Re:Tell that to the average person...
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Beyond Megapixels
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If you were making an optical print, it would take 8.6 megapixels to equal the effective resolution of the emulsion on a 4x6" sheet of photographic paper. There ARE inkjet printers out there that will reproduce in excess of 2000dpi, but most people don't spend the $2-10k necessary to have that capability.
So, yeah, knowing they have a at best a crappy 600dpi printer on their desk, they're being idiots, but not complete idiots as in both theory and practice, an 8MP image would look almost as good as a 35mm print... of course, their idea of "35mm print" is also "using a 3mm lens on a $10 disposable camera using $2 film" so, suffice it to say, their idea of "film quality" is already pretty sad.
Two words: finish school. Take it as a life lesson that you should finish what you've started -- on time. If you _must_ work to get through school, welcome to the club. Lots of us had to and there are some good arguments for getting some experience early so you don't just have a piece of paper and your paper route when you graduate. However, I think most people who have had to battle to get through college would agree that just getting the damned thing done and over far outweighs the additional experience. Let's face it, with very rare exceptions most people will assume that anything you did between 18-21 was just "kid" work even if it was engineering. Get your bachelor's degree and seriously consider getting your Masters IMMEDIATELY thereafter. If you delay your bachelor's degree, in a few years you'll be trying to figure out how to work and get some asinine 9AM class into your schedule as jobs pass you by because you are regarded as merely a high school graduate, which sucks when you are paying off student loans. That associate's degree, except for some government payscales, is basically considered advanced high-school and will often result in audible laughter when presented as a credential.
Seriously. Unless you really need the money (read: you'll DIE without it) STAY IN SCHOOL. The boom is over, cover your ass.
Sure, there's sunshine outside and life is stressful. Everywhere. Pretending it's not won't pay the mortgage, buy grocercies or keep your kids from using drugs or get them into school. That's as true in Burkina Faso as it is in London.
You presuppose some naive stoic wank that the "modern world" is the "best of all possible worlds. Unfortunately, that idea was created by a bunch of rich, white, male, slave-owning landlords who had the luxury of musing that they had created such a wonderful life that it couldn't possibly be any better.
Basically, this Sally Struthers attitude that you have to go to the backwaters of the Congo to find "real" human misery is bullshit. Human misery and exploitation exist wherever there are humans. Attributing it only to some mythical distant land (note: generally populated by dark people) is just a head-trip designed to distract people from their own misery or that which they subject others to. "Work harder! Stop complaining! You could be starving in Africa you ungrateful slob!" Yeah, I bet those words were uttered a lot on southern plantations.
You'll probably find less misery and exploitation in rural Africa than you will in midtown Manhattan or Los Angeles...and yes, I've lived in rural Africa and Los Angeles. The point is, if I can live roughly the same life in China, Namibia, Argentina or Canada, what part of it is either "western" or "privileged?" Sure, there are god-forsaken hell-holes out there, but hardly anyone lives in Arkansas and West Virginia anyway...
You'd "make" even more money if you sold the car and rode the bus. Then you could eat nothing but rice, make your own clothes and boil sea water for salt. After that you could just stop eating all together.
You'd be rich in no time. Really, you should start a motivational speaking tour on that formula. Hey, it worked for Gandhi.
GBP 27k/3? YIKES. Where? Friggen SHROPSHIRE? I guess then driving to Wales would be considered "a foreign holiday." Perhaps he meant EGYPTIAN pounds, which EGP23k is about $3,700. You could hitch-hike to Libya on that... Seriously, there is NOWHERE that denominates in pounds of any variety where 27k/3 would afford ANYTHING "upmarket." I happen to be looking at British salary grade tables right now and the LOWEST grade is GBP12.2k(US$22k). I can't imagine living in any major British city, much less London, on $22k let alone "going on holiday" or buying a Lotus of any age. I call bullshit on that guy's story.
No, it's not. The nationwide mean is only about $13/hour, which after taxes is scarcely $23k per year. That's fine in Boise, but if you have "3 single blokes" living in an "upmarket estate" and their COMBINED take home is $69k, you're in fantasyland if you think you'll be taking a "foreign holiday" every three months, unless you count walking to Tijuana from San Diego as "going abroad."
