Maybe someone who would think of a solution would never even look at it until somebody else points out a problem. There's a place in this world for us pessimists, godammit.
Because the subject line is required, as you've pointed out, often unread, and rarely useful. It's a silly requirement, so it creates silly workarounds.
Ah, but there are controls on normal citizens breaking the speed limit--if you or I do it and aren't driving in the hyper-aware state that allows us to slow down when we see the top of a cop car over the next rise before they can get their speed gun on us, we get a ticket.
A governor though? Hah! Governors' nephews get off for drunk driving. Any highway cop's career could be squashed like a bug by a governor, or even a governor's aid hearing about a cop giving a governor a ticket, or the cop's direct boss who doesn't like their subordinates making waves, even if the governor him/herself wouldn't have done a thing to the cop and happily pays the ticket.
The end result? The governor gets to speed without consequences, and does things like speeding while half-asleep. Unless you think the idea of someone being literally above the law is cool, people in a position of power like that need to be held to a higher standard in order to be held to any standard at all. And that's of course not addressing the question of why, if even the governor can't follow the law, and we don't penalize them when they break it, the law is what it is in the first place.
I was just in NYC this last weekend, and remarked how if you put a ceiling on all the buildings in the Times Square area it'd be just like a gigantic mall--all the stores are the same as in the mall near my house, they're just taking up the bottom couple floors of a skyscraper.
As for "city center" type stuff, where it's a bunch of narrow streets used more for foot traffic than anything else, there's not a ton of them, but they're generally bars and restaurants, with hotels or other stuff I'm not sure of on top.
The city center in my home city, Rochester NY, is like 4 15-ish floor buildings, but you pretty much only go there if you work there or have business there--it's just a handful of office buildings, there's not any consumer stuff that I know of.
Yeah, as the other poster noted, it's every-goddamn-where. You're typing on a box that would be considered flat-out magic 100 years ago. Your words went out instantly to people spread across the entire globe. If you published your address and somebody didn't like what you said enough, they could buy a ticket, hop on a plane and fly across the ocean in a few hours, use google maps and signals from GPS satellites IN OUTER FUCKING SPACE on their cell phone to navigate the public transportation network, and walk right up to your front door and sock you in the nose. Then you could go to the doctor's office, where they could look inside your head to see exactly how to set the bones, and if you had a nasty cut they might give you some mass-produced antibiotics.
Then, you get into your 4,000 pounds of unimaginably-precision machined car, and drive down the road that, contrary to the months you usually see a construction crew working, can be laid down miles at a time in a couple days, open your refrigerator and pull out some irradiated milk that's been in there for two weeks and is still perfectly fresh, and console yourself with an oreo on your 2-3 days wage couch.
The world of today compared to 100 years ago is abso-fucking-lutely magical. Maybe the productivity didn't go where you wanted (in your wallet, I'm guessing is the real issue), but it's all around you.
Huh. My grandfather did it, bought a plot of land and built a two-story house with all the modern accoutrements in a densely-populated suburb in the Hudson valley (very near NYC). Since the house has been standing for 20 years now and nobody's come in to fine him out of existence, I'm fairly sure it was all up to code.
He literally chopped every tree down and worked the wood himself. He was a carpenter by profession and this was his retirement job so he had a pretty good idea of what to do, although he mostly made furniture. Just decided to build himself a house one day, and there it is. I know he hired an electrician to do the wiring, not sure about the ductwork and plumbing but I imagine he hired someone for those as well, but he did an amazing amount of work completely solo, only occasionally bringing some friends on when there was something he couldn't handle, and almost killing himself in once incident trying to raise something with a jury-rigged crane that he really should have brought others in on.
I think it took him just over two years, (I was a little kid at the time) but I remember there being a lot of talk about how he was being kind of lazy about it at the time, and he really did his best to only bring others on when he absolutely needed to, he wanted it to be a "his own two hands" kind of thing. I imagine if it was a full-on family effort, a year or less would be realistic.
Twenty man-years? No. If that was the case, the average person would have to spend 100% of their wages for 20 years in order to pay for the average house, before considering profit.
If people were SO productive, what are they producing?
Everything.
Why does it take 25 years to pay a house that can be built in 6 weeks?
You pay less than a single worker's wage per month.
More than one worker worked on your house at a time.
You're also paying for materials that were produced over time you're not counting in that 6-week figure.
Why are we still working 40 hour weeks? The average work week went from 100 to 50 hours in the 19th century, with 19th century technology!
Actually, we're working 45-hour weeks--the 40-hour work week went out when they stopped paying us for lunch and changed the start time from 9:00 to 8:00. It will get better when resources aren't scarce anymore.
