luck. I'm working on my own projects to keep my skills sharp. I'm trying new things so I can put a blurb down on my resume. I'm asking people I run into about any positions they may know of. A fellow gamer said his place needed someone, but I sure as hell doesn't going to take a 54% cut in pay.
But what you're doing essentially is blaming me for my boss being an asshole rather than, oh I dunno, blaming the asshole himself. Hence the urge to punch you in the face.
I find it depressing that you're unaware of the strengths and weaknesses of AI and simply assume that a good human player will defeat one. And that complexity and scope somehow help with that.
Damn, really? I haven't been on facebook in years and wasn't aware. Of course, tagging itself didn't exist back when I actually used facebook.
So how long will it be until another feature comes about that I'll have to disable manually?
For me, it started when they let the highschoolers on. That was before '06. Maybe I was just being elitist, but I didn't think opening the college network to outsiders was a good idea. Then they opened all the networks to each other as college people moved around or graduated and got out of town. That was when the pitfalls made themselves apparent and I stopped embracing facebook. It didn't really hit me full force though until my mother joined. That's when I realized exactly where this was going and I trimmed everything, restricted what I could, and cut off a swath of semi-friends. Not that any of that is going to help, as my friends will still hop on and tag me in random shit.
As much as I ought to get a new job where the boss isn't an asshole, where the users understand software development, where flextime is acceptable, where I'm paid an extra $20K, in an industry that isn't powered by fear, controlled by foreign influence, fueled by vice, or run on questionable economic principles, where nearby housing is affordable, and the neighbors don't suck, where they run Linux, and code in C, under the GPL, where my skills are honed and expanded, where the commute is painless and cheap, where my future employment is in my hands, in a city my wife can find a job with similar properties, where Sharepoint has been banished from the land, where they pay for overtime but don't ask for it often, where they're loose with vacation and don't mind weeks of unpaid leave, where buzzwords earn you slap across the face, where the mythical man month is understood, where the chairs are comfortable, the carpet is clean, and temperature doesn't have a 20 degree swing.
As much as I ought to go get that job, it turns out that they're not hiring at this moment. I guess we can't all have the perfect life delivered to us on a silver platter. So you can take your apathy, add it as a bullet point on your resume, and shove it up your ass.
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Wow, swing and a miss on that one. Sorry dude.
But then why would you say that it ISN'T groupthink? Indeed, the whole universal-ness would help show that it is a construct of everyone. Well, everyone that isn't a psychopath at least.
Well ok. Go buy a N900 (or 800 or 810) from, uh... ebay? and call up T-mobile.
If T-mobile isn't in your area, or has crappy service, you might be out of luck. I dunno if anyone else services the N series, or what other devices run Maemo. Sadly, you might have to shop around rather then just handing money to the girl in cell-hut at the mall.
And there's nothing wrong with being born poor, other then an elevated tendency to grow up into a crack-addled homeless and jobless loser. Indeed it's a lot like being born rich. There's nothing wrong with it other then an elevated tendancy to be a spoiled useless brat who's a drain to society. Or worse, a boss.
Yeah, some items are so universal that they were even agree upon BEFORE Moses came down the hill. Like murder. I'm pretty sure murder was bad before Moses, and I'm pretty sure that murder was bad in China and India. So it didn't really originate as a religious commandment. Don't get me wrong, I think it's swell that it got made official and written down. "In stone" so to speak. For that little group.
But your statement makes you a troll for trying to claim that something as universal as "murder is bad" is the sole domain of one particular religious group. Actually, the "badness" of murder is kind of built into the term. So the first creator was really whoever first came up with the concept to differentiate different kinds of killing. Although it might have been a group effort, and it was certainly recreated by others.
You're religious, that's fine. You're christian, that's fine too. But the point you start making factual errors and claim ownership of a universal concept? And then get modded up for it? That's the point I have to call bullshit. So as to not ruffle your feathers too much, let me put it this way: There are the Mandarin, Indian, and Summarion words for murder. None of those peoples had any interaction with Moses or the commandments, so how did these groups of people know how to define murder?
Soooo, when phone-shaped devices are beefy enough to run a full-fledged OS, people are going to stick with the trimmed down embedded platform. Why? Is it to preserve battery life or something? Because they like having to run a separate application to go visit a website? Oh, maybe it's because they just love all the crap that manufacturers dump into the device along with it.
And um, just in case you missed it, Linux is pretty malleable. It can be made to run on anything. It's kinda one of those memes on slashdot. So, linux does run on smartphones. One flavor is called Maemo.
Good thing you remembered to cherry-pick the parts of the bible you agree with while finding rationalizations and excuses for the parts you don't, otherwise you'd have a internal inconsistency.
Yeah, that's fucking awesome, but mostly because it's simply applying DC to the outside of people's skulls and without having to resort to skull-fuckery.
But when I first read the title, my knee-jerk reaction was: oh, so they discovered caffeine?
I'm sorry, could you give that to me as a car analogy?
er...
Well, these people are learning more about the brain BY screwing around with it. How else do you learn things? Unfortunately, we're missing the user's manual.
Economically speaking, you owe me $50 since you didn't buy my crappy rogue-like game.
Also, let's set up a system where everyone copies everyone else, GENERATING PROFIT, so that we can simply erase the national debt. Computers make copying real easy after all.
Actually, for a while there after I bought the house I was looking into setting up a wireless network with my neighbors. A community net for easy sharing and whatnot. Something like Netsukuku. But then I rediscovered that I'm a shut-in and haven't really had an excuse to even say hello to most of them.