If your income is less than roughly 2/3 of the population in your area, it's a safe bet to assume you are "poor," locally speaking. As you have so keenly pointed out, your level of happiness has no relation to your economic status. It's irrelevant. So person X is rich and miserable, person Y is poor and elated. That doesn't change the fact that X is "rich" and Y is "poor." The fact that Y would be considered "rich" if moved someplace 5000 miles away is equally as useless if they're starving where they are now. If they happen to be happy despite their conditions, they're still freakin' broke, man.
Statistical poverty is regularly pegged at 20% below the mean in any area. There is no reason to accept, with a college degree in the relevant field, poverty-level wages. If the mean is $62.5k and they offer $27k, no amount of negotiating skills is going to bridge that gap--and they've been insulting. Armed with the appropriate salary ranges--you know, what the guy ASKED FOR in his post--is the surest way to be confident in demanding reasonable compensation. This isn't being noble and not "taking a job for the money," it's just being informed about the point at which you are being taken for the money or lack thereof. At a certain point, laughter is in fact the most appropriate and productive response--and being offered less than $15/hour for a $35/hour job is certainly a good time to employ it as you haven't a snowball's chance in hell of negotiating a doubling of the offer.
The national average for all "white-collar/technical" professions is $27.15/hour ($56k). However, in most metro areas, it is around $30 ($62k). Out of college, you should expect about 15% less than average or between $48k and $52k with some prior experience--although many, many people will be more than happy to offer you $26.5k. The point is, you should be able to hit the mean within three years. Don't let ANYONE tell you otherwise. If you are offered less than 15% below the aggregate mean (that is, everyone, not just IT) for your area, laugh hysterically as they watch your ass walk out the door. In most metro areas, that's about $45k, so 15% less is about $19/hour. Really, it's quite therapeutic and they deserve it. Another nice rule-of-thumb is if the salary is less than you paid for tuition, move on. If you went to a school like Georgetown that routinely offers jobs requiring master's degrees for $27k, which is less than a single year of undergrad tuition, you know what I'm talking about.
Look here to get detailed information on actual wages in your area:
Putting it in neutral terms of comparative advantage, trade is not about morals. It is about BOTH sides profiting from exchange. That does not mean that country X simply gets some product cheaper from country Y, it means that by getting that product cheaper, country X can produce more of some other product--that country Y will purchase. The fun part here is that country X can even produce that product less efficiently than country Y--it just has to cost less in terms of displaced units of production.
If BOTH sides of that equation do not exist, it is not worthwhile to trade. Until the alternative export product can be defined, it is not in our interest to import those products and services that we have a surplus capacity to produce ourselves and little to nothing for which to otherwise use that capacity.
It is fascinating that the apologists of outsourcing squeal about American entitlement, when they clearly load the argument with their own brand of entitlement. Guess what? Trade is a choice and it is a choice that should be made only when there is a mutual comparative advantage. All one has to do is look at our trade deficit to realize that we are not trading wisely. If we buy everything but sell nothing, we'll go broke. Pretty fscking simple.
All of this crap whether it is trekkies in their Starfleet uniforms or this schmuck in his...erm, whatever...is nothing more than nerd drag. It is less "creative" than some queen who thinks [s]he's Madonna while mouthing the words to "Like a Virgin" in torn-up fishnets at the local karaoke bar. Now, if he did the Pogo and lip-synced to Devo, he might be as interesting, but the idea of seeing that walrus bouncing in the air at 140bpm is just to frightful for words...
He posed a very erroneously loaded question based on false premises. If someone asks "How do you screw in a lightbulb," you might expect a literal answer. However, if someone asks "how do you screw in a lightbulb in corrupt communist China where I was oppressed and the bureaucratic barriers to light-bulb screwing resulted in the oppression of the masses and widespread brain-washing," it is perfectly reasonable to give an answer that addresses more than "get screwed."
Having also lived in eastern Europe, it seems to me that such regimes have produced some of the most questioning, cynical and generally skeptical people on the planet. Don't confuse apathy with assent. Not so long ago, most companies I worked for blocked the ENTIRE internet from employee computers, so I really don't care if they're going to filter some minor subset of it. I can do my unfiltered personal surfing at Starbucks on my breaks and at home at night. What's the problem?
Versatile, duh, I mean, like, it's Viringa and all and everyone knows D.C. is full of nothing but Apple-hugging Poli-Sci major bottoms... wait a minute, I studied Poli-Sci... oy gevalt...
