Thanks to you and the other repliers for the sane advice. I'm a bit overwhelmed by the community outpouring. So I'm reading through everything now, and thinking about practical application. Thanks.
Wow... I never expected cogent, thoughtful and good advice on Slashdot thanks.
Rather than expecting joy from a woman, I've come to simply not expecting joy for any reason really.
Thanks again. It seems these days, I've lost all prospects for happiness or doing anything worthwhile.
I'm an unemployed college graduate, not for lack of trying. I can't believe that my hopelessness is entirely psychogenic.
I mainly wrote my post to get a few like-minded replies, or even to take some punishment from the mob, as long as I can have something to participate with, if only momentarily.
but I got more than I bargained for, and am glad I did.
Exactly this. I was a "social retard" my whole high school career. I was very good at being put in the friendzone whenever I spoke with women in a social way. It was so frustrating to see so many guys just be friendly like I was, and two weeks later they'd be going out with girls who were originally friends. The protocol is always unevenly applied. I'd be friendly, and it would always end there. I tried gentle flirting, standard fare, essentially emulating every approach I'd seen before, and it would never work. I'm not autistic. I'm not disgusting. I eventually gave up. It always seemed that I was just not attractive, or just friend material.
These days, I don't even try anymore. I treat women as asexual most of the time, and thanks to prozac prescribed for depression, it's not too hard (in whichever mixture of senses you'd like to take it)
It just might be bad luck. Get back on the horse and all that. But four years seems unreasonable. I tried the "Being a Dick" technique, it does work. For about a day. And it can't lead to any healthy interaction, or meaningful relationship. Plus being a dick in a specific way is a lot of work, and just not fun for anyone.
Anyone care to sympathize? Spend a very long time considered as if you were never someone who could be related to as fully human?
Remember the explosive residue puffer-sniffers? Their procurement cost tens of millions of dollars. They sat in warehouses for a couple of years, then when they were set up and sanity tested they didn't work very well. When field tested they turned out to give false positives for over 50% of clean subjects, and gave false negatives sometimes as well.
In the end the TSA would have spent less money and had a more effective tool by just flipping a coin as people walked through the metal detectors.
Now there's something built, Just Because We Can!(tm)
It's the world's "most crooked tower" with it's top floor overhanging the bottom floor by more than 100 feet. It's an astonishing building with a design of little practical value, and a lot of wasted space. It's core was built tilted in the opposite direction of the current tilt, then the shell was built and pulled the core straight leaving a huge 80 story tall atrium in the tower. While a gorgeous building, It's one strange customer.
Exactly, Fair is fair. The government doesn't give you a monopoly on the street corner because you were fired from your job. Why should the government give any company a monopoly on an idea just because they spent a lot of money developing it? If conservatives are so damn red in the face about socialism and the welfare state, start with all the goddamn companies that profit off of government granted monopolies on shit that's obvious to people skilled in the art, or already developed by nature, or already has prior art.
Corporate welfare is far more pernicious and expensive to the people of the US than any human entitlement program. Quit letting the government make welfare queens out of big business!
I've read about this too and it makes me literally angry with rage.
Here's an equivalent scenario: Your neighbor backs a truck up to your fence, and tosses fertilizer all over your own garden 10 feet away from the fence. He goes to the city and says that you have his fertilizer all over your yard, and he wants all your crops now. The city says: that sounds fair, and grants him all rights to your garden's crops, plus the city then fines you the cost of his fertilizer.
Dr. Zoidberg: I'll simply put you into a high-velocity centrifuge and centrifugal force will separate the denser king of Trisol out of your body. Fry: Won't that crush my bones!? Dr. Zoidberg: Ahhh, yes the bones... I always forget about the bones!
Also: What was going to be a pleasant afternoon of drugs and surgery has not gone as planned. Well we still have three or four healthy co-workers with PLENTY of spare parts.
Because TOS docs are REALLY long. Like 400 Pages in the unabridged small-print format. And nobody wants to read 400 pages of legalese.......Not even lawyers. That's why they hire paralegals to read 400 pages of nonsense that lets the seller claim rights over your firstborn and have a claim to 2/3rds of your blood if you cancel the service.
I don't think the abuse is why there was regulatory action. In the US, ISPs are as vindictive and abusive to users as in Canada, there just isn't a national monopoly, just a monopoly for any given county/region.
I'd hazard the guess that the reason why Canadians enjoy the benefit of saying FUCK YOU to their ISP is twofold: 1.) Canada isn't caught up in wars on EVERYTHING (eg drugs, the middle class, terror, homosexuals, hispanics) 2.) No matter how you slice it, Bell (I think it likes to go by AT&T nowadays) is the only ISP in the whole country of Canada. Or rather, it's the only real network operator. Every other ISP is buying network access wholesale from it. Which means "switching ISPs" doesn't result in lost business anyway, so why charge stoppage fees when you're buying all bandwidth from the same place no matter who you go through.
I envy you Canadians, with your fully funded universal healthcare, low rates of violent crime and incarceration, reasonably priced public education, and your friendly and moral police. I've been stopped by Canadian Police Officers on multiple occasions just to ask if I need help finding directions. In the US the only time I get stopped is when I "have a tail light out" (smashed with a baton about a second earlier) and that I need to pay a $400 for driving in the middle of the day on a residential street with 2 out of 3 working breaklights.
