If I made a bomb, it would have, at the very least: - A very innocuous look and feel. "Ooohh I'm harmless. Really I am. Nothing to see here, just move along now." - No way to stop the detonation that I know of - A fake (internal and normally invisible) countdown timer that is set to "lots of time" and explodes when the countdown reaches an arbitrary time, WELL before 00:00:00. - Perhaps a fake wire or two that will immediately detonate the bomb when cut or even touched.
You're right. And this would have given them instant eternal life, if they only had worked a bit on the consequences. Notwithstanding the use of the pattern buffer in one of the later movies, what is to stop folks from having a "good" copy in the pattern buffer and then "teleporting" once they get old or injured? Heck, if you die you just "teleport" back again and you just miss a bit of memory.
I guess the consequences of *that* little bit of work would have been a bit too much for the audience because it leads to a lot of awkward questions like "dude, where's my soul?"
"We should kill every Jew we can find, starting with you, you faggot" might *seem* like an insult, but it is actually a great contribution to this discussion and a pretty funny post-modern comment on the rise of fascism, as interpreted in the original Icelandic comedy of 1969 called "Harakkur Bloddegrorn rakka te vikka!" (*). However, it's highly likely to be misinterpreted as an anti-semitic comment. How sad.
Well, the man already has a Canon Powershot S110. It already takes very nice pictures - even RAW if you want. So a DSLR is way overkill and more importantly, won't be in your pocket when you need it.
I can help too, just in case he doesn't want to burden you with the same issues by giving you all of his money in one lump sum!:)
Seriously though? Here's some suggestions:
1. You're not the first one to be rich. There are banks and special funds that deal only with the very rich and can help you contact them. Especially families like the Bilderbergs, Rothschilds, or the like, have long histories in dealing sensibly with HUGE amounts of money. 2. Start a harem and get kids. Why settle for just one incredible girl if you can have 5 okay ones? They add up!:) Okay, maybe not. But still, dating several girlfriends that just want your money is incredibly expensive and your money problem will be reduced in no time at all. You also will have no idea where all your spare time went. 3. Buy an island. I don't know why, but it seems to be the thing to do for billionaires. White cats and evil laugh are optional. 4. Look for a nice technical problem that you could try to solve using your computer skills, but would be too much work if you had to do it all by yourself. Then hire a bunch of cool kids and have them work at it, with you as problem owner. This is assuming you like programming. 5. Contact the Gates Foundation, Carter Foundation, or Buffet foundation and ask them if they need more money. Heh. 6. Institute scholarships for students. You can afford to give quite a few students an education without having them burdened with crippling loans. 7. Pay the mortgage on your house. 8. Buy the nicest house you can get, and hire a butler. A butler is a manager. Get an older one, who has experience with other rich people and can teach you how to deal with money. 9. I have a company and an idea for some cool software, so feel free to fund it:) 10. Fund the 10 most interesting scientific longshots. 11. Look at art and patronize a few young and interesting artists. 12. Buy a nature reserve and make sure it doesn't get emptied out by poachers - you can afford to pay the guards better than the poachers.
It's not that hard to come up with a longer list, actually. Feel free to contact me for more ideas:)
I don't think it's a bar code. I think it's much more modern than that: an RFID chip. We use them over here for cats, dogs and cattle, so it's not like the equipment isn't already in place:)
As for visiting states: I agree there is little chance of this going through in the form now mentioned. That doesn't mean that if you get enough people saying stuff like this, the other candidates won't feel forced to do something similar in vein.
I'm not sure about their sanity (always hard to tell from a distance) but they do seem to want to avoid being elected. Otherwise I'd be hard pressed to explain their statements.
In general I have a lot of issues with the policies of the US government. But neither the US government or the people living in the country are my enemies. And I am planning on visiting in the near future. Unless this kind of crap goes through - I mean, I can avoid bringing laptops or tables to the US, but my body is pretty hard to leave at home.
