"Engineers also believe in objective and observable truth. And honestly, politicians are an offense."
I'll vote for this.
Engineers are trained to understand systems. Nearly(?) all governments are systems that are in a continual state of disrepair and rarely live up to their billings. Explanations of this perception to laypersons fall on deaf, confused and often hostile ears. Driven to the brink of madness by the inability of the mob to understand, the only thing left of the engineer's psyche is the rote task of system design and a searing hate for the entity that drove them to their psychotic state.
What sequence of moral thoughts goes through their heads?
I'm interested.
Sequentially? I'm sure it won't apply to everyone there, but it might give you an idea. OK, so here's how it went:
1. Holy shit, I'm running out of food. I'd better get a job.
2. Ugh. This is all we've got? Whatever, I'll probably be looking for another job soon.
3. Wow, they do some really cool technical shit in here. That ought to take some of my mind off of it.
4. My god, this bureaucracy sucks. If this is how the government is run it's no wonder we're so fucked up.
5. Well, at least I'm repairing defensive shit, right? Right?!
6. Why do they have to do such shady book keeping? They'd still be making a killing:(NPI) even if they didn't encourage people to fuck off and charge every allotted hour to the tax payer.
7. Whose idea was it to mix union PCB rework technicians with non-union bench techs anyways? Just let me do my fucking job!
8. Well, maybe your a fucking idiot, but besides knowing that capacitor tops shoot off, solder flings and that springs sprong, i also know that you don't need to wear those godamned safety glasses to type reports into computers.
9. Screw you guys, I'm going home.
But the #1 recurring thought throughout the entire event was: If I wasn't so sick of seeing this shit that EVERY TAX PAYING U.S. CITIZEN blindly or knowingly supports and that every external country allows to continue then, maybe then I'd do the species a favor and get a decent job, but as it stands this historically recurring loop of collecting enemies is getting old and we're probably about ready to just let the hawks have their way and wipe out the whole godamned species. The only way to "win" is to let the people who stupidly think, "winning is important" to "win." Unfortunately, I'm sure that being the fuck-ups we are we couldn't wipe ourselves out completely and that there'd be a few idiots left over who'd deem some of the other idiots as inferior and enslave them... and It'd be just our luck that the Hindus would be right leaving the whole lot of us to be reincarnated in to this fucking shit stain cycle of existence over and over and...
Anyway, you can work for a tin pot dictator at a small company with shitty wages and watch the majority of your fruits and labor pay for, ehem, "entertainment" while seeing none of your relinquished efforts go towards any useful social concepts like reducing war mentality and consensual, victim-less crime laws. Or you can work for a company and industry that killed efficient public transportation, also supports the MIC, and gets deep in bed with companies who fill oceans with sludge. Or you could go into the medical field and support that greedy god-complex bureaucracy. Or you could get into a tech company and do some hard-core patent trolling and shady data farming. How about law... any lawyers out there? Bankers? If you really want to get involved you could walk right in to the belly of the beast and become the next sock-puppet president who gets it soul ripped out through its bottom aperture while saying and doing absolutely nothing substantial that isn't counterbalanced by something purely evil... at least until you're out of office at which point you'll become another ineffectual 'tard like the rest of us. But don't worry because apparently you can ping pong that partisan bullshit back and forth for decades... you'll be sure to get at least 4 years out of that job and you'll have had your ultimate shot "to do something special... just don't you forget JFK, motherfucker" (that was your CIA bodyguard talking. you can replace him with another clone if you'd like).
Even if you magically manage to sidestep the shitty employment choices born out of an anally-raped-and-loving-it culture don't you EVER forget that YOU'RE paying your fair share of blood taxes just like all the other good imperialist citizens, citizen.
"The principal doesn't know enough about electronics..."
How could he not know? He's overseeing a *technical* school. Does he ever venture out into the halls or talk to the kids? He's a fucking absentee landlord and deserves to lose his job two weeks ago. And shame on the parents for letting the gestapo inspect their house and suggest counseling after "da bomb" was determined to be harmless.
