"independent conservative democrat" is how he describes himself.
Of course, I can't figure out what the hell an "independent conservative democrat", actually is. Do they attend Occupy Wall Street rallies wearing tricornered hats? If so, that'd be a hoot to watch.
Before anyone gets all worked up about media bias, it'd probably be best to find out what his *actual* party affiliation is. He can't be all three. Personally, I think he will be referred to as "inmate 23445678", and the title should stick to him for ten to fifteen with time off for good behavior.
...and why wouldn't they? They *should* be playing with outside tech, as otherwise, they will be left in the dust interface/application/function-wise. I'd consider them to be more astute than your average member of the Unwashed in learning what else is out there..
Not exactly. Depends upon the country you're from -- there was no restriction/impedance to US citizenship for three people I knew that emigrated to US from Russia -- I did all their paperwork, so I know, and I am quite sure that USDHS would make that point quite clear if it was illegal. However, Russia does not allow dual citizenship, so eventually, they'll head to the Russian consulate to formally renounce it. In the meantime, they're in the limbo of having Russian citizenship, but unable to take advantage of the copious benefits therefrom -- like compulsory military service, yadda yadda yadda.
No hurry -- the sky doesn't fall if they don't get it done ASAP, but if you go to Russia with expired Russian passport, wacky hijinks *will* ensue -- unless you hire a lawyer, and pay off the right people.
Its the legislative magic of incompetently written, incomprehensibly written, thousand-page laws. Politicians, ever the masters of being on BOTH sides of any issue, have crafted laws that are simultaneously *for* and *against* things, and as such, can get reinterpreted any way they want. It's the same principle involved in both the famous quote: "Even the Devil can quote scripture for his own purposes", and the syntactical cleverness where you place certain words in a paragraph to hide the rickroll.
Well-written laws are short and easy to read, understand, discuss, and vote for/against on the merits. Modern bullshit laws weigh in at forty pounds, and nobody, and I mean NOBODY reads them. They can't. Not even possible. I'd call it incompetence, but I think that's a plausible deniability fig leaf covering far more malicious intent.
Banks did not "do" the sub-prime catastrophe. Before the feds got involved in mortgage lending, the only way you could get a mortgage was with 20% down, and there was NO SUCH THING as a sub-prime mortgage.* That's *why* the sub-prime market is improperly regulated -- it is a relatively new market created by legislative fiat that the imbeciles in DC were unable to anticipate (or worse -- I suspect they used the inevitable creation of this market as a way to funnel cash to themselves/their cronies). It sucked if you didn't have the 20% saved up, but defaults were few and far between. After all, the whole purpose of a substantial down payment was to make sure you had enough skin in the game that you wouldn't overextend yourself.
Capitalism by itself works. Capitalism with trolls working the system to amass power to themselves does not work -- as it isn't capitalism. Crony capitalism isn't a form of capitalism at all. Don't get me wrong as to political leanings here -- we have had a lot of crony capitalists on both sides of the aisle in the US -- Lincoln, for example, was a master at it, and I am no fan of the Jeffrey Immelt-style of cronies -- but they are just a conduit for cash created by the government's oppressive legislation -- put them in jail, and the politicians will find other conduits. Just look up the largely unreported NOAA slush fund scam for a textbook example of "oppress someone, offer relief if you pay someone off, profit" scheme that rewards huge businesses and punishes smaller ones that don't understand that in DC, you have to pay to play.
Like any legislation that creates more problems far worse than the original, the politicians are at the place where they blame someone else for the problems they created. Next will be proposed legislation to "punish" the scapegoats, creating more problems that they can run for election on, and collect "donations" in order to give businesses a pass on enforcement a la China. Lather, rinse, repeat. In one paragraph, you repeated the main two lies used to pass the blame on and obfuscate the true source of the problem.
I'd call politicians parasites that afflict the people they purport to serve, but that's insulting to parasites anywhere. Ticks are mere pikers in comparison -- they just suck your blood until you die. These creeps suck your blood, blame you for the poor quality of blood due to your anaemia, bill you, your estate, and your descendants for the cost of their sucking their blood, any medical treatment, and burial expenses, and use your medical condition to justify latching on to any other source of blood handy.
