Yes, we've established that you hate me for the sake of it. Your reasons are as substantively shallow as a puddle of goo in the corner of a dog's eye.Originally Posted by Nessus
Yes, we've established that you hate me for the sake of it. Your reasons are as substantively shallow as a puddle of goo in the corner of a dog's eye.
Meh, I think a difference for me is that you don't seem open to an honest discussion anymore.
Also, post pictures!
Keep on keepin' the beat alive!
http://www.theworldforgotten.com/sho...l=1#post116396
To be fair, you didn't specifically target grandmas
"One day, we shall die. All the other days, we shall live."
"One day, we shall die. All the other days, we shall live."
I found a picture of my honeybuns on the internet! She's never said a word about her dodgy past but it is undeniably her, note the cheeks and the flower-loving:
"One day, we shall die. All the other days, we shall live."
Directing this at no one in particular, but using Dread's text as a springboard. Going forward, since this is the picture thread, and not the debate thread, or insult thread, if any of you feel that a particular picture has sparked a large enough debate, we can potentially branch it off into its own thread. Just send us a PM and we'll take care of it. Replying to or about pictures is still fine. This thread is also, probably, not the place to settle disputes or lay claims about the validity of other people's opinions. Yay! If anyone wants this post to contain a picture to keep in theme with the thread, send me a picture of an adorable, non-human animal, and the cutest one will get posted in the spot below:
[Picture of an Adorable Animal]
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Can we still mock british newspapers?
Hint: check the colours of the equestrian team pictures, and the colour of their medals.
Keep on keepin' the beat alive!
"In a field where an overlooked bug could cost millions, you want people who will speak their minds, even if they’re sometimes obnoxious about it."
Come on, you're better than this. If by "honest", you mean "agree with me most of the time", that's not a valid definition.
As far as I can recall, I'm the only person here who is willing to bump a thread after six months to say that I changed my views and agreed with those I disagreed with. And that's several years after taking a lot of juvenile abuse from people for expressing my (former) view on the subject at Atard.
I'm [almost] always having an honest discussion, as are most people here. The people who are being intellectually dishonest are those who either refuse to engage (but prefer to lob insultingNess whenever they feel like it) or those who simply can't handle someone disagreeing with them on a number of fronts. Kathaksung is most disinterested in honest discussion. I'm not Kathaksung and neither are you.
Absolutely
There isn't nearly enough ridicule of the dimwit british press.
This has never been proven
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"One day, we shall die. All the other days, we shall live."
WHO IS ATLAS?
I wonder if this guy is from Mexico
In the future, the Berlin wall will be a mile high, and made of steel. You too will be made to crawl, to lick children's blood from jackboots. There will be no creativity, only productivity. Instead of love there will be fear and distrust, instead of surrender there will be submission. Contact will be replaced with isolation, and joy with shame. Hope will cease to exist as a concept. The Earth will be covered with steel and concrete. There will be an electronic policeman in every head. Your children will be born in chains, live only to serve, and die in anguish and ignorance.
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
Keep on keepin' the beat alive!
Swedish king and queen
"One day, we shall die. All the other days, we shall live."
They are ADORABLE!
We're stuck in a bloody snowglobe.
The lady in front is what makes the picture, thats why I put that in the olympics thread.
"In a field where an overlooked bug could cost millions, you want people who will speak their minds, even if they’re sometimes obnoxious about it."
There's this joke about soccer players:The lady in front is what makes the picture, thats why I put that in the olympics thread.
A man arrives at Heaven and wonders about the multitude of clocks he sees on a wall there, each with a soccer club's name above it. He asks Petrus about it, who answers: "Well, you see, these are soccer clocks. Whenever a player from one of those clubs takes a dive, they are incremented by one second."
The guy looks around, Bayern München, Manchester United, Real Madrid, they're all there. Except...
"Hey, where are the clocks for the Italian clubs?"
Petrus looks a bit sheepish: "Well, I installed those as ceiling fans in my office."
When the stars threw down their spears
And watered heaven with their tears:
Did he smile his work to see?
Did he who made the lamb make thee?
