A few good quotes should speak volumes more than anything I could say on the issues so:
quoted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Hadron_Collider
On The LHC
"The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is a particle accelerator located at CERN, near Geneva, Switzerland. It lies in a tunnel under France and Switzerland."
"When activated, it is theorized that the collider will produce the elusive Higgs boson, the observation of which could confirm the predictions and "missing links" in the Standard Model of physics and could explain how other elementary particles acquire properties such as mass."
"Concerns have been raised that performing collisions at previously unexplored energies might unleash new and disastrous phenomena. These include the production of micro black holes, and strangelets, potentially resulting in a doomsday scenario."
Some quotes from the CERN (European Organisation for Nuclear Research) Homepage: http://public.web.cern.ch/Public/Welcome.html
On LHC Computing:
"When the LHC begins operations, it will produce roughly 15 petabytes [annually]"
15,000 Terabytes! with a backup held on tape at CERN. So if anyone tells you tape is out again. The information will be sent out using "The Grid" which supports 1 gigabytes per second. Not Gb/s, GB/s. That's 10,000 times faster than the net. More here: http://gridcafe.web.cern.ch/gridcafe/
" CERN employs just around 2500 people. The Laboratory�s scientific and technical staff designs and builds the particle accelerators and ensures their smooth operation. They also help prepare, run, analyse and interpret the data from complex scientific experiments.
Some 8000 visiting scientists, half of the world�s particle physicists, come to CERN for their research. They represent 580 universities and 85 nationalities. "
So they're saying that the LHC goes live this year. They want to work out what causes mass. Its about slaming proton into protons and creating bosons or something. What they seem to be focused on it understanding why gravity is such a weak force. There's something called a Standard Model ("The Standard Model of particle physics is a theory that describes three of the four known fundamental interactions between the elementary particles that make up all matter." from wiki)
Its a lot to taken in especially if you're not from a physics or maths background. There's no doubt something very big is around the corner. Thoughts, more, questions, answers, more??? I don't know, share.|||Yeah, I read an article about people protesting the LHC (I think it was the LHC, I get all those acronyms confused) being created because there were still concerns it could create a singularity and destroy the planet.
Reminds me of that old urban legend that scientists at the time of the Manhattan Project were still uncertain of whether or not an atomic chain reaction would continue in the atmosphere and destroy the earth. So they tested it.|||The stuff about strange matter and black holes is scary, to say the least. Two different ways to annihilate life on Earth.|||Quote:
The stuff about strange matter and black holes is scary, to say the least. Two different ways to annihilate life on Earth.
I read somewhere that physicists were fairly sure that if strangelets existed, they would have turned the Moon to strange matter long ago. Micro black holes should evaporate due to Hawking radiation.
EDIT: Here's a link on that first part.
http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/9910333|||Did the OP make his post hard to read on purpose?|||I don't think the matter of Hawking radiation has yet been settled.|||You want scary. Ok - regarding strangelets creation.
"one strangelet hits a nucleus, catalyzing its immediate conversion to strange matter. This liberates energy, producing a larger, more stable strangelet, which in turn hits another nucleus, catalyzing its conversion to strange matter. In the end, all the nuclei of all the atoms of Earth are converted, and Earth is reduced to a hot, large lump of strange matter.
This is not a concern for strangelets in cosmic rays, because they are produced far from Earth and have had time to decay to their ground state, which is predicted by most (though not all [11]) models to be positively charged, so they are electrostatically repelled by nuclei, and would rarely merge with them [12][13]. But high-energy collisions could produce negatively charged strangelet states which live long enough to interact with the nuclei of ordinary matter [14]." From Wiki
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I don't think the matter of Hawking radiation has yet been settled.
Yeah, it hasn't. I don't really know much more than what I've read about this stuff in various articles, I'm just relaying what people much smarter than I have said on the matter.|||Quote:
Did the OP make his post hard to read on purpose?
Did you read it "Large Hardon Collider" too?|||I've always been interested in the "particle zoo", I think it's cool beans.
[:1]Just setting up my new machine and all is good except one thing ...
D2 takes about a minute to start. Anyone know what might cause this? The game appears to work normally once it starts but can't figure out the start delay.
Thanks in advance|||Slow internet connection?
I don't use compatibility mode just the run as a admin right?
Works for me
If I start the shortcut in the other window it launches there.|||I had that problem as well once. Are you sure you're on the latest patch?|||It's probably a video problem. Go into the main directory and there should be a d2vidtest.exe or something. You should be able to change the video setting after running it.
