Works now. Until people learn that the speed bumps are illusions and they start to ignore them, then the traffic jams are back. And then we get some new ones when people run into a REAL speed bump they thought was an illusion and the car dies in the middle of a road right during the rush hour.
You really want to claim that this is their own doing and not mostly pure luck? For real?
Most of those that "make it big" owe more to random chance and being lucky than any of the "hard work" they put in. Of course it requires you to take an opportunity when it comes, no doubt about this, but saying that people who ain't rich just are lazy bums is one of the worst insults possible when their biggest fault is that they simply never had the lucky opportunity cross their way.
Don't worry, he'd sell you the papes as well. And the special lighter. And the filter. And the designer bag of chips for the munchies. And you better use them now, because the next bag you get from him won't work with those anymore either.
But he doesn't rip you off, he just wants to make sure you get the best experience!
*whine* But when I disallow SkynetLaunchJudgementDay I don't get to see when the dishwasher is done. Do you really want me to go over to the kitchen all the time only to notice that I've wasted a minute of my valuable time walking around like an idiot only to find that it's still running?
Is it in their interest to gather your data? Yes. Is it possible to them to gather your data? Yes. Does it cut into their bottom line because people would avoid their products? No. 9 out of 10 don't give a shit and the 10th (you) notices after he bought it.
Do I need to answer your question or can you find the answer yourself?
But Windows also allows me to install programs that keeps other programs' ability to send stuff out at bay. Care to point me to the phone app that can do that?
First, the Voyagers did actually have a small amount of fuel for attitude adjustment and maneuvers around the planet. You know, the mission they were actually designed for. That fuel is pretty much gone now.
And no, solar power is useless where these probes operate. Solar panels would actually even have been useless as a power source in their actual mission, there is a reason that Juno is the first probe sent to Jupiter (the innermost of the "outer" planets, the gas giants) to use panels instead of RTGs, because only now we not only have managed to create solar panels that can output sensible amounts of energy at that distance to the sun, but we also managed to build electronic devices that can run on power requirements that are 3+ orders of magnitude smaller.
We are after all talking about probes that were launched four decades ago.
And finally, these probes were supposed to take a look at Jupiter and Saturn (and Uranus and Neptune in the case of Voyager2). And that's it. Anything past that is bonus. And these two probes have been handing out way, WAY more information than what could possibly be dreamed of.
Put the label on the pile back there with the others that people tried to slap on me in the past decades. I think there should be some space left between "Pinko commie" and "Fuckin' Nazi".
The question is only, and I'm dead serious here, how long corporations will tolerate it. As long as this only affects people and not the bottom line, they'll simply play along, but should that ever start to cut into profits, you'll see this sink pretty damn quickly.
Ok, to clarify, this has nothing to do with you personally but everything with human generally. In my experience, the average human is a lazy fuck. He'll do what he enjoys doing and the rest you pretty much have to force him to do it if you want him to. That force used to be whips and threats, later some invisible sky daddy that would punish him after he died, but then we fortunately invented money and made people depend on it.
The basic sentiment of human seems to be "can't someone else do it". And we fortunately usually have someone at hand who can.
Funny enough, you can see this best in an activity that is supposedly something we do for fun. Play any MMORPG. What is the most profitable stuff you can do? Easy. The boring stuff. Farming materials, leveling crafters by staring at a screen for hours, playing some ridiculous minigame that gives you certain points or goodies you can't get by actually PLAYING, doing repeatedly mindless "missions" that involve nothing but boredom but hand out some reward in the end and you'll see how people will pay disproportionally high amounts of whatever in-game currency to get it, provided they need them.
Grats, you're their "can't someone else do that" guy.
This is essentially a "civilized" version of the Lord of the Flies. You needn't hunt and kill people to be a savage. Using them to do your work is not really that better. And no, this is not directed at you personally. The English language lacks an impersonal pronoun like the French "on" or the German "man". This is a general human trait. We're great at making others suffer for our own shortcomings.
We live in the world where market value IS actual value, or at least its value for you to make a living off it is directly tied to its market value. A close friend of mine (and very good security researcher) is currently working on his master in prehistory and protohistory (hold the jokes about early computer systems, I'm talking about the stuff where you dig in the ground and search for some sort of prehistoric trash, and then somehow you construct a whole culture out of a few bones and broken pottery). Which is amazing and certainly awesome, but also certainly nothing he'll ever use in his line of work or anything he could actually turn into something that could earn his keep. I'd consider it very important to do more in this area, it is basically where we come from. All of us. I couldn't think of many things that I'd consider more interesting. Alas, who will pay for it?
