"Isolated" and "Not interbreeding" sound more like an attitude than an incapability. Much like a (I live in Israel, so bear with me) Palestinian male will be "Isolated" from Tel Aviv and "Not interbreed" with his Jewish female counterpart (which is a shame, because there are a lot of hot chicks in this country).
Still, once you move 'm to Palo Alto on a tech salary and they become atheists, they might still not interbreed but bang each other to smithereens (and I mean that in the best of ways).
As another submitter has said, I think they mix up their "species" with their "breed", "group" or, dare I say it, "tribe".
The man had a few good points. You're oversimplifying your side of things significantly, and you're oversimplifying his arguments. Let's look at Africa, India and China. Are there many people among the poor who speak English? Or can read it? Or anything? Do they have electricity to begin with? Or a phone line? Are their parents in any way interested in putting them behind a laptop rather than bring in some food?
I would dare say they don't. Mr Dvorak is, as the comments here on/. prove, swearing in church by telling the 6% elite of the world that their view on things is naive. He also is bloody well right about everything he has said.
You want to talk about teaching a man to fish? Vote for a government that absolves the huge national debts these countries have. Vote for a government that will get rid of subsidies and protectionist measures to protect domestic farming at the cost of the 3rd world. Vote for a government that won't invade far off places to bomb them to smithereens and hurl millions of people into unimaginable states of grief and poverty.
A bloody laptop won't keep you from dying of AIDS, hunger, dysentery or the local guerrilla mob's mass-murdering tendencies.
Hm. I buy CD's. And I don't care whose label it is, as long as the music is cool. The other day I purchased 8 Steely Dan albums in a record store for about 49 NIS a pop. I also got Thelonious Monk's first album for Columbia, "Monk's dream", remastered for 59 NIS. That would make 450 NIS. This is roughly 112.50 USD or 80 Euros.
For that I get: - uncompressed audio - sarcastic stories told by Fagen and Becker in the new liner notes - the original cover art
And in this case around 90 songs. At 0.99 USD per song, the whole deal would cost me 90 USD on iTunes, and I would have been stuck with these bloody DRMed compressed files. No Jewel cases, no cover art, no liner notes, no nothing. It's a bloody outrage that anyone should pay nearly the same amount of cash on iTunes for a crippled, mangled and quite frankly unfun product.
So no, I don't agree with the notion that "The public will always have something to complain" and "The public will steal anything that's not bolted down" will debase the claim that 0.99 USD for a DRM song on iTunes is a disgrace. If I don't get an actual product with interesting packaging and side information like lyrics, liner notes and such, I would be willing to pay around 0.20 USD per song if it was non-DRM. And still I would want to get the "real deal", simply because I like having a comprehensive record collection.
I did not buy Radiohead's new album on-line because quite frankly with Kid A, Amnesiac and whatever came after it they have climbed the Pretentious Bollocks ladder so high I can't even see 'm blow it out the other hole anymore. I downloaded a torrented copy to listen to it, and discovered it is still Pretentious Bollocks. I still cherish my copy of "OK Computer" and "The Bends", but feel that Radiohead ceased to be relevant since Brit Pop pretty much died in the late 90s. But most of all I did not get it because 10 Mp3's simply don't "do" it for me.
I did, however, buy a couple of albums by Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings. The Dap Kings being the unknown act who are the backing band for Amy Winehouse on her "Back to Black" album. The word about Dap Kings got to me, and I got an album of theirs. Which is released on a small Indie label in the US, the same label Lee Fields works with. I also bought an album by a guy who calls 'mself Kutiman because he's the only Israeli who ever bothered to make a funk record. I find it funny that I hear about Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings from a friend in Amsterdam, and I see the same Indie CD lying around on a shelf in Tel Aviv.
This last bit I am saying to illustrate that not only bands with a "rabid fan base" make a buck. People buy different records or download different songs for whole myriads of reasons you do not comprehend. This means there is a share of that market for the Radioheads of this world, but also for Brazilian kids in ghettos that make mix tapes that turn into a huge commercial success.
