These recordings date from the 1890's to the 1920's, all transfered from Edison cylinders using state-of-the-art equipment.
Given how quickly tech advances, and how impossible it becomes to find stuff that works a decade after its obsolete, I wouldn't worry - these cylinders have already outlasted 12"/8"/5.25"/3.5" floppies, 8 track and cassette audio tapes, vcrs, paper tape and punch cards. They'll still be around in another 100 years.
Writing memos is cheap,' he says, whereas 'writing software is a whole lot harder.'"
It's not cheap - its easy. He's writing memos now because, like a LOT of people who used to code, he can't write software any more.
This has happened to a lot of former coders - they hit a certain age, and they just can't see themselves writing code any more. They don't want to learn yet another language or 5. This doesn't happen to everyone (hey, I just pulled a 9-5... that's 9 AM to 5AM, and I'll be hitting the half-centry mark next year), but it does seem that a lot of coders are gone well before they hit 40.
You could probably divide coders into 2 groups - those who code because they can, and those who code because they're curious. The ones who code because they can, eventually, they can't.
But curiosity never stops. When you've been coding for 16 hours, and you figure you're all done, but it would be neat to "write a quick little program to write a program" (because programs that write programs are the happiest programs in the world), and you go and do it because you WANT to and you're curious as to how well its going to work out and you know you won't be able to sleep until you "scratch that itch" . . . if you're still doing that a couple of decades later, you aren't the memo-writing type.
This phenomenum (people peaking in their 30s and then they drop out) isn't limited to just IT. Look at how many "management types" simply can no longer do the grunt work in their own problem domains. They've lost their edge. Sure, they make up for it with experience, in a lot of cases, but there's no replacement for a sharp edge AND experience.
in which nntp news servers can be configured in such a way as to select which hierarchies of groups can be offered to subscribers, or subscribers could select which groups to subscribe to.
They guy who wrote it obviously never used usenet himself. You have to subscribe to a newsgroup to receive it. And its the best place to learn how to troll, and/or to beat up on trolls. The flame wars on usenet make anything here look like a damp match.
"Since the blood vessels are grown using the patient's own skin cells, there isn't any chance for rejection." Unless the patient has an objection to the use of his own skin cells it's not a problem.
Unless you're Austin Powers' Fat Bastard (link safe for work, but still pretty disgusting), in which case your body WILL reject anything grown from your skin.
Nice try, but yu fail it. When debating, you don't get to confabulate 2 arguments, which is what you just did, again. You might want to join us for some fun tomorrow, though...
NOw, to get back to the aain point (which is pretty much what people tend NOT to do on "slushdot") - there is more physical evidence to support evolution than there is for "creation", by either a god or a designer, intelligent or otherwise.
Actually, let me rephrase that - there is NO evidence for either the existence of god or an intelligent or unintelligent designer. Thats why people talk about "belief" and "faith" - they have no proof, or they wouldn't need "faith."
People who claim that the complexity of the universe, and that we wouldn't exist if the universe were slightly different, as "evidence" of intelligent design screw up because of the "anthropomorphic principle" - they arge from a human-centric position.
If we didn't exist, something else would. So what? That wouldn't give THEM the right to argue their existence as being proof if a designer.
It also begs the question - "Who made the disgner?"
Its no coincidence that most of the people who support ID aren't that intelligent. There are exceptions, just as there are otherwise - intelligent people who believe in god. They're entitled to their beliefs. They're NOT entitled to push their beliefs in a science curriculum. Their chief argument for doing so is that "ID" is not necessarily connected with a belief in God; they lie, because a "designer" would BE a god by any working definition.
They play word games to deceive others, because they are first deceived themselves; they are to be pitied, as their superstition is irrelevant in the 21st century. And, yes, it is superstition by definition (a belief in the supernatural).
Now, I've made my personal position quite clear. The question is, do YOU believe in a "designer" or a "god", and if so, why?
What's worse is they either are lying intentionally, or don't know what they're talking about:
Farris: AJAX enables advanced features like drag 'n drop, dropdown menus ... Before AJAX, Web apps would have to work around the lack of something like drag 'n drop w
Nobody's ever needed AJAX to do drop-down menus.
