I stopped drinking once for a whole weekend, the whole weekend I kept sober. This was a grueling experience - the world was as ugly as I remembered it from before I started drinking. Brrrr never again. There is a reason god gave us alco and drugs you know.
is not what it used to be or why otherwise USicans are bent on forbidding a communal arrangement? I guess for the same reason TTIP wanted to ban buying back privatized waterworks etc in Europe. I guess the word 'community' having common root with word 'communism' causes blood of USican to boil in matter of seconds. Strange. I wonder why is this even possible? As long as people are ready to pay for it with fees and if that is not enough with subsidies this is their decision to make. Or is somehow democracy being lesser good compared to free market? This is a q. that should actually be asked in legislatures where such things are illegal even before a q. whether in this area a free market at all exists.
I dig both vi and emacs (you are aware of emacs - xemacs anomaly?). The times where I was writting lisp macros are over however. These days I use vi to fix small little things here, emacs to write shell macros and there and MS Office to communicate the findings to the morons that hold the strings. What a decay. I must be getting old...
Actually I suffered under commies although that was nothing like a prison for my pa for having wrong nationality - I just got bad notes for some subjects at school and could not make any hobby rockets 'because' commies... Whether the US reactions to communism were not as bad - I am not sure. They surely supported some nasty killers because of democracy of course. I must say however that I have this warm feeling last couple of years because I feel like back in my youth - the media are as skewed and biased as they were there. Not much changed one may say. Not sure if that is good. Some of these changes are what I percieve as Russia bashing - there is a lot that can be used but bashers are usually very lazy. I digress however - Russians built few amazing things and did it albeit they should not have been able too judging on their backwardness. I acknowledge that not because I like them but because these were great feats in history of mankind. Werner von B.'s achievements and eventual landing on the moon (a big step for mankind etc) were based on his works with the nazis. Does this make his achievement less remarkable?
I find and odd sign that so called open society is not really open at all. As a white old man I get very odd looks from younger gals when I join group sport activities where they are also present. This to the point that I seriously consider not going there anymore. Yet in the same society young gals apparently consider seriously whether pressing charges against sexual abuse is not causing harm to general group to which abuser belongs if this group is in public discourse considered victims (in Germany these are so called 'Syrian refugees'). The same here if you were indulging in power games (I understand that is what this whole thing is about) where woman can be a passive subject of somebody's passion. All other combinations are allowed or even promoted. I never believed communist propaganda about immoral and perverse western culture. This one act would not me believe it either but the problem is that this is not one act and amount of hysteria that we are being flooded with is shocking. I never felt a need to shut my mouth when I lived under communists. I was punished for that but my teachers and school's head teacher convinced the teacher responsible for political history (or some other shit like that) that I should get a good note in spite of my views. The same would be impossible today. We in Europe at least face pressure from forces of darkness from societies deep in medieval ways. At the same time the top of political and media elite is using all methods to eradicate any political disagreement. How nice of them
Actually if people stopped killing people there would be more people. They would start killing each other at some point even if no guns were provided (see Rwanda).
This in itself may be a good think but think about consequences - they are as with eradicating most of child killing disease - more people. Unless of course you introduce a state efficient enough to punish them all trough taxes and education (see Germany or Sweden).
While I think fighting a few ugly leisons on the arse of the world is good. I think even better is investing in condom production as the main reason we have a problem is that there are 7.5b people demanding steaks, fries and circus as well as air-conditioning and transport for their excessive fat. Garbage disposal of these 7.5b apes is a problem too and it seems the only way to resolve the issue is reducing on numbers.
every finished project started with some idea, that idea may have changed and be augmented between inception and final production facility
most ideas are dumb
Somehow I do not see contradiction here. You call each other dumbuasses - each such statement may be true. Gosh when I look in the past I am ashamed of my own dumbassism. Everybody has a moment of glory. Thus I conclude that this discussion is of little informational values so far.
It actually does not work very well on windoze.
I stopped complaining about windoze ever since I got win7. It has its quirks but it kind of works and does not bother me all too much. But skype of all ms products I have a chance to use is worst. I have also used many different chat SW and this is also the worst I have ever met except maybe FB.
It may also be that people like you are the ones to be avoided. You know, the ones that destroy others because they can while claiming moral superiority. We have quite lot of them these days. In modern times they have indeed an easy life because nobody is perfect and all mistakes are there in the open for others to pick up (or in need to make up). There is no way one can protect oneself against a statement taken out of context and used properly to show how bad one is. In my corporation we always had one or two per location kept for glorious tasks of getting rid of people on the cheap. This is exactly the reason why the actual complete loss of privacy is such a bad thing.
and tents. Do not forget tents in which the employees were to sleep. Arguably this was a waste as they were not allowed to sleep in them so it was all for nothing.
