I didn't have a problem explaining this to my children. "Those women are pretending the vegetables are body parts men have and use for making babies, hoping to spark the genetically programmed response men have to make babies in an attempt to manipulate and exploit the viewer's emotions."
Yes, I understand the Worker's Party accomplished many things, especially in the 1930's....Volkswagen, for instance. (Don't invoke Godwin's Law on me here, dammit! It's relevant!)
Don't assume. Unions did accomplish much, but now they're rife with corruption, greed, and sloth. It's time for a reboot. Oddly, you still managed to think that is was my hubris being served, when I was the one talking about new unions, new movements... the UAW aren't the only ones, either. I see Teamsters making $25/hr, and they get to go home at night, when the "common man" still gets paid $0.28/mile, they short him 10% of the miles he runs, and he spends 2 weeks at home, unpaid, in a year. The other 50 weeks, he's on the road, getting cussed at for driving a slow rig that tears up the roads and pollutes the air, while soccer moms are cutting him off in traffic on the way to Wal-Mart to buy the very freight he's carrying.
Honestly, where's this "soar free" crap you're spouting out the side of your neck? I would like to see modern unions fight for the "common man" instead of serving their own special interests. I understand things are different on the other side of the pond, but until you've been herded like cattle through a security gate and metal detector because your employer is worried you'll steal a $1 DVD from him while you've been packing boxes in a 105F warehouse for $7/hr for the last 12 hours with a 30 minute lunch and 2 15 minute breaks, I'll thank you to shut the fuck up.
Nimrod. (see, I didn't say "young idiot".) The part you quoted has jack and shit to do with hiring practices; it has to do with something called a "union". Now, the older members of the community are more familiar with what a union is; in theory, it protects the rights of the worker while limiting the power of the corporation, all through something known as "collective bargaining". In practice, it allows people who work on an assembly line to demand a month's paid vacation a year and $75/hr wages. I remember way back, when I signed the Cluetrain Manifesto, thinking that the eve of a computer worker's union was near...
Ah, well.
The relevant part, btw, is a few lines up:
SEC. 623. [Section 4]
(a) It shall be unlawful for an employer-
(1) to fail or refuse to hire or to discharge any individual or otherwise discriminate against any individual with respect to his compensation, terms, conditions, or privileges of employment, because of such individual's age;
I suspect your caffeine-addled mind raced right past that in your zeal to right the wrongs of people who simply want to hire someone who might actually pay attention to what they're doing instead of whipping out a knee-jerk slipshod response. Better luck next time.
My step-dad is former DEA, and occasionally, we'd get into some pretty heated arguments about privacy, until one day, he said "I have nothing to hide." and I replied with "Ok. How big is your penis?"
He hasn't brought it up since.
God, dude, grow a pair. Have you even been to Voodoo Village? Have you seen the rumored Yellow School Bus? I'm betting not - and honestly, if you want drugs and poverty and crime, go to Binghampton. It's that little community between Sam Cooper and Walnut Grove, east of Graham and West of E. Parkway - you know, where the new cop shop is? I lived there once, and I've been approached to buy drugs - but they weren't forced on me. I simply said "sorry, no thanks, I'm just taking a walk."
Keep in mind, even though Memphis is fairly easy to get a concealed-carry license, I wasn't packing. And I'm pretty damn white - pink, really, since I'm half white and half red, but in Memphis, you're White, or you're not.
Grow up and venture outside of Cooper-Young as an adult, and not with the wide-eyed wonder of a punk kid who goes "OMG, that man forced me at gunpoint to buy his crack!". Thinking about it, don't bother - go back to the Overton Park Shell and whine about big corporate interests who buy local landmarks to exploit them for profit. Say "hi" to John DeVries for me.
Last year, when they weren't drinking, they were on the smoking porch, drinking. Oh, and they went to a couple of panels, only slightly inebriated.
Don't get me wrong, they were fun guys to hang out and talk with, but "professionalism" doesn't exactly come to mind. And the way they've handled the recent scandal has burned a lot of people, so hopefully they'll be a little more sober this year.
