# Technology doesn't work that way - SamuelA's Pit Thread **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 3, 2017, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/technology-doesnt-work-that-way-samuelas-pit-thread/803420 "2017-12-03T00:52:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 36
**Author:** ![SamuelA](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c77e96/32.png) [@SamuelA](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SamuelA)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2018, 11:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/technology-doesnt-work-that-way-samuelas-pit-thread/803420/701 "2018-01-19T11:55:47Z")
> [@Tripler](#): > > Well, I see he’s basing his expert military opinion on avionics and human factors on [video games](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=20727390&postcount=17) (albeit a brief look). But now that I see an attempted pretext of cancer to sway an argument/make a point, I admit, that even in his “jest,” I have never seen anything so yellow. You didn’t fucking read all 3 posts. (a) the cancer one was sarcasm. Which anyone who reads can tell. (b) I _say_ “that’s how it works in the video games, how does it actually work?” (c) I point out that HOTAS at least replicates the actual menus from the actual jets. And those menus are garbage. If you are saying the actual jets are easier to fly than they are in the video games, speak up, asshole. You know what. What you just shat out is so idiotic. So devoid of valid content. Every fucking one of your points above shows you failed high school english and should be in remedial reading. Are you fucking serious that you made it to a mid-level rank as an officer in the air force? You actually passed classes in college? How on earth? Like, seriously? You say I’m arrogant. Maybe I deserve that. Condescending. Yep. Think I can know a better way than the ultimate outcome mother nature has for all of us, a rotting corpse. Yep. But at least I’m fucking trying. Fuck you, back to work in my real job. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2018, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/technology-doesnt-work-that-way-samuelas-pit-thread/803420/702 "2018-01-19T12:40:15Z")
Ha! You didn’t get ignored, Tripler! Hey, _child_, anyone who jokes about having cancer is a shitstain. And what is your real job again? Something, I’m positive, which is truly cutting edge, like [vb.NET](http://vb.NET) coding. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2018, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/technology-doesnt-work-that-way-samuelas-pit-thread/803420/703 "2018-01-19T16:40:15Z")
I bet he’s a college kid with no job except maybe one of those lazy assed “I’ll work at Starbucks 6 hours a week for the employee discount, then cancel half my shifts” kind of people. About 15 years ago my sister took over management of a chain coffee store near a “Christian” college. She found that she had 60 kids on her list of employees who all worked less than 10 hours a week and most of them routinely called in sick to get out of their shifts. She set the rule at a minimum of 10 hours a week and fired everyone who worked less than that, or regularly called in sick. Because a lot of them would call in sick, then appear several hours later looking perfectly healthy to use their employee discount. Idiots. ---
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2018, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/technology-doesnt-work-that-way-samuelas-pit-thread/803420/704 "2018-01-19T17:25:20Z")
And he comes out _ **swinging!** _ I do enjoy watching him flounder in his own lack of logic. . . So, here we go. – > [@SamuelA](#): > > You didn’t fucking read all 3 posts. You didn’t count correctly. There are only two that we’re dealing with in my last post. Where’s the magical third one? But on a side note, we have **ALL** read your posts. We’re not laughing with you, we’re laughing at you. > [@SamuelA](#): > > (a) the cancer one was sarcasm. Which anyone who reads can tell. Yes, I did tell it was sarcasm–and indicated that. And I also indicated that anyone who sarcastically uses cancer to make a point is yellow. > [@SamuelA](#): > > (b) I _say_ “that’s how it works in the video games, how does it actually work?” Those words never appear in your post. That _concept_ never appears in your post. You don’t even address ‘how things work’; you simply used your video game experience as a segue into how to unnecessarily automate things. > [@SamuelA](#): > > (c) I point out that HOTAS at least replicates the actual menus from the actual jets. And those menus are garbage. No you don’t. That concept never appears in your post. But here’s a concept for you: _what flops into your mind doesn’t correspond to what you type and make appear on our screens._. Your fantastical ideas are truly your own, you special snowflake! But please do inform us on how [HOTAS hardware](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HOTAS) can mimic a graphical interface. Feel free . . . > [@SamuelA](#): > > If you are saying the actual jets are easier to fly than they are in the video games, speak up, asshole. With graduation from SUPT and/or ENJJPT, and further training in their specific airfrmes and positions (e.g. Flight Engineer, Radar/Nav, etc.) it becomes easier to fly and muscle memory is developed. With proper training, it is easier to fly an aircraft than your unqualified, unsolicited opinion offers. But you wouldn’t know that because you play video games instead of having any semblance of first-person information (i.e. talking with people that have actually performed these tasks). > [@SamuelA](#): > > You know what. What you just shat out is so idiotic. So devoid of valid content. Every fucking one of your points above shows you failed high school english and should be in remedial reading. Are you fucking serious that you made it to a mid-level rank as an officer in the air force? You actually passed classes in college? How on earth? Spoken like a true 6-year old that’s been caught with his pants down. If anyone needs remedial English, it’s yourself–you seem to mentally attach internal ideas, thoughts, and fantasies