Now labels always defend their prices with the "tech" they have to spend on to make their records sound so good. If I hear Michael Jackson spent 225.000.000 USD on the production of that bloody awful Invincible-vehicle while Bonnie "Prince" Billy (Will Oldham), the Magnetic Fields and this Dutch girl called Leine (http://www.myspace.com/leinemusic) churn out immensely cool music which is recorded at their dinner table I kind of laugh to myself. Because it is all such ridiculous crap. Johnny Cash recorded his best shit singing into a box for $10 a song or alone and acoustic before his death. Not many millions required there.
Still. 0.99 USD per DRM song *is* bloody bollocks, and once they realized it they *could* win.
Life in Europe in general and Sweden in particular is not at all reminiscent of a bad film noir from the fifties.
Jaywalking... tsk tsk. Any Swede has an explicit right to the public space ("allmänrätten"). Furthermore, cramping your wheels to the curb and mattress tags are very, very irrelevant. The Swedish judicial system also suffers from the fact that any document on anyone must be viewable as a matter of public record. Offentlighetsprincipen, they call it. This means that noone in any official capacity can put you on a shitlist, because the "ombudsman" will have you fired.:-D
So I can understand you got modded insightful by a bunch of people who have obviously never set foot in Europe, let alone Sweden.
Ultimately if you think about it I fail to see what the earth's spin really has to do with the notion of time.
It's been said before. Definitions of time are really very, very arbitrary. Actually, most definitions of pretty much anything are arbitrary. Look at the meter, the Fahrenheit scale and the Celsius scale for that. Not to mention the width of a railroad track in the UK.
Mankind is so good at ignoring nature to create arbitrary defined units of measurement, I don't see why all of a sudden the notion of time needs to be in harmony with the Universe As We Know It (tm).
Everything? How many devices/things/tools are there *really* that give a rat's ass about time? I really don't see how this would impact the functionality of my Optical Mouse, Kitchen knives, comfy chair and book respectively CD collection. The way I see it it could be done with an extensive set of firmware upgrades and the replacement of things through attrition/wear&tear. No consumer is going to care if their watch will be off one second every year. So "everything in human civilization" is a ludicrous claim because it could be argued that:
1) Humans never had any 2) More to the point, many things would not be affected by this
Hell, even those devices that have built in clocks are seldom actually correct about the time. My laptop, watch, phone, car and kitchen clock all think we're on slightly different times and all are still running perfectly fine. So is my toaster.
Cut a long story short: this is a can-do proposal from a technical perspective.
We don't all live in that fear. Although Europe (it would seem the UK in particular) also suffers from this PC syndrome and the fear-mongering of the media, I still feel there's a distinct difference in the Dutch way of seeing things and the American way of seeing things. Really, this type of story from your side of the pond worries me intensely. It seems that "they", whoever "they" may be, are trying to mess with your collective minds in such a way that it dumbs down and terrifies the population at large.
Quite frankly, I have known many Americans who are generally very good people. Quick thinkers, nice people and of sound moral fiber. But if this eternal trend continues over there I really wonder how many of those will be left at the end of the day. This will erode the status of the US in the world, because there are a fair amount of countries that don't subscribe to this foolhardy view on the world.
Speaking as a Dutchman, the WWI thing doesn't mean much to me. "We" saw the Germans marching through Belgium in 1914 from the "Point-of-three-countries" on the border. They didn't bug us. WWII is a different story, but quite frankly I'm also a little pissed off about the lopsided commemoration for that thing. Everyone talks about veterans and the six million Jews. Nobody much mentions that half of Europe was left smoldering and in rubble, hundreds of thousands of civilians dying of hunger in the winter of '44, the 12 (!) million dissidents, gypsies, homosexuals and other undesirables that got killed.
But then, nobody in Holland mentions the slaughter that we inflicted upon Indonesia once the Japanese were gone. Nobody mentions the fact that the Wehrmacht was largely alright to people too, and noone mentions the fact that many people who are not veterans per se fought themselves to death in either the resistance, the partizans or took immeasurable risks trying to save this or that person.
To cut a long story short, mankind in general and Europe in particular has shed so much blood over the last 3000 years that one commemorative day for the veterans of any particular war seems a load of bollocks. Where do you stop? The Dutch invasion of England in 1665? The Anglo-Dutch wars? The 100 year war? The 30 year war? The Crusades? The eternal anti-semitic cleansings over the last 2000 years in Europe? The French trying to invade all of Europe under that midget with his bad hand? The Spanish inquisition? The Romans? The Peloponesian wars? The Persians before them? Moorish invasions of Spain?
