ParisHilton yeah*, but I've referenced Red Dwarf, and Russian literature, etc. and made random sci-fi in-jokes just to make an all-nighter more bearable. It was entertaining for me and the TAs appreciated it in most cases.
* Although I wrote a mock-sexual harrassment suit memo with Phyllis Schlafly as a defendant for my BusLaw class.
If anything, it's a ripoff of both the Iliad and the Odyssey, with some Aeneid thrown in for a good measure. The siege of noble Troy by those swarthy, marauding hordes? Hector's oft-mentioned love for horses versus the Rohirrim?
Also, the Odyssey had sirens and nymphomaniac sorceresses. Shouldn't fanboys eat that up?
As true as the theory of cognitive dissonance might be in general, Demonoid truly has a lot of rare stuff you don't see on the open sites and, usually, greater percentage of reliable uploads as well.
Also, the type of person who'd wait two weeks for registration and remember to sign in within a certain time window tends to be different from the hit-and-run people who congregate around the open sites.
You know, reading this over, I realize you have misunderstood what I am saying. I am not claiming that circumcision is okay and should be kept up - quite the opposite.
I am saying that female genital mutilation is an issue way more sordid than most situations we in the Western world have encountered (yes, even circumcision) if partly because it is an integral part of a culture of hatred and fear and partly because those women are denied any real healthy sexual experience. So yes, it is too flippant for people to go "but what about the poor mens" immediately after someone mentions FGM.
No, a truly equivalent procedure to female genital mutilation would be a part of the wholesale maltreatment, murder and persecution of your gender in your country. Just so your suffering can be compared to some painful, irreversible but not mutilating procedure in a privileged white country.
As long as you can still have an orgasm, you're miles ahead of any woman whose clitoris has been mutilated.
This particular topic is especially prone to the "Bad Thing A"-"Bad Thing B" juxtaposition. I'd bet dollars for donuts you cannot start a thread on female genital mutilation anywhere and not get a "but what about the males?" response. I'd venture a guess as to why the issue is so, ahem, thorny for men but I'd probably break the record for fastest flamebait modding ever. Men do get so defensive about measurements. XD
There is a difference between cutting off a part of your sexual organ leaving you capable of experiencing full orgasm and cutting off (or completely mangling the nerves of) the entire part of your sexual organ which allows for an orgasm thus leaving you incapable of feeling anything good down there just because women are not supposed to be interested in sex (or to prevent extramarital sex, or whatever the reason du jour is). Having any sense of proportion would tell you that the two are incomparable and however bad the first might be, bringing it into a discussion about the latter is very frivolous regardless of how passionate you might feel about it.
The first is a cruel tradition which has persisted for millennia, the second is a part of a barrage of misogynistic practices designed to keep 51 percent of the population in fear. Barrage including rape of virgins to "cure" one's AIDS, stoning of women for being on the wrong side of a mood, and hanging of women for getting themselves raped, defending themselves against rape, wearing makeup, not being attractive to their men and basically being human in the presence of men.
I think his/her point was more along consolidations/purchases/merges than bankruptcies. The most this trends points to is a corporate news singularity owned by Murdock in a dozen or so years.
America? Every media in Europe is following that strike - even the small countries your president cannot pronounce. Our national news announced the end of the strike way before it got on Fark and just a little after CNN reported it. 45 years of having to endure communism and look how the pendulum has swung so swiftly...
Also, Catholics do not infiltrate the government and government agencies under false pretenses, nor do they tirelessly pursue and try to destroy outside critics under their "Fair Game" rules.
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In that case, it would be companies'.
Also, I don't see why the parent was modded "Offtopic". Ethics are all-encompassing.
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Psychopathy is a blanket term for any and all mental disorders used by people who don't know the difference between the types of disorder. "[I]s used" doesn't mean much, especially when coming from a pop-sci article. It just means that not everyone has a copy of the DSM-IV in hir library.
And then lock it in a vault under a mile of ice in Siberia and refuse to sell it to a channel which only wants to cherish it, love it and share it with the fandom.
Yet Turkey keeps whitewashing over the atrocities it has been committing ever since it set foot in Europe. The word "hypocrisy" comes to mind. Also the phrase "we got over it, you can too."
