Background: I'm an Australian living in the Netherlands (Amsterdam actually) and I was in San Francisco for work for the second time. Turns out the first time I was there, the little green ticket they staple onto your passport that the airline takes out when you fly back got lost.
So the custom guy at the arrivals counter scans my passport. Red text on his screen. He checks me out, tells me to wait, goes off. Two cops come, take me to a side area, I get fingerprinted, photo'd and told to wait to be dealt with. 3 hours later or so, someone comes to help with my case.
I says, look, I am here for work, I am an Australian citizen, let me go please. He says there is no record of my leaving the US so I could have overstayed my last visa. I says, well look, my wife and my boss can vouch for my wareabouts or you can look in my passport and see I have travelled more than just your country. So he asks for my home number and my bosses (no shit) and calls them both. My wife freaks out cause she told me later she thought something bad happened to me (I mean, come on, "Hello, this is the United States Government, are you the wife of...." ) and they called my boss. Finally after 5 hours, I'm out.
When leaving, I almost force the green thing in my passport onto the airline girl and vow never to return.
Seriously, american airports are the asshole of that country and as far as traveling goes, I will never set foot in America again.
and the above is the reason why we need indepenant ARTISTS, not the usual corporate whores, we need people passionate about their art (hence the term starving artist) instead of these, dare I say, asses.
give me a 19 year old kid passionate to put a game out there and a guy who has a good story he wants to tell and i'll buy that in a heart beat.
Um mate, he was talking about the supreme court ruling on the constitution, not "the courts" in general. Congress can't stop the supreme court on ruling in matters of the constitution.
hmmm, so EU needs US for trade more than the opposite? Really?
The US seems to be the one cutting itself off from most of the middle east/asia, not to mention most of south america
Looking at americas import/export partners from the link that was posted below I would say that if EU/US had a spat and ceased trade, US has fewer options with who to trade with than the EU does unless america spits the dummy and tries to use force.
A world where the US is against the EU/China/Middle East/South America and most of asia is going to be a very lonely and unprofitable space.
And anyways, core infrastructure can always be replaced. Each global region could run the root for their own TLDs and go from there, sure some local authorities may mess things up/censor, but then whos to say that isn't possible from the americans/english anyways.....
and seriously, what in Haemoraging Fuck(tm) was the point of placing luke on tatooine?
Hmmm, yes, lets put luke on the same planet his father is from. yes, very subtle, he'd never guess.
and the acting was so freakin weak, they could have taken maddoxs advice for keanu and taken a piece of 2x4, painted a angry/sulky face on it and use it as their Anakin.....but again, its the weak direction.
Jesus Christ for the love of god (whichever one)...NO!...run away from SOX, its just blame deferral, endless policy creation (and not even the few needed good ones), its endless "clarifying meetings", its getting ITIL'd, its an endless stream of crap, like getting burried under a mountain of wet blankets.
You and your colleuges get suffocated in crap, stuff that you where hired to do because, well, you know what you are doing...oh no, you must get approval to shit....
reminds me of a episode of chappells show where he wished the roles were reversed on how the police treat people...so on one hand you have a business exec and the other a crack dealer.....its great fun seeing the swat team bust into the business guys house, shot his dog, interrogate him and send him to jail....
I am blind in one eye and yet I still have pretty good depth perception (played ALOT of sports as a kid and had no worries catching footballs, playing tennis etc)
so having two eyes is not the be all and end all of depth perception
I was just taking the piss out of comparing it to September the 11th. I mean, its nothing alike. Yes, it is a tragedy, but also, its nature, its done it before and it will do it again. Life, for some, goes on and you know that sooner or later nature will kick our arse again and again. Thats just how it goes. We are nothing compared to what nature can do to us.
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I had exactly that happen to me.
...." ) and they called my boss. Finally after 5 hours, I'm out.
Background: I'm an Australian living in the Netherlands (Amsterdam actually) and I was in San Francisco for work for the second time. Turns out the first time I was there, the little green ticket they staple onto your passport that the airline takes out when you fly back got lost.
So the custom guy at the arrivals counter scans my passport. Red text on his screen. He checks me out, tells me to wait, goes off. Two cops come, take me to a side area, I get fingerprinted, photo'd and told to wait to be dealt with. 3 hours later or so, someone comes to help with my case.
I says, look, I am here for work, I am an Australian citizen, let me go please. He says there is no record of my leaving the US so I could have overstayed my last visa. I says, well look, my wife and my boss can vouch for my wareabouts or you can look in my passport and see I have travelled more than just your country. So he asks for my home number and my bosses (no shit) and calls them both. My wife freaks out cause she told me later she thought something bad happened to me (I mean, come on, "Hello, this is the United States Government, are you the wife of
When leaving, I almost force the green thing in my passport onto the airline girl and vow never to return.
