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What we don't understand and therefore, in our arrogance, can't identify as brilliance often is.
Check this. People concentrate on singular things like 'brilliant genius' and put all their hopes on those. It's that old "John Rambo (or Jesus or whatever) comes and saves us all!", but dressed differently.
Sad. Counting on some superior individual to change the world is one of the hallmarks of most fucked up religions and cultures on earth today.
I don't know how else to say this but: I hate people who let the suit keep wearing them, not the other way around and who think the fucking suit makes them something special. I hate them so much. If they want me dress up certain way, they better write dress code for everybody to see what kind stick-up-their-asses they are. But they won't because they want to hide their assholeness.
So just out of the fear of me turning into one of those mfs, I don't ever put on suit in work. Period.
BTW, remember Office Space the movie? It had something that comes close to being topical:
Stan: We need to talk. Do you know what this is about?
Joanna: My, uh, flair.
Stan: Yeah. Or, uh, your lack thereof. I'm counting and I only see fifteen pieces. Let me ask you a question, Joanna.
Joanna: Umm-hmm.
Stan: What do you think of a person who only does the bare minimum?
Joanna: Huh. What do I think? Let me tell you what I think, Stan. If you want me to wear thirty-seven pieces of flair like your pretty boy Brian over there, then why don't you just make the minimum thirty-seven pieces of flair?
Stan: Well, I thought I remember you saying you wanted to express yourself.
Joanna: Yeah. Yeah. Y'know what? I do. I do want to express myself. Ok? And I don't need thirty-seven pieces of flair to do it. (gives him the finger) All right? There's my flair! And this is me expressing myself. (holds up her hand) There it is! I hate this job! I hate this goddamn job and I don't need it!!
(She storms out.)
(cut&paste from http://www.thezeroboss.com/archives/000959.html)
General populace of US is to US government as Bill Gates is to... Microsoft.
Let's not fool ourselves into thinking Bill can just "buy" his bad deeds away by making generous donations. Dirty drug money is still dirty drug money whether it's used for good or not.
I was being sarcastic. You were being sarcastic. Both in different ways. I know -and you should know that everybody knows- that most people don't choose their religions. (Why I had to point something this obvious to you? What the hell is this, The Battle of Second Hand Arguments?)
I'm not interested how they got that way, if it was their parents' fault or not. It's their problem now and if all they're gonna do is whine about it while getting fucked by their particular religious cult.. well, maybe they like it up their ass. At least they'll be accepted and respected as normal members of their god loving community. Small price to pay, no? Hahaha!
We've been here before so many times that reading someone having problems with some religion somewhere is getting boring. Put up, shut up or fix the problem but please no more whining.
They should be happy the didn't get burned, drowned, stoned, drawn, raped, etc. Religious cults in western societies are havens for all kinds of insane whackos.
Why are these people whining "Waah! I'm catholic/christian/muslim/whatever and I'm treated poorly!"? Well you chose that yourself or didn't run from it while you had a chance, you can only blame yourself.
It amuses us europeans that you north americans think africans don't have expertise for various things north americans themselves can't use very well. See for example windows xp and compare it to for example ubuntu linux.
It seems to us europeans that africans have better expertise to use computers than north americans.
Because when I go to HP or Dell or any big name website and search for business PCs with long warranties, without useless software bundles and with linux preinstalled, I can't find any. Can you? Are rest of the world surfing some different websites where those kind of machines are offered?
Math/Logic riddles. And if that was the correct answer, being that it isn't logical nor mathematical, you made a troll. Apparently you didn't take into account that starting values, the context of all these riddles also include that they must be math/logic in addition to what you give in your riddle.
People were looking for such answers, not word game answers because those answers aren't acceptable in this context. Shame on you for wasting peoples time with a phony riddle.
Wow I'm totally underwhelmed! If that's a typical example of their 'backend' changes for vista then they can stuff also this version of windows into their backends.
Application level audio control, the big mighty change that will change the way you use your computer! Whoa! Wow! I thought they said they wrote vista from scratch. They lied again it seems and it's the same piece of shit, polished once again.
