Your comment: "People like yourself actually believe..."
Then 2 posts later:
"You sound like you're very judgemental"... "and probbably related to your own personal prejudices"
Sigh.
Brains aren't the only thing that are important to being a good employee. A good attitude and being assertive while also being considerate of others wins hands down, every time.
If I get a spoiled brat prima donna who thinks he knows everything about Python in an interview pitted against someone who loves coding, I'll take someone who loves python and who is not a social nuisance any day. Someone who loves to learn and works hard because he or she has to instead of having the world handed to them and who does not look down upon other employees is golden to me. Tell me, how exactly am I supposed to sell a software product using someone who is rude an condescending to my customers?
Likewise, original poster has the full right to make decisions that are completely correct for his business. He needs good personality in his business, which he is defining by being prompt and personable. If you can't make that impression on the very important first meeting, how can he possibly have any confidence in the employee? Just pretend he'll never be late again, or will suddenly start dressing well? Hm, that type of hubris seems familiar... the cowboy attitude... hm... think I'll quote your original reply to the original post: "If you want a perfect example of this problem, look no further than the Bush administration."
Bah I've got karma to burn, do your worst, but... LOOK at all the apple products on that list! 5 in total! Sure they're all ipod related (even itunes) but to me that's pretty cool. Unless you're still adament about not getting an ipod because somehow OGG is better for your precious ears;)....
Yup/agree. And I thought WoW was too cartoony... this one goes Daffy (pun intended)
Three games in point:
1)Lineage 1. Best selling MMORPG worldwide of its time. America didn't like it but the rest of the world did. Horrible graphics. Killer gameplay. 2)Lineage 2. OK selling in the US. Better graphics than WoW. Horrible gameplay (well, not horrible, but not very questy, and the main point of the game - grinding to get high lvl to siege - welll when you get to the point where you'd make a difference in sieging, you'll notice the lag is worse than anything you've ever experienced before.) Boo. Played it for a year. 3) WoW. Best selling US game. Graphics are good, a little cartoony for me, still not as good as the animations in Lin2. But oh my... the gameplay is good. 2 faction systems work. and the quests oh MY the quests... keep thing interesting while you're grinding away.
I always scoffed at the Wow people for the graphics being good but not incredible but now i'm a convert. In the end WoW keeps me in the game for the same reason I played Lin1 for all those years -- good gameplay always wins. Keke thx u bai now.
Bah. You can be content while simultaneously desiring more.
Absolutely. In fact, I remember most of my happiest time periods to have been when I was working to attain a goal, small or large. Being in school and finishing my degree. Driving to New Orleans for the first time. Working on my first album.
I'd be quite uncontent without goals. Most of the time I've achieved them a few months afterwards when I didn't have a major goal I got depressed.
Unfortunately, "moderation" is out, and "extremism" is in. It's as if people don't even care what side they chose -- they just want to chose an extreme side be it left or right so that they can have an adversary to which to hurl insults and mistruths like they are opposing sides of a football team. And you can forget having an opinion that deviates from the platform you're in -- the rest of your party will ostracise you.
I'm just personally sick of those overly simplistic statements and "catchy slogans" some extreme leftists and rightists use to demonize anyone that doesn't conform to their likings. And it doesn't do them a damn bit of good PR wise either -- just makes them look like idiots to those who are trying to decide which candidate in an election is the lesser of the idiots.
Also, the "For example, many US Republicans are against abortion but in favour of the death penalty" arguement is contradictory to most who are against that statement, for simple reason that many pro choicers are under the assumption that the fetus is not classifiable as alive. Killing implies something that is living. Thus, saying "those silly republicans don't mind killing killers but don't want a fetus killed" implies the fetus is indeed alive, which is contradictory to most pro choice advocates will have you believe.
I have paired a phone, but I did not know about the disabling feature. Seeing as though I have to enable to phone to be discoverable anyway by pressing a couple of buttons when I enter the car (after a minute of no communication from the car, the phone turns the bluetooth off), it would not be a pain for me to use the enable/disable step you mentioned. Better safe than sorry -- and thanks for the tip!
I've got an Acura TL. Bluetooth in it of course.
So how does one secure a built-in bluetooth system? Take it to my dealer for a virus scan? Drive around a local university trolling for pseudohackers? Bust into the OS, whatever it's running, and slap some Linux distro on it (well the car won't run in that case, but hey, it's a certainly a functional $35,000 Linux Box!)
