Excellent post. The flaw in your reasoning, however, is that you assume that you haven't met smart girls. You have met tons of them, and just didn't know it. Hint: "smartness" isn't just about being able to do scientific shit and logically deduct things. There are other forms of intelligence that are equally as important, much more important than your ego-centric logical mind (just like mine, and everyone's) would ever guess.
Actually, it has occurred to me, as I am a personal friend of Sarah's. You may not believe me, but either way, that's somewhat besides my point. I'm sure she wants attention for her outreach work and her scientific research, but to get attention only or primarily because of one's looks is to very unwelcoming. It serves to alienate people, to denigrate them-- it's why we have terms like "sexual objectification" in our language.
OK, this just keeps getting better and better. As I read more of your posts about this girl, I begin to see what your motivation is. You're the overprotective geek friend/wannabe lover who thinks by defending her honor on some random geek message board, you will curry favor with her and this will somehow lead to her fucking you. I'm sad to inform you this will never happen.
I guarantee the truly hot, smart guys hitting on her can use all the lusty language they want and she'll dig it. It's only the trashy geeks with bad manners she finds repulsive and politely ignores, just as hot girls everywhere must learn to do.
I guarantee Sarah is perfectly content enough and at ease with sexuality, being a grown woman of good looks and high intelligence, that comments by random nerds on a geek site don't at all even register on her radar as a source of concern. You don't need to "protect" her from the evil lusty nerds, he-man, she's gonna be OK.
Read an article from http://badphysics.wordpress.com/ [wordpress.com], spend a few futile minutes googling for more pictures and trying to internally reconcile her ravishing looks with such effortless eloquence and boundless intelligence, and then fall even deeper into self-loathing despair with the realization that even your hypothetical best version of yourself wouldn't be good enough for her.
Except I know I actually *could* bang her. And I'll go ahead and tell you, just because she's good looking and smart doesn't mean that she's fun in bed or that you'd want to be in a relationship with her. In fact I've found that overly smart women can often be the quirkiest and most annoying/emotionally immature in some ways. That doesn't mean that one shouldn't be interested in meeting her and finding out more about her, but don't drool over her "stats" (i.e. her self-created marketing brochure) and automatically assume that's the whole truth and there aren't flaws hidden, or not so hidden.
In other words, don't put the pussy on a pedestal. Gain some self worth and a critical eye. A critical eye means you've got so many women hitting on you that you need to screen out the ones who are irritating or in some way unworthy of your attention. Why waste time with a psycho, or a straight up weirdo when there are other, just as hot and better acting women who want your attention? Who cares if she's the smartest woman on the planet if she's a bitch or has rude manners or is totally unwilling to experiment with new sexual positions?
How many people in high school go to college vs. how many make a good living 10 years later?
Well, I guess that depends on how you define "good living." Do you consider owning a cookie cutter home in a cookie cutter neighborhood with cookie cutter kids and wife to be a "good living"?
I would venture a guess that there are more millionaires that went to business school than who played professional sports of any kind
And I'd venture a guess that there's more millionaires out there who never went to school, or dropped out of school, than those who went to business school and then became millionaires.
Painting a car pink is not the same as damaging your property. Maybe to you it is, but maybe there are other people out there who would like a pink car. I know I wouldn't mind having a purple one.
Carjackers aren't going to want to be driving a hot car around when it happens to be painted hot pink, covered in artwork, or shaped like a giant shoe. The reason is simple: if you're going to steal a car, you don't want the stolen car to be easily identified. A black car is much easier to hide than a pink one.
Oh, so that explains why nobody ever steals red sports cars, because they are afraid the color will get them caught, right?
Obviously you know nothing of either carjacking or auto painting.
The truth is, pink is a TERRIBLE color for most cars. Any talented auto painter will tell you the same thing. It looks right on VERY few cars, i.e. a '59 Cadillac, but not much else.
TLDR version: The manager rarely loses his job over such things.
This isn't a 30 year old company with a steady business manufacturing gizmos. This is a FINANCIAL TRADING COMPANY that does millions of dollars of trades daily. Any company as corrupted and dysfunctional as the one you describe will not last long in such a market, because there is no room for error in this business.
