It's the real world that sucks. I enjoyed my engineering/science right up to the point where I graduated, and they stuck me in a little tiny cubicle, by myself, staring at boring code and schematics. Day-after-day. Week-after-week. Year-after-year.
And President Obama's government wonders why kids don't line up around the block to become engineers and scientists!
Yes, yes you are. Men should be men. Women should be women. Small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri should be small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri.
Be hero and join the military where I can shoot people?... Maybe something involving beating up and or shooting badguys.
Yeah, because fighting for your people and your principles is a bad thing. Defending the things, ideas, and people you love... that really fucking sucks. Nobody should do it.
What's different now is that the Remus patches have finally been incorporated into the Xen source tree.
Hear, hear! I spent my summer research internship this year incorporating Remus patches into the Xen source tree for use on a departmental project. It was two months of bloody hacking to make the patched source, the build system, and the use environment cooperate well enough to actually get a Remus system running and backing up its VMs over the network. We never got it perfect.
So it seems I've been a great person over the past year and was written for Good Karma (Koala) in the Book of Life.
The upgrade made huge improvements for me. My netbook's battery life has rocketed up by about an hour, I can now control Bluetooth, the interface looks much smoother and shinier, volume controls have become finer-grained, and my wireless signals have even gotten stronger.
I'd feel sorry for you, but you'd probably just piss me off first. I have little patience for head-cases when I have to deal with them directly. From a distance they do get my sympathy, though.
Ah, the old-fashioned argumentum ad crazium: "You believe differently from me, therefore you're crazy and I won't even bother trying to reason with you, won't bother trying to engage your viewpoint, and will consider everything you have to say totally worthless."
Television is not just a tool of message and propaganda delivery, but the CRT flicker demonstrably alters your brain wave patterns as measured with EEG equipment. It essentially puts viewers into a mild state of hypnosis.
Have you considered opening a tinfoil-hat store?
This is why it's so hard for people to remember the commercial they watched ten seconds ago.
I'm sorry, are you saying that someone actually made people sit and watch commercials for ten seconds? Sane people get up and do something worthwhile during the commercials. Clever people get our television programs from something other than broadcast/cable so that we don't have to watch commercials at all.
I think if someone couldn't remember what commercial they watched ten seconds ago, it's because their brain wasn't watching in the first place. They probably spent the time on something good like thinking about their SO.
Though the message goes right on in and does its magic. --But don't bother researching that. Your head would explode from all the compressed masses of cultural mind-game horseshit programming you've undergone since birth.
Yeah, but you're a Free Thinker! Nothing is true! Everything is permitted! No god, no country, no master who isn't paying you!
Seriously, are you some kind of wannabe Topher Brink? I've never heard a more condescending tinfoil-hatter nihilist... except on Reddit. EW.
Are you SURE you don't have a chair with bright brain lights directed at it in your house? I bet you do.
I'm pretty goddamn sure I don't. Devices to directly overwrite the human brain don't exist, as much as you want to believe that everyone who watches TV is a sheeple beneath your towering heights of Free Thought.
Of course, the funny thing is how often I see you "FREE THOUGHT!" types go along with sheer craziness. To paraphrase an old saying that rings true, the man who believes in Free Thought does not believe nothing but believes everything.
What are your views on Religion? Democracy? Torture?
Religion? Masorati Jewish. Democracy? I'm in favor of it, DUH. Torture? It's evil.
How were those views shaped?
I shaped them.
Did you stand in your school for the national anthem, or did you stop and ask, "Why are we all doing this?"
I stood and tried to sleep while standing, because the time when schools like to sing "The Star Spangled Banner" is the time when my body wants to sleep. No matter my right to it, protesting the bloody anthem by not standing would have interfered with my sleeping by drawing heckling from the teachers.
Eventually I decided I'd rather sing "Ha'Tikvah".
Oh dear, did I fail to live down to your expectations?
When Lebanon was completely unoccupied. Why hasn't Hizballah's war of so-called freedom against Israel ended with the Israeli occupation of Lebanon?
Israel responded by sending in an army many 100s of times larger than lebanon's they bombed many buildings including hospitals, school, UN bunkers and apartment buildings. Hezbolah fired rockets back to show resistance.
I like how you attempt to portray military competence as immoral and military inability as righteous.
Also hezbolah states that they distinguish between zionists and jewish.
You claim that about an organization whose leader has said the following:
If they (Jews) all gather in Israel, it will save us the trouble of going after them worldwide.
If we searched the entire world for a person more cowardly, despicable, weak and feeble in psyche, mind, ideology and religion, we would not find anyone like the Jew. Notice, I do not say the Israeli.
and of course:
The Lebanese refuse to give the Palestinians residing in Lebanon Lebanese citizenship, and we refuse their resettlement in Lebanon. There is Lebanese consensus on this...we thank God that we all agree on one clear and definite result; namely, that we reject the resettlement of the Palestinians in Lebanon.
