If you smell it inside your car you should really get it fixed.
I had a relative who was apparently going crazy and then we rode in their car and my friend (I missed it) pointed this out. In about 30 days her apparent sanity improved enormously.
But we compete with chinese for jobs based on the fact that they are paid less.
If they get discounts on everything, they continue to lock in that advantage.
The price should be the same there and here for the same products. It is much worse in the area of medicine where the difference can be $5.35 vs $.10 .
Corporations have a lovely double standard where we pay more and they get to use labor that costs less.
They are basically pumping all accumulated wealth out of the 1st world into their pockets.
We will have a major, nasty war before most of us die. Too many people and too few resources if nothing else.
I'd rather be on the side that comes out alive personally. Tho I'm dubious about that prospect given how nasty the next really nasty war is going to be.
So... What are you going to do when you go to install and it turns out your installation is corrupt? Or the programs won't run on the current version of windows? Or they don't render the same. Say some areas come out as black blobs because the rendering engine has changed.
It's no big- I think we keep too many records anyway personally. I personally have word documents that word could not open (but open office could thankfully) and Write documents that I just had to strip the text out of and reedit for format.
A decade is a really long time. A decade ago we were all running windows 95- windows 98 was on the future and windows ME was stinking up the landscape. A lot of folks still ran windows 3.11.
I'm glad to hear about the extra cameras because my first thought on seeing that big main camera was to cover it with paint or vaseline and the entire thing is toast. My second thought while watching the video was that if I were the sniper, I would be putting bullets through the camera if the thing stopped for more than a few seconds.
I guess they have improved armor a lot- the things in the video did not look armored.
At a minimum, I think they really need to have hostile tests where you put paint ball guns on the robots- add a couple humans for support and then put them against a team of humans who can use anything they can afford for 5 grand or less to disable the robots. Just to make it really nice- put up a reward of a grand to the winning team each game and have 15 rounds over 4 months. Now you know you have a robot that may survive.
1) No peripheral vision 2) No armor 3) Easily taken out by a paint ball gun 4) Easily taken out by a sheet 5) Easily taken out by a well thrown egg 6) I suspect these are going to be easily taken out by jamming equipment that would fit in a van.
okay 3-5 are "Has only one eye that is unarmored and mounted pointing forwards"
These cheeseheads seem to think the enemy is going to not attack the weakest spot.
This should have 50 vision systems mounted all over it and easy to switch too. It should probably have three operators to watch to the sides, above and behind. The video feed back should be a composited image from 6 cameras with most of it being the forward mounted camera but some of it being the other cameras so if you see movement you can zoom in.
Armor-- it needs armor. A couple machine gun volleys are going to shred the thing. The video shows them scouting out the sniper who is not allows to fire back at the robots. The bombs over there are flipping Abrahms tanks-- that is a pretty big bomb. The treads look like a couple 50 caliber rounds would disable them.
I think they are great for entering a building and being destroyed after taking out one or two insurgents. They are great for reducing risk at the trade of some dollars. They may be great for breaking enemy lines since you could pin the guys down with gunfire and then run your robots over with grenade launchers or something like that. It's not like the robots are worthless.
But they show typical optimistic "everything will work perfectly and our enemies are stupid as bricks" thinking. What they need to do before letting these things loose is give a group of a dozen smart guys about 500 grand to disable and overcome a squad of these things.
At a minimum, you should not be able to disable one of them for 25% of it's cost.
Different needs for different people. Some women don't like sex at all.
However, I'm not talking about humping them. I'm talking about making love to them. This involves a lot more than putting it in and moving like a steam iron. Until their minds and bodies are well trained to you, women do not really orgasm from intercourse that well.
You are not tapping their (or your) potential. Imagine yourself being able to give them heroin level pleasure for an hour and a half to three hours whenever they saw you. After only a few weeks, they really do say things like "I'll do anything for you" and mean it. They glow... they shine... they prance... they giggle. They literally gibber and speak in tongues (keep in mind that I've seen this commonly- not rarely).
All women are physically capable of having rolling orgasms- one every 2 minutes for a very long time. The closest we guys can get is via "edging". You can take your self to 95% of an orgasm and hold it there without going over the edge for a long time. After only a few minutes fire starts to spread up your belly and down your legs. It finally feels like the top of your head is going to blow clean off.
