I'm not sure what you're asking, but do you mean places like Freelancer (which ate up vWork, which used to be called Rent a Coder)?
If that's what you mean, I don't know many sites like that anymore, and the projects they post are just crap for some reason unknown to me. And you have to compete with 3rd world developers in cost (rather than quality) on those crappy projects too.
Best thing as far as I can tell is getting your recruiter to find you term-limited contracts that suit you.
<sarcasm>Because advertising an all-inclusive price is socialist</sarcasm>
In the UK they actually did get to the point where they advertised FREE BROADBAND (ADSL 17 Mbps max) in large letters and "line rental 19.99" in small print at the bottom of the TV screen. The regulators put and end to that eventually.
My uneducated guess is that there's a price inflexion point concerning miners. Once the price drops below they'll have the opposite problem: supply shortage. Gamers will buy at current prices too, but miners are waiting for a price drop where mining makes sense, and when it does they'll fly in like locusts and the cycle begins anew.
Improving living conditions, yes. Improving living conditions of the violent people more than the non-violent... That's enabling. Give them $500 like to the others, but also make them attend mandatory counselling sessions and provide psychological treatment if necessary (spend the extra $500 on that).
If you buy something, a question to ask is "who do I sue?". If you can't identify the party to sue, or they're not exactly reachable using the legal system, then maybe the small price may not be that good.
The usual approach is "meh, made in China" and throw it out and buy another one. But that's when things just die on you rather than explode and burn your house down.
If the local courts can't get to you, maybe you shouldn't be allowed to sell direct to the market. You should get an importer to handle the legals and take the heat. Bypass that and it's contraband.
If I'm a peaceful guy not getting $1000, but the violent guy next door does, then I'm bound to become suddenly violent as well. Now hand me my $1000, bee!
I don't usually pick up the phone because nobody I care about calls me. They text me one way or another. The only things that call me a robots pretending to be human.
Phone rings Me: Hello? *pause* Hello? Bot: Hello, my name is Botsy MacBotsface, and I'm calling you from SpamFuckers Ltd. Our records indicate that you've been involved in an accident that wasn't your fault. Is that right? Me: *complete silence*
I just go silent and let the bot hang up. I don't even hand up on it, as that may be an indication that I exist.
Screwup: A colleague coughed while in the "silent" stage above and the bot understood "yes", so it continued with the script:
Bot: When did that happen? Me: *silence* Bot: Hello? *pause* *hangup*
But now I wonder if I could just answer every question by making a noise, and if a real human follows up, I do that to them too.
And people that practice the "dark arts" turn the light off?
Let's imagine Bob and Alice's dialogue using 'dark arts'.
Bob: Hey, let's practice the dark arts tonight. My place.
Now Bob could mean "let's summon Satan and debate the dark side of the Moon", or some innuendo that Alice knows about beforehand. Chance of confusion and crashing a lunar lander in the wrong place: minimal.
If usage causes confusion, it needs to go. I'm advocating that "dark side of the moon" shouldn't mean "the side unseen from the Earth" unless it happens to be unlit at the time as well. The Jules Verne passage you pasted fits very well with this restriction.
Alice and Bob decide to meet on the dark side of the Moon. Alice: "Hey mate, I'm here. Where are you?" Bob: "I'm here too. Where are you?" Alice: "I have the Earth above my head" Bob: "What are you on about? There's no Earth here, and the Sun is burning my retinas!"
You might be able to tell that I don't agree with the usage you are advocating.
(I replied to myself accidentally, and I wouldn't want you to miss it)
Alice and Bob decide to meet on the dark side of the Moon. Alice: "Hey mate, I'm here. Where are you?" Bob: "I'm here too. Where are you?" Alice: "I have the Earth above my head" Bob: "What are you on about? There's no Earth here, and the Sun is burning my retinas!"
You might be able to tell that I don't agree with the usage you are advocating.
Put these readers at toilets in central London (and other places) so I can use my contactless to relieve myself when I don't have coins on me. Oyser users may also appreciate it if they can use their card for this purpose too.
Why shouldn't they pay tax on that money? In the UK the first £11,850 you make in this tax year is tax free. If they make a lot of money busking, good for them, but pay tax like everyone else.
Those in the "oldest profession" can be self-employed (I'm still not sure what they write their business is about on the tax return form) and pay taxes and get social benefits like every other worker too. Individual prostitution is legal in the UK (kerb crawling, soliciting in the street, brothels aren't though).
