I recently got asked this at a job interview. My answer was "Well, it takes me a long time to learn anything, I'm kind of a goof-off...... little stuff starts disappearing from the workplace..." The interviewer then asked me the following hypothetical: "There's a problem with the reactor. What do you do?" I don't think my reply was the one he wanted,"There's a problem with the reactor!? We're all going to die! Aaaaaaaugh!".
In the end the nerd gave the job to two of his old frat buddies from Alpha Tau. I guess it IS who you know...
No way, buddy. I wasn't that impressed by HALO at all, and it was a little to easy, I thought. Even Timesplitters 2 is more fun and challenging than HALO. On the Gamecube controller it's also a peach to play.
Me too. I used to believe the Atkins diet FUD until one of the other slashdotter's gave me some more information and a few hints and tips last time this subject came up. In about 6 months, I've lost about 30 kilos, but being a very heavy drinker, I found it hard to quit the beers. I solved this problem by moving on to tequila! It does feel nice to not be fat, doesn't it?
Actually, If I remember correctly, the poster does not completely cover the hole, ie: you can see the hole peeking out from under the poster. Thats how I (and I imagine a lot of others) found it.
I've always though that "Druss the Legend and The Legend of Deathwalker by David Gemmel would make good movies, mostly because the books read like a sword swinging action movie ala Conan. The Thomas Covenant books by Stephen Donaldson would also be an excellent choice for a series, IMHO.
Why, in every reply, do you focus on the trivial details that don't even really apply to the argument? Mainly because you don't seem to be understanding what is being said. I was trying to clarify parts of the discussion that you seemed to have problems with.
There is evidence that shows dairy is unhealthy. There is no evidence showing that it *is* healthy. Find it. Marketing isn't evidence. Well, there seems to be many people who have provided evidence, compared to the propaganda that the vegan/animal rights groups put forward. EXACTLY what I said in my original statement, that there is propaganda from both sides of the fence. It's funny how your beliefs influence what you consider marketing/propaganda, while the rest of us hear the marketspeak you use (remember, PETA has to get money from somebody too) and giggle at you parroting information provided by groups with a conflict of interest in the matters at hand.
Value is completely wrapped up in efficiency when it comes down to what is best for society. What an empty statement! Of course lots of things apply when you want to get into hypothetical situations about what is best for society, but society rarely does the smartest thing. Maybe in fantasy-land decisions are based on environmental reasons alone, but here in the real world value, whether real or imagined, is dictated by market forces and the parties who purchase/manufacture the product. If value and efficiency where completely intertwined, nobody would buy diamonds, wood fuel would be banned, soy plots would be outlawed, etc.
Get off my back about being rude. Why? You have a history of comments on this story alone where you are condescending and arrogant, which frustrates debate because most of your opinions are just that, with no proof. Let's look through some of your greatest hits for this thread:
you are the type who doesn't care about the survival of his or her own species
Compare the definition of redundant with the number of times this joke showed up, and you might be able to answer your own question
So since you just blabber on and don't have a clue, just stfu.
I don't drink or eat cows. Yet I still eat... amazing eh?
So here it is in what I hope is easier English for you to understand
I could go on and on where you have been rude and condescending. I never said it was to me, but by the time I wanted to reply to one of your misinformed posts I had heard enough of your attitude.
Again, your last two points go hand in hand. Firstly, your comprehension sucks. After your third attempt, you still don't realise what is being said, so i'm not going to waste any more time on dumbing it down for you. Secondly, it got personal when you've spent half the thread arguing like a prat (while completely missing the point of what people are saying) without any facts, just pushing your left-wing militant vegan propaganda bullshit onto anyone who may see things differently to your twisted world perspective. And even worse, when you COMPLETELY misunderstand where the arguments are going, people have tried to clarify this information for you while being considerate of your feelings and not trying to embarass you, yet you still miss the point and become argumentative and arrogant. I don't hold anything against you, and it is nothing personal, but if you read back through all of your comments on this thread and what people have replied it becomes quite clear that you run off half-cocked without actually reading the statements being made, you start pushing your personal preferences onto others and then have the audacity to insinuate that we are morons for not subscribing to your lifestyle choices. That is antisocial. Now, i've got some work to do, so I think this should be the end of the discussion, it's been lovely chatting.
