ARE THERE ANY SIGNIFICANT EXPERIENCES YOU HAVE HAD, OR ACCOMPLISHMENTS YOU HAVE REALIZED, THAT HAVE HELPED TO DEFINE YOU AS A PERSON?
I am a dynamic figure, often seen scaling walls and crushing ice. I have been known to remodel train stations on my lunch breaks, making them more efficient in the area of heat retention. I translate ethnic slurs for Cuban refugees. I write award-winning operas. I manage time efficiently.
Occasionally, I tread water for three days in a row. I woo women with my sensuous and godlike trombone playing. I can pilot bicycles up severe inclines with unflagging speed, and I cook Thirty-Minute Brownies in twenty minutes. I am an expert in stucco, a veteran in love, and an outlaw in Peru.
Using only a hoe and a large glass of water, I once single-handedly defended a small village in the Amazon Basin from a horde of ferocious army ants. I play bluegrass cello, I was scouted by the Mets, I am the subject of numerous documentaries. When I'm bored, I build large suspension bridges in my yard. I enjoy urban hang gliding. On Wednesdays, after school, I repair electrical appliances free of charge.
I am an abstract artist, a concrete analyst, and a ruthless bookie. Critics worldwide swoon over my original line of corduroy evening-wear. I don't perspire. I am a private citizen, yet I receive fan mail. I have been caller number nine and have won the weekend passes. Last summer I toured New Jersey with a traveling centrifugal-force demonstration. I bat.400.
My deft floral arrangements have earned me fame in international botany circles. Children trust me.
I can hurl tennis rackets at small moving objects with deadly accuracy. I once read Paradise Lost, Moby Dick, and David Copperfield in one day and still had time to refurbish an entire dining room that evening. I know the exact location of every food in the supermarket. I have performed several covert operations with the CIA. I sleep once a week; and when I do sleep, I sleep in a chair. While on vacation in Canada, I successfully negotiated with a group of terrorists who had seized a small bakery. The laws of physics do not apply to me.
I balance, I weave, I dodge, I frolic, and my bills are all paid. On weekends, to let off steam, I participate in full-contact origami. Years ago I discovered the meaning of life but forgot to write it down. I have made extraordinary four course meals using only a toaster oven.
I breed prize-winning clams. I have won bullfights in San Juan, cliff-diving competitions in Sri Lanka, and spelling bees at the Kremlin. I have played Hamlet, I have performed open-heart surgery, and I have spoken with Elvis.
It's really annoying when these email poseurs claim to have done these baby steps. Google around for the source of this story.
The Americans did not single-handedly win WW2 contrary to many stories. It *is* true that without their (and the Canadians - mostly for their raw resouces and industrial capability) involvement, western Europe would have been lost.
November 11 is coming up, that's an important day for many vets.
Most of the parent post doesn't deserve a +Funny mod.
However, "fall back: retreat" is insightful as all so many corporations have adopded inane slogans (since when do corporations need a renewed slogan all the time? Is it because branding trumps competence at the executive level?)
Good idea. Checking just two minutes ago though, indicates that slashdot has set about 20 cookies. Although I have "excellent" karma I wonder about a site's need to set that many cookies and I often browse the site while not logged-in.
I confess that I am not a subscriber and therefore have no say in anything, but I reserve the right to gripe.
A lot less "Bad Request" ["Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand. Request header field is missing colon separator"] errors would also be nice.
Yeah, but boomer MBAs fixated on quarterly results have fucked-up the American economy and corrupted the concept of long-term investment. Now pleases excuse me, I gotta go do some trading so I can buy two more 7 series BMWs. Suckers.
Most comments/replies repeatedly number less than 100 (including trolls and basementers) and there are more focused places for the subject, it's just not here.
Most advertising is inherently dishonest because it has to compete with scammers. Not all advertising is corrupt, though.
Glamourizing clothing and "accessories" (see MTV) is evil as it targets those least able to make sound decisions. Marketers have caught on to this, see the "Merchants of Cool".
THAT is a nasty piece of social engineering, and I don't mean "social engineering" in the computer sense.
Once a company gets big enough they dedicate a percentage of expenses for advertising. This tends to become an ongoing expense whether the ads result in actual additional sales or not.
At that point (when a company is big enough to have an ad executive) the budget is already there and grows. These days, the $X + $Y equation probably doesn't work so well anymore since many consumers don't get scammed the way they were before.
Sleazy car salesmen and pretentious stereo salespeople are widely regarded as manipulators these days.
A billion people watched the World Series this year and the entire world (2 billion plus) routinely watches the Olympics. How these numbers are calculated is deceptive.
If the TV networks ever had to provide hard stats the way reputable websites have to, the advertising agencies would be out of work.
Much advertising is basically a scam game, but once it is entrenched there are a lot of people that play along with the game because many jobs depend on it.
Actually since most consumer broadband "contracts" include a clause stating that they can be changed at any time without notice, SBC probably can change those just 'cause they see a new revenue source.
They will also probably pull out the old "but we employ so many people" justification tactic 24 months before they have a layoff of 100,000 worldwide.
