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[TA1LGUNN3R]

Um... that sounds like the best movie ever. C'MON HOLLYWOOD GET IT TOGETHER!

-TG

[Crazyirishman]

Hey guys I finally found one, not sure if its been posted posted before but I got a good chuckle.

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[ender516]

All good, but the middle one made me LOL.

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[ender516]

1. Too true
2. Too right
3. To infinity and beyond!

[Army of GOD]

It's closer to 2 times the speed of light (4.8*10^8).

[thegreekdog]

I've always wondered about the second one when it comes to various products.

Pharmaceuticals, for example, are man-made, but the components exist naturally. Anyway, I thought - "Aren't all products natural or organic?" I think of weird stuff sometimes.

[ManBungalow]

I got pissed off with my schoolteacher when I was about 7 as she tried to tell me that a wooden rolling pin is a man-made object.

[Haggis_McMutton]

I've always wondered about the second one when it comes to various products.

Pharmaceuticals, for example, are man-made, but the components exist naturally. Anyway, I thought - "Aren't all products natural or organic?" I think of weird stuff sometimes.

I think about stuff like that often, except I usually take it to far more ridiculous lengths.

For instance, based on the idea you mention I then thought about people's tendency to associated "not natural" with unhealthy. Of course this is bullshit, you can find many things as natural as they come (ie. growing out of the ground) that'll kill you and many thinks as artificial as they come (eg: most modern drugs) that'll save your life.

Then I though, if it's a bullshit and potentially harmful idea (especially when taken to extremes, such as not vaccinating your kids cause they'll get autism), then why does it persist? Is it just an unfortunate side-effect of some larger evolutionary system that provides enough benefit to overcome the disadvantage of that particular neurosis?

But, then I remembered about the many people who followed premature scientific advice, such as taking ridiculously high doses of certain vitamins or taking 2 aspirins a day and lately suffered because it turned out that taking that shit in such high quantitied causes more problems than it solves. (one example of this taken to extremes is futurist Ray Kurzweil, who is, to quote wikipedia, taking "250 supplements, eight to 10 glasses of alkaline water and 10 cups of green tea every day and drinking several glasses of red wine a week in an effort to 'reprogram' his biochemistry").
So maybe this irrational and ultimately bullshit belief is actually useful as some kind of a heuristic that incentivises you to stick with the stuff you've consumed from childhood(and which you therefore probably consider "natural")

I have no idea why I wrote all that out, but f*ck it, not gonna delete it now. Anywho:

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@ 3rd one. My feelings exactly. God do I hate those fuckin commercials.

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Also, 50th page. Not bad.

[thegreekdog]

I think about stuff like that often, except I usually take it to far more ridiculous lengths.

For instance, based on the idea you mention I then thought about people's tendency to associated "not natural" with unhealthy. Of course this is bullshit, you can find many things as natural as they come (ie. growing out of the ground) that'll kill you and many thinks as artificial as they come (eg: most modern drugs) that'll save your life.

Then I though, if it's a bullshit and potentially harmful idea (especially when taken to extremes, such as not vaccinating your kids cause they'll get autism), then why does it persist? Is it just an unfortunate side-effect of some larger evolutionary system that provides enough benefit to overcome the disadvantage of that particular neurosis?

That's precisely why I think of things like that.

My dad, my brother, and I once had a 4 hour debate (on a drive home from college) on math... not of a math concept but math generally. I think we were arguing about the arbitrary nature of the language and it's application to math. That movie Stargate (or one of those 1990s science fiction movies) talked about how aliens would be able to communicate with us through math, which generated the conversation.

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the link I'm posting.

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I laughed then showed it to my wife still laughing. I told her, "It would have to be pizza or something but I get it."

[jonesthecurl]

When I told my first wife I was leaving she said "Eat all the bananas before you go, and take the pickled onions with you."

[2dimes]

I would have followed those orders provided there were not too many bananas.

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[ender516]

I am really liking the heavenly strips.

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[ender516]

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In the last year, after decades of working in C and wishing I were working in C++, my company finally sent me for C++ training. So I was way past panel 4 (in C at least), went back to panel 2 for four days, then skipped ahead to panel 4 again. By the time I get to panel 5, I may not give a damn (I'll be pushing retirement). However this plan can be modified to "Teach Yourself Anything In 21 Days", so, there's that. It might be best just to start at panel 5 and keep your options open for panel ten.

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Yeah, I hear dat. "I'm gonna pop some tags, got twenty dollars in my pocket..."

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My library is just as bad. It is very disappointing to find the old atom/rocket sticker on the spine of a vampire book. It is also annoying to find a dragon sticker on something by Robinson (Kim Stanley or Spider, take your pick).

[Haggis_McMutton]

In the last year, after decades of working in C and wishing I were working in C++, my company finally sent me for C++ training. So I was way past panel 4 (in C at least), went back to panel 2 for four days, then skipped ahead to panel 4 again. By the time I get to panel 5, I may not give a damn (I'll be pushing retirement). However this plan can be modified to "Teach Yourself Anything In 21 Days", so, there's that. It might be best just to start at panel 5 and keep your options open for panel ten.

How do you like C++? I've heard horror stories about what happens to code bases when people switch to C++ and are just itching to try on all the "features".

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[thegreekdog]

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This comic illustrates (pun intended) my second biggest problem with the United States.

[ender516]

In the last year, after decades of working in C and wishing I were working in C++, my company finally sent me for C++ training. So I was way past panel 4 (in C at least), went back to panel 2 for four days, then skipped ahead to panel 4 again. By the time I get to panel 5, I may not give a damn (I'll be pushing retirement). However this plan can be modified to "Teach Yourself Anything In 21 Days", so, there's that. It might be best just to start at panel 5 and keep your options open for panel ten.

How do you like C++? I've heard horror stories about what happens to code bases when people switch to C++ and are just itching to try on all the "features".

Well, generally, we are not converting C code to C++ code. If it ain't broke,...
We are doing some new development in C++ and I did get wound around the axle a bit trying to use templates when apparently inheritance would do the job. (I am not yet entirely convinced that templates weren't the way to go, but budget and schedule trump all.)

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These are good, as always. I should probably go directly to http://abstrusegoose.com myself.

This comic illustrates (pun intended) my second biggest problem with the United States.

Okay, I'll bite: what is your biggest problem with the United States?