if troops were treated with as much respect as 'the customer', they would get experimental shit rammed down their throats, and then told its their duty to die for the glory of some corporation.
dying in the f22 crash did not 'keep america safe'. it did not protect freedom. it did not have to happen.
this is the same fucked up attitude by the managers who think that somehow because of the two shuttle crew losses, it means space is 'inherently dangerous'. well if you ignore your engineers and only care about bullshit like politics and money, yeah, space is incredibly dangerous... its so dangerous that you can continue making exactly the same fuckups for years, without getting punished, even though your decisions cost the lives of people.
if someone is willing to die for their country, it takes a really low bellied sack of shit to believe to take that willingness for granted, and chalk up their death to inevitable accidents, which, upon further investigation, typically prove to have been completely avoidable, if it wasnt for some fucked up shitbag pencil pushing ass lick managment douchebag who will never get any punishment or reprimand for his negligence and stupidity.
what if the building just did burn down overnight? what about the night crew? are they ok? what happened to them? i need to call jimmy. jimmy, whats his fucking number? i had it here, i sweartogod i had it. its in my book, that.. no that other one. the black one. with the pen sticking out of it? what pen? shit... i err... nevermind i used that pen to write the rent check.
look, jimmy's last name was watson. how many jimmy watsons can there be in this city? i'll look him up on facebook.
jimmy... jimmy says hes ok. what about alice? what about tayla? what about aronce?
man. burned up. thats fucked up. i wonder if it was arson? i mean, what kind of nutjob would burn down an office building? why not burn down something meaningful, like i dont know, a drug dealers mansion or a corrupt congressman's ferrari.
whats the point of burning down my cubicle? my little cubicle, with my little santa claus doll, and my little.. well.. what about judy? she had a whole manger scene in there that her kids made.
well i guess you are right, it is only just stuff after all. at least we are all safe.. i mean, except what about the night watchman? steve? you know steve right? huge fan of death metal. he lent me all this swedish goth core stuff on his ipod, it was incredible.
man. burned down. i cant believe it. i dont think ill even go there... i just couldnt stand to see it all in ashes. i just want to remember it like it was.
we already know that big passenger cabins, when situated on rail systems, do not veer off into playgrounds or farmers markets and kill people.
we already made the decision to abandon those systems in favor of the deadly automobile, which kills 30,000 people a year.
now, you want to convince me that Google's "driver less car" is so wonderful because, "think of the children". I did think of the children. big industry, big oil, big auto, and corrupt governments decided to say "fuck the children", abandoned public transit, and went with the mass-car culture we have, on purpose, deliberately, to make money.
so you want me to trust google, another huge, faceless corporation, whose only duty is to its shareholders, to make them a profit. and you expect me to believe that they are doing this 'for the children'? if we cared about the children, we have solutions already, and we simply chose not to spend money on them, because it wasnt profitable enough for hedge funds and investment bankers.
i will believe google cares about 'the children' when it does something about e-waste farms in china, child laborers in the mines in africa, etc etc etc.
not when it makes 'driverless cars' to appease some people who spent too much time watching "beyond 2000" when they were kids.
if you were being logical, you would say "i trust trains and subways more than the automobile-highway system. we should get rid of car subsidies and start building trains and bicycle paths everywhere"
the idea that a bunch of automatically piloted vehicles is somehow a better solution to city transport than mass-transit, it boggles my mind.
real people do not have money to maintain their cars properly. things are going to break. there are not going to be 'system administrators' to fix all the glitches that come up when cars start breaking down after a few years.
there will be problems. do i know which problems? no, but i know the main problem.
arrogance amongst revolutionaries. it is historically a pattern of the human species. declaring that nothing could go wrong is usually a precursor to a lot of things going wrong. not because the situation was unpredictable, but because human beings in an arrogant mindset tend to make a lot of mistakes, be reckless, and try to cover their asses when things go wrong.
but successful engineering is the anti-thesis of arrogance. nobody worth his salt is going to say 'what could go wrong'? they are going to have a list of 500 things that could go wrong, and all the ways they have tried to counter-act those wrong things happening.
other than your car being out of commission for several days, and untold problems being encountered due to the incompatabilities between the old water pump and the new water pump. but whatever.
