"What gets dated are the layers of deposition ON TOP of your cat"
And? They have no idea how long it took for those layers to form. No way to verify the numbers they come up with.
When's the last time you buried anything close to the surface? By the time you're 6 feet in the ground, according to evolutionists who will date the rock you're buried in, you'll be millions of years old.
It's all based on unproven assumptions. You can observe the formation of tree rings. You can't observe the formation of sedimentary layers. You have NO idea how the dirt got there to form the layers. You have NO idea how many people/animals walked on the dirt causing it to be more compact. You have NO idea how many people/animals geological events dumped dirt in that area. You have NO idea how many rivers or whatnot have come and gone removing layers.
Evolutionists make a professional out of ignoring the obvious unknown variables. They of all people should be aware of the fact the earth doesn't stay constant. Animals and people bury things. Sometimes very deep. Like in wells that have since collasped. Now you're millions of years old because so many layers are above you even though you actually died yesterday.
Hence the cave example. Caves go down down down millions of years so "millions" of years of dirt are above you significantly falsifying your true age to Evolutionists.
Are you going to be around in 3000 years when it's a fossilized dead cat?
I know they'll think it's 10 million years old because it's standard "scientific" practice to date the rock around things that are too old to be dated themselves.
Criticize "Creationism" and it's Insightful. Criticize "Evolution" and it's flamebait.
Instead of being a hypocritical mod, respond to my problems with evolution. Prove to me my dead cat thrown in a cave won't be considered 10 million years old.
You can't because it's common practice to date the rock of things that are too old to get any carbon out of.
If I throw a dead cat into a 10 million year old cave, in a few thousand years that cat will be considered 10 million years old.
When all else fails evolutionists date the ROCK. When is the last time someone was buried in "new" dirt?
It's pathetic how the assume everything is a constant. "Hey look, a rock that's been in this river for 7 million years!" How many unknown variables have come and gone in 7 million years? How do you even know that
a) the rock was there 7 million years ago b) the river was there 7 million years ago
Setimentary layer dating? These aren't trees people!
a) how many layers are there from the bottom? b)Where is the bottom? c) in the X millions of years how many layers have been eroded away?
Until you can recreate the Big Bang it's not science any more than "creationism" or "intelligent design"
Until I see a monkey turn into a pig without any help from scientists, it's not science.
It's amazing how evolution's pseudoscience babble has gotten so far.
Personally, I think both should be taught. It's amazing how many people actually believe Evolution isn't faith based. Everything that is wrong with Science is rolled up in Evolution. The Scientific Method is just tossed out the window.
No. You're just offering to help for a price. If you had to power to stop the impending doom of Slashdot then maybe. It's not blackmail because you
a) can't stop slashdot from posting the link b) can't do (have no obligation to do) anything to increase their main server's capabilities c) aren't preventing them from looking somewhere else or saying "no" d) aren't offering anything they need
Slashdot should already be warning sites about being submitted on a front page article so they can take steps to lessen the blow like shrinking/removing images with a notice they'll be back to normal later if people are still interested.
The "ooh shiney" people get to see and the people who are genuinly interested will come back later.
The same reason Michael thinks it's worth noting that the US is "just" going to sit and watch is the same reason this article will probably be duped in an hour or two like so many others.
Typical "arrogent author" code where they give you example code assuming it works without bothering to actually check it. Perhaps it was just a typo on the submitter's part.
It's why I only resort to using prewritten code when necessary because I know I'm just going to have to debug the hell out of it and effectivly end up rewritting it.
I even had the displeasure of asking a question on a forum and being given some code that I knew wouldn't work because I even told the person why the functions he used wouldn't work before he wrote up some crappy and obviously untested code using them. It wasted my time and his time.
I never understood why people post crap code. I'd rather be unknown than be made irrelavent and avoided by posting untested and non working code which serves only to annoy people.
Actually when I first started my web-site I liked the idea I could back it up onto a cheap CD. But by the time I needed to do a backup the site had grown bigger than a CD. Then DVD burners came out and I thought it'd be cool to back it up on a DVD. But now that they're "cheap" my site would take up ~12 current DVDs. So I'm still sticking to a second HD. A couple 23GB discs wouldn't be so bad but by the time the cost comes down I'll probably need quite a few more.
