I have heard many good things about Thailand, and I'm sure things are even more affordable with their tourism economy in the shitter due to the political unrest.
Are you a white guy in an impoverished country? Then they know you have money. You don't exactly have to use a bull horn. Fuck I spend more on lunch than some Africans make in a month.
Yeah, because you know whining in a random idle story is going to accomplish so much. If there is a site bug, why don't, you know, report it? Instead of being a total whiny douchebag?
You know, honestly, if I could learn Mandarin and tolerate the deficiency of individual liberty, I would move to Taiwan as soon as possible. The xenophobia of East Asia I can deal with, but I'm kind of attached to the whole 'inalienable rights' thing. I just wish Asia would stop taunting me with all the cute girls, haute cuisine, cheap electronics, fascinating arts and culture... but limited freedom. Motherfucker... I suppose I'm stuck living around Coors-guzzling rednecks where every other radio station is evangelical Christian.
On the bright side, I suppose, if the left ever succeeds in undermining all the freedoms I care about, I won't have anything left to keep me here... too bad I'm already married... so still no cute girls.
While the rank and file German population may not have known specifically that the Jews (and others) were being starved/gassed/experimented upon/worked/prostituted/etc. to death and then skinned so that their skin could be made into lampshades and other common objects one might associate with leather goods for the amusement of the SS (yes, that happened, look it up), it strains credulity to think that the German people thought that all the Jews who were being rounded up into trucks were going to some halcyon isle of puppies and rainbows. Ignorance of the specifics does not absolve them of complicity with prima facie wrongdoing.
Concretes don't do anything for the kind of people who believe in interventionist economics and socialism. They're just like the people who believe gun control is an absolute necessity. The evolution of concealed carry laws since the 80s is particularly telling, in state after state the gun control lobby hit the same points about 'shoot outs in the streets' and 'think of the children!' Years later all the states which enacted shall-issue concealed carry have violent crime rates that are the same or lower than they had before, but what does the gun control lobby say to such facts when legislation comes up in the few states left that still deny carry? 'Shoot outs in the streets!' Yeah, because the way that didn't happen in the last THIRTY STATES shouldn't be taken as evidence that it won't happen in the next one.
You ask a gun control advocate why gun control doesn't bring down crime rates and their answer is always some variation on 'it's just not controlled *enough*!' Interventionist economists are the same way, it's always some variation of 'there isn't enough regulation in place to keep bad things from happening! If we regulate businesses more strictly then things will be more stable... ' except of course for the businesses forced to scale back or close because of the overhead costs of working around the new regulation, triggering a recession. Not to mention the negative effects on a market that is always paranoid about the not-so-invisible hand of government changing the rules midway through some kind of investment such that it negates the invested value by intervention.
Macroeconomics is becoming an increasingly disgusting ecosystem. I'm really not afraid of an 'inflation crisis leads to fascism' scenario like that of the Weimar era, but still watching the socialist nations of the world pulsing with debt which they then mitigate with orchestrated inflation at the expense of the poor whom they then buy off with the stolen product of the middle and upper classes... and then they have the gall to blame the negative impacts of their debt/inflation cycle on the "free market" that none of them actually have. This excuse makes them more and more interventionist creating a deeper and deeper debt/inflation cycle.
And this is why ACs don't set monetary policy. Inflation doesn't hurt the wealthy, it hurts retirees and the disabled who are on fixed incomes. Suddenly their purchasing power drops and they're eating dog food dinners. Whereas people who are employed might see an inflation adjustment, and debtors may have an opportunity to settle debts for effectively pennies on the dollar.
You realize by being pedantic you are opening yourself to further pedantry. Firstly: you seem to assume incorrectly that there is only one pen and paper system. I assure you there are dozens, some of which do have maximums. Secondly: while the d20 system(s) may not have an absolute maximum, there is an effective maximum that is a function of the character's base stat and racial traits, class advancement, as well as magical effects both temporary (including item effects) and permanent. Consequently while there may not be an overarching monolithic maximum, there comes a point where a specific character just cannot find anything else to stack to climb any higher up the ladder of a given stat and has reached the effective maximum for that character.