You might survive the blast. I think it's a given you'll be exposed to lethal or nearly lethal radiation from the Davey Crockett. The fallout too. The Davey Crockett is a suicide bomb in my book.
That person indeed wouldn't be human anymore. After all the surgery and excision of all biological components they would be Posthuman or if they retained any biological part, then they would be Transhuman
According to Wikipedia fluids inside the human body don't boil when depressurized from 1atm to 0atm, why would penis blood boil on Mars, which has a higher atmospheric pressure than a total vacuum? Granted, if one were to expose only his penis to the low pressure (strategically placed airlock and gasket I guess...) of the Martian atmosphere he would have the most insane erection of his life as all his blood would quickly pool there. Most likely it would freeze in a matter of a second or two, depending on season and time of sol, then rocket off as warm blood would still be trying to depressurize out of his body in an icy spray.
On second thought, that'd be an interesting, if horrific way to die.
I was just being reactive and reductionist in response to the obvious flamebait. I should have just modded him down instead. When you have points use em or lose em.
The thing is: I don't care about psoriasis at all. I'm not affected by it, and I don't know of anyone I know personally who has it. I was just offering a counter example to a troll I should have just let starve
Just look at the latest generation of psoriasis drugs. Their lists of severe side effects is a mile long, and to me seem just as bad or possibly even worse than the disease they treat. Do you want your whole immune system knocked out to treat mild to moderate psoriasis. I enjoy not having to constantly worry about pneumonia TB and systemic fungal infections.
Cory Doctorow considers closed source setups unethical because it gives the devs the ability to hide any function they want from the user. If the user can't see what's running, how can they defend themselves from spying, censorship and propaganda? If a user can't be allowed to view and control what runs on his hardware, he can't be sjre he has any other digital rights either regarding his hardware. And that contradicts the very definition of ownership of property
While I do understand the Police Squad reference, I am absolutely sure original joke was in reference to the eponymous phrase of the book: "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman" the story of which I find funnier as a matter of opinion.
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Thanks to you and the other repliers for the sane advice.
I'm a bit overwhelmed by the community outpouring. So I'm reading through everything now, and thinking about practical application. Thanks.
Wow... I never expected cogent, thoughtful and good advice on Slashdot
thanks.
Rather than expecting joy from a woman, I've come to simply not expecting joy for any reason really.
Thanks again. It seems these days, I've lost all prospects for happiness or doing anything worthwhile.
I'm an unemployed college graduate, not for lack of trying. I can't believe that my hopelessness is entirely psychogenic.
I mainly wrote my post to get a few like-minded replies, or even to take some punishment from the mob, as long as I can have something to participate with, if only momentarily.
but I got more than I bargained for, and am glad I did.
Food for thought and a call to action
Exactly this.
I was a "social retard" my whole high school career. I was very good at being put in the friendzone whenever I spoke with women in a social way.
It was so frustrating to see so many guys just be friendly like I was, and two weeks later they'd be going out with girls who were originally friends.
The protocol is always unevenly applied. I'd be friendly, and it would always end there. I tried gentle flirting, standard fare, essentially emulating every approach I'd seen before, and it would never work. I'm not autistic. I'm not disgusting. I eventually gave up. It always seemed that I was just not attractive, or just friend material.
These days, I don't even try anymore. I treat women as asexual most of the time, and thanks to prozac prescribed for depression, it's not too hard (in whichever mixture of senses you'd like to take it)
It just might be bad luck. Get back on the horse and all that. But four years seems unreasonable. I tried the "Being a Dick" technique, it does work. For about a day. And it can't lead to any healthy interaction, or meaningful relationship. Plus being a dick in a specific way is a lot of work, and just not fun for anyone.
Anyone care to sympathize? Spend a very long time considered as if you were never someone who could be related to as fully human?
It's mostly in scanner money.
Remember the explosive residue puffer-sniffers? Their procurement cost tens of millions of dollars. They sat in warehouses for a couple of years, then when they were set up and sanity tested they didn't work very well. When field tested they turned out to give false positives for over 50% of clean subjects, and gave false negatives sometimes as well.
In the end the TSA would have spent less money and had a more effective tool by just flipping a coin as people walked through the metal detectors.
Cthulu 2012: Why Settle For A Lesser Evil?
Sorry, not 80 story tall atrium, 80 Foot tall atrium
Have you heard of The Capital Gate in Abu Dhabi?
Now there's something built, Just Because We Can!(tm)
It's the world's "most crooked tower" with it's top floor overhanging the bottom floor by more than 100 feet. It's an astonishing building with a design of little practical value, and a lot of wasted space. It's core was built tilted in the opposite direction of the current tilt, then the shell was built and pulled the core straight leaving a huge 80 story tall atrium in the tower. While a gorgeous building, It's one strange customer.
This struck me between the eyes: Exactly the same reasoning as the fucking pedophile rapists who run the catholic church.