The algorithm would have to be smart enough to detect movement...
Even better, detect the motion of the camera while it's taking the exposure and use that information to create a higher resolution image. At some point during the exposure the movement of the camera will cause the sensor elements "see" part of the image that previously was between sensor elements.
Imagine a camera that took better pictures after the user drank a case of mountain dew.
- returns to making computers that boots in one second -
- creates an OS that has programming languages built-in and ready to go -
- designs a machine that will fit in a backpack -
- invents a clock that keeps time without power -
- does something revolutionary -
that's when I'll buy another Commodore. I'll be damned if I let a group of people manipulate my nostalgia to sell me something as common as air.
OK, this explanation may not be simple, but I'm putting it out here anyways because it includes factors that make an interesting story.
You need to read at least 1/2 way through that article to get to the interesting stuff, but it basically says that radio waves in the 250Hz range will misdirect the navigational function of bees. It talks about Russian bee studies and and the possibility of foul play by said Russians with mind control devices (250Hz also causes agitation in humans) and the like.
Though that explanation is satisfying to me I'm sure there are people out there that would instantly deem this a conspiracy theory and reject it out of hand. In order to thwart those attempts I'll include a second theory - 240Hz is a subharmonic of our 60Hz power system and as electrical consumption increases so do the electromagnetic fields produced by the system... i.e. we've reached the consumption point of overhead power transmission that generates enough EM to dislocate the bees.
If you'd like to keep bees you'll need a bigger Faraday cage.
Absolutely! Even if the graph is "wrong" you still get an approximate idea of what's supposed to happen. Hope you like the daylight indicating shading... it was my idea;). Too bad they didn't implement the suggestion to change "48 hour period" to a drop menu that'd let you show 48, 72, 96 hours or the whole 5 days.
Anyway, I'm surprised this is the first time I've seen (would've seen if the site weren't 'dotted) forecast accuracy data. With everyone claiming their weather is the most accurate, you'd think someone would've tried to prove it before now.
'a conspiracy to maintain the population in a perpetual state of self-righteous rage'
Get out the tin foil Mr. Blair!
Next thing you know he'll be saying that 911 was done by Bush and that governments should disclose all they know about the aliens' zero-point energy. Put his loony ass in a padded cell!
Maybe it's good that Blair is dreaming up conspiracies against himself. Maybe showing that the government is starting to fear the people as it's supposed to be rather than the people 'making up' the conspiracy theories.
I've always wanted to fly an airplane over a football game, say the superbowl, and drop a bunch of mixed bills into the crowd - ones, fives, tens - then count the number of fatalities in the ensuing stampede.
How much would you bet that Sony execs have a pool on the number of incidences created by their console release.
Well, no... because you can't moderate and post in the same thread under the same login.
OK, he may be a coward, but I don't know how many times I've moderated and the wanted to give someone a good what for.
Hmm, come to think of it I rarely mod down.
I'm just bored. Ignore this, but I'm posting it anyways 'cause I've never used this fancy blockquote tag.
The Daily Show is nothing more than a good source of apathy - a lying president who kills the innocent is nothing to be laughed about.
I can't help but laugh with Stewart b/c he's good at what he does, but I don't want to laugh.
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because then some of the best and most productive workers will be out of a job.
Why are our most productive workers not able to afford a laptop? Maybe that's the problem.
The god damned score board is broke and the technicians can't afford a laptop to fix the fucking thing.
"I'd like to work from home for the same reason."
Companies need to get their heads out of their asses about this.
"Engineers also believe in objective and observable truth. And honestly, politicians are an offense."
I'll vote for this.
Engineers are trained to understand systems. Nearly(?) all governments are systems that are in a continual state of disrepair and rarely live up to their billings. Explanations of this perception to laypersons fall on deaf, confused and often hostile ears. Driven to the brink of madness by the inability of the mob to understand, the only thing left of the engineer's psyche is the rote task of system design and a searing hate for the entity that drove them to their psychotic state.
