Who is Nicholar Humphrey, and why is he addressing a group of people with idiotic thoughts? I think we should ban this guy. He has no right to addle people's brains with his retarded ideas.
"My work is in engineering. You know, there is a lot of interest in the community studying robotics and machine mechanisms in applications of abstract algebra."
"Shut up please, I don't want to talk to you."
I have a paper out on using algebraic formal power series expansions to solve for linkage mobility. You do any work with series expansions?
"Do you mind? I'm trying to work here."
(we get closer to the head of the line) Those green tomatoes over there -- you can eat those, they are just a special kind that stays green when they are ripe.
In the US lots of people did -- and almost every single one of them was begging for money (though many started the conversation with, "I'm not asking you for anything").
Fucking crackheads. We even have them in Alabama now, at the gas station asking for a quarter to buy some milk. Solution: Kick em in the teeth and drive off.
One exception was a woman in New Orleans, who saw me photographing the statue of Joan of Arc and said "ain't she beautiful? She founded this city, you know".
Apparently casual conversation is something to be feared and avoided at all cost in North America
North America is a big place. You think you could maybe narrow that down a bit? In Alabama, where I'm from, what you described would not be unusual at all.
The reason for sharing this information is that without this information other nations' space programs are more likely to have space collisions which will result in more space junk that will make things harder for us.
And harder for the other nations, too. But not so hard for us since we have a radar that can track space junk. Right?
Have you ever heard a first person account of how Steve Jobs interacted with Andy Herzfeld? Jobs was brutally verbally abusive, and used his ability to intimidate and dominate Herzfeld to create key components of the system that enriched Jobs (and, to a much lesser extent, Herzfeld) without any consideration for how this might harm anyone. Yet everyone considers Jobs a brilliant business person!
That's right...because he was! And Andy Hertzfeld is a fucking moron. If Steve had not pushed him around, Apple would not exist today.
In fact if a businessman can do everything that needs to be done in order to make profit on his own without hiring A SINGLE OTHER PERSON he would do it, he'd make more money if it was possible not to hire anybody at all. If the businessman has enough capital to automate all of the production, then all he needs to do is to buy the machinery and get some contractors to install it, put it into operation, he pays them for the job and he starts producing.
.....and then he would hire a manager to run the thing.
You're wrong.
Only a moron (or a wage slave) sells his own labor.
Absolute unabashed bullshit. People have "produced" since before we came down from the trees. The businessman may well get credit for encouraging us as a species to produce more than we individually need (though whether you call that "kudos" or "blame" depends on your take on the current state of the world); but his actual direct role amounts to nothing more than that of a parasite.
You're a fucking moron. Tell me, was Henry Ford a parasite? How about Sam Walton? Would Ford or Wal-Mart exist today without those two men? Of course not....you dumb ass prick.
Thus, what the market wants is of little consequence, as a brilliant business person can simply manipulate and shape what the market wants through marketing.
Which is exactly why no brilliant business person would want a free market. They would rather have the possibility of buying political influence, the possibility of becoming a monopoly, than to not have that possibility at all.
Getting rich from stock options is basically like winning the lottery. You luck into being one of the first few employees at a company and your company lucks into being one of ones that happen to make it. Right place at the right time.
Sorry, no, luck has absolutely nothing to do with it. If you believe in getting rich via "luck" then you will always remain poor. Might as well start buying lottery tickets if that's how you think; at least then you'd have *slightly* better odds of "lucking out" with a win.
That's not being insanely productive. That's being insanely inefficient.
3 years to get 0.6% return? I think even a bank savings account offers a better rate.
Yeah, and only a moron would stick money into a savings account rather than investing it in a profitable business. Check back in 10 years and let's see how your shitty savings account is doing compared to my profitable venture.
No, it's just good old rational self-interest. Again, compare your 0.6% return to infinite return. You'd have to be insanely stupid to choose 0.6%
What the fuck are you even talking about?
Business isn't a dirty word. It's just a very stupid word, and smart people have evolved past business. Let other suckers (i.e your friends who are "insanely productive") run businesses, and you just enjoy the fruits of their labour.
Why in the world would I do that?
No, people are on the right side of it. People don't have to try to jump off a bridge themselves to know it's a stupid idea. They THINK before they act. Logical thinking dictates that it is better to not start a business at all, so most people don't.
