If we suddenly, I dunno, switched back to natural law for a day or two and decided to punish the frivolous bastards who are responsible for these outrageous numbers that can truly ruin people who would dare try to do the honorable thing and pay the bill, who would you even be able to solidly aim the sole of your shoe at?
Lawyers?
What the hell goes through someone's mind to be that vengeful for almost nothing? And for someone else, too.
I worked for a Canada-based company and one of the magazines in the break room was Forces Quebec. It was something about packaging technology and had the articles written in both English and French, as is standard in Canada.
The bilingual nature isn't what caught my eye, though. What caught my eye was the fact that the typeface for the French articles was just plain smaller in order to fit more text in a certain space. It looked to me like the same page real estate was dedicated to each language, but the typeface for the French text was set to a smaller point size with tight kerning and spacing.
No wonder French people talk so fast. They have to!
In fact, when I mentioned the same thing to one of my coworkers, a Mexico native, he wasn't surprised at all. He said the same is true for Spanish as well.
When he told me that, I remembered Cheech Marin's "Born in East L.A." where he sings about being deported to Mexico despite being a US citizen "Next thing I know I'm in a foreign land. People talkin so fast I could not understand."
Reads like a dumbass just trying to sound smart. You know the species. Vague legal threats with a bunch of "therefore" "forthwith" "hereby" "heretofore" and other such words that only _sound_ official.
I never even thought of Mo-town, but you are right. Salt Lake City has been called that.
Idaho would be another good state, other than the biting cold. That didn't faze Micron or HP, though. Actually, Micron has a chip plant in Lehi, Utah.
Another Utah upside: The engineers you have easiest access to are building rockets and missiles for ATK. With the space program getting the shaft, ATK has layoffs quite often and I'm sure there are those who just don't want to deal with it anymore. Most of those live in Brigham City and commute to the remote ATK facility in Promontory.
Once the FrontRunner commuter rail system receives the planned Brigham City extension from Ogden, these people will have a way as far down as Provo that doesn't involve I-15.
Plenty of space, plenty of people, plenty of talent, strong work ethic principles from both the Mormons and the Mexicans, plenty of rail access and roads for transport....
It's called The Beehive State for a very good reason. Build outside of the liquefaction zones and you're golden.
I don't give a shit who you are, you don't bend the principle of the law to get all vindictive on a personal level, especially not like that. This guy is "gonna get raped".
If I acted like that much of a bitch-chump, I'd have to kick my own ass.
Yes, the words are there. How are they applied in today's world, though? Severly distorted, that's how.
No free rides. That "you're saved no matter what you do, as long as you pay up" drivel attracts the guilty who want an easy way out. Man is not fallen. That's just a pathetic excuse and anyone who believes they are evil by nature needs to keep their distance from those of us who firmly believe we should be held accountable for our own actions, otherwise known as karma.
Any omnipotent, omnibenevolent God will honor and respect that or that God is a false, fallible and, therefore, my target.
If you're that afraid of karma, you've got something pretty despicable to hide.
If the truly evil can gain access to Heaven no different from the good people of the world, while casting out those who didn't believe hocus-pocus-at-a-price coming from boisterous idiots grouped with the same book-burning ilk who pester me at my own front door, Heaven can be nothing other than a dangerous Dystopia.
When a man of God who runs a church has a heart attack in the middle of yet another loud rant about gays, atheists, evolution, science, etc, I guarantee he'll take a trip to the cardiac emergency ward of any scientific hospital of the devil over prayer any day. Nevermind the possibility that this heart attack was God's way of telling him to shut the hell up. Faith in action, folks.
On that subject of preaching, spreading "the word" should never be a paid gig. When such things become lucrative from a financial standpoint, they also become corrupted.
"How dare he say that! How dare he not believe what the preacher tol me I beleive the way I believe it. Oh well. I'll have the last laugh! Ha!! That sinner is going to burn in Hell forever."
Evil. Any Christian who has ever even thought along those lines of desiring eternal suffering as the price for something so trivial is pure evil at heart and not forgiving (aka Christlike) in the least. To claim otherwise is deceptive and fraudulent.