My advice to you, young padawan, is to not give so much credence to people that say they are trying to "help" or "inform" you. Then you won't be "controlled".
* -- in fact, there is no such government interference in business real estate loans, which is why you do not hear of a sub-prime business real estate sub-prime market -- even though you can make the argument that since 90%+ of business startups fail, there should be a lot more sub-prime business real estate mortgages. If your business wants a mortgage, they still have to put 20% down or pass fairly stringent financial tests that would not be politically palatable in the heavily demogogued "buy a house for 0% down-no income or assets needed to apply" home mortgage market.
There never will be such legislation, as businesses are the scapegoats here, and nobody in politics loves businesses -- they only want their cash -- and creating oppression in order to create a highly profitable (to them) moral hazard is the way that Washington DC does business these days.
Re: Are the honourable members of the senate just jealous?
I don't think that would slow them down for even a second. After all, you can be a Senator from Indiana for years without actually deigning to live there. They'd just exempt themselves from the law like they do with any other US law they find inconvenient under the pretense that they're serving the public, and it'd be all just OK.
This is not a 'loophole'. It is "capital flight" -- which scares the bejeebers out of the people doing the oppressing. Why won't he stay here and be oppressed?
Income earned in the US is taxable in the US, and he can't just move to escape that -- that's not the issue, and never really was, grandstanding aside. What is the issue is that if you push the investor class out thanks to moronic policies, you lose the investments that create jobs. Eventually, the public cottons on, and the politicians lose theirs (rightly so, as the architects of our misery). Schmucky Schumer et al want him to stay and eat the shit sandwich they've prepared for him.
While this may be SOP in Yank media culture, it shouldn't be. Poor devil has just found out that in the Court of the US Press, you're always guilty until the checks clear for the advertising space and public interest drops off.
Retractions are always buried in a basement in a locked filing cabinet, next to a sign saying "beware of leopard".
Yeah, they're some of the more ignorant of the toilet bowl of ignoramusi we collectively refer to as "Our elected representatives".
Never mind the facts, they rule through sound bites and BS. The only people dumber than them are the ones that vote for them. Either party is guilty of this. They all disgust me.
Relying on monsters from outer space to make your theory work:
So old school.
The "we're all left-handed" because of a single seeding event from a source that contains an even distribution requires something much like a limited gene pool to work. In order to have an ecosystem develop an almost exclusive distribution of one type from a starting source that has an even distribution requires a VERY small sample, as with a 50% distribution, every additional lichen/bacteria has a chance of being the wrong type. I have never been able to have more than a few coins turn up the same way in successive coin tosses. That's the nature of 50/50 odds.
In other words, the only way this theory would work is if one meteorite with less than a dozen bacterium/whatever started the whole thing. With a starting sample that small, it is about indistinguishable from having originated on its own from one happy left-handed start via lightning strike in a bowl of primordial soup.
If external seeding is a factor, and seeding would actually work so easily (one thing to plant, and entirely another to harvest...), and life in the universe has an equal chance of originating in either handedness, then seeded planets most likely would have a distribution of both types, a billion years being a short time for the living species we're able to comprehend, the universe being that big, and time in a geological/astronomic sense being an entirely different thing and all.
I'd think that a greater rarity of life-origination events and some functional benefit from leftedness makes a far more likely explanation. Seeding events where right-handed seeds are destroyed in transit/atmospheric entry would also fit the model, and I should wonder if seeding, handedness, and origination are not three different things -- seeding may be simple 'cross pollination' that drives a more rapid evolutionary cycle using compatible seeds, and the mechanism preferring handedness being as yet unexplained.
Its God's sinister plot to populate the universe, I tell ya!
You mean you aren't supposed to get your scientific press buddies all together in an enormous circle-jerk in order to suppress contrary theories and alternate explanations, and call that consensus?
Here and I thought I was all up on what it takes to do science in the 21st century.
"When did other readers visit their parents or grandparents graves last?"
Last May. Visited my grandmothers', grandfather's, and my great, great, great, great grandfather's graves. Pondered a bit on how transitory life is, and how the short time we have here can be either used to be a blessing to others, or as a troll on teh interwebz. Decided to do both.
