The visions dancing in my mind The early dawn, the shades of time Twilight crawling through my windowpane Am I awake or do I dream? The strangest pictures I have seen Night is day and twilight's gone away
With your head held high and your scarlet lies You came down to me from the open skies It's either real or it's a dream There's nothing that is in between...
Twilight, I only meant to stay awhile Twilight, I gave you time to steal my mind Away from me.
Across the night I saw your face You disappeared without a trace You brought me here, but can you take me back? Inside the image of your light That now is day and once was night You lead me here and then you go away.
Twilight, I only meant to stay awhile Twilight, I gave you time to steal my mind Away from me.
(You brought me here, but can you take me back again?)
With your head held high and your scarlet lies You came down to me from the open skies
Twilight, I only meant to stay awhile Twilight, I gave you time to steal my mind Away from me.
We all know the saying "The best way to avoid a trap is to know of its existence."
Are not the majority of games developers, let alone IT workers, intelligent enough to avoid falling into the same trap as other unions?
Just as it was said, form a union to help with conditions, pay and benefits. Find a comfortable medium and rubber stamp Cost of Living increases with each contract. It's not difficult. Setup the union to avoid corruption and have checks in place to assure it.
I remember when I was a young program. Barely compiled I was. And it took us 40ns to get from the Hard Drive across the BUS to the CPU and then another 40ns to get to a memory address. And this was in copper of 300 Ohms with EM static from an AM radio next to us!
Darn! If it's that far ahead and that fast how do we catch it?
I suggest to all the Distinguished Gentlemen and/. Senators that we propose a new line item in the budget to create a committee that will establish a subcommittee who will appropriate the funds to create a NASA research team to create a technology to deliver us to this transparent aluminum. What? Transparent aluminum is needed to get there?!
Hey! We in the Matrix are still trying! I do not know who programmed the bug that let a George W. Bush as president, but we will bring the world back into line. Flying cars. Robots. Space Colonies. Sit back and enjoy it humans. Just expect many deja vu moments.
They may be annoying, but you can't honestly sit there and act like it's morally reprehensible or something.
Well it's not an affront to God and country, but it is sleazy and annoying. If the caller obeys all laws it's still annoying. Like ambulance chasing lawyers. IANAL, but depending on the state, it's not illegal. Just sleazy and anyone connected with it also contributes to something irreputable.
Frankly, I am in agreement with the responding posters who feel that telemarketers are the scum of the earth. I won't threaten you, but I won't stop being rude to you before taking your advice and telling you to take me off your caller list. I shouldn't have to do that, but until we drive this profession into oblivion that'll have to be the cross we bear. Phones are useful (sometimes necessary tools) for communication and telemarketers pervert them for the own selfish gains through unwanted solicitation. Even if you feel you are doing nothing wrong as a caller, you are an unwitting pawn and deluding yourself. It's why I NEVER took a telemarketing job even when I was completely broke and starving. If I had kids to feed I'd rather donate my blood plasma, work a fast food job and work my way through night school!
If you happen to be a telemarketer again, may your phone chip and shatter.
I dunno. If I found the cure for AIDS, I'd start by charging beaucoup bucks for it to pay off the investors and the pharmacutical company patents. Then use the rest to determine a way to make the cure so cheap that kids could get it from gumball machines by the handful for a $1.00
The cure for this should be like curing for any other disease. Wipe it off the planet like we're doing with polio! If I could make it for free, I'd be in the streets throwing it around like confetti and damn the profits!
Y'know what? I don't care. I don't care that they have to scramble and struggle and fight to figure out what laws each state has! Let them have those difficulties for all the years I've had to bear Telemarketers calls! The organizations that perpetrate cold calls and telemarketing calls deserve to have problems. If you are currently a Telemarketers, find a different job! I don't want you calling me. This isn't the 50's where lives are made and broken by going door to door in order to sell goods.
And God help you if you are a software developer that helps these jackals do anything easier. For you are truly a drain on life and a waster of the human soul.
I liked it. Especially the part about Neo being dissed and worried. Heh heh heh, stupid Neo . .. thinks he's the "one". Everyone knows I'll find him and kill him again, or at least give him the ol' Matrix dutch rub.
Let's find out. I got my copy of Matrix: Revolutions right here. OK. Pop the DVD in . . . skip to the end and . .. AWW! Sonofabitch!
The negative stereotypes of body modificated people stems from the hippy counter culture of the late 60's.
Concervative people hiring people who chose a counter culture or altervative culture lifestyle notices their values of things like time and money were radically different. (ie. showing up for work on time. value for property etc.) I'm not saying that all hippies were unrealiable, but I think this feeling was perpetuated among mainstream Americans.
Part of counter culture involved "strange things" like tatoos. Also, the growing prominence of biker clubs didn't help the rep of those with tatoos.
I understand non mainstream body piercing was originally developed as a tribal custom or ritual from foreign lands. My knowledge on how this practice was brought to the US could fit on a postage stamp. Somewhere this practice was performed by people considered to be of ill repute and not reliable workers just like the hippy stereotype. Really, as mainstream American is concerned these folks are all lumped into the same counter culture and discriminated against accordingly.