I quit The Planet two years ago, because of the horrendous security practices (enforced security policies for low-end customers, lax policies for high-end violators)and the general lack of integrity. They emailed me on Wednesday and asked me to submit my resume for the same lvl 1 NOC Engineer position I had quit 2 years ago - seems they had a recent opening. I find this posting highly amusing, personally.
I'm also not considering the offer, if they make one.
I'd kill for 9 cents a kWh. I'm paying $0.16/kWh in Dallas; and I intend to switch to a $0.12/kWh plan in a couple of months, once the contract is satisfied.
... at the GDC in San Francisco earlier this year, and posted the results - http://www.gamerati.net/index.php?option=com_conte nt&task=view&id=118&Itemid=1
He's a slick little monkey. The second he figured out that I wasn't buying the claims after I kept insisting on a single hard number or physical card, he ended the interview, and then cancelled the rest of the media interviews that day. His "white paper" is hype, and so is his whole company - at the 8th grade level. It's sad, really.
I put him up there with Infinium Labs - and I don't expect he'll send us a sample card.
I was going to make a snarky comment about how I haven't seen a non-upgradable OEM ystem in years.
Then I did my research, and here's the $299 system (after $50 rebate), the Dimension B110. According to Dell's site, it has integrated Intel graphics. According to this guy, the board has no PCI-E or AGP slot, making it virtually a dead-end system.
I stand corrected.
On the flip side, I've built decent Athlon systems, with 256 MB RAM, decent HDD, and on board (but upgradable video) for under $350. They weren't computing powerhouses by any stretch of the imagination, but the box has served as a fairly decent workstation for almost 3 years now, and video and RAM has been upgraded.
While I support conservation, I think you are missing something here - oil is not required for survival. Our economy relied on other forms of transportation in the 1800's, and they didn't require oil - steam and horse power are cheap. And horses don't require expensive fuels (sure, oat supplements are handy. $30 for a week's worth still beats the hell out of gas costs.) and do something your car will never do - reproduce.
Do I think we should abandon 100 years of progress and revert to the horse-drawn carriage? No. But we could, if we had to - and your groceries would still get to the supermarket, eventually.
Third that, I have my Texas Department of Safety Non-Commissioned Security Officer's card in my wallet.
Having worked corporate security, convention security, bouncing, and fugitive recovery - the worst is Conventions. Especially A-Kon. Forget the tin-foil - 5,000 screaming otaku drooling over cat-girls will send anyone to the bar for a Guinness (after the shift, of course).
Hopefully, they use Scott McNeil for some of the voices, and I'll get to hear more production-horror movies over Guinness next A-Kon.:) Plus, he's a fabu voice actor.
In every dice & paper RPG I run, Permadeath is "on". I don't give second chances, and if you do something stupid, make a bad roll, or generally just get ganged up on, you're dead. End of story, get a clean sheet of paper and roll up a new character. You don't find many D&D or Vampire games where the GM announces "Free rez for your character if they die, just gotta start back at the nearest town."
I also don't have a problem with group dissension - ie, PvP. If one player decides to be a dick and "accidentally" pop another player's character in the back of the head when no one is looking during a firefight, and he makes his rolls, then it happens. On the flip side, the game system I run doesn't have "classes" or "levels", and character generation can pop out a 70 yr old War Vet as easily as an 18 yr old street punk. You can improve your character's skills and stats, But the net effect of all this is that a year old (real time) character doesn't have that much of an edge on a 5 minute old (real time) character, and if he slips up when he's offing his own party, he'll be next.
I think permadeath in a game will greatly increase interest in role playing and team building, and PvP won't be much of an issue - because you won't respawn, and eventually the victims will team up against you.
I'd play in a permadeath game in a heartbeat. More challenge, more fun, less grind. Just my take on it.
As a reactionary troll, you should be concerned that it's against US trade law to do business with anyone in Iran. This had shit to do with the dozens of reseller accounts the customer had hosted, including the political activist group.
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I didn't have a problem explaining this to my children. "Those women are pretending the vegetables are body parts men have and use for making babies, hoping to spark the genetically programmed response men have to make babies in an attempt to manipulate and exploit the viewer's emotions."