Couple that with a culture of corruption. Seems like the more oppressive a nation's laws, the more money there is to be made by selling out.
Being poor, relative or otherwise does not make criminals, and saying that denigrates a lot of very good people. I know plenty of very poor people that would and do literally go hungry rather than take what's not theirs. Crime being viewed as acceptable is what makes criminals.
I have apprehended far, far, far more wealthy shoplifters than I have poor ones. They do it for the thrills.
That's because they're thinking like an NPC, only dimly aware of the big picture, and consumed by the role.
You *are* supposed to do a good job. However, getting recognition for that in terms of cash/promotions isn't tightly associated with the actual work you do/value you represent. It is tightly associated with the Powers That Be's *perception* of the actual work you do/value you represent.
That's the way it has to be. Most managers are technically unskilled labor. Their skills (well, some of them have skills) lie in relational stuff -- how things work as a team, how you appear in public, etc. Dominic took a page out of Niccolo Machiavelli's book on this as an exaggeration - but only slightly so.
Making a backup run 20% faster doesn't translate to a benefit to your boss. He can't take that to his superior, and he can't present this to anyone as a benefit -- because he has no way of proving the benefit. Probably doesn't even know what a backup *is*. In fact, sitting there, head down, doing this sort of thing will actually hurt you in the long run, as then you get a rep as a person who works on obscure things of only marginal benefit -- even if the reality is that the place would fall apart when you leave. How you present that information is a tangible benefit to you and your organization. It would be far smarter to show to your boss that if backups take too long, they impact production, and downtime from that can cost X amount of money. That's something that flows uphill, and later comes back in the form of folding money for you. That's a *lot* better than sitting around, feeling misused because your salary hasn't kept pace with the times, isn't it?
Dominic's not saying "don't do good work" -- but instead, "pay attention to how your work is perceived, and rewards will follow".
Nobody paid for it. It's just the way Daisey sees the world meeting with NPR's confirmation bias. I've listened to that show enough to know smug buzz performance art when I hear it.
Sadly, the truth took a back seat, and rather than helping the victims of Chinese industrialization, most people will now assume that if *one* tale of abuse is false, *all* tales of abuse are false.
People helped? Zero. Perpetrators ashamed? Zero. Lessons learned? Zero.
Bet poster's using a mobe, and when selecting the word that it finds based upon the first few characters, gets a following space character that should be deleted before adding the period.
My mobe does that, but I remove the space, because it's annoying as hell .
When I see the offenders, I take it out on them on their network login. Occasionally, I use their hard drive as browser cache, and their cost center for all my hardware needs. Kills two birds with one stone.
Actually, Dan 10, there *is* a difference. At the moment.
Most video games have a more cartoonish level of violence. It is easier to keep reality and game separate. The relational violence in soaps is indistinguishable from 'real life', and certainly suits many women's need for drama, which they supplement by trashing the hearts, souls and spirits of the people unfortunately in their life.
We are what we consume -- and when I leave the room when the woman wants to watch shite like that, I make no bones about telling her that I refuse to watch abuse. When she told me that she was only watching it because it makes her feel better, I told her that she can always volunteer at the City Mission, feel good about helping the less fortunate *improve* their lives, and not turn herself into an abusive shrew, vicarously feeding upon human misery.
I don't mind sleeping on the couch. It's just like going camping, only without the mosquitoes.
This isn't to let us who play the games off the hook. As they get more and more realistic, they turn more and more into training tools -- and paying money to have someone turn me into a killing machine with a detached understanding of the consequences seems like a dangerous thing to release on society as a whole.
Yep, and they don't even notice that the baby was born a healthy 12-month-old. That from the distaff side -- surely, they'd think a 14lb baby would be a tad hard to pass.
The period was roughly 65M years -- not 65,000,002 or any other degree of precision. Stands to reason that if there are other big honking rocks out there in that cluster, that they may be ahead or behind the others, and so this could have just been a warmup for the big one. I wouldn't feel safe until we're a few million years past that period.
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"independent conservative democrat" is how he describes himself.
Of course, I can't figure out what the hell an "independent conservative democrat", actually is. Do they attend Occupy Wall Street rallies wearing tricornered hats? If so, that'd be a hoot to watch.
