At his workstation in a small, fluorescent-lighted office space in Nanjing, China, Li Qiwen sat shirtless and chain-smoking, gazing purposefully at the online computer game in front of him.
They've built a mom's basement in China where they can all do it better for half the price. Even geeks aren't immune from outsourcing.
If any of you have access to good prices for bulk tissue and lotion, I have a great idea for the next activity to outsource to China. Access to a tiled area with good drainage a must.
Have you looked at the videos illustrating how safe they are? Or how about the one in the UK where they ran the thing against a wall head on. These things are incredibly safe!
I saw the video with its footage of a head-on with a full-sized Mercedes as well as the remote-control crash. One thing was alarmingly missing: dummies. Nobody truely cares how the car comes out in the crash, its the occupants that matter. Somehow, I don't think its good television if they did the test and got decapitated dummies for their trouble.
Also, I would like to see how this would stand up in an offset side impact test. Front and back seem well and good, but I don't know what a nice hit from the side would do.
I hope smaller cars become the norm in the US over time, especially as fuels become expensive. For the immediate future, the large SUVs that dominate many US roads would make quick work of the wimpy smartcar.
I've seen the lamest stuff moderated "informative". But this is a new low: an obvious joke taken as informational.
Keep in mind that karma points for "funny" no longer count toward the overall score. Mods who want to show the poster some appreciation by giving them countable points will mod it up another way.
You don't have to dig very deeply to find hypocracy. The deeply devout routinely shun alcohol/drugs as a tool of the devil. In the bible, Christ drank wine at the last supper and performed the water into wine trick at a wedding. Obviously, wine was good enough for the central figure of their religion.
How about marijuana? If you believe in a god that created heaven and earth and everything in them, why do they think that that same all-powerful, all-knowing omnipotent being somehow made a mistake in leaving it all over the planet, growing out of the ground? Hell, even the rastafarians believe that it grew on grave of the revered King Solomon.
I wouldn't expect straight answers on topics that require rational thought from these people.
On a related note, did a hijacking ever result in the hijackers getting their demands met and allowed to get away? I can't recall any other outcome than the ones described above.
Seriously, if all you care about is money, go be an investment banker or a money whore somewhere else.
It's nice to do what you love, but you have to put food on the table somehow. I know that many fields are tainted with green fever; people looking to make a buck rather than have any real passion for the task at hand. The computer science/fly-by-night cert mill debacle, for example.
It's not a bad thing to ask which jobs will help you pay your student loans and give you a decent quality of life versus ones that will doom you to debt and a monastic lifestyle for years to come.
Where I went to school, the hippies I hung out with SWORE that if you asked somebody if they were an undercover cop and they said no, then the charges could get thrown out for entrapment.
Rather than go through the trouble of defining entrapment, the point hit home easier by pointing out that, if it were true, the movie Donnie Brasco would have been 10 minutes long.
Something similar crossed my mind looking at old print advertisements. Even as recently as the 40s-50s it wasn't usual to see an ad with paragraphs of copy extolling the virtues of their particular product. These days, if it can't be scanned in a second and its contents understood, it won't pass muster.
Did people actually read that stuff or has the collective attention span shortened?
I was just down in Dallas, Texas. You know, you can go down there and to Dealey Plaza where Kennedy was assassinated. And you can actually go to the sixth floor of the Schoolbook Depository. It's a museum called... "The Assassination Museum". I think they named it that after the assassination. I can't be too sure of the chronology here, but... anyway, they have the window set up to look exactly like it did on that day. And it's really accurate, you know, 'cause Oswald's not in it.
Even if those were in place during the screening of Spiderman 3 I went to, It would have done nothing for:
- The couple who squeezed past us 5-6 times throughout the course of the movie. - The people with the toddler in the front row shouting "Daddy" over and over. - The teens running around the theater like it was their living room. - The kid who puked during the last scene, but I'll give him a free pass if it was due to the film itself.
The benefits may be nice, but the pay is usually next to nothing. The tellers in my bank make around 12 bucks an hour, hardly anything to support yourself on.
The Seattle WTO riots were co-ordinated via cellphone. Someone has taken the lesson to heart. Oh well, it's back to walkie-talkies for the concerned activists.
Don't take the propaganda bait by lumping in legitmate activists with those who destroy property and incite riots.
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At his workstation in a small, fluorescent-lighted office space in Nanjing, China, Li Qiwen sat shirtless and chain-smoking, gazing purposefully at the online computer game in front of him.
They've built a mom's basement in China where they can all do it better for half the price. Even geeks aren't immune from outsourcing.
If any of you have access to good prices for bulk tissue and lotion, I have a great idea for the next activity to outsource to China. Access to a tiled area with good drainage a must.
Have you looked at the videos illustrating how safe they are? Or how about the one in the UK where they ran the thing against a wall head on. These things are incredibly safe!
