Oh, what a steaming load of bullshit. That's not a medical condition. That's a psychological problem. It's as I suspected, the guy has a huge hard-on for considering himself a "cyborg" and will go to great lengths to avoid shattering this illusion. Hint: he's faking it. It's all about ego. What a fucking tool.
You had me on the first sentence...but blaming the athletes instead of the corrupt bastards at the International Olympic Committee lost me. I think a lot of people must think the IOC is an arm of the UN or something, and refuse to condemn it no matter how bad it gets.
Medical documentation? For what condition? What is the malady that requires he wear goggles? Something wrong with his eyes? I've been asking this all over the place and nobody can tell me. What is the condition he suffers from that requires a medical appliance to cure?
So...I asked this in the other story and got modded down to -1. Why the hell does this guy have a doctor's note? What medical condition requires him to wear goggles? Or is it just that he is a "cybernetic organism" and to remove his goggles would be to "kill" him? How about a scan of this document? What are the credentials of the physician that wrote it and what is this guy's relationship to him? Did he just get a buddy to write it so he wouldn't have to take off his precious goggles and become a mere human like the rest of us?
Stories like this always make me angry. It's not "geek" at all. The Enterprise didn't even fly, it was just a ground testbed. If it hasn't been to space, who the hell cares?
These stories seem to be told by non-geeks who wanted to become "geek" just because it was the new thing. You know, they went out and bought some glasses with no lenses because magazines said that's what you should do. And you should cheerlead anything with NASA painted on the side of it, all the while proclaiming your geekness and indirectly pointing out how you BELONG. "this was one of the most amazingly geektastic events in recent memory" *gag* *puke*. No it wasn't and no real "geek" would ever say so. I mean, who gushes like that?
I wish being brainy and scientific would go back to being unfashionable, so we could be left alone with our spacecraft and library time.
It's a sensible policy put in to avoid duplication of effort. Is this not blazingly obvious? Why should a government agency roll its own software when they could just buy off the shelf? Tons of waste has happened this way in the past, or were we not paying attention?
How does it feel to go through life thinking anyone to the right of Mao Zedong is Adolf Hitler? What a horrid mental straitjacket that must be. Have you gotten to the point where you don't regard them as fellow humans?
Everybody, let's do the daily Two Minutes Hate against Emmanuel Goldstein...I mean America. We should whip ourselves into a frenzy of hatred and loathing for the enemy. Everyone spend moderation points on the most outrageous expressions of fear (which is pretty much the same as hate). By directing our hate towards an external enemy, we feel better and satisfy our feelings of angst from leading such meaningless existences.
It's always 11am somewhere. I'll start us off: B-B!...B-B!...B-B!...B-B!
Does anyone else have a problem with, in today's political climate, praising a capitalist? They will NOT solve our problems, the entire reason they succeed is because government stacks the deck in their favor. If Musk had any self-respect at all he'd write a billion dollar check to the US treasury tomorrow with a big thank-you on it.
The guy has a doctor's letter for his computer glasses? How does that work, exactly? Is it because he's a "cyborg" and removing his glasses would "kill" him? Does it monitor his heart rate so he'll get an audible alarm if his heart stops beating or something lame like that? Or did he just get one of his physician friends to write him a note so that he wouldn't have to take off his attention-getting get-up and become a mere human like the rest of us?
It's because we don't have professional standards for software engineers the same way as we have for other types of engineers. Software is still in the "bridge collapse" phase. At one time, anyone could build a bridge. You know what happened? A lot of them fell down, and that was just considered normal. Eventually, society got fed up with that crap and made standards, with jail time for violators.
I've tried suggesting that software should be held to the same standards - oh, you should have seen the looks I got. It would be TOO EXPENSIVE, they screamed. It would TAKE FOREVER, they whined. It wouldn't crash, I replied. Who cares about that shit anyway, they scoffed. We're here to do low-quality work at the lowest price...you think we're building this software to last?
It's famous because it's "beautiful" art (whatever the fuck that means)...in other words, it panders to the lowest common denominator. You think even the 1% of those 8.5 million visitors even KNOW what Art is? Hint: it has shit-all to do with beauty; in fact, if the common folk like it, you're doing it wrong.
How about: People committing too many goddamn crimes? I know it's a longshot, but give it a day in court. People have free will, they know what the laws are, and they break them anyway. Anyone who can't make the connection between cause and effect should be removed from our society anyway. Just imagine how good life would be if teabaggers were removed for not being able to make the cause-effect connection between their ideology and the end result: theocratic fascism.
I see we have no experience with laws. "Makes no sense whatsoever" is the typical outcome. All that matters is finding a qualification that allows you to sell your product, somehow. Please excuse yourself from any further discussions on topics like these, and refrain from offering uninformed opinions.
No, the problem is that somewhere along the line, video games became "a story" instead of, you know, playing the game. That's the cancer, and it killed video games a long time ago.
hell-bent on enabling the individual person exploring and enhancing creative endeavors
Huh? Where did this one come from? The individual? Apple has always been about cookie-cutter, our-way-or-the-highway design. You either accept the Apple way or don't use their products. Individual person exploring? You just totally lost me there, because that's not what Apple is about AT ALL.
The Chinese are fundamentally unable to understand "enlarging the pie". To them, there is only one pie, and any gain must come from someone else's slice. The "grow the pie" thing is a uniquely American attitude.
