Wow, they suck. I at least skim through 1000 pages of research documentation in a few hours. Is 150 resumes, let's say even 2 pages in length, makes that 300 pages. They can't skim through 300 pages in a night?
"There's a reason that stoners are generally thought of as apathetic dullards: most of them are. "
wow. Then I'm hanging out with a whole new breed of stoners......
meh. guess I need I need to get a job with high times magazine or someone equally apathetic to such acts.
Impulse control - heh - not every act in life should be handled with restraint. Sometimes the impulse like act is the most important. There are sooooooo many impulse based acts that I would never in a million years regret... other ones... maybe I would.
What if someone who comes in with a pot-leaf t-shirt teaches you somethings that you had a) never heard of before and b) demonstrate how to make it profitable.
You could be dealing with someone who'd be willing to take a bullet for your organization. But just because you don't like the fact they demonstrate some level of shamelessness turns you off... pfft... your loss.
Then again, I have no money. I have no power in these things. But if I was running an organization... that person would get an equal voice to everyone else at the interview level. Hell, I'd want to interrogate them even more.
Just because the law declares something wrong doesn't mean that it is.
I posted a whole bunch of shit on various internet sites over the years. Everything from illicit drug usage, to my odd political leanings - and totally doing it under my real name (or nickname that can easily be traced to my real name). I honestly felt I hit the point of no return and just started to embrace the fact I'm not anonymous, and I'm all over the fucking place.
I have a love/hate relationship with Google - I love being able to find any piece of information I want quickly, but I hate the hopeless feeling of removing search results that I had even written myself.
In the end - I don't fucking care.
It worried me before, and still does a bit today. But in the end, if it means that I can have the freedom to express my thoughts online, I'll settle on mopping floors for the rest of my life... even if I have some obscure degree in optics.
Apparently the business world doesn't believe in freedom of expression. You're supposed to shut the fuck up, do your work, go home, spend time with your family, fuck your wife/girlfriend (or not...?), watch TV and go back to work the next day. But most of the people who are managers are assholes pieces of shit, so I have no remorse over this. I find it odd that the employer that had the biggest balls to say to my face that they don't want me back was a woman. All the men just called the temp agency to ditch me. I think that taught me the most about the business world. Male managers are pussies, female managers have balls.
Otherwise....
You are fucked if you admit to doing drugs. You are fucked if you admit to liking sex. You are fucked if you admit to hating the President. You are fucked if you admit to hating the police. You are fucked if you show any sense of rebellion to anything... the employers will search your name, they will read your postings, and by default you lose. Even if they agree with everything you write.
I like using Alan Turing as an example. He spent probably countless nights doing research to help defeat the Nazi's - but it doesn't matter cause he's gay. The law at the time said being gay is illegal, so some pieces of shit decided to conspire against him, and started a process that basically led him to his suicide...
If you rebel to any facet of society that some bare majority - let's say even 51% objects to - they will make your life hell.
It's best to just assume no one Googled your name, and just keep living life... it just sucks when people start doing things that make you feel like you're going through some awful acid trip, and the totally improbable starts happening for some reason.
Anyone who judges someone from a bunch of random postings online when it comes to a job really needs to rethink their priorities. Come on, I can do a good job mopping floors... why do employers care if I like to smoke weed and get drunk from time to time? Don't they? That must be an awfully large pickle to have up their ass if they do care....
I think employers should start bringing up internet search results during interviews. At least you get a chance to defend yourself. As if I remember everything I wrote online back in 1998...
Gotta love things like, having posted comments that support actions like killing your own military officers, while thinking about applying as a military officer 8 years later. heh let's talk about reasons for not applying for a job....
heh in a week's time this will get even more awesome as I put a research proposal forward.
"It's my view that the people complaining most are the same Christians who hate Jews, Muslims and any other religious believers that don't follow their God.
I have no religion* and they hate me too."
You know that's not true. The Scientologists have made enough enemies online to have people spew hatred against them. If you respond to every criticism of your organization with lawsuits, even against websites that are just reposting other people's words, you'll end up making lots of enemies.
My family maybe Catholic, but I consider myself Atheist, and haven't followed Catholicism for a long time. I haven't liked Scientology for a long time, and it has nothing to do with my high school teachers attempts at defining cults. Come on - these bastards threatened THIS site with lawsuits over their "sacred OT3".
