It's not actually the same. If you watch the pro e-sport leagues, where there are teams and tournaments, that's more like watching football, but watching individuals more casually stream is more like watching a show where the audience can interact with the host. It's a lot about personality same as many youtube channels
Exactly, you have the illusion of being friends with an actual god-like genius. You don't get that watching Lionel Messi on TV.
what I do not understand is why so many people without a connection to a specific university follow their sports teams like a religion?
Maybe it depends where you live, but nobody I know has a particular involvement with where they went to university after they've graduated, and (certainly here in the UK) university sports are just for students anyway.
I'm with you... watching other people play games has always seemed pretty boring to me. My kids do it though. As others have pointed out- it's similar to watching others play sports (although the major difference is, you could easily play a video game yourself at any time... a sport usually requires participation of other people, plus having the physical ability to do it yourself).
With that said- people do all sorts of things that are boring to me. To each his/her own, be it: the stamp collector, the person who eats ludicrously hot peppers for the sensation of being in pain, people who watch golf, people who watch cooking shows, people who memorise entire train schedules to places they have no intention to go, or even people who watch films produced by JJ Abrams.
They are all just ways of not having to think about your own mortality.
Heck, when I was a kid, if I was released from chores around the house, I was G.O.N.E. gone until the street lights came on. If I hung around for any reason, I was nabbed for some other house project or occasionally kicked out of the house to "go play". I was the kitchen, dining room, garage guy and my brother was the living room, hall, bathroom, catbox guy and we shared a bedroom (bunk beds). Dad had a little notation book with fines when stuff wasn't cleaned to his exact requirements (Naval officer). Change deducted from our weekly allowances for poor work. And on weekends it was garden work. He was a frustrated farmer I guess and would use the rototiller to tear up the back yard and plant corn and sunflowers. Man if we were released, it was time to go.
[John]
Right. I had to get up in the morning at ten o'clock at night half an hour before I went to bed, drink a cup of sulphuric acid, work twenty-nine hours a day down mill, and pay mill owner for permission to come to work, and when we got home, our Dad and our mother would kill us and dance about on our graves singing Hallelujah
And you try and tell the young people of today that... they won't believe you
Search for a video called "Barry Jennings 911 WTC7 Full Uncut Interview." He was there. Firefighters rescued him from the WTC7 building just before it fell. They killed him for giving that interview, a week later.
A friend of mine searched for that video once. Barely a year later, they pulled his charred and almost-unrecognisable corpse from the smoking wreckage of his battered Smart car.
Yes, he had turned to alcohol as a way of coping with the burden of knowledge, and his somewhat complicated divorce, but I have my suspicions still.
I was stopped by a cop in Portland, OR for running a red light. I thought I could make it through the yellow, but the light turned red while I was in the intersection. The nice cop let me off with a warning, and informed me of the unique Oregon law... the yellow light means "Stop unless it is unsafe to do so." And that is exactly correct. Completely fucking ludicrous, but that is the law here.
Well, here in the UK amber (yellow) also means "stop as long as it's safe to do so". You would never actually get prosecuted for going through an amber light, unless you were stopped by the police and actually said "yes, I deliberately drove through an amber light even though it was perfectly safe to stop". In which case they'd probably breathalyse you after they stopped laughing.
Most engineering jobs would be very difficult to create any sort of certification for. I'm an aerospace engineer and there is no PE certification that even closely resembles the variety of analysis I do. A lot of the work is really applied mathematics or physics where your job is to take on a problem where your only way to succeed involves inventing new algorithms and technology. You need the certified guys for the less imaginative stuff who will apply standards to the production of things that involve safety, money, reliability (in other words, lawyers when things fail). Similar certifications exist for systems engineers who are handling requirements flowdowns and all that secretarial shit that still requires a technical background and prior experience doing design, etc.
My personal opinion is the title "Professional Engineer" should be reserved for certified/licensed engineers and there should be repercussions for claiming one is a PE when they are not in the same way falsely claiming one is a board certified doctor has consequences. These certifications are not trivial and just the effort required to get one means a lot. But for the rest of us, what do we call ourselves instead, if not engineer? I'm more of a mathematician even though formally trained as an engineer, but "engineer" still seems more appropriate.
