Once being an engineer had dignity, skills and nifty curled up bendy ties. Now it's downgraded to menial tasks Ceramics Engineer [Dishwasher], or even worse like getting your MCSE. [Minesweeper Consultant And Solitaire Engineer]
"My point is that is that if you identify with the Columbine killers, it's because you're a homicidal maniac"
Again you miss the point, I can only wonder sometimes at this culture. We are disconnected from nature to such a degree that we think killing in general is a bad thing. I am not talking Human killing, I am talking killing anything even a fly or ant. We as a culture in general meaning Western Judeo-Christian has come to the insane conclusion that killing is so wrong even the thought is sinful. Now devoid of understanding of the warning signs that other animals in nature display we blunder into these problems. Rattlesnakes have their rattles, telling you - HEY, back off or I will strike, Cats arch their back, pull back their ears and hiss. If you reach for a Cat in such a state your get a nice deep scratch or bite. And being a utter idiot you damn well deserved it.
I can only surmise that the shooters at Columbine had been doing the human equivalent of arching their back and it had been ignored.
a homicidal maniac is bad terminology. I was working concert security when a Friend of mine who wasn't working security hit one of the security crew (also a friend). The guy was 6'6" and really drunk. He proceeded to threaten other staff with a knife. If a cop had seen this, he would have tazered or shot him. I merely yelled at him to put the damn knife away and cool down. Which he did.
For whatever reason, he was showing signs of the 'Don't come near me, I am dangerous now' I have learned to understand the signs of violence. I have also come to see that most people are actually trained to be ignorant of what's happening around them. You cannot push people into corners and then ignore them until they try and step out of the corner. In Japan they have a saying "The nail that sticks out, gets hammered down.". But Humans are not nails. Humans are predators, and if you ask a biologist, we as a species, are technically Super Predators. Mr Hyde lurks under the surface of each one of us. In Sin City, Mickey Rourke played Marv, one comment from a narrator was 'In another time he would have been a great general or hero' (I'm pulling from memory). In this world he was a misfit.
You paint with too broad a brush and in the wrong colors.
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We the comets of the Cometary halo, so declare open hostilities against the planet Earth and it's organization NASA for the unprovoked attack on one of our members.
We have begun a program of flybys intented to scout out your defenses.
I am rolling better cash then I did in the valley elsewhere. From a worker prospective it's no place to be. Too much competition in the valley from experianced people who own houses and have their lives there.
I should have mentioned that I expect the airbags to deploy. That solves the problem of your survival. If the car bounced with deployed airbags everybody survives.
It's not so much the speed people drive at it's the armored tanks that those Mouth Breathers as you rightly call them drive. I used to drive a nice Alfa, but when some lack-wit yuppie tried merge his POS Hummer into a lane I was in without looking. Why hasn't Detroit come up with a car that bounces when you hit it? We got air bags everywhere, if the car goes ballistic instead of crumpling accidents would be a lot easy to deal with.
If I had not found PUNK rock in 79 I would likely have wound up more then I did and may have done a Columbine.
Your point about "The killers at Columbine weren't geeks, nerds, goths, dorks, weirdos, metalheads, skaters, or punks." is true. But I don't buy your conclusion. The groups you point to have found outlets for their frustrations. "I'm a homicidal maniac," says Wednesday Addams in The Addams Family Movie, explaining why she apparently didn't dress up for Halloween. "They look like everybody else."
Hellstrom's Hive by Frank Herbert (1973)
A book I read a many years back about a secret colony of humans living along Social Insect lines. Most disturbing bit as about a grinder that the 'Colonists' would walk into freely upon orders if they were found wanting. Much of the story centers around the Nature Vs Nurture theory.
When people start Cloning Britney Spears as a marketable commodity will the clones turn out to be the same sort of strumpet? I would guess that that would be what they would want anyway.
Because the SF Bay Area is filled with people who can do it. I bailed out a long time ago, I was doing SA work there in 2001, and the wages were shrinking fast for new contracts. There is an entrenched group of Senior people who own houses and have local investments (kids in school and the like). They won't move out of the area because their life is there. Since they are fighting to protect their houses and mortgages they will work for dirt cheap. 16 year UNIX and Programmers will work for $36k/yr. Thats just sick.
Take my advice, RUN! I went very far away and I am back to my salery level of 100k+ in a distant city. You don't find that in SF/Bay anymore.
Case in point, Along the Scenic Route ["Dogfight on 101"], (ss) Adam Aug 1969
And a lot of others have dug into that road-rage vein, there was even a card game by Steve Jackson Games called Car-Wars. And as I recall they mentioned a different story of the same vintage as inspiration.