Seriously, american airports are the asshole of that country and as far as traveling goes, I will never set foot in America again.
Fuck that.
I've used some Ixia gear in the past, not to shabby but cost lots of green
http://www.ixiacom.com/
and the above is the reason why we need indepenant ARTISTS, not the usual corporate whores, we need people passionate about their art (hence the term starving artist) instead of these, dare I say, asses.
give me a 19 year old kid passionate to put a game out there and a guy who has a good story he wants to tell and i'll buy that in a heart beat.
sssssshhhhhhhhhh, don't bring facts, they HATE that. :)
I love reading the condescending slashdot posts.
Um mate, he was talking about the supreme court ruling on the constitution, not "the courts" in general. Congress can't stop the supreme court on ruling in matters of the constitution.
SPOILER :
Towards the end of the Dark Brotherhood line, some guy (not saying who) is hung upside down from a ceiling, skinned.
Bit gruesome. Also in the oblivion plane there is alot of messed up corpses, blood splatters on walls/floors...
Doesn't bother me but maybe some parents would not like their 13 year old seeing it.
I think it should have been M and be done with it. I am sure it would have sold exactly the same.
I too live in europe (netherlands) and I pay 40 euros a month for 20mbit down/1mbit up.
All depends where you are.
mate,
Well put. I crown you
"Winner of the argument"
you're missing the point
its the ISPs/Tier 1-2 providers that will do the logging
Essentially, they will be turning on the netflow and dumping the info somewhere.
Mate, seeing as how we are the only two to comment on this story, I guess we are the only ones that actually care :)
I would like to see Spector do another game like Deus Ex. Like, but not the same. Get that creative mind flowin...
hmmm, so EU needs US for trade more than the opposite? Really?
The US seems to be the one cutting itself off from most of the middle east/asia, not to mention most of south america
Looking at americas import/export partners from the link that was posted below I would say that if EU/US had a spat and ceased trade, US has fewer options with who to trade with than the EU does unless america spits the dummy and tries to use force.
A world where the US is against the EU/China/Middle East/South America and most of asia is going to be a very lonely and unprofitable space.
And anyways, core infrastructure can always be replaced. Each global region could run the root for their own TLDs and go from there, sure some local authorities may mess things up/censor, but then whos to say that isn't possible from the americans/english anyways.....
how did the US know Saddam had those WMDs?
They have the receipt
meh, karma be damned but i have to say this
God damn you suck
and seriously, what in Haemoraging Fuck(tm) was the point of placing luke on tatooine?
Hmmm, yes, lets put luke on the same planet his father is from. yes, very subtle, he'd never guess.
and the acting was so freakin weak, they could have taken maddoxs advice for keanu and taken a piece of 2x4, painted a angry/sulky face on it and use it as their Anakin.....but again, its the weak direction.
bah, what a waste.
Jesus Christ for the love of god (whichever one)...NO!...run away from SOX, its just blame deferral, endless policy creation (and not even the few needed good ones), its endless "clarifying meetings", its getting ITIL'd, its an endless stream of crap, like getting burried under a mountain of wet blankets.
You and your colleuges get suffocated in crap, stuff that you where hired to do because, well, you know what you are doing...oh no, you must get approval to shit....
RUN AWAY!!!!
reminds me of a episode of chappells show where he wished the roles were reversed on how the police treat people...so on one hand you have a business exec and the other a crack dealer.....its great fun seeing the swat team bust into the business guys house, shot his dog, interrogate him and send him to jail....
if only.
I am blind in one eye and yet I still have pretty good depth perception (played ALOT of sports as a kid and had no worries catching footballs, playing tennis etc)
so having two eyes is not the be all and end all of depth perception
nice addition of your referral id.
Does that make you smart? I guess you would benifit.
heh, us guys normally like things in small boxes, usually ourselves.
havent you been watching 24?
:)
they use massive traffic on the internets to corrupt the NAT tables....der
dude, from monty python with the philosophers playing soccer
I would pay mucho denero to play that.
"And Aristotle realises that truth is life and passes the ball to Plato...SCORE!"
I was just taking the piss out of comparing it to September the 11th. I mean, its nothing alike. Yes, it is a tragedy, but also, its nature, its done it before and it will do it again. Life, for some, goes on and you know that sooner or later nature will kick our arse again and again. Thats just how it goes. We are nothing compared to what nature can do to us.
its 911 times a hundred...
dear god, thats 91100
wow, what amazing dis-information. You must work for the media....
genius.
my BIG (40gig) 4th gen ipod charges via usb, even ancient usb1.1