Wow, I wish I could see who modded me down, just to be able to taunt them. What the hell is someone doing modding a discussion about fractals, when they don't even know what the Cantor set is?
Even better is that rural areas have lower costs of living, thus making $50,000/yr a very good wage to have.
Yes, but the company isn't going to move you to Indianna, and keep paying you 50k. They're going to move you to Indianna and pay you 40k, or 35k. The whole point it offshoring is being able to pay people less because of lower living standards.
Japan's average age of death is actually around 38, due to stress, alien invasions, and giant mecha battle collateral damage. However, their medical facilities are years ahead of everyone else's, and a good 70% of the population are revived as cyber zombies or have ther conciousness transfered into computer systems.
The 350 year old eunic sorcerers don't hurt the average, either.
Lego is actually listening to people like you. They released the Designer series that has a lot of great basic bricks. You tend to get more bricks for the buck, and less hyper-specialized pieces.
There alot of people in the Adult Fan Community that have been saying this for yeats, and lego is paying attention.
http://www.brickset.com/ A lego set refrence that has just about every lego set ever made. Want to get a list of every classic space set made in 1978? This is the place.
http://www.bricklink.com/ Want 150 tan 1x3 bricks? Buy them individually from fellow collectors all over the world.
http://www.lugnet.com/ LUGNET is the Lego User Group. It has an interface to all all of the Lego USENET groups, and is an easy way to keep on top of all the relevant lego news.
http://shop.lego.com/ Of course there is LEGOs homepage. Online shopping, and all sorts of other interesting stuff. They just released a program on the lego site that allows you to build virtual lego models. That isn't really amazing, since LEGO cad programs have existed for years. However, they seem to be ramping up to allow people to build virtual models, and then order the parts to build them online! Every lego fan's dream come true...
There is much more, but that is a quick rundown of some of the major sites. Indulge yourself, you know you want to....
What I would do, if I were working there, would be to start a union. Either they fire me for it, and I get to collect unemployment and file a lawsuit against them, or I get a union going and make management deal with the consequences of their actions.
IT workers have been getting fucked over for quite awhile. Sooner or later, being bright and educated individuals, they will realize that they don't have to put up with abusive practices such as these.
Thank you for your post. Slashdot has been depressing lately between the bush/kerry zealots and the IT layoff crap.
HEY, stow that prozac-fueled bullshit, Pollyanna! You're messing up the vibe of the site. Some of us are trying to be bitter and angsty, now that were outa work and King Jr. is in the Whitehouse for another four. Now, siddown, have a slug of whiskey, and say something bad about SCO or Microsoft.
You're like a goddamn carebear farting rainbows all over the place.
Ah, But I didn't say I could do better. I am only taunting him for making such idiotic sweeping generalizations like, 'The American people are safe from terrorisim now'.
What the hell kind of idiot would say that? That is such an obviously blatant distortion that it makes my head hurt just thinking about it.
I personally may be no better at catching psychos than asscrotch, but I wouldn't make such silly statements.
For those of you who really need permant storage, drop whatever you want preserved into a black hole. The gravational waves produced will carry information (heavily encrypted!) into eternity...
What I'm curious about, it while he may be a walking encyclopedia of fact, how good is he at reasoning? I Googled the name, 'Kim Peek', to read some articles about him, but they are not clinical descriptions of his abilities and limitations.
For example, if we can take Dunstin's performance as a roughly accurate description of how he might behave, an interesting scene is the 'Quantis is Safer' bit. Tom and Dustin are trying to get somewhere. Dustin's character insists on flying on Quantis, on the grounds that it has the best safety record, having never crashed a plane. That is a fact that has a bivalent value that can be checked as being true or false. However, the scene illustrates that the character portraied by Dustin cannot deal with relative 'Fuzzy' concepts very well. Since major Airlines are very safe, and the relative numbers of accidents are so low, nobody worries if you have a.00001% greater chance of dying on one carrier over another. Most people would see this point very quickly, and simply buy a ticket on the fastest flight, or cheapest fair. How is the real Kim at this sort of reasoning?
I mentioned 'Fuzzy' concepts above; there happens to be a branch of logic called 'Fuzzy Logic' that deals with set logic, and vague concepts. Things like getting a computer to work out how tall you have to be before you can be called 'tall'. It would be interesting to give Kim a book on the topic and have a discussion with him about it.