$150k isnt enough for you? Then quit and start your own damn company. Then, you too can be the fat cat sitting up top raking in the millions. Oh wait, but then you'd actually have to have responsibility, make decisions, and manage people. Then it'd actually be your ass on the line in case you make the wrong trading decisions. Don't think you're man enough to handle that? Then shut the fuck up, sit down, and get back to coding, and enjoy the fact that you're raking in the big bucks in a career field (programming) that doesn't normally pay worth shit, and you didn't even have to spend years in the military to get a security clearance and take a job in some armpit of a country to do it!
What can a tablet such as the iPad do that a PDA (such as the iPhone) or laptop can't? Well it has a bigger higher-res screen than a PDA (but no phone functionality and no camera, and built-in keyboards are right out) and it's slightly more portable than a laptop (but no keyboard, optical drive or good selection of ports).
You just answered your own question. This is the huge selling point of the tablet--it can be carried around much more easily than a laptop, yet can handle 90% of the tasks you'd normally need/want a laptop for (checking email on the go, etc.) Old timers (techie types now getting up in age, usually with plenty of disposable income) don't like having to read shit on a tiny phone screen, or pay huge bucks for a good phone (which they will inevitably break) when they could get a cheap phone for calls, that is super simple and rugged and who gives a shit if it gets lost or broken? And then get an ipad to handle all the on-the-go computing. The ipad can stay in the car or on the desk sometimes, it doesnt have to be carried on the person everywhere if it's not needed.
Let's face it, the future is in devices like these. With the web evolving into a more and more structured, two way communications system between applications and user interface, rather than simply a means of serving documents, a tablet like this doesn't have to have all kinds of processing power. It just needs to be a cool and convenient way of accessing web applications and BAM, it will take off.
if you dont want your house robbed, rip off the siding and make it look like a hobo shack. if you dont want your guitar stolen, slam it into a brick wall a few times as hard as you can. if you dont want your pet stolen, put out its eyes with cigarette butts, break its legs, shave its fur off and spray paint it black. then of course, if you dont want your car stolen, paint it pink with polka dots and silver racing stripes. all great ideas of course, since anything that keeps you from being robbed is worth the trade-off, right!
The point is, normaly you don't own these old devices/use these old ways anymore because they are superseded by new ones. My only phone is a cellphone, my standard computer is a netbook and my microwave is also the only oven i have.
Your point is invalid because you failed to take into account others' needs. YOU might need only a microwave, but how do you expect to cook a hamburger in one? The best way to do that is the same way the cave men did it--over hot coals/open flame/etc. Your standard computer is a netbook? Might work for you, but there's no damn way I'd use one as my main computer. Likewise, I don't personally need an iPad, but I could see how it could be a useful tool to some people.
Issues of privacy and the recklessness of the motorcyclist aside, the video is clearly misleading as the sound was off until the very end. You see the guy look over his shoulder which means that most likely the sirens were on and he'd gotten off the ramp with the hope of evading them.
Have you actually ever run from the cops, or know anything about running from the cops? If the guy on the bike was trying to run, he wouldn't try, he would simply run and they never would have caught him.
One man's "altruist" is another man's "idiot who foolishly helps undeserving people at his own expense."
Who does the greater good in society--the man who never has anything, and who always gives his money and possessions away to be wasted by others, or the man who makes a fortune for himself and sets up (or invests in) companies that employ thousands?
Sure, if both are V8s. But if you can't look at the MPG ratings of various vehicles and draw SOME kind of meaningful conclusion about their relative fuel economies, then you're just plain stupid.
Hey asshole, I know this might come as a shock to you, BUT-- everybody has different tastes! Imagine that, someone having a different opinion than you on what constitutes "exciting." They must hold this fucked opinion only because they haven't heard yours, and of course instantly recognized your great wisdom, right? I for one think drag racing is exciting. You might not, since it's only a boring -- YAWN -- straight line. Yet the difference is, that drag race will get me laid, while you still sit at home wanking to pictures of Superbike drivers.