This is nonsense. It's like saying that because a Finance Director/CFO doesn't do any actual bookkeeping he doesn't need a professional accounting qualification.
Hint: the qualification/license is a necessary, not sufficient requirement.
You can't stop safely if you peg the brakes and the person behind you is just finishing a lane change, or typing a text message.
If you had to base your driving on the assumption that everyone else is texting all the time and requires several seconds warning before they make a manoeuver or react to a change around them, you would never get in a car in the first place, you'd need a fucking tank..
I would not agree with at all, either. Many racists are fascist, communist, socialist, democrat, etc. Racism (and sexism, and ethnicism, etc) knows no political bounds.
Yes, but logically you can't be a racist or sexist communist, in the same way you can't be a religious communist (*).
Now, people are individuals and often hold various self-contradictory opinions, but that's a separate issue.
(*) assuming communist to mean Marxist-Leninist/Maoist or similar.
You can claim to be a "physician" "engineer" or even "licensed professional engineer" to the entire world... but due to all the hypocrisy and bullshit programming you received in government school, religion, and even from your parents and friends... you just haven't realized it yet...
Please, for the love of $deity, break your brain free from those chains...
BLM got huge press coverage - it was never a *popular* movement - because it was bankrolled by billionaire Nazi collaborator George Soros and embraced by the semi-official fake news media as a tactic to divide the working class along racist lines.
Assuming it's a light weight plastic drone. Obviously the police are not going to risk it being something more substantial until they have actually made that determination. Maybe it's different where they are but they have a legal obligation here, it comes under health and safety laws.
The danger is surely from a falling 100 kilogram meatsack, not a featherweight plastic toy?
Concentrated in a small insignificant corner of the country yes. Involved in a localized Civil War. That is not the same. They mostly killed each other and did not often kill random civilians outside of the area in which they lived. Well not much anyway.
Yeah, they never killed any random civilians in bombings in London or Birmingham or Guildford or Manchester or...oh wait, yes of course they fucking did.
This! Exactly how is a quad copter going to damage a bridge?
I think the concern would be that the (drunk?) drone pilot might fall off the bridge and injure an innocent car driver or cause an accident when someone swerved to avoid the body.
When you're a small startup you concentrate on one thing and do it well. You don't throw money at a wall and see where it sticks. Sure , when you're a multi billion dollar company like Google then you can blow all the money you like on pie in the sky, but when you've got bank loans and/or vencture capitalists on your back you need to make damn sure you concentrate all your resources on producing a working product.
In any other industry, a 'small startup' wouldn't be valued at a billion dollars, and wouldn't give the founders anything like the same delusions of grandeur.
Yea the British words annoy me, specifically always calling things a 'row', but it is a less sensational headline to just say a company we never heard of went 'bankrupt', less clicky click baits by confused non-british-persons.
'Row' is a bit of Tabloidese, it's nice and short compared with dispute, argument, disagreement or whatever, plus it sounds a bit fighty.
What the fuck is "creepy" about the clients? They wanted a fucking massage. What's "creepy" about that? Hey, it's not for me, but, if someone gets satisfaction from having someone else massage their body, what is "creepy" about that?
Fucking goddamn femi-sjw-maga-fagas! Fuck off! Take your "creepy" and fucking kill yourself you worthless goddamn pieces of shit!
If you're a genuine sports/health masseur, then someone asking you if you can wank them off for an extra tenner is about as creepy as if you were a plumber or bookkeeper and your client asked the same.
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It's not actually the same. If you watch the pro e-sport leagues, where there are teams and tournaments, that's more like watching football, but watching individuals more casually stream is more like watching a show where the audience can interact with the host. It's a lot about personality same as many youtube channels
Exactly, you have the illusion of being friends with an actual god-like genius. You don't get that watching Lionel Messi on TV.
what I do not understand is why so many people without a connection to a specific university follow their sports teams like a religion?
Maybe it depends where you live, but nobody I know has a particular involvement with where they went to university after they've graduated, and (certainly here in the UK) university sports are just for students anyway.
