In certain circles (mainly the second-generation and up white collar kids that populate Slashdot) it has -everything- to do with being ethically bankrupt.
Google News - Top Searches in 2005 1. Janet Jackson 2. Hurricane Katrina 3. tsunami 4. xbox 360 5. Brad Pitt 6. Michael Jackson 7. American Idol 8. Britney Spears 9. Angelina Jolie 10. Harry Potter
All the slashkids whose dads bought their homes with junk bond proceeds and who were taught from birth that white collar > blue collar just put you on their foes list
There's no gonzo today because people aren't interested in culture. Why? The media isn't. People get their view of the world from the media and if the media doesn't present cultural nuances as an option people aren't going to know it's there, at least not in numbers significant enough to revive interest in it.
Thank you. I get so tired of people in IT acting like they should get all of these perks like it's 1998 and nobody with money knows what to throw it at. I have never had an employer that treated me like anything more than a necessary evil, and I don't expect that I will until I'm self-employed.
IMO, "Introvert" doesn't mean someone who's simply quiet or shy. It means someone who draws fulfillment from solitude. You know, someone who doesn't/need/ to go out and do things with others to prove their humanity to themselves.
Extroverted people/need/ to be around others in order to feel complete. This doesn't mean they're automatically stupid or intending to be obnoxious, they're just tending to their needs. However, it does seem like most people that are unintelligent are constantly looking to others for reassurance that they aren't, or they seek strength in numbers.
Likewise, you can be fairly gregarious and still be an introvert. It's all in what makes you happy.
You know, I just came to the realization that I've never met a stupid introvert. Every stupid person that I've ever met was extroverted, and usually extremely so.
"Cretin" as used in the context of my post was simply a figure of speech. I'll forgive your brick-skulled literalism this time.
One of these days when you grow up, someone you care about will contract a serious illness, become terminal, and die. When they do, you're going to feel like a real asshole for thinking that you should have just let them go to lower the world's cost in material resources. If you don't feel like a real asshole, you qualify as a sociopath.
I laughed out loud at the fact that this was modded 5, Insightful.
Let me guess, you have no congenital defects at all. Or maybe you do, and you would gladly sacrifice your life for the betterment of the gene pool. Or maybe you have children and one of them was born with a heart murmur. Better get your gun and shoot the cretin now!
Goddamn, you're like an arch-conservative's wet dream. Read Ayn Rand much?
A lot of this effective tax rate includes credits and deductions that only apply to couples with children. My wife and I have no plans to have kids (we don't want them, period) and we get fucked by taxes - no earned income credit, no childcare deductions, nothing.
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Do you have an altar to Kent Beck in your men's room?
I do, but the offerings I give it probably aren't the same as yours.
Are you setting up a "mouth-breather" pseudo-joke?
In certain circles (mainly the second-generation and up white collar kids that populate Slashdot) it has -everything- to do with being ethically bankrupt.
Google News - Top Searches in 2005
1. Janet Jackson
2. Hurricane Katrina
3. tsunami
4. xbox 360
5. Brad Pitt
6. Michael Jackson
7. American Idol
8. Britney Spears
9. Angelina Jolie
10. Harry Potter
Yup, a real asset.
All the slashkids whose dads bought their homes with junk bond proceeds and who were taught from birth that white collar > blue collar just put you on their foes list
There's no gonzo today because people aren't interested in culture. Why? The media isn't. People get their view of the world from the media and if the media doesn't present cultural nuances as an option people aren't going to know it's there, at least not in numbers significant enough to revive interest in it.
Thank you. I get so tired of people in IT acting like they should get all of these perks like it's 1998 and nobody with money knows what to throw it at. I have never had an employer that treated me like anything more than a necessary evil, and I don't expect that I will until I'm self-employed.
well, the end of the world is coming right up so you might just get to do that.
Your basic Arachnid warrior isn't too smart, but you can blow off a limb, and it's still 86 percent combat effective.
those are Freedom Benefits, ingrate
ah, the internet, where everyone is a badass
IMO, "Introvert" doesn't mean someone who's simply quiet or shy. It means someone who draws fulfillment from solitude. You know, someone who doesn't /need/ to go out and do things with others to prove their humanity to themselves.
/need/ to be around others in order to feel complete. This doesn't mean they're automatically stupid or intending to be obnoxious, they're just tending to their needs. However, it does seem like most people that are unintelligent are constantly looking to others for reassurance that they aren't, or they seek strength in numbers.
Extroverted people
Likewise, you can be fairly gregarious and still be an introvert. It's all in what makes you happy.
You know, I just came to the realization that I've never met a stupid introvert. Every stupid person that I've ever met was extroverted, and usually extremely so.
definitely the scariest pc game I ever played.
yeah, I know, but I rarely post anymore so I thought I'd trot out one of the old standards
I rot13 mine twice for extra security.
good idea, nobody will expect that
"Cretin" as used in the context of my post was simply a figure of speech. I'll forgive your brick-skulled literalism this time.
One of these days when you grow up, someone you care about will contract a serious illness, become terminal, and die. When they do, you're going to feel like a real asshole for thinking that you should have just let them go to lower the world's cost in material resources. If you don't feel like a real asshole, you qualify as a sociopath.
I laughed out loud at the fact that this was modded 5, Insightful.
Let me guess, you have no congenital defects at all. Or maybe you do, and you would gladly sacrifice your life for the betterment of the gene pool. Or maybe you have children and one of them was born with a heart murmur. Better get your gun and shoot the cretin now!
Goddamn, you're like an arch-conservative's wet dream. Read Ayn Rand much?
I think I know you from another forum.
A lot of this effective tax rate includes credits and deductions that only apply to couples with children. My wife and I have no plans to have kids (we don't want them, period) and we get fucked by taxes - no earned income credit, no childcare deductions, nothing.
Are there any fucking English teachers in Atlanta? This was written like a 13-year-old D&D geek trying to be hip.
it qualifies as news any time Google moves something out of beta.
So what are your immigration laws like? I'm dead serious.
but Puzo was writing about the mafia and, uh, um, okay, you win