And this is only Europe. So no, I for one don't care about a flower that some Frog wrote about.
Well, > As to the reference about these drives being used for government databases
While one of TFA's states: > portable hard drives
TFA also states: > have been found to carry Trojan horse viruses > hard discs with such a large capacity are usually used by government agencies to store databases and other information > Maxtor Basic
Trust me. I've been in consulting and support for 12 years of my life. I've never seen any government run "Government databases" off of a USB/IDE hard-drive. Not even in the APJ region. If and when they start doing so, they surely deserve any kind of catastrophe that might befall them.
It just looks like a bad article. I'm relatively sure government databases aren't on a windows system, don't run production off single portable IDE drives. Looks like a couple of drives for the consumer market might have had some shit on it they shouldn't. It strikes me as funny that everyone here's discussing an obvious attempt at alarmist sensation-mongering by the Taipei times (Taiwan, not China's closest friend, after all)
Good question. I don't have any data on Violent Crimes for the globe, but when I had a discussion with an Uncle of mine in Holland, I pulled the Central Bureau of Statistics' reports on it, and saw that since the 1920's there has been a sharp decline in all manners of violent crime. It took the wind out of his "Things used to be better" rant.
In the mean time, for many countries, infant mortality is down, life expectancy is up and literacy is at an all time high. Surely this means that overall the situation is safer than, say, during the dark ages or the Industrial Revolution. It is my sincere belief that the media's hunger for sensation and public stupidity account for most of the perceived lack of safety in society.
Now everyone's been quoting Pink Floyd on this topic. Pink Floyd being a bunch of pretentious British Wankers on too much LSD, I would not quote them. Instead, I would like to bring to your attention the most sardonic, perfectionist and incisive band the world has seen to date: Steely Dan.
Im not one to look behind I know that times must change But over there in Barrytown they do things very strange And though you're not my enemy I like things like they used to be And though you'd like some company I'm standing by myself Go play with someone else I can see by what you carry that you come from Barrytown
Don't believe I'm taken in by stories I have heard I just read the daily news and swear by every word And don't think that I'm out of line For speaking out for what is mine Id like to see you do just fine But look at what you wear And the way you cut your hair I can see by what you carry that you come from Barrytown
Seriously, how is this news? I work for HP, and I've done nothing but swear with colleagues for the last 12 years. Not necessarily inside meetings, but sometimes definitely with customers on projects and whatnot.
I mean when you're in a data center and someone overwrites a production LUN to an Oracle Server because he took the wrong hardware path for his ignite restore, the customer won't say "Oh golly, that was rather unlucky, mate!" Shit no, we' be Fuck this and Fuck that. Or in sweden Jävla Faaaan! Hörrudu va'görru nu din dumma skit!. This is a completely normal thing if the shit hits the fan and the relationship is solid.
Most companies know this. Unless you're caught in an eternal re-run of Office Space.
I for one agree completely with what you're saying. Halo has never been anything like the CoD franchise, isn't as much fun as the original UT and has a story line that is surpassed by the original Doom. Furthermore, I think Valve is a lot more creative when it comes to multiplayer action. They've got their death matches with Half-Life 2, they've got their Counter strike, they've got their Day of Defeat CTF bit.... I don't understand what the BFD is about the Halo franchise.
And as far as the Xbox 360 goes, I've seen ghost recon on the 360, and that game is infinitely more interesting than Halo ever was. Granted, personally I am not that happy with my Wii on the FPS front, because I'm stuck playing CoD 3 on it, and on a normal non-HDTV it's just not as good as on a PC. Even though the sound roxx.
You can mod me all to hell, but I just don't get it. Specifically on/.: who gives a toss about Halo?
Not really. I worked in a Call Center for the first years at my job. The Call-Center business was interesting back then. There was a tendency to attract many people who spoke different languages to one centralized office. So the people I worked with had some affinity for the IT industry, but were primarily hired because of their language skills.
Obviously, since we're talking Amsterdam in this particular instance, there were quite the number of homosexuals, bisexuals, "other"-oriented people. Hell, we even had some transgendered individuals at work. My office was an example of a place where we had 600 ladies and gentlemen from 24 nationalities, and many of them had nothing else to do than to cling to or party with their co-workers.
