Dunno, but considering it mentions global SOA(which is the dutch abbreviation for sexually transmitted diseases), I think I'm going to rip out the ethernet cable for a bit till the fad goes away.
The all the slander and attorney lawyers in the world can not touch you unless they can prove that at the exact time you expressed your opinion it was not in fact your true opinion but that you lied about it and falsely expressed your opinion in order to slander someone.
In other news, it is my opinion that some americans still haven't figured out that other countries may just have slightly different laws than their own.
Picture a bunch of apple fanboys trying to intimidate you. You just giggled out loud, right? I mean, we're not exactly talking offensive linemen here...
The last thing I'd do in the presence of apple fanboys is giggle. Before you know it they'll think you're attracted to them and what happens after that...well, let's just say it involves turtlenecks.
Sometimes I really wonder where we'd be if the schools would just admit that people's abilities aren't 100% equal and place you according to your ability in each area.
You'd be in a different country where children *do* get separated into different classes based on intelligence and performance, as opposed to the wallets of their parents.
Having to pay $100> for a new controller+game for each release borders on extortion when your 14 YO daughter wants *only* that for xmas. Video Game CRACK.
You know...when I was 14 I could have asked for a christmas present worth that much, and I'd have a received a flat-out no. Then again, I was making about 200/month delivering newspapers at that age. Somehow makes one appreciate stuff a little more when you spent 2 weeks in the pouring rain to get it.
Capitalism is, first and foremost, about freedom - that people should have the freedom to do business without undo interference by the government.
Government = the people. That's pretty much the whole point of having one. Their job is to act as representatives in certain matters, such as dealings with other countries or, in this case, big multinational companies. Heck, considering the amount of money some of these companies are worth they might as well be small countries in terms of the amount of influence they're able to exert.
In this particular case the EC is investigating whether this merger threatens that holy grail of capitalism: competition.
That's certainly true, the business environment and laws of the US are indeed very different than those of Europe, but the OP is also right that the European Commission seems to get off on abusing American firms. They're certainly not alone in this, hating the US has been very popular at least since the start of the Bush administration, that doesn't make it right or particularly in the interest of the people they're supposed to be representing.
[Citation needed]
Got any actual facts to back up that statement? Or is it the same tired argument we see every time Microsoft gets bitchslapped by Ms. Kroes when several people have to point out that the EC fines just as many, if not more, european companies as they do american ones?
If you really insist in "building" a team out of people who don't know jack each other, simple way: Grab them all for an afternoon, put them in a pub, sit down with them and get them drunk. Really drunk. Then have them talk. You'll have a team the next morning some of the times. And if not, you at least got a good hangover out of it on corporate pay.
Ehmm, yah...and about 7 months later half the staff goes on pregnancy leave;-)
You put the heatsinks in the lower parts of the mech, don't you kids learn anything in school these days? You want your weapons and aiming equipment high so you can shoot over hills and the heatsinks nice and low for when you're wading through water.
Awww, those poor Japanese. Not like other countries that put people in space and on the moon for pretty much no other purpose than R&D and dick-waving contests.
Massive projects like these are about more than a simple economic ROI.
And just in case anyone feels like being smart, so has the method for cushioning one's fall by sticking one foot in one's mouth and one's head up one's ass.
In other news, Eve Online players around the planet immediately associate bees with Goonswarm hailing from the something awful forums and run away screaming at the thought of Little Bees inside their bodies.
Don't tell your papa, don't tell your sister, little honeybee.
With apologies to Tom Petty.
Anyway, sounds like fun for...specific occasions, but getting licked by co-workers all day long would get tedious pretty fast, even when you work in a callcenter.
I managed to fly out of a corner at the measly speed of 40MPH, hit the sidewalk with my front wheel and get catapulted into the air.
Landed on my back with my head doing a nice little whiplash backwards onto the sidewalk. Helmet had a few small cracks and the padding was flattened. Ended up pretty groggy, but I'm 100% certain that had I taken that blow directly to the back of the head it would have been my brains and not the padding of the helmet that got squished.
I still have that helmet just to remind me that we all fuck up at times. It's also great for hitting people like the OOP with.
Face it, we are heading back to royalty and peasantry quicker and quicker. Not long and they'll have us back in chains. I knew a former employee of Anderson who was fired after lunch because he had a spot of soup on his tie.
