He's not a hater. You should be really damned careful about who you give direct access to your bank account. Some crypto currency (ALL crypto currency is still in its infancy and is still sketchy as hell) should not be able to deduct from my bank account.
In the winter, to celebrate London (the glorious capital of the empire, All hail Empress Victoria!) we can have say Greenwich Mean Time
That's a lot of snark to aim towards folks who didn't want to be a part of the empire of Europe, subservient to a foreign government unaccountable to them.
or basically anything other than a Dilbert-style white-collar office worker
Many of us white-collar office workers don't have flex time either because we're support staff and our shifts have to cover the time periods that the other office workers are actually here. If THEY all left an hour earlier, than our shifts could start and end an hour earlier too. Will this happen? No. It will not.
Reddit and Twitter are great places, but I think they like to spread out to other sites as well.
I was able to identify some Russian ACs at one point on Slashdot when the topic of Russia came up and a 'few' ACs would keep bringing up the Ukraine. Their continual use of the word 'Kiev' as an insulting way to refer to the whole country was a hallmark of the Russian 'debating' style.
Getting upset about policy is fine. Fretting over draft jokes is pathetic.
I don't think anyone would care about "draft jokes" if they didn't have the policy to back them up. When you create policies that screw people over, people get even more upset when you joke that you screwed them over. Maybe they shouldn't, but that's human nature.
Chances are your job will be slightly accommodating
Nope! US society found out the hard way that it's far far easier to change our conception of dates, to change what "8 am, noon, and 4pm" are than to have businesses change their hours. That last part is not going to happen.
What I love about it is that in every hollywood battle the two main characters on opposing sides always find each other. There for once they don't. It's just chaos even though it's a small battle and he can't focus on her even though he wants to.
There's no resolution and he just has to live with that.
There are certainly things in Battle of the Bastards that I liked, as predictable and formulaic as it was. The mounds of corpses that people trip over. Jon nearly suffocating. The shield wall of death. THE MUSIC. And Miguel Sapotchnik is A+ director. He deserved his Emmy.
But there are other times where everything is just too convenient for Jon Snow. That super-fucking-awesome one-minute uninterrupted shot; he just has a sixth sense. He always turns to every challenge before it meets him, and that helps it feel 'choreographed' (because of course it is). He's caught in a hail of arrows (twice!) and not once does one hit him. Really not much of a penalty for charging Ramsey.
I think wow's graphics are pretty good for what they're trying to do. They're not photorealistic graphics, because photorealism in games usually looks like shit. I'll take artistically stylized any day of the week and twice on raid night.
It's getting harder to tell left wing and right wing loons apart. Which traitor am I an apologist for?
That's because the folks who have been shit-posting, sometimes from Russia, sometimes from other state actors, and sometimes just 4chan assholes, they play both sides. They play the ultra-liberal AND the ultra-conservative, all to keep the flame war going, all to try attack and push as many people out of the middle as possible.
Their hardware is shitty too... I have owned two Razer products: a keyboard and a mouse. Both died within a year, the keyboard in only a few months
Very much depends on the model. I had a Razer Lachesis mouse and it didn't last very long. But my Razer DeathAdder is a damned good mouse, hardware-wise. They're one of the very very few mouse vendors who makes mice with good buttons in good locations that has a left-handed model. Good lord, is it ever hard to find a good left-handed gaming mouse.
I'm afraid I don't see how non-free software on a free OS necessarily makes the OS any less free unless any of the operations of the OS are somehow tied to the operation of that software.
Oh, the hard free softwarers say software SHOULD be open, completely, as a moral issue, and closed software takes away resources from free software.
And what if the process of "putting the bloody firmware into the bloody device" involves decrypting, or otherwise authenticating with some form of secret that is kept close? You expect them to just give this secret away, openly, allowing the teardown of their firmware by competitors (in this example) ?
Why would it be? It's a FUCKING MOUSE. They work the same, and there is no super-secret amazing sauce that your competitors are dying to find out and steal unless you're are greatly, greatly over-inflating your sense of self-importance.