It's funny that my initial response got marked as a troll, because it really isn't. The tech crowd in Amsterdam in particular knows how to party. Either they are promiscuous and extend that to the office, or they are really in a position where you don't have access to women. Or, like you said, if they're gay they don't have access to desirable men.
What I mean with that is the people that work at offices where there really are only 5 or 10 IT staffers, and they're all dry-as-plywood office workers rather than geeks. Work-places filled with geeks are usually a big party.
Yeah, what I'm wondering about is what the hell is up with that article? "Forty-seven percent of Tech Workers admit to having kissed a co-worker"???
Jeez... I've kissed at least four of them, shagged someone from Printing support, a receptionist AND someone from FedEx that did our next day replacement shippings, went as far as to live with someone I was mentoring from the Outsourcing partner for five years and currently am living with my closest colleague.
And I'm not the worst one. I've got a buddy that had to travel to our offices for training and whatnot. He went to Sveg in Sweden, Boise, Costa Rica, Seattle and lived in Copenhagen. He managed to shag people from every damn office he set foot in. I'm only jealous about the Costa Rica bit.
I just guess 53% of tech workers are lying through their teeth or have no access to women at work.
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"Isolated" and "Not interbreeding" sound more like an attitude than an incapability. Much like a (I live in Israel, so bear with me) Palestinian male will be "Isolated" from Tel Aviv and "Not interbreed" with his Jewish female counterpart (which is a shame, because there are a lot of hot chicks in this country).
Still, once you move 'm to Palo Alto on a tech salary and they become atheists, they might still not interbreed but bang each other to smithereens (and I mean that in the best of ways).
As another submitter has said, I think they mix up their "species" with their "breed", "group" or, dare I say it, "tribe".
Laugh about it... :-D What worries me more is that they actually have a minister of Supervision.
What does he Supervise? That people celebrate the "Two minutes' Hate"?
Then try 'n' bend your head around the fact that a "Tosser" and a "Wanker" are the same thing.
Also, masturbation is with U. Masturbation without U isn't quite the same, now is it?
And I already thought the lawsuit over Lady Chatterley's Lover was ridiculous. Oh well, at least it's not the UK government that sued them this time.
Interesting detail: My web-browser corrected the spelling of Chatterley. Twice. Sheesh.
I don't know how many BOWLING ALLEYS (tm) you've been to recently, but I haven't noticed any FRESH AIR (R) around them.
Of course not! Show some respect!
They will mount their invention, the "LASER" on their "DEATH STAR" and kill you unless you give them "One Million Dollars"!
The man had a few good points. You're oversimplifying your side of things significantly, and you're oversimplifying his arguments. Let's look at Africa, India and China. Are there many people among the poor who speak English? Or can read it? Or anything? Do they have electricity to begin with? Or a phone line? Are their parents in any way interested in putting them behind a laptop rather than bring in some food?
/. prove, swearing in church by telling the 6% elite of the world that their view on things is naive. He also is bloody well right about everything he has said.
I would dare say they don't. Mr Dvorak is, as the comments here on
You want to talk about teaching a man to fish? Vote for a government that absolves the huge national debts these countries have. Vote for a government that will get rid of subsidies and protectionist measures to protect domestic farming at the cost of the 3rd world. Vote for a government that won't invade far off places to bomb them to smithereens and hurl millions of people into unimaginable states of grief and poverty.
A bloody laptop won't keep you from dying of AIDS, hunger, dysentery or the local guerrilla mob's mass-murdering tendencies.
Hm. I buy CD's. And I don't care whose label it is, as long as the music is cool. The other day I purchased 8 Steely Dan albums in a record store for about 49 NIS a pop. I also got Thelonious Monk's first album for Columbia, "Monk's dream", remastered for 59 NIS. That would make 450 NIS. This is roughly 112.50 USD or 80 Euros.
For that I get:
- uncompressed audio
- sarcastic stories told by Fagen and Becker in the new liner notes
- the original cover art
And in this case around 90 songs. At 0.99 USD per song, the whole deal would cost me 90 USD on iTunes, and I would have been stuck with these bloody DRMed compressed files. No Jewel cases, no cover art, no liner notes, no nothing. It's a bloody outrage that anyone should pay nearly the same amount of cash on iTunes for a crippled, mangled and quite frankly unfun product.
