Ha! Lots of funny. I'm not feeling negative visualization so that bit was especially entertaining. Shifting focus away from vagaries of chance to what one controls seems to have some value though. This fall, I got, not overwhelmed, but uncomfortable with a bit of academic work. But as soon as I directed my attention away from the result and focused on what I was actually doing, the stress just melted away. Best part about it was when the final product ended up better than I expected. That's when i figured I might be onto something. I like philosophy but I'm not a philosopher. If something helps me live a better life, I use it, otherwise, into the trash. Right now, Stoicism is delivering the goods.
Definitely The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Enchiridion by Epictetus, and various writings by Seneca the Younger. Anybody in the quest for philosophical insight would be well served by giving the Stoics a shot. Kind of a western analytical version of Zen Buddhism.
I have a Greasemonkey script that works wonders in this situation. Any site with annoying toolbars gets added to the list in the script and "position:fixed" is gone!
The best course of action is a thorough investigation and, if Trumps allegations are true, a new election held. If he lied, he can be indicted or impeached and removed from office.
A stellar example of greed combined with stupidity.
Awww... you never actually had anything substantive to say, you just wanted some attention all along. Why didn't you say so? Here's your attention: eat shit and die.
It may surprise you to learn, but some of us were concerned about the electoral college BEFORE this election. Some of us were also concerned about an issue that flies under your radar. Don't be ashamed though, lots of people ignore it. It is mind-blowing.
I'm not sure how to respond to this other than to assume you are very young and that you think your generation is the first to ever discover the issues with the Electoral College. Thanks for the delightfully unintentional irony of reminding me how ignorantly condescending people on the internet can be though.
your attempts to befog the issue with your own hand-waving dismissals are not insightful, they are willful stubbornness to perpetuate a lasting problem.
You are begging the question. How is the electoral college a problem? Because the popular vote doesn't elect the candidate? That's how it's designed. We don't need 4 metropolitan areas deciding the election for 300-plus million people.
Now personally, I would have preferred it be by a few million more, but if this little nudge is enough to open the door, I'll ride it.
They said the same thing in 2000. We'll see how it goes this time. My prediction is that the electoral college will remain exactly as it is long after we're both gone.
Well, at least this time it is pretty clear who the idiots responsible for the coming catastrophe are. It is you and people like you. Of course you will try to weasel your way out being responsible afterwards, as people like you usually do. "How could we have known" and "He promised things will get better", and the like.
I'm not even going to dignify this rant with a response. Hopefully the cognitive dissonance won't be terminal as you're enjoyinjg the prosperity of the next eight years.
The US population has disgraced itself in the eyes of the world.
The world is made up of many different people, billions of them, with many different viewpoints. To try to distill that down to some tangible entity and say we are disgraced in its eyes is a colossal fallacy.
That also means the "American Century" is finally over as well. Good.
I hope the so-called American Century is over too. We have some of our own problems to take care of and I believe Trump is the man for the job.
The rules were set and Clinton happened to be on the side of being screwed by them.
Concluding Clinton was somehow screwed because the popular vote was in her favor is a non-sequitur in the current system. Winning the electoral college is how you get elected. If popular vote carried the day, the candidates would have campaigned much differently and Republicans in California/Democrats in Utah would have actually bothered to go to the poll. If people don't like the current system then change it but it isn't insightful at all to draw the wrong conclusions after the fact.
Translation: Waaaaa waaaa, the election didn't go our way so let's have a cry-in and pretend we don't have only ourselves to blame, waaaa waaaa. Just go riot^H^H^H^H protest like the rest of your peers[1]
[1]Because I'm addressing a libtard idiot, I have to disclaimer this. DO NOT ACTUALLY RIOT
This should be modded up. Furthermore, many Republicans in California and Democrats in Texas don't even bother as they know it's a foregone conclusion. Basically, if things were different, they'd be different. But they aren't.
It's not nearly as simple as that. I have some friends that live in the mountains of east Tennessee. Guess what? They have gigabit fiber. Much faster than what I get in a city millions.
I guess it surprises someone that "software development" includes a whole lot of people all over the country.
It actually surprises me that a full 10 percent of software jobs are actually in Silicon Valley. Every major city I've ever lived in across the US has been teeming with job openings in the tech sector. Just seems kind of weird that the headline of the article is going on about 90 percent of software developers working outside the valley. Is this news to anyone?
No, he wasn't driving when the car rolled into him and killed him.
You sir win arguing idiot of the internet award...
This coming from the guy who by his own writing, implicitly admits to adopting the bad habits of people wherever he happens to visit. In a story about a guy who mistakenly thought he had his car in park and excepting a design flaw that removed tactile response from the gear shift, he would have. And you have the gall to call someone else an idiot.
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Ha! Lots of funny. I'm not feeling negative visualization so that bit was especially entertaining.
Shifting focus away from vagaries of chance to what one controls seems to have some value though. This fall, I got, not overwhelmed, but uncomfortable with a bit of academic work. But as soon as I directed my attention away from the result and focused on what I was actually doing, the stress just melted away. Best part about it was when the final product ended up better than I expected. That's when i figured I might be onto something.
I like philosophy but I'm not a philosopher. If something helps me live a better life, I use it, otherwise, into the trash. Right now, Stoicism is delivering the goods.
