Hey moron: I spent a *year* overseas. I had already mailed home BOXES FULL OF SHIT. The only stuff I took with me on the plane was stuff that was either too valuable to ship, or I found out too late COULD NOT BE shipped for various stupid reasons.
And no, I don't fly that often, so no, I really don't know all the little ins and outs of "proper airplane packing", but thanks for asking before calling me "greedy." I'm used to flying on aircraft stuffed full of dudes with three duffle bags + body armor + weapons, in half the seating area, so I guess that's why it didn't occur to me this guy having to step over one little bag would be a big fucking deal.
Anyone in 1996 had to be quite the luddite, to not see where this computer "fad" was headed. I'll even say that if a Britannica rep saw Encarta, and did not immediately shit bricks, that person was infinitely dumber than their own gullible customers.
And yet many people didn't.
It's easy to look back and say this now, but back in 1996, 1997-2012 had not happened yet. Yes, *I* knew for sure where this was headed, and you must have too, but it's foolish to assume everyone did. Many people DID think the Internet was just some big passing fad.
I can recall receiving only one email about downloading pirated content, on a Comcast business account. I sent it back and said if you want to continue receiving money from me every month then you will never send me another email like this again.
Haven't ever seen one again, though I've since changed ISPs.
I can understand companies making some profit off of selling food and supplies to prisons, but *definitely not* from the actual imprisonment of people.
You'll understand it up until the point when you're actually in there, and find it costs $5 for a three second long distance phone call. The pricing for everything in there feels like being in Six Flags....without all the fun and amusement. They gleefully make money off other people's misery. What a sick industry.
When I was returning from the middle east from a year deployment, I sat down in my cramped up ass seat next to some square, who promptly complained about my slightly large bag not fitting completely under the seat. (Like a quarter of it was sticking out tops.) He was bitching because he would have to step over it to get out of his seat, like it was such a big deal for a grown ass man to have to inconvenience himself slightly for someone's much greater comfort. I basically told him to deal with it.
So then the cowardly, all too typical and common excuse for a "man" calls the flight attendant over and complains to her.Of course she takes his side and now I have to stow it somewhere. Unfortunately there is NO room anywhere in any overhead compartments, so I had to take the goddamn bag all the way to the front of the aircraft and put it in first class, where I would not have access to it or any of the stuff I brought along to keep me occupied...... for the entire 19 hour flight.
The stupidest thing was, once we got in the air and I took my laptop and stuff out, the bag would have been smaller and probably easily fit under the seat. But the way I was being rushed like this was a big deal caught me off guard and I didn't think of it.
The piece of shit next to me only had to get up twice. I think he probably held it to avoid having to ask. I never spoke a word or looked at him the entire trip. In the end he was inconvenienced a hell of a lot more by my hostile attitude and slow movements than he ever would have been by my bag. What a miserable flight for everybody.
Tell you what, I'll pay triple to just skip the whole airplane thing altogether. Just load me up in the damn cannon, Jules Verne style, and shoot me directly there.
Or are you implying that fundamental physical limits of matter somehow will magically move out of our way?
No, I'm not implying anything. I'm stating this fact: we know know even 1/4 of what we think we know about the universe and how it works. To say something is a "fundamental physical limit" is laughable, because you forgot the whole "theoretical" key word.
I'll bet you're one of these delusional fruitcakes who can't tell technology from a resource and thinks we'll colonize Mars...
Yeah, and I'll bet you're that AC who always trolls every space-related article to rant and moan about the Space Nutters and their crazy plans.
So, if you think that somehow the most brilliant physicists for the last 80 years or so have overlooked something....
LOL. You could have just as easily said, "if you think that somehow the most brilliant physicists for the last 1,000,000+ years (since humans have been around roughly that long) have overlooked something...."
I'll leave it as an exercise to the reader to figure out why that line of reasoning is stupid and wrong.
And you would soon go out of business due to the misery and low morale created in your company, leading to shit products, pissed off customers, and slumping sales.
Business doesn't work exactly like you seem to think it does.
Bro--listen to me. Ignore the naysayers. Trust your instincts. If it looks good to you....DO it, and don't look back. If it doesn't......be patient keep waiting for the right opportunity. You are in no way shape form or fashion "naive." You are on the road to success.
You're never going to get, working as an engineer at a small company, the kind of pay that you'd get as a middle manager at a large corporation.
Or you could, you know...start your OWN COMPANY and collect all the pay you want. Of course, then you would have to take responsibility for all kinds of things. It's much easier just to sit in your cubicle on slashdot and bitch about how hard life is.
The unbelievably complex, indecipherable URL = yet another example of Google's late recurrent stupidity.
Is it really necessary, Google, to have a 250 byte long (I'm guessing??) URL just to point to a search result?
Does it not occur to a company of this size and supposed innovation, and supposed expertise and vision, that the perceived need to have such an enormously complex URL is really nothing more than a signal that the web is fundamentally broken? Let's face it.....HTML and HTTP are technologies which are going to look increasingly creaky and outmoded in this century, simply due to the fact that we are asking them to do things which they are not and were never designed to do. HTML5 is not a solution, it's a bandaid.
