Nah the original comment on use of isopropyl alcohol is the right one.
Except that instead of using a washing machine, try immersing the cellphone in a normal household mug full of isopropyl alcohol and then putting *that* into the microwave oven. On high for about 10 minutes.
"I think you better RTFA. The point being that a psycopathic manager, while many of the characteristics may seem desirable in isolation, is there only to serve his/her own goals and has no loyalty to the company."
Actually, in a sense TFA has gotten it wrong; its more likely that *the*company* itself is the psychopath. Not any people; the corporate entity.
This can give the appearance of 'the boss' being a psychopath.
But as you rightly point out, psychopathic human beings (as opposed to corporations) are highly individualistic, interested only in their own advancement.
They have no fear and no conscience, so they can 'get things done' that normals cannot bring themselves to do. This can also get them into lots of trouble since the constraints of fear of 'what society will do when it finds out' that govern the behavior of normals do not constrain them.
I'm probably a borderline case; I have no fear but I do have knowledge and my sense of self-preservation is the only thing thats kept me out of Deep Social Trouble.
To the true psychopath, normals are cattle to be either preyed upon (destructive psychopath) or cultivated for their 'meat and hide' (creative psychopath).
"How many of you drive old cars, trucks, vans, or SUV's that say they are a joy to drive and run like the day they were brand new? No one would say that."
I have a friend with a Model-T Ford who says exactly that. In fact it was his first car.
"If the main concern is keeping the promises we've made to our international partners, I'm fairly certain that we can offer them other things which will cost us far less than completing the ISS with the shuttle."
Like NASA refraining from referring to the ISS as "The NASA Space Station Project" in press releases?
That'd be a nice touch, almost respectful of the contribution made by outfits other than NASA...
The US Army could do worse than show continuous re-runs of Babylon 5; the cadets could probably learn something from John Sheridan... even if it is 'how to start (and finish) a civil war'.
It might be interesting to see what the results of this are on psychopaths. With their resilience to emotional overload, they may be totally unaffected. On the other hand, they may become 'overloaded' by totally different kinds of image to your normal human being.
(I've heard psychopathy referred to as 'a fear deficit disorder'. Something I've often felt as if I may have a borderline case of. Its saved my ass many times;)
"That's kinda a stretch. IBM is a corporation, not a government agency."
Actually, I am surprised that its even *legal* to do this in the 'Land of the Free'. In fact many of the articles about hardware mods lately on/. have all got me wondering, 'but is this *legal* in the USA?' (cos Aussie is following suit and soon elsewhere)
Now mod me troll, but its an honest question, and its what the rest of the world has come to expect from the USA, formerly known as "the land of the free".
I imagine that a head count of lawyers that IBM has on this one project might give us a clue
Got to be careful with research these days in some parts of the world!;)
"the slippery slope to mass sterilisation & death camps for the undesireables is just a few bills away"
Actually what I'm saying is that, by definition, the vast realms of the slum dweller are far more successful than their wealthier, better-neighborhood cousins.
More successful maybe even by orders of magnitude.
Obviously by evolutionary measures, humanity is better serviced, its survival better guaranteed, by those slum-dwellers. I bet their immune systems are a lot better adapted too (when they don't have AIDS).
Not making a value judgement, just pointing out the reality of the situation. Its a numbers game. The poor have the numbers, the rich do not.
"Surely money-grabbing corporatist leaders are more fit than poor people who spend all the energy they use on staying alive, in the sense that the former's offspring will be far more likely to survive"
If you look at demographics on Planet Earth, you'll find that the people whose genes are most likely to be represented in future generations are, in fact, those poor people. Who have vast numbers of children. And who outnumber the rich by many millions, even by billions.
Sure, given an offspring of an individual rich folk and an offspring of a poor folk, the poor folk is likely to have a shorter life.
But their reproductive potential is absolutely *huge*.
The future gene pool of the human race 'resides' in the slums and ghettos of the world.
Personally, I vow never to buy into a MMORPG until they are like in Snowcrash.
By then, the argument about the difference between real and virtual property will be redundant. And the USA will be broken up into franchises. And skateboards will have glass-powdering sonic blasters on them.