Drag-n-drop is part of the W3C DOM level 2 spec - 5 years old this month. Again, you don't have to use AJAX to do drag-n-drop. Just look around for an old javascript solitaire game. No AJAX.
So, when can we have an "Ask Slashdot - How do I get slashdot to pimp MY business?" Because that's all this article is.
Works that have not been fixed in a tangible form of expression (for example, choreographic works that have not been notated or recorded, or improvisational speeches or performances that have not been written or recorded
I should imagine they're working from a script, rather than doing an improv.
I hear you. But think about this - if the cpu were designed from the outset to use trits instead of bits, there would be no runtime overhead in checking which of the 3 states it was in:
Think of it as a switch statement that compiles down to a 3-entry jump table, with instructions to automatically look up the address at the correct offset and jump to it. This would take no more time than a 2-entry jump table, or a cmp.
We're going to have to do something like that anyway. We've hit a wall as far as energy consumption and heat generation are concerned, and this is the next avenue to take to get more work done per clock tick.
Think of the possibilities! Programming in assembler would be hot again:-)
Now, on to the name itself - we only call it a boolean for historic reasons - it was named after the guy who invented boolean logic - truth tables.
Think of the speed-up in, say, pixel rendering. Fetch 3 values and do an AND or OR with one instruction, instead of fetching 2 values, doing your operation, then fetching the 3rd value, and repeating the result. You've doubled your throughput without increasing your clock speed, at a cost of well under 50% more silicon.
Some of their opponents have found other avenues of protest...
I was debating how unwholesome KK Donuts are, and came across this defacement of the current Krispy Kreme wiki entry (who says wikis aren't up-to-the-minute)...
While Krispy Kreme serves up a variety of doughnuts, it is most famous for its traditional glazed doughnut, a very light, aromatic doughnut covered in glaze and often served warm. Many grocery stores, convenience stores, gas stations, and some WALMARTS in Jamaica and in the car torching, angry, tea drinking, country of france also carry Krispy Kreme doughnuts. Besides stores in Jamaica and France, Krispy Kreme operates stores on Mars, Jupiter, and Mr. White's head(only on weekends).Although growth of the chain was steady before the company went public, profits have decreased substantially due to big foot stealing all the goods, whiney customers, and some very annoying, sandal wearing, forest giraffes. Because of the invasion, many Krispy Kreme locations have now shut down due to un-profitability (because of that stupid oversized gorilla). Though Krispy Kreme has blamed the downfall on the french as well, this has not been proven.
Most stores are constructed with a long window between the customer area and the kitchen in case the workers need to fight off the forest giraffes with michettes. Each store has a neon "HOT" sign to indicate when fresh hot doughnuts are available. Usually, when the "HOT" sign is on, Krispy Kreme will give out a free hot doughnut as you enter, or they did until the japanese mob stole them all. The End?
WEll, yu could set it to skip most of the eye candy (even though it was funny to watch people get shot and die, and the other side going "Aye, Karamba!" or whatever they were shouting...
So if amateur hobbyists were a critical component in proving the validity of the theory of evolution, where are all the experimental results published by amateur hobbyists, proving the validty of the theory of evolution?
Nice try. Show me where I said that... Better yet, respond to the points I made, instead of trying to stuff words in my mouth. Oh, right, you can't. And your precious ID supporters just lost their election. Awww.... Just more empirical evidence that God either doesn't exist, or he's powerless. Personally, I prefer The Flying Spaghetti Monster. At least pastafarians can prove that Spaghetti exists.
Also, you seem to have no clue if such experiments were ever carried out by a reputable research laboratory. We don't normally look to grade-school hobbyists as the front line of cold, hard, scientific fact.
Any ideas, or do you get all your scientific facts out of Popular Science?
You must be right up there with the "Intelligent Design" people. The Amateur Scientist column was from Scientific American - but hey, its not my fault if you're so backwoods as to not recognize the title.
