Sony once had an advertising slogan: "Sony: No baloney!" I think current management supports the outer 2/3 of that expression. Another dinosaur megacorp grown beyond ability to manage itself properly, and at the wrong time to lose the ability as the global economy changes. We're going to see a lot of that soon enough. The change began back after the founder died and some hotshots took over. They lost their longterm vision. The customer once was the focus, now, " 3) profit!!!! "
Also, obviously the film division's lawyers call the shots over the technology side now.
Any example can be taken to level that it no longer works.
That sidesteps the fact that your original statement was oversimplified to prove your point. My example is just one of many real possibilities. You deal in oversimplified models and those go false real easily.
1. Never happened, 2. Never happened
?? You're applying 1945-period behavior to the modern world? Hahahahaa. Countries were economically naive then compared to now. Economies are more complex now, countries are more sophisticated. If we nuke Muslim countries I guarantee they won't be buying our Disney T-shirts or selling us cheap oil unless we seize it of course. Instead, they'll shift to deals with countries not hostile to Muslims. Russia, China come to mind. How naive warhawk ideologues are. John Bolton, is that YOU on Slashdot? I always figured you for an AOL type, not a Linux guy, Mr. B.
3. Was localized and while levels increased, nothing really came out of it except for those directly involved in the blast or recovery.
"Nothing really came out of it". What planet are you from? You trivialize atrocity? One only has to read any Japanese studies to refute your denials: "Estimated Relative Risks of Cancers at 1 Gray (1950-85); Mental Retardation of In Utero Exposed Children; Genetic Studies of the Children of A-bomb Survivors (Hiroshima and Nagasaki) etc, ad nauseum. The effects on the people and the land were large and lasting. Nobody denies that except maybe farmers in the Ozarks, and Condi Rice, who isn't nappy-headed no matter what Don Imus says.
Uh, sparky? Have you check the price of a barrel lately.
What are you smoking, War Hero? Oil per barrel has been up 3x since Bush's false war started. Gas prices are higher. I'm sure you're paying a lot more these days to fill the tank of your Hummer, the one with the gun rack you drive to WalMart? For numbers see: http://www.house.gov/jec/publications/110/rr110-2. pdf.
You trivialize the factors in price of gasoline, maybe you can't handle complicated issues so you pick an easier model to spout off. That doesn't work with complex global issues. Better to settle for 'might makes right', eh? The founding fathers would be defecating corncobs right about now, I figure, if they saw FOX news and its blind followers.
Let's look at the flawed logic and assumptions in this one by one:
You get in fight, the other guy is bleeding more than you are and down for the count - You Win!
Simplistic limited idealistic model. Can be disproven by so many more enlarged situational components. 1) you win the fight, the cops put you in jail, you maybe lose your job, or get sued, so you lose your home, etc.
You get sued, the other guy loses more money than you - You Win!
You go down in multiple databases forever as having been in a lawsuit; your wife leaves you for wasting your family's money because your testosterone drove you to a macho resolution instead of one with foresight
You get into a war, you nuke the other guy into submission - You Win!
This one has so many flaws it's sad. 1) The rest of the world decides you're a country led by morons and stops trading with you, your economy hurts 2) other countries trade with you but charge you more now 3) you have contaminated the world with radioactivity, hurting us all. The depleted uranium we use in Afghanistan and Iraq is not only ruining their land for a long time forward, it is causing genetic damage and illnesses in our soldiers who then come home and have a lifetime of agony.
Yes, in each of these situations you lose something, blood, money, time, people, and equipment, but the other guy is worse off? You Win!
The "You" in this is mostly people in power, and people now controlling the resources you took from the other guy. Oil, these days. The other guy is both the 'enemy' and the US citizen now having to pay $3.50 a gallon because international tension has driven the price of a barrel of oil up.
Send them to something far, far worse than a Turkish prison. Chain them in the RIAA lobby with no pants, clutching a pirated CD of Bing Crosby singing Christmas carols.
Well, a week ago the accident propelled the collider into the future, and that's why it's being reported today. Sheesh, do we have to explain **everything ** to ya?
