What I believe the original poster intended to say was "We still don't know how the actual sail technology will perform when the idiots get an actual working prototype out of the damn gravity well." (just kidding!)
He didn't mean this particular solar sail had a chance... though as people said above there is an teensy weensy chance.
Re:Stopped reading it when it got so political...
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I call bullshit. You find it to be un-funny because you just plain can't look past your own political bias. When Clinton was in office he provided plenty of material to lampoon.
I wondered if someone would say that.
Please re-read my post. I never said it was biased... I just said the Onion got MORE political and it got old after awhile... you always knew what you were going to see. I went there looking for silliness... not commentary.
You are absolutely right that it started with the whole Lewinsky fiasco. But believe me, there was a time it was far more balanced... and also... I have never voted for a Republican in three decades of eligibility.
Maybe I'm not the one whose slanted?
Stopped reading it when it got so political...
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Ahhh, I remember the good old days of...
"Russian Scientists aboard Mir conduct experiment on effects of terror in space."
and
"Area man confused by buffet procedure."
Sure a little politics is humorous, and the American Civil War (Bush/Gore 2000) and Holy Fucking Shit: America at War was really really great. But now every single time it's: "Bush is an idiot, hee hee, Iraq whatever, blah blah blah." Yeah, we get it already.
Haven't read it in over a year... just died out of my rotation naturally...:(
If we all become managers, get MBA's, focus on corporate strategy/direction, and financial analysis. WHO THE HELL IS GOING TO MAKE THE PRODUCTS?? Top-heavy boats tip over.
Once we get rid of all those pesky consumers we can outsource the consuming so we won't need the products (or the PHB's) either!:)
Credit cards are blight on our society, people think that it's "free money" and don't check their spending habits until it is FAR too late.
For me it is free money. Whenever I get a 0 or 1% interest teaser I simply take it to the bank and put it in a 3-4% CD. It only comes out to a few hundred a year after taxes, but it's the principal of the thing.
1. Give us A.I. that will actually outsmart us now and then.
I make games for a living. Actually, gamers want AI that isn't too smart. They want to dominate and destroy the game. If they are playing against the machine, they want to be the baddest godamned thing in the universe.
Now granted, this doesn't excuse AI that interferes with the gameplay, running into walls and each other and forgetting you are there if you hide in a shadow for 10 seconds. It also doesn't particularly apply to strategy games, where the strategy is the basis of the gameplay.
The bottom line is, when another human repeatedly kicks your ass, it's a challenge. When the machine does, it's simply frustrating.
But otherwise, a great article.
Because corporations by definition are private tyrannies (despotisms), our government is structurally democratic. Corporations don't have to engage in all sorts of propoganda efforts to control Merck or GM.
You just keep telling yourself that.
Then try voting third party.
I have news for you, the Democrat and Republican parties are separate divisions of a single corporation.
Have you ever been to areas of the country hit by all of this? Tell me, where are these people going to find jobs? Should they move to a city? Go back to school?
Yes, yes I have. And I've helped to build homes there. So you're saying the people who own the jobs should keep them and the people that don't have jobs should remain destitute? Why do you favor one group over the other?
It is very easy to sit in your "nice home" and paint romantic images of how things should be, however, the real world is quite different.
I don't sit in my nice home. I leave it very regularly to work to earn the money to pay for it, and I certainly haven't always had it. In college I lived off credit cards and had a negative net worth for several years.
Until you actually wear those peoples shoes, you have no idea what you are talking about.
What about the people that don't even have shoes? They don't deserve jobs?
I never understood why knee-jerk liberals who hate big-mega-corp business and love big-government; and litmus-test conservatives who hate big-government and love big-mega-corp business, never see that they are not 180 degrees apart but about 3 degrees apart.
Talk about knee jerks and litmus tests! Wow. I've never voted for a Republican or Democrat in 20 years of voting. And I certainly don't love the way "big business" behaves... I just think government is the worst example of it.
except for the millions of people who lost their jobs because of "cheap labor" in asia, eastern europe and south of the border.
If someone else can do it cheaper, then they should. This benefits the person doing it, and the person who loses "their" job (I didn't know jobs were posessions...) can find work elsewhere that will either improve local standards of living or provide a product that would be more expensive to make elsewhere.
Exactly, they are "over the barrel".
This generation is to an extent. Just as all humans were 10,000 years ago, all but a tiny fraction 500 years ago, and just as my penniless gypsy grandparents were when they arrived in the US fleeing the Nazis. I now own a nice home where I live with my wife and daughter. By working hard we gradually improve the conditions for all of us. See how that works?
