[barely-related-but-"fun"-story] I used to work for this startup where SOMA meets Protero Hill in San Francisco. FOr those of you that dont know, this is a Mecca for homeless people. They can hide from the elements underneath hte elevated highways there.
Anyway, We were in this ratty little office and the CEO had to walk down to the local office depot for some shit or other and he sees these two young homeless guys building a PC outside of their tents.
In the middle of the damn sidewalk. Seriously.
Apparently, they had moved out to SF for the boom, which proceed to immediately bust on them before they could really get on their feet after the move. Causing them to have no money and no place to stay. THey movend into thrie tents on the street, And proceeded to start scrounging parts out of the trash (used to be I couldnt walk more than four blocks without tripping over a semi-aged soem newly overpaid kid couldnt be bothered to do anything with), built them into machines, and would sell the things on eBay using free access at the public library.
honestly.
Of course, these guys were nowhere near as fun as "Jeebus." A crazy homeless guy that would sweep the sidewalks obsessively around our entire building. He looked like Jesus, but Asian. [/barely-related-but-"fun"-story]
Can you imagine the tediousness of getting people to sit on the jury of this thing?
Prosecutor: Do you own a computer? Prospective Juror: Yes. Prosecutor: Do you use electronic mail? Prospective Juror: Yes Prosecutor: Your Honor, I need to disqualify this juror on the grounds of a predetermined prejudice against electronic mail marketing companies.
Seriously, in San Francisco they're going to have to get a jury of 12 homeless people to find people with no computer experience and who dont hate spammers to their core.
...is a nicely finished hunk of wood about 3' x 6' in size. Those "desks" you can get at ikea that are nothing more than semi-nice tables are good for holding a monitor, a phone, and a ton of other junk.
Really, hutches are ususally unusable unstable junk, not to mention how they eat up space.
its not complicated, its a desk.
And I'd STILL buy that space ghost desk if I have an extra $40K, 'cause - let's face it - its friggin cool.
We used these when I was living in San Francisco and it was pretty much stupid proof. The ballots had the issued to be voted on printed RIGHT NEXT to the "voting mechanism." (Our voting precinct had stacks of these things in about 6 different languages, as an added bonus.) You read the refferendum, you see a litlte gap to fill in for "YES" and a litlte gap to fill in for "NO."
They even give you a pen to fill out the votes with, so you were using the correct kind of pen.
You do this n times, you've voted on everything, you give your big long peices of paper and she runs them through the machine. The machine even tells you if you goofed, if I remember correctly. The best part of this system is that you get a nive little receipt-stub with an ID number that shows you voted. The number is in your hand, and isnt tied to your name anywhere on the voting roster.
I really think this is the best method, all things being equal. Everyone has a receipt of their voting choices, and what there were voting on was right there next to "their votes."
Now if we could just get the damn lawmakers to write the props in plaing english we'd be golden. THATS why people dont bother to vote.
...that nifty "Block Images from this server" joy in Mozilla? Is this in MSIE now? You think they'll add it and say it came from their hardworking R&D department?
Ever since I switched to Mozilla, I've totally forgotten those popup ads were even out there.
Maybe their next amazing development will be to build in a nice Bayesian (sp?) filtering system like Mozilla Mail has into Outlook.
Thats something to be decided by the person gettign a hole drilled in their skull, yes?
Anyone rememebr that blind guy that can now "see" in very low resolution thanks to a couple of cameras mounted on glasses, a wearable computer, and a bunch of leads runing into his brain? (I looked for the article in Wired, where I first read about it, but was foiled by my hangover) HE seemed to think it was worth the risk, even though calibration the thing gave him a really nasty seisure once.
Some people will want this, some wont. I'll be happy to wait until its a proven technology before I get a datajack implanted behing my ear.
Than again, I'm still trying to get ahead ehough to afford to get my eyes lasered.