They also had columns on how to make your own x-ray machine for $10 (it would be several hundred bucks today), using copper tubing and lots of wire to make an oudin coil, and how to make the vacuum tube, etc., including the safety prcautions to take when testing it. Another article detailed how to use off-the-shelf parts (compressors run in reverse, substituting a silicon-based oil for their regular lube) to make a high-vaccuum chamber to look for cosmic radiation.
Now on to the rest:
You've just answered the question "what was the radiation type?". The question I asked was "what was the radiation source?" Please tell me more about your superior education.
Low-grade UV radiation - think for 2 seconds and you'll get the answer. If you don't, then you're aleady way out of your league, but most high-school science students should be able to figure it out.
Also, you seem to have no clue if such experiments were ever carried out by a reputable research laboratory. We don't normally look to grade-school hobbyists as the front line of cold, hard, scientific fact.
Again, the articles were designed to stimulate people, and get them to do their own experiments. But I guess you don't realize that science has ALWAYS depended on amateurs for a large part of the discoveries. Astronomy, biology, chemistry, physics - a lot of the important discoveries were by non-professionals. We can't afford to just junk all the stuff that was ever produced by people when they were not "working as scientists". Case in point - arguably the greatest discovery of the last century - was produced by some dude working as a patent clerk.
You come across as a pompous buffoon. But that's okay, because this way everyone can see that what you post is pure uninformed drivel.
People make a habit of "justifying" the unjustafiable all the time, whether its why they don't give up a bad habit thats gonna kill them (smoking), or why they won't stop supersizing themselves.
For example, there's more proof for the existence of the Flying Spaghetti Monster than there is for God and Jesus..
Never seen Jesus, never seen God, but even I have seen spaghetti.
And most pastafarians can testify that communing by partaking of a plate of pasta, a glass of vino, and some hot garlic bread can induce a profound state of contentment, a feeling that all is well with the world
Similarly, offering to share that pasta has the immediate effect of putting a smile on the recipients' face, whereas people start looking for the exit when someone offers to "share Jesus".... so Pastafarianism must be the natural state of mankind.
Telling a starving person "read the Bible - it will nourish you" is cruel - whereas offering them of the body and blood of the Flying Spaghetti Monster will assuage their hunger.
You can make a better case for the FSM and Pastafarias than for the Bible and Christianity.
So, what does this have to do with "cognitive dissonance?" The bible has many contradictions in it - to claim to believe it requires that you maintain several contradictory beliefs at once.
Admiral James T. Kirk is still in charge of a space fleet, but from behind a desk. Dr. McCoy and Mr. Spook convince him to take on a mission which sounds simple, but with the appearance of the mysterious Klan, things get a little tricky.
It is the 23rd Century. The Federation Starship U.S.S. Enterprise is on routine training maneuvers, and Admiral James T. Kirk seems resigned to the fact that this may well be the last space mission of his career. But The Klan is back. Aided by his exiled band of genetic white supermen, Klan -- renegade of 20th Century Earth--has raided Space Station Regula One, stolen a top secret device called Project Genesis, wrested control of another Federation starship, and now schemes to set a most deadly trap for his old enemy Kirk . . . with the threat of a universal ethnic cleansing.
AIn the movie, Khan WAS in favour of "merit by genetic heritage". Ranks right up there with ID.
That works fine for rational people, but not for people who are where they are because of nepotism, or stupidity.
It also doesn't work when you have someone who INSISTS on having the last word, and the one after the last word, etc., even though you've walked away, and said "I don't want to talk about it!" 20 x. And they follow you. And keep on. And on. And on. And even when you leave the building, because you might as well leave half-way through the day, because this! idiot! won't! stop! And over stuff that has NOTHING to do with work...
It was actually worse than that... you had to be there. 2 of them were pissed off that I had replaced Windws with Linux in the front, as well as the floppiess and CD-ROM drives, and they couldn't play their stupid games any more, so they had decided to make my life miserable. After a cuple of weeks of their shit, well...
I finally said "fuck it" and went home early, and came in the next day with a case of 24 beer and my dog. So every time one of them (there were 2 of them playing their stupid game) started up, I told them to get the fuck out, and me and the dog had a drink each.
