Actually, my key point is that when I told the truth, people didn't hear the truth. When I told a "lie" they did.
Things get complicated in real life. Truth gets spun left, right, and sideways.
And people learn to hear the truth despite the spin after a fairly quick time. And then, I wager, that they start to lose the ability to hear the unvarnished, unspun truth. When someone tells them the truth, they automagically adjust it with their spin filters.
Actually the cost of cars includes a lot of design too.
And just like music, they design a lot of cars that don't get made.
They may pay a half a million dollars for work on a car that never gets past a clay model.
Those costs have to be covered by the cars that actually do sell.
Those costs also include a lot of very unreasonable pension promises and a lot of people who are not working.
Those costs also include a lot of very unreasonable executive salaries. They may pay 150 million in salaries for the inner circle for work that could be done just as well for a few million.
Apparently the middle class finally got tired enough of being raped by the executive classes that they elected democrats. I for one would love to see some really punitive taxes on the wealthy classes. Not be cause it is fair but because they have been unreasonable pigs for the last 12 years.
The guys that gave incorrect estimates got the job.
And they *kept* getting the job even tho time after time they would tell the managers that it would be 1 week, I would say 3, and then yup- it would be 3 weeks (sometimes even 4).
So after about 8 months of this, I finally started giving "correct" estimates. I think when I said "3 weeks" the managers heard "9 weeks" since every time they heard '1 week' it was actually '3 weeks'.
After 5 years, looking back, it was an excellent decision that lead to many gigs. They cared about the quality of the finish product and I delivered that. And we had a mutual understanding that estimates were always lower than reality at that company.
Actually, I'm both to some extent. These days I have a foot in both worlds.
I don't play 40+ hours a week any more but I still play enough (you play a"GAME" 10 HOURS a WEEK?!?!?) that folks act like it is freaky.
I would never date the swedish bikini team. I date ladies in my own age range- not my daughter's. About the youngest I'd go these days is 34.
The nights i used to play more- now I take dance lessons and I've met a lot of nice ladies. I can flirt with them instead of locking up using the skills I picked up in EQ.
And I guess if you are going to say hard evidence shows that it doesn't translate into RL then it would be nice to provide a link to said hard evidence.
1) greatly improved ability to "chit chat" 2) greatly improved ability to flirt casually. 3) managing a guild of 90 members made managing a team of 22 people at work easy. 4) managing the logistics of a large guild's advancement made managing the logistics of large projects easier. 5) greatly increased confidence 6) greatly increased ability to let everyone bitch and stay above it (a "rare" quality commented on by senior management to me recently). 7) greatly increased skill with alcohol that has lead to being able to hold interesting conversations about Port and other fine drinks with afficianados. (it was a drinking guild and we get together for annual boozy fun parties and that lead to my fall from near teetotaler status). 8) led to RL buds that has led to two extra RL skiing trips (one in whistler) which lead to two 22 year old pretty blond australian girls dancing and flirting with me because I was a texan cowboy. which is funny since I'm in my 40's.
There may be more.
There were downsides. At the height of my addiction, I let my real personal life go to hell for about 24 months. It was pretty much - work 8 hours, play 8 hours, sleep/bathe/eat in the other 8 hours. It was a magical world that did fill all my needs and then one day in 2002ish I finally got full and got back on with life. I still play 7 to 15 hours a week.
It definitely contributed to carpal tunnel (tho my job does that anyway).
It lead me to be much less idealistic and much more realistic about how many people (80%) out there are users (some purposely- more subconciously).\ It lead me to appreciate those people who are real (i'd say about 20%?).
Actually, it's a bit more like saying "yes, you have a video of a man wearing thick rimmed black glasses robbing the bank, but how do you know another man wearing thick rimmed black glasses didn't rob the bank."
I suspect, you'd still pay a lot of legal costs trying to prove that particular subtle technical point. I can't think you do it for long on any particular tracker since they would ban your ip.
Okay... so this is the problem with bullshitting yourself.
If you are going to do something illegal, you need to keep it clear in your head that what you are doing is illegal so you don't get stupid.
If you download by p2p, that means you upload. Uploading is infringement and that means you can be hit for multi thousand dollar fines/settlements.
I'm not saying what you are doing isn't morally okay. I'm not saying I haven't p2p'd things that I watched on TV. Or p2p'd things that I watched on TV, own the DVDs. Etc. I'm not saying I have either.;)
I just can't believe anyone would trade more than a WII and one billion dollars for a PS3 so I find your example ludicrous.
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Seriously- someone who wants a PS3 and their relative got them a WII might not be aware of the ebay frenzy or they might just want to get it over with. Or they might trade it for 280 and a wii- reducing the profit but still a profit.
And possibly because of the same causes for observed warming of other multiple planets in the solar system which have nothing to do with terrestrial atmospheric pollutants.