He's too busy puffing up his rep to write anything inventive. It's been what 25 years since he did anything worth reading. Funnier still, Bill Shatner has actually written better SciFi then Ellison. Why does the name Ellison seem to come with a air pump plug directly into the head? Larry is the same way. Seeing either of them is like watching a Bobble head doll that talks. (actually babbles)
"non-english speaking and students do not get proper support from their families and social environment "
Where did I hear something just like it? hmmm.. was it this?
You know what Stuart? I like you. You're not like the other people here in the trailer park. Oh no, don't get me wrong, they're fine people, good Americans. But they're content to sit back, maybe watch a little Mork and Mindy on channel 57. Maybe kick back a cool Coors 16-ouncer. They're good fine people, Stuart. But they don't know what the queers are doing to the soil.
You know that Johnny Werzner kid - the kid who delivers papers in the neighborhood? He's a fine kid. Some of the neighbors say he smokes crack, but I don't believe it. Anyway, for his 10th birthday, all he wanted was a burrow owl, just like his old man. "Dad, get me a burrow owl. I'll never ask for anything else as long as I live". So the guy breaks down and buys him a burrow owl. Anyway at 10:30 the other night I go out into my yard and there's the Werzner kid looking up in the tree. I said, "What are you looking for?" He said, "I'm looking for my burrow owl." I say, "Jumping Jesus on a pogo stick! Everybody knows that a burrow owl lives in a hole in the ground! Why the hell do you think they call it a burrow owl, anyway?!" Now Stuart, do you think a kid like that is gonna know what the queers are doing to the soil?
I first became aware of this, about 10 years ago, the summer my oldest boy Bill Jr. died. You know that carnival that comes to town every year? Well this year it came with a ride called the Mixer. The man said "Keep your head and arms inside the mixer at all times." But Bill Jr., he was a daredevil, just like his old man. He was leaning out saying, "Hey everybody! Look at me, look at me!" POW! He was decapitated. They found his head over by the snowcone concession. A few days after that, I open up the mail and there's a pamphlet in there, from Pueblo, Colorado. And it's addressed to Bill Jr. And it's entitled, "Do you know what the queers are doing to our soil?"
Now Stuart, if you look at the soil around any large U.S. city with a big underground homosexual population - Des Moines, Iowa, perfect example. Look at the soil around Des Moines, Stuart. You can't build on it, you can't grow anything in it. The government says it's due to poor farming. But I know what's really going on, Stuart. I know it's the queers. They're in it with the aliens. They're building landing strips for gay Martians. I swear to God.
You know what Stuart, I like you. You're not like the other people, here in the trailer park.
Suburbanites demand good schools and police, but when it comes time to pay to for them they vote down levies and taxes to pay for them. In some ways it's just like that P.O.S. No child left behind bill of Shrub's. Lots of demands but no money to make the changes, just lots of hard work for free. Also they chase out revenue for other sources like Factories, researce sites, Prisons, and commercial complexes. Since they are rich and educated they lobby for State funding for their services and it comes out of the state coffers instead of going to fix urban schools and roads in areas more taxes are collected. In the end you don't get services for free. Somebody must pay the taxes and better it was a local business then some already overburdened city company half a state away.
"Well, at least it was until that monolith showed up. " Has Zordak (123132) said in a slightly different thread
However Titan isn't perpetually frozen, it does lack Sunlight as a energy source. Titan's core provides heat, so the ecology would be inverse to our own. Kind of like the Hollow planet theories that where thrown around by The Vril Society and in Bulwer Lytton's novel The Coming Race (1871).
The North Koreans are using them to battle the Lobstermen of the Fabled lost city of Atlanta. Sometimes they have scirmishes with Japanese Squidbots. Likely somebody just tripped on the cable. I do it all the time in my apt.
If I am gonna break my tin foil hat out of it's hermeticly sealed container I am gonna use if for something serious.
[INSERT NAME OF ORGANIZATION, GOVERNMENT, POLITICAL PARTY, OR RELIGION HERE] to be predominantly made up of people who don't think for themselves and have an psychological need to "get even."
I don't join organizations because I am anti-social (it's beside the point), I don't because; like Treebeard, they are not on my side.
