I've been where you are now. What I don't understand is, why are you arguing with the fools here ?
Most people simply lack the capacity to comprehend where you are simply because their life experiences and their own limitations prevent them from understanding. Not only are they not going to be of any assistance, their comments are going to be detrimental. They'll simply never understand. Why bother with them ? They are idiots.
You seem perfectly coherent, articulate, and intelligent to me. So what if you have a less than ideal personality right now ? That doesn't have to be a permanent state any more than living on the street does, not for you it doesn't.
The wealth of experience and understanding that you already have surpasses the average persons by far at this point. Accept help wherever you can get it. It doesn't matter what people's motivations are! Just take whatever you can get right now until you reach the goal of getting off the street. Other people's opinions are entirely insignificant. What and who you are now does not have to be what you are in a year, five years, ten years. That's what some people will never get. People change and evolve all the time.
Given what you've described you've been through, I wouldn't be surprised that you are suffering from PTSD to some extent. You need to get stable. You need a decent place to stay. You need decent nutrition and something to do consistently. Go for those things, accept the help that you can, and keep trying. It can take a long time to heal, but you need to; your'e too intelligent and articulate to stay in the situation you're in now, and your ability to help people will be exponentially enhanced.
I hope I haven't offended you. You just remind me so much of where I was nearly 25 years ago. I'm married now, I have friends that value me, and I'm able to help people. A LOT of people. Sometimes I look back and am amazed I survived. It would have been a whole hell of a lot easier if I'd just accepted help more often than I did. When I finally did, everything changed; not overnight, but gradually everything got better. Every little doubt that I had about myself and my limitations (which I might point out were put on me by fools) was dissolved over time.
Get out of the trap, never forget that you were in the trap, and help others when you're able, to get out of the trap.
And recognize that the comments made by fools here are part of the trap, too.
I'm a bit stunned that this comment is modded to a +5. I suddenly have a lot more respect for the homeless than I do slashdotters. After all, they've managed to befuddle slashdotters with their amazing abilities to get online, despite being poor.
It can take almost anything that works well in other countries, and somehow totally fuck it up here because of all the partisan garbage and corporate interests that turn everything into shit.
with little to no concern about their end of life.
When you design things for one single use, and design them to be thrown away when they can no longer be used for that one single use, you are simply transferring the real cost of that item, the expense of disposing of that item, to the public.
It's a new century and we still design items and package items wastefully, as single use throw-away objects.
From Styrofoam meat platters to yogurt cups to ground coffee containers, even the packaging is mostly unregulated.
Why not incentivise designing consumer goods so that they are multi-function, multi-use ?
In the future, every object you can buy, needs to be disassembleable, and useful for other purposes.
Attempting to recycle things that were never designed to even be recyclable is simply not enough. Not only do all consumer goods need to be easily sortable for recycling, they need to be designed in the first place to be useable for other purposes.
If young people today don't understand how even the most basic devices work, much less how things are made, we have only our culture and society to blame.
Manufacturing and designing things to be cheap and disposable carries a hidden cost to society, while making some corporations a great deal of money via hidden public subsidies for those products.
Let's talk about how greed destroys everything, and how it's creating a class of people that can't do anything and don't know anything.
The study is also not controlling AT ALL for the coal-tar derivatives that were ubiquitous in the U.S. food supply until the FDA removed them, which arguably skews the results.
that people are willing to immerse themselves in this kind of hell.
But that's why these kinds of workers make the big bucks, right ?
Any truly productive and interesting work environment I've ever been in didn't have an open floorplan or cubicle farms, didn't have acres of florescent lights, and didn't have mangers that were the only ones with any semblance of privacy.
The workers at these types of places have made it this way. You're sheep.
You don't know that it was the low pressure, it could have been electrostatics, a response to something else or some other animals activity, or any number of potential things.
that a couple organizations with the word "Skeptic" in their name feel they have the right to represent all skeptics everywhere. And that otherwise intelligent people buy into such bullshit.
If you have data and facts that are conclusive, talk about them. The constant focus on the tiny percentage of people who call themselves MMGW skeptics naturally causes me to suspect the veracity of the oppositions claims.
The more you rail on and on about the Skeptics the less you're talking about the data and the facts. Why would you DO that if your evidence wasn't as solid as you shrilly claim it is ?
