You don't control 50% of the population without cohersive skills.
My arguement is that if women actually had the cohersive skills to control 50% of the population(therefore insinuating that robots acting like women could do the same), the femenist movement wouldn't need to exist.
I hate to use something as complex as a dimension to describe the left/right conservative/liberal patheticness. I mean, a line on a single dimension can by of any length, and relative to any reference point within that dimension!
Boolean logic is much more descriptive:
y = (conservative */liberal) + (liberal */conservative)
Now we have a boolean equation capable of returning a useless answer to any question!
Watch:
Gay marriage is liberal/left because it entails the creation of new rights and ignoring religion but it's conservative/right because nearly every group seeking civil rights in this centry has been granted the rights they seek. Opposition to gay marriage is liberal because ammending the constitution to eliminate the rights a group seeks is unprecidented in history but it's conservative because the bible says in plain language what marriage is.
We throw it into the equation, and we get a simple answer:
Gay marriage = liberal Opposing gay marriage = conservative
For the same reason why people don't see why you'd want to fly model airplanes or race cars or ride motorbikes or drink fine wine/beer: some people just aren't that swift.
I ported FreeBASIC to x-box. The port is broken at the moment because of some internal changes, but not before I managed to get a groovy screenshot of Star Phalanx running on the x-box.
I'm working with the core devs on getting it working again.:)
You're probably going to want/need a usb adapter anyway if you're planning to use X-Box freeBSD or X-Box Linux. I mean, you want to be able to plug in a mouse or keyboard, right? Also, you practically require one to use either without being a chump and spending fifty bucks on a modchip(softmods are ambrosia.:) )
The x-box is a thriving hobbyist platform with a ton of apps(some even being legal to distribute thanks to OpenXDK) and tons of users, some of whom hardly ever use their x-box for commercial games(pirated or otherwise). Don't assume that just because you don't do anything on it nobody does.
AH! SLASHDOT IS ARGUING AGAINST ITSELF!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRGH!!!!!!!!!
Yes, hundreds of thousands of users having more than 1 opinion is the slashdot way.
It's not hypocrisy though, because it's hundreds of thousands of users holding seperate opinions, not some big schitzophrentic brain in a jar in utah talking to itself day in day out.
Bull. How can you say the legal theft of an individual's property has nothing to do with liberty?
The idea behind communism is that by eliminating the idea of property, you gain greater liberty because you won't be oppressed by those with much more than you.
Why do all capitalist implementations always require rich stomping on the poor, and influencing the government by virtue only of their wealth? There's nothing in the intrinsic idea of capitalism which says this is a neccessity, but it happens. People are trash. Get over it.
You're right, of course. This generation needs a good kick in the ass. I'm just arguing that it's definitely not entirely their fault. They've been shown a world where they can't succeed. Only stubborn pricks like you and I will make it anywhere.
It took me 8 months to find a shit job at a gas/propane/diesel station on the highway in my hometown after I got laid off from my computer tech job. I did my best at that shit job, and I did a great job, because I owed it to anyone smart enough to employ me, a person who doesn't care about hard work, except that I get to do it. It took me 25 days(more like three months if you consider the construction firms I sent my resume to back in March) to find my current job at a gas station here in the provincial capitol. I'm doing a great job, because I owe it to my boss, who was smart enough to hire me, to do a better job than the other idiots he could have hired. He was one of only 3 companies in the entire city who called me in for an interview, out of nearly 50 resumes I sent in through mail, fax, e-mail, or in person.
Scared of hard work? Not in the least. Check out the pictures in my site below. If you don't believe that took hard manual labour, you're insane(100km of hard riding in the rain is the only sort of way to get results like that). However: I ONLY WORK FOR PEOPLE WHO HIRE ME.
I spent 8 months finding the next job after I got laid off as a computer tech. 8 months, and 80 resumes, sent to every single shop, construction site, and mill in town. After all that time, a gas station finally hired me. I gave that job everything I had, because they were the people smart enough to finally hire me. I ended up changing the standards there because I worked to do better than those who came before me, not just to collect a paycheque. Now I live in the capitol of my province. I did it again -- I sent out easily 50 resumes through mail, e-mail, and in person. Want to know the number of interviews I got in that 3 month period? 3. Who finally hired me, even though I sent many of those resumes to engineering firms, construction companies, and other places that could have used me for manual labour? A gas station. It took 21 days to get that job, and it was another gas station. I'll work like they've never seen a person work, and I'll once again raise the standards of work by doing my best.
