Stop whining and just live the life you were given.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
--George Bernard Shaw
What fucking horseshit. Reasonable people do reasonable things and expect others to do the same, unreasonable people do unreasonable things and expect others to do the same. Making the world change in an unreasonable way does not beget progress.
Unreasonable people expect everyone else to do and think exactly like themselves, and consider anyone who does and thinks rationally, but differently, to be unreasonable and irrational. Reasonable people know that in real life, there is usually more than one correct answer.
The bottom line is there are two sexual extremes, male and female. People tend to concentrate on the differences and language reflects that, but in reality, men and women are more alike then different. Hormones have a lot more to do with development than genetics. Some people don't naturally produce enough to be unambiguous.. But, we have more or less the same organs. In guys they drop and either grow larger or atrophy. I don't know if anything atrophies in women, they just move and develop differently. When women get hernias, internal organs want to come out the birth canal. When men get hernias, internal organs want to come out the birth canal except in guys, it's called something else.
This chart shows scientific names, but if you take anything away from this, pay attention to the Skene's glands, which is usually called the G-spot. Unlike the prostate, it can be pressured from either side.
A lot of decades old computers and software were completely replaced just prior to Y2K. Plenty of Cobol programmers were writing patches, but I think plenty of companies realized that this was finally time to go new. Not enough cobol programmers to go around and besides it made for a good sales pitch. No way to know for sure whether it was necessary, but I do think there was a lot of truth in there. But, it's hard to analyze a problem that was anticipated and dealt with.
That's funny, but so true. You get the idea that it's the lawyers who design the toys and the packaging now a days. If your child wants to be a toy maker, you need to impress upon him early on that lawyers can be creative, too. I didn't realize that until I was a grown up engineer facing all kinds of constraints that were not physical or financial in nature as I was taught in school, but had to do with "compliance" and "legal".
Legos have been around a lot longer than you. And they had kits years before they had movie tie ins. It's been an evolving product. The only thing that's stayed the same is the fact that the basic brick is colorful and connects to other parts using a consistent system that hasn't changed over the years. A block built in the 60's will work just fine with one built last week. But, the availability of special parts and the artwork on the box and in the instruction sheet, that has varied over time.
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My kids played with Lego when they were in single digits. A kid that young is more creative when they don't have to think about tolerances. Not all kids are interested in engineering, but if allowed to be creative in simple ways, maybe they will grow up to find the "hard stuff" worth doing. It's simply a matter of allowing the child to see the path from the toy version to the adult version and traverse if interested. Tolerances aren't exactly hard, but they aren't interesting either if all you want if a replica space ship. Let the toy maker deal with tolerance and kids deal with the part they are interested in.
You mean we have a whole generation of kids who have no problem with RTFM?
Or maybe, LEGO used to be like a lot of other creative companies, they created stuff that the guys in R & D enjoyed rather than what real kids enjoyed. Then marketing showed up and convinced management that real kids weren't like the toy designers.
You see the same thing with computers, the creatives have a hard time understanding why regular people are perfectly happy with whatever Microsoft and Fry's are pushing, Until marketing go involved, only geeks played with technology.
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I have no complaint with Lego. My only complain would be with people who think there is only one correct way to assemble a kit.
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That's a great point. Sometimes they aren't ready for adult tools or need some guidance that parents aren't able to provide. I remember how when I had to work on the week ends, I'd take them to the office and set them up with a CAD program. They never designed anything worthwhile on their own, and I couldn't get my own work done if I helped them.
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Once it is assembled just the way you like it, just pop it in the oven for a minute or two. It's plastic, it melts together. When I was a girl, I was allowed to play in the kitchen. No easy bake for me, my parents thought light bulb cooking was stupid, so I learned to do things the right way with grown up tools. Too dangerous for modern boys and girls. When I wanted a toy lathe like my friend had, my dad laughed and then decides he'd rather teach me how to use his tools.
Don't they have some sort of Lego CAD where you can design something and then order exactly the right parts? If not, they should. That would encourage people to buy the genuine article.
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I usually bought TYCO. It was good enough for daily play. If they wanted something special that they would never take apart, then Lego or maybe TYCO with glue. If it had to have the special wheels, then Lego, but only if they contributed some of their hard earned allowance money. It's amazing how requiring a kid to pay even 10% of the cost makes them think twice.
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Interesting comment. I'm middle aged now and my kids are in college (Georgia Tech). I enjoyed exposing them to the joys of creation when they were toddlers. Back then in the 90's, special pieces were truly rare, especially in my house since I rarely bought genuine Legos TM. I bought generic sets of blocks that interconnected with legos because the genuine article cost a lot more, even if it was only a bucket of the not so special bricks. So, the only way Lego could make money off of parents like me was to sell special kits containing special parts. To me, buying plastic bricks was like buying generic ice cream except for special occasions when I let the kids talk me into buying expensive ice cream with special sprinkles or something. It's the best I could do on my grad student stipend. Besides, to me, it was about teaching my kids to enjoy being creative, not being a collector of expensive rare objects.
