You get points in my book for at least attempting to spell "asinine". Perhaps I was under the mistaken impression that I was talking about recent events, not stuff that happened almost fifty years ago (not to imply that what happened then was unimportant).
You're right about hippies and anti-abortionists, but you present a one or a zero. Reality is shades of grey.
If you can take me to task for "not remembering the sixties" it's fair game for me to point out your apparent forgetfulness of lefty-type demonstrations in the recent past that have featured violence and general anarchy.
I agree with neither but typically those groups' protests do not involve breaking stuff and inviting chaos and mayhem. The lefties often do, that's part of their operating system.
They justify/condone this as "freedom of speech" because of their self-created perpetual underdog status.
It's cool to be against the man and to fight against the machine. That's why the recruiters go after disaffected youth who often have malleable minds and a lot of natural rebellion already built into their makeup/mindset. This makes them easy to recruit - no doubt the same approach (albeit in a more extreme case) is used to create suicide bombers.
Having said that, there appears to be less suicide bombings in the news lately. Have they run out of lunatics or has the leadership finally figured out that that is not good PR?
Since that was a well thought-out and worded reply I'm going to fly off the handle just for your entertainment.
If boomers didn't self-create multiple levels of Vice-Presidentship, Executive Managers and Senior Lead With Special Powers, who did?
The mob rules, and the ballooning of the middle class generated official-sounding titles for people that have very little power (backstabbing political moves excepted). Good for the ego, bumps up a salary range -- same old guy doing the same old job, but sounds more impressive.
In many PR releases you will see a VP quoted. Makes the words sound more "valid" until you realize that there are probably 50 VPs at the same company.
OMG.. you mean people would actually SEE and/or NOTICE the protestors in the streets, and possibly be educated and recruited to their cause?!
Every marching protester is always a lefty. For some, it's an excuse to use the power and relative anonymity of "the crowd" to smash things and break stuff (or are all the violent people just police plants?). When was the last time you saw a right-wing group marching?
Middle-management wasn't invented to give somebody a job.
Really? I don't agree. And it wasn't "invented" either. There comes a point where a large enough population can basically do what it wants (usually to the detriment of everyone else).
Many boomers own houses that are valued at 5-10x what they paid for them. This gives them great financial leverage but shuts out new home buyers.
The only people that benefit from ridiculously inflated house prices are the banks, real estate agents and those that cash-out to go live somewhere cheaper. It's essentially a Ponzi scheme.
Radio "personalities" are well-known to be trollers because that's one way to get response. And remember kids, it's doesn't matter what you say or do as long as it gets attention. Sound familiar? Sort of like, "there's no such thing as bad press". Those that suck off the advertising teat by being "controversial" need a swift kick in the arse.
I can still hand sketch and draw and communicate with construction personnel just fine. Although sophisticated hardware and software are helpful they are by no means required. Most people in front of monitors these days are space-fillers that satisfy a salary budget and not much more.
The goal of doofus management is to place as many people/layers between themselves and firing time. That's why we know have vice-presidents of every imagineable sort. Anyone with a brain will note that this phenomenon started when the boomers reached 40 or so.
Summarily calling engineers who take full time paid jobs stupid is at best arrogant.
I agree with you on that. On-call experts/hired guns need all the support they can get from full-timers. When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all.
In some fields of engineering, some things DO need to be done exactly right. In the real world it's not always feasible to "reboot and try that keyboard sequence again" unless you don't care about exploding things and dead/injured people.
Quadros are nice. A cube neighbour just got a "slower" machine (in CPU cycles) with less RAM but equipped with a 350 (only 128 MB VRAM, I think) and it just flies (sorry for the pun) through 3D piping models without stuttering or too many drop-outs. The old machine had a Matrox G550 which is notorious for poor OpenGL and non-gaming 3D.
Some Quadros sell for $4K or so. Those must be for really complicated, huge models.
"The Corporation" is insightful as a movie but it is also one-sided. Having written the previous sentence my assumption is that many people feel that corporations are evil incarnate.
It is stock market-traded companies that tend to be evil.
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Well, I guess my view of the world is mind-bogglingly stupid and I have a demented view of reality. Thanks for your time, it's been interesting.
What's your point? That homicidal, overly-religious, unbalanced people sometimes DO march in the streets and like to cause chaos for everyone else?
You get points in my book for at least attempting to spell "asinine". Perhaps I was under the mistaken impression that I was talking about recent events, not stuff that happened almost fifty years ago (not to imply that what happened then was unimportant).
You're right about hippies and anti-abortionists, but you present a one or a zero. Reality is shades of grey.
If you can take me to task for "not remembering the sixties" it's fair game for me to point out your apparent forgetfulness of lefty-type demonstrations in the recent past that have featured violence and general anarchy.
I have no problem with that, it makes sense. Others will feign mental or emotional or constitutional damage. "Help, help, I'm being oppressed!"
"I didn't know you were called Dennis."