I have no problem with most Christians, aside from the ones that want their beliefs enforced by law. I have no problem with most Jews aside from the most conservative of Jews, and the ones that believe they are completely justified in their occupation of Palestine. I have no problem with most Muslims aside from the ones that again want their morality enforced by law, the ones that feel women should be subjugated to a different set of law, and the ones that support the likes of Bin Laden and irrational aggressors in Palestine.
And if you have no religion, but still believe in some social conservative horseshit, I won't like you either.
You go adhere to some fictional neo-Buddhist code Inda. There's no hate against that.
ummm... Xenu believes in Scientology only in that they exist. He doesn't necessarily believe in their doctrine or behaviour.
And I don't know what Xenu's grudge is against Scientology. Maybe it's for threatening every website under the sun with legal action. Maybe it's for knowing who he is and what he stands for, and he needs to silence them before some great uprising occurs. LRon wrote of him as an enemy, I imagine he's their enemy and not a Scientologist. What's so hard to understand about this?
Bin Laden is going to kill himself in a few days. Probably on the 11th... and it most likely won't be a suicide bombing attempt. He's going to leave a long video or note to go with it. Don't know why I've been thinking this recently...
... there should be preemptive raids on people drinking beer in stadiums, just to make sure people don't get drunk and break shit after their team loses.
dude, the police lie to the media all the time. They confiscate shit like toy bow and arrows and claim them as weapons.
Here's an example of one protest organizer's experience with Montreal police:
"I was charged with participating in a riot, breach of conditions, and possessing a dangerous weapon: a teddy-bear launching catapult. I was detained for 17 days in prison before winning bail. During various court hearings while I was in detention, police witnesses and crown attorneys alleged that I was the leader of the demonstration, and that the catapult was used to launch rocks and Molotov cocktails. One officer testified under oath that the teddy bears could have transformed into Molotovs (no joke). The police did "ballistics tests" on the catapult which were recorded on video, after the catapult was seized from an affinity group from Ottawa (the "Lanark-ists") by the police." source link
I'd really like to see the evidence they gathered for these protests presented. In many cases, the evidence provided to media doesn't hold in court...
I tried to argue that there was a great deal of uncertainty considering what was available from news articles, but since he pointed investigators to the body, there's no doubt now....
I could buy the argument that his behaviour during the initial trial was just the result of him being a total fucking geek. But obviously I was wrong...
Shit dude, if you know of a way to load marijuana buds into ammo casing with the exact amount of fuel to vaporize just the THC, you could have the novelty pot product of the century.
Everyone would be shooting themselves through the mouth:
If you only play video games stoned, being non-stoned hampers your skill.
It seriously is true. You just lose your flow of the game...
Maybe after playing video games clean for several years (or maybe only a few months), will you get used to playing the game without weed.
Other drugs, especially ones like coke, meth, etc - if you're a stoner, and you start taking that shit, it'll probably fuck up your gaming style completely. In games where you're a commander (like Battlefield 2/2142) though, I can see some possible benefit...
If they have a way of significantly improving batteries, they're holding the key to enabling a lot of technologies that have been waiting on better batteries....
I think it's fair that Angela Belcher has us by the balls...
In the end, if you're being targeted specifically by a hacker, using anti-virus software and firewall protection can only go so far. But to prevent casual infection by old viruses, using AV software certainly helps. It's especially good for people that have no idea what they're doing on their computer besides using Word, checking email, and surfing the web.
meh - I blame them for not consulting me. I live in St. Catharines where they're head quartered.:-)
I don't understand why they need to defend their product. As a piece of "art", because I'd consider video games art, actively defending your own work is kind of forbidden. I always talk shit about anything I work on, but that's because I'm never happy with it or eventually get bored of trying to finish it. If people tell me the music I've composed sucks - then great - it probably does:-) - I'm not going to argue with them much. That's what fans are for.:-)
Plus if you're trying to make a product that will be popular and profitable, you may need to compromise your own artistic vision...
This is the difference I've noticed between musicians who are artists or business people. I'd consider a band like KISS to be straight up business. Make songs people can easily sing along to, consist of basic elements, and provide a certain image. Any other musicians who are starting from the ground up making music they love, face a difficult uphill battle to become profitable.
