I don't know about you, but even if I was an ordained priest of pastafarianism, I think I would feel a bit silly addressing my prayers to The Great Spaghetti Monster.
You blasphemous!!!, sinful!!! wicked!! unbeliever!!!! How dare you question the most holy order and righteous followers of His Noodliness!! How can you prove he doesn't exist. Something created the universe? What? Science?! Unlikely. Is there a scientific explanation for all those missing pirates? Didn't think so. Ergo, FSM is real!
I don't call someone delusional just because they worship 'Mother Nature' or belong to the Jedi Order.
You don't!? Come on! Those people are like a free punching bag. I especially love how their passifict beliefs won't let them fly into a rage as the hecklers slowly drive them insane.
btw, I dare ANY body who's watched a loved one suffer to deny that they said a few words to God 'Just in case'. It certainly can't hurt. I'm not religious, but I've been there.
And that's how they catch people.
Like a pedophile, religious prosyletists seek out those who are neglected, vunerable, fearful and in search of some kind of solace. They groom them with tales of a happy afterlife and that praying can help them get what they want. Finally they win them over completely, body and mind and use their new converts to seduce others. Those who are not converted, or eventually break free, are left scarred and violated by the expierience.
Unlike pedophiles however, the activities of religious prosyletists are not only lawful, but are in many countries constitutionally protected from arrest of any kind. Even if such activities include pedophillia, as in the case of the Catholic Church, an organisation which, despite facilitating the abuse of thousands of children, is still allowed to operate in every country such abuse has taken place in.
Essentially, religion is a gigantic legal loophole by which one can get away with; just about anything. Studies like this only serve to show how inappropriate, useless, and counterproductive protection of religion really is. These people would be better off doing something concrete and valid instead of wasting time and energy "praying".
"Web2.0" is still-another-stupid-buzzword and, technically, doesn't exist.
Web 2.0 exists. It's all about making it easier for end users to create web content. That's it really. No big deal, except of course when you multiply it's effect by all the new users now able to create content. Then what you get is a hell of a lot more rough out there, but consequently a few more diamonds.
It seems very much like how, as a child, we would use "jew" as a derogatory term: to jew money etc. I had no idea what jew meant in a broader sense,
I have a somewhat similar story, but the word in question was 'cunt'.
I swear to gods, I had no idea what that word really meant until I was probably fifteen. I just used it in a general derogatrory sense, and often as a form of informal chastisement. I'm reasonably certain I used it when conversing with females on more than one occassion.
When I was finally told what it actually meant,... well, let's just say it was a rather mortifiying epiphany.
My sobering moment came when I was working in my first tech job. There I was coding away, then the boss comes down for a chat. It was the first time we'd met as he'd been out for three weeks. He chatted for a bit about the old days and the systems he'd made that were probably still running somewhere out there. He said a bit about the madness of the bubble, this was just after the crash.
After a bit, he pointed to a small scar at the side of his head. I hadn't thought much of it. It looked a little like a scar you'd get from a motercycle accident, or possible a sporting injury. He explained that this was the scar from the operation where they'd taken a tumour the size of a golfball out of his brain only three weeks before.
I was a little stunned. And of course the the cause was immediately obvious. Here was a guy who had been using mobile phones for at least 15 years, continuously. All the way from old analouge to GSM. The next week, I got my first mobile phone a week later. I got it with a hands free kit, and that's my preferred method to this day.
Incidentally, the boss in question continued to use mobiles, even after the operation. Admittedly his job more or less required it. He, and the other engineers' preferred model was a large heavy nokia model with great battery life and a good signal even in secluded comms rooms. The speakers on my laptop would crackle whenever they got a call, whether they were in the comms room or not.
Yet there are multinational companies that make billions by selling these concepts wholesale to young girls all over the world. Often these are the very same companies that sell GI Joe dolls to young boys.
The question here is why absorbsion with pink and unicorns is derided in an adult, whereas continued obsession with violence, guns and GI Joe dolls is not only accepted, but even looked upon as a virtue?
Why is one child taught that their play is derisable, and the other laudable?
