Didn't woman tell us they where equal? And didn't they tell us we should hire them in the same proportion as man, for any job, as they are equally good at it? Including jobs where physical strength might be important? If so, why is it that they don't compete with everyone else?
Let's take the 100 meter event: From Wikipedia:
"The 10-second barrier is a term used in track and field athletics which refers to the physical and psychological barrier of completing the men's 100 metres sprint in under ten seconds. The achievement was traditionally regarded as the hallmark of a world class sprinter, but its significance has become less important since the late 1990s as an increasing number of runners have surpassed the ten seconds mark.[1]"
Ok, great. Man's 10 fastest times ever goes from 9.58 (record) to 9.84. Woman's 10 fastest ever goes from 10.49 (record) to 10.77.
So, essentially we have two categories in the Olympics: Really fast, and somewhat fast. And the gold medal given in both is equal. Hey, I want equality too. I'm a 28 year old man who smokes 2 packs a day, and I want to compete too. We should create another category for people who can finish the race within 20 seconds. So we'll have: the 9 seconds race, the 10 seconds race, and the 20 seconds race. How about that?
Fuck this kind of equality. I'm all for real equality. Real equality means no special imposed barriers for anyone based solely on gender. Open up the olympics, let man and woman compete in any category freely. That's equality. Creating special slow groups so that woman can win too is not equality, it's Bullshit.
Could literally be replaced with a simple script that generates lyrics using a small keyword dictionary, another script that mashes several midis of other songs using some basic rules to create "original" music, then pipes the output into festival, then pipes that into autotune. We could even add another script that uploads the result to itunes.
Social anything is bullshit. I don't need big corporations to track who I speak to. Why am I expected to have 200 friends? Anybody that says they have more than a handful of friends doesn't really understand the meaning of the word friend. Acquaintances, buddies, coworkers... sure. But friends? Quite a different thing. So, why would I publish my life online so that anybody can find out about it from the comfort of their homes? I don't hide my activities. If you want to know anything about my life, it's enough to call and ask. But publishing them is altogether a different thing.
Ultimately, my rejection of social.* isn't because I'm a privacy nut. My google account is tied to just about every service they have, and they've run my email since 2004 or so (I got my account very early in the invite-only era of gmail). My company's mail goes through google for your domain (now google apps). It's not tracking that bothers me the most, it's just that I find the whole concept of the social web stupid. If I'm interested in knowing something about you, I'll call you and we'll catch up over a beer. I don't need twitter or facebook or whatever. The reason I block everything is it just pisses me off how they creep around you and stalk you all the time into creating an account.
So, yeah, Fuck facebook, fuck twitter, fuck myspace, fuck google plus, and fuck every other asshole doing anything labeled social. Leave me the fuck alone.
Loserboy. That is so interesting. Your trollish username and your general store-bought, stock internet tough guy attitude go so well with that word. Loserboy. Obviously, your understanding of the world doesn't go beyond winners and losers, so you brand yourself a jock and pretend you are a winner. One day you'll realize you are 30, and all you'll have to show for that time will be a few pathetic attempts at trolling strangers on the internet, a failed relationship or two, and a few exaggerated memories of high school. Those where the days, huh? I guess they ain't coming back. Not for you.
Big difference there. Cars are for transportation. Killing is a side effect.
You are gonna tell me that guns aren't for killing, that they are for defense. Well, how does that defense work? That's right, killing the supposed threat. Also, the numbers speak for themselves.
Please reply to this post when the US doesn't have more than 10 thousand gun homicides a year, #4 in the world only after Colombia, Thailand and South Africa.
My associate and me started our company back in 2007, and the first product we developed was a hybrid DVR/NVR. During the dev process, we had to run around for the cameras testing our motion detection algorithms, and some other more complex stuff such as direction detection, object tracking, etc.