FRAUD! TOTALITARIAN MANIPULATION OF THE MASSES! TO ARMS! ANARCHY IN THE STREETS!
The Republican dogs will be the first with their backs agains the wall, now that the revolution is he-
Er, what was that? This is normal? Er, sorry. *blush* Disregard that last bit about the 'Revolution' and all. I blame the author of the article. They know how touchy we/.ers are about this sort of thing....
You make a big assumption. Reletivity applies only to objects with mass. If you try to set M = 0 in the equasions, the zero causes the math to blow up. That an object will have mass seem like a pretty fair assumption at this point in time. There is nothing to prevent you from traveling at infinite speed if you have no mass. Travel at infinite speed sounds to me like teleportation.
More to the point though, this is a huge waste of time and money. Solve a few simpler problems first, like say, the grand unification theory. It would probably be a better first step.
Eighty-three percent of American adults believe in the Virgin birth of Jesus Christ
I resent the fact that you imply my beliefs are backwards and illogical. I think it makes perfect sense to believe that Jesus Christ was a virgin when he was born.
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Wow, I wish I could see who modded me down, just to be able to taunt them. What the hell is someone doing modding a discussion about fractals, when they don't even know what the Cantor set is?
Even better is that rural areas have lower costs of living, thus making $50,000/yr a very good wage to have.
Yes, but the company isn't going to move you to Indianna, and keep paying you 50k. They're going to move you to Indianna and pay you 40k, or 35k. The whole point it offshoring is being able to pay people less because of lower living standards.
Did anyone else feel disapointed that every third leter wasn't missing?
Bwhahahhahahhaha....*sob*...no, it was funny, trust me...
Japan's average age of death is actually around 38, due to stress, alien invasions, and giant mecha battle collateral damage. However, their medical facilities are years ahead of everyone else's, and a good 70% of the population are revived as cyber zombies or have ther conciousness transfered into computer systems.
The 350 year old eunic sorcerers don't hurt the average, either.
Give them a pack of Camels. You even get to keep the Camel points!
"Smoke 'em up, Jr.!"
Lego is actually listening to people like you. They released the Designer series that has a lot of great basic bricks. You tend to get more bricks for the buck, and less hyper-specialized pieces.
There alot of people in the Adult Fan Community that have been saying this for yeats, and lego is paying attention.
I am an AFOL (Adult Fan of Lego), and I think that they are the coolist thing ever. Check out some of the more interesting LEGO sites on the net:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/recent.cgi A massive gallery of uber cool models made by AFOLs. There are some really amazing models posted here.
http://www.brickset.com/ A lego set refrence that has just about every lego set ever made. Want to get a list of every classic space set made in 1978? This is the place.
http://www.bricklink.com/ Want 150 tan 1x3 bricks? Buy them individually from fellow collectors all over the world.
http://www.lugnet.com/ LUGNET is the Lego User Group. It has an interface to all all of the Lego USENET groups, and is an easy way to keep on top of all the relevant lego news.
http://shop.lego.com/ Of course there is LEGOs homepage. Online shopping, and all sorts of other interesting stuff. They just released a program on the lego site that allows you to build virtual lego models. That isn't really amazing, since LEGO cad programs have existed for years. However, they seem to be ramping up to allow people to build virtual models, and then order the parts to build them online! Every lego fan's dream come true...
There is much more, but that is a quick rundown of some of the major sites. Indulge yourself, you know you want to....
This guy is trying to pull a fast one, guys! When his browser 'crashed', there was no 'CARRIER LOST' message...
It's a FAKED CRASH! DON'T BELIEVE IT!
What I would do, if I were working there, would be to start a union. Either they fire me for it, and I get to collect unemployment and file a lawsuit against them, or I get a union going and make management deal with the consequences of their actions.
IT workers have been getting fucked over for quite awhile. Sooner or later, being bright and educated individuals, they will realize that they don't have to put up with abusive practices such as these.
Thank you for your post. Slashdot has been depressing lately between the bush/kerry zealots and the IT layoff crap.
HEY, stow that prozac-fueled bullshit, Pollyanna! You're messing up the vibe of the site. Some of us are trying to be bitter and angsty, now that were outa work and King Jr. is in the Whitehouse for another four. Now, siddown, have a slug of whiskey, and say something bad about SCO or Microsoft.
You're like a goddamn carebear farting rainbows all over the place.
I don't feel that everybody is incompetent... just a lot of the people I deal with frequently.