Parasite? Talk about the pot calling the kettle black. You expect to go online and use everything for free without paying in return for view an ad or two, and you're complaining that THEY are the parasites? In case you haven't noticed, the advertisers are PAYING for your free experience.
Uh, not really, they're not.
The people that put the content up there are paying for us to see their shit for free. We didn't make them put their information on a server that they had to buy with an internet connection they have to pay for.
I have yet to hear on the news about someone being strongarmed into starting a website buy a bunch of geeks that must have 24 hour access to what that person has to say.
The fact that they're trying to make a buck off it with advertising is not our problem. Maybe they should sell something of value to people that like their content.
When free sites go down because they're to expensive to run, oh frikkin' well. Yeah, maybe I'm a little sad because I liked the site, but after poking around for a few minutes I'll find something else to get my info online.
~ALSO~
Last I was paying attention, our buddies in yerrip ARE paying through the nose for internet access if they have to dail in.
That local call shit is expensive in some areas over there. The world isnt the USA.
Imagine a little puppy running around the page, occasionally playing or going after your cursor. You click it and it takes you to an online pet store
Where you look up the office address of the pet store.
Where you go to find the marketing fucker who commissioned the little puppy to chase your cursor around.
Whom you then proceed to bash directly in the nose repeatedly as hard as you can for making a little fucking puppy run around your screen while you were trying to read somehting.
Marketing Assholes. If they'd just go back to figuring out what people like instead of trying to tell them what to like, we'd all be a lot less motherfucking annoyed.
Man, I was in such a good mood 'till read that fucking puppy thing, now I *must* go to the local bar and drink myself into submission.
thanks a motherfucking lot.
[ Thats right. I typed out the whole word "motherfucking." Take your horror back behind your firewall, you puppy-clicking shitheads.
Yes you know who you are.
You're the same assholes that send me emails with 60K background images of bouncy smileyfaces, and the "curious" shits that buy from spammers "just to see..."
the point iwas trying to bring up was that its not just computers to be worried about.
THEN i went off on the doom and gloom tangent.
I do agree with you, though. Screw preparing for the worst and let yourself experience the possiblity getting randomly bumped off. Keeps life a lot easier and more interesting.
The scene where the guys set off an EMP from the back of their van and the chaos that ensued from it?
A big enough EMP blast could theoretically take out a LOT of electronic gizmos. Even if the area of effect was only a few blocks, in the middle of manhattan or chicago, this could cause some major headaches.
Yes, many places would get their sites back up quickly, but what about pacemakers? Get 20 or 50 people to all have their hearts stop workikng at once hear the same hospital and suddenly you have a major medical emergency as they try to handle ALL of the cases.
But wait? How do the people get there when all the autos are munged up because THEIR electronic components just had a stroke? Lotsa two ton blocks of metal just sitting there, neding a lot of pushing.
TVs and radios? oops. Communications are now down. That PBX system that runs the phones? Fried like an egg. Cell phones? right. find a working tower, sparky.
Dont even start to think of the implications of setting one of these things off at O'Hare at 8 o'clock in the morning would have, not to mention the poor fuckers that are just geting off the ground when the onboard computers in their 757 all pop at once.
"Hey, did you hear thaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAHJESUSFUCKINGCHRIST!"
Big problems. BIG.
Match that with the fact that CNN will fly in an unaffected helicompter in and suddenly the world konws about it. They all start calling into an area that is blacked out to check up on their loved ones. We all konw how the unwashed masses will react to this - Panic, Panic! and PANIC!
Lets not forget that all our console games would flip out, removing any way of passing the time while this all sorts itself out... assuming we have electricity.
it's about more than computers, folks. Remember the fuckitued that ensued when new england lost power? THat was just loss of power, they didnt have to worry about everythign being just plain BROKEN.
...to welcome our newly autonomous Robot Masters in their next step in the evolution to reigning supreme on this planet.