Now looking back on it, the book fucked me up a little. The book's heroes are geniuses of world-shattering historical importance, and the reader's meant to identify with them. As I grew up I had this vague vision of myself as having similar importance in the future. When I eventually was forced to accept that actually, I was pretty much an ordinary guy and would live an ordinary life (actually even Churchill or Shakespeare or whoever are ordinary guys compared to Ender and his siblings), it was a wrenching transition. My life seemed worthless if I couldn't do anything as important and meaningful in the world as Ender. I didn't actually compare myself with Ender explicitly, but the worldview implanted by Ender's Game was floating in the back of my mind, influencing my attitudes.
Books contain ideas and worldviews and if they're false or misleading, real harm is done. In the case of novels it's if anything especially dangerous, because they pack an emotional punch that can strongly influence readers.
It seems you still haven't got away from your delusions since you seem to think that you were emotionally strong enough to notice its evil influence whereas others might be weaker.. And you now think it's dangerous, wait, especially dangerous, because they pack an emotional punch that can strongly influence readers. Whoa, lucky us a superman like yourself got to read it first and warn us weaklings of its powerful mind influencing powers.
It's just a novel, an appealing novel to most young people. I've personally never understood why some have to read books with magnifying glass, looking for hidden messages and seeing underlying secrets when there necessarily aren't any.
Either they take themselves too seriously or they take fiction too seriously. In both cases, they are annoying lot and should stuff their beliefs where sun doesn't shine.
"Creating the Innocent Killer"..riight. Card "created" a book. Not a killer.
Given OSC's political views, I think it can pretty safely be said that the guy is basically a fascist sympathesizer or something else equally distasteful.
Could you people please just fuck off already with your fascist-this and nazi-that? That subject got old and tired years ago and one might believe that Godwin's Law was sufficient hint to drop it. It's boring history and I'm starting to hate people who still whine about it as much as I hate neo-nazis.
How can exposing things like the company's recent trend in hiring MBA middle managers be good PR? How can saying things like the company's growth going to the single digits in the last 5 years be a marketing ploy? How can complaints about delays in projects like Longhorn, Office, etc. due to the internal bureaucracy be good in any way? There's even a mention of Office for Linux in one of the comments
As if those are some big secrets or something. He doesn't tell anything that couldn't be figured out anyway from other sources. Nothing of real value there, he's too good writer to be believable and possibility of that good writer being the one to leak something truly secret is low. It's the stupid ones with poor writing skills who leak something important usually.
Wake me up when he posts torrents for source codes of w2k3 or something. Until then... that blog uselessly make us waste our time reading something about microsoft without giving out anything really valuable.
How dare those monsters, those despeakable low lifes of bonsaikitten, hurt cute little adorable kittens?! OMG!!!1 I'm gonna report them to PETA, FBI, CIA, CSI,that'll teach them a lesson they'll neva forget! I'm in tears right now, I can't.. OMG!! This is horrible, worse than 9/11 and New Orlando combined, those utter horrendous sadists, they show no mercy it's it's I can't find words how offended I am right now! I feel could just..
FUCK!
OMG now you made me say nasty word, you'll burn in hell! You you.. OMG!
Whew, I gave it everything I got, hope it was on the level of other BK flames..:p
Can I record my own stuff on PSP discs using USB or wireless, or could I buy an UMD drive for my PC to record them and then watch those on PSP? I have lots of DVD movies already and I'd like to..
"NO! No! No! No!"
I'd like to run some other player on it so that I could watch my own..
"NO!"
O-okay, I-I guess I'll buy it then..
"Good boy! Let's have your money, NOW!"
Uh.. S-So could I play this fun solitaire that I have on my PC?
"NO! Begone pest but not before you've bought this EA MadFuckken 2006 Ultra Turbo!"
All talk about crackpots and kooks, etc. makes me wonder don't the scientist ever want to relax a little and just play around with numbers and alterantive theories just for fun?
Does it always have to be so serious that everything they do, they do it with their reputation on the line? What kind of tightasses are there that don't allow any kind of playing or fooling around once in a while?
Nope he's not me. Strangely satisfying when someone links to my comments elsewhere.
Anyway, define shallow life. Or better yet, define real or normal life. I've been defining them for years without acceptable conclusions. They're very context dependent words, is best I can say.
In K5 comment the context was bar and family life. And the point was that rules of that kind of normal life which I described, and which mostly greets me when I go out the door, are so familiar to me that if it'd be game, I'd have switched to another game already. I don't like The Sims, either.
