Yeah that road in front of your house is completely useless. So are those aircraft carriers. And we could just sink all government land into the sea and no one would notice.
That's the exact opposite of what I was saying. Roads, aircraft carriers, land all have intrinsic value.
I'm not saying currency is without any use. I'm saying BitCoin, EUR, USD, and Liberty Reserve only have value because people value them, whereas a potato has absolute value because you can eat it.
Born rich were we? Most of the rest of us have worked as underwater jam, cement, dust, grease, and crap cleaners at some time in our lives. It doesn't pay well enough to buy a new watch.
A few have criticized me that with my age and position it is not fit for me.
Have you noted that those people should not be trusted with anything important?
True. But even so those people are consumers and if they want to spend their money on expensive watches someone will be ready to sell them.
Plus it would be really funny to see those kinds of people with MS watches that cost too much and crash every couple of days when Casio guy above will always know the time.
I wear a $25 Casio metal body watch. It has worked for 3 years (with no battery change) and it is still like new.
A few have criticized me that with my age and position it is not fit for me. I said as a CS scientist, I prefer digits to bars!
And that's where the market is.. People don't buy watches because they want to know the time, people buy them for bragging rights and because it's one of the few pieces of jewelry that men are allowed to wear in just about any situation.
I've not worm a watch for years but plenty of the people I work with do. In some cases they wear very expensive watches.
you can exchange it for other currencies or goods & services, how exactly is it a fake currency?
Down at the local market I can exchange potatoes for other currencies or goods & services; that doesn't make potatoes a real currency though. Bitcoins are commodities. Nothing more, nothing less.
Potatoes are a more 'real' currency than USD, EUR, or BitCoins. The last three have no intrinsic value.
You know you are not the indigenous people in your country don't you? The native American Indians are, you know the people the modern Americans forced from their land. You are likely descended from English or Irish immigrants.
"darker skin color" meaning INDIANS, by any chance?
It doesn't bother me that other people don't look "exactly like me", but it DOES bother me that I am FORCED to watch my country being turned into a third world hellhole. Did you miss the memo on that one?
I see that you didn't have a logical rebuttal to anything I said, and instead you repeated, parrot-fashion, what your Jewish 'masters' have been telling you to say all your life.
So in your world view the Jews are in league with the Blacks to destroy your country? I'm not sure where the Indians come into this.
Have you considered the possibility that you are a small minded bigot?
The tradition has always been for people to come and complain about how lame the jokes are. Everyone knows that actually laughing at a joke is not cool or hip.
I laugh at jokes. This isn't a joke though, it's just more dumb internet trolling.
The ponies thing was a bit funny, Microsoft moving to Sealands was a little bit funny in a blatantly untrue and obvious troll way. But rot-13? That's just lame.
I've worked in companies where every project was required to pay internal IT dept bills for services rendered, so what?
MSFT requires this as well. MSIT (Microsoft IT) bills other departments for support provided
Much though I love bashing MS I have to agree. Charging both internal and external people for office space is normal practice in every big company I've ever worked for. Providing a desk isn't cheap, I doubt MS are making a profit on this.
The point is that in in-person communication you can see if the person is busy, and interact in a human way
That would be really nice, it's a shame the management morons where I work consider WIFI on their laptops to be more important that anything else anyone might be doing. There are strong advantages to working from home or working irregular hours where I work, the main one being you actually get some work done.
I don't have the dividers but I know how you feel. Those stupid hand waving morons with their stupid questions that they could figure out themselves if they would just engage their brains annoy me too. Especially the needy management types who cry for help for every simple thing.
Working in the office is much better to exchange with your co-workers. It also makes it much easier to separate working time and family time.
I've telecommuted, and I can tell I am much more productive in the office.
It just depends on what you are trying to get done. If you need uninterrupted quiet time to finish some project it's far easier at home. If you need to interact with your co-workers it's far easier at work. Personally if I have to do anything that takes a few hours of actual work I find myself wishing I was at home just to avoid all the people who insist on small talk.
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Yeah that road in front of your house is completely useless. So are those aircraft carriers. And we could just sink all government land into the sea and no one would notice.
That's the exact opposite of what I was saying. Roads, aircraft carriers, land all have intrinsic value.
I'm not saying currency is without any use. I'm saying BitCoin, EUR, USD, and Liberty Reserve only have value because people value them, whereas a potato has absolute value because you can eat it.
Born rich were we? Most of the rest of us have worked as underwater jam, cement, dust, grease, and crap cleaners at some time in our lives. It doesn't pay well enough to buy a new watch.
A few have criticized me that with my age and position it is not fit for me.
Have you noted that those people should not be trusted with anything important?
True. But even so those people are consumers and if they want to spend their money on expensive watches someone will be ready to sell them.
