Penguin should do a complete recall of every single copy of the book titled "Katie.com".
That, or seek out each and every owner and send them a notice and the appropriate change pages.
They should also compensate Katie Jones for all of the grief, suffering, confusion, reputation loss, and also the bandwidth and computing time lost to their mis-adventure.
"Maroon" is a reference to various Bugs Bunny cartoons where he recognizes that moronic acts and the people doing them as "What a Maroon!" and of course, purposely mispromouncing the word "moron" for comedic effect.
It will work if you take into account that more than one single soul will likely flag the very same message. So you can probably put in some sort of variable rating system and come out with the likelihood that if some X number of folks from various geography flag the piece as spam, then we can be within some Y% certainty that it's damn spam.
Do you mean, the "western world" shunned his actions? There are quite many people who applauded what he did and didn't think he did enough (I am most definitely *not* one of them). Especially people who hate the US and western ideals to begin with.
There is also a legal taboo in your former employers - HR and managers - from speaking badly about you. The logic from prior examples are from prior employees who had sued bad on 'libelous' type of comments that the former employers used when they were called back by the new employer. The end result is that former employers are advised by their legal and HR depts to not give out anything aside from the fact that they were employed there once and when the employee was separated.
Ha, as much as the fact that most employees have clear delusions on how important and indispensable they are. Managers are usually under a similar type of self delusion that you've described - the fact that all employees are completely replaceable widgets while simulataneously believing that the employee should be eternally grateful to have a job in the first place.
Screw that.
My entire and complete philosophy in employment is this: I really don't care if you think of me as expendable or indispensable. But I am going to make damn well sure that I always have a backup position. That way, I make the company and the managers the expendable part of my equation.
A couple of things: by "True selves", do you mean our bodies or our consciousness? If the latter, then this is what is being simulated, and the "VR" is what is representing our bodies. You see, the "VR" portion of the simulation is a much lesser component to the entire simulation. "VR" is really just all of the interfaces necessary to make the simulated consciousness to be able to perceive the reality. Bostrom indeed talks about a simulated consciousness together with a computationally created reality for the simulated consciousness to perceive - BTW, they might be one and the same; but if its easier to understand it that way, then so be it. In essence, there is no body, the "you" probably have been gone for generations. However, somehow, your consciousness might have been "digitized" and stored so that it might be simulated to react to a particular environment. It might even be used to interact with "today"'s environment.
On top of that, it might not be cruel, nor crass to simulate our ancestors. Think about it, if we had the consciousness of say "Genghkis Khan" [insert your historical figure], would we want to simulate his consciousness? Play it back, see what he knows, what he would do? Better than a lot of pre-suppositions and guessing on what he did thru artifacts or muddled records.
The idea is that if a particular "non-Easy" theatre takes $100 Mil on a film, they give the movie producers $90Mil. Easy-Cinema is *not* offering to pay just a mere 90% of their take, they are offer to pay that flat fee of $90Mil - the equivalent of what other "non-Easy" theatre pays for 90%.
Come on! how hard is it to find the right answer and then shooting for the wrong answer? He has enough training and knowledge to master that, so it wouldn't have been difficult to score that 1600 (and the analogous fat 0) - and even easier with the recentering crap the college board is doing now a days.
The challenge would have been to shoot for a very specific score. Try that!
I think you've just wasted your breath here. Most here wouldn't know the difference of fucking and being fucked. (Take it into the literal sense if you must). But just because one thinks that both are pleasurable doesn't mean that they are equal.
On the other hand, there are plenty of others out there who doesn't dig the movie into the same details as you have. Take some of my friends and my sister for instance. Some of them still haven't seen the movie and when I do play them my DVD. They are pretty ho-hum about it and pretty much said that they don't 'get' what the big deal is - yeah, it's like James Bond and Die Hard and all that with lots of gun fire and people getting shot, so?
I give up, there are people out there who choose to live their lives through the haze and not use the noggin that they are given. They simply just waste it away stuffing fat into their bodies and are willing to 'be entertained'. They base their judgement on things very simplistically by how things appeal to them at the most visual level.
Truly - fat, dumb, and happy.
I believe that they consciously choose this. Is this an self-enslaved or happy existence?
