An anonymous tip that says you're a pot dealer is enough for you to get the terrorist treatment.
Well, there's very good reasoning for that.
1) Opium is a drug.
2) Terrorists have been known to fund their activities using opium.
3) Therefore, terrorists have been known to fund their activities using drugs.
4) Pot is a drug.
5) Therefore, pot is used to fund terrorists.
6) Terrorists kill people, especially Americans. They often have guns, rocket launchers, bombs, and other weapons in easy reach.
7) Therefore, pot is used by people who kill Americans and have guns, rocket launchers, bombs, and other weapons.
8) Therefore, we need to bust down the door and shoot them first.
And your average person can't see a single thing wrong with that reasoning.
Hehe, I'm not sure what you are asking your tech support guy and mechanic to do that you would be concerned with STDs...
I suppose you might have a point on the last one thou!
Well, I don't know about tech support but my vast
knowledge of porn tells me that changing someone's tire almost invariably leads to sex on the hood of the car. And maybe the roof.
Don't forget Java 1.2 being called "Java 2", so that the current version 1.6.0 is "Java 6".
Nobody ever thought of what they would do after 1.9.
That's what two digit numbers are for.
Besides, the VP in charge of branding and propaganda who came up with the idea likely intends to be gone somewhere around 1.8 and working for another company with a product at V2.3 so he doesn't need to think of a new idea.
what the hell does Harry Potter have to do with Isaac Asimov?
What, you never read Asimov's Daneel Olivaw and the Order of the Positron? Ties together the Robots series, the Foundation series, three previously independent works, the Harry Potter series, two chemistry textbooks, a shopping list Isaac once wrote when Janet was away visiting family, the service manual for a '72 Dodge Dart, and six incomprehensible Harlan Ellison rants yet to be written.
Er, what is the point? Oh that's right - everyone *reads* Playboy for the humor and interesting articles... (rolls eyes)
Is there really any other reason to read it? I'm not being facetious: Playboy has neither the monopoly on nor is the best source of pictures of naked women.
Not only that but I can identify your approximate age and your gender. Then I can approximate income level by your clothing and accessories and begin to tailor my "the world is ending" speech to have more effect on my audience.
And do it from 5000 different sites 24/7 and collect the data to determine if certain groups congregate at certain locations at specific points in the day! And try similar messages at nearby locations to see which has the most positive response and then sell that information to maximize profit!
"Each Milo character will be unique because every player's interaction with the virtual character will sculpt the type of virtual person Milo will evolve to become."
Goodness, don't let 4chan loose on this one. We'll have another Bucket.
I thought gold was more yellow because they added something to it. I remember a childhood story about how long ago a worker at the gold plant dropped his lunch (cheese sandwich) into the vat, and didn't tell anyone. When it hardened/cooled they noticed it was much more golden in color, and the boss was pleased and found out, so they started adding cheese to it at first!
Or this could be a totally BS fairy tale, I don't know.
I'll vote for BS. I doubt that organic material dropped in 1000+ degree molten gold would end up as anything other than so much random impurities.
They're in deep enough to basically finance themselves through corruption even if they didn't produce anything.
Produce anything? They have a chokehold on the advertising and distribution system and force anyone who creates intellectual property to hand it over in exchange for using said system. They're gatekeepers for their cartel, if anything.
I suppose they produce DVDs and CDs and other things, but by their own arguments those things don't confer any right of ownership like ability to resell or modify or convert to a new playback format or use where someone outside your immediate circle of friends might see or hear it. So when you buy their product, they're still the owners of it and will only let you use it if it suits them. If I give you money in exchange for something and you keep the money and the item being exchanged, I have gained nothing. Their product, therefore, is nothing.
In short, they take IP from the creator and money from the consumer, and all they produce is nothing.
I was in that ten percent. Got a job with a sub-contractor for VZW (it was ABSOLUTELY verboten to tell ANYBODY that I wasn't working directly for Verizon Wireless)
Same for us with an HP subcontractor.