to typed words that don’t convey those concepts. Even in basic debates, you have demonstrated a pattern to introduce ideas without citations or justifications, only to provide weak evidence _after the fact_ that you’ve been called out. And this is where you fail, and where we point out your fantasies. I do think you need to go back to Summer School to learn to count though. > [@SamuelA](#): > > Like, seriously? You say I’m arrogant. Maybe I deserve that. Condescending. Yep. You forgot “lofty, head-in-the-clouds academic” and “amateur at best.” But, I’ll take your current admissions as evidence that learning can be/has been achieved. > [@SamuelA](#): > > Think I can know a better way than the ultimate outcome mother nature has for all of us, a rotting corpse. Yep. But at least I’m fucking trying. Fuck you, back to work in my real job. Oh, nobody’s questioning the fact you _think_ you know better than the rest of us. But we do question what substance you may be partaking in to motivate you to tackle such currently-impossible task. You must be the Enlightened One! Compared to you, all I can do is scrape by with more prescient earthly problems like, maintaining a nuclear weapons system in a politcially questionable environment between two national-level leaders. But if you can solve the [question of immortality](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=839342)–go for it! The rest of us will keep us alive until you come up with that perfect solution. I doubt we can keep you alive to the point you find such a high-order goal. – > [@JohnT](#): > > And what is your real job again? Something, I’m positive, which is truly cutting edge, like [vb.NET](http://vb.NET) coding. > [@Chimera](#): > > I bet he’s a college kid with no job except maybe one of those lazy assed “I’ll work at Starbucks 6 hours a week for the employee discount, then cancel half my shifts” kind of people. According to [this](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=825831) he was working for his father as a computer programmer until he took an internship, and moved into an apartment with roomates (back in May). He claimed he was taking some online Masters’ Courses through Georgia Tech too, and has [obviously read a lot](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=20690229&postcount=291) which apparently furthers his worldly expertise in a variety of subjects. At some point between May and October, there was some sort of mental breakdown, where he went from somewhat coherent to downright obnoxiously arrogant. Tripler I do enjoy watching him flounder. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2018, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/technology-doesnt-work-that-way-samuelas-pit-thread/803420/705 "2018-01-19T17:29:16Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > I bet he’s a college kid with no job except maybe one of those lazy assed “I’ll work at Starbucks 6 hours a week for the employee discount, then cancel half my shifts” kind of people. See [this](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=825831) thread. (ETA culturally-appropriated sneaky Asian assassined by Tripler.) ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2018, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/technology-doesnt-work-that-way-samuelas-pit-thread/803420/706 "2018-01-19T17:32:57Z")
> [@Tripler](#): > > He … has [obviously read a lot](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=20690229&postcount=291) which apparently furthers his worldly expertise in a variety of subjects. That only works in Holiday Inn Express commercials. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2018, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/technology-doesnt-work-that-way-samuelas-pit-thread/803420/707 "2018-01-20T01:49:57Z")
Our boy wonder last logged in at 5:12PM MST. No doubt he’s stewing and writing an “epic, scathing response” full of wonder and logic. Tripler It’s entertaining watching him flounder. ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2018, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/technology-doesnt-work-that-way-samuelas-pit-thread/803420/708 "2018-01-20T01:54:17Z")
Oh, not so. Sammy has used this time on reflect on how he’s coming across and he’s decided to turn over a new leaf. He’s going to come back and admit he was wrong and thank everyone for helping him learn to better get along. Then he’ll offer to go to some homeless center and do 100 hours of community service to make amends. Have faith in Sammy. This will happen. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![SamuelA](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c77e96/32.png) [@SamuelA](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SamuelA)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2018, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/technology-doesnt-work-that-way-samuelas-pit-thread/803420/709 "2018-01-20T02:23:27Z")
> [@Tripler](#): > > Our boy wonder last logged in at 5:12PM MST. No doubt he’s stewing and writing an “epic, scathing response” full of wonder and logic. > > Tripler > It’s entertaining watching him flounder. No, I’m just not interesting in engaging with someone who isn’t intellectually honest or intelligent enough to be worth my time. Come post on LesserWrong if you want to engage with me. The moderation there is brutal, you wouldn’t even get out of the negatives. ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2018, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/technology-doesnt-work-that-way-samuelas-pit-thread/803420/710 "2018-01-20T02:33:32Z")
What’s your username over there? ---
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2018, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/technology-doesnt-work-that-way-samuelas-pit-thread/803420/711 "2018-01-20T15:31:10Z")