I wonder if it was true organic-based mental illness, or radically disfunctional cognition. As I understand it, personality disorders stem from corrupted belief systems leading to irrational reasoning, whereas organic-based mental illness comes from malfunctioning brain mechanisms, i.e. gone awry for chemical, physiological reasons, or because of infected/invaded tissue. For example, schizophrenia, or Alzheimers, or parasitic diseases. Did Tesla simply step too far out of the mainstream, or was there a disease. I'm not sure I ever saw any discussion of whether there was an autopsy, though that might not have revealed any brain tissue problems or even extended to the brain at that time. My guess is his reasoning systems became corrupted. But who knows what years of exposure to high-frequency energy of uncontrolled kinds did to him.
All the best mad scientists are crazy. You have to think out of the box to make some breakthroughs, sounding out the holes in conventional theory. As Apple said, Think Different.
They said Einstein was crazy, and they were wrong! They said that Galileo was crazy, and they were wrong! They said that Bush is crazy...
... crickets... more crickets... lots of crickets... okay, 2 outta 3 is enough for me.
I don't understand why they'd put Julianne Moore in the X-Files 2 movie with Wolverine when they already have Jean Grey? And besides, they're already done X-Files 3, where the Professor died, so how can they do 2 again? I'm so puzzled.
Plot summary of new movie: In "Erin Brockovich and the Operating System of Doom", Erin analyses Windows Vista and discovers it contains 98% hype and only 1% new usability. Soon, hired goons pursue her, trying to run her car off the road. A muscular Linus Torvalds, played by Vin Diesel, parachutes down unexpectedly and drops into her convertible, taking the wheel to perform spectacular stunt driving to evade the pursuers and their Stinger missiles. However, Linus and Erin are later captured and brought to the secret Washington state underground headquarters of an evil software magnate. He rocks back and forth in his chair as he strokes a white cat and boasts of his plans for world conquest through restrictive licensing and patent portfolios, and an alliance with the RIAA. In the end, Linus and Erin escape after Linus crashes the villains's servers by massively downloading emo music. In the closing scene, a massive volcanic explosion destroys Redmond because Linus has also rigged Windows Genuine Advantage to detonate every PC on campus at the same time.
No animals were harmed in the making of this movie. Directed by Jack Thompson.
Star Trek sunglasses, let me see. Is this the 'dim' button or the 'phaser' button? I can't remember. Have to try one of them. - Click - ARGGGGHHHHHH! ARGGGGHH!!! I - just - phasered - my - eyeballs!! Help me, Spock!!!! (whimper)
Next time I'll -- have one of the -- redshirts -- try these first. Kirk out.
In the future, please use the simple and short MemeCode. This will allow us to operate more efficiently, increase profits and shareholder value, and also confuse the hell out of anyone new to Slashdot.
Thank you.
Darl McBride, CEO
Mumble mumble Hexagon mumble mumble Aliens! mumble mumble Jack Thompson
I have hunch that hand will appear again someday. Probably they'll kill the doctor off for ratings (like Superman!), then the fallback to keep the series going will be to clone the doctor from the hand. Hey, but maybe someone evil will steal some tissue and clone their own, evil, doctor. Who knows, a Cyberdoctor, or a Dalek 'can' with a doctor brain innit.
And my two cents on Russell Davies. I frikkin hate him and his agenda. You just know he secretly thinks he's Captain Jack, and any small animal with a sexual organ or a rectum is not safe around him.
There is NO truth to the rumors that Jack will star in Saw IV.
Re:Question for the Space Anthropologists
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Ask Aunt Anthro
Dear Aunt Anthro, are there cave-martians?
Sincerely, Timmy in Ohio (age 8)
Dear Timmy;
I want to encourage your interest in science! Yes, there are cave-martians. They have huge fangs and many clawed tentacles. They drool stinky green ichor and crawl like nothing you've ever seen before. They are known for hiding in dark closets and under beds. Also, they have flying saucers and know where Ohio is.
I protest. All those years of playing Doom gave me superhuman abilities. I can instantly tell the difference between my boss and a monster in a dark room. Wait... no I can't.