I hope the above URL is a clear and shining example to all--just one of many--to get people thinking about the future of the Internet and how it will differ in key ways from some of the ridiculousness we're seeing today, and well as highlight the continued ineptitude of this company (Google) to bring us in the right direction.
I guess the main thing they're doing wrong is, instead of bringing together their vast resources and brainpower and people and putting them towards some kind of big worthwhile vision, like reforming the Internet and creating vast new markets, they just let all their scattered people keep to themselves and work on their own half assed visions, with no clear and coherent direction. This of course results in near zero real innovation and just perpetuates the status quo of rehashing old shit.
This is why I say Google is stupid and not to be trusted. They have run out of ideas. They did come out with some really good and useful stuff, but at this point they are entering the all too common point in the business lifecycle where they are focusing too hard on "refining" and "improving" their existing services, and in the process pissing off and driving away their customers by changing features which drew people to the service in the first place. It's usually all downhill from here. I hope I'm wrong about Google, but I'm not betting on it.
Well it's a great thing that technology never improves then. We'll almost certainly never develop better neutrino detection technology.....especially considering we just plain don't have time, what, in between skinning bears, chopping up bones with primitive stone axes, and stacking up big rocks to form a crude fire pit at our latest migratory camp.
Gotta run now, tribe needs a hand. A hunter found a field of skunky smelling trees with big flowery arms, totally covered in some weird looking crystals. Looks like great kindling for the bonfire. Ugh is stacking em up and getting ready to light. Back later...
What I meant was, it's easy to get too busy analyzing what HAS happened, and how its impact hasn't been "that bad", and in the process ignore the direction things are going, and thus seeing even the present, seemingly innocent/explainable actions should be considered evil in light of the whole, bigger picture.
Also, the road to hell is paved with good intentions. If the actual outcome of a course of action is death and destruction, it doesn't matter one bit what the initial intentions were.
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Hey moron: I spent a *year* overseas. I had already mailed home BOXES FULL OF SHIT. The only stuff I took with me on the plane was stuff that was either too valuable to ship, or I found out too late COULD NOT BE shipped for various stupid reasons.
And no, I don't fly that often, so no, I really don't know all the little ins and outs of "proper airplane packing", but thanks for asking before calling me "greedy." I'm used to flying on aircraft stuffed full of dudes with three duffle bags + body armor + weapons, in half the seating area, so I guess that's why it didn't occur to me this guy having to step over one little bag would be a big fucking deal.
Yeah, takes a real macho man to talk shit from behind a keyboard
Anyone in 1996 had to be quite the luddite, to not see where this computer "fad" was headed. I'll even say that if a Britannica rep saw Encarta, and did not immediately shit bricks, that person was infinitely dumber than their own gullible customers.
And yet many people didn't.
It's easy to look back and say this now, but back in 1996, 1997-2012 had not happened yet. Yes, *I* knew for sure where this was headed, and you must have too, but it's foolish to assume everyone did. Many people DID think the Internet was just some big passing fad.
No, you thought wrong, because 100,000 people from Alabama aren't even the same as 100,000 from Washington State.
I can recall receiving only one email about downloading pirated content, on a Comcast business account. I sent it back and said if you want to continue receiving money from me every month then you will never send me another email like this again.
Haven't ever seen one again, though I've since changed ISPs.
I can understand companies making some profit off of selling food and supplies to prisons, but *definitely not* from the actual imprisonment of people.
You'll understand it up until the point when you're actually in there, and find it costs $5 for a three second long distance phone call. The pricing for everything in there feels like being in Six Flags....without all the fun and amusement. They gleefully make money off other people's misery. What a sick industry.
I'd go back in time and tell you mom not to have you, but I'm afraid I'd Teabagger.
When I was returning from the middle east from a year deployment, I sat down in my cramped up ass seat next to some square, who promptly complained about my slightly large bag not fitting completely under the seat. (Like a quarter of it was sticking out tops.) He was bitching because he would have to step over it to get out of his seat, like it was such a big deal for a grown ass man to have to inconvenience himself slightly for someone's much greater comfort. I basically told him to deal with it.
So then the cowardly, all too typical and common excuse for a "man" calls the flight attendant over and complains to her .Of course she takes his side and now I have to stow it somewhere. Unfortunately there is NO room anywhere in any overhead compartments, so I had to take the goddamn bag all the way to the front of the aircraft and put it in first class, where I would not have access to it or any of the stuff I brought along to keep me occupied ...... for the entire 19 hour flight.
The stupidest thing was, once we got in the air and I took my laptop and stuff out, the bag would have been smaller and probably easily fit under the seat. But the way I was being rushed like this was a big deal caught me off guard and I didn't think of it.