If the Silicon Knights are going in the artistic direction, they might need to keep their mouths shut and let the public decide. If people don't like this game, then they'll have to try again with another approach...
It would be nice if the article told us how it works... if she has a way to get past transparent conductive oxide layers I would certainly be interested in hearing about it. Zinc Oxide deposition onto glass substrates is used for the black currant solar cell.
I like how that technique is being heralded by a company named Mansolar....
Well - reading the fucking article again, I did notice this...
"While it could take five years to commercialise the patented technology"
Am I being an asshole for pointing out the irony of wanting to commercialize DIY solar cell technology?
""I love working with passionate people who want to help address climate change and poverty by thinking and experimenting outside the square," she said."
That reminds me of an episode of Pinky and the Brain. Something about Brain wanting to take over the world for the good of all man kind, and chanting kumbaya with a bunch of hippies...:-)
And are they talking about an electric pizza oven or a brick oven pizza oven? I imagine one would be depositing carbon all over the place... which could help in some cases. The black currant technique requires a layer of graphite to be applied for the anode I think...
Whatever I wanna see Chun-Li jumping off of invisible walls, doing lightspeed leg kicks that release some sort of plasma and some ridiculous floating helicopter kick.
These kids are probably training 8 hours everyday, what difference does entering serious competition every 4 years make? I thought this was about being the best, not about age.
"less than crappy acts like Britney Spears is fundamentally broken. I will not give one penny to those talentless pop stars."
Awww come on that's kind of not fair. Obviously she can sing and dance, and she probably writes some of the lyrics. Yeah, she gets other people to do composition, and production work, but to say she's talentless is not fair. Talentless people usually contract out the whole deal - everything from song writing to production, and then perform poorly on stage.
I can't believe I'm defending Britney Spears.
In the end, it comes down to who controls the pool. Just like public swimming pools, patrons come in and do a variety of things - some go for their swim, some dive with goggles... some piss in the pool, some parent's let their kids come in and shit in it.... this has fail written all over it.
Damn 4chan... now I can't help but think of a bunch of black guys showing up and closing the pool.
meh I'm still happy with my Athlon XP 1800+, and 512 MB of RAM. No need to make basic activities load slower due to a larger system overhead. I'm sure if I turn Vista into some "classic" Windows theme, like I do to XP anyway, it would behave how I'd like it to. XP and Linux basically do anything I'd want to do on a desktop. I'm sure when I buy a new laptop I'll be forced to get Vista with it, but I plan on taking up the rebate offer by not accepting the license agreement.
I've talked to enough people when I worked at a call centre who told me they don't like Vista. The negative word of mouth is far more intense than it ever has been for XP. Most people just accepted XP within 6 months, but this Vista negativity just keeps dragging on...
Apple's just not doing enough to prevent their software from running on other hardware.
Do I agree with what they're doing - no.
They need to get a bigger chunk of the overall computer industry, and an OS is a big tie in. They can focus on making hardware that has high compatibility with their own software, and they'll always have a lead on their competitors.
iPhones, iPods... those are products that are easy to defend in the market. They have the brand recognition on all that shit.
I say they should let Mac clones come out, and sell their OS profitably, and just focus on everything else. The $100 PC that will inevitably happen will make the home computer market less profitable overall.
Cheaper "Mac"-based desktops will only drive product adoption. Even if someone buys a Mac clone, they've already bought into the Apple family of products. That sounds far more profitable than just selling a computer. Especially if products like the iPhone have a higher profit margin than a Mac Book Pro.
But I'm some dumb computer user that does nothing but read the Internet all day, what would I know?
Plus Apple has possibly the best English language company name. Any company that tries to release a clone of their products can always be fought with an ad campaign playing on the theme of rotten apples.
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Wow, they suck. I at least skim through 1000 pages of research documentation in a few hours. Is 150 resumes, let's say even 2 pages in length, makes that 300 pages. They can't skim through 300 pages in a night?
"There's a reason that stoners are generally thought of as apathetic dullards: most of them are. "
wow. Then I'm hanging out with a whole new breed of stoners ......
meh. guess I need I need to get a job with high times magazine or someone equally apathetic to such acts.