Speaking of deceptive and fraudulent, my own aunt tips her waiter/waitress with fake $20 bills. They look real, but when you unfold them all is revealed. "Disappointed? You won't be if you accept Jesus." That's cruel. Nobody works thankless jobs like that unless they have to, meaning tips are extremely important, and to receive something that basically snatches defeat from the jaws of victory like that is damnable.
And then there's that crusader bullshit "You're not acting very Christian there, mister redneck who's beating a gay guy to death." "What wuz that? I don't take kindly tuh you talkin bout mah lord n savior like that. I'm gon beat yer ass, boy."
God lost his voice a long time ago, only to be replaced by marketing budgets, popularity contests, smear campaigns and deception passed down like a long-winded game of Telephone played by self-serving conmen. Else, why would good become evil and vice-versa with Heaven full of criminals and crazies?
The ends never justify the means. Those representing God do so via fear and guilt forced upon people who had no clue they were screwed from the beginning by an omnibenevolent god who supposedly loves us--with a gun to our heads. That is not love. That is evil.
Give until it hurts, then give a little more... because charity is supposed to be housed in big, expensive, ornate buildings while people who have nothing starve or die from diseases that evil, dirty, ungodly science wiped out a long time ago. Because it's God's will that they die so the podium at the front of your church can be made of Teak wood instead of Pine because "it's a house of the lord and must be worthy of his presence". Anyone who can see nothing wrong with this kind of excess can summarily eat shit.
God is Good. Satan is Evil. Playground logic. They got fooled. End of story.
A Christian cheats on their spouse and blames it on man's "fallen" nature and leaves crucifix-equipped Jesus to take the heat for it, making their share of his pain that much worse. And they keep doing it because of this "fallen" bullshit. That's mean.
A moral being just plain doesn't do immoral things because these things are immoral and spares crucifix-equipped Jesus (metaphorical or otherwise) that share of pain.
A moral human being would get Jesus the hell off that cross. I know I would, given the chance. *imagines sniping Romans* Christians are content to keep him there so he can keep bleeding and hurting for trivial garbage. Animals.
When it all comes out in the wash, it's going to be the people who didn't need Jesus who actually took his advice to heart. Every bible thumper who came to my door was nuts. Serving "Jayzus" by pestering me with Hell talk because of their own guilt over something of varying severity.
I'm not having it. There's no such thing as a free lunch. Satan is supposed to personify deception. The ultimate deception would be that of convincing idiots that they can do whatever they want and get away with it just by leaning on Jesus--only to spring the trap later on. That's a clever filter as I'm sure it would keep murderers who repent just before lethal injections, child molesters, RIAA attorneys and hypocrite televangelists like Swaggart out of Heaven, else, why would you want to be there?
It's going to be the unconquered, the ones who didn't use Jesus as a human shield, who truly save your ass--assuming you're worth saving.
Eerie parallel there. A friend was in the same situation at a party (ladder broke, so did his leg. Got fired as coverup.) Thumpers show up to gab about Christ and don't even offer him help. "I'll be praying for you.", etc. "Just remember Jesus is with you." and various Bible quotes spoken over the music of the band he came to see made me feel like I had just eaten a plague rat. The power of common decency compelled me. And after a "God will provide." coming on the heels of two dozen of these people doing zilch and wasting his night, I stood up with a "Yes, I will." and handed my buddy a couple Benjamins I got for a server install earlier that day.
While I could have used the money, he needed it more than I did and it was worth every penny just for the irony of such actions coming from an unbaptised sinner like me when I'm supposed to be evil by nature, according to their book. I wasn't the only one offering actual help, though. Being in Utah, there are quite a few LDS folks around and they actually help in tangible ways. I don't go for organized religion in general, but anyone willing to roll up their sleeves and do actual constructive work is okay in my book. His lawn was mowed, groceries supplied for free, etc. The world needs more people who lead by example like that instead of shoving beliefs down your throat.
The same guy with the broken leg recovered and now serves as a Paramedic after having his schooling provided at steep discount through connections. When he shows up to save your life, you'll be glad to see medical gear instead of prayer hands. He didn't convert to the LDS faith, and made it clear he never will, but he did play a part in saving the lives of quite a few members and still does.