A study of the ice caps on Mars may show that the red planet is experiencing a warming trend....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming#The_so lar_variation_theory The present level of solar activity is historically high. Solanki et al. (2004) suggest that solar activity for the last 60 to 70 years may be at its highest level in 8,000 years; Muscheler et al. disagree, suggesting...
Global Warming: Fact. Global Warming Caused by Human Pollution: Hypothesis.
1) find a sucker with a wii (ebaying for $500) to give you $380 + Wii for your PS3. 2) sell wii for $250. 3) Final take = 380+250 = 730 ($100 profit- not what you wanted but better than nothing). 4) Buy console you actually want in march at a discount or as part of some kind of package with games.
First console, I *ever* wanted. I even went out and braved several stores before I gave up and decided I'll get one in January.
Typical scenario. me: do you have any wii's? them: No them2: No, would you like to buy a PS3? them3: No, we got in 25 this morning and they sold to the people who happened to be in the area when we unpacked them in 15 minutes, would you like to buy a PS3?
When I got dogs, I started getting rats (because the dogs wouldn't finish their dry kibbles).
The first rat I caught and released in the woods.
The second rat I killed in a very excited adrenaline rushed state with the dogs barking and the rat making incredible leaps to escape but ultimately we were in a closed room.
The next couple I quickly dispatched.
Finally, I just started putting out poison up out of reach of the dogs (who really wanted to eat it- my dog looked like a drug addict smelling rat poison).
They need to find some way to poison companies like SCO.
a) if they are NOT a cop, then once the police becomes aware that they are going around distributing crack to catch crack users, then the police should be arresting them, right?
b) if the cops give them permission to do this (and so don't arrest them), then they are really an extension the police.
I'd really like to see one of the RIAA companies get busted for distributing their real copyrighted material. The obvious solution would be to say "Well you gave away this free into the public domain so you gave up your copyright on this item".
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Actually, my key point is that when I told the truth, people didn't hear the truth. When I told a "lie" they did.
Things get complicated in real life. Truth gets spun left, right, and sideways.
And people learn to hear the truth despite the spin after a fairly quick time. And then, I wager, that they start to lose the ability to hear the unvarnished, unspun truth. When someone tells them the truth, they automagically adjust it with their spin filters.
We actually didn't upgrade til about 10 months ago.
The previous hardware upgrade three years ago right after XP came out, they removed XP and installed Win2k.
until lotus wouldn't run?
Actually the cost of cars includes a lot of design too.
And just like music, they design a lot of cars that don't get made.
They may pay a half a million dollars for work on a car that never gets past a clay model.
Those costs have to be covered by the cars that actually do sell.
Those costs also include a lot of very unreasonable pension promises and a lot of people who are not working.
Those costs also include a lot of very unreasonable executive salaries. They may pay 150 million in salaries for the inner circle for work that could be done just as well for a few million.
Apparently the middle class finally got tired enough of being raped by the executive classes that they elected democrats. I for one would love to see some really punitive taxes on the wealthy classes. Not be cause it is fair but because they have been unreasonable pigs for the last 12 years.
I worked as a contract programmer.
At first, I would give correct estimates.
The guys that gave incorrect estimates got the job.
And they *kept* getting the job even tho time after time they would tell the managers that it would be 1 week, I would say 3, and then yup- it would be 3 weeks (sometimes even 4).
So after about 8 months of this, I finally started giving "correct" estimates. I think when I said "3 weeks" the managers heard "9 weeks" since every time they heard '1 week' it was actually '3 weeks'.
After 5 years, looking back, it was an excellent decision that lead to many gigs. They cared about the quality of the finish product and I delivered that. And we had a mutual understanding that estimates were always lower than reality at that company.
The problem is they have now been shown in multiple cases to be flat out wrong.
They've sued everything but dead people so far.
That means they are probably sweeping innocent people in and they need to be held to a higher standard.
Not even people under 30?
Actually, I'm both to some extent. These days I have a foot in both worlds.
I don't play 40+ hours a week any more but I still play enough (you play a"GAME" 10 HOURS a WEEK?!?!?) that folks act like it is freaky.
I would never date the swedish bikini team. I date ladies in my own age range- not my daughter's. About the youngest I'd go these days is 34.
The nights i used to play more- now I take dance lessons and I've met a lot of nice ladies. I can flirt with them instead of locking up using the skills I picked up in EQ.
But have you collected all four pieces of the Senior Manager quest yet?
And I guess if you are going to say hard evidence shows that it doesn't translate into RL then it would be nice to provide a link to said hard evidence.
Well... all I can say is that it did for me.
So why am I getting ads for penile enlargement and xbox 360's?
I don't need either.
1) greatly improved ability to "chit chat"
2) greatly improved ability to flirt casually.
3) managing a guild of 90 members made managing a team of 22 people at work easy.
4) managing the logistics of a large guild's advancement made managing the logistics of large projects easier.