Oh. I get it now. Basically, you're a failure in life who will never accomplish anything worthwhile or notable. You'll spend your life grinding away as a slave for someone else, getting thrown a bone once in a while if you're lucky, and maybe leave some screaming brat heirs to take up your spot in the assembly line when you finally die.
So basically a brilliant business person tells other people how to make money for said business person, while taking full credit/full benefit from it while exerting the least amount of time making that happen.
No, basically you're a moron who can't read. Try brushing up on your reading comprehension skills (and/or your stupid ass attitude) then get back to us.
Yeah, dude, we all feel that way. We could fight about it, or we could appoint some people to sit on a panel and decide which blowhard is right and which blowhard is wrong. And in fact we did appoint those people, and we call that panel "The Supreme Court".
And if that panel consistently fails us, we can replace them. And if we fail to replace them, then we can really fight about it.
She was laughing it off as a status update, after hitting another car with, I believe (I read this somewhere else), 4 people in it.
Is that against the law?
Under normal circumstances, I would agree that the judge was looking for a power grab, but in this case, I think that the judge was trying to make a point to a person that simply did not understand the ramifications of the situation.
No. The judge was simply flexing his muscles. This is what happens in a country ruled by men, not ones ruled by law.
I imagine we will be more than happy to throw ourselves on our swords for the sanctity of Facebook access.
Some of us would, if it came down to it. It's called having principle. In the end you either live by your principles, or you betray them. I guess we can see which side you fall on.
Per Iowa law, it's up to you to show you either rented out the vehicle
The vehicle is up for sale and someone was test driving it. Not my responsibility. Also, tough luck about some random person shooting out every single camera you spend thousands of taxpayer dollars to install. Vandals these days huh?
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Who is Nicholar Humphrey, and why is he addressing a group of people with idiotic thoughts? I think we should ban this guy. He has no right to addle people's brains with his retarded ideas.
Don't lose faith: gain strength. When your "women" tries some shit like that, kick her to the curb.
"My work is in engineering. You know, there is a lot of interest in the community studying robotics and machine mechanisms in applications of abstract algebra."
"Shut up please, I don't want to talk to you."
I have a paper out on using algebraic formal power series expansions to solve for linkage mobility. You do any work with series expansions?
"Do you mind? I'm trying to work here."
(we get closer to the head of the line) Those green tomatoes over there -- you can eat those, they are just a special kind that stays green when they are ripe.
"Take a hint mother fucker, and LEAVE ME ALONE."
FTFY
In the US lots of people did -- and almost every single one of them was begging for money (though many started the conversation with, "I'm not asking you for anything").
Fucking crackheads. We even have them in Alabama now, at the gas station asking for a quarter to buy some milk. Solution: Kick em in the teeth and drive off.
One exception was a woman in New Orleans, who saw me photographing the statue of Joan of Arc and said "ain't she beautiful? She founded this city, you know".
LOL. Well, it's New Orleans....'nuff said.
Apparently casual conversation is something to be feared and avoided at all cost in North America
North America is a big place. You think you could maybe narrow that down a bit? In Alabama, where I'm from, what you described would not be unusual at all.
The reason for sharing this information is that without this information other nations' space programs are more likely to have space collisions which will result in more space junk that will make things harder for us.
And harder for the other nations, too. But not so hard for us since we have a radar that can track space junk. Right?
Why didn't you just start your own company and sell your own product, instead of wasting your life away dealing with other idiots' messes?
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You should get out more.
What does that have to do with anything?
Where did you get your brain?
Have you ever heard a first person account of how Steve Jobs interacted with Andy Herzfeld? Jobs was brutally verbally abusive, and used his ability to intimidate and dominate Herzfeld to create key components of the system that enriched Jobs (and, to a much lesser extent, Herzfeld) without any consideration for how this might harm anyone. Yet everyone considers Jobs a brilliant business person!
That's right...because he was! And Andy Hertzfeld is a fucking moron. If Steve had not pushed him around, Apple would not exist today.
In fact if a businessman can do everything that needs to be done in order to make profit on his own without hiring A SINGLE OTHER PERSON he would do it, he'd make more money if it was possible not to hire anybody at all. If the businessman has enough capital to automate all of the production, then all he needs to do is to buy the machinery and get some contractors to install it, put it into operation, he pays them for the job and he starts producing.
