minimum wage laws lock out the most desperate, those who most need it, from getting jobs
You're fucking kidding, right? Maybe we should just go back to introducing slavery, so those who are less worthy will be given the standard of living they deserve as inferior members of society.
Remember that word? Society? It's supposed to indicate a condition where people work together to improve everybody's standard of living, but these days it only seems to be used after the word "high".
So, by your logic we should pile more and more money in front of potential CEOs in the hope that they won't cause everybody under them to lose their jobs because of their incompetence? And in the event they do screw up, well, it's the fault of the people who work for them for choosing a lousy CEO in the first place?
Last time I looked, workers didn't get to vote on their CEO, dumbass.
Hahaha, great way to shoot yourself in the foot there. Dumbass. In case you hadn't noticed, corporations are organizations specialized for one purpose; taking the product of the workers' labor and giving it to the corporation.
And your conclusion is wrong. Opening new universities doesn't help, as everybody who wants a higher education can get one already. People are cheating because they want to get into a *particular* university, not just *any* university.
Heh, in this case the company he worked for had patents.
He had shit-all, which is why he sued them for extra compensation.
What makes it even worse is the company actively tried to block him from continuing with the line of research that led to his breakthrough, and made the company a Metric Shitload(tm) of cash.
Skeleton warriors and magi are no longer capped - at level 20 you get 8, with +skill bonuses you can get 12 at level 30, 15 at level 40. Maximum revives are equal to the skill level, though, so you can get 20 revives at level 20.
Set items and other uniques can no longer be gambled, but the drop rates do seem higher - if I play for a couple of hours, I usually find at least one unique or set item. 1.10 has a lot more different uniques than earlier patches, as well.
How much did you play D2X after the 1.10 patch? Because I generally find at least one set piece every time I play. Completing a set may be difficult, but it's definitely possible (especially if you're into item trading).
Heh, I did almost exactly the same thing, except I based mine on the Fighting Fantasy books rather than CYOA - so I had to use memory for a dice-rolling routine and such. I think I got about two rooms into the dungeon before running out of memory...
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...is the hard drive - many laptops aren't built to run continuously and the HDD is likely to be the first thing to give out (I've gone through two drives in six months on an IBM laptop I ran 24x7).
See if you can boot off a USB flash drive, and increase RAM enough that you don't need swap - then you can remove the HDD and run without moving parts (unless it's a notebook with an internal fan, which I would not recommend).
Another was "Inu," or "Dog," by Haruko Kashiwagi. It's considered clever, fairly high-toned and mainstream, which is surprising because, in part, it's about a woman who has sex with her dog.
I'm not saying they "must" be better. It just seems a bit disappointing that the genre couldn't muster up anybody to beat out someone who's been at it as long as Haldeman.
Really? I for one find it hard to believe that we're in 2006 and Joe Haldeman is still winning Nebulas. I'm not saying he's a bad writer, because he's not; I'm just wondering what has been happening in science fiction that a man whose career started 35 years ago managed to beat out everybody who came after him for one of the top awards.
NGE is the story of a program initiated by a secret council of powerful old men in order to make themselves immortal. The program uses genetic material from "aliens" (who are actually not aliens, but rather the original inhabitants of Earth, related to humans but not the same species) to create living "robots" that can only be operated by children who have been traumatically separated from their mothers - the bodily fluids of the mothers are used to provide an interface to the "robots". The original plan was to have the old men take over an immortal fusion of human and "robot", but this was hijacked by the lead scientist on the project who was aiming to be reunited with his dead wife (the mother of one of the child pilots). This also goes awry, and the result is that all of humanity undergoes an involuntary fusion with everybody else, but this is interrupted by the rejection of this union by the child pilot who acts as the medium for the unification, when he realises it will mean those closest to him being able to know his most secret thoughts. The ending is ambiguous as to how the whole mess works out.
Funny, but wrong. Anno set up the initial episodes to pull in the "normal" anime fan, and then deliberately turned the tables on them halfway through. The messed-up ending is the result of Anno running out of funding while the series was still incomplete, forcing him to reuse shots from earlier in the series and dub voiceovers on static frames.
The writing portion is the part of the test that native speakers find hard - many Japanese people are not good at reading and writing.
Uh-huh. "Many" meaning...
I've asked many of them personally...."some of the people you know", apparently. Any Japanese person who has been through high school would not find the JPLT particularly difficult.
Some people I know who are really good at Japanese have trouble with JLPT 1.
"Really good" is a subjective assessment. I would have said some people I know who wouldn't have had a chance of passing the JPLT were "really good", too - when my Japanese was at the elementary level.
And it makes sense, having apparently studied for three years to make the bridge between JLPT 1 and 2.
Nah, I came within three or four points of a passing grade in the following level 1 test after I passed level 2, but I didn't bother retaking level 1 for a couple of years after that (didn't need it at the time).
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minimum wage laws lock out the most desperate, those who most need it, from getting jobs
You're fucking kidding, right? Maybe we should just go back to introducing slavery, so those who are less worthy will be given the standard of living they deserve as inferior members of society.
Remember that word? Society? It's supposed to indicate a condition where people work together to improve everybody's standard of living, but these days it only seems to be used after the word "high".
So, by your logic we should pile more and more money in front of potential CEOs in the hope that they won't cause everybody under them to lose their jobs because of their incompetence?