The characters actually are on the far side when it's facing away from the Sun, so it's bloody dark at that time. Barbican very clearly uses the words "the side of the Moon which is always turned away from our globe" just before talking about "the dark side of the Moon", followed by his preference for the "illuminated side". At the time of the conversation the far side and the dark side are identical, so this makes sense. If they still call the far side the dark side 15 days later, then that would support your argument.
So the term "dark side of the Moon" is the same as "the far side of the Moon" for two weeks in every month period:) But I can see how one could take the term "dark side of the Moon" and run away with it for a whole month, every month.
Citation needed. Google* isn't giving me anything but a crated named Jules Verne which happens to be on the far side.
As for the usage, all I find is that it started as a mistake and now there are people defending it usage (and the usage has even been extended to mean "outside of communications range"). Hey, it entered tradition, we must preserve the mistake now and forever...
*I'm sure you'll make fun of me for using Google and Wikipedia instead one of those modern solutions called a "library", so I'm fine if you'll give me a reference that I can only find in a dead tree as well.
They should just ask Selena Gomez about it. She saw the dark side of the moon already, to get to some person. No need to send a space probe.
She's also been running through the jungle, running/crying with the wolves, and looked for love in every stranger, just in case you're interested in those aspects as well:-P
As for the far side of the moon (because the moon is tidally locked to our planet and only shows us one side ever), I don't think she knows anything, just like whoever wrote the headline.
Movie theaters have little incentive to offer discounts to MoviePass. In fact, theater owners have been raising box-office prices, pushing revenue to near all-time highs, as a way to offset lower attendance.
Is it just me or does that sound like "we don't have enough people coming in, so we'll put prices up so we get even fewer"? I don't remember supply and demand working that way.
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Oh hey, pasted the wrong link, but I think you can find Rent a Coder on Google :)
I'm not sure what you're asking, but do you mean places like Freelancer (which ate up vWork, which used to be called Rent a Coder)?
If that's what you mean, I don't know many sites like that anymore, and the projects they post are just crap for some reason unknown to me. And you have to compete with 3rd world developers in cost (rather than quality) on those crappy projects too.
Best thing as far as I can tell is getting your recruiter to find you term-limited contracts that suit you.
<sarcasm>Because advertising an all-inclusive price is socialist</sarcasm>
In the UK they actually did get to the point where they advertised FREE BROADBAND (ADSL 17 Mbps max) in large letters and "line rental 19.99" in small print at the bottom of the TV screen. The regulators put and end to that eventually.
What's the difference between Personal and Enterprise profiles?
You store and ship your property wherever you want man.
My uneducated guess is that there's a price inflexion point concerning miners. Once the price drops below they'll have the opposite problem: supply shortage. Gamers will buy at current prices too, but miners are waiting for a price drop where mining makes sense, and when it does they'll fly in like locusts and the cycle begins anew.
Does that mean that Bunker Blaster will also not be published on Steam? Nor any of the other titles shown there?
I'm more likely to be an active comedian, but with my current skill level I'd probably bomb it (err... poor choice of words.)
Improving living conditions, yes. Improving living conditions of the violent people more than the non-violent... That's enabling. Give them $500 like to the others, but also make them attend mandatory counselling sessions and provide psychological treatment if necessary (spend the extra $500 on that).
If you buy something, a question to ask is "who do I sue?". If you can't identify the party to sue, or they're not exactly reachable using the legal system, then maybe the small price may not be that good.
The usual approach is "meh, made in China" and throw it out and buy another one. But that's when things just die on you rather than explode and burn your house down.
If the local courts can't get to you, maybe you shouldn't be allowed to sell direct to the market. You should get an importer to handle the legals and take the heat. Bypass that and it's contraband.
If I'm a peaceful guy not getting $1000, but the violent guy next door does, then I'm bound to become suddenly violent as well. Now hand me my $1000, bee!
Best to just stay away from people.
I don't usually pick up the phone because nobody I care about calls me. They text me one way or another. The only things that call me a robots pretending to be human.
Phone rings
Me: Hello? *pause* Hello?
Bot: Hello, my name is Botsy MacBotsface, and I'm calling you from SpamFuckers Ltd. Our records indicate that you've been involved in an accident that wasn't your fault. Is that right?