I don't understand how direct, constructive, effective action can be perceived as evil while lazy inaction is revered as godly. Something got screwed up.
"Windows XP had too much staying power. Fifty percent parket share after ten years is too much." "That's a good thing, sir. It made us a boatload of money." "Yes, but only once."
It's nice being able to go to a secondhand store or a university dumpster sale and pick up an XP Pro license for $5 with a free computer.
Scary you can build a supercomputer from PS3s and immediately have the system bricked without notice. True, if it were doing anything important it would be built from different stuff, but consider this: cellphones and a bunch of other devices made in China update firmware automatically. If China had enemies, they have a potential backdoor killswitch to disable these devices. Clever.
So why can't we start making things like that? (I don't care where you are. The same strategy applies and would rock.)
Reminds me of video in Windows 3.1. If it didn't crash every half-second, you were treated to 96x72px moving postage stamps of the moon landing and other stuff that actually made a VHS tape look great in comparison.
I remember Esquire. Suit: "We encourage hacking of the displays!" Hacker: "Well... I made a clock out of it... but that's all and it takes a training seminar to learn to read it."
This isn't going to be useless at all... until the suits realize they can save half a penny by shrinking the circuit board to get rid of all those trivial externally-accessible contacts, sealing the ASIC into an epoxy blob to save the expense of IC packaging and switching to PROM to spare the expense of Flash memory.
With the savings, they can afford louder speakers and larger batteries!
Sure, the whole things can no longer be recycled and Mother Nature showed up in person to slash her wrists, but it means another round of gold-plated Bentleysfor the Board of Directors so who gives a shit, right?
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If we suddenly, I dunno, switched back to natural law for a day or two and decided to punish the frivolous bastards who are responsible for these outrageous numbers that can truly ruin people who would dare try to do the honorable thing and pay the bill, who would you even be able to solidly aim the sole of your shoe at?
Lawyers?
What the hell goes through someone's mind to be that vengeful for almost nothing? And for someone else, too.
*ringring* It's called hyperbole.
You must be a blast to hang out with.
Or SCROTUM: Supreme Crusading Retards Of The Unintelligent Masses
Like "hast" versus "hasst"
I hadn't even thought of German. Looking at the literal translations of Rammstein lyrics, you're right.
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I worked for a Canada-based company and one of the magazines in the break room was Forces Quebec. It was something about packaging technology and had the articles written in both English and French, as is standard in Canada.
The bilingual nature isn't what caught my eye, though. What caught my eye was the fact that the typeface for the French articles was just plain smaller in order to fit more text in a certain space. It looked to me like the same page real estate was dedicated to each language, but the typeface for the French text was set to a smaller point size with tight kerning and spacing.
No wonder French people talk so fast. They have to!
In fact, when I mentioned the same thing to one of my coworkers, a Mexico native, he wasn't surprised at all. He said the same is true for Spanish as well.
When he told me that, I remembered Cheech Marin's "Born in East L.A." where he sings about being deported to Mexico despite being a US citizen "Next thing I know I'm in a foreign land. People talkin so fast I could not understand."
Classic! Why do my mod points always expire the day before I find something to use them on?
Shit! I just lost The Game.
FFFFFFFUUUUUU--
Reads like a dumbass just trying to sound smart. You know the species. Vague legal threats with a bunch of "therefore" "forthwith" "hereby" "heretofore" and other such words that only _sound_ official.
I never even thought of Mo-town, but you are right. Salt Lake City has been called that.
Idaho would be another good state, other than the biting cold. That didn't faze Micron or HP, though. Actually, Micron has a chip plant in Lehi, Utah.
Another Utah upside: The engineers you have easiest access to are building rockets and missiles for ATK. With the space program getting the shaft, ATK has layoffs quite often and I'm sure there are those who just don't want to deal with it anymore. Most of those live in Brigham City and commute to the remote ATK facility in Promontory.
Once the FrontRunner commuter rail system receives the planned Brigham City extension from Ogden, these people will have a way as far down as Provo that doesn't involve I-15.
It's like a snake ready to strike.
Plenty of space, plenty of people, plenty of talent, strong work ethic principles from both the Mormons and the Mexicans, plenty of rail access and roads for transport....