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Once being an engineer had dignity, skills and nifty curled up bendy ties. Now it's downgraded to menial tasks Ceramics Engineer [Dishwasher], or even worse like getting your MCSE. [Minesweeper Consultant And Solitaire Engineer]
Again you miss the point, I can only wonder sometimes at this culture. We are disconnected from nature to such a degree that we think killing in general is a bad thing. I am not talking Human killing, I am talking killing anything even a fly or ant. We as a culture in general meaning Western Judeo-Christian has come to the insane conclusion that killing is so wrong even the thought is sinful. Now devoid of understanding of the warning signs that other animals in nature display we blunder into these problems. Rattlesnakes have their rattles, telling you - HEY, back off or I will strike, Cats arch their back, pull back their ears and hiss. If you reach for a Cat in such a state your get a nice deep scratch or bite. And being a utter idiot you damn well deserved it.
I can only surmise that the shooters at Columbine had been doing the human equivalent of arching their back and it had been ignored.
a homicidal maniac is bad terminology. I was working concert security when a Friend of mine who wasn't working security hit one of the security crew (also a friend). The guy was 6'6" and really drunk. He proceeded to threaten other staff with a knife. If a cop had seen this, he would have tazered or shot him. I merely yelled at him to put the damn knife away and cool down. Which he did.
For whatever reason, he was showing signs of the 'Don't come near me, I am dangerous now' I have learned to understand the signs of violence. I have also come to see that most people are actually trained to be ignorant of what's happening around them. You cannot push people into corners and then ignore them until they try and step out of the corner. In Japan they have a saying "The nail that sticks out, gets hammered down.". But Humans are not nails. Humans are predators, and if you ask a biologist, we as a species, are technically Super Predators. Mr Hyde lurks under the surface of each one of us. In Sin City, Mickey Rourke played Marv, one comment from a narrator was 'In another time he would have been a great general or hero' (I'm pulling from memory). In this world he was a misfit.
You paint with too broad a brush and in the wrong colors.
Please don't download any of the MP3 files you find there.
Note to Newbies, On the whole don't trust any mirror you find on slashdot that's not somebody like Mirrordot, Google, or the like. You may find yourself at goatse . cx
We have begun a program of flybys intented to scout out your defenses.
Fear the Skies Monkeyboys!
I am rolling better cash then I did in the valley elsewhere. From a worker prospective it's no place to be. Too much competition in the valley from experianced people who own houses and have their lives there.
I should have mentioned that I expect the airbags to deploy. That solves the problem of your survival. If the car bounced with deployed airbags everybody survives.
And he ordered the Extra Hot Curry platter.
It's not so much the speed people drive at it's the armored tanks that those Mouth Breathers as you rightly call them drive. I used to drive a nice Alfa, but when some lack-wit yuppie tried merge his POS Hummer into a lane I was in without looking. Why hasn't Detroit come up with a car that bounces when you hit it? We got air bags everywhere, if the car goes ballistic instead of crumpling accidents would be a lot easy to deal with.
Your point about "The killers at Columbine weren't geeks, nerds, goths, dorks, weirdos, metalheads, skaters, or punks." is true. But I don't buy your conclusion. The groups you point to have found outlets for their frustrations. "I'm a homicidal maniac," says Wednesday Addams in The Addams Family Movie, explaining why she apparently didn't dress up for Halloween. "They look like everybody else."
When people start Cloning Britney Spears as a marketable commodity will the clones turn out to be the same sort of strumpet? I would guess that that would be what they would want anyway.
Didn't they do a few movies about that happening to dead people? I think the movies where called Phantasm
/Creapy voice.
oh yes and don't forget
BOY!
Because the SF Bay Area is filled with people who can do it. I bailed out a long time ago, I was doing SA work there in 2001, and the wages were shrinking fast for new contracts. There is an entrenched group of Senior people who own houses and have local investments (kids in school and the like). They won't move out of the area because their life is there. Since they are fighting to protect their houses and mortgages they will work for dirt cheap. 16 year UNIX and Programmers will work for $36k/yr. Thats just sick.
Take my advice, RUN! I went very far away and I am back to my salery level of 100k+ in a distant city. You don't find that in SF/Bay anymore.
Case in point, Along the Scenic Route ["Dogfight on 101"], (ss) Adam Aug 1969
And a lot of others have dug into that road-rage vein, there was even a card game by Steve Jackson Games called Car-Wars. And as I recall they mentioned a different story of the same vintage as inspiration.