That is so wrong. There is a run on Black cats especially in the month of October. And guess what? The shelters won't let them go! What the hell is with the supply side control. Set them free!
could get expensive. Most corporate licenses from M$ requires lumpsum payment of the rest of the licensing fees even if you decide not to use them anymore.
Gimme a break, Taiwanese and Koreans are dropping dead for lots more reasons then just "allegedly" dying from gaming.
Hong Kong teens commit suicides at the drop of a hat. You should see exam time. The tops of highrises are lined with jumpers who couldn't pass their exams. ha!
I think he is saying this that readership taken into account. Those inaccuracies do not amount to much in the sense that it is a piece talking about the culture; if the piece was to appear in a gaming magazine, then those details would certainly been lots more important.
Give me a break. Lawyers are used to being on both ends of generating and receiving literally truck loads of documents. The legal system depends on it. They have armies of aids standing by to review these things.
I think best effort here would be to tell them "here is the backup tape, I need to move on to my business. Let me know if you have trouble or need help."
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Good Lord, it looked like the psychedelic intro to TeleTubbies.
Come on now... If they really meant to spoof it, you would think they can come up with something more plausible? Something real, just now where they actually are?
Thank you from the Management of Offshore Holdings. For 2 years, we have suspected a mob of operators have been taking payments in exchange of registering domains with false contact info. Thanks to the slashdot community and other Bulleting Board Service, we have routed the perpetrators.
They have all been sacked.
All of these domains will also be sacked, unless the owners contact us within 24 hrs with prove of ownership - and 1 Million dollars!
No way, I drive to Okwana, MI pop 800 everyday for work... They are talking about putting in a gas station finally coming into town. You are talking about them scrapping the whole deal now?
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Penguin should do a complete recall of every single copy of the book titled "Katie.com".
That, or seek out each and every owner and send them a notice and the appropriate change pages.
They should also compensate Katie Jones for all of the grief, suffering, confusion, reputation loss, and also the bandwidth and computing time lost to their mis-adventure.
"Maroon" is a reference to various Bugs Bunny cartoons where he recognizes that moronic acts and the people doing them as "What a Maroon!" and of course, purposely mispromouncing the word "moron" for comedic effect.
It's not funny when you have to explain it.
It will work if you take into account that more than one single soul will likely flag the very same message. So you can probably put in some sort of variable rating system and come out with the likelihood that if some X number of folks from various geography flag the piece as spam, then we can be within some Y% certainty that it's damn spam.
Yahoo.
That's a grand idea. WWDN knows tech, he and Georgy can get together, fix this up, so it won't happen with the California schools.
Now I don't know if I should vote for Georgy or write Wil in.
Do you mean, the "western world" shunned his actions? There are quite many people who applauded what he did and didn't think he did enough (I am most definitely *not* one of them). Especially people who hate the US and western ideals to begin with.
There is also a legal taboo in your former employers - HR and managers - from speaking badly about you. The logic from prior examples are from prior employees who had sued bad on 'libelous' type of comments that the former employers used when they were called back by the new employer. The end result is that former employers are advised by their legal and HR depts to not give out anything aside from the fact that they were employed there once and when the employee was separated.
Ha, as much as the fact that most employees have clear delusions on how important and indispensable they are. Managers are usually under a similar type of self delusion that you've described - the fact that all employees are completely replaceable widgets while simulataneously believing that the employee should be eternally grateful to have a job in the first place.
Screw that.
My entire and complete philosophy in employment is this: I really don't care if you think of me as expendable or indispensable. But I am going to make damn well sure that I always have a backup position. That way, I make the company and the managers the expendable part of my equation.
A couple of things:
by "True selves", do you mean our bodies or our consciousness? If the latter, then this is what is being simulated, and the "VR" is what is representing our bodies. You see, the "VR" portion of the simulation is a much lesser component to the entire simulation. "VR" is really just all of the interfaces necessary to make the simulated consciousness to be able to perceive the reality. Bostrom indeed talks about a simulated consciousness together with a computationally created reality for the simulated consciousness to perceive - BTW, they might be one and the same; but if its easier to understand it that way, then so be it. In essence, there is no body, the "you" probably have been gone for generations. However, somehow, your consciousness might have been "digitized" and stored so that it might be simulated to react to a particular environment. It might even be used to interact with "today"'s environment.