The real fun started when we started selling a few as a kind of public beta, and realized that a) we didn't have any kind of infrastructure to handle major installs b) companies that did this sucked at it, so our attempt at outsourcing the task ended fairly quickly. We went quicker than you can say 75-ohm-impedance from developers to running around town, installing cameras 10 meters above our heads, running hundreds of meters of cable a day, and crawling through service floors.
Sure, the startup quickly grew into a profitable company, the product matured, we hired technicians, got a distribution network, and started working on other products. But even now, 5 years later, I train new technicians myself, and supervise myself any major installation (and I can't just stand there while others work, so every time I go out with the techs, I work just like one of them)
Also, you are required in the company, everywhere, at the same fucking time, so you go from your office, to the lab, to the coder's room, then out to the bank, then to visit customers, then to oversee some installation, then back to the office...
And that's not taking into account our basketball-brakes (we've got a small court at the company's backyard).
Overall, I do more exercise than I ever did before.
The result: I'm still fucking fat, because that's more related to what you eat than how much you exercise. The amount of workout you would need in order to offset eating like a fucking whale would be gargantuan.
But, hey, at least I'm not sitting at the desk all the time, and I have a lot of fun!
Talking about that, time to walk the dog and go to the office...
Samsung has been constantly at their throats only with a different weapon than the courts.
You are absolutely right. Samsung has been attacking apple in a terrible, awful, unethical way. Samsung has actually been attacking apple by putting better looking, more functional, and generally better products into the market. And this, unlike apple's offering, are open, you can install whatever firmware you want into them, you can install any app you want, even if they are not in the market, and they are cheaper!. How dare samsung do such a thing!
Really, what other "weapons other than the courts" are you talking about? They called them names?
This is bullshit. I don't usually defend faceless corporations, but I do defend the truth. Apple has been attacking samsung for a long time, and since the system is screwed, the only defense samsung has is hitting them back.
Saying they are at each others throats is bullshit. Apple has been at samsung's (and everybody else's) throat for a long time, and samsung is hitting back.
I don't use Skype, but I assume they are not happily wasting bandwidth. I'm pretty sure the audio is being reinvited whenever possible (meaning it's just signalling going between you and the skype server, and it just tells you the IP of your peer, and you send your media straight over there through RTP.
Also, our company has consistently doubled its net income every fiscal year since 2009, and we've managed to finance our own growth without any kind of external financing (no venture capital, no loans)
4 major products developed over the course of 5 years. We released a total of 173 new versions for those systems since 2008. Our most popular product, the only HTML5 CCTV DVR that works out of the box on Android, iOS, and all major browsers is handling over 17.000 cameras installed nationwide. Our e-learning platform is handling more than half a million students.
New Rule: You can't say both "we as americans have a constitutional right to own firearms" and "this is a tragedy". You just can't. If you believe in gun rights, then you can't complain when this happens.
Well, sure, as a religious person you can fart as loud as any atheist. But there is something that atheists have that makes them great coders: LOGIC.
Any reasonably smart person capable of critical thinking and understanding logic doesn't believe in any imaginary guys in the sky. If you do, it shows a deep flaw in your mentality, and makes you unfit to work for me.
I stopped reading at I'm catholic. That's where you should have stopped writing too. If you can't realize, in the year 2012, that there is no god, you shouldn't really be on the internet. And you are certainly too weak-minded to work for us.
A christian can't be a good coder. The main skill a coder requires is CRITICAL THINKING and A SOLID LOGICAL MIND, both things are incompatible with christianity.
Thank you. After this post, I actually got like 10 emails from people saying they want to work at my company, and like another 15 emails from angry christians asking for my company name;)
Some people will love it, others will hate it. We (my associate and me) try to keep it that way for those that love it. It's our little island in this stupid PC world.