It doesn't have to be untrue, offtopic, or uninteresting to be a shill. I noticed a pattern, and pointed it out. The original poster that the comment was stolen from commented in reply--it wasn't what I thought it was, but there was in fact something weird about it, and now the question is answered.
As a bonus, Microsoft's marketing department gets off the hook, and now we know that you're a hemorrhoidal asshole who feels the need to butt in on topics they have nothing to add to and likes to defend plagiarizing karma-whoring trolls. Winners all around!
This has got to be some sort of smear campaign against Microsoft, because I cannot believe that they would think that bludgeoning people with astro-turf is going to get them sales. The first two articles with MS shilling I saw (today!) I wrote off as just people sharing interesting stuff that happened to come from MS, but thanks to your over-heavy hand, the pattern is clear as a bell now.
So tell me MS marketing people, are you seriously this incompetent, or did a new astro-turf campagin incentive get out of hand? I'm honestly curious how this happened.
As much as I want to mod this Funny, I'll instead post here to say, watch the video before modding Troll. My first thought when reading "Scott Thompson" was his Buddy sketches, but this is definitely one of my favorites.
Yeah, you're right. There's layers between politicians and their constituents for a reason! We can't just have the peanut gallery talking directly to the people that change their lives, that's just ridiculous and besides, their poor wittle minds are unable to cope with such powerfully-trained bullshit artists, so they'd soon find themselves swaying under their spell instead of asking for what they want anyway!
What we need is controls and regulations between the politicians and people. So that the politicians have the time to talk directly to the lobbyists, about removing the controls and regulations on the lobbyists, politicians, and businesses, who are people too, dammit!
First thing:
"'This was likely [Haney's] first experience under such physiological duress.'"
Okay, that makes no sense to me. My understanding is that both USN and USAF pilots undergo extreme physiological and psychological duress in the course of their training, for just this reason. They expose you to hypoxia, to decompression, to high-g forces, even to having to survive and avoid capture (with most trainees end up getting caught) and resist interrogation techniques (see under 'most trainees end up getting caught').
It's pretty hard to simulate a life-threatening situation without actually putting someone's life at risk. Some people focus in those situations. I don't know what that's like. Some people, like me, fall apart. I know exactly what that's like. Everything you do is wrong and stupid. Every new piece of information is overwhelming and terrifying. Sometimes you just blank out, and the next thing you know, three seconds are gone. Then you go, "OH FUCK! THREE SECONDS! I FUCKED EVERYTHING UP AND NOW I'M DEAD!" and another three seconds are wasted. Now six seconds are gone, and you only had 18 to begin with. What are you going to do, now that almost half your time is gone? You'd better do something extraordinary, because 18 seconds is barely enough time so pull super hard OH FUCK I JUST RIPPED THE HANDLE OFF
Then I'm thinking about how bad I screwed up pulling the handle off, instead of pulling the backup handle.
The thing is, the smarter someone is, the more controlled, the harder it is to get them to panic until something really, actually scares them, and the harder it is too fool them into thinking it's time to be scared. If you didn't know me very, very well, you might think I was good at stressful situations. Nope. I just don't get stressed quite as easily, but when I do, watch out, because I'm about to completely lose it. I'm guessing this guy was similar.
Go ahead. Put me through some oxygen-deprivation training. The whole time, I'll be thinking to myself, "hey, worst case, they have medical staff to revive you. They wouldn't get away with actually threatening people's lives." Even if they would get away with it, I probably wouldn't believe it. I would have to literally see multiple people die in training to actually get scared there, and until I'm actually scared, you don't know how I'll act.
Is it common to request work in a warzone? Are those requests ever fulfilled? I'd expect some extreme security checks, since other than specifying exactly which warzone you want to go to, there's not much more of a spy-like activity you could take.
If I were running a war, as a general policy, if someone wants to work somewhere, my answer would be, "No, and by the way, follow the nice man with the sunken knuckles into that extremely bare room." Either that, or "Oh yeah absolutely" and then bugging the everloving crap out of everything you do for the rest of your life.
Unless of course you search for it on Google, Bing, or Yahoo, or probably any other search engine, in which case it's the first result. And, unless you actually read the page you're downloading from, which states "The official PuTTY web page is still where it has always been: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/"
Unless you don't know what PuTTY is, you'd almost have to try to download it from the wrong place.
You should read the article. For 1/6th the cost of an hourly wage (same rate snapshots are taken at), you can blank out an image. That seems fair to me, since you don't pay for the times when it didn't catch you, so your pay will approach the actual amount of time you spend working.
You get to keep your privacy, and your pay. As long as there's a way to disable the software (and, presumably, not get paid) what's the problem?
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Maybe someone who would think of a solution would never even look at it until somebody else points out a problem. There's a place in this world for us pessimists, godammit.
Because the subject line is required, as you've pointed out, often unread, and rarely useful. It's a silly requirement, so it creates silly workarounds.