At least you were screwing Verizon over while you were screwing the customers. When I worked for an outsourced HP call center, our supervisors basically said to us "We get paid for number of phone calls we process for HP, not quality of service. Use every trick you can to get the person off the line. If they're on dialup, tell them to download something. If they're on highspeed, tell them to turn everything off for an hour and then call back. And if you can't get rid of them, hang up them, as long as you make it look accidental. But don't do that last one too much. "
(I knew someone who decided to quit by just putting his headset on the table and reading a book, still in the phone queue, lasted a month before they found out his calls were just dead air)
Did he get an award for his low call times before they realized? Where I worked we had someone who kept telling people to buy a new printer cable no matter what the problem with the printer was. Ink leaking out the bottom? New cable! Grinding noises? New cable! Windows says you need a driver? New cable! Kept her call times damn low, so much so that people were told to emulate her.
No, the 10% get fired when their bosses find out that they're trying to help the customers.
Actually, 5% get fired. The other 5% get fucked over repeatedly by the company until they quit, which looks better on the books. Things like:
Reprimanded severely for "missing critical training" that was announced and took place during the person's (approved) vacation or during a medical emergency.
Shifts changed repeatedly (day to evening to graveyard and back) or made insane (a day of 12 hours, a day of 8, 2 days of 4, a day of 12).
Supervisor changed repeatedly without notice.
Security harassing a specific person several days in a row because their car was parked improperly (where 'improperly' is trivial stuff like being 2 inches off being perfectly parallel with the parking space lines, not stuff like taking up two spaces). Though I admit that could've just been the security guards being dicks.
Yes it's soft, but it's super dense. If you can make a hollow sledgehammer out of something strong then fill it with gold, you could bludgeon someone's head off in one good smack.
Yeah, but then no one can SEE it. I want the zombie bitches to see my bling!
I setup a Twitter account, and 5 minutes later realized that I don't care about the minutia of other people's day, nor do I expect them to care about mine.
I made one so someone wouldn't grab the name ahead of me. My name is rare but not unique, so I wind up getting phone calls and e-mails from my denser relations asking who the girl I keep talking about is and how my golfing vacation last month was and when did I take up golf and how did I drive for two days straight without a car?
I think I used my Twitter account once to tell a guy his e-mail server was down. Provided a handy alternate means of communication in that instance, I'll say.
Are you so sure about that? Wouldn't it be more efficient to find a planet that will be moving close to your destination with a few viable life forms, let them propagate, and then collect them later? The Earth is like a nice petri dish. Drop a few specimens in, and in a while you have a full fledged colony.
What? We were made so aliens can use us as slaves? RAEL LIED TO ME!
(Actually, despite the random chatter I've heard from Raelians, I don't recall hearing something to specifically disprove this theory. Not that I really listened.)
Correct, the monotheistic God of the Old Testament is referred to with the plural... that is one of the reasons for a Trinitarian view of God. The plural was also used as a superlative, however... sort of like saying "God of gods."
My point was that this guy calling his aliens "Elohim" seems to be... rather a rip-off.
Well, if there's one thing that cults and religion have conclusively proved, it's that the best way to start a new one is to rip off an old one. Less brainwork and you can sucker in some of the old one's members.
This one doesn’t need a dedicated phone line though.
No, just a high-speed Internet connection. Which tech-unsavvy can't-use-a-PC grandma won't have and would thus be equivalent to a dedicated phone line.
Everyone else will just e-mail themselves the document and print it when they get to their PC, since the seconds saved per document hardly seems worth the money/time cost of buying/setting up a new printer. Unless it's a 50 page document, of course. But then if you run out of ink halfway through you get to the printer to find it's not printed anyway.
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An anonymous tip that says you're a pot dealer is enough for you to get the terrorist treatment.
Well, there's very good reasoning for that.
1) Opium is a drug.
2) Terrorists have been known to fund their activities using opium.
3) Therefore, terrorists have been known to fund their activities using drugs.
4) Pot is a drug.
5) Therefore, pot is used to fund terrorists.
6) Terrorists kill people, especially Americans. They often have guns, rocket launchers, bombs, and other weapons in easy reach.
