Actually, since it's state-owned, it's probably very legal. In China, anyway. Now if the Chinese build a Disney theme park in Denver, that would probably be illegal. Especially if they didn't own the land they built it on, either.
But who am I to deny the Chinese squatter's rights on US soil?
Point taken, and smartassery withdrawn. I thought you were making a cheap joke at Dr. Dean's expense - "And then we'll go on to GROWR! Hur hur." and the like.
Funny, I fight afternoon meeting schedulings in almost the same way. Just specify a primary time that's always unavailable.
When I worked overnights, I had a similar system.
Boss: We need to talk. Me: Great. What night would you like to come in? Boss: No, I mean you should stay late. Me: But you don't come in until 9, and my shift ends at 7. Boss: But it's important! Me: Why is it always about your needs. Your need to have a meeting. Your need to get a decent night's sleep. What about my need not to sit around for two hours on the clock waiting for you to show up, surfing the web, all the while getting paid one-and-a-half my regular pa...okay, fine, you win.
Then, when I became the boss years later, I would always show up at the beginning of the night shift to talk to the employees, and then go to the bar. It made the employees feel noticed and made my superiors think I was motivated. Turns out my best defense against assholes like me is actually having been me.
Very good. Now try finding two primes whose difference is 7.
And when you're done with that, find two perfect cubes whose difference is also a perfect cube. I did this once, but there wasn't enough room in the margin to write the answer.
The trick, of course, is PROVING that the government KNEW that you were innocent.
The government knows that they're unable to produce a body, and without that, they know they can't even prove that she's dead, much less at the hands of Mr. Reiser. Knowing they can't prove murder and that they know you're innocent until proven guilty, I think this should be rather easy to establish in court.
In the real world, I wonder how well radar and lasers reflect of the front and rear windows considering their angle. I figured the would reflect most of the beam up and not back, depending on the model of car.
Angle of incidence equals angle of reflection in any case, so even if your car is comprised of non-black metal, the beam is going to have to hit any surface at "pretty-frelling-close" to perpendicular to be reflected back to the gun.
I was just thinking of replacing all the windows, but seeing as how the front and back windows would be okay, I guess you could live without your sideview mirrors.
First you have to get a license for the exotic pet, then you have to import it, then you have get it vaccinated and take out liability insurance in case it throws feces at a passing dignitary.
No, no, no, there's a better way. Get me a case of beer and a copy of the WSJ and a dartboard. I'm at least as random as a monkey after 24 beers.
The cops would just learn to aim at something that does reflect on your car - windows, for example - which is why you have them replaced with slow glass.
Provided you learn how to drive without any visual inputs...
"It demonstrates how easily other users can put two and two together and also shows how children could also find themselves in danger."...which, in turn, demonstrates why children should not be allowed unfettered access to the Net. Of course, it's probably just easier to pass legislation than to watch what your kids are doing - that makes it somebody else's problem.
Pay license fee to whoever owns the US distribution rights, get access to the US market and a decent chance of making back your investment and then some. Pay license fees to each of the companies that own distribution rights throughout the EU, and still not reach as many gamers as in the US. Not a tough choice when you're not an international megacorp.
sounds extremely like "doctoring accounts so there are no out of pocket expenses". I am, of course, quite happy to be corrected.
I'm not quite sure what you mean, but I'll clarify what I mean:
Say Mr. John Bigshot checks in with his corporate American Express card as a form of payment, and leaves his personal AmEx for the incidental charges. When he checks out, the GSA says "Would you like to leave the charges on your American Express?", he's in a hurry, says "Yes" and departs before the folio can print. GSA promptly closes out the entire folio on one statement, and all is forgotten for a couple of weeks.
The last week of the month, Mr. Bigshot's assistant Sandi calls to get a copy of his folio so she can submit his expense report, and discovers the error. She then requests two new folios, one with room and tax, one with the incidentals, because their accounting department will reject anything with incidental charges on it. The problem is, once the folio is closed out and the business day turned over, that folio is locked and cannot be edited. (Every incarnation of Fidelio/Opera I've used, except in the A/R module, as well as Courtyard PMS, InnStar and whatever Comfort Inns use, do this.). A new folio is generated when I do the adjustment, but all it will have is the charge to proper card, and a credit to the incorrect card. Thus, the mock-up.
If that's what you mean by "doctored" then yes, I do that rather frequently, especially around the 25-28th of every month. If you mean hiding incidentals so that his company will foot the bill for them without knowing precisely what they're paying for, then no, I've never done that.
Monoculture, no. As others have already pointed out, though, it is subject to groupthink.