I can say as a customer of Razer, their hardware is fantastic. Right number of buttons, right responsiveness, right feel for the clickiness of the buttons. Most mouse makers get all three of those wrong. But their software, their drivers are absolute trash. They are god-awful and I wish there was an easier way to use the device without using them. The drivers are enormous, bloated, and slow -- they have a hard requirement of an always-on Internet connection and take longer to download than a TV episode off a P2P service. No one is trying to steal those secrets unless their management has cluelessly-inflated egos.
Nah. They think the obvious choice is the brilliant choice. For example in the books in the attack on Castle Black, Ygritte dies off camera and Jon only finds her after the battle is over. They of course change it to having them have an encounter and the kid that survives the wildling attack on his village, Olly, is the one to kill her. That's standard tv stuff.
Sure. But I think that's the better plot choice. I'm sorry, but the "finds her killed off-screen" thing was just lame. Sure, "that's life," but in particular case, how the show handled things was a definite improvement. Just because it was the book choice doesn't mean that it was the right choice for the screen; just about every screenwriter knows it's the lazy (and wrong!!) decision to adapt everything exactly as it was laid out in the original medium. Now, there ARE really good examples of plot lines that I felt were far better handled in the books (Dorne? Greyjoys?? Stannis??? Holy shit...), but not everything that GRRM did was a fantastic choice. The battle at Castle Black was more interesting and more affecting with Jon being able to witness Ygritte's death.
Now everything in Battle of the Bastards... THAT is standard tv stuff. I can't wait to read what happens in the next book, but I think the choices will be more believable.
Everything is a trade off. Maybe some things worked better in his home country, but they're outweighed by the other things that brought him here. Doesn't mean we should be hostile to foreign ideas just because that's not the way we do things. That hostility is weakness.
You don't build up an immunity to what we call an allergy.
Sure you do. That's why I got allergy shots as a teenager -- I used to be fairly allergic to dust (well, dust mites) and pollen. Aggressive allergy shots trained my system and by my 20s the allergies were completely gone.
Bubbles lead to immune systems that can't handle anything you throw at it.
uh, genius, the tip doesn't go towards the rent and decor of the restaurant.
Yes it does. It absolutely does. The rent and decor are paid because the restaurant gets free labor from the serving staff. They get free labor from the serving staff because the staff are paid by the 'tip' in restaurant.
The complaints about Groupon are from people who misunderstand it. They expect to make money from the promotion. That's not how most promotional deals work: the point of Groupon is to give you wide advertising for a loss leader. Once Groupon has got the people into your establishment, it's your responsibility to figure out how to make money out of them. If the loss leader is the only thing that people want from your shop, then no amount of marketing will help you.
The problem is that many who sign up for Groupon don't use the service like that, and never intended to. They want to eat at loss-leader prices, all the time. They're not intending to eat once cheaply, then regular price. They're going from loss leader to loss leader, and they kindof can because there are a lot of places to choose from. I don't think Groupon is predatory, but I can understand why restaurant owners wouldn't be fond of it, since it's not a service that leads to lots of new customers.
The drink is actually a high-priced option, the cup costs them more than the contents you put into it.
When I was in college, the local 7-11 gave us pretty good deals on sodas. If you brought back the cup you bought from them at a previous visit, they'd sell you a 'refill' that was half-price. Half-priced drinks forever, since those cups never went bad.
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He's not a hater. You should be really damned careful about who you give direct access to your bank account. Some crypto currency (ALL crypto currency is still in its infancy and is still sketchy as hell) should not be able to deduct from my bank account.
Summer is now named Winter
Winter is now named Summer
Problem solved? :p
That means we're not in Summer and Winter is Coming, again. That blows.