So they can flood our school systems thereby decreasing the overall quality of education everyone recieves. So the standards are going down.
In the current environment, perhaps. But why not create a more competitive school system (vouchers) that would raise standards rather than lower them?
Really? perhaps you should re-read your post.
Pot, kettle, black. Perhaps you should re-read your own.
Sure, by decreasing the standards in the surrounding countries, it will look better.
Moving jobs to where they are most efficiently done can be painful in the short-term but beneficial in the long-term. Keeping jobs where they are less efficiently done can be beneficial in the short-term but painful in the long-term. It's a bit like going to university for four years rather than taking that first job out of school.
I will never understand why those who are so adamantly opposed to corporations invariably support expanding not only the biggest one of all, but also the one with guns (and who isn't afraid to use them).
The nice thing about real corporations is they eventually die. Stupid laws can last forever and stupid government policies lead to desctruction on a scale far beyond that of any other enterprise. Don't even mention corruption. Everything bad about about a corporation is worse in a government.
Backwards compatibility was the key factor for me to chose PS2 instead of XBox - I just would miss Syphon Filter and my kids would miss Crash Bandicoot games too much to scrap all our old collection of our favorite games.
While I'm a big fan of backwards compatibility I've never understood this "make-or-break" attitude. Is step 1 on the installation instructions for a new console "Smash previous hardware to bits with hammer."??
Full blown "Cancer" only happens when these problems get out of control, and the body can no longer contain/fix them.
Furthermore, if lethal cancer occurs once you are past child-bearing age (around 30 up until recently), it isn't such a "bad thing" for the species. Once you've reproduced, evolution is done with you.
They don't care about you, they care about where all the $500/%1000 chips are.
They will see when it is put into a rack, taken out of a rack, and can match that up to the cameras if a particular dealer or shift is consistently low on their "take".
Casinos are far more worried about their EMPLOYEES stealing (or conspiring with accomplices) than their regular customers. You're giving your money away anyways, what do they care how you do it?
By doing this: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&c2coff=1&q=prop erty+seizure+drugs+united+states+%22war+on%22+fail ure&spell=1
Hope this helps!
Re:I have to Agree - PayPal need serious help
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I especially love the little blurb Paypal puts up everytime I use my American Express as my funding source, something along the lines of: "Paypal offers buyer protection up to $1000. There's no need to use a credit card, blah blah blah. Are you sure you want to switch your funding source to American Express?"
I also chuckle because I get cashback on my credit card (it adds up!) and nothing of course if PayPal withdraws from the checking account. If PayPal charges my VISA _they_ pay a fee to VISA (probably pretty low). If they take it directly from the checking account, no fee so their margin is higher.
Lets say a friend asked me where to find some crack and I tell him to check the corner of 4th Avenue and Jefferson Street. How would I be charged in this case? Should I be charged? How about if I have absolutely no ties to the person/area I send the person?
Yes. Tes you would. People have been put away for decades due to telling someone about a friend who would "know where to get drugs". This is after having your home and property siezed on the suspicion of being a dealer.
Which incidentally, is why I am a Libertarian, even though I stopped using drugs awhile ago.
"The good managers will become leades by sharing the GPS info with the employees and working with them to improve their efficiency in covering their routes."
No the "good" managers (from the company perspective) will be the ones who complain that you took longer to do the route than the "ideal" time. Even though the ideal was based on minimal stops, minimal traffic, and ideal weather.
No, the good managers will be the former, as you say.
The good senior managers will recognize that... and recognize that their happy employees are working hard with less turnover...
The good companies as a whole will recognize the good senior managers...
And the good companies will charge less for a more reliable services...
Hurrah for capitalism...
The job market is too tight and most people will just roll over and accept it until it's so pervasive that we won't remember what life was like without the leash around our necks.
Ummm, monitoring location is a little different than having a leash around your neck. Does the employer have any rights? Are you saying the employer can't find a different job? Are you saying 5.6% unemployment is high? Are you completely and utterly out of your mind?
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What I believe the original poster intended to say was "We still don't know how the actual sail technology will perform when the idiots get an actual working prototype out of the damn gravity well." (just kidding!)
He didn't mean this particular solar sail had a chance... though as people said above there is an teensy weensy chance.
I call bullshit. You find it to be un-funny because you just plain can't look past your own political bias. When Clinton was in office he provided plenty of material to lampoon.