"Let me tell you something... I ALWAYS open the side case cover very very carefully. You never know when a swarm of 20+ roaches come crawling out the moment they see some light."
Imagine the trauma of people in the old Comp Sci labs where every machine would have 'xhost +' enabled... and some smartass would run 'xroaches' on their display... You think its bad when the roaches come out of the box? How about when every time you move a window on your desktop!?!?!?
"\"SCO provided the opperating system for the Abrams Tank.\"
'Long haired smellies' the world over quake in fear at the news...."
So yeah, when some poor sucker commits suicide by 'diving' in front of an Abrams Tank, any connection to that persons relationship with the 'Santa Cruz Operation' is *purely* coincidental.
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Nah the original comment on use of isopropyl alcohol is the right one.
Except that instead of using a washing machine, try immersing the cellphone in a normal household mug full of isopropyl alcohol and then putting *that* into the microwave oven. On high for about 10 minutes.
I never much liked cellphones anyway...
Better than that... theres this Debian package called 'netscript' which takes over management of network interfaces, firewall rules, VPN etc.
Problem was that 'apt-get upgrade' would get to the prerm script of the old version and take the network down before installing the newer version...
I believe that this bug was fixed in a later version. But then of course, you have to *upgrade*.
"To me, this is an example of catastrophically bad platform design."
You should read 'the unix haters handbook' then you'd understand that such catastrophes are not bad design, they are a 'rite of passage for the user'.
"we don't joke about religion period. I mean a joke about Jesus, Moses, Noah"
Who are all prophets under Islam, IIRC?
How about Buddha? Would criticism of the Buddha in an Islamic state be punished equally to criticism of, say Noah?
"The idea, I think, is to treat religion and faith with respect and reverence."
It does convey a sense of insecurity though.
I mean if reverence has to be enforced by what are often fairly violent means...
" Freudian slip: America has become the whore of Babylon in oh-so-many ways."
This is true. All it needs now is a tub of Vaseline the size of Lake Michigan.
"armed-to-the-teeth, unaccountable rouge nation"
Dude, the 'rouge' nation is Communist China.
America is a 'rogue' nation.
Important difference; one is red the other is a brigand among nations. A bandit state.
"I think you better RTFA. The point being that a psycopathic manager, while many of the characteristics may seem desirable in isolation, is there only to serve his/her own goals and has no loyalty to the company."
Actually, in a sense TFA has gotten it wrong; its more likely that *the*company* itself is the psychopath. Not any people; the corporate entity.
This can give the appearance of 'the boss' being a psychopath.
But as you rightly point out, psychopathic human beings (as opposed to corporations) are highly individualistic, interested only in their own advancement.
They have no fear and no conscience, so they can 'get things done' that normals cannot bring themselves to do. This can also get them into lots of trouble since the constraints of fear of 'what society will do when it finds out' that govern the behavior of normals do not constrain them.
I'm probably a borderline case; I have no fear but I do have knowledge and my sense of self-preservation is the only thing thats kept me out of Deep Social Trouble.
To the true psychopath, normals are cattle to be either preyed upon (destructive psychopath) or cultivated for their 'meat and hide' (creative psychopath).
"How many of you drive old cars, trucks, vans, or SUV's that say they are a joy to drive and run like the day they were brand new? No one would say that."
I have a friend with a Model-T Ford who says exactly that. In fact it was his first car.
"If the Challenger worked like that, the crew might have been able to walk away, depending on circumstances."
I just love the way that, in order to 'escape' from a space shuttle, you'd have to do *something* like:
0. Ensure that your t-shirt is on straight.
1. Unbuckle from your seat.
2. Get out of your seat and 'walk' down the aisle being careful to mind the other escapees.
3. Go to the hatch, open it and clamber out.
Contrasting to the Soyuz where you do something like:
0. Ensure that your space suit helmet is properly fastened.
1. Press the ejector seat button and hold tight to your lunch.
2. Get propelled clear of the vehicle by a rocket ejector seat.
"If the main concern is keeping the promises we've made to our international partners, I'm fairly certain that we can offer them other things which will cost us far less than completing the ISS with the shuttle."
Like NASA refraining from referring to the ISS as "The NASA Space Station Project" in press releases?
