I have had the misfortune of encountering two psychopaths in my life. One rented a room from me and I worked with an occupational psychopath which is exactly what we are talking about here. It took me a long time to work out what they were.
This is because the tactics of manipulation they use is beguiling and confusing. You are never certain if it is you or what is going on. If they meet your friends they will manipulate them and turn them against you with lies of 'MrKaos said this or that'. They will turn all of your peer group against you until you are dependent on them and completely at their mercy. And there will be no mercy. You will be manipulated until you either have a nervous breakdown, which I nearly did, or you kill yourself.
For me the first psychopath was eventually exposed and responded by threatened me with a meat knife, twice, and other physical threats of violence. Now I am no push over. I was in my late 20s at the time and had about a decade of martial arts training to draw on. I knew as soon as that knife moved, my life as I knew it would be over. Instead of acting threatened I acted un-threatened, thinking that I would take that knife and use it against him, because that is what would have to happen. Psychopaths admire power. If you are powerful you can beguile them enough to escape, even temporarily.
After several attempts at physical confrontations he eventually tried to ambush me. As I avoided his pathetic attempt to hurt me I sidestepped his assault, hit him under the neck and, with immense satisfaction, drove his head directly into the concrete upon which he was standing, ensuring there was no bounce and he would receive the full damage of my defense. I told him that if he ever came near me again - well you can guess what I said. He didn't stop and it took several years of being harassed and subsequent court cases to get this motherfucker out of my life.
Several years later my second encounter was an OP when I worked for a large corporation you have heard of. I was gradually exposed, like boiling a frog, to familiar patterns of manipulation and confusing scenarios. Instead of being able to concentrate on my work I had to devote energy to defusing his tedious machinations, power plays and other things. Eventually he destroyed the career of my boss, who I was friends with before he came along and almost stressed a pregnant woman into a miscarriage. Psychopaths don't have to kill to get their supply of making people suffer.
I concluded this person was an OP when he described to me, back in 2004, how he used to torture small animals like cats and rabbits for fun. This disgusted me and horrified me at the same time because as he told me I realized, from previous experiences, he was doing this to gauge my reaction. He was using this story to attempt to brutalize and intimidate me.
I responded casually, despite my insides screaming 'get the fuck away from this guy', with a description of how my father taught me to hunt and maintain firearms. That he never let me hunt animals until I was a good shot and that when I did hunt, to aim for the heart or head and try to take the animal down with a single shot. I looked at him right in the face and said 'sometimes I would see a sick animal and realize the most merciful thing I could do was to shoot them right in the head', looked at the time, said it was an interesting conversation but it was time for me to go home. I was shaking when I got to my car.
When the OP could not destroy my work, he instead tried to destroy me, unlike the previous psychopath I could not get away easily. Eventually I escaped when I snapped an achillies tendon and was no longer able to perform the role. Despite the pain, surgery and two years to learn how to walk again all I could think of was how grateful I was to have escaped the OP's final destructive plans for me. Whatever they were, they were bad. Ten years later, he was still trying. My other colleagues, who I am still in contact with, also look back with fear and horror of wh
If you want to latch onto history for justifications for one's own wrongs,
The Armenian mass murder was the prototype for the Nazi extermination of the Jews, that hardly qualifies as a justification. More like a propagation of wrongs.
well, we'll all end up like the Middle East.
If you had studied history you would realized that the arabs there were sold a vision of the middle east by the UK and the US so that they would fight as allies or at least not enemies. The agreement was reneged and Israel was installed with a nuclear weapons capacity to look after US oil interests. So no, unless you have oil.
Do you really think Mr Erdogan's comments and actions are based on a rational dispute over historical fact?
I don't think he is being rational at all. He is whipping up anger so that people feel justified and morally superior whee there is no basis for it.
Do you think that even has ANY bearing on what he's doing, saying, & why?
What he is doing is being a hypocrite because he is propagating a lie based on the suffering of the Armenian people. This propagates the suffering of the remaining Armenian people which has assisted the guilty escape punishment and extends the pathology of those lies onto the Turkish people.
So Turkey, the country that is yet to acknowledge that they wiped out 1.5 million Armenians, is trying to call out a country that has acknowledged the genocide they committed.
Can any app scan your computer and report file checksums?
If you look at the Australian Tax Office app the T&Cs make it quite clear that the app will accesses and use your phone to the limit the law will allow. This includes, not only scanning your files and checksums, but also scanning your networks for other computers where your phone is now a platform to inspect those machines as well.
Obviously your GPS position, other wi fi networks and bluetooth devices.
