I was taking Accounting classes, because I actually sort of found accounting fun, but quickly I realized in the 2nt semester that accounting was fucking boring and dull as all hell. And if I continued down this course, I was going to kill myself before I graduated.
So I swapped to taking computer programming classes, which sucked because they didn't offer C, just Pascal (late 80's, shame on them) and I knew C was the future.
I'm not a dull person. Weird, sure, I can accept that, but I found programming to be challenging and not boring. I've done a lot of work and by far, programming wasn't the dullest or boring (washing dishes, that is boring. Cleaning a fish factory is boring).
But one man's boring is another man's contentment.
I'm pretty sure they don't want to encourage us to dump all our old computer garbage off at Goodwill. While some of this stuff may have some historical value, I seriously doubt they would appreciate me dumping about 30 old 486's and Pentiums (and associated old videocards) in the nearest Goodwill box.
I don't know about anyone one else, but I would kill (lawyers) to find a 386 these days.
Even better would be a XT compatable, or the real IBM XT
Yes, but I think it was closer to 2002 when I finally did. I usually try to purge accumulated computer stuff every 10 years, give or take. With the exception of a Pentium Pro, I don't have anything older than a P2. But it's going to be time to clean house again soon. Every time I throw something away that isn't at least 10 years old, I end up needing it two weeks after it's gone. Then I have to pay a stupid amount of money to replace something that I had all along.
Ya, I'm thinking back to 1982, the Model IV wasn't even out, and no one would throw a Model 1 out unless it was broken beyond repair.
Though big score about 2006 when I got a TRS-80 Model IV Portable for $25, working.
It's not just snakes, I think the human brain is pretty hard-wired for most forms of predator.
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Agree. Snakes weren't the only bad thing out there. Scorpions, spiders, some lizards, and various insects weren't exactly ignored either, I would imagine.
As for our forward facing eyes, Ancient Alien Theorist say... lol, sorry, can't keep a straight face when I say that. =)
I detest ringtones in the office, so my phone is always set to silent. My Pebble allows me to see my wife calling/texting me. This alone justifies the price. The Gear is overpriced for what it offers, and requires their phone to work. My Pebble works with android and iOS. (disclaimer, I only use mine with android) I can set the watch face to whatever I like, including the very useful Beer O'Clock face that a friend made. I prefer to check the time with a watch. Till I got my Pebble, I usually wore one of several Invicta chronographs that I own. I don't like digging a phone out of my pocket to verify the time, especially when in meetings. A quick glance is sufficient to tell when I am going to be late getting home, without the rudeness of pulling my phone out and conspicuously checking time.
Pretty sure you forgot to add, "Get off my lawn" at the end of your post.
I'm just some guy who called you out for saying some incredibly dumb shit. I'm not here to educate you, although I don't think someone who says "If Japan starts killing foreigners in their country then ya, maybe they might have a racist problem" is really educable anyway. That's about bottom of the barrel are far as stupid and ignorant shit.
Oh, big fucking talk from a bitch who is too scared to bring any sources. You talk a big game, but when ask to perform, you fail. Like I said, you are a crappy troll, but thank you for the fun tonight. Keep practicing maybe one of these days you'll be able to troll decent. Best trolls don't break out the profanity right away, they keep it for later, after they snared their victim. --- That is probably going to whoosh on by you.
People need to get more involved in politics. If a million people each donated $160 to the candidate of their choice in the last CA election, then Meg Whitman would have been outspent (unless people donated to her, I guess).
A good chunk of the money Obama used in his presidential election was from individual donations.
Going to point out that using Obama isn't probably the best example these days. I'm sure most the people are thinking their money could of been spent on better things.
It was a new word to me. Sorry I did not make that more clear for you. I know it's hard to understand, but when a person comes across a word they never seen before, and even if that word has been around for 3000 years, it's a new word to that person. Mind blowing, I know.
I actually think you're a racist apologist, like I said, probably not an actual racist. You're so in love with (what you perceive to be) Japan that you will White Knight the entire country on the Internet. The fact that you pretend you have to research "waifu" and then conveniently leave out the rest of the paragraph that discusses the exact context in which I used it reinforces that belief that you are either a liar or delusional.
The fact that you "accuse" me of living in Japan or having some problem with Japanese people is laughable. If I had posted about my problem with a sexist Saudi culture not allowing women to drive would you have accused me of being a woman in Saudi Arabia? Apparently that's the way shit works in your fucked up head. I'm sorry that the country of Japan has a long and well documented history of institutional racism. You can splutter sad, delusional excuses on the internet but that won't change reality. Cognitive dissonance is a bitch.