When you start D2 and it takes so long, do you see some letters/numbers displayed in the top left of the screen?
[:1]These peace judges are actually supported by the local government, to settle things before they escalate. They aren't meant to settle anything after a crime is performed, although it might be possible that they do that. Veiling criminal acts is a crime itself, including for peace judges, except when helping your child, parents, wife or husband. That also counts for peace judges. They have no right to keep certain things secret, like doctors and lawyers.
I'm not that much a friend of peace judges as well. I simply don't trust them. I'm not always accurate at distinguishing honest statements from lip services and lies |||Quote:
My, what an adult and sensible... er, smiley-pinion?
Next up, KKKonservatives R TEH STOOPID!!!!ONE!
@zemaj - problem is that non-state "actors" like OBL now have the capability of obtaining such weapons, and for nihilistic filth like him, destruction under MAD would be a good deal.
@Galabab - the reason the U.S. military costs so much is the high-tech expenditures, combined by the so-called "Military-Industrial Complex", and added to flat-out graft, incompetence, and corruption.|||College Club Fair.
Seemed to fit in here as well as some other stuff.
Its like a squad of soldiers in a bunker being afraid of a guerilla fighter with a machete.
Because he COULD use poisonous blow darts.
They lack every possible means of deploying a nuke. And even if they did they get swept away by a massive nato invasion. Look how nazis swept through europe and they had a much smaller edge than what we have now.|||Quote:
Its like a squad of soldiers in a bunker being afraid of a guerilla fighter with a machete.
Because he COULD use poisonous blow darts.
But it is never just a single guerrilla fighter, they are inevitably supported by an underground movement, who are almost always civilian. Just look at Nancy Wake (RIP) and the others who terrorized the occupying forces in France. To make matters worse, these particular "single guerrilla fighters" have no fear of death and believe that their sacrifice will be rewarded in the afterlife. A suicide attack is almost impossible to defend against.|||I'm sure the big nuke powers track and have kill plans in place for the little nuke power assets.
Any suitcase nukes in the wrong place set them off.
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There was nothing at all senseless about the Iraq adventure
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So are you telling me the terrorists will nuke us and after we ruthlessly retaliate russia and china join them in an all out nuclear war?
come on...
If the NATO will freak out from one nuke, you believe that China or Russia will not freak out when their allies or neighbours are carpet-bombed with nukes?
If you ask China or Russia while having that attitude, I would place a bet on them saying "Yes, we will" and making their threat come true if necessary. For example, they could send a nuke onto NATO territory for each nuke dropped by the NATO. Maybe they won't start with NYC, but there are a lot of less inhabited areas in NATO territory.
Your speculations about a massive retaliatory strike by the NATO are just a blind rage of your mind. It won't happen.|||
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They lack every possible means of deploying a nuke. And even if they did they get swept away by a massive nato invasion. Look how nazis swept through europe and they had a much smaller edge than what we have now.
Do you think that there are many Nato members who would have the means and will power to stage a sweeping invasion? They have no money, they talk a big talk but when it comes to action, so many Nato members have the attitude of "let someone else do it" and most times that someone else is the US.|||ok... the whole nuclear war angle on this... its just ridiculous.
have you ever heard of the "MAD World" doctrine? Its pretty accurate... the problem lies in the fact that the nukes that would likely be used in retaliation will be ICBMs & the big issue is that if anyone shoots one of those ***ers off, you cant 'really' tell where its headed in the second or 3 you have to make sure your launch is in the air before it hits. In those few seconds, there will be more shot off by all the panicking military of any power that has access to such things... cascade effect.
and for the record, it takes way less than 50 nukes to start a nuclear holocaust... particularly of the type/size that would be flying at that point... only hope lie in the possibility that after the first few detonate it would so alter Earth's EMF enough that the rest wouldn't detonate properly... and that this would happen is just a theory.
much more likely is a chemical/biological attack that will be unable to be contained... frankly, this scares me waaaayyy more than a nuclear war. I mean, come on, would you rather go in a blast that instantaneously converts you into a puff of hydrogen, or of spending a week dying slowly to some mutated form of leprosy?|||In many German cities, Muslim arbiters, or "peace judges," are settling criminal cases before law enforcement can bring the cases to court. That is undermining Germany's rule of law, according to a new book.
[:1]Real change has arrived in a lot of the middle east this year.
I'm thinking this is a good thing myself,
People are paying a price but that's what freedom costs.
|||Yes exactly, this is what freedom costs. A lot of blood.