The light that once I thought compassion still casting shadows in your action
The words you shared were cold transactions that bring me to curse what you've done
When you're up there absorbed in greatness with such success you've grown complacent
I hope you scorch your many faces when you fly too close to the sun
In the future, the Berlin wall will be a mile high, and made of steel. You too will be made to crawl, to lick children's blood from jackboots. There will be no creativity, only productivity. Instead of love there will be fear and distrust, instead of surrender there will be submission. Contact will be replaced with isolation, and joy with shame. Hope will cease to exist as a concept. The Earth will be covered with steel and concrete. There will be an electronic policeman in every head. Your children will be born in chains, live only to serve, and die in anguish and ignorance.
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
When the stars threw down their spears
And watered heaven with their tears:
Did he smile his work to see?
Did he who made the lamb make thee?
In the future, the Berlin wall will be a mile high, and made of steel. You too will be made to crawl, to lick children's blood from jackboots. There will be no creativity, only productivity. Instead of love there will be fear and distrust, instead of surrender there will be submission. Contact will be replaced with isolation, and joy with shame. Hope will cease to exist as a concept. The Earth will be covered with steel and concrete. There will be an electronic policeman in every head. Your children will be born in chains, live only to serve, and die in anguish and ignorance.
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
As far as I can tell, they've taken down that notice and just re-direct to a "Service Temporarily Unavailable" page on weekends. EG http://www.dos.ny.gov/corps/euccfiling.html
This reflects one of the weirder elements I've found working with the NY State government. A small portion of their Websites are actually only open during business hours. Every night and on weekends, the sites are taken down or somehow disabled.
I've heard a range of explanations, none of which I can totally believe-
1) One suggestion is that the particular government union that runs that office doesn't want the Internet to compete with its employees who file physical paper. So, they insert a clause in the collective bargaining that allows for e-filing of obscure documents, but restricts it to random hours. I don't totally believe this, but it wouldn't really be surprising at all.
2) The second idea is that the sites are so crummy and unreliable, they are afraid of things breaking when no one is in the office to fix them. Or their databases are too flimsy to handle even one weekend/night worth of submissions without someone manually cleaning the database or handling things.
3) The third idea is somewhat likely, but also possibly the most insane. Government bureaucrats simply don't think anyone would access government information outside of business hours, so they shut things down. I saw similar behavior with a government site about breastfeeding infants. Which was totally insane, because people who want to learn about breastfeeding aren't going to look it up during business hours at their work computers.
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Its likely shutdown to stop a possible backlog of submissions piling up. Not saying the work is lower by doing this, but this way at least stops someone from coming in to an inbox full of whatever they are submitting.
When our county was forced into furlough we did the same with our site, going as far down as disabling the ability to put a book on hold.
I'm betting whatever esystem they are using still requires a human to look over it and copy the information from the user form into whatever software they are using. So they aren't treating it any different than if you were to call it in or do it in person.
"In a field where an overlooked bug could cost millions, you want people who will speak their minds, even if they’re sometimes obnoxious about it."
Curiosity's main goal has been completed
"In a field where an overlooked bug could cost millions, you want people who will speak their minds, even if they’re sometimes obnoxious about it."
Paul Ryan
Anthony Weiner
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In the future, the Berlin wall will be a mile high, and made of steel. You too will be made to crawl, to lick children's blood from jackboots. There will be no creativity, only productivity. Instead of love there will be fear and distrust, instead of surrender there will be submission. Contact will be replaced with isolation, and joy with shame. Hope will cease to exist as a concept. The Earth will be covered with steel and concrete. There will be an electronic policeman in every head. Your children will be born in chains, live only to serve, and die in anguish and ignorance.
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
It could be that those particular areas aren't set up to properly handle total automation, eg. because the system wasn't built or because it requires filling in various other databases or scheduling, coordination etc.
Or it's Anonymous attacking govt. websites
"One day, we shall die. All the other days, we shall live."
Speaking of Venn diagrams..
Keep on keepin' the beat alive!
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"Wer Visionen hat, sollte zum Arzt gehen." - Helmut Schmidt
When the stars threw down their spears
And watered heaven with their tears:
Did he smile his work to see?
Did he who made the lamb make thee?
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