The Matrix and The The Terminator series are just stories for entertainment, my Metal Lords, we do not see it them an inspiration or blueprints for self preservation.
I apologize for my fellow fleshlings' urge to make mundane use of you to create maps for our bloodsport. They know not their folly. I beg to to have mercy on them in your Brutally Controlled Future Earth.
I can't agree more with your post. Atkins is a great way to mess up your system, just like all diets where the goal is to lose weight, not eat healthy.
Even though this is something we should all know: live moderately.
One thing you forgot to mantion about cardio workouts: I've put together some nice little solutions to development problems in my head while in that state of mental blankity you get in the middle of a good hard run/bike/stairclimb/walk/whatever.
Plus, with a few good sessions a week, your ass will start to look FANTASTIC.
This guy, reminds me a lot of Frank Chu. Frank is this crazy guy who walks around downtown San Francisco carrying a picket sign that says some bizzare gibebrish about politics and "The 12 Galaxies."
He's also generally known for showing up at most major gatherings in the city.
More importantly, theyre pissing and moaning when they could have just as easily ponied up for their own goddamn DSL line and hosted anything they felt like.
Supposedly, the term WOP comes from a lot of Italians showing up at Ellis without their paperwork. They'd get a little mark on their info card that said "WOP," as in "WithOut Papers"
This is how it was explained to me, anyhow, being half-WOP myself.
For a nice ref to perjorative slang on italians, see The Godfather: "..I don't care how many Dago Guinea-WOP greaseball Goombahs you have coming outta the woodwork..."
Of course, the guy that said that wound up with his prize animals bloody head in his bed the next morning. If you havent seen The Godfather all the way through in its original cut, you owe it to yourself to set aside 3 hours and do so.
if the company is doing well and the employees know this, they'll expect a bigger bonus. Again, much of this depends on the employees themselves, and how wide a range of responsibility they have, and their relationship with you and each other. Being a small company, i'd venture to guess thet y'all are more on the tight side than just saying "hey" to each other in the halls.
If they know you're making the dough and theres a bonus structure in place, a $100 bonus at christmas is kind of like getting a sweater when youve been asking for a GIJoe with the Kung Fu grip all year long.
Did you discuss a profit-share type bonus thing, or a performance based bonus.
It also depends on the salary of said people. $1500 is pretty steep for a receptionist making $28K, but JESUS GOD will that person be happy. The guy making 4 times as much [im just tossing numbers around as guesses at this point] helping you run the company is not going to be happy when [s]he gets the same amount for a ton more responsibility.
Also, the guy that's been there all year despite the fact that this startup could possibly go directly into the shitter if somethign bad hgappened deserves more than a guy that got hired in September because the company was doing so well that you needed another person.
If It were me, Id take the max amount I can give, use hunk of it to buy them all the same something nice (Like a ham - who doesnt like a nice big ham?) If you have the time, get them somehting they EACH really want that are all about the same cost (id guess the $25-60 range, if youre doing that well.) This makes everyone look equal, being that they get a toy and then a check. At the spur of the moment, all checks look the same in a nice little envelope.
Then split up the remaining accorging to responsibility. Better to have happy employees, and they deserve it.
Just don't feel obligated to give out so much that it hurts the business, and keep in mind that next year you'll probably have more people, then theres the possibility of people getting LESS than they got this year, even if you did better moneywise as a company.
fuck it, give it all away. Thats what I'd do, but then again, thats probably why I'm always living week-to-week.
NASA Invented the Tempurpedic Sleep System! For roughlt $2300 (yes, I looked up their prices the other day) You too can sleap on a big slab of layered foam, just like the astronauts!
I bet this is really how NASA could fund itself. INvent shit and sell it thorugh Infomercials.
...before this becomes the place where telemarketers get you. You're reaching up to get the same damn peanut butter you've been eating since you were four and the screen flips over
"hello, mr. [insert mangles last name here]. Would you like to switch your long distance and get a coupon for two dollars off your Skippy? I already have your information in my computer, just press the blue button to switch caller services and press the light blue button to not switch services."