Um, the only person spluttering here appears to be you. Or maybe it was your tourette symptoms spitting out names at me, I don't know. But here is what I do know. You keep putting me down, claiming I'm in love with Japan, when I don't care about it one way or another. Sure, I watch anime, I also happen to love Akira Kurosawa movies. How that makes me in love with Japan, I don't know, but whatever. I also happen to like Roman Polanski movies, does that make me a pedophile also?
and now what, we are talking Institutional racism instead of actual racism. Like every country hasn't been guilty of institutional racism. They usually call it nationalism when you are country that is predominately one type of race.
And if it makes you feel better calling me a racist apologist, that is cool. I don't think that is the case. What I do know is that you've had great chances to educate me and others, but instead of providing links that backs up what you say, you resort of name calling and trying to put me down. Which doesn't work.
And for the record, I said you lived in japan because I got you confused the the persons who's post I replied to, now looking back, i see you are just some troll in a bad mood, or got some bad sushi once. Had i realized that mistake, i wouldn't have said anything about you living in japan. Because, well, you made no reference to it in your posts. Not sure what bring up a sexist situation, in another country has to do with this convo, but to answer that, no I would not. While I consider man & women to be equal, Saudi's laws about it have nothing to do with me, and if women in their country want to drive, they need to do something about it.
As for you, are you a crappy troll, or you actually going to provide some links to educate us people?
Aww, you sound butthurt at being called out for the shitstain racist apologist you are. You fail really fucking hard at guessing, too. But then again you seem to fail really fucking hard at life so it's not a surprise. Go back to watching anime and fantasizing about your "waifu",
I'm not butthurt, in fact, I'm finding you amusing.
It's okay you think I am the racist, but it's apparent by your posts that you have issues with the Japanese people. And with people in general. While I do watch anime, I don't know what "waifu" is, so I will have to google it. And I don't think you know what it means:
Waifu is an Engrish term primarily used by Asian men to refer to one's own wife.
So, not sure why I would watch anime & fantasize about my wife. I could understand watching anime and fantasizing about the various chicks in it, but my wife? You fantasize about your wife? Oh, wait, are you saying you are a cuckold and you like to fantasize about your wife having sex with other men? Cool, more power to you for that, I guess. Me, I'm not married, and if i was, I wouldn't be fantasizing about my wife, I'd be having sex with her and roleplaying and other crap. I'd save my fantasizing over the women I can't have when I'm rubbing one out.
But that's okay, you are obviously confused, probably because you live in japan and are a dick to them and they treat you accordingly.
If our government isn't going to effective, then isn't it up to us to put a stop to people like that? And by stop, I mean, put them to death. Extremist view, ya, but honestly, I'm getting sick of the bullshit in this country.
So grab a gun and do it
Sir, yes sir, I will do as you just ordered me to, sir!
Koch bros does it, soros does it, both the neocons and liberal progressives do it, it is just a left VS right battle over who controls the kleptocratic fascist state, the only ones really losing is the middle class which shrinks every year while the ghettos keep getting bigger, in another decade the rest of the USA will look like Detroit
Maybe the people need to do their own sort of justice on these people. If our government isn't going to effective, then isn't it up to us to put a stop to people like that? And by stop, I mean, put them to death. Extremist view, ya, but honestly, I'm getting sick of the bullshit in this country. It's getting time to make the governments and corporations fear the people again, instead of us fearing them.
Also, thanks for the new word, kleptocractic. Describes what our corporate politicians are exactly.
If Japan starts killing foreigners in their country then ya, maybe they might have a racist problem,
Hey, dumbshit, there are plenty of people of non-Japanese ethnicity whose only home and citizenship is Japan through no fault of choice of their own. Perhaps you should look into how they're treated by Japanese society before you spew this mind-numbingly idiotic bullshit. The fact that you even thought that sentence was a reasonable thing to type blows my mind. Not even the "killing foreigners" part, but that fact that you qualified even that with a "might". Hell, I guess the US has no history of racism whatsoever. Thanks for that enlightenment, shitstain.
lol, you sound butthurt. Let me guess, you live in Japan and you talk to people like you are talking to me, and they treat you bad?