On top of that, it might not be cruel, nor crass to simulate our ancestors. Think about it, if we had the consciousness of say "Genghkis Khan" [insert your historical figure], would we want to simulate his consciousness? Play it back, see what he knows, what he would do? Better than a lot of pre-suppositions and guessing on what he did thru artifacts or muddled records.
60% bandwidth for P2P + 60% bandwidth for SPAM = 120% of available bandwidth.
how am I suppose to get any real work done?
The idea is that if a particular "non-Easy" theatre takes $100 Mil on a film, they give
the movie producers $90Mil. Easy-Cinema is
*not* offering to pay just a mere 90% of their
take, they are offer to pay that flat fee of $90Mil - the equivalent of what other "non-Easy"
theatre pays for 90%.
I think this strategy is outlined in
the basic test taking skill portion of
the SAT.
That is exactly why they take points off
when an incorrect answer is selected for
multiple choice questions.
Come on! how hard is it to find the right
answer and then shooting for the wrong answer?
He has enough training and knowledge to master
that, so it wouldn't have been difficult to
score that 1600 (and the analogous fat 0) -
and even easier with the recentering crap
the college board is doing now a days.
The challenge would have been to shoot for
a very specific score. Try that!
I think you've just wasted your breath here. Most here wouldn't know the difference of fucking and being fucked. (Take it into the literal sense if you must). But just because one thinks that both are pleasurable doesn't mean that they are equal.
On the other hand, there are plenty of others out there who doesn't dig the movie into the same details as you have. Take some of my friends and my sister for instance. Some of them still haven't seen the movie and when I do play them my DVD. They are pretty ho-hum about it and pretty much said that they don't 'get' what the big deal is - yeah, it's like James Bond and Die Hard and all that with lots of gun fire and people getting shot, so?
I give up, there are people out there who choose to live their lives through the haze and not use the noggin that they are given. They simply just waste it away stuffing fat into their bodies and are willing to 'be entertained'. They base their judgement on things very simplistically by how things appeal to them at the most visual level.
Truly - fat, dumb, and happy.
I believe that they consciously choose this.
Is this an self-enslaved or happy existence?
That is so wrong. There is a run on Black cats especially in the month of October. And guess what? The shelters won't let them go! What the hell is with the supply side control. Set them free!
could get expensive. Most corporate licenses from M$ requires lumpsum payment of the rest of the licensing fees even if you decide not to use them anymore.
Gimme a break, Taiwanese and Koreans are dropping dead for lots more reasons then just "allegedly" dying from gaming.
Hong Kong teens commit suicides at the drop of a hat. You should see exam time. The tops of highrises are lined with jumpers who couldn't pass their exams. ha!
Yeah, I say bring that $hit over.
I think he is saying this that readership taken into account. Those inaccuracies do not amount to much in the sense that it is a piece talking about the culture; if the piece was to appear in a gaming magazine, then those details would certainly been lots more important.
Give me a break. Lawyers are used to being on both ends of generating and receiving literally truck loads of documents. The legal system depends on it. They have armies of aids standing by to review these things.
I think best effort here would be to tell them "here is the backup tape, I need to
move on to my business. Let me know if you
have trouble or need help."
Good Lord, it looked like the psychedelic
intro to TeleTubbies.
That's interesting... so if you work for
Fox, maybe you *CAN* get a 213-555-xxxx
number...
have you checked 213-555-0089 and
the rest of that block?
Okawana and Kihei are both real towns.
Come on now... If they really meant to
spoof it, you would think they can come
up with something more plausible?
Something real, just now where they
actually are?
Or maybe they were just stupid...
This Just in...
Thank you from the Management of Offshore
Holdings. For 2 years, we have suspected
a mob of operators have been taking payments
in exchange of registering domains with
false contact info. Thanks to the slashdot
community and other Bulleting Board Service,
we have routed the perpetrators.
They have all been sacked.
All of these domains will also be sacked,
unless the owners contact us within 24 hrs
with prove of ownership - and 1 Million dollars!
Thanks for your cooperation.
They must have meant
Okwana, MI 40918
It's a piss stop. pop 800 (not even)
No way, I drive to Okwana, MI pop 800
everyday for work... They are talking
about putting in a gas station finally
coming into town. You are talking about
them scrapping the whole deal now?