I was doing some maintenance on someone else's code and came across this nasty set of like 8 nested if/elses. It was a bloody horrible hack. But the best part of all was the comment right at the top:/* Oh, fuck */
Ok, you got me. I was really trying to hawk my expensive dating course at www.shortmotherfuckersdeservetogetlaidtoo.tv.
LOL:D
Would now be a bad time to remind you that the average height for American chicks is 5'4"? 5'5" - 5'6" in heels. No excuses, big guy.
You're right:)
Just having a hard time trying to pick meself up from the ground of having recently gotten smacked down hard from match.com and yahoo personals. I mean bars are NOT my thing, since I'm usually the shortest guy there.
One of the things that I learned and took note of when I got my first degree (Psy) was that women are always looking for clues for acceptance of their mates from other women. This is probably why coffee shops and bookstores are better for guys of my height than bars -- they're not with their friends to "disapprove."
Thx fer the pep talk. I've dated hotties before, just need to pick it up again:)
If it bothers you so much, how do you feel about short chicks? Then you'll be taller than her and feel more confident.
Ok you say that you are short, but I'm now willing to guess now that either A)You're lying, or think 5'8" is somehow short, or B)You're Tom Cruise C) a "Get laid tonight!" spammer
Why? Your statement. It's everyone's else's "just world hypothesis" about why short guys (and by short I mean 5'6" and below) do not hook up: people don't want to believe we don't live in a meritocracy, so they turn a blind eye to short guys' plights and shrug it off as "he has confidence issues, " thereby perpetuating this abomination of a stereotype.
Try taking the red pill?
I don't have confidence issues. I'm a realist. But I can't prove that to you, so I assume you'll perpetuate the stereotype some more?:D
I'd love to date short chicks, but usually they feel that THEY need to compensate for THEIR height by dating tall men. Seriously, 5'0" women don't like me -- they want a tall guy so their kids won't be so short.
Which means I've got only 5'4"-5'6" to work with. Ack.
Basically, your size is a large factor, but you can compensate for lack of height with muscle mass. Get your ass into the gym.
A valid comment:)
However, I'm 5'5" and 175 pounds. Mostly muscle although the belly is in the mid stages of disappearance act.
But I think many women are turned off from the stereotypes they see. They see men who are short and "compensate" for it by bulking up as merely TRYING to compensate for it -- they think that somehow this figures into the "short man syndrome" compensation area, which most educated individuals know is BS and is in fact perception on behalf of our female counterparts.
I think it's good for a guy my size to bulk up without getting fat, but not TOO much, because overcompensation is also unnatractive at my stature. Remember, proportion is the key. Too skinny = weak little guy, fat = well, short and fat, and, too bulky = trying to overcompensate. Healthy and musclular is good - remember, at this height we need to look as healthy as possible and as "normal" as possible, because any deviation out of that: skinny, fat, too bulky, feeds back to the original problem: the height is below average and thus not attractive.
At least the good hair part. I've got thick gorgeous hair (ok that's not MY term but what some chicks have described it ).
Delete the part about the hair, insert tall, you've got a winner.
Baldness is the latest fetish among women. I wish I had not been born 5'5" with gorgeous hair but rather 5'10" and bald.
Don't tell me it's attitude either, that's just simply prejudice against the shorties since I've got outstanding confidence.
I wonder if I'm ever going to get married myself. I'm well educated, got money, run 4-5 times a week and am in physically top notch shape, write music in my spare time, am compassionate, and good looking, and due to height I get rejected more times than Duke nukem forever builds.
Is there not a geek girl out there who takes care of her body who doesn't have a hangup about height? Sheesh.
Obiously you've never heard the composer's mantra:
"Good composers write, Great composers steal."
This is true. But being a little more liberal about the mantra leads you to the following frightening realization: This also includes Puffy Daddy / P. Diddy.
May John Williams is not a whore, but perhaps the P Diddy of classical?
And, seated around the table in the basement, are the guy who designed "ET" for the Atari 2600,
You speak of Howard Scott Warshaw. I credit him with my first interest in programming, as I found this easter egg in Yars Revenge at the age of 7 and wondered how he put his initials in there. The rest is history.
How about 3 stories all on "Linux Distros Found Vulnerable By Default" but with different titles (which by slashdot convention means they are different subjects)
I have never really understood the rabid nature of the fan sites and rumor sites. What is the point with rumors? Can anybody explain that to me?
Well, Spock, it's kind of for the same reason we try to make predictions on emerging technologies in the future, and say how cars will look in oh I dunno 2025.
There's really no pragmatism in it, it's more of an oooh-ahhh factor.