People talk about the surveillance state. Well it is prototyped in Australia where there is no Bill of Rights comparable to the US, UK or Canada. Meta data retention laws are real in Australia and the Burr-Feinstein Bill introduced in the US was a constitutionally compatible versions of it that spoke about encryption, however it was actually about meta-data retention.
I'm interested in the consequences this will have on the human immune system the same way I wonder if factory farming is having a deleterious effect on human health.
For context it seems current arguments revolve around the ethical treatment of animals. However since we're been eating meat since before we were homo sapiens I wonder if there is a mechanism inside the immune system that derives some of its immune response information from the food we eat? That by eating suffering sick animals we also ingest their stress hormones.
My perspective on this is that I wonder what stress hormones are produced from an animal that is suffering? Chickens and pigs seem to suffer a lot from factory farming, so my concerns around this is what effect do these hormones have on us when we eat them. The laws gagging media reports on the appalling conditions in these factory farms mean we don't even get to posit the question of how these factory farming techniques affect human health when eaten.
So that brings me to the motivations for producing lab grown meat, to produce more meat without suffering. However does that mean we become more susceptible to disease because our bodies aren't getting information from metabolizing animal flesh?
Couldn't we do the same thing and how much healthier would we be, by removing the motivation for producing this 'lab-meat' by simply treating the animals well and making sure they are healthy before we eat them?
It's found in the court of public opinion. That's why we have courts that are abstracted from populist views and are compelled to examine the evidence in a case tried by peers. The court of public opinion has been responsible for many massacres.
Rule of law is western society's greatest achievement.
You cannot negotiate when you are not in a position of power,
It would be interesting to see what would happen if IT workers everywhere stopped working for two weeks, just took a break. IT professionals did not seize power of our own destinies when we could and we have ourselves to blame. People are uncomfortable with that reality because it means having to take personal responsibility for their own careers and the state of the industry they work in.
which 99% of IT is not due to globalization.
Globalization was a series of trade agreement and the reality is that we may be very smart, however we haven't been very wise, so their is no one watching our backs at a political level to moderate those trade agreements at the time they were being framed.
If we had more foresight the legal frameworks that dictate the behavior of our industry would strike a better balance between competing and co-operating. Taking personal responsibility might mean not watching TV for a week while you write letters to politicians and make sure your interests are being served. That's the price of living in a democracy. That's what it takes to effect transformation, facing uncomfortable truths and figuring out what to do.
That's the difference between being a leader or being a follower and people think the governments are their leaders, they don't think that they are their leaders.
Thanks hey! - that was really interesting. There is something elegantly simple and permanent about hydro systems that makes them so appealing.
It's surprising that all nuclear reactor installations didn't have this sort of facility attached to them to provide peaking capacity by pumping their own cooling water somewhere. From a nuclear safety perspective there would be enough power and coolant available locally to cool the reactor for months until it is completely shut down in case of an emergency.
Perhaps this is worth considering for any new reactor facilities proposed.
Not in my experiences and I've designed and implemented security policy for banks you have heard of. ISO standards for security were beefed up and bank security policy for infrastructure is designed to exclude people who then have to justify access to a piece of equipment. No one even knows what a root password is because it is stored in pieces, in separate safes accessed by separate managers. People on holidays have their access revoked, plus other cumbersome but necessary procedures.
Throw $100k at the admins and you'll likely find one who will help you out.
If you can't even negotiate to the half way mark you undervalue all IT people everywhere. This is why you need unions, not because you're a special skillful snowflake but because you don't have a clue how to negotiate properly. Not because you're a socialist, because you want to see the money before you touch a keyboard. Not because you want to picket, because you want to have a group of technologists so powerful that no one will dare legislate against our interests.
Instead most of us act like pussies begging to be treated fairly and complaining about a H1B visa bill that most of us were probably too apathetic to even write a single page letter to protest. This is not a criticism of you Mr. AC, merely an observation of how we got here.
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I have had the misfortune of encountering two psychopaths in my life. One rented a room from me and I worked with an occupational psychopath which is exactly what we are talking about here. It took me a long time to work out what they were.
This is because the tactics of manipulation they use is beguiling and confusing. You are never certain if it is you or what is going on. If they meet your friends they will manipulate them and turn them against you with lies of 'MrKaos said this or that'. They will turn all of your peer group against you until you are dependent on them and completely at their mercy. And there will be no mercy. You will be manipulated until you either have a nervous breakdown, which I nearly did, or you kill yourself.