It has been some time since I was looking at statistics but Cuba had better medical service in many areas than US. The Cubans were not free but had good medicine and provided it for others. Part of it was necessity caused by US sanctions and p art of it was luck to have leadership making right decisions. This is not to say dictatorship is a good thing but there are good systems out there which are not based on demagogy of free market fixes it all. Something that so called free press/media could acknowledge (if it were not sold to whoever owns them now).
These devices actually existed and were the reason lots of innovation in small machinery was done, first steam powered then electrical. Nice chapter in history of engineering and all this due to vaginal hysteria or whatever they called this back then as doctors applying medical procedures to relieve suffering from the affected individuals had to do this manual rubbing and push-pull procedures which was in some cases difficult hence the innovation. The only thing I wonder is how the engineers came about to know all this steamy details in an era not known for its ease on such subjects.
Humans are on average not very intelligent - this much is true. Even the smartest guys behave often like normal plain dumbass. You allegation about humans being stupid because they buys stuff based on marketing BS is just silly however. There is no point of resisting the ads and using the imprinted brands to buy stuff if there is no much difference between brands - it is cheaper this way because there is no difficult and tiring decision making etc. This changes as soon as buying of imprinted brands became religion which 'justifies' huge expense etc. This is similar in a sense to this observation that when the choice one has to make is difficult because of small differences and huge range a (pseudo-)random choice is cheapest effort.
I still own one and very happy with it. No BS phone only what one needs. I cannot even remember how many times it fell on the hard surface and other than few scratches it still works perfectly. Only battery is after all these years a bit worn off. If only all other my phones worked as well as this one.
Indeed odd. I would qualify this as fakenews which it actually is. The government has always been lying. The question is did they also do something for the people or only when they were forced at the gunpoint
In my experience knowledge economy is mostly based on ignorance. It has to be of course as without ignorance we cannot sell knowledge. That is not what I mean however. I mean that ever since this knowledge based economy thing is showing in media I also see more and more ignorance especially among knowledge based economy workers and MBA drones that work in the area. OC I do not expect these people to know enough to take part in a discussion on why Roman Empire fell for instance. What I do expect is that they can have some idea about consequences of their actions. Usually they do not. Their knowledge does not reach that far.
This was one of the most troubling AC discussions I have ever read on/. Not even nonAC posts that I read so far could compare.... It probably is not a proof of Creator's existence but of his enemy for sure.
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I stopped drinking once for a whole weekend, the whole weekend I kept sober. This was a grueling experience - the world was as ugly as I remembered it from before I started drinking. Brrrr never again. There is a reason god gave us alco and drugs you know.
is not what it used to be or why otherwise USicans are bent on forbidding a communal arrangement? I guess for the same reason TTIP wanted to ban buying back privatized waterworks etc in Europe. I guess the word 'community' having common root with word 'communism' causes blood of USican to boil in matter of seconds. Strange. I wonder why is this even possible? As long as people are ready to pay for it with fees and if that is not enough with subsidies this is their decision to make. Or is somehow democracy being lesser good compared to free market? This is a q. that should actually be asked in legislatures where such things are illegal even before a q. whether in this area a free market at all exists.
I dig both vi and emacs (you are aware of emacs - xemacs anomaly?). The times where I was writting lisp macros are over however. These days I use vi to fix small little things here, emacs to write shell macros and there and MS Office to communicate the findings to the morons that hold the strings. What a decay. I must be getting old...
Actually I suffered under commies although that was nothing like a prison for my pa for having wrong nationality - I just got bad notes for some subjects at school and could not make any hobby rockets 'because' commies...
Whether the US reactions to communism were not as bad - I am not sure. They surely supported some nasty killers because of democracy of course. I must say however that I have this warm feeling last couple of years because I feel like back in my youth - the media are as skewed and biased as they were there. Not much changed one may say. Not sure if that is good. Some of these changes are what I percieve as Russia bashing - there is a lot that can be used but bashers are usually very lazy. I digress however - Russians built few amazing things and did it albeit they should not have been able too judging on their backwardness. I acknowledge that not because I like them but because these were great feats in history of mankind. Werner von B.'s achievements and eventual landing on the moon (a big step for mankind etc) were based on his works with the nazis. Does this make his achievement less remarkable?
I find and odd sign that so called open society is not really open at all. As a white old man I get very odd looks from younger gals when I join group sport activities where they are also present. This to the point that I seriously consider not going there anymore. Yet in the same society young gals apparently consider seriously whether pressing charges against sexual abuse is not causing harm to general group to which abuser belongs if this group is in public discourse considered victims (in Germany these are so called 'Syrian refugees'). The same here if you were indulging in power games (I understand that is what this whole thing is about) where woman can be a passive subject of somebody's passion. All other combinations are allowed or even promoted. I never believed communist propaganda about immoral and perverse western culture. This one act would not me believe it either but the problem is that this is not one act and amount of hysteria that we are being flooded with is shocking. I never felt a need to shut my mouth when I lived under communists. I was punished for that but my teachers and school's head teacher convinced the teacher responsible for political history (or some other shit like that) that I should get a good note in spite of my views. The same would be impossible today. We in Europe at least face pressure from forces of darkness from societies deep in medieval ways. At the same time the top of political and media elite is using all methods to eradicate any political disagreement. How nice of them
or another one I really love "this will never happen (so I do not have to prepare for that)".