Storage space is like money, you can never have enough.
Although it would be nice to consolodate my dozens of CD-Rs that have been collecting dust for a few years.
4,5, and 6? So I suppose that would make you an expert on how well Direct3D works 5 years ago. You're probably basing your negative view of Windows on Win95 as well. Windows will be alive and still on top of the heap for years to come. I've yet to see any promising alternative. If Linux developers get their act together they might be real competition in a few years but at the rate they're going they'd only be on top because MS was killed by the court system. Not because it's a better OS.
Even Direct3D fans will admit those early versions were the perverbial ball lickers. I used DirectDraw starting with 5 or so and then when DX7 came out I got into a bit of Direct3D. I wouldn't touch D3D before that with a 10 foot poll and the only reason I moved my DirectDraw 7 game to D3D was because it was a seamless transition as I could leave DirectDraw rendering in while I added D3D elements until DirectDraw was nearly completely removed.
The only reason I now use OpenGL is because my 133Mhz craptop wouldn't run my latest game which started out using Direct3D 8 (which is a great SDK) but would run okay with OpenGL.
It's really just personal preference. I have a plug and play OpenGL class and a plug and play Direct3D 8 class. My current project uses Winsock, OpenGL, DirectSound and DirectInput.
There's no point in throwing the baby out with the bathwater. Fine, use OpenGL, but DirectSound and DirectInput are cake. I have an entirely self contained class for each of those I just pop into my projects.
I run GuildFTPd and EzMTS. Neither of which require or even have the option of using system accounts for FTP/SMTP accounts. The account you get to log into either of those services has zilch to do with the accounts used by Win2K to allow access to the computer.
Why in the world would you run any program where the remotely accessed services are intergrated into the OS unless the point of the service is to allow you access into the system? And even then your SSH admin account or whatever should NOT be tied into your system accounts.
What business does a mail server have giving someone OS level permissions? A mail server should sit in it's own little cage of a directory tree and ROOT should be a directory in that tree if that. "Rooting" my SMTP server means sending a bogus message and it being dropped in the "ROOT" directory which has no relation to Window's root directory.
The only time any app should get access outside it's installed directory is when you give it express permission in the config.
"Root" being the OS's root account with an SMTP or FTP server is the dumbest thing I've ever seen. There's exactly no reason for that to be the case...ever. Can you say "IIS?" That's why I use Apache. Security through lack of functionality is a wonderful thing.
If I want "root" access to my drives through FTP I set up an FTP account with any username with any password (different from my administrative login user and pass for Windows) and point it's "root" directory at my computer's root directory.
Dumb dumb dumb. This should never have been a bug ever. Just STOP USING SYSTEM ACCOUNTS FOR SERVICE ACCOUNTS
It's that freakin easy. For a group of people obsessed with security first this should be obvious.
Years ago when I was looking for a printer I found a cheap Canon BJC-1000 and an even cheaper Lexmark. Then I compared ink prices and I went with the Canon which after 4 years still works great and the Canon ink is relatively cheap. I paid $25 for a new cartridge recently.
I don't think I'm that unique when it comes to basing my purchases on the cost of the things I'll need to constantly buy for the product. Maybe they think they can cash in on the console business model; give away the printer and make money on the ink.
They're just going to make themselves more irrelavent than they already are. Canon, HP and Xerox are already on top of the printer food chain so they don't need to artifically lower their printer costs to try to gain market share and try to make up for it with sales of the ink. So my guess is that they won't play this game and just let Lexmark kill themselves off.
They're legal to sell as general purpose radar detectors but not legal to use to try to evade police radar. If you're caught with one you'll be, at the least, fined for it.
When I worked at RadioShack I wasn't able to talk about it as a device to detect police radar. Simply as a radar detector. You're better off obeying the law than pretending some device is going to warn you when to start obeying it.
The above is a collection of various political writings including such works as
Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler Manifesto of the Communist Party The Unabomber's Manifesto
If you know of any more political documents that are preferably controversial and are freely available, post their title. I'd like to add them to my site.
I'm also looking for original video/audio clips of Bin Laden without any editing or commentary over laid. If he's written any documents, I'd like to get a hold of those too. Some recent material from Saddam would be nice as well.