I wondered if someone would say that. Please re-read my post. I never said it was biased... I just said the Onion got MORE political and it got old after awhile... you always knew what you were going to see. I went there looking for silliness... not commentary.
You are absolutely right that it started with the whole Lewinsky fiasco. But believe me, there was a time it was far more balanced... and also... I have never voted for a Republican in three decades of eligibility.
Maybe I'm not the one whose slanted?
Ahhh, I remember the good old days of...
:(
"Russian Scientists aboard Mir conduct experiment on effects of terror in space."
and
"Area man confused by buffet procedure."
Sure a little politics is humorous, and the American Civil War (Bush/Gore 2000) and Holy Fucking Shit: America at War was really really great. But now every single time it's: "Bush is an idiot, hee hee, Iraq whatever, blah blah blah." Yeah, we get it already.
Haven't read it in over a year... just died out of my rotation naturally...
I have been in IT for almost 15 years and *every* job I have had was a business facing job.
I'm a people person! I HAVE PEOPLE SKILL DAMNIT!
If we all become managers, get MBA's, focus on corporate strategy/direction, and financial analysis. WHO THE HELL IS GOING TO MAKE THE PRODUCTS?? Top-heavy boats tip over.
:)
Once we get rid of all those pesky consumers we can outsource the consuming so we won't need the products (or the PHB's) either!
Fanaticaly Anti-Fanatical.
...but not fantically...
Either you are joking or you don't see the intense irony of that statement. I try to avoid being Fanatically Anything...
Credit cards are blight on our society, people think that it's "free money" and don't check their spending habits until it is FAR too late.
For me it is free money. Whenever I get a 0 or 1% interest teaser I simply take it to the bank and put it in a 3-4% CD. It only comes out to a few hundred a year after taxes, but it's the principal of the thing.
- This and all my posts are in the public domain. I am a lawyer. I am not your lawyer, and this is not legal advice.
Is it your legal opinion that this is not legal advice?
1. Give us A.I. that will actually outsmart us now and then. I make games for a living. Actually, gamers want AI that isn't too smart. They want to dominate and destroy the game. If they are playing against the machine, they want to be the baddest godamned thing in the universe. Now granted, this doesn't excuse AI that interferes with the gameplay, running into walls and each other and forgetting you are there if you hide in a shadow for 10 seconds. It also doesn't particularly apply to strategy games, where the strategy is the basis of the gameplay. The bottom line is, when another human repeatedly kicks your ass, it's a challenge. When the machine does, it's simply frustrating. But otherwise, a great article.
Because corporations by definition are private tyrannies (despotisms), our government is structurally democratic. Corporations don't have to engage in all sorts of propoganda efforts to control Merck or GM.
You just keep telling yourself that.
Then try voting third party.
I have news for you, the Democrat and Republican parties are separate divisions of a single corporation.
Have you ever been to areas of the country hit by all of this? Tell me, where are these people going to find jobs? Should they move to a city? Go back to school?
Yes, yes I have. And I've helped to build homes there. So you're saying the people who own the jobs should keep them and the people that don't have jobs should remain destitute? Why do you favor one group over the other?
It is very easy to sit in your "nice home" and paint romantic images of how things should be, however, the real world is quite different.
I don't sit in my nice home. I leave it very regularly to work to earn the money to pay for it, and I certainly haven't always had it. In college I lived off credit cards and had a negative net worth for several years.
Until you actually wear those peoples shoes, you have no idea what you are talking about.
What about the people that don't even have shoes? They don't deserve jobs?
I never understood why knee-jerk liberals who hate big-mega-corp business and love big-government; and litmus-test conservatives who hate big-government and love big-mega-corp business, never see that they are not 180 degrees apart but about 3 degrees apart.
Talk about knee jerks and litmus tests! Wow. I've never voted for a Republican or Democrat in 20 years of voting. And I certainly don't love the way "big business" behaves... I just think government is the worst example of it.
except for the millions of people who lost their jobs because of "cheap labor" in asia, eastern europe and south of the border.
If someone else can do it cheaper, then they should. This benefits the person doing it, and the person who loses "their" job (I didn't know jobs were posessions...) can find work elsewhere that will either improve local standards of living or provide a product that would be more expensive to make elsewhere.
Exactly, they are "over the barrel".
This generation is to an extent. Just as all humans were 10,000 years ago, all but a tiny fraction 500 years ago, and just as my penniless gypsy grandparents were when they arrived in the US fleeing the Nazis. I now own a nice home where I live with my wife and daughter. By working hard we gradually improve the conditions for all of us. See how that works?