Now-- multiply that sensation by 4 to 5 times as long for a female.
Every man who really loves a woman should get a copy of Donald Hicks G-Spot guide. It is the real deal. And start acting like men and not like lovey-dovey saps.
Some wives (of long distance truckers) really like having a man in their life a few days a month so they marry long distance truckers and it works. Other wives have to have to be with their man almost every waking hour (joined at the hip, mated for life) so they better find a man that can give them that.
It's also a bit about the ladder theory. The female can choose a "4" quality male or have a "5" share of a "10" quality male.
The women I get involved with typically only have 8 to 16 hours a week for a relationship. So they try that with a regular male and they both go crazy. So then they end up alone. With me, they have someone to talk to, someone to move that heavy box, someone to knock boots with that isn't going to become clingy and insert myself into their lives. What I get is a a person that likes stupid movies and loud concerts, a person that likes dancing, a person that likes harry potter and other geeky stuff. Sort of a composite perfect companion. The only crunch issue is usually valentine's day and christmas.
It's crazy by a "Leave it to Beaver" 50's family image, but it works.
FRP girls are randier than average in my experience. My first wife played in my D&D game a few months before we hooked up. D&D gives you a great way to hang out a lot (which is the basis for a lot of hookups) (which is why you see so many out of work brothers hooking up with guys SO's on "cheaters").
Dale Carnegie and Les Gibson's "How to be People Smart" all the way.
Geeks are not promoted. As soon as I got smart enough to stop acting smart, I started moving up fast.
Competent, yes! Smart, no.
Your end examples are very correct too. I stopped the highest executive in our department in his tracks for a half an hour with one question about his hobby. He smiles at me every time he passes me in the halls now.
The only thing I would disagree on is the faking it part. You really need to learn to enjoy other people or you are going to flame out under stress. If you sincerely appreciate and enjoy other people, then those side chats become energizing rather than draining. And the pay-off's are huge. Friendly managers and executives can make your work go so much smoother.
4. They couldn't find someone to have sex with, so they didn't lose their academic focus.
Sex lowered me from a 3.8 to a 3.2 (this is in the old days when the best you could get was a 4.25- today it goes up to 5 with advanced classes I think).
It was worth every damn.6 of a GPA too. And it's gotten better every year so far (even with getting older and the challenges that brings to us guys).
They are smart enough to lie and hide it from the folks asking questions rather than risk losing it.
However, the fact is that world wide stupid people are outbreeding smart people. I think a couple SF writers have written stories about the ultimate conclusion of this trend.
Smart people tend to focus on their own personal pleasures.
It's very smart for them as individuals but stupid as a reproductive strategy for passing on "smart people" genes.
And I guess I should say I'm still with the most recent one after several years. I usually try to keep three going. There is no "one and only" lady in my life. It's just too risky. And it has always seemed a lot easier to attract new females while I already have one.
All of the best sex of my life was naughty sex. You want to talk about a brain flooded with endorphins- it was the naughty sex that did it. The hottest sex with my virginal 8 year marriage was perhaps a 7 (and we did it as often as three times a day). But you know.. the typical madonna/whore issue. Given someone that I felt was my sex toy, the sex reached an 11 easily. The few females I had this relationship with really liked it too. They could be defiled, feel really naughty, feel really sexy (biggest proof of being sexy to a lot of women is a rampant male) and they loved the hell out of it.
You can't do that your entire life. Hot sex turns cold. You have to have an emotional connection. But you don't have to be soul mates or married.
Young girls are extremely annoying as you get older.
Looking back- I would say the 29 to 44 were the best ages.
The female brains were now interested in sex. Their bodies were working correctly. Younger girls- you can often do the right things but the wires just are not hooked up yet. A lot of them are trying to just have their first orgasm much less a g-spot or multi.
Most older women can have at three kinds of orgasms (C, G, X) almost constantly for a couple hours. Some can have six kinds (C, G, Xl, Xr, X, A). So they really like sex and appreciate it. Younger females think they are doing you a favor (which is why you have to do cocky, funny, bust them instead of flattering them to break through that attitude) when they really have a lot more to get out of it than the guy does. And for most guys- it is 15 minutes of male pleasure when the female can have so much more. Guys you can do better- you can easily train yourself over an hour. Just look at it like a journey rather than a destination.