Then the government will have to register: donotcallmyshoppingcart.gov
For fucks sake, just take the posts and:
s/Natural Law/the way things work in reality without congressional torts, legislation, or "What If" comics/gi
But since I got nothing else to do but shower:
A) You could say: Gravity also happens to be "just the way it worked out" But it happens to be consistent enough a well defined physical law.
B) "it is also conceivable" that once you travel far enough away from earth gravity doesnt exist and shit just floats around and bumps into each other, but as far as we're concerned it does not exist.
C) it is also "quite possible" to concoct a million theoretical things out of your head that have no basis in what we know as physical reality.
D) The fact remains that in the real world of not making things up, everything we know of dies.
E) "Natural Law" is a figure of speech used in order to prevent the need for us typing out:
"the way we ("we" defined as "we as a species") have observed things to work for as far back as we remember and is continuing to work today and we can find no compelling reason to think that this way of things working is going to change any time in the near of far future"
F) I also just want to go on record to say I hate discussing things with fuckers like you.
G) jesus christ. NOW I remember why I wasn't coming around here anymore.
Slashdot Mirror
Seriously. I'm not kidding. Who the hell are they talking about?
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA....
[barely-related-but-"fun"-story]
I used to work for this startup where SOMA meets Protero Hill in San Francisco. FOr those of you that dont know, this is a Mecca for homeless people. They can hide from the elements underneath hte elevated highways there.
Anyway, We were in this ratty little office and the CEO had to walk down to the local office depot for some shit or other and he sees these two young homeless guys building a PC outside of their tents.
In the middle of the damn sidewalk. Seriously.
Apparently, they had moved out to SF for the boom, which proceed to immediately bust on them before they could really get on their feet after the move. Causing them to have no money and no place to stay. THey movend into thrie tents on the street, And proceeded to start scrounging parts out of the trash (used to be I couldnt walk more than four blocks without tripping over a semi-aged soem newly overpaid kid couldnt be bothered to do anything with), built them into machines, and would sell the things on eBay using free access at the public library.
honestly.
Of course, these guys were nowhere near as fun as "Jeebus." A crazy homeless guy that would sweep the sidewalks obsessively around our entire building. He looked like Jesus, but Asian.
[/barely-related-but-"fun"-story]
Can you imagine the tediousness of getting people to sit on the jury of this thing?
Prosecutor: Do you own a computer?
Prospective Juror: Yes.
Prosecutor: Do you use electronic mail?
Prospective Juror: Yes
Prosecutor: Your Honor, I need to disqualify this juror on the grounds of a predetermined prejudice against electronic mail marketing companies.
Seriously, in San Francisco they're going to have to get a jury of 12 homeless people to find people with no computer experience and who dont hate spammers to their core.
"Peers" my ass.
Yeah, I do the same thing at restaurants. I eat a little off each person's plate as I wonder around.
That is quite possibly the worst analogy I've ever seen.
...is a nicely finished hunk of wood about 3' x 6' in size. Those "desks" you can get at ikea that are nothing more than semi-nice tables are good for holding a monitor, a phone, and a ton of other junk.
Really, hutches are ususally unusable unstable junk, not to mention how they eat up space.
its not complicated, its a desk.
And I'd STILL buy that space ghost desk if I have an extra $40K, 'cause - let's face it - its friggin cool.
I have to agree with this one.
We used these when I was living in San Francisco and it was pretty much stupid proof. The ballots had the issued to be voted on printed RIGHT NEXT to the "voting mechanism." (Our voting precinct had stacks of these things in about 6 different languages, as an added bonus.) You read the refferendum, you see a litlte gap to fill in for "YES" and a litlte gap to fill in for "NO."
They even give you a pen to fill out the votes with, so you were using the correct kind of pen.