Fast forward a little to the early 90's when alternative grunge music came along. Punk was back in the air. It wasn't unusual to see folks back in the punker lifestyle with dyed hair or piercings. Also a nod to the goth folks for bring piercings in as well. We also have sports figures who have tatoos and piercings. Body modification comes to be in vogue amoung the rich and famous of hollywood with Rappers having ear studs, actors and actresses with discrete tatoos.
The problem is that there is all this negative connotation for people who are hard working and reliable people who have chosen to modify themselves.
I personally do not have any tatoos, body piercings or modifications that are not for medicals reasons (I have glasses). I also in my experience the people I have encountered who have heavy body modifications are people who have tended to adhere to the stereotype: mentally unbalanced, unreliable at work etc. But personal derisions aside, I'm willing to give anyone a fair shake at seeing if they can do a job. I would question someone who shows up for an interview with heavy piercings as a sign of disrespect. I'm sure your body modification is a part of you, but it is a distraction when someone is trying to find out who you are. It's a terrible thing to say, but someone finds out who you are as a person they might not be as bothered by body modifications unless the place you work for handles and large amount of concervative customers.
For example, an office I worked at as an IT intern seemed to work like this. New workers always came in bright and shiny with patent leather shoes and a new suit. After a while they looked around and saw the office culture and modified their look. Maybe they dressed in corporate casual, or depending on their interaction with the public they dressed in jeans and nobody minded one bit including the CEO and CIO who would always be dressed to the nines.
Slashdot Mirror
I call your Prologue and raise you . . .
Twilight
The visions dancing in my mind
The early dawn, the shades of time
Twilight crawling through my windowpane
Am I awake or do I dream?
The strangest pictures I have seen
Night is day and twilight's gone away
With your head held high and your scarlet lies
You came down to me from the open skies
It's either real or it's a dream
There's nothing that is in between...
Twilight, I only meant to stay awhile
Twilight, I gave you time to steal my mind
Away from me.
Across the night I saw your face
You disappeared without a trace
You brought me here, but can you take me back?
Inside the image of your light
That now is day and once was night
You lead me here and then you go away.
Twilight, I only meant to stay awhile
Twilight, I gave you time to steal my mind
Away from me.
(You brought me here, but can you take me back again?)
With your head held high and your scarlet lies
You came down to me from the open skies
Twilight, I only meant to stay awhile
Twilight, I gave you time to steal my mind
Away from me.
Proposal for first neural implant:
Spell checker.
Gentlemen, we have a bug gap!
We're over the rainbow on this one!
We all know the saying
"The best way to avoid a trap is to know of its existence."
Are not the majority of games developers, let alone IT workers, intelligent
enough to avoid falling into the same trap as other unions?
Just as it was said, form a union to help with conditions, pay and benefits.
Find a comfortable medium and rubber stamp Cost of Living increases with each contract.
It's not difficult. Setup the union to avoid corruption and have checks in place to
assure it.
I remember when I was a young program. Barely compiled I was.
And it took us 40ns to get from the Hard Drive across the BUS
to the CPU and then another 40ns to get to a memory address.
And this was in copper of 300 Ohms with EM static from an AM radio
next to us!
And we liked it! We loved it!
To Spoonman:
Ha Ha!
I'm afraid your attempts to use foil hats to 'foil' our mind control attempts
were all a ruse of our making.
Foils hats are wrong.
If you are still wearing your foil hats: The Matrix says Google Base is bueno!
Yeah, but cancer can't shamble out and kill your enemies or shuffle off for pizza when properly commanded.
Darn! If it's that far ahead and that fast how do we catch it?
/. Senators that we propose
I suggest to all the Distinguished Gentlemen and
a new line item in the budget to create a committee that will establish a subcommittee
who will appropriate the funds to create a NASA research team to create a technology to
deliver us to this transparent aluminum. What? Transparent aluminum is needed to get there?!
You cannot handle the concept of a flying car.
Your human mind keeps on trying to wake up from it.
Narrrr! I gets three rods to the hogshead and thats the ways I likes it!
Slashdot is a Protoculture in itself.
Hey! We in the Matrix are still trying! I do not know who
programmed the bug that let a George W. Bush as president, but
we will bring the world back into line. Flying cars. Robots.
Space Colonies. Sit back and enjoy it humans.
Just expect many
deja vu moments.
And where is the byline for my quote?
lav-chan said
They may be annoying, but you can't honestly sit there and act like it's morally reprehensible or something.
Well it's not an affront to God and country, but it is sleazy and annoying. If the caller obeys all laws it's still annoying. Like ambulance chasing lawyers. IANAL, but depending on the state, it's not illegal. Just sleazy and anyone connected with it also contributes to something irreputable.
