Go to Mel Brooks' "Spaceballs", the time machine video recorder scene. The radar scene is also good: "I've lost the sweeps and the bleeps. That's not all he's lost. We've been jammed. Raspberry."Because I gonna be in the future soon
Go to Mel Brooks' "Spaceballs", the time machine video recorder scene. The radar scene is also good: "I've lost the sweeps and the bleeps. That's not all he's lost. We've been jammed. Raspberry."Because I gonna be in the future soon
This one made me chuckle about Ginny's visit to the IBM offices.Ginny Rometty
I don't know. Whether it is dating apps or a visit from an IBM CEO; either way it involves acting nervously around womenThis thread got fucking derailed so hard
True anecdote about the visit of the CEO of one of those giant computer companies to our office: Our research project was (unfortunately) the centerpiece of the technology demonstration when the east coast CEO came to visit our Silicon Valley office. In reality, he was coming to play golf in the Pebble Beach Pro-Am, but to justify taking the corporate jet, he spent an hour at our research lab. Weeks before he arrived, the facilities group started making the place look neat: Cleanup everywhere, hallways were repainted, researchers were told to not put trash bins in the hallway (where we always kept them to make it easier for the trash to be emptied), all staffers were supposed to sit in their office, nicely dressed, with the door open, while the CEO and his entourage of about 10 personal attendants walk by. The day before the visit, all the carpets were shampooed and windows cleaned.This one made me chuckle about Ginny's visit to the IBM offices.
IBM memo to staff: Our CEO Ginni is visiting so please 'act normally!'
Leaked missive insists 'no selfies, no bathroom run-ins or elevator pitches' with Romettywww.theregister.com
As much as people like Bill, Jeff, Steve, and Elon were nasty individuals
To connect this to the original topic, those tech bros made social media the cess pool it is, full of illusions of what exists and what is available. See the tinder swipe statistics for that. You know, 80% of males are sub-par...Poor Alain. He just wants to get laid and we're taking about billionaires who destroy society.
To be fair, I don't see many of us declaring that we are men either.Simple question: do you see any woman here on the forum? No? Me neither. Then, why is that so?
To be fair, I don't see many of us declaring that we are men either.
Yes, my miserable, awkward and argumentative nature strongly suggests I am male but anyone joining a tech community and explicitly stating "I am a woman" would raise some red flags (and probably also be very likely to be male too).
In short, A UNIX forum probably has no place for gender.
Strangely I actually see a higher ratio of female engineers in the industry and at work than online.Jokes apart
Nononono. Stop, scrollback. This is not what I mean. And modern gender dissolution is of no interest to me, anyway.To be fair, I don't see many of us declaring that we are men either.
Yes, my miserable,
I don't think so. Why should that be? Oh, btw, if I remember correctly, there actually was a woman here occasionally. She seems to write for some magazine that does really exist, and most probably she also does really exist.but anyone joining a tech community and explicitly stating "I am a woman" would raise some red flags (and probably also be very likely to be male too).
Strangely I actually see a higher ratio of female engineers in the industry and at work than online.
Perhaps women just aren't as inclined to sit on operating system forums in their free time as much as men. I certainly can't understand that
You are absolutely correct. Maybe I should have written: "Have been observed in the past to be evil, leading to an expectation that they are, and will be evil."Ups? Are they dead now?
No problem, it was just irritating. I had to check, and at least the-man-who-fell-to-earth seems not to be dead, and neither evil, btw (which is also irritating, because the actual man-who-fell-to-earth sadly is indeed dead, for a few years already).You are absolutely correct. Maybe I should have written: "Have been observed in the past to be evil, leading to an expectation that they are, and will be evil."
I knew you two would get along like a house on fire." Screams, flames,
people running for safety...
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Since I’m kinda old, I was around when the first dial-in dating BBS systems came out. At the time, not very many women had their own PCs, so most of the women on the dating BBS were dialing in on their boyfriend’s computer.Not only a waste of time and a waste of money, but also a waste of emotional energy. Many a woman on these apps have no interest in dating, they want to scratch their egos "I still got it". And when you invest time and interest into a contact that is likely to be in vain. Many want the attention, few want a relationship. So, if you are looking for a magnet for people with narcissistic trends, dating apps are a good candidate.
I will just say that while you are alone, spend the time improving yourself so that when you do meet someone worthwhile, you're worthwhile too.
My ex-wife when i met here was 17. I was 28 when we met. But i lied about my age. During the relationship i told my real age. But for here age was no longer an issue. We have been together for 11 years.It's funny, in an email conversation with said Bill hating friend, I also mentioned Steve. He certainly is (was?) up there, claiming he was infertile so he wouldn't be responsible for his daughter, and that probably isn't the worst of it. But my friend is so anti MS, it's almost funny, though as he points out, I get equally defensive if say, he insults the BSDs. But he, in his 60's still writes Microsoft Turd, for example.
But hey, going back to dating, it reminds me of, again pre Internet, I was working in sales in office supplies, One of my customers and I began a phone flirtation. Eventually, I asked her her age, and she was 22 or so. She asked How about you? I said, Well, I'm in my mid 30's.. <pause for effect> But...I'm really immature.
I didn't get a date, but I got a laugh, which, once I heard how young she was, was all I was aiming for.