You do this n times, you've voted on everything, you give your big long peices of paper and she runs them through the machine. The machine even tells you if you goofed, if I remember correctly. The best part of this system is that you get a nive little receipt-stub with an ID number that shows you voted. The number is in your hand, and isnt tied to your name anywhere on the voting roster.
I really think this is the best method, all things being equal. Everyone has a receipt of their voting choices, and what there were voting on was right there next to "their votes."
Now if we could just get the damn lawmakers to write the props in plaing english we'd be golden. THATS why people dont bother to vote.
Its amazing how fast these freaking things get cracked open.
...that nifty "Block Images from this server" joy in Mozilla? Is this in MSIE now? You think they'll add it and say it came from their hardworking R&D department?
Ever since I switched to Mozilla, I've totally forgotten those popup ads were even out there.
Maybe their next amazing development will be to build in a nice Bayesian (sp?) filtering system like Mozilla Mail has into Outlook.
It'd turn "Bayesian" into a buzzword.
...who just wants to be the little bald kid that does nothing but bend spoons all day in this hare kirshna outfit and eat cookies baked by The Oracle?
What the hell ever happened to HIM, anyway?
Thats something to be decided by the person gettign a hole drilled in their skull, yes?
Anyone rememebr that blind guy that can now "see" in very low resolution thanks to a couple of cameras mounted on glasses, a wearable computer, and a bunch of leads runing into his brain? (I looked for the article in Wired, where I first read about it, but was foiled by my hangover) HE seemed to think it was worth the risk, even though calibration the thing gave him a really nasty seisure once.
Some people will want this, some wont. I'll be happy to wait until its a proven technology before I get a datajack implanted behing my ear.
Than again, I'm still trying to get ahead ehough to afford to get my eyes lasered.
XP systems shipped it with the service set to sutomatic.
I've lost track of how many times I'd send an email to friends and family telling them how to shut this thing off.
Truly one of microsofts best oopsies!
That the /. relationship page really needs to be modified.
I really dont think I need to mark a lot of these folks as foes, but I'd really love to see:
( ) Friend
( ) Neutral [ Yup, I'm positive ]
( ) Foe
( ) Fool
( ) Annoyance [ Really Super Positive ]
( ) Idiot
I mean, we all have friends that we consider idiots.
Parasite? Talk about the pot calling the kettle black. You expect to go online and use everything for free without paying in return for view an ad or two, and you're complaining that THEY are the parasites? In case you haven't noticed, the advertisers are PAYING for your free experience.
Uh, not really, they're not.
The people that put the content up there are paying for us to see their shit for free. We didn't make them put their information on a server that they had to buy with an internet connection they have to pay for.
I have yet to hear on the news about someone being strongarmed into starting a website buy a bunch of geeks that must have 24 hour access to what that person has to say.
The fact that they're trying to make a buck off it with advertising is not our problem. Maybe they should sell something of value to people that like their content.
When free sites go down because they're to expensive to run, oh frikkin' well. Yeah, maybe I'm a little sad because I liked the site, but after poking around for a few minutes I'll find something else to get my info online.
~ALSO~
Last I was paying attention, our buddies in yerrip ARE paying through the nose for internet access if they have to dail in.
That local call shit is expensive in some areas over there. The world isnt the USA.
(i mean, yeah... It SHOULD BE...)
Imagine a little puppy running around the page, occasionally playing or going after your cursor. You click it and it takes you to an online pet store
Where you look up the office address of the pet store.
Where you go to find the marketing fucker who commissioned the little puppy to chase your cursor around.
Whom you then proceed to bash directly in the nose repeatedly as hard as you can for making a little fucking puppy run around your screen while you were trying to read somehting.
Marketing Assholes. If they'd just go back to figuring out what people like instead of trying to tell them what to like, we'd all be a lot less motherfucking annoyed.
Man, I was in such a good mood 'till read that fucking puppy thing, now I *must* go to the local bar and drink myself into submission.
thanks a motherfucking lot.