Hey, is is just me, or is this guy seem incompetent?
Star Wars games are like Russian Roulette with 5 bullets
So, if you lucky, you blow your brains out, and don't have to see the new movies and play the new games?
Sounds good, but Remember Jar-Jar? Lets use six bullets to play...
Ah, But I didn't say I could do better. I am only taunting him for making such idiotic sweeping generalizations like, 'The American people are safe from terrorisim now'.
What the hell kind of idiot would say that? That is such an obviously blatant distortion that it makes my head hurt just thinking about it.
I personally may be no better at catching psychos than asscrotch, but I wouldn't make such silly statements.
For those of you who really need permant storage, drop whatever you want preserved into a black hole. The gravational waves produced will carry information (heavily encrypted!) into eternity...
Retrival may be a challenge.
The objective of securing the safety of Americans from crime and terror has been achieved.
Say, John, you ever catch that person(s) who were mailing ANTHRAX all over the country? You know, ANTHRAX, that EXCEPTIONALLY DANGEROUS disease?
Anything at all?
So, they could be roaming about right now, planning their next, even bigger anthrax attack?
Right.
Stupid fucktard.
...That I get to see lady Justice's boobie again?
That may be worth a trip to D.C. for that alone!
Who cares about if he disables himself, for the love of god, SWEET JESUS, DON'T SHOOT AT THE PR0N!
What I'm curious about, it while he may be a walking encyclopedia of fact, how good is he at reasoning? I Googled the name, 'Kim Peek', to read some articles about him, but they are not clinical descriptions of his abilities and limitations.
.00001% greater chance of dying on one carrier over another. Most people would see this point very quickly, and simply buy a ticket on the fastest flight, or cheapest fair. How is the real Kim at this sort of reasoning?
For example, if we can take Dunstin's performance as a roughly accurate description of how he might behave, an interesting scene is the 'Quantis is Safer' bit. Tom and Dustin are trying to get somewhere. Dustin's character insists on flying on Quantis, on the grounds that it has the best safety record, having never crashed a plane. That is a fact that has a bivalent value that can be checked as being true or false. However, the scene illustrates that the character portraied by Dustin cannot deal with relative 'Fuzzy' concepts very well. Since major Airlines are very safe, and the relative numbers of accidents are so low, nobody worries if you have a
I mentioned 'Fuzzy' concepts above; there happens to be a branch of logic called 'Fuzzy Logic' that deals with set logic, and vague concepts. Things like getting a computer to work out how tall you have to be before you can be called 'tall'. It would be interesting to give Kim a book on the topic and have a discussion with him about it.
Yes, and both of them had a 'southern bumpkin' accent. Carter was from the south, and Jr. was just dumb there.
Isn't that a common thread shared amongst totalitarian regimes/facist regimes?
Not intended to be a troll, just food for thought.
BIG MEDIA: Bloggers are at best, amature journalists. They don't have *our* skill at conducting important, investigative journalisim.
BLOGGERS: What about FOX, with their 'fair and balanced' coverage of news? And why is everyone starting to mimic them?
BIG MEDIA: But, but, er...um, that is...
FRAUD! TOTALITARIAN MANIPULATION OF THE MASSES! TO ARMS! ANARCHY IN THE STREETS!
/.ers are about this sort of thing....
The Republican dogs will be the first with their backs agains the wall, now that the revolution is he-
Er, what was that? This is normal? Er, sorry. *blush* Disregard that last bit about the 'Revolution' and all. I blame the author of the article. They know how touchy we
You make a big assumption. Reletivity applies only to objects with mass. If you try to set M = 0 in the equasions, the zero causes the math to blow up. That an object will have mass seem like a pretty fair assumption at this point in time. There is nothing to prevent you from traveling at infinite speed if you have no mass. Travel at infinite speed sounds to me like teleportation.
More to the point though, this is a huge waste of time and money. Solve a few simpler problems first, like say, the grand unification theory. It would probably be a better first step.
Eighty-three percent of American adults believe in the Virgin birth of Jesus Christ
I resent the fact that you imply my beliefs are backwards and illogical. I think it makes perfect sense to believe that Jesus Christ was a virgin when he was born.
STOP MOCKING ME!
I altered the vote for Bush, to make sure that he only won by a slim margin.
Even more evil, because it keeps the democrats with a slim, yet desperate hope for DAYS before ruthlessly crushing it...