Solve problems? Ha! The Girlfriend (especially when upgraded to The Wife) creates tons MORE problems which is why males no longer have time for more fun activities like gaming and hacking. Too busy installing cabinets or working to pay off the bills.
Creating a home is very rewarding, and unless you're going to live off benefits for your whole life you'll have to work to pay the bills too.
When you grow up these things might make more sense to you.
If the internet is the wild wild west then I reserve the right to rope Chris Dodd and Jan Brewer together and drag them down a dirt road behind a crowdfunded fucking horse.
Most of us would rather not live in the mythic wild west that so distorts the US psyche.
Name one time in American History that the average citizen has been able to successfully defend themselves from civil authorities. The Branch Davidians?
In a Govt v. Loonies fight, I know who I'd want to win.
I would be so happy to see a huge number of corporations in USA to form one coalition and build an army and send it to take down the fucking government, that would be a good start.
Scratch a libertarian and fascist blood comes out.
On the other hand, maybe it is better that NASA is out of the picture. It does seem that the few private companies are making more progress in 5 years than NASA can in 15.
It is precisely because of that right wing knee-jerk "government is bad, business is good" reaction that the US doesn't have an up to date space programme.
Private companies may be able to get a few rich tourists into space, that's just a sideshow.
My favorite example of odds-based play involves completing a flush. If the 3-card flop comes out, and you have 4 cards to a flush, the chance you will complete that flush is 35%. Many new players think "I have a 1/4 chance of getting a card of any one suit each time, so the odds I'll finish this flush are 50/50". That's wrong; it doesn't take into account that you already have 4 of the 13 cards in the suit. You have to play a fairly large number of hands to distinguish that the odds are really closer to 1/3 than 1/2 though. That's why someone who is betting based on an incorrect assessment of odds will bleed money over time to someone who bets appropriately, the edge of skills over luck here. It is a long-term edge though, and luck dominates the short-term game.
That seems like a pretty basic mistake to make. Even instinctively, I wouldn't think I had a 50/50 chance of getting a flush in that situation.
Is there non-anecdotal evidence for poker being (predominately) a game of luck or a game skill?
It depends on how good you are. If (like me) you have little knowledge beyond the basics and what you've picked up from watching TV, and you are playing against people of a similar level, then luck is very important. I play with people I know for pennies, so I don't care. It's just fun.
If you're a top pro, you'll always beat me. Although there is always some element of luck involved, this will become irrelevant over a long enough period of play. Clearly, if you put the best player in the world against me for one hand, I might luck out and get a royal flush against four Kings or something. But that's far less likely than some Sunday league football team beating Manchester United by a lucky flukey goal.
You are correct in theory - but harassment laws seem to ignore the constitution.
That's because a document written in the Eighteenth century is not entirely adequate in the Twenty First when things like slavery have been abolished, and women have the vote.
Great..so, now, the group turns into a souless, business only work entity...no more joking around, camaraderie, or for that matter....discussing many things as innocuous as what was on TV last night...because someone might get offended.
Bullshit. Everyone knows what TV shows you can discuss. What you can't do is come into work and staart describing in detail the goat porn movie you downloaded and spent two hours whacking off to. It's a question of being civilised and keeping to socially acceptable norms.
The idea in life in general is that you do not cause unnecessary offence to people you don't know that well, which is what vo-workers are. All this crap about "teams" and "camaraderie" is just pseudo-military bollocks. Your fellow workers aren't your friends, although obviously they may also be your friends, but that is a separate compartment in your life.
Actually, yes... when you get a bunch of guys together acting immature, they often do harass each other in often sexual ways... Think about calling each other gay or whatever...
No, that's what you do when you are thirteen and unsure of your own sexuality.
Your coworkers are unprofessional idiots. I would suggest changing companies
I would suggest taking a gun into work and executing every last motherfucking one of them. And if they've already bred (which seems unlikely), kill their families too. It's the only way to be sure.
So you work with a bunch of unprofessional animals?
No...sounds like a typical group of guys that have been working together for a long period of time, without having to artificially censor themselves, or walk on eggshells in how they naturally converse with each other within the group.
Pretty common to all male working groups....
It might be common on building sites, but that's about it. If you are male and can't act sensibly around women, leave your job and go and get some fucking therapy, or maybe a girlfriend.
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Solve problems? Ha! The Girlfriend (especially when upgraded to The Wife) creates tons MORE problems which is why males no longer have time for more fun activities like gaming and hacking. Too busy installing cabinets or working to pay off the bills.
Creating a home is very rewarding, and unless you're going to live off benefits for your whole life you'll have to work to pay the bills too.
When you grow up these things might make more sense to you.
I dated a robot
My girlfriend is a Hacker and looks like Angelina Jolie
Pics or it didn't happen !!
And if she's shy, you can always pixellate her face.
And it's on a topic I know absolutely nothing about, and have absolutely no interest in.
That's probably ironic, like rain on your wedding day.
Alright, the internet's clearly circling the drain.
Let's all start a new internet - call it something like interweb, innernet... I don't care. Let's just do it.
How bout it, Science?
The first thing to do is to make the new interweb impossible to use for commerce.
That then automatically rules out Facebook, Amazon, Google and the rest of the for-profit organisations from having any interest in it.
Either way, Hollywood needs to step aside and make way for Silicon Valley.
