My thoughts exactly. Searched for someone else who made the same point to find it way-late in the thread. Why has no one brought this to attention yet? What part of photography catagorizers someone as a geek? Or have I missed a broadening of the definition lately?...
Blake Edwards said it best when receiving his oscar for life-long achievement: "I want to thank my enemies too. I couldn't've done it without the enemies...."
I reported to a bad CIO for years. First off, the mind of a politician isn't much different from that of a corporate-climber. I found the same mind in my experiences with attornies. It's enough to make anyone appreciate the misanthrope Jonathan Swift. At the core of all these folks is a basic deceptiveness invented, grown and maintained with one single goal: power.
I've read Ringer and I've read Lewis. Ringer says, "Look out for number One." Lewis rebutes (although he wrote this before Ringer by decades), "a life devoid of virtue is simple a life looking out for number one.... and void of its purpose...." Or something to that effect.
I could write a novel containing my thoughts and experiences on the bad CIO, but in short I believe being absent any real talent, being totally goal-oriented and power-hungry, they practice basic machievelian manipulations and mob psychology to intimidate people into staying in line.
In my experience, any true and honest person that happened into an officer position at a corporation is quickly devoured by the meat-eaters.
If you want a life and job filled with honest work, non-game-playing individuals and good sleep at night, then read the signs and minds of those around you, build yourself, bend the questionable intentions of those around you into tools that form who you are, and, as Shakespeare put it, "to thine ownself be true." Eventually, you'll find that job and slowly realize "yes, I'm here. I can just do a fulfilling job and get paid."
The first layer filters the sun and repels the water. The second layer, using 'nano-dust' is able to push dirt to the side. The third layer acts as a sensor that activates the second layer when it detects dirt, while the fourth layer is a conductor of electricity to power this complex mechanism. I haven't been able to find an English article, but there is always a google powered translation of the Italian article....
The fifth layer is a bum who skirts the windshield with a windex bottle filled with gutter water, wipes it with a clothe he found, and then you hand him some change from your pocket....
Let's apply that logic to another, known future crisis that was understood years in advance, and that everyone waited to happen to actually do something about it:
So just wait until it costs more to live with the levies breaking in New Orleans and rebuilding the city than to actually build a new levy system. Then EVERYONE will be working on a solution.
You couldn't be more wrong. This is obviously an effort by the U.S. military to cover-up the fact that they used Iron Man to shoot down the satellite....
General Jack D. Ripper: Mandrake, do you recall what Clemenceau once said about war?
Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: No, I don't think I do, sir, no.
General Jack D. Ripper: He said war was too important to be left to the generals. When he said that, 50 years ago, he might have been right. But today, war is too important to be left to politicians. They have neither the time, the training, nor the inclination for strategic thought. I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.
I'll do the obligatory "I listen to all forms of political commentary" cuz I do. I'm an avowed moderate. That being said, I listened to a lot of Limbaugh. He offended me often especially when making fun of the homeless and such. I think he has some price to pay in the afterlife for that. All of that being said, I found his detailed commentary and explanations of congressional votes very interesting. I must admit that, at times, he would show a cspan clip of a vote and explain, in layman's terms, what was happening. Amazingly, he had the ability to take boring, monotone events such as this and bring them to life. I would then go google the event and learn more.
Bottomeline: there's a bit more to him than meets the eye. Yes, he's a zealot, offensive, etc., but he is not useless. Everyone has something to offer, and we must glean what we can from all people in our lives whether we meet them in person, watch them on tv or listen to on the radio, or even read their thoughts from a book. Even Hamlet found Claudius intriguing at times.
Nietzsche had to look into the abyss to discover it looked back....
That phone is obviously evidence of intelligent life. It was surely used by the same aliens who did the face on mars.... It is probably how the two planets communicated with each other....
Fischer said some unfortunate things about the U.S., but if you knew his history and the way he drug into U.S. cold war politics -- against his will -- maybe you'd be a little more understanding. It was none other than the Nixon administration that leveled its weight against him. Fischer strikes you as one who doesn't like to be pushed around. When forced, he forced back. Ironic that he became an unwilling "pawn" in such a way. The aftermath is he left the U.S. never to return. I would like it better myself if he had never said such nasty things, but then again, he's Bobby Fischer....
As an insane genius he's in good company. Nietzsche, Nash, Van Gogh, Poe, Plath, Camus, Kafka -- the list goes on.
Be careful when discrediting others based on their flaws alone. Fischer is the archetype of chess masters, the platonic ideal of such.
I used to love to say to others, "Deep Blue never played Bobby Fischer."
Fischer's final years, much like Nietzsche, were fogged by mental illness. Give the man a break, and celebrate his achievements alone without besmirching his name. My god, placing such a negative post at the top of this discussion. Wtf modded that up?
