Or do you think that no one will recognize the mark and we're all damned to Hell?
The problem with the mark of the beast isn't so much the actual mark as it is oath you'll have to take to receive it. To receive the mark, you'll be given a last chance to choose between God and Satan, and make the wrong choice.
The first time I hit the spiked columns, I really hated them. But I sort of got into a groove and was able to do them fairly easily. There was another spot that gave me fits though. I played about 1/4 of the way though the game before I discovered that you could jump again while you were in the air. The problem is that you need this in the ruined city to jump from a vine-covered column to a platform. I fell probably a hundred times before I thought of trying to hit the jump button again.
I just got through the first level and killed the 3-headed Hydra. I haven't had much fun so far.
Stay with it. After the hydras is the miserable crate escort mission. After that, the game really picks up. Without giving the game away too much, I particularly like the desert sandstorm when you try to kill the sirens (you have 5.1 right?), also the first time you kill medusa. That was a hard fight. The puzzle in pandora's temple is awesome. Beyond that, the only annoying things to me were a couple timed obstacle courses and an underwater race against a spike-encrusted wall. It's one of the rare games where I went back and played it again on hard.
I liked the sex minigame. I think it's real purpose is to get you used to the button-appearing-over-their-head minigame style they use througout the game. It's a sort of practice mission. And I thought the nudity was nicely done in most cases.
A good friend of mine has this amazing ability to do or say almost anything at work and get away with it. (oddly enough, he also has a knack for talking his way out of tickets) We joke that he knows the jedi mind trick. About eight years ago, we were both working for walgreens (corporate offices). The project manager who we had just met several weeks earlier walked in and started talking to us. Someone asked him if he was keeping busy. He said, "I work hard. Sometimes I do more, sometimes I do less." My friend responded, "Who's Less?" He and the boss are still friends.
I do understand that the chance of becoming infected is low. It's important too to acknowledge that the damage of infection is catastrophic.
I agree. I'm sure some will interpret this as flaimbait for pet-nazis, but I think it's important to say. Vast numbers of humans have screwed up priorities. If my wife is pregnant, and there's a fraction of a percent chance that my cat could cause serious complications for her or the baby, guess what... the cat dies. Well, not really. But the cat is certainly gone. This is because it's an animal, and domesticated one that multiples in huge numbers at that. It's only a twist of fate, country, or culture that kept that cat from being dinner tonight. Some may think this attitude is cruel. I'm not advocating hurting the cat. I'm just suggesting that people keep things in perspective. Would anyone entertain even the slightest risk to their wife or baby for a chicken or a fish?
Get out of debt. If you have a credit card balance, you're a slave to the credit card companies. Otherwise you'll be using special kung-fu light bulbs to save 50p a month, then pay 100 pounds to the corporate loan sharks. Talk about penny wise and pound foolish.
I've seen 10 year olds whose had a parent killed with more maturity than a 16 year old.
Indeed. My wife and I adopted two children from russia. Since then, we've done a lot of research into russian children who either spent most of their time in orphanages, or were taken from their russian* parents because of abuse or neglect. There are dozens of cases where a sibling group of three children or so, made up of, say, a 2 year old, 4 year old, and 6 year old, end up with the 6 year old going out and finding food for the younger children, even to the point where the oldest child is starving so that the younger ones can eat. Some of these sibling groups end up adopted by american families. When this happens, the oldest child can't seem to let go of this parental sense of responsability for the younger kids. It's almost like part of their childhood has been lost. So I agree. I think it has to do with the presence of responsability. Nothing makes you grow up faster than having to care for a child of your own.
* Not to single out the russians. I'm sure there are plenty of examples of this sort of bad situation in every other country including the US.
But on the other hand, I can see how politicians and people in power might need such a law. It would make it illegal to criticize them anonymously.
This is how the right to freedom of speach will die in the USA. "You can say whatever you want as long as it's not on the internet, or over the phone, or in crowded public places, or on billboards, or in print, or...