No need for a brothel. It isn't sex that needs to be studied. Take fertilized eggs and implant as needed. Gestation and birth don't need to be random and unscientific. It might be more fun that way, but sex and reproduction are necessarily linked. I mean, test tube babies have been happening on this planet for thirty years. Freeze the eggs, the sperm, or the embryos. do animal experiments in low gravity near earth. Sure, low g sex is probably fun, but why bother when the technology exists to make babies without it?
Just because things must be done in a particular order on Mars doesn't mean that the R & D on earth must progress in that same sequence or in any sequence. These things are developed in parallel. Designing a comfortable biosphere and testing it for a year or two is a priority. Developing new construction techniques and tools can be done at the same time somewhere else. Air dropping heavy containers on earth is already routine. Dropping vehicles on Mars is something we are already working on. Why wait until we know how to drop the thing before we start having live tests in the desert and the antarctic. Do it all in parallel, start the most time consuming research first.
Ship eggs, not sleeping bodies. Just a few awake humans to "babysit" the eggs and the babies born to replace the babysitters as they die out. By shipping eggs and embryos, we can pack a much more diverse potential population in a tin can.
Cost and price aren't the same thing. Price should exceed cost, otherwise, they wouldn't make any money,
Apparently, their cost has gone down, but the savings aren't being used to lower the price. That's greedy. If they want to sell a less useful product, they should lower the price. The content may be the same, but the higher cost format has a higher value.
Ideally, Cost of production = price = value to user.
Otherwise, someone is getting a raw deal and will probably go away.
What matter is whether they were the whole team, half the team. or deadwood statues of the team.
It's hard for outsiders to recognize the deadwood, and it's hard for insiders to fire their friends. Sometimes takeover time is a good time for insiders to let the outsiders clean house. Is this what happened or was the whole team let go?? This is something that an outside observer can figure just by visiting the parking lot.
Who cares if the were laid off. They are out in either case. Unless they turned into contractors.
Will there be any hams aboard? An awful lot of astronauts are hams and spend much of there downtime chatting on the ham bands. While you must be a ham or with a ham to talk, anyone can listen if they know how.
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Stop whining and just live the life you were given.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
--George Bernard Shaw
What fucking horseshit.
Reasonable people do reasonable things and expect others to do the same, unreasonable people do unreasonable things and expect others to do the same.
Making the world change in an unreasonable way does not beget progress.
Unreasonable people expect everyone else to do and think exactly like themselves, and consider anyone who does and thinks rationally, but differently, to be unreasonable and irrational. Reasonable people know that in real life, there is usually more than one correct answer.
Here's an interesting chart and even some drawings:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L...
The bottom line is there are two sexual extremes, male and female. People tend to concentrate on the differences and language reflects that, but in reality, men and women are more alike then different. Hormones have a lot more to do with development than genetics. Some people don't naturally produce enough to be unambiguous.. But, we have more or less the same organs. In guys they drop and either grow larger or atrophy. I don't know if anything atrophies in women, they just move and develop differently. When women get hernias, internal organs want to come out the birth canal. When men get hernias, internal organs want to come out the birth canal except in guys, it's called something else.
This chart shows scientific names, but if you take anything away from this, pay attention to the Skene's glands, which is usually called the G-spot. Unlike the prostate, it can be pressured from either side.
Cloud is uploaded personalities orbiting in space, reference Rapture of the Nerds
A lot of decades old computers and software were completely replaced just prior to Y2K. Plenty of Cobol programmers were writing patches, but I think plenty of companies realized that this was finally time to go new. Not enough cobol programmers to go around and besides it made for a good sales pitch. No way to know for sure whether it was necessary, but I do think there was a lot of truth in there. But, it's hard to analyze a problem that was anticipated and dealt with.
Super H-Mart then I'd be very popular
That's funny, but so true. You get the idea that it's the lawyers who design the toys and the packaging now a days. If your child wants to be a toy maker, you need to impress upon him early on that lawyers can be creative, too. I didn't realize that until I was a grown up engineer facing all kinds of constraints that were not physical or financial in nature as I was taught in school, but had to do with "compliance" and "legal".
Legos have been around a lot longer than you. And they had kits years before they had movie tie ins. It's been an evolving product. The only thing that's stayed the same is the fact that the basic brick is colorful and connects to other parts using a consistent system that hasn't changed over the years. A block built in the 60's will work just fine with one built last week. But, the availability of special parts and the artwork on the box and in the instruction sheet, that has varied over time.
My kids played with Lego when they were in single digits. A kid that young is more creative when they don't have to think about tolerances. Not all kids are interested in engineering, but if allowed to be creative in simple ways, maybe they will grow up to find the "hard stuff" worth doing. It's simply a matter of allowing the child to see the path from the toy version to the adult version and traverse if interested. Tolerances aren't exactly hard, but they aren't interesting either if all you want if a replica space ship. Let the toy maker deal with tolerance and kids deal with the part they are interested in.
