Why is Slashdot showing this as an archived discussion already?
You probably clicked the link before it was actually posted. I don't see an asterisk by your user name, but subscribers can see the stories before they're posted, but can't make comments until they are. It used to have a red screen when it wasn't yet posted, but I noticed that recently a new post looks just like an old archived post.
I'm not sure if it was MythBusters, but I saw one about the dangers of hydrogen vs gasoline. They set up a tank of hydrogen and a tank of gasoline, and shot each with a 30-30 rifle. The hydrogen just escaped from the hole in its tank, while the gasoline tank exploded in a huge fireball.
The trouble with hydrogen isn't that it burns so easily, the trouble is the molecule is so small it's difficult to contain.
Maybe I find our elective reliance on technology to be intrusive to what it means to be "human".
I'm not 100% human; I have an implant in my left eye that replaces its lens and gives me better than 20/20 vision at all distances. Being human is overrated, if you ask me. I wouldn't trade my implant for 20/400 vision for Bill Gates' money. Would you trade your car for a horse and buggy? Trade your phone for snail mail? These things make our lives better, they don't detract from our humanity.
I notice your user name, what psychoactive substances are you taking? Yes, shamans take natural drugs for spiritual enlightenment; reat the Carlos Castaneda books (I may have misspelled his name, haven't read the books in 40 years). Well, if they're still in print... I find our insanely long copyrights take away from our humanity and especially human culture -- which is actually what humanity is.
Animals don't have tech, we do. Tech makes us MORE human.
Entitlement is about comparing your circumstances to other people.
No dictionary in the world says that. Well, maybe your own twisted dictionary. An entitlement is simply what you're entitled to and has nothing whatever to do with your circumstances or how you compare them with others.
Your definition of "worth" is equally incorrect. Is English a second language to you?
Pretty much. When someone trots out Hanlon's razor, see if mcgrew's razor fits the circumstance. If not, Hanlon applies. If so, someone's probably scamming someone. If there's an error that harms someone but doesn't help the person that made the error, than Hanlon is right. Too often it excuses malicious behavior -- always look at motives. "Oops, sorry, I made an error. Please don't notice that I benefitted at your expense."
To be fair to the Californians, you're the first one I've seen that actually gets it. Even economists don't -- I elected to take an undergrad economics class in the late seventies, and the three professors (all of whom held PhDs in economics) were trying to tell us that since the third world could live on $1000 per year, we could too.
I'd just returned from Thailand and gotten out of the air force. In Thailand, $1000 a year was not a bad living. You could rent a bungalow (including woman) for $30 a month, take a taxi anywhere in the country for a dollar, take a bus anywhere for a nickle, feed four at a nice restaraunt for a buck.
They didn't get it. I called them idiots and walked out to drop the class, with half the class following me. I've had absolutely zero respect for economists and economics ever since, and every time I hear or read anything any economist says, my opinion of economists is strengthened.
Wealth trickle down? These guys are all on crack. Wealth flows up; the factory owner doesn't create wealth, he controls and aggregates it. His factory floor workers create it.
Right now corporate profist are at an all time high, would one of you Republicans explain why that isn't trickling down to the worker's paycheck?
Yep, it's bullshit. Economics is akin to astrology.
Oh hell, I seem to have digressed and gone off on a tangent. Sorry.
But obviously I didn't exclude the cost of paying rent in my calculations, because I actually lived there, and actually paid rent! I paid about $1400 for a 1-bd apartment.
That's insanely expensive. I'm paying $650 per month to rent a two bedroom house with full basement and detached garage in Illinois, my daughter's only paying about $300 or so for a two bedroom apartment in Cincinnatti.
Your figures are absolute proof that living in SF is incredibly expensive. And note, the price of everything depends on the price of real estate. That grocery store and bar and restaraunt have to pay rent, too. When rents are high, everything is high,
Someone earning $80k in SF would be worse off than someone earning less than half that here.
I think crocks and gators haven't evolved in something like 100 million, so a fish not evolving for three times as long doesn't sound too far fetched to me.
Dude, he was offering you free education. Do you have any idea how expensive tuition is these days? The word you wanted was "regardless", meaning without regard. "Irregardless," if it was a real word, would be saying exactly the opposite of what you were vainly trying to communicate.
It's kind of like "I could care less" when you're trying to convey that you don't care. It looks really stupid. Thank that gentleman who attempted to teach you something.
No way. I took a welding class in college, and one day the instructor came in wearing a red and white stripped t shirt, and underneath were red and white stripes on his skin -- the rays from the arc welder had "sunburned" through the white stripes on his shirt.
Your eyes can get sunburned. Even worse, if a hot spark hits your eyeball, you're blind in that eye forever. Goggles and hoods are for more than just protecting your eyes from rays.