But don't say that people our age are afraid of hard work -- most of them never even get the chance!
I'm going to have to ask what you believe is hard work compared to a job flipping burgers.
To be frank, I consider a job as a professional sysadmin, or technician to be ridiculously easy compared to a minimum wage job working at a full service gas/diesel/propane station on a major highway. I've done both(and I've done both damned well). I wouldn't be particularly suprised to find that a job flipping burgers at a reasonably busy Burger King or McDonalds is more difficult than being a sysadmin or technician either.
Frankly, you sound to me, with your assertion that there's ANY work that shouldn't net a person enough money to get a roof over his head and a can of beans in his belly, like a person who has paid for, or had someone else pay for, his education so he can sit on his high horse and kick peasants as they go by. Congratulations, some people don't have the presence of mind of you and I to get an education and get a life. Others aren't so lucky. The fact that you'd deny them a living wage is sick, and only makes me wonder if there are more people in America as clueless as you.
In 1948, however, most people dropped out of grade school to work full time. This would directly affect the unemployment numbers for 16-17 year olds, since they would be working full time. I've now seen two tremendously flawed(in my opinion) articles by this economics professor, and I've contacted him about it. I'll try to let everyone know if I get a response back.
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You don't control 50% of the population without cohersive skills.
My arguement is that if women actually had the cohersive skills to control 50% of the population(therefore insinuating that robots acting like women could do the same), the femenist movement wouldn't need to exist.
WAIT!!!
You mean it's running a MIPS R3000?
This changes everything! It was just a silly trinket before, but NOW it's going to be my next server, and a GREAT conversational piece.
Just don't ask where the power button is.
You women have a problem with over-estimating your cohersive skills.
:P
Or is femenism a liberal myth?
If we can hack the x-box, we can fuck a robot, damnit!. :P
That's just because they're in power, so they can use your money to put propoganda on the news in the form of Video News Releases.
Look it up. It's some scary shit. Makes you think you're living in some third world soviet banana republic.
+1, not tree hugging hippy crap
I hate to use something as complex as a dimension to describe the left/right conservative/liberal patheticness. I mean, a line on a single dimension can by of any length, and relative to any reference point within that dimension!
/liberal) + (liberal * /conservative)
Boolean logic is much more descriptive:
y = (conservative *
Now we have a boolean equation capable of returning a useless answer to any question!
Watch:
Gay marriage is liberal/left because it entails the creation of new rights and ignoring religion but it's conservative/right because nearly every group seeking civil rights in this centry has been granted the rights they seek. Opposition to gay marriage is liberal because ammending the constitution to eliminate the rights a group seeks is unprecidented in history but it's conservative because the bible says in plain language what marriage is.
We throw it into the equation, and we get a simple answer:
Gay marriage = liberal
Opposing gay marriage = conservative
Yay!
While I'm pimping my wares, here's the demo itself. :)
Star Phalanx for X-box (needs usb keyboard. Sorry!!)
For the same reason why people don't see why you'd want to fly model airplanes or race cars or ride motorbikes or drink fine wine/beer: some people just aren't that swift.
:)
I ported FreeBASIC to x-box. The port is broken at the moment because of some internal changes, but not before I managed to get a groovy screenshot of Star Phalanx running on the x-box.
I'm working with the core devs on getting it working again.
You're probably going to want/need a usb adapter anyway if you're planning to use X-Box freeBSD or X-Box Linux. I mean, you want to be able to plug in a mouse or keyboard, right? Also, you practically require one to use either without being a chump and spending fifty bucks on a modchip(softmods are ambrosia. :) )
The x-box is a thriving hobbyist platform with a ton of apps(some even being legal to distribute thanks to OpenXDK) and tons of users, some of whom hardly ever use their x-box for commercial games(pirated or otherwise). Don't assume that just because you don't do anything on it nobody does.
If you're at the point where you need it, odds are this is not going to cause more harm than good.
But, I'm in the prime of my life, and I have no problems saying this: I WANT ONE!!!
#4562 has likely been at 50 karma longer than you've known what the internet is. It's not hard.
Ooh! Ooh! Do me next! Guess who I work for!
:P
(I'll give you a hint: I'm a cashier at a gas station)
AH! SLASHDOT IS ARGUING AGAINST ITSELF!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRGH!!!!!!!!!