Yeah because MS wanted to prevent the XBox being hacked to allow anyone to develope software without paying for the SDK kit simply because they weren't being paid some award money for letting it happen.
Unlike some nerds I accept responsibility for whatever problems I had because I know I caused them. Sure there was the occasional bit I didn't think I deserved but in the whole scheme of things by gones are by gones. I learned from my mistakes and listened to people when they have/had problems with me.
Blaming it on your "intellect" is not going to make your life any better. Falling down and playing victim is not going to make you feel any better and it's not going to solve any of your problems.
You can say people don't like you because you're smart but you still smell funny, you still have no fashion sense (pick up a Maxim for pete's sake so you can cleanse yourself by looking at women if comparing yourself to other guys and what they wear and how they look makes you feel dirty) and you're still a depressing jerk who takes out his frustrations on other people.
Basically, plenty of nerds ARE the bullies. Nerds have emotional issues and hide and/or are verbally abusive whether they realize it or not. Bullies have emotional issues and take their frustrations out physically. If either group learns to deal with the issues and correct the real reasons why they're unhappy they can lead much happier lives.
"why don't we OWN UP to the problem and try to fix it"
Yeah, why don't you own up to the problem and stop playing helpless victim?
That's why kids kill themselves. People actually let them believe they're helpless victims because they're being picked on for things they can't change.
Take a shower, get some better clothes, buy contacts, get some braces, grow a sense of humor, stop complaining about the popular kids. Any number of things will make people like you more and you like yourself more. Wallowing in your own misery isn't going to solve anything.
I was in band, programmed everything that could be programmed, wore horrible clothes, had the worst glasses ever, had bad teeth and was pretty socially inept. And yet I still had quite a few friends (all the popular kids knew my name) and the fall after I graduated High School I modeled for Seventeen for a fashion show because I fixed everything physically I could and worked on my personality. It was marching band that actually taught me how to walk down the runway.
That's why I "blame the victim," because I know you're not helpless. I don't regret a minute of my "horrible" childhood.
I've been served fast food by far more geeks than jocks. In fact it's more often then not the "geeks" that run the place.
Jocks tend to work cool jobs like bars and high class restrauants or trendy clothing stores which isn't a bad gig. I've found that the easiest job to move up in is food. I've worked food long enough to respect anyone that's willing to put up with the asshole customers like yourself that think they're above those who serve them.
Once you get a management position anywhere, going to a management position or cubicle in any location is a heck of a lot easier.
Management experience is management experience. The specific job is just details. From my 3 years dealing with little kids at a pizza joint I've learned a lot of patience and people skills which come in handy every day working in a tech position. Growing up an introvert, forcing myself into that kind of social environment really helped.
It's actually one of the big reasons I was hired as a tech for HP. I now work as a tech for a University paying my way through. I know how to talk on a phone and make unhappy people happy (or at least calm).
So basically it boils down not to where you work, but why you work there and what you're getting out of it. I've worked pretty much every type of job there is and every job has taught me skills I use every day.
Intelligence has nothing to do with being unpopular. It has to do with the fact you're socially inept. If you're getting beat up it's because you're an ass. Blaming it on your "intelligence" is just the common excuse to try to justify your unpopular behavior.
I had the gall to make fun of our sucky football team in front of one of the players. He looked at me and goes "Because I respect you, I'm just going to give you a 'get out of death free' card." I never made fun of the football team again and I never needed to cash in my card. I was blatently into computer programming all through school from 7th grade on and never got beat up because of it. I even worked on my stuff during classes. The only time I had issues with people was when I said something obnoxious.
I've found that the kids who are the most unpopular are those who bitch all the time and those who are arrogent; about how smart they are or otherwise. Nobody wants to be around people who constantly bitch. People don't like to be depressed believe it or not and making people depressed is not going to win you friends. This may also shock you but people also really don't care to hear how great your grades are.
One of the most popular kids in my old school from 7th to 9th grade was/is pretty much a genius and everyone respected him for it because he was/is also a very nice person.
People don't hate you because you're smart. They hate/don't give a rip about you because you're socially inept and beat you up because you're an asshole. The sooner you can to terms with that fact the sooner you can correct your problems and be a lot happier. People don't care how smart you are. They care that you can entertain them.
