If he's still bitter over a measly competition that happened TEN YEARS AGO, he's a whiny little bitch.
Just because for him, the misprint scarred him for life, doesn't mean it's not fun for anybody else.
Like skydiving. Fun as shit. For Me. Now maybe for you, it won't be because all the way down you'll be whining about how much you don't want to get hurt.
I went to this last year (the 2003 World Finals) representing my school, and I can give you a couple good reasons why I love doing this:
1) It -is- enjoyable. Animals are meant to compete, that's what we do. No to brag about it, but just to feel good, by either winning or watching other really good people one. 2) By competing. you see how good you are compared to other people, which then drives you to get better. Take for example, someone who wants to get strong. It's going to be a lot harder for him to motivate himself if he's working out alone in his bedroom, than if he gets a workout buddy and goes to the gym. Why? Because when he's sees other people better than him, it makes him strive harder to get just as good. Which is the whole idea of Capitalism. Let the better products get more used. Of course, this doesn't always work out, but the idea is there.
3) Being flown to Beverly Hill (last year) or the Czech Republic (this year) on an all-expenses-paid trip by your school is worth it on its own merits, disregarding the competiotion completely.
I had read all of BNW, and it was actually the later chapters which made me like it more, the fact that people who didn't fit in could select an island they wanted to go and be with other people like them.
Re: Island I picked it up a few days ago and am a few chapters into it....
You can't, and that's exactly why it doesn't matter. Actually, while we're at it, how do you know that you're not simply some larger creature's pet. Maybe we're just ants in some (higher's creature) a world kid's room.
Do we know for sure?
No, and that's why nothing matters except for our current, here and now, enjoyment and satisfaction.
If i do recall correctly, Alphas were smartest. Betas were best, since they werent too smart or too dumb, but they envied the Alphas. Betas only slightly envied the Alphas, but they didn't want the responsibility of the Alphas, so they were actually happy in their place.
Deltas were pretty dumb, and Epsilons were handicapped mentally. Yes, the Deltas and Epsilons were mentally handicapped, but they knew nothing else. Their intelligence was just right for their position on the island, and they were able to have sex and some as much as they needed, so they were constantly happy.
The people in that culture were engineered, yes "engineered", to be satisfied and perfectly content with what they had.
The Alphas that though too much were sent to an island where they could do as they please, and where they were constantly around other people of their own intelleect. For example, the writer (I forgot his name) asked to be sent near England, so he could have bad weather which would help him write; some when to tropical islands.
What I wouldn't give today to be sent to an island filled with other people of the same intellect as me, to not have to deal with the typical dumbfucks of society. What I wouldn't give to not have to cope with manic depression or suicidal thoughts, to have a "soma pill" that simply made me happy.
It IS a scary world, I said that earlier as well, because we couldn't imagine not having the right to read Shakespeare or study physics or do what not, but what if we didn't know what physics was, or what Shakespeare was, and only knew what you needed for your position? I, personally, would more happily move to that world, AS LONG AS I could forget THIS world.
When a beaver builds a dam, it's called nature. When man builds a dam, we're destroying nature. Is the purpose of our life not to better our lives? And if so, why should we not be allowed genetic engineering, cloning, going to different planets.
The world is constantly changing, and we are part of it.
Now I do understand that many people have moral issues with genetic engineering, and I did (and still somewhat do) too, but if done right, what's the problem. For those don't understand, read Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. It's a scary world that he describes, looking at it from our point of view; however, from the inhabitants point of view, it's a perfect world. Brainwashed, yes, but very few people are unhappy. Furthermore, the few that are too intelligent to live in that world are given their own island, to do as they please.
A perfect society, but it takes a while and a lot of change to get there.
Christ, man, thanks, you made my fucking day! I've gone months being royally pissed off cause I "lost" so many features in Gnome2. Well, I'm gonna have to fiddle with gcong and see what else is cool that i don't know about...;)
the one really cool feature from gnome 1.0 which was removed is still not here:
detachable menus, absolutely loved that in Galeon I could pull off a menu of bookmarks, when I was trying to hunt through a lot of them. Anyone know why it was removed, and/or when/if it's going to come back?