I've no idea how you got that out of the post but... if you want to develop software for a given domain, you need to gain domain-specific knowledge in order to ask the right questions. Vice versa, if someone wants to say, move my company inventory to a different location, it helps if they ask what exactly I want transported, the risks and issues associated with the goods, etcetera. I've never seen people disputing that.
But back to the original post: I agree with the poster that if the accountant's role is to provide input to developers, understanding what "SMART requirements" are, helps a lot. So follow a requirements course. That's way more relevant to him in his own work as well, than learning HTML and Javascript could be. Not to mention much less annoying to developers:)
If the accountant just wants to make sure they do their job and don't milk him for all it's worth, I suggest he hires a supervisor with programming knowledge from a different source to review their work a few times a month. Even if you hire the best in the country, it's probably still quite cheap versus the cost of the developers themselves.
To clarify: yes he's likely an asshole, but not because he states that it is a good idea to throw acid in women's faces. Plenty of other reasons though.
The context in which that vile statement was posted was a reply to a question by another person whether there could ever be a hypothetical situation in which you could argue that these things were a good idea. He proceeded to construct an argument that from an abstract and scientific point of view, you could.
Of course, he chose the most outrageous position you could take to do it with. That's why I agree with the original poster that he's much more a troll, than anything else.
Yeah, I read that page too, and I consider it a shining example of quoting out of context. I've looked up the originals and in context they weren't as stupid as the quotes on the page makes them out to be.
I disagree firmly with his writings, and I think the way he writes is a great example of "how to troll the internet" as shown by a dick, but the quotes are pretty selective. And therefore easily dismissed by his fans as slanderous.
But quotes like this make it hard to distinguish the one from the other:
That was a preface to one of the quotes mentioned, before I discovered the originals and removed the butchered quote. My post reads better if you remove that line:)
I don't even think Vox Day is a racist or misogynist. He's a griefer out for attention.
Might be true. But quotes like this make it hard to distinguish the one from the other: I've been reading his blog (yuck) and most of what people quote from him is missing bits and parts, that obscure the intention of the original text. I have not yet found a single instance of any racist of mysogynist quote in over 2 hours of reading through his posts. Yes, he does make the case that women should not be able to vote and are only good for bearing children - as hypothetical argument in response to another discussion. The list goes on and on with stuff like that.
I think he's a far right wing ideologue, but not stupid. Certainly not stupid enough to post something that could be construed as outright racist or mysogynist writings.
If Orson Scott Card got his act together and wrote something on the order of Speaker for the Dead, or Ender's Game, again, I'm pretty sure he'd claim both the Hugo and Nebula. Unfortunately, the main reason he didn't get more awards was because most of what he wrote later was rather crappy. Xenocide, anyone?
Correia - I enjoy his books a lot, but they aren't in the same league as Stross or Scalzi. Correia takes the old fantasy plot of monster hunters and upgrades it rather well, but still... no. Comparing it to The City and the Stars is awful. Then again, MHI by Correia is miles better than Redshirts. I've never understood that particular award. Actually, *anything* by Scalzi is better than Redshirts. A miss, IMO.
But once Correia (or John Ringo, or Travis S. Taylor) create something that's really different from "upgraded western or war story" I'd be all for it. It's not that they can't write, it's just that their characters are so.. cardboard. Women are fuckable housewives, the "real" men are muscled jocks, we have the nerds,... and let's not discuss the bad guys. If they aren't union organizers, or environmentalists, they're Democrats. If you read a lot of Ringo in one go, even the characternames start to become predictable.
Anyway, I didn't vote. But I'm curious to hear from the voters - anyone here?
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Cost to high??
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I think you need to ask for a refund.
In the new reality, Ronald Reagan was an SJW.The term has lost all meaning.
Do you still french kiss your dog every day?
I mean, if we're asking inane questions I'd like to at least get a laugh out of the answers.
If I made a bomb, it would have, at the very least:
- A very innocuous look and feel. "Ooohh I'm harmless. Really I am. Nothing to see here, just move along now."
- No way to stop the detonation that I know of
- A fake (internal and normally invisible) countdown timer that is set to "lots of time" and explodes when the countdown reaches an arbitrary time, WELL before 00:00:00.