Not everyone who is picked on is smart. The most picked on kid during my junior high years was by no means exceptionally intelligent. I've also found that the most popular people are often very intelligent.
This article is just a perpetuation of stereotypes and it's not shocking that the person who wrote it had a tough life. "Why's everybody always picking on me?" I think is a very appropriate summary of that article. The person doesn't have a clue and nobody cares to talk to him long enough to clue him in.
The place is already freakin dead. It's not like we could do a whole lot more damage.
"Let's deal with where we are right now"
How about we use Mars to test theories we can then apply to Earth if they work?
We only get one shot with Earth. The chances are pretty endless with Mars. If solutions create problems we can then find solutions to those problems without killing millions of people and baby seals in the process.
Basically there's just a lot less to worry about if something goes wrong one mars.
Yeah, because I'm sure I'm the only person who's identity they were using.
The more people like me who report it even just for a hotmail account the more likely they are to get hunted down.
I also report formmail attempts on my server occasionally. It was more of a problem a few months ago. It's easy to track on my server because formmail doesn't actually exist on it. It's not a big deal on my server but the odds I'm the only server they're trying to send spam through are pretty much slim to none.
Since it's obvious they're trying to spam (even being kind enough to leave a valid e-mail address in the request) it's a pretty good bet they'll get kicked off their ISP for breaking the TOS agreement.
Even though my server isn't much in the whole scheme of things.
Slashdot Mirror
"What gets dated are the layers of deposition ON TOP of your cat"
And? They have no idea how long it took for those layers to form. No way to verify the numbers they come up with.
When's the last time you buried anything close to the surface? By the time you're 6 feet in the ground, according to evolutionists who will date the rock you're buried in, you'll be millions of years old.
It's all based on unproven assumptions. You can observe the formation of tree rings. You can't observe the formation of sedimentary layers. You have NO idea how the dirt got there to form the layers. You have NO idea how many people/animals walked on the dirt causing it to be more compact. You have NO idea how many people/animals geological events dumped dirt in that area. You have NO idea how many rivers or whatnot have come and gone removing layers.
Evolutionists make a professional out of ignoring the obvious unknown variables. They of all people should be aware of the fact the earth doesn't stay constant. Animals and people bury things. Sometimes very deep. Like in wells that have since collasped. Now you're millions of years old because so many layers are above you even though you actually died yesterday.
Hence the cave example. Caves go down down down millions of years so "millions" of years of dirt are above you significantly falsifying your true age to Evolutionists.
Ben
Are you going to be around in 3000 years when it's a fossilized dead cat?
I know they'll think it's 10 million years old because it's standard "scientific" practice to date the rock around things that are too old to be dated themselves.
Ben
Criticize "Creationism" and it's Insightful. Criticize "Evolution" and it's flamebait.
Instead of being a hypocritical mod, respond to my problems with evolution. Prove to me my dead cat thrown in a cave won't be considered 10 million years old.
You can't because it's common practice to date the rock of things that are too old to get any carbon out of.
Ben
If I throw a dead cat into a 10 million year old cave, in a few thousand years that cat will be considered 10 million years old.
When all else fails evolutionists date the ROCK. When is the last time someone was buried in "new" dirt?
It's pathetic how the assume everything is a constant. "Hey look, a rock that's been in this river for 7 million years!" How many unknown variables have come and gone in 7 million years? How do you even know that
a) the rock was there 7 million years ago
b) the river was there 7 million years ago
Setimentary layer dating? These aren't trees people!
a) how many layers are there from the bottom?
b)Where is the bottom?
c) in the X millions of years how many layers have been eroded away?
Until you can recreate the Big Bang it's not science any more than "creationism" or "intelligent design"
Until I see a monkey turn into a pig without any help from scientists, it's not science.
It's amazing how evolution's pseudoscience babble has gotten so far.
Personally, I think both should be taught. It's amazing how many people actually believe Evolution isn't faith based. Everything that is wrong with Science is rolled up in Evolution. The Scientific Method is just tossed out the window.