Revenge of the Nerds indeed.
If the internet is the wild wild west then I reserve the right to rope Chris Dodd and Jan Brewer together and drag them down a dirt road behind a crowdfunded fucking horse.
Most of us would rather not live in the mythic wild west that so distorts the US psyche.
Name one time in American History that the average citizen has been able to successfully defend themselves from civil authorities. The Branch Davidians?
In a Govt v. Loonies fight, I know who I'd want to win.
I would be so happy to see a huge number of corporations in USA to form one coalition and build an army and send it to take down the fucking government, that would be a good start.
Scratch a libertarian and fascist blood comes out.
On the other hand, maybe it is better that NASA is out of the picture. It does seem that the few private companies are making more progress in 5 years than NASA can in 15.
It is precisely because of that right wing knee-jerk "government is bad, business is good" reaction that the US doesn't have an up to date space programme.
Private companies may be able to get a few rich tourists into space, that's just a sideshow.
I order 25 black shirts every couple of months and hence I always know what to wear
You are aware that there are things called washing machines? You don't actually need to wear clothes until they smell then throw them away.
My favorite example of odds-based play involves completing a flush. If the 3-card flop comes out, and you have 4 cards to a flush, the chance you will complete that flush is 35%. Many new players think "I have a 1/4 chance of getting a card of any one suit each time, so the odds I'll finish this flush are 50/50". That's wrong; it doesn't take into account that you already have 4 of the 13 cards in the suit. You have to play a fairly large number of hands to distinguish that the odds are really closer to 1/3 than 1/2 though. That's why someone who is betting based on an incorrect assessment of odds will bleed money over time to someone who bets appropriately, the edge of skills over luck here. It is a long-term edge though, and luck dominates the short-term game.
That seems like a pretty basic mistake to make. Even instinctively, I wouldn't think I had a 50/50 chance of getting a flush in that situation.
Is there non-anecdotal evidence for poker being (predominately) a game of luck or a game skill?
It depends on how good you are. If (like me) you have little knowledge beyond the basics and what you've picked up from watching TV, and you are playing against people of a similar level, then luck is very important. I play with people I know for pennies, so I don't care. It's just fun.
If you're a top pro, you'll always beat me. Although there is always some element of luck involved, this will become irrelevant over a long enough period of play. Clearly, if you put the best player in the world against me for one hand, I might luck out and get a royal flush against four Kings or something. But that's far less likely than some Sunday league football team beating Manchester United by a lucky flukey goal.
But for most people all this theory goes out the window as they only ever play when they're fairly drunk. It's called having fun.
So if you've got a xenophobic, racist, sexist, homophobic team you should only employ people who are the same?
Fuckwits like you are the reason we have to have anti-discrimination laws.
fragile shrinking violets
AKA "adults who can show respect towards other people and not try to hide their own pathetic inadequacies under a veneer of crude adolescent humour."
You have set up an entirely false dichotomy.
Your office sounds boring.
A lot of adult life is boring, as you will find out when you leave school.
But at least you get to have sex with real women (or men) occasionally.
Get every member of the team to put a picture of the mother on their desks.
I think that would cause a lot of the people mentioned in the question to masturbate incessantly and cry a lot.
You are correct in theory - but harassment laws seem to ignore the constitution.
That's because a document written in the Eighteenth century is not entirely adequate in the Twenty First when things like slavery have been abolished, and women have the vote.
But...why should you have to leave it out?
Why should you not tell homophobic, anti-Muslim, racist, and sexist jokes at work where not everyone is a heterosexual Christian white male?
I suppose "common courtesy" is a bit socialist, or something.
One person's "mature" and "grown up" is another person's "immature" and "childish."
No, an adult male who is so uncomfortable around women that he has to resort to verbal bullying is, by definition, immature and childish
Great..so, now, the group turns into a souless, business only work entity...no more joking around, camaraderie, or for that matter....discussing many things as innocuous as what was on TV last night...because someone might get offended.
Bullshit. Everyone knows what TV shows you can discuss. What you can't do is come into work and staart describing in detail the goat porn movie you downloaded and spent two hours whacking off to. It's a question of being civilised and keeping to socially acceptable norms.
The idea in life in general is that you do not cause unnecessary offence to people you don't know that well, which is what vo-workers are. All this crap about "teams" and "camaraderie" is just pseudo-military bollocks. Your fellow workers aren't your friends, although obviously they may also be your friends, but that is a separate compartment in your life.
Actually, yes... when you get a bunch of guys together acting immature, they often do harass each other in often sexual ways... Think about calling each other gay or whatever...
No, that's what you do when you are thirteen and unsure of your own sexuality.
Your coworkers are unprofessional idiots. I would suggest changing companies
I would suggest taking a gun into work and executing every last motherfucking one of them. And if they've already bred (which seems unlikely), kill their families too. It's the only way to be sure.
No...sounds like a typical group of guys that have been working together for a long period of time, without having to artificially censor themselves, or walk on eggshells in how they naturally converse with each other within the group.
Pretty common to all male working groups....
It might be common on building sites, but that's about it. If you are male and can't act sensibly around women, leave your job and go and get some fucking therapy, or maybe a girlfriend.
Aren't practically all the guys that would be old enough for this to even remotely be a problem for already retired?
No, slashdot is proof that there is always a rising young generation of retards to keep the flame alive.