- Perhaps a fake wire or two that will immediately detonate the bomb when cut or even touched.
I guess it's much easier to shoot victims in the back when they aren't moving, than to shoot on a moving target that knows you're gunning for them.
Citations needed.
Especially for the skinny naked Asian girls. I believe the GP right away about the fully dressed buxom woman though. No citation needed there.
You're right. And this would have given them instant eternal life, if they only had worked a bit on the consequences. Notwithstanding the use of the pattern buffer in one of the later movies, what is to stop folks from having a "good" copy in the pattern buffer and then "teleporting" once they get old or injured? Heck, if you die you just "teleport" back again and you just miss a bit of memory.
I guess the consequences of *that* little bit of work would have been a bit too much for the audience because it leads to a lot of awkward questions like "dude, where's my soul?"
Then again, you never know [wikipedia.org].
That's indeed the issue.
"We should kill every Jew we can find, starting with you, you faggot" might *seem* like an insult, but it is actually a great contribution to this discussion and a pretty funny post-modern comment on the rise of fascism, as interpreted in the original Icelandic comedy of 1969 called "Harakkur Bloddegrorn rakka te vikka!" (*). However, it's highly likely to be misinterpreted as an anti-semitic comment. How sad.
*) Yeah I made that up.
So... if I don't vote for him, would that make me an anti-vaccer? :)
Good point. The editor should have realized we're not even reading the summaries nowadays.
Well, the man already has a Canon Powershot S110. It already takes very nice pictures - even RAW if you want. So a DSLR is way overkill and more importantly, won't be in your pocket when you need it.
I still have a F-91W. Who wears watches, though?
Terrorists, obviously. Please report to the nearest police station, comrade!
I'd do your point 1 too, if I had the money to make that feasible. It'd really take some pressure off of them.
I can help too, just in case he doesn't want to burden you with the same issues by giving you all of his money in one lump sum! :)
Seriously though? Here's some suggestions:
1. You're not the first one to be rich. There are banks and special funds that deal only with the very rich and can help you contact them. Especially families like the Bilderbergs, Rothschilds, or the like, have long histories in dealing sensibly with HUGE amounts of money. :) Okay, maybe not. But still, dating several girlfriends that just want your money is incredibly expensive and your money problem will be reduced in no time at all. You also will have no idea where all your spare time went. :)
2. Start a harem and get kids. Why settle for just one incredible girl if you can have 5 okay ones? They add up!
3. Buy an island. I don't know why, but it seems to be the thing to do for billionaires. White cats and evil laugh are optional.
4. Look for a nice technical problem that you could try to solve using your computer skills, but would be too much work if you had to do it all by yourself. Then hire a bunch of cool kids and have them work at it, with you as problem owner. This is assuming you like programming.
5. Contact the Gates Foundation, Carter Foundation, or Buffet foundation and ask them if they need more money. Heh.
6. Institute scholarships for students. You can afford to give quite a few students an education without having them burdened with crippling loans.
7. Pay the mortgage on your house.
8. Buy the nicest house you can get, and hire a butler. A butler is a manager. Get an older one, who has experience with other rich people and can teach you how to deal with money.
9. I have a company and an idea for some cool software, so feel free to fund it
10. Fund the 10 most interesting scientific longshots.
11. Look at art and patronize a few young and interesting artists.
12. Buy a nature reserve and make sure it doesn't get emptied out by poachers - you can afford to pay the guards better than the poachers.
It's not that hard to come up with a longer list, actually. Feel free to contact me for more ideas :)
I don't think it's a bar code. I think it's much more modern than that: an RFID chip. We use them over here for cats, dogs and cattle, so it's not like the equipment isn't already in place :)
As for visiting states: I agree there is little chance of this going through in the form now mentioned. That doesn't mean that if you get enough people saying stuff like this, the other candidates won't feel forced to do something similar in vein.
I'm not sure about their sanity (always hard to tell from a distance) but they do seem to want to avoid being elected. Otherwise I'd be hard pressed to explain their statements.
