I will relay a story my scoutmaster told me about a troop of young inner city scouts he led, many, many years ago. They'd never been out of the city, so he took them camping all he could.
One time he took them to a boy scout camp that happened to be next to a girl scout camp. He should have known that would be trouble, because there was one scout who used to go up to every girl he met, and say the same thing: "You wanna fuck?" So the scoutmaster walks into camp, and all the guys are teasing Kid Wannafuck about how his dick is going to shrivel up and fall off, and he realizes his mistake. So he sits them all down and has a long talk about STDs, pregnancy, birth control and condoms, because *these* kids parents aren't going to bother doing it.
One of the many morals of this story is that sometimes persistence counts for more than technique. It really does connect to the whole 419 scam; this kid knew that he had almost no chance with any particular girl, but if he asked *enough* of them sooner or later he'd get lucky.
Getting back to the value of wealth as an indicator of intelligence, I won't argue that intelligence has no instrumental value in becoming wealthy. Obviously it does. But priorities also matter. I know artists -- not quite starving, but not rolling in dough either. If they put the energy and creativity they lavish on art into making money, they'd probably do pretty well. The one thing I've noticed about people who've made fortunes in their lifetimes (sometimes made and lost several) is that they're driven to perform wealth-generating activities. It may be that wealth is the end goal of those activities, or it may be that wealth is a by-product. Personally, I think the people who become wealthy as a by-product seem much happier than people who pursue wealth as its own end. It appears to me there's something puny and pinched in the character of people who are obsessed with wealth as its own end. The difference between wealth and, say, sex is that you can never get enough wealth. But if you are persistent enough in pursuing either of them, sooner or later you'll get some.
I like to think of this thought experiment. Suppose you are a young unattached man with modest prospects, and you have a bit of good fortune above your station: you are about to interview for a job that could mean fame and wealth. As you eat lunch, you strike up this conversation with this amazing woman; she's beautiful, smart and interesting, and as you chat you realize that you're starting to get somewhere with her. You are not quite to the exchange of telephone numbers stage, when you realize for your horror you're about to be late for your interview. You have to leave RIGHT NOW, you don't even have time to say a decent goodbye. What do you go for, the job or the woman?
Well, I can tell you as an older guy who's had both love and money slip through my fingers (then return later), I wouldn't have a microsecond's hesitation. I'd go for the woman. Money is just a proxy for the experiences you can buy with it. And some experiences you just can't buy.
Which is all fine and well, but whatever happened to kid wannafuck? Oh wait....shiny thing....
Because, this is either the end or the beginning. Either we'll all rot here on this dispicable resource-limited little planet or we will seed the stars.
I worked in a warranty department a number of years back - the best return we had was from a local law enforcement agency who used the drive for target practice.
I supported the Linux before Dell shut a lot of American support sites down.
For the most part it was quiet, if hardware was an issue (and rare at that even) the user seemed to have isolated the component and was calling in for a direct swap. Obviously, we would test with a diagnostics disk and find that for the most part, our linux users were bang on the money.
The majority of our calls seemed to originate between two different people who wanted to get away from Microsoft and wanted to learn about computers. While we were still in operation, these people received Gold Support with follow-ups and complete resolution.
The grub update killed a number of systems but luckily we had a good team to help our linux users.
The reason that linux is hidden on the Dell site stems from two separate factors. A) The linux systems we sold were loss-leaders (oh yes - the support alone killed any profit margin). They did this to give Dell a cool factor (to geeks who would continue to buy) B) They believed the average windows novice would be lost in Linux
Having supported Vista/XP and Ubuntu, I was glad they kept it more of a secret. Some of the windows support calls turn into nightmares trying to get someone just to a command line or even to the desktop.
Oh! and the returns were much much less than our windows computers. Go figure.
It's much freeier than the US system. Canada is one of the highest taxed countries in the world, and you know what? It's worth it.
Divorced from reality? Puhlease.
The cold hard fact is the american health system is run by corporations. Corporations are not concerned with individual welfare, only their only their own monetary welfare. If you suffer pain and it saves them a buck, they will allow you to suffer.
THIS should make you angry! This should make you rebel! This is the exact reason why the US disassociated with the commonwealth. But conniving businesses have been allowed a fist over their consumers.
The industry has more rights than an individual.
We cheer the change that is being brought to the US, we hope that your cancerous starving homeless are finally being treated as human beings and not as worthless percentage points.
And free yes, they don't ask you for a credit card when you have your arm put in a cast.
Either you're in it for yourself or you're in it for humanity. Get over your pride, join the darkside.