Ah, but there are controls on normal citizens breaking the speed limit--if you or I do it and aren't driving in the hyper-aware state that allows us to slow down when we see the top of a cop car over the next rise before they can get their speed gun on us, we get a ticket.
A governor though? Hah! Governors' nephews get off for drunk driving. Any highway cop's career could be squashed like a bug by a governor, or even a governor's aid hearing about a cop giving a governor a ticket, or the cop's direct boss who doesn't like their subordinates making waves, even if the governor him/herself wouldn't have done a thing to the cop and happily pays the ticket.
The end result? The governor gets to speed without consequences, and does things like speeding while half-asleep. Unless you think the idea of someone being literally above the law is cool, people in a position of power like that need to be held to a higher standard in order to be held to any standard at all. And that's of course not addressing the question of why, if even the governor can't follow the law, and we don't penalize them when they break it, the law is what it is in the first place.
Did you see the wreck? I don't care how fast he was going, it's a miracle of engineering that he's alive.
I was just in NYC this last weekend, and remarked how if you put a ceiling on all the buildings in the Times Square area it'd be just like a gigantic mall--all the stores are the same as in the mall near my house, they're just taking up the bottom couple floors of a skyscraper.
As for "city center" type stuff, where it's a bunch of narrow streets used more for foot traffic than anything else, there's not a ton of them, but they're generally bars and restaurants, with hotels or other stuff I'm not sure of on top.
The city center in my home city, Rochester NY, is like 4 15-ish floor buildings, but you pretty much only go there if you work there or have business there--it's just a handful of office buildings, there's not any consumer stuff that I know of.
Yeah, as the other poster noted, it's every-goddamn-where. You're typing on a box that would be considered flat-out magic 100 years ago. Your words went out instantly to people spread across the entire globe. If you published your address and somebody didn't like what you said enough, they could buy a ticket, hop on a plane and fly across the ocean in a few hours, use google maps and signals from GPS satellites IN OUTER FUCKING SPACE on their cell phone to navigate the public transportation network, and walk right up to your front door and sock you in the nose. Then you could go to the doctor's office, where they could look inside your head to see exactly how to set the bones, and if you had a nasty cut they might give you some mass-produced antibiotics.
Then, you get into your 4,000 pounds of unimaginably-precision machined car, and drive down the road that, contrary to the months you usually see a construction crew working, can be laid down miles at a time in a couple days, open your refrigerator and pull out some irradiated milk that's been in there for two weeks and is still perfectly fresh, and console yourself with an oreo on your 2-3 days wage couch.
The world of today compared to 100 years ago is abso-fucking-lutely magical. Maybe the productivity didn't go where you wanted (in your wallet, I'm guessing is the real issue), but it's all around you.
Huh. My grandfather did it, bought a plot of land and built a two-story house with all the modern accoutrements in a densely-populated suburb in the Hudson valley (very near NYC). Since the house has been standing for 20 years now and nobody's come in to fine him out of existence, I'm fairly sure it was all up to code.
He literally chopped every tree down and worked the wood himself. He was a carpenter by profession and this was his retirement job so he had a pretty good idea of what to do, although he mostly made furniture. Just decided to build himself a house one day, and there it is. I know he hired an electrician to do the wiring, not sure about the ductwork and plumbing but I imagine he hired someone for those as well, but he did an amazing amount of work completely solo, only occasionally bringing some friends on when there was something he couldn't handle, and almost killing himself in once incident trying to raise something with a jury-rigged crane that he really should have brought others in on.
I think it took him just over two years, (I was a little kid at the time) but I remember there being a lot of talk about how he was being kind of lazy about it at the time, and he really did his best to only bring others on when he absolutely needed to, he wanted it to be a "his own two hands" kind of thing. I imagine if it was a full-on family effort, a year or less would be realistic.
Twenty man-years? No. If that was the case, the average person would have to spend 100% of their wages for 20 years in order to pay for the average house, before considering profit.
I want one so bad.
If people were SO productive, what are they producing?
Everything.
Why does it take 25 years to pay a house that can be built in 6 weeks?
Why are we still working 40 hour weeks? The average work week went from 100 to 50 hours in the 19th century, with 19th century technology!
Actually, we're working 45-hour weeks--the 40-hour work week went out when they stopped paying us for lunch and changed the start time from 9:00 to 8:00. It will get better when resources aren't scarce anymore.
What are we producing, why, and for who?
Are you on acid?
It doesn't have to be untrue, offtopic, or uninteresting to be a shill. I noticed a pattern, and pointed it out. The original poster that the comment was stolen from commented in reply--it wasn't what I thought it was, but there was in fact something weird about it, and now the question is answered.