That'd be a nice touch, almost respectful of the contribution made by outfits other than NASA...
"I worry about you"
;)
Well thanks, dude, I guess someone should even if its not me!
"Ah, nothing encrypts like a bottle of fine single malt whisky."
And nothing decrypts like hookers and weed in an underground carpark.
"tree, mountain, mountain"
Wow, yeah you are right. I couldn't see the second 'mountain'!
"Remember where these orders come from"
"Follow the chain of command"
"The *political* office..."
The US Army could do worse than show continuous re-runs of Babylon 5; the cadets could probably learn something from John Sheridan... even if it is 'how to start (and finish) a civil war'.
It might be interesting to see what the results of this are on psychopaths. With their resilience to emotional overload, they may be totally unaffected. On the other hand, they may become 'overloaded' by totally different kinds of image to your normal human being.
;)
(I've heard psychopathy referred to as 'a fear deficit disorder'. Something I've often felt as if I may have a borderline case of. Its saved my ass many times
"That's kinda a stretch. IBM is a corporation, not a government agency."
/. have all got me wondering, 'but is this *legal* in the USA?' (cos Aussie is following suit and soon elsewhere)
;)
Actually, I am surprised that its even *legal* to do this in the 'Land of the Free'. In fact many of the articles about hardware mods lately on
Now mod me troll, but its an honest question, and its what the rest of the world has come to expect from the USA, formerly known as "the land of the free".
I imagine that a head count of lawyers that IBM has on this one project might give us a clue
Got to be careful with research these days in some parts of the world!
"And the word summer NEVER comes up in normal conversation."
Hell, I only hope that the bill gets *passed* and on, by the way, the word "London" is on that list too.
Now that would get a lot of laughs, I can tell you!
I mean *useful* stuff on knoppix, like LVM support.
Now that would be *radical*!
Online news and discussion forum 'Slashdot' has apparently been used in an almost cleverly self-referential viral marketting ploy.
"the slippery slope to mass sterilisation & death camps for the undesireables is just a few bills away"
Actually what I'm saying is that, by definition, the vast realms of the slum dweller are far more successful than their wealthier, better-neighborhood cousins.
More successful maybe even by orders of magnitude.
Obviously by evolutionary measures, humanity is better serviced, its survival better guaranteed, by those slum-dwellers. I bet their immune systems are a lot better adapted too (when they don't have AIDS).
Not making a value judgement, just pointing out the reality of the situation. Its a numbers game. The poor have the numbers, the rich do not.
"Surely money-grabbing corporatist leaders are more fit than poor people who spend all the energy they use on staying alive, in the sense that the former's offspring will be far more likely to survive"
If you look at demographics on Planet Earth, you'll find that the people whose genes are most likely to be represented in future generations are, in fact, those poor people. Who have vast numbers of children. And who outnumber the rich by many millions, even by billions.
Sure, given an offspring of an individual rich folk and an offspring of a poor folk, the poor folk is likely to have a shorter life.
But their reproductive potential is absolutely *huge*.
The future gene pool of the human race 'resides' in the slums and ghettos of the world.
Read the book.
Personally, I vow never to buy into a MMORPG until they are like in Snowcrash.
By then, the argument about the difference between real and virtual property will be redundant. And the USA will be broken up into franchises. And skateboards will have glass-powdering sonic blasters on them.
There is already methane in the atmosphere, but at too low a concentration for us to smell.
Methane being basically fart gas, what I want to know is at what concentration will living on Planet Earth smell like being inside a fat mans pants?
"Let me tell you something... I ALWAYS open the side case cover very very carefully. You never know when a swarm of 20+ roaches come crawling out the moment they see some light."
Imagine the trauma of people in the old Comp Sci labs where every machine would have 'xhost +' enabled... and some smartass would run 'xroaches' on their display... You think its bad when the roaches come out of the box? How about when every time you move a window on your desktop!?!?!?
Ahhh those were the days
"\"SCO provided the opperating system for the Abrams Tank.\"
'Long haired smellies' the world over quake in fear at the news...."
So yeah, when some poor sucker commits suicide by 'diving' in front of an Abrams Tank, any connection to that persons relationship with the 'Santa Cruz Operation' is *purely* coincidental.