Yes, Japan's economy was and is more hostile to imports than the U.S. economy. However, the United States DID respond--with the result that Japanese manufacturers just moved enough production to the United States to circumvent some of the more annoying regulatory hurdles and provide a carrot to the UAW to make them STFU.
I don't disagree with a single word that you have said. I'm just objecting to the notion that it was a dynamic of comparative advantage going on. It was protectionism, which is a different beast driven purely by politics (read: the UAW). Sure, it existed on both sides, but Japanese protectionism isn't what brought Japanese production to the United States. It was the US response to their trade policies that did it. Meanwhile US companies bought Japanese products, slapped their labels on them, said "buy American" and let most of the profits fly back to Asia. Hooray.
It took a major trade war with Japan to get them to move production. The cost of trans-pacific shipping is marginal and the difference in the cost of labor is relatively trivial. However, the difference in tariffs for not being at the domestic source quota is very much non-trivial and is stated in 18pt helvetica bold on the sticker. THAT is the number they were trying to reduce by shipping production to the United States.
This was the result of good 'ol American protectionism and nothing more. Re-writing history to make it sound like it was that invisible hand of the free market is rubbish.
Re:Good for the RIAA. This is capitalism at work.
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Free market capitalism exists only in textbooks. Not even the blackmarket drug trade is truly a free market--those markets wouldn't exist if not for massive government intervention. It amazes me that someone can blurt out the names Adam Smith or Ayn Rand and get modded as "insightful" as if that's the end of the discussion on anything that can be assigned a "price." Is there ANYTHING on the planet, including money itself, for which the only concern is the price?
In the case I mentioned, it IS deductible, but it's a DEDUCTION not a CREDIT. Big difference. So, your federal bracket is probably, say, 20%. This means, you just made $5 per hour because you just wasted $5000 of your time, since the total came off your AGI, not your bill, yielding an actual credit of $1250. You still had to work the hours at your full rate of pay, you just donated every penny but the income tax. Incidentally, you also paid all the other sundry taxes but only got back the income tax.
You know what would be REALLY smart? JUST DON'T WORK! That's the rub: for tax purposes in the scenario in question, that unpaid work IS INCOME. You are just taking an effective 80% reduction in pay. If you "save" $1250 by losing $6,250, it is safe to say you are just "losing."
But hey, if it still sounds golden to you, go work for the Sisters of Saint Croesus.
With a few exceptions (those paid over $27.50/hour IIRC), in California at least employers are required to pay ALL overtime, approved or not. The law actually reads that if the employer suspects the employee is working overtime but hasn't reported it, they must pay for it. This sounds absurd until you hear about these cases where people are encouraged to work "off the clock" in various ways subtle and blatant and then leave it off the time sheets. My mother works for a major Catholic hospital (the most evil and draconian organizations on the planet IMO) and they "encourage" people to do this on a daily basis. They also encourage employees to formally "donate time" so their compensation can be automatically deducted from payroll and credited back to the hospital. In the end, many employees effectively are 20hr/week slaves. Praise Jesus...
Seriously, there are plenty of free website services where you don't have to register a public domain name. If you are just using URL-forwarding, most of the contact info will point to your ISP anyway--because they are the ones running the servers. The primary point of Whois is to identify the people running the physical servers. Yeah, the internet has gotten more complex and the Whois database doesn't make as much sense as it did even ten years ago, but that's hardly a reason to say "screw it, let's just let everything go all to hell."
With that in mind, if you're running ANY kind of commercial site, your information SHOULD be public and accurate just like a business license (which generates more snail-mail-spam and telemarketers than Whois), articles of incorporation or trademark registration. There's a rather substantial public interest in maintaining a public record of such proven identities.
...and that behavior would be different from a garden-variety/. day how?
Step 1) Post a marginally interesting story of questionable authenticity. Step 2) Watch the endless parade of underwear gnomes and the counter-parade of underwear gnome hate-groups hoping for a bloodbath. Step 3) Profit! -- by still getting paid for wasting half your day on/. being amused by bickering idiots.
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If you were making an optical print, it would take 8.6 megapixels to equal the effective resolution of the emulsion on a 4x6" sheet of photographic paper. There ARE inkjet printers out there that will reproduce in excess of 2000dpi, but most people don't spend the $2-10k necessary to have that capability.