Pro-piracy, pro-Linux, anti-Microsoft, skewed left/libertarian, Natlie Portman Overlords naked and petrified in a Beowulf cluster of hot grits, to name a few examples.
No, they don't. Just today I was called in (on my first day off in two weeks) to unravel a GSA's mess where instead of asking for help when she got over her head, she wound up crediting a guest $9,000.00 on their Visa. This is not charging the guest $9,000, this was paying them that amount. Luckily, our cards are batched and I was able to prevent it from settling.
but why, pray tell, should they waste it doing anything for you?
Because their $10/hour depends on it. If they don't want the job, fine, it can be arranged for them not to have it. If they do want the job, and put in the effort to actually learn what's required of them, they will be promoted very quickly because there's turn-over in hotels you wouldn't believe.
you sound like a condescending dickwad
I am, when warranted. You sound like an illiterate, inept, embittered wage-slave who can't be bothered to punctuate correctly.
but it goes against my beliefs that Excel should be used only for number analysis, not data management. A billing system is data management.
Which is the way it should be, but if something goes awry in the billing process and you have multiple charges and adjustments (like hotels, where your $10/hr front desk agent may have a great smile but the aptitude of the lobby plants), sometimes it's nice to mock up an invoice in Excel so you can make it look nice.
Incidentally, I do work in a hotel that handles a lot of business clients. Billing mistakes often aren't noticed until it's time to submit for reimbursement, and a lot of them have very strict rules about what can and cannot appear on their bills. It's not an everyday occurrence, but it happens enough that it's worth keeping a template around. It's not perfect, but after two years of tweaking, it looks pretty dang close.
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From here on, Reiser is erased.
Yeah, but he's still recoverable even though you improperly shut him down.
Actually, since it's state-owned, it's probably very legal. In China, anyway. Now if the Chinese build a Disney theme park in Denver, that would probably be illegal. Especially if they didn't own the land they built it on, either.
But who am I to deny the Chinese squatter's rights on US soil?
Wait, so you're saying The Germs are actually The Clash, then? That's a little weird, even for /. =P
(because I'm in constant danger of arrogance)
"Just because some of us can read and write and do a little math doesn't mean we deserve to conquer the Universe."
- Vonnegut, "Hocus Pocus"
In this case, I believe 2 is actually:
2. Natalie Portman naked and petrified in hot grits
P.S.-How do i make the text the link i want on here?
<a href="http://yourURLhere">Your text here</a>
I thought your wife was named Incontinentia Buttox.
Point taken, and smartassery withdrawn. I thought you were making a cheap joke at Dr. Dean's expense - "And then we'll go on to GROWR! Hur hur." and the like.
I think the Republicans will run McCain, though.
I have every confidence that golden-child Obama will end up like previous golden-child Howard Dean.
You mean he'll become the head of the Democratic National Committee? That ain't so bad.
Funny, I fight afternoon meeting schedulings in almost the same way. Just specify a primary time that's always unavailable.
When I worked overnights, I had a similar system.
Boss: We need to talk.
Me: Great. What night would you like to come in?
Boss: No, I mean you should stay late.
Me: But you don't come in until 9, and my shift ends at 7.
Boss: But it's important!
Me: Why is it always about your needs. Your need to have a meeting. Your need to get a decent night's sleep. What about my need not to sit around for two hours on the clock waiting for you to show up, surfing the web, all the while getting paid one-and-a-half my regular pa...okay, fine, you win.
Then, when I became the boss years later, I would always show up at the beginning of the night shift to talk to the employees, and then go to the bar. It made the employees feel noticed and made my superiors think I was motivated. Turns out my best defense against assholes like me is actually having been me.
Very good. Now try finding two primes whose difference is 7.
And when you're done with that, find two perfect cubes whose difference is also a perfect cube. I did this once, but there wasn't enough room in the margin to write the answer.
I'll see your Skype Sybian, and raise you:
A Sybian controlled like Alek's Christmas lights. That would rule, until it gets Slashdotted and the porn stars start dying.
Probably best for this one to be a hoax...
The trick, of course, is PROVING that the government KNEW that you were innocent.
The government knows that they're unable to produce a body, and without that, they know they can't even prove that she's dead, much less at the hands of Mr. Reiser. Knowing they can't prove murder and that they know you're innocent until proven guilty, I think this should be rather easy to establish in court.
In the real world, I wonder how well radar and lasers reflect of the front and rear windows considering their angle. I figured the would reflect most of the beam up and not back, depending on the model of car.
Angle of incidence equals angle of reflection in any case, so even if your car is comprised of non-black metal, the beam is going to have to hit any surface at "pretty-frelling-close" to perpendicular to be reflected back to the gun.