Before anyone gets all worked up about media bias, it'd probably be best to find out what his *actual* party affiliation is. He can't be all three. Personally, I think he will be referred to as "inmate 23445678", and the title should stick to him for ten to fifteen with time off for good behavior.
Re: As an IBMer
...and why wouldn't they? They *should* be playing with outside tech, as otherwise, they will be left in the dust interface/application/function-wise. I'd consider them to be more astute than your average member of the Unwashed in learning what else is out there..
Noise? Noise?!
They aren't giving in to the noise. Management generally doesn't give a damn when it comes to what their subordinates want/need/use.
Management wanted BYOD so they could Bring In Their Own Device.
Re: Are the honourable members of the senate just jealous?
You made my day.
%$##-ing hoosiers.
Re: You're one of us, or one of them.
Not exactly. Depends upon the country you're from -- there was no restriction/impedance to US citizenship for three people I knew that emigrated to US from Russia -- I did all their paperwork, so I know, and I am quite sure that USDHS would make that point quite clear if it was illegal. However, Russia does not allow dual citizenship, so eventually, they'll head to the Russian consulate to formally renounce it. In the meantime, they're in the limbo of having Russian citizenship, but unable to take advantage of the copious benefits therefrom -- like compulsory military service, yadda yadda yadda.
No hurry -- the sky doesn't fall if they don't get it done ASAP, but if you go to Russia with expired Russian passport, wacky hijinks *will* ensue -- unless you hire a lawyer, and pay off the right people.
Re: Time machine?
Its the legislative magic of incompetently written, incomprehensibly written, thousand-page laws. Politicians, ever the masters of being on BOTH sides of any issue, have crafted laws that are simultaneously *for* and *against* things, and as such, can get reinterpreted any way they want. It's the same principle involved in both the famous quote: "Even the Devil can quote scripture for his own purposes", and the syntactical cleverness where you place certain words in a paragraph to hide the rickroll.
Well-written laws are short and easy to read, understand, discuss, and vote for/against on the merits. Modern bullshit laws weigh in at forty pounds, and nobody, and I mean NOBODY reads them. They can't. Not even possible. I'd call it incompetence, but I think that's a plausible deniability fig leaf covering far more malicious intent.
Re: @Philip
Banks did not "do" the sub-prime catastrophe. Before the feds got involved in mortgage lending, the only way you could get a mortgage was with 20% down, and there was NO SUCH THING as a sub-prime mortgage.* That's *why* the sub-prime market is improperly regulated -- it is a relatively new market created by legislative fiat that the imbeciles in DC were unable to anticipate (or worse -- I suspect they used the inevitable creation of this market as a way to funnel cash to themselves/their cronies). It sucked if you didn't have the 20% saved up, but defaults were few and far between. After all, the whole purpose of a substantial down payment was to make sure you had enough skin in the game that you wouldn't overextend yourself.
Capitalism by itself works. Capitalism with trolls working the system to amass power to themselves does not work -- as it isn't capitalism. Crony capitalism isn't a form of capitalism at all. Don't get me wrong as to political leanings here -- we have had a lot of crony capitalists on both sides of the aisle in the US -- Lincoln, for example, was a master at it, and I am no fan of the Jeffrey Immelt-style of cronies -- but they are just a conduit for cash created by the government's oppressive legislation -- put them in jail, and the politicians will find other conduits. Just look up the largely unreported NOAA slush fund scam for a textbook example of "oppress someone, offer relief if you pay someone off, profit" scheme that rewards huge businesses and punishes smaller ones that don't understand that in DC, you have to pay to play.
Like any legislation that creates more problems far worse than the original, the politicians are at the place where they blame someone else for the problems they created. Next will be proposed legislation to "punish" the scapegoats, creating more problems that they can run for election on, and collect "donations" in order to give businesses a pass on enforcement a la China. Lather, rinse, repeat. In one paragraph, you repeated the main two lies used to pass the blame on and obfuscate the true source of the problem.
I'd call politicians parasites that afflict the people they purport to serve, but that's insulting to parasites anywhere. Ticks are mere pikers in comparison -- they just suck your blood until you die. These creeps suck your blood, blame you for the poor quality of blood due to your anaemia, bill you, your estate, and your descendants for the cost of their sucking their blood, any medical treatment, and burial expenses, and use your medical condition to justify latching on to any other source of blood handy.