5) greatly increased confidence
6) greatly increased ability to let everyone bitch and stay above it (a "rare" quality commented on by senior management to me recently).
7) greatly increased skill with alcohol that has lead to being able to hold interesting conversations about Port and other fine drinks with afficianados. (it was a drinking guild and we get together for annual boozy fun parties and that lead to my fall from near teetotaler status).
8) led to RL buds that has led to two extra RL skiing trips (one in whistler) which lead to two 22 year old pretty blond australian girls dancing and flirting with me because I was a texan cowboy. which is funny since I'm in my 40's.
There may be more.
There were downsides.
At the height of my addiction, I let my real personal life go to hell for about 24 months. It was pretty much - work 8 hours, play 8 hours, sleep/bathe/eat in the other 8 hours. It was a magical world that did fill all my needs and then one day in 2002ish I finally got full and got back on with life. I still play 7 to 15 hours a week.
It definitely contributed to carpal tunnel (tho my job does that anyway).
It lead me to be much less idealistic and much more realistic about how many people (80%) out there are users (some purposely- more subconciously).\
It lead me to appreciate those people who are real (i'd say about 20%?).
Actually, it's a bit more like saying "yes, you have a video of a man wearing thick rimmed black glasses robbing the bank, but how do you know another man wearing thick rimmed black glasses didn't rob the bank."
I suspect, you'd still pay a lot of legal costs trying to prove that particular subtle technical point.
I can't think you do it for long on any particular tracker since they would ban your ip.
for the stupid drug policies.
And the hemp they would use wouldn't even have any THC to speak of.
Lots of oil in some varieties combined with growing in poor soil conditions fast (4 crops a year).
Okay... so this is the problem with bullshitting yourself.
;)
If you are going to do something illegal, you need to keep it clear in your head that what you are doing is illegal so you don't get stupid.
If you download by p2p, that means you upload. Uploading is infringement and that means you can be hit for multi thousand dollar fines/settlements.
I'm not saying what you are doing isn't morally okay. I'm not saying I haven't p2p'd things that I watched on TV. Or p2p'd things that I watched on TV, own the DVDs. Etc. I'm not saying I have either.
I just can't believe anyone would trade more than a WII and one billion dollars for a PS3 so I find your example ludicrous.
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Seriously- someone who wants a PS3 and their relative got them a WII might not be aware of the ebay frenzy or they might just want to get it over with. Or they might trade it for 280 and a wii- reducing the profit but still a profit.
Grrr. Slash dot -- can't fix errors...
2) Sell wii for $500.
3) Final take = 380 + 500 (880 - 630 = 250 profit).
And possibly because of the same causes for observed warming of other multiple planets in the solar system which have nothing to do with terrestrial atmospheric pollutants.
o lar_variation_theory ...
http://www.mos.org/cst-archive/article/80/9.html
A study of the ice caps on Mars may show that the red planet is experiencing a warming trend....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming#The_s
The present level of solar activity is historically high. Solanki et al. (2004) suggest that solar activity for the last 60 to 70 years may be at its highest level in 8,000 years; Muscheler et al. disagree, suggesting
Global Warming: Fact.
Global Warming Caused by Human Pollution: Hypothesis.
1) find a sucker with a wii (ebaying for $500) to give you $380 + Wii for your PS3.
2) sell wii for $250.
3) Final take = 380+250 = 730 ($100 profit- not what you wanted but better than nothing).
4) Buy console you actually want in march at a discount or as part of some kind of package with games.
Oh my god.
I can barely breath.
That's so funny.
And I want a wii!
First console, I *ever* wanted. I even went out and braved several stores before I gave up and decided I'll get one in January.
Typical scenario.
me: do you have any wii's?
them: No
them2: No, would you like to buy a PS3?
them3: No, we got in 25 this morning and they sold to the people who happened to be in the area when we unpacked them in 15 minutes, would you like to buy a PS3?
You know... something like 12 tags and that's it.
bold, italic, underline, list.
More like when html started.
Formatting can help you to understand content.
When I got dogs, I started getting rats (because the dogs wouldn't finish their dry kibbles).
The first rat I caught and released in the woods.
The second rat I killed in a very excited adrenaline rushed state with the dogs barking and the rat making incredible leaps to escape but ultimately we were in a closed room.
The next couple I quickly dispatched.
Finally, I just started putting out poison up out of reach of the dogs (who really wanted to eat it- my dog looked like a drug addict smelling rat poison).
They need to find some way to poison companies like SCO.
It gets tricky there.
a) if they are NOT a cop, then once the police becomes aware that they are going around distributing crack to catch crack users, then the police should be arresting them, right?
b) if the cops give them permission to do this (and so don't arrest them), then they are really an extension the police.
I'd really like to see one of the RIAA companies get busted for distributing their real copyrighted material. The obvious solution would be to say "Well you gave away this free into the public domain so you gave up your copyright on this item".