If you rule out recruiters who don't know anything, you'll never work again. The silly requirements are infrequent enough to avoid though. Usually, I just politely correct them and move on. Usually, they're grateful for the information.
Actually, the correct pronunciation will be "See Plus Plus".
As soon as some buzzword-compliant HR department gets a hold of this, they're going to be sending job-reqs to dice through stupid non-tech headhunters. They'll want someone with 10 years of C++0x experience (C++ is insufficient now) and who's willing to take a retarded online test to prove it. How many times have you heard a brain-dead recruiter spell out acronyms that are usually pronounced or pronounce acronyms that are usually spelled out? I vote for Cocks. At least it's a word bimbo T&A recruiters will understand.:-D
Some home insurances might even compensate the destroyed disc, if you claimed it as an accident.
Kids, don't try this at home. Filing a home owner's insurance claim over a $50 game is just plain stupid. Depending on the insurance company's policy, they may count actual dollar amounts, or number of claims. But if you get enough of either or both, you run the risk of getting black-listed. Basically, the insurance company happily pays your claim, then drops you next year. When you go to find new home owner's insurance, every company will ask if you've been dropped in the last five years. Since saying no is fraud, you have to say yes. And they turn you down. No one will give you home owner's insurance. But your mortgage company requires it. So when you can't get it, you're force-placed, meaning the mortgage company goes out and buys a policy for you, then charges you for it. Can you guess how much that will cost compared to your current insurance? File a home owner's insurance claim when your house burns down, or when a drunk driver crashes through the wall and into your living room, or when a hurricane tears the roof off and it rains in your bedroom, not for stupid stuff like this.
And of course if the government does start reglating OnStar, forcing them to provide the cops with an OnStar backdoor, you can always cancel the service.
it may have been a lot easier to just buy Maxtor (and gain its employees) rather than try expand its workforce at the slow pace of engineering and management recruiting/hiring.
The cynic in me says that seagate doesn't give a rat's ass about maxtor's employees, even if it would be wise to keep them. I sure wouldn't want to be a maxtor employee right now. Expect a bloodbath.
I agree with you in that our resources aren't being sent where they're really needed. This similar to an argument that the gun lobby uses that says that more children are killed every year by backyard swimming pools or bicycle accidents than by guns, but no one is trying to outlaw pools or bikes.
Then problem with the drunk driving analogy is that drunk driving isn't one organized group of people trying to destroy western civilization. Also, drunk driving will never gat a hold of a dirty bomb or nuke and wipe out possible millions. So I think we do need some sort of focused effort to fight terrorism. Unfortunately, airport security like we have in the US and invading iraq aren't really going to help much.
Dude, you've corrected my spelling of a made-up word. You've transcended spelling-naziism. That's beyond anal-retentive. Maybe you should go into business making diamonds.
Actually, thanks to the new bankruptcy laws that went into effect on October 17th, he would most likely be forced into a chapter 13 where he would be required to make payments on possibly the entire amount through the courts for the next seven years. If I were the target of this sort of corporate oppression, I would seriously consider moving my family to a different country.
Any person who has not created at least one new word in his/her lifetime lacks plachoritence, IMO. I know that that sounds entroniant, perhaps even bleavisome, but it had to be said.
So except for the Roads, the Police Protection, the Fire Departments, Primary and Secondary Education, the good working conditions, the Military, Social Security, Homeless Shelters, a longer life span, and Garbage Collection... What have the Romans ever done for us?!
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Or do you think that no one will recognize the mark and we're all damned to Hell?
The problem with the mark of the beast isn't so much the actual mark as it is oath you'll have to take to receive it. To receive the mark, you'll be given a last chance to choose between God and Satan, and make the wrong choice.
Kiwi talk about something else?
