Tag: stupid

Delinquents

potential delinquents
Many computer scientists are delinquents. They have committed sex crimes or are responsible for blood baths in their families. In my opinion, their brain got out of control with all the technology. As is generally known, computer scientists use cocaine. This increases imagination, and they can program more efficiently and creatively. No wonder when people with access to the world’s information on the Internet go crazy. I am convinced that we need surveillance organs for computer scientist who can take suspects out of commission.

Seatbelt Darwin Award

As laws become increasingly strict for seat belts, fewer people will respond positively by buckling up in response to the laws. There seems to be a die-hard group of non-wearers out there who simply do not wish to buckle up no matter what the government does. I belong to this group.

Evidently his words were far more prescient than any of us might have wanted, as an article in the 4 January 2005 Lincoln Journal Star reported that Mr. Kieper not only died in a car crash, but the tragic mishap that claimed his life was the very type of accident in which seat belts have proved so effective in saving lives by preventing passengers from being ejected from vehicles

The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity

A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person or to a group of persons while himself deriving no gain and even possibly incurring losses.
We can recollect cases in which a fellow took an action by which both parties gained: he was intelligent. Such cases do indeed occur. But upon thoughtful reflection you must admit that these are not the events which punctuate most frequently our daily life. Our daily life is mostly, made of cases in which we lose money and/or time and/or energy and/or appetite, cheerfulness and good health because of the improbable action of some preposterous creature who has nothing to gain and indeed gains nothing from causing us embarrassment, difficulties or harm. Nobody knows, understands or can possibly explain why that preposterous creature does what he does. In fact there is no explanation – or better there is only one explanation: the person in question is stupid.

Subcutane subsistence

A Florida company has announced plans to develop a service that would allow consumers to pay for merchandise using microchips implanted under their skin, and has attracted scorn from some fundamentalist Christians, who believe that VeriChip is the fabled “mark of the beast” of biblical lore. Satan will someday force people to “receive a mark” on their hands or foreheads in order to buy or sell.

classic future shock level problem. sign me up.

Inching towards Metric

The Metric Program of the National Institute of Standards and Technology has a bold, if Napoleonic, motto: “Toward a Metric America.” That is, a fanciful future in which we’ll buy decagrams of hamburger and liters of gas. Problem is, the Metric Program employs just 2 evangelists ‘hail, ye lone voices in the wilderness!’ to convert 281M recalcitrant American imperial-unit holdouts. Launched with much hope by the Federal Metric Conversion Act of 1975, the Metric Program 28 years later meekly soldiers on, advising federal bureaucracies and trying to pitch the system to – well, to anyone who will listen. The dynamic decimal duo really work only part-time on metric salesmanship. So it would seem: A spokesman for the program, when queried, didn’t know his own height in meters.

jeez people. NASA is switching to metric, and uses IP(v6?) too. i have long wondered what will happen first: us going metric, the world going IPv6, or the world going 100% unicode.

Metrication is the direct transition process that helps you to quickly, efficiently, easily, and relatively cheaply upgrade from any of the various old pre-metric measuring methods to the modern metric system.

heh. Personally, I’d like a Wikipedia for civilized people that uses metric units exclusively. Or actually, a chrome extension to auto correct pages to the proper units. And here’s 5 screw-ups that wouldn’t have happened with metric:

The fight over metric versus imperial measurements has some very real consequences. And with the US as the last holdout in the world, we’re likely to see more of these kinds of historical fuck-ups on occasion.