Exactly, Fair is fair. The government doesn't give you a monopoly on the street corner because you were fired from your job. Why should the government give any company a monopoly on an idea just because they spent a lot of money developing it? If conservatives are so damn red in the face about socialism and the welfare state, start with all the goddamn companies that profit off of government granted monopolies on shit that's obvious to people skilled in the art, or already developed by nature, or already has prior art.
Corporate welfare is far more pernicious and expensive to the people of the US than any human entitlement program. Quit letting the government make welfare queens out of big business!
I've read about this too and it makes me literally angry with rage.
Here's an equivalent scenario:
Your neighbor backs a truck up to your fence, and tosses fertilizer all over your own garden 10 feet away from the fence. He goes to the city and says that you have his fertilizer all over your yard, and he wants all your crops now. The city says: that sounds fair, and grants him all rights to your garden's crops, plus the city then fines you the cost of his fertilizer.
Dr. Zoidberg: I'll simply put you into a high-velocity centrifuge and centrifugal force will separate the denser king of Trisol out of your body.
Fry: Won't that crush my bones!?
Dr. Zoidberg: Ahhh, yes the bones... I always forget about the bones!
Also:
What was going to be a pleasant afternoon of drugs and surgery has not gone as planned. Well we still have three or four healthy co-workers with PLENTY of spare parts.
The X-Rays hit us the same time the light did. BECAUSE X-RAYS ARE LIGHT MORON!
I dunno man. The evil genius part of me wants to build an electronium hat powered by sunspots in order to emit cognitive radiation.
Just curious:
What is it that you do that requires a great sense of smell?
I've always had a good nose, and I've wondered about jobs that would take advantage of that.
Because TOS docs are REALLY long. Like 400 Pages in the unabridged small-print format. And nobody wants to read 400 pages of legalese.......Not even lawyers. That's why they hire paralegals to read 400 pages of nonsense that lets the seller claim rights over your firstborn and have a claim to 2/3rds of your blood if you cancel the service.
I don't think the abuse is why there was regulatory action. In the US, ISPs are as vindictive and abusive to users as in Canada, there just isn't a national monopoly, just a monopoly for any given county/region.
I'd hazard the guess that the reason why Canadians enjoy the benefit of saying FUCK YOU to their ISP is twofold:
1.) Canada isn't caught up in wars on EVERYTHING (eg drugs, the middle class, terror, homosexuals, hispanics)
2.) No matter how you slice it, Bell (I think it likes to go by AT&T nowadays) is the only ISP in the whole country of Canada. Or rather, it's the only real network operator. Every other ISP is buying network access wholesale from it. Which means "switching ISPs" doesn't result in lost business anyway, so why charge stoppage fees when you're buying all bandwidth from the same place no matter who you go through.
I envy you Canadians, with your fully funded universal healthcare, low rates of violent crime and incarceration, reasonably priced public education, and your friendly and moral police. I've been stopped by Canadian Police Officers on multiple occasions just to ask if I need help finding directions. In the US the only time I get stopped is when I "have a tail light out" (smashed with a baton about a second earlier) and that I need to pay a $400 for driving in the middle of the day on a residential street with 2 out of 3 working breaklights.
You might survive the blast. I think it's a given you'll be exposed to lethal or nearly lethal radiation from the Davey Crockett. The fallout too. The Davey Crockett is a suicide bomb in my book.
That person indeed wouldn't be human anymore. After all the surgery and excision of all biological components they would be Posthuman or if they retained any biological part, then they would be Transhuman
According to Wikipedia fluids inside the human body don't boil when depressurized from 1atm to 0atm, why would penis blood boil on Mars, which has a higher atmospheric pressure than a total vacuum? Granted, if one were to expose only his penis to the low pressure (strategically placed airlock and gasket I guess...) of the Martian atmosphere he would have the most insane erection of his life as all his blood would quickly pool there. Most likely it would freeze in a matter of a second or two, depending on season and time of sol, then rocket off as warm blood would still be trying to depressurize out of his body in an icy spray.
On second thought, that'd be an interesting, if horrific way to die.
I was just being reactive and reductionist in response to the obvious flamebait. I should have just modded him down instead.
When you have points use em or lose em.
The thing is: I don't care about psoriasis at all. I'm not affected by it, and I don't know of anyone I know personally who has it. I was just offering a counter example to a troll I should have just let starve
Just look at the latest generation of psoriasis drugs. Their lists of severe side effects is a mile long, and to me seem just as bad or possibly even worse than the disease they treat. Do you want your whole immune system knocked out to treat mild to moderate psoriasis. I enjoy not having to constantly worry about pneumonia TB and systemic fungal infections.
Cory Doctorow considers closed source setups unethical because it gives the devs the ability to hide any function they want from the user. If the user can't see what's running, how can they defend themselves from spying, censorship and propaganda? If a user can't be allowed to view and control what runs on his hardware, he can't be sjre he has any other digital rights either regarding his hardware. And that contradicts the very definition of ownership of property
While I do understand the Police Squad reference, I am absolutely sure original joke was in reference to the eponymous phrase of the book: "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman" the story of which I find funnier as a matter of opinion.
Taste the WHOOSH