Definitely The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Enchiridion by Epictetus, and various writings by Seneca the Younger. Anybody in the quest for philosophical insight would be well served by giving the Stoics a shot. Kind of a western analytical version of Zen Buddhism.
I have a Greasemonkey script that works wonders in this situation. Any site with annoying toolbars gets added to the list in the script and "position:fixed" is gone!
sexconker would be the culprit my dude. He forget to check the post anonymously box a while back and busted himself.
In case you're wrong, you should probably friend everyone too. Just to be sure.
The way I get my news is by reading both liberal- and conservative-leaning news outlets.
So now instead of being misinformed, you'll be twice as misinformed!
The best course of action is a thorough investigation and, if Trumps allegations are true, a new election held. If he lied, he can be indicted or impeached and removed from office.
lol
He thought it was rigged. If so, it was rigged against him and he still won. Not so hard when the opposition candidate is a shitshow like Hillary.
Just had it checked out and it's working perfectly.
A stellar example of greed combined with stupidity.
Awww... you never actually had anything substantive to say, you just wanted some attention all along. Why didn't you say so? Here's your attention: eat shit and die.
You are making a lot of wrong presumptions here.
It may surprise you to learn, but some of us were concerned about the electoral college BEFORE this election. Some of us were also concerned about an issue that flies under your radar. Don't be ashamed though, lots of people ignore it. It is mind-blowing.
I'm not sure how to respond to this other than to assume you are very young and that you think your generation is the first to ever discover the issues with the Electoral College. Thanks for the delightfully unintentional irony of reminding me how ignorantly condescending people on the internet can be though.
your attempts to befog the issue with your own hand-waving dismissals are not insightful, they are willful stubbornness to perpetuate a lasting problem.
You are begging the question. How is the electoral college a problem? Because the popular vote doesn't elect the candidate? That's how it's designed. We don't need 4 metropolitan areas deciding the election for 300-plus million people.
Now personally, I would have preferred it be by a few million more, but if this little nudge is enough to open the door, I'll ride it.
They said the same thing in 2000. We'll see how it goes this time. My prediction is that the electoral college will remain exactly as it is long after we're both gone.
Well, at least this time it is pretty clear who the idiots responsible for the coming catastrophe are. It is you and people like you. Of course you will try to weasel your way out being responsible afterwards, as people like you usually do. "How could we have known" and "He promised things will get better", and the like.
I'm not even going to dignify this rant with a response. Hopefully the cognitive dissonance won't be terminal as you're enjoyinjg the prosperity of the next eight years.
The US population has disgraced itself in the eyes of the world.
The world is made up of many different people, billions of them, with many different viewpoints. To try to distill that down to some tangible entity and say we are disgraced in its eyes is a colossal fallacy.
That also means the "American Century" is finally over as well. Good.
I hope the so-called American Century is over too. We have some of our own problems to take care of and I believe Trump is the man for the job.
The rules were set and Clinton happened to be on the side of being screwed by them.
Concluding Clinton was somehow screwed because the popular vote was in her favor is a non-sequitur in the current system. Winning the electoral college is how you get elected. If popular vote carried the day, the candidates would have campaigned much differently and Republicans in California/Democrats in Utah would have actually bothered to go to the poll. If people don't like the current system then change it but it isn't insightful at all to draw the wrong conclusions after the fact.
Julian Assange can eat a dick.
He is, Putin's
Translation: Waaaaa waaaa, the election didn't go our way so let's have a cry-in and pretend we don't have only ourselves to blame, waaaa waaaa.
Just go riot^H^H^H^H protest like the rest of your peers[1]
[1]Because I'm addressing a libtard idiot, I have to disclaimer this. DO NOT ACTUALLY RIOT
This should be modded up. Furthermore, many Republicans in California and Democrats in Texas don't even bother as they know it's a foregone conclusion. Basically, if things were different, they'd be different. But they aren't.
I haven't had to use xkill in so long I'd forgotten it even existed until you just brought it up.
And I'm salivating over their old iPhone 6's! At 1/3 the original price or less. Win/win
Twitter: The Confetti of The Internet
The most succinct description of the shitshow dubbed "micro-blogging" I've seen yet. Hope you don't mind my stealing it.
You two have a lot in common. You should be hang out.
It's not nearly as simple as that. I have some friends that live in the mountains of east Tennessee. Guess what? They have gigabit fiber. Much faster than what I get in a city millions.
I guess it surprises someone that "software development" includes a whole lot of people all over the country.
It actually surprises me that a full 10 percent of software jobs are actually in Silicon Valley. Every major city I've ever lived in across the US has been teeming with job openings in the tech sector. Just seems kind of weird that the headline of the article is going on about 90 percent of software developers working outside the valley. Is this news to anyone?
With a diameter of 435 miles, the surface area is almost the size of Alaska![0]
[0] 594,468 vs 663,267
The only problem with that analysis is that every age cohort from 43 on up voted to leave. That's far from only being 65+
So he wasn't driving was he?
No, he wasn't driving when the car rolled into him and killed him.
You sir win arguing idiot of the internet award...
This coming from the guy who by his own writing, implicitly admits to adopting the bad habits of people wherever he happens to visit. In a story about a guy who mistakenly thought he had his car in park and excepting a design flaw that removed tactile response from the gear shift, he would have. And you have the gall to call someone else an idiot.