Trojan Muffins (secret filling might bring surprise!) DDoS Donuts (very tasty, but eat too many and they gang up on you) L33t Latté (quintuple espresso with a single shot of milk) Keylogger Cakes (be careful, they're watching)
I think ThinkGeek just found their newest product line.
I was able to do the job for $6K, plus cost of hardware. Their IT guy -- who gets $60K/year -- had already invested a month on the task and didn't seem anywhere close to completion. I did the job in two weeks.
And walked away.... leaving the $60K/year IT guy to maintain, upgrade and generally find some way your solution can live with the rest of the network. And all the while he's removing malware, cleaning systems, reimaging machines, desperately trying to get people to stop using "password" as their password, harranging the local ISP, trying to get the 68bit WEP key changed, supporting blackberries, upgrading hardware, relicencing software, debugging the company website, fixing the bosses' kids laptop, ordering replacement parts, plugging mice back in, kowtowing to the database admin, giving everyone gadget advice when they come calling, unjamming the printers, and trying to find a new job.
Oh what he wouldn't give to do a job for 6K, plus cost of hardware, and just.... walk away, down that Yellow Brick Road.
I haven't got Aspergers, just a chronic case of "The Knack".
My default method is just to simply assume that everyone around me will be bored, lost and disinterested the moment I open my mouth about something technical or science oriented.
You can get a feel for how your listeners react to you by simply asking one of them about sports, sitcoms or celebrities. You'll immediately be bored, stay bored, become increasing lost and disinterested, finally bordering on supressing screaming at this person please shut up.
It's a great way to really get the feel for how non geeks react to you!
A common formula for the IQ of a group is to take the IQ of the highest member of the group, and divide by the number of people in the group.
It's the IQ of a mob, and the formula is the IQ of the lowest member, divided by the number of people in the group.
This occurs because the convolution of the current Group IQ with the IQ of a new member is lower if the new members IQ is lower, but remains the same otherwise.
At some point following the above suggestions, you should be able to enjoy the rest of the movie (or get a refund from the manager to see it some other time). It pays to start the above as soon as someone makes noise, because the sooner you can resolve this, the more you enjoy your film.
This is why I don't go to the cinema. Why should all the onus be on me to babysit other grown adults that can't behave properly. Why would I consciously put myself in a position where in order to enjoy the movie I need to first run the gauntlet of admonishing a fully grown adult with the mentality of a primary school student. Do this enough times, and you'll just get sick of it, or eventually get flipped off by an indignant, self righteous, over petulant ignoramous whose plan was probably to draw someones ire in the first place.
Eventually I got tired of the foreplay and just started walking straight up to these people saying; "Excuse me. Shut the fuck up." This had the added advantage of working on actual children too.
After a few rounds of this I was just disgusted with myself, both for actually going to such lengths for a crap movie, and of course, putting myself in the position of having to do so time and again. I turned to DVDs, and things have never been beter since.
All of the above can also be summarised as : Grow a pair. You're a goddamn adult, so start acting like one
A pair of what? Jerk goggles? I tried that. I never want to ever again. There's a fine line between being OK and being an asshole, and honestly, it's crossed the moment you turn around in your seat and bring yourself down to their level. Just leave the cinema and never, ever look back. It's a wonderful feeling.
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I don't know about you, but even if I was an ordained priest of pastafarianism, I think I would feel a bit silly addressing my prayers to The Great Spaghetti Monster.
You blasphemous!!!, sinful!!! wicked!! unbeliever!!!! How dare you question the most holy order and righteous followers of His Noodliness!! How can you prove he doesn't exist. Something created the universe? What? Science?! Unlikely. Is there a scientific explanation for all those missing pirates? Didn't think so. Ergo, FSM is real!
I don't call someone delusional just because they worship 'Mother Nature' or belong to the Jedi Order.
You don't!? Come on! Those people are like a free punching bag. I especially love how their passifict beliefs won't let them fly into a rage as the hecklers slowly drive them insane.
btw, I dare ANY body who's watched a loved one suffer to deny that they said a few words to God 'Just in case'. It certainly can't hurt. I'm not religious, but I've been there.