Me: *complete silence*
I just go silent and let the bot hang up. I don't even hand up on it, as that may be an indication that I exist.
Screwup: A colleague coughed while in the "silent" stage above and the bot understood "yes", so it continued with the script:
Bot: When did that happen?
Me: *silence*
Bot: Hello? *pause* *hangup*
But now I wonder if I could just answer every question by making a noise, and if a real human follows up, I do that to them too.
And people that practice the "dark arts" turn the light off?
Let's imagine Bob and Alice's dialogue using 'dark arts'.
Bob: Hey, let's practice the dark arts tonight. My place.
Now Bob could mean "let's summon Satan and debate the dark side of the Moon", or some innuendo that Alice knows about beforehand. Chance of confusion and crashing a lunar lander in the wrong place: minimal.
If usage causes confusion, it needs to go. I'm advocating that "dark side of the moon" shouldn't mean "the side unseen from the Earth" unless it happens to be unlit at the time as well. The Jules Verne passage you pasted fits very well with this restriction.
Alice and Bob decide to meet on the dark side of the Moon.
Alice: "Hey mate, I'm here. Where are you?"
Bob: "I'm here too. Where are you?"
Alice: "I have the Earth above my head"
Bob: "What are you on about? There's no Earth here, and the Sun is burning my retinas!"
You might be able to tell that I don't agree with the usage you are advocating.
(I replied to myself accidentally, and I wouldn't want you to miss it)
Alice and Bob decide to meet on the dark side of the Moon.
Alice: "Hey mate, I'm here. Where are you?"
Bob: "I'm here too. Where are you?"
Alice: "I have the Earth above my head"
Bob: "What are you on about? There's no Earth here, and the Sun is burning my retinas!"
You might be able to tell that I don't agree with the usage you are advocating.
Could have been: 419 I'm a Nigerian Prince.
Put these readers at toilets in central London (and other places) so I can use my contactless to relieve myself when I don't have coins on me. Oyser users may also appreciate it if they can use their card for this purpose too.
Why shouldn't they pay tax on that money? In the UK the first £11,850 you make in this tax year is tax free. If they make a lot of money busking, good for them, but pay tax like everyone else.
Those in the "oldest profession" can be self-employed (I'm still not sure what they write their business is about on the tax return form) and pay taxes and get social benefits like every other worker too. Individual prostitution is legal in the UK (kerb crawling, soliciting in the street, brothels aren't though).
The far side is the side never seen from the Earth... And it also happens to be dark at the time of the narrative.
The characters actually are on the far side when it's facing away from the Sun, so it's bloody dark at that time. Barbican very clearly uses the words "the side of the Moon which is always turned away from our globe" just before talking about "the dark side of the Moon", followed by his preference for the "illuminated side". At the time of the conversation the far side and the dark side are identical, so this makes sense. If they still call the far side the dark side 15 days later, then that would support your argument.
So the term "dark side of the Moon" is the same as "the far side of the Moon" for two weeks in every month period :) But I can see how one could take the term "dark side of the Moon" and run away with it for a whole month, every month.
you can find it in Jules Verne's work
Citation needed. Google* isn't giving me anything but a crated named Jules Verne which happens to be on the far side.
As for the usage, all I find is that it started as a mistake and now there are people defending it usage (and the usage has even been extended to mean "outside of communications range"). Hey, it entered tradition, we must preserve the mistake now and forever...
*I'm sure you'll make fun of me for using Google and Wikipedia instead one of those modern solutions called a "library", so I'm fine if you'll give me a reference that I can only find in a dead tree as well.
Yes, let's invent meaning. By "autistic dipshit" meaning "you brilliant human", right? You're a brilliant human too :) High five bro.
They should just ask Selena Gomez about it. She saw the dark side of the moon already, to get to some person. No need to send a space probe.
She's also been running through the jungle, running/crying with the wolves, and looked for love in every stranger, just in case you're interested in those aspects as well :-P
As for the far side of the moon (because the moon is tidally locked to our planet and only shows us one side ever), I don't think she knows anything, just like whoever wrote the headline.
Movie theaters have little incentive to offer discounts to MoviePass. In fact, theater owners have been raising box-office prices, pushing revenue to near all-time highs, as a way to offset lower attendance.
Is it just me or does that sound like "we don't have enough people coming in, so we'll put prices up so we get even fewer"? I don't remember supply and demand working that way.