I think it works fine because it goes both ways. Usually, the boss takes a few liberties, and everybody has to deal with it, but if you do the same, you are in big trouble. At our office, everybody enjoys the same privileges. Also, everybody works hard, and isn't afraid of getting their hands dirty. Both my associate and me code, and when we sit down with the coders we actually know what we are talking about (I have 15 years of experience as a Unix sysadmin and coder, and my associate has 20+ years of experience as a graphics guru, having worked for major players such as SGI), but I often also go to check on one of our techies working at a customer site, and I don't mind getting into a cramped mechanical floor and helping them out. It also goes both ways when it comes to fooling around.
True story: Couple of months ago, two guys from IT where installing the CCTV system at our new offices, and they where having fun throwing shit at each other (such as video baluns and old BNC connectors they where removing), so I pass by and hit one of them with a patch core (playfully, nothing bad). He turns around to hit me back, and actually hits me with a bnc octopus (a badass cable that has a db25 on one side, and 8 BNC on the other side), he didn't mean it, but he hit me square in the face, with so much force he actually screwed me up. I look at him laughing it off, and he just turns blue, I touch my face and I'm bleeding all over the place. I had a deep 2cm cut on my nose. I laughed it off, went to the bath, cleaned up and went to a meeting. Later at launch I waited for him to be distracted and dropped an entire bag of powdered black pepper in his coke. "Now we are even, bitch!".
That's why nobody can get mad at me when I troll them. They all know the rules, they all have fun, and they all know we are equals. When the structure is HORIZONTAL, and not VERTICAL, you can be the most productive while still actually enjoying your job.
That's why nobody can tell me I'm out of place when I troll them at work. They know they are allowed to do the same.
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Didn't woman tell us they where equal? And didn't they tell us we should hire them in the same proportion as man, for any job, as they are equally good at it? Including jobs where physical strength might be important? If so, why is it that they don't compete with everyone else?
Let's take the 100 meter event:
From Wikipedia:
"The 10-second barrier is a term used in track and field athletics which refers to the physical and psychological barrier of completing the men's 100 metres sprint in under ten seconds. The achievement was traditionally regarded as the hallmark of a world class sprinter, but its significance has become less important since the late 1990s as an increasing number of runners have surpassed the ten seconds mark.[1]"
Ok, great. Man's 10 fastest times ever goes from 9.58 (record) to 9.84. Woman's 10 fastest ever goes from 10.49 (record) to 10.77.
So, essentially we have two categories in the Olympics: Really fast, and somewhat fast. And the gold medal given in both is equal. Hey, I want equality too. I'm a 28 year old man who smokes 2 packs a day, and I want to compete too. We should create another category for people who can finish the race within 20 seconds. So we'll have: the 9 seconds race, the 10 seconds race, and the 20 seconds race. How about that?
Fuck this kind of equality. I'm all for real equality. Real equality means no special imposed barriers for anyone based solely on gender. Open up the olympics, let man and woman compete in any category freely. That's equality. Creating special slow groups so that woman can win too is not equality, it's Bullshit.
:) Agreed. Go Usenet! (Yeah, I'm still using it. So what?)
Could literally be replaced with a simple script that generates lyrics using a small keyword dictionary, another script that mashes several midis of other songs using some basic rules to create "original" music, then pipes the output into festival, then pipes that into autotune. We could even add another script that uploads the result to itunes.
If I'm not a customer of a particularly large corporation, then I'll be investigated by the police?
I'm not a good citizen if I don't use a certain service?
What if I don't drink coke, I don't use windows, and I don't buy prada? Is that suspicious too?
Part of /etc/hosts in my computer:
127.0.0.1 hotmail.com
127.0.0.1 facebook.com
127.0.0.1 www.facebook.com
127.0.0.1 live.com
127.0.0.1 google-analytics.com
127.0.0.1 platform.twitter.com
127.0.0.1 www.twitter.com
127.0.0.1 twitter.com
127.0.0.1 plusone.google.com
Social anything is bullshit. I don't need big corporations to track who I speak to. Why am I expected to have 200 friends? Anybody that says they have more than a handful of friends doesn't really understand the meaning of the word friend. Acquaintances, buddies, coworkers ... sure. But friends? Quite a different thing. So, why would I publish my life online so that anybody can find out about it from the comfort of their homes? I don't hide my activities. If you want to know anything about my life, it's enough to call and ask. But publishing them is altogether a different thing.