My advice to you, young padawan, is to not give so much credence to people that say they are trying to "help" or "inform" you. Then you won't be "controlled".
* -- in fact, there is no such government interference in business real estate loans, which is why you do not hear of a sub-prime business real estate sub-prime market -- even though you can make the argument that since 90%+ of business startups fail, there should be a lot more sub-prime business real estate mortgages. If your business wants a mortgage, they still have to put 20% down or pass fairly stringent financial tests that would not be politically palatable in the heavily demogogued "buy a house for 0% down-no income or assets needed to apply" home mortgage market.
There never will be such legislation, as businesses are the scapegoats here, and nobody in politics loves businesses -- they only want their cash -- and creating oppression in order to create a highly profitable (to them) moral hazard is the way that Washington DC does business these days.
Re: Are the honourable members of the senate just jealous?
I don't think that would slow them down for even a second. After all, you can be a Senator from Indiana for years without actually deigning to live there. They'd just exempt themselves from the law like they do with any other US law they find inconvenient under the pretense that they're serving the public, and it'd be all just OK.
Re: Stop criticizing the guy
This is not a 'loophole'. It is "capital flight" -- which scares the bejeebers out of the people doing the oppressing. Why won't he stay here and be oppressed?
Income earned in the US is taxable in the US, and he can't just move to escape that -- that's not the issue, and never really was, grandstanding aside. What is the issue is that if you push the investor class out thanks to moronic policies, you lose the investments that create jobs. Eventually, the public cottons on, and the politicians lose theirs (rightly so, as the architects of our misery). Schmucky Schumer et al want him to stay and eat the shit sandwich they've prepared for him.
Why should he?
While this may be SOP in Yank media culture, it shouldn't be. Poor devil has just found out that in the Court of the US Press, you're always guilty until the checks clear for the advertising space and public interest drops off.
Retractions are always buried in a basement in a locked filing cabinet, next to a sign saying "beware of leopard".
@ 100113.1537
Yeah, they're some of the more ignorant of the toilet bowl of ignoramusi we collectively refer to as "Our elected representatives".
Never mind the facts, they rule through sound bites and BS. The only people dumber than them are the ones that vote for them. Either party is guilty of this. They all disgust me.
[putting my teeth back in]
Re: re: special ops tax collectors
...as much as it worries US Citizens.
Tax collectors with automatic weapons are not the first toe in the waters of tyranny -- they're hip-deep in the swamp.
Missing the point.
Fred! I think we've got an 'eater'!
Re: Must be a fake
If you believe that something like this would have gone to a typing pool, then you forgot the context of the information.
You're looking at Turing's typing.
Re: HR have become powerful
Those terms are so wrong.
It isn't "maximising value", and the business isn't a "cash cow".
It is a business with a stage 4 parasitic infestation.
Relying on monsters from outer space to make your theory work:
So old school.
The "we're all left-handed" because of a single seeding event from a source that contains an even distribution requires something much like a limited gene pool to work. In order to have an ecosystem develop an almost exclusive distribution of one type from a starting source that has an even distribution requires a VERY small sample, as with a 50% distribution, every additional lichen/bacteria has a chance of being the wrong type. I have never been able to have more than a few coins turn up the same way in successive coin tosses. That's the nature of 50/50 odds.
In other words, the only way this theory would work is if one meteorite with less than a dozen bacterium/whatever started the whole thing. With a starting sample that small, it is about indistinguishable from having originated on its own from one happy left-handed start via lightning strike in a bowl of primordial soup.
If external seeding is a factor, and seeding would actually work so easily (one thing to plant, and entirely another to harvest...), and life in the universe has an equal chance of originating in either handedness, then seeded planets most likely would have a distribution of both types, a billion years being a short time for the living species we're able to comprehend, the universe being that big, and time in a geological/astronomic sense being an entirely different thing and all.