This is not a man who wants to liberate "Palestine", nor to protect his own country from occupation. This is a man and this is an organization built on the idea that all Jews everywhere must die in order to please God.
Stop pretending otherwise just because their miserable failure provokes pity.
Sheba Farms is claimed by Syria as well as Lebanon, and Israel can make a valid claim on top of that. Note that AFAIK Sheba Farms is an Israeli civilian zone rather than a military-occupied zone such as the West Bank. You can call me flamebait (no, I actually intended to provide relevant information) when you get all three of those countries with different legitimate claims to sort out who the hell the Farms belong to.
I'd wager that the reason our world is such a mess is precisely because we've utterly failed to deal properly with the problem of fake evil people, and worse, the fact that regular folks are so very easy to turn into fake evil people.
And how does one go about this exactly? Most of us average folks don't have a dentist chair with bright brain-lights on it in our houses.
You do realize that Israel hasn't been occupying a square inch of Lebanon and therefore Hizballah doesn't actually have any reason to fire rockets other than "hey let's kill some goddamn Jews" (which is their stated reason for it)?
Only America has nerds because only America needed a stereotype to cover up its prejudices against certain ethnicities of immigrants who were regarded as stealing jobs and power with their relentless hard work and community-based mutual support systems.
If you don't believe me consider this (proposed by a evolutionary biologist): women are beautiful, men are ugly.
Wrong. I've seen some pretty handsome guys in my time, including when I look in the mirror on a good day.
Admittedly, I've no desire to see any of those guys out of the snappy clothes, but men aren't ugly. You just bought into another pop-culture trope is all.
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Art, theater and football don't make us human.
It's the real world that sucks. I enjoyed my engineering/science right up to the point where I graduated, and they stuck me in a little tiny cubicle, by myself, staring at boring code and schematics. Day-after-day. Week-after-week. Year-after-year.
And President Obama's government wonders why kids don't line up around the block to become engineers and scientists!
In which case you don't have the same "we" (actually, multiple "we"s) as I do. Mine have been attacked quite recently.
Masculinity isn't obsolete just because it's currently demonized in the idiotic and self-hating portion of the West.
Yes, yes you are. Men should be men. Women should be women. Small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri should be small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri.
Be hero and join the military where I can shoot people? ... Maybe something involving beating up and or shooting badguys.
Yeah, because fighting for your people and your principles is a bad thing. Defending the things, ideas, and people you love... that really fucking sucks. Nobody should do it.
How on God's Earth do you manage to tolerate "most of Reddit"?
If I want to do that much work keeping my computer running, I'll use Linux.
Note: I use Linux.
What's different now is that the Remus patches have finally been incorporated into the Xen source tree.
Hear, hear! I spent my summer research internship this year incorporating Remus patches into the Xen source tree for use on a departmental project. It was two months of bloody hacking to make the patched source, the build system, and the use environment cooperate well enough to actually get a Remus system running and backing up its VMs over the network. We never got it perfect.
So it seems I've been a great person over the past year and was written for Good Karma (Koala) in the Book of Life.
The upgrade made huge improvements for me. My netbook's battery life has rocketed up by about an hour, I can now control Bluetooth, the interface looks much smoother and shinier, volume controls have become finer-grained, and my wireless signals have even gotten stronger.
I'd feel sorry for you, but you'd probably just piss me off first. I have little patience for head-cases when I have to deal with them directly. From a distance they do get my sympathy, though.
Ah, the old-fashioned argumentum ad crazium: "You believe differently from me, therefore you're crazy and I won't even bother trying to reason with you, won't bother trying to engage your viewpoint, and will consider everything you have to say totally worthless."
Television is not just a tool of message and propaganda delivery, but the CRT flicker demonstrably alters your brain wave patterns as measured with EEG equipment. It essentially puts viewers into a mild state of hypnosis.
Have you considered opening a tinfoil-hat store?
This is why it's so hard for people to remember the commercial they watched ten seconds ago.
I'm sorry, are you saying that someone actually made people sit and watch commercials for ten seconds? Sane people get up and do something worthwhile during the commercials. Clever people get our television programs from something other than broadcast/cable so that we don't have to watch commercials at all.
I think if someone couldn't remember what commercial they watched ten seconds ago, it's because their brain wasn't watching in the first place. They probably spent the time on something good like thinking about their SO.
Though the message goes right on in and does its magic. --But don't bother researching that. Your head would explode from all the compressed masses of cultural mind-game horseshit programming you've undergone since birth.
Yeah, but you're a Free Thinker! Nothing is true! Everything is permitted! No god, no country, no master who isn't paying you!