On occasion you can read the results in the news.
Leaked ones are.
... unless someone here has a couple of billion lying around to buy some politicians with?
A $10 bill behind every blade of grass?
So, the politician like to perpetuate hearsay. I'll bet he talks about WMDs too.
"It will create jobs for the new patent examiners he'll need to hire, but I'm not convinced it would do much beyond that."
Depends. Anyone willing to organize enough job seekers to spam the USPTO's inbox with the resumes of ten thousand patent rejectors?
What sequence of moral thoughts goes through their heads?
I'm interested.
Sequentially? I'm sure it won't apply to everyone there, but it might give you an idea. OK, so here's how it went:
:(NPI) even if they didn't encourage people to fuck off and charge every allotted hour to the tax payer.
1. Holy shit, I'm running out of food. I'd better get a job.
2. Ugh. This is all we've got? Whatever, I'll probably be looking for another job soon.
3. Wow, they do some really cool technical shit in here. That ought to take some of my mind off of it.
4. My god, this bureaucracy sucks. If this is how the government is run it's no wonder we're so fucked up.
5. Well, at least I'm repairing defensive shit, right? Right?!
6. Why do they have to do such shady book keeping? They'd still be making a killing
7. Whose idea was it to mix union PCB rework technicians with non-union bench techs anyways? Just let me do my fucking job!
8. Well, maybe your a fucking idiot, but besides knowing that capacitor tops shoot off, solder flings and that springs sprong, i also know that you don't need to wear those godamned safety glasses to type reports into computers.
9. Screw you guys, I'm going home.
But the #1 recurring thought throughout the entire event was: If I wasn't so sick of seeing this shit that EVERY TAX PAYING U.S. CITIZEN blindly or knowingly supports and that every external country allows to continue then, maybe then I'd do the species a favor and get a decent job, but as it stands this historically recurring loop of collecting enemies is getting old and we're probably about ready to just let the hawks have their way and wipe out the whole godamned species. The only way to "win" is to let the people who stupidly think, "winning is important" to "win." Unfortunately, I'm sure that being the fuck-ups we are we couldn't wipe ourselves out completely and that there'd be a few idiots left over who'd deem some of the other idiots as inferior and enslave them... and It'd be just our luck that the Hindus would be right leaving the whole lot of us to be reincarnated in to this fucking shit stain cycle of existence over and over and...
Anyway, you can work for a tin pot dictator at a small company with shitty wages and watch the majority of your fruits and labor pay for, ehem, "entertainment" while seeing none of your relinquished efforts go towards any useful social concepts like reducing war mentality and consensual, victim-less crime laws. Or you can work for a company and industry that killed efficient public transportation, also supports the MIC, and gets deep in bed with companies who fill oceans with sludge. Or you could go into the medical field and support that greedy god-complex bureaucracy. Or you could get into a tech company and do some hard-core patent trolling and shady data farming. How about law... any lawyers out there? Bankers? If you really want to get involved you could walk right in to the belly of the beast and become the next sock-puppet president who gets it soul ripped out through its bottom aperture while saying and doing absolutely nothing substantial that isn't counterbalanced by something purely evil... at least until you're out of office at which point you'll become another ineffectual 'tard like the rest of us. But don't worry because apparently you can ping pong that partisan bullshit back and forth for decades... you'll be sure to get at least 4 years out of that job and you'll have had your ultimate shot "to do something special... just don't you forget JFK, motherfucker" (that was your CIA bodyguard talking. you can replace him with another clone if you'd like).
Even if you magically manage to sidestep the shitty employment choices born out of an anally-raped-and-loving-it culture don't you EVER forget that YOU'RE paying your fair share of blood taxes just like all the other good imperialist citizens, citizen.
What a spectacle, hope you're enjoying the show.
If positions of power are detrimental to human mental health then it should be illegal to put people in or allow people to attain positions of power.