I'm with you... watching other people play games has always seemed pretty boring to me. My kids do it though. As others have pointed out- it's similar to watching others play sports (although the major difference is, you could easily play a video game yourself at any time... a sport usually requires participation of other people, plus having the physical ability to do it yourself).
With that said- people do all sorts of things that are boring to me. To each his/her own, be it: the stamp collector, the person who eats ludicrously hot peppers for the sensation of being in pain, people who watch golf, people who watch cooking shows, people who memorise entire train schedules to places they have no intention to go, or even people who watch films produced by JJ Abrams.
They are all just ways of not having to think about your own mortality.
Heck, when I was a kid, if I was released from chores around the house, I was G.O.N.E. gone until the street lights came on. If I hung around for any reason, I was nabbed for some other house project or occasionally kicked out of the house to "go play". I was the kitchen, dining room, garage guy and my brother was the living room, hall, bathroom, catbox guy and we shared a bedroom (bunk beds). Dad had a little notation book with fines when stuff wasn't cleaned to his exact requirements (Naval officer). Change deducted from our weekly allowances for poor work. And on weekends it was garden work. He was a frustrated farmer I guess and would use the rototiller to tear up the back yard and plant corn and sunflowers. Man if we were released, it was time to go.
[John]
Right. I had to get up in the morning at ten o'clock at night half an hour before I went to bed, drink a cup of sulphuric acid, work twenty-nine hours a day down mill, and pay mill owner for permission to come to work, and when we got home, our Dad and our mother would kill us and dance about on our graves singing Hallelujah
And you try and tell the young people of today that ... they won't believe you
Search for a video called "Barry Jennings 911 WTC7 Full Uncut Interview." He was there. Firefighters rescued him from the WTC7 building just before it fell. They killed him for giving that interview, a week later.
A friend of mine searched for that video once. Barely a year later, they pulled his charred and almost-unrecognisable corpse from the smoking wreckage of his battered Smart car.
Yes, he had turned to alcohol as a way of coping with the burden of knowledge, and his somewhat complicated divorce, but I have my suspicions still.
in 9 months time you can legally watch post 9/11 porn stars
I love this new definition of "eighteen years".
I was stopped by a cop in Portland, OR for running a red light. I thought I could make it through the yellow, but the light turned red while I was in the intersection. The nice cop let me off with a warning, and informed me of the unique Oregon law... the yellow light means "Stop unless it is unsafe to do so." And that is exactly correct. Completely fucking ludicrous, but that is the law here.
Well, here in the UK amber (yellow) also means "stop as long as it's safe to do so". You would never actually get prosecuted for going through an amber light, unless you were stopped by the police and actually said "yes, I deliberately drove through an amber light even though it was perfectly safe to stop". In which case they'd probably breathalyse you after they stopped laughing.
Most engineering jobs would be very difficult to create any sort of certification for. I'm an aerospace engineer and there is no PE certification that even closely resembles the variety of analysis I do. A lot of the work is really applied mathematics or physics where your job is to take on a problem where your only way to succeed involves inventing new algorithms and technology. You need the certified guys for the less imaginative stuff who will apply standards to the production of things that involve safety, money, reliability (in other words, lawyers when things fail). Similar certifications exist for systems engineers who are handling requirements flowdowns and all that secretarial shit that still requires a technical background and prior experience doing design, etc.
My personal opinion is the title "Professional Engineer" should be reserved for certified/licensed engineers and there should be repercussions for claiming one is a PE when they are not in the same way falsely claiming one is a board certified doctor has consequences. These certifications are not trivial and just the effort required to get one means a lot. But for the rest of us, what do we call ourselves instead, if not engineer? I'm more of a mathematician even though formally trained as an engineer, but "engineer" still seems more appropriate.
This is nonsense. It's like saying that because a Finance Director/CFO doesn't do any actual bookkeeping he doesn't need a professional accounting qualification.
Hint: the qualification/license is a necessary, not sufficient requirement.
You can't stop safely if you peg the brakes and the person behind you is just finishing a lane change, or typing a text message.
If you had to base your driving on the assumption that everyone else is texting all the time and requires several seconds warning before they make a manoeuver or react to a change around them, you would never get in a car in the first place, you'd need a fucking tank..