> [@SamuelA](#): > > No, I’m just not interesting in engaging with someone who isn’t intellectually honest or intelligent enough to be worth my time. Spoken like a true narcissist. “Intellectual honesty” and “intelligence” has nothing to do with it. Here’s what _really_ happened; your ego moved you to wander into territory you know nothing about. When you did, and someone knowledgeable in that field came to challenge you with the difficult quesitons on your theories (on two subjects now), you threw your hands up and became “disinterested.” You tried to baffle us with bullshit, irrelevant equations, fantasies, and half-assed citations but were called out–and then you “lost interest.” If this is how you plan on defending a Graduate Capstone Project, then prepare to fail miserably. > [@SamuelA](#): > > Come post on LesserWrong if you want to engage with me. The moderation there is brutal, you wouldn’t even get out of the negatives. What makes you think I’m not already there? . . . and why do you want to retreat to your “safe space,” so the mods can protect you? Seriously kid, if you can’t handle heat, get out of your Mother’s kitchen. Tripler I recommend you microwave your meatloaf–it’s safer than you around a stove. ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2018, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/technology-doesnt-work-that-way-samuelas-pit-thread/803420/712 "2018-01-20T18:34:24Z")
Well, in all honesty, meatloaf cooked on a stove sucks. I prefer a conduction oven because I can’t afford a convection oven, but I have a plan to market convection ovens to the masses. If you reverse the polarity of an conduction oven, and add a resister over by the recoineter valve, between the polar splits, you can make a pretty fair modification to your oven. It will no longer require electricity either. Just sit it in the sun on a hot day and it’ll cook fine. ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2018, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/technology-doesnt-work-that-way-samuelas-pit-thread/803420/713 "2018-01-20T20:00:32Z")
> [@Morgenstern](#): > > Well, in all honesty, meatloaf cooked on a stove sucks. I prefer a conduction oven because I can’t afford a convection oven, but I have a plan to market convection ovens to the masses. If you reverse the polarity of an conduction oven, and add a resister over by the recoineter valve, between the polar splits, you can make a pretty fair modification to your oven. It will no longer require electricity either. Just sit it in the sun on a hot day and it’ll cook fine. In a pinch, you can use it to deflect asteroids. When you’re sick, hop on in, and it’ll freeze you until they find a cure to what ails you. \*Nano-bots not included. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2018, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/technology-doesnt-work-that-way-samuelas-pit-thread/803420/714 "2018-01-20T22:37:03Z")
> [@SamuelA](#): > > No, I’m just not interesting in engaging with someone who isn’t intellectually honest or intelligent enough to be worth my time. Come post on LesserWrong if you want to engage with me. The moderation there is brutal, you wouldn’t even get out of the negatives. Every time I start to feel a twinge of sympathy for this witless schlemiel, he suddenly reappears like an odiferous anal emission to remind us all why he deserves everything he’s getting. ---
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2018, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/technology-doesnt-work-that-way-samuelas-pit-thread/803420/715 "2018-01-21T00:33:38Z")
> [@SamuelA](#): > > Anyways, I’ve made my points. You’re all morons, except for those individuals I have named who are not. I’m done with my victory lap, I win all the arguments, tossing my guitar to the groupies in front and I’m heading backstage. Here’s a pro tip; if you’re the only one cheering on your victory lap, you didn’t win all the arguments. ---
**Author:** ![Paranoid\_Randroid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/paranoid_randroid/32/18_2.png) [@Paranoid\_Randroid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paranoid_Randroid)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2018, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/technology-doesnt-work-that-way-samuelas-pit-thread/803420/716 "2018-01-21T16:48:35Z")
> [@SamuelA](#): > > Come post on LesserWrong if you want to engage with me. LesserWrong? Is that a site dedicated to stuff like jaywalking and eating the last piece of cake? ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2018, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/technology-doesnt-work-that-way-samuelas-pit-thread/803420/717 "2018-01-21T19:11:42Z")
What I’m trying to figure out is the challenge itself. Tripler goes to LW to debate SA. They say the same things they say here. OK? And that proves… what? ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2018, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/technology-doesnt-work-that-way-samuelas-pit-thread/803420/718 "2018-01-21T19:27:59Z")
Perhaps whiny boy thinks that people over there will white knight him. ---
**Author:** ![TroutMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troutman/32/6721_2.png) [@TroutMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroutMan)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2018, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/technology-doesnt-work-that-way-samuelas-pit-thread/803420/719 "2018-01-21T19:29:01Z")
In Sammy’s fantasies, the denizens of the other site congratulate him on his brilliant knowledge and arguments, **Tripler** slinks back defeated, and Sam gets an actual victory lap where he isn’t the only one cheering. The reality would be there are now two forums that consider Sammy an idiot, which means he has twice as many people to feel superior to. A win either way! ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2018, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/technology-doesnt-work-that-way-samuelas-pit-thread/803420/720 "2018-01-21T20:42:13Z")
> [@Paranoid\_Randroid](#): > > LesserWrong? Is that a site dedicated to stuff like jaywalking and eating the last piece of cake? I have been informed by my wife that eating the last piece of cake in _her_ house is, in no way, a lesser wrong. 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/technology-doesnt-work-that-way-samuelas-pit-thread/803420.md?page=35) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/technology-doesnt-work-that-way-samuelas-pit-thread/803420.md?page=37)