What's a hockey game without a few fists flying. Hell even baseball players will get into it.
There used to be a thing called sportmanlike conduct. I'm not sure it exists now in this spoiled-brat-trillionaire-basketball-player era we live in now. That's ok, I can live without the NBA. No sleep lost there.
I personally find some sports like boxing and hockey a bit barbaric, but I wouldn't write off any sports activity as a causitive factor for violence. Simple competition with the understanding that it is indeed physical activity and that one must learn control over separating the physical and adrenaline-charging atmophere.
After all, the world is all about free will and the ability to exercise your control when given a situation whether or not that situation you're in is "conducive" to specific "no-no" actions.
Otherwise, it'd be a "where do we draw the line" type argument, because what's to stop us from banning code-writing competitions and math bowls -- they are equally intensive and people do get riled up in the heat of competition. In non-contact sports versus math bowls, the only difference is use of mind versus use of body, and none of it would be directed towards harming others.
Ok, I do not count Red Sox versus Yankees in the non-contact sports.
From the article: I'm sure that at one point or another a golfer snapped and beat someone to death with a 7-iron.
Let's ban golf, shall we?
Wow, how witty. I completely saw past the simplisticness of the allegory there. My mind sure is made up after that comment! Now just throw in a catchy slogan, and I'm hooked!
I'd personally like to see how you can do this as a home user. There's got to be a software program that does this sort of thing (ok maybe not the the extent that hollywood giants can do) or at least approaches it.
I've got tons of home movies I'd like to put on DvD and man I'd love to restore them. Unfortunately I think I'm stuck with them as as.
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Your comment: "People like yourself actually believe ..."
... "and probbably related to your own personal prejudices"
... the cowboy attitude ... hm ... think I'll quote your original reply to the original post: "If you want a perfect example of this problem, look no further than the Bush administration."
Then 2 posts later:
"You sound like you're very judgemental"
Sigh.
Brains aren't the only thing that are important to being a good employee. A good attitude and being assertive while also being considerate of others wins hands down, every time.
If I get a spoiled brat prima donna who thinks he knows everything about Python in an interview pitted against someone who loves coding, I'll take someone who loves python and who is not a social nuisance any day. Someone who loves to learn and works hard because he or she has to instead of having the world handed to them and who does not look down upon other employees is golden to me. Tell me, how exactly am I supposed to sell a software product using someone who is rude an condescending to my customers?
Likewise, original poster has the full right to make decisions that are completely correct for his business. He needs good personality in his business, which he is defining by being prompt and personable. If you can't make that impression on the very important first meeting, how can he possibly have any confidence in the employee? Just pretend he'll never be late again, or will suddenly start dressing well? Hm, that type of hubris seems familiar
Bah I've got karma to burn, do your worst, but ... LOOK at all the apple products on that list! 5 in total! Sure they're all ipod related (even itunes) but to me that's pretty cool. Unless you're still adament about not getting an ipod because somehow OGG is better for your precious ears ;) ....
Yup /agree. And I thought WoW was too cartoony ... this one goes Daffy (pun intended)
... the gameplay is good. 2 faction systems work. and the quests oh MY the quests ... keep thing interesting while you're grinding away.
Three games in point:
1)Lineage 1. Best selling MMORPG worldwide of its time. America didn't like it but the rest of the world did. Horrible graphics. Killer gameplay.
2)Lineage 2. OK selling in the US. Better graphics than WoW. Horrible gameplay (well, not horrible, but not very questy, and the main point of the game - grinding to get high lvl to siege - welll when you get to the point where you'd make a difference in sieging, you'll notice the lag is worse than anything you've ever experienced before.) Boo. Played it for a year.
3) WoW. Best selling US game. Graphics are good, a little cartoony for me, still not as good as the animations in Lin2. But oh my
I always scoffed at the Wow people for the graphics being good but not incredible but now i'm a convert. In the end WoW keeps me in the game for the same reason I played Lin1 for all those years -- good gameplay always wins. Keke thx u bai now.
Bah. You can be content while simultaneously desiring more.
Absolutely. In fact, I remember most of my happiest time periods to have been when I was working to attain a goal, small or large. Being in school and finishing my degree. Driving to New Orleans for the first time. Working on my first album.
I'd be quite uncontent without goals. Most of the time I've achieved them a few months afterwards when I didn't have a major goal I got depressed.
How dare you!
Ain't s'pos'd to be no damn cussin' in these parts.
Food for thought: cursing versus cussing.
And usually I don't cuss/curse/vainly speak/whatever. 'Cept for the Red Sox postseason. You mean we won last year? Oh fook!