So no, I don't agree with the notion that "The public will always have something to complain" and "The public will steal anything that's not bolted down" will debase the claim that 0.99 USD for a DRM song on iTunes is a disgrace. If I don't get an actual product with interesting packaging and side information like lyrics, liner notes and such, I would be willing to pay around 0.20 USD per song if it was non-DRM. And still I would want to get the "real deal", simply because I like having a comprehensive record collection.
I did not buy Radiohead's new album on-line because quite frankly with Kid A, Amnesiac and whatever came after it they have climbed the Pretentious Bollocks ladder so high I can't even see 'm blow it out the other hole anymore. I downloaded a torrented copy to listen to it, and discovered it is still Pretentious Bollocks. I still cherish my copy of "OK Computer" and "The Bends", but feel that Radiohead ceased to be relevant since Brit Pop pretty much died in the late 90s. But most of all I did not get it because 10 Mp3's simply don't "do" it for me.
I did, however, buy a couple of albums by Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings. The Dap Kings being the unknown act who are the backing band for Amy Winehouse on her "Back to Black" album. The word about Dap Kings got to me, and I got an album of theirs. Which is released on a small Indie label in the US, the same label Lee Fields works with. I also bought an album by a guy who calls 'mself Kutiman because he's the only Israeli who ever bothered to make a funk record. I find it funny that I hear about Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings from a friend in Amsterdam, and I see the same Indie CD lying around on a shelf in Tel Aviv.
This last bit I am saying to illustrate that not only bands with a "rabid fan base" make a buck. People buy different records or download different songs for whole myriads of reasons you do not comprehend. This means there is a share of that market for the Radioheads of this world, but also for Brazilian kids in ghettos that make mix tapes that turn into a huge commercial success.
Now labels always defend their prices with the "tech" they have to spend on to make their records sound so good. If I hear Michael Jackson spent 225.000.000 USD on the production of that bloody awful Invincible-vehicle while Bonnie "Prince" Billy (Will Oldham), the Magnetic Fields and this Dutch girl called Leine (http://www.myspace.com/leinemusic) churn out immensely cool music which is recorded at their dinner table I kind of laugh to myself. Because it is all such ridiculous crap. Johnny Cash recorded his best shit singing into a box for $10 a song or alone and acoustic before his death. Not many millions required there.
Still. 0.99 USD per DRM song *is* bloody bollocks, and once they realized it they *could* win.
Life in Europe in general and Sweden in particular is not at all reminiscent of a bad film noir from the fifties.
... tsk tsk. Any Swede has an explicit right to the public space ("allmänrätten"). Furthermore, cramping your wheels to the curb and mattress tags are very, very irrelevant. The Swedish judicial system also suffers from the fact that any document on anyone must be viewable as a matter of public record. Offentlighetsprincipen, they call it. This means that noone in any official capacity can put you on a shitlist, because the "ombudsman" will have you fired. :-D
Jaywalking
So I can understand you got modded insightful by a bunch of people who have obviously never set foot in Europe, let alone Sweden.
Ultimately if you think about it I fail to see what the earth's spin really has to do with the notion of time.
It's been said before. Definitions of time are really very, very arbitrary. Actually, most definitions of pretty much anything are arbitrary. Look at the meter, the Fahrenheit scale and the Celsius scale for that. Not to mention the width of a railroad track in the UK.
Mankind is so good at ignoring nature to create arbitrary defined units of measurement, I don't see why all of a sudden the notion of time needs to be in harmony with the Universe As We Know It (tm).
Everything? How many devices/things/tools are there *really* that give a rat's ass about time? I really don't see how this would impact the functionality of my Optical Mouse, Kitchen knives, comfy chair and book respectively CD collection. The way I see it it could be done with an extensive set of firmware upgrades and the replacement of things through attrition/wear&tear. No consumer is going to care if their watch will be off one second every year. So "everything in human civilization" is a ludicrous claim because it could be argued that:
1) Humans never had any
2) More to the point, many things would not be affected by this
Hell, even those devices that have built in clocks are seldom actually correct about the time. My laptop, watch, phone, car and kitchen clock all think we're on slightly different times and all are still running perfectly fine. So is my toaster.
Cut a long story short: this is a can-do proposal from a technical perspective.
> losing side was the side that was correct?
Are you implying you have no faith in the functionality of the justice system?
