Every person I have know who worked in sales has the same story.
A good friend paid for his college degree as a Frito Lay sales guy. He could leave a store so full of chips that the roof was being pushed off, and the managers back at base will still shout "Sell more to them! MORE!" The MBAs simply can't comprehend that markets involve finite numbers. There's only so many damned potato chips eaten in a given neighborhood on a given day.
Funny anecdote: he restocked, by far, the most chips every month right after welfare checks were sent out. Your tax dollars at work.
If you make your toaster so that it looks like a pig, fine, but if you use the pig's snout as a lever to make the bread go down, you have a shitty design.
Actually, Kurt Cobain ventilating his skull falls under the "Fluff News" category for me.
I live in California where we have the stupidest state legislature in the history of civilization. They get up to endless shenanigans, but the only people covering it in any detail is two radio show hosts that everyone considered shock jocks, although to their credit they really delve into the minutiae of the issues pretty well, and they savagely pick on both Parties equally.
But where's the local newscasts? They're busy at mall openings or advertising a new movie. Seriously, one day the second story was the release of Spiderman III.
nighttime theater in which our brains screen realistic scenarios
Oh, I agree. Thanks to my dreams, I can totally handle it when giant marshmallow bunnies attack my sky fortress when it drifts over the Land Of The Tiny Pigs. Generally, I hit the Chaos Gong in the Dark Energy Rectory, and an army of cybernetic Winona Ryders materializes and attacks the bunnies with flamethrowers. There's also the alternative of firing the spacefolding trebuchet into the Inner Circle Of Thought, thus causing a degenerative cascade effect in the local fauna matrix. There's some damage to other marshmallow species, but it takes care of the bunnies pretty well.
Still working on the whole "showing up naked for the midterm I forgot to study for" scenario though, although I suspect a combination of satire, extreme violence and an industrial vat of chocolate fudge might be called for.
Yeah, um, I can't understand this. The USA resists things like a national health service -- yet the Government is handing out coupons for digital set-top boxes?!
You're right. We'll start handing out $40 coupons for health care, too.
..Watching one WWE wrestling event together per week.
I thought WWE fans couldn't marry in most states.
(rimshot)
Thank you! I'll be here all week!
But... seriously. WWE? Never understood how that was supposed to be a manly thing to watch. It's a bunch of almost naked steroid mutants groping one another. Some of them wear rhinestones and shiny little shorts.
How about a one of those chopper/muscle car building shows or "rebuilding your home atom by atom from the ground up" shows? Something with hammers and saws and welding. Yeah!
Lose weight, spend more time with your spouse, and more time at the gym (with your spouse if possible) and the chance of having more and better sex will improve.
Yeah, but the "spouse" constant there sort of torpedoes the whole equation. Make it a variable and you're on to something.
I'm not married, BTW. Just basing this on my observations of married friends.
I just use it as a modeler for my 3D art, which means I had to buy the Pro version to export to formats that Bryce and Vue can read.
It pissed me off at first, but then i realized it was a pretty clever way to divide the audience. People who just want to add things to Google Earth get to use it for free. People who want to use it as an actual modeler for other things pay the price that it cost anyway before Google bought it out.
Neither YOU nor anyone you knew ever looked at porn when YOU were 14?
You must be young. There was a time when getting ones hands on quality porn was not easy for a kid. Some days it was just National Geographics and the underwear section of the Sears catalog.:-(
However, this frustration probably led to the gestation of the video game industry.:)
they've got my blessings as long as they know some basic health principles (for both physical and mental health).
Yeah, well, there's the rub, you see. (So to speak) They don't, no matter how much sex ed you give them, and then I, as a taxpayer, get to pay for all those little mistakes. Fuck that. *Mandatory* abortions, I say.
You're falling into the common trap of overanalyzing. Macs are pleasant to use. My Mac does not make me want to go all Witchblade on it like my PC does. It's really as simple as that. Nothing else really matters all that much.
Well, yes, it does, but there's a larger problem here: that can people can believe lawyers capable of mafioso tactics. And that belief is founded on the fact that, as far as I can tell, law schools do most of their recruiting in the Circles Of Hell. Seriously, law has to be the most seriously fucked up profession in human history at this point, and it seems to really attract people who, not having a legal career, would probably resort to some sort of serial crimes.