A few bits of advice- Jelqing works so look it up. Tantra works so learn it. Male multi-orgasm is possible and works tho it's bloody difficult and after a couple years it still doesn't work all the time (then again I'm getting older than most of you young pups).
Of the 1000 would be actors that go to hollywood, 999 would be actors fail for every 1 success.
And an even larger number of possible actors failed because they lacked the enthusiasm and positive attitude to even get that far.
So you have 9900 losers who had bad attitudes. 999 who try and fail anyway (but a lot of them also give up- sometimes right before their lucky break). And the one enthusiastic and also VERY lucky (and often very skilled or at least attractive) success.
Linux may never replace Windows. But if they give up without even trying and their own magazines say how they are going to lose then they will certainly never replace windows.
The question is "Life of hot sex" vs "Life of true love". You really can't have both.
Now the kicker... for 75% of everyone- true love turns out to be unattainable even given your best efforts.
Society just doesn't support it. And girls are unfaithful in large numbers with sexy, cocky, funny guys (I read up to 10% of paternity tests come out with a different father).
Emotional warmth is great but it is also pretty damn dangerous.
Endless hot sex eventually turns ice cold without some emotional intimacy.
You can't win either way. Because whatever you are not getting is what you hunger for.
The three days I'm talking about are reality. I lived through it. IBM completely failed at their promise of zero downtime failure. We had to make heroic efforts to cover their failure.
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Gasoline can mess your mind up badly over time.
If you smell it inside your car you should really get it fixed.
I had a relative who was apparently going crazy and then we rode in their car and my friend (I missed it) pointed this out. In about 30 days her apparent sanity improved enormously.
But we compete with chinese for jobs based on the fact that they are paid less.
If they get discounts on everything, they continue to lock in that advantage.
The price should be the same there and here for the same products. It is much worse in the area of medicine where the difference can be $5.35 vs $.10 .
Corporations have a lovely double standard where we pay more and they get to use labor that costs less.
They are basically pumping all accumulated wealth out of the 1st world into their pockets.
And we are letting them do it.
It is academic.
We will have a major, nasty war before most of us die. Too many people and too few resources if nothing else.
I'd rather be on the side that comes out alive personally. Tho I'm dubious about that prospect given how nasty the next really nasty war is going to be.
Osama Bin Ladin loves the rich, chocolaty taste of Ovaltine!
So...
What are you going to do when you go to install and it turns out your installation is corrupt?
Or the programs won't run on the current version of windows?
Or they don't render the same. Say some areas come out as black blobs because the rendering engine has changed.
It's no big- I think we keep too many records anyway personally.
I personally have word documents that word could not open (but open office could thankfully) and Write documents that I just had to strip the text out of and reedit for format.
A decade is a really long time. A decade ago we were all running windows 95- windows 98 was on the future and windows ME was stinking up the landscape. A lot of folks still ran windows 3.11.
Stephen
I'm glad to hear about the extra cameras because my first thought on seeing that big main camera was to cover it with paint or vaseline and the entire thing is toast. My second thought while watching the video was that if I were the sniper, I would be putting bullets through the camera if the thing stopped for more than a few seconds.
I guess they have improved armor a lot- the things in the video did not look armored.
At a minimum, I think they really need to have hostile tests where you put paint ball guns on the robots- add a couple humans for support and then put them against a team of humans who can use anything they can afford for 5 grand or less to disable the robots. Just to make it really nice- put up a reward of a grand to the winning team each game and have 15 rounds over 4 months. Now you know you have a robot that may survive.
1) No peripheral vision
2) No armor
3) Easily taken out by a paint ball gun
4) Easily taken out by a sheet
5) Easily taken out by a well thrown egg
6) I suspect these are going to be easily taken out by jamming equipment that would fit in a van.
okay 3-5 are "Has only one eye that is unarmored and mounted pointing forwards"
These cheeseheads seem to think the enemy is going to not attack the weakest spot.
This should have 50 vision systems mounted all over it and easy to switch too. It should probably have three operators to watch to the sides, above and behind. The video feed back should be a composited image from 6 cameras with most of it being the forward mounted camera but some of it being the other cameras so if you see movement you can zoom in.
