Being Inconsiderate

2013-01-12

Excuse the swearing. I thought about editing this but decided this is how I wanted it. Raw.

Just in case you haven't actually thought about what being "inconsiderate" means it means "to not consider". I'm going to assume you believe that being inconsiderate is bad, dickish, not cool, something your parents tried to raise you not be. So why is it sooooo many people are so fucking inconsiderate? I suppose it comes from the definition .... they don't consider. They are too self centered and selfish to consider others or just oblivious. What am I talking about? Let's take some examples.

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Orange County is not White

2012-04-30

Anytime you hear someone say Orange County is White bread or some other thing claiming it's scared of non−whites know that you are listening to a LIAR

O.C. is less white than San Francisco. O.C. is only 27% white. Even Irvine which gets dissed all the time as being white only is 41% white.

So FUCK OFF HATERS! Quit using O.C. to justify your close minded B.S.

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How much longer will most unskilled jobs exist?

2012-04-16

This is totally off the wall but a link on Hacker News about leaving at 5pm and a response to that link got me wondering, just how much longer will most unskilled jobs continue to exist.

For example, how much longer is the job of convenience store clerk even going to exist? Already most major supermarkets have self−serve checkout lines. Could a convenience store just have self service checkout? Of course there is the issue of security. Who's to prevent people from just walking out with the goods. But let's go a little further.

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Open-Mindedness

2010-06-13

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Mind Over Money

2010-05-08

I started watching the Nova episode called Mind Over Money. I generally like Nova but this episode was far below their normal standards.

The episode is supposed to be about the idea that traditional economists base their calculations on "rational people". They claim stuff like people are supposedly perfectly rational when it comes to money and will never pay more for something than it's actually worth. They then go on to give several massively convoluted examples. They say things like "people take their the interest rate of their retirement plan into account on every purchase" or something like that. They're basically claiming things no economist has ever claimed.

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WTF is up with the Census?

2010-03-23

This REALLY EFFING pisses me off. The census is pretty clearly designed to further someone's personal agenda and not to actually gather data. See below.

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The Death of Radio

2009-07-01

This might be obvious and maybe others have posted this but it's clear to me radio will be struggling to stay alive within 10 years just like newspaper is today.

It's already dead for me. Why? Because I bought an iPhone last year. Since that time, on the way to and from work I listen almost exclusively to either podcasts (This American Life, Radiolab, Dan Carlin's Hardcore History) or streaming music (Pandora, Shoutcast). I get a good enough connection that I can stream all the way to and from work.

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Subtle Racism?

2008-09-25

I'm sure this is going to come off to many as something to do about nothing and it certainly didn't offend me personally but....

I was at a food court the other day. Different sections of the food court had labels. There was the "Green" section which was the salad area, there was a "Drinks" section and a "Vegetarian" section for vegetarian friendly prepared foods. There was one area labeled "Home Cooking" and another labeled "International". The "home cooking" area had various chicken and beef dishes and things like string beans, zucchini, mashed potatoes. The international section had Chinese and Indian foods.

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IP rights discussion

2008-03-16

Just hoping to get some other points of view.

The Slashdot crowd and similar people like to call IP Imaginary Property to try to point out that there is no such thing and therefore it shouldn't be treated like property. They like to point out that copying some music or a movie or software isn't like stealing because the person who it was copied from has not lost their original

Well, playing devil's advocate...

Money is effectively a fiction. It's just a number in a computer database. When your employer pays you they don't send physical money to the bank. They just tell the bank to subtract from their account number and add to your account number. It's all virtual.

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The Parable of the Talents

2008-01-22

I started reading a new book, the Mind of the Market, and so far I've only read the first chapter but during that time the parable of the talents came up.

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