Even thought it's probably a hoax, I still feel like going out and kicking a lawyer in the balls.
Admit it: those of you who bought into it initially did so because you could totally believe lawyers doing something like that based on real stories in the past. It's not really all that unbelievable.
'They would only be able to see Earth as a single pixel, rather than resolving it to take a picture,' said Astronomer Eric Ford. 'But that could be enough for them to identify our planet as one that likely contains clouds and oceans of liquid water.'
Wow. That's one hell of an information packed pixel. Maybe he means one of those spooky, hyperadvanced alien pixels. I hear they're super effective.
If they are hostile aliens, we can only hope they do a lot of image processing. I hate to think the only thing standing between us and being driven into hellish alien slave pits is a antialiasing filter. I hate to think that, but I have brain issues that make me think things like that.:(
You would think that the NCAA would be thrilled to have reporters live blogging events in order to generate more interest and keep passionate fans talking about NCAA sports.
If I lived in a biologically sealed bubble environment in a steel and concrete bunker deep in a cave for most of my life, maybe I'd think that upon emerging. Although I'd probably be more likely to say, "Argh! The light! It buuuurrrrnnnns!" before wondering what lawyers were, and why they rape everything they can find in the butt.
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Every person I have know who worked in sales has the same story.
A good friend paid for his college degree as a Frito Lay sales guy. He could leave a store so full of chips that the roof was being pushed off, and the managers back at base will still shout "Sell more to them! MORE!" The MBAs simply can't comprehend that markets involve finite numbers. There's only so many damned potato chips eaten in a given neighborhood on a given day.
Funny anecdote: he restocked, by far, the most chips every month right after welfare checks were sent out. Your tax dollars at work.
If you make your toaster so that it looks like a pig, fine, but if you use the pig's snout as a lever to make the bread go down, you have a shitty design.
:)
Not really. I would *totally* buy that toaster.
Actually, Kurt Cobain ventilating his skull falls under the "Fluff News" category for me.
I live in California where we have the stupidest state legislature in the history of civilization. They get up to endless shenanigans, but the only people covering it in any detail is two radio show hosts that everyone considered shock jocks, although to their credit they really delve into the minutiae of the issues pretty well, and they savagely pick on both Parties equally.
But where's the local newscasts? They're busy at mall openings or advertising a new movie. Seriously, one day the second story was the release of Spiderman III.
nighttime theater in which our brains screen realistic scenarios
Oh, I agree. Thanks to my dreams, I can totally handle it when giant marshmallow bunnies attack my sky fortress when it drifts over the Land Of The Tiny Pigs. Generally, I hit the Chaos Gong in the Dark Energy Rectory, and an army of cybernetic Winona Ryders materializes and attacks the bunnies with flamethrowers. There's also the alternative of firing the spacefolding trebuchet into the Inner Circle Of Thought, thus causing a degenerative cascade effect in the local fauna matrix. There's some damage to other marshmallow species, but it takes care of the bunnies pretty well.
Still working on the whole "showing up naked for the midterm I forgot to study for" scenario though, although I suspect a combination of satire, extreme violence and an industrial vat of chocolate fudge might be called for.
Yeah, um, I can't understand this. The USA resists things like a national health service -- yet the Government is handing out coupons for digital set-top boxes?!
You're right. We'll start handing out $40 coupons for health care, too.
Wow. The World Wildlife Fund has porn now? :)
I resolve to stop posting to Slashdot and- DAMMIT!
..Watching one WWE wrestling event together per week.
I thought WWE fans couldn't marry in most states.
(rimshot)
Thank you! I'll be here all week!
But... seriously. WWE? Never understood how that was supposed to be a manly thing to watch. It's a bunch of almost naked steroid mutants groping one another. Some of them wear rhinestones and shiny little shorts.
How about a one of those chopper/muscle car building shows or "rebuilding your home atom by atom from the ground up" shows? Something with hammers and saws and welding. Yeah!
Lose weight, spend more time with your spouse, and more time at the gym (with your spouse if possible) and the chance of having more and better sex will improve.
Yeah, but the "spouse" constant there sort of torpedoes the whole equation. Make it a variable and you're on to something.
I'm not married, BTW. Just basing this on my observations of married friends.
--- Resolve to have more and better sex than last year.
