Maxwell Smart was more of a bumbler. Much of the time he did do something right or mildly clever to win the day by the episode's end.
And Gilligan's Island? The Professor built radios from coconuts! Dude had The Spark!
And an ad man must understand something about how society thinks and works to be successful. Not everything technical must involve test tubes or integrated circuits.
LOL. True. Not personal experience for me, but my good friend (who happens to also be my eye doctor) served one term on the local city council. He nearly resigned half way through, but felt obliged to those who voted for him to keep on trying til the end. Yeah, he was a rare duck. Odd duck? Whatever.
Whenever people ask why politicians seem to do such dumb things, I try to explain that, for the most part, they simply don't care. People refuse to even believe me even though the actions of the politicians can only be logically explained by corruption and self-interest.
Here in California, for example, people are astonished the legislature could lay waste to the state as much as they have. They don't realize that 99% of the legislators are just in it to go on expensive junkets, get kickbacks and prostitutes from the state labor unions and lobbyists, and most likely have out of state bolt holes to flee to should the whole thing really collapse into federal receivership. They are maggots feeding on a still barely living corpse.
And I'm not exaggerating. Everything I have listed there has been widely reported over and over again, but no one is paying attention. In 2009 the legislature passed the largest state tax increase in the nation's history (in the middle of a recession). Last month a survey shows that far more than half the state residents don't know that happened.
People don't know science and engineering? We need them to know what's happening right under their noses first.
As an engineer I have to agree somewhat. Politicians generally make my skin crawl. It's almost like they are a different species that has evolved perfect self-interest under the guide of pretending to care. But I also suggest that what we call a politician these days is the last sort of person we want in leadership roles. Maybe we don't want all scientists and engineers there, but what we have right now is a pack of filthy miseryshits.
I can find any porn (from straight missionary to stuff that makes you wonder if you've zapped into a parallel universe) for free at any time.
Who cares what Apple is allowing on the App store?
Do I really need porn in a 10 inch window, or is that *way* too loaded of a question?:-) We have reached the promised age of 3D, 1080p-orn on 70" screens in surround sound.
I'm serious about that parallel Earth thing. I saw porn last week where the number of people and number of genitalia just didn't add up right.:-(
I did a couple reports in my undergrad years on automated highways in the early 1990s. CalTrans was actually experimenting with platooning back then. Yeah, the #1 hindrance on the horizon was always "lawyers".
I agree. Games are an escape for me, and a chance to play around with a little world some clever folks created. Being able to go back to a previous save invites experimentation and general messing around. The Peter Molyneuxs of the gaming industry with their "Oh, emotions and consequences! Squee!" can all walk off a cliff.
Hey, Peter! I maintained two copies of my Fable III file- one on hard drive and a backup on a memory card- so I could circumvent your little philosophy! Bite me!:-)
Just give me a good, linear narrative with lots of explosions.
My preferred gaming is open world sandboxes, but, yeah, a well designed linear game is good, too.
Or simple recognition that advertising bullshit is bullshit. Who cares what the ad firm they hired put in some commercial? People really sit around and worry about this shit? Seriously, scrubbing the party line? People think like that about commercials for cell phones?
Wow! Could you overreact a little more? I merely mention TPM was the last SW I watched, and you act like I went on a multipage rant about it. Seriously, how high were you when you posted that, and can I get some?
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Maxwell Smart was more of a bumbler. Much of the time he did do something right or mildly clever to win the day by the episode's end.
And Gilligan's Island? The Professor built radios from coconuts! Dude had The Spark!
And an ad man must understand something about how society thinks and works to be successful. Not everything technical must involve test tubes or integrated circuits.
Exactly. The show loves scientists and intellectual as shown by the character of Professor Frink!
Oh, er... um...
LOL. True. Not personal experience for me, but my good friend (who happens to also be my eye doctor) served one term on the local city council. He nearly resigned half way through, but felt obliged to those who voted for him to keep on trying til the end. Yeah, he was a rare duck. Odd duck? Whatever.
Whenever people ask why politicians seem to do such dumb things, I try to explain that, for the most part, they simply don't care. People refuse to even believe me even though the actions of the politicians can only be logically explained by corruption and self-interest.
