Picture the Archetypal Frat Boy.
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Loud, ignorant, well off, and Oh So Sure of everything, but most of all his own superiority.
His possessions were all bought based on the sex appeal of the ads and the labels.
His views are fashionably right wing radical, and what a surprise, anyone who tries to call him on them, he shouts down with more labels.
"Sell the sick for organs, they're sucking my air"
"Execution on first offence! Why bother with prisons!"
"Taxes are a commie/terrorist/fag/LIBERAL conspiracy, burn 'em"
Shallow as a puddle. A fully paid-up subscriber to the "I'm not sick, old or weak, so FUCK YOU LOSER!!" tendency. Don't just blame, when you can BEAT, the victim.
As he gets older, he views all things as "winning" or "losing".
Everything he "wins", such as college degrees paid for on parent's money, pretty partner, promotion or own business success, is simply what he deserves as his RIGHT.
Everytime he "loses", such as being caught cheating or lying, his pretty partner betraying HIM!, being "separated from the payroll" or his company folding, is simply NOT his fault, he was cheated, betrayed, conned, tricked...
Does any of this sound familiar?
And time passes... as it tends to do... until one day, he IS old, sick or weak. And guess what? Nobody cares. Absolutely, fucking, nobody. Nobody will help, since they are either:
"Fuck you loser"-ing away,
or, they are simply too weak or scared to do anything.
His family, at BEST, hate him (well at least it's a strong emotion), or as USUAL just roll their eyes and get back to the product catalog (sorry TV). Until it gets sold for food. More likely, his pretty partner clone, dumps him, and his kids throws rocks at his cardboard box.
His friends turn out to be "people who do and believe the same things", who feel, really, really, bad, for a period of time which depends on their own needs: "Jeez! That's sooo tough man,... WOW she's HOT !! Sorry, where were we? Oh yeah,... that's sooo tough. Listen... I have something... something important to do, yeah! right now! Catch you later, dude.".
But they don't phone. They never phone.
And now for the real joke, (hear Lenny Bruce and HST, laughing here),
One day Frat Boy arrives at their shiny job, to find a leering, hideous, terrifying monster, grunting with savage joy, as it brutally fucks the still twitching corpses of his "colleagues", while ripping strips of their flesh out, with teeth like flick-knives.
A smug supervisor/manager/leader/executive stands beaming to one side,
and announces: "Ah! You're in time for the new employee orientation.
I would soooo like you to meet, Mr. Globalisation here.
Together, I am sure we can achieve a proactive coalition of the willing!"
Mouth open in shock, eyes twitching between:
The slimy managerial smile
The filty rump, of the pumping "Mr. Globalisation"
The averted eyes of the fellow inmates to whom this is "Not Happening"
The feebly twitching hands, pleading eyes and smashed mouth struggingly to frame a pleah, of the now very close to "ex" colleague
The slimy managerial smile
and of course, how could we forget, the abomination that is "Mr. Globalisation", who is still thump, thump, thumping away
the Frat Boy's freezes when IT finally lifts ITS head from the, now unmoving, red splatter, spits out the wad of half-chewed flesh, focuses its little, piggy, red eyes, on HIM and bellows:
Hmm.
From the EU perspective, the following question has popped up in my head:
Adobe eBooks and the reader are available for sale in the EU, where it should be legal to make a single copy of an eBook for personal backup use.
So how is it possible to make these legal copies?
I've just mailed this question to Adobe Germany's
customer support, and await an answer.
Anyone got an idea about the backup obligations if any,
a company has when selling software products in the EU?
Although it is normally taken for granted , even if the product is shipped from the US, by being offered for sale and taxed in the EU, it is covered by EU consumer protection laws.
So, where do the US DCMA and EU consumer laws
conflict?
Ideas?
... the agencies want to *edit* your resume, not read it!!
So no PDF, HTML, or even plain text.
They're npot even going to re-type it, they want at least cut and paste, into a new version with AGENCY NAME - Not for redistribuition, (c)) plastered all over it.
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FLASH!!! .... ....
...
It'll kill everyone of us
badom! badoom! Ba dom-dom-dee
Oops. Re-activating Lurking Device
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Loud, ignorant, well off, and Oh So Sure of everything, but most of all his own superiority. His possessions were all bought based on the sex appeal of the ads and the labels. His views are fashionably right wing radical, and what a surprise, anyone who tries to call him on them, he shouts down with more labels.
Shallow as a puddle. A fully paid-up subscriber to the "I'm not sick, old or weak, so FUCK YOU LOSER!!" tendency. Don't just blame, when you can BEAT, the victim.
As he gets older, he views all things as "winning" or "losing".
Does any of this sound familiar?
And time passes ... as it tends to do ... until one day, he IS old, sick or weak. And guess what? Nobody cares. Absolutely, fucking, nobody. Nobody will help, since they are either:
His family, at BEST, hate him (well at least it's a strong emotion), or as USUAL just roll their eyes and get back to the product catalog (sorry TV). Until it gets sold for food. More likely, his pretty partner clone, dumps him, and his kids throws rocks at his cardboard box.
His friends turn out to be "people who do and believe the same things", who feel, really, really, bad, for a period of time which depends on their own needs: ... WOW she's HOT !! Sorry, where were we? Oh yeah, ... that's sooo tough. Listen ... I have something ... something important to do, yeah! right now! Catch you later, dude.".
"Jeez! That's sooo tough man,
But they don't phone. They never phone.
And now for the real joke, (hear Lenny Bruce and HST, laughing here),
One day Frat Boy arrives at their shiny job, to find a leering, hideous, terrifying monster, grunting with savage joy, as it brutally fucks the still twitching corpses of his "colleagues", while ripping strips of their flesh out, with teeth like flick-knives.
A smug supervisor/manager/leader/executive stands beaming to one side, and announces:
"Ah! You're in time for the new employee orientation.
I would soooo like you to meet, Mr. Globalisation here. Together, I am sure we can achieve a proactive coalition of the willing!"
Mouth open in shock, eyes twitching between:
the Frat Boy's freezes when IT finally lifts ITS head from the, now unmoving, red splatter, spits out the wad of half-chewed flesh, focuses its little, piggy, red eyes, on HIM and bellows:
"YOU'RE NEXT !!!"
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Hmm.
From the EU perspective, the following question has popped up in my head:
Adobe eBooks and the reader are available for sale in the EU, where it should be legal to make a single copy of an eBook for personal backup use.
So how is it possible to make these legal copies?
I've just mailed this question to Adobe Germany's customer support, and await an answer.
Anyone got an idea about the backup obligations if any,
a company has when selling software products in the EU?
Although it is normally taken for granted , even if the product is shipped from the US, by being offered for sale and taxed in the EU, it is covered by EU consumer protection laws.
So, where do the US DCMA and EU consumer laws conflict?
Ideas?
... the agencies want to *edit* your resume, not
read it!!
So no PDF, HTML, or even plain text.
They're npot even going to re-type it, they want
at least cut and paste, into a new version with
AGENCY NAME - Not for redistribuition, (c))
plastered all over it.
Also then they can pad it with crap.
Fun. Huh!
Death to bodyshoppers.