Yeah, that joke might have been funny if it didn't involve the suspension of disbelief that women couldn't take off their own bras because they read Slashdot. Further it requires the suspension of disbelief that women read Slashdot at all. As I understand it the female readership is something like 10%.
Pfff. All independent video stores are but vain shadows compared to Scarecrow Video of Seattle. It even has it's own wikipedia page for chrissake. They have movies that are so rare that you have to put down hundreds of dollars in deposit before you can rent them (which is returned to you when you return the movie). However, if you an expert film geek and can converse with the film geeks who operate the store about how Tsui Hark's use of color was integral to his artistic vision and cultural context they may waive the deposit... at least they've done that for me...;-)
Not to mention there are reviews immediately on hand that are a lot more useful and illuminating than the vapid praise bytes the film distributor puts on the media case.
I'm third generation Washingtonian, my wife is a first generation, and both our families have observed the wholesale tipping of Oregonian pump jockeys. This isn't the first time I've been told it doesn't happen, but tell that to my parents, or my parents' parents.
Perception is reality only to the simple-minded. No wise or strategic person would be so incautious as to believe everything is as it appears to be. Whole kingdoms have fallen consequent to folly of that sort.
I know it costs OR gas stations revenue, especially near the borders. Whenever I have to drive through OR I gas up right on the border, and I wouldn't pay for gas in OR unless I was there for more than a day. And while I know the plural of anecdote is not data, I also know others who do the same.
That's pretty much the same boat I'm in. My wife gets worked up sometimes about our daughter mimicking profanity (which both of us use liberally) because she's worried about keeping up appearances and what other people think. However I can't find it in myself to get upset about any uses that fit the situation. In fact, I'm on record as saying that I will not judge negatively any usage that I would accept from myself or any other adult in the same context.
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FUCK. THAT. SHIT.
That is all.
(Goddamn filters for caps.)
Low brow though it may be, that was hilarious. Alas and alack I have no mod points at present.
I have heard many good things about Thailand, and I'm sure things are even more affordable with their tourism economy in the shitter due to the political unrest.
Are you a white guy in an impoverished country? Then they know you have money. You don't exactly have to use a bull horn. Fuck I spend more on lunch than some Africans make in a month.
Yeah, because you know whining in a random idle story is going to accomplish so much. If there is a site bug, why don't, you know, report it? Instead of being a total whiny douchebag?
Well I'd get in the box with you, but I don't think I would fit. Have fun being repressed!
You know, honestly, if I could learn Mandarin and tolerate the deficiency of individual liberty, I would move to Taiwan as soon as possible. The xenophobia of East Asia I can deal with, but I'm kind of attached to the whole 'inalienable rights' thing. I just wish Asia would stop taunting me with all the cute girls, haute cuisine, cheap electronics, fascinating arts and culture... but limited freedom. Motherfucker... I suppose I'm stuck living around Coors-guzzling rednecks where every other radio station is evangelical Christian.
On the bright side, I suppose, if the left ever succeeds in undermining all the freedoms I care about, I won't have anything left to keep me here... too bad I'm already married... so still no cute girls.
While the rank and file German population may not have known specifically that the Jews (and others) were being starved/gassed/experimented upon/worked/prostituted/etc. to death and then skinned so that their skin could be made into lampshades and other common objects one might associate with leather goods for the amusement of the SS (yes, that happened, look it up), it strains credulity to think that the German people thought that all the Jews who were being rounded up into trucks were going to some halcyon isle of puppies and rainbows. Ignorance of the specifics does not absolve them of complicity with prima facie wrongdoing.
Concretes don't do anything for the kind of people who believe in interventionist economics and socialism. They're just like the people who believe gun control is an absolute necessity. The evolution of concealed carry laws since the 80s is particularly telling, in state after state the gun control lobby hit the same points about 'shoot outs in the streets' and 'think of the children!' Years later all the states which enacted shall-issue concealed carry have violent crime rates that are the same or lower than they had before, but what does the gun control lobby say to such facts when legislation comes up in the few states left that still deny carry? 'Shoot outs in the streets!' Yeah, because the way that didn't happen in the last THIRTY STATES shouldn't be taken as evidence that it won't happen in the next one.
