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http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/world/2010/08/26/prism.social.media.work.cnn?hpt=C2

Germany so far is the only country taking steps to preventing potential employers from using social media to determine hiring practices.

I disagree with Germany.  If you're dumb enough to smear yourself IN PUBLIC, then an employer has the right to react to that.

And if somebody else with the same first and last name is dumb enough to do it, you should also suffer!

There's another Roger Penrose out there.  He's an old geezer in England who's about the best living mathematician in the world.  Some 17th cousin or some shit.  I don't think an interviewer is going to mistake my hotness for his old-and-bustedness.

I think something like 90% of the other guys on FB with my first and last name are all Welsh...so I am boned...fucking Welsh.

Your real name has no vowels?   

Yes, my real name has no vowels. My parent's hated me. That is why I lash at authority figures. Because my name has no vowels. No vowels at all.

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/world/2010/08/26/prism.social.media.work.cnn?hpt=C2

Germany so far is the only country taking steps to preventing potential employers from using social media to determine hiring practices.

I disagree with Germany.  If you're dumb enough to smear yourself IN PUBLIC, then an employer has the right to react to that.

And if somebody else with the same first and last name is dumb enough to do it, you should also suffer!

There's another Roger Penrose out there.  He's an old geezer in England who's about the best living mathematician in the world.  Some 17th cousin or some shit.  I don't think an interviewer is going to mistake my hotness for his old-and-bustedness.

I think something like 90% of the other guys on FB with my first and last name are all Welsh...so I am boned...fucking Welsh.

Delicate Flowers with a right to their opinion.

-twitch-

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likes the smell of cat pee

Can't fucking contribute to anything, even something as simple as "insult the douchebag above you"

I kind of love Juggalos, and this is why: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0xewi_Gdc8

This level of enthusiasm about mediocrity is pretty endearing.

I will now feel the urge to fucking shank everyone with a hatchman tattoo I see.

exactly.  that's what i remember getting out of the book.
and even as far as the power plant notion, he made it clear that that was just his best guess, and i recall the evidence of that being pretty scant.  it's just a good hook.
it was primarily just a commentary that this doesn't appear to have been made with the rudimentary tools that are commonly attributed to it....
I see no reason to doubt that human technology has made significant inroads, and then retreats over the course of our history.
but it does make an easy target to lump in with Zecharia Sitchin type stuff...

Well, I'd expect to come across some artifacts.  Things like that leave traces, and shit doesn't rust in a desert unless you make it rust.  Even if it DID rust, something would be left.

Humans were MORE clever, IMO, before they had this much technology, because they HAD to be.  Not more intelligent, just more innovative with the tools they had.

If you or I were transported back to ancient Egypt, we'd be utterly useless, because we wouldn't have the tools to make the tools that we rely on each and every day.

And, especially with the Egyptians and their whole "lets shove all kind of crap in this important person's tomb so he has that shit in the afterlife", would have preserved this mysterious super tech.

Grain in baskets.
Gold in boxes.
Chariot in antechamber.
Cell phone in sarcophagus.

I was more thinking models of craftsmen/slaves with the tools of their trade.

The dude must be trolling.

exactly.  that's what i remember getting out of the book.
and even as far as the power plant notion, he made it clear that that was just his best guess, and i recall the evidence of that being pretty scant.  it's just a good hook.
it was primarily just a commentary that this doesn't appear to have been made with the rudimentary tools that are commonly attributed to it....
I see no reason to doubt that human technology has made significant inroads, and then retreats over the course of our history.
but it does make an easy target to lump in with Zecharia Sitchin type stuff...

Well, I'd expect to come across some artifacts.  Things like that leave traces, and shit doesn't rust in a desert unless you make it rust.  Even if it DID rust, something would be left.

Humans were MORE clever, IMO, before they had this much technology, because they HAD to be.  Not more intelligent, just more innovative with the tools they had.

If you or I were transported back to ancient Egypt, we'd be utterly useless, because we wouldn't have the tools to make the tools that we rely on each and every day.

And, especially with the Egyptians and their whole "lets shove all kind of crap in this important person's tomb so he has that shit in the afterlife", would have preserved this mysterious super tech.

If this is the same guy I saw on Discover, he was mostly just arguing that the Ancient Civilizations likely had a lot better tech than we give them credit for. The Antikythera mechanism provides evidence that this is true at least for BC era Greece. It not unreasonable to think that maybe ancient people had figured out some useful stuff... a Giant Power Station, maybe a bit more than we can reasonably be expected to believe... but cool stone cutting tools/procedures that we no longer know about? Well, maybe.

And a mill.  A big fucking CNC Bridgeport bastard, with a full set of bits.

I kinda like Haas, but Bridgeport make bang up manual mills.




And...I just forgot all the G-codes I ever knew...

[fact]

the fact that i had not slept for about twenty days

i am not insane but paradoxically i am, but i am sane as well. 

these are both concrete statements, presented as fact. So I may be misrepresenting what you meant, but not what you actually said. If you aren't able to say what you mean, that's nobody's fault but yours.


but I still think you were probably just full of shit.

HE CAN ONLY COMMUNICATE WITH CRAZY PEOPLE.  LIKE IN DANCES WITH WOLVES, ONLY DIFFERENT.

You may laugh Dok, but have you ever looked into the eyes of a Wolf? (It's a life changing experience)

I have, right before I fucking gutted it with my ancestral stone knife. I ate that bitches eyes too. Life change experience, for the wolf.

I remember a time when the History channel had history on it. A time when the discovery channel had educational programs, instead of reality tv.

Maybe the paranormal is afraid of Dok Howl? I could just imagine a ghost or some shit trying to haunt him. It would not end well the haunt.

More like frustration.  I'd just write off a ghost as lingering cactus hallucinations.  Eventually, the ghost would write me off as retarded and leave.

"Fucking hell dude, I am like trying to tell you some really fucking important shit. PAY FUCKING ATTENTION!!!!!"
"Fuck me, what was in this cactus. Normally they aren't so talkative. Fucking hallucinations."
"Fuck you asshole, I'm off to go try to reach someone else to warn them of the impending doom of humanity"

So, if we all die, it's Dok Howl's fault.






And....I drug this a wee bit OT.


Back on topic.
I lived in a house that was haunted. My mother saw the woman. I tend to believe her, she isn't dumb. My sister claims to have seen it, she is excitable and was young when she did. They never lived in that house, just visited it. I spent 3 years in this haunted house. Saw NOTHING. But every fucking night I would hear foot steps coming from the second story. Shit fucking pissed me. That is my, might have been something, but I think it was just shit settling all the fucking time.

I've encountered other shit that I will accept as being real shit that didn't make sense, random localized cold spots and shit out the corner of my eye, that is probably just my imagination...

I am also an expert on every small arm in the world, because I go to the range once every 6months and fire off less than 300 rounds from an m249 at stationary paper.
Oh oh, and because I did a week, a whole week, solid of Modern Army Combatives, I am an expert in how to kill with my bare hands.
I also have a jar of peanut butter that still has not had life start in it, so God is real dammit.





I don't know where I am going with this...but for some reason that book, which I haven't read yet, makes me think of that.

Maybe the paranormal is afraid of Dok Howl? I could just imagine a ghost or some shit trying to haunt him. It would not end well the haunt.

I don't use facebook at all.  I get all the stalkers I need, right here at PD.

Upside:  Bosses can't easily find my shit.

Downside:  I don't know how to play farmville.  

I don't see...