And that's how they catch people.
Like a pedophile, religious prosyletists seek out those who are neglected, vunerable, fearful and in search of some kind of solace. They groom them with tales of a happy afterlife and that praying can help them get what they want. Finally they win them over completely, body and mind and use their new converts to seduce others. Those who are not converted, or eventually break free, are left scarred and violated by the expierience.
Unlike pedophiles however, the activities of religious prosyletists are not only lawful, but are in many countries constitutionally protected from arrest of any kind. Even if such activities include pedophillia, as in the case of the Catholic Church, an organisation which, despite facilitating the abuse of thousands of children, is still allowed to operate in every country such abuse has taken place in.
Essentially, religion is a gigantic legal loophole by which one can get away with; just about anything. Studies like this only serve to show how inappropriate, useless, and counterproductive protection of religion really is. These people would be better off doing something concrete and valid instead of wasting time and energy "praying".
"Web2.0" is still-another-stupid-buzzword and, technically, doesn't exist.
Web 2.0 exists. It's all about making it easier for end users to create web content. That's it really. No big deal, except of course when you multiply it's effect by all the new users now able to create content. Then what you get is a hell of a lot more rough out there, but consequently a few more diamonds.
It seems very much like how, as a child, we would use "jew" as a derogatory term: to jew money etc. I had no idea what jew meant in a broader sense,
I have a somewhat similar story, but the word in question was 'cunt'.
I swear to gods, I had no idea what that word really meant until I was probably fifteen. I just used it in a general derogatrory sense, and often as a form of informal chastisement. I'm reasonably certain I used it when conversing with females on more than one occassion.
When I was finally told what it actually meant,... well, let's just say it was a rather mortifiying epiphany.
For those over the age of 12, using "gay" as a generic derogatory is pretty fucking childish and insulting.
Yeah. I hate it when people act all gay like that.
I am a professional programmer, I make a 6 figure salary, and I suck at math.
COBOL, right?
Since nothing else really interesting is happening....
And he wonders why people complain about story quality. Here's a hint for some extra material. Search user journals for "rejected submission".
This confirmation is quite sobering, to me.
My sobering moment came when I was working in my first tech job. There I was coding away, then the boss comes down for a chat. It was the first time we'd met as he'd been out for three weeks. He chatted for a bit about the old days and the systems he'd made that were probably still running somewhere out there. He said a bit about the madness of the bubble, this was just after the crash.
After a bit, he pointed to a small scar at the side of his head. I hadn't thought much of it. It looked a little like a scar you'd get from a motercycle accident, or possible a sporting injury. He explained that this was the scar from the operation where they'd taken a tumour the size of a golfball out of his brain only three weeks before.
I was a little stunned. And of course the the cause was immediately obvious. Here was a guy who had been using mobile phones for at least 15 years, continuously. All the way from old analouge to GSM. The next week, I got my first mobile phone a week later. I got it with a hands free kit, and that's my preferred method to this day.
Incidentally, the boss in question continued to use mobiles, even after the operation. Admittedly his job more or less required it. He, and the other engineers' preferred model was a large heavy nokia model with great battery life and a good signal even in secluded comms rooms. The speakers on my laptop would crackle whenever they got a call, whether they were in the comms room or not.
Pink and ponies is not taking them seriously.
Yet there are multinational companies that make billions by selling these concepts wholesale to young girls all over the world. Often these are the very same companies that sell GI Joe dolls to young boys.
The question here is why absorbsion with pink and unicorns is derided in an adult, whereas continued obsession with violence, guns and GI Joe dolls is not only accepted, but even looked upon as a virtue?
Why is one child taught that their play is derisable, and the other laudable?
Ze Goggles do nothing!!!
Trojan Muffins (secret filling might bring surprise!)
DDoS Donuts (very tasty, but eat too many and they gang up on you)
L33t Latté (quintuple espresso with a single shot of milk)
Keylogger Cakes (be careful, they're watching)
I think ThinkGeek just found their newest product line.