You ask a gun control advocate why gun control doesn't bring down crime rates and their answer is always some variation on 'it's just not controlled *enough*!' Interventionist economists are the same way, it's always some variation of 'there isn't enough regulation in place to keep bad things from happening! If we regulate businesses more strictly then things will be more stable... ' except of course for the businesses forced to scale back or close because of the overhead costs of working around the new regulation, triggering a recession. Not to mention the negative effects on a market that is always paranoid about the not-so-invisible hand of government changing the rules midway through some kind of investment such that it negates the invested value by intervention.
Macroeconomics is becoming an increasingly disgusting ecosystem. I'm really not afraid of an 'inflation crisis leads to fascism' scenario like that of the Weimar era, but still watching the socialist nations of the world pulsing with debt which they then mitigate with orchestrated inflation at the expense of the poor whom they then buy off with the stolen product of the middle and upper classes... and then they have the gall to blame the negative impacts of their debt/inflation cycle on the "free market" that none of them actually have. This excuse makes them more and more interventionist creating a deeper and deeper debt/inflation cycle.
While calling RS-232 a 'serial port' is ambiguous, it's not wrong. It is a serial standard.
Hey, it worked for the Weimar Republic!
And this is why ACs don't set monetary policy. Inflation doesn't hurt the wealthy, it hurts retirees and the disabled who are on fixed incomes. Suddenly their purchasing power drops and they're eating dog food dinners. Whereas people who are employed might see an inflation adjustment, and debtors may have an opportunity to settle debts for effectively pennies on the dollar.
Who's the tool now, eh?
You realize by being pedantic you are opening yourself to further pedantry. Firstly: you seem to assume incorrectly that there is only one pen and paper system. I assure you there are dozens, some of which do have maximums. Secondly: while the d20 system(s) may not have an absolute maximum, there is an effective maximum that is a function of the character's base stat and racial traits, class advancement, as well as magical effects both temporary (including item effects) and permanent. Consequently while there may not be an overarching monolithic maximum, there comes a point where a specific character just cannot find anything else to stack to climb any higher up the ladder of a given stat and has reached the effective maximum for that character.
A few days ago I had to say USB bus even though I knew it was redundant because I knew the user wouldn't parse universal serial bus. It hurt a little.
Yeah, that joke might have been funny if it didn't involve the suspension of disbelief that women couldn't take off their own bras because they read Slashdot. Further it requires the suspension of disbelief that women read Slashdot at all. As I understand it the female readership is something like 10%.
Presumably these are designed to filter better than the fabric of the average T-shirt.
Pfff. All independent video stores are but vain shadows compared to Scarecrow Video of Seattle. It even has it's own wikipedia page for chrissake. They have movies that are so rare that you have to put down hundreds of dollars in deposit before you can rent them (which is returned to you when you return the movie). However, if you an expert film geek and can converse with the film geeks who operate the store about how Tsui Hark's use of color was integral to his artistic vision and cultural context they may waive the deposit... at least they've done that for me... ;-)
"Absolutely awe-inspiring..." ~Some Newspaper
Uh huh, yeah, that's what she said.
I'm third generation Washingtonian, my wife is a first generation, and both our families have observed the wholesale tipping of Oregonian pump jockeys. This isn't the first time I've been told it doesn't happen, but tell that to my parents, or my parents' parents.
Perception is reality only to the simple-minded. No wise or strategic person would be so incautious as to believe everything is as it appears to be. Whole kingdoms have fallen consequent to folly of that sort.
There is a pressure to tip the pump jockeys and that negates any savings by way of lower gas taxes.
I know it costs OR gas stations revenue, especially near the borders. Whenever I have to drive through OR I gas up right on the border, and I wouldn't pay for gas in OR unless I was there for more than a day. And while I know the plural of anecdote is not data, I also know others who do the same.
That's pretty much the same boat I'm in. My wife gets worked up sometimes about our daughter mimicking profanity (which both of us use liberally) because she's worried about keeping up appearances and what other people think. However I can't find it in myself to get upset about any uses that fit the situation. In fact, I'm on record as saying that I will not judge negatively any usage that I would accept from myself or any other adult in the same context.
As Jimmy Buffett said: "We are the people our parents warned us about"