New Testingstan

as a westerner i'm already a parasite on a bunch of countries' labour

so being a parasite on other first worlders' labour isn't really a sticking point for me

Oxymoron wrote:

Dooey Jo wrote:also i hear we now have laser guided bullets and that this is cool because now we can spend more money on making sure our poor people murder the bad guys' poor people with maximum efficiency

If you want to be optimistic about it, it could mean that you can now target the ter'rists and just them and not have to bomb a whole funeral procession/wedding ceremony in order to try to kill a specific guy with your drone.
At the least I expect Israel to show an interest in this system.

(Edit : to be clear, any weapon that can allow for the reduction of collateral damage and the preservation of Civilian lives during a conflict is a good thing in my book. You know, surgical strikes and all that jazz...)

I seriously doubt we'll see this adopted for the next few decades. Budgets are dropping across the first world for defence, we certainly won't adopt it. But most of us already have the means to limit causalities but don't because it takes to long.

and now a question of wild speculative fantasy

which would be better: for mr bean to be able to write coherently, or to think coherently

Nietzslime wrote:and now a question of wild speculative fantasy

which would be better: for mr bean to be able to write coherently, or to think coherently

Has he gotten any better at lying?

Guided bullets?

OMG!

Runaway starring Tom Selleck is real! Everyone get your 80's mustache!

One step ahead of you.

RedImperator wrote:

Nietzslime wrote:and now a question of wild speculative fantasy

which would be better: for mr bean to be able to write coherently, or to think coherently

Has he gotten any better at lying?

Whats this?

Aaron wrote:

RedImperator wrote:

Nietzslime wrote:and now a question of wild speculative fantasy

which would be better: for mr bean to be able to write coherently, or to think coherently

Has he gotten any better at lying?

Whats this?

Bean is a hilariously terrible liar, especially when he's trying to cover up his motives. I used to tangle with him in the mod forum about Testing, and I'd watch in amazement as he tried to pass off one imaginary or unrelated crisis after another as a reason to oppress it.

What was the issue with testing anyways?

Is goofing off some terrible crime against logic or something?

Nerds raging when people make fun of what they like or some of their quirks and feeling personally threatened ?

Aaron wrote:What was the issue with testing anyways?

Is goofing off some terrible crime against logic or something?

I think it was some combination of this lofty arrogant view of the board as a Serious Debate Board (The Smartest Board on the Internet/Intellectual Crucible) and goofing off in Testing being incompatible with that view (I can understand that viewpoint because once upon a time I shared it; somewhere in the depths of the HOS is a post by me flaming Straha for complaining "The playground is closed, boo hoo"), and a personal bug-up-the-ass on the part of a handful of the mods and, later, Senators. Somewhere along the way it morphed from "Testing is silly and dumb and not worthy of this august instutution" to "The certain clique that hangs out in Testing is a bunch of troublemakers who want to turn the rest of this august institution silly and dumb."

Now of course it's totally self-perpetuating.

It's so sad. People take themselves too seriously. If you can't laugh at yourself, what can you laugh at?

mang i just made my star destroyer dot net posts before doing my morning work

so it is now 11:00 and i answered my work emails but haven't actually done anything about them

PRIORITIES

i'm so professional

Phantasee wrote:It's so sad. People take themselves too seriously. If you can't laugh at yourself, what can you laugh at?

Phantasee : Always sad, all the time.

Phantasee wrote:It's so sad. People take themselves too seriously. If you can't laugh at yourself, what can you laugh at?

it's an interesting thing when you see people who are like that

because (well...unless they're like thanas or summat ) people don't just stop being silly when a group they're a part of decides that silliness is not to be tolerated

but instead of just letting the stupid crap out of their heads naturally and usually relatively inoffensively

they tend to look for approved avenues for it

in short

they become tryhards

RedImperator wrote:

Aaron wrote:What was the issue with testing anyways?

Is goofing off some terrible crime against logic or something?

I think it was some combination of this lofty arrogant view of the board as a Serious Debate Board (The Smartest Board on the Internet/Intellectual Crucible) and goofing off in Testing being incompatible with that view (I can understand that viewpoint because once upon a time I shared it; somewhere in the depths of the HOS is a post by me flaming Straha for complaining "The playground is closed, boo hoo"), and a personal bug-up-the-ass on the part of a handful of the mods and, later, Senators. Somewhere along the way it morphed from "Testing is silly and dumb and not worthy of this august instutution" to "The certain clique that hangs out in Testing is a bunch of troublemakers who want to turn the rest of this august institution silly and dumb."

Now of course it's totally self-perpetuating.

i think it happened in the senate when someone seriously thought testing was trying to take over

i think it may have been alyeska

they'd best not read about my plot to buy mike out!!!!!!!!!!

if i had four million dollars i'd do it. offer him like a nice four figure sum

(less than that and i'd prolly have better things to put the money toward and would regret wasting it)

RedImperator wrote:

Nietzslime wrote:and now a question of wild speculative fantasy

which would be better: for mr bean to be able to write coherently, or to think coherently

Has he gotten any better at lying?

i can't tell

because he makes preposterous and childish claims, certainly

but i can't tell how much of his obviously wrong poppycock is deliberate

he is quite stupid you know

hello sir i wish to buy your internet gated community for a tidy sum

Zod wrote:i think it happened in the senate when someone seriously thought testing was trying to take over

i think it may have been alyeska

that was awesome times

everyone was all "the infection is spreading to the main board "

and mike said something like "i'mma sooner kill this whole board than let it turn into some kind of friendly discussion board "

ah...

the dangerous power of non-capitalised ironic words

The conspiracy theories were and remain my favorite. I love you guys, but I don't think this clique could organize a fucking hot dog stand, let alone a conspiracy.

in other news mittens just stuck not only his foot, but his whole leg in his mouth

I'm not concerned about the very poor.

Veef wrote:hello sir i wish to buy your internet gated community for a tidy sum

you think this is weird

but i know people who's made five figure sales of fucking domain names


one guy bought a .com name for $10 in 2007.

the very next month, he gets a letter from a lawyer offering him $5,000 for it

he said "make it seven and done"


yeah he profited 6990 over one month.


one of my clients once made a 15,000 dollar domain name sale


holy shit why can't this happen to me

adr wrote:holy shit why can't this happen to me

All the good domains have been bought.

speaking of jealousy one guy i did work for make a really shitty search engine / web portal back in the late 90's

he sold that to someone for one MILLION dollars


i think i might have got into this shit a decade too late