...in preventing global wars, but I fear it is going to end up the same as our efforts to prevent all forest fires. The population grows and grows, and disputes like this little thing mount and mount, until a huge war/fire destroys everything.
M.A.D. just squashes down the desire to slaughter each other by the millions. Eventually it's going to pop back out of the box with a vengence.
Some of you may say that it is ridiculous to vote for someone who hasn't been born yet. I ask those people, "Why do you discriminate against the unborn?"
It seems there are these tubes that I can put my likeness and voice in, and have them come out in far away place. Whenever somebody demands I transport my 180 lbs of meat to some distant destination, I recognize them for what they are: cannibals, trying to trick me into the pot.
...I've just come to understand that a clusterfuck requires participants to continue. I'm not going to participate in this one, and I'm gonna try to talk others out of participating too.
I know it isn't really any of my business, but I abhor the existence of a clusterfuck.
I quit flying a couple years ago after being repeatedly hassled by TSA troglodytes. Looks like I may never get to fly again. Maybe if enough of us stop flying, the airline industry will set its lobbyists to get this fixed. Chances are slim though. Why lobby to get your customers back when you can just lobby for handouts?
You get out there and inspire the Muggles, and see where it gets you. Trying to push the back end of the bell curve into the front is very rarely a rewarding endeavor. As far as I'm concerned, the only way to deal with them is to be polite and get away as soon as possible...which is how I expect them to treat me too, given my ignorance of things that interest them.
I have an endless store of engineering trivia, others have an endless supply of pop culture trivia. It's not good, bad, or otherwise.
You're correct...I should just ask, but to be honest, the only thing worse than having to watch some sitcom is having to sit through somebody breathlessly recounting it.
Goodness, such hate...feeling a bit insecure about your TV viewing habits?
I wasn't trying to say TV makes you stupid. I was saying that TV is a good way to keep stupid people out of trouble, and stupid people don't have much to contribute intellectually.
See what happened when you quit watching and went on the internet?:P
I've been without broadcast TV for 15 years or so, and I find plenty of other trivia to waste my time on. Lacking the daily homogenizing input, I am kind of awkward in conversation with strangers or casual acquaintances. I don't know any of the little catch phrases from the sitcoms, or what any of the sports teams are doing. It would do my social life a lot of good if I watched TV, but I just can't hack it.
I also think that it's a good thing a lot of these folks have the TV to watch. It gives them something to talk about, and keeps them inside, out of trouble. I don't think the infinite number of monkeys technique really applies to advancing human thought. If they're captivated by sitcoms, it's doubtful they are going to have much to contribute.
"In the long run, the IT department is unlikely to survive, at least not in its familiar form," Carr writes. "It will have little left to do once the bulk of business computing shifts out of private data centers and into the cloud. Business units and even individual employees will be able to control the processing of information directly, without the need for legions of technical people."
Wasn't this the very problem RPG was supposed to solve?
I figured out what caused it, and found the Dell docs, in a forum post where several people with the same model laptop had the same problem with Ubuntu.
It was a long time ago...that's about all I remember, and I have been running subsequent versions of Ubuntu without a hitch.
My first go with Ubuntu ( 4 or 5 revs back), managed to corrupt my CMOS settings somehow, and made it impossible to boot even into BIOS. Dell had enough docs out so I could find the CMOS reset jumper, but it was pretty scarey. Until then I didn't think it was possible for an OS to do something like this.
I could see manufactureres limiting support to windows or a few big distros, as it would be expensive to test for a bunch of different OSs.
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...in preventing global wars, but I fear it is going to end up the same as our efforts to prevent all forest fires. The population grows and grows, and disputes like this little thing mount and mount, until a huge war/fire destroys everything.
M.A.D. just squashes down the desire to slaughter each other by the millions. Eventually it's going to pop back out of the box with a vengence.
...I write the code, and then generate UML with doxygen to figure out what the hell I just did.
...China gets rid of their nuclear weapons.
Till then, they get to do as they please, same as any nuclear-armed country.
I have an amazing computer that is battery powered and fits on your lap that I would like to promote.
Some of you may say that it is ridiculous to vote for someone who hasn't been born yet. I ask those people, "Why do you discriminate against the unborn?"