Um, as a matter of practice, I never shoot anyone for no reason, taking my cue from Kirth Gerson; he's dedicated to the point of obsession but logical enough about these matters. I'd heard of, but neglected to mention, the Japanese, thanks on this.
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Also, obviously the film division's lawyers call the shots over the technology side now.
That sidesteps the fact that your original statement was oversimplified to prove your point. My example is just one of many real possibilities. You deal in oversimplified models and those go false real easily.
1. Never happened, 2. Never happened
?? You're applying 1945-period behavior to the modern world? Hahahahaa. Countries were economically naive then compared to now. Economies are more complex now, countries are more sophisticated. If we nuke Muslim countries I guarantee they won't be buying our Disney T-shirts or selling us cheap oil unless we seize it of course. Instead, they'll shift to deals with countries not hostile to Muslims. Russia, China come to mind. How naive warhawk ideologues are. John Bolton, is that YOU on Slashdot? I always figured you for an AOL type, not a Linux guy, Mr. B.
3. Was localized and while levels increased, nothing really came out of it except for those directly involved in the blast or recovery.
"Nothing really came out of it". What planet are you from? You trivialize atrocity? One only has to read any Japanese studies to refute your denials: "Estimated Relative Risks of Cancers at 1 Gray (1950-85); Mental Retardation of In Utero Exposed Children; Genetic Studies of the Children of A-bomb Survivors (Hiroshima and Nagasaki) etc, ad nauseum. The effects on the people and the land were large and lasting. Nobody denies that except maybe farmers in the Ozarks, and Condi Rice, who isn't nappy-headed no matter what Don Imus says.
Uh, sparky? Have you check the price of a barrel lately.
What are you smoking, War Hero? Oil per barrel has been up 3x since Bush's false war started. Gas prices are higher. I'm sure you're paying a lot more these days to fill the tank of your Hummer, the one with the gun rack you drive to WalMart? For numbers see: http://www.house.gov/jec/publications/110/rr110-2. pdf.
You trivialize the factors in price of gasoline, maybe you can't handle complicated issues so you pick an easier model to spout off. That doesn't work with complex global issues. Better to settle for 'might makes right', eh? The founding fathers would be defecating corncobs right about now, I figure, if they saw FOX news and its blind followers.
You get in fight, the other guy is bleeding more than you are and down for the count - You Win!
Simplistic limited idealistic model. Can be disproven by so many more enlarged situational components. 1) you win the fight, the cops put you in jail, you maybe lose your job, or get sued, so you lose your home, etc.
You get sued, the other guy loses more money than you - You Win!
You go down in multiple databases forever as having been in a lawsuit; your wife leaves you for wasting your family's money because your testosterone drove you to a macho resolution instead of one with foresight
You get into a war, you nuke the other guy into submission - You Win!
This one has so many flaws it's sad. 1) The rest of the world decides you're a country led by morons and stops trading with you, your economy hurts 2) other countries trade with you but charge you more now 3) you have contaminated the world with radioactivity, hurting us all. The depleted uranium we use in Afghanistan and Iraq is not only ruining their land for a long time forward, it is causing genetic damage and illnesses in our soldiers who then come home and have a lifetime of agony.
Yes, in each of these situations you lose something, blood, money, time, people, and equipment, but the other guy is worse off? You Win!
The "You" in this is mostly people in power, and people now controlling the resources you took from the other guy. Oil, these days. The other guy is both the 'enemy' and the US citizen now having to pay $3.50 a gallon because international tension has driven the price of a barrel of oil up.
Send them to something far, far worse than a Turkish prison. Chain them in the RIAA lobby with no pants, clutching a pirated CD of Bing Crosby singing Christmas carols.
Well, a week ago the accident propelled the collider into the future, and that's why it's being reported today. Sheesh, do we have to explain **everything ** to ya?
Overlords space arm robotic new our welcome, one for, I!