I'd think that a greater rarity of life-origination events and some functional benefit from leftedness makes a far more likely explanation. Seeding events where right-handed seeds are destroyed in transit/atmospheric entry would also fit the model, and I should wonder if seeding, handedness, and origination are not three different things -- seeding may be simple 'cross pollination' that drives a more rapid evolutionary cycle using compatible seeds, and the mechanism preferring handedness being as yet unexplained.
Its God's sinister plot to populate the universe, I tell ya!
Yeah, I know. IGMC.
Ewwwww.
"the slightly damp keyboard cloth"
Re: Nazi Space Raptor will meet you now!
"Trannysaurus"
I think that they are still with us. Saw a film clip of them in a parade in San Francisco.
re: "And again, that's how you do science."
You mean you aren't supposed to get your scientific press buddies all together in an enormous circle-jerk in order to suppress contrary theories and alternate explanations, and call that consensus?
Here and I thought I was all up on what it takes to do science in the 21st century.
Re: Applied science
Aten!
Re: If it was a...
...now I know why most of the crew chose to go down with the ship. Afraid of hours and hours of powerpoint presentations and safety meetings.
...loading 'Nearer My God to Thee" on smartphone for future needs. Drowning in icy water sounds like a good way to avoid meetings.
Re: I still like Kinder Eggs
They're good, but only with real kinder.
Re: There is only One Truth and it is non-negotiable.
Don't forget this phrase -- it goes well with "We are hopeful. The future belongs to us. We are almost there.":
"We are great. We are free. We are wonderful. We are the most wonderful people in all the jungle! We all say so, and so it must be true."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandar-log
Re: "cutting out some of his own thigh to make Chong'er a meat soup"
Yeah, but you have no idea how hard it was to smoke it for the Emperor's friend, Cheech'er.
Re: Wow
I'll say.
"Gee, I wanted to thank you for your sacrifice. OK if I burn down the place where you moved to live in private to 'smoke you out'?"
Surely the phrase he said before doing that was "Hold my plum wine, and watch *this*!"
Re: They've Been Offering iThingies for Years
"When did other readers visit their parents or grandparents graves last?"
Last May. Visited my grandmothers', grandfather's, and my great, great, great, great grandfather's graves. Pondered a bit on how transitory life is, and how the short time we have here can be either used to be a blessing to others, or as a troll on teh interwebz. Decided to do both.
Re: Bad sales... bad
Was that supposed to be in English? Unable to parse this.
Re: Bah!
Couple that with a culture of corruption. Seems like the more oppressive a nation's laws, the more money there is to be made by selling out.
Being poor, relative or otherwise does not make criminals, and saying that denigrates a lot of very good people. I know plenty of very poor people that would and do literally go hungry rather than take what's not theirs. Crime being viewed as acceptable is what makes criminals.
I have apprehended far, far, far more wealthy shoplifters than I have poor ones. They do it for the thrills.
Re: Hey Lester!
I believe that 'mas cerveza, por favor' is the phrase that is recognized throughout latin america.
I find it useful, anyway.
Re: Blonde?
Clearly, you've never been to Tortuga.
In Brazil, she passes for platinum blonde, as do most people the rest of the world would call 'brunette'. It's a cultural/relative thing.
Most guys are taking this article all wrong.
That's because they're thinking like an NPC, only dimly aware of the big picture, and consumed by the role.
You *are* supposed to do a good job. However, getting recognition for that in terms of cash/promotions isn't tightly associated with the actual work you do/value you represent. It is tightly associated with the Powers That Be's *perception* of the actual work you do/value you represent.
That's the way it has to be. Most managers are technically unskilled labor. Their skills (well, some of them have skills) lie in relational stuff -- how things work as a team, how you appear in public, etc. Dominic took a page out of Niccolo Machiavelli's book on this as an exaggeration - but only slightly so.
Making a backup run 20% faster doesn't translate to a benefit to your boss. He can't take that to his superior, and he can't present this to anyone as a benefit -- because he has no way of proving the benefit. Probably doesn't even know what a backup *is*. In fact, sitting there, head down, doing this sort of thing will actually hurt you in the long run, as then you get a rep as a person who works on obscure things of only marginal benefit -- even if the reality is that the place would fall apart when you leave. How you present that information is a tangible benefit to you and your organization. It would be far smarter to show to your boss that if backups take too long, they impact production, and downtime from that can cost X amount of money. That's something that flows uphill, and later comes back in the form of folding money for you. That's a *lot* better than sitting around, feeling misused because your salary hasn't kept pace with the times, isn't it?