Im afraid though they are not buying freedom right now. They are merely changing the oppressors.
All european revolutions went along drastic secular changes.
The arab spring on the other hand is a huge "allah akbar" yelling muslim brotherhood coup d'etat.
I'm sorry for the arab people but they are heading towards pretty dark times. The oil is running out, the tourism is non-existent, the infrastructures are war shaken and the powerholders are young and unexperienced.
Syria will never break the regeme though. They have a totally different situation there. All the syrian military belongs to a special minority who is holding power. They have to cling to their power to survive. They will never give it up. Impossible.
And to answer the thread name:
Jihad is going nowhere. Jihad is a phantom. Ridiculous and harmless outcry made big by media. All the footage of furious crowds chanting death to all non believers looks impressive but really its not. Arab world is laughably weak. Even Israel was able to defeat 5 arab countries in a week or something. They can recruit militants. Place bombs in airplanes but in the end of the day they are irrelevant for our western world. Unable to field any serious modern military.|||"You show us a new way, you sound so sincere.
How sweet it must be to be able to think so clear.
But you are just another in a long line of fools
Giving us freedom - with a new set of rules."
Only for Sheep - The Bureau - 1981|||Quote:
Yes exactly, this is what freedom costs. A lot of blood.
Im afraid though they are not buying freedom right now. They are merely changing the oppressors.
All european revolutions went along drastic secular changes.
The arab spring on the other hand is a huge "allah akbar" yelling muslim brotherhood coup d'etat.
I'm sorry for the arab people but they are heading towards pretty dark times. The oil is running out, the tourism is non-existent, the infrastructures are war shaken and the powerholders are young and unexperienced.
Syria will never break the regeme though. They have a totally different situation there. All the syrian military belongs to a special minority who is holding power. They have to cling to their power to survive. They will never give it up. Impossible.
And to answer the thread name:
Jihad is going nowhere. Jihad is a phantom. Ridiculous and harmless outcry made big by media. All the footage of furious crowds chanting death to all non believers looks impressive but really its not. Arab world is laughably weak. Even Israel was able to defeat 5 arab countries in a week or something. They can recruit militants. Place bombs in airplanes but in the end of the day they are irrelevant for our western world. Unable to field any serious modern military.
Dude be polite and say something like "Well What I think is:"
Before the rest of that OK?
I mean we westerners have been tight with Satan for a long time after all.
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And to answer the thread name:
Jihad is going nowhere. Jihad is a phantom. Ridiculous and harmless outcry made big by media. All the footage of furious crowds chanting death to all non believers looks impressive but really its not. Arab world is laughably weak. Even Israel was able to defeat 5 arab countries in a week or something. They can recruit militants. Place bombs in airplanes but in the end of the day they are irrelevant for our western world. Unable to field any serious modern military.
I'll have to respectfully disagree with you on this one.
Yes, the jihad is stage-managed by a crowd of cartoon-ishly malevolent jackass types. Yes, the countries hosting it are laughable in their attempts to ape Western civilization (I'm sure you've seen the pictures of Iranian weapons testing). Yes, their culture is deeply and inherently flawed, so much so that it causes their armies to be easily routed (an inability to live in a high-rise building because it places you under someone else's feet, for example).
But you should never underestimate the sheer power of an infinite number of such buffoons. Thanks to the AQ Khan network, they have nuclear technology if not ability, and eventually they'll manage to try something - whether using something of their own manufacture, or more likely one of the ex-USSR nukes they have managed to obtain.
That's what the so-called "Bush Doctrine" was about. We can't ignore the threat no matter how silly the cavemen making it seem.|||So what if they do get hold of a nuke?
Can they deliver it? DO you think you can buy a nuke and just like that drop it on newyork? Ofcourse you dont. Offense is much harder to pull off than defense in a war. They may be able to hold off western troops who came to their lands but they cannot attack us yet. And not in 100 years either.
OK, so assuming they do have a nuke and manage to drop it on us. Can you imagine what we will do with them? Once we are in direct life threatening situation we will literally rape them all. Bomb them all into stone age regardless of who is civilian and who is a terrorist. This is only NOW that we speak of human rights and peace, once we are in real danger, heads will roll.
The Bush doctrine? Do you mean to initiate a senseless war? The threat is ridiculously small. Even in worst case scenario the damage they can inflict wont harm 1% of the west. We on the other hand can literally kill 99% of them.|||The tough part is getting a nuke... until the time when Pakistan falls apart. I doubt that China or Russia will allow that to happen, however. Anyway, once you have a nuke, it shouldn't be much of a problem smuggle it into a harbour, for example.