That gets expensive. Does't matter if it's a S.O. or prostitutes, either.
--- Resolve to earn more for less work than last year.
Not sure I can optimize that one any further without my bosses catching on.
--- Resolve to find something new that makes you laugh.
I just turn on the news every evening. There's new hilarity every day. And it's an election year!
Helps to be a misanthrope, I guess.
--- Resolve to cross more things off your "Before I Die..." list.
But I can't get Jennifer Connelly to return my calls, much less agree to what's on my list.
--- Resolve to spend less time around people you don't like.
Well now I'd have to leave the planet. I'm a skeptic, but I do follow major UFO sightings with interest. No real luck yet.
And that is the fault of the kids, or the fault of the sex ed?
All of the above.
Oh, I'll vote for those. FAR cheaper than keeping the subsequent little monsters in prison for most of their lives.
We're going to wind up paying for SOMETHING, so I pick the cheapest and quickest.
I just use it as a modeler for my 3D art, which means I had to buy the Pro version to export to formats that Bryce and Vue can read.
It pissed me off at first, but then i realized it was a pretty clever way to divide the audience. People who just want to add things to Google Earth get to use it for free. People who want to use it as an actual modeler for other things pay the price that it cost anyway before Google bought it out.
It's something they bought, but my God is it easy to model things in 3D once you learn the tools.
Seriously, Apple should have bought it first and called it iCAD. It's *that* fricken sweet.
Neither YOU nor anyone you knew ever looked at porn when YOU were 14?
:-(
:)
You must be young. There was a time when getting ones hands on quality porn was not easy for a kid. Some days it was just National Geographics and the underwear section of the Sears catalog.
However, this frustration probably led to the gestation of the video game industry.
they've got my blessings as long as they know some basic health principles (for both physical and mental health).
Yeah, well, there's the rub, you see. (So to speak) They don't, no matter how much sex ed you give them, and then I, as a taxpayer, get to pay for all those little mistakes. Fuck that. *Mandatory* abortions, I say.
I see your humor
:-(
Thanks. I don't think anyone else did.
You're falling into the common trap of overanalyzing. Macs are pleasant to use. My Mac does not make me want to go all Witchblade on it like my PC does. It's really as simple as that. Nothing else really matters all that much.
Well, yes, it does, but there's a larger problem here: that can people can believe lawyers capable of mafioso tactics. And that belief is founded on the fact that, as far as I can tell, law schools do most of their recruiting in the Circles Of Hell. Seriously, law has to be the most seriously fucked up profession in human history at this point, and it seems to really attract people who, not having a legal career, would probably resort to some sort of serial crimes.
Even thought it's probably a hoax, I still feel like going out and kicking a lawyer in the balls.
Admit it: those of you who bought into it initially did so because you could totally believe lawyers doing something like that based on real stories in the past. It's not really all that unbelievable.
'They would only be able to see Earth as a single pixel, rather than resolving it to take a picture,' said Astronomer Eric Ford. 'But that could be enough for them to identify our planet as one that likely contains clouds and oceans of liquid water.'
:(
Wow. That's one hell of an information packed pixel. Maybe he means one of those spooky, hyperadvanced alien pixels. I hear they're super effective.
If they are hostile aliens, we can only hope they do a lot of image processing. I hate to think the only thing standing between us and being driven into hellish alien slave pits is a antialiasing filter. I hate to think that, but I have brain issues that make me think things like that.
because illegally copied music usually sounds 'atrocious.'
Well, all *my* illegally copied music sounds just fine.
And I'd sooner go back to wax cylinders and magnetic wires than give them another fucking penny, so find a different tree to bark up, RIAA.
Hey, I just noticed you can't spell "a pirate" without RIAA! Yeah, I'm kinda slow.
You would think that the NCAA would be thrilled to have reporters live blogging events in order to generate more interest and keep passionate fans talking about NCAA sports.
If I lived in a biologically sealed bubble environment in a steel and concrete bunker deep in a cave for most of my life, maybe I'd think that upon emerging. Although I'd probably be more likely to say, "Argh! The light! It buuuurrrrnnnns!" before wondering what lawyers were, and why they rape everything they can find in the butt.
Short answer: No
Long answer: Nnnnnnnnnno
Bah. A decent whore in Vegas can be had for $200. Even $500 will get you a CEO special.