99.9% of people would rather go bankrupt than die waiting for surgery.
If you were trying to convince me that national health care is better, it really didn't work.
Just saying...
You know what's wonderful? Just because it's free, it's not the only choice. Canadians can go to the states and have the operation there. (Now mind you they would probably have to pay up front and could even possibly be refunded by the government)
Why is national health care better? Because it attends to everyone equally regardless of status. It doesn't care if your the scam artist real-estate agent or the poor sucker whose house fell on him. The is no "WALLET-OSCOPY" to check for proof of insurance - everyone is insured.
It seems the only ones who speak out aboot universal health care either have stock in the medical profession, have no need for health care or the simply convinced.
It works, we gripe about it yes - why should I wait half a day to have a cast put on my broken arm? Well, otherwise I'd work work a month to pay it off.
.......Government exists for one reason: To deprive individuals of the freedom of choice.....
Land of the free indeed. Free health care. Free music. Free love. Free bird. Free Speech.
Except free isn't free. You pay with money, dignity and pride. Every day knowing the system around you exists to deprive you and everyone else their freedom of choice and wealth.
Slashdot Mirror
There's 7 and Ubuntu and MAC and BSD .... and... and... new Google OS(?)
and a bunch of other great OS's out there.... some of them FREE.
That's why I switched. Flash in ie7 doesn't work? Let's try it in chrome... ahhh there we go.... internet goodlyness.
Obvisouly, our gas giants are nothing more than alien umbrella forcefields collecting star dust.
Other large exo planets are just other umbrellas cast into the solar wind.
It makes sense now, doesn't it? It's a fact then.
Here is the relevant link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orBMc-6Fus4
They show how to fit it without a cleaver.
Perhaps you were rooted by someone else and your service provider is trying to help you
figure this out.
If there was an outage on their side, it might be quite obvious. Maybe you need to ask more
questions and work with them to solve your problem.
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Happy Festivus
Ad campaign of ketsueki-gata == Success!
I think we should sue the gun makers for all the gang related crime. That would be a powerful lobby to have with us :)</p></quote>
That might not be the wisest choice.
I will relay a story my scoutmaster told me about a troop of young inner city scouts he led, many, many years ago. They'd never been out of the city, so he took them camping all he could.
One time he took them to a boy scout camp that happened to be next to a girl scout camp. He should have known that would be trouble, because there was one scout who used to go up to every girl he met, and say the same thing: "You wanna fuck?" So the scoutmaster walks into camp, and all the guys are teasing Kid Wannafuck about how his dick is going to shrivel up and fall off, and he realizes his mistake. So he sits them all down and has a long talk about STDs, pregnancy, birth control and condoms, because *these* kids parents aren't going to bother doing it.
One of the many morals of this story is that sometimes persistence counts for more than technique. It really does connect to the whole 419 scam; this kid knew that he had almost no chance with any particular girl, but if he asked *enough* of them sooner or later he'd get lucky.
Getting back to the value of wealth as an indicator of intelligence, I won't argue that intelligence has no instrumental value in becoming wealthy. Obviously it does. But priorities also matter. I know artists -- not quite starving, but not rolling in dough either. If they put the energy and creativity they lavish on art into making money, they'd probably do pretty well. The one thing I've noticed about people who've made fortunes in their lifetimes (sometimes made and lost several) is that they're driven to perform wealth-generating activities. It may be that wealth is the end goal of those activities, or it may be that wealth is a by-product. Personally, I think the people who become wealthy as a by-product seem much happier than people who pursue wealth as its own end. It appears to me there's something puny and pinched in the character of people who are obsessed with wealth as its own end. The difference between wealth and, say, sex is that you can never get enough wealth. But if you are persistent enough in pursuing either of them, sooner or later you'll get some.
I like to think of this thought experiment. Suppose you are a young unattached man with modest prospects, and you have a bit of good fortune above your station: you are about to interview for a job that could mean fame and wealth. As you eat lunch, you strike up this conversation with this amazing woman; she's beautiful, smart and interesting, and as you chat you realize that you're starting to get somewhere with her. You are not quite to the exchange of telephone numbers stage, when you realize for your horror you're about to be late for your interview. You have to leave RIGHT NOW, you don't even have time to say a decent goodbye. What do you go for, the job or the woman?
Well, I can tell you as an older guy who's had both love and money slip through my fingers (then return later), I wouldn't have a microsecond's hesitation. I'd go for the woman. Money is just a proxy for the experiences you can buy with it. And some experiences you just can't buy.
Which is all fine and well, but whatever happened to kid wannafuck? Oh wait.
Does this include open-source pirating?