Well, obviously we mainly care about mops, cloths and clothes. Anything with fibers, really. Which explains my obsession with Formula1. Those carbon fibers make for one hell of a nest.
Where the shamans come in is when the process is no longer routine.
What I meant by "not all they know will be in the document" was just the above. The decision-making ability is what makes them such a precious commodity but plenty of them don't see the difference between pure knowledge and the application of that knowledge (I certainly didn't when I was working at my previous job). If this is explained to them, the resistance would certainly lessen.
I will have to second this. You need a person who is not intimately acquainted with the process to describe it objectively and with enough detail for the ultimate users of the manual - i.e. people who are not intimately acquainted with the process. Also, the end document is more likely to be cohesive and consistent if completed by one person.
Where my opinion differs is in the carrot-stick part. Explain to the "shamans" that not all they know will be in the document - you can't write the Encyclopaedia Britannica. You just need the structure of their knowledge - that cannot replace their decision-making skills, which, after all are mostly why they are "shamans".
Not to forget the book everyone thinks of upon hearing Coelho - "The Alchemist". You have to not have read anything outside of "Green Eggs and Ham" and "The DaVinci Code" to say he's obscure.
Emphatically seconded. Despite being a foreigner (in my US and UK jobs), I am the one who is always asked to write or proofread papers, mailings, ads, and presentations (and I make it a point to mention that in future interviews) and my emails are always in perfect English (proofread twice; three times if I have a migraine). This makes one valuable to coworkers, professional in written appearance and you don't even have to take a class (although classes and peer critique helps immensely).
Also, public speaking. It teaches you to present yourself, your company, your background and your ideas so that they can be really appreciated for what they are. The same skills translate for interviews as well. If your career office does mock interviews - I cannot recommend them enough. Again, no class to take but very valuable.
I also with the SQL rec upthread. If you are likely to be dealing with data, SAS has proven useful to me and is something you can learn in your own time.
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(Hope this is not too late) Nope. It's pronounced tz(one sound, like tze-tze)-ar. "Tzar" evolved from "kesar", which was closer to the original.
CEOs cannot afford to have a sense of humor: IT people can.
ParisHilton yeah*, but I've referenced Red Dwarf, and Russian literature, etc. and made random sci-fi in-jokes just to make an all-nighter more bearable. It was entertaining for me and the TAs appreciated it in most cases.
* Although I wrote a mock-sexual harrassment suit memo with Phyllis Schlafly as a defendant for my BusLaw class.
If anything, it's a ripoff of both the Iliad and the Odyssey, with some Aeneid thrown in for a good measure. The siege of noble Troy by those swarthy, marauding hordes? Hector's oft-mentioned love for horses versus the Rohirrim?
Also, the Odyssey had sirens and nymphomaniac sorceresses. Shouldn't fanboys eat that up?
As true as the theory of cognitive dissonance might be in general, Demonoid truly has a lot of rare stuff you don't see on the open sites and, usually, greater percentage of reliable uploads as well. Also, the type of person who'd wait two weeks for registration and remember to sign in within a certain time window tends to be different from the hit-and-run people who congregate around the open sites.
You know, reading this over, I realize you have misunderstood what I am saying. I am not claiming that circumcision is okay and should be kept up - quite the opposite.
I am saying that female genital mutilation is an issue way more sordid than most situations we in the Western world have encountered (yes, even circumcision) if partly because it is an integral part of a culture of hatred and fear and partly because those women are denied any real healthy sexual experience. So yes, it is too flippant for people to go "but what about the poor mens" immediately after someone mentions FGM.
No, a truly equivalent procedure to female genital mutilation would be a part of the wholesale maltreatment, murder and persecution of your gender in your country. Just so your suffering can be compared to some painful, irreversible but not mutilating procedure in a privileged white country.
As long as you can still have an orgasm, you're miles ahead of any woman whose clitoris has been mutilated.
This particular topic is especially prone to the "Bad Thing A"-"Bad Thing B" juxtaposition. I'd bet dollars for donuts you cannot start a thread on female genital mutilation anywhere and not get a "but what about the males?" response. I'd venture a guess as to why the issue is so, ahem, thorny for men but I'd probably break the record for fastest flamebait modding ever. Men do get so defensive about measurements. XD
It should be a jurisimprudence law somewhere.
