He wrote a column in the Globe for many years. His columns on his war years were interesting. One thing I remember well is how he would as a 70ish year old man still feel exposed to potential German snipers walking through a meadow. His articles about how his wife gradually was lost to dementia were heartbreaking.
True genius doesn't run around telling everyone "I'm a genius!" anymore than true sanity runs around saying "I'm the sanest one here!" If you're pointing out your virtues to others, you have none to speak of.
Amen. I think of this whenever I hear a rap singer going on about how tough he is or a country singer going on about how many ragheads he would kill if he only had the chance. Etc. The late Donald Murray, a rifleman in WWII, wrote that the guys who were loudest before combat usually were the ones he could not rely on in a firefight.
He should hoard money like Ellison, Brin, Page, and Jobs! That will help the poor!
They may not be helping the poor, but at least the other fellows aren't kicking them while they're down.
The Internet lately has been full of the meme that Gates will be famous centuries from now while Jobs will be forgotten. Here's an alternate scenario: Gates concentrates more and more on wiping out disease and feeding the world. This enables the population to balloon out of all sustainability, wrecking the environment. Then when humanity is like a teeming Petri dish, a pathogen evolves which incurable and virulent and takes out 90% of humans. Gates' name is cursed by the wretched survivors trying to survive on a poisoned, strip-mined Earth.
The Paiutech Department of Verminology has developed a new trap that has a 100% probability of capturing MBAs, nearly three times as many MBAs over 28 days (one fiscal month), as the classic hooker with blow trap, which the authors cite as the best monitor on the market. A better trap design can allow people to detect MBAs while they are still in small numbers. 'If you have only 10 or 20 MBAs in your corporation, it's very hard to see with your eyes,' says inventor and Paiutech COO Marion Sam. 'When people realize they have MBAs they are often already in their thousands, or hundred thousands. It's relatively easy to eradicate the MBAs when they are in small numbers, but when they are everywhere, it's very hard to eradicate them.' The device can be created at home very cheaply and consists of an empty bottle of Chivas Regal filled with bleach to which is affixed the label: "Six Sigma Smart Juice".
Additionally, the taxes in that country are untenable. If we didn't have a company helping to pay for our house, car, and various other unimportant tidbits we would not have been able to afford living there with our relatively large family (4 kids).
A few years ago I was in Finland drinking with some locals who were complaining that their kids were going to have to pay 50 euros a term at the University now and to see a doctor was going to cost them a 5 euro copay. They were pissed off that they were already paying 30% tax - why did they have to pay extra for education and health care?
I did not tell them about my 30% tax rate in the US and my six figure loans for my childrens' tuitions and what was taken out of my check for my share of the mostl company-paid health insurance.
I realized that my free education and health care was out launching F18s in the Indian Ocean.
Really you want to try brute force decrypt 4092 bit random key encrypted folder stored to random joe's sky drive folder? No, well neither does the NSA.
A million college students are waiting anxiously for this tool now that some professors have started checking their essays electronically for plagarism.
When laypeople read these stories of interspecies cooperation, they might think: How do they know to do that? This leads to thoughts of intelligent design in a lot of readers. They need to be reminded from time to time that system A did one thing and system B did another. Under environmental conditions, system A's arrangment - arrived at at random - led to survival and B's did not. System A didn't sit around designing a better system.
If you ask a cabbie about this they will tell you that the cab company (the middle man you don't see) takes some 5-10% of their fare if you use a card.
The Boston taxi rates were raised a few years ago specifically to cover credit card fees and drivers still will bullshit you about their card readers being broken.
Christ on a crutch. Raise your hand if you didn't Google the phrase "pressure cooker bomb" in the days after the Marathon. I did. I had never heard of this particular IED and wanted to know more about it.
In colonial Massachusetts there was a servant strike; one of the concessions made to return peace was a contract stating, among other things, that the servants would not be forced to eat lobster more than three times a week.
We find that amusing, but I will bet you that those lobsters were not properly cooked and tasted like shite.
I am a big Linus fan, but if you can't deal with people - especially your working peers - without using abusive language then you are just an ignorant asshole with some mental problems.
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steal their content by breaking the social contract
Is it stealing if I drive down the highway and don't read the billboards?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Murray_(writer)
He wrote a column in the Globe for many years. His columns on his war years were interesting. One thing I remember well is how he would as a 70ish year old man still feel exposed to potential German snipers walking through a meadow. His articles about how his wife gradually was lost to dementia were heartbreaking.
Michelson and Morley found nothing, they were full of shit.
They found nothing, and that was their great discovery. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Null_hypothesis
True genius doesn't run around telling everyone "I'm a genius!" anymore than true sanity runs around saying "I'm the sanest one here!" If you're pointing out your virtues to others, you have none to speak of.