In the winter, to celebrate London (the glorious capital of the empire, All hail Empress Victoria!) we can have say Greenwich Mean Time
That's a lot of snark to aim towards folks who didn't want to be a part of the empire of Europe, subservient to a foreign government unaccountable to them.
or basically anything other than a Dilbert-style white-collar office worker
Many of us white-collar office workers don't have flex time either because we're support staff and our shifts have to cover the time periods that the other office workers are actually here. If THEY all left an hour earlier, than our shifts could start and end an hour earlier too. Will this happen? No. It will not.
The worst by far was dust mites (my mattress needed to be sealed in a special plastic). I think ragweed was another, besides that I wasn't told. :-D
Reddit and Twitter are great places, but I think they like to spread out to other sites as well.
I was able to identify some Russian ACs at one point on Slashdot when the topic of Russia came up and a 'few' ACs would keep bringing up the Ukraine. Their continual use of the word 'Kiev' as an insulting way to refer to the whole country was a hallmark of the Russian 'debating' style.
Getting upset about policy is fine. Fretting over draft jokes is pathetic.
I don't think anyone would care about "draft jokes" if they didn't have the policy to back them up.
When you create policies that screw people over, people get even more upset when you joke that you screwed them over. Maybe they shouldn't, but that's human nature.
Chances are your job will be slightly accommodating
Nope! US society found out the hard way that it's far far easier to change our conception of dates, to change what "8 am, noon, and 4pm" are than to have businesses change their hours. That last part is not going to happen.
What I love about it is that in every hollywood battle the two main characters on opposing sides always find each other. There for once they don't. It's just chaos even though it's a small battle and he can't focus on her even though he wants to.
There's no resolution and he just has to live with that.
There are certainly things in Battle of the Bastards that I liked, as predictable and formulaic as it was. The mounds of corpses that people trip over. Jon nearly suffocating. The shield wall of death. THE MUSIC. And Miguel Sapotchnik is A+ director. He deserved his Emmy.
But there are other times where everything is just too convenient for Jon Snow. That super-fucking-awesome one-minute uninterrupted shot; he just has a sixth sense. He always turns to every challenge before it meets him, and that helps it feel 'choreographed' (because of course it is). He's caught in a hail of arrows (twice!) and not once does one hit him. Really not much of a penalty for charging Ramsey.
I think wow's graphics are pretty good for what they're trying to do. They're not photorealistic graphics, because photorealism in games usually looks like shit. I'll take artistically stylized any day of the week and twice on raid night.
It's getting harder to tell left wing and right wing loons apart. Which traitor am I an apologist for?
That's because the folks who have been shit-posting, sometimes from Russia, sometimes from other state actors, and sometimes just 4chan assholes, they play both sides. They play the ultra-liberal AND the ultra-conservative, all to keep the flame war going, all to try attack and push as many people out of the middle as possible.
Given the actions of the ISPs and the FCC, people have a good reason to be angry. This isn't making mountains out of molehills.
Their hardware is shitty too... I have owned two Razer products: a keyboard and a mouse. Both died within a year, the keyboard in only a few months
Very much depends on the model. I had a Razer Lachesis mouse and it didn't last very long. But my Razer DeathAdder is a damned good mouse, hardware-wise. They're one of the very very few mouse vendors who makes mice with good buttons in good locations that has a left-handed model. Good lord, is it ever hard to find a good left-handed gaming mouse.
I'm afraid I don't see how non-free software on a free OS necessarily makes the OS any less free unless any of the operations of the OS are somehow tied to the operation of that software.
Oh, the hard free softwarers say software SHOULD be open, completely, as a moral issue, and closed software takes away resources from free software.
Something *you* *think* is really trivial...
... is often really trivial, and the more you actually know about the technology involved, the more you know that this is a bullshit excuse.
And what if the process of "putting the bloody firmware into the bloody device" involves decrypting, or otherwise authenticating with some form of secret that is kept close? You expect them to just give this secret away, openly, allowing the teardown of their firmware by competitors (in this example) ?
Why would it be? It's a FUCKING MOUSE. They work the same, and there is no super-secret amazing sauce that your competitors are dying to find out and steal unless you're are greatly, greatly over-inflating your sense of self-importance.