Some very wise statements in your post.
Unfortunately, "moderation" is out, and "extremism" is in. It's as if people don't even care what side they chose -- they just want to chose an extreme side be it left or right so that they can have an adversary to which to hurl insults and mistruths like they are opposing sides of a football team. And you can forget having an opinion that deviates from the platform you're in -- the rest of your party will ostracise you.
I'm just personally sick of those overly simplistic statements and "catchy slogans" some extreme leftists and rightists use to demonize anyone that doesn't conform to their likings. And it doesn't do them a damn bit of good PR wise either -- just makes them look like idiots to those who are trying to decide which candidate in an election is the lesser of the idiots.
Nice post.
Also, the "For example, many US Republicans are against abortion but in favour of the death penalty" arguement is contradictory to most who are against that statement, for simple reason that many pro choicers are under the assumption that the fetus is not classifiable as alive. Killing implies something that is living. Thus, saying "those silly republicans don't mind killing killers but don't want a fetus killed" implies the fetus is indeed alive, which is contradictory to most pro choice advocates will have you believe.
I have paired a phone, but I did not know about the disabling feature. Seeing as though I have to enable to phone to be discoverable anyway by pressing a couple of buttons when I enter the car (after a minute of no communication from the car, the phone turns the bluetooth off), it would not be a pain for me to use the enable/disable step you mentioned. Better safe than sorry -- and thanks for the tip!
I've got an Acura TL. Bluetooth in it of course. So how does one secure a built-in bluetooth system? Take it to my dealer for a virus scan? Drive around a local university trolling for pseudohackers? Bust into the OS, whatever it's running, and slap some Linux distro on it (well the car won't run in that case, but hey, it's a certainly a functional $35,000 Linux Box!)
I was doing some maintenance on someone else's code and came across this nasty set of like 8 nested if/elses. It was a bloody horrible hack. But the best part of all was the comment right at the top: /* Oh, fuck */
I wanted to see some pictures. Oh well I guess I'll just take the article for "face" value.
Ba-dum-bum.
Thanks, I'll be here all week. Don't forget to tip your servers.
Ok, you got me. I was really trying to hawk my expensive dating course at www.shortmotherfuckersdeservetogetlaidtoo.tv.
:D
:)
:)
LOL
Would now be a bad time to remind you that the average height for American chicks is 5'4"? 5'5" - 5'6" in heels.
No excuses, big guy.
You're right
Just having a hard time trying to pick meself up from the ground of having recently gotten smacked down hard from match.com and yahoo personals. I mean bars are NOT my thing, since I'm usually the shortest guy there.
One of the things that I learned and took note of when I got my first degree (Psy) was that women are always looking for clues for acceptance of their mates from other women. This is probably why coffee shops and bookstores are better for guys of my height than bars -- they're not with their friends to "disapprove."
Thx fer the pep talk. I've dated hotties before, just need to pick it up again
If it bothers you so much, how do you feel about short chicks? Then you'll be taller than her and feel more confident.
:D
...
Ok you say that you are short, but I'm now willing to guess now that either A)You're lying, or think 5'8" is somehow short, or B)You're Tom Cruise C) a "Get laid tonight!" spammer
Why? Your statement. It's everyone's else's "just world hypothesis" about why short guys (and by short I mean 5'6" and below) do not hook up: people don't want to believe we don't live in a meritocracy, so they turn a blind eye to short guys' plights and shrug it off as "he has confidence issues, " thereby perpetuating this abomination of a stereotype.
Try taking the red pill?
I don't have confidence issues. I'm a realist. But I can't prove that to you, so I assume you'll perpetuate the stereotype some more?
I'd love to date short chicks, but usually they feel that THEY need to compensate for THEIR height by dating tall men. Seriously, 5'0" women don't like me -- they want a tall guy so their kids won't be so short.
Which means I've got only 5'4"-5'6" to work with. Ack.
*sigh* I wish you knew
Basically, your size is a large factor, but you can compensate for lack of height with muscle mass. Get your ass into the gym.
:)
A valid comment
However, I'm 5'5" and 175 pounds. Mostly muscle although the belly is in the mid stages of disappearance act.
But I think many women are turned off from the stereotypes they see. They see men who are short and "compensate" for it by bulking up as merely TRYING to compensate for it -- they think that somehow this figures into the "short man syndrome" compensation area, which most educated individuals know is BS and is in fact perception on behalf of our female counterparts.