"The principal doesn't know enough about electronics..." How could he not know? He's overseeing a *technical* school. Does he ever venture out into the halls or talk to the kids? He's a fucking absentee landlord and deserves to lose his job two weeks ago. And shame on the parents for letting the gestapo inspect their house and suggest counseling after "da bomb" was determined to be harmless.
I don't really keep up with the whole hybrid gig, but isn't it basically the same as locomotives and mining haul trucks?
That "first class" military couldn't find a few commercial airliners. Aren't you glad to be paying top dollar for this broken bullshit.
Yeah, well guess what - this is a new release and by the tone of the comments most people weren't using this a year ago.
Imagine a camera that took better pictures after the user drank a case of mountain dew.
When Commodore -
- returns to making computers that boots in one second -
- creates an OS that has programming languages built-in and ready to go -
- designs a machine that will fit in a backpack -
- invents a clock that keeps time without power -
- does something revolutionary -
that's when I'll buy another Commodore. I'll be damned if I let a group of people manipulate my nostalgia to sell me something as common as air.
OK, this explanation may not be simple, but I'm putting it out here anyways because it includes factors that make an interesting story.
You need to read at least 1/2 way through that article to get to the interesting stuff, but it basically says that radio waves in the 250Hz range will misdirect the navigational function of bees. It talks about Russian bee studies and and the possibility of foul play by said Russians with mind control devices (250Hz also causes agitation in humans) and the like.
Though that explanation is satisfying to me I'm sure there are people out there that would instantly deem this a conspiracy theory and reject it out of hand. In order to thwart those attempts I'll include a second theory - 240Hz is a subharmonic of our 60Hz power system and as electrical consumption increases so do the electromagnetic fields produced by the system... i.e. we've reached the consumption point of overhead power transmission that generates enough EM to dislocate the bees.
If you'd like to keep bees you'll need a bigger Faraday cage.
Absolutely! Even if the graph is "wrong" you still get an approximate idea of what's supposed to happen. Hope you like the daylight indicating shading... it was my idea ;). Too bad they didn't implement the suggestion to change "48 hour period" to a drop menu that'd let you show 48, 72, 96 hours or the whole 5 days.
Anyway, I'm surprised this is the first time I've seen (would've seen if the site weren't 'dotted) forecast accuracy data. With everyone claiming their weather is the most accurate, you'd think someone would've tried to prove it before now.
Next thing you know he'll be saying that 911 was done by Bush and that governments should disclose all they know about the aliens' zero-point energy. Put his loony ass in a padded cell!
Maybe it's good that Blair is dreaming up conspiracies against himself. Maybe showing that the government is starting to fear the people as it's supposed to be rather than the people 'making up' the conspiracy theories.
Has nothing to do with luck, dumbfuck.
I've always wanted to fly an airplane over a football game, say the superbowl, and drop a bunch of mixed bills into the crowd - ones, fives, tens - then count the number of fatalities in the ensuing stampede.
How much would you bet that Sony execs have a pool on the number of incidences created by their console release.
Gah, people are stupid.
A bank! holy shit...
The first rule of fightclub is you never talk about fightclub.
OK, he may be a coward, but I don't know how many times I've moderated and the wanted to give someone a good what for.
Hmm, come to think of it I rarely mod down.
I'm just bored. Ignore this, but I'm posting it anyways 'cause I've never used this fancy blockquote tag.
Hmm. I usually run out of hot water before I'm done jackin' it. Maybe I'll have to try it your way.
The Daily Show is nothing more than a good source of apathy - a lying president who kills the innocent is nothing to be laughed about. I can't help but laugh with Stewart b/c he's good at what he does, but I don't want to laugh.
I think the government is broken!
Almost seems like the US and Europe are teaming up, Euro with their licensing and the US with their logging.
This is tame compared to what they have planned now that Bush has his Enabling Act signed into law.
I hope it gets worse - we deserve it for having sat on our asses doing nothing* this long.
*voting, writing congressmen, campeigning and protesting obviously don't count.