I can say as a customer of Razer, their hardware is fantastic. Right number of buttons, right responsiveness, right feel for the clickiness of the buttons. Most mouse makers get all three of those wrong. But their software, their drivers are absolute trash. They are god-awful and I wish there was an easier way to use the device without using them. The drivers are enormous, bloated, and slow -- they have a hard requirement of an always-on Internet connection and take longer to download than a TV episode off a P2P service. No one is trying to steal those secrets unless their management has cluelessly-inflated egos.
Nah. They think the obvious choice is the brilliant choice. For example in the books in the attack on Castle Black, Ygritte dies off camera and Jon only finds her after the battle is over. They of course change it to having them have an encounter and the kid that survives the wildling attack on his village, Olly, is the one to kill her. That's standard tv stuff.
Sure. But I think that's the better plot choice. I'm sorry, but the "finds her killed off-screen" thing was just lame. Sure, "that's life," but in particular case, how the show handled things was a definite improvement. Just because it was the book choice doesn't mean that it was the right choice for the screen; just about every screenwriter knows it's the lazy (and wrong!!) decision to adapt everything exactly as it was laid out in the original medium. Now, there ARE really good examples of plot lines that I felt were far better handled in the books (Dorne? Greyjoys?? Stannis??? Holy shit...), but not everything that GRRM did was a fantastic choice. The battle at Castle Black was more interesting and more affecting with Jon being able to witness Ygritte's death.
Now everything in Battle of the Bastards... THAT is standard tv stuff. I can't wait to read what happens in the next book, but I think the choices will be more believable.
Jesus, no need to bite his head off.
Everything is a trade off. Maybe some things worked better in his home country, but they're outweighed by the other things that brought him here. Doesn't mean we should be hostile to foreign ideas just because that's not the way we do things. That hostility is weakness.
You don't build up an immunity to what we call an allergy.
Sure you do. That's why I got allergy shots as a teenager -- I used to be fairly allergic to dust (well, dust mites) and pollen. Aggressive allergy shots trained my system and by my 20s the allergies were completely gone.
Bubbles lead to immune systems that can't handle anything you throw at it.
uh, genius, the tip doesn't go towards the rent and decor of the restaurant.
Yes it does. It absolutely does.
The rent and decor are paid because the restaurant gets free labor from the serving staff. They get free labor from the serving staff because the staff are paid by the 'tip' in restaurant.
I would also like to see a takeout discount for not using up valuable dining space.
You already do, if you're using it the way everyone else does and not order drinks.
The complaints about Groupon are from people who misunderstand it. They expect to make money from the promotion. That's not how most promotional deals work: the point of Groupon is to give you wide advertising for a loss leader. Once Groupon has got the people into your establishment, it's your responsibility to figure out how to make money out of them. If the loss leader is the only thing that people want from your shop, then no amount of marketing will help you.
The problem is that many who sign up for Groupon don't use the service like that, and never intended to. They want to eat at loss-leader prices, all the time. They're not intending to eat once cheaply, then regular price. They're going from loss leader to loss leader, and they kindof can because there are a lot of places to choose from. I don't think Groupon is predatory, but I can understand why restaurant owners wouldn't be fond of it, since it's not a service that leads to lots of new customers.
Most restaurants fails because the people that own them don't have a clue on how to properly run one...
The restaurant business is extremely tough and competitive. Most fail within the first few years.
2 times I have ordered takeout from a 1 star michelin restaurant without any problems. Very few restaurant refuse takeout.
I ordered takeout from The French Laundry once, and they still insisted I wear a dress jacket when I showed up to pick up the order.
(Sadly, the only true part of this story was the dress jacket requirement..)
The drink is actually a high-priced option, the cup costs them more than the contents you put into it.
When I was in college, the local 7-11 gave us pretty good deals on sodas. If you brought back the cup you bought from them at a previous visit, they'd sell you a 'refill' that was half-price. Half-priced drinks forever, since those cups never went bad.