Seriously, are you some kind of wannabe Topher Brink? I've never heard a more condescending tinfoil-hatter nihilist... except on Reddit. EW.
Did anyone outside of a highly authority-centered Western culture ever replicate the Milgram experiments?
Are you SURE you don't have a chair with bright brain lights directed at it in your house? I bet you do.
I'm pretty goddamn sure I don't. Devices to directly overwrite the human brain don't exist, as much as you want to believe that everyone who watches TV is a sheeple beneath your towering heights of Free Thought.
Of course, the funny thing is how often I see you "FREE THOUGHT!" types go along with sheer craziness. To paraphrase an old saying that rings true, the man who believes in Free Thought does not believe nothing but believes everything.
What are your views on Religion? Democracy? Torture?
Religion? Masorati Jewish. Democracy? I'm in favor of it, DUH. Torture? It's evil.
How were those views shaped?
I shaped them.
Did you stand in your school for the national anthem, or did you stop and ask, "Why are we all doing this?"
I stood and tried to sleep while standing, because the time when schools like to sing "The Star Spangled Banner" is the time when my body wants to sleep. No matter my right to it, protesting the bloody anthem by not standing would have interfered with my sleeping by drawing heckling from the teachers.
Eventually I decided I'd rather sing "Ha'Tikvah".
Oh dear, did I fail to live down to your expectations?
The last fight between them happened in 2006.
When Lebanon was completely unoccupied. Why hasn't Hizballah's war of so-called freedom against Israel ended with the Israeli occupation of Lebanon?
Israel responded by sending in an army many 100s of times larger than lebanon's they bombed many buildings including hospitals, school, UN bunkers and apartment buildings. Hezbolah fired rockets back to show resistance.
I like how you attempt to portray military competence as immoral and military inability as righteous.
Also hezbolah states that they distinguish between zionists and jewish.
You claim that about an organization whose leader has said the following:
If they (Jews) all gather in Israel, it will save us the trouble of going after them worldwide.
If we searched the entire world for a person more cowardly, despicable, weak and feeble in psyche, mind, ideology and religion, we would not find anyone like the Jew. Notice, I do not say the Israeli.
and of course:
The Lebanese refuse to give the Palestinians residing in Lebanon Lebanese citizenship, and we refuse their resettlement in Lebanon. There is Lebanese consensus on this...we thank God that we all agree on one clear and definite result; namely, that we reject the resettlement of the Palestinians in Lebanon.
This is not a man who wants to liberate "Palestine", nor to protect his own country from occupation. This is a man and this is an organization built on the idea that all Jews everywhere must die in order to please God.
Stop pretending otherwise just because their miserable failure provokes pity.
Sheba Farms is claimed by Syria as well as Lebanon, and Israel can make a valid claim on top of that. Note that AFAIK Sheba Farms is an Israeli civilian zone rather than a military-occupied zone such as the West Bank. You can call me flamebait (no, I actually intended to provide relevant information) when you get all three of those countries with different legitimate claims to sort out who the hell the Farms belong to.
I'd wager that the reason our world is such a mess is precisely because we've utterly failed to deal properly with the problem of fake evil people, and worse, the fact that regular folks are so very easy to turn into fake evil people.
And how does one go about this exactly? Most of us average folks don't have a dentist chair with bright brain-lights on it in our houses.
Maybe you should stop being so skeptical about systems of meaning then.
You do realize that Israel hasn't been occupying a square inch of Lebanon and therefore Hizballah doesn't actually have any reason to fire rockets other than "hey let's kill some goddamn Jews" (which is their stated reason for it)?
I'm sorry, when did a story about computers sucking at math become another Palestine thread?
No, he who has the most children wins.
Besides, who said that geeks can't be big and broad-shouldered with nicely-showing muscles? Seriously, where is it written that geeks must be ugly?
Science fiction, particularly hard scifi, has virtually dried up.
So you've never watched Dollhouse? I admit it has a bit of a "ME AM PLAY GODS" complex, but sci-fi has had those since forever.
Really? I've had the opposite problem in my life.
Jock: You don't like the Red Sox? *multiple punches*
Me (geek): *Punch back, break nose*.
Principal suspends both of us for equal periods of time.
Only America has nerds because only America needed a stereotype to cover up its prejudices against certain ethnicities of immigrants who were regarded as stealing jobs and power with their relentless hard work and community-based mutual support systems.
If you don't believe me consider this (proposed by a evolutionary biologist): women are beautiful, men are ugly.
Wrong. I've seen some pretty handsome guys in my time, including when I look in the mirror on a good day.
Admittedly, I've no desire to see any of those guys out of the snappy clothes, but men aren't ugly. You just bought into another pop-culture trope is all.