PS--when you actually get behind the wheel of ANY race car, 300+ horsepower, let alone a 500, God forbid a 700, 800, 900, 1000+ horsepower car, and after the short ride when you've finished mopping your piss out of the seat, please get back to me on your enlightened opinion of what you consider "boring" or "exciting."
You made a good choice if your health is affected. Not everyone can handle high pressure jobs. That doesn't mean you'd have done better in any other high pressure job.
Have you seen the hours doctors are expected to work? As for stress do you REALLY think life and death decisions are less stressful than IT work?
Oh please, this is such horseshit, and this is exactly what's wrong with our fucked up society that's destroying us from within. I love your subtle insinuation that the GP is a weakling since he is being affected by the intense stress that comes with a lot of shitty IT jobs. I've been there, I've seen the cubicle farm, I didn't put up with it and a month later I said to hell with this and quit. I worked with some other good guys there who were not quite as free to quit on a whim, who felt trapped into working long weekends for this shitty company for shitty pay, good guys who were stressed the fuck out to the point of it affecting their health. They couldn't quit because the company had them by the balls, and they didn't feel like they could get a better deal anywhere else. So don't sit there and pander to me with your bullshit act like everything is just fine and hunky dory in cubicle land. If there is any weakness in our society, it's that gutless cowards like you buy into the lie so heavily and completely and even actively work against the rest of us who'd like to bring some measure of sense into our balls-to-the-wall, health-be-damned, fucked beyond belief American work ethic.
Why would anybody license this, given that GPS routing already works perfectly fine? My ancient GPS takes maybe 5 seconds to calculate a route.
Gee, I dunno, maybe somebody would like to cut that down to a quarter of a second, or a tenth of a second, so that it can be used in other applications than what you might personally want it for? Such as real-time GPS guidance for an explosives disposal vehicle, for instance?
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Excellent post. The flaw in your reasoning, however, is that you assume that you haven't met smart girls. You have met tons of them, and just didn't know it. Hint: "smartness" isn't just about being able to do scientific shit and logically deduct things. There are other forms of intelligence that are equally as important, much more important than your ego-centric logical mind (just like mine, and everyone's) would ever guess.
Actually, it has occurred to me, as I am a personal friend of Sarah's. You may not believe me, but either way, that's somewhat besides my point. I'm sure she wants attention for her outreach work and her scientific research, but to get attention only or primarily because of one's looks is to very unwelcoming. It serves to alienate people, to denigrate them-- it's why we have terms like "sexual objectification" in our language.
OK, this just keeps getting better and better. As I read more of your posts about this girl, I begin to see what your motivation is. You're the overprotective geek friend/wannabe lover who thinks by defending her honor on some random geek message board, you will curry favor with her and this will somehow lead to her fucking you. I'm sad to inform you this will never happen.
I guarantee the truly hot, smart guys hitting on her can use all the lusty language they want and she'll dig it. It's only the trashy geeks with bad manners she finds repulsive and politely ignores, just as hot girls everywhere must learn to do.
I guarantee Sarah is perfectly content enough and at ease with sexuality, being a grown woman of good looks and high intelligence, that comments by random nerds on a geek site don't at all even register on her radar as a source of concern. You don't need to "protect" her from the evil lusty nerds, he-man, she's gonna be OK.
Read an article from http://badphysics.wordpress.com/ [wordpress.com], spend a few futile minutes googling for more pictures and trying to internally reconcile her ravishing looks with such effortless eloquence and boundless intelligence, and then fall even deeper into self-loathing despair with the realization that even your hypothetical best version of yourself wouldn't be good enough for her.
Except I know I actually *could* bang her. And I'll go ahead and tell you, just because she's good looking and smart doesn't mean that she's fun in bed or that you'd want to be in a relationship with her. In fact I've found that overly smart women can often be the quirkiest and most annoying/emotionally immature in some ways. That doesn't mean that one shouldn't be interested in meeting her and finding out more about her, but don't drool over her "stats" (i.e. her self-created marketing brochure) and automatically assume that's the whole truth and there aren't flaws hidden, or not so hidden.