... 8 beers later... (head pokes in) Boss: Is there a problem here? Dog: (snoring - passed out drunk) Me: Not any more. They ask a stupid question, I tell them to fuck off and open another. Now, do YOU have any stupid questions? (head withdraws)
Anyway it's a strange view that, if it's in the genes, it's OK, but if it's caused by the environment, it's somehow less real. Would we convert left-handers to right-handers if we found out it's an enviromental factor that determined their chiral preference?
I'd worry; lefties will be a convenient target for genetic screening... all in the name of better public health, of course.
Study finds gays more likely to be left-handed than straights
...
But exposure to sex hormones and environmental factors such as pollutants and stress during pregnancy can alter the genetic blueprint, contributing to left-handedness.
"There's something that happens early in development that can shift development towards a left-side bias," says Lalumiere.
In turn, those blips may also be a factor in determining homosexuality.
"This study is one more piece of evidence that suggests sexual orientation is at least partly determined in-utero," says Blanchard.
So, whether you're a lefty or gay or both, you can say you were born that way.
n a provocative preliminary study, Chemtob et al. hypothesized that deviations from normal hemispheric dominance may increase risk (Chemtob & Taylor, 2003). They examined hand preference in 118 right-handed male veterans. PTSD prevalence was lowest for respondents reporting a consistent hand preference and right handed parents (44%) and highest for those reporting both mixed laterality and a left handed parent (100%). Moderately high PTSD rates were observed in veterans reporting either a mixed lateral preference or left handed parent (70%). These findings suggest that an imbalance in hemispheric dominance for processing threatening and/or emotional information may increase vulnerability to PTSD following trauma.
- Chemtob, C. M., & Taylor, K. B. (2003). Mixed lateral preference and parental left-handedness possible markers of risk for PTSD. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 191(5), 332-338.
When this was noted in the data, it was found that they had higher STA scores than those who had not been forced to switch. Also it was found that "males who were non-right handers, and who presumably had mixed-handedness, having significantly higher STA scores than full right-handers" (PsychiatryMatters.MD).
These results support the claim that left-handedness and being ambidextrous was a risk factor for schizophrenia symtoms.
The problem is, with some people (certain mentality of co-worker), the more you do, the more they expect you to do. And the more crap you take, the more crap they expect you to take.
They interpret your "refusal to rise to the bait" as license. Eventually, you have to lay down the law, and its much better to do that with a bit of shouting, and a demonstration of just how pissed off you are (throwing something that makes a loud "thunk" when it hits the wall/floor/whatever), followed by a "get the fuck out!"
Its better because they don't understand a polite "enough is enough" and its not my job to undo a lifetime of them being assholes.
Some people would argue that's letting them drag you down to their level. Its not. Its communicating with them at their level - communicating that they've gone way over the line, and they're the next target if they don't smarten up.
Part of the problem is tht people stop questioning their assumptions after a certain point.
They learned about booleans, know how a truth table works, and figure "that's that - next!"
The other part of the problem is that we have conditioned urselves to accomodate the machine's internal architecture, to some extent. Its lowest value is a bit, so we then to think at that level. It its lowest value was a tri-state, we'd think differently, and our programs would probably run better and faster.
Just tighten their QoS pipe in the switch. Also remember to exec antivirus on their machines while theyre working. Nothing is more frustrating than a SLOW computer.
go to spare linux pix and "oing -f their_local_ip"
go to server and "cat access.log | grep "their"local_ip" > idiots_browsing_history.log
tail -n50 idiots_browsing_history.log
vi/etc/hosts, add entries to their ips mapped to local server
add subdirectories to local server that matched
add index.html page with copy of tubgirl
Stop pinging them
... wait for it...
""Your computer must be infected with a virus. That's what you get for looking at pr0n all day."
I used to just go over to anther linux box and "ping -f" them...
Then go into the server logs and "cat acces.log | grep "their_local_ip_address" > idiots_browsing_history.log
Better to force people to initialize ther variables. Make them think about whether the default value shuld be true or false, rather than just assume. A lot of code works for years under false assumptions, then we see "Linux worm! Aggh you guys are teh SUX0RZ! Hahaha".