BTW, they will try to get more than one nuke, of course. One to be used on the enemy, and further ones to keep in the back hand, so we don't go frenzy.
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Can you imagine what we will do with them? Once we are in direct life threatening situation we will literally rape them all. Bomb them all into stone age regardless of who is civilian and who is a terrorist. This is only NOW that we speak of human rights and peace, once we are in real danger, heads will roll.
That might happen for individuals, in "kill or be killed" situations, but not in a war of that dimensions, involving superpowers and the biggest oil exporters. BTW, it need less nukes than you might think to produce a nuclear winter.
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The Bush doctrine? Do you mean to initiate a senseless war? The threat is ridiculously small. Even in worst case scenario the damage they can inflict wont harm 1% of the west. We on the other hand can literally kill 99% of them.
Sure we can, but only in theory. Once we let them know, other countries will ally with them (like China and Russia... and they will happily call dibs on all their oil then) and these countries are immune to our funny threats.
BTW, Germany has no nukes, so I guess you want the US to do it. Why are you saying "us" then when you mean "them"? |||Quote:
BTW, Germany has no nukes, so I guess you want the US to do it. Why are you saying "us" then when you mean "them"?
I mean NATO ofcourse. And germany is a valuable member too.
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That might happen for individuals, in "kill or be killed" situations, but not in a war of that dimensions, involving superpowers and the biggest oil exporters. BTW, it need less nukes than you might think to produce a nuclear winter.
If we bomb them to smithereens the oil will still be there. And especially when the whole west dicides its a matter of survival all the arab countries will be in a world of pain.
AFAIK it need some 50 nukes to produce a nuclear winter. No threat.
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Sure we can, but only in theory. Once we let them know, other countries will ally with them (like China and Russia... and they will happily call dibs on all their oil then) and these countries are immune to our funny threats.
Russia is a major fuel seller itself. They only profit from arabs getting thrown out of business. And china has 1 carrier now. What do you expect them to do? To field a war against nato? |||Quote:
Russia is a major fuel seller itself. They only profit from arabs getting thrown out of business.
Russia and China could just buy the oil, so the others don't have it. Both countries currently support a lot of states which aren't beacons of freedom, so dictators might feel tempted to ally with them than with those who want to enforce their ideas on them or pester them with complaints abut human right violations, no matter how justified we believe our claims to be. That's the difference between ideology and reality.
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And china has 1 carrier now.
The carrier means nothing in a war against the NATO, it's not needed. If you want to defeat the NATO members themselves, you can skip conventional warfare. You need nukes on intercontinental missiles and be prepared for a counter-attack, respctively for a first strike by them, as that's the NATO strategy versus nuclear powers of a certain size.
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What do you expect them to do? To field a war against nato?
Yes, I do expect that from a country with a hundred nukes which is on the way to becoming the leading world power. They have enough nukes to make a massive threat towards anybody who dares to threaten or attack their allies. You are suggesting an escalation of a kind which was avoided during the cold war and if the decision makers think like you, we will have one again soon.|||Quote:
So what if they do get hold of a nuke?
Can they deliver it?
Yes. That's the problem. Do you think for a second that the filth wouldn't butcher thousands of their own just to have a chance at getting <you>? You KNOW that's how they think. The tunnels in Gaza, the radical elements in Jordan, the pitiful joke of the Lebanese military - there are a number of vectors it could be used from. It wouldn't destroy Israel, but it would be more than enough to destabilize you in conjunction with an offensive.
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DO you think you can buy a nuke and just like that drop it on newyork? Ofcourse you dont.
No, but it would be child's play to place one in a shipping container and bring it up the Hudson River.
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This is only NOW that we speak of human rights and peace, once we are in real danger, heads will roll.
They are assured that we will prevent you. I suspect they're right. You nuke Mecca, we'll turn our gaze aside while someone else does the same to you.
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The Bush doctrine? Do you mean to initiate a senseless war? The threat is ridiculously small.
There was nothing at all senseless about the Iraq adventure - just stupendously ill-managed. The whole "you break it, you buy it" concept that the Progressives of both parties demand we shoulder is insane.
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Even in worst case scenario the damage they can inflict wont harm 1% of the west. We on the other hand can literally kill 99% of them.
