"Ned. Ryerson! Needlenose Ned, Ned the Head, come on buddy, Case Western High. Ned Ryerson, I did the whistling bellybutton trick at the high school talent show. Bing! Ned Ryerson, got the shingles real bad senior year, almost didn't graduate. Bing again! Ned Ryerson, I dated your sister Mary Pat a couple times til you told me not to anymore."
Is this giving Microsoft a future "exception that proves the rule" argument? Sort of like "I hereby give each of you permission to walk on the public sidewalk in front of my house for the next three days."
When I read about this creep fondling his foster daughters, and then trying to finagle a censorship of the story through copyright law, I said to myself, "I'll bet this guy's a fat ass Republican".
The "work ethic" is just a mind trick to make the working class feel undeserving of a fair portion of the wealth that they are creating. If your IQ is in the top.1% you should be smart enough to see that.
"Perhaps the perceived "stupidity" of people with high IQs is simply the manifestation of their inability to communicate effectively with 'little brains'".
Reminds me of a line from the doctor in Idiocracy:
"Well, don't want to sound like a dick or nothin', but, ah... it says on your chart that you're fucked up. Ah, you talk like a fag, and your shit's all retarded."
Moreover, (and I'm getting more off topic) disease is a lot like fire. America will probably get a single payer health insurance plan after a plague does for health care what the London fire did for firefighting.
Glad you mentioned those. They were both standards of literature class when I was in high school 30 years ago. Algernon is especially poignant to gifted students to help them understand their place in the world, and how they may find they have more in common with the intellectually handicapped than they do with normal people.
I largely agree with your comment, but I don't agree that the O.J. Simpson reference serves to illustrate your point. The jury in that case understood the evidence against the defendant, but they could not ignore additional evidence that those who were presenting it had manufactured it. In this Microsoft case, the jury likely did not understand the technical evidence, but it's interesting that they still found against Microsoft, and it's equally interesting that a judge, who likely also didn't understand the evidence, overturned the ruling. Microsoft learns a valuable lesson from this case. Next time, they'll put more effort into gaining the trust of the jury. This is more efficient than gaining the trust of a judge. Likely, neither the judge nor the jury understood the complexity of technical evidence.
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"Athletes and musicians aren't known for having a big middle ground in which you can make a decent living."
Exactly, what I was thinking when I decided to become an engineer 30 years ago. If I were suddenly sixteen again, I'd start learning to play a guitar instead.
I didn't read the article but... Cheerleaders. Why do you think 13 year old boys are more interested in football than physics? Until young ladies decide that intelligence is a hot property in the males of the species, science will be at best a second or third choice for young boys. If I had a son, I'd advise him to consider becoming an athlete or musician before thinking of being scientist or engineer.
In the summer of 1969, I was six years old, and not yet in first grade. I sat mesmerized in front of the color television at my grandmother's house, as Neil Armstrong took his first steps onto the lunar surface and uttered the words, "that's one small step for man...". My grandmother watched with me equally amazed. She told me then, "when I was your age, the Wright brothers had not yet flown the first airplane". I responded to this by asking, "Did you watch it on TV?". "No", she said and laughed. "Besides there not being airplanes, there was no TV, or radio. And there weren't any automobiles either. We had to walk or ride in buggies pulled by horses." She died the following year. I spent the next decade, or so, extrapolating the progress of the technological world, (and also developing expectations by watching and reading science fiction). I fully expected that by the mid 1980's, it would be commonplace to live and work on the moon. By the 1990's, manned explorations of the surface of Mars would have occurred dozens, if not hundreds of times. And by the twenty-first century, poverty, war, ignorance, and disease, would surely be things of the past. By the middle of this century, the life span of a human being would probably be about 250 years. I'm somewhat disappointed. I think my grandmother would have been too.
Also, do one more thing if you're an employee, ORGANIZE. You're never going to win against all-powerful management by sticking your neck out by yourself.
I have a history of dealing with depression that goes back many years. It comes and goes. But lately, I have succumbed to levels of anxiety that are wholly unfamiliar to me. It seems that the only way to reverse the anxiety (besides Xanax) is to revert to a more depressed state. The depression actually feels comfortable by comparison. I suppose that's because I'm used to it.
Okay, when someone wins an Olympic medal for the 100 yard dash, do you chime in about how they're not very impressive because you could cover a hundred yards much faster in a Ferrari?
"...a picture with three different skin colors for three people will not be interpreted as affirmative action, but unwanted external cultural influence."
That is insightful. Americans often see every matter involving people of multiple races as a "racial" matter. But doesn't the decision to change the picture, so every one will look more "Polish", suggest that Microsoft thinks the Polish people are dumb enough to believe that Microsoft Poland is a Polish company that's not influenced by its international corporate masters?
It's insightful to note that I might have been modded "funny" instead of "insightful" with a higher ID. I was shooting for "funny". I thought it was pretty funny that someone found it "insightful".
At my age, 20 years from now, I'll be in a nursing home being cared for by a younger generation of caretakers, who have never had privacy, or have any understanding of why old people (like me) seem to be obsessed with a need for privacy. "But Mr. Robertson the webcam in your bathroom is so the attendants can look after your safety. If you fall down we need to know about that."
Funny, not because its true (it isn't) but because you posted as AC. Gee, what is it you're afraid of? If you can't speak your mind in Slashdot, where can you speak your mind?
Slashdot Mirror
That would include almost everyone on Slashdot.
"Ned. Ryerson! Needlenose Ned, Ned the Head, come on buddy, Case Western High. Ned Ryerson, I did the whistling bellybutton trick at the high school talent show. Bing! Ned Ryerson, got the shingles real bad senior year, almost didn't graduate. Bing again! Ned Ryerson, I dated your sister Mary Pat a couple times til you told me not to anymore."