Ultimately, my rejection of social.* isn't because I'm a privacy nut. My google account is tied to just about every service they have, and they've run my email since 2004 or so (I got my account very early in the invite-only era of gmail). My company's mail goes through google for your domain (now google apps). It's not tracking that bothers me the most, it's just that I find the whole concept of the social web stupid. If I'm interested in knowing something about you, I'll call you and we'll catch up over a beer. I don't need twitter or facebook or whatever. The reason I block everything is it just pisses me off how they creep around you and stalk you all the time into creating an account.
So, yeah, Fuck facebook, fuck twitter, fuck myspace, fuck google plus, and fuck every other asshole doing anything labeled social. Leave me the fuck alone.
Loserboy. That is so interesting. Your trollish username and your general store-bought, stock internet tough guy attitude go so well with that word. Loserboy. Obviously, your understanding of the world doesn't go beyond winners and losers, so you brand yourself a jock and pretend you are a winner. One day you'll realize you are 30, and all you'll have to show for that time will be a few pathetic attempts at trolling strangers on the internet, a failed relationship or two, and a few exaggerated memories of high school. Those where the days, huh? I guess they ain't coming back. Not for you.
Unsuccessful troll is unsuccessful. 2/10.
Big difference there. Cars are for transportation. Killing is a side effect.
You are gonna tell me that guns aren't for killing, that they are for defense. Well, how does that defense work? That's right, killing the supposed threat.
Also, the numbers speak for themselves.
Please reply to this post when the US doesn't have more than 10 thousand gun homicides a year, #4 in the world only after Colombia, Thailand and South Africa.
My associate and me started our company back in 2007, and the first product we developed was a hybrid DVR/NVR. During the dev process, we had to run around for the cameras testing our motion detection algorithms, and some other more complex stuff such as direction detection, object tracking, etc.
The real fun started when we started selling a few as a kind of public beta, and realized that a) we didn't have any kind of infrastructure to handle major installs b) companies that did this sucked at it, so our attempt at outsourcing the task ended fairly quickly. We went quicker than you can say 75-ohm-impedance from developers to running around town, installing cameras 10 meters above our heads, running hundreds of meters of cable a day, and crawling through service floors.
Sure, the startup quickly grew into a profitable company, the product matured, we hired technicians, got a distribution network, and started working on other products. But even now, 5 years later, I train new technicians myself, and supervise myself any major installation (and I can't just stand there while others work, so every time I go out with the techs, I work just like one of them)
Also, you are required in the company, everywhere, at the same fucking time, so you go from your office, to the lab, to the coder's room, then out to the bank, then to visit customers, then to oversee some installation, then back to the office ...
And that's not taking into account our basketball-brakes (we've got a small court at the company's backyard).
Overall, I do more exercise than I ever did before.
The result: I'm still fucking fat, because that's more related to what you eat than how much you exercise. The amount of workout you would need in order to offset eating like a fucking whale would be gargantuan.
But, hey, at least I'm not sitting at the desk all the time, and I have a lot of fun!
Talking about that, time to walk the dog and go to the office ...
No.
Samsung has been constantly at their throats only with a different weapon than the courts.
You are absolutely right. Samsung has been attacking apple in a terrible, awful, unethical way. Samsung has actually been attacking apple by putting better looking, more functional, and generally better products into the market. And this, unlike apple's offering, are open, you can install whatever firmware you want into them, you can install any app you want, even if they are not in the market, and they are cheaper!. How dare samsung do such a thing!
Really, what other "weapons other than the courts" are you talking about? They called them names?
This is bullshit. I don't usually defend faceless corporations, but I do defend the truth. Apple has been attacking samsung for a long time, and since the system is screwed, the only defense samsung has is hitting them back.
