Don't worry, you're not missing much. Geordi's visor from Star Trek was less goofy looking than these.
Picture, well, picture you never getting laid again. Now imagine it being for want of a black rectangle you put over you eyes. That's what these look like.
So when the sales clerk asks for my zip code or my phone number or anything else they don't legally need, I just look at them and say "nope". If they occasionally insist (because they're idiots who have been coached to say they 'need' it), I will simply walk away from the cash register.
That's unnecesarily confrontational, means you've lost the time sunk into being in the store to being with, and puts a burden on the poor moron who's just trying to get through another day at their miserable-ass job
You should just realize that priv^H^H^H^Hdata-analytics is a myth, accept it, and proceed to teach them by polluting their databases with as many fake ZIP codes as you can muster. The liquor store up the street from me thinks they get visitors from Illinois, New York, Flordia, Washington state, and occasionally Alaska. My motto is "Bad data is worse than no data."
I honestly stopped being that worried about Amazon and Google when I realized that I could make their recommendations reflect things I wouldn't have ever considered buying without actually buying anything I didn't feel like. Just looked at it, actually. Yerp, recommendations include diapers and doublesided tape. I'm single and have no kids (and not incontient), and well, doublesided tape. Hah.
When I'm in a store, I'm attentive toward doing precisely whatever the fuck it takes for me to get out of there sooner. The last thing on my mind is leisurely enjoying netflix on a screen the approximate size of a post-it note.
The kids who are smart, driven, and interested in stuff have.... wait for it... parents who are smart, driven, and interested in stuff. Those parents, are ALSO more likely to approve a field trip.
There's a rare subset of kids who are smart, driven, and interested particularly because they see what a sad waste of energy their parents are. Not me, but I've had enough friends this was the case for that I feel it warrants mention. I believe you are your upbringing, but not always in the ways that seem obvious.
I don't know. When I get burned out on games and they're not fulfilling anymore (like what's started to happen to me at the present), this is exactly what I do. I go read some books, catch up with old friends, paint some 40k stuff, program something, whatever. About a month later, I'm feeling much better, and getting back into something sounds good.
If the exodus is that great as of Helm's Deep, maybe by that time they'll have kneejerked their changes back into something more enjoyable, and then you don't even have to jump ship to a different game.
I think a lot of people use the term "privacy" to mean "without a persistent source of worldwide evidence showing irrefutable proof otherwise".
The guy at your party has to pit his word against mine. He has to know my boss, wife, or parents to be able to tell them, and even then I still have the ability for that to be forgotten about, and can go back to living my life. Contrast that with the picture someone snapped of the hypothetical me that insta-uploaded itself to facebook, all privacy settings turned off. Or the 'viral' video that becomes an internet meme hobbling my odds of getting a job, because I'm "the (whatever) guy from the video".
The societal issue here is that we're all a little too happy to self-righteously crucify the guy who has a picture of him smoking a substance of dubious nature online, and then go over to fuck the BSDM mistress while the wife is out of town... at least, until those pictures leak, and then the guy who does coke off the bathroom sink at work is crucifying you, and the circle-jerk continues.
And I was just thinking: "Wait, Gartner is calling attention to the claims made by companies not reflecting reality?! They going to out themselves next?"
Sigh. Yes, Obama and everyone who's even tangentially related to him or an idea he is attributed to having all suck. They'll be our ruin. We get it. We really do. We know.
What would you have us do about it? How can we help fix things?
Oh, you don't know? Then you're boring. Go away, and take your self-righteous off-topic bullshit with you. We're reading about hackathons here.
You seriously need to spend a week BEING a CEO, so we can all see how horrible you would be at it, and then maybe you would stop running your mouth spewing nonsense.
Deal. Now Freaky Friday this shit so that I can get on with destroying a company that's existed for over a generation. Man, I'm gonna short term flip that Fortune 500 so hard they're feeling it for five CEOs after, which, I know is only like, two years time, but still.
Hurry up, I want to finish in time for the coke and hooker parties.
I'm not an economist either, but the bottom paragraph of mine is from wikipedia on debt to GDP ratio. In a nutshell, it appears to say "lower is better". Since it's a fraction, and lower is better, I'm assuming "Debt / GDP = Ratio". For Sweden to have a negative ratio, that would imply that one of those variables would have to be negative. I'm guessing they don't have a negative GDP, so it sounds like they're buying more debt than they're selling.
Regarding my comments on how good it is, I was just being sarcastic as hell.
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Ooh, ooh, or rounding up nationals who descended from a small island in the pacific and putting them in forced camps?
Or setting up secret, legally questionable prisons to house those funny colored people you mentioned.
Yeah, last 100 years have been pretty enlighted for us here in 'Merica.
Touche, though I'd probably need to get her a pair too.
Don't worry, you're not missing much. Geordi's visor from Star Trek was less goofy looking than these.
Picture, well, picture you never getting laid again. Now imagine it being for want of a black rectangle you put over you eyes. That's what these look like.
So when the sales clerk asks for my zip code or my phone number or anything else they don't legally need, I just look at them and say "nope". If they occasionally insist (because they're idiots who have been coached to say they 'need' it), I will simply walk away from the cash register.
