How could anyone think it's rational to make a point in an amusing way by stating an exaggerated form of the opposite? Do you have any idea what might happen if the message was read by someone who totally didn't understand the concept of irony?
I hope they haven't got a patent on this. I was in the bar with a group of people from work about 10 years back and we came up with the same idea when one of the girls complained she was skipping gym due to all the overtime she was doing.
I guess the difference is we knew we were joking. Maybe next time I'm in a state of lubricated creativity and invent something ludicrously impractical and overcomplicated I'll run to a patent attorney, just in case.
If I can remember what it was the following morning.
That's pretty amazing,... er, report coming in - hold the front page - it seems different cars appeal to different demographic segments - young and fashionable, parents with small children, the elderly. Do you think that might be, ummm, intentional, Bob?
One way to do that is to say, to Japan, "You interfere, and we'll nuke Tokyo". That could quite well get the Japanese to deny the U.S. use of Okinawa
Or cause the US to say "if you don't let us use Okinawa, we'll nuke Tokyo." And then history would show again and again how nature points out the folly of men.
and landing craft are bottlenecks. Aim your machine guns at the exit and voila.
Lucky for Ike, Monty and the rest of the free world that Nazi Germany didn't have any leaders with your level of genius, or Operation Overlord would have been a non-starter.
What's this new database company going to sell? If they just knock out pirated versions of Oracle, I can see Larry sending some really evil lawyers - brigade strength at least - in their general direction pretty darn quick.
And by really evil, I mean even by lawyers standards.
It seems that the VC world has gotten lots more conservative over the past five years or so and they are looking at giving larger amounts of money to easier/simpler concepts
In other words, they've become ordinary (as in *not* venture) capitalists. Probably an age thing.
Now that really is wishful thinking. Children don't have any reason to torment animals, and yet they do. If ants were conscious and hadn't met any children they'd likely make the same sort of arguments you make about more advanced creatures likely being more englightened
Children torment animals with sticks or stones, which aren't a particularly efficient tool for children to wipe huge numbers of other children out in a very short timescale.
Consider Klingons[0] - technology and tempers like theirs simply don't mix; within minutes of any form of nuclear weapons existing on their planet, someone would have spilled someone's kha'la'xian[1] hyper-ale and they'd have blasted themselves to extinction.
[0] A race of interstellar warriors from a popular TV series.
[1] I made that up. If anyone posts the name of what Klingons really drink, mod them -1 virgin.
artificial intelligence students achieving Masters degrees
That's nothing new, is it? I was offered a place on such a course back in the 1990s. Had I taken it up I would have been an artificial intelligence student, and on sucessful completion I would have gained an MSc.
please explain how the situation would be different if Microsoft were a European company.
One, the balance of payments would be better.
Two, (assuming the revenue gained is given to European shareholders/workers as profits and salaries) that money would be spent locally, thus providing income to other companies and workers, whose spending would provide income to other companies and workers... What Keynes calld the multiplier.
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How could anyone think it's rational to make a point in an amusing way by stating an exaggerated form of the opposite? Do you have any idea what might happen if the message was read by someone who totally didn't understand the concept of irony?
You are George Galloway AICMFP.
I guess the difference is we knew we were joking. Maybe next time I'm in a state of lubricated creativity and invent something ludicrously impractical and overcomplicated I'll run to a patent attorney, just in case.
If I can remember what it was the following morning.
What's the film? It's on at eleven, right?
Bah, those hairless monkey things? They're just a pasing fad.
The old cliche is that the American German Scientists were better than the Russian German Scientists.
What's this new database company going to sell? If they just knock out pirated versions of Oracle, I can see Larry sending some really evil lawyers - brigade strength at least - in their general direction pretty darn quick.
And by really evil, I mean even by lawyers standards.
I'm a motie, you insensitive clod!
Bill ... is that you?
Consider Klingons[0] - technology and tempers like theirs simply don't mix; within minutes of any form of nuclear weapons existing on their planet, someone would have spilled someone's kha'la'xian[1] hyper-ale and they'd have blasted themselves to extinction.
[0] A race of interstellar warriors from a popular TV series.
[1] I made that up. If anyone posts the name of what Klingons really drink, mod them -1 virgin.
Two, (assuming the revenue gained is given to European shareholders/workers as profits and salaries) that money would be spent locally, thus providing income to other companies and workers, whose spending would provide income to other companies and workers... What Keynes calld the multiplier .
Because the in and out money flows are in dollars/euros/sponulicks per unit time, so dividing one by the other must give a dimensionless number.
While wealth certainly isn't the same as income or even disposable income (though that's a common enough mistake), it sure as heck isn't a ratio.
... but you certainly aren't running windows.