I was just thinking of replacing all the windows, but seeing as how the front and back windows would be okay, I guess you could live without your sideview mirrors.
First you have to get a license for the exotic pet, then you have to import it, then you have get it vaccinated and take out liability insurance in case it throws feces at a passing dignitary.
No, no, no, there's a better way. Get me a case of beer and a copy of the WSJ and a dartboard. I'm at least as random as a monkey after 24 beers.
The cops would just learn to aim at something that does reflect on your car - windows, for example - which is why you have them replaced with slow glass.
Provided you learn how to drive without any visual inputs...
She said, "Well, Daddy, if I had some nuts on my chin would those be chin nuts?"
I said "Hell no bitch, you'd have a dick in your mouth! mouth! mouth!"
"It demonstrates how easily other users can put two and two together and also shows how children could also find themselves in danger." ...which, in turn, demonstrates why children should not be allowed unfettered access to the Net. Of course, it's probably just easier to pass legislation than to watch what your kids are doing - that makes it somebody else's problem.
I think it has more to do with market size.
Pay license fee to whoever owns the US distribution rights, get access to the US market and a decent chance of making back your investment and then some. Pay license fees to each of the companies that own distribution rights throughout the EU, and still not reach as many gamers as in the US. Not a tough choice when you're not an international megacorp.
sounds extremely like "doctoring accounts so there are no out of pocket expenses". I am, of course, quite happy to be corrected.
I'm not quite sure what you mean, but I'll clarify what I mean:
Say Mr. John Bigshot checks in with his corporate American Express card as a form of payment, and leaves his personal AmEx for the incidental charges. When he checks out, the GSA says "Would you like to leave the charges on your American Express?", he's in a hurry, says "Yes" and departs before the folio can print. GSA promptly closes out the entire folio on one statement, and all is forgotten for a couple of weeks.
The last week of the month, Mr. Bigshot's assistant Sandi calls to get a copy of his folio so she can submit his expense report, and discovers the error. She then requests two new folios, one with room and tax, one with the incidentals, because their accounting department will reject anything with incidental charges on it. The problem is, once the folio is closed out and the business day turned over, that folio is locked and cannot be edited. (Every incarnation of Fidelio/Opera I've used, except in the A/R module, as well as Courtyard PMS, InnStar and whatever Comfort Inns use, do this.). A new folio is generated when I do the adjustment, but all it will have is the charge to proper card, and a credit to the incorrect card. Thus, the mock-up.
If that's what you mean by "doctored" then yes, I do that rather frequently, especially around the 25-28th of every month. If you mean hiding incidentals so that his company will foot the bill for them without knowing precisely what they're paying for, then no, I've never done that.
Large companies can't just magically make outstanding checks vanish from their books
Right, but they could have posted $0.02 as tax (since the guy paid cash), and not wasted the $0.30 cutting the check to begin with.
Monoculture, no. As others have already pointed out, though, it is subject to groupthink.
Pro-piracy, pro-Linux, anti-Microsoft, skewed left/libertarian, Natlie Portman Overlords naked and petrified in a Beowulf cluster of hot grits, to name a few examples.
Kind of why I post here, actually.
they have plenty of aptitude
No, they don't. Just today I was called in (on my first day off in two weeks) to unravel a GSA's mess where instead of asking for help when she got over her head, she wound up crediting a guest $9,000.00 on their Visa. This is not charging the guest $9,000, this was paying them that amount. Luckily, our cards are batched and I was able to prevent it from settling.
but why, pray tell, should they waste it doing anything for you?
Because their $10/hour depends on it. If they don't want the job, fine, it can be arranged for them not to have it. If they do want the job, and put in the effort to actually learn what's required of them, they will be promoted very quickly because there's turn-over in hotels you wouldn't believe.
you sound like a condescending dickwad
I am, when warranted. You sound like an illiterate, inept, embittered wage-slave who can't be bothered to punctuate correctly.
but it goes against my beliefs that Excel should be used only for number analysis, not data management. A billing system is data management.
Which is the way it should be, but if something goes awry in the billing process and you have multiple charges and adjustments (like hotels, where your $10/hr front desk agent may have a great smile but the aptitude of the lobby plants), sometimes it's nice to mock up an invoice in Excel so you can make it look nice.
Incidentally, I do work in a hotel that handles a lot of business clients. Billing mistakes often aren't noticed until it's time to submit for reimbursement, and a lot of them have very strict rules about what can and cannot appear on their bills. It's not an everyday occurrence, but it happens enough that it's worth keeping a template around. It's not perfect, but after two years of tweaking, it looks pretty dang close.
You've got it all wrong. He's my specially trained gerbil to .. uh .. detect and eat cancer.
Yeah.