I'm 3-click shopping where the first click selects the shopping cart, the second click selects the credit card you want to pay with (for all the poor-ass people like me who need to spread out their bills over multiple cards) and the third click will order the item!
Woohoo! No more multiple credit cards for me, time to sue people and make money!
Smoking pot is not be any means equivalent to smoking crack. Someone who smokes crack is called a crackhead/ Someone who smokes pot is called an almost-blind person, or in some cases, a person appetitie challenged.
I do not look up any patents on _principle_, because (a) it's a horrible waste of time and (b) I don't want to know.
The fact is, technical people are better off not looking at patents. If you don't know what they cover and where they are, you won't be knowingly infringing on them. If somebody sues you, you change the algorithm or you just hire a hit-man to whack the stupid git. (emphasis mine)
Quality choice of words; now not only are we evil copyright violaters, we're murderous villains as well.
Although, I must admit, my already tremendous amount of respect for Linus just went up a notch.;)
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even more so thast nobody realized it.
Once you posted the spoiler, the mods are going trigger-happy with that comment...;)
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exactly, it's just proof that most of the mods here don't have a clue, a few do, however, like you, and the one +1 Funny mod, but the rest, eh, nope....
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Actually, one of my friends a few years ago made a few hundred dollars over a year through AA.
(That's by the AllAdvantage stuff, not by sneaking alchol into AlAnon.)
If he's still bitter over a measly competition that happened TEN YEARS AGO, he's a whiny little bitch.
Just because for him, the misprint scarred him for life, doesn't mean it's not fun for anybody else.
Like skydiving. Fun as shit. For Me. Now maybe for you, it won't be because all the way down you'll be whining about how much you don't want to get hurt.
I went to this last year (the 2003 World Finals) representing my school, and I can give you a couple good reasons why I love doing this:
1) It -is- enjoyable. Animals are meant to compete, that's what we do. No to brag about it, but just to feel good, by either winning or watching other really good people one.
2) By competing. you see how good you are compared to other people, which then drives you to get better. Take for example, someone who wants to get strong. It's going to be a lot harder for him to motivate himself if he's working out alone in his bedroom, than if he gets a workout buddy and goes to the gym. Why? Because when he's sees other people better than him, it makes him strive harder to get just as good. Which is the whole idea of Capitalism. Let the better products get more used. Of course, this doesn't always work out, but the idea is there.
3) Being flown to Beverly Hill (last year) or the Czech Republic (this year) on an all-expenses-paid trip by your school is worth it on its own merits, disregarding the competiotion completely.
Yeah, but with Emacs, at least I would've gotten a decent OS.
I had read all of BNW, and it was actually the later chapters which made me like it more, the fact that people who didn't fit in could select an island they wanted to go and be with other people like them.
Re: Island I picked it up a few days ago and am a few chapters into it....
Haven't read any Neitzsche though
How can you tell?
You can't, and that's exactly why it doesn't matter. Actually, while we're at it, how do you know that you're not simply some larger creature's pet. Maybe we're just ants in some (higher's creature) a world kid's room.
Do we know for sure?
No, and that's why nothing matters except for our current, here and now, enjoyment and satisfaction.
If i do recall correctly, Alphas were smartest. Betas were best, since they werent too smart or too dumb, but they envied the Alphas.
Betas only slightly envied the Alphas, but they didn't want the responsibility of the Alphas, so they were actually happy in their place.
Deltas were pretty dumb, and Epsilons were handicapped mentally.
Yes, the Deltas and Epsilons were mentally handicapped, but they knew nothing else. Their intelligence was just right for their position on the island, and they were able to have sex and some as much as they needed, so they were constantly happy.
The people in that culture were engineered, yes "engineered", to be satisfied and perfectly content with what they had.