Evil: If you're wrong, Benson, my revenge will be slow and unpleasant. I will turn you inside out over a very long period of time.
Benson: Oh, thank you, Master. Thank you.
The problem is, how would you know it was god and not some advanced life form? Ancient humans with smaller brains would consider us or our mysterious technology 'gods'.
Evil: God isn't interested in technology. He knows nothing of the potential of the microchip or the silicon revolution. Look how He spends His time-forty-three species of parrot. Nipples for men.
Evil: Slugs? He created slugs? They can't hear. They can't speak. They can't operate machinery. I mean, are we not in the hands of a lunatic?
--Time Bandits
Supreme Being: Is it all ready? Right. Come on then. Back to creation. We mustn't waste any more time. They'll think I've lost control again and put it all down to evolution.
--Time Bandits
Kevin: Who was that man? Fidgit: That was no man. That was the Supreme Being. Kevin: You mean God? Fidgit: Well, we don't know Him that well. We only work for Him. Randall: Shut up!
Reminds of Red Buttons on Dennis Miller (when he was on HBO). The subject was about being old and Buttons came on after Miller's classic rant. Miller says, "so you're here to represent the old...." Buttons starts with "oh, I'm not old. Old is when your wife asks you to go up stairs and have sex and you say, 'well, make up your mind. I can't do both.'"
He then rattles off joke after joke and Miller is in tears. Then this guy calls in and says, "why can women get their tits done, but a guy can't get his hair done?" Without missing a beat Buttons says, "I once had the hair on my tits done." Miller is dying....
No, he's saying that the military using video games to train in the act of killing people is very bad. He seems to miss the point that actually killing people after the training is sorta worse.
Why don't this protest real killing instead of fake killing? I'd have far more respect for him.
This just in: child sued by Thompson for holding up finger and going, "bang!"....
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My thoughts exactly. Searched for someone else who made the same point to find it way-late in the thread. Why has no one brought this to attention yet? What part of photography catagorizers someone as a geek? Or have I missed a broadening of the definition lately?...
lol. i don't write good on a good day. No spell/grammar check ftw!
Love the grammar-nazis. Just don't be an ops-nazi. Really hate those guys in irc channels....
Blake Edwards said it best when receiving his oscar for life-long achievement: "I want to thank my enemies too. I couldn't've done it without the enemies...."
I reported to a bad CIO for years. First off, the mind of a politician isn't much different from that of a corporate-climber. I found the same mind in my experiences with attornies. It's enough to make anyone appreciate the misanthrope Jonathan Swift. At the core of all these folks is a basic deceptiveness invented, grown and maintained with one single goal: power.
I've read Ringer and I've read Lewis. Ringer says, "Look out for number One." Lewis rebutes (although he wrote this before Ringer by decades), "a life devoid of virtue is simple a life looking out for number one.... and void of its purpose...." Or something to that effect.
I could write a novel containing my thoughts and experiences on the bad CIO, but in short I believe being absent any real talent, being totally goal-oriented and power-hungry, they practice basic machievelian manipulations and mob psychology to intimidate people into staying in line.
In my experience, any true and honest person that happened into an officer position at a corporation is quickly devoured by the meat-eaters.
If you want a life and job filled with honest work, non-game-playing individuals and good sleep at night, then read the signs and minds of those around you, build yourself, bend the questionable intentions of those around you into tools that form who you are, and, as Shakespeare put it, "to thine ownself be true." Eventually, you'll find that job and slowly realize "yes, I'm here. I can just do a fulfilling job and get paid."
Trust me, it happens....
The first layer filters the sun and repels the water. The second layer, using 'nano-dust' is able to push dirt to the side. The third layer acts as a sensor that activates the second layer when it detects dirt, while the fourth layer is a conductor of electricity to power this complex mechanism. I haven't been able to find an English article, but there is always a google powered translation of the Italian article....
The fifth layer is a bum who skirts the windshield with a windex bottle filled with gutter water, wipes it with a clothe he found, and then you hand him some change from your pocket....
Let's apply that logic to another, known future crisis that was understood years in advance, and that everyone waited to happen to actually do something about it:
So just wait until it costs more to live with the levies breaking in New Orleans and rebuilding the city than to actually build a new levy system. Then EVERYONE will be working on a solution.
ynot
I think they hit steve fossett too....
The American military at least had the decency to toast a decaying satellite, so the debris will re-enter sooner rather than later.
Yay?
You couldn't be more wrong. This is obviously an effort by the U.S. military to cover-up the fact that they used Iron Man to shoot down the satellite....
General Jack D. Ripper: Mandrake, do you recall what Clemenceau once said about war?
Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: No, I don't think I do, sir, no.
General Jack D. Ripper: He said war was too important to be left to the generals. When he said that, 50 years ago, he might have been right. But today, war is too important to be left to politicians. They have neither the time, the training, nor the inclination for strategic thought. I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.
--Dr Strangelove
Can someone please show this guy the 1st Amendment and how to turn off caps lock when typing his password?
I'll do the obligatory "I listen to all forms of political commentary" cuz I do. I'm an avowed moderate. That being said, I listened to a lot of Limbaugh. He offended me often especially when making fun of the homeless and such. I think he has some price to pay in the afterlife for that. All of that being said, I found his detailed commentary and explanations of congressional votes very interesting. I must admit that, at times, he would show a cspan clip of a vote and explain, in layman's terms, what was happening. Amazingly, he had the ability to take boring, monotone events such as this and bring them to life. I would then go google the event and learn more.
Bottomeline: there's a bit more to him than meets the eye. Yes, he's a zealot, offensive, etc., but he is not useless. Everyone has something to offer, and we must glean what we can from all people in our lives whether we meet them in person, watch them on tv or listen to on the radio, or even read their thoughts from a book. Even Hamlet found Claudius intriguing at times.
Nietzsche had to look into the abyss to discover it looked back....
What a wordy way to say, "cool"....
That phone is obviously evidence of intelligent life. It was surely used by the same aliens who did the face on mars.... It is probably how the two planets communicated with each other....
Fischer said some unfortunate things about the U.S., but if you knew his history and the way he drug into U.S. cold war politics -- against his will -- maybe you'd be a little more understanding. It was none other than the Nixon administration that leveled its weight against him. Fischer strikes you as one who doesn't like to be pushed around. When forced, he forced back. Ironic that he became an unwilling "pawn" in such a way. The aftermath is he left the U.S. never to return. I would like it better myself if he had never said such nasty things, but then again, he's Bobby Fischer....
As an insane genius he's in good company. Nietzsche, Nash, Van Gogh, Poe, Plath, Camus, Kafka -- the list goes on.
Be careful when discrediting others based on their flaws alone. Fischer is the archetype of chess masters, the platonic ideal of such.
I used to love to say to others, "Deep Blue never played Bobby Fischer."
Fischer's final years, much like Nietzsche, were fogged by mental illness. Give the man a break, and celebrate his achievements alone without besmirching his name. My god, placing such a negative post at the top of this discussion. Wtf modded that up?
Mycenae King: Who sent you, the gods? Was it Zeus? Apollo? Athena? Well, you're certainly a chatty little fellow, aren't you?
Mycenae King: Who sent you, the gods? Was it Zeus? Apollo? Athena? Well, you're certainly a chatty little fellow, aren't you?
--Time Bandits
I can't make it any clearer, sorry
Evil: If you're wrong, Benson, my revenge will be slow and unpleasant. I will turn you inside out over a very long period of time.
Benson: Oh, thank you, Master. Thank you.
--Time Bandits
The problem is, how would you know it was god and not some advanced life form? Ancient humans with smaller brains would consider us or our mysterious technology 'gods'.
Evil: God isn't interested in technology. He knows nothing of the potential of the microchip or the silicon revolution. Look how He spends His time-forty-three species of parrot. Nipples for men.
--Time Bandits
Evil: Slugs? He created slugs? They can't hear. They can't speak. They can't operate machinery. I mean, are we not in the hands of a lunatic?
--Time Bandits
Supreme Being: Is it all ready? Right. Come on then. Back to creation. We mustn't waste any more time. They'll think I've lost control again and put it all down to evolution.
--Time Bandits
Kevin: Who was that man?
Fidgit: That was no man. That was the Supreme Being.
Kevin: You mean God?
Fidgit: Well, we don't know Him that well. We only work for Him.
Randall: Shut up!
--Time Bandits
Arrrr, matees, thar be parn!...
Reminds of Red Buttons on Dennis Miller (when he was on HBO). The subject was about being old and Buttons came on after Miller's classic rant. Miller says, "so you're here to represent the old...." Buttons starts with "oh, I'm not old. Old is when your wife asks you to go up stairs and have sex and you say, 'well, make up your mind. I can't do both.'"
He then rattles off joke after joke and Miller is in tears. Then this guy calls in and says, "why can women get their tits done, but a guy can't get his hair done?" Without missing a beat Buttons says, "I once had the hair on my tits done." Miller is dying....
K, I'm done....
No, he's saying that the military using video games to train in the act of killing people is very bad. He seems to miss the point that actually killing people after the training is sorta worse.
Why don't this protest real killing instead of fake killing? I'd have far more respect for him.
This just in: child sued by Thompson for holding up finger and going, "bang!"....