Whether something is meaningful and important to society as a whole means exactly jack shit when it comes to whether it will land you a job or whether it is something someone is willing to pay you to do it. If you want to study it because you think it's relevant to you and you are interested in it (which is, IMO, the right reason to study anything), awesome! Please do it!
The problem I see here is that quite a few of the people who do study it actually expect the market to bend to their will and create jobs for them, though. And this is where it's going to fail miserably. Because either they will realize that they spent a lot of money on a degree that doesn't offer them any job opportunities or companies will be badgered into hiring this dead weight (provided they don't fuck up the company by some silly demands afterwards, which I would highly doubt either...) and not be competitive to those that don't have to work around it and pay for it too.
The cardinal question is whether the genders are different because they are different, or because we teach boys and girls to behave differently and solve their problems in different ways.
He did not say this is how it should be, he said this is how it is. And yes, this is how it is.
If you want to change it, change the people but don't kill the messenger. Then nobody talks about it anymore, but you still have the same condition at hand. Just because you close your eyes doesn't mean it goes away.
Same problem we always have when someone comes along and wants to create a better society...
Maybe, for a change, we could build the better society before we destroy the one we have now? After all, a better society can easily convince anyone to prefer it, simply by being better.
I mean, what idiot would want to live in an inferior one?
You might also want to tell us what constituted "computer work" back in the 1970s. Allow me to jog your memory: A lot of it was typing shit and punching cards.
Tell me, how many of the staff were actually "engineering"? And how many were glorified typists? And how was the ratio for men and women in either group?
We don't? We do. Maybe we don't really want to, or maybe we don't want to admit it, but we do.
Human is a cunning animal. And probably the only one willing, able and very fond of killing another one of the same species for no other reason than fun. Maybe with the exception of dolphins.
The ultimate goal, it seems, for most is to not have to do anything and find someone they can force to do it for them. And bluntly, I can sympathize. Find me some idiot to do my work, I'll be sitting here playing video games.
This is why communism failed. It will work like a dream as soon as people prefer working to making money.
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Half of the main characters will die.
Just like every season.
Works now. Until people learn that the speed bumps are illusions and they start to ignore them, then the traffic jams are back. And then we get some new ones when people run into a REAL speed bump they thought was an illusion and the car dies in the middle of a road right during the rush hour.
Please don't tell me you think that Gates or Zuckerberg made their money with hard work and intelligence with zero luck required.
Why would I care? If you don't wanna see my dong, what are you doing in my cubicle?
Hey, if you put me in a pen like an animal, don't expect me to stay civilized!
Just outta curiosity, do the Marxists have to succeed to see him swing?
You really want to claim that this is their own doing and not mostly pure luck? For real?
Most of those that "make it big" owe more to random chance and being lucky than any of the "hard work" they put in. Of course it requires you to take an opportunity when it comes, no doubt about this, but saying that people who ain't rich just are lazy bums is one of the worst insults possible when their biggest fault is that they simply never had the lucky opportunity cross their way.
Don't worry, he'd sell you the papes as well. And the special lighter. And the filter. And the designer bag of chips for the munchies. And you better use them now, because the next bag you get from him won't work with those anymore either.
But he doesn't rip you off, he just wants to make sure you get the best experience!
If you're looking older than 13, don't bother trying.
*whine* But when I disallow SkynetLaunchJudgementDay I don't get to see when the dishwasher is done. Do you really want me to go over to the kitchen all the time only to notice that I've wasted a minute of my valuable time walking around like an idiot only to find that it's still running?
Is it in their interest to gather your data? Yes.
Is it possible to them to gather your data? Yes.
Does it cut into their bottom line because people would avoid their products? No. 9 out of 10 don't give a shit and the 10th (you) notices after he bought it.
Do I need to answer your question or can you find the answer yourself?
But Windows also allows me to install programs that keeps other programs' ability to send stuff out at bay. Care to point me to the phone app that can do that?
First, the Voyagers did actually have a small amount of fuel for attitude adjustment and maneuvers around the planet. You know, the mission they were actually designed for. That fuel is pretty much gone now.
And no, solar power is useless where these probes operate. Solar panels would actually even have been useless as a power source in their actual mission, there is a reason that Juno is the first probe sent to Jupiter (the innermost of the "outer" planets, the gas giants) to use panels instead of RTGs, because only now we not only have managed to create solar panels that can output sensible amounts of energy at that distance to the sun, but we also managed to build electronic devices that can run on power requirements that are 3+ orders of magnitude smaller.
We are after all talking about probes that were launched four decades ago.
And finally, these probes were supposed to take a look at Jupiter and Saturn (and Uranus and Neptune in the case of Voyager2). And that's it. Anything past that is bonus. And these two probes have been handing out way, WAY more information than what could possibly be dreamed of.
