Ya know, even primitive LISP AI system from the 80s understood that if there is two ways to parse a sentence and one of them doesn't make sense, you go with the other one. I said:
Rich People: Get us off this rock.
Note the syntax here:
:
You'll see the same pattern up there where I used "I said:" and then a quote of myself. So the ambiguity, it seems, it in the word "us". You took it to mean "all of us" whereas I meant it to me "the rich people", and as I said, the parsing you went with was the one that didn't make sense.
I sure hope you are not a knowledge base management system, cause if you are, we've gone backwards since the 80s.
Did you know that in the UK those suckers pay both to making a call and for receiving them? Yeah, both the initiator of the call and the receiver of the call pay for "air time".
And how long will it take to figure out if we're boned? 2 years? That leaves about 5 years to do something about it.. or, ya know, go on a long killing spree.
Yeah, when I was a teenager I wanted to be a games programmer.. then I actually found out how much competition there was to get into the industry and figured, hell, I could have all the fun of programming games without the stress of being overworked and underpaid by doing it in my own time.
And I know *for a fact* that CE is the same code base as win3.11, I used to work at VMWare and we had to get CE working.. it's the same 16-bit monstrosity.
Here in Australia we fought for years to not have a general sales tax.. then the biggest nay-sayer of GST got power and he immediately flip-flopped and introduced a GST. He got away with it by requiring sellers to put the GST inclusive into the price.. so the customer never has to add the 10%, it's already added. At the end of your receipt the total GST for the transaction is listed, so if you think you have a right to claim it back, you don't have to do the math to extract it from the total. Of course, if you buy something that is exempt from GST (like basic/unprocessed foods) then your receipt will be out and you'll have to do some math to figure it out.
For some products in Australia you will pay import taxes, luxury taxes, sales tax and, let's not forget, income tax. This can quickly become the dominate factor in the price. For example, computers.
Make a better food crop, people will complain that it is going to take over the ecosystem, so you make it sterile. Then people call you evil and claim you only made it sterile to bilk poor farmers.
I hope that the Russians are *not* looking at flying to the Moon or Mars. The NEAs make much more interesting destinations where their expertise in micro-gravity environments can be best put to use.
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Ya know, even primitive LISP AI system from the 80s understood that if there is two ways to parse a sentence and one of them doesn't make sense, you go with the other one. I said:
Rich People: Get us off this rock.
Note the syntax here:
:
You'll see the same pattern up there where I used "I said:" and then a quote of myself. So the ambiguity, it seems, it in the word "us". You took it to mean "all of us" whereas I meant it to me "the rich people", and as I said, the parsing you went with was the one that didn't make sense.
I sure hope you are not a knowledge base management system, cause if you are, we've gone backwards since the 80s.
Did you know that in the UK those suckers pay both to making a call and for receiving them? Yeah, both the initiator of the call and the receiver of the call pay for "air time".
And how long will it take to figure out if we're boned? 2 years? That leaves about 5 years to do something about it.. or, ya know, go on a long killing spree.
fallout shelters won't help.
It would interesting if funding in SpaceX and the other alt-space companies went up as a result of this.
Rich people: get us off this rock.
Yeah, when I was a teenager I wanted to be a games programmer.. then I actually found out how much competition there was to get into the industry and figured, hell, I could have all the fun of programming games without the stress of being overworked and underpaid by doing it in my own time.
Dude, it's called recompiling.
And I know *for a fact* that CE is the same code base as win3.11, I used to work at VMWare and we had to get CE working.. it's the same 16-bit monstrosity.
Here in Australia we fought for years to not have a general sales tax.. then the biggest nay-sayer of GST got power and he immediately flip-flopped and introduced a GST. He got away with it by requiring sellers to put the GST inclusive into the price.. so the customer never has to add the 10%, it's already added. At the end of your receipt the total GST for the transaction is listed, so if you think you have a right to claim it back, you don't have to do the math to extract it from the total. Of course, if you buy something that is exempt from GST (like basic/unprocessed foods) then your receipt will be out and you'll have to do some math to figure it out.
For some products in Australia you will pay import taxes, luxury taxes, sales tax and, let's not forget, income tax. This can quickly become the dominate factor in the price. For example, computers.
Sigh. Windows CE *is* Windows 3.11 with the win32s layer.
You mean other than not compete with Linux?
Really.. that's the reason. CE is Windows 3.11 with a boob job. You can't pitch that as a Linux competitor and not be laughed out of the room.
Not to mention that every time I hear someone say "frankenfood" I just wanna punch 'em in the head.
Make a better food crop, people will complain that it is going to take over the ecosystem, so you make it sterile. Then people call you evil and claim you only made it sterile to bilk poor farmers.
Communicating with your union rep isn't personal email....
are you fucking retarded? Seriously?
Which is why employers shouldn't be permitted to read employee email.
Thanks for catching up with the rest of us.
Whooosh.
That was the point, going over your head.
You have a right to talk to your union rep on company resources... in many companies the union rep is paid by the company.
Not everything in the world is the same as it is in the USA, kids.
I can use the same argument to indicate that dice are not "random".. and yet that's exactly how "random" is defined.
No shit.
and No shit.
And dear god, why don't you people do something about that?
Heh, you know the Russians will be operating the ISS 20 years after the Americans have left.
Take control of your political process away from the corporations.
The Russian space program typically does things for millions that would cost the US billions.. that's the way they do business.
Duh, yes.
You say this like it is impossible. How do you think the cable companies got started? One cable at a time.
Never mind that there are other technologies available now.
I hope that the Russians are *not* looking at flying to the Moon or Mars. The NEAs make much more interesting destinations where their expertise in micro-gravity environments can be best put to use.
Was a time when the idea of a single provider of anything in a given area was considered an opportunity.
This is why Rutan is such a big deal.