Tag: stupid

Office Jargon

Let’s think out of the box: Really means, “Can you creatively anemic people please come up with something?” The person who says, “Let’s think out of the box” is usually desperate for a new idea and surrounded by people who are not known for generating ideas. So the phrase is actually an announcement that says, “I’m in trouble.” I need someone who can hit the ground running: Really means, “I am screwed.” Because no one can hit the ground running. You need to at least assess what race you’re in and who else is running. Do you have the bandwidth? Note that bandwidth is not time. It is something else. If you ask someone “Do you have time?” you mean, “Am I a priority?” If you ask someone “Do you have bandwidth” you mean, “You seem like your brain is fried. Can you pull yourself together to do this for me?”

the talk of a dysfunctional organization. see also research into the evasiveness of business english. strong words like “truth” are rarely used, the study finds.

Explosive Ad

In a scene reminiscent of the Cartoon Network bomb scare that paralyzed the Boston area in January, police shut down a strip mall yesterday in this small western suburb after employees at a Bank of America branch mistook a botched fax for a bomb threat. The branch overreacted to the strange fax, which turned out to be an in-house marketing document sent by the bank’s corporate office.

what is BoA doing sending stupid faxes like that? the solution: radically cut down the number of branches and switch people to online banking

Street View Paranoia

The Drudge Report, that early-warning system for democracy, is now using a screencap of someone peering out of a living room window as his top image. If that didn’t scare you, the banner headline might: SMILE, YOU’RE ON GOOGLE EARTH!

wow, the retards have discovered street view.
2008-04-10:

Google Australia is expected within months to launch an application that will publish highly detailed, street-level photos of much of Australia, in a move that has drawn strong criticism from privacy advocates.

While Google has defended the project, the internet company baulked when The Weekend Australian requested the personal details and addresses of the group’s key figures to allow the paper’s photographers to take pictures of their homes.

it’s luddite season again!
2008-07-30:

The report also includes the distance from the street to the executive’s front door, the most likely driving route the executive would take to Google’s Mountain View headquarters and photos of the stop signs, stoplights and intersections the executive would pass along the way. The Center is publicly releasing the document today to highlight the invasiveness of these Google technologies to individual privacy.

who are these assclowns?

What is it about Europeans that makes them so susceptible to populist arguments in favor of expectations of privacy in a public space? In Europe, Street View is getting a steady onslaught of negative publicity, mainly instigated by populist newspapers, about the evils of taking photography in a public place and publishing it. What a strange concept: Government officials complaining that a company is observing the law, but that they don’t like it anyway.

2010-08-23:

Geht es allerdings um Googles fotografierenden Fuhrpark, klingt Konstantin von Notz plötzlich so, als sei er frisch einer kommunistischen Kaderschmiede entsprungen: Google stelle “monopolartig” den “kompletten öffentlichen Raum” dauerhaft und “aus kommerziellen Interessen” ins Netz, schimpft er dann und fordert “eine Beteiligung der Öffentlichkeit an den Gewinnen”. Hui! Da kommt einfach dieser Internet-Konzern aus einem fernen Land und verdient Geld mit Abbildern des öffentlichen Raums? Ohne zu fragen? Also in etwa so, wie Postkarten- oder Reiseführer-Verlage? Das geht natürlich nicht! Enteignen! Notz ist in bester Gesellschaft, beim Wettbewerb um die höchste Punktzahl auf der nach oben offenen Streetview-Hysterie-Skala.

the real reason germany is so nuts about street view: it exposes the widespread technological illiteracy in europe.

Creation Museum

What is this, then? A reproduction of a childhood fantasy in which dinosaurs are friends of inquisitive youngsters? The kind of fantasy that doesn’t care that human beings and these prefossilized thunder-lizards are usually thought to have been separated by millions of years? No, this really is meant to be more like one of those literal dioramas of the traditional natural history museum, an imagining of a real habitat, with plant life and landscape reproduced in meticulous detail.

only in america

a good way to laugh without wasting money

Early in the museum, the visitor is given advice on the proper mind frame to have for your visit: “Don’t think, just listen and believe”. They also rejoice in knowing that they will repopulate the earth after the flood with some more…… you guessed it: HOT INCEST ACTION!!!

Association fallacy

There are many crybabies these days who cry “terrorism” when criticized. It’s a sickening new trend that needs to crawl back under the rock from which it came. I think boing boing should point out these losers whenever they play the “terrorism card,” making light of their cowardice. The URL included reports the Vatican called an Italian comedian a terrorist for criticizing the Pope.