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In space, no one can hear you nagging

Started by Ed Anger, November 14, 2014, 11:18:35 AM

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Siege

What is all this emo bullshit about space, anyway.


"All men are created equal, then some become infantry."

"Those who beat their swords into plowshares will plow for those who don't."

"Laissez faire et laissez passer, le monde va de lui même!"


crazy canuck

Quote from: frunk on November 16, 2014, 06:00:46 PM
Quote from: crazy canuck on November 15, 2014, 08:38:37 PM
Yeah, like eating (he managed to keep himself fed); getting to work (somehow his one track mind managed that) and it looks like he even managed to shower and groom himself now and then.  Is it too much to ask that he manage to dress himself properly or is he really that mentally compromised.

It's a matter of what you pay attention to.  Before he ever thought that he would have to dress differently for TV he'd have to realize that there are actually people who care about how you dress.  Even worse, a lot of these people with nothing better to do watch TV.  Eating, getting to work, wearing clothes is a more common experience.

Agreed it is a matter of what you pay attention to.  What you have wrong in your assumptions is he did dress differently for that day.  According to reports this was a special shirt that he didnt normally wear.  So what we have is a guy who was dressing for a special day.  Perhaps the most special day in his whole professional life.  And he said to himself "yeah, the one with the naked women.  That's that trick".

grumbler

Has this story really passed so far from fact that now the "truth" is that there were naked women on the shirt?  I mean, wasn't the whole point that people saw the shirt?  It didn't have naked women on it, everyone knows it, so why are people now arguing that the problem was that the shirt was "the one with the naked women?"  Everyone knows it's a lie when they argue that, so why continue to utter the lie?  Lack of intellectual integrity?  Laziness? Love of bullshit rhetoric?  All of the above?
The future is all around us, waiting, in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain.   -G'Kar

Bayraktar!

Maximus

Quote from: crazy canuck on November 16, 2014, 06:23:50 PM
You had argued that he didnt have enough brain power left over to realize he was being daft.
Can you show me where I argued this?

Ed Anger

Stay Alive...Let the Man Drive

crazy canuck

Quote from: grumbler on November 16, 2014, 07:44:57 PM
Has this story really passed so far from fact that now the "truth" is that there were naked women on the shirt?  I mean, wasn't the whole point that people saw the shirt?  It didn't have naked women on it, everyone knows it, so why are people now arguing that the problem was that the shirt was "the one with the naked women?"  Everyone knows it's a lie when they argue that, so why continue to utter the lie?  Lack of intellectual integrity?  Laziness? Love of bullshit rhetoric?  All of the above?

You have sunk to a new low of torturing a definition to make a pedantic argument. 

crazy canuck

Quote from: Maximus on November 16, 2014, 08:12:03 PM
Quote from: crazy canuck on November 16, 2014, 06:23:50 PM
You had argued that he didnt have enough brain power left over to realize he was being daft.
Can you show me where I argued this?

I believe post 72,

QuoteYou can worry about clothes or you can worry about important stuff like whether you're doing your job or whether your product will work as intended.

For some reason you thought to poor fellow couldnt worry about more than one thing.  Even though the rest of society seems to be able to worry about doing their job and dressing appropriately.

Maximus

Quote from: crazy canuck on November 16, 2014, 08:27:14 PM
Quote from: Maximus on November 16, 2014, 08:12:03 PM
Quote from: crazy canuck on November 16, 2014, 06:23:50 PM
You had argued that he didnt have enough brain power left over to realize he was being daft.
Can you show me where I argued this?

I believe post 72,

QuoteYou can worry about clothes or you can worry about important stuff like whether you're doing your job or whether your product will work as intended.

For some reason you thought to poor fellow couldnt worry about more than one thing.  Even though the rest of society seems to be able to worry about doing their job and dressing appropriately.

That says nothing about brain power, but rather about what one considers important.

MadImmortalMan

It's actually a popular method among the highly successful to limit the mundane in order to focus like a laser on what they consider important. You know those black shirts Steve Jobs always wore? He owned dozens of them and wore almost nothing else.
"Stability is destabilizing." --Hyman Minsky

"Complacency can be a self-denying prophecy."
"We have nothing to fear but lack of fear itself." --Larry Summers

MadImmortalMan

Zuck too apparently.

Quote
Steve Jobs had his simple black turtlenecks, Twitter's Jack Dorsey had his sharp Prada suit, and Mark Zuckerberg has his uniform of nondescript, plain gray T-shirts. At a recent Q&A session, someone finally asked him why he seems to have a lifetime supply of inoffensive, poorly fitting gray tees.

His answer: "I'm in this really lucky position where I get to wake up every day and help serve more than a billion people. And I'd feel I'm not doing my job if I spent any of my energy on things that are silly or frivolous about my life."
"Stability is destabilizing." --Hyman Minsky

"Complacency can be a self-denying prophecy."
"We have nothing to fear but lack of fear itself." --Larry Summers

Admiral Yi

He should stop killing his own meat if he feels that way.

crazy canuck

Steve Jobs wore clothing appropriate to his role.  The excuse that this guy needed to "focus" is pretty lame.

CountDeMoney


Siege

Fuck, I do not understanf whax fogin  douenm .


"All men are created equal, then some become infantry."

"Those who beat their swords into plowshares will plow for those who don't."

"Laissez faire et laissez passer, le monde va de lui même!"


Siege

Ah min, I reache thad momen wheun I losecpmtrol.


"All men are created equal, then some become infantry."

"Those who beat their swords into plowshares will plow for those who don't."

"Laissez faire et laissez passer, le monde va de lui même!"