Impulse control - heh - not every act in life should be handled with restraint. Sometimes the impulse like act is the most important. There are sooooooo many impulse based acts that I would never in a million years regret... other ones... maybe I would.
What if someone who comes in with a pot-leaf t-shirt teaches you somethings that you had a) never heard of before and b) demonstrate how to make it profitable.
You could be dealing with someone who'd be willing to take a bullet for your organization. But just because you don't like the fact they demonstrate some level of shamelessness turns you off... pfft ... your loss.
Then again, I have no money. I have no power in these things. But if I was running an organization ... that person would get an equal voice to everyone else at the interview level. Hell, I'd want to interrogate them even more.
Just because the law declares something wrong doesn't mean that it is.
...cause I'm totally fucked.
I posted a whole bunch of shit on various internet sites over the years. Everything from illicit drug usage, to my odd political leanings - and totally doing it under my real name (or nickname that can easily be traced to my real name). I honestly felt I hit the point of no return and just started to embrace the fact I'm not anonymous, and I'm all over the fucking place.
I have a love/hate relationship with Google - I love being able to find any piece of information I want quickly, but I hate the hopeless feeling of removing search results that I had even written myself.
In the end - I don't fucking care.
It worried me before, and still does a bit today. But in the end, if it means that I can have the freedom to express my thoughts online, I'll settle on mopping floors for the rest of my life ... even if I have some obscure degree in optics.
Apparently the business world doesn't believe in freedom of expression. You're supposed to shut the fuck up, do your work, go home, spend time with your family, fuck your wife/girlfriend (or not...?), watch TV and go back to work the next day. But most of the people who are managers are assholes pieces of shit, so I have no remorse over this. I find it odd that the employer that had the biggest balls to say to my face that they don't want me back was a woman. All the men just called the temp agency to ditch me. I think that taught me the most about the business world. Male managers are pussies, female managers have balls.
Otherwise....
You are fucked if you admit to doing drugs. You are fucked if you admit to liking sex. You are fucked if you admit to hating the President. You are fucked if you admit to hating the police. You are fucked if you show any sense of rebellion to anything ... the employers will search your name, they will read your postings, and by default you lose. Even if they agree with everything you write.
I like using Alan Turing as an example. He spent probably countless nights doing research to help defeat the Nazi's - but it doesn't matter cause he's gay. The law at the time said being gay is illegal, so some pieces of shit decided to conspire against him, and started a process that basically led him to his suicide...
If you rebel to any facet of society that some bare majority - let's say even 51% objects to - they will make your life hell.
It's best to just assume no one Googled your name, and just keep living life ... it just sucks when people start doing things that make you feel like you're going through some awful acid trip, and the totally improbable starts happening for some reason.
Anyone who judges someone from a bunch of random postings online when it comes to a job really needs to rethink their priorities. Come on, I can do a good job mopping floors... why do employers care if I like to smoke weed and get drunk from time to time? Don't they? That must be an awfully large pickle to have up their ass if they do care....
I think employers should start bringing up internet search results during interviews. At least you get a chance to defend yourself. As if I remember everything I wrote online back in 1998 ...
Gotta love things like, having posted comments that support actions like killing your own military officers, while thinking about applying as a military officer 8 years later. heh let's talk about reasons for not applying for a job....
heh in a week's time this will get even more awesome as I put a research proposal forward.
"It's my view that the people complaining most are the same Christians who hate Jews, Muslims and any other religious believers that don't follow their God.
I have no religion* and they hate me too."
You know that's not true. The Scientologists have made enough enemies online to have people spew hatred against them. If you respond to every criticism of your organization with lawsuits, even against websites that are just reposting other people's words, you'll end up making lots of enemies.
My family maybe Catholic, but I consider myself Atheist, and haven't followed Catholicism for a long time. I haven't liked Scientology for a long time, and it has nothing to do with my high school teachers attempts at defining cults. Come on - these bastards threatened THIS site with lawsuits over their "sacred OT3".
I have no problem with most Christians, aside from the ones that want their beliefs enforced by law. I have no problem with most Jews aside from the most conservative of Jews, and the ones that believe they are completely justified in their occupation of Palestine. I have no problem with most Muslims aside from the ones that again want their morality enforced by law, the ones that feel women should be subjugated to a different set of law, and the ones that support the likes of Bin Laden and irrational aggressors in Palestine.