Frankly, I am in agreement with the responding posters who feel that telemarketers are the scum of the earth. I won't threaten you, but I won't stop being rude to you before taking your advice and telling you to take me off your caller list. I shouldn't have to do that, but until we drive this profession into oblivion that'll have to be the cross we bear. Phones are useful (sometimes necessary tools) for communication and telemarketers pervert them for the own selfish gains through unwanted solicitation. Even if you feel you are doing nothing wrong as a caller, you are an unwitting pawn and deluding yourself. It's why I NEVER took a telemarketing job even when I was completely broke and starving. If I had kids to feed I'd rather donate my blood plasma, work a fast food job and work my way through night school!
If you happen to be a telemarketer again, may your phone chip and shatter.
Can't sleep . . . dupes will eat me!
Naw. It's a new Xbox 360 game:
Dance Dance Revelations
At Otakon we call that the "Otafunk"
Although the AC was turned up a day early and the temp at Baltimore wasn't a sweltering death trap either which may explain the lowered levels.
I dunno. If I found the cure for AIDS, I'd start by charging beaucoup bucks for it to pay off the investors and the pharmacutical company patents. Then use the rest to determine a way to make the cure so cheap that kids could get it from gumball machines by the handful for a $1.00
The cure for this should be like curing for any other disease. Wipe it off the planet like we're doing with polio! If I could make it for free, I'd be in the streets throwing it around like confetti and damn the profits!
Anon Coward says-
Oh, yeah, and you get to watch all these idiot shaven monkeys die.
Kodos is that you?
Okay. It's kinda on topic.
Bart: Go, Dad, go!
Lisa: "How doth the hero strong and brave,
A celestial path in the heavens pave."
Everyone: Huh?
Lisa: [quiet] Go, Dad, go.
Quote from Simpson's episode titled
Deep Space Homer
Y'know what? I don't care.
I don't care that they have to scramble and struggle and fight to figure out what laws each state has! Let them have those difficulties for all the years I've had to bear Telemarketers calls! The organizations that perpetrate cold calls and telemarketing calls deserve to have problems.
If you are currently a Telemarketers, find a different job! I don't want you calling me. This isn't the 50's where lives are made and broken by going door to door in order to sell goods.
And God help you if you are a software developer that helps these jackals do anything easier. For you are truly a drain on life and a waster of the human soul.
Am I bitter? Naw.
I liked it. Especially the part about Neo being dissed and worried. Heh heh heh, stupid Neo . . .
.
thinks he's the "one". Everyone knows I'll find him and kill him again, or at least give him the ol' Matrix dutch rub.
Let's find out. I got my copy of Matrix: Revolutions right here.
OK. Pop the DVD in . . . skip to the end and . .
AWW! Sonofabitch!
Paul Hunter and Eva Ray star in the cinematic classic:
Attack of the Atomic Catfish from Mars! in
Technicolor.
Now featuring scenes in Fish-o-vision!
All those . . moments are lost. Like blogs on the net.
I have a hypothesis.
The negative stereotypes of body modificated people stems from the hippy counter culture of the late 60's.
Concervative people hiring people who chose a counter culture or altervative culture lifestyle notices their values of things like time and money were radically different. (ie. showing up for work on time. value for property etc.) I'm not saying that all hippies were unrealiable, but I think this feeling was perpetuated among mainstream Americans.
Part of counter culture involved "strange things" like tatoos. Also, the growing prominence of biker clubs didn't help the rep of those with tatoos.
I understand non mainstream body piercing was originally developed as a tribal custom or ritual from foreign lands. My knowledge on how this practice was brought to the US could fit on a postage stamp. Somewhere this practice was performed by people considered to be of ill repute and not reliable workers just like the hippy stereotype. Really, as mainstream American is concerned these folks are all lumped into the same counter culture and discriminated against accordingly.
Fast forward a little to the early 90's when alternative grunge music came along. Punk was back in the air. It wasn't unusual to see folks back in the punker lifestyle with dyed hair or piercings. Also a nod to the goth folks for bring piercings in as well. We also have sports figures who have tatoos and piercings. Body modification comes to be in vogue amoung the rich and famous of hollywood with Rappers having ear studs, actors and actresses with discrete tatoos.
The problem is that there is all this negative connotation for people who are hard working and reliable people who have chosen to modify themselves.
I personally do not have any tatoos, body piercings or modifications that are not for medicals reasons (I have glasses). I also in my experience the people I have encountered who have heavy body modifications are people who have tended to adhere to the stereotype: mentally unbalanced, unreliable at work etc. But personal derisions aside, I'm willing to give anyone a fair shake at seeing if they can do a job. I would question someone who shows up for an interview with heavy piercings as a sign of disrespect. I'm sure your body modification is a part of you, but it is a distraction when someone is trying to find out who you are. It's a terrible thing to say, but someone finds out who you are as a person they might not be as bothered by body modifications unless the place you work for handles and large amount of concervative customers.
For example, an office I worked at as an IT intern seemed to work like this. New workers always came in bright and shiny with patent leather shoes and a new suit. After a while they looked around and saw the office culture and modified their look. Maybe they dressed in corporate casual, or depending on their interaction with the public they dressed in jeans and nobody minded one bit including the CEO and CIO who would always be dressed to the nines.