Put the label on the pile back there with the others that people tried to slap on me in the past decades. I think there should be some space left between "Pinko commie" and "Fuckin' Nazi".
The question is only, and I'm dead serious here, how long corporations will tolerate it. As long as this only affects people and not the bottom line, they'll simply play along, but should that ever start to cut into profits, you'll see this sink pretty damn quickly.
History tells us that such societies don't last long. Even if they outlive the people that remember the better days.
Ok, to clarify, this has nothing to do with you personally but everything with human generally. In my experience, the average human is a lazy fuck. He'll do what he enjoys doing and the rest you pretty much have to force him to do it if you want him to. That force used to be whips and threats, later some invisible sky daddy that would punish him after he died, but then we fortunately invented money and made people depend on it.
The basic sentiment of human seems to be "can't someone else do it". And we fortunately usually have someone at hand who can.
Funny enough, you can see this best in an activity that is supposedly something we do for fun. Play any MMORPG. What is the most profitable stuff you can do? Easy. The boring stuff. Farming materials, leveling crafters by staring at a screen for hours, playing some ridiculous minigame that gives you certain points or goodies you can't get by actually PLAYING, doing repeatedly mindless "missions" that involve nothing but boredom but hand out some reward in the end and you'll see how people will pay disproportionally high amounts of whatever in-game currency to get it, provided they need them.
Grats, you're their "can't someone else do that" guy.
This is essentially a "civilized" version of the Lord of the Flies. You needn't hunt and kill people to be a savage. Using them to do your work is not really that better. And no, this is not directed at you personally. The English language lacks an impersonal pronoun like the French "on" or the German "man". This is a general human trait. We're great at making others suffer for our own shortcomings.
Uh-oh, a policom got modpoints. Stop talking, comrades!
We live in the world where market value IS actual value, or at least its value for you to make a living off it is directly tied to its market value. A close friend of mine (and very good security researcher) is currently working on his master in prehistory and protohistory (hold the jokes about early computer systems, I'm talking about the stuff where you dig in the ground and search for some sort of prehistoric trash, and then somehow you construct a whole culture out of a few bones and broken pottery). Which is amazing and certainly awesome, but also certainly nothing he'll ever use in his line of work or anything he could actually turn into something that could earn his keep. I'd consider it very important to do more in this area, it is basically where we come from. All of us. I couldn't think of many things that I'd consider more interesting. Alas, who will pay for it?
Whether something is meaningful and important to society as a whole means exactly jack shit when it comes to whether it will land you a job or whether it is something someone is willing to pay you to do it. If you want to study it because you think it's relevant to you and you are interested in it (which is, IMO, the right reason to study anything), awesome! Please do it!
The problem I see here is that quite a few of the people who do study it actually expect the market to bend to their will and create jobs for them, though. And this is where it's going to fail miserably. Because either they will realize that they spent a lot of money on a degree that doesn't offer them any job opportunities or companies will be badgered into hiring this dead weight (provided they don't fuck up the company by some silly demands afterwards, which I would highly doubt either...) and not be competitive to those that don't have to work around it and pay for it too.
They at least give you the first one for free to get you hooked.
Whoops!
*sound of zippers*
The cardinal question is whether the genders are different because they are different, or because we teach boys and girls to behave differently and solve their problems in different ways.
Nurture vs. Nature, round 63...
He did not say this is how it should be, he said this is how it is. And yes, this is how it is.
If you want to change it, change the people but don't kill the messenger. Then nobody talks about it anymore, but you still have the same condition at hand. Just because you close your eyes doesn't mean it goes away.
In all fairness, they just weren't big enough yet when DEC bit the dust.
Give them a chance, I know they can fell Google. I do believe in them!
Same problem we always have when someone comes along and wants to create a better society...
Maybe, for a change, we could build the better society before we destroy the one we have now? After all, a better society can easily convince anyone to prefer it, simply by being better.
I mean, what idiot would want to live in an inferior one?
You might also want to tell us what constituted "computer work" back in the 1970s. Allow me to jog your memory: A lot of it was typing shit and punching cards.
Tell me, how many of the staff were actually "engineering"? And how many were glorified typists? And how was the ratio for men and women in either group?
Hint: We don't need typists anymore.
We don't? We do. Maybe we don't really want to, or maybe we don't want to admit it, but we do.
Human is a cunning animal. And probably the only one willing, able and very fond of killing another one of the same species for no other reason than fun. Maybe with the exception of dolphins.
The ultimate goal, it seems, for most is to not have to do anything and find someone they can force to do it for them. And bluntly, I can sympathize. Find me some idiot to do my work, I'll be sitting here playing video games.
This is why communism failed. It will work like a dream as soon as people prefer working to making money.