And if you have no religion, but still believe in some social conservative horseshit, I won't like you either.
You go adhere to some fictional neo-Buddhist code Inda. There's no hate against that.
ummm ... Xenu believes in Scientology only in that they exist. He doesn't necessarily believe in their doctrine or behaviour.
And I don't know what Xenu's grudge is against Scientology. Maybe it's for threatening every website under the sun with legal action. Maybe it's for knowing who he is and what he stands for, and he needs to silence them before some great uprising occurs. LRon wrote of him as an enemy, I imagine he's their enemy and not a Scientologist. What's so hard to understand about this?
hey hey - Xenu is their enemy. Since when was Xenu a Scientologist?
Bin Laden is going to kill himself in a few days. Probably on the 11th... and it most likely won't be a suicide bombing attempt. He's going to leave a long video or note to go with it. Don't know why I've been thinking this recently...
BillyG just wants the whole world to like him. That's all.
The users of /. probably confuse the fuck out of him. In a "Why do they hate me so much?" kind of way.
... there should be preemptive raids on people drinking beer in stadiums, just to make sure people don't get drunk and break shit after their team loses.
dude, the police lie to the media all the time. They confiscate shit like toy bow and arrows and claim them as weapons.
Here's an example of one protest organizer's experience with Montreal police:
"I was charged with
participating in a riot, breach of conditions, and possessing a
dangerous weapon: a teddy-bear launching catapult. I was
detained for 17 days in prison before winning bail. During
various court hearings while I was in detention, police
witnesses and crown attorneys alleged that I was the leader
of the demonstration, and that the catapult was used to
launch rocks and Molotov cocktails. One officer testified under
oath that the teddy bears could have transformed into
Molotovs (no joke). The police did "ballistics tests" on the
catapult which were recorded on video, after the catapult
was seized from an affinity group from Ottawa (the
"Lanark-ists") by the police." source link
I'd really like to see the evidence they gathered for these protests presented. In many cases, the evidence provided to media doesn't hold in court...
At this point there is no way you can defend him.
I tried to argue that there was a great deal of uncertainty considering what was available from news articles, but since he pointed investigators to the body, there's no doubt now....
I could buy the argument that his behaviour during the initial trial was just the result of him being a total fucking geek. But obviously I was wrong...
Shit dude, if you know of a way to load marijuana buds into ammo casing with the exact amount of fuel to vaporize just the THC, you could have the novelty pot product of the century.
Everyone would be shooting themselves through the mouth:
"Gimme 10 rounds of the 50 cal"
Please don't encourage this....
If you only play video games stoned, being non-stoned hampers your skill.
It seriously is true. You just lose your flow of the game ...
Maybe after playing video games clean for several years (or maybe only a few months), will you get used to playing the game without weed.
Other drugs, especially ones like coke, meth, etc - if you're a stoner, and you start taking that shit, it'll probably fuck up your gaming style completely. In games where you're a commander (like Battlefield 2/2142) though, I can see some possible benefit ...
The approach they're taking makes complete sense.
If they have a way of significantly improving batteries, they're holding the key to enabling a lot of technologies that have been waiting on better batteries....
I think it's fair that Angela Belcher has us by the balls...
In the end, if you're being targeted specifically by a hacker, using anti-virus software and firewall protection can only go so far. But to prevent casual infection by old viruses, using AV software certainly helps. It's especially good for people that have no idea what they're doing on their computer besides using Word, checking email, and surfing the web.
I believe!
meh - I blame them for not consulting me. I live in St. Catharines where they're head quartered. :-)
I don't understand why they need to defend their product. As a piece of "art", because I'd consider video games art, actively defending your own work is kind of forbidden. I always talk shit about anything I work on, but that's because I'm never happy with it or eventually get bored of trying to finish it. If people tell me the music I've composed sucks - then great - it probably does :-) - I'm not going to argue with them much. That's what fans are for. :-)
Plus if you're trying to make a product that will be popular and profitable, you may need to compromise your own artistic vision ...
This is the difference I've noticed between musicians who are artists or business people. I'd consider a band like KISS to be straight up business. Make songs people can easily sing along to, consist of basic elements, and provide a certain image. Any other musicians who are starting from the ground up making music they love, face a difficult uphill battle to become profitable.
