Well...in Nevada, winning is pretty much illegal. If you're in a game with a guaranteed negative outcome (which Roulette certainly is), and you win, that's prima facie evidence that you're cheating. Just try to leave the casino with your winnings. They'll keep you in a back room and review the tapes until they can figure out what you were doing.
Ask anyone who's worked in the "gaming" industry. There are NO winners. Sure, the occasional jackpot or lucky player, but that's just advertising.
True story - I went in for an X-ray a few years back, and the tech was fiddling around with a computer. I was shocked to see she was using Windows 3.1 to run a Visual Basic applicaion that controlled the X-ray machine. As I watched, she got several errors from the program, which she clicked through. "Oh, it always does that," she said when I expressed my...er...dismay. This was back when there wasn't much you could do to a Windows box other than WINNUKE.EXE...these days you can take the whole box hostage.
Oh, man. Any screensaver other than "blank screen" on a production machine is a mark of a fucking idiot admin. I saw that problem too many freaking times to count. I also got "but I like that screensaver" in reply too many times. Fucking NT admins.
1) The native English teachers only get the advanced students that basically speak English already. The basic students are taught by others.
2) Being an English teacher in Asia is a total scam and cop-out job. You need zero skill, and anyone with a degree (even in art history) can get the job and keep it. The student has no way to objectively evaluate the experience. Many English teachers are hard drinkers and partiers who simply teach in order to finance their getting laid expeditions...they could care less about professionalism.
Not to say they're bad people. But even a redneck drywall hanger has standards to attend to...the customer will notice if it's done poorly. Not so for English teachers in Asia.
Second world? China was never second world...that was the Soviet bloc. China is quite firmly in the camp of developing countries.
China's growth rate is a huge concern, their economy is overheating, expanding too fast (think dotcom bubble, but on a much much larger scale). You really don't want more than 3-4% growth, it upsets the balance of capital and markets.
The bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade was far from accidental. NATO had knocked out all the big transmitters in the city...the Serbian military headquarters had no way to communicate with its forces in the field. The Chinese helpfully stepped in, and began relaying signals via the transmitter on embassy grounds. NATO easily detected this, and was presented with a dilemma. Complain to the Chinese government, and be ignored, or strike back at what was obviously an act of war (a neutral cooperating with belligerent is pretty flagrant). NATO chose to take out the transmitter, and the blame was placed on a mapping agency.
I suppose if you ran google, you'd turn it into a morality-of-the-month kind of business, taking stands on irrelevant issues, and getting your site blocked from the largest market in the world. Good business plan, that.
It may cheer you to know that the U.S. has sharply decreased the number of Chinese it allows to enter the country. China, in return, has increased visa fees for Americans, and heavily restricted business visa holders, which has caused me no end of problems.
I like the dollar sign thing, though. Are you parroting that back from a website you view, or did you think that one up yourself?
I was going to say...mainstream media doesn't do that either. Enough hoaxes have made it into the news...and every single time, some reporter picks up the story, and other news organizations parrot the story verbatim without bothering to check. What about all the other stories, that they don't get caught on?
And whenever a reporter covers a story that I know about personally, I always see huge errors and misstatements, that would have been easily corrected if the reporter actually gave a shit.
An Emmy? Is that the same award they gave to Milli Vanilli? Or is that the one they gave to Micheal Moore? Either way, industry awards are crap and mean nothing.
That command never appeared until I got the cracked version of Quicktime. I was surprised, I had always assumed it was one of the typical Apple bonehead mistakes. Like the Quicktime program itself is really ugly and hard to use.
Having the government pay for it isn't "free". It merely shifts the payer to the taxpayer, instead of the student. Americans have always had the option of a few years of military service to finance a college education, and indeed generations of working class elevated themselves to middle class in this fashion. For those who would never dream of firing a gun in this lifetime, student loans are readily availible.
Never done it, eh? As someone who is doing it right now (in China, not India), I can say that it absolutely rocks, and will not get old for some time. I'm sure after some years it gets old...but how can you argue against having sex with 20-year-old women? Sorry, buddy, you sound like a NERRRRRRRRRD.
The Soviets lost the Cold War due to their technology. I don't think that using vacuum tubes in their most advanced aircraft was a clever ruse designed for EMP hardening.
There hasn't been an IE for Unix since IE 3. When I did run IE 3 under Solaris, it was slow and crashy (hey, anything beats HotJava). It was useless for anything other than seeing what a site looked like in IE. Still, it was kind of neat to see a real IE download page for Solaris on microsoft.com.