So, yeah, knowing they have a at best a crappy 600dpi printer on their desk, they're being idiots, but not complete idiots as in both theory and practice, an 8MP image would look almost as good as a 35mm print... of course, their idea of "35mm print" is also "using a 3mm lens on a $10 disposable camera using $2 film" so, suffice it to say, their idea of "film quality" is already pretty sad.
Sigh...
You don't know how good you have it. Think of those poor people in northern Arkansas.
Talk about "truth in jest..."
Two words: finish school. Take it as a life lesson that you should finish what you've started -- on time. If you _must_ work to get through school, welcome to the club. Lots of us had to and there are some good arguments for getting some experience early so you don't just have a piece of paper and your paper route when you graduate. However, I think most people who have had to battle to get through college would agree that just getting the damned thing done and over far outweighs the additional experience. Let's face it, with very rare exceptions most people will assume that anything you did between 18-21 was just "kid" work even if it was engineering. Get your bachelor's degree and seriously consider getting your Masters IMMEDIATELY thereafter. If you delay your bachelor's degree, in a few years you'll be trying to figure out how to work and get some asinine 9AM class into your schedule as jobs pass you by because you are regarded as merely a high school graduate, which sucks when you are paying off student loans. That associate's degree, except for some government payscales, is basically considered advanced high-school and will often result in audible laughter when presented as a credential.
Seriously. Unless you really need the money (read: you'll DIE without it) STAY IN SCHOOL. The boom is over, cover your ass.
Sure, there's sunshine outside and life is stressful. Everywhere. Pretending it's not won't pay the mortgage, buy grocercies or keep your kids from using drugs or get them into school. That's as true in Burkina Faso as it is in London.
You presuppose some naive stoic wank that the "modern world" is the "best of all possible worlds. Unfortunately, that idea was created by a bunch of rich, white, male, slave-owning landlords who had the luxury of musing that they had created such a wonderful life that it couldn't possibly be any better.
Basically, this Sally Struthers attitude that you have to go to the backwaters of the Congo to find "real" human misery is bullshit. Human misery and exploitation exist wherever there are humans. Attributing it only to some mythical distant land (note: generally populated by dark people) is just a head-trip designed to distract people from their own misery or that which they subject others to. "Work harder! Stop complaining! You could be starving in Africa you ungrateful slob!" Yeah, I bet those words were uttered a lot on southern plantations.
You'll probably find less misery and exploitation in rural Africa than you will in midtown Manhattan or Los Angeles...and yes, I've lived in rural Africa and Los Angeles. The point is, if I can live roughly the same life in China, Namibia, Argentina or Canada, what part of it is either "western" or "privileged?" Sure, there are god-forsaken hell-holes out there, but hardly anyone lives in Arkansas and West Virginia anyway...
You'd "make" even more money if you sold the car and rode the bus. Then you could eat nothing but rice, make your own clothes and boil sea water for salt. After that you could just stop eating all together.
You'd be rich in no time. Really, you should start a motivational speaking tour on that formula. Hey, it worked for Gandhi.
GBP 27k/3? YIKES. Where? Friggen SHROPSHIRE? I guess then driving to Wales would be considered "a foreign holiday." Perhaps he meant EGYPTIAN pounds, which EGP23k is about $3,700. You could hitch-hike to Libya on that... Seriously, there is NOWHERE that denominates in pounds of any variety where 27k/3 would afford ANYTHING "upmarket." I happen to be looking at British salary grade tables right now and the LOWEST grade is GBP12.2k(US$22k). I can't imagine living in any major British city, much less London, on $22k let alone "going on holiday" or buying a Lotus of any age. I call bullshit on that guy's story.
High Consumption != Wealth
Period.
No, it's not. The nationwide mean is only about $13/hour, which after taxes is scarcely $23k per year. That's fine in Boise, but if you have "3 single blokes" living in an "upmarket estate" and their COMBINED take home is $69k, you're in fantasyland if you think you'll be taking a "foreign holiday" every three months, unless you count walking to Tijuana from San Diego as "going abroad."
