While it is of course nice to have a professional standard look, so you know how to dress up when necessary, this is a two-edged sword. Unfortunately, these standards are invariably laid out by the reactionary bigots (like the parent said: guy with earrings == gay). This is no surprise, since the people in power are usually old, even if they DID get there on their own merits.
Give it a decade or two, and visible tattoos and piercings will be compatible with a professional appearance, as long as the mods are not gross and the overall impression is that of someone who takes good care of his appearance
(Like that guy on Voyager with the tattoo on his face, which I find quite aesthetically pleasing.)
Quote: And if you do sue and win, guess who is going to get skipped over when job promotions come.
The stupid person who discriminated against me, of course, because he or she cost the company money? Of course, in a less-than-ideal world, you would take the money and run, since your (now ex-)employer already indicated that he does not want you.
Then again, most people will not sue in the first place, because they know they're fucked when they lose.
Don't juggle tritium in your hands! Tritium is a gas at room temperature and normal pressure. In order to make it jugglable, it has to be frozen to minus hundreds of degrees, which makes skin contact very painful.
One problem I see with all-enhancements-allowed competition is that some enhancements, like e.g. steroids, are very effective and also very bad for the athletes's health -- this means that professional sports will then be dominated by people willing to or coerced into sacrificing their health.
I, for example, don't care about the usual spectator sports, and I am only mildly interested in watching sports that I do myself. If those sports were dominated by drug-enhanced cyborgs, it would be pointless for me to watch them, since there is no connection anymore to how I do the sport.
On the other hand, if someone wants to establish new compentitions where (non-lethal) enhancements are allowed, I am not stopping them.
If you admit to being at more than average risk for identity theft, won't the credit bureaus happily adjust your credit rating to -1000000?
This was actually meant as a response to the common advice to *routinely* put a fraud alert on your credit stuff, so all credit applications in your name will get checked by a phone call to you,
thus giving you a warning in the case of undetected identity theft.
Right. I just wanted to point out to those who are not familiar with this, that, due to the nature of radio communication, you can never assume that the other side is going to hear you, until the other side has acknowledged.
I bet there are thousands of small aircraft that do not have the luxury of a second radio, so if you are talking to an FSS, to ATC, or are making announcements near untowered airports, you just do not have the means to also listen to 121.5.
As others have pointed out, shining a laser at planes is going to be much cheaper than sending up some interceptors.
Quote:...not one of the standard light signals... waste of money...
You do know that the FAA has channels to communicate new regulations to pilots, yes? The appropriate NOTAM would state something like "Hey guys, new light signals, red-red-green, turn around ASAP. Prepare to receive stern talking-to"
He (grandparent) quoted that sentence because he was referring to it. The upside-down image on the retina is of no big consequence, just like the video camera does not care if pixel number one is in the upper left or lower right corner. It is trivially corrected for in the processing stage.
Maybe you should have a look at the original HHG TV series, where the book entries were seamlessly integrated into the story. If the BBC could make it work more than 20 years ago, surely the multibillion dollar movie industry behemoth that is Hollywood can do it today.
No offense meant. I just needed a catchy phrase for my "witty" opening line.
If I had not known about the version with "essential", which makes more sense to me than the other one, I probably would have accepted the first best google hit, too. Which makes me feel bad about all the other occasions where I did not dig deeper. Google is a good way for wrong information to spread.
Those who would alter an essential quote to temporarily further their own agenda, deserve our full contempt.
The following version forms the motto of "An Historical Review of the Constitution and Government of Pennsylvania" from 1759. Note the "essential liberty" as contrasted with "little temporary safety":
"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
While I applaud your willingness to use empirical picture/sound qualtity tests, I must also tell you that listening/viewing tests are totally worthless unless they are double-blind. I correct myself: they worse than worthless: If you base purchase decisions on flawed tests, they actually do damage. And yes, your brain will do everything to delude yourself, usually into believing that the expensive cables you just bought are indeed better than the ones you had.
Quote: The thing I wonder is this. If your god is omnipresent and omnicient why do you have to go through physicals gyrations in order to be heard by god?