It's called The Beehive State for a very good reason. Build outside of the liquefaction zones and you're golden.
Sincerely,
Reality
I don't give a shit who you are, you don't bend the principle of the law to get all vindictive on a personal level, especially not like that. This guy is "gonna get raped".
If I acted like that much of a bitch-chump, I'd have to kick my own ass.
It's not defamation of character when it's true.
Yes, the words are there. How are they applied in today's world, though? Severly distorted, that's how.
No free rides. That "you're saved no matter what you do, as long as you pay up" drivel attracts the guilty who want an easy way out. Man is not fallen. That's just a pathetic excuse and anyone who believes they are evil by nature needs to keep their distance from those of us who firmly believe we should be held accountable for our own actions, otherwise known as karma.
Any omnipotent, omnibenevolent God will honor and respect that or that God is a false, fallible and, therefore, my target.
If you're that afraid of karma, you've got something pretty despicable to hide.
If the truly evil can gain access to Heaven no different from the good people of the world, while casting out those who didn't believe hocus-pocus-at-a-price coming from boisterous idiots grouped with the same book-burning ilk who pester me at my own front door, Heaven can be nothing other than a dangerous Dystopia.
When a man of God who runs a church has a heart attack in the middle of yet another loud rant about gays, atheists, evolution, science, etc, I guarantee he'll take a trip to the cardiac emergency ward of any scientific hospital of the devil over prayer any day. Nevermind the possibility that this heart attack was God's way of telling him to shut the hell up. Faith in action, folks.
On that subject of preaching, spreading "the word" should never be a paid gig. When such things become lucrative from a financial standpoint, they also become corrupted.
"How dare he say that! How dare he not believe what the preacher tol me I beleive the way I believe it. Oh well. I'll have the last laugh! Ha!! That sinner is going to burn in Hell forever."
Evil. Any Christian who has ever even thought along those lines of desiring eternal suffering as the price for something so trivial is pure evil at heart and not forgiving (aka Christlike) in the least. To claim otherwise is deceptive and fraudulent.
Speaking of deceptive and fraudulent, my own aunt tips her waiter/waitress with fake $20 bills. They look real, but when you unfold them all is revealed. "Disappointed? You won't be if you accept Jesus." That's cruel. Nobody works thankless jobs like that unless they have to, meaning tips are extremely important, and to receive something that basically snatches defeat from the jaws of victory like that is damnable.
And then there's that crusader bullshit "You're not acting very Christian there, mister redneck who's beating a gay guy to death." "What wuz that? I don't take kindly tuh you talkin bout mah lord n savior like that. I'm gon beat yer ass, boy."
God lost his voice a long time ago, only to be replaced by marketing budgets, popularity contests, smear campaigns and deception passed down like a long-winded game of Telephone played by self-serving conmen. Else, why would good become evil and vice-versa with Heaven full of criminals and crazies?
The ends never justify the means. Those representing God do so via fear and guilt forced upon people who had no clue they were screwed from the beginning by an omnibenevolent god who supposedly loves us--with a gun to our heads. That is not love. That is evil.
Give until it hurts, then give a little more... because charity is supposed to be housed in big, expensive, ornate buildings while people who have nothing starve or die from diseases that evil, dirty, ungodly science wiped out a long time ago. Because it's God's will that they die so the podium at the front of your church can be made of Teak wood instead of Pine because "it's a house of the lord and must be worthy of his presence". Anyone who can see nothing wrong with this kind of excess can summarily eat shit.
God is Good. Satan is Evil. Playground logic. They got fooled. End of story.
Mod this one up, please. The Onion scores a home run once again. This is exactly the type of thing I'm talking about.
Just one example:
A Christian cheats on their spouse and blames it on man's "fallen" nature and leaves crucifix-equipped Jesus to take the heat for it, making their share of his pain that much worse. And they keep doing it because of this "fallen" bullshit. That's mean.
A moral being just plain doesn't do immoral things because these things are immoral and spares crucifix-equipped Jesus (metaphorical or otherwise) that share of pain.