Oh, come on. We can't kill them capably; they breed like roaches and hide like rats. Our technological infrastructure are just as vulnerable as theirs, and while it would take a while to destroy it, the sophistication and interdependence of our systems would cause extensive harm. Just look at what the Democrat-supported fraud in our housing market has done to the world's economy.
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The tough part is getting a nuke... until the time when Pakistan falls apart. I doubt that China or Russia will allow that to happen, however.
Al Quaeda had two Russian MIRV's, at one point or another - I have no idea if either actually worked though. There's been more than one counter-espionage incident where the terrorist rubes were sold inactive components.
[:1]Aww Leo! You need me to baseball bat your computer?! *hugs*
Seriously though, I can "take care" of it for you. For a nominal fee.|||a nominal, sexual fee because im feeling pretty tense right now. XD
for anyone who has a facebook and is starting to see bull**** like, "I'm 12 weeks and craving Milk Duds." it's "support" for breast cancer, even tho it's a month away. Just to let everyone know, the month of September is prostate cancer month.
here's my support: i support prostate cancer awareness. wear a blue ribbon.
how is that so hard?|||Quote:
when the story draft you've been working on for a week is accidentally deleted because you're an idiot and didn't save it to Word Pad!! and then you think your email would save the draft but no! it's an idiot too and i can't get it back so all thet hard work just gone in a ****ing second!
this demands
|||lol! how'd you know i reacted that way? the violence came out when i went upstairs to punch the bag. i think my jabs have gotten better.
i just finished re-typing it. yeah, definitely not as good as the first one, but it's done. and im going to start using Word Pad as well. >.>
goodnight all! i worked hard tonight thus eet's time for cake. and sleep.|||Close the thread
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when the story draft you've been working on for a week is accidentally deleted because you're an idiot and didn't save it to Word Pad!! and then you think your email would save the draft but no! it's an idiot too and i can't get it back so all thet hard work just gone in a ****ing second!
That stinks Leo, I had that happen to an important email of mine once.
I'm probably the only human though who doesn't understand the image. :embarrassed:|||it's Rage Guy, just an internet meme that demonstrates what my face looked like when i realized i could not get it back. >.>
thanks, Bob... i think. |||Quote:
it's Rage Guy, just an internet meme that demonstrates what my face looked like when i realized i could not get it back. >.>
thanks, Bob... i think.
I know what a meme is so I'm old but not ancient....but where did it come from?|||Quote:
a nominal, sexual fee because im feeling pretty tense right now. XD
I accept cash, money order, poontang, Visa, Mastercard, and Paypal, so whatever works best for you. I do not take personal checks, however. |||Quote:
I know what a meme is so I'm old but not ancient....but where did it come from?
[:1]These days I'm less cranky so it's unlikely to reoccur.
Children still throw themselves in front of my bike. Why?!|||Maybe they get a kick out of their moms yelling at strangers. Idk why, but when my friend's dad calls some service for tech support and starts getting annoyed, it is the most hilarious thing to listen to XD
Beside the fact that I am one myself, I don't like kids -.-|||Yeah Women who can't do anything else so they have a kid.
Wow the one thing they manage to do on time in there life
(although not without complaining the whole time)
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I told her that if the kid had died, she could just have made a new one, as this one obviously didn't mean that much to her if she let it run straight onto the road and that anyways, the process of making a new child might do her sour face some good.
I bet that sounds sexy in Dutch Vi|||
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I hate when people don't look where they are going while walking.
I hate when groups of people think they need to walk side-by-side down a sidewalk.
What makes the above two worse is that when you hold your ground they look at you like you are the ***hole. You know what? I'm watching where I'm going and I have as much right to be on the sidewalk as you do. Stop thinking that I will move out of your way because you are too stuck up to move.
And yes, I've even knocked down women who won't move. I'm fairly solidly grounded.
Add a cell phone into that equation, drives me blanking insane! I have to resist the urge to punch these morons in the back of the head daily. Especially old people, they walk around completely oblivious. You try not to mow them down after the third goddamn time they stagger toward the left/right, whichever way you were trying to go around them!
A-holes that ask, "well do you have any in the back" when whatever it is that they're looking for is empty on the shelf. This is usually followed by, "well can you go look?" when you tell them no. (we actually do have it in the back, it's a conspiracy to drive up prices!)
Morons that swear they bought a product they're looking for "the other day" at my store after I tell them we haven't carried said product for two damn years! ("the other day" is roughly equal to two years though so it all balances out I guess)
People that bring their whole damn clan with them to buy a loaf of bread. You've seen them, the loud obnoxious group that walks side-by-side down every freaking aisle touching everything. Usually scarfing down ten pounds of chicken from the deli that they have no intention of paying for as they discard the bones on the floor or nearest shelf.