Ben
No. You're just offering to help for a price. If you had to power to stop the impending doom of Slashdot then maybe. It's not blackmail because you
a) can't stop slashdot from posting the link
b) can't do (have no obligation to do) anything to increase their main server's capabilities
c) aren't preventing them from looking somewhere else or saying "no"
d) aren't offering anything they need
Slashdot should already be warning sites about being submitted on a front page article so they can take steps to lessen the blow like shrinking/removing images with a notice they'll be back to normal later if people are still interested.
The "ooh shiney" people get to see and the people who are genuinly interested will come back later.
Ben
The same reason Michael thinks it's worth noting that the US is "just" going to sit and watch is the same reason this article will probably be duped in an hour or two like so many others.
Welcome to 40 years ago.
Isn't amnesia fun?
Ben
Typical "arrogent author" code where they give you example code assuming it works without bothering to actually check it. Perhaps it was just a typo on the submitter's part.
It's why I only resort to using prewritten code when necessary because I know I'm just going to have to debug the hell out of it and effectivly end up rewritting it.
I even had the displeasure of asking a question on a forum and being given some code that I knew wouldn't work because I even told the person why the functions he used wouldn't work before he wrote up some crappy and obviously untested code using them. It wasted my time and his time.
I never understood why people post crap code. I'd rather be unknown than be made irrelavent and avoided by posting untested and non working code which serves only to annoy people.
Ben
Actually when I first started my web-site I liked the idea I could back it up onto a cheap CD. But by the time I needed to do a backup the site had grown bigger than a CD. Then DVD burners came out and I thought it'd be cool to back it up on a DVD. But now that they're "cheap" my site would take up ~12 current DVDs. So I'm still sticking to a second HD. A couple 23GB discs wouldn't be so bad but by the time the cost comes down I'll probably need quite a few more.
Storage space is like money, you can never have enough.
Although it would be nice to consolodate my dozens of CD-Rs that have been collecting dust for a few years.
Ben
4,5, and 6? So I suppose that would make you an expert on how well Direct3D works 5 years ago. You're probably basing your negative view of Windows on Win95 as well. Windows will be alive and still on top of the heap for years to come. I've yet to see any promising alternative. If Linux developers get their act together they might be real competition in a few years but at the rate they're going they'd only be on top because MS was killed by the court system. Not because it's a better OS.
Even Direct3D fans will admit those early versions were the perverbial ball lickers. I used DirectDraw starting with 5 or so and then when DX7 came out I got into a bit of Direct3D. I wouldn't touch D3D before that with a 10 foot poll and the only reason I moved my DirectDraw 7 game to D3D was because it was a seamless transition as I could leave DirectDraw rendering in while I added D3D elements until DirectDraw was nearly completely removed.
The only reason I now use OpenGL is because my 133Mhz craptop wouldn't run my latest game which started out using Direct3D 8 (which is a great SDK) but would run okay with OpenGL.
It's really just personal preference. I have a plug and play OpenGL class and a plug and play Direct3D 8 class. My current project uses Winsock, OpenGL, DirectSound and DirectInput.
There's no point in throwing the baby out with the bathwater. Fine, use OpenGL, but DirectSound and DirectInput are cake. I have an entirely self contained class for each of those I just pop into my projects.
Ben
I run GuildFTPd and EzMTS. Neither of which require or even have the option of using system accounts for FTP/SMTP accounts. The account you get to log into either of those services has zilch to do with the accounts used by Win2K to allow access to the computer.
Why in the world would you run any program where the remotely accessed services are intergrated into the OS unless the point of the service is to allow you access into the system? And even then your SSH admin account or whatever should NOT be tied into your system accounts.
What business does a mail server have giving someone OS level permissions? A mail server should sit in it's own little cage of a directory tree and ROOT should be a directory in that tree if that. "Rooting" my SMTP server means sending a bogus message and it being dropped in the "ROOT" directory which has no relation to Window's root directory.
The only time any app should get access outside it's installed directory is when you give it express permission in the config.
"Root" being the OS's root account with an SMTP or FTP server is the dumbest thing I've ever seen. There's exactly no reason for that to be the case...ever. Can you say "IIS?" That's why I use Apache. Security through lack of functionality is a wonderful thing.
If I want "root" access to my drives through FTP I set up an FTP account with any username with any password (different from my administrative login user and pass for Windows) and point it's "root" directory at my computer's root directory.
