She never saw it coming. :cry:
Lol
My first reaction was relief. My second was dread. The new age section is, like, totally going to be nothing but reprints of her stuff for, like, ever. GAWD!
Well if nothing else it should be easier for her to communicate with the dead now.
http://www.tmz.com/2013/11/20/sylvia-browne-world-famous-psychic-dead/
QuoteBrowne specialized in psychic detective work, and attempted to help on several missing person cases ... with varying results.
If "varying results" means "statistically significantly worse than just pure guesswork" then I guess this is accurate.
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on November 21, 2013, 05:51:37 AM
My first reaction was relief. My second was dread. The new age section is, like, totally going to be nothing but reprints of her stuff for, like, ever. GAWD!
I would say that this would be a prime candidate for book heckling.
Explanation:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPjrEmDn8Wk&feature=youtu.be&t=4m40s
I suspect Montel Williams will conduct annual seances, trying to connect with her.
Quote from: Rex Bologna on November 21, 2013, 02:37:13 PM
I suspect Montel Williams will conduct annual seances, trying to connect with her.
Montel will most likely discover a NEW Sylvia, if he's still doing that show.
I wish the best for her, liar or not.
Quote from: Junkenstein on November 21, 2013, 01:38:01 PM
http://www.tmz.com/2013/11/20/sylvia-browne-world-famous-psychic-dead/
QuoteBrowne specialized in psychic detective work, and attempted to help on several missing person cases ... with varying results.
If "varying results" means "statistically significantly worse than just pure guesswork" then I guess this is accurate.
You have to admit though, it's a hell of an accomplishment. Most people can only strive for mediocrity, and statistically insignificant disparities in what they choose to do. While we celebrate the great man or woman who finds success, we should also recognize the sort of skill it takes to be consistently and repeatedly wrong. It's like celebrating both the darts champion, and the player who managed to miss the board with every single throw, over the vast majority of their career.
Quote from: Cain on November 22, 2013, 09:28:18 AM
Quote from: Junkenstein on November 21, 2013, 01:38:01 PM
http://www.tmz.com/2013/11/20/sylvia-browne-world-famous-psychic-dead/
QuoteBrowne specialized in psychic detective work, and attempted to help on several missing person cases ... with varying results.
If "varying results" means "statistically significantly worse than just pure guesswork" then I guess this is accurate.
You have to admit though, it's a hell of an accomplishment. Most people can only strive for mediocrity, and statistically insignificant disparities in what they choose to do. While we celebrate the great man or woman who finds success, we should also recognize the sort of skill it takes to be consistently and repeatedly wrong. It's like celebrating both the darts champion, and the player who managed to miss the board with every single throw, over the vast majority of their career.
This is true. Most people don't get the opportunity to be that bad at their chosen profession for their whole life.
It's actually a bit of a shame, because you could probably have made decent cash just betting against her predictions.
Quote from: Doktor Blight on November 22, 2013, 05:57:05 AM
I wish the best for her, liar or not.
Twid, I saw this earlier and just think it's worth noting that this level of compassion is most impressive. You're a better man than I.
Note: She did in fact foresee her death. At 88.
Rounding. :lol:
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on November 22, 2013, 06:02:06 PM
Note: She did in fact foresee her death. At 88.
Rounding. :lol:
One final incorrect prediction is kind of fitting.
Quote from: Junkenstein on November 22, 2013, 06:01:26 PM
Quote from: Doktor Blight on November 22, 2013, 05:57:05 AM
I wish the best for her, liar or not.
Twid, I saw this earlier and just think it's worth noting that this level of compassion is most impressive. You're a better man than I.
It's that whole fundamental and unwavering respect for all human life. Not necessarily something that makes me a better man. A sucker, perhaps, but not necessarily a better man.
Quote from: Junkenstein on November 22, 2013, 06:06:20 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on November 22, 2013, 06:02:06 PM
Note: She did in fact foresee her death. At 88.
Rounding. :lol:
One final incorrect prediction is kind of fitting.
Shit Sylvia Browne supporters say:
It's a DOUBLE NUMBER just like 77!
She correctly predicted that Amanda Berry's mom would NEVER SEE HER AGAIN!
I just want to know how to make $900 an hour. :lol:
Be less honest.
Money is easy once you abandon integrity.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on November 23, 2013, 03:28:57 AM
Be less honest.
Money is easy once you abandon integrity.
That explains the business (and the world at large) really well.
Now if I could just claim to communicate with angels and deceased loved ones without throwing up.
Supressing your gag reflex is entirely up to you.
There are side benefits, however.
Quote from: Tiddleywomp Cockletit on November 23, 2013, 03:53:38 AM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on November 23, 2013, 03:28:57 AM
Be less honest.
Money is easy once you abandon integrity.
That explains the business (and the world at large) really well.
Now if I could just claim to communicate with angels and deceased loved ones without throwing up.
I hear televangelists make mad bank.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on November 23, 2013, 03:28:57 AM
Be less honest.
