Actually what he's basically said is that his multi-millionaire friends are like all of his other friends, except that they'll buy him dinner.
Nothing about them being stingy. I wont lend money to my friends either - if I can afford it, I'll give them the cash, if I can't afford it then I couldn't lend it to them anyway.
Of course, you also don't get to become a multi-millionaire by giving away all of your cash..
I dislike it when people call me sir. Imagine that from EVERYONE.
When it's a doorman or a waiter (that I don't know) I can cope with it. When it's a colleague I'm right with you - it's almost an insult.
On the flipside, if you're super-rich it's a useful distinction. Someone calling you 'sir' is engaging with your position, not you - especially after you've told them your name.
I think the rich don't want to be around the poor because of their preconceived notions about the poor.
I think that's total bullshit.
I'm not rich (to that level) and I'm aware that my relative wealth makes my unemployed friends uncomfortable. They don't resent it, they don't think I flaunt it, they're just painfully aware that I can (and am happy to) take them to a sodding good restaurant and pay for everyone's meal.
They don't want or like charity. They can't reciprocate. So do they refuse to dine out with me, take on an expense they can't afford, feel shit about themselves by letting me treat them or force me to compromise my own lifestyle to fit in their budget?
These are friends so we find ways to compromise in which everybody stays happy, but even the gap between 'well paid' and 'unemployed' causes social frictions.
Is it so hard to imagine that someone with 'never work again' levels of wealth has the same challenges even with their own friends?
Now add in the people that have no integrity, no self-esteem, high levels of greed and no compunction about pretending to be a friend purely to enjoy a lifestyle they can't personally afford. Sure, you know your existing friends aren't like that, but what about new people you meet.
It's easy (ish) to build positive relationships with your socio-economic peers, but there's a ton of material - fictional and otherwise - out there that explores the challenges around bridging those tiers.
1200/75, because no one can type faster than 7 characters or read more than a page of text per second.
Clearly you never played online PvP (or PK as they were known in '92) muds.
You don't need to read the text, you need to see it scroll past your eyes. Your brain is excellent at filtering out the noise, and in a big fight there's a lot of textual noise. There's also important information, and you need to see that.
The full text you can scroll back and read once you're dead. Useful for understanding why and how it happened.
The comical thing with this post is that you may be using the techniques you describe to kickstart a conversation in which you're replying to yourself and/or setting up a disinformation campaign.
Or you may be legit.
The two anonymous replies already received however.. they're fitting straight into the 'paid for' bracket.
Are those fake? I always took the view that there really are that many dimwitted people out there that actually enjoyed Transformers 3 and think that it's appropriate to vote 10/10 to boost the average score nearer to the level they think it should be.
For evidence, read the comments sections on any popular film - lots of people 'tactically' voting because they're selfish shits that want to damage the usefulness of the site for everyone else.
My phone just updated to Marshmallow, I fucked up re-enabling root, semi-bricked it and spent 40 minutes reconfiguring it - including reinstallation, re-rooting, reinstalling apps, updating data, updating home screens, setting sound profiles, adding email accounts and setting alarms.
You must have some serious customisation going on. Do you update by downloading the source code and starting from there?
something that has always been there and is easily disabled
It's not there in Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8.1 It's not easily disabled if Microsoft re-enable it again. Microsoft have demonstrated that they're more than happy to re-enable privacy invading components on Windows 10, overriding the explicit configuration of the users.
I'm not sure that this is an overblown reaction at all.
'only' ? Shit, good luck extracting a shattered CD from a case without damaging anything else, and what's so minimal about having to replace a CD-ROM drive anyway?
Sure, it's easy - but so is replacing a motherboard.
Anyway, what about the older version of this: Forcing a floppy disk head to damage itself, rendering the drive useless and consequently the entire machine it was built into inoperable until replaced.
Some people like exploring this type of attack, with no intent to ever deploy it. Some people are just vandals. Some people are malicious. Some people are looking for ways to damage target individual or organisation, for good or bad reasons. Some people manage to have both the intelligence to devise something like this, and the stupidity to then use it without good reason. Some people are stupid enough to use this now that someone else has devised it because they think it'll be a good prank.
The whole 'computer repair business' angle is explored elsewhere.
Sorry, even in a discussion overrun with nationalistic idiots you're fucking reaching beyond the bounds of credibility.
a - what the fuck does the US have to do with whether Putin has blood on his hands b - when the fuck would US 'murderous foreign politics' in any way remotely justify Putin's behaviour c - how the fuck is US or Russian activity prior to Putin taking power relevant to this conversation d - why the fuck would you use 'murderous foreign politics' to describe the US without using identical language to Russia e - I can't find any reliable figures for foreign policy related deaths from either the US or the USSR/Russia, but take a peek at this: https://www.hawaii.edu/powerki...
The USSR isn't looking too healthy a place to live from '46 to '87; that's more deaths than the whole Korean war, Vietnam, the Gulf war and the invasion of Iraq combined, and America was only one of multiple nations involved in those major conflicts.
Do you have any evidence at all to back up your claim of "The number dwarves in comparison" or are you as big a fuckwit as your posts suggests?
No, a vaguely remembered academic study in the 90s I think. Can't find any references now, but it mentioned a very brief but discernable improvement in alertness or reflexes at exceedingly low levels of alcohol - of the order of far less than a single shot.
Any more than that and the beneficial effect disappeared then rapidly descended into adverse impacts.
I know a lot of people that dine out without needing to drink alcohol. I know a lot of people that go on dates without needing to drink alcohol. I replied to you elsewhere on your stupidity regarding parking lots for bars.
Your views on reality merely reinforce the title of this conversation thread.
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Actually what he's basically said is that his multi-millionaire friends are like all of his other friends, except that they'll buy him dinner.
Nothing about them being stingy. I wont lend money to my friends either - if I can afford it, I'll give them the cash, if I can't afford it then I couldn't lend it to them anyway.
Of course, you also don't get to become a multi-millionaire by giving away all of your cash..
I dislike it when people call me sir. Imagine that from EVERYONE.
When it's a doorman or a waiter (that I don't know) I can cope with it. When it's a colleague I'm right with you - it's almost an insult.
On the flipside, if you're super-rich it's a useful distinction. Someone calling you 'sir' is engaging with your position, not you - especially after you've told them your name.
I think the rich don't want to be around the poor because of their preconceived notions about the poor.
I think that's total bullshit.
I'm not rich (to that level) and I'm aware that my relative wealth makes my unemployed friends uncomfortable. They don't resent it, they don't think I flaunt it, they're just painfully aware that I can (and am happy to) take them to a sodding good restaurant and pay for everyone's meal.
They don't want or like charity. They can't reciprocate. So do they refuse to dine out with me, take on an expense they can't afford, feel shit about themselves by letting me treat them or force me to compromise my own lifestyle to fit in their budget?
These are friends so we find ways to compromise in which everybody stays happy, but even the gap between 'well paid' and 'unemployed' causes social frictions.
Is it so hard to imagine that someone with 'never work again' levels of wealth has the same challenges even with their own friends?
Now add in the people that have no integrity, no self-esteem, high levels of greed and no compunction about pretending to be a friend purely to enjoy a lifestyle they can't personally afford. Sure, you know your existing friends aren't like that, but what about new people you meet.
It's easy (ish) to build positive relationships with your socio-economic peers, but there's a ton of material - fictional and otherwise - out there that explores the challenges around bridging those tiers.
Have those faggots not developed buffer solutions yet?
No, they don't have the brains : http://mrbrains.co.uk/products...
Do try and avoid bigoted insults, they make you look like a twat.
1200/75, because no one can type faster than 7 characters or read more than a page of text per second.
Clearly you never played online PvP (or PK as they were known in '92) muds.
You don't need to read the text, you need to see it scroll past your eyes. Your brain is excellent at filtering out the noise, and in a big fight there's a lot of textual noise. There's also important information, and you need to see that.
The full text you can scroll back and read once you're dead. Useful for understanding why and how it happened.
The comical thing with this post is that you may be using the techniques you describe to kickstart a conversation in which you're replying to yourself and/or setting up a disinformation campaign.
Or you may be legit.
The two anonymous replies already received however.. they're fitting straight into the 'paid for' bracket.
I shall watch this thread with interest :)
Are those fake? I always took the view that there really are that many dimwitted people out there that actually enjoyed Transformers 3 and think that it's appropriate to vote 10/10 to boost the average score nearer to the level they think it should be.
For evidence, read the comments sections on any popular film - lots of people 'tactically' voting because they're selfish shits that want to damage the usefulness of the site for everyone else.
See, normally I ignore your posts because they reek of racist stupidity.
