Hehe...tell that to people (like me) who buy and sell these cards on Ebay. Considering I can buy them all day in big collections for two or three cents each, then turn around and sell them for three to six bucks each for good rares, three bucks for four for bad rares, a dollar for four on uncommons, and commons for 10 cents each? Works for me.
I think that's some sort of behavioral dysfunction. I think that a lot of 'gifted' people suffer from Asperger's Syndrome in varying degrees. This makes it difficult for them to empathize with others, or see humor in situations that would require them to 'feel' what someone else would feel. They have a problem with determining motivations in others, and that would also kill many common types of jokes.
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Hack? I guess you haven't read Stephen King right? His grip on scene and setting is unparalleled in modern fiction (and, yes, I do mean popular fiction, not arthaus stuff that sells 50 copies). I'm not a fanboy, but I figure there will be college classes soon (if there aren't already) that will study King.
As a writer myself, if Stephen King is a hack, may I be one too?
Holy shit. That only happened a week ago...why wasn't it covered on mainstream TV? That's a big story, and a legitimate news item as well. I'd have expected media outlets nationwide to cover that, if only in expectation of the police chief going to prison over it. I'm not sure what pisses me off more...that it happened in the first place, or that it wasn't covered at all.
"90% of all technical support representatives with over 1 year of service are there for the money and don't care in the least."
That's a laugh. I don't know how much techs get paid in your area, but no one works tech support anywhere I've ever experienced solely for the money. Generally, you are in tech support because you are just entering the tech field, and you need a jumping off point. If someone shows any promise and has stayed over a year, typically they are yanked off the phones to do something else anyway.
Actually, ALS is "Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis". If you aren't going to call it that, what the hell does it matter if you name it in reference to one person or another? At least Stephen Hawking is a still-living example of someone with the disease.
I don't typically allow myself to be drawn into Objectivist discussions, but your analogy is offensive and completely wrong. Based on my understanding of Objectivism, a wheelchair-bound person would only be limited if they thought themselves to be handicapped. They would still be free to pursue their highest 'majesty' for lack of a better word. Rand would likely propose that building the ramp up to the library would be a correct action if one were thinking of themselves, because it would assist an otherwise potential drain on society to better themselves.
"This sort of thinking is exactly why so few people take Rand seriously at all."
That's not Rand's thinking, that's yours. Don't misrepresent it as something it isn't.
Sorry, Dr. Evil, I think you meant to say 19 meelion dollars. Or if you want the exact figure, from the aforementioned Inflation Calculator, here ya go (commas added for the aid of the slow):
This fellow has a volume of 1.1 million cubic feet and a 25 ton payload, as I read it. Scale that sucker up to 36 million cubic feet and you should be able to reach 800 tons capacity. This is for a non-rigid low flying vehicle with a 'mundane' propulsion system. I'm sure the engineers among us could explain how to reach 1000 ton capacity and the high-flight capability mentioned in relation to these big deltas.
Out of the places I've worked, none surpass AOL (yes, that AOL) as far as physical security went. Not only was there only one door to get into and out of the building, you had to swipe a card thru a reader to open the door, which gave you access to a 'cattle chute' where a live security guard checked your ID and then buzzed open a second door for you. No crap.
Gotta take care of yourself first, no matter what the argument is. If you don't (and who is realistically going to vote for 'them' rather than 'me' anyway?), then who is going to take care of you?
Sadly, my family does the same thing. Five minutes late from work? Someone will be waiting at the door for me. Go to a movie and be incommunicado for three hours? Dead in a car crash, most certainly. I'm almost gratified to know that someone else's family is like that.
Yeah, I think the other guy was thinking about the 'Rafael Palmero scale', which assigns baseball players a percentage based on their comparison to an arbitrary baseline. For example, Sammy Sosa is a.61 on the Palmero scale based on very detailed (ie. random) mathematical analysis of his lifetime hitting stats compared to Rafael Palmero.
I guess this is a double-pronged question, but here goes:
When you were younger, did you envision the career you have now? Now that you've been in the writing field for decades, has it turned out as you expected it to be?
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Hehe...tell that to people (like me) who buy and sell these cards on Ebay. Considering I can buy them all day in big collections for two or three cents each, then turn around and sell them for three to six bucks each for good rares, three bucks for four for bad rares, a dollar for four on uncommons, and commons for 10 cents each? Works for me.