The first time I hit the spiked columns, I really hated them. But I sort of got into a groove and was able to do them fairly easily. There was another spot that gave me fits though. I played about 1/4 of the way though the game before I discovered that you could jump again while you were in the air. The problem is that you need this in the ruined city to jump from a vine-covered column to a platform. I fell probably a hundred times before I thought of trying to hit the jump button again.
I just got through the first level and killed the 3-headed Hydra. I haven't had much fun so far.
Stay with it. After the hydras is the miserable crate escort mission. After that, the game really picks up. Without giving the game away too much, I particularly like the desert sandstorm when you try to kill the sirens (you have 5.1 right?), also the first time you kill medusa. That was a hard fight. The puzzle in pandora's temple is awesome. Beyond that, the only annoying things to me were a couple timed obstacle courses and an underwater race against a spike-encrusted wall. It's one of the rare games where I went back and played it again on hard.
I liked the sex minigame. I think it's real purpose is to get you used to the button-appearing-over-their-head minigame style they use througout the game. It's a sort of practice mission. And I thought the nudity was nicely done in most cases.
Or if your boss's name is Jack...
A good friend of mine has this amazing ability to do or say almost anything at work and get away with it. (oddly enough, he also has a knack for talking his way out of tickets) We joke that he knows the jedi mind trick. About eight years ago, we were both working for walgreens (corporate offices). The project manager who we had just met several weeks earlier walked in and started talking to us. Someone asked him if he was keeping busy. He said, "I work hard. Sometimes I do more, sometimes I do less." My friend responded, "Who's Less?" He and the boss are still friends.
I do understand that the chance of becoming infected is low. It's important too to acknowledge that the damage of infection is catastrophic.
I agree. I'm sure some will interpret this as flaimbait for pet-nazis, but I think it's important to say. Vast numbers of humans have screwed up priorities. If my wife is pregnant, and there's a fraction of a percent chance that my cat could cause serious complications for her or the baby, guess what... the cat dies. Well, not really. But the cat is certainly gone. This is because it's an animal, and domesticated one that multiples in huge numbers at that. It's only a twist of fate, country, or culture that kept that cat from being dinner tonight. Some may think this attitude is cruel. I'm not advocating hurting the cat. I'm just suggesting that people keep things in perspective. Would anyone entertain even the slightest risk to their wife or baby for a chicken or a fish?
If you think what they did to Stanford was bad, wait until you see what they do to Switzerland!
ps: Mom, I love you. I'm just kidding.
Your mom reads slashdot? That's a paradox! How did she reproduce?!
Get out of debt. If you have a credit card balance, you're a slave to the credit card companies. Otherwise you'll be using special kung-fu light bulbs to save 50p a month, then pay 100 pounds to the corporate loan sharks. Talk about penny wise and pound foolish.
I've seen 10 year olds whose had a parent killed with more maturity than a 16 year old.
Indeed. My wife and I adopted two children from russia. Since then, we've done a lot of research into russian children who either spent most of their time in orphanages, or were taken from their russian* parents because of abuse or neglect. There are dozens of cases where a sibling group of three children or so, made up of, say, a 2 year old, 4 year old, and 6 year old, end up with the 6 year old going out and finding food for the younger children, even to the point where the oldest child is starving so that the younger ones can eat. Some of these sibling groups end up adopted by american families. When this happens, the oldest child can't seem to let go of this parental sense of responsability for the younger kids. It's almost like part of their childhood has been lost. So I agree. I think it has to do with the presence of responsability. Nothing makes you grow up faster than having to care for a child of your own.
* Not to single out the russians. I'm sure there are plenty of examples of this sort of bad situation in every other country including the US.
What if they were carried on a line...
But on the other hand, I can see how politicians and people in power might need such a law. It would make it illegal to criticize them anonymously.
This is how the right to freedom of speach will die in the USA. "You can say whatever you want as long as it's not on the internet, or over the phone, or in crowded public places, or on billboards, or in print, or...