Easy: These observations are for your benefit, not God's. As in: Stop smoking, set down that beer, turn of the TV, free your mind of distractions, focus on the dialog with your deity. Make it a ritual, so that it comes easier with repetition.
Quote: [Fundamentalist religions] do put conditions on sex,...
This has to be the understatement of the month. Sex is what people very much want to do. Religions usually restrict their members to have sex with only one person ever, of the opposite sex, and only for reproduction. These are very severe restrictions that people only put up with because religions hold their eternal soul hostage, i.e. you don't do as we say, you go to hell. Most religions are guilty of this abuse, and I do not like them better for it (to put it mildly).
Quote:...but it's up to the individual to follow them
If you do not mind being excommunicated/told you'll go to hell/publicly called a whore/stoned to death. Surely, religion has no adverse effect on people who do not obey.
Quote: How many people would not be shot at all if they just handed over their wallet to the mugger rather than try to be a hero?
Darwin at work, I would say. And no, it is not the government's fucking job to make this decision. Not for me, and not for the people who remove themselves from the genepool.
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Give it a decade or two, and visible tattoos and piercings will be compatible with a professional appearance, as long as the mods are not gross and the overall impression is that of someone who takes good care of his appearance (Like that guy on Voyager with the tattoo on his face, which I find quite aesthetically pleasing.)
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The stupid person who discriminated against me, of course, because he or she cost the company money? Of course, in a less-than-ideal world, you would take the money and run, since your (now ex-)employer already indicated that he does not want you.
Then again, most people will not sue in the first place, because they know they're fucked when they lose.
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...and spell it correctly (or at least recognisably)?
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I, for example, don't care about the usual spectator sports, and I am only mildly interested in watching sports that I do myself. If those sports were dominated by drug-enhanced cyborgs, it would be pointless for me to watch them, since there is no connection anymore to how I do the sport.
On the other hand, if someone wants to establish new compentitions where (non-lethal) enhancements are allowed, I am not stopping them.
chl
This was actually meant as a response to the common advice to *routinely* put a fraud alert on your credit stuff, so all credit applications in your name will get checked by a phone call to you, thus giving you a warning in the case of undetected identity theft.
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I bet there are thousands of small aircraft that do not have the luxury of a second radio, so if you are talking to an FSS, to ATC, or are making announcements near untowered airports, you just do not have the means to also listen to 121.5.
As others have pointed out, shining a laser at planes is going to be much cheaper than sending up some interceptors.
chl
You do know that the FAA has channels to communicate new regulations to pilots, yes? The appropriate NOTAM would state something like "Hey guys, new light signals, red-red-green, turn around ASAP. Prepare to receive stern talking-to"
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HTH, chl
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I could possibly make a joke about feeding someone's "output" back to them, but I'd rather not go there.
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Victim, you mean.
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No offense meant. I just needed a catchy phrase for my "witty" opening line.
If I had not known about the version with "essential", which makes more sense to me than the other one, I probably would have accepted the first best google hit, too. Which makes me feel bad about all the other occasions where I did not dig deeper. Google is a good way for wrong information to spread.
chl
The following version forms the motto of "An Historical Review of the Constitution and Government of Pennsylvania" from 1759. Note the "essential liberty" as contrasted with "little temporary safety":
"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
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Easy: These observations are for your benefit, not God's. As in: Stop smoking, set down that beer, turn of the TV, free your mind of distractions, focus on the dialog with your deity. Make it a ritual, so that it comes easier with repetition.
chl
Quote: [Fundamentalist religions] do put conditions on sex,...
This has to be the understatement of the month. Sex is what people very much want to do. Religions usually restrict their members to have sex with only one person ever, of the opposite sex, and only for reproduction. These are very severe restrictions that people only put up with because religions hold their eternal soul hostage, i.e. you don't do as we say, you go to hell. Most religions are guilty of this abuse, and I do not like them better for it (to put it mildly).
Quote: ...but it's up to the individual to follow them
If you do not mind being excommunicated/told you'll go to hell/publicly called a whore/stoned to death. Surely, religion has no adverse effect on people who do not obey.
chl
Darwin at work, I would say. And no, it is not the government's fucking job to make this decision. Not for me, and not for the people who remove themselves from the genepool.
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