A Frenchman from Millau recently tossed his hat in for the Summar 2004 Darwin Awards competition. Breaking ranks with the other contestents, the 25 year old amateur bungee jumper announced his entry pre-mortem along with his decision to resign from a janitorial/IT position at Eiffage, a French construction group, to pursue his hobby for a living.
Rumors abound, but no details were available about his upcoming performance.
I hear the military is also breathing from the same atmosphere. Perhaps his time would be better spent boycotting air first, since it would take care of all his other problems as well.
Train them so well, they get the work all finished. Convince them that there are other responsibilities that don't exist to deal with after they have finished the work that you were assigned. Then train them to aggressively complete the tasks they replaced you on.
and put themselves out of a job.
I did this on a previous project. I took a defensive nitwit "java architect" (wtf does that mean anyway?) that didn't even now how to type, and taught him to use enough frameworks and tools to complete a webapp well ahead of schedule, while convincing him that there was another huge piece to work on afterwards that would last him a year.
Last time I checked, he was commuting to DC from Atlanta to make ends meet. But hey, I wasn't the one who didn't negotiate overtime pay into my contract.
Grats to this guy for winning the recognition. But from what I understand in his culture the money he receives will just have to be doled out to his family, and his extended family, and their families, etc.
Someone correct me if I'm wrong here, but that's part of the problem with entreprenuership in a lot of African nations. As soon as you start to get somewhere, people start crawling out of the woodwork looking for handouts as part of your family, and it's against traditions to not give the assistance to them. That's why nepotism is such a problem. If you are elected to a position of power you pretty much have to hire your relatives.
I'm assuming this based on the following story: I dated a (great) woman for about two years who lived in Rwanda for 18 months. While there for the state department, she taught a native how to manage his small furniture business and turn a respectable profit. Once he started making enough gains to expand and have a chance at doing more than just surviving off his work (expand his shop, hire more carpenters, open a real store, etc.) she learned that his family threw some serious pressure at him to buck her advice and give the money to them.
So he never was able to make a business to sustain his family because they didn't understand he needed to pay people working for him to bring even more in. Don't spend the seed money.
Last year, someone headed back into the city during rush hour crashed into one of those billboards on GA 400 southbound, bringing it down and blocking the entire road well into the evening.
I wasn't there, but I hear people who saw it happen could see the display blinking:
Traffic sign down on GA 400 S & Windward. Use alternate route.
They didn't kill an embryo, they stopped it's multiplication and took a fraction of its cells. At day six, they were up to what? A hundred cells?
Please don't suggest that you seriously think that a chemical treated skin cell had the potential to grow into a healthy baby.
And since a subset of the cells are a) still alive and b) flourish and multiple, they haven't killed anything any more than losing cells to the outer layers of your Epidermis kills you.
Try not to let the word embryo drum up your emotions.
I think NASA would frown on bringing blow-up dolls on a major mission such as this. I mean, sure we're human and there are some idiosyncrasies that come along with that, but couldn't they hook up with each other and....
What does Mars sound like? Does the equipment on our little interplanetary RV actually have a microphone? Is Nasa interested in knowing how loud the environment is there?
Yeah, read that article. Some witnesses said he almost made it to safety. Except that something appeared to be wrong with his knee just before the earthquake started, so he couldn't run fast enough. Got crushed by falling objects warning sign.
So did everyone notice the comments section at the bottom of the article? Well here was mine:
Shame on you! You had a somewhat noteworthy piece of information to pass out. What do you do? You insert what is so obviously your lack of understanding of codecs and specificity to differentiate yourself from an automated teletype.
If you're going to interject your thoughts on one codec versus another, couldn't you at least back it up? Superior how? Clarity? Losslessness? Compression? Or is this just more ambiguous hype to push the DRM "solution". Because we're all thinking the latter, and about replacing you with that teletype.
Is the advertisement on SpaceDaily.com for Starburst Memorials where for a paltry $12,500 US they'll launch your full (their emphasis, not mine) ashes into space and let them fall back to earth onto everyone's lunch tray. I'm thinking that's really the best way to go. Yeah.
I'm surprised I haven't seen spam about this one yet. Seems like something everyone's gonna be interested in!
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sphere: Sensors indicate that the oxygen level in the cabin have decreased dramatically.
astro-tauko-cosmo-naut: gasp!
sphere: You appear to be suffocating. Would you like some training on the use of the backup oxygen supply?
astro-tauko-cosmo-naut: cough... gasp!
sphere: I did not understand your answer.
sphere moves in front of 'naut to hear the response, obstructing the backup mask.
astro-tauko-cosmo-naut passes out.
sphere: You appear to have suffocated. I'm sorry, but I don't have instructions for you to follow on what to do next.
You're hired! Can I get lifetime services from you for, say, $1700?
A Frenchman from Millau recently tossed his hat in for the Summar 2004 Darwin Awards competition. Breaking ranks with the other contestents, the 25 year old amateur bungee jumper announced his entry pre-mortem along with his decision to resign from a janitorial/IT position at Eiffage, a French construction group, to pursue his hobby for a living.
Rumors abound, but no details were available about his upcoming performance.
Don't be too hard on the hamster for her disposition. It wasn't as though she was unhappy before the tachyon detection experiment.