Armor-- it needs armor. A couple machine gun volleys are going to shred the thing. The video shows them scouting out the sniper who is not allows to fire back at the robots. The bombs over there are flipping Abrahms tanks-- that is a pretty big bomb. The treads look like a couple 50 caliber rounds would disable them.
I think they are great for entering a building and being destroyed after taking out one or two insurgents. They are great for reducing risk at the trade of some dollars. They may be great for breaking enemy lines since you could pin the guys down with gunfire and then run your robots over with grenade launchers or something like that. It's not like the robots are worthless.
But they show typical optimistic "everything will work perfectly and our enemies are stupid as bricks" thinking. What they need to do before letting these things loose is give a group of a dozen smart guys about 500 grand to disable and overcome a squad of these things.
At a minimum, you should not be able to disable one of them for 25% of it's cost.
Different needs for different people. Some women don't like sex at all.
However, I'm not talking about humping them. I'm talking about making love to them. This involves a lot more than putting it in and moving like a steam iron. Until their minds and bodies are well trained to you, women do not really orgasm from intercourse that well.
You are not tapping their (or your) potential. Imagine yourself being able to give them heroin level pleasure for an hour and a half to three hours whenever they saw you. After only a few weeks, they really do say things like "I'll do anything for you" and mean it. They glow... they shine... they prance... they giggle. They literally gibber and speak in tongues (keep in mind that I've seen this commonly- not rarely).
All women are physically capable of having rolling orgasms- one every 2 minutes for a very long time. The closest we guys can get is via "edging". You can take your self to 95% of an orgasm and hold it there without going over the edge for a long time. After only a few minutes fire starts to spread up your belly and down your legs. It finally feels like the top of your head is going to blow clean off.
Now-- multiply that sensation by 4 to 5 times as long for a female.
Every man who really loves a woman should get a copy of Donald Hicks G-Spot guide. It is the real deal. And start acting like men and not like lovey-dovey saps.
Some wives (of long distance truckers) really like having a man in their life a few days a month so they marry long distance truckers and it works. Other wives have to have to be with their man almost every waking hour (joined at the hip, mated for life) so they better find a man that can give them that.
It's also a bit about the ladder theory.
The female can choose a "4" quality male or have a "5" share of a "10" quality male.
The women I get involved with typically only have 8 to 16 hours a week for a relationship. So they try that with a regular male and they both go crazy. So then they end up alone. With me, they have someone to talk to, someone to move that heavy box, someone to knock boots with that isn't going to become clingy and insert myself into their lives. What I get is a a person that likes stupid movies and loud concerts, a person that likes dancing, a person that likes harry potter and other geeky stuff. Sort of a composite perfect companion. The only crunch issue is usually valentine's day and christmas.
It's crazy by a "Leave it to Beaver" 50's family image, but it works.
Clit, G-Spot, X-spot (X-Spot right and left) (these are basically near the cervix), Anal.
FRP girls are randier than average in my experience. My first wife played in my D&D game a few months before we hooked up. D&D gives you a great way to hang out a lot (which is the basis for a lot of hookups) (which is why you see so many out of work brothers hooking up with guys SO's on "cheaters").
You are so right.
Dale Carnegie and Les Gibson's "How to be People Smart" all the way.
Geeks are not promoted. As soon as I got smart enough to stop acting smart, I started moving up fast.
Competent, yes! Smart, no.
Your end examples are very correct too. I stopped the highest executive in our department in his tracks for a half an hour with one question about his hobby. He smiles at me every time he passes me in the halls now.
The only thing I would disagree on is the faking it part. You really need to learn to enjoy other people or you are going to flame out under stress. If you sincerely appreciate and enjoy other people, then those side chats become energizing rather than draining. And the pay-off's are huge. Friendly managers and executives can make your work go so much smoother.
4. They couldn't find someone to have sex with, so they didn't lose their academic focus.
.6 of a GPA too. And it's gotten better every year so far (even with getting older and the challenges that brings to us guys).
Sex lowered me from a 3.8 to a 3.2 (this is in the old days when the best you could get was a 4.25- today it goes up to 5 with advanced classes I think).
It was worth every damn
I agree with your point CS. You can't jump off a building and fly with enthusiasm.
