10 minutes of wobbling around on steps is never acceptable, you didn't even actually try to justify it. I read the books but even I was hoping the steps would just fall and kill them all so we could get to the next fucking scene.
There have been films longer than LOTR that didn't rely on endless dull action.
Even then, there were action scenes in the book cut out that were more interesting than Jackon's made up stuff like crumbling staircases and endless stupid dream sequences.
How can he justify taking stuff out to keep the film shorter, then replacing it with made up stuff that's even more boring?
Today, energy companies started reporting their 3rd quarter earnings, and while Americans paying were record prices at the pump, energy companies were making record profits.
Makes sense to me: prices go up, therefore profit margin goes up, and so profits go up. Unless of course the profit margin has stayed the same and the amount sold has gone up. Which is it?
Maybe they should put the prices up further, Americans are still driving SUVs 50 yards to the shop. Petrol's still only half the price it is in Europe.
If anything, oil companies should be criticised for not increasing prices ENOUGH.
2) Office runs faster, but for that matter, so does IE - is it any suprise that MS can write software for its own OS which takes every possible advantage of its native environment to run with speed?
What advantages? You mean like not loading the whole suite every time you want to just use one part of it?
I don't see what's stopping the OO makers taking advantage of the environment in Linux for example.
It would be funny if the game was cancelled just after the cheque cleared.
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Of course, what's to stop Chinese virus writers attacking American IP blocks? Or to stop China invading America? Unless you think that the fat, lazy, arrogant redneck American population can cope with the huge, highly-trained Chinese Army.
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If wages in America go down, then the cost of living in America will go down. Taking globalisation to its natural conclusion, eventually wages and costs of living across the world will equalise, and it'll be a level playing field.
Closing your borders and trying to prop up an artificial gradient of wages and costs of living is just delaying the inevitable.
And if I hear one more person earning 70k cry poverty, I really am going to start shooting people.
That's like saying only criminals wear balaclavas when going to the bank, therefore good citizens will not mind a compulsory law banning wearing balaclavas in banks.
Do you really think Americans should receive no preference in getting American jobs?
Americans have no problems ignoring American producers selling overpriced goods in favour of cheap foreign imports, so why should companies not bring in foreign workers rather than overpriced Americans? Seems you want to have your cake and eat it. Where are all your computers made? And clothes?
If your vision is realized, then countries are just meta-corporations with no alleigence to their own citizens.
It's not countries bringing in foreign workers, it's companies. Companies are independent of the government, why should they give unearned preference to citizens of a certain passport? Unless you think people shouldn't have personal freedoms but should live a government-prescribed life.
Discriminating based on nationality sounds like some ancient archaic practice, and is incredibly immoral. Surely anyone should be allowed to work anywhere? Borders are arbitrary, nationality is an accident of birth. If someone is born within one set of political boundaries, I don't see why they should be be restricted from living and earning a living in another set of political boundaries.
This whole article is pathetic. Earlier in the thread there was someone complaining about how he can't compete with cheap foreign workers, but how he needs a lot of money because he lives in Silicon Valley. HANG ON A MINUTE: YOU LIVE IN ONE OF THE RICHEST, MOST PRIVELEDGED AREAS IN THE WORLD, AND EARN MORE THAN 99% OF EVERYONE ELSE IN THE WORLD, AND YOU'RE COMPLAINING ABOUT NOT HAVING ENOUGH MONEY?
Importing labor when there is already a glut only puts more people out of work.
Labour? Thought this was IT we are talking about? Labour involves physical work.
Importing workers doesn't put people out of work. If an American is replaced by a Chinaman, there is no difference to the number of people employed. Of course there is one less American employed, but that's only an issue to racists.
Without unions you would be working every Saturday and Sunday.
In the UK, public-sector unions have gotten themselves massive pensions and a retirement at 60, at the expense of tax-payers who have to survive in the real world.
I say we find somebody crazy enough in congress to propose a salary cap for CEO's bill. Then tell everyone in the public about it, and see how many people really support something like that. Especially when the workers outnumber the C-level's probably 100 to 1.
Then find someone crazy enough in congress to propose a salary cap for computer programmers, say $40k. Then tell everyone in the public about it. As most people earn much less than that, most people will support it.
Do we want the Internet clogged up with blogs by 15 year olds whining about irrelevent shit? I always said there should be an age limit on the Internet.
My point is that one should not have to be "glad" that they are getting a cost of living increase in pay.
What else do you want? Inflation-equalling rises are the most you can expect, unless you've been promoted to a more skilled and responsible job or you're suddenly providing more value to the company.
But more than likely, 99% of workers are doing the same work at the same standard they've always done, so why should they get a rise above inflation?
Let's wait until they actually accomplish it before praising them. Anyone can plan something extravagent for 35 years in the future. By then all the current government will be gone so they can't be blamed when it doesn't happen.
I might have some sympathy if prison sentences weren't generally so ridiculously short.
Maybe some hacker could do some good to society for once rather than writing viruses, by hacking into the prison computer system and doubling all the sentences, quadrupling in cases of theft or buglary.