Now there is a guy who's fed up with being a HAM radio operator.
You put a chic in a pan with water and cornstarch? What did you eat for dinner that night?
I hear the military is also breathing from the same atmosphere. Perhaps his time would be better spent boycotting air first, since it would take care of all his other problems as well.
I just know some PHB in some state highway division is having visions of entire highways full of traffic lights to cut state trooper labor.
Train them so well, they get the work all finished. Convince them that there are other responsibilities that don't exist to deal with after they have finished the work that you were assigned. Then train them to aggressively complete the tasks they replaced you on.
and put themselves out of a job.
I did this on a previous project. I took a defensive nitwit "java architect" (wtf does that mean anyway?) that didn't even now how to type, and taught him to use enough frameworks and tools to complete a webapp well ahead of schedule, while convincing him that there was another huge piece to work on afterwards that would last him a year.
Last time I checked, he was commuting to DC from Atlanta to make ends meet. But hey, I wasn't the one who didn't negotiate overtime pay into my contract.
Chump!
Grats to this guy for winning the recognition. But from what I understand in his culture the money he receives will just have to be doled out to his family, and his extended family, and their families, etc.
Someone correct me if I'm wrong here, but that's part of the problem with entreprenuership in a lot of African nations. As soon as you start to get somewhere, people start crawling out of the woodwork looking for handouts as part of your family, and it's against traditions to not give the assistance to them. That's why nepotism is such a problem. If you are elected to a position of power you pretty much have to hire your relatives.
I'm assuming this based on the following story: I dated a (great) woman for about two years who lived in Rwanda for 18 months. While there for the state department, she taught a native how to manage his small furniture business and turn a respectable profit. Once he started making enough gains to expand and have a chance at doing more than just surviving off his work (expand his shop, hire more carpenters, open a real store, etc.) she learned that his family threw some serious pressure at him to buck her advice and give the money to them.
So he never was able to make a business to sustain his family because they didn't understand he needed to pay people working for him to bring even more in. Don't spend the seed money.
Agreed. This seems like something more appropriate for the American Highway system, to accompany the largest ball of twine and the dinosaur replicas.
Either way, wake me up when they turn it into a real-time replica, where the celestial bodies move.
Wow!!!! He sure was happy to get that hack to work!!! He must've shorted his hand across the transformer a couple of times!!!
I'm betting that the kiddies play a role, in much the same way the messenger does for the author of the letter.
And like the messenger, they are more likely to get shot by the good guys when the let a hack loose into the wild.
Could it be that a few black (and possibly white) hatters find that they serve a purpose?
Let me bring you up to date since you left.
Last year, someone headed back into the city during rush hour crashed into one of those billboards on GA 400 southbound, bringing it down and blocking the entire road well into the evening.
I wasn't there, but I hear people who saw it happen could see the display blinking:
Traffic sign down on GA 400 S & Windward. Use alternate route.
My mind conjured up the voice of Jack Nicholson wielding this speech as I read it. Pretty funny stuff.
You think we could get him to create a recording for us?
We'd have to make them blind and inhibit their sense of smell too if girls for geeks is the goal.
They didn't kill an embryo, they stopped it's multiplication and took a fraction of its cells. At day six, they were up to what? A hundred cells?
Please don't suggest that you seriously think that a chemical treated skin cell had the potential to grow into a healthy baby.
And since a subset of the cells are a) still alive and b) flourish and multiple, they haven't killed anything any more than losing cells to the outer layers of your Epidermis kills you.
Try not to let the word embryo drum up your emotions.
I think NASA would frown on bringing blow-up dolls on a major mission such as this. I mean, sure we're human and there are some idiosyncrasies that come along with that, but couldn't they hook up with each other and
oh. nevermind then.
Take a look at these live fire videos.
Thanks for the link. I imagine you could replace a mine field with a line of lead.
What does Mars sound like? Does the equipment on our little interplanetary RV actually have a microphone? Is Nasa interested in knowing how loud the environment is there?
Inquiring minds want to know!
That must mean that the next two locations after Mars which the President would propose to send manned explorations to would be Mercury and the Sun...
Who want's to bet?
Yeah, read that article. Some witnesses said he almost made it to safety. Except that something appeared to be wrong with his knee just before the earthquake started, so he couldn't run fast enough. Got crushed by falling objects warning sign.
So did everyone notice the comments section at the bottom of the article? Well here was mine:
Shame on you! You had a somewhat noteworthy piece of information to pass out. What do you do? You insert what is so obviously your lack of understanding of codecs and specificity to differentiate yourself from an automated teletype.
If you're going to interject your thoughts on one codec versus another, couldn't you at least back it up? Superior how? Clarity? Losslessness? Compression? Or is this just more ambiguous hype to push the DRM "solution". Because we're all thinking the latter, and about replacing you with that teletype.
Lame ending Pal.
Now you try it!
Wow, congratulations! That's... uh,.. wait... Doh!
Is the advertisement on SpaceDaily.com for Starburst Memorials where for a paltry $12,500 US they'll launch your full (their emphasis, not mine) ashes into space and let them fall back to earth onto everyone's lunch tray. I'm thinking that's really the best way to go. Yeah.
I'm surprised I haven't seen spam about this one yet. Seems like something everyone's gonna be interested in!