XPost: alt.religion.kibology, alt.fan.beable, alt.webtrance
XPost: alt.memetics, alt.society.neutopia, alt.cyberpunk
XPost: alt.angst
From: schwann@no!dontspam!%webtrance.co.za
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> > There is a sour hatred here of any positive claim to accomplishment
>
schwann: i've never quite thought of it in that light, but yes, you're
also right..
> I've noticed that. Like this one guy Schwann says how he's going to
> get in his old four-wheel-drive and zoom up to central Africa to film
> an eclipse, if only somebody would pay for his fuel and some new
> tyres, and he got LAUGHED AT! RIDICULED!! Can you BELIEVE IT?? Mind
> you though, this is not a universal hatred of positive claims of
> accomplishment. Whenever I claim a positive accomplishment, everybody
> congratulates me on my GENUIS. Just recently I have been congratulated
> for my expertise in ANIMAL TRAINING (without using ear pinches, choke
> collars, or Doggy Do Right Devices) and VERMIN EXTERMINATION. Maybe
> something else is going on?
>
> > based on the fact that programmers are so despised by the elite. The
> > programming profession wasn't supposed to happen, according to John
> > von Neumann,
>
well, let's have the facts by all means, starting with the para on me
above. though i asked for a subsidy on the net, it was only because i
like networking because interesting stuff sometimes happens.....not
because i needed gas and new tyres. i was thinking more along the lines
of a $200,000 advance on a decent road movie with the solipse as the
star...neither is my 4X4 'that' old. hell, it's only just done 100,000
miles. i've used it this year to do the Cedarberg mountains, and 2 trips
to Sutherland to film the SALT telescope...besides this it's useful for
transporting crew, camera equipment et al....but the thing that really
worries me about programmers is their total disregard for time...it's
like they're not in the real world. for sure, they talk a different
language, but they eat, shit, piss, and puke like everyone else...and
how would i know about programmers> well gee wizz, i just happen to own
half of a company that besides doing broadcast TV and mulktimedia
authoring also offers programs written in C+ and any other suitable
language, incl VB etc..so I'm in daily contact with the Uber
Programmer...we have no problem understanding each other, except when it
comes to time:) in fact, we've just come out of a very lucrative
position with the largest ISP in SA, where we ran their games servers
for 5 years, incl writing our own proprietory connection software for
games like Quake, HL, Star Craft, and all games that run DirectX....
It's easy to understand the alienation in ARK, and that's obviously why
I'm here......but the same Tolstoyan question should still be asked over
and over...
"what's to be done?"
schwann cybershaman
ps..the solar eclipse was almost exactly a year ago...how come you're
only getting to it now? could you be running as much as a year late?
> Oh yeah, he was GREAT in "MAD" magazine!!1! "WHAT? ME WORRY?" HAW HAW!
>
> > who thought that mathematicians would speak directly to machines.
>
> They may as well, for all the sense they make.
>
> > As such it is socially marginalized and the knowledge of its
> > marginality feels posters to this ng with a deep insecurity, which
> > they cover up with bullying in the universal way of the bully.
>
> Is THAT what a.r.k is about? It's actually a hangout for deeply
> insecure programmers who cover everything up with bullying, and the
> HAWT CHYX who are irresistably attracted to them? ACHTUNG GEWAHR
> thought police: note that I didn't exclude CHYX from being insecure
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