That's unnecesarily confrontational, means you've lost the time sunk into being in the store to being with, and puts a burden on the poor moron who's just trying to get through another day at their miserable-ass job
You should just realize that priv^H^H^H^Hdata-analytics is a myth, accept it, and proceed to teach them by polluting their databases with as many fake ZIP codes as you can muster. The liquor store up the street from me thinks they get visitors from Illinois, New York, Flordia, Washington state, and occasionally Alaska. My motto is "Bad data is worse than no data."
I honestly stopped being that worried about Amazon and Google when I realized that I could make their recommendations reflect things I wouldn't have ever considered buying without actually buying anything I didn't feel like. Just looked at it, actually. Yerp, recommendations include diapers and doublesided tape. I'm single and have no kids (and not incontient), and well, doublesided tape. Hah.
When I'm in a store, I'm attentive toward doing precisely whatever the fuck it takes for me to get out of there sooner. The last thing on my mind is leisurely enjoying netflix on a screen the approximate size of a post-it note.
I hit a different liquor store for booze tonight than normal. It was one of those yuppie "wine and cheese" places, because it was convenient.
They had all sorts of chocolates at the counter. I skipped lunch and was hungry, so I almost got a couple to tide me over.
If I was somehow buying magic alcohol that was getting delivered to me same day? Wouldn't have even considered it.
The kids who are smart, driven, and interested in stuff have.... wait for it... parents who are smart, driven, and interested in stuff. Those parents, are ALSO more likely to approve a field trip.
There's a rare subset of kids who are smart, driven, and interested particularly because they see what a sad waste of energy their parents are. Not me, but I've had enough friends this was the case for that I feel it warrants mention. I believe you are your upbringing, but not always in the ways that seem obvious.
I would argue that your executable returns with expected result nearly instantaneously.
Writing thinly veiled advertisements for Thinkgeek products? I kind of agree.
:)
I bet if he tried hard enough, he could be the Celine Dion* of advertising.
* As in, no one wants to hear him, but he won't go away.
RMS, what are you doing? You told us you didn't use the internet!
When everything becomes a joke, nothing is. The reverse is also true.
I don't know. When I get burned out on games and they're not fulfilling anymore (like what's started to happen to me at the present), this is exactly what I do. I go read some books, catch up with old friends, paint some 40k stuff, program something, whatever. About a month later, I'm feeling much better, and getting back into something sounds good.
If the exodus is that great as of Helm's Deep, maybe by that time they'll have kneejerked their changes back into something more enjoyable, and then you don't even have to jump ship to a different game.
Yeah, I'm with you. I was going for funny. I think I did it wrong. :(
You just put it all in the cloud brah. My boss assured me it'd be okay and he got his MBA from
Dolph Lundgren and Keanu Reeves.
Cool story bro, but I think you typoed "reddit.com" in your address bar.
I am offended that you would declare so many Slashdotters to be something other than human.
I think a lot of people use the term "privacy" to mean "without a persistent source of worldwide evidence showing irrefutable proof otherwise".
The guy at your party has to pit his word against mine. He has to know my boss, wife, or parents to be able to tell them, and even then I still have the ability for that to be forgotten about, and can go back to living my life. Contrast that with the picture someone snapped of the hypothetical me that insta-uploaded itself to facebook, all privacy settings turned off. Or the 'viral' video that becomes an internet meme hobbling my odds of getting a job, because I'm "the (whatever) guy from the video".
The societal issue here is that we're all a little too happy to self-righteously crucify the guy who has a picture of him smoking a substance of dubious nature online, and then go over to fuck the BSDM mistress while the wife is out of town... at least, until those pictures leak, and then the guy who does coke off the bathroom sink at work is crucifying you, and the circle-jerk continues.
And I was just thinking: "Wait, Gartner is calling attention to the claims made by companies not reflecting reality?! They going to out themselves next?"
Sigh. Yes, Obama and everyone who's even tangentially related to him or an idea he is attributed to having all suck. They'll be our ruin. We get it. We really do. We know.
What would you have us do about it? How can we help fix things?
Oh, you don't know? Then you're boring. Go away, and take your self-righteous off-topic bullshit with you. We're reading about hackathons here.
I like the idea of randomly generating files that just happen to resemble songs and movies when played back through the proper software.
So... you found my dangling participle!
That makes sense. Thank you for that.
You seriously need to spend a week BEING a CEO, so we can all see how horrible you would be at it, and then maybe you would stop running your mouth spewing nonsense.
Deal. Now Freaky Friday this shit so that I can get on with destroying a company that's existed for over a generation. Man, I'm gonna short term flip that Fortune 500 so hard they're feeling it for five CEOs after, which, I know is only like, two years time, but still.
Hurry up, I want to finish in time for the coke and hooker parties.
I'm not an economist either, but the bottom paragraph of mine is from wikipedia on debt to GDP ratio. In a nutshell, it appears to say "lower is better". Since it's a fraction, and lower is better, I'm assuming "Debt / GDP = Ratio". For Sweden to have a negative ratio, that would imply that one of those variables would have to be negative. I'm guessing they don't have a negative GDP, so it sounds like they're buying more debt than they're selling.
Regarding my comments on how good it is, I was just being sarcastic as hell.