Yeah... just guessing. Like the way that finite element systems work by guessing, and how a CT scanner just guesses at what it sees inside your body, and the way that Einstein just guessed at the corrections necessary to make GPS work, and how Higgs et al just guessed at a particle necessary to make gauge invariance work properly. You know, all so much guesswork... "they" have no idea at all.:-P
They claimed to observe a entangled pair on the event horizon of a Black Hole, when they simulated a Black Hole using math, which may or not actually be a true representation of how a black hole behaves. So yes, it is guess. Now, if they went to a black hole and use instruments to measure the entangled pair, then I'd be cool. But instead, they claimed they did it, when all they did was run a simulation and did math based on it.
So yes, that is guessing. Educated guessing, but still guessing.
Well the President shouldn't know about these things. That's what his Secretaries of State are for.
That is the stupidest thing I have ever heard.
They report to him, they tell him what is going on, he knows. If they aren't telling him what is going on, they are ineffective and need to be replaced.
At least, if I had people working under me, that are supposed to be giving me information about what they are doing, and I find out shit they are doing that I didn't know about, I'd fire their ass quick.
So you say the president in a country should know everything (like website problems, every action of spy agencies and problems in tax and financial organizations)? That's Terra bytes of information.
I am not American but I cannot think how can he know about everything.
Actually, yes he should. He knew the job he wanted, he spend millions (billions?) of dollars getting that job. He's responsible for what happens in it. Since he apparently isn't aware of what is going on under his watch, he needs to be replaced because he's a crappy leader. Tired of this "President isn't responsible" shit. He responsible because he's the president. He wanted the job and now, when his administration gets caught doing bad shit, suddenly we are supposed to accept that he doesn't have control? Not how it works, and we all know it.
The American constitution is also supposed to prevent unlawful searches, so why does the Japanese constitution succeed and the American constitution fails to stop illegal capture of electronic communication? Do the Americans just not care?
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Also: Govenment officials are so clueless they think it's a "competitive market" when there are TWO providers.
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Well, those Government officials come from a 2 party system, where the corporations own both parties.
I was taking Accounting classes, because I actually sort of found accounting fun, but quickly I realized in the 2nt semester that accounting was fucking boring and dull as all hell. And if I continued down this course, I was going to kill myself before I graduated.
So I swapped to taking computer programming classes, which sucked because they didn't offer C, just Pascal (late 80's, shame on them) and I knew C was the future.
I'm not a dull person. Weird, sure, I can accept that, but I found programming to be challenging and not boring. I've done a lot of work and by far, programming wasn't the dullest or boring (washing dishes, that is boring. Cleaning a fish factory is boring).
But one man's boring is another man's contentment.
I'm pretty sure they don't want to encourage us to dump all our old computer garbage off at Goodwill. While some of this stuff may have some historical value, I seriously doubt they would appreciate me dumping about 30 old 486's and Pentiums (and associated old videocards) in the nearest Goodwill box.
I don't know about anyone one else, but I would kill (lawyers) to find a 386 these days.
Even better would be a XT compatable, or the real IBM XT
Not like i have room anyways...
Yes, but I think it was closer to 2002 when I finally did. I usually try to purge accumulated computer stuff every 10 years, give or take. With the exception of a Pentium Pro, I don't have anything older than a P2. But it's going to be time to clean house again soon. Every time I throw something away that isn't at least 10 years old, I end up needing it two weeks after it's gone. Then I have to pay a stupid amount of money to replace something that I had all along.
Ya, I'm thinking back to 1982, the Model IV wasn't even out, and no one would throw a Model 1 out unless it was broken beyond repair.
Though big score about 2006 when I got a TRS-80 Model IV Portable for $25, working.
I'd be happy with a car OS that kills less than 30,000 people per year.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_motor_vehicle_deaths_in_U.S._by_year
Or even less than 10 million accidents a year.
http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/cats/transportation/motor_vehicle_accidents_and_fatalities.html
Guess this brings a new meaning to "Blue Screen of Death"
It's not just snakes, I think the human brain is pretty hard-wired for most forms of predator.
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Agree. Snakes weren't the only bad thing out there. Scorpions, spiders, some lizards, and various insects weren't exactly ignored either, I would imagine.
As for our forward facing eyes, Ancient Alien Theorist say... lol, sorry, can't keep a straight face when I say that. =)
and apparently he's been senile for the last 15 years...
I detest ringtones in the office, so my phone is always set to silent. My Pebble allows me to see my wife calling/texting me. This alone justifies the price. The Gear is overpriced for what it offers, and requires their phone to work. My Pebble works with android and iOS. (disclaimer, I only use mine with android) I can set the watch face to whatever I like, including the very useful Beer O'Clock face that a friend made.