Actually if people stopped killing people there would be more people. They would start killing each other at some point even if no guns were provided (see Rwanda).
This in itself may be a good think but think about consequences - they are as with eradicating most of child killing disease - more people. Unless of course you introduce a state efficient enough to punish them all trough taxes and education (see Germany or Sweden).
While I think fighting a few ugly leisons on the arse of the world is good.
I think even better is investing in condom production as the main reason we have a problem is that there are 7.5b people demanding steaks, fries and circus as well as air-conditioning and transport for their excessive fat. Garbage disposal of these 7.5b apes is a problem too and it seems the only way to resolve the issue is reducing on numbers.
Somehow I do not see contradiction here. You call each other dumbuasses - each such statement may be true. Gosh when I look in the past I am ashamed of my own dumbassism. Everybody has a moment of glory.
Thus I conclude that this discussion is of little informational values so far.
It actually does not work very well on windoze. I stopped complaining about windoze ever since I got win7. It has its quirks but it kind of works and does not bother me all too much. But skype of all ms products I have a chance to use is worst. I have also used many different chat SW and this is also the worst I have ever met except maybe FB.
It may also be that people like you are the ones to be avoided. You know, the ones that destroy others because they can while claiming moral superiority. We have quite lot of them these days. In modern times they have indeed an easy life because nobody is perfect and all mistakes are there in the open for others to pick up (or in need to make up). There is no way one can protect oneself against a statement taken out of context and used properly to show how bad one is. In my corporation we always had one or two per location kept for glorious tasks of getting rid of people on the cheap. This is exactly the reason why the actual complete loss of privacy is such a bad thing.
Putin did it?
and tents. Do not forget tents in which the employees were to sleep. Arguably this was a waste as they were not allowed to sleep in them so it was all for nothing.
What about this: 'the trappings are necessary for the sport to exist'?
It has been some time since I was looking at statistics but Cuba had better medical service in many areas than US. The Cubans were not free but had good medicine and provided it for others. Part of it was necessity caused by US sanctions and p art of it was luck to have leadership making right decisions. This is not to say dictatorship is a good thing but there are good systems out there which are not based on demagogy of free market fixes it all. Something that so called free press/media could acknowledge (if it were not sold to whoever owns them now).
These devices actually existed and were the reason lots of innovation in small machinery was done, first steam powered then electrical. Nice chapter in history of engineering and all this due to vaginal hysteria or whatever they called this back then as doctors applying medical procedures to relieve suffering from the affected individuals had to do this manual rubbing and push-pull procedures which was in some cases difficult hence the innovation. The only thing I wonder is how the engineers came about to know all this steamy details in an era not known for its ease on such subjects.
Humans are on average not very intelligent - this much is true. Even the smartest guys behave often like normal plain dumbass. You allegation about humans being stupid because they buys stuff based on marketing BS is just silly however. There is no point of resisting the ads and using the imprinted brands to buy stuff if there is no much difference between brands - it is cheaper this way because there is no difficult and tiring decision making etc. This changes as soon as buying of imprinted brands became religion which 'justifies' huge expense etc. This is similar in a sense to this observation that when the choice one has to make is difficult because of small differences and huge range a (pseudo-)random choice is cheapest effort.
I still own one and very happy with it. No BS phone only what one needs. I cannot even remember how many times it fell on the hard surface and other than few scratches it still works perfectly. Only battery is after all these years a bit worn off. If only all other my phones worked as well as this one.
Indeed odd. I would qualify this as fakenews which it actually is. The government has always been lying. The question is did they also do something for the people or only when they were forced at the gunpoint
I like that.
What if squirrels organize? Even if they are not good at organizing I am sure Putin could help here...
In my experience knowledge economy is mostly based on ignorance. It has to be of course as without ignorance we cannot sell knowledge. That is not what I mean however. I mean that ever since this knowledge based economy thing is showing in media I also see more and more ignorance especially among knowledge based economy workers and MBA drones that work in the area. OC I do not expect these people to know enough to take part in a discussion on why Roman Empire fell for instance. What I do expect is that they can have some idea about consequences of their actions. Usually they do not. Their knowledge does not reach that far.
These issues may or not be hairy but they surely as hell are legal.
This was one of the most troubling AC discussions I have ever read on /. Not even nonAC posts that I read so far could compare.... It probably is not a proof of Creator's existence but of his enemy for sure.
and use taser!