Anything that gets us to think a bit more can't be all bad...
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Digital formats change a lot quicker than physical formats.
Ask anyone using Word.
A better example - try playing any of the .voc files from the original soundblaster - and that's only a decade or so ago.
Given how quickly tech advances, and how impossible it becomes to find stuff that works a decade after its obsolete, I wouldn't worry - these cylinders have already outlasted 12"/8"/5.25"/3.5" floppies, 8 track and cassette audio tapes, vcrs, paper tape and punch cards. They'll still be around in another 100 years.
It's not cheap - its easy. He's writing memos now because, like a LOT of people who used to code, he can't write software any more.
This has happened to a lot of former coders - they hit a certain age, and they just can't see themselves writing code any more. They don't want to learn yet another language or 5. This doesn't happen to everyone (hey, I just pulled a 9-5 ... that's 9 AM to 5AM, and I'll be hitting the half-centry mark next year), but it does seem that a lot of coders are gone well before they hit 40.
You could probably divide coders into 2 groups - those who code because they can, and those who code because they're curious. The ones who code because they can, eventually, they can't.
But curiosity never stops. When you've been coding for 16 hours, and you figure you're all done, but it would be neat to "write a quick little program to write a program" (because programs that write programs are the happiest programs in the world), and you go and do it because you WANT to and you're curious as to how well its going to work out and you know you won't be able to sleep until you "scratch that itch" . . . if you're still doing that a couple of decades later, you aren't the memo-writing type.
This phenomenum (people peaking in their 30s and then they drop out) isn't limited to just IT. Look at how many "management types" simply can no longer do the grunt work in their own problem domains. They've lost their edge. Sure, they make up for it with experience, in a lot of cases, but there's no replacement for a sharp edge AND experience.
They guy who wrote it obviously never used usenet himself. You have to subscribe to a newsgroup to receive it. And its the best place to learn how to troll, and/or to beat up on trolls. The flame wars on usenet make anything here look like a damp match.
Unless you're Austin Powers' Fat Bastard (link safe for work, but still pretty disgusting), in which case your body WILL reject anything grown from your skin.
Nice try, but yu fail it. When debating, you don't get to confabulate 2 arguments, which is what you just did, again. You might want to join us for some fun tomorrow, though ...
NOw, to get back to the aain point (which is pretty much what people tend NOT to do on "slushdot") - there is more physical evidence to support evolution than there is for "creation", by either a god or a designer, intelligent or otherwise.
Actually, let me rephrase that - there is NO evidence for either the existence of god or an intelligent or unintelligent designer. Thats why people talk about "belief" and "faith" - they have no proof, or they wouldn't need "faith."
People who claim that the complexity of the universe, and that we wouldn't exist if the universe were slightly different, as "evidence" of intelligent design screw up because of the "anthropomorphic principle" - they arge from a human-centric position.
If we didn't exist, something else would. So what? That wouldn't give THEM the right to argue their existence as being proof if a designer.
It also begs the question - "Who made the disgner?"
Its no coincidence that most of the people who support ID aren't that intelligent. There are exceptions, just as there are otherwise - intelligent people who believe in god. They're entitled to their beliefs. They're NOT entitled to push their beliefs in a science curriculum. Their chief argument for doing so is that "ID" is not necessarily connected with a belief in God; they lie, because a "designer" would BE a god by any working definition.
They play word games to deceive others, because they are first deceived themselves; they are to be pitied, as their superstition is irrelevant in the 21st century. And, yes, it is superstition by definition (a belief in the supernatural).
Now, I've made my personal position quite clear. The question is, do YOU believe in a "designer" or a "god", and if so, why?
There was ONE "A" in sight - the "A*" who asked you to do it using AJAX without knowing what they were talking about ...
What's worse is they either are lying intentionally, or don't know what they're talking about:
So, when can we have an "Ask Slashdot - How do I get slashdot to pimp MY business?" Because that's all this article is.
I should imagine they're working from a script, rather than doing an improv.
