OK. I was just stating an opinion. I have Tivo so I can skip the boring supercar bits, unless it's something *really* unique like the Ariel Atom that James May tested a while back. I seek to make no directive to the Top Gear crew.;-) Just saw the Middle East "Three Wise Men" show. Classic punchline at the end. The Stig truly is a mystery.
OK, so maybe an extra field with "number of summons" and set the algorithm to pick people with "0" in that field first? And then "1", then "2" and so on?
They are not idiots. They are narcicisstic sociopaths, mostly very intelligent.
All you folks who sit there thinking these members of the political class are somehow your intellectual inferiors are just the butt of many jokes for those in power.
All well and good, but can they maybe call people I know who have NEVER gotten the summons whereas I've had six? They are all registered to vote and drive. There's something wrong with the selection algorithm.
My bro in law is an engineer that specializes in fault analysis and other types of "WTF went wrong" tasks whete he works. He get excused very quickly after stating his occupation.
I find just stating engineer as my job gets me the stink eye from the defense side, although I have been excused by the prosecution. Six trips to jury duty, never actually sat on a jury. I think if you just use words of more than one syllable during selection questioning, you're gone.
I'm not sure who anymore. Once I would have said the voters, but they are given a slate of sociopaths even at the primary level, so they really have no true choices there.
I would probably blame the media. They have utterly failed as a watchdog when it comes to the government. It's either overwroght hyperbole (Fox News) or just a complete failure to poke in the shadows (basically everyone else). Here in California there's probably dozens if not hundreds of potential Watergate class stories of government corruption waiting to be investigated.
The reporters don't even ask followup questions no matter how ludicrous the statement by the politician. One local guy said the billions spent on a short, useless subway are worth it even if it just gets a handful of cars off the road. He said that. That happened. Not one reporter challenged him on it. Nothing. Nada. They all just bobbled their heads and wrote it down.
But, hey, the local Doggie Grooming Shoppe is overcharging for poodle perms? They ALL OVER that shit!
I dunno. Top Gear is funny. Do I really need to worry about it more than that? My only complaint is less drooling over cars I'll never even see much less own, and more fake trains on fire.:-)
The "scientific" makes me laugh. They do own an effects company, and still do industry work, so "professionals" is perfectly legit. I just got tired of the show being "blow it up" over and over again, and many times the explosions weren't exactly all that and a bag of chips. I can just watch one of those disaster compilation news clip shows and see better booms. Or just hit up YouTube.
Are they still doing that? It's why I stopped watching. Too much just blowing things up, to much overacted reactions, too much "Warning! Science Content!" as if that's a bad thing...
In the cases you stated, they are not mistakes... from the that person's point of view. They are making money hand over fist, making political friends and business contacts for further conquests, and living it up pretty large. These people are sociopaths. They don't care if they kill the world's economy or destroy other people's lives. They don't see anything they do as a mistake until it negatively affects their personal situation. Once in a while you get a weepy apology, like that moron with the lewd cell phone pictures, but that's just theater. People at that level take care of one another because it perpetuates the system, not because they really care.
I once rented a trash bin from Waste Management for a week. Paid the bill and thought I was done. Couple months later I get a bill for an outstanding balance of $0.86. Yeah, 86 cents. No idea why or what for. You'd think they'd know what it costs to collect a balance and have their software just delete anything below that threshold.
Of course it fails. Too often the uniform is trying to cover the slime. Clean gloves hide dirty hands. When I see a suit I think "used car salesman" or "politician".
Suits and ties are red flags for me to be on my guard. Especially if the tie is, in fact, red.;-)
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OK. I was just stating an opinion. I have Tivo so I can skip the boring supercar bits, unless it's something *really* unique like the Ariel Atom that James May tested a while back. I seek to make no directive to the Top Gear crew. ;-) Just saw the Middle East "Three Wise Men" show. Classic punchline at the end. The Stig truly is a mystery.
OK, so maybe an extra field with "number of summons" and set the algorithm to pick people with "0" in that field first? And then "1", then "2" and so on?
OK. What system?
They are not idiots. They are narcicisstic sociopaths, mostly very intelligent.