Their window-licking, mouth-breathing hellspawn screaming bloody murder as they run amuck and open/slam all of the doors as they stroll through the frozen section.
Now that I think about it, I could've summed all this up with, "people that shop at walmart" and been done with it.
Oh yeah, I forgot about fat people that ride in the electric carts and ask you to reach everything for them because they can't lift their fat *** out of the cart.|||Quote:
Add a cell phone into that equation, drives me blanking insane! I have to resist the urge to punch these morons in the back of the head daily. Especially old people, they walk around completely oblivious. You try not to mow them down after the third goddamn time they stagger toward the left/right, whichever way you were trying to go around them!
A-holes that ask, "well do you have any in the back" when whatever it is that they're looking for is empty on the shelf. This is usually followed by, "well can you go look?" when you tell them no. (we actually do have it in the back, it's a conspiracy to drive up prices!)
Morons that swear they bought a product they're looking for "the other day" at my store after I tell them we haven't carried said product for two damn years! ("the other day" is roughly equal to two years though so it all balances out I guess)
People that bring their whole damn clan with them to buy a loaf of bread. You've seen them, the loud obnoxious group that walks side-by-side down every freaking aisle touching everything. Usually scarfing down ten pounds of chicken from the deli that they have no intention of paying for as they discard the bones on the floor or nearest shelf.
Their window-licking, mouth-breathing hellspawn screaming bloody murder as they run amuck and open/slam all of the doors as they stroll through the frozen section.
Now that I think about it, I could've summed all this up with, "people that shop at walmart" and been done with it.
Oh yeah, I forgot about fat people that ride in the electric carts and ask you to reach everything for them because they can't lift their fat *** out of the cart.
hahahaha! best. post. ever. when i was at school last year, i had a friend work at Wal-Mart in the Electronics section. his managers were idiots and the people he dealt with irked him so much.
i was actually at Wal-Mart this past saturday night looking for nails; nails to hang pictures and stuff. so, im in the hardware section and i see hammers. i see plastic mallets. do i see nails? hell ****ing no. i looked up and down the hardware aisle, the paint aisle, the lamp aisle, even the automative aisle and i could not find those little bastards. to make things worse, not only was i already agitated because i could not find nails, there was a baby that was screaming bloody murder and would not shut up! i think he was on the opposite side of the store and i could hear him clearly. would not shut up for 15 minutes (idek if he ever hushed). it was even more nerve racking and never had i wanted a cigarette more than that moment. luckily, im in my dormant stage of smoking, so i went home (WITHOUT the nails), ate a little bit, drank some coke, went to bed.|||Lol gotta love those helper people at Best Buy who know almost nothing about the things they are selling. The fact that they are still employed there shows to me that the customers know jack **** about what they're buying in the first place so, I guess people with knowledge of the products aren't really necessary. I remember going to Best Buy with my friend and his dad. I wasn't really looking for anything, but my friend's dad wanted to buy a laptop hard drive so he can put it in a USB case and have a portable HD of small size. The problem arose after he bought the case and realized that it only accepted the older ATA hard drives so we had to look specifically for those. I was walking around the store and told them I'll be looking at other stuff meanwhile they get the HD. About a half hour later I started wondering where they were and if they were able to find the hard drive. If you'd believe it, they were still in the aisle with the hard drive looking for the right one but apparently this time they some chick that worked there trying to help them out. I stood there for about 5 minutes looking at the painful sights of a Best Buy employee trying to help out a customer to no avail. The reason why she couldn't find the old ATA hard drive is because that's exactly what she was looking for. She was looking for a hard drive with an ATA port. D: D: D: D: All hard drives have ATA ports; however, working around that stuff, you should probably know that the older ATA ports were actually called Parallel ATA ports (aka PATA) and the newer ones were called Serial ATA ports (aka SATA). -.- Of course this didn't even matter anyway because you can tell the difference between the two by looking at the picture of the hard drive on the box. The older ports look like so:
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That's a significant difference in look. I skimmed the shelves with my eyes and in a matter of seconds found a suitable one for the case that we were trying to equip. I take it off the shell, hand it to my friend's dad and say "Here you go. That's what you're looking for." The lady looks at me baffled and asks me "How do you know?" To this day I can't believe I said "Because I'm not an idiot." I gotta say though, it was satisfying as hell -.- Those people really shouldn't be hired there. Pathetic.|||......ignore, double post.|||Quote:
hahahaha! best. post. ever. when i was at school last year, i had a friend work at Wal-Mart in the Electronics section. his managers were idiots and the people he dealt with irked him so much.