I hear you. But think about this - if the cpu were designed from the outset to use trits instead of bits, there would be no runtime overhead in checking which of the 3 states it was in:
Think of it as a switch statement that compiles down to a 3-entry jump table, with instructions to automatically look up the address at the correct offset and jump to it. This would take no more time than a 2-entry jump table, or a cmp.
We're going to have to do something like that anyway. We've hit a wall as far as energy consumption and heat generation are concerned, and this is the next avenue to take to get more work done per clock tick.
Think of the possibilities! Programming in assembler would be hot again :-)
Now, on to the name itself - we only call it a boolean for historic reasons - it was named after the guy who invented boolean logic - truth tables.
Remember these?
These truth tables can be extended from 2 to 3 values. 0 | 0 | 0 = 0 0 & 0 & 0 = 0 0 | 0 | 1 = 1 0 & 0 & 1 = 0 0 | 1 | 0 = 1 0 & 1 & 0 = 0 0 | 1 | 1 = 1 0 & 1 & 1 = 0 1 | 0 | 0 = 1 1 & 0 & 0 = 0 1 | 0 | 1 = 1 1 & 0 & 1 = 0 1 | 1 | 0 = 1 1 & 1 & 0 = 0 1 | 1 | 1 = 1 1 & 1 & 1 = 1
Think of the speed-up in, say, pixel rendering. Fetch 3 values and do an AND or OR with one instruction, instead of fetching 2 values, doing your operation, then fetching the 3rd value, and repeating the result. You've doubled your throughput without increasing your clock speed, at a cost of well under 50% more silicon.
Some of their opponents have found other avenues of protest ...
I was debating how unwholesome KK Donuts are, and came across this defacement of the current Krispy Kreme wiki entry (who says wikis aren't up-to-the-minute)...
I can see bloggers who are afraid to post in their own countries adopting this tactic.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krispy_Kreme
My beef was that it would crash with 8 players.
By the way, I see from your journal (you can delete it now, since its preserved here forever) http://slashdot.org/~susano_otter/journal/24500:
You really need to work on your consistency.
If you're going to troll, at least learn how to troll properly. Show some ingenuity. Some originality. Some insight.
The importance of amateurs to science: http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/284/541 1/55
You must be right up there with the "Intelligent Design" people. The Amateur Scientist column was from Scientific American - but hey, its not my fault if you're so backwoods as to not recognize the title.
They also had columns on how to make your own x-ray machine for $10 (it would be several hundred bucks today), using copper tubing and lots of wire to make an oudin coil, and how to make the vacuum tube, etc., including the safety prcautions to take when testing it. Another article detailed how to use off-the-shelf parts (compressors run in reverse, substituting a silicon-based oil for their regular lube) to make a high-vaccuum chamber to look for cosmic radiation.
Now on to the rest:
Low-grade UV radiation - think for 2 seconds and you'll get the answer. If you don't, then you're aleady way out of your league, but most high-school science students should be able to figure it out.Again, the articles were designed to stimulate people, and get them to do their own experiments. But I guess you don't realize that science has ALWAYS depended on amateurs for a large part of the discoveries. Astronomy, biology, chemistry, physics - a lot of the important discoveries were by non-professionals. We can't afford to just junk all the stuff that was ever produced by people when they were not "working as scientists". Case in point - arguably the greatest discovery of the last century - was produced by some dude working as a patent clerk.
You come across as a pompous buffoon. But that's okay, because this way everyone can see that what you post is pure uninformed drivel.
"cognitive dissonance"
People make a habit of "justifying" the unjustafiable all the time, whether its why they don't give up a bad habit thats gonna kill them (smoking), or why they won't stop supersizing themselves.
For example, there's more proof for the existence of the Flying Spaghetti Monster than there is for God and Jesus.. Never seen Jesus, never seen God, but even I have seen spaghetti.
And most pastafarians can testify that communing by partaking of a plate of pasta, a glass of vino, and some hot garlic bread can induce a profound state of contentment, a feeling that all is well with the world
Similarly, offering to share that pasta has the immediate effect of putting a smile on the recipients' face, whereas people start looking for the exit when someone offers to "share Jesus". ... so Pastafarianism must be the natural state of mankind.