Like it or not, this is what adoption of new technology (in this era of replacing people with machines) does, and this is why the change is happening.
The people displaced don't really matter, because all their real world, individual skills and methods have been processed and digested into computer programs for drones to operate.
Unfortunately the video game industry and the TV industry are hung up on focus groups.
Are you claiming that there are now focus groups and the TV-watching public still has laugh-tracks foisted on them?
The use of a laugh track is a clear indicator of who is "really running the show", so to speak, and is why randomly-placed professional laughers have careers in live studio audiences.
This is all about audience manipulation by the studios whereby they recruit the most giggly, easily-influenced, star-struck wannabe individuals for the possible Andy Warhol-like return of maybe getting on TV.
On the other hand, Everything2 seems to automatically link each "interesting" word to a seemingly random internal E2 page
No kidding, I've seen quite a bit of this at Wikipedia also lately. Is it truly necessary to link to business?
I've got 2 mod points left, but I had to log in to this seperate section of Slashdot in order to make this comment. This seems to be a recent change and I'd like Malda to explain.
Our goal should be to establish a viable self-sufficient colony there that would ensure, should some catastrophy strike here on Earth that wipes out all life on the planet, the survival of the human species. Right now, all of humanity's eggs are in one basket, and as you've pointed out, that basket is looking more fragile by the day.
Yeah, because of (relatively) anonymous posts on Slashdot I've come to agree with you. The possible elimination of the human race by a maybe meteor would be "a bad thing".
We should send the blond, blue-eyed, well-built people first so that our race...oh, wait.
I really hate it when the morons take it upon themselves to predict doom and gloom (15 generations into the future) and propose sci-fi solutions. This attitude tends to come from 15 years-olds who don't have a life yet.
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ARE THERE ANY SIGNIFICANT EXPERIENCES YOU HAVE HAD, OR ACCOMPLISHMENTS YOU HAVE REALIZED, THAT HAVE HELPED TO DEFINE YOU AS A PERSON?
I am a dynamic figure, often seen scaling walls and crushing ice. I have been known to remodel train stations on my lunch breaks, making them more efficient in the area of heat retention. I translate ethnic slurs for Cuban refugees. I write award-winning operas. I manage time efficiently.
Occasionally, I tread water for three days in a row. I woo women with my sensuous and godlike trombone playing. I can pilot bicycles up severe inclines with unflagging speed, and I cook Thirty-Minute Brownies in twenty minutes. I am an expert in stucco, a veteran in love, and an outlaw in Peru.
Using only a hoe and a large glass of water, I once single-handedly defended a small village in the Amazon Basin from a horde of ferocious army ants. I play bluegrass cello, I was scouted by the Mets, I am the subject of numerous documentaries. When I'm bored, I build large suspension bridges in my yard. I enjoy urban hang gliding. On Wednesdays, after school, I repair electrical appliances free of charge.
I am an abstract artist, a concrete analyst, and a ruthless bookie. Critics worldwide swoon over my original line of corduroy evening-wear. I don't perspire. I am a private citizen, yet I receive fan mail. I have been caller number nine and have won the weekend passes. Last summer I toured New Jersey with a traveling centrifugal-force demonstration. I bat
My deft floral arrangements have earned me fame in international botany circles. Children trust me.
I can hurl tennis rackets at small moving objects with deadly accuracy. I once read Paradise Lost, Moby Dick, and David Copperfield in one day and still had time to refurbish an entire dining room that evening. I know the exact location of every food in the supermarket. I have performed several covert operations with the CIA. I sleep once a week; and when I do sleep, I sleep in a chair. While on vacation in Canada, I successfully negotiated with a group of terrorists who had seized a small bakery. The laws of physics do not apply to me.
I balance, I weave, I dodge, I frolic, and my bills are all paid. On weekends, to let off steam, I participate in full-contact origami. Years ago I discovered the meaning of life but forgot to write it down. I have made extraordinary four course meals using only a toaster oven.
I breed prize-winning clams. I have won bullfights in San Juan, cliff-diving competitions in Sri Lanka, and spelling bees at the Kremlin. I have played Hamlet, I have performed open-heart surgery, and I have spoken with Elvis.
It's really annoying when these email poseurs claim to have done these baby steps. Google around for the source of this story.
Being socially well adjusted is overrated.
Your comment was inappropriately modded as funny.
Being "socially well adjusted" usually means going along with the crowd mentality, attitude and the pop culture/psychology of the day.
The Americans did not single-handedly win WW2 contrary to many stories. It *is* true that without their (and the Canadians - mostly for their raw resouces and industrial capability) involvement, western Europe would have been lost.
November 11 is coming up, that's an important day for many vets.
Most of the parent post doesn't deserve a +Funny mod.
However, "fall back: retreat" is insightful as all so many corporations have adopded inane slogans (since when do corporations need a renewed slogan all the time? Is it because branding trumps competence at the executive level?)
I'm "moving forward".
Yes, it's certainly hyperbole.
Stop bullshitting. A movie I saw explained that it was the Americans that broke the Enigma code. Get your history straight before posting.