7) Therefore, pot is used by people who kill Americans and have guns, rocket launchers, bombs, and other weapons.
8) Therefore, we need to bust down the door and shoot them first.
And your average person can't see a single thing wrong with that reasoning.
Hehe, I'm not sure what you are asking your tech support guy and mechanic to do that you would be concerned with STDs...
I suppose you might have a point on the last one thou!
Well, I don't know about tech support but my vast knowledge of porn tells me that changing someone's tire almost invariably leads to sex on the hood of the car. And maybe the roof.
Don't forget Java 1.2 being called "Java 2", so that the current version 1.6.0 is "Java 6".
Nobody ever thought of what they would do after 1.9.
That's what two digit numbers are for. Besides, the VP in charge of branding and propaganda who came up with the idea likely intends to be gone somewhere around 1.8 and working for another company with a product at V2.3 so he doesn't need to think of a new idea.
For $800, they should have roboticized the squirrel and made it do the "Hamster Dance"!
It's actually already built in: Drink a few and the squirrels will start dancing on their own.
what the hell does Harry Potter have to do with Isaac Asimov?
What, you never read Asimov's Daneel Olivaw and the Order of the Positron? Ties together the Robots series, the Foundation series, three previously independent works, the Harry Potter series, two chemistry textbooks, a shopping list Isaac once wrote when Janet was away visiting family, the service manual for a '72 Dodge Dart, and six incomprehensible Harlan Ellison rants yet to be written.
Er, what is the point? Oh that's right - everyone *reads* Playboy for the humor and interesting articles... (rolls eyes)
Is there really any other reason to read it? I'm not being facetious: Playboy has neither the monopoly on nor is the best source of pictures of naked women.
Not only that but I can identify your approximate age and your gender. Then I can approximate income level by your clothing and accessories and begin to tailor my "the world is ending" speech to have more effect on my audience.
And do it from 5000 different sites 24/7 and collect the data to determine if certain groups congregate at certain locations at specific points in the day! And try similar messages at nearby locations to see which has the most positive response and then sell that information to maximize profit!
Oh, wait, you can't do that.
But as I understand it, if you teach your copy of Milo all 4chan's memes, someone else's copy of Milo won't necessarily learn them.
Ah, that's good. Last thing we need is a crowdsourced AI.
Goodness, don't let 4chan loose on this one. We'll have another Bucket.
Hey man, that link keeps saying "Unable to connect"
LOL n00b! I h4x0red 127.0.0.1 easy with my 1337 sk1llz! You should see all the sick pr0n this guy has! What a freak!
Seriously - doesn't California have bigger problems to tackle?
Of course they do. Cow tails.
I thought gold was more yellow because they added something to it. I remember a childhood story about how long ago a worker at the gold plant dropped his lunch (cheese sandwich) into the vat, and didn't tell anyone. When it hardened/cooled they noticed it was much more golden in color, and the boss was pleased and found out, so they started adding cheese to it at first!
Or this could be a totally BS fairy tale, I don't know.
I'll vote for BS. I doubt that organic material dropped in 1000+ degree molten gold would end up as anything other than so much random impurities.
I very much doubt that any man on the planet has ever had the luxury to have lunch above "a vat of gold".
Source.
Except for Bond villains, of course.
They're in deep enough to basically finance themselves through corruption even if they didn't produce anything.
Produce anything? They have a chokehold on the advertising and distribution system and force anyone who creates intellectual property to hand it over in exchange for using said system. They're gatekeepers for their cartel, if anything.
I suppose they produce DVDs and CDs and other things, but by their own arguments those things don't confer any right of ownership like ability to resell or modify or convert to a new playback format or use where someone outside your immediate circle of friends might see or hear it. So when you buy their product, they're still the owners of it and will only let you use it if it suits them. If I give you money in exchange for something and you keep the money and the item being exchanged, I have gained nothing. Their product, therefore, is nothing.
In short, they take IP from the creator and money from the consumer, and all they produce is nothing.
Yeah, but a few of those sites are devoted to celebrity sex tapes like Paris Hilton's. Not very interesting.