Look out!! He's got a chair!!!
They fire people in order to make them suffer.
No, no, no. They hire people to make them suffer. Succor comes with the final paycheck.
I was able to do the job for $6K, plus cost of hardware. Their IT guy -- who gets $60K/year -- had already invested a month on the task and didn't seem anywhere close to completion. I did the job in two weeks.
And walked away.... leaving the $60K/year IT guy to maintain, upgrade and generally find some way your solution can live with the rest of the network. And all the while he's removing malware, cleaning systems, reimaging machines, desperately trying to get people to stop using "password" as their password, harranging the local ISP, trying to get the 68bit WEP key changed, supporting blackberries, upgrading hardware, relicencing software, debugging the company website, fixing the bosses' kids laptop, ordering replacement parts, plugging mice back in, kowtowing to the database admin, giving everyone gadget advice when they come calling, unjamming the printers, and trying to find a new job.
Oh what he wouldn't give to do a job for 6K, plus cost of hardware, and just.... walk away, down that Yellow Brick Road.
C++!
Ensuring indespensibility since 1983!
Now with even less keywords!
Once you have that, you have an issue with free speech rights being trampled as the government tries to regulate what it obscene or not.
Clearly, Obscenity is a statue of a naked women giving birth.
I haven't got Aspergers, just a chronic case of "The Knack".
My default method is just to simply assume that everyone around me will be bored, lost and disinterested the moment I open my mouth about something technical or science oriented.
You can get a feel for how your listeners react to you by simply asking one of them about sports, sitcoms or celebrities. You'll immediately be bored, stay bored, become increasing lost and disinterested, finally bordering on supressing screaming at this person please shut up.
It's a great way to really get the feel for how non geeks react to you!
A common formula for the IQ of a group is to take the IQ of the highest member of the group, and divide by the number of people in the group.
It's the IQ of a mob, and the formula is the IQ of the lowest member, divided by the number of people in the group.
This occurs because the convolution of the current Group IQ with the IQ of a new member is lower if the new members IQ is lower, but remains the same otherwise.
At some point following the above suggestions, you should be able to enjoy the rest of the movie (or get a refund from the manager to see it some other time). It pays to start the above as soon as someone makes noise, because the sooner you can resolve this, the more you enjoy your film.
This is why I don't go to the cinema. Why should all the onus be on me to babysit other grown adults that can't behave properly. Why would I consciously put myself in a position where in order to enjoy the movie I need to first run the gauntlet of admonishing a fully grown adult with the mentality of a primary school student. Do this enough times, and you'll just get sick of it, or eventually get flipped off by an indignant, self righteous, over petulant ignoramous whose plan was probably to draw someones ire in the first place.
Eventually I got tired of the foreplay and just started walking straight up to these people saying; "Excuse me. Shut the fuck up." This had the added advantage of working on actual children too.
After a few rounds of this I was just disgusted with myself, both for actually going to such lengths for a crap movie, and of course, putting myself in the position of having to do so time and again. I turned to DVDs, and things have never been beter since.
All of the above can also be summarised as : Grow a pair. You're a goddamn adult, so start acting like one
A pair of what? Jerk goggles? I tried that. I never want to ever again. There's a fine line between being OK and being an asshole, and honestly, it's crossed the moment you turn around in your seat and bring yourself down to their level. Just leave the cinema and never, ever look back. It's a wonderful feeling.
Google still loads quicker. Cause I gotta have my extra 5 seconds with page loads... it is a matter of National Security.
Doa few hundred searches every day and speed becomes the priority.
Try searching for "Fourier Transform"
On Google
On Ask
I don't know about you, but I found Ask's search more helpful than Google's simple redirection to Mathworld and Wikipedia.
Depending on the numbers you use, the United States has fewer violent crimes than many other nations
Would these number happen to be multiples of the square root of minus one?
Once Ubuntu was installed... it just worked wonderfully.
Did it play mp3s?
Seems nobody can capitalize COBOL correctly anyway. Morons.
There, there. I know it's hard. Kids can be so case insensitivite at times.