You're right in that real life isn't just another game but it surely can been seen as one and people can survive and even prosper 'playing' real life. Anyway, today we have games so immersive and life-like enough that we can consider them as options or alternatives to real life. And it's only going to get worse/better, which way you like to look at it. But hey, change is always good, right? I know I am very excited about what future is going to be like. It seems it'll be nothing like scifi writers have imagined but as that time draws closer, predictions and visions about it are getting more similar to each other. We can be pretty sure now that virtual life will get big and doubts about mixing it with real, old life, will start to sound funny.
Real life isn't just another game. Stop trying to pretend it is. If it was, gamers wouldn't suck at it so much.
What's the matter, are you scared? We're past pretending now. Gamers may suck at real life because they maybe don't want to play it, they think it's boring, unfair, abusive, etc.
Our chief weapon is security... security and new features... new features and security... our two chief weapons are new features and security and a searching mechanism... our three chief weapons are new features and security and an incompetent searching mechanism and an almost fanatical devotion to visual changes... our four chief weapons... among our weaponry... are such elements as... I'll start over...
Oh, shut up! This vista/honglorn/whatever will be same rehash of old shit for the sake of Profit!!! and we all know it.
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Check this. People concentrate on singular things like 'brilliant genius' and put all their hopes on those. It's that old "John Rambo (or Jesus or whatever) comes and saves us all!", but dressed differently.
Sad. Counting on some superior individual to change the world is one of the hallmarks of most fucked up religions and cultures on earth today.
So just out of the fear of me turning into one of those mfs, I don't ever put on suit in work. Period.
BTW, remember Office Space the movie? It had something that comes close to being topical:
Stan: We need to talk. Do you know what this is about?
Joanna: My, uh, flair.
Stan: Yeah. Or, uh, your lack thereof. I'm counting and I only see fifteen pieces. Let me ask you a question, Joanna.
Joanna: Umm-hmm.
Stan: What do you think of a person who only does the bare minimum?
Joanna: Huh. What do I think? Let me tell you what I think, Stan. If you want me to wear thirty-seven pieces of flair like your pretty boy Brian over there, then why don't you just make the minimum thirty-seven pieces of flair?
Stan: Well, I thought I remember you saying you wanted to express yourself.
Joanna: Yeah. Yeah. Y'know what? I do. I do want to express myself. Ok? And I don't need thirty-seven pieces of flair to do it. (gives him the finger) All right? There's my flair! And this is me expressing myself. (holds up her hand) There it is! I hate this job! I hate this goddamn job and I don't need it!! (She storms out.)
(cut&paste from http://www.thezeroboss.com/archives/000959.html)
Let's not fool ourselves into thinking Bill can just "buy" his bad deeds away by making generous donations. Dirty drug money is still dirty drug money whether it's used for good or not.
I'm not interested how they got that way, if it was their parents' fault or not. It's their problem now and if all they're gonna do is whine about it while getting fucked by their particular religious cult.. well, maybe they like it up their ass. At least they'll be accepted and respected as normal members of their god loving community. Small price to pay, no? Hahaha!
We've been here before so many times that reading someone having problems with some religion somewhere is getting boring. Put up, shut up or fix the problem but please no more whining.
Why are these people whining "Waah! I'm catholic/christian/muslim/whatever and I'm treated poorly!"? Well you chose that yourself or didn't run from it while you had a chance, you can only blame yourself.
It seems to us europeans that africans have better expertise to use computers than north americans.
Because when I go to HP or Dell or any big name website and search for business PCs with long warranties, without useless software bundles and with linux preinstalled, I can't find any. Can you? Are rest of the world surfing some different websites where those kind of machines are offered?
People were looking for such answers, not word game answers because those answers aren't acceptable in this context. Shame on you for wasting peoples time with a phony riddle.
Wow I'm totally underwhelmed! If that's a typical example of their 'backend' changes for vista then they can stuff also this version of windows into their backends.
Application level audio control, the big mighty change that will change the way you use your computer! Whoa! Wow! I thought they said they wrote vista from scratch. They lied again it seems and it's the same piece of shit, polished once again.
Who are you? Nobody.
United States of America (American territory) : 22
United States of America (in Iraq) : 108
See the answer about god telling George what to do next.
For example. This time it's .xxx, maybe next time it's .gov and after that it might be something even more stupid.
Also you forgot about the deal to give over the control of roots by 2006.