in the fantasy land of free software, you can replace word with openoffice, exchange with ????, and it wont cost anyone anything!
he had a lot of mental tricks to do it too. he convinced HIMSELF that he wasn't lying, and then he was able to tell the interviewer he wasn't lying without breaking a sweat.
id call his argument structure something like 'post modernism' crossed with lawyer-speak. i dont remember the details but it was something like this:
say you steal 50 grand. you give it to your wife. she buys you a fancy car.
also, it just so happens her parents are rich.
the interviewer asks you 'where did the money come from for the car', 'my wife. her parents are very rich.'.
did you lie? technically, no. you got the money from your wife. and her parents are rich.
tell yourself that over and over, and maybe you will eventually believe it.
now go to the polygraph, you dont even break a sweat.
on shareholderdot.com, investors are furious that sprint has foregone such a significiant exploitation of revenue stream. after all, why else does sprint exist, if not to provide them with profit?
i mean, there are just so many clones! who knows what bus you use, is it ISA? EISA? PCI? what kind of memory does it use, EMS or XMS? which version of DOS do you want, 4 or 5? what about Windows -- windows 3 or WFW?
there are just too many choices, too many options. the X86 based PC platform is dead. and so is the x86 processor.
this is 1986 for crying out loud. people want stuff that is easy to use. not junk that you have to fiddle around with.
before credit default swaps grew to dozens-of-trillions of dollars business?
before Commodity Index Funds?
before the stock exchanges and commodities exchanges got rid of their open outcry trading pits and went electronic?
before JP Morgan bought Bear Stearns (with a Fed loan)?
before JP Morgan got bailed out by taxpayers?
no offense dude... but what on earth does 1999 have to do with 2011?
So JP Morgan can calculate VaR faster. so what? they didnt calculate it fast enough in 2008 - they took that big fat payout like everyone else, they were up to the arms in CDOs and subprime like everyone else, they had their fingers in every pie. They arent "earning" anything, they are "stealing" it from the taxpayer, with an enforced monopoly based on corruption in the federal government. JP Morgan should not exist.
I do not buy your thing about spreadsheets, considering how CDOs were often calculated by people called 'F9 monkeys'. and one CDO deal could be worth a billion dollars.
nobody actually cares what 'the numbers' are, or if they actually mean anything. but you have to make them.
you might ask yourself - isn't this a huge waste of time? isn't it completely counter productive? doesn't it actually decrease efficiency? aren't the metrics measuring completely the wrong thing? as the slashdot story the other day said, aren't bad metrics actually worse than no metrics, because they cause people to do inane, wasteful things to make their numbers?
well, your problem is that you are asking yourself. in a corporate environment, do not ask. just do.
just make the numbers.
hopefully, if you get good enough at 'making your numbers', you will have time left over to actually do some work.
2. but what about the theory of capitalism, the free market, efficiency, etc?
its all bullshit. just like the theory of communism was bullshit. what statistics and 'numbers' were reported to the government were just flat out garbage. people somehow managed to make the system work through personal relationships and working-around the assholse in charge. but most of the theories it was built on have no resemblance to reality. think about it - if efficiency really made for the best corporation, why would you be spending 4 hours a week filling out meaningless statistical performance reports that nobody will ever read, let alone understand?
the only difference between the soviet union and 'the west' is that 'the west' still hasnt collapsed yet.
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if troops were treated with as much respect as 'the customer', they would get experimental shit rammed down their throats, and then told its their duty to die for the glory of some corporation.
dying in the f22 crash did not 'keep america safe'. it did not protect freedom. it did not have to happen.
this is the same fucked up attitude by the managers who think that somehow because of the two shuttle crew losses, it means space is 'inherently dangerous'. well if you ignore your engineers and only care about bullshit like politics and money, yeah, space is incredibly dangerous... its so dangerous that you can continue making exactly the same fuckups for years, without getting punished, even though your decisions cost the lives of people.
if someone is willing to die for their country, it takes a really low bellied sack of shit to believe to take that willingness for granted, and chalk up their death to inevitable accidents, which, upon further investigation, typically prove to have been completely avoidable, if it wasnt for some fucked up shitbag pencil pushing ass lick managment douchebag who will never get any punishment or reprimand for his negligence and stupidity.