One tornado and EVERYTHING is gone, including buildings made with steel girders. I've been in one, you can't possibly imagine the destructive force of one unless you have as well. Imagine being inside a giant blender? That's what being inside a tornado is like. Pictures simply don't do it justice.
FWIW, the SV offers I received were about double what I got from Austin companies.
Depending on Austin's economy, the prices in SF may be four or five times as high. I'm in Springfield, IL and am as rich as someone in Chicago who earns twice what I do, because everything costs twice as much up there.
You might want to take a trip to SF and check it out first.
Why would my employer pay fifty bucks or more for a cell phone when I'm at my desk all day and a desk phone is about five bucks? I'm not taking my work phone home, nor will I use my personal cell phone for work.
Now, does one need a POTS phone at home? Why would you?
In Tolkein's words, "Memory became history. History became legend. Legend became myth." Thor was the cave man who invented the hammer. His hammer made him a god. The polytheistic gods did indeed exist; they were merely superhuman for their times.
Once God reveals himself to you, you can no longer be agnostic.
That has not been my experience with GNU/Linux at all. Whenever I try to use it, I end up in an all-night vim-session, trying to fix all the text file configurations, because something doesn't work as it's supposed to. I *have* to tinker with GNU/Linux to actually use it.
Bullshit. I've been using Linux for ten years and never once opened vim or modified a config file. Modern distros all have Windows-like "control panel" programs. In short, buddy, I'm calling you a damned liar.
At the moment, I have some very urgent software installation to do on my Linux VPS, but that has been delayed for a week, because I simply don't have a whole day to spare for that. On a Mac, this would take a few minutes maximum.
Again, you're lying. You don't even have a Linux box or you'd know that software installation takes about two clicks of a mouse and you're done.
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he honestly thinks he would be escape goat
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That's Scapegoat.
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How is it "abuse?" People sign up for it knowing they're posting a whole bunch of shit out on the internet where everyone can see everything.
I don't have a facebook account, but I know people who do so I'm probably on it. See the problem now?
Why is Slashdot showing this as an archived discussion already?
You probably clicked the link before it was actually posted. I don't see an asterisk by your user name, but subscribers can see the stories before they're posted, but can't make comments until they are. It used to have a red screen when it wasn't yet posted, but I noticed that recently a new post looks just like an old archived post.
in my opinion... the entire government needs a revamp... it is stuck in a world 150 years ago... it needs to be made to fit current times.
Nothing has changed except technology. People are teh same as they've always been.
I'm not sure if it was MythBusters, but I saw one about the dangers of hydrogen vs gasoline. They set up a tank of hydrogen and a tank of gasoline, and shot each with a 30-30 rifle. The hydrogen just escaped from the hole in its tank, while the gasoline tank exploded in a huge fireball.
The trouble with hydrogen isn't that it burns so easily, the trouble is the molecule is so small it's difficult to contain.
Maybe I find our elective reliance on technology to be intrusive to what it means to be "human".
I'm not 100% human; I have an implant in my left eye that replaces its lens and gives me better than 20/20 vision at all distances. Being human is overrated, if you ask me. I wouldn't trade my implant for 20/400 vision for Bill Gates' money. Would you trade your car for a horse and buggy? Trade your phone for snail mail? These things make our lives better, they don't detract from our humanity.
I notice your user name, what psychoactive substances are you taking? Yes, shamans take natural drugs for spiritual enlightenment; reat the Carlos Castaneda books (I may have misspelled his name, haven't read the books in 40 years). Well, if they're still in print... I find our insanely long copyrights take away from our humanity and especially human culture -- which is actually what humanity is.
Animals don't have tech, we do. Tech makes us MORE human.
Entitlement is about comparing your circumstances to other people.
No dictionary in the world says that. Well, maybe your own twisted dictionary. An entitlement is simply what you're entitled to and has nothing whatever to do with your circumstances or how you compare them with others.
Your definition of "worth" is equally incorrect. Is English a second language to you?
Isn't that the exact opposite of Hanlon's Razor?
Pretty much. When someone trots out Hanlon's razor, see if mcgrew's razor fits the circumstance. If not, Hanlon applies. If so, someone's probably scamming someone. If there's an error that harms someone but doesn't help the person that made the error, than Hanlon is right. Too often it excuses malicious behavior -- always look at motives. "Oops, sorry, I made an error. Please don't notice that I benefitted at your expense."
This is why Californians cannot comprehend...
To be fair to the Californians, you're the first one I've seen that actually gets it. Even economists don't -- I elected to take an undergrad economics class in the late seventies, and the three professors (all of whom held PhDs in economics) were trying to tell us that since the third world could live on $1000 per year, we could too.