Unless the TV was total garbage anyway, the picture will likely be better even on an NTSC TV because digital TV doesn't have snow, static or ghosting that mar analog NTSC broadcasts.
Only an fanboy would repeatedly do business with a corporation even after buying several faulty products from it before. Everytime Apple fucks you, you ask for another. Then if someone else says they don't like being fucked, you tell them to buy some grease and accept it.
2. If you don't like scratches, get a case.
That's the most stupid thing I've ever heard. If it needs a case to not get scratched then they should have made the ipod out of the material the case is made of.
I have a phone that's been in my pocket along with keys, coins and knives for over a year, not a single scratch. Apple have clearly made their ipod out of a low-quality material. Considering the huge profit margin on the ipod, this is pure greed. The consumers get scratched ipods, Jobs gets another multi-million dollar bonus.
People criticise Microsoft for cutting corners, why do Apple get away with it? Oh right, I've forgotten the fanboy-factor. I bet that Apple could drop napalm on a school and the fanboys would be telling the kids they should have worn protective covers. Google could launch a locust-plague on crops in Ethiopia and the fanboys would be telling them they should have used pesticides.
GM won't replace your car if YOU scratch it,
If a car manufacturer made a car where the paint dissolved in the rain, they'd get sued out of existence. Corporate-apologists like you make it easier for scumbag corporations to fuck everyone over, because no matter how many shoddy, broken products they release, fanboys like you crawl out of the woodwork.
No, I'll tell you what's destroying your country: Giant companies fucking people over with shoddy products and getting away with it.
Apple charge hundreds for a device which is marketed based on its looks, they tell you to keep it in your pocket, the product is then damaged by being in your pocket. Microsoft charge hundreds for software which doesn't work properly, then charge hundreds more for the next version which fixes a couple of things but breaks a hundred more. Car companies charge thousands for faulty, polluting cars. Rail companies mismanage the railways and trains end up crashing killing hundreds, and get away with it.
I hope this lawsuit succeeds, I hope Apple are nailed, and I hope the rest of them get fucked over as well.
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How do you get in on a deal like that? Sounds like a decent gravy train.
10 minutes of wobbling around on steps is never acceptable, you didn't even actually try to justify it. I read the books but even I was hoping the steps would just fall and kill them all so we could get to the next fucking scene.
There have been films longer than LOTR that didn't rely on endless dull action.
Even then, there were action scenes in the book cut out that were more interesting than Jackon's made up stuff like crumbling staircases and endless stupid dream sequences.
How can he justify taking stuff out to keep the film shorter, then replacing it with made up stuff that's even more boring?
No, it's one of those threads where people get free karma by fawning over Google's lastest re-hashed web service with a dodgy javascript interface.
Today, energy companies started reporting their 3rd quarter earnings, and while Americans paying were record prices at the pump, energy companies were making record profits.
Makes sense to me: prices go up, therefore profit margin goes up, and so profits go up. Unless of course the profit margin has stayed the same and the amount sold has gone up. Which is it?
Maybe they should put the prices up further, Americans are still driving SUVs 50 yards to the shop. Petrol's still only half the price it is in Europe.
If anything, oil companies should be criticised for not increasing prices ENOUGH.
2) Office runs faster, but for that matter, so does IE - is it any suprise that MS can write software for its own OS which takes every possible advantage of its native environment to run with speed?
What advantages? You mean like not loading the whole suite every time you want to just use one part of it?
I don't see what's stopping the OO makers taking advantage of the environment in Linux for example.
It would be funny if the game was cancelled just after the cheque cleared.
Of course, what's to stop Chinese virus writers attacking American IP blocks? Or to stop China invading America? Unless you think that the fat, lazy, arrogant redneck American population can cope with the huge, highly-trained Chinese Army.
If wages in America go down, then the cost of living in America will go down. Taking globalisation to its natural conclusion, eventually wages and costs of living across the world will equalise, and it'll be a level playing field.
Closing your borders and trying to prop up an artificial gradient of wages and costs of living is just delaying the inevitable.
And if I hear one more person earning 70k cry poverty, I really am going to start shooting people.
That's like saying only criminals wear balaclavas when going to the bank, therefore good citizens will not mind a compulsory law banning wearing balaclavas in banks.
Do you really think Americans should receive no preference in getting American jobs?
Americans have no problems ignoring American producers selling overpriced goods in favour of cheap foreign imports, so why should companies not bring in foreign workers rather than overpriced Americans? Seems you want to have your cake and eat it. Where are all your computers made? And clothes?
If your vision is realized, then countries are just meta-corporations with no alleigence to their own citizens.
It's not countries bringing in foreign workers, it's companies. Companies are independent of the government, why should they give unearned preference to citizens of a certain passport? Unless you think people shouldn't have personal freedoms but should live a government-prescribed life.
Discriminating based on nationality sounds like some ancient archaic practice, and is incredibly immoral. Surely anyone should be allowed to work anywhere? Borders are arbitrary, nationality is an accident of birth. If someone is born within one set of political boundaries, I don't see why they should be be restricted from living and earning a living in another set of political boundaries.