What's the problem?
MOM!?
In Soviet Russia, Stalin stops Godwin from using Hitler's Internet.
Dude. Not only once, but TWICE.... woooooooooosh.
Yes, I understand the Worker's Party accomplished many things, especially in the 1930's....Volkswagen, for instance. (Don't invoke Godwin's Law on me here, dammit! It's relevant!)
Don't assume. Unions did accomplish much, but now they're rife with corruption, greed, and sloth. It's time for a reboot. Oddly, you still managed to think that is was my hubris being served, when I was the one talking about new unions, new movements... the UAW aren't the only ones, either. I see Teamsters making $25/hr, and they get to go home at night, when the "common man" still gets paid $0.28/mile, they short him 10% of the miles he runs, and he spends 2 weeks at home, unpaid, in a year. The other 50 weeks, he's on the road, getting cussed at for driving a slow rig that tears up the roads and pollutes the air, while soccer moms are cutting him off in traffic on the way to Wal-Mart to buy the very freight he's carrying.
Honestly, where's this "soar free" crap you're spouting out the side of your neck? I would like to see modern unions fight for the "common man" instead of serving their own special interests. I understand things are different on the other side of the pond, but until you've been herded like cattle through a security gate and metal detector because your employer is worried you'll steal a $1 DVD from him while you've been packing boxes in a 105F warehouse for $7/hr for the last 12 hours with a 30 minute lunch and 2 15 minute breaks, I'll thank you to shut the fuck up.
Ah, well.
The relevant part, btw, is a few lines up:
SEC. 623. [Section 4] (a) It shall be unlawful for an employer- (1) to fail or refuse to hire or to discharge any individual or otherwise discriminate against any individual with respect to his compensation, terms, conditions, or privileges of employment, because of such individual's age;
I suspect your caffeine-addled mind raced right past that in your zeal to right the wrongs of people who simply want to hire someone who might actually pay attention to what they're doing instead of whipping out a knee-jerk slipshod response. Better luck next time.
Damn, here I was thinking I had the 5-digit crown, and you come along with not only 4-digits, but one in the 1000's...
My step-dad is former DEA, and occasionally, we'd get into some pretty heated arguments about privacy, until one day, he said "I have nothing to hide." and I replied with "Ok. How big is your penis?" He hasn't brought it up since.
God, dude, grow a pair. Have you even been to Voodoo Village? Have you seen the rumored Yellow School Bus? I'm betting not - and honestly, if you want drugs and poverty and crime, go to Binghampton. It's that little community between Sam Cooper and Walnut Grove, east of Graham and West of E. Parkway - you know, where the new cop shop is? I lived there once, and I've been approached to buy drugs - but they weren't forced on me. I simply said "sorry, no thanks, I'm just taking a walk." Keep in mind, even though Memphis is fairly easy to get a concealed-carry license, I wasn't packing. And I'm pretty damn white - pink, really, since I'm half white and half red, but in Memphis, you're White, or you're not. Grow up and venture outside of Cooper-Young as an adult, and not with the wide-eyed wonder of a punk kid who goes "OMG, that man forced me at gunpoint to buy his crack!". Thinking about it, don't bother - go back to the Overton Park Shell and whine about big corporate interests who buy local landmarks to exploit them for profit. Say "hi" to John DeVries for me.
Last year, when they weren't drinking, they were on the smoking porch, drinking. Oh, and they went to a couple of panels, only slightly inebriated. Don't get me wrong, they were fun guys to hang out and talk with, but "professionalism" doesn't exactly come to mind. And the way they've handled the recent scandal has burned a lot of people, so hopefully they'll be a little more sober this year.
I quit The Planet two years ago, because of the horrendous security practices (enforced security policies for low-end customers, lax policies for high-end violators)and the general lack of integrity. They emailed me on Wednesday and asked me to submit my resume for the same lvl 1 NOC Engineer position I had quit 2 years ago - seems they had a recent opening. I find this posting highly amusing, personally. I'm also not considering the offer, if they make one.