Actually it's a old form of English called weaselese where random words get replaced with euphemisms that don't sound as bad. For example, which sounds better to you:
"A lack of synergy will commit us to depublishing your works and down-sizing your position. Thanks to competitive agreements with neighbors, we've cornered the market in potential employment with a bonus outreach to family members."
OR
"Since you don't share in the corporate culture around here, you're going to be censored and eventually fired. If you try to work in this city again, we'll skull fuck you and your whole family."
Thank you summary, I was unaware of where that quote came from. It is only due to your diligence that I am now informed of that piece of movie trivia.
That's the slashdot server telling you to stuff it already, we've had enough.
Yes, and instead of the $30 Billion that the whole fiasco is going to cost us, the FDIC would have to pay out EVERYONE'S BANK ACCOUNTS. I honestly don't know how much that is, but I imagine that it's more then $30B.
Uh, we've been running up debt at a ludicrous rate since the 1980's. Well, it was also pretty bad during WWII, but that's a pretty good justification. Arguably, running up debt has been covering it up since then.
Oh sure, wipe out everyone's bank accounts. That'll fix the problem. That is what you wanted right? Closing the banks? You can't get your money out of a closed bank, and they sure as hell didn't have enough assets to pay everyone. Yessiree, once everyone is dead broke, that'll avert the oncoming econopocalypse and will magically transform people's housing investments back into premium material and not usher in the next great depression.
Brilliant really.
And you're plus +4 insightful. Fantastic. Nothing like completely ignoring the consequences of your actions just to stoke the fire a little, eh?
So I guess the ancestor poster needs to append his list. It's fear, ignorance, and hate.
Hmm, well thanks. This is the post that should have gotten +5 informative.
Just out curiosity, what city do you live in?
And what point of your commute would an ambush most likely go unnoticed?
Well ok, but is the gist still correct? Is Fedora 14 for the elite uber-admins? While I'd like to be the sort of person who knows his box back and forth, I'd also like to just plug in [wireless-card/mic/spleunky/starcraft2/maptool/softwareRaid/Audacity/whatnot] and simply have it work. Those don't exactly go hand in hand. You know when you're on a date and you go to play a movie, but the sound isn't working and you try to fix it and she walks off around the point you start opening man pages?
Yeah, I've been there and I don't particularly want to go back.
Oh for sure, hounding the HR of companies with daily phone calls and following them home, that'll force them to hire me...
Sorry, but I don't live in Chicago. There are jobs in Chicago, great jobs, jobs I could go out and hunt after. But unfortunately, my wife has a far more selective job then mine, there's only so many foundries in America. Since her's pay is better, and I can find SOME kind of work in my field nearly anywhere, I follow her. So I don't live in Chicago. I'm sorry, but the dream job really just isn't there, and you're coming off as ludicrously optimistic. The sort of motivational speaker you want to punch in the face. The one who is getting paid millions to tell people how to stop being so poor.
And I'm not trying to be overly pessimistic either, I have a job, it's passable. A few things could be better. And so I go job hunting every now and then for a better one. I few weeks ago I thought I was a shoe-in for an embedded C position, that would have been awesome (as long as it didn't transform into a liaison position between the boss and the Indian programmers). But the point is I AM trying to make my own luck. I'm working on my own projects to keep my skills sharp. I'm trying new things so I can put a blurb down on my resume. I'm asking people I run into about any positions they may know of. A fellow gamer said his place needed someone, but I sure as hell doesn't going to take a 54% cut in pay.
But what you're doing essentially is blaming me for my boss being an asshole rather than, oh I dunno, blaming the asshole himself. Hence the urge to punch you in the face.
I find it depressing that you're unaware of the strengths and weaknesses of AI and simply assume that a good human player will defeat one. And that complexity and scope somehow help with that.
Damn, really? I haven't been on facebook in years and wasn't aware. Of course, tagging itself didn't exist back when I actually used facebook.
So how long will it be until another feature comes about that I'll have to disable manually?
For me, it started when they let the highschoolers on. That was before '06. Maybe I was just being elitist, but I didn't think opening the college network to outsiders was a good idea. Then they opened all the networks to each other as college people moved around or graduated and got out of town. That was when the pitfalls made themselves apparent and I stopped embracing facebook. It didn't really hit me full force though until my mother joined. That's when I realized exactly where this was going and I trimmed everything, restricted what I could, and cut off a swath of semi-friends. Not that any of that is going to help, as my friends will still hop on and tag me in random shit.
Yeah, the younger generation will still have bosses from this and prior generation. Good luck kiddos.
As much as I ought to get a new job where the boss isn't an asshole, where the users understand software development, where flextime is acceptable, where I'm paid an extra $20K, in an industry that isn't powered by fear, controlled by foreign influence, fueled by vice, or run on questionable economic principles, where nearby housing is affordable, and the neighbors don't suck, where they run Linux, and code in C, under the GPL, where my skills are honed and expanded, where the commute is painless and cheap, where my future employment is in my hands, in a city my wife can find a job with similar properties, where Sharepoint has been banished from the land, where they pay for overtime but don't ask for it often, where they're loose with vacation and don't mind weeks of unpaid leave, where buzzwords earn you slap across the face, where the mythical man month is understood, where the chairs are comfortable, the carpet is clean, and temperature doesn't have a 20 degree swing.
As much as I ought to go get that job, it turns out that they're not hiring at this moment. I guess we can't all have the perfect life delivered to us on a silver platter. So you can take your apathy, add it as a bullet point on your resume, and shove it up your ass.