All you folks who sit there thinking these members of the political class are somehow your intellectual inferiors are just the butt of many jokes for those in power.
so many of us thought obama was about change
Some of us managed to figure out that lie when he was still in Congress.
The main piece of evidence was this: he was in Congress.
All well and good, but can they maybe call people I know who have NEVER gotten the summons whereas I've had six? They are all registered to vote and drive. There's something wrong with the selection algorithm.
My bro in law is an engineer that specializes in fault analysis and other types of "WTF went wrong" tasks whete he works. He get excused very quickly after stating his occupation.
I find just stating engineer as my job gets me the stink eye from the defense side, although I have been excused by the prosecution. Six trips to jury duty, never actually sat on a jury. I think if you just use words of more than one syllable during selection questioning, you're gone.
It's a marketing term for a hard drive in a different building from the one you are currently in.
I'm not sure who anymore. Once I would have said the voters, but they are given a slate of sociopaths even at the primary level, so they really have no true choices there.
I would probably blame the media. They have utterly failed as a watchdog when it comes to the government. It's either overwroght hyperbole (Fox News) or just a complete failure to poke in the shadows (basically everyone else). Here in California there's probably dozens if not hundreds of potential Watergate class stories of government corruption waiting to be investigated.
The reporters don't even ask followup questions no matter how ludicrous the statement by the politician. One local guy said the billions spent on a short, useless subway are worth it even if it just gets a handful of cars off the road. He said that. That happened. Not one reporter challenged him on it. Nothing. Nada. They all just bobbled their heads and wrote it down.
But, hey, the local Doggie Grooming Shoppe is overcharging for poodle perms? They ALL OVER that shit!
More like everything *but* net.
Godwin on a Mythbusters thread? Really? I am disappoint for shame.
I thought the smug dipshits were usually the ones quoting xkcd? :-) Hey, I tease. Everypony calm down!
Good one about the string theorists, though.
I dunno. Top Gear is funny. Do I really need to worry about it more than that? My only complaint is less drooling over cars I'll never even see much less own, and more fake trains on fire. :-)
The "scientific" makes me laugh. They do own an effects company, and still do industry work, so "professionals" is perfectly legit. I just got tired of the show being "blow it up" over and over again, and many times the explosions weren't exactly all that and a bag of chips. I can just watch one of those disaster compilation news clip shows and see better booms. Or just hit up YouTube.
Are they still doing that? It's why I stopped watching. Too much just blowing things up, to much overacted reactions, too much "Warning! Science Content!" as if that's a bad thing...
Oddly, it does account for Lumpy Space.
But the way he stated sounded more like just a book, in any form, as opposed to finding stuff on blogs or web pages.
In the cases you stated, they are not mistakes... from the that person's point of view. They are making money hand over fist, making political friends and business contacts for further conquests, and living it up pretty large. These people are sociopaths. They don't care if they kill the world's economy or destroy other people's lives. They don't see anything they do as a mistake until it negatively affects their personal situation. Once in a while you get a weepy apology, like that moron with the lewd cell phone pictures, but that's just theater. People at that level take care of one another because it perpetuates the system, not because they really care.
I once rented a trash bin from Waste Management for a week. Paid the bill and thought I was done. Couple months later I get a bill for an outstanding balance of $0.86. Yeah, 86 cents. No idea why or what for. You'd think they'd know what it costs to collect a balance and have their software just delete anything below that threshold.
Of course it fails. Too often the uniform is trying to cover the slime. Clean gloves hide dirty hands. When I see a suit I think "used car salesman" or "politician".
Suits and ties are red flags for me to be on my guard. Especially if the tie is, in fact, red. ;-)
is the problem really with the programming or with unrealistic expectations?"
So if they expect crap and get crap all is well?
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Lots of porn sites out there.
Whether HTML5 is a poon or a bust for them remains to be seen.
What?
Does it count as physical if it's an e-book? I just bought a Javascript book for the Kindle app. It's nice to have a complete reference in one place.
Nah, Lucas would have found a way, sadly.
Trope, not tripe. :-) To be honest, I probably should have qualified it to film geeks.