I'd just returned from Thailand and gotten out of the air force. In Thailand, $1000 a year was not a bad living. You could rent a bungalow (including woman) for $30 a month, take a taxi anywhere in the country for a dollar, take a bus anywhere for a nickle, feed four at a nice restaraunt for a buck.
They didn't get it. I called them idiots and walked out to drop the class, with half the class following me. I've had absolutely zero respect for economists and economics ever since, and every time I hear or read anything any economist says, my opinion of economists is strengthened.
Wealth trickle down? These guys are all on crack. Wealth flows up; the factory owner doesn't create wealth, he controls and aggregates it. His factory floor workers create it.
Right now corporate profist are at an all time high, would one of you Republicans explain why that isn't trickling down to the worker's paycheck?
Yep, it's bullshit. Economics is akin to astrology.
Oh hell, I seem to have digressed and gone off on a tangent. Sorry.
Well, hello, Mr. Walton, meet Jim Hightower. He'll tell you where your twinkies went.
But obviously I didn't exclude the cost of paying rent in my calculations, because I actually lived there, and actually paid rent! I paid about $1400 for a 1-bd apartment.
That's insanely expensive. I'm paying $650 per month to rent a two bedroom house with full basement and detached garage in Illinois, my daughter's only paying about $300 or so for a two bedroom apartment in Cincinnatti.
Your figures are absolute proof that living in SF is incredibly expensive. And note, the price of everything depends on the price of real estate. That grocery store and bar and restaraunt have to pay rent, too. When rents are high, everything is high,
Someone earning $80k in SF would be worse off than someone earning less than half that here.
I think crocks and gators haven't evolved in something like 100 million, so a fish not evolving for three times as long doesn't sound too far fetched to me.
Dude, he was offering you free education. Do you have any idea how expensive tuition is these days? The word you wanted was "regardless", meaning without regard. "Irregardless," if it was a real word, would be saying exactly the opposite of what you were vainly trying to communicate.
It's kind of like "I could care less" when you're trying to convey that you don't care. It looks really stupid. Thank that gentleman who attempted to teach you something.
privacy advocates say Facebook has misunderstood what the proposal is all about."
Misunderstood, my ass. Never attribute to stupidity that which can be explained by greedy self-interest.
For welding goggles? Kick ass!
No way. I took a welding class in college, and one day the instructor came in wearing a red and white stripped t shirt, and underneath were red and white stripes on his skin -- the rays from the arc welder had "sunburned" through the white stripes on his shirt.
Your eyes can get sunburned. Even worse, if a hot spark hits your eyeball, you're blind in that eye forever. Goggles and hoods are for more than just protecting your eyes from rays.
One tornado and EVERYTHING is gone, including buildings made with steel girders. I've been in one, you can't possibly imagine the destructive force of one unless you have as well. Imagine being inside a giant blender? That's what being inside a tornado is like. Pictures simply don't do it justice.
FWIW, the SV offers I received were about double what I got from Austin companies.
Depending on Austin's economy, the prices in SF may be four or five times as high. I'm in Springfield, IL and am as rich as someone in Chicago who earns twice what I do, because everything costs twice as much up there.
You might want to take a trip to SF and check it out first.
It isn't just tech, it's all industries. Corporate profits are at an all time high, why hasn't any of this money trickled down to the average worker?
You'd think it was 1925 again.
If if's and but's
Please educate me and reduce my ignorance -- why are those apostrophes there?
Why would my employer pay fifty bucks or more for a cell phone when I'm at my desk all day and a desk phone is about five bucks? I'm not taking my work phone home, nor will I use my personal cell phone for work.
Now, does one need a POTS phone at home? Why would you?
The book with Washington isn't yet finished.
In Tolkein's words, "Memory became history. History became legend. Legend became myth." Thor was the cave man who invented the hammer. His hammer made him a god. The polytheistic gods did indeed exist; they were merely superhuman for their times.
Once God reveals himself to you, you can no longer be agnostic.
Do you apply that rule to all unfounded claims?
Unfounded claims reported by thousands of witnesses, yes.
Well, get to work writing that compiler then!
That has not been my experience with GNU/Linux at all. Whenever I try to use it, I end up in an all-night vim-session, trying to fix all the text file configurations, because something doesn't work as it's supposed to. I *have* to tinker with GNU/Linux to actually use it.
Bullshit. I've been using Linux for ten years and never once opened vim or modified a config file. Modern distros all have Windows-like "control panel" programs. In short, buddy, I'm calling you a damned liar.
At the moment, I have some very urgent software installation to do on my Linux VPS, but that has been delayed for a week, because I simply don't have a whole day to spare for that. On a Mac, this would take a few minutes maximum.
Again, you're lying. You don't even have a Linux box or you'd know that software installation takes about two clicks of a mouse and you're done.