Here in California, for example, people are astonished the legislature could lay waste to the state as much as they have. They don't realize that 99% of the legislators are just in it to go on expensive junkets, get kickbacks and prostitutes from the state labor unions and lobbyists, and most likely have out of state bolt holes to flee to should the whole thing really collapse into federal receivership. They are maggots feeding on a still barely living corpse.
And I'm not exaggerating. Everything I have listed there has been widely reported over and over again, but no one is paying attention. In 2009 the legislature passed the largest state tax increase in the nation's history (in the middle of a recession). Last month a survey shows that far more than half the state residents don't know that happened.
People don't know science and engineering? We need them to know what's happening right under their noses first.
As an engineer I have to agree somewhat. Politicians generally make my skin crawl. It's almost like they are a different species that has evolved perfect self-interest under the guide of pretending to care. But I also suggest that what we call a politician these days is the last sort of person we want in leadership roles. Maybe we don't want all scientists and engineers there, but what we have right now is a pack of filthy miseryshits.
Thanks! :-D
I can find any porn (from straight missionary to stuff that makes you wonder if you've zapped into a parallel universe) for free at any time.
Who cares what Apple is allowing on the App store?
Do I really need porn in a 10 inch window, or is that *way* too loaded of a question? :-) We have reached the promised age of 3D, 1080p-orn on 70" screens in surround sound.
I'm serious about that parallel Earth thing. I saw porn last week where the number of people and number of genitalia just didn't add up right. :-(
I did a couple reports in my undergrad years on automated highways in the early 1990s. CalTrans was actually experimenting with platooning back then. Yeah, the #1 hindrance on the horizon was always "lawyers".
No, they can't. Sadly, the all the marketers did not follow Bill Hick's advice.
Gosh, I hope my hateful post does not trigger some lunatic to go out and shoot anyone!
In Soviet Russia, er, uh... hmm.
You fool! You may have initiated a conspiracy theory singularity! Run! just... run!
I feel like Wikileaks should fill in the gaps the main stream media fails to fill in.
That would require a fleet of earth movers.
I agree. Games are an escape for me, and a chance to play around with a little world some clever folks created. Being able to go back to a previous save invites experimentation and general messing around. The Peter Molyneuxs of the gaming industry with their "Oh, emotions and consequences! Squee!" can all walk off a cliff.
Hey, Peter! I maintained two copies of my Fable III file- one on hard drive and a backup on a memory card- so I could circumvent your little philosophy! Bite me! :-)
Just give me a good, linear narrative with lots of explosions.
My preferred gaming is open world sandboxes, but, yeah, a well designed linear game is good, too.
A child predator appears.
"AMBER, I choose you!"
AMBER issues an alert.
It's not very effective.
What? Poor taste? Oh well.
What we need is to know how many AMBER alerts were issued to find 525 kids. I'm assuming all 800K cases didn't have alerts.
...companies brag about dropping features or touting ones they never had.
D'oh. Blocked at my work!
They're fun for a while, but once you figure out the techniques it gets old fast.
high enough tolerance for absurd contradictions
Or simple recognition that advertising bullshit is bullshit. Who cares what the ad firm they hired put in some commercial? People really sit around and worry about this shit? Seriously, scrubbing the party line? People think like that about commercials for cell phones?
Ever been frustrated when you can't solve a Sudoku
No. Never been unable to solve one. :)
Yeah, god forbid that anyone actually have some fun and enjoy themselves. We must all be cogs in the glorious machine!
Well, that didn't take long.
Meanwhile, the engineer is creating ways to save lives, feed millions, and travel to Mars.
Am I am that engineer! Can you even guess when I last had a day off?!
No, I tell the store people that it's illegal and they believe it. I thought I worded my post well enough to get that across, but I guess not.
That would probably get Child Protective Services interested in many states.
One of the few country songs I like.
Now the headlight' was another sight
We had two on the left and one on the right
But when we pulled out the switch all three of 'em come on.
The back end looked kinda funny too
But we put it together and when we got thru
Well, that's when we noticed that we only had one tail-fin
Wow! Could you overreact a little more? I merely mention TPM was the last SW I watched, and you act like I went on a multipage rant about it. Seriously, how high were you when you posted that, and can I get some?