All I saw was "we're not bad" and "it's you who is bad" and "this is not fair" and "you don't respect us? well I don't respect you!"
Lot's of words, dodging the issues and no meat. How typical for an USsian.
Truly unbelievable,
Couldn't have said it better myself.
Tell me Mr Creative, what good is a new processor if you are unable to make stable drivers?
It seems you still haven't got away from your delusions since you seem to think that you were emotionally strong enough to notice its evil influence whereas others might be weaker.. And you now think it's dangerous, wait, especially dangerous, because they pack an emotional punch that can strongly influence readers. Whoa, lucky us a superman like yourself got to read it first and warn us weaklings of its powerful mind influencing powers.
..take themselves too seriously.
Either they take themselves too seriously or they take fiction too seriously. In both cases, they are annoying lot and should stuff their beliefs where sun doesn't shine.
"Creating the Innocent Killer"..riight. Card "created" a book. Not a killer.
Given OSC's political views, I think it can pretty safely be said that the guy is basically a fascist sympathesizer or something else equally distasteful.
Could you people please just fuck off already with your fascist-this and nazi-that? That subject got old and tired years ago and one might believe that Godwin's Law was sufficient hint to drop it. It's boring history and I'm starting to hate people who still whine about it as much as I hate neo-nazis.
As if those are some big secrets or something. He doesn't tell anything that couldn't be figured out anyway from other sources. Nothing of real value there, he's too good writer to be believable and possibility of that good writer being the one to leak something truly secret is low. It's the stupid ones with poor writing skills who leak something important usually.
Wake me up when he posts torrents for source codes of w2k3 or something. Until then... that blog uselessly make us waste our time reading something about microsoft without giving out anything really valuable.
Wrong. Try "It's mostly high school kids and college students trading popular music they wouldn't listen if it wasn't available for free."
Popular music is good enough to have for free but not good enough to pay for.
How dare those monsters, those despeakable low lifes of bonsaikitten, hurt cute little adorable kittens?! OMG!!!1 I'm gonna report them to PETA, FBI, CIA, CSI ,that'll teach them a lesson they'll neva forget! I'm in tears right now, I can't.. OMG!! This is horrible, worse than 9/11 and New Orlando combined, those utter horrendous sadists, they show no mercy it's it's I can't find words how offended I am right now! I feel could just..
FUCK!
OMG now you made me say nasty word, you'll burn in hell! You you.. OMG!
Whew, I gave it everything I got, hope it was on the level of other BK flames.. :p
"NO! No! No! No!"
I'd like to run some other player on it so that I could watch my own..
"NO!"
O-okay, I-I guess I'll buy it then..
"Good boy! Let's have your money, NOW!"
Uh.. S-So could I play this fun solitaire that I have on my PC?
"NO! Begone pest but not before you've bought this EA MadFuckken 2006 Ultra Turbo!"
That's seriously messed up. I know I wouldn't want to be friends with someone who keeps calling others fuckwits.
Does it always have to be so serious that everything they do, they do it with their reputation on the line? What kind of tightasses are there that don't allow any kind of playing or fooling around once in a while?
Anyway, define shallow life. Or better yet, define real or normal life. I've been defining them for years without acceptable conclusions. They're very context dependent words, is best I can say.
In K5 comment the context was bar and family life. And the point was that rules of that kind of normal life which I described, and which mostly greets me when I go out the door, are so familiar to me that if it'd be game, I'd have switched to another game already. I don't like The Sims, either.
You're right in that real life isn't just another game but it surely can been seen as one and people can survive and even prosper 'playing' real life. Anyway, today we have games so immersive and life-like enough that we can consider them as options or alternatives to real life. And it's only going to get worse/better, which way you like to look at it. But hey, change is always good, right? I know I am very excited about what future is going to be like. It seems it'll be nothing like scifi writers have imagined but as that time draws closer, predictions and visions about it are getting more similar to each other. We can be pretty sure now that virtual life will get big and doubts about mixing it with real, old life, will start to sound funny.
Real life isn't just another game. Stop trying to pretend it is. If it was, gamers wouldn't suck at it so much.
What's the matter, are you scared? We're past pretending now. Gamers may suck at real life because they maybe don't want to play it, they think it's boring, unfair, abusive, etc.
Oh, shut up! This vista/honglorn/whatever will be same rehash of old shit for the sake of Profit!!! and we all know it.