In general I have a lot of issues with the policies of the US government. But neither the US government or the people living in the country are my enemies. And I am planning on visiting in the near future. Unless this kind of crap goes through - I mean, I can avoid bringing laptops or tables to the US, but my body is pretty hard to leave at home.
I've no idea how you got that out of the post but... if you want to develop software for a given domain, you need to gain domain-specific knowledge in order to ask the right questions. Vice versa, if someone wants to say, move my company inventory to a different location, it helps if they ask what exactly I want transported, the risks and issues associated with the goods, etcetera. I've never seen people disputing that.
But back to the original post: I agree with the poster that if the accountant's role is to provide input to developers, understanding what "SMART requirements" are, helps a lot. So follow a requirements course. That's way more relevant to him in his own work as well, than learning HTML and Javascript could be. Not to mention much less annoying to developers :)
If the accountant just wants to make sure they do their job and don't milk him for all it's worth, I suggest he hires a supervisor with programming knowledge from a different source to review their work a few times a month. Even if you hire the best in the country, it's probably still quite cheap versus the cost of the developers themselves.
To clarify: yes he's likely an asshole, but not because he states that it is a good idea to throw acid in women's faces. Plenty of other reasons though.
I am, actually.
The context in which that vile statement was posted was a reply to a question by another person whether there could ever be a hypothetical situation in which you could argue that these things were a good idea. He proceeded to construct an argument that from an abstract and scientific point of view, you could.
Of course, he chose the most outrageous position you could take to do it with. That's why I agree with the original poster that he's much more a troll, than anything else.
Yeah, I read that page too, and I consider it a shining example of quoting out of context. I've looked up the originals and in context they weren't as stupid as the quotes on the page makes them out to be.
I disagree firmly with his writings, and I think the way he writes is a great example of "how to troll the internet" as shown by a dick, but the quotes are pretty selective. And therefore easily dismissed by his fans as slanderous.
Don't forget they added extortion to their rap sheet.
Boy, if they get caught, they'd better hope it's the police and not some disgruntled A-M users who find them first.
But quotes like this make it hard to distinguish the one from the other:
That was a preface to one of the quotes mentioned, before I discovered the originals and removed the butchered quote. My post reads better if you remove that line :)
I don't even think Vox Day is a racist or misogynist. He's a griefer out for attention.
Might be true. But quotes like this make it hard to distinguish the one from the other: I've been reading his blog (yuck) and most of what people quote from him is missing bits and parts, that obscure the intention of the original text. I have not yet found a single instance of any racist of mysogynist quote in over 2 hours of reading through his posts. Yes, he does make the case that women should not be able to vote and are only good for bearing children - as hypothetical argument in response to another discussion. The list goes on and on with stuff like that.
I think he's a far right wing ideologue, but not stupid. Certainly not stupid enough to post something that could be construed as outright racist or mysogynist writings.
If Orson Scott Card got his act together and wrote something on the order of Speaker for the Dead, or Ender's Game, again, I'm pretty sure he'd claim both the Hugo and Nebula. Unfortunately, the main reason he didn't get more awards was because most of what he wrote later was rather crappy. Xenocide, anyone?
Correia - I enjoy his books a lot, but they aren't in the same league as Stross or Scalzi. Correia takes the old fantasy plot of monster hunters and upgrades it rather well, but still... no. Comparing it to The City and the Stars is awful. Then again, MHI by Correia is miles better than Redshirts. I've never understood that particular award. Actually, *anything* by Scalzi is better than Redshirts. A miss, IMO.
But once Correia (or John Ringo, or Travis S. Taylor) create something that's really different from "upgraded western or war story" I'd be all for it. It's not that they can't write, it's just that their characters are so.. cardboard. Women are fuckable housewives, the "real" men are muscled jocks, we have the nerds, ... and let's not discuss the bad guys. If they aren't union organizers, or environmentalists, they're Democrats. If you read a lot of Ringo in one go, even the characternames start to become predictable.
Anyway, I didn't vote. But I'm curious to hear from the voters - anyone here?