I think linux has the wings- it just needs to work them. (And stop spitting in the eye of newbies asking how to put the wings on would help too.)
Don't loose your cool, man.
You didn't post bad.
My first thought was the other direction.
They are smart enough to lie and hide it from the folks asking questions rather than risk losing it.
However, the fact is that world wide stupid people are outbreeding smart people. I think a couple SF writers have written stories about the ultimate conclusion of this trend.
Smart people tend to focus on their own personal pleasures.
It's very smart for them as individuals but stupid as a reproductive strategy for passing on "smart people" genes.
And I guess I should say I'm still with the most recent one after several years. I usually try to keep three going. There is no "one and only" lady in my life. It's just too risky. And it has always seemed a lot easier to attract new females while I already have one.
All of the best sex of my life was naughty sex. You want to talk about a brain flooded with endorphins- it was the naughty sex that did it. The hottest sex with my virginal 8 year marriage was perhaps a 7 (and we did it as often as three times a day). But you know.. the typical madonna/whore issue. Given someone that I felt was my sex toy, the sex reached an 11 easily. The few females I had this relationship with really liked it too. They could be defiled, feel really naughty, feel really sexy (biggest proof of being sexy to a lot of women is a rampant male) and they loved the hell out of it.
You can't do that your entire life. Hot sex turns cold. You have to have an emotional connection. But you don't have to be soul mates or married.
And I volunteer to be that guy.
Young girls are extremely annoying as you get older.
Looking back- I would say the 29 to 44 were the best ages.
The female brains were now interested in sex. Their bodies were working correctly. Younger girls- you can often do the right things but the wires just are not hooked up yet. A lot of them are trying to just have their first orgasm much less a g-spot or multi.
Most older women can have at three kinds of orgasms (C, G, X) almost constantly for a couple hours.
Some can have six kinds (C, G, Xl, Xr, X, A). So they really like sex and appreciate it. Younger females think they are doing you a favor (which is why you have to do cocky, funny, bust them instead of flattering them to break through that attitude) when they really have a lot more to get out of it than the guy does. And for most guys- it is 15 minutes of male pleasure when the female can have so much more. Guys you can do better- you can easily train yourself over an hour. Just look at it like a journey rather than a destination.
A few bits of advice- Jelqing works so look it up. Tantra works so learn it. Male multi-orgasm is possible and works tho it's bloody difficult and after a couple years it still doesn't work all the time (then again I'm getting older than most of you young pups).
Thanks very much to you and others. I've recorded your excellent tips.
Of the 1000 would be actors that go to hollywood, 999 would be actors fail for every 1 success.
And an even larger number of possible actors failed because they lacked the enthusiasm and positive attitude to even get that far.
So you have 9900 losers who had bad attitudes. 999 who try and fail anyway (but a lot of them also give up- sometimes right before their lucky break). And the one enthusiastic and also VERY lucky (and often very skilled or at least attractive) success.
Linux may never replace Windows. But if they give up without even trying and their own magazines say how they are going to lose then they will certainly never replace windows.
The parent poster is correct.
The question is "Life of hot sex" vs "Life of true love". You really can't have both.
Now the kicker... for 75% of everyone- true love turns out to be unattainable even given your best efforts.
Society just doesn't support it. And girls are unfaithful in large numbers with sexy, cocky, funny guys (I read up to 10% of paternity tests come out with a different father).
Emotional warmth is great but it is also pretty damn dangerous.
Endless hot sex eventually turns ice cold without some emotional intimacy.
You can't win either way. Because whatever you are not getting is what you hunger for.
Mr. AC.
The three days I'm talking about are reality. I lived through it. IBM completely failed at their promise of zero downtime failure. We had to make heroic efforts to cover their failure.
Before, .33% failure rate = 13 failures a day. You had well understood procedures for dealing with failures.
.33% failure rate = 1 failure per thousand days. This is a recipe for hell.
After,
But wait...
When you do have one machine fail- it takes down 133 virtual servers at the same time. You raised your risk enormously.
IBM will tell you all about fail-over just like they did our executives.
Half the country down for three days is the reality.
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Still it is interesting to see a return to the centralized mainframe farm. Sure hope those multiply redundant communication lines don't go down.