Amen. I think of this whenever I hear a rap singer going on about how tough he is or a country singer going on about how many ragheads he would kill if he only had the chance. Etc. The late Donald Murray, a rifleman in WWII, wrote that the guys who were loudest before combat usually were the ones he could not rely on in a firefight.
The public did not like our original turd sandwich, but they will like our new turd sandwich. It is on rye bread.
He should hoard money like Ellison, Brin, Page, and Jobs! That will help the poor!
They may not be helping the poor, but at least the other fellows aren't kicking them while they're down.
The Internet lately has been full of the meme that Gates will be famous centuries from now while Jobs will be forgotten. Here's an alternate scenario: Gates concentrates more and more on wiping out disease and feeding the world. This enables the population to balloon out of all sustainability, wrecking the environment. Then when humanity is like a teeming Petri dish, a pathogen evolves which incurable and virulent and takes out 90% of humans. Gates' name is cursed by the wretched survivors trying to survive on a poisoned, strip-mined Earth.
The Paiutech Department of Verminology has developed a new trap that has a 100% probability of capturing MBAs, nearly three times as many MBAs over 28 days (one fiscal month), as the classic hooker with blow trap, which the authors cite as the best monitor on the market. A better trap design can allow people to detect MBAs while they are still in small numbers. 'If you have only 10 or 20 MBAs in your corporation, it's very hard to see with your eyes,' says inventor and Paiutech COO Marion Sam. 'When people realize they have MBAs they are often already in their thousands, or hundred thousands. It's relatively easy to eradicate the MBAs when they are in small numbers, but when they are everywhere, it's very hard to eradicate them.' The device can be created at home very cheaply and consists of an empty bottle of Chivas Regal filled with bleach to which is affixed the label: "Six Sigma Smart Juice".
Additionally, the taxes in that country are untenable. If we didn't have a company helping to pay for our house, car, and various other unimportant tidbits we would not have been able to afford living there with our relatively large family (4 kids).
A few years ago I was in Finland drinking with some locals who were complaining that their kids were going to have to pay 50 euros a term at the University now and to see a doctor was going to cost them a 5 euro copay. They were pissed off that they were already paying 30% tax - why did they have to pay extra for education and health care?
I did not tell them about my 30% tax rate in the US and my six figure loans for my childrens' tuitions and what was taken out of my check for my share of the mostl company-paid health insurance. I realized that my free education and health care was out launching F18s in the Indian Ocean.
Sometimes private companies do deny treatments, and I find this immoral. But we have a legal system in place to punish them.
I would like to live on that world.
Really you want to try brute force decrypt 4092 bit random key encrypted folder stored to random joe's sky drive folder? No, well neither does the NSA.
Who wrote the software that generated the key?
A million college students are waiting anxiously for this tool now that some professors have started checking their essays electronically for plagarism.
So there's no difference between the instruction on how to create a substance and the substance itself?
Yes, there is a big difference.The instructions are much more valuable. The instructions never go bad. The substance itself will eventually go bad.
When laypeople read these stories of interspecies cooperation, they might think: How do they know to do that? This leads to thoughts of intelligent design in a lot of readers. They need to be reminded from time to time that system A did one thing and system B did another. Under environmental conditions, system A's arrangment - arrived at at random - led to survival and B's did not. System A didn't sit around designing a better system.
An example of fungus communication.
If you ask a cabbie about this they will tell you that the cab company (the middle man you don't see) takes some 5-10% of their fare if you use a card.
The Boston taxi rates were raised a few years ago specifically to cover credit card fees and drivers still will bullshit you about their card readers being broken.
Christ on a crutch. Raise your hand if you didn't Google the phrase "pressure cooker bomb" in the days after the Marathon. I did. I had never heard of this particular IED and wanted to know more about it.
In colonial Massachusetts there was a servant strike; one of the concessions made to return peace was a contract stating, among other things, that the servants would not be forced to eat lobster more than three times a week.
We find that amusing, but I will bet you that those lobsters were not properly cooked and tasted like shite.
Its called Taxachusetts for a reason.
Actually, it makes a nice portmanteau, but it is now factually incorrect.
http://money.cnn.com/pf/features/lists/total_taxes/
Massachusetts is #40 on the total tax burden list. Lower than fucking Nevada and Louisiana.
We sent Japan six divisions of marines not too many years ago. Now they need more? Those weren't enough?
I just want a 1% cut of all new movies.
Done. You get 1% of the net.
Cannibalize your own product line before the competition does is an obvious necessity, yet it is the hardest thing for managers to actually do.
It's okay - you breathed it for nine months once.
stupid.fucking.idea
or more accurately:
google.please.buyus
I am a big Linus fan, but if you can't deal with people - especially your working peers - without using abusive language then you are just an ignorant asshole with some mental problems.
Tech support said to press any key and call them back. I am still searching for the any key. Maybe this fellow can add that to the list of new keys?