Being a long-term survivor of pedestrianism...
Where the hell is pedestria anyway? Let's invade! I hear they have weapons of mass destruction!
If you rule out recruiters who don't know anything, you'll never work again. The silly requirements are infrequent enough to avoid though. Usually, I just politely correct them and move on. Usually, they're grateful for the information.
Actually, the correct pronunciation will be "See Plus Plus".
:-D
As soon as some buzzword-compliant HR department gets a hold of this, they're going to be sending job-reqs to dice through stupid non-tech headhunters. They'll want someone with 10 years of C++0x experience (C++ is insufficient now) and who's willing to take a retarded online test to prove it. How many times have you heard a brain-dead recruiter spell out acronyms that are usually pronounced or pronounce acronyms that are usually spelled out? I vote for Cocks. At least it's a word bimbo T&A recruiters will understand.
Some home insurances might even compensate the destroyed disc, if you claimed it as an accident.
Kids, don't try this at home. Filing a home owner's insurance claim over a $50 game is just plain stupid. Depending on the insurance company's policy, they may count actual dollar amounts, or number of claims. But if you get enough of either or both, you run the risk of getting black-listed. Basically, the insurance company happily pays your claim, then drops you next year. When you go to find new home owner's insurance, every company will ask if you've been dropped in the last five years. Since saying no is fraud, you have to say yes. And they turn you down. No one will give you home owner's insurance. But your mortgage company requires it. So when you can't get it, you're force-placed, meaning the mortgage company goes out and buys a policy for you, then charges you for it. Can you guess how much that will cost compared to your current insurance? File a home owner's insurance claim when your house burns down, or when a drunk driver crashes through the wall and into your living room, or when a hurricane tears the roof off and it rains in your bedroom, not for stupid stuff like this.
And of course if the government does start reglating OnStar, forcing them to provide the cops with an OnStar backdoor, you can always cancel the service.
Make sure you pull the fuse also.
it may have been a lot easier to just buy Maxtor (and gain its employees) rather than try expand its workforce at the slow pace of engineering and management recruiting/hiring.
The cynic in me says that seagate doesn't give a rat's ass about maxtor's employees, even if it would be wise to keep them. I sure wouldn't want to be a maxtor employee right now. Expect a bloodbath.
Million, not billion!
Don't worry, it's just a british billion.
I agree with you in that our resources aren't being sent where they're really needed. This similar to an argument that the gun lobby uses that says that more children are killed every year by backyard swimming pools or bicycle accidents than by guns, but no one is trying to outlaw pools or bikes.
Then problem with the drunk driving analogy is that drunk driving isn't one organized group of people trying to destroy western civilization. Also, drunk driving will never gat a hold of a dirty bomb or nuke and wipe out possible millions. So I think we do need some sort of focused effort to fight terrorism. Unfortunately, airport security like we have in the US and invading iraq aren't really going to help much.
I always thought that it was spelled "embiggen".
Dude, you've corrected my spelling of a made-up word. You've transcended spelling-naziism. That's beyond anal-retentive. Maybe you should go into business making diamonds.
He'd have to file bankruptcy.
Actually, thanks to the new bankruptcy laws that went into effect on October 17th, he would most likely be forced into a chapter 13 where he would be required to make payments on possibly the entire amount through the courts for the next seven years. If I were the target of this sort of corporate oppression, I would seriously consider moving my family to a different country.
Any person who has not created at least one new word in his/her lifetime lacks plachoritence, IMO.
I know that that sounds entroniant, perhaps even bleavisome, but it had to be said.
I'm imbiggened by your cromulent words.
So except for the Roads, the Police Protection, the Fire Departments, Primary and Secondary Education, the good working conditions, the Military, Social Security, Homeless Shelters, a longer life span, and Garbage Collection... What have the Romans ever done for us?!
How's that making USA produced more engineering graduates?
They're producing metric graduates.