I wonder if it was true organic-based mental illness, or radically disfunctional cognition. As I understand it, personality disorders stem from corrupted belief systems leading to irrational reasoning, whereas organic-based mental illness comes from malfunctioning brain mechanisms, i.e. gone awry for chemical, physiological reasons, or because of infected/invaded tissue. For example, schizophrenia, or Alzheimers, or parasitic diseases. Did Tesla simply step too far out of the mainstream, or was there a disease. I'm not sure I ever saw any discussion of whether there was an autopsy, though that might not have revealed any brain tissue problems or even extended to the brain at that time. My guess is his reasoning systems became corrupted. But who knows what years of exposure to high-frequency energy of uncontrolled kinds did to him.
1) it's hands-free.
2) 90% of all cell users talk out of their ass anyway
3) 5% of cell phone users need to have their phone forcibly be placed there if they don't shut their fat clown mouths.
4) You haven't lived until you've heard rectal ringtones. In Germany, Flatus Frog was a hit for years.
5) Cell battery charging can be done in-place, and really feels good.
6) However, answering the phone while driving is very difficult
7) Works equally well with pants and walking shorts
However do not go swimming with rectal cellphone.
Also do not sign up for Friends and Family Rectal Cellphone service.
If wife asks "Where's my cellphone? I can't find it!", DO NOT RESPOND.
All the best mad scientists are crazy. You have to think out of the box to make some breakthroughs, sounding out the holes in conventional theory. As Apple said, Think Different.
They said Einstein was crazy, and they were wrong! They said that Galileo was crazy, and they were wrong! They said that Bush is crazy...
... crickets ... more crickets ... lots of crickets ... okay, 2 outta 3 is enough for me.
I don't understand why they'd put Julianne Moore in the X-Files 2 movie with Wolverine when they already have Jean Grey? And besides, they're already done X-Files 3, where the Professor died, so how can they do 2 again? I'm so puzzled.
No animals were harmed in the making of this movie. Directed by Jack Thompson.
Next time I'll -- have one of the -- redshirts -- try these first. Kirk out.
Meme 023AD01: "I, for one, welcome our new (variable1)-bearing (variable2) overlords."
Meme 0567GS02: "In Russia, (variable1) (variable2)'s YOU!"
Meme 2983KL99: "Step 1. (variable1) Step 2. (variable2) Step 3. PROFIT!"
In the future, please use the simple and short MemeCode. This will allow us to operate more efficiently, increase profits and shareholder value, and also confuse the hell out of anyone new to Slashdot. Thank you.
Darl McBride, CEO
Mumble mumble Hexagon mumble mumble Aliens! mumble mumble Jack Thompson
These two 15% sheep walk into a bar. The bartender says "What'll ewe have?"
-- (reading what I typed. Dear god, just shoot me now.)
Joke make on Slashdot, do you?
Because they did extensive file sharing, and the RIAA sued them out of existence.
And my two cents on Russell Davies. I frikkin hate him and his agenda. You just know he secretly thinks he's Captain Jack, and any small animal with a sexual organ or a rectum is not safe around him.
Surely you've jumped the gun. This is March 22. April 1st isn't for a few days.
No sex for a long time? This organism is also known by the Latin name scientists gave it, Alidium Bundyus.
There is NO truth to the rumors that Jack will star in Saw IV.
Dear Aunt Anthro, are there cave-martians?
Sincerely, Timmy in Ohio (age 8)
Dear Timmy;
I want to encourage your interest in science! Yes, there are cave-martians. They have huge fangs and many clawed tentacles. They drool stinky green ichor and crawl like nothing you've ever seen before. They are known for hiding in dark closets and under beds. Also, they have flying saucers and know where Ohio is.
(looking at my new military cell phone billing regulations) Excess roaming charges: $15,000/minute. Yup, it's Mil-Spec all right.
I protest. All those years of playing Doom gave me superhuman abilities. I can instantly tell the difference between my boss and a monster in a dark room. Wait... no I can't.
Um, as a matter of practice, I never shoot anyone for no reason, taking my cue from Kirth Gerson; he's dedicated to the point of obsession but logical enough about these matters. I'd heard of, but neglected to mention, the Japanese, thanks on this.