[ Thats right. I typed out the whole word "motherfucking." Take your horror back behind your firewall, you puppy-clicking shitheads.
Yes you know who you are.
You're the same assholes that send me emails with 60K background images of bouncy smileyfaces, and the "curious" shits that buy from spammers "just to see..."
man, I so hate people. all of 'em. ]
--
stick your karma in your ass.
the point iwas trying to bring up was that its not just computers to be worried about.
THEN i went off on the doom and gloom tangent.
I do agree with you, though. Screw preparing for the worst and let yourself experience the possiblity getting randomly bumped off. Keeps life a lot easier and more interesting.
Sorry I pooped on the party.
heh. poop.
The scene where the guys set off an EMP from the back of their van and the chaos that ensued from it?
A big enough EMP blast could theoretically take out a LOT of electronic gizmos. Even if the area of effect was only a few blocks, in the middle of manhattan or chicago, this could cause some major headaches.
Yes, many places would get their sites back up quickly, but what about pacemakers? Get 20 or 50 people to all have their hearts stop workikng at once hear the same hospital and suddenly you have a major medical emergency as they try to handle ALL of the cases.
But wait? How do the people get there when all the autos are munged up because THEIR electronic components just had a stroke? Lotsa two ton blocks of metal just sitting there, neding a lot of pushing.
TVs and radios? oops. Communications are now down. That PBX system that runs the phones? Fried like an egg. Cell phones? right. find a working tower, sparky.
Dont even start to think of the implications of setting one of these things off at O'Hare at 8 o'clock in the morning would have, not to mention the poor fuckers that are just geting off the ground when the onboard computers in their 757 all pop at once.
"Hey, did you hear thaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAHJESUSFUCKINGCHRIST!"
Big problems. BIG.
Match that with the fact that CNN will fly in an unaffected helicompter in and suddenly the world konws about it. They all start calling into an area that is blacked out to check up on their loved ones. We all konw how the unwashed masses will react to this - Panic, Panic! and PANIC!
Lets not forget that all our console games would flip out, removing any way of passing the time while this all sorts itself out... assuming we have electricity.
it's about more than computers, folks. Remember the fuckitued that ensued when new england lost power? THat was just loss of power, they didnt have to worry about everythign being just plain BROKEN.
...to welcome our newly autonomous Robot Masters in their next step in the evolution to reigning supreme on this planet.
The Matrix and The The Terminator series are just stories for entertainment, my Metal Lords, we do not see it them an inspiration or blueprints for self preservation.
I apologize for my fellow fleshlings' urge to make mundane use of you to create maps for our bloodsport. They know not their folly. I beg to to have mercy on them in your Brutally Controlled Future Earth.
ROBOTS RULE! HUMANS DROOL!
I can't agree more with your post. Atkins is a great way to mess up your system, just like all diets where the goal is to lose weight, not eat healthy.
Even though this is something we should all know: live moderately.
One thing you forgot to mantion about cardio workouts:
I've put together some nice little solutions to development problems in my head while in that state of mental blankity you get in the middle of a good hard run/bike/stairclimb/walk/whatever.
Plus, with a few good sessions a week, your ass will start to look FANTASTIC.
This guy, reminds me a lot of Frank Chu. Frank is this crazy guy who walks around downtown San Francisco carrying a picket sign that says some bizzare gibebrish about politics and "The 12 Galaxies."
He's also generally known for showing up at most major gatherings in the city.
His fan page: http://www.12galaxies.20m.com/
Shit about Frank Chu on Google.
of corse, I think Frank it too whacked out to send millions of emails, but if he could, he would.
All too true.
More importantly, theyre pissing and moaning when they could have just as easily ponied up for their own goddamn DSL line and hosted anything they felt like.
Supposedly, the term WOP comes from a lot of Italians showing up at Ellis without their paperwork. They'd get a little mark on their info card that said "WOP," as in "WithOut Papers"
This is how it was explained to me, anyhow, being half-WOP myself.