The Alphas that though too much were sent to an island where they could do as they please, and where they were constantly around other people of their own intelleect. For example, the writer (I forgot his name) asked to be sent near England, so he could have bad weather which would help him write; some when to tropical islands.
What I wouldn't give today to be sent to an island filled with other people of the same intellect as me, to not have to deal with the typical dumbfucks of society. What I wouldn't give to not have to cope with manic depression or suicidal thoughts, to have a "soma pill" that simply made me happy.
It IS a scary world, I said that earlier as well, because we couldn't imagine not having the right to read Shakespeare or study physics or do what not, but what if we didn't know what physics was, or what Shakespeare was, and only knew what you needed for your position? I, personally, would more happily move to that world, AS LONG AS I could forget THIS world.
When a beaver builds a dam, it's called nature. When man builds a dam, we're destroying nature. Is the purpose of our life not to better our lives? And if so, why should we not be allowed genetic engineering, cloning, going to different planets.
The world is constantly changing, and we are part of it.
Now I do understand that many people have moral issues with genetic engineering, and I did (and still somewhat do) too, but if done right, what's the problem. For those don't understand, read Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. It's a scary world that he describes, looking at it from our point of view; however, from the inhabitants point of view, it's a perfect world. Brainwashed, yes, but very few people are unhappy. Furthermore, the few that are too intelligent to live in that world are given their own island, to do as they please.
A perfect society, but it takes a while and a lot of change to get there.
"To form or shape out in any way; to produce;"
from "Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)"
I didn't know Sir Francis Drake was intimate with brass plaques.
Christ, man, thanks, you made my fucking day! I've gone months being royally pissed off cause I "lost" so many features in Gnome2. Well, I'm gonna have to fiddle with gcong and see what else is cool that i don't know about... ;)
the one really cool feature from gnome 1.0 which was removed is still not here:
detachable menus, absolutely loved that in Galeon I could pull off a menu of bookmarks, when I was trying to hunt through a lot of them. Anyone know why it was removed, and/or when/if it's going to come back?
Yeh I know. I'm a card-carrying member of it, but its proof additional proof that the moderators are morons.
I'm gonna plug the Independent Game Developer's Association
Thou shalt not speaketh the word "spellcheck" in Commander Taco's Realm.
Repent, fellkow mortal, REPENT!
OH MY GOD? I didn't even know that the the Dark Chronicled Messiah of AnitKristos had returned! Thanks for being on top of things Slashdot!
I'm 3-click shopping where the first click selects the shopping cart, the second click selects the credit card you want to pay with (for all the poor-ass people like me who need to spread out their bills over multiple cards) and the third click will order the item!
Woohoo! No more multiple credit cards for me, time to sue people and make money!
yes, but by doing that, i will 0wnzer your s0u1
three words: tongue in cheek
if you don't know what that means, it's not frenching
Smoking pot is not be any means equivalent to smoking crack. Someone who smokes crack is called a crackhead/ Someone who smokes pot is called an almost-blind person, or in some cases, a person appetitie challenged.
CNN reports that street racers drive the market for souped-up stock cars and aftermarket performance boosters.
Actually, we can, and I will.
;)
I do not look up any patents on _principle_, because (a) it's a horrible
waste of time and (b) I don't want to know.
The fact is, technical people are better off not looking at patents. If
you don't know what they cover and where they are, you won't be knowingly
infringing on them. If somebody sues you, you change the algorithm or you
just hire a hit-man to whack the stupid git. (emphasis mine)
Quality choice of words; now not only are we evil copyright violaters, we're murderous villains as well.
Although, I must admit, my already tremendous amount of respect for Linus just went up a notch.
Um, this isn't quite news.
Th15 c0mm3nt w1ll 0wn you w1nsl0wz b0xen.
even more so thast nobody realized it.
... ;)
Once you posted the spoiler, the mods are going trigger-happy with that comment
exactly, it's just proof that most of the mods here don't have a clue, a few do, however, like you, and the one +1 Funny mod, but the rest, eh, nope....