.....and then he would hire a manager to run the thing.
You're wrong.
Only a moron (or a wage slave) sells his own labor.
Absolute unabashed bullshit. People have "produced" since before we came down from the trees. The businessman may well get credit for encouraging us as a species to produce more than we individually need (though whether you call that "kudos" or "blame" depends on your take on the current state of the world); but his actual direct role amounts to nothing more than that of a parasite.
You're a fucking moron. Tell me, was Henry Ford a parasite? How about Sam Walton? Would Ford or Wal-Mart exist today without those two men? Of course not....you dumb ass prick.
Thus, what the market wants is of little consequence, as a brilliant business person can simply manipulate and shape what the market wants through marketing.
Which is exactly why no brilliant business person would want a free market. They would rather have the possibility of buying political influence, the possibility of becoming a monopoly, than to not have that possibility at all.
As a brilliant businessman: you're a moron.
Getting rich from stock options is basically like winning the lottery. You luck into being one of the first few employees at a company and your company lucks into being one of ones that happen to make it. Right place at the right time.
Sorry, no, luck has absolutely nothing to do with it. If you believe in getting rich via "luck" then you will always remain poor. Might as well start buying lottery tickets if that's how you think; at least then you'd have *slightly* better odds of "lucking out" with a win.
Also, "planning and thinking ahead", something most Americans are seemingly incapable of.
That's not being insanely productive. That's being insanely inefficient.
3 years to get 0.6% return? I think even a bank savings account offers a better rate.
Yeah, and only a moron would stick money into a savings account rather than investing it in a profitable business. Check back in 10 years and let's see how your shitty savings account is doing compared to my profitable venture.
No, it's just good old rational self-interest. Again, compare your 0.6% return to infinite return. You'd have to be insanely stupid to choose 0.6%
What the fuck are you even talking about?
Business isn't a dirty word. It's just a very stupid word, and smart people have evolved past business. Let other suckers (i.e your friends who are "insanely productive") run businesses, and you just enjoy the fruits of their labour.
Why in the world would I do that?
No, people are on the right side of it. People don't have to try to jump off a bridge themselves to know it's a stupid idea. They THINK before they act. Logical thinking dictates that it is better to not start a business at all, so most people don't.
Oh. I get it now. Basically, you're a failure in life who will never accomplish anything worthwhile or notable. You'll spend your life grinding away as a slave for someone else, getting thrown a bone once in a while if you're lucky, and maybe leave some screaming brat heirs to take up your spot in the assembly line when you finally die.
Get back to work, peon.
So basically a brilliant business person tells other people how to make money for said business person, while taking full credit/full benefit from it while exerting the least amount of time making that happen.
No, basically you're a moron who can't read. Try brushing up on your reading comprehension skills (and/or your stupid ass attitude) then get back to us.
So in other words, there's no reason to use Android apps.
Yes, Tapatalk is nice....but if you're having to use a phone app on the PC to accomplish something, you're doing it wrong.
It's easy to judge others when you haven't been there
"You?" I have been there....and yes, it's easy to judge others.
Idiotic
Yeah, dude, we all feel that way. We could fight about it, or we could appoint some people to sit on a panel and decide which blowhard is right and which blowhard is wrong. And in fact we did appoint those people, and we call that panel "The Supreme Court".
And if that panel consistently fails us, we can replace them. And if we fail to replace them, then we can really fight about it.
She was laughing it off as a status update, after hitting another car with, I believe (I read this somewhere else), 4 people in it.
Is that against the law?
Under normal circumstances, I would agree that the judge was looking for a power grab, but in this case, I think that the judge was trying to make a point to a person that simply did not understand the ramifications of the situation.
No. The judge was simply flexing his muscles. This is what happens in a country ruled by men, not ones ruled by law.
I imagine we will be more than happy to throw ourselves on our swords for the sanctity of Facebook access.
Some of us would, if it came down to it. It's called having principle. In the end you either live by your principles, or you betray them. I guess we can see which side you fall on.
Per Iowa law, it's up to you to show you either rented out the vehicle
The vehicle is up for sale and someone was test driving it. Not my responsibility. Also, tough luck about some random person shooting out every single camera you spend thousands of taxpayer dollars to install. Vandals these days huh?