Ask any Chinese child if they are rivals of America. They'll tell you hell yeah.
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Oh, what a steaming load of bullshit. That's not a medical condition. That's a psychological problem. It's as I suspected, the guy has a huge hard-on for considering himself a "cyborg" and will go to great lengths to avoid shattering this illusion. Hint: he's faking it. It's all about ego. What a fucking tool.
The Senator's party affiliation is left out of the summary - as is typical. Let's play "guess the party".
You had me on the first sentence...but blaming the athletes instead of the corrupt bastards at the International Olympic Committee lost me. I think a lot of people must think the IOC is an arm of the UN or something, and refuse to condemn it no matter how bad it gets.
You don't need a note from a doctor to be a researcher. Still waiting for the explanation of what his medical condition is.
Medical documentation? For what condition? What is the malady that requires he wear goggles? Something wrong with his eyes? I've been asking this all over the place and nobody can tell me. What is the condition he suffers from that requires a medical appliance to cure?
What is the medical condition that requires him to wear a prosthetic? Missing arm? Eye that doesn't work properly? I'm curious to know.
So...I asked this in the other story and got modded down to -1. Why the hell does this guy have a doctor's note? What medical condition requires him to wear goggles? Or is it just that he is a "cybernetic organism" and to remove his goggles would be to "kill" him? How about a scan of this document? What are the credentials of the physician that wrote it and what is this guy's relationship to him? Did he just get a buddy to write it so he wouldn't have to take off his precious goggles and become a mere human like the rest of us?
These stories seem to be told by non-geeks who wanted to become "geek" just because it was the new thing. You know, they went out and bought some glasses with no lenses because magazines said that's what you should do. And you should cheerlead anything with NASA painted on the side of it, all the while proclaiming your geekness and indirectly pointing out how you BELONG. "this was one of the most amazingly geektastic events in recent memory" *gag* *puke*. No it wasn't and no real "geek" would ever say so. I mean, who gushes like that?
I wish being brainy and scientific would go back to being unfashionable, so we could be left alone with our spacecraft and library time.
It's a sensible policy put in to avoid duplication of effort. Is this not blazingly obvious? Why should a government agency roll its own software when they could just buy off the shelf? Tons of waste has happened this way in the past, or were we not paying attention?
How does it feel to go through life thinking anyone to the right of Mao Zedong is Adolf Hitler? What a horrid mental straitjacket that must be. Have you gotten to the point where you don't regard them as fellow humans?
It's always 11am somewhere. I'll start us off: B-B!...B-B!...B-B!...B-B!
Does anyone else have a problem with, in today's political climate, praising a capitalist? They will NOT solve our problems, the entire reason they succeed is because government stacks the deck in their favor. If Musk had any self-respect at all he'd write a billion dollar check to the US treasury tomorrow with a big thank-you on it.
The guy has a doctor's letter for his computer glasses? How does that work, exactly? Is it because he's a "cyborg" and removing his glasses would "kill" him? Does it monitor his heart rate so he'll get an audible alarm if his heart stops beating or something lame like that? Or did he just get one of his physician friends to write him a note so that he wouldn't have to take off his attention-getting get-up and become a mere human like the rest of us?
Who allows their kids to stay up until 3am? Seriously, WTF. Someone needs to call Child Protective Services on this guy.
You don't buy directly from the manufacturer, you get small quantities from a distributor.
I've tried suggesting that software should be held to the same standards - oh, you should have seen the looks I got. It would be TOO EXPENSIVE, they screamed. It would TAKE FOREVER, they whined. It wouldn't crash, I replied. Who cares about that shit anyway, they scoffed. We're here to do low-quality work at the lowest price...you think we're building this software to last?
It's famous because it's "beautiful" art (whatever the fuck that means)...in other words, it panders to the lowest common denominator. You think even the 1% of those 8.5 million visitors even KNOW what Art is? Hint: it has shit-all to do with beauty; in fact, if the common folk like it, you're doing it wrong.
How about: People committing too many goddamn crimes? I know it's a longshot, but give it a day in court. People have free will, they know what the laws are, and they break them anyway. Anyone who can't make the connection between cause and effect should be removed from our society anyway. Just imagine how good life would be if teabaggers were removed for not being able to make the cause-effect connection between their ideology and the end result: theocratic fascism.
I see we have no experience with laws. "Makes no sense whatsoever" is the typical outcome. All that matters is finding a qualification that allows you to sell your product, somehow. Please excuse yourself from any further discussions on topics like these, and refrain from offering uninformed opinions.
You don't need that accent on the "e" of "forte". You're thinking of the Italian word forté, which means loud. The English word forte, meaning something you're good at, derived from the French word fort, in the sense of fortification. It's pronounced "fort", the Italian word is pronounced "for-tay". The more you know!
For a moment there I thought I was reading a student radical newspaper from 1967.
A robber baron MBA's job is not to make a profit. It is to maximize profits.
No, the problem is that somewhere along the line, video games became "a story" instead of, you know, playing the game. That's the cancer, and it killed video games a long time ago.
hell-bent on enabling the individual person exploring and enhancing creative endeavors
Huh? Where did this one come from? The individual? Apple has always been about cookie-cutter, our-way-or-the-highway design. You either accept the Apple way or don't use their products. Individual person exploring? You just totally lost me there, because that's not what Apple is about AT ALL.
Ask any Chinese child if they are rivals of America. They'll tell you hell yeah.