Plus it would be really funny to see those kinds of people with MS watches that cost too much and crash every couple of days when Casio guy above will always know the time.
I wear a $25 Casio metal body watch. It has worked for 3 years (with no battery change) and it is still like new.
A few have criticized me that with my age and position it is not fit for me. I said as a CS scientist, I prefer digits to bars!
And that's where the market is.. People don't buy watches because they want to know the time, people buy them for bragging rights and because it's one of the few pieces of jewelry that men are allowed to wear in just about any situation.
I've not worm a watch for years but plenty of the people I work with do. In some cases they wear very expensive watches.
you can exchange it for other currencies or goods & services, how exactly is it a fake currency?
Down at the local market I can exchange potatoes for other currencies or goods & services; that doesn't make potatoes a real currency though. Bitcoins are commodities. Nothing more, nothing less.
Potatoes are a more 'real' currency than USD, EUR, or BitCoins. The last three have no intrinsic value.
Stay clear of butterflylabs. It looks like they are a scam.
Avalon have shipped real units.
It is a pyramid scheme. Just like every other currency. Just like property, just like land, just like gold, and silver.
If you ran an open relay you were on the right end of a blacklisting.
The GNAA are back? I thought they gave up years ago.
Win it and sell it.
You know you are not the indigenous people in your country don't you? The native American Indians are, you know the people the modern Americans forced from their land. You are likely descended from English or Irish immigrants.
"darker skin color" meaning INDIANS, by any chance?
It doesn't bother me that other people don't look "exactly like me", but it DOES bother me that I am FORCED to watch my country being turned into a third world hellhole. Did you miss the memo on that one?
I see that you didn't have a logical rebuttal to anything I said, and instead you repeated, parrot-fashion, what your Jewish 'masters' have been telling you to say all your life.
So in your world view the Jews are in league with the Blacks to destroy your country? I'm not sure where the Indians come into this.
Have you considered the possibility that you are a small minded bigot?
Submitting a story to Slashdot is free you ignorant clod.
But getting it accepted is apparently $200.
And slashdot mashes up the double less thans.
And in 2013, the average 5th grader knows about HTML escapes. What year are you posting from?
I'm not sure, it has ROT-13 in it so I'm guessing late 80's.
The tradition has always been for people to come and complain about how lame the jokes are. Everyone knows that actually laughing at a joke is not cool or hip.
I laugh at jokes. This isn't a joke though, it's just more dumb internet trolling.
The ponies thing was a bit funny, Microsoft moving to Sealands was a little bit funny in a blatantly untrue and obvious troll way. But rot-13? That's just lame.
tr 'a-z' 'n-za-m' HERE
And slashdot mashes up the double less thans.
Where it would be quicker to write a perl script to do ROT13 translation, than to read the editors' description of what the site did with it.
Assuming it's not an April 1 joke, and it might be (an unusually ponderous one at that).
I can't resist an excuse to do this in tr.
tr 'a-z' 'n-za-m' HERE
Put your message here
HERE
Trivial I know. I'll bet half to slashdot could not resist immediately coding ROT-13 in their favorite language.
Wait, what day is it?
April troll's day. I miss the long dead tradition of April fools day.
How about letting logged in users filter out all april fools jokes?
'Jokes' implies funny. This is just lame trolling.
More April 1 bullshit. Can't they at least come up with one thing that is actually funny?
Or just rename it April 1 troll day and be done with it.
LibreOffice licenses are free. It's an option for some organizations at least.
I've worked in companies where every project was required to pay internal IT dept bills for services rendered, so what?
MSFT requires this as well. MSIT (Microsoft IT) bills other departments for support provided
Much though I love bashing MS I have to agree. Charging both internal and external people for office space is normal practice in every big company I've ever worked for. Providing a desk isn't cheap, I doubt MS are making a profit on this.
The point is that in in-person communication you can see if the person is busy, and interact in a human way
That would be really nice, it's a shame the management morons where I work consider WIFI on their laptops to be more important that anything else anyone might be doing. There are strong advantages to working from home or working irregular hours where I work, the main one being you actually get some work done.
I don't have the dividers but I know how you feel. Those stupid hand waving morons with their stupid questions that they could figure out themselves if they would just engage their brains annoy me too. Especially the needy management types who cry for help for every simple thing.
Working in the office is much better to exchange with your co-workers.
It also makes it much easier to separate working time and family time.
I've telecommuted, and I can tell I am much more productive in the office.
It just depends on what you are trying to get done. If you need uninterrupted quiet time to finish some project it's far easier at home. If you need to interact with your co-workers it's far easier at work. Personally if I have to do anything that takes a few hours of actual work I find myself wishing I was at home just to avoid all the people who insist on small talk.