Yes, hundreds of thousands of users having more than 1 opinion is the slashdot way.
It's not hypocrisy though, because it's hundreds of thousands of users holding seperate opinions, not some big schitzophrentic brain in a jar in utah talking to itself day in day out.
Bull. How can you say the legal theft of an individual's property has nothing to do with liberty?
The idea behind communism is that by eliminating the idea of property, you gain greater liberty because you won't be oppressed by those with much more than you.
Why do all capitalist implementations always require rich stomping on the poor, and influencing the government by virtue only of their wealth? There's nothing in the intrinsic idea of capitalism which says this is a neccessity, but it happens. People are trash. Get over it.
You're right, of course. This generation needs a good kick in the ass. I'm just arguing that it's definitely not entirely their fault. They've been shown a world where they can't succeed. Only stubborn pricks like you and I will make it anywhere.
That's because communists aren't the sharpest tools in the shed. :-P
And I bet that repetition even though there was no reason to repeat what I wrote, demonstrates that. :P
Yeah. It's way too late for me to be posting.
Totalitarianism and liberty are not compatible. Communism is a system of commerce, not a system of government.
You have a future. Do the people who work at video stores or fast food joints or gas stations who don't have a future not deserve to pay their rent?
Bull. Shit.
It took me 8 months to find a shit job at a gas/propane/diesel station on the highway in my hometown after I got laid off from my computer tech job. I did my best at that shit job, and I did a great job, because I owed it to anyone smart enough to employ me, a person who doesn't care about hard work, except that I get to do it. It took me 25 days(more like three months if you consider the construction firms I sent my resume to back in March) to find my current job at a gas station here in the provincial capitol. I'm doing a great job, because I owe it to my boss, who was smart enough to hire me, to do a better job than the other idiots he could have hired. He was one of only 3 companies in the entire city who called me in for an interview, out of nearly 50 resumes I sent in through mail, fax, e-mail, or in person.
Scared of hard work? Not in the least. Check out the pictures in my site below. If you don't believe that took hard manual labour, you're insane(100km of hard riding in the rain is the only sort of way to get results like that). However: I ONLY WORK FOR PEOPLE WHO HIRE ME.
I spent 8 months finding the next job after I got laid off as a computer tech. 8 months, and 80 resumes, sent to every single shop, construction site, and mill in town. After all that time, a gas station finally hired me. I gave that job everything I had, because they were the people smart enough to finally hire me. I ended up changing the standards there because I worked to do better than those who came before me, not just to collect a paycheque. Now I live in the capitol of my province. I did it again -- I sent out easily 50 resumes through mail, e-mail, and in person. Want to know the number of interviews I got in that 3 month period? 3. Who finally hired me, even though I sent many of those resumes to engineering firms, construction companies, and other places that could have used me for manual labour? A gas station. It took 21 days to get that job, and it was another gas station. I'll work like they've never seen a person work, and I'll once again raise the standards of work by doing my best.
But don't say that people our age are afraid of hard work -- most of them never even get the chance!
I'm going to have to ask what you believe is hard work compared to a job flipping burgers.
To be frank, I consider a job as a professional sysadmin, or technician to be ridiculously easy compared to a minimum wage job working at a full service gas/diesel/propane station on a major highway. I've done both(and I've done both damned well). I wouldn't be particularly suprised to find that a job flipping burgers at a reasonably busy Burger King or McDonalds is more difficult than being a sysadmin or technician either.
Frankly, you sound to me, with your assertion that there's ANY work that shouldn't net a person enough money to get a roof over his head and a can of beans in his belly, like a person who has paid for, or had someone else pay for, his education so he can sit on his high horse and kick peasants as they go by. Congratulations, some people don't have the presence of mind of you and I to get an education and get a life. Others aren't so lucky. The fact that you'd deny them a living wage is sick, and only makes me wonder if there are more people in America as clueless as you.
In 1948, however, most people dropped out of grade school to work full time. This would directly affect the unemployment numbers for 16-17 year olds, since they would be working full time. I've now seen two tremendously flawed(in my opinion) articles by this economics professor, and I've contacted him about it. I'll try to let everyone know if I get a response back.
I've decided to contact Walter E. Williams about some massive flaws I've percieved in his arguements. I'll post here if I get a reply about them.