...if you get a chance, try and do the same for somebody else. If it catches, we may eradicate global grouchiness for a time.
It seems there are these tubes that I can put my likeness and voice in, and have them come out in far away place. Whenever somebody demands I transport my 180 lbs of meat to some distant destination, I recognize them for what they are: cannibals, trying to trick me into the pot.
...that can hassle me and steal my possesions and data. I guess I've been lucky to only be mauled by the TSA.
...I've just come to understand that a clusterfuck requires participants to continue. I'm not going to participate in this one, and I'm gonna try to talk others out of participating too.
I know it isn't really any of my business, but I abhor the existence of a clusterfuck.
I quit flying a couple years ago after being repeatedly hassled by TSA troglodytes. Looks like I may never get to fly again. Maybe if enough of us stop flying, the airline industry will set its lobbyists to get this fixed. Chances are slim though. Why lobby to get your customers back when you can just lobby for handouts?
I have that problem too, periodically. I null route my favorite time wasting sites when it gets bad.
You get out there and inspire the Muggles, and see where it gets you. Trying to push the back end of the bell curve into the front is very rarely a rewarding endeavor. As far as I'm concerned, the only way to deal with them is to be polite and get away as soon as possible...which is how I expect them to treat me too, given my ignorance of things that interest them.
I have an endless store of engineering trivia, others have an endless supply of pop culture trivia. It's not good, bad, or otherwise.
You're correct...I should just ask, but to be honest, the only thing worse than having to watch some sitcom is having to sit through somebody breathlessly recounting it.
Goodness, such hate...feeling a bit insecure about your TV viewing habits?
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I wasn't trying to say TV makes you stupid. I was saying that TV is a good way to keep stupid people out of trouble, and stupid people don't have much to contribute intellectually.
See what happened when you quit watching and went on the internet?
I've been without broadcast TV for 15 years or so, and I find plenty of other trivia to waste my time on. Lacking the daily homogenizing input, I am kind of awkward in conversation with strangers or casual acquaintances. I don't know any of the little catch phrases from the sitcoms, or what any of the sports teams are doing. It would do my social life a lot of good if I watched TV, but I just can't hack it.
I also think that it's a good thing a lot of these folks have the TV to watch. It gives them something to talk about, and keeps them inside, out of trouble. I don't think the infinite number of monkeys technique really applies to advancing human thought. If they're captivated by sitcoms, it's doubtful they are going to have much to contribute.
...movie.
Seriously. YUCK! What gets IN to these people?
what happened with DBASE and its kin. It's easy enough to use that any idiot can...and you end up with schema that reflect that idiocy.
XML isn't the problem. Idiots writing XML is. I'm beginning to think that a certain level of difficult is necessary as a screening device.
...but I also have a good sized vocabulary that is instrumental deciding what to name things. Sometimes I'll even get out a thesaurus.
It's good to know somebody else cares about stuff like this. Just seems obvious to me.
"In the long run, the IT department is unlikely to survive, at least not in its familiar form," Carr writes. "It will have little left to do once the bulk of business computing shifts out of private data centers and into the cloud. Business units and even individual employees will be able to control the processing of information directly, without the need for legions of technical people."
Wasn't this the very problem RPG was supposed to solve?
...but the first thing I do is rip them and put them away. Makes a nice backup.
If this is illegal too I might as well just get the music off some file share network.
...and a nice compliment of strippers.
Maybe some individuals will, but as a country, never. We'll just make up the difference with tribute from our colonies.
...you'll be dead before long, anyway. Unreliable communication is no way to stave off natural selection.
I figured out what caused it, and found the Dell docs, in a forum post where several people with the same model laptop had the same problem with Ubuntu.
It was a long time ago...that's about all I remember, and I have been running subsequent versions of Ubuntu without a hitch.
My first go with Ubuntu ( 4 or 5 revs back), managed to corrupt my CMOS settings somehow, and made it impossible to boot even into BIOS. Dell had enough docs out so I could find the CMOS reset jumper, but it was pretty scarey. Until then I didn't think it was possible for an OS to do something like this.
I could see manufactureres limiting support to windows or a few big distros, as it would be expensive to test for a bunch of different OSs.