Telling a starving person "read the Bible - it will nourish you" is cruel - whereas offering them of the body and blood of the Flying Spaghetti Monster will assuage their hunger.
You can make a better case for the FSM and Pastafarias than for the Bible and Christianity.
So, what does this have to do with "cognitive dissonance?" The bible has many contradictions in it - to claim to believe it requires that you maintain several contradictory beliefs at once.
Nah - Star Trek 2 - The Wrath of Klan.
AIn the movie, Khan WAS in favour of "merit by genetic heritage". Ranks right up there with ID.
That works fine for rational people, but not for people who are where they are because of nepotism, or stupidity.
It also doesn't work when you have someone who INSISTS on having the last word, and the one after the last word, etc., even though you've walked away, and said "I don't want to talk about it!" 20 x. And they follow you. And keep on. And on. And on. And even when you leave the building, because you might as well leave half-way through the day, because this! idiot! won't! stop! And over stuff that has NOTHING to do with work ...
It was actually worse than that ... you had to be there. 2 of them were pissed off that I had replaced Windws with Linux in the front, as well as the floppiess and CD-ROM drives, and they couldn't play their stupid games any more, so they had decided to make my life miserable. After a cuple of weeks of their shit, well ...
I finally said "fuck it" and went home early, and came in the next day with a case of 24 beer and my dog. So every time one of them (there were 2 of them playing their stupid game) started up, I told them to get the fuck out, and me and the dog had a drink each.
Problem solved.
I'd worry; lefties will be a convenient target for genetic screening ... all in the name of better public health, of course.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd= Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=8216870&dopt=Abstract
Being a lefty is an inherited trait.
http://www.canoe.ca/Health0007/06_hands.html
So, whether you're a lefty or gay or both, you can say you were born that way.
Other risk factors of being left-handed include being more likely to suffer post-traumatic stress disorder http://www.acpmh.unimelb.edu.au/research/summary20 03.html
Higher risk of schizophrenia if you're a leftie ...http://www.schizophrenia.com/sznews/archives/00 2346.html
Diabetes: http://www.diabeteshealth.com/read,1009,2592.html
Other connections:
The problem is, with some people (certain mentality of co-worker), the more you do, the more they expect you to do. And the more crap you take, the more crap they expect you to take.
They interpret your "refusal to rise to the bait" as license. Eventually, you have to lay down the law, and its much better to do that with a bit of shouting, and a demonstration of just how pissed off you are (throwing something that makes a loud "thunk" when it hits the wall/floor/whatever), followed by a "get the fuck out!"
Its better because they don't understand a polite "enough is enough" and its not my job to undo a lifetime of them being assholes.
Some people would argue that's letting them drag you down to their level. Its not. Its communicating with them at their level - communicating that they've gone way over the line, and they're the next target if they don't smarten up.
I for one welcome our new Pastafarian Overlords :-)
Stay tuned to ABC for our new Pastafarian comedy:
Part of the problem is tht people stop questioning their assumptions after a certain point.
They learned about booleans, know how a truth table works, and figure "that's that - next!"
The other part of the problem is that we have conditioned urselves to accomodate the machine's internal architecture, to some extent. Its lowest value is a bit, so we then to think at that level. It its lowest value was a tri-state, we'd think differently, and our programs would probably run better and faster.
Google for "trinary logic" or "ternary logic".
- go to spare linux pix and "oing -f their_local_ip"
- go to server and "cat access.log | grep "their"local_ip" > idiots_browsing_history.log
- tail -n50 idiots_browsing_history.log
- vi
/etc/hosts, add entries to their ips mapped to local server
- add subdirectories to local server that matched
- add index.html page with copy of tubgirl
- Stop pinging them
... wait for it ...
""Your computer must be infected with a virus. That's what you get for looking at pr0n all day." I used to just go over to anther linux box and "ping -f" themThen go into the server logs and "cat acces.log | grep "their_local_ip_address" > idiots_browsing_history.log
Anything that gets us to think a bit more can't be all bad ...