Who's we? There's a pretty large chunk of the world where this kind of shit simply doesn't fly. Granted, there's downsides to that too, as employees that really are horribly lazy/stupid/imcompetent get to keep their jobs because the PHB can't be bothered to go through all the trouble to get rid of him/her, but still.
And I'd say Andersen/Accenture is a pretty extreme example, unless they're actually representative for the US way of doing business, in which case I'm going to smile twice as much the next time I see one of your tv bozo's screaming about socialism.
So what exactly is so hard about simply documenting what a PITA this person is, with multiple examples and testimonies from other employees, and then using THAT as justification for dismissal, instead of making up some BS reason like this all-caps email?
Because in a lot of these cases the crazy person is not so much crazy as frustrated with idiotic co-workers who can't follow simple instructions. Pretty hard to build a case against an employee when all they do is point out inconvenient truths, no matter how annoying the fashion which they do it in, especially if the PHB is (in)directly responsible for those truths being there in the first place.
Judging from the whole story, it sounds like this particular accountant is "not a teamplayer".
There's nothing quite like doing 120MPH on the Autobahn, enjoying the sensation of a good car doing what it was made to do, only to hear a big roar behind you and a red flash with a roof sitting below your windows passes by at a speed that makes it look as though you were standing still.
Now as to getting a drivers license being serious business, Top Gear(uk car program, big budget, really good show) had an episode a while ago where one of their presenters went to Finland to find out why they produce so many great drivers. Turns out that in order to get a drivers license in Finland, you have to learn a whole range of manoeuvers normally confined to circuits and rally tracks.
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Nooooooo, we know how stupid he is ;-)
Dunno, but considering it mentions global SOA(which is the dutch abbreviation for sexually transmitted diseases), I think I'm going to rip out the ethernet cable for a bit till the fad goes away.
The all the slander and attorney lawyers in the world can not touch you unless they can prove that at the exact time you expressed your opinion it was not in fact your true opinion but that you lied about it and falsely expressed your opinion in order to slander someone.
In other news, it is my opinion that some americans still haven't figured out that other countries may just have slightly different laws than their own.
Like that?
Picture a bunch of apple fanboys trying to intimidate you. You just giggled out loud, right? I mean, we're not exactly talking offensive linemen here...
The last thing I'd do in the presence of apple fanboys is giggle. Before you know it they'll think you're attracted to them and what happens after that...well, let's just say it involves turtlenecks.
Not pretty.
Do not meddle in the affairs of ebay wizards...for they are powerful and quick to anger.
Besides, there's plenty of people on this planet willing to pay good money for a little sweet talk.
Sometimes I really wonder where we'd be if the schools would just admit that people's abilities aren't 100% equal and place you according to your ability in each area.
You'd be in a different country where children *do* get separated into different classes based on intelligence and performance, as opposed to the wallets of their parents.
Having to pay $100> for a new controller+game for each release borders on extortion
when your 14 YO daughter wants *only* that for xmas.
Video Game CRACK.
You know...when I was 14 I could have asked for a christmas present worth that much, and I'd have a received a flat-out no. Then again, I was making about 200/month delivering newspapers at that age. Somehow makes one appreciate stuff a little more when you spent 2 weeks in the pouring rain to get it.
Capitalism is, first and foremost, about freedom - that people should have the freedom to do business without undo interference by the government.
Government = the people. That's pretty much the whole point of having one. Their job is to act as representatives in certain matters, such as dealings with other countries or, in this case, big multinational companies. Heck, considering the amount of money some of these companies are worth they might as well be small countries in terms of the amount of influence they're able to exert.
In this particular case the EC is investigating whether this merger threatens that holy grail of capitalism: competition.
That's certainly true, the business environment and laws of the US are indeed very different than those of Europe, but the OP is also right that the European Commission seems to get off on abusing American firms. They're certainly not alone in this, hating the US has been very popular at least since the start of the Bush administration, that doesn't make it right or particularly in the interest of the people they're supposed to be representing.
[Citation needed]
Got any actual facts to back up that statement? Or is it the same tired argument we see every time Microsoft gets bitchslapped by Ms. Kroes when several people have to point out that the EC fines just as many, if not more, european companies as they do american ones?
Icepacks in the right places...
Make sure you replace them before they start to melt though, otherwise they will have the inverse effect.
Ah....the Netherlands...home of 6 feet tall, blonde viking women who refuse to let you pay for their dinners.