Good idea. Checking just two minutes ago though, indicates that slashdot has set about 20 cookies. Although I have "excellent" karma I wonder about a site's need to set that many cookies and I often browse the site while not logged-in.
I confess that I am not a subscriber and therefore have no say in anything, but I reserve the right to gripe.
A lot less "Bad Request" ["Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand. Request header field is missing colon separator"] errors would also be nice.
Apparently, fluid dynamics and thermodynamics are not very well understood around here if you had to make that post.
Since the section was started, it has never gotten more than ~25 +3 responses.
The slashdot crowd is getting older and they know where to go to discuss games.
Just my opinion.
Yeah, but boomer MBAs fixated on quarterly results have fucked-up the American economy and corrupted the concept of long-term investment. Now pleases excuse me, I gotta go do some trading so I can buy two more 7 series BMWs. Suckers.
Most comments/replies repeatedly number less than 100 (including trolls and basementers) and there are more focused places for the subject, it's just not here.
Let it pass and commence the uprising.
I agree. It's realy cool to have the latest technology, but everything depends on the ability to read it. But what the hell, technology is so cooool.
Most advertising is inherently dishonest because it has to compete with scammers. Not all advertising is corrupt, though.
Glamourizing clothing and "accessories" (see MTV) is evil as it targets those least able to make sound decisions. Marketers have caught on to this, see the "Merchants of Cool".
THAT is a nasty piece of social engineering, and I don't mean "social engineering" in the computer sense.
Once a company gets big enough they dedicate a percentage of expenses for advertising. This tends to become an ongoing expense whether the ads result in actual additional sales or not.
At that point (when a company is big enough to have an ad executive) the budget is already there and grows. These days, the $X + $Y equation probably doesn't work so well anymore since many consumers don't get scammed the way they were before.
Sleazy car salesmen and pretentious stereo salespeople are widely regarded as manipulators these days.
A billion people watched the World Series this year and the entire world (2 billion plus) routinely watches the Olympics. How these numbers are calculated is deceptive.
If the TV networks ever had to provide hard stats the way reputable websites have to, the advertising agencies would be out of work.
Much advertising is basically a scam game, but once it is entrenched there are a lot of people that play along with the game because many jobs depend on it.
Younger anchor? Maybe they could put a non-15-million-dollar face in there.
Brokaw: $5 million/year. Peter Jennings died with a $50 million dollar inheritance. For what, looking and sounding good on television?
Actually since most consumer broadband "contracts" include a clause stating that they can be changed at any time without notice, SBC probably can change those just 'cause they see a new revenue source.
They will also probably pull out the old "but we employ so many people" justification tactic 24 months before they have a layoff of 100,000 worldwide.
Like it or not, this is what adoption of new technology (in this era of replacing people with machines) does, and this is why the change is happening.
The people displaced don't really matter, because all their real world, individual skills and methods have been processed and digested into computer programs for drones to operate.
As anti-Christian as Slashdot is...
I'd say that Slashdot is anti-religion, not anti-Christian in the comments. But then we DO live in a binary world.
I am looking forward to the future that is the blogosphere.
This is where Taco's moderation system (flawed as it is) can make a difference for such a communication/feedback system.
All it is missing now is some form of automated, computer-based control.
Unfortunately the video game industry and the TV industry are hung up on focus groups.
Are you claiming that there are now focus groups and the TV-watching public still has laugh-tracks foisted on them?
The use of a laugh track is a clear indicator of who is "really running the show", so to speak, and is why randomly-placed professional laughers have careers in live studio audiences.
This is all about audience manipulation by the studios whereby they recruit the most giggly, easily-influenced, star-struck wannabe individuals for the possible Andy Warhol-like return of maybe getting on TV.
Yeah, and like it's some kind of coincidence that the planet happens to have the exact mixture of gases that we need to breathe...
Both of you please update your Slashdot-customized spell checkers:
"laid"= layed
"paid"= payed.
Thank you.
The front page is way too big/rich for a limited handset.
If it doesn't feature advertising, it must be communist.
On the other hand, Everything2 seems to automatically link each "interesting" word to a seemingly random internal E2 page
No kidding, I've seen quite a bit of this at Wikipedia also lately. Is it truly necessary to link to business?
I've got 2 mod points left, but I had to log in to this seperate section of Slashdot in order to make this comment. This seems to be a recent change and I'd like Malda to explain.
Our goal should be to establish a viable self-sufficient colony there that would ensure, should some catastrophy strike here on Earth that wipes out all life on the planet, the survival of the human species. Right now, all of humanity's eggs are in one basket, and as you've pointed out, that basket is looking more fragile by the day.
Yeah, because of (relatively) anonymous posts on Slashdot I've come to agree with you. The possible elimination of the human race by a maybe meteor would be "a bad thing".
We should send the blond, blue-eyed, well-built people first so that our race...oh, wait.
I really hate it when the morons take it upon themselves to predict doom and gloom (15 generations into the future) and propose sci-fi solutions. This attitude tends to come from 15 years-olds who don't have a life yet.