I prefer to check the time with a watch. Till I got my Pebble, I usually wore one of several Invicta chronographs that I own. I don't like digging a phone out of my pocket to verify the time, especially when in meetings. A quick glance is sufficient to tell when I am going to be late getting home, without the rudeness of pulling my phone out and conspicuously checking time.
Pretty sure you forgot to add, "Get off my lawn" at the end of your post.
"Classmate" is rather open-ended. Ted Cruz also went to the same university around the same time. Does that in itself make a conspiracy?
I find it hard to believe that Ted Cruz actually has an education...
I'm just some guy who called you out for saying some incredibly dumb shit. I'm not here to educate you, although I don't think someone who says "If Japan starts killing foreigners in their country then ya, maybe they might have a racist problem" is really educable anyway. That's about bottom of the barrel are far as stupid and ignorant shit.
Oh, big fucking talk from a bitch who is too scared to bring any sources. You talk a big game, but when ask to perform, you fail. Like I said, you are a crappy troll, but thank you for the fun tonight. Keep practicing maybe one of these days you'll be able to troll decent. Best trolls don't break out the profanity right away, they keep it for later, after they snared their victim. --- That is probably going to whoosh on by you.
People need to get more involved in politics. If a million people each donated $160 to the candidate of their choice in the last CA election, then Meg Whitman would have been outspent (unless people donated to her, I guess).
A good chunk of the money Obama used in his presidential election was from individual donations.
Going to point out that using Obama isn't probably the best example these days. I'm sure most the people are thinking their money could of been spent on better things.
Not a new word... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kleptocracy
It was a new word to me. Sorry I did not make that more clear for you. I know it's hard to understand, but when a person comes across a word they never seen before, and even if that word has been around for 3000 years, it's a new word to that person. Mind blowing, I know.
I actually think you're a racist apologist, like I said, probably not an actual racist. You're so in love with (what you perceive to be) Japan that you will White Knight the entire country on the Internet. The fact that you pretend you have to research "waifu" and then conveniently leave out the rest of the paragraph that discusses the exact context in which I used it reinforces that belief that you are either a liar or delusional.
The fact that you "accuse" me of living in Japan or having some problem with Japanese people is laughable. If I had posted about my problem with a sexist Saudi culture not allowing women to drive would you have accused me of being a woman in Saudi Arabia? Apparently that's the way shit works in your fucked up head. I'm sorry that the country of Japan has a long and well documented history of institutional racism. You can splutter sad, delusional excuses on the internet but that won't change reality. Cognitive dissonance is a bitch.
Um, the only person spluttering here appears to be you. Or maybe it was your tourette symptoms spitting out names at me, I don't know. But here is what I do know. You keep putting me down, claiming I'm in love with Japan, when I don't care about it one way or another. Sure, I watch anime, I also happen to love Akira Kurosawa movies. How that makes me in love with Japan, I don't know, but whatever. I also happen to like Roman Polanski movies, does that make me a pedophile also?
and now what, we are talking Institutional racism instead of actual racism. Like every country hasn't been guilty of institutional racism. They usually call it nationalism when you are country that is predominately one type of race.
And if it makes you feel better calling me a racist apologist, that is cool. I don't think that is the case. What I do know is that you've had great chances to educate me and others, but instead of providing links that backs up what you say, you resort of name calling and trying to put me down. Which doesn't work.
And for the record, I said you lived in japan because I got you confused the the persons who's post I replied to, now looking back, i see you are just some troll in a bad mood, or got some bad sushi once. Had i realized that mistake, i wouldn't have said anything about you living in japan. Because, well, you made no reference to it in your posts. Not sure what bring up a sexist situation, in another country has to do with this convo, but to answer that, no I would not. While I consider man & women to be equal, Saudi's laws about it have nothing to do with me, and if women in their country want to drive, they need to do something about it.
As for you, are you a crappy troll, or you actually going to provide some links to educate us people?
Aww, you sound butthurt at being called out for the shitstain racist apologist you are. You fail really fucking hard at guessing, too. But then again you seem to fail really fucking hard at life so it's not a surprise. Go back to watching anime and fantasizing about your "waifu",
I'm not butthurt, in fact, I'm finding you amusing.
It's okay you think I am the racist, but it's apparent by your posts that you have issues with the Japanese people. And with people in general. While I do watch anime, I don't know what "waifu" is, so I will have to google it. And I don't think you know what it means:
Waifu is an Engrish term primarily used by Asian men to refer to one's own wife.