There is a difference between cutting off a part of your sexual organ leaving you capable of experiencing full orgasm and cutting off (or completely mangling the nerves of) the entire part of your sexual organ which allows for an orgasm thus leaving you incapable of feeling anything good down there just because women are not supposed to be interested in sex (or to prevent extramarital sex, or whatever the reason du jour is). Having any sense of proportion would tell you that the two are incomparable and however bad the first might be, bringing it into a discussion about the latter is very frivolous regardless of how passionate you might feel about it.
The first is a cruel tradition which has persisted for millennia, the second is a part of a barrage of misogynistic practices designed to keep 51 percent of the population in fear. Barrage including rape of virgins to "cure" one's AIDS, stoning of women for being on the wrong side of a mood, and hanging of women for getting themselves raped, defending themselves against rape, wearing makeup, not being attractive to their men and basically being human in the presence of men.
Two very, very, very different things.
Depends on your definition of "us".
I think his/her point was more along consolidations/purchases/merges than bankruptcies. The most this trends points to is a corporate news singularity owned by Murdock in a dozen or so years.
America? Every media in Europe is following that strike - even the small countries your president cannot pronounce. Our national news announced the end of the strike way before it got on Fark and just a little after CNN reported it. 45 years of having to endure communism and look how the pendulum has swung so swiftly...
Also, Catholics do not infiltrate the government and government agencies under false pretenses, nor do they tirelessly pursue and try to destroy outside critics under their "Fair Game" rules.
In that case, it would be companies'.
Also, I don't see why the parent was modded "Offtopic". Ethics are all-encompassing.
Psychopathy is a blanket term for any and all mental disorders used by people who don't know the difference between the types of disorder. "[I]s used" doesn't mean much, especially when coming from a pop-sci article. It just means that not everyone has a copy of the DSM-IV in hir library.
Season 2 was even better, IMO. Sometimes it veered off too much into "lucky coincidences" but it was a nail-biter throughout.
And then lock it in a vault under a mile of ice in Siberia and refuse to sell it to a channel which only wants to cherish it, love it and share it with the fandom.
Yet Turkey keeps whitewashing over the atrocities it has been committing ever since it set foot in Europe. The word "hypocrisy" comes to mind. Also the phrase "we got over it, you can too."
Well, obviously we mainly care about mops, cloths and clothes. Anything with fibers, really. Which explains my obsession with Formula1. Those carbon fibers make for one hell of a nest.
Well, the Y-chromosome could have been a birth-defect.
I will have to second this. You need a person who is not intimately acquainted with the process to describe it objectively and with enough detail for the ultimate users of the manual - i.e. people who are not intimately acquainted with the process. Also, the end document is more likely to be cohesive and consistent if completed by one person.
Where my opinion differs is in the carrot-stick part. Explain to the "shamans" that not all they know will be in the document - you can't write the Encyclopaedia Britannica. You just need the structure of their knowledge - that cannot replace their decision-making skills, which, after all are mostly why they are "shamans".
Not to forget the book everyone thinks of upon hearing Coelho - "The Alchemist". You have to not have read anything outside of "Green Eggs and Ham" and "The DaVinci Code" to say he's obscure.
Damnit, and my mod points expired few days ago. This comment was awesome.
Emphatically seconded. Despite being a foreigner (in my US and UK jobs), I am the one who is always asked to write or proofread papers, mailings, ads, and presentations (and I make it a point to mention that in future interviews) and my emails are always in perfect English (proofread twice; three times if I have a migraine). This makes one valuable to coworkers, professional in written appearance and you don't even have to take a class (although classes and peer critique helps immensely).
Also, public speaking. It teaches you to present yourself, your company, your background and your ideas so that they can be really appreciated for what they are. The same skills translate for interviews as well. If your career office does mock interviews - I cannot recommend them enough. Again, no class to take but very valuable.
I also with the SQL rec upthread. If you are likely to be dealing with data, SAS has proven useful to me and is something you can learn in your own time.