In other words, don't put the pussy on a pedestal. Gain some self worth and a critical eye. A critical eye means you've got so many women hitting on you that you need to screen out the ones who are irritating or in some way unworthy of your attention. Why waste time with a psycho, or a straight up weirdo when there are other, just as hot and better acting women who want your attention? Who cares if she's the smartest woman on the planet if she's a bitch or has rude manners or is totally unwilling to experiment with new sexual positions?
How many people in high school go to college vs. how many make a good living 10 years later?
Well, I guess that depends on how you define "good living." Do you consider owning a cookie cutter home in a cookie cutter neighborhood with cookie cutter kids and wife to be a "good living"?
I would venture a guess that there are more millionaires that went to business school than who played professional sports of any kind
And I'd venture a guess that there's more millionaires out there who never went to school, or dropped out of school, than those who went to business school and then became millionaires.
Yeah, I figured that out after I read down further in the comments...didnt even have to RTFA :D
Painting a car pink is not the same as damaging your property. Maybe to you it is, but maybe there are other people out there who would like a pink car. I know I wouldn't mind having a purple one.
Carjackers aren't going to want to be driving a hot car around when it happens to be painted hot pink, covered in artwork, or shaped like a giant shoe. The reason is simple: if you're going to steal a car, you don't want the stolen car to be easily identified. A black car is much easier to hide than a pink one.
Oh, so that explains why nobody ever steals red sports cars, because they are afraid the color will get them caught, right?
Obviously you know nothing of either carjacking or auto painting.
The truth is, pink is a TERRIBLE color for most cars. Any talented auto painter will tell you the same thing. It looks right on VERY few cars, i.e. a '59 Cadillac, but not much else.
Why, because you assume every single person on this site is an expert on the subject of cosmic rays?
The real question is, what is the decay product and where is all that radiation being vented?
TLDR version: The manager rarely loses his job over such things.
This isn't a 30 year old company with a steady business manufacturing gizmos. This is a FINANCIAL TRADING COMPANY that does millions of dollars of trades daily. Any company as corrupted and dysfunctional as the one you describe will not last long in such a market, because there is no room for error in this business.
It's been my experience that pay is not as negotiable as everyone thinks it is.
This says more about you than it does anything.
$150k isnt enough for you? Then quit and start your own damn company. Then, you too can be the fat cat sitting up top raking in the millions. Oh wait, but then you'd actually have to have responsibility, make decisions, and manage people. Then it'd actually be your ass on the line in case you make the wrong trading decisions. Don't think you're man enough to handle that? Then shut the fuck up, sit down, and get back to coding, and enjoy the fact that you're raking in the big bucks in a career field (programming) that doesn't normally pay worth shit, and you didn't even have to spend years in the military to get a security clearance and take a job in some armpit of a country to do it!
What can a tablet such as the iPad do that a PDA (such as the iPhone) or laptop can't? Well it has a bigger higher-res screen than a PDA (but no phone functionality and no camera, and built-in keyboards are right out) and it's slightly more portable than a laptop (but no keyboard, optical drive or good selection of ports).
You just answered your own question. This is the huge selling point of the tablet--it can be carried around much more easily than a laptop, yet can handle 90% of the tasks you'd normally need/want a laptop for (checking email on the go, etc.) Old timers (techie types now getting up in age, usually with plenty of disposable income) don't like having to read shit on a tiny phone screen, or pay huge bucks for a good phone (which they will inevitably break) when they could get a cheap phone for calls, that is super simple and rugged and who gives a shit if it gets lost or broken? And then get an ipad to handle all the on-the-go computing. The ipad can stay in the car or on the desk sometimes, it doesnt have to be carried on the person everywhere if it's not needed.
Let's face it, the future is in devices like these. With the web evolving into a more and more structured, two way communications system between applications and user interface, rather than simply a means of serving documents, a tablet like this doesn't have to have all kinds of processing power. It just needs to be a cool and convenient way of accessing web applications and BAM, it will take off.
if you dont want your house robbed, rip off the siding and make it look like a hobo shack. if you dont want your guitar stolen, slam it into a brick wall a few times as hard as you can. if you dont want your pet stolen, put out its eyes with cigarette butts, break its legs, shave its fur off and spray paint it black. then of course, if you dont want your car stolen, paint it pink with polka dots and silver racing stripes. all great ideas of course, since anything that keeps you from being robbed is worth the trade-off, right!