Not only that, more playstations have been sold than any nintendo or sega product, combined. I call bullshit. The Gameboy/Color/Advance is the highest selling games machine in the world, with worldwide sales of over 100,000,000 units and climbing (These figures do not include the newly released GameboySP. Compared to this, the most recent information on the PS2 has sales that have hit 50,000,000. So not even half the sales of Nintendo's flagship console. Sorry.
I know you'd like to think that, but the current statistics have NGC outselling the XBox around the world, and with the imminent release of Metroid Prime, Zelda:Wind Waker, Phantasy Star 1 & 2 Online and heaps of other GCN only titles I can only see the distance between them getting bigger. On top of that is the fact that XBox is sorely lacking on exclusive titles, ie: Splinter Cell now on GCN etc. The war ain't over yet, XBox will have to do something amazingly amazing if it wants to be a serious threat to GCN, and then the PS2, which is miles ahead of both (saleswise, not tech).
umm... you seriously seem to have some comprehension issues. I never said anything about you suggesting the extermination of cows. I said "if we got rid of cows" meaning if people got rid of cows as a crop for dairy products. Nothing more, nothing less. Are you implying that I suggest killing them all or something equally ridiculous?
I'm not going to get into a discussion about your assertions that "people don't care how unhealthy dairy is, and people don't know how unhealthy dairy is" as there is no REAL evidence to support those claims, either for or against. Almost all the research in this area is clouded by various interests, whether those interests be PETA, the American Dairy Industry, whatever.
Lastly, when I used the term value, I used it in the same way Webster does, ie:
The property or aggregate properties of a thing by which
it is rendered useful or desirable, or the degree of such
property or sum of properties; worth; excellence; utility;
importance.
Which means, whether real or imagined, people attach a value to the products of this particular crop animal that outweigh the possibility of NOT harvesting them. Nothing about a Horn of Plenty, nothing about me even suggesting they are superior in any way to other products we may consume. Efficiency doesn't even enter the conversation until you brought it up. As I said earlier, which you have been kind enough to prove correct over and over again in this thread, you certainly need to spend some time working on your comprehension skills and learning to correctly interpret the information you are presented with before you make comments. Even moreso if you are so keen to act so superior by speaking rudely to others due to the heavy influence your lifestyle choices have on the comments you make.
Firstly, I just want to say that if it is anything like Australian Internet censorship, it won't make any difference to the majority of users. It is just about having ISP's give the option for filtering to their customers. Secondly, am I the only one who waved their mouse over the damgers of the internet link and expected to see goatse.cx as the address?
He is talking straight efficiency. I was talking about it being a bad idea to increase the number of cows, and he is showing why.
Sorry, but I don't see exactly where he is showing how to more efficiently harvest milk. He mentions a few things about comparable power production from biodiesel, but that is neither here nor there because the discussion is about MILK PRODUCTION primarily, with the new added bonus of some elctrical production. Remember, the first and foremost product here is DAIRY FOODS. Everything else is just a bonus.
No, I think you have misinterpreted the article, skewed by your (possibly misguided) personal beliefs on veganism and the dairy/meat industry. You aren't saying anything that isn't completely obvious to anyone with even a basic grasp of the problems the environment faces. The reality is, people want dairy products, and if we are going to have cows around for that, it is much better for the environment if we can do ANYTHING to lower their impact on the planet. It IS a strawman argument, because if we got rid of cows as you suggest, history shows that the price of dairy products would rise dramatically, and the gap in the market would be filled by product from the third world and by farms that would NOT be making these sort of efforts to help the planet, putting the entire industry and our world in a worse situation than it is currently in. Sometimes I wish people (read: hippies) would actually have a clue to how this world works before suggesting childish, badly planned solutions. Getting rid of cows is just not feasible currently while their products hold so much value for the human race.
Well, Maybe before being all sarcastic and such you could have played with google for a bit. It IS happening, in fact F-Zero running on the board has already been released to rave reviews in Japan.
Slashdot Mirror
I've also got mine tattooed on the inside of my wrist.