I think that's some sort of behavioral dysfunction. I think that a lot of 'gifted' people suffer from Asperger's Syndrome in varying degrees. This makes it difficult for them to empathize with others, or see humor in situations that would require them to 'feel' what someone else would feel. They have a problem with determining motivations in others, and that would also kill many common types of jokes.
You sound like a guy I worked with about four years ago...Lenny, is that you?
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Um, I'm a white thirtysomething male...do I fit?
Yes it is, that's a magic number...
Asshat? I'm offended....
Hack? I guess you haven't read Stephen King right? His grip on scene and setting is unparalleled in modern fiction (and, yes, I do mean popular fiction, not arthaus stuff that sells 50 copies). I'm not a fanboy, but I figure there will be college classes soon (if there aren't already) that will study King.
As a writer myself, if Stephen King is a hack, may I be one too?
Holy shit. That only happened a week ago...why wasn't it covered on mainstream TV? That's a big story, and a legitimate news item as well. I'd have expected media outlets nationwide to cover that, if only in expectation of the police chief going to prison over it. I'm not sure what pisses me off more...that it happened in the first place, or that it wasn't covered at all.
Dweeb.
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I bet that would sound like an evil genius laughing if you said that out loud.
Yousa sounds like Jar-Jar.
"90% of all technical support representatives with over 1 year of service are there for the money and don't care in the least."
That's a laugh. I don't know how much techs get paid in your area, but no one works tech support anywhere I've ever experienced solely for the money. Generally, you are in tech support because you are just entering the tech field, and you need a jumping off point. If someone shows any promise and has stayed over a year, typically they are yanked off the phones to do something else anyway.
I was thinking of a different Charlton Heston quote...the one about the dirty apes.
Actually, ALS is "Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis". If you aren't going to call it that, what the hell does it matter if you name it in reference to one person or another? At least Stephen Hawking is a still-living example of someone with the disease.
"I had malaria in Zaire"...
I have such a boring fucking life.
You joke now....
I don't typically allow myself to be drawn into Objectivist discussions, but your analogy is offensive and completely wrong. Based on my understanding of Objectivism, a wheelchair-bound person would only be limited if they thought themselves to be handicapped. They would still be free to pursue their highest 'majesty' for lack of a better word. Rand would likely propose that building the ramp up to the library would be a correct action if one were thinking of themselves, because it would assist an otherwise potential drain on society to better themselves.
"This sort of thinking is exactly why so few people take Rand seriously at all."
That's not Rand's thinking, that's yours. Don't misrepresent it as something it isn't.
Sorry, Dr. Evil, I think you meant to say 19 meelion dollars. Or if you want the exact figure, from the aforementioned Inflation Calculator, here ya go (commas added for the aid of the slow):
$18,993,961.76
Thank God they didn't hang the poor thing...that's not a pretty picture
I hate to recycle a previous link, but look here.
This fellow has a volume of 1.1 million cubic feet and a 25 ton payload, as I read it. Scale that sucker up to 36 million cubic feet and you should be able to reach 800 tons capacity. This is for a non-rigid low flying vehicle with a 'mundane' propulsion system. I'm sure the engineers among us could explain how to reach 1000 ton capacity and the high-flight capability mentioned in relation to these big deltas.
Out of the places I've worked, none surpass AOL (yes, that AOL) as far as physical security went. Not only was there only one door to get into and out of the building, you had to swipe a card thru a reader to open the door, which gave you access to a 'cattle chute' where a live security guard checked your ID and then buzzed open a second door for you. No crap.
Gotta take care of yourself first, no matter what the argument is. If you don't (and who is realistically going to vote for 'them' rather than 'me' anyway?), then who is going to take care of you?
Sadly, my family does the same thing. Five minutes late from work? Someone will be waiting at the door for me. Go to a movie and be incommunicado for three hours? Dead in a car crash, most certainly. I'm almost gratified to know that someone else's family is like that.
Yeah, I think the other guy was thinking about the 'Rafael Palmero scale', which assigns baseball players a percentage based on their comparison to an arbitrary baseline. For example, Sammy Sosa is a .61 on the Palmero scale based on very detailed (ie. random) mathematical analysis of his lifetime hitting stats compared to Rafael Palmero.
I guess this is a double-pronged question, but here goes:
When you were younger, did you envision the career you have now? Now that you've been in the writing field for decades, has it turned out as you expected it to be?