So they can flood our school systems thereby decreasing the overall quality of education everyone recieves. So the standards are going down.
In the current environment, perhaps. But why not create a more competitive school system (vouchers) that would raise standards rather than lower them?
Really? perhaps you should re-read your post.
Pot, kettle, black. Perhaps you should re-read your own.
Sure, by decreasing the standards in the surrounding countries, it will look better.
Moving jobs to where they are most efficiently done can be painful in the short-term but beneficial in the long-term. Keeping jobs where they are less efficiently done can be beneficial in the short-term but painful in the long-term. It's a bit like going to university for four years rather than taking that first job out of school.
I will never understand why those who are so adamantly opposed to corporations invariably support expanding not only the biggest one of all, but also the one with guns (and who isn't afraid to use them).
The nice thing about real corporations is they eventually die. Stupid laws can last forever and stupid government policies lead to desctruction on a scale far beyond that of any other enterprise. Don't even mention corruption. Everything bad about about a corporation is worse in a government.
Backwards compatibility was the key factor for me to chose PS2 instead of XBox - I just would miss Syphon Filter and my kids would miss Crash Bandicoot games too much to scrap all our old collection of our favorite games.
While I'm a big fan of backwards compatibility I've never understood this "make-or-break" attitude. Is step 1 on the installation instructions for a new console "Smash previous hardware to bits with hammer."??
Full blown "Cancer" only happens when these problems get out of control, and the body can no longer contain/fix them.
Furthermore, if lethal cancer occurs once you are past child-bearing age (around 30 up until recently), it isn't such a "bad thing" for the species. Once you've reproduced, evolution is done with you.
They don't care about you, they care about where all the $500/%1000 chips are.
They will see when it is put into a rack, taken out of a rack, and can match that up to the cameras if a particular dealer or shift is consistently low on their "take".
Casinos are far more worried about their EMPLOYEES stealing (or conspiring with accomplices) than their regular customers. You're giving your money away anyways, what do they care how you do it?
Make your doors go vertical at importprecision.com
Just so we're clear, THAT is both unnatural, and wrong.
Sorry about the delay... I'm not typically a Slashdot hound. I found this:
R ights.html
p erty+seizure+drugs+united+states+%22war+on%22+fail ure&spell=1
http://www.libertarianworld.com/Property-Seizure-
By doing this: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&c2coff=1&q=pro
Hope this helps!
I especially love the little blurb Paypal puts up everytime I use my American Express as my funding source, something along the lines of: "Paypal offers buyer protection up to $1000. There's no need to use a credit card, blah blah blah. Are you sure you want to switch your funding source to American Express?"
I also chuckle because I get cashback on my credit card (it adds up!) and nothing of course if PayPal withdraws from the checking account. If PayPal charges my VISA _they_ pay a fee to VISA (probably pretty low). If they take it directly from the checking account, no fee so their margin is higher.
Lets say a friend asked me where to find some crack and I tell him to check the corner of 4th Avenue and Jefferson Street. How would I be charged in this case? Should I be charged? How about if I have absolutely no ties to the person/area I send the person?
Yes. Tes you would. People have been put away for decades due to telling someone about a friend who would "know where to get drugs". This is after having your home and property siezed on the suspicion of being a dealer.
Which incidentally, is why I am a Libertarian, even though I stopped using drugs awhile ago.
What about those 3d-object printers. Sure, they're used in labs somewhere, but when will these things become commercially viable and available?
No thanks, I've got enough crap on my desk already.
"The good managers will become leades by sharing the GPS info with the employees and working with them to improve their efficiency in covering their routes." No the "good" managers (from the company perspective) will be the ones who complain that you took longer to do the route than the "ideal" time. Even though the ideal was based on minimal stops, minimal traffic, and ideal weather. No, the good managers will be the former, as you say. The good senior managers will recognize that... and recognize that their happy employees are working hard with less turnover... The good companies as a whole will recognize the good senior managers... And the good companies will charge less for a more reliable services... Hurrah for capitalism...
The job market is too tight and most people will just roll over and accept it until it's so pervasive that we won't remember what life was like without the leash around our necks.
Ummm, monitoring location is a little different than having a leash around your neck. Does the employer have any rights? Are you saying the employer can't find a different job? Are you saying 5.6% unemployment is high? Are you completely and utterly out of your mind?
Rumour has it that shutting down your server permanently will result in a 100% reduction in spam traffic.
You know I tried to verify this but all my e-mails to the author bounced!