When did balls replace intelligence? Looks, if he took the offer and he's as genius, then he can use the money to fund further endeavors. If he takes the money and he's just lucky, then he's made out like a bandit.
Plus: Is there REALLY any pride in this? I can see if he developed a new battery technology, or an superior car or airplane, but this is really just a program that let's kids send naked pictures to each other.
Currently, I walk down to my voting place and vote. They ask for my name, and I give it. If they asked for an ID, I'd pull out my driver's license and be done with it. If I'm too lazy to bring an ID/get one, Should I really be deciding things of importance? This isn't rocket science.
I keep seeing signs like this, and it makes me sad. Probably because everything now seems to be "Guess what?!? That place you liked to go to: It's now going out of business! It will, however, be replaced by the internet. I keep thinking about how eventually everything will be online, and there will be no need to leave your home. The robots will deliver. It's kind of matrix like, if you think about it. Everyone in their tube, no need to leave. I LIKE having to go out into the world to do things. Alternatively, I wouldn't care at all if Amazon went out of business. I realize chains like Blockbuster knocked out smaller shops earlier on, but these large chains are always the last to go, so that's probably why I get that nostalgia.
Can't anyone just say "Good Job India, well done, best of luck on your launch and let's hope everything goes OK, welcome to the club"? Slashdot is the last place I'd expect huge amounts of "Well, if we can't fix all our problem on Earth, we should never go into space". Because YOU WILL NEVER SOLVE ALL YOUR PROBLEMS ON EARTH. Sigh.
What are you talking about? EVERY antibiotic prescription I've received in the last five years has said "Be sure to use all the medication, take all pills until finished, this helps to prevent antibiotic resistance".
You know, people always make fun of visiting McDonald's in another country, but I usually try to cram a visit to one in. It's always interesting to me how the company morphs slightly for each country, and yet still keeps most things recognizable. Don't get me wrong, it's just a very minor part of the overall experience of visiting somewhere else. But it's interesting to see the similarity/difference in a known quantity.
You know.... There is a middle ground to this. There is such a thing as nobody should be able to randomly determine what somebody else "needs", AND Nobody should honestly make that much money.
Jeez, chill out Dr. Buzzkill. People dress up and have some fun. Kids get some candy. A bonfire sounds nice, but I wouldn't say "What's the point of wasting all that wood on a silly bonfire nobody needs, and is a fire danger as well?"
Define "decent salary". It's often skewed to account for the absurd cost of medical school. Because personally, I"m really in favor of what the US military does with their doctors: Free education, in exchange for X years serving in the military as a doctor. Why can't we have a similar system for non-military medical personnel?
That's silly. It kills one of their main consumers, and causes umpteen Chinese citizens to riot when their jobs suddenly disappear and they no longer have a promised way to attain that middle class life they've been promised. What we have currently is Economic MAD. Either side drops the economic bomb all at once, and kablooey!
If you grew up as a kid in the area of the Museum, this was THE cool place to go for a field trip. Fond memories of going there on the bus to see the fossils.
When you take uneducated, unskilled people and present them with bad jobs paying little for large amounts of labor, history teaches us that it usually ends up a certain way--they storm the gates and hang the owners. It's called revolution, and it screws up everything. We should do our best to avoid it. Keep in mind, not everyone is smart or creative. There is a large population of people who are naturally unable to change that.
this makes me think: if you have whistle-blower files, why not keep a second copy lying around, with the names of the whistle-blowers changed to the names of those they're trying to get arrested. Then, let them take what they want.
I can remember, as a kid being Catholic, and one of my evangelical friends informed me that I wasn't a Christian because Catholics worship Mary. I was like "huh??", since it was something I'd never heard of, and he repeated it. I stated that I couldn't remember standing around worshiping Mary, and he pointed out that there was a statue of her in our Catholic Church. My reply was "Yeah, and at Christmas there's statues of sheep near the manger, but we don't worship them either". Keep in mind this same guy wasn't allowed to play Dungeons and Dragons, and eventually burned all his books because they had "demons" in them.
I guess it depends on the quality of those that were installed. In my area, they replaced many traffic lights with round groups of LEDs, probably a few hundred each for green, yellow and red. It's VERY common to see one, for some reason usually green, that's missing 10-20 of these lights.
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When did balls replace intelligence?
Looks, if he took the offer and he's as genius, then he can use the money to fund further endeavors.
If he takes the money and he's just lucky, then he's made out like a bandit.
Plus: Is there REALLY any pride in this?
I can see if he developed a new battery technology, or an superior car or airplane, but this is really just a program that let's kids send naked pictures to each other.
I'd be constantly walking around scaring my coworkers, and screwing up the sensors.