i was actually at Wal-Mart this past saturday night looking for nails; nails to hang pictures and stuff. so, im in the hardware section and i see hammers. i see plastic mallets. do i see nails? hell ****ing no. i looked up and down the hardware aisle, the paint aisle, the lamp aisle, even the automative aisle and i could not find those little bastards. to make things worse, not only was i already agitated because i could not find nails, there was a baby that was screaming bloody murder and would not shut up! i think he was on the opposite side of the store and i could hear him clearly. would not shut up for 15 minutes (idek if he ever hushed). it was even more nerve racking and never had i wanted a cigarette more than that moment. luckily, im in my dormant stage of smoking, so i went home (WITHOUT the nails), ate a little bit, drank some coke, went to bed.
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Yeah Women who can't do anything else so they have a kid.
Wow the one thing they manage to do on time in there life
(although not without complaining the whole time)
and invoke the Mom Authority ID then try and use it on everyone, all the time..I bet that sounds sexy in Dutch Vi
I'm all for mothers who have children and love and take care of them but do not make their children the center of everyone's universe.
I don't think I ever sound sexy. I do however sound completely different in Dutch - since my English evolved it's almost like I now have two personalities: my normal Dutch one and a sharper English one (mild Irish accent)
I like good Sax better|||"political correctness" interfering with efficient communication.
"He's the white, younger guy in home office..."
"There are like 12 of those"
"You know, he has really super short hair, kind of a widow's peak thing, sandy blonde...."
"Oh, you mean the guy with one arm?!?"
"Ummm... yeah....."
It's like they're afraid to point out someone is different. They won't identify the only black man as a black man, or the only person in a wheelchair as being in a wheelchair. The whole point when identifying one individual in a group IS to define a noticeable characteristic of that individual... by not doing so you're just wasting my time....|||Communication is a two way thing
You got a data source though so make query's and find out.
In a office setting many will not first ID the token by the factor that makes them a token.
Even if he/she's not a token but just looks like one.
If I said the guy with 1 arm to the PC ***** I'm in trouble.
But see we both don't like the PC *****
We probably piss all the PC *****es off though?
and the prior 1500+ years was all our rules...
Just a hint for those of you that are slow.
Politeness and social courtesy does not qualify if it still allows the subject to be discussed.
It's not pointless or stupid, and if your working globally you need to encourage a understanding of it if you want efficient communication across levels.|||Quote:
What makes the above two worse is that when you hold your ground they look at you like you are the ***hole.
It might help to avoid eye contact, else they expect you to do somwething about it. Try pretending to look elsewhere. I'm doing that when crossing the street on a crosswalk (while still having an eye at the cars, of course), that way the car drivers take more care.|||Quote:
It might help to avoid eye contact, else they expect you to do somwething about it.
and I thoWght you just talked that way.
Oh! Oh! I Know
"Teasing Mod's"
Opps!
BobCox Looks Away ...|||I didn't mean it as avoiding a confrontation or as a gesture of submission, just as pretending not to take care.
If I seek a confrontation in here, people often feel intimidated or freak out completely, so what can I do about it? Ban the idiots? My participation in these forums involves moderation, I cannot always solve that problem by "taking the mod hat off", it's not that simple. So you will have to live with me being a bit more politically correct in some cases.
Thank god the mods aren't elected, else they would be even more like politicians .|||Quote:
Have you knocked down any little kid's yet? They run without looking all the time and watch out for those groups of people in wheelchairs and strollers they have low mass and a real Attitude sometimes.
Hey and did you Knock-up any of the women after you knocked them down?
I've had a kid run into me and then fall down before. The mother glared at me like I was some kind of criminal. This isn't dodgeball, lady, and I'm not out.|||Those are not duck faces. It means... er, nevermind.|||Quote:
Those are not duck faces. It means... er, nevermind.
How many letters of the word "duck" do you need to change to make it correct?
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I've had a kid run into me and then fall down before. The mother glared at me like I was some kind of criminal. This isn't dodgeball, lady, and I'm not out.
Kids here are suicidal esp when they just got an expensive waveboard. I don't get it. They just keep running in front of my bike and whilst I'm able to stop I cannot always stop in time. So why is it my fault when a stupid woman is yelling at me because her kid didn't look and just ran off the pavement straight onto the road?