Dominic's not saying "don't do good work" -- but instead, "pay attention to how your work is perceived, and rewards will follow".
Truer words never were spoken.
Meh.
None of the theories covered the obvious: the Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator.
Re: Dwarf conkers?
I thought that it sounded mildly obscene.
...;but, but, but
What about Ishtar?
Re: Time for the rubber hose
Nobody paid for it. It's just the way Daisey sees the world meeting with NPR's confirmation bias. I've listened to that show enough to know smug buzz performance art when I hear it.
Sadly, the truth took a back seat, and rather than helping the victims of Chinese industrialization, most people will now assume that if *one* tale of abuse is false, *all* tales of abuse are false.
People helped? Zero. Perpetrators ashamed? Zero. Lessons learned? Zero.
Re: DARTH VADER!!!
Worst case of helmet-head I've ever seen in my life!
Re: I watched East Enders once ...
Nobody smiles when they're taking a dump.
otto korreks
Bet poster's using a mobe, and when selecting the word that it finds based upon the first few characters, gets a following space character that should be deleted before adding the period.
My mobe does that, but I remove the space, because it's annoying as hell .
Re: New Zealand.. BOFH story here..
Afraid to give out your logon ID much?
Wonder why?
Re: "Study shows soap operas trigger aggression in women"
Nor is it a good assumption that it is solely women that watch this trash.
To clarify:
Yes.
Re: There are plenty of blokes...
When I see the offenders, I take it out on them on their network login. Occasionally, I use their hard drive as browser cache, and their cost center for all my hardware needs. Kills two birds with one stone.
Re: So many things annoy me about company bathrooms
There's some weird stuff going on in bathrooms.
Like in hotels, where it isn't unheard-of to brew up a cup of coffee while you're dropping a hefty grogan.
Or how about air fresheners -- like the 'cinnamon roll' air freshener in the last john I was in. It smelled like someone just took a dump in a bakery.
Call me crazy, but IMO, food and bathrooms don't mix well.
@Lallabalalla
His knob probably is short enough that it isn't a problem. Probably forgot to wash when handling the sulfuric acid a time or two.
Also wondering why someone who supposedly worked with dangerous chemicals doesn't understand things like aerosols and backspray.
Ah, denial, ain't it a wonderful thing!
Re: Ah, soaps
Garbage in, garbage out.
Now, can *I* get my grant money?
Re: Makes my blood boil
Actually, Dan 10, there *is* a difference. At the moment.
Most video games have a more cartoonish level of violence. It is easier to keep reality and game separate. The relational violence in soaps is indistinguishable from 'real life', and certainly suits many women's need for drama, which they supplement by trashing the hearts, souls and spirits of the people unfortunately in their life.
We are what we consume -- and when I leave the room when the woman wants to watch shite like that, I make no bones about telling her that I refuse to watch abuse. When she told me that she was only watching it because it makes her feel better, I told her that she can always volunteer at the City Mission, feel good about helping the less fortunate *improve* their lives, and not turn herself into an abusive shrew, vicarously feeding upon human misery.
I don't mind sleeping on the couch. It's just like going camping, only without the mosquitoes.
This isn't to let us who play the games off the hook. As they get more and more realistic, they turn more and more into training tools -- and paying money to have someone turn me into a killing machine with a detached understanding of the consequences seems like a dangerous thing to release on society as a whole.
Re: It's on TV - it must be true
Yep, and they don't even notice that the baby was born a healthy 12-month-old. That from the distaff side -- surely, they'd think a 14lb baby would be a tad hard to pass.
Where's your headline writing foo?
Come on -- how about
"Hollywood director sinks to new depths"
Re: Nukes in space
Manned by sharks with friggin' lasers.
Not necessarily -- EVERYBODY PANIC
The period was roughly 65M years -- not 65,000,002 or any other degree of precision. Stands to reason that if there are other big honking rocks out there in that cluster, that they may be ahead or behind the others, and so this could have just been a warmup for the big one. I wouldn't feel safe until we're a few million years past that period.
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