I recently got asked this at a job interview. My answer was "Well, it takes me a long time to learn anything, I'm kind of a goof-off...... little stuff starts disappearing from the workplace..." The interviewer then asked me the following hypothetical: "There's a problem with the reactor. What do you do?" I don't think my reply was the one he wanted,"There's a problem with the reactor!? We're all going to die! Aaaaaaaugh!".
In the end the nerd gave the job to two of his old frat buddies from Alpha Tau. I guess it IS who you know...
Don't worry too much. I'm sure wrestling will be around long after the American Bald Eagle dies out. Then they can "get the F back here!!"
Aussie colloquialism.
No way, buddy. I wasn't that impressed by HALO at all, and it was a little to easy, I thought. Even Timesplitters 2 is more fun and challenging than HALO. On the Gamecube controller it's also a peach to play.
What, you've never seen Astroboy?
Me too. I used to believe the Atkins diet FUD until one of the other slashdotter's gave me some more information and a few hints and tips last time this subject came up. In about 6 months, I've lost about 30 kilos, but being a very heavy drinker, I found it hard to quit the beers. I solved this problem by moving on to tequila! It does feel nice to not be fat, doesn't it?
Man, you are a looooonnnnggg way from home.
Actually, If I remember correctly, the poster does not completely cover the hole, ie: you can see the hole peeking out from under the poster. Thats how I (and I imagine a lot of others) found it.
I've always though that "Druss the Legend and The Legend of Deathwalker by David Gemmel would make good movies, mostly because the books read like a sword swinging action movie ala Conan. The Thomas Covenant books by Stephen Donaldson would also be an excellent choice for a series, IMHO.
I though that was Hippocrates...
A chip in my clothes, hey? Well, until somebody ports Linux to it or I can run MAME on it, i'm not interested.
Yeah! Larry Flint is right!
Mainly because you don't seem to be understanding what is being said. I was trying to clarify parts of the discussion that you seemed to have problems with.
There is evidence that shows dairy is unhealthy. There is no evidence showing that it *is* healthy. Find it. Marketing isn't evidence.
Well, there seems to be many people who have provided evidence, compared to the propaganda that the vegan/animal rights groups put forward. EXACTLY what I said in my original statement, that there is propaganda from both sides of the fence. It's funny how your beliefs influence what you consider marketing/propaganda, while the rest of us hear the marketspeak you use (remember, PETA has to get money from somebody too) and giggle at you parroting information provided by groups with a conflict of interest in the matters at hand.
Value is completely wrapped up in efficiency when it comes down to what is best for society.
What an empty statement! Of course lots of things apply when you want to get into hypothetical situations about what is best for society, but society rarely does the smartest thing. Maybe in fantasy-land decisions are based on environmental reasons alone, but here in the real world value, whether real or imagined, is dictated by market forces and the parties who purchase/manufacture the product. If value and efficiency where completely intertwined, nobody would buy diamonds, wood fuel would be banned, soy plots would be outlawed, etc.
Get off my back about being rude.
Why? You have a history of comments on this story alone where you are condescending and arrogant, which frustrates debate because most of your opinions are just that, with no proof. Let's look through some of your greatest hits for this thread:
you are the type who doesn't care about the survival of his or her own species
Compare the definition of redundant with the number of times this joke showed up, and you might be able to answer your own question
So since you just blabber on and don't have a clue, just stfu.
I don't drink or eat cows. Yet I still eat... amazing eh?
So here it is in what I hope is easier English for you to understand
I could go on and on where you have been rude and condescending. I never said it was to me, but by the time I wanted to reply to one of your misinformed posts I had heard enough of your attitude.
Again, your last two points go hand in hand. Firstly, your comprehension sucks. After your third attempt, you still don't realise what is being said, so i'm not going to waste any more time on dumbing it down for you. Secondly, it got personal when you've spent half the thread arguing like a prat (while completely missing the point of what people are saying) without any facts, just pushing your left-wing militant vegan propaganda bullshit onto anyone who may see things differently to your twisted world perspective. And even worse, when you COMPLETELY misunderstand where the arguments are going, people have tried to clarify this information for you while being considerate of your feelings and not trying to embarass you, yet you still miss the point and become argumentative and arrogant. I don't hold anything against you, and it is nothing personal, but if you read back through all of your comments on this thread and what people have replied it becomes quite clear that you run off half-cocked without actually reading the statements being made, you start pushing your personal preferences onto others and then have the audacity to insinuate that we are morons for not subscribing to your lifestyle choices. That is antisocial. Now, i've got some work to do, so I think this should be the end of the discussion, it's been lovely chatting.