to gather the gorgon rays from the oceanus spectre of alpha quad seven.
dont tell me youve never heard of gorgon rays. why, its simple as old cat man!
imagine a conical bath.
what if the building just did burn down overnight? what about the night crew? are they ok? what happened to them? i need to call jimmy. jimmy, whats his fucking number? i had it here, i sweartogod i had it. its in my book, that .. no that other one. the black one. with the pen sticking out of it? what pen? shit... i err... nevermind i used that pen to write the rent check.
look, jimmy's last name was watson. how many jimmy watsons can there be in this city? i'll look him up on facebook.
jimmy... jimmy says hes ok. what about alice? what about tayla? what about aronce?
man. burned up. thats fucked up. i wonder if it was arson? i mean, what kind of nutjob would burn down an office building? why not burn down something meaningful, like i dont know, a drug dealers mansion or a corrupt congressman's ferrari.
whats the point of burning down my cubicle? my little cubicle, with my little santa claus doll, and my little.. well.. what about judy? she had a whole manger scene in there that her kids made.
well i guess you are right, it is only just stuff after all. at least we are all safe.. i mean, except what about the night watchman? steve? you know steve right? huge fan of death metal. he lent me all this swedish goth core stuff on his ipod, it was incredible.
man. burned down. i cant believe it. i dont think ill even go there... i just couldnt stand to see it all in ashes. i just want to remember it like it was.
the great wall of china commit suicide, because he felt he had offended nature by attempting to impose human folly on it?
we already know that big passenger cabins, when situated on rail systems, do not veer off into playgrounds or farmers markets and kill people.
we already made the decision to abandon those systems in favor of the deadly automobile, which kills 30,000 people a year.
now, you want to convince me that Google's "driver less car" is so wonderful because, "think of the children". I did think of the children. big industry, big oil, big auto, and corrupt governments decided to say "fuck the children", abandoned public transit, and went with the mass-car culture we have, on purpose, deliberately, to make money.
so you want me to trust google, another huge, faceless corporation, whose only duty is to its shareholders, to make them a profit. and you expect me to believe that they are doing this 'for the children'? if we cared about the children, we have solutions already, and we simply chose not to spend money on them, because it wasnt profitable enough for hedge funds and investment bankers.
i will believe google cares about 'the children' when it does something about e-waste farms in china, child laborers in the mines in africa, etc etc etc.
not when it makes 'driverless cars' to appease some people who spent too much time watching "beyond 2000" when they were kids.
uhm, a few days in a row last year.
if you were being logical, you would say "i trust trains and subways more than the automobile-highway system. we should get rid of car subsidies and start building trains and bicycle paths everywhere"
the idea that a bunch of automatically piloted vehicles is somehow a better solution to city transport than mass-transit, it boggles my mind.
real people do not have money to maintain their cars properly. things are going to break. there are not going to be 'system administrators' to fix all the glitches that come up when cars start breaking down after a few years.
there will be problems. do i know which problems? no, but i know the main problem.
arrogance amongst revolutionaries. it is historically a pattern of the human species. declaring that nothing could go wrong is usually a precursor to a lot of things going wrong. not because the situation was unpredictable, but because human beings in an arrogant mindset tend to make a lot of mistakes, be reckless, and try to cover their asses when things go wrong.
but successful engineering is the anti-thesis of arrogance. nobody worth his salt is going to say 'what could go wrong'? they are going to have a list of 500 things that could go wrong, and all the ways they have tried to counter-act those wrong things happening.
in the millions of lines of code in these modern flying death traps.
with a different water pump. problem solved!!!
other than your car being out of commission for several days, and untold problems being encountered due to the incompatabilities between the old water pump and the new water pump. but whatever.
in the fantasy land of free software, you can replace word with openoffice, exchange with ????, and it wont cost anyone anything!
"* "Breaking even" on mem usage I'd like to think @ this point... but it's really for the future I want "all 64-bit" here in programs I use, mostly!"