Remind me why I'm dating a foreigner again?
If you really insist in "building" a team out of people who don't know jack each other, simple way: Grab them all for an afternoon, put them in a pub, sit down with them and get them drunk. Really drunk. Then have them talk. You'll have a team the next morning some of the times. And if not, you at least got a good hangover out of it on corporate pay.
Ehmm, yah...and about 7 months later half the staff goes on pregnancy leave ;-)
You put the heatsinks in the lower parts of the mech, don't you kids learn anything in school these days? You want your weapons and aiming equipment high so you can shoot over hills and the heatsinks nice and low for when you're wading through water.
Awww, those poor Japanese. Not like other countries that put people in space and on the moon for pretty much no other purpose than R&D and dick-waving contests.
Massive projects like these are about more than a simple economic ROI.
We all know the actual means of monetizing of this... your vibrator will tweet when it turns on.
Actually, I should rephrase that. The vibrator will tweet. It's never *your* vibrator, of course.
Doesn't matter. As long as it turns on the webcam(s) anyway.
And just in case anyone feels like being smart, so has the method for cushioning one's fall by sticking one foot in one's mouth and one's head up one's ass.
In other news, Eve Online players around the planet immediately associate bees with Goonswarm hailing from the something awful forums and run away screaming at the thought of Little Bees inside their bodies.
Don't tell your papa, don't tell your sister, little honeybee.
With apologies to Tom Petty.
Anyway, sounds like fun for...specific occasions, but getting licked by co-workers all day long would get tedious pretty fast, even when you work in a callcenter.
I managed to fly out of a corner at the measly speed of 40MPH, hit the sidewalk with my front wheel and get catapulted into the air.
Landed on my back with my head doing a nice little whiplash backwards onto the sidewalk. Helmet had a few small cracks and the padding was flattened. Ended up pretty groggy, but I'm 100% certain that had I taken that blow directly to the back of the head it would have been my brains and not the padding of the helmet that got squished.
I still have that helmet just to remind me that we all fuck up at times. It's also great for hitting people like the OOP with.
Don't forget the principles of free trade and a massive boost in commercial activity.
Damn Mongols! *stops playing Civ 4*
Face it, we are heading back to royalty and peasantry quicker and quicker. Not long and they'll have us back in chains. I knew a former employee of Anderson who was fired after lunch because he had a spot of soup on his tie.
Who's we? There's a pretty large chunk of the world where this kind of shit simply doesn't fly. Granted, there's downsides to that too, as employees that really are horribly lazy/stupid/imcompetent get to keep their jobs because the PHB can't be bothered to go through all the trouble to get rid of him/her, but still.
And I'd say Andersen/Accenture is a pretty extreme example, unless they're actually representative for the US way of doing business, in which case I'm going to smile twice as much the next time I see one of your tv bozo's screaming about socialism.
So what exactly is so hard about simply documenting what a PITA this person is, with multiple examples and testimonies from other employees, and then using THAT as justification for dismissal, instead of making up some BS reason like this all-caps email?
Because in a lot of these cases the crazy person is not so much crazy as frustrated with idiotic co-workers who can't follow simple instructions. Pretty hard to build a case against an employee when all they do is point out inconvenient truths, no matter how annoying the fashion which they do it in, especially if the PHB is (in)directly responsible for those truths being there in the first place.
Judging from the whole story, it sounds like this particular accountant is "not a teamplayer".
Especially after the last two years, no one is claiming that the free market is perfect.
Ok....I promised myself I'd never do this, but just for you I'm going to break that promise: You must be new here!
Welcome to Slashdot! There's no statement sweeping and/or outrageous enough not to be vented(and profoundly believed in) over here ;-)
*shines light in the corner so all the closet Randians come out and skittle across the floor*
Ehmm, yah, because the guys that crack games would leave something that phones home like this intact? ;-)
There's nothing quite like doing 120MPH on the Autobahn, enjoying the sensation of a good car doing what it was made to do, only to hear a big roar behind you and a red flash with a roof sitting below your windows passes by at a speed that makes it look as though you were standing still.
Now as to getting a drivers license being serious business, Top Gear(uk car program, big budget, really good show) had an episode a while ago where one of their presenters went to Finland to find out why they produce so many great drivers. Turns out that in order to get a drivers license in Finland, you have to learn a whole range of manoeuvers normally confined to circuits and rally tracks.