Posts by Florida1920

Re: Additional Data

A recent study with a sample size of one found that board game performance also decreases significantly with each pint of beer consumed.

Not necessarily. I vaguely recall a New Year's Eve many years ago, when the guests brought a bottle of cognac. We sat down to play Monopoly and the other players were happy to let me drink the cognac, thinking it would decrease my performance. I boldly wiped them out -- and had almost the whole bottle to myself as well. Had a helluva hangover, though.

Re: I'll just leave this here and sit back.

He should be sued for wearing that tie.

Re: dogs cannot become cats

Adhering precisely to the (now accepted as irrefutable fact) process of evolution, you cannot get from Dog to cat, because each represents a local maxima of the environment.

Yeah, Steve. But you can't use words like "irrefutable fact" or "local maxima of the environment" with creationists. Because Genesis. Another favorite argument is, "If [$deity] did not create me then I have no moral value etc etc. Before you can break through to creationists you have to destroy their ego attachment. You might as well try to train a cat to bark.

Re: @Andrew Jones 2

Their techniques parallel those of Donald Trump, attracting individuals who are relatively easy to manipulate and feeding them a diet of mental filth....

FTFY

Re: The working man is disenfranchised by essentially undemocratic systems

The working man disenfranchised themselves by persistently - and deliberately - ignoring the chances to have their say when they were enfranchised.

I love the fourth+ generation coal miners whining about their jobs. My grandfather was a coal miner in Newcastle. Prior to WW1 he and my grandmother emigrated to Canada. After my father was born in Canada, the family moved to the States. During the Depression my grandfather began a successful appliance store in the Northeast U.S. My father, still a Canadian citizen, joined the U.S. Army in January 1941, hoping for useful training. After serving in the Pacific, he got a Bachelor's and MBA and rose to an executive position in the shipping business.

You tell me an American-born coal miner couldn't pull himself up from the mines and make a better life for himself and his children. The same people who complain that more-recent immigrants are getting a free ride ignorantly demand the same for themselves. Okay, you were born here. Now get off your butt and make something of yourself. This isn't Haiti or Zimbabwe; opportunities abound, if you seek them out. People who are angry about their lot in life and want the government to do all the work to improve their lot are LOSERS. And they just elected a loser, in business and his personal life, to lead them.

It defies belief that, the same year Bob Dylan is awarded a Nobel Prize, a man who stands opposed to everything we've fought for over the last 50 years is elected U.S. president.

I used to "over dress" for work, and got crap for it. Until the day they sacked the boss and I got the promotion. The rest of the department had a sudden change of attitude toward me then.

Re: Interesting idea..

Friends don't let friends buy HP laptops.

Not so fast. I bought a used ProBook 455 on eBay about 18 months ago. Been using it about 8 hours a day, every day. So far, 0 problems. The Western Digital HD in my HP desktop, OTOH, crapped out after 5 years.

Re: Hacking

Got this from a friend who got it from a state police organization.

Yes, the key to taking down the U.S. is surely to kill off Twitter and Netflix. I see it's time for a rerun of my favorite song: http://www.eclectech.co.uk/mindcontrol.php Note: Requires Flash, another sign of the coming apocalypse.

Does anyone else remember the public service film that warned the collapse of the civilian internet was the first sign that human civilization was about to suffer a nuclear holocaust inflicted by murderous robots?

The firestorm will come at 3 a.m. US EDT tomorrow, when Donald Trump arises and discovers he still can't send Tweets. SAD!