She caught me in a bad mood, and nobody warned her unfortunately.
When she started yelling at me how careless I was (for cycling on the cycling lane...) and how her precious child could have died, I told her that if the kid had died, she could just have made a new one, as this one obviously didn't mean that much to her if she let it run straight onto the road and that anyways, the process of making a new child might do her sour face some good.
I'm rarely this annoyed but honestly, she was getting on my nerves.|||WOW! Viv.... lol! bra-****ing-vo!!! lol, that's awesome!
Ogre, if it helps, i have had kids bump into me while i was carrying a full tray of food. luckily, i did not drop it. kids running around a restaurant is not good and if you are a parent who allows this, STOP IT! many accidents CAN be prevented by telling your kid, "If you move one inch from that chair, I'm going to take you out to the car and beat you senseless and idc if they call the cops on me. You're my kid. I have the right to discipline you!"
|||Oh my god i can make such a long list. Here is a quick one with stuff from the top of my head.
-Baseball
-Racism
-Ignorance
-Lil Wayne
-Obama
-Fox News (i am a conservative Republican, but i ****ing despise Fox News)
-Cigarettes
-Stupid people
-People who do things for attention
-Weeaboos
-Superhero movies
-Portugal soccer team
-Cristiano Ronaldo
-Josh Koscheck
-Sydney Crosby
-Bandwagon fans
-People who act like they have been a fan of something forever, but have absolutely no idea how it works (sudden surge of soccer fans)|||im going to blame Bret Micheals and his old band for the reemergence of duckfacing:
there's a lot of things i don't understand. people in general being one of them.|||I hate when people don't look where they are going while walking.
I hate when groups of people think they need to walk side-by-side down a sidewalk.
What makes the above two worse is that when you hold your ground they look at you like you are the ***hole. You know what? I'm watching where I'm going and I have as much right to be on the sidewalk as you do. Stop thinking that I will move out of your way because you are too stuck up to move.
And yes, I've even knocked down women who won't move. I'm fairly solidly grounded.|||Quote:
I hate when groups of people think they need to walk side-by-side down a sidewalk.
-.- I hate that. Makes you wish you could sock those people in the face to clear your way.|||Apple Products
Microsoft Products
Products of Chevrolet, Chrysler and every other bail-me-out-garbage-building-car-companies.
Chip design that's more efficient but gets used to make more inefficient products (NVIDIA, Hi)
Those net 2.0 rounded corner things that everyone is using because they want to be trendy, but they aren't. Those people are pointless and stupid, too.
This forum.
That weird book thing in Diablo 2, Act 1 that you read and it doesn't give 90 skill points because you actually clicked on it.
My cell phone which was sold as a 'media device' but is unpossible to use as one because of non-existant connectors or OEM only parts. Screw that noise.
Forums in general.
YouTube comments and they way it now displays lists of videos instead of the grid.
Car bumpers that break to pieces from a small collision.
The political circus of America and the news that drums it up even worse.
Bonsai trees. A hundred years to grow something you'll never get shade from. Go you.
Bonsai tree farmers.
Watery generic beers of America and sometimes elsewhere.
This thread.|||^ A very hateful person I see ;]|||I hate your hate, MYK.|||Quote:
I hate when people don't look where they are going while walking.
I hate when groups of people think they need to walk side-by-side down a sidewalk.
What makes the above two worse is that when you hold your ground they look at you like you are the ***hole. You know what? I'm watching where I'm going and I have as much right to be on the sidewalk as you do. Stop thinking that I will move out of your way because you are too stuck up to move.
And yes, I've even knocked down women who won't move. I'm fairly solidly grounded.
Have you knocked down any little kid's yet? They run without looking all the time and watch out for those groups of people in wheelchairs and strollers they have low mass and a real Attitude sometimes.
Hey and did you Knock-up any of the women after you knocked them down?
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Have you knocked down any little kid's yet? They run without looking all the time and watch out for those groups of people in wheelchairs and strollers they have low mass and a real Attitude sometimes.
Hey and did you Knock-up any of the women after you knocked them down?
vuvuzelas. why do you want to sound like a swarm of bees when you are not trying intimidate your foe? O.o
The information will be sent out using "The Grid" which supports 1 gigabytes per second. Not Gb/s, GB/s. That's 10,000 times faster than the net. More here: http://gridcafe.web.cern.ch/gridcafe/
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