Dumb dumb dumb. This should never have been a bug ever. Just STOP USING SYSTEM ACCOUNTS FOR SERVICE ACCOUNTS
It's that freakin easy. For a group of people obsessed with security first this should be obvious.
Ben
Years ago when I was looking for a printer I found a cheap Canon BJC-1000 and an even cheaper Lexmark. Then I compared ink prices and I went with the Canon which after 4 years still works great and the Canon ink is relatively cheap. I paid $25 for a new cartridge recently.
I don't think I'm that unique when it comes to basing my purchases on the cost of the things I'll need to constantly buy for the product. Maybe they think they can cash in on the console business model; give away the printer and make money on the ink.
They're just going to make themselves more irrelavent than they already are. Canon, HP and Xerox are already on top of the printer food chain so they don't need to artifically lower their printer costs to try to gain market share and try to make up for it with sales of the ink. So my guess is that they won't play this game and just let Lexmark kill themselves off.
Ben.
"Why do so many folks watch it? The boobs?"
Well, apparently it doesn't even really have that going for it.
There's always the Boobwatch Wedding special comming up for that.
Ben
It's like two asprins on an ironing board.
Ben
They're legal to sell as general purpose radar detectors but not legal to use to try to evade police radar. If you're caught with one you'll be, at the least, fined for it.
When I worked at RadioShack I wasn't able to talk about it as a device to detect police radar. Simply as a radar detector. You're better off obeying the law than pretending some device is going to warn you when to start obeying it.
Ben
I have Win2K running on a 133 Pentium laptop with 32MB of ram and also on a P200 with 96MB of ram.
Runs great on the P200. Not so great on the 133. It may be possible to get XP on those systems but I havn't tried.
Ben
MDaemon == complicated business app for e-mail
EzMTS == basic implementation of e-mail
Exchange Server is even more complicated and I'm sure there are other examples.
e-mail "protocol" is easy. E-mail apps can range in complexity greatly.
Ben
" I'm really interested in this complex business application they call "e-mail.""
um...
"But basic open-source databases and e-mail are already available."
It's a lot funnier when you can actually read and poke fun at things people actually say.
Ben
Politics as Usual
The above is a collection of various political writings including such works as
Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler
Manifesto of the Communist Party
The Unabomber's Manifesto
If you know of any more political documents that are preferably controversial and are freely available, post their title. I'd like to add them to my site.
I'm also looking for original video/audio clips of Bin Laden without any editing or commentary over laid. If he's written any documents, I'd like to get a hold of those too. Some recent material from Saddam would be nice as well.
Ben
Yeah because MS wanted to prevent the XBox being hacked to allow anyone to develope software without paying for the SDK kit simply because they weren't being paid some award money for letting it happen.
Ben
Unlike some nerds I accept responsibility for whatever problems I had because I know I caused them. Sure there was the occasional bit I didn't think I deserved but in the whole scheme of things by gones are by gones. I learned from my mistakes and listened to people when they have/had problems with me.
Blaming it on your "intellect" is not going to make your life any better. Falling down and playing victim is not going to make you feel any better and it's not going to solve any of your problems.
You can say people don't like you because you're smart but you still smell funny, you still have no fashion sense (pick up a Maxim for pete's sake so you can cleanse yourself by looking at women if comparing yourself to other guys and what they wear and how they look makes you feel dirty) and you're still a depressing jerk who takes out his frustrations on other people.
Basically, plenty of nerds ARE the bullies. Nerds have emotional issues and hide and/or are verbally abusive whether they realize it or not. Bullies have emotional issues and take their frustrations out physically. If either group learns to deal with the issues and correct the real reasons why they're unhappy they can lead much happier lives.
"why don't we OWN UP to the problem and try to fix it"
Yeah, why don't you own up to the problem and stop playing helpless victim?
That's why kids kill themselves. People actually let them believe they're helpless victims because they're being picked on for things they can't change.
Take a shower, get some better clothes, buy contacts, get some braces, grow a sense of humor, stop complaining about the popular kids. Any number of things will make people like you more and you like yourself more. Wallowing in your own misery isn't going to solve anything.