You mean we have a whole generation of kids who have no problem with RTFM?
Or maybe, LEGO used to be like a lot of other creative companies, they created stuff that the guys in R & D enjoyed rather than what real kids enjoyed. Then marketing showed up and convinced management that real kids weren't like the toy designers.
You see the same thing with computers, the creatives have a hard time understanding why regular people are perfectly happy with whatever Microsoft and Fry's are pushing, Until marketing go involved, only geeks played with technology.
I have no complaint with Lego. My only complain would be with people who think there is only one correct way to assemble a kit.
That's a great point. Sometimes they aren't ready for adult tools or need some guidance that parents aren't able to provide. I remember how when I had to work on the week ends, I'd take them to the office and set them up with a CAD program. They never designed anything worthwhile on their own, and I couldn't get my own work done if I helped them.
Once it is assembled just the way you like it, just pop it in the oven for a minute or two. It's plastic, it melts together. When I was a girl, I was allowed to play in the kitchen. No easy bake for me, my parents thought light bulb cooking was stupid, so I learned to do things the right way with grown up tools. Too dangerous for modern boys and girls. When I wanted a toy lathe like my friend had, my dad laughed and then decides he'd rather teach me how to use his tools.
Don't they have some sort of Lego CAD where you can design something and then order exactly the right parts? If not, they should. That would encourage people to buy the genuine article.
I usually bought TYCO. It was good enough for daily play. If they wanted something special that they would never take apart, then Lego or maybe TYCO with glue. If it had to have the special wheels, then Lego, but only if they contributed some of their hard earned allowance money. It's amazing how requiring a kid to pay even 10% of the cost makes them think twice.
Interesting comment. I'm middle aged now and my kids are in college (Georgia Tech). I enjoyed exposing them to the joys of creation when they were toddlers. Back then in the 90's, special pieces were truly rare, especially in my house since I rarely bought genuine Legos TM. I bought generic sets of blocks that interconnected with legos because the genuine article cost a lot more, even if it was only a bucket of the not so special bricks. So, the only way Lego could make money off of parents like me was to sell special kits containing special parts. To me, buying plastic bricks was like buying generic ice cream except for special occasions when I let the kids talk me into buying expensive ice cream with special sprinkles or something. It's the best I could do on my grad student stipend. Besides, to me, it was about teaching my kids to enjoy being creative, not being a collector of expensive rare objects.
Welcome back to the 80's. Remember when some trusted person put the backup in their car trunk at the end of the day?
Hey! Let's get to know each other. What's your name? Type it with quotes around it like this "Ryan" and then press enter on your keyboard.
That's exactly the kind of greeting that I warn children and other newbies not to respond to unless the site is thoroughly vetted.
No need for a brothel. It isn't sex that needs to be studied. Take fertilized eggs and implant as needed. Gestation and birth don't need to be random and unscientific. It might be more fun that way, but sex and reproduction are necessarily linked. I mean, test tube babies have been happening on this planet for thirty years. Freeze the eggs, the sperm, or the embryos. do animal experiments in low gravity near earth. Sure, low g sex is probably fun, but why bother when the technology exists to make babies without it?
Just because things must be done in a particular order on Mars doesn't mean that the R & D on earth must progress in that same sequence or in any sequence. These things are developed in parallel. Designing a comfortable biosphere and testing it for a year or two is a priority. Developing new construction techniques and tools can be done at the same time somewhere else. Air dropping heavy containers on earth is already routine. Dropping vehicles on Mars is something we are already working on. Why wait until we know how to drop the thing before we start having live tests in the desert and the antarctic. Do it all in parallel, start the most time consuming research first.
Ship eggs, not sleeping bodies. Just a few awake humans to "babysit" the eggs and the babies born to replace the babysitters as they die out. By shipping eggs and embryos, we can pack a much more diverse potential population in a tin can.
Cost and price aren't the same thing. Price should exceed cost, otherwise, they wouldn't make any money,
Apparently, their cost has gone down, but the savings aren't being used to lower the price. That's greedy. If they want to sell a less useful product, they should lower the price. The content may be the same, but the higher cost format has a higher value.
Ideally, Cost of production = price = value to user.
Otherwise, someone is getting a raw deal and will probably go away.
Like without dislike bothers me.
What matter is whether they were the whole team, half the team. or deadwood statues of the team.
It's hard for outsiders to recognize the deadwood, and it's hard for insiders to fire their friends. Sometimes takeover time is a good time for insiders to let the outsiders clean house. Is this what happened or was the whole team let go?? This is something that an outside observer can figure just by visiting the parking lot.
Who cares if the were laid off. They are out in either case. Unless they turned into contractors.
How many similarly paid, highly ranked were not let go?
Will there be any hams aboard? An awful lot of astronauts are hams and spend much of there downtime chatting on the ham bands. While you must be a ham or with a ham to talk, anyone can listen if they know how.