For me the first psychopath was eventually exposed and responded by threatened me with a meat knife, twice, and other physical threats of violence. Now I am no push over. I was in my late 20s at the time and had about a decade of martial arts training to draw on. I knew as soon as that knife moved, my life as I knew it would be over. Instead of acting threatened I acted un-threatened, thinking that I would take that knife and use it against him, because that is what would have to happen. Psychopaths admire power. If you are powerful you can beguile them enough to escape, even temporarily.
After several attempts at physical confrontations he eventually tried to ambush me. As I avoided his pathetic attempt to hurt me I sidestepped his assault, hit him under the neck and, with immense satisfaction, drove his head directly into the concrete upon which he was standing, ensuring there was no bounce and he would receive the full damage of my defense. I told him that if he ever came near me again - well you can guess what I said. He didn't stop and it took several years of being harassed and subsequent court cases to get this motherfucker out of my life.
Several years later my second encounter was an OP when I worked for a large corporation you have heard of. I was gradually exposed, like boiling a frog, to familiar patterns of manipulation and confusing scenarios. Instead of being able to concentrate on my work I had to devote energy to defusing his tedious machinations, power plays and other things. Eventually he destroyed the career of my boss, who I was friends with before he came along and almost stressed a pregnant woman into a miscarriage. Psychopaths don't have to kill to get their supply of making people suffer.
I concluded this person was an OP when he described to me, back in 2004, how he used to torture small animals like cats and rabbits for fun. This disgusted me and horrified me at the same time because as he told me I realized, from previous experiences, he was doing this to gauge my reaction. He was using this story to attempt to brutalize and intimidate me.
I responded casually, despite my insides screaming 'get the fuck away from this guy', with a description of how my father taught me to hunt and maintain firearms. That he never let me hunt animals until I was a good shot and that when I did hunt, to aim for the heart or head and try to take the animal down with a single shot. I looked at him right in the face and said 'sometimes I would see a sick animal and realize the most merciful thing I could do was to shoot them right in the head', looked at the time, said it was an interesting conversation but it was time for me to go home. I was shaking when I got to my car.
When the OP could not destroy my work, he instead tried to destroy me, unlike the previous psychopath I could not get away easily. Eventually I escaped when I snapped an achillies tendon and was no longer able to perform the role. Despite the pain, surgery and two years to learn how to walk again all I could think of was how grateful I was to have escaped the OP's final destructive plans for me. Whatever they were, they were bad. Ten years later, he was still trying. My other colleagues, who I am still in contact with, also look back with fear and horror of wh
I think you'll find that Pol Pot was western educated.
oh, you are good.
I have seen the future and you are incorrect.
I've seen the future too. You, Lady Liberty and Freedom are all weeping.
I miss the nice America.
If you want to latch onto history for justifications for one's own wrongs,
The Armenian mass murder was the prototype for the Nazi extermination of the Jews, that hardly qualifies as a justification. More like a propagation of wrongs.
well, we'll all end up like the Middle East.
If you had studied history you would realized that the arabs there were sold a vision of the middle east by the UK and the US so that they would fight as allies or at least not enemies. The agreement was reneged and Israel was installed with a nuclear weapons capacity to look after US oil interests. So no, unless you have oil.
Do you really think Mr Erdogan's comments and actions are based on a rational dispute over historical fact?
I don't think he is being rational at all. He is whipping up anger so that people feel justified and morally superior whee there is no basis for it.
Do you think that even has ANY bearing on what he's doing, saying, & why?
What he is doing is being a hypocrite because he is propagating a lie based on the suffering of the Armenian people. This propagates the suffering of the remaining Armenian people which has assisted the guilty escape punishment and extends the pathology of those lies onto the Turkish people.
So Turkey, the country that is yet to acknowledge that they wiped out 1.5 million Armenians, is trying to call out a country that has acknowledged the genocide they committed.
Hypocrisy knows no bounds.
Can any app scan your computer and report file checksums?
If you look at the Australian Tax Office app the T&Cs make it quite clear that the app will accesses and use your phone to the limit the law will allow. This includes, not only scanning your files and checksums, but also scanning your networks for other computers where your phone is now a platform to inspect those machines as well.
Obviously your GPS position, other wi fi networks and bluetooth devices.
People talk about the surveillance state. Well it is prototyped in Australia where there is no Bill of Rights comparable to the US, UK or Canada. Meta data retention laws are real in Australia and the Burr-Feinstein Bill introduced in the US was a constitutionally compatible versions of it that spoke about encryption, however it was actually about meta-data retention.
Spying powers in Australia are very advanced.