He's too busy puffing up his rep to write anything inventive. It's been what 25 years since he did anything worth reading. Funnier still, Bill Shatner has actually written better SciFi then Ellison. Why does the name Ellison seem to come with a air pump plug directly into the head? Larry is the same way. Seeing either of them is like watching a Bobble head doll that talks. (actually babbles)
Typical GOP/Fox News pablum. It's the
"non-english speaking and students do not get proper support from their families and social environment "
Where did I hear something just like it? hmmm.. was it this?
You know what Stuart? I like you. You're not like the other people here
in the trailer park. Oh no, don't get me wrong, they're fine people, good
Americans. But they're content to sit back, maybe watch a little Mork and
Mindy on channel 57. Maybe kick back a cool Coors 16-ouncer. They're
good fine people, Stuart. But they don't know what the queers are doing
to the soil.
You know that Johnny Werzner kid - the kid who delivers papers in the
neighborhood? He's a fine kid. Some of the neighbors say he smokes
crack, but I don't believe it. Anyway, for his 10th birthday, all he
wanted was a burrow owl, just like his old man. "Dad, get me a burrow
owl. I'll never ask for anything else as long as I live". So the guy
breaks down and buys him a burrow owl. Anyway at 10:30 the other night I
go out into my yard and there's the Werzner kid looking up in the tree. I
said, "What are you looking for?" He said, "I'm looking for my burrow
owl." I say, "Jumping Jesus on a pogo stick! Everybody knows that a
burrow owl lives in a hole in the ground! Why the hell do you think they
call it a burrow owl, anyway?!" Now Stuart, do you think a kid like that
is gonna know what the queers are doing to the soil?
I first became aware of this, about 10 years ago, the summer my oldest boy
Bill Jr. died. You know that carnival that comes to town every year?
Well this year it came with a ride called the Mixer. The man said "Keep
your head and arms inside the mixer at all times." But Bill Jr., he was a
daredevil, just like his old man. He was leaning out saying, "Hey
everybody! Look at me, look at me!" POW! He was decapitated. They found
his head over by the snowcone concession. A few days after that, I open
up the mail and there's a pamphlet in there, from Pueblo, Colorado. And
it's addressed to Bill Jr. And it's entitled, "Do you know what the
queers are doing to our soil?"
Now Stuart, if you look at the soil around any large U.S. city with a big
underground homosexual population - Des Moines, Iowa, perfect example.
Look at the soil around Des Moines, Stuart. You can't build on it, you
can't grow anything in it. The government says it's due to poor farming.
But I know what's really going on, Stuart. I know it's the queers.
They're in it with the aliens. They're building landing strips for gay
Martians. I swear to God.
You know what Stuart, I like you. You're not like the other people, here
in the trailer park.
Stuart by The Dead Milkmen.
NIMBY = Not In My Back Yard.
Suburbanites demand good schools and police, but when it comes time to pay to for them they vote down levies and taxes to pay for them. In some ways it's just like that P.O.S. No child left behind bill of Shrub's. Lots of demands but no money to make the changes, just lots of hard work for free. Also they chase out revenue for other sources like Factories, researce sites, Prisons, and commercial complexes. Since they are rich and educated they lobby for State funding for their services and it comes out of the state coffers instead of going to fix urban schools and roads in areas more taxes are collected. In the end you don't get services for free. Somebody must pay the taxes and better it was a local business then some already overburdened city company half a state away.
Your forgetting that one of every 5 mod points must be used for a TripMaster Monkey post. Pity the MOD who fails in his/her civic duty.
True, BBSpot came up the title, but isn't is strange to see Fiction become Fact?
Bingo!, I follow the Tao. ;)
I am still not a Christian
Lucky for him, there are no active volcanos in the British Isles.
"Well, at least it was until that monolith showed up. "
Has Zordak (123132) said in a slightly different thread
However Titan isn't perpetually frozen, it does lack Sunlight as a energy source. Titan's core provides heat, so the ecology would be inverse to our own. Kind of like the Hollow planet theories that where thrown around by The Vril Society and in Bulwer Lytton's novel The Coming Race (1871).
and one of the hookers won.
The North Koreans are using them to battle the Lobstermen of the Fabled lost city of Atlanta. Sometimes they have scirmishes with Japanese Squidbots. Likely somebody just tripped on the cable. I do it all the time in my apt.
If I am gonna break my tin foil hat out of it's hermeticly sealed container I am gonna use if for something serious.
[INSERT NAME OF ORGANIZATION, GOVERNMENT, POLITICAL PARTY, OR RELIGION HERE] to be predominantly made up of people who don't think for themselves and have an psychological need to "get even."
I don't join organizations because I am anti-social (it's beside the point), I don't because; like Treebeard, they are not on my side.