I agree with neither but typically those groups' protests do not involve breaking stuff and inviting chaos and mayhem. The lefties often do, that's part of their operating system.
They justify/condone this as "freedom of speech" because of their self-created perpetual underdog status.
It's cool to be against the man and to fight against the machine. That's why the recruiters go after disaffected youth who often have malleable minds and a lot of natural rebellion already built into their makeup/mindset. This makes them easy to recruit - no doubt the same approach (albeit in a more extreme case) is used to create suicide bombers.
Having said that, there appears to be less suicide bombings in the news lately. Have they run out of lunatics or has the leadership finally figured out that that is not good PR?
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Since that was a well thought-out and worded reply I'm going to fly off the handle just for your entertainment.
If boomers didn't self-create multiple levels of Vice-Presidentship, Executive Managers and Senior Lead With Special Powers, who did?
The mob rules, and the ballooning of the middle class generated official-sounding titles for people that have very little power (backstabbing political moves excepted). Good for the ego, bumps up a salary range -- same old guy doing the same old job, but sounds more impressive.
In many PR releases you will see a VP quoted. Makes the words sound more "valid" until you realize that there are probably 50 VPs at the same company.
OMG.. you mean people would actually SEE and/or NOTICE the protestors in the streets, and possibly be educated and recruited to their cause?!
Every marching protester is always a lefty. For some, it's an excuse to use the power and relative anonymity of "the crowd" to smash things and break stuff (or are all the violent people just police plants?). When was the last time you saw a right-wing group marching?
in the US you are required to have a permit also
This is because demonstrators like to disrupt traffic (which nobody enjoys) and rock-throwing nutbars tend to gravitate to this type of thing.
Are you saying that large groups should be able to wander around pissing everyone else off? Should the cops just eff off and go find "real criminals"?
Middle-management wasn't invented to give somebody a job.
Really? I don't agree. And it wasn't "invented" either. There comes a point where a large enough population can basically do what it wants (usually to the detriment of everyone else).
Many boomers own houses that are valued at 5-10x what they paid for them. This gives them great financial leverage but shuts out new home buyers.
The only people that benefit from ridiculously inflated house prices are the banks, real estate agents and those that cash-out to go live somewhere cheaper. It's essentially a Ponzi scheme.
How old is Imus, 80?
Radio "personalities" are well-known to be trollers because that's one way to get response. And remember kids, it's doesn't matter what you say or do as long as it gets attention. Sound familiar? Sort of like, "there's no such thing as bad press". Those that suck off the advertising teat by being "controversial" need a swift kick in the arse.
I can still hand sketch and draw and communicate with construction personnel just fine. Although sophisticated hardware and software are helpful they are by no means required. Most people in front of monitors these days are space-fillers that satisfy a salary budget and not much more.
The goal of doofus management is to place as many people/layers between themselves and firing time. That's why we know have vice-presidents of every imagineable sort. Anyone with a brain will note that this phenomenon started when the boomers reached 40 or so.
"I own a $500,00 house, aren't I special?"
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Doesn't that sound like a cool job?
I've seen "God" in my baby's eyes.
THAT's where the concept of religion comes from. It's that "holy shit, I made that" moment.
After all, how insecure does God have to be to go to all the trouble of creating an entirely new species just to tell him how great he is?
As soon as I can figure out this internet via power cables thing works you're going to be in for a shock.
-God
Summarily calling engineers who take full time paid jobs stupid is at best arrogant.
I agree with you on that. On-call experts/hired guns need all the support they can get from full-timers. When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all.
It's called whisper engineering.
Do they want to it to be done exactly right?
In some fields of engineering, some things DO need to be done exactly right. In the real world it's not always feasible to "reboot and try that keyboard sequence again" unless you don't care about exploding things and dead/injured people.
Very funny progression and useage! Oops:
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Sometimes rewarding an existing +Funny is worth it.
"I wasn't surprised that she crossed over to the Liberals. I don't think she ever did have a Conservative bone in her body. Well, maybe one."
Quadros are nice. A cube neighbour just got a "slower" machine (in CPU cycles) with less RAM but equipped with a 350 (only 128 MB VRAM, I think) and it just flies (sorry for the pun) through 3D piping models without stuttering or too many drop-outs. The old machine had a Matrox G550 which is notorious for poor OpenGL and non-gaming 3D.
Some Quadros sell for $4K or so. Those must be for really complicated, huge models.
Not trying to be an asshole or anything, but DARPA invented the net so that there would be no un-recoverable points of failure.
Learn how to do stuff without having to rely on computers.
"The Corporation" is insightful as a movie but it is also one-sided. Having written the previous sentence my assumption is that many people feel that corporations are evil incarnate.
It is stock market-traded companies that tend to be evil.
When will I finally be able to buy a new HP-11c calculator? Millions of RPN-loving engineers also ask the same question.
You cons all deserve the chair
Clever use of language in this forum. Did you really mean, "fry" though?
if the government hires a "private" police force
Bingo.