Who's Your Hero?
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Jeremy Falcon wrote:
Sounds like it would be a great place to work.
I'd much rather work at Armadillo Aerospace. But I admit my bias.... :) It's still John Carmack though. He's a nice guy too.
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
Jeffry J. Brickley wrote:
I'd much rather work at Armadillo Aerospace. But I admit my bias....
Going on who you are and where you beez, I take it that's your place of employment? The way I see it, gaming is one of the few industries besides pyrotechnics that you can get paid to blow shit up. It's great. :-D
Jeremy Falcon The mind is like a parachute. It works best when it is open. - Colin Angus Mackay (2006-08-18)
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Homer Simpson - I've modelled my life on his example...
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Jeffry J. Brickley wrote:
I'd much rather work at Armadillo Aerospace. But I admit my bias....
Going on who you are and where you beez, I take it that's your place of employment? The way I see it, gaming is one of the few industries besides pyrotechnics that you can get paid to blow shit up. It's great. :-D
Jeremy Falcon The mind is like a parachute. It works best when it is open. - Colin Angus Mackay (2006-08-18)
Jeremy Falcon wrote:
I take it that's your place of employment?
Nope. My employer is a "little bit" bigger. :rolleyes: I would just rather an Aerospace company than a gaming company. Once you work with the real-thing, gaming is never quite the same. :-D
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
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Me. Who am I to disagree with my kids and my wife (or do you think they are just saying that)? Of course if I have to disqualify myself then Douglas Adams.
Happiness is knowing that somewhere out there, there is a bullet with your name on it.
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Jeremy Falcon wrote:
I take it that's your place of employment?
Nope. My employer is a "little bit" bigger. :rolleyes: I would just rather an Aerospace company than a gaming company. Once you work with the real-thing, gaming is never quite the same. :-D
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
Jeffry J. Brickley wrote:
Once you work with the real-thing, gaming is never quite the same.
Perhaps you're onto something. I am yet but a young n00b in the ways of "thing." :-D
Jeremy Falcon The mind is like a parachute. It works best when it is open. - Colin Angus Mackay (2006-08-18)
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This statement is false.
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There are no role models worthy of the title "Hero" anymore. Well, no. That's not true. Those firefighters that died trying to save people in the twin towers. That was heroic. Marc
People are just notoriously impossible. --DavidCrow
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Captain Planet.
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There are no role models worthy of the title "Hero" anymore. Well, no. That's not true. Those firefighters that died trying to save people in the twin towers. That was heroic. Marc
People are just notoriously impossible. --DavidCrow
There's NO excuse for not commenting your code. -- John Simmons / outlaw programmer
People who say that they will refactor their code later to make it "good" don't understand refactoring, nor the art and craft of programming. -- Josh SmithHow many of those firefighters ran into the building knowing it was going to collapse? I most definately consider most firefighters as heros but I give no special status to the ones that one present in nyc on the 11th. All firefighters that die in the line of duty deserve the same honor and recognition.
On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. - Charles Babbage
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Paris Hilton - she rocks my world! So much, made of so little, it should give new hope and encouragement to all of us :)
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Paris Hilton - she rocks my world! So much, made of so little, it should give new hope and encouragement to all of us :)
¡El diablo está en mis pantalones! ¡Mire, mire! Real Mentats use only 100% pure, unfooled around with Sapho Juice(tm)! SELECT * FROM User WHERE Clue > 0 0 rows returned Save an Orange - Use the VCF!
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How many of those firefighters ran into the building knowing it was going to collapse? I most definately consider most firefighters as heros but I give no special status to the ones that one present in nyc on the 11th. All firefighters that die in the line of duty deserve the same honor and recognition.
On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. - Charles Babbage
Ennis Ray Lynch, Jr. wrote:
How many of those firefighters ran into the building knowing it was going to collapse?
Most of them wouldn't go into a bombed building in the first place either. Also, let's not forget the ones that didn't run after the first tower fell (they had plenty of time to run btw).
Jeremy Falcon The mind is like a parachute. It works best when it is open. - Colin Angus Mackay (2006-08-18)
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Dude the Spice Girls ROCK! Don't even make me come over and slap you! As to the ageless question Dikta vs. The Spice Girls? The Spice Girls by 3!
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I don't know about heros, but if I were to have the opportunity to meet anyone, I'd almost certainly choose Richard Feynman[^], with Lynn Conway[^] coming a close second.
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Ennis Ray Lynch, Jr. wrote:
How many of those firefighters ran into the building knowing it was going to collapse?
Most of them wouldn't go into a bombed building in the first place either. Also, let's not forget the ones that didn't run after the first tower fell (they had plenty of time to run btw).
Jeremy Falcon The mind is like a parachute. It works best when it is open. - Colin Angus Mackay (2006-08-18)
I think at times there is a very large gap between believing you can do something and believing you can not. In the first case, they most assuredly believed they could get the people out safely. In the second case, they probably most assuredly believed they could not.
Any sufficiently gross incompetence is nearly indistinguishable from malice.
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I don't know about heros, but if I were to have the opportunity to meet anyone, I'd almost certainly choose Richard Feynman[^], with Lynn Conway[^] coming a close second.
Anna :rose: Currently working mostly on: Visual Lint :cool: Anna's Place | Tears and Laughter "Be yourself - not what others think you should be" - Marcia Graesch "Anna's just a sexy-looking lesbian tart" - A friend, trying to wind me up. It didn't work.
I would want to meet Jesus and ask him "WTF"? :omg:
Any sufficiently gross incompetence is nearly indistinguishable from malice.
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How many of those firefighters ran into the building knowing it was going to collapse? I most definately consider most firefighters as heros but I give no special status to the ones that one present in nyc on the 11th. All firefighters that die in the line of duty deserve the same honor and recognition.
On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. - Charles Babbage
Seeing a house burning and doing their job is one thing. But seeing the unimaginable, unspeakable happen, and going back to work is special.
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I would want to meet Jesus and ask him "WTF"? :omg:
Any sufficiently gross incompetence is nearly indistinguishable from malice.
Apparently that was a problem with the transmission oil. Ho, did you mean Jesus as in Jesus the mechanic? ;P