If your income is less than roughly 2/3 of the population in your area, it's a safe bet to assume you are "poor," locally speaking. As you have so keenly pointed out, your level of happiness has no relation to your economic status. It's irrelevant. So person X is rich and miserable, person Y is poor and elated. That doesn't change the fact that X is "rich" and Y is "poor." The fact that Y would be considered "rich" if moved someplace 5000 miles away is equally as useless if they're starving where they are now. If they happen to be happy despite their conditions, they're still freakin' broke, man.
Statistical poverty is regularly pegged at 20% below the mean in any area. There is no reason to accept, with a college degree in the relevant field, poverty-level wages. If the mean is $62.5k and they offer $27k, no amount of negotiating skills is going to bridge that gap--and they've been insulting. Armed with the appropriate salary ranges--you know, what the guy ASKED FOR in his post--is the surest way to be confident in demanding reasonable compensation. This isn't being noble and not "taking a job for the money," it's just being informed about the point at which you are being taken for the money or lack thereof. At a certain point, laughter is in fact the most appropriate and productive response--and being offered less than $15/hour for a $35/hour job is certainly a good time to employ it as you haven't a snowball's chance in hell of negotiating a doubling of the offer.
The national average for all "white-collar/technical" professions is $27.15/hour ($56k). However, in most metro areas, it is around $30 ($62k). Out of college, you should expect about 15% less than average or between $48k and $52k with some prior experience--although many, many people will be more than happy to offer you $26.5k. The point is, you should be able to hit the mean within three years. Don't let ANYONE tell you otherwise. If you are offered less than 15% below the aggregate mean (that is, everyone, not just IT) for your area, laugh hysterically as they watch your ass walk out the door. In most metro areas, that's about $45k, so 15% less is about $19/hour. Really, it's quite therapeutic and they deserve it. Another nice rule-of-thumb is if the salary is less than you paid for tuition, move on. If you went to a school like Georgetown that routinely offers jobs requiring master's degrees for $27k, which is less than a single year of undergrad tuition, you know what I'm talking about.
Look here to get detailed information on actual wages in your area:
http://www.bls.gov/ncs/ocs/home.htm
Putting it in neutral terms of comparative advantage, trade is not about morals. It is about BOTH sides profiting from exchange. That does not mean that country X simply gets some product cheaper from country Y, it means that by getting that product cheaper, country X can produce more of some other product--that country Y will purchase. The fun part here is that country X can even produce that product less efficiently than country Y--it just has to cost less in terms of displaced units of production.
If BOTH sides of that equation do not exist, it is not worthwhile to trade. Until the alternative export product can be defined, it is not in our interest to import those products and services that we have a surplus capacity to produce ourselves and little to nothing for which to otherwise use that capacity.
It is fascinating that the apologists of outsourcing squeal about American entitlement, when they clearly load the argument with their own brand of entitlement. Guess what? Trade is a choice and it is a choice that should be made only when there is a mutual comparative advantage. All one has to do is look at our trade deficit to realize that we are not trading wisely. If we buy everything but sell nothing, we'll go broke. Pretty fscking simple.
All of this crap whether it is trekkies in their Starfleet uniforms or this schmuck in his...erm, whatever...is nothing more than nerd drag. It is less "creative" than some queen who thinks [s]he's Madonna while mouthing the words to "Like a Virgin" in torn-up fishnets at the local karaoke bar. Now, if he did the Pogo and lip-synced to Devo, he might be as interesting, but the idea of seeing that walrus bouncing in the air at 140bpm is just to frightful for words...
He posed a very erroneously loaded question based on false premises. If someone asks "How do you screw in a lightbulb," you might expect a literal answer. However, if someone asks "how do you screw in a lightbulb in corrupt communist China where I was oppressed and the bureaucratic barriers to light-bulb screwing resulted in the oppression of the masses and widespread brain-washing," it is perfectly reasonable to give an answer that addresses more than "get screwed."
Having also lived in eastern Europe, it seems to me that such regimes have produced some of the most questioning, cynical and generally skeptical people on the planet. Don't confuse apathy with assent. Not so long ago, most companies I worked for blocked the ENTIRE internet from employee computers, so I really don't care if they're going to filter some minor subset of it. I can do my unfiltered personal surfing at Starbucks on my breaks and at home at night. What's the problem?
Versatile, duh, I mean, like, it's Viringa and all and everyone knows D.C. is full of nothing but Apple-hugging Poli-Sci major bottoms... wait a minute, I studied Poli-Sci... oy gevalt...
You should see my custom cupholder/cellphone mount.
Really, guys, is it THAT slow of a news day?
...that is to say... it was a "trade war."
Yes, Japan's economy was and is more hostile to imports than the U.S. economy. However, the United States DID respond--with the result that Japanese manufacturers just moved enough production to the United States to circumvent some of the more annoying regulatory hurdles and provide a carrot to the UAW to make them STFU.
I don't disagree with a single word that you have said. I'm just objecting to the notion that it was a dynamic of comparative advantage going on. It was protectionism, which is a different beast driven purely by politics (read: the UAW). Sure, it existed on both sides, but Japanese protectionism isn't what brought Japanese production to the United States. It was the US response to their trade policies that did it. Meanwhile US companies bought Japanese products, slapped their labels on them, said "buy American" and let most of the profits fly back to Asia. Hooray.
It took a major trade war with Japan to get them to move production. The cost of trans-pacific shipping is marginal and the difference in the cost of labor is relatively trivial. However, the difference in tariffs for not being at the domestic source quota is very much non-trivial and is stated in 18pt helvetica bold on the sticker. THAT is the number they were trying to reduce by shipping production to the United States.
This was the result of good 'ol American protectionism and nothing more. Re-writing history to make it sound like it was that invisible hand of the free market is rubbish.
Free market capitalism exists only in textbooks. Not even the blackmarket drug trade is truly a free market--those markets wouldn't exist if not for massive government intervention. It amazes me that someone can blurt out the names Adam Smith or Ayn Rand and get modded as "insightful" as if that's the end of the discussion on anything that can be assigned a "price." Is there ANYTHING on the planet, including money itself, for which the only concern is the price?
No no no, election beams are notoriously innaccurate and subject to severe entropy. ...especially in Florida.
That's a GREAT idea.
In the case I mentioned, it IS deductible, but it's a DEDUCTION not a CREDIT. Big difference. So, your federal bracket is probably, say, 20%. This means, you just made $5 per hour because you just wasted $5000 of your time, since the total came off your AGI, not your bill, yielding an actual credit of $1250. You still had to work the hours at your full rate of pay, you just donated every penny but the income tax. Incidentally, you also paid all the other sundry taxes but only got back the income tax.
You know what would be REALLY smart? JUST DON'T WORK! That's the rub: for tax purposes in the scenario in question, that unpaid work IS INCOME. You are just taking an effective 80% reduction in pay. If you "save" $1250 by losing $6,250, it is safe to say you are just "losing."
But hey, if it still sounds golden to you, go work for the Sisters of Saint Croesus.
With a few exceptions (those paid over $27.50/hour IIRC), in California at least employers are required to pay ALL overtime, approved or not. The law actually reads that if the employer suspects the employee is working overtime but hasn't reported it, they must pay for it. This sounds absurd until you hear about these cases where people are encouraged to work "off the clock" in various ways subtle and blatant and then leave it off the time sheets. My mother works for a major Catholic hospital (the most evil and draconian organizations on the planet IMO) and they "encourage" people to do this on a daily basis. They also encourage employees to formally "donate time" so their compensation can be automatically deducted from payroll and credited back to the hospital. In the end, many employees effectively are 20hr/week slaves. Praise Jesus...
Seriously, there are plenty of free website services where you don't have to register a public domain name. If you are just using URL-forwarding, most of the contact info will point to your ISP anyway--because they are the ones running the servers. The primary point of Whois is to identify the people running the physical servers. Yeah, the internet has gotten more complex and the Whois database doesn't make as much sense as it did even ten years ago, but that's hardly a reason to say "screw it, let's just let everything go all to hell."
With that in mind, if you're running ANY kind of commercial site, your information SHOULD be public and accurate just like a business license (which generates more snail-mail-spam and telemarketers than Whois), articles of incorporation or trademark registration. There's a rather substantial public interest in maintaining a public record of such proven identities.
...and that behavior would be different from a garden-variety /. day how?
/. being amused by bickering idiots.
Step 1) Post a marginally interesting story of questionable authenticity.
Step 2) Watch the endless parade of underwear gnomes and the counter-parade of underwear gnome hate-groups hoping for a bloodbath.
Step 3) Profit! -- by still getting paid for wasting half your day on