Well they didn't pick me at all, so now I will hate M$ until the end of time. Windows 7? Bah -- Vista ME.
Does she now have to run around the city looking for high voltage lines to get her fix?
I totally lost you. What?
Freedom of speech is the ability to speak your mind and not be criminally punished for it.
Freedom of speech allows us to be ignorant as much as we like. I will fight for this as my grandparents did.
Because, this is either the end or the beginning. Either we'll all rot here on this dispicable resource-limited little planet or we will seed the stars.
If we don't start, we're doomed.
A good hacker shouldn't be looking for work. He should be running....
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When they outlaw computers only outlaws will be free.
Turns out the password was "childs".
Who would've guessed?
I worked in a warranty department a number of years back - the best return we had was from a local law enforcement agency who used the drive for target practice.
I supported the Linux before Dell shut a lot of American support sites down.
For the most part it was quiet, if hardware was an issue (and rare at that even) the user seemed to have isolated the component and was calling in for a direct swap. Obviously, we would test with a diagnostics disk and find that for the most part, our linux users were bang on the money.
The majority of our calls seemed to originate between two different people who wanted to get away from Microsoft and wanted to learn about computers. While we were still in operation, these people received Gold Support with follow-ups and complete resolution.
The grub update killed a number of systems but luckily we had a good team to help our linux users.
The reason that linux is hidden on the Dell site stems from two separate factors. A) The linux systems we sold were loss-leaders (oh yes - the support alone killed any profit margin). They did this to give Dell a cool factor (to geeks who would continue to buy) B) They believed the average windows novice would be lost in Linux
Having supported Vista/XP and Ubuntu, I was glad they kept it more of a secret. Some of the windows support calls turn into nightmares trying to get someone just to a command line or even to the desktop.
Oh! and the returns were much much less than our windows computers. Go figure.
Once we all move over to the free model.. we won't need all these ***A associations.
Lookout! It's coming.
We *all* do foolish things, whether in a state of panic or during calm sensible moments. All pranknet was doing was recording how dumb we can be.
To that question, we all know the outcome.
Too bad they weren't working on how smart we can be.
So hunt and peck keyboardist won't know what's coming at them. Perhaps if you wanted to play your qwerty as a an actual synth, then maybe.
The only other use I could see would be for authentication. You type a sentence at your regular speed and pressure and voila you have your password.
Mayhaps we should already move on to a silicone blob that devours your hands and types whatever the hell it wants. Oh wait....
When Bing first came out I checked with "Micro$oft" which came out with absolutely no relevant results. Though it seems to been updated since.
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Why is Windows on a Mac SOOOoooooOooooo expensive?
It's much freeier than the US system. Canada is one of the highest taxed countries in the world, and you know what? It's worth it.
Divorced from reality? Puhlease.
The cold hard fact is the american health system is run by corporations. Corporations are not concerned with individual welfare, only their only their own monetary welfare. If you suffer pain and it saves them a buck, they will allow you to suffer.
THIS should make you angry! This should make you rebel! This is the exact reason why the US disassociated with the commonwealth. But conniving businesses have been allowed a fist over their consumers.
The industry has more rights than an individual.
We cheer the change that is being brought to the US, we hope that your cancerous starving homeless are finally being treated as human beings and not as worthless percentage points.
And free yes, they don't ask you for a credit card when you have your arm put in a cast.
Either you're in it for yourself or you're in it for humanity. Get over your pride, join the darkside.
99.9% of people would rather go bankrupt than die waiting for surgery.
If you were trying to convince me that national health care is better, it really didn't work.
Just saying...
You know what's wonderful? Just because it's free, it's not the only choice. Canadians can go to the states and have the operation there. (Now mind you they would probably have to pay up front and could even possibly be refunded by the government)
Why is national health care better? Because it attends to everyone equally regardless of status. It doesn't care if your the scam artist real-estate agent or the poor sucker whose house fell on him. The is no "WALLET-OSCOPY" to check for proof of insurance - everyone is insured.
It seems the only ones who speak out aboot universal health care either have stock in the medical profession, have no need for health care or the simply convinced.
It works, we gripe about it yes - why should I wait half a day to have a cast put on my broken arm? Well, otherwise I'd work work a month to pay it off.
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Flapping heads?? Was south park on?
.......Government exists for one reason: To deprive individuals of the freedom of choice. ....
Land of the free indeed. Free health care. Free music. Free love. Free bird. Free Speech.
Except free isn't free. You pay with money, dignity and pride. Every day knowing the system around you exists to deprive you and everyone else their freedom of choice and wealth.
Total bummer dude.