So now we're stuck with a half bbake garbage network for whom most people will never get speeds anywhere near fibre.
The National Fraudband Network
I'm interested in the consequences this will have on the human immune system the same way I wonder if factory farming is having a deleterious effect on human health.
For context it seems current arguments revolve around the ethical treatment of animals. However since we're been eating meat since before we were homo sapiens I wonder if there is a mechanism inside the immune system that derives some of its immune response information from the food we eat? That by eating suffering sick animals we also ingest their stress hormones.
My perspective on this is that I wonder what stress hormones are produced from an animal that is suffering? Chickens and pigs seem to suffer a lot from factory farming, so my concerns around this is what effect do these hormones have on us when we eat them. The laws gagging media reports on the appalling conditions in these factory farms mean we don't even get to posit the question of how these factory farming techniques affect human health when eaten.
So that brings me to the motivations for producing lab grown meat, to produce more meat without suffering. However does that mean we become more susceptible to disease because our bodies aren't getting information from metabolizing animal flesh?
Couldn't we do the same thing and how much healthier would we be, by removing the motivation for producing this 'lab-meat' by simply treating the animals well and making sure they are healthy before we eat them?
sigh...
Well at least someone got the joke.
Pleased to be installing Teamviewer 7.3 onto your computer.
There are some other perspectives in this. It looks like a snowball that picked up the edge from bumping into the rings.
I can have a Sonic Screwdriver and a Light Saber
GAMAF is politically correct however AMFAG makes me laugh.
It's found in the court of public opinion. That's why we have courts that are abstracted from populist views and are compelled to examine the evidence in a case tried by peers. The court of public opinion has been responsible for many massacres.
Rule of law is western society's greatest achievement.
You cannot negotiate when you are not in a position of power,
It would be interesting to see what would happen if IT workers everywhere stopped working for two weeks, just took a break. IT professionals did not seize power of our own destinies when we could and we have ourselves to blame. People are uncomfortable with that reality because it means having to take personal responsibility for their own careers and the state of the industry they work in.
which 99% of IT is not due to globalization.
Globalization was a series of trade agreement and the reality is that we may be very smart, however we haven't been very wise, so their is no one watching our backs at a political level to moderate those trade agreements at the time they were being framed.
If we had more foresight the legal frameworks that dictate the behavior of our industry would strike a better balance between competing and co-operating. Taking personal responsibility might mean not watching TV for a week while you write letters to politicians and make sure your interests are being served. That's the price of living in a democracy. That's what it takes to effect transformation, facing uncomfortable truths and figuring out what to do.
That's the difference between being a leader or being a follower and people think the governments are their leaders, they don't think that they are their leaders.
bAAAAM!@, drops mic and exits.
Use solar/wind/wave power to make hydrogen. Use the hydrogen to run fuel cells during peak periods. I know this is not new and NREL has looked at it.
$/kWh is going to be higher, but we're taking about peak periods anyway.
It's the storage of the hydrogen that is the issue, it leaks readily.
And never mind that they'll be servicable _only_ by using robots.
Isn't that's what robots are for?
Thanks hey! - that was really interesting. There is something elegantly simple and permanent about hydro systems that makes them so appealing.
It's surprising that all nuclear reactor installations didn't have this sort of facility attached to them to provide peaking capacity by pumping their own cooling water somewhere. From a nuclear safety perspective there would be enough power and coolant available locally to cool the reactor for months until it is completely shut down in case of an emergency.
Perhaps this is worth considering for any new reactor facilities proposed.
The problem is, many people have access to it.
Not in my experiences and I've designed and implemented security policy for banks you have heard of. ISO standards for security were beefed up and bank security policy for infrastructure is designed to exclude people who then have to justify access to a piece of equipment. No one even knows what a root password is because it is stored in pieces, in separate safes accessed by separate managers. People on holidays have their access revoked, plus other cumbersome but necessary procedures.
Throw $100k at the admins and you'll likely find one who will help you out.
If you can't even negotiate to the half way mark you undervalue all IT people everywhere. This is why you need unions, not because you're a special skillful snowflake but because you don't have a clue how to negotiate properly. Not because you're a socialist, because you want to see the money before you touch a keyboard. Not because you want to picket, because you want to have a group of technologists so powerful that no one will dare legislate against our interests.
Instead most of us act like pussies begging to be treated fairly and complaining about a H1B visa bill that most of us were probably too apathetic to even write a single page letter to protest. This is not a criticism of you Mr. AC, merely an observation of how we got here.
Send More Money: Fuck you buddy