I was in band, programmed everything that could be programmed, wore horrible clothes, had the worst glasses ever, had bad teeth and was pretty socially inept. And yet I still had quite a few friends (all the popular kids knew my name) and the fall after I graduated High School I modeled for Seventeen for a fashion show because I fixed everything physically I could and worked on my personality. It was marching band that actually taught me how to walk down the runway.
That's why I "blame the victim," because I know you're not helpless. I don't regret a minute of my "horrible" childhood.
Ben
I've been served fast food by far more geeks than jocks. In fact it's more often then not the "geeks" that run the place.
Jocks tend to work cool jobs like bars and high class restrauants or trendy clothing stores which isn't a bad gig. I've found that the easiest job to move up in is food. I've worked food long enough to respect anyone that's willing to put up with the asshole customers like yourself that think they're above those who serve them.
Once you get a management position anywhere, going to a management position or cubicle in any location is a heck of a lot easier.
Management experience is management experience. The specific job is just details. From my 3 years dealing with little kids at a pizza joint I've learned a lot of patience and people skills which come in handy every day working in a tech position. Growing up an introvert, forcing myself into that kind of social environment really helped.
It's actually one of the big reasons I was hired as a tech for HP. I now work as a tech for a University paying my way through. I know how to talk on a phone and make unhappy people happy (or at least calm).
So basically it boils down not to where you work, but why you work there and what you're getting out of it. I've worked pretty much every type of job there is and every job has taught me skills I use every day.
Feel free to get off your high horse at any time.
Ben
Intelligence has nothing to do with being unpopular. It has to do with the fact you're socially inept. If you're getting beat up it's because you're an ass. Blaming it on your "intelligence" is just the common excuse to try to justify your unpopular behavior.
I had the gall to make fun of our sucky football team in front of one of the players. He looked at me and goes "Because I respect you, I'm just going to give you a 'get out of death free' card." I never made fun of the football team again and I never needed to cash in my card. I was blatently into computer programming all through school from 7th grade on and never got beat up because of it. I even worked on my stuff during classes. The only time I had issues with people was when I said something obnoxious.
I've found that the kids who are the most unpopular are those who bitch all the time and those who are arrogent; about how smart they are or otherwise. Nobody wants to be around people who constantly bitch. People don't like to be depressed believe it or not and making people depressed is not going to win you friends. This may also shock you but people also really don't care to hear how great your grades are.
One of the most popular kids in my old school from 7th to 9th grade was/is pretty much a genius and everyone respected him for it because he was/is also a very nice person.
People don't hate you because you're smart. They hate/don't give a rip about you because you're socially inept and beat you up because you're an asshole. The sooner you can to terms with that fact the sooner you can correct your problems and be a lot happier. People don't care how smart you are. They care that you can entertain them.
Not everyone who is picked on is smart. The most picked on kid during my junior high years was by no means exceptionally intelligent. I've also found that the most popular people are often very intelligent.
This article is just a perpetuation of stereotypes and it's not shocking that the person who wrote it had a tough life. "Why's everybody always picking on me?" I think is a very appropriate summary of that article. The person doesn't have a clue and nobody cares to talk to him long enough to clue him in.
Ben
The place is already freakin dead. It's not like we could do a whole lot more damage.
"Let's deal with where we are right now"
How about we use Mars to test theories we can then apply to Earth if they work?
We only get one shot with Earth. The chances are pretty endless with Mars. If solutions create problems we can then find solutions to those problems without killing millions of people and baby seals in the process.
Basically there's just a lot less to worry about if something goes wrong one mars.
"Whoops! Oh well, the place sucked anyway."
Ben
Yeah, because I'm sure I'm the only person who's identity they were using.
The more people like me who report it even just for a hotmail account the more likely they are to get hunted down.
I also report formmail attempts on my server occasionally. It was more of a problem a few months ago. It's easy to track on my server because formmail doesn't actually exist on it. It's not a big deal on my server but the odds I'm the only server they're trying to send spam through are pretty much slim to none.
Since it's obvious they're trying to spam (even being kind enough to leave a valid e-mail address in the request) it's a pretty good bet they'll get kicked off their ISP for breaking the TOS agreement.
Even though my server isn't much in the whole scheme of things.
Ben
yes. It's under the settings.
Ben