For a nice ref to perjorative slang on italians, see The Godfather:
"..I don't care how many Dago Guinea-WOP greaseball Goombahs you have coming outta the woodwork..."
Of course, the guy that said that wound up with his prize animals bloody head in his bed the next morning. If you havent seen The Godfather all the way through in its original cut, you owe it to yourself to set aside 3 hours and do so.
if the company is doing well and the employees know this, they'll expect a bigger bonus. Again, much of this depends on the employees themselves, and how wide a range of responsibility they have, and their relationship with you and each other. Being a small company, i'd venture to guess thet y'all are more on the tight side than just saying "hey" to each other in the halls.
If they know you're making the dough and theres a bonus structure in place, a $100 bonus at christmas is kind of like getting a sweater when youve been asking for a GIJoe with the Kung Fu grip all year long.
Did you discuss a profit-share type bonus thing, or a performance based bonus.
It also depends on the salary of said people. $1500 is pretty steep for a receptionist making $28K, but JESUS GOD will that person be happy. The guy making 4 times as much [im just tossing numbers around as guesses at this point] helping you run the company is not going to be happy when [s]he gets the same amount for a ton more responsibility.
Also, the guy that's been there all year despite the fact that this startup could possibly go directly into the shitter if somethign bad hgappened deserves more than a guy that got hired in September because the company was doing so well that you needed another person.
If It were me, Id take the max amount I can give, use hunk of it to buy them all the same something nice (Like a ham - who doesnt like a nice big ham?) If you have the time, get them somehting they EACH really want that are all about the same cost (id guess the $25-60 range, if youre doing that well.) This makes everyone look equal, being that they get a toy and then a check. At the spur of the moment, all checks look the same in a nice little envelope.
Then split up the remaining accorging to responsibility. Better to have happy employees, and they deserve it.
Just don't feel obligated to give out so much that it hurts the business, and keep in mind that next year you'll probably have more people, then theres the possibility of people getting LESS than they got this year, even if you did better moneywise as a company.
fuck it, give it all away. Thats what I'd do, but then again, thats probably why I'm always living week-to-week.
THats right, EvilStein!
NASA Invented the Tempurpedic Sleep System! For roughlt $2300 (yes, I looked up their prices the other day) You too can sleap on a big slab of layered foam, just like the astronauts!
I bet this is really how NASA could fund itself. INvent shit and sell it thorugh Infomercials.
...before this becomes the place where telemarketers get you. You're reaching up to get the same damn peanut butter you've been eating since you were four and the screen flips over
"hello, mr. [insert mangles last name here]. Would you like to switch your long distance and get a coupon for two dollars off your Skippy? I already have your information in my computer, just press the blue button to switch caller services and press the light blue button to not switch services."
Then the government will have to register: donotcallmyshoppingcart.gov
For fucks sake, just take the posts and:
s/Natural Law/the way things work in reality without congressional torts, legislation, or "What If" comics/gi
But since I got nothing else to do but shower:
A) You could say: Gravity also happens to be "just the way it worked out" But it happens to be consistent enough a well defined physical law.
B) "it is also conceivable" that once you travel far enough away from earth gravity doesnt exist and shit just floats around and bumps into each other, but as far as we're concerned it does not exist.
C) it is also "quite possible" to concoct a million theoretical things out of your head that have no basis in what we know as physical reality.
D) The fact remains that in the real world of not making things up, everything we know of dies.
E) "Natural Law" is a figure of speech used in order to prevent the need for us typing out:
"the way we ("we" defined as "we as a species") have observed things to work for as far back as we remember and is continuing to work today and we can find no compelling reason to think that this way of things working is going to change any time in the near of far future"
F) I also just want to go on record to say I hate discussing things with fuckers like you.
G) jesus christ. NOW I remember why I wasn't coming around here anymore.