I would not agree with at all, either. Many racists are fascist, communist, socialist, democrat, etc. Racism (and sexism, and ethnicism, etc) knows no political bounds.
Yes, but logically you can't be a racist or sexist communist, in the same way you can't be a religious communist (*).
Now, people are individuals and often hold various self-contradictory opinions, but that's a separate issue.
(*) assuming communist to mean Marxist-Leninist/Maoist or similar.
You can claim to be a "physician" "engineer" or even "licensed professional engineer" to the entire world... but due to all the hypocrisy and bullshit programming you received in government school, religion, and even from your parents and friends... you just haven't realized it yet... Please, for the love of $deity, break your brain free from those chains...
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=larken+rose
Found the Freeman On The Land.
BLM got huge press coverage - it was never a *popular* movement - because it was bankrolled by billionaire Nazi collaborator George Soros and embraced by the semi-official fake news media as a tactic to divide the working class along racist lines.
Lizard people.
You forgot to mention the lizard people.
Real music is live music. Live musicians make much less than they did before all the ripoffs of recording radio and tv took over.
Yes, I too prefer popping down to my local concert venue when I want a bit of background music as I'm doing the ironing on a Sunday afternoon.
I happened to bump in to the Chief Exec and had a chat
Sounds legit.
Well you can go to discogs and buy pretty much any vinyl, cd / cassette in physical form if thats what you need.
How many shops have they got in the UK exactly?
Setting aside the fact that we don't have pound notes any more (at least in England) is there any evidence that this is true?
Assuming it's a light weight plastic drone. Obviously the police are not going to risk it being something more substantial until they have actually made that determination. Maybe it's different where they are but they have a legal obligation here, it comes under health and safety laws.
The danger is surely from a falling 100 kilogram meatsack, not a featherweight plastic toy?
I read that there are still in England the aristocratic lords living in luxury castles placed in vast fenced parks.
Yes, absolutely, England is currently the only country in the entire world with extremely wealthy people living there.
Concentrated in a small insignificant corner of the country yes. Involved in a localized Civil War. That is not the same. They mostly killed each other and did not often kill random civilians outside of the area in which they lived. Well not much anyway.
Yeah, they never killed any random civilians in bombings in London or Birmingham or Guildford or Manchester or...oh wait, yes of course they fucking did.
This! Exactly how is a quad copter going to damage a bridge?
I think the concern would be that the (drunk?) drone pilot might fall off the bridge and injure an innocent car driver or cause an accident when someone swerved to avoid the body.
Just because the shit came from a baby doesn't mean the baby is in the sex act, any more than you're assfucking a sheep if you use a gut condom.
Always good to hear from an expert!
When you're a small startup you concentrate on one thing and do it well. You don't throw money at a wall and see where it sticks. Sure , when you're a multi billion dollar company like Google then you can blow all the money you like on pie in the sky, but when you've got bank loans and/or vencture capitalists on your back you need to make damn sure you concentrate all your resources on producing a working product.
In any other industry, a 'small startup' wouldn't be valued at a billion dollars, and wouldn't give the founders anything like the same delusions of grandeur.
Yea the British words annoy me, specifically always calling things a 'row', but it is a less sensational headline to just say a company we never heard of went 'bankrupt', less clicky click baits by confused non-british-persons.
'Row' is a bit of Tabloidese, it's nice and short compared with dispute, argument, disagreement or whatever, plus it sounds a bit fighty.
His best work was stuff like "My Left Foot" that won him an Oscar.
Yeah, Tom Cruise's impersonation of Daniel Day-Lewis in that movie was uncanny.
What the fuck is "creepy" about the clients? They wanted a fucking massage. What's "creepy" about that? Hey, it's not for me, but, if someone gets satisfaction from having someone else massage their body, what is "creepy" about that?
Fucking goddamn femi-sjw-maga-fagas! Fuck off! Take your "creepy" and fucking kill yourself you worthless goddamn pieces of shit!
If you're a genuine sports/health masseur, then someone asking you if you can wank them off for an extra tenner is about as creepy as if you were a plumber or bookkeeper and your client asked the same.