This whole article is pathetic. Earlier in the thread there was someone complaining about how he can't compete with cheap foreign workers, but how he needs a lot of money because he lives in Silicon Valley. HANG ON A MINUTE: YOU LIVE IN ONE OF THE RICHEST, MOST PRIVELEDGED AREAS IN THE WORLD, AND EARN MORE THAN 99% OF EVERYONE ELSE IN THE WORLD, AND YOU'RE COMPLAINING ABOUT NOT HAVING ENOUGH MONEY?
Importing labor when there is already a glut only puts more people out of work.
Labour? Thought this was IT we are talking about? Labour involves physical work.
Importing workers doesn't put people out of work. If an American is replaced by a Chinaman, there is no difference to the number of people employed. Of course there is one less American employed, but that's only an issue to racists.
I'm not surprised. $74k for a computer programmer, absolutely unbelievable. How many nurses or teachers could you get for that much money?
Presumably you are doing the same job better/faster/more experienced etc...
Presumably according to who? People generally get slower and make more errors as they age.
Without unions you would be working every Saturday and Sunday.
In the UK, public-sector unions have gotten themselves massive pensions and a retirement at 60, at the expense of tax-payers who have to survive in the real world.
Unions can be pretty good when you're in them.
I say we find somebody crazy enough in congress to propose a salary cap for CEO's bill. Then tell everyone in the public about it, and see how many people really support something like that. Especially when the workers outnumber the C-level's probably 100 to 1.
Then find someone crazy enough in congress to propose a salary cap for computer programmers, say $40k. Then tell everyone in the public about it. As most people earn much less than that, most people will support it.
Age limit.
Do we want the Internet clogged up with blogs by 15 year olds whining about irrelevent shit? I always said there should be an age limit on the Internet.
It's based on the assumption that the more experience a worker has, the more valuable he is to the company.
That's a large assumption. For example does a McDonald's worker make any more burgers per hour after 10 years than he did after 1? Probably not.
As far as computer programmers go, I don't think the quality of software is going up, if anything it's getting worse.
My point is that one should not have to be "glad" that they are getting a cost of living increase in pay.
What else do you want? Inflation-equalling rises are the most you can expect, unless you've been promoted to a more skilled and responsible job or you're suddenly providing more value to the company.
But more than likely, 99% of workers are doing the same work at the same standard they've always done, so why should they get a rise above inflation?
Let's wait until they actually accomplish it before praising them. Anyone can plan something extravagent for 35 years in the future. By then all the current government will be gone so they can't be blamed when it doesn't happen.
What is this actually about? It isn't explained either in the summary nor in the article. The title and the summary seem to have nothing in common.
I might have some sympathy if prison sentences weren't generally so ridiculously short.
Maybe some hacker could do some good to society for once rather than writing viruses, by hacking into the prison computer system and doubling all the sentences, quadrupling in cases of theft or buglary.
Unless the TV was total garbage anyway, the picture will likely be better even on an NTSC TV because digital TV doesn't have snow, static or ghosting that mar analog NTSC broadcasts.
No, instead the picture freezes up.
Thanks, but I'll stick with analogue.
It's the one where the whole town is brainwashed into a cult that says they're going to fly to another planet in a spaceship.
1. Every iPod I own has gotten scratches.
Only an fanboy would repeatedly do business with a corporation even after buying several faulty products from it before. Everytime Apple fucks you, you ask for another. Then if someone else says they don't like being fucked, you tell them to buy some grease and accept it.
2. If you don't like scratches, get a case.
That's the most stupid thing I've ever heard. If it needs a case to not get scratched then they should have made the ipod out of the material the case is made of.
I have a phone that's been in my pocket along with keys, coins and knives for over a year, not a single scratch. Apple have clearly made their ipod out of a low-quality material. Considering the huge profit margin on the ipod, this is pure greed. The consumers get scratched ipods, Jobs gets another multi-million dollar bonus.
People criticise Microsoft for cutting corners, why do Apple get away with it? Oh right, I've forgotten the fanboy-factor. I bet that Apple could drop napalm on a school and the fanboys would be telling the kids they should have worn protective covers. Google could launch a locust-plague on crops in Ethiopia and the fanboys would be telling them they should have used pesticides.
GM won't replace your car if YOU scratch it,
If a car manufacturer made a car where the paint dissolved in the rain, they'd get sued out of existence. Corporate-apologists like you make it easier for scumbag corporations to fuck everyone over, because no matter how many shoddy, broken products they release, fanboys like you crawl out of the woodwork.
No, I'll tell you what's destroying your country: Giant companies fucking people over with shoddy products and getting away with it.
Apple charge hundreds for a device which is marketed based on its looks, they tell you to keep it in your pocket, the product is then damaged by being in your pocket. Microsoft charge hundreds for software which doesn't work properly, then charge hundreds more for the next version which fixes a couple of things but breaks a hundred more. Car companies charge thousands for faulty, polluting cars. Rail companies mismanage the railways and trains end up crashing killing hundreds, and get away with it.
I hope this lawsuit succeeds, I hope Apple are nailed, and I hope the rest of them get fucked over as well.