We don't all live in that fear. Although Europe (it would seem the UK in particular) also suffers from this PC syndrome and the fear-mongering of the media, I still feel there's a distinct difference in the Dutch way of seeing things and the American way of seeing things. Really, this type of story from your side of the pond worries me intensely. It seems that "they", whoever "they" may be, are trying to mess with your collective minds in such a way that it dumbs down and terrifies the population at large.
Quite frankly, I have known many Americans who are generally very good people. Quick thinkers, nice people and of sound moral fiber. But if this eternal trend continues over there I really wonder how many of those will be left at the end of the day. This will erode the status of the US in the world, because there are a fair amount of countries that don't subscribe to this foolhardy view on the world.
Speaking as a Dutchman, the WWI thing doesn't mean much to me. "We" saw the Germans marching through Belgium in 1914 from the "Point-of-three-countries" on the border. They didn't bug us. WWII is a different story, but quite frankly I'm also a little pissed off about the lopsided commemoration for that thing. Everyone talks about veterans and the six million Jews. Nobody much mentions that half of Europe was left smoldering and in rubble, hundreds of thousands of civilians dying of hunger in the winter of '44, the 12 (!) million dissidents, gypsies, homosexuals and other undesirables that got killed.
But then, nobody in Holland mentions the slaughter that we inflicted upon Indonesia once the Japanese were gone. Nobody mentions the fact that the Wehrmacht was largely alright to people too, and noone mentions the fact that many people who are not veterans per se fought themselves to death in either the resistance, the partizans or took immeasurable risks trying to save this or that person.
To cut a long story short, mankind in general and Europe in particular has shed so much blood over the last 3000 years that one commemorative day for the veterans of any particular war seems a load of bollocks. Where do you stop? The Dutch invasion of England in 1665? The Anglo-Dutch wars? The 100 year war? The 30 year war? The Crusades? The eternal anti-semitic cleansings over the last 2000 years in Europe? The French trying to invade all of Europe under that midget with his bad hand? The Spanish inquisition? The Romans? The Peloponesian wars? The Persians before them? Moorish invasions of Spain?
And this is only Europe. So no, I for one don't care about a flower that some Frog wrote about.
Hang on... WorldNetDaily... It's *not* a parody?
Whenever I see that site, I have flashbacks to the Colbert report for some reason.
Are these people actually for real?
Well,
> As to the reference about these drives being used for government databases
While one of TFA's states:
> portable hard drives
TFA also states:
> have been found to carry Trojan horse viruses
> hard discs with such a large capacity are usually used by government agencies to store databases and other information
> Maxtor Basic
Trust me. I've been in consulting and support for 12 years of my life. I've never seen any government run "Government databases" off of a USB/IDE hard-drive. Not even in the APJ region. If and when they start doing so, they surely deserve any kind of catastrophe that might befall them.
It just looks like a bad article. I'm relatively sure government databases aren't on a windows system, don't run production off single portable IDE drives. Looks like a couple of drives for the consumer market might have had some shit on it they shouldn't. It strikes me as funny that everyone here's discussing an obvious attempt at alarmist sensation-mongering by the Taipei times (Taiwan, not China's closest friend, after all)
Good question. I don't have any data on Violent Crimes for the globe, but when I had a discussion with an Uncle of mine in Holland, I pulled the Central Bureau of Statistics' reports on it, and saw that since the 1920's there has been a sharp decline in all manners of violent crime. It took the wind out of his "Things used to be better" rant.
In the mean time, for many countries, infant mortality is down, life expectancy is up and literacy is at an all time high. Surely this means that overall the situation is safer than, say, during the dark ages or the Industrial Revolution. It is my sincere belief that the media's hunger for sensation and public stupidity account for most of the perceived lack of safety in society.
Now everyone's been quoting Pink Floyd on this topic. Pink Floyd being a bunch of pretentious British Wankers on too much LSD, I would not quote them. Instead, I would like to bring to your attention the most sardonic, perfectionist and incisive band the world has seen to date: Steely Dan.