Perhaps, but that doesn't have shit to do whether or not the U.S. government wants to open trade with Ukraine. Getting caught red-handed making arms deals with the U.S.'s primary rival isn't a good idea, diplomatically speaking.
All this talk about Ukraine makes me feel like I'm playing Risk.
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Since when do bicycle riders stop for red lights!!!
Ask anyone who's worked in the "gaming" industry. There are NO winners. Sure, the occasional jackpot or lucky player, but that's just advertising.
Who the hell said anything about linux???
True story - I went in for an X-ray a few years back, and the tech was fiddling around with a computer. I was shocked to see she was using Windows 3.1 to run a Visual Basic applicaion that controlled the X-ray machine. As I watched, she got several errors from the program, which she clicked through. "Oh, it always does that," she said when I expressed my...er...dismay. This was back when there wasn't much you could do to a Windows box other than WINNUKE.EXE...these days you can take the whole box hostage.
Oh, man. Any screensaver other than "blank screen" on a production machine is a mark of a fucking idiot admin. I saw that problem too many freaking times to count. I also got "but I like that screensaver" in reply too many times. Fucking NT admins.
2) Being an English teacher in Asia is a total scam and cop-out job. You need zero skill, and anyone with a degree (even in art history) can get the job and keep it. The student has no way to objectively evaluate the experience. Many English teachers are hard drinkers and partiers who simply teach in order to finance their getting laid expeditions...they could care less about professionalism.
Not to say they're bad people. But even a redneck drywall hanger has standards to attend to...the customer will notice if it's done poorly. Not so for English teachers in Asia.
FYI, in China, the Falun Gong are considered weird cultists, much like Scientology, Mormonism, and UFO believers are in the West.
China's growth rate is a huge concern, their economy is overheating, expanding too fast (think dotcom bubble, but on a much much larger scale). You really don't want more than 3-4% growth, it upsets the balance of capital and markets.
I suppose if you ran google, you'd turn it into a morality-of-the-month kind of business, taking stands on irrelevant issues, and getting your site blocked from the largest market in the world. Good business plan, that.
It may cheer you to know that the U.S. has sharply decreased the number of Chinese it allows to enter the country. China, in return, has increased visa fees for Americans, and heavily restricted business visa holders, which has caused me no end of problems.
I like the dollar sign thing, though. Are you parroting that back from a website you view, or did you think that one up yourself?
"Journalistic ethics"...ho ho ho. That's the best contradiction I've heard since "military intelligence".
And whenever a reporter covers a story that I know about personally, I always see huge errors and misstatements, that would have been easily corrected if the reporter actually gave a shit.
An Emmy? Is that the same award they gave to Milli Vanilli? Or is that the one they gave to Micheal Moore? Either way, industry awards are crap and mean nothing.
Besides, IN THE ARTICLE they say that the tool uses about 3.4Mb per day. Big deal.
That command never appeared until I got the cracked version of Quicktime. I was surprised, I had always assumed it was one of the typical Apple bonehead mistakes. Like the Quicktime program itself is really ugly and hard to use.
Nope...it's always the fourth Thursday in November. Doesn't move an inch.
Besides, at the link you provided, most of the health risks involve homosexual men. Not my bag, baby!
You might want to look up the definition of "exploitation" some day.
Having the government pay for it isn't "free". It merely shifts the payer to the taxpayer, instead of the student. Americans have always had the option of a few years of military service to finance a college education, and indeed generations of working class elevated themselves to middle class in this fashion. For those who would never dream of firing a gun in this lifetime, student loans are readily availible.
Oh, and you would feel OK employing this maid at a pittance, and exploiting her labor? Way to go, "tolerant" asshole.
Never done it, eh? As someone who is doing it right now (in China, not India), I can say that it absolutely rocks, and will not get old for some time. I'm sure after some years it gets old...but how can you argue against having sex with 20-year-old women? Sorry, buddy, you sound like a NERRRRRRRRRD.
Is an old copy of FireFox on every single Windows PC ever shipped, under an icon marked, "The Internet"?
The Soviets lost the Cold War due to their technology. I don't think that using vacuum tubes in their most advanced aircraft was a clever ruse designed for EMP hardening.
The SunOS kernel is fully modular. It does not require "custom complies" as on a whitebox PC.
There hasn't been an IE for Unix since IE 3. When I did run IE 3 under Solaris, it was slow and crashy (hey, anything beats HotJava). It was useless for anything other than seeing what a site looked like in IE. Still, it was kind of neat to see a real IE download page for Solaris on microsoft.com.
All this talk about Ukraine makes me feel like I'm playing Risk.