Is this giving Microsoft a future "exception that proves the rule" argument? Sort of like "I hereby give each of you permission to walk on the public sidewalk in front of my house for the next three days."
When I read about this creep fondling his foster daughters, and then trying to finagle a censorship of the story through copyright law, I said to myself, "I'll bet this guy's a fat ass Republican".
Confirmed:
http://rapidcityjournal.com/news/article_03881cae-e9a3-11de-848e-001cc4c002e0.html
The "work ethic" is just a mind trick to make the working class feel undeserving of a fair portion of the wealth that they are creating. If your IQ is in the top .1% you should be smart enough to see that.
"Perhaps the perceived "stupidity" of people with high IQs is simply the manifestation of their inability to communicate effectively with 'little brains'".
Reminds me of a line from the doctor in Idiocracy:
"Well, don't want to sound like a dick or nothin', but, ah... it says on your chart that you're fucked up. Ah, you talk like a fag, and your shit's all retarded."
Moreover, (and I'm getting more off topic) disease is a lot like fire. America will probably get a single payer health insurance plan after a plague does for health care what the London fire did for firefighting.
Glad you mentioned those. They were both standards of literature class when I was in high school 30 years ago. Algernon is especially poignant to gifted students to help them understand their place in the world, and how they may find they have more in common with the intellectually handicapped than they do with normal people.
Thanks for pointing that out Comic-Book Guy.
I largely agree with your comment, but I don't agree that the O.J. Simpson reference serves to illustrate your point. The jury in that case understood the evidence against the defendant, but they could not ignore additional evidence that those who were presenting it had manufactured it.
In this Microsoft case, the jury likely did not understand the technical evidence, but it's interesting that they still found against Microsoft, and it's equally interesting that a judge, who likely also didn't understand the evidence, overturned the ruling. Microsoft learns a valuable lesson from this case. Next time, they'll put more effort into gaining the trust of the jury. This is more efficient than gaining the trust of a judge. Likely, neither the judge nor the jury understood the complexity of technical evidence.
That sounds great. Where can I get the Linux version?
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Thank You.
Chairman, Bill Gates
and "Flying Chair Man", Steve Balmer
"Athletes and musicians aren't known for having a big middle ground in which you can make a decent living."
Exactly, what I was thinking when I decided to become an engineer 30 years ago. If I were suddenly sixteen again, I'd start learning to play a guitar instead.
I didn't read the article but... Cheerleaders. Why do you think 13 year old boys are more interested in football than physics?
Until young ladies decide that intelligence is a hot property in the males of the species, science will be at best a second or third choice for young boys. If I had a son, I'd advise him to consider becoming an athlete or musician before thinking of being scientist or engineer.
Who could have seen it coming that Dr. Ohm would meet with so much ... resistance? "rimshot".
I for one welcome ... oh wait, this is for real?
In the summer of 1969, I was six years old, and not yet in first grade. I sat mesmerized in front of the color television at my grandmother's house, as Neil Armstrong took his first steps onto the lunar surface and uttered the words, "that's one small step for man...". My grandmother watched with me equally amazed. She told me then, "when I was your age, the Wright brothers had not yet flown the first airplane". I responded to this by asking, "Did you watch it on TV?". "No", she said and laughed. "Besides there not being airplanes, there was no TV, or radio. And there weren't any automobiles either. We had to walk or ride in buggies pulled by horses." She died the following year. I spent the next decade, or so, extrapolating the progress of the technological world, (and also developing expectations by watching and reading science fiction). I fully expected that by the mid 1980's, it would be commonplace to live and work on the moon. By the 1990's, manned explorations of the surface of Mars would have occurred dozens, if not hundreds of times. And by the twenty-first century, poverty, war, ignorance, and disease, would surely be things of the past. By the middle of this century, the life span of a human being would probably be about 250 years.
I'm somewhat disappointed. I think my grandmother would have been too.
Also, do one more thing if you're an employee, ORGANIZE. You're never going to win against all-powerful management by sticking your neck out by yourself.
I have a history of dealing with depression that goes back many years. It comes and goes. But lately, I have succumbed to levels of anxiety that are wholly unfamiliar to me. It seems that the only way to reverse the anxiety (besides Xanax) is to revert to a more depressed state. The depression actually feels comfortable by comparison. I suppose that's because I'm used to it.
Okay, when someone wins an Olympic medal for the 100 yard dash, do you chime in about how they're not very impressive because you could cover a hundred yards much faster in a Ferrari?
"...a picture with three different skin colors for three people will not be interpreted as affirmative action, but unwanted external cultural influence."
That is insightful. Americans often see every matter involving people of multiple races as a "racial" matter. But doesn't the decision to change the picture, so every one will look more "Polish", suggest that Microsoft thinks the Polish people are dumb enough to believe that Microsoft Poland is a Polish company that's not influenced by its international corporate masters?
It's insightful to note that I might have been modded "funny" instead of "insightful" with a higher ID. I was shooting for "funny". I thought it was pretty funny that someone found it "insightful".
Damn! You're right. I was reading Slashdot and I forgot to breathe again.
At my age, 20 years from now, I'll be in a nursing home being cared for by a younger generation of caretakers, who have never had privacy, or have any understanding of why old people (like me) seem to be obsessed with a need for privacy. "But Mr. Robertson the webcam in your bathroom is so the attendants can look after your safety. If you fall down we need to know about that."
Funny, not because its true (it isn't) but because you posted as AC. Gee, what is it you're afraid of? If you can't speak your mind in Slashdot, where can you speak your mind?