The piece of shit next to me only had to get up twice. I think he probably held it to avoid having to ask. I never spoke a word or looked at him the entire trip. In the end he was inconvenienced a hell of a lot more by my hostile attitude and slow movements than he ever would have been by my bag. What a miserable flight for everybody.
Tell you what, I'll pay triple to just skip the whole airplane thing altogether. Just load me up in the damn cannon, Jules Verne style, and shoot me directly there.
Interesting insight into human behavior. I have been posting a while and did not notice this, but it makes sense.
I know right
Sad times we're living in..
Or are you implying that fundamental physical limits of matter somehow will magically move out of our way?
No, I'm not implying anything. I'm stating this fact: we know know even 1/4 of what we think we know about the universe and how it works. To say something is a "fundamental physical limit" is laughable, because you forgot the whole "theoretical" key word.
I'll bet you're one of these delusional fruitcakes who can't tell technology from a resource and thinks we'll colonize Mars...
Yeah, and I'll bet you're that AC who always trolls every space-related article to rant and moan about the Space Nutters and their crazy plans.
So, if you think that somehow the most brilliant physicists for the last 80 years or so have overlooked something ....
LOL. You could have just as easily said, "if you think that somehow the most brilliant physicists for the last 1,000,000+ years (since humans have been around roughly that long) have overlooked something ...."
I'll leave it as an exercise to the reader to figure out why that line of reasoning is stupid and wrong.
The quickest way to get laughed out of higher education ...
I laugh at "higher" education.
If someone has to read and follow instructions to learn how to edit a paragraph, you've failed
And you would soon go out of business due to the misery and low morale created in your company, leading to shit products, pissed off customers, and slumping sales.
Business doesn't work exactly like you seem to think it does.
Bro--listen to me. Ignore the naysayers. Trust your instincts. If it looks good to you....DO it, and don't look back. If it doesn't......be patient keep waiting for the right opportunity. You are in no way shape form or fashion "naive." You are on the road to success.
This rebuttal is used by morons who can't think
Not to mention the IRS
You're never going to get, working as an engineer at a small company, the kind of pay that you'd get as a middle manager at a large corporation.
Or you could, you know...start your OWN COMPANY and collect all the pay you want. Of course, then you would have to take responsibility for all kinds of things. It's much easier just to sit in your cubicle on slashdot and bitch about how hard life is.
The unbelievably complex, indecipherable URL = yet another example of Google's late recurrent stupidity.
Is it really necessary, Google, to have a 250 byte long (I'm guessing??) URL just to point to a search result?
Does it not occur to a company of this size and supposed innovation, and supposed expertise and vision, that the perceived need to have such an enormously complex URL is really nothing more than a signal that the web is fundamentally broken? Let's face it.....HTML and HTTP are technologies which are going to look increasingly creaky and outmoded in this century, simply due to the fact that we are asking them to do things which they are not and were never designed to do. HTML5 is not a solution, it's a bandaid.
I hope the above URL is a clear and shining example to all--just one of many--to get people thinking about the future of the Internet and how it will differ in key ways from some of the ridiculousness we're seeing today, and well as highlight the continued ineptitude of this company (Google) to bring us in the right direction.
I guess the main thing they're doing wrong is, instead of bringing together their vast resources and brainpower and people and putting them towards some kind of big worthwhile vision, like reforming the Internet and creating vast new markets, they just let all their scattered people keep to themselves and work on their own half assed visions, with no clear and coherent direction. This of course results in near zero real innovation and just perpetuates the status quo of rehashing old shit.
This is why I say Google is stupid and not to be trusted. They have run out of ideas. They did come out with some really good and useful stuff, but at this point they are entering the all too common point in the business lifecycle where they are focusing too hard on "refining" and "improving" their existing services, and in the process pissing off and driving away their customers by changing features which drew people to the service in the first place. It's usually all downhill from here. I hope I'm wrong about Google, but I'm not betting on it.
You might say that about the human species as a whole. What is our purpose of existence, if not to compete?
Well it's a great thing that technology never improves then. We'll almost certainly never develop better neutrino detection technology.....especially considering we just plain don't have time, what, in between skinning bears, chopping up bones with primitive stone axes, and stacking up big rocks to form a crude fire pit at our latest migratory camp.
Gotta run now, tribe needs a hand. A hunter found a field of skunky smelling trees with big flowery arms, totally covered in some weird looking crystals. Looks like great kindling for the bonfire. Ugh is stacking em up and getting ready to light. Back later...
No, that was Transatlantic Trip IV: Laying the Cable
Now all we need is a neutrino-blocking carpet.
Yeah but I bet it's a lot easier to jam electromagnetic communications in space. Probably not so for neutrinos.
What I meant was, it's easy to get too busy analyzing what HAS happened, and how its impact hasn't been "that bad", and in the process ignore the direction things are going, and thus seeing even the present, seemingly innocent/explainable actions should be considered evil in light of the whole, bigger picture.
Also, the road to hell is paved with good intentions. If the actual outcome of a course of action is death and destruction, it doesn't matter one bit what the initial intentions were.