I saw the video with its footage of a head-on with a full-sized Mercedes as well as the remote-control crash. One thing was alarmingly missing: dummies. Nobody truely cares how the car comes out in the crash, its the occupants that matter. Somehow, I don't think its good television if they did the test and got decapitated dummies for their trouble.
Also, I would like to see how this would stand up in an offset side impact test. Front and back seem well and good, but I don't know what a nice hit from the side would do.
I hope smaller cars become the norm in the US over time, especially as fuels become expensive. For the immediate future, the large SUVs that dominate many US roads would make quick work of the wimpy smartcar.
Put it on "delicate".
unless you are Moscow ground control, then "Houston, we have a problem".
Shouldn't that be "Moscow, we have a problemski."?
I've seen the lamest stuff moderated "informative". But this is a new low: an obvious joke taken as informational.
Keep in mind that karma points for "funny" no longer count toward the overall score. Mods who want to show the poster some appreciation by giving them countable points will mod it up another way.
That's exclusively a New York chase item. NYC also has the lock on piano moving and guys carrying a large plate glass window.
I have a beef with the AC, mod down his bull.
I've read the article very carefully and composed a well-reasoned response.
(Yes, this is the introduction to the opposites)
it is getting hard to dodge the spoilers.
I hope you weren't a fan of The Lone Gunmen.
You don't have to dig very deeply to find hypocracy. The deeply devout routinely shun alcohol/drugs as a tool of the devil. In the bible, Christ drank wine at the last supper and performed the water into wine trick at a wedding. Obviously, wine was good enough for the central figure of their religion.
How about marijuana? If you believe in a god that created heaven and earth and everything in them, why do they think that that same all-powerful, all-knowing omnipotent being somehow made a mistake in leaving it all over the planet, growing out of the ground? Hell, even the rastafarians believe that it grew on grave of the revered King Solomon.
I wouldn't expect straight answers on topics that require rational thought from these people.
They'd rather be rescued by something that looks tough and intimidating to the enemy.
I guess they didn't want to wait around until the Furby design hit public domain.
On a related note, did a hijacking ever result in the hijackers getting their demands met and allowed to get away? I can't recall any other outcome than the ones described above.
Oh shit, does Jeff see me here too?
*loading dock buzzer rings*
Hey mack, where you want this shipment of hot grits?
A derivative work if I've ever seen one.
He voted against the Patriot Act.
I thought Russ Feingold was the only congressman to vote against the Patriot Act.
Seriously, if all you care about is money, go be an investment banker or a money whore somewhere else.
It's nice to do what you love, but you have to put food on the table somehow. I know that many fields are tainted with green fever; people looking to make a buck rather than have any real passion for the task at hand. The computer science/fly-by-night cert mill debacle, for example.
It's not a bad thing to ask which jobs will help you pay your student loans and give you a decent quality of life versus ones that will doom you to debt and a monastic lifestyle for years to come.
Where I went to school, the hippies I hung out with SWORE that if you asked somebody if they were an undercover cop and they said no, then the charges could get thrown out for entrapment.
Rather than go through the trouble of defining entrapment, the point hit home easier by pointing out that, if it were true, the movie Donnie Brasco would have been 10 minutes long.
Umm, most people do, with the possible exception of Will Smith
I'll thank you to leave the Fresh Prince out of this.
Something similar crossed my mind looking at old print advertisements. Even as recently as the 40s-50s it wasn't usual to see an ad with paragraphs of copy extolling the virtues of their particular product. These days, if it can't be scanned in a second and its contents understood, it won't pass muster.
Did people actually read that stuff or has the collective attention span shortened?
I was just down in Dallas, Texas. You know, you can go down there and to Dealey Plaza where Kennedy was assassinated. And you can actually go to the sixth floor of the Schoolbook Depository. It's a museum called ... "The Assassination Museum". I think they named it that after the assassination. I can't be too sure of the chronology here, but ... anyway, they have the window set up to look exactly like it did on that day. And it's really accurate, you know, 'cause Oswald's not in it.
- Bill Hicks
You can damage your tier ducts with that stuff.
Even if those were in place during the screening of Spiderman 3 I went to, It would have done nothing for:
- The couple who squeezed past us 5-6 times throughout the course of the movie.
- The people with the toddler in the front row shouting "Daddy" over and over.
- The teens running around the theater like it was their living room.
- The kid who puked during the last scene, but I'll give him a free pass if it was due to the film itself.
Where are the jammers for this stuff?
The benefits may be nice, but the pay is usually next to nothing. The tellers in my bank make around 12 bucks an hour, hardly anything to support yourself on.
The Seattle WTO riots were co-ordinated via cellphone. Someone has taken the lesson to heart. Oh well, it's back to walkie-talkies for the concerned activists.
Don't take the propaganda bait by lumping in legitmate activists with those who destroy property and incite riots.