If the Silicon Knights are going in the artistic direction, they might need to keep their mouths shut and let the public decide. If people don't like this game, then they'll have to try again with another approach...
Sometime I'll learn to follow my own advice. :-)
Get back in the kitchen and cook me a solar cell!
It would be nice if the article told us how it works ... if she has a way to get past transparent conductive oxide layers I would certainly be interested in hearing about it. Zinc Oxide deposition onto glass substrates is used for the black currant solar cell.
I like how that technique is being heralded by a company named Mansolar....
Well - reading the fucking article again, I did notice this ...
"While it could take five years to commercialise the patented technology"
Am I being an asshole for pointing out the irony of wanting to commercialize DIY solar cell technology?
""I love working with passionate people who want to help address climate change and poverty by thinking and experimenting outside the square," she said."
That reminds me of an episode of Pinky and the Brain. Something about Brain wanting to take over the world for the good of all man kind, and chanting kumbaya with a bunch of hippies... :-)
And are they talking about an electric pizza oven or a brick oven pizza oven? I imagine one would be depositing carbon all over the place ... which could help in some cases. The black currant technique requires a layer of graphite to be applied for the anode I think...
Your resident /. manarchist,
afxgrin
Whatever I wanna see Chun-Li jumping off of invisible walls, doing lightspeed leg kicks that release some sort of plasma and some ridiculous floating helicopter kick.
These kids are probably training 8 hours everyday, what difference does entering serious competition every 4 years make? I thought this was about being the best, not about age.
An anonymous army of white guys pretending to be black will close the pool. You know it'll happen.
"less than crappy acts like Britney Spears is fundamentally broken. I will not give one penny to those talentless pop stars."
Awww come on that's kind of not fair. Obviously she can sing and dance, and she probably writes some of the lyrics. Yeah, she gets other people to do composition, and production work, but to say she's talentless is not fair. Talentless people usually contract out the whole deal - everything from song writing to production, and then perform poorly on stage.
I can't believe I'm defending Britney Spears.
In the end, it comes down to who controls the pool. Just like public swimming pools, patrons come in and do a variety of things - some go for their swim, some dive with goggles ... some piss in the pool, some parent's let their kids come in and shit in it .... this has fail written all over it.
Damn 4chan ... now I can't help but think of a bunch of black guys showing up and closing the pool.
Private pool parties sound like the way to go.
I personally prefer the lake though ...
meh I'm still happy with my Athlon XP 1800+, and 512 MB of RAM. No need to make basic activities load slower due to a larger system overhead. I'm sure if I turn Vista into some "classic" Windows theme, like I do to XP anyway, it would behave how I'd like it to. XP and Linux basically do anything I'd want to do on a desktop. I'm sure when I buy a new laptop I'll be forced to get Vista with it, but I plan on taking up the rebate offer by not accepting the license agreement.
I've talked to enough people when I worked at a call centre who told me they don't like Vista. The negative word of mouth is far more intense than it ever has been for XP. Most people just accepted XP within 6 months, but this Vista negativity just keeps dragging on...
I was hoping your homepage was this one.
Apple's just not doing enough to prevent their software from running on other hardware.
Do I agree with what they're doing - no.
They need to get a bigger chunk of the overall computer industry, and an OS is a big tie in. They can focus on making hardware that has high compatibility with their own software, and they'll always have a lead on their competitors.
iPhones, iPods... those are products that are easy to defend in the market. They have the brand recognition on all that shit.
I say they should let Mac clones come out, and sell their OS profitably, and just focus on everything else. The $100 PC that will inevitably happen will make the home computer market less profitable overall.
Cheaper "Mac"-based desktops will only drive product adoption. Even if someone buys a Mac clone, they've already bought into the Apple family of products. That sounds far more profitable than just selling a computer. Especially if products like the iPhone have a higher profit margin than a Mac Book Pro.
But I'm some dumb computer user that does nothing but read the Internet all day, what would I know?
Plus Apple has possibly the best English language company name. Any company that tries to release a clone of their products can always be fought with an ad campaign playing on the theme of rotten apples.
Inevitably someone will die from whatever drug they're abusing.
Yep, you can buy the cameras at Surplus Shed actually. (or you could last I checked ... like a year ago)
I imagine the tricky part is getting the correct film.