A moral human being would get Jesus the hell off that cross. I know I would, given the chance. *imagines sniping Romans* Christians are content to keep him there so he can keep bleeding and hurting for trivial garbage. Animals.
When it all comes out in the wash, it's going to be the people who didn't need Jesus who actually took his advice to heart. Every bible thumper who came to my door was nuts. Serving "Jayzus" by pestering me with Hell talk because of their own guilt over something of varying severity.
I'm not having it. There's no such thing as a free lunch. Satan is supposed to personify deception. The ultimate deception would be that of convincing idiots that they can do whatever they want and get away with it just by leaning on Jesus--only to spring the trap later on. That's a clever filter as I'm sure it would keep murderers who repent just before lethal injections, child molesters, RIAA attorneys and hypocrite televangelists like Swaggart out of Heaven, else, why would you want to be there?
It's going to be the unconquered, the ones who didn't use Jesus as a human shield, who truly save your ass--assuming you're worth saving.
Eerie parallel there. A friend was in the same situation at a party (ladder broke, so did his leg. Got fired as coverup.) Thumpers show up to gab about Christ and don't even offer him help. "I'll be praying for you.", etc. "Just remember Jesus is with you." and various Bible quotes spoken over the music of the band he came to see made me feel like I had just eaten a plague rat. The power of common decency compelled me. And after a "God will provide." coming on the heels of two dozen of these people doing zilch and wasting his night, I stood up with a "Yes, I will." and handed my buddy a couple Benjamins I got for a server install earlier that day.
While I could have used the money, he needed it more than I did and it was worth every penny just for the irony of such actions coming from an unbaptised sinner like me when I'm supposed to be evil by nature, according to their book. I wasn't the only one offering actual help, though. Being in Utah, there are quite a few LDS folks around and they actually help in tangible ways. I don't go for organized religion in general, but anyone willing to roll up their sleeves and do actual constructive work is okay in my book. His lawn was mowed, groceries supplied for free, etc. The world needs more people who lead by example like that instead of shoving beliefs down your throat.
The same guy with the broken leg recovered and now serves as a Paramedic after having his schooling provided at steep discount through connections. When he shows up to save your life, you'll be glad to see medical gear instead of prayer hands. He didn't convert to the LDS faith, and made it clear he never will, but he did play a part in saving the lives of quite a few members and still does.
I don't understand how direct, constructive, effective action can be perceived as evil while lazy inaction is revered as godly. Something got screwed up.
That's why they'll have to upgrade. Get more than one of those on a page and you're screwed.
There's also video decoding via GPU, but even that is being implemented at the low end.
"Windows XP had too much staying power. Fifty percent parket share after ten years is too much."
"That's a good thing, sir. It made us a boatload of money."
"Yes, but only once."
It's nice being able to go to a secondhand store or a university dumpster sale and pick up an XP Pro license for $5 with a free computer.
Never gonna give you up... without compensation.
* ...everything but what we originally touted.
Scary you can build a supercomputer from PS3s and immediately have the system bricked without notice. True, if it were doing anything important it would be built from different stuff, but consider this: cellphones and a bunch of other devices made in China update firmware automatically. If China had enemies, they have a potential backdoor killswitch to disable these devices. Clever.
So why can't we start making things like that? (I don't care where you are. The same strategy applies and would rock.)
Reminds me of video in Windows 3.1. If it didn't crash every half-second, you were treated to 96x72px moving postage stamps of the moon landing and other stuff that actually made a VHS tape look great in comparison.
I remember Esquire.
Suit: "We encourage hacking of the displays!"
Hacker: "Well... I made a clock out of it... but that's all and it takes a training seminar to learn to read it."
This isn't going to be useless at all... until the suits realize they can save half a penny by shrinking the circuit board to get rid of all those trivial externally-accessible contacts, sealing the ASIC into an epoxy blob to save the expense of IC packaging and switching to PROM to spare the expense of Flash memory.
With the savings, they can afford louder speakers and larger batteries!
Sure, the whole things can no longer be recycled and Mother Nature showed up in person to slash her wrists, but it means another round of gold-plated Bentleysfor the Board of Directors so who gives a shit, right?
Welcome to Fark.
Golf claps to you, good sir.