Whenever someone says such and such "skyrocketed" 400%, instead of stating the real numbers, I know that they're a fucking deceiving, lying sack of dogshit.
I watched The President today hold a conference on TV and say how disappointed he was in Sony's actions. Are we to believe that this President, a legal scholar, is oblivious as to Sony's potential liability and destruction to their reputation should something happen ?
It's the American public that needs to stand up to ALL form of terrorism, from our corporations, legislature, all the way up to the Presidency and Congress.
It's time they ALL stopped milking the terrorism cash-cow.
"Why? Excluding religion, there is no reason to believe that vaccines cause any harm: literally every study attempting to find otherwise has either failed or been proven fraudulent."
I'm as uncomfortable with this kind of statement being pawned-off as factual/"scientific" as I am with un-vaccinated kids going to school with my kids.
There are legitimate questions and issues with vaccines. Funny how they'll never be addressed so long as people lack any ability to think critically.
NINE times in the past 3 years I've offered my services to various open source projects.
I was completely ignored 6 of those times, and the other 3 times was discouraged from participating at all and treated rudely.
Sorry, but the Open Source culture is the issue, not lack of people eager to participate in projects. It's kind of like the situation with Birkenstocks - useful, but at the same time also very good birth control.
Your idiotic re-writing of the chronological history of Labor Unions in the US is wither the work of someone intent on spreading disinformation, or someone who's just plain stupid.
Slashdot Mirror
Same asshole as the old boss...
Two unrelated things misrepresented as an either-or issue. Are you sure you're not a politician ?
"Muslims certainly feel free to offend any non-Muslims."
You just keep telling yourself that, LOL...
I've been where you are now. What I don't understand is, why are you arguing with the fools here ?
Most people simply lack the capacity to comprehend where you are simply because their life experiences and their own limitations prevent them from understanding. Not only are they not going to be of any assistance, their comments are going to be detrimental. They'll simply never understand. Why bother with them ? They are idiots.
You seem perfectly coherent, articulate, and intelligent to me. So what if you have a less than ideal personality right now ? That doesn't have to be a permanent state any more than living on the street does, not for you it doesn't.
The wealth of experience and understanding that you already have surpasses the average persons by far at this point. Accept help wherever you can get it. It doesn't matter what people's motivations are! Just take whatever you can get right now until you reach the goal of getting off the street. Other people's opinions are entirely insignificant. What and who you are now does not have to be what you are in a year, five years, ten years. That's what some people will never get. People change and evolve all the time.
Given what you've described you've been through, I wouldn't be surprised that you are suffering from PTSD to some extent. You need to get stable. You need a decent place to stay. You need decent nutrition and something to do consistently. Go for those things, accept the help that you can, and keep trying. It can take a long time to heal, but you need to; your'e too intelligent and articulate to stay in the situation you're in now, and your ability to help people will be exponentially enhanced.
I hope I haven't offended you. You just remind me so much of where I was nearly 25 years ago. I'm married now, I have friends that value me, and I'm able to help people. A LOT of people. Sometimes I look back and am amazed I survived. It would have been a whole hell of a lot easier if I'd just accepted help more often than I did. When I finally did, everything changed; not overnight, but gradually everything got better. Every little doubt that I had about myself and my limitations (which I might point out were put on me by fools) was dissolved over time.
Get out of the trap, never forget that you were in the trap, and help others when you're able, to get out of the trap.
And recognize that the comments made by fools here are part of the trap, too.
I'm a bit stunned that this comment is modded to a +5. I suddenly have a lot more respect for the homeless than I do slashdotters. After all, they've managed to befuddle slashdotters with their amazing abilities to get online, despite being poor.
It can take almost anything that works well in other countries, and somehow totally fuck it up here because of all the partisan garbage and corporate interests that turn everything into shit.
The problem with all that mess is you end up with parallel evidence lines being by the police created to secure convictions.
If that's the direction we're headed, game over. Nothing matters. Not any ideal of Liberty or any concept of freedom, much less justice.
with little to no concern about their end of life.
When you design things for one single use, and design them to be thrown away when they can no longer be used for that one single use, you are simply transferring the real cost of that item, the expense of disposing of that item, to the public.
It's a new century and we still design items and package items wastefully, as single use throw-away objects.
From Styrofoam meat platters to yogurt cups to ground coffee containers, even the packaging is mostly unregulated.
Why not incentivise designing consumer goods so that they are multi-function, multi-use ?