Saying they are at each others throats is bullshit. Apple has been at samsung's (and everybody else's) throat for a long time, and samsung is hitting back.
I don't use Skype, but I assume they are not happily wasting bandwidth. I'm pretty sure the audio is being reinvited whenever possible (meaning it's just signalling going between you and the skype server, and it just tells you the IP of your peer, and you send your media straight over there through RTP.
Also, our company has consistently doubled its net income every fiscal year since 2009, and we've managed to finance our own growth without any kind of external financing (no venture capital, no loans)
4 major products developed over the course of 5 years. We released a total of 173 new versions for those systems since 2008. Our most popular product, the only HTML5 CCTV DVR that works out of the box on Android, iOS, and all major browsers is handling over 17.000 cameras installed nationwide. Our e-learning platform is handling more than half a million students.
You can be productive and still have fun.
New Rule: You can't say both "we as americans have a constitutional right to own firearms" and "this is a tragedy". You just can't. If you believe in gun rights, then you can't complain when this happens.
Well, sure, as a religious person you can fart as loud as any atheist. But there is something that atheists have that makes them great coders: LOGIC.
Any reasonably smart person capable of critical thinking and understanding logic doesn't believe in any imaginary guys in the sky. If you do, it shows a deep flaw in your mentality, and makes you unfit to work for me.
Move to Argentina. Then mail me.
I stopped reading at I'm catholic. That's where you should have stopped writing too. If you can't realize, in the year 2012, that there is no god, you shouldn't really be on the internet. And you are certainly too weak-minded to work for us.
A christian can't be a good coder. The main skill a coder requires is CRITICAL THINKING and A SOLID LOGICAL MIND, both things are incompatible with christianity.
hahaha. Move to Argentina, then mail me.
You'll have to move to Argentina.
If you ever do, mail me.
Thank you. After this post, I actually got like 10 emails from people saying they want to work at my company, and like another 15 emails from angry christians asking for my company name ;)
Some people will love it, others will hate it. We (my associate and me) try to keep it that way for those that love it. It's our little island in this stupid PC world.
I think it works fine because it goes both ways. Usually, the boss takes a few liberties, and everybody has to deal with it, but if you do the same, you are in big trouble. At our office, everybody enjoys the same privileges. Also, everybody works hard, and isn't afraid of getting their hands dirty. Both my associate and me code, and when we sit down with the coders we actually know what we are talking about (I have 15 years of experience as a Unix sysadmin and coder, and my associate has 20+ years of experience as a graphics guru, having worked for major players such as SGI), but I often also go to check on one of our techies working at a customer site, and I don't mind getting into a cramped mechanical floor and helping them out. It also goes both ways when it comes to fooling around.
True story: Couple of months ago, two guys from IT where installing the CCTV system at our new offices, and they where having fun throwing shit at each other (such as video baluns and old BNC connectors they where removing), so I pass by and hit one of them with a patch core (playfully, nothing bad). He turns around to hit me back, and actually hits me with a bnc octopus (a badass cable that has a db25 on one side, and 8 BNC on the other side), he didn't mean it, but he hit me square in the face, with so much force he actually screwed me up. I look at him laughing it off, and he just turns blue, I touch my face and I'm bleeding all over the place. I had a deep 2cm cut on my nose. I laughed it off, went to the bath, cleaned up and went to a meeting. Later at launch I waited for him to be distracted and dropped an entire bag of powdered black pepper in his coke. "Now we are even, bitch!".
That's why nobody can get mad at me when I troll them. They all know the rules, they all have fun, and they all know we are equals. When the structure is HORIZONTAL, and not VERTICAL, you can be the most productive while still actually enjoying your job.
That's why nobody can tell me I'm out of place when I troll them at work. They know they are allowed to do the same.
Brofist from Argentina.
You are awesome. Also, I hope "my sexy bitches" is copyleft, because I start using it monday morning :)
I am not in the US.