I'd kill for 9 cents a kWh. I'm paying $0.16/kWh in Dallas; and I intend to switch to a $0.12/kWh plan in a couple of months, once the contract is satisfied.
You know, I'm benchmarking Vista right now - and that sounds like a really golden idea. Thanks! :)
Ebay.
... at the GDC in San Francisco earlier this year, and posted the results - http://www.gamerati.net/index.php?option=com_conte nt&task=view&id=118&Itemid=1
He's a slick little monkey. The second he figured out that I wasn't buying the claims after I kept insisting on a single hard number or physical card, he ended the interview, and then cancelled the rest of the media interviews that day. His "white paper" is hype, and so is his whole company - at the 8th grade level. It's sad, really.
I put him up there with Infinium Labs - and I don't expect he'll send us a sample card.
If you have sex with your clone, is it masturbation, incest, or just plain vanity?
.. And it's old news, the emabargo passed on April 12. :)
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http://www.gamerati.net/index.php?option=com_cont
I was going to make a snarky comment about how I haven't seen a non-upgradable OEM ystem in years.
Then I did my research, and here's the $299 system (after $50 rebate), the Dimension B110. According to Dell's site, it has integrated Intel graphics. According to this guy, the board has no PCI-E or AGP slot, making it virtually a dead-end system.
I stand corrected.
On the flip side, I've built decent Athlon systems, with 256 MB RAM, decent HDD, and on board (but upgradable video) for under $350. They weren't computing powerhouses by any stretch of the imagination, but the box has served as a fairly decent workstation for almost 3 years now, and video and RAM has been upgraded.
While I support conservation, I think you are missing something here - oil is not required for survival. Our economy relied on other forms of transportation in the 1800's, and they didn't require oil - steam and horse power are cheap. And horses don't require expensive fuels (sure, oat supplements are handy. $30 for a week's worth still beats the hell out of gas costs.) and do something your car will never do - reproduce.
Do I think we should abandon 100 years of progress and revert to the horse-drawn carriage? No. But we could, if we had to - and your groceries would still get to the supermarket, eventually.
All pipe, whether it is waste, storm, or water service, has to hold pressure. Other than that, you're right - it's just a drain, no water service.
Third that, I have my Texas Department of Safety Non-Commissioned Security Officer's card in my wallet.
Having worked corporate security, convention security, bouncing, and fugitive recovery - the worst is Conventions. Especially A-Kon. Forget the tin-foil - 5,000 screaming otaku drooling over cat-girls will send anyone to the bar for a Guinness (after the shift, of course).
Hopefully, they use Scott McNeil for some of the voices, and I'll get to hear more production-horror movies over Guinness next A-Kon. :) Plus, he's a fabu voice actor.
I want your job. Not _your_ job, but _that_ job. You get the idea. How does one get into that line of work, and who's dick do I have to suck?
In every dice & paper RPG I run, Permadeath is "on". I don't give second chances, and if you do something stupid, make a bad roll, or generally just get ganged up on, you're dead. End of story, get a clean sheet of paper and roll up a new character. You don't find many D&D or Vampire games where the GM announces "Free rez for your character if they die, just gotta start back at the nearest town." I also don't have a problem with group dissension - ie, PvP. If one player decides to be a dick and "accidentally" pop another player's character in the back of the head when no one is looking during a firefight, and he makes his rolls, then it happens. On the flip side, the game system I run doesn't have "classes" or "levels", and character generation can pop out a 70 yr old War Vet as easily as an 18 yr old street punk. You can improve your character's skills and stats, But the net effect of all this is that a year old (real time) character doesn't have that much of an edge on a 5 minute old (real time) character, and if he slips up when he's offing his own party, he'll be next. I think permadeath in a game will greatly increase interest in role playing and team building, and PvP won't be much of an issue - because you won't respawn, and eventually the victims will team up against you. I'd play in a permadeath game in a heartbeat. More challenge, more fun, less grind. Just my take on it.
As a reactionary troll, you should be concerned that it's against US trade law to do business with anyone in Iran. This had shit to do with the dozens of reseller accounts the customer had hosted, including the political activist group.