So, not sure why I would watch anime & fantasize about my wife. I could understand watching anime and fantasizing about the various chicks in it, but my wife? You fantasize about your wife? Oh, wait, are you saying you are a cuckold and you like to fantasize about your wife having sex with other men? Cool, more power to you for that, I guess. Me, I'm not married, and if i was, I wouldn't be fantasizing about my wife, I'd be having sex with her and roleplaying and other crap. I'd save my fantasizing over the women I can't have when I'm rubbing one out.
But that's okay, you are obviously confused, probably because you live in japan and are a dick to them and they treat you accordingly.
If our government isn't going to effective, then isn't it up to us to put a stop to people like that? And by stop, I mean, put them to death. Extremist view, ya, but honestly, I'm getting sick of the bullshit in this country.
So grab a gun and do it
Sir, yes sir, I will do as you just ordered me to, sir!
Because whistle blowers get put in prison these days.
Koch bros does it, soros does it, both the neocons and liberal progressives do it, it is just a left VS right battle over who controls the kleptocratic fascist state, the only ones really losing is the middle class which shrinks every year while the ghettos keep getting bigger, in another decade the rest of the USA will look like Detroit
Maybe the people need to do their own sort of justice on these people. If our government isn't going to effective, then isn't it up to us to put a stop to people like that? And by stop, I mean, put them to death. Extremist view, ya, but honestly, I'm getting sick of the bullshit in this country. It's getting time to make the governments and corporations fear the people again, instead of us fearing them.
Also, thanks for the new word, kleptocractic. Describes what our corporate politicians are exactly.
If Japan starts killing foreigners in their country then ya, maybe they might have a racist problem,
Hey, dumbshit, there are plenty of people of non-Japanese ethnicity whose only home and citizenship is Japan through no fault of choice of their own. Perhaps you should look into how they're treated by Japanese society before you spew this mind-numbingly idiotic bullshit. The fact that you even thought that sentence was a reasonable thing to type blows my mind. Not even the "killing foreigners" part, but that fact that you qualified even that with a "might". Hell, I guess the US has no history of racism whatsoever. Thanks for that enlightenment, shitstain.
lol, you sound butthurt. Let me guess, you live in Japan and you talk to people like you are talking to me, and they treat you bad?
Yeah... just guessing. Like the way that finite element systems work by guessing, and how a CT scanner just guesses at what it sees inside your body, and the way that Einstein just guessed at the corrections necessary to make GPS work, and how Higgs et al just guessed at a particle necessary to make gauge invariance work properly. You know, all so much guesswork... "they" have no idea at all. :-P
They claimed to observe a entangled pair on the event horizon of a Black Hole, when they simulated a Black Hole using math, which may or not actually be a true representation of how a black hole behaves. So yes, it is guess. Now, if they went to a black hole and use instruments to measure the entangled pair, then I'd be cool. But instead, they claimed they did it, when all they did was run a simulation and did math based on it.
So yes, that is guessing. Educated guessing, but still guessing.
This doesn't have anything to do with telescopic observation, this has to do with math.
Ah, math, the answer to everything.
So then basically they are just guessing and really have no idea at all if they are right or not. Figures.
Well the President shouldn't know about these things. That's what his Secretaries of State are for.
That is the stupidest thing I have ever heard.
They report to him, they tell him what is going on, he knows. If they aren't telling him what is going on, they are ineffective and need to be replaced.
At least, if I had people working under me, that are supposed to be giving me information about what they are doing, and I find out shit they are doing that I didn't know about, I'd fire their ass quick.
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Etc... etc... The president never has any idea what's going on in his administration. Who's running the government anyway?
The corporations.
So you say the president in a country should know everything (like website problems, every action of spy agencies and problems in tax and financial organizations)? That's Terra bytes of information.
I am not American but I cannot think how can he know about everything.
Actually, yes he should. He knew the job he wanted, he spend millions (billions?) of dollars getting that job. He's responsible for what happens in it. Since he apparently isn't aware of what is going on under his watch, he needs to be replaced because he's a crappy leader. Tired of this "President isn't responsible" shit. He responsible because he's the president. He wanted the job and now, when his administration gets caught doing bad shit, suddenly we are supposed to accept that he doesn't have control? Not how it works, and we all know it.
So you're okay with other countries listening in on the communications of your politicians?
You okay with losing your rights, one by one, in the name of terrorism?
The American constitution is also supposed to prevent unlawful searches, so why does the Japanese constitution succeed and the American constitution fails to stop illegal capture of electronic communication? Do the Americans just not care?
I care.