Im not one to look behind I know that times must change
But over there in Barrytown they do things very strange
And though you're not my enemy
I like things like they used to be
And though you'd like some company
I'm standing by myself
Go play with someone else
I can see by what you carry that you come from Barrytown
Don't believe I'm taken in by stories I have heard
I just read the daily news and swear by every word
And don't think that I'm out of line
For speaking out for what is mine
Id like to see you do just fine
But look at what you wear
And the way you cut your hair
I can see by what you carry that you come from Barrytown
Well, I don't see how the country and/or government is relevant to the discussion on Chemistry Sets.
The fact that my older brother had one killed the Chemistry Set as the gift that saved Sinterklaas in our house. Sob.
Coincidentally, the "government" that outlawed it is also the only one I have ever trusted and obeyed. It's called "Mother".
Isn't that exactly what the States did to Iraq?
Now *that's* my Bush!
It is however a member of the Commonwealth, and as such you can still find pictures of Her Majesty the Queen of England there.
Canada, Australia, India and South Africa.... Colonialism. History.
In Soviet Russia, vulgarities fire you!
Seriously, how is this news? I work for HP, and I've done nothing but swear with colleagues for the last 12 years. Not necessarily inside meetings, but sometimes definitely with customers on projects and whatnot.
I mean when you're in a data center and someone overwrites a production LUN to an Oracle Server because he took the wrong hardware path for his ignite restore, the customer won't say "Oh golly, that was rather unlucky, mate!" Shit no, we' be Fuck this and Fuck that. Or in sweden Jävla Faaaan! Hörrudu va'görru nu din dumma skit!. This is a completely normal thing if the shit hits the fan and the relationship is solid.
Most companies know this. Unless you're caught in an eternal re-run of Office Space.
Typical that that'd get modded down flamebait.
/.: who gives a toss about Halo?
I for one agree completely with what you're saying. Halo has never been anything like the CoD franchise, isn't as much fun as the original UT and has a story line that is surpassed by the original Doom. Furthermore, I think Valve is a lot more creative when it comes to multiplayer action. They've got their death matches with Half-Life 2, they've got their Counter strike, they've got their Day of Defeat CTF bit.... I don't understand what the BFD is about the Halo franchise.
And as far as the Xbox 360 goes, I've seen ghost recon on the 360, and that game is infinitely more interesting than Halo ever was. Granted, personally I am not that happy with my Wii on the FPS front, because I'm stuck playing CoD 3 on it, and on a normal non-HDTV it's just not as good as on a PC. Even though the sound roxx.
You can mod me all to hell, but I just don't get it. Specifically on
Well,
Not really. I worked in a Call Center for the first years at my job. The Call-Center business was interesting back then. There was a tendency to attract many people who spoke different languages to one centralized office. So the people I worked with had some affinity for the IT industry, but were primarily hired because of their language skills.
Obviously, since we're talking Amsterdam in this particular instance, there were quite the number of homosexuals, bisexuals, "other"-oriented people. Hell, we even had some transgendered individuals at work. My office was an example of a place where we had 600 ladies and gentlemen from 24 nationalities, and many of them had nothing else to do than to cling to or party with their co-workers.
It's funny that my initial response got marked as a troll, because it really isn't. The tech crowd in Amsterdam in particular knows how to party. Either they are promiscuous and extend that to the office, or they are really in a position where you don't have access to women. Or, like you said, if they're gay they don't have access to desirable men.
What I mean with that is the people that work at offices where there really are only 5 or 10 IT staffers, and they're all dry-as-plywood office workers rather than geeks. Work-places filled with geeks are usually a big party.
Yeah, what I'm wondering about is what the hell is up with that article? "Forty-seven percent of Tech Workers admit to having kissed a co-worker"???
Jeez... I've kissed at least four of them, shagged someone from Printing support, a receptionist AND someone from FedEx that did our next day replacement shippings, went as far as to live with someone I was mentoring from the Outsourcing partner for five years and currently am living with my closest colleague.
And I'm not the worst one. I've got a buddy that had to travel to our offices for training and whatnot. He went to Sveg in Sweden, Boise, Costa Rica, Seattle and lived in Copenhagen. He managed to shag people from every damn office he set foot in. I'm only jealous about the Costa Rica bit.
I just guess 53% of tech workers are lying through their teeth or have no access to women at work.
WTF? I'm afraid that if the choice was between Dubya, Cheney or Gates, I'd go with Gates for president in a heart beat.
You don't realize it, but you're already living in a bad comedy. It's kinda like Southpark, but without the humor.