The point is, normaly you don't own these old devices/use these old ways anymore because they are superseded by new ones. My only phone is a cellphone, my standard computer is a netbook and my microwave is also the only oven i have.
Your point is invalid because you failed to take into account others' needs. YOU might need only a microwave, but how do you expect to cook a hamburger in one? The best way to do that is the same way the cave men did it--over hot coals/open flame/etc. Your standard computer is a netbook? Might work for you, but there's no damn way I'd use one as my main computer. Likewise, I don't personally need an iPad, but I could see how it could be a useful tool to some people.
Issues of privacy and the recklessness of the motorcyclist aside, the video is clearly misleading as the sound was off until the very end. You see the guy look over his shoulder which means that most likely the sirens were on and he'd gotten off the ramp with the hope of evading them.
Have you actually ever run from the cops, or know anything about running from the cops? If the guy on the bike was trying to run, he wouldn't try, he would simply run and they never would have caught him.
minus the 80 MPH the other vehicles are traveling. now how much kinetic energy is involved?
you can crunch numbers all you want, but the FACT is, motorcycle wrecks rarely injure anyone but the motorcyclist himself.
One man's "altruist" is another man's "idiot who foolishly helps undeserving people at his own expense."
Who does the greater good in society--the man who never has anything, and who always gives his money and possessions away to be wasted by others, or the man who makes a fortune for himself and sets up (or invests in) companies that employ thousands?
20th Century Translation:
Even three words of quarrelling you shouldn't have with an inferior.
21st Century Translation:
Don't feed trolls.
Well, no, that's not the meaning at all. The real 21st century translation is "don't quarrel with an armed man"
Sure, if both are V8s. But if you can't look at the MPG ratings of various vehicles and draw SOME kind of meaningful conclusion about their relative fuel economies, then you're just plain stupid.
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Hey asshole, I know this might come as a shock to you, BUT-- everybody has different tastes! Imagine that, someone having a different opinion than you on what constitutes "exciting." They must hold this fucked opinion only because they haven't heard yours, and of course instantly recognized your great wisdom, right? I for one think drag racing is exciting. You might not, since it's only a boring -- YAWN -- straight line. Yet the difference is, that drag race will get me laid, while you still sit at home wanking to pictures of Superbike drivers.
PS--when you actually get behind the wheel of ANY race car, 300+ horsepower, let alone a 500, God forbid a 700, 800, 900, 1000+ horsepower car, and after the short ride when you've finished mopping your piss out of the seat, please get back to me on your enlightened opinion of what you consider "boring" or "exciting."
You made a good choice if your health is affected. Not everyone can handle high pressure jobs. That doesn't mean you'd have done better in any other high pressure job.
Have you seen the hours doctors are expected to work? As for stress do you REALLY think life and death decisions are less stressful than IT work?
Oh please, this is such horseshit, and this is exactly what's wrong with our fucked up society that's destroying us from within. I love your subtle insinuation that the GP is a weakling since he is being affected by the intense stress that comes with a lot of shitty IT jobs. I've been there, I've seen the cubicle farm, I didn't put up with it and a month later I said to hell with this and quit. I worked with some other good guys there who were not quite as free to quit on a whim, who felt trapped into working long weekends for this shitty company for shitty pay, good guys who were stressed the fuck out to the point of it affecting their health. They couldn't quit because the company had them by the balls, and they didn't feel like they could get a better deal anywhere else. So don't sit there and pander to me with your bullshit act like everything is just fine and hunky dory in cubicle land. If there is any weakness in our society, it's that gutless cowards like you buy into the lie so heavily and completely and even actively work against the rest of us who'd like to bring some measure of sense into our balls-to-the-wall, health-be-damned, fucked beyond belief American work ethic.
Why would anybody license this, given that GPS routing already works perfectly fine? My ancient GPS takes maybe 5 seconds to calculate a route.
Gee, I dunno, maybe somebody would like to cut that down to a quarter of a second, or a tenth of a second, so that it can be used in other applications than what you might personally want it for? Such as real-time GPS guidance for an explosives disposal vehicle, for instance?