And in the event they do screw up, well, it's the fault of the people who work for them for choosing a lousy CEO in the first place?
Last time I looked, workers didn't get to vote on their CEO, dumbass.
Hahahahahahahaha.
Name any job below the level of board member where you're expected to work less.
Jesus Christ, you're a real-life nutball.
Hahaha, great way to shoot yourself in the foot there. Dumbass.
In case you hadn't noticed, corporations are organizations specialized for one purpose; taking the product of the workers' labor and giving it to the corporation.
The event 800,000 years ago was one in Southeast Asia, not Egypt. Presumably the Egyptian one was much later.
And your conclusion is wrong.
Opening new universities doesn't help, as everybody who wants a higher education can get one already.
People are cheating because they want to get into a *particular* university, not just *any* university.
Heh, in this case the company he worked for had patents.
He had shit-all, which is why he sued them for extra compensation.
What makes it even worse is the company actively tried to block him from continuing with the line of research that led to his breakthrough, and made the company a Metric Shitload(tm) of cash.
Skeleton warriors and magi are no longer capped - at level 20 you get 8, with +skill bonuses you can get 12 at level 30, 15 at level 40.
Maximum revives are equal to the skill level, though, so you can get 20 revives at level 20.
Set items and other uniques can no longer be gambled, but the drop rates do seem higher - if I play for a couple of hours, I usually find at least one unique or set item.
1.10 has a lot more different uniques than earlier patches, as well.
How much did you play D2X after the 1.10 patch? Because I generally find at least one set piece every time I play.
Completing a set may be difficult, but it's definitely possible (especially if you're into item trading).
Heh, I did almost exactly the same thing, except I based mine on the Fighting Fantasy books rather than CYOA - so I had to use memory for a dice-rolling routine and such.
I think I got about two rooms into the dungeon before running out of memory...
Nah, that's Slackware.
;)
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...is the hard drive - many laptops aren't built to run continuously and the HDD is likely to be the first thing to give out (I've gone through two drives in six months on an IBM laptop I ran 24x7).
See if you can boot off a USB flash drive, and increase RAM enough that you don't need swap - then you can remove the HDD and run without moving parts (unless it's a notebook with an internal fan, which I would not recommend).
Another was "Inu," or "Dog," by Haruko Kashiwagi. It's considered clever, fairly high-toned and mainstream, which is surprising because, in part, it's about a woman who has sex with her dog.
Supercilious prat.
I'm not saying they "must" be better. It just seems a bit disappointing that the genre couldn't muster up anybody to beat out someone who's been at it as long as Haldeman.
Really? I for one find it hard to believe that we're in 2006 and Joe Haldeman is still winning Nebulas.
I'm not saying he's a bad writer, because he's not; I'm just wondering what has been happening in science fiction that a man whose career started 35 years ago managed to beat out everybody who came after him for one of the top awards.
OK, here goes:
The Three-Minute Summary of NGE
NGE is the story of a program initiated by a secret council of powerful old men in order to make themselves immortal. The program uses genetic material from "aliens" (who are actually not aliens, but rather the original inhabitants of Earth, related to humans but not the same species) to create living "robots" that can only be operated by children who have been traumatically separated from their mothers - the bodily fluids of the mothers are used to provide an interface to the "robots". The original plan was to have the old men take over an immortal fusion of human and "robot", but this was hijacked by the lead scientist on the project who was aiming to be reunited with his dead wife (the mother of one of the child pilots). This also goes awry, and the result is that all of humanity undergoes an involuntary fusion with everybody else, but this is interrupted by the rejection of this union by the child pilot who acts as the medium for the unification, when he realises it will mean those closest to him being able to know his most secret thoughts. The ending is ambiguous as to how the whole mess works out.
Funny, but wrong. Anno set up the initial episodes to pull in the "normal" anime fan, and then deliberately turned the tables on them halfway through.
The messed-up ending is the result of Anno running out of funding while the series was still incomplete, forcing him to reuse shots from earlier in the series and dub voiceovers on static frames.
My advice would be to gank all the good gear you can before they bring in someone who knows what they're doing.
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Out of curiousity, are you retarded?
Language level is relative and subjective - anybody who's significantly better than you appears "really good".
In Japan, it's held twice a year with back-to-back tests if you want to take two levels on the same day... don't know if that still applies though.
The writing portion is the part of the test that native speakers find hard - many Japanese people are not good at reading and writing.
..."some of the people you know", apparently. Any Japanese person who has been through high school would not find the JPLT particularly difficult.
Uh-huh. "Many" meaning...
I've asked many of them personally.
Some people I know who are really good at Japanese have trouble with JLPT 1.
"Really good" is a subjective assessment. I would have said some people I know who wouldn't have had a chance of passing the JPLT were "really good", too - when my Japanese was at the elementary level.
And it makes sense, having apparently studied for three years to make the bridge between JLPT 1 and 2.
Nah, I came within three or four points of a passing grade in the following level 1 test after I passed level 2, but I didn't bother retaking level 1 for a couple of years after that (didn't need it at the time).
Really, level 1 is not that hard.
Er, no, I do actually know what level I took - 4, 3, and 2 I passed in 1990, and 1 in 1993.
And no, it's not difficult for native speakers.