Currently, I walk down to my voting place and vote.
They ask for my name, and I give it.
If they asked for an ID, I'd pull out my driver's license and be done with it.
If I'm too lazy to bring an ID/get one, Should I really be deciding things of importance?
This isn't rocket science.
So....
Rather than call for no verification, why isn't there a gigantic outcry for free IDs?
I just discovered this a few months ago, looked up the definition, and went "whaaaaa? People believe this???"
I keep seeing signs like this, and it makes me sad.
Probably because everything now seems to be "Guess what?!? That place you liked to go to: It's now going out of business! It will, however, be replaced by the internet.
I keep thinking about how eventually everything will be online, and there will be no need to leave your home. The robots will deliver.
It's kind of matrix like, if you think about it. Everyone in their tube, no need to leave.
I LIKE having to go out into the world to do things.
Alternatively, I wouldn't care at all if Amazon went out of business.
I realize chains like Blockbuster knocked out smaller shops earlier on, but these large chains are always the last to go, so that's probably why I get that nostalgia.
Dude, shut up about the "Cold Fjord" stuff already. Fine, we get it, you don't agree with him. move on.
Can't anyone just say "Good Job India, well done, best of luck on your launch and let's hope everything goes OK, welcome to the club"?
Slashdot is the last place I'd expect huge amounts of "Well, if we can't fix all our problem on Earth, we should never go into space".
Because YOU WILL NEVER SOLVE ALL YOUR PROBLEMS ON EARTH.
Sigh.
THIS THIS THIS. Just lose the damn earnings cap on SS!
What could possibly go wrong with putting all the guys who know how to shoot well out of work?
I would pay to see this movie.
What are you talking about?
EVERY antibiotic prescription I've received in the last five years has said "Be sure to use all the medication, take all pills until finished, this helps to prevent antibiotic resistance".
You know, people always make fun of visiting McDonald's in another country, but I usually try to cram a visit to one in. It's always interesting to me how the company morphs slightly for each country, and yet still keeps most things recognizable.
Don't get me wrong, it's just a very minor part of the overall experience of visiting somewhere else. But it's interesting to see the similarity/difference in a known quantity.
You know....
There is a middle ground to this. There is such a thing as nobody should be able to randomly determine what somebody else "needs", AND Nobody should honestly make that much money.
Jeez, chill out Dr. Buzzkill.
People dress up and have some fun. Kids get some candy.
A bonfire sounds nice, but I wouldn't say "What's the point of wasting all that wood on a silly bonfire nobody needs, and is a fire danger as well?"
Essentially: Everyone likes a party.
Define "decent salary". It's often skewed to account for the absurd cost of medical school.
Because personally, I"m really in favor of what the US military does with their doctors: Free education, in exchange for X years serving in the military as a doctor.
Why can't we have a similar system for non-military medical personnel?
My jaw just hit the floor. You just rationally argued that none of us own anything, it belongs to the government.
That's silly.
It kills one of their main consumers, and causes umpteen Chinese citizens to riot when their jobs suddenly disappear and they no longer have a promised way to attain that middle class life they've been promised.
What we have currently is Economic MAD. Either side drops the economic bomb all at once, and kablooey!
If you grew up as a kid in the area of the Museum, this was THE cool place to go for a field trip.
Fond memories of going there on the bus to see the fossils.
When you take uneducated, unskilled people and present them with bad jobs paying little for large amounts of labor, history teaches us that it usually ends up a certain way--they storm the gates and hang the owners.
It's called revolution, and it screws up everything.
We should do our best to avoid it.
Keep in mind, not everyone is smart or creative.
There is a large population of people who are naturally unable to change that.
That's a subjective wonderful, and not an objective one.
this makes me think: if you have whistle-blower files, why not keep a second copy lying around, with the names of the whistle-blowers changed to the names of those they're trying to get arrested.
Then, let them take what they want.
I can remember, as a kid being Catholic, and one of my evangelical friends informed me that I wasn't a Christian because Catholics worship Mary.
I was like "huh??", since it was something I'd never heard of, and he repeated it.
I stated that I couldn't remember standing around worshiping Mary, and he pointed out that there was a statue of her in our Catholic Church.
My reply was "Yeah, and at Christmas there's statues of sheep near the manger, but we don't worship them either".
Keep in mind this same guy wasn't allowed to play Dungeons and Dragons, and eventually burned all his books because they had "demons" in them.
Nope. We simply drone them to death.
No pesky live person left afterwards.
I guess it depends on the quality of those that were installed. In my area, they replaced many traffic lights with round groups of LEDs, probably a few hundred each for green, yellow and red.
It's VERY common to see one, for some reason usually green, that's missing 10-20 of these lights.