This one skipped that initially so I made it as far as
nano chip chemtrails
Congratulations. You've killed your credibility even more thoroughly than when I was discounting it as a racist rant.
A vehicle is not a right. Freedom of movement perhaps, but not at 80mph.
Where I live and in much of the country owning a vehicle and being allowed to use it is basically a necessity.
Which is total utter bullshit. Humans have survived for millenia without vehicles.
We'll let you off, as you got the important element entirely accurate and sufficiently precise:
512 bit primes would take considerably longer.
You'd never make a good pedant.
I'll pay money to watch the rhino though, get that set up.
Bloody hell. HOURS?
My phone just updated to Marshmallow, I fucked up re-enabling root, semi-bricked it and spent 40 minutes reconfiguring it - including reinstallation, re-rooting, reinstalling apps, updating data, updating home screens, setting sound profiles, adding email accounts and setting alarms.
You must have some serious customisation going on. Do you update by downloading the source code and starting from there?
Aren't you pseudonymous rather than anonymous?
Certainly within Slashdot that's the case.
Wtf? No.
In other news, trojans are not a subset of rootkits.
something that has always been there and is easily disabled
It's not there in Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8.1
It's not easily disabled if Microsoft re-enable it again. Microsoft have demonstrated that they're more than happy to re-enable privacy invading components on Windows 10, overriding the explicit configuration of the users.
I'm not sure that this is an overblown reaction at all.
Erm. Windows 10 bypasses the hosts file to access Windows services.
You're going to need to devise a whole new set of spam.
Well, yes, if I install their CA in my browser then they can MITM me without me realising.
Otherwise my browser yells loudly that someone's fucked with the certificates. That's not breaking HTTPS, that's it doing its job.
'only' ? Shit, good luck extracting a shattered CD from a case without damaging anything else, and what's so minimal about having to replace a CD-ROM drive anyway?
Sure, it's easy - but so is replacing a motherboard.
Anyway, what about the older version of this: Forcing a floppy disk head to damage itself, rendering the drive useless and consequently the entire machine it was built into inoperable until replaced.
Your lack of imagination is distressing.
Some people like exploring this type of attack, with no intent to ever deploy it.
Some people are just vandals.
Some people are malicious.
Some people are looking for ways to damage target individual or organisation, for good or bad reasons.
Some people manage to have both the intelligence to devise something like this, and the stupidity to then use it without good reason.
Some people are stupid enough to use this now that someone else has devised it because they think it'll be a good prank.
The whole 'computer repair business' angle is explored elsewhere.
Sorry, even in a discussion overrun with nationalistic idiots you're fucking reaching beyond the bounds of credibility.
a - what the fuck does the US have to do with whether Putin has blood on his hands
b - when the fuck would US 'murderous foreign politics' in any way remotely justify Putin's behaviour
c - how the fuck is US or Russian activity prior to Putin taking power relevant to this conversation
d - why the fuck would you use 'murderous foreign politics' to describe the US without using identical language to Russia
e - I can't find any reliable figures for foreign policy related deaths from either the US or the USSR/Russia, but take a peek at this: https://www.hawaii.edu/powerki...
The USSR isn't looking too healthy a place to live from '46 to '87; that's more deaths than the whole Korean war, Vietnam, the Gulf war and the invasion of Iraq combined, and America was only one of multiple nations involved in those major conflicts.
Do you have any evidence at all to back up your claim of "The number dwarves in comparison" or are you as big a fuckwit as your posts suggests?
No, a vaguely remembered academic study in the 90s I think. Can't find any references now, but it mentioned a very brief but discernable improvement in alertness or reflexes at exceedingly low levels of alcohol - of the order of far less than a single shot.
Any more than that and the beneficial effect disappeared then rapidly descended into adverse impacts.
What does this have to do with making a mature responsible decision about whether to drink or drive home?
I drive most days. I drink from time to time. Sometimes I do them both on the same day.
But only in that order.
I never however have a screaming child in the back seat. My car doesn't fucking have a back seat.
Whether I think people are as stupid as you is irrelevant to whether there are legitimate and widely used reasons for bars to have parking lots.
There are.
I know a lot of people that dine out without needing to drink alcohol.
I know a lot of people that go on dates without needing to drink alcohol.
I replied to you elsewhere on your stupidity regarding parking lots for bars.
Your views on reality merely reinforce the title of this conversation thread.