I think it's good for a guy my size to bulk up without getting fat, but not TOO much, because overcompensation is also unnatractive at my stature. Remember, proportion is the key. Too skinny = weak little guy, fat = well, short and fat, and, too bulky = trying to overcompensate. Healthy and musclular is good - remember, at this height we need to look as healthy as possible and as "normal" as possible, because any deviation out of that: skinny, fat, too bulky, feeds back to the original problem: the height is below average and thus not attractive.
Eval(Good breadwinner + good hair + muscles == sexy) == 1.*
WRONG (though, I wish you were right).
At least the good hair part. I've got thick gorgeous hair (ok that's not MY term but what some chicks have described it ).
Delete the part about the hair, insert tall, you've got a winner.
Baldness is the latest fetish among women. I wish I had not been born 5'5" with gorgeous hair but rather 5'10" and bald.
Don't tell me it's attitude either, that's just simply prejudice against the shorties since I've got outstanding confidence.
I wonder if I'm ever going to get married myself. I'm well educated, got money, run 4-5 times a week and am in physically top notch shape, write music in my spare time, am compassionate, and good looking, and due to height I get rejected more times than Duke nukem forever builds.
Is there not a geek girl out there who takes care of her body who doesn't have a hangup about height? Sheesh.
Obiously you've never heard the composer's mantra:
"Good composers write, Great composers steal."
This is true. But being a little more liberal about the mantra leads you to the following frightening realization: This also includes Puffy Daddy / P. Diddy.
May John Williams is not a whore, but perhaps the P Diddy of classical?
Just a thought.
And, seated around the table in the basement, are the guy who designed "ET" for the Atari 2600,
You speak of Howard Scott Warshaw. I credit him with my first interest in programming, as I found this easter egg in Yars Revenge at the age of 7 and wondered how he put his initials in there. The rest is history.
Of course, I also liked the ET game.
*DUCKS*
>
You are telling a crowd of soda drinking, caffiene soap using, programming code monkeys to get some exercise?
Good luck with that.
In other news today, a group of lobbyists confronted to the pope, asking him to be less Catholic.
News for jocks. Stuff that doesn't matter.
Would you prefer a dupe?
How about 3 stories all on "Linux Distros Found Vulnerable By Default" but with different titles (which by slashdot convention means they are different subjects)
A reader:"Tired of those whining fans? Want some piece and quiet when working on your PC?
Well *I* for one never get tired of my fans, even when they whine or ask repeatedly for autographs.
I do however forbid them to come near my linux box, so I usually have some peace and quiet there.
I have never really understood the rabid nature of the fan sites and rumor sites. What is the point with rumors? Can anybody explain that to me?
Well, Spock, it's kind of for the same reason we try to make predictions on emerging technologies in the future, and say how cars will look in oh I dunno 2025.
There's really no pragmatism in it, it's more of an oooh-ahhh factor.
What's a hockey game without a few fists flying. Hell even baseball players will get into it.
There used to be a thing called sportmanlike conduct. I'm not sure it exists now in this spoiled-brat-trillionaire-basketball-player era we live in now. That's ok, I can live without the NBA. No sleep lost there.
I personally find some sports like boxing and hockey a bit barbaric, but I wouldn't write off any sports activity as a causitive factor for violence. Simple competition with the understanding that it is indeed physical activity and that one must learn control over separating the physical and adrenaline-charging atmophere.
After all, the world is all about free will and the ability to exercise your control when given a situation whether or not that situation you're in is "conducive" to specific "no-no" actions.
Otherwise, it'd be a "where do we draw the line" type argument, because what's to stop us from banning code-writing competitions and math bowls -- they are equally intensive and people do get riled up in the heat of competition. In non-contact sports versus math bowls, the only difference is use of mind versus use of body, and none of it would be directed towards harming others.
Ok, I do not count Red Sox versus Yankees in the non-contact sports.
From the article: I'm sure that at one point or another a golfer snapped and beat someone to death with a 7-iron.
Let's ban golf, shall we?
Wow, how witty. I completely saw past the simplisticness of the allegory there. My mind sure is made up after that comment! Now just throw in a catchy slogan, and I'm hooked!
Your family shot your home movies in three strip Technicolor?
...
Are you Cecil B. DeMille III or something?
Nope sorry just us Barrymores here
I'd personally like to see how you can do this as a home user. There's got to be a software program that does this sort of thing (ok maybe not the the extent that hollywood giants can do) or at least approaches it.
I've got tons of home movies I'd like to put on DvD and man I'd love to restore them. Unfortunately I think I'm stuck with them as as.