Not only that, more playstations have been sold than any nintendo or sega product, combined. I call bullshit. The Gameboy/Color/Advance is the highest selling games machine in the world, with worldwide sales of over 100,000,000 units and climbing (These figures do not include the newly released GameboySP. Compared to this, the most recent information on the PS2 has sales that have hit 50,000,000. So not even half the sales of Nintendo's flagship console. Sorry.
I know you'd like to think that, but the current statistics have NGC outselling the XBox around the world, and with the imminent release of Metroid Prime, Zelda:Wind Waker, Phantasy Star 1 & 2 Online and heaps of other GCN only titles I can only see the distance between them getting bigger. On top of that is the fact that XBox is sorely lacking on exclusive titles, ie: Splinter Cell now on GCN etc. The war ain't over yet, XBox will have to do something amazingly amazing if it wants to be a serious threat to GCN, and then the PS2, which is miles ahead of both (saleswise, not tech).
I'm not going to get into a discussion about your assertions that "people don't care how unhealthy dairy is, and people don't know how unhealthy dairy is" as there is no REAL evidence to support those claims, either for or against. Almost all the research in this area is clouded by various interests, whether those interests be PETA, the American Dairy Industry, whatever.
Lastly, when I used the term value, I used it in the same way Webster does, ie:
The property or aggregate properties of a thing by which it is rendered useful or desirable, or the degree of such property or sum of properties; worth; excellence; utility; importance.
Which means, whether real or imagined, people attach a value to the products of this particular crop animal that outweigh the possibility of NOT harvesting them. Nothing about a Horn of Plenty, nothing about me even suggesting they are superior in any way to other products we may consume. Efficiency doesn't even enter the conversation until you brought it up.
As I said earlier, which you have been kind enough to prove correct over and over again in this thread, you certainly need to spend some time working on your comprehension skills and learning to correctly interpret the information you are presented with before you make comments. Even moreso if you are so keen to act so superior by speaking rudely to others due to the heavy influence your lifestyle choices have on the comments you make.
Firstly, I just want to say that if it is anything like Australian Internet censorship, it won't make any difference to the majority of users. It is just about having ISP's give the option for filtering to their customers. Secondly, am I the only one who waved their mouse over the damgers of the internet link and expected to see goatse.cx as the address?
Sorry, but I don't see exactly where he is showing how to more efficiently harvest milk. He mentions a few things about comparable power production from biodiesel, but that is neither here nor there because the discussion is about MILK PRODUCTION primarily, with the new added bonus of some elctrical production. Remember, the first and foremost product here is DAIRY FOODS. Everything else is just a bonus.
Never attempt to teach a pig to dance. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
Damn straight. If god didn't want us to eat animals, he wouldn't have wrapped them in tasty meat.
No, I think you have misinterpreted the article, skewed by your (possibly misguided) personal beliefs on veganism and the dairy/meat industry. You aren't saying anything that isn't completely obvious to anyone with even a basic grasp of the problems the environment faces. The reality is, people want dairy products, and if we are going to have cows around for that, it is much better for the environment if we can do ANYTHING to lower their impact on the planet. It IS a strawman argument, because if we got rid of cows as you suggest, history shows that the price of dairy products would rise dramatically, and the gap in the market would be filled by product from the third world and by farms that would NOT be making these sort of efforts to help the planet, putting the entire industry and our world in a worse situation than it is currently in. Sometimes I wish people (read: hippies) would actually have a clue to how this world works before suggesting childish, badly planned solutions. Getting rid of cows is just not feasible currently while their products hold so much value for the human race.
I believe you're thinking of Time Traveller.
Yeah, yeah, I got your jokes ;o) I still reckon they should have called it Mother Brain.
http://www.cubegaming.co.uk/news/3_10.html es/358/358767p1.htmlm /news/2002/02/a200202triforce.html
http://www.gamecubicle.com/news-nintendo_sega_gam ecube_arcade_fzero.htm
http://cube.ign.com/artic
http://www.infosatellite.co
Don't take my word for it.