As a bonus, Microsoft's marketing department gets off the hook, and now we know that you're a hemorrhoidal asshole who feels the need to butt in on topics they have nothing to add to and likes to defend plagiarizing karma-whoring trolls. Winners all around!
This has got to be some sort of smear campaign against Microsoft, because I cannot believe that they would think that bludgeoning people with astro-turf is going to get them sales. The first two articles with MS shilling I saw (today!) I wrote off as just people sharing interesting stuff that happened to come from MS, but thanks to your over-heavy hand, the pattern is clear as a bell now.
So tell me MS marketing people, are you seriously this incompetent, or did a new astro-turf campagin incentive get out of hand? I'm honestly curious how this happened.
As much as I want to mod this Funny, I'll instead post here to say, watch the video before modding Troll. My first thought when reading "Scott Thompson" was his Buddy sketches, but this is definitely one of my favorites.
Yeah, you're right. There's layers between politicians and their constituents for a reason! We can't just have the peanut gallery talking directly to the people that change their lives, that's just ridiculous and besides, their poor wittle minds are unable to cope with such powerfully-trained bullshit artists, so they'd soon find themselves swaying under their spell instead of asking for what they want anyway!
What we need is controls and regulations between the politicians and people. So that the politicians have the time to talk directly to the lobbyists, about removing the controls and regulations on the lobbyists, politicians, and businesses, who are people too, dammit!
1678 bytes, and I (and others) use it every day. No JS (CSS3 manages to do everything I want).
Everyone who is an idiot, maybe.
First thing:
"'This was likely [Haney's] first experience under such physiological duress.'"
Okay, that makes no sense to me. My understanding is that both USN and USAF pilots undergo extreme physiological and psychological duress in the course of their training, for just this reason. They expose you to hypoxia, to decompression, to high-g forces, even to having to survive and avoid capture (with most trainees end up getting caught) and resist interrogation techniques (see under 'most trainees end up getting caught').
It's pretty hard to simulate a life-threatening situation without actually putting someone's life at risk. Some people focus in those situations. I don't know what that's like. Some people, like me, fall apart. I know exactly what that's like. Everything you do is wrong and stupid. Every new piece of information is overwhelming and terrifying. Sometimes you just blank out, and the next thing you know, three seconds are gone. Then you go, "OH FUCK! THREE SECONDS! I FUCKED EVERYTHING UP AND NOW I'M DEAD!" and another three seconds are wasted. Now six seconds are gone, and you only had 18 to begin with. What are you going to do, now that almost half your time is gone? You'd better do something extraordinary, because 18 seconds is barely enough time so pull super hard OH FUCK I JUST RIPPED THE HANDLE OFF
Then I'm thinking about how bad I screwed up pulling the handle off, instead of pulling the backup handle.
The thing is, the smarter someone is, the more controlled, the harder it is to get them to panic until something really, actually scares them, and the harder it is too fool them into thinking it's time to be scared. If you didn't know me very, very well, you might think I was good at stressful situations. Nope. I just don't get stressed quite as easily, but when I do, watch out, because I'm about to completely lose it. I'm guessing this guy was similar.
Go ahead. Put me through some oxygen-deprivation training. The whole time, I'll be thinking to myself, "hey, worst case, they have medical staff to revive you. They wouldn't get away with actually threatening people's lives." Even if they would get away with it, I probably wouldn't believe it. I would have to literally see multiple people die in training to actually get scared there, and until I'm actually scared, you don't know how I'll act.
memory type range registers and millisecond-timed blowfish fucking
Being literally the funniest man alive doesn't hurt.
It is with hacked clients.
Is it common to request work in a warzone? Are those requests ever fulfilled? I'd expect some extreme security checks, since other than specifying exactly which warzone you want to go to, there's not much more of a spy-like activity you could take.
If I were running a war, as a general policy, if someone wants to work somewhere, my answer would be, "No, and by the way, follow the nice man with the sunken knuckles into that extremely bare room." Either that, or "Oh yeah absolutely" and then bugging the everloving crap out of everything you do for the rest of your life.
Try harder.
Scared of Sarah Palin? But she has to be elected to be any kind of a threat. What do you think we are, idio...
Yeah. Okay.
Unless of course you search for it on Google, Bing, or Yahoo, or probably any other search engine, in which case it's the first result. And, unless you actually read the page you're downloading from, which states "The official PuTTY web page is still where it has always been: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/"
Unless you don't know what PuTTY is, you'd almost have to try to download it from the wrong place.
You should read the article. For 1/6th the cost of an hourly wage (same rate snapshots are taken at), you can blank out an image. That seems fair to me, since you don't pay for the times when it didn't catch you, so your pay will approach the actual amount of time you spend working.
You get to keep your privacy, and your pay. As long as there's a way to disable the software (and, presumably, not get paid) what's the problem?