What does that mean?
stop visiting 'hacker sites', 'torrent sites', 'download sites', and 4chan.
about firefox. and about life in general.
to write complete, coherent sentences that are understandable by other people.
you were trying to prove that Texas is a technology hub, by rattling off various tech companies in Austin.
you didn't mention Dell.
that makes me laugh all kinds of horrible laughs that i am kind of embarassed to be laughing.
he had a lot of mental tricks to do it too. he convinced HIMSELF that he wasn't lying, and then he was able to tell the interviewer he wasn't lying without breaking a sweat.
id call his argument structure something like 'post modernism' crossed with lawyer-speak. i dont remember the details but it was something like this:
say you steal 50 grand. you give it to your wife. she buys you a fancy car.
also, it just so happens her parents are rich.
the interviewer asks you 'where did the money come from for the car', 'my wife. her parents are very rich.'.
did you lie? technically, no. you got the money from your wife. and her parents are rich.
tell yourself that over and over, and maybe you will eventually believe it.
now go to the polygraph, you dont even break a sweat.
cook your food, sell you your clothes, and work in the factories that make those monitors, are all using phones, not fancy computers.
and they out number you 99:1.
on shareholderdot.com, investors are furious that sprint has foregone such a significiant exploitation of revenue stream. after all, why else does sprint exist, if not to provide them with profit?
jsut for mentioning VLB i think you should get a $500 christmas present
IIRC when foreign agents give money to us politicnas, there is a big shit storm
i mean, there are just so many clones! who knows what bus you use, is it ISA? EISA? PCI? what kind of memory does it use, EMS or XMS? which version of DOS do you want, 4 or 5? what about Windows -- windows 3 or WFW?
there are just too many choices, too many options. the X86 based PC platform is dead. and so is the x86 processor.
this is 1986 for crying out loud. people want stuff that is easy to use. not junk that you have to fiddle around with.
dead civilians
shattered families
PTSD
horrific injuries
rape and torture
oh wait, EVERY war is about that. EVERY war is the same. EVERY war profiteer and war-welfare-queen is also the same.
before credit default swaps grew to dozens-of-trillions of dollars business?
before Commodity Index Funds?
before the stock exchanges and commodities exchanges got rid of their open outcry trading pits and went electronic?
before JP Morgan bought Bear Stearns (with a Fed loan)?
before JP Morgan got bailed out by taxpayers?
no offense dude... but what on earth does 1999 have to do with 2011?
So JP Morgan can calculate VaR faster. so what? they didnt calculate it fast enough in 2008 - they took that big fat payout like everyone else, they were up to the arms in CDOs and subprime like everyone else, they had their fingers in every pie. They arent "earning" anything, they are "stealing" it from the taxpayer, with an enforced monopoly based on corruption in the federal government. JP Morgan should not exist.
I do not buy your thing about spreadsheets, considering how CDOs were often calculated by people called 'F9 monkeys'. and one CDO deal could be worth a billion dollars.
where people are constantly calling me asking to fix stuff, then my numbers will be awesome!
god, capitalism is awesome.
1. make your numbers.
nobody actually cares what 'the numbers' are, or if they actually mean anything. but you have to make them.
you might ask yourself - isn't this a huge waste of time? isn't it completely counter productive? doesn't it actually decrease efficiency? aren't the metrics measuring completely the wrong thing? as the slashdot story the other day said, aren't bad metrics actually worse than no metrics, because they cause people to do inane, wasteful things to make their numbers?
well, your problem is that you are asking yourself. in a corporate environment, do not ask. just do.
just make the numbers.
hopefully, if you get good enough at 'making your numbers', you will have time left over to actually do some work.
2. but what about the theory of capitalism, the free market, efficiency, etc?
its all bullshit. just like the theory of communism was bullshit. what statistics and 'numbers' were reported to the government were just flat out garbage. people somehow managed to make the system work through personal relationships and working-around the assholse in charge. but most of the theories it was built on have no resemblance to reality. think about it - if efficiency really made for the best corporation, why would you be spending 4 hours a week filling out meaningless statistical performance reports that nobody will ever read, let alone understand?
the only difference between the soviet union and 'the west' is that 'the west' still hasnt collapsed yet.
are you willing to do what is necessary to form a union?
no, i didnt think so.