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I can't be the only person that thought of this.
Yeah and getting a paycheck is the fun side of working a job..
I dunno, the paycheck is necessary, but it's not the only fun part. The paycheck just keeps me clothed and fed. My job gives me problems to solve and I like that. I get to demand a wage because there's a lot of people out there who are not able to do what I do. On the main thread, people who are capable of writing tools for the simps never bother because they don't need those tools. Like BASIC. The people who need BASIC can't write it. If you think Python or something else will fill that void, advertise it.
ICP - Miracles for those that don't get the reference
Wow... An ICP song that doesn't make my brain or my soul hurt... That IS a miracle!
What's a Stratfor?
Making awesome rifts and solos, of course. LINK
Santa's mastery of nanotechnology allows Santa to grow presents on the spot
Thereby depriving all the elves of jobs! They did the right things, they followed the rules, they went to elf school, and got advanced degrees in craftsmanship, but they're getting screwed by Santa, who's just rewarding the children he thinks are "nice". You remember when you were a kid? Did the children who were actually nice get the best presents? No! It was always the kids of some corporate fat cat! We see who Santa's rewarding. Occupy the North Pole!
My gawd, the poor woman !! I now understand why she so sparingly appears in public. Being so overweight must be horrible.
This enormous woman will devour us all!!!
There are some vending machine combos that this makes sense for, but seriously - pudding?"
Got any of that beer that has candy floating in it? You know, Skittlebrau?
Cyberwarfare is fiction.
Yes - at most it causes inconvenience.
When someone hacks into a computer and causes someone to die or destroys some military asset as a direct result of that hack, then I will consider it to be "warfare".
Well... This probably demonstrates espionage more than cyberwar, but it at least illustrates a possibility.
I wonder if there would be resistance from power companies if people were able to put cheap solar panels on their houses, or if they would buy up all the patents so you had to buy your panels from them.
They'd just institute daylight-based pricing. Use of electricity during the day = $0.05/kWh. Use of electricity an night = $0.50/kWh. Now you've got to solve the battery problem AND the solar panel problem.
I think you've got this backwards... Most power usage is during the day, so if people's homes had a modest solar panel, the power companies would be able to generate a more even level of power 24 hours a day, meaning less of a need for reserve capacity. Also, in places that charge variable rates, currently they charge less at night, there's no reason to expect that to change. You know, obligatory wiki link
Support...
Worked at a support center... I was a "talk to them until they understand" guy, playing the long game... I figured while it might not take every time, if I got people to understand, they could get back to work and not break things for just a little bit longer. You know, it costs two people money if they have to talk to me while I help them.
One of my coworkers got huge amounts of management praise for processing lots and lots of cases... My management was too dumb to run numbers on how many callbacks he had, that the rest of us were fixing...
Yeah, sure I was spending too much time with each person, but half of my time was fixing this jerk's mistakes. There's probably some of that at every support center. It takes 10 minutes to fix a problem, but 5 minutes to get them to go away. You can look very busy by making them go away, if management isn't clever enough.
I'm rather happy with my new position... I get to review other people. And I do it fairly.
And if you see strange things, you don't know whether to go to the psychiatrist for hallucinations, or to tech support for someone hacking your augmented reality system.
Oh, I got these contacts a while ago, but for some reason I keep seeing a purple ape that claims to be my "buddy". It's been very confusing, and driving has been really dicey.
Back when I was a kid, and our exo-solar list of planets was limited to "we think there's something circling Barnard's Star", it was no surprise we were getting hung up on the 'Rare Earth Hypothesis'.
Agreed. I think these people are just getting impatient, and going public way too soon with what are really wild speculations. Be patient. Do research. Be impartial. The science will eventually point the way to the truth.
It's still a heck of a lot of fun to speculate wildly. Wild speculations are also where some great ideas come from just... Still need to do the science part afterwards.
An Ada exception is when a routine gets in trouble and says 'Beam me up, Scotty'.
