Whenever Brits get insulted by their food they tend to try and reverse the charge, and imply that every restaurant in the US is a greasy spoon diner in the middle of the desert. The simple fact is the average American restaurant, serving standard American food, is still far superior to the average British restaurant, serving average British food. And a lot of times it's the same food, only the American places know how to prepare it. Order a hamburger in a British pub, then come over here and order it in an American one. You'd be quite surprised.
Right, but at the training level there is no real specialization. With a JD and a bar membership you are presumed to be able to work in any field of law.
Other countries often have different actual training programs; judges, for example, will go through a different university curriculum, then be judges their whole career.
Nah, unlike most European legal systems we only have one general-purpose lawyer who handles everything. The US tends to overtrain its professionals, which is why lawyers are expected to have a working knowledge of every major branch of law, and why medical students do rotations in specialties they have no intention of ever working in.
We use the term "ambulence chaser" to indicate anyone in the legal profession.
No, we don't. It's a pejorative applied to a small subset of lawyers, those doing personal injury work. Is a district attorney an ambulance chaser? A judge? A law professor? A public defender? A tax lawyer?
Slashdot linking to an actually interesting article? What's going on here?
As a side note, yes, the article is refreshingly non-dogmatic, but it is a BIT unfair to use a KDE screen to represent X in the "GUIs of the 80's" section. They really could have found an old copy of an early windows manager, then screenshotted that...
Obviously not; but those games that TRY for an epic feel and that are based on historical events should pick those events that occupy an important part of human history. And we use the context of human history because that's what the context we live with. But they can pick what they want, they just shouldn't expect me to buy them if they're focusing on a bunch of mesopotamian goat herders.
Nope. A game based on Alexander, or Genghis Khan, or Napolean would be pretty significant in a historical perspective. A game focusing on a couple of very minor Meditterannean kingdoms wouldn't be.
The problem is the Old Testament isn't really THAT epic if you place all the wars and kings and stuff in their proper historical context. Just a bunch of petty kinglets in a tiny corner of the Mediterannean.
While MS has traditionally done a lousy job quality control, you have to be a little fair, it's a lot easier to support a small set of hardware that you designed yourself than it is to try to keep up with thousands of diffferent manufacturers.
Press the Buttons has a post up about a Linux version of Tetris called Bastard Tetris. The name is well founded, as the game evaluates what shape you need the least and sends that as your next piece.
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Lucas is an extremely talented and creative writer in general. He's just a mediocre scriptwriter, unfortunately.
Whenever Brits get insulted by their food they tend to try and reverse the charge, and imply that every restaurant in the US is a greasy spoon diner in the middle of the desert. The simple fact is the average American restaurant, serving standard American food, is still far superior to the average British restaurant, serving average British food. And a lot of times it's the same food, only the American places know how to prepare it. Order a hamburger in a British pub, then come over here and order it in an American one. You'd be quite surprised.
Right, but at the training level there is no real specialization. With a JD and a bar membership you are presumed to be able to work in any field of law.
Other countries often have different actual training programs; judges, for example, will go through a different university curriculum, then be judges their whole career.
Nah, unlike most European legal systems we only have one general-purpose lawyer who handles everything. The US tends to overtrain its professionals, which is why lawyers are expected to have a working knowledge of every major branch of law, and why medical students do rotations in specialties they have no intention of ever working in.
We use the term "ambulence chaser" to indicate anyone in the legal profession.
No, we don't. It's a pejorative applied to a small subset of lawyers, those doing personal injury work. Is a district attorney an ambulance chaser? A judge? A law professor? A public defender? A tax lawyer?
Solicitor? How quaint and folksy...
That's a valuable lesson, you have to use the British tastiness scale, which is a lot different than normal people's.
Mmmm, steak and kidney and liver and entrail pie....
Strange, I would have assumed the opposite ("X was so far ahead of the competition, look")
Slashdot linking to an actually interesting article? What's going on here?
As a side note, yes, the article is refreshingly non-dogmatic, but it is a BIT unfair to use a KDE screen to represent X in the "GUIs of the 80's" section. They really could have found an old copy of an early windows manager, then screenshotted that...
Obviously not; but those games that TRY for an epic feel and that are based on historical events should pick those events that occupy an important part of human history. And we use the context of human history because that's what the context we live with. But they can pick what they want, they just shouldn't expect me to buy them if they're focusing on a bunch of mesopotamian goat herders.
Nope. A game based on Alexander, or Genghis Khan, or Napolean would be pretty significant in a historical perspective. A game focusing on a couple of very minor Meditterannean kingdoms wouldn't be.
The problem is the Old Testament isn't really THAT epic if you place all the wars and kings and stuff in their proper historical context. Just a bunch of petty kinglets in a tiny corner of the Mediterannean.
what is it with story today that people aren't reading parent posts and just spouting off about what they THINK they read
Thanks, I'd love an omelet right about now.
Real has always really really sucked. WMA actually streams pretty nicely I thought.
While MS has traditionally done a lousy job quality control, you have to be a little fair, it's a lot easier to support a small set of hardware that you designed yourself than it is to try to keep up with thousands of diffferent manufacturers.
Press the Buttons has a post up about a Linux version of Tetris called Bastard Tetris. The name is well founded, as the game evaluates what shape you need the least and sends that as your next piece.
In othe words it's just like regular tetris.
Where exactly do you live that police chief is an elected office?
You're SUPPOSED to tip police officers, it's only common courtesy.
Yep, the only thing open source coders added to it was the erroneous assertion that they were the first to do it.
I don't think its draconian.
Didn't you read the article summary?! It doesn't matter which side you're on, you HAVE to agree. It's a requirement, not an option.
If we didn't know something we just made it up. It was a simpler, although more deceitful time.
I dunno, Coast Guard?
However, the movie has angered some online fans for appearing to contradict the basic tenets of the Doom storyline
Yeah, like Doom had a storyline...
Well, why can't it have The Rock AND be set where the Doom games were played?
That's stupid. There's no way you're going to fit all those movie cameras and props into my bedroom.
That's just crazy talk.