In the future, every object you can buy, needs to be disassembleable, and useful for other purposes.
Attempting to recycle things that were never designed to even be recyclable is simply not enough. Not only do all consumer goods need to be easily sortable for recycling, they need to be designed in the first place to be useable for other purposes.
If young people today don't understand how even the most basic devices work, much less how things are made, we have only our culture and society to blame.
Manufacturing and designing things to be cheap and disposable carries a hidden cost to society, while making some corporations a great deal of money via hidden public subsidies for those products.
Let's talk about how greed destroys everything, and how it's creating a class of people that can't do anything and don't know anything.
The study is also not controlling AT ALL for the coal-tar derivatives that were ubiquitous in the U.S. food supply until the FDA removed them, which arguably skews the results.
Very bad luck indeed.
"When was the last time you saw President Obama anywhere, without a half Marine Brigade protecting him . . . ?"
Yeah, because nobody wants to kill Obama, and everybody really wants badly to kill Merkel.
I can't even express how stupid your comment is, or the people that upvoted it.
that people are willing to immerse themselves in this kind of hell.
But that's why these kinds of workers make the big bucks, right ?
Any truly productive and interesting work environment I've ever been in didn't have an open floorplan or cubicle farms, didn't have acres of florescent lights, and didn't have mangers that were the only ones with any semblance of privacy.
The workers at these types of places have made it this way. You're sheep.
In this context, it's just someone who will work for less and is easily exploitable and has zero bargaining power and limited options/freedom.
I'm tired of the lying liars saying otherwise, and the remarkably stupid and naive kissing their asses in hopes of getting a hand-out.
Because I wouldn't call the ones we've been letting in so far either "great" or "exceptional".
If anybody thought he had any cred at all before, let there be no doubt he has none now.
You don't know that it was the low pressure, it could have been electrostatics, a response to something else or some other animals activity, or any number of potential things.
You're assuming it was low pressure.
that a couple organizations with the word "Skeptic" in their name feel they have the right to represent all skeptics everywhere. And that otherwise intelligent people buy into such bullshit.
If you have data and facts that are conclusive, talk about them. The constant focus on the tiny percentage of people who call themselves MMGW skeptics naturally causes me to suspect the veracity of the oppositions claims.
The more you rail on and on about the Skeptics the less you're talking about the data and the facts. Why would you DO that if your evidence wasn't as solid as you shrilly claim it is ?
Whenever someone says such and such "skyrocketed" 400%, instead of stating the real numbers, I know that they're a fucking deceiving, lying sack of dogshit.
Whoever wrote the article is a piece of shit.
THIS.
I watched The President today hold a conference on TV and say how disappointed he was in Sony's actions. Are we to believe that this President, a legal scholar, is oblivious as to Sony's potential liability and destruction to their reputation should something happen ?
It's the American public that needs to stand up to ALL form of terrorism, from our corporations, legislature, all the way up to the Presidency and Congress.
It's time they ALL stopped milking the terrorism cash-cow.
"Why? Excluding religion, there is no reason to believe that vaccines cause any harm: literally every study attempting to find otherwise has either failed or been proven fraudulent."
I'm as uncomfortable with this kind of statement being pawned-off as factual/"scientific" as I am with un-vaccinated kids going to school with my kids.
There are legitimate questions and issues with vaccines. Funny how they'll never be addressed so long as people lack any ability to think critically.
with the classic and pulp science fiction eras.
Because when they are, they realize that all bad things come from placing tech above people.
NINE times in the past 3 years I've offered my services to various open source projects.
I was completely ignored 6 of those times, and the other 3 times was discouraged from participating at all and treated rudely.
Sorry, but the Open Source culture is the issue, not lack of people eager to participate in projects. It's kind of like the situation with Birkenstocks - useful, but at the same time also very good birth control.
people got together and downloaded only what they already own, to tie-up courts with those cases, and try and get judgments against these firms ?
Gets better mileage too.
Your idiotic re-writing of the chronological history of Labor Unions in the US is wither the work of someone intent on spreading disinformation, or someone who's just plain stupid.
And THAT'S why you're AC.
When the grand jury verdict came in, I distinctly recall seeing and hearing the Brown father hollar :
BURN IT DOWN, BURN IT ALL DOWN ! ! !
The nuke people never bring it up, they're most afraid of it.