I was in that ten percent. Got a job with a sub-contractor for VZW (it was ABSOLUTELY verboten to tell ANYBODY that I wasn't working directly for Verizon Wireless)
Same for us with an HP subcontractor.
At least you were screwing Verizon over while you were screwing the customers. When I worked for an outsourced HP call center, our supervisors basically said to us "We get paid for number of phone calls we process for HP, not quality of service. Use every trick you can to get the person off the line. If they're on dialup, tell them to download something. If they're on highspeed, tell them to turn everything off for an hour and then call back. And if you can't get rid of them, hang up them, as long as you make it look accidental. But don't do that last one too much. "
(I knew someone who decided to quit by just putting his headset on the table and reading a book, still in the phone queue, lasted a month before they found out his calls were just dead air)
Did he get an award for his low call times before they realized? Where I worked we had someone who kept telling people to buy a new printer cable no matter what the problem with the printer was. Ink leaking out the bottom? New cable! Grinding noises? New cable! Windows says you need a driver? New cable! Kept her call times damn low, so much so that people were told to emulate her.
No, the 10% get fired when their bosses find out that they're trying to help the customers.
Actually, 5% get fired. The other 5% get fucked over repeatedly by the company until they quit, which looks better on the books. Things like:
Reprimanded severely for "missing critical training" that was announced and took place during the person's (approved) vacation or during a medical emergency.
Shifts changed repeatedly (day to evening to graveyard and back) or made insane (a day of 12 hours, a day of 8, 2 days of 4, a day of 12).
Supervisor changed repeatedly without notice.
Security harassing a specific person several days in a row because their car was parked improperly (where 'improperly' is trivial stuff like being 2 inches off being perfectly parallel with the parking space lines, not stuff like taking up two spaces). Though I admit that could've just been the security guards being dicks.
A brick sized amount of gold is around 40 pounds.
Yes it's soft, but it's super dense. If you can make a hollow sledgehammer out of something strong then fill it with gold, you could bludgeon someone's head off in one good smack.
Yeah, but then no one can SEE it. I want the zombie bitches to see my bling!
I'm trying to think of a pun to keep this going, but it's just too hard.
I setup a Twitter account, and 5 minutes later realized that I don't care about the minutia of other people's day, nor do I expect them to care about mine.
I made one so someone wouldn't grab the name ahead of me. My name is rare but not unique, so I wind up getting phone calls and e-mails from my denser relations asking who the girl I keep talking about is and how my golfing vacation last month was and when did I take up golf and how did I drive for two days straight without a car?
I think I used my Twitter account once to tell a guy his e-mail server was down. Provided a handy alternate means of communication in that instance, I'll say.
Are you so sure about that? Wouldn't it be more efficient to find a planet that will be moving close to your destination with a few viable life forms, let them propagate, and then collect them later? The Earth is like a nice petri dish. Drop a few specimens in, and in a while you have a full fledged colony.
What? We were made so aliens can use us as slaves? RAEL LIED TO ME!
(Actually, despite the random chatter I've heard from Raelians, I don't recall hearing something to specifically disprove this theory. Not that I really listened.)
Correct, the monotheistic God of the Old Testament is referred to with the plural... that is one of the reasons for a Trinitarian view of God. The plural was also used as a superlative, however... sort of like saying "God of gods."
My point was that this guy calling his aliens "Elohim" seems to be ... rather a rip-off.
Well, if there's one thing that cults and religion have conclusively proved, it's that the best way to start a new one is to rip off an old one. Less brainwork and you can sucker in some of the old one's members.
it's not really a troll to say something that everyone agrees with.
(Score:1, Troll)
I guess everyone doesn't agree with you.
This one doesn’t need a dedicated phone line though.
No, just a high-speed Internet connection. Which tech-unsavvy can't-use-a-PC grandma won't have and would thus be equivalent to a dedicated phone line.
Everyone else will just e-mail themselves the document and print it when they get to their PC, since the seconds saved per document hardly seems worth the money/time cost of buying/setting up a new printer. Unless it's a 50 page document, of course. But then if you run out of ink halfway through you get to the printer to find it's not printed anyway.