Money is easy once you abandon integrity.
What's interesting is that this only works in show business.
In any other form of business, sustained, real wealth is usually best served by principled actions. No shit. Fact is, there are so many unscrupulous bastards out there that it SEEMS that everyone is dishonest.
OK, i mostly give you that.
But a structured business con can get you shit tons of cash, and if you get out in time, you won't even get charged.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on November 23, 2013, 04:37:15 AM
OK, i mostly give you that.
But a structured business con can get you shit tons of cash, and if you get out in time, you won't even get charged.
Yep, happens all the time. But what I've noticed is, while some people make out like bandits, more go to jail. And even a "country club" prison is still prison. The companies I have worked for have been above-board (the one I work for now is positively neurotic about it), and do very well indeed.
Most of the shenanigans have to do with public trading of bonds and (to a lesser extent) stocks. Goldman Sachs comes to mind.
I suppose I should have limited my statement to industry, now that I think about it. :lulz:
Yeah, when you need to qualify what is meant by "risk", you've got a problem.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on November 23, 2013, 04:47:33 AM
Yeah, when you need to qualify what is meant by "risk", you've got a problem.
Our "risk" is calculated in TWENTY YEAR BLOCKS. As a result, I don't even worry about impropriety any more.
You just can't manage the other kind of risk that long.
Funny thing is, my company is honest (!!!) and completely transparent. And in this economy, we are tripling our workforce over the next 2-4 years.
We INVITE regulatory agencies in. They've stopped bothering.
Contrast that to when I was working in the national defense biz (1999-2000).
I always felt like I had insects crawling on me.
Calling your own shit on yourself has always been the best tactic. My department escaped the latest roudn of cuts because we announced a gap discovery, and the solution, rather than letting someone else call us out on it.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on November 23, 2013, 04:58:51 AM
Calling your own shit on yourself has always been the best tactic. My department escaped the latest roudn of cuts because we announced a gap discovery, and the solution, rather than letting someone else call us out on it.
On a personal level, I have found that giving my employees full credit for their successes but admitting failures as a department has given me HUGE returns.
Your successes are your own. Your failures belong to all of us.
Believe it or not, the shit works. My job isn't to be a genius, it's to hire and manage competent people. On the other hand, I have a smart boss.
I'm amazed that this was discovered years ago, but people continue to insist on recreating the wheel. Maybe the point is to keep re-motiviating the workforce?
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on November 23, 2013, 05:11:54 AM
I'm amazed that this was discovered years ago, but people continue to insist on recreating the wheel. Maybe the point is to keep re-motiviating the workforce?
Naw. I think it's that Americans are UNABLE for the most part to admit error or extend due credit, for fear of looking dumb or weak.
Largely due to conversations on PD that have made me actually THINK, I no longer give a shit if I look dumb or weak. This means that I don't look dumb or weak. Funny how that works.
This board is awesome. Even when it's dead.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on November 23, 2013, 05:22:14 AM
This board is awesome. Even when it's dead.
What it's led me to is the idea that "doing well by doing right" is a winning strategy. And in places where it isn't, you should get noisily and hilariously fired (never quit, always get fired), and move on to somewhere else.
Somewhere, theres a book waiting to be written. but it will never sell, because it makes too much sense.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on November 23, 2013, 05:28:46 AM
Somewhere, theres a book waiting to be written. but it will never sell, because it makes too much sense.
It would be interesting, though...Trying to subvert 300 years of fucked up values. It wouldn't be impossible, either, given that at this moment, the typical shitty behavior that many MBAs have been brought up on are at the moment out of favor.
"What Kind of World Do You Want?" as a working title?
Sounds good. Perhaps we should do this off-site?
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on November 23, 2013, 05:33:05 AM
Sounds good. Perhaps we should do this off-site?
Not sure. We could use cloud as a working space, maybe. I'd want parts of it here for review.
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on November 23, 2013, 05:36:29 AM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on November 23, 2013, 05:33:05 AM
Sounds good. Perhaps we should do this off-site?
Not sure. We could use cloud as a working space, maybe. I'd want parts of it here for review.
However it happens, just do it. :)
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on November 23, 2013, 04:32:14 AM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on November 23, 2013, 03:28:57 AM
Be less honest.
Money is easy once you abandon integrity.
What's interesting is that this only works in show business.
In any other form of business, sustained, real wealth is usually best served by principled actions. No shit. Fact is, there are so many unscrupulous bastards out there that it SEEMS that everyone is dishonest.
I think what I do might technically come under the "entertainment" banner. :x
Just yesterday I pissed a bunch of people off by saying you can't learn a card reading method from rocks, i.e., "crystals". Much hilarity ensued, but I don't get the cross-promotion that the pagans get.
I'll probably die poor. :horrormirth:
(http://imageshack.us/a/img855/6872/i2ef.jpg)
Again. These two need to have sex and get pregnant and give us a baby:
Parent A: :lulz:
Parent B: :facepalm: