Huh? Are you sure? AFAIK National Insurance is for Pensions/Bereavements and Unemployment. The NHS is paid for out of general taxation (income tax, VAT (sales tax), etc.).
When talking to other Europeans they tell me that their perception is that America is a very racist country,
Hey, that's not fair. In the year 2000 the good folk of Alabama even voted 59% in favour of allowing black and white people to marry each other (changing their state constitution)! That's a majority of forward thinking people!
Colonoscopy: £1500 (which probably translates to $20,000 with US health system inflation, I don't know). Doesn't investigate your stomach. Preparation really sucks. Anaesthetic gives you glowing feeling afterwards though. Chance of perforation and possible death if you are unlucky (1 in 2000). Handy for preventing colon cancer - worth it as a 40th birthday present for a man:-)
If its in your *stomach*, you might want an endoscopy instead (through the mouth rather than the other end). This is very unpleasant with local aneasthetic but the doctor can look for stomach ulcers.
Outline mode? I know they want to add it to Write but I didn't think it was there yet. Until then, OO is useless for anything longer than a page or two.
A decent PC graphics card which can do the latest games is around 100$ and the games usually are 20-30% cheaper.
Yeah, but some of us prefer not to pirate games, and pirated games are the only ones that *work* on the PC (because of the DRM for shop-bought games being so picky and borderline malware).
OK, that was a bad example - they were arrested but there was some diplomatic negotiation so I think they were not in jail. I think it ended up with Anchor Spreadable being made from local ingredients.
Similarly Sony executives in London were threatened with ASBOs for flyposting (advertising bands illegally on lampposts), but I think they got away with it.
So perhaps a better example is David Carruthers, the British executive of an internet gambling company (BetOnSports) who foolishly changed planes in the USA and was arrested. But that is an example of US law (which the US thinks applies to the whole world, or certainly the whole internet) rather than EU law. I am grateful for small mercies though - they didn't extradite them using the terrible lop-sided extradition treaty but got him when he was actually on US soil. BTW Gambling is legal (and common!) in the UK. For example several companies quote odds on the winner of next weeks Eurovision song contest.
Well if the USA abolishes its army like Costa Rica did, that would save a huge amount of its federal budget! I'm not sure the USA wants to get into a bidding war with small countries over tax exemptions though.
Tell that to the Anchor Butter executives who were arrested for selling butter that was too high quality in the EU - i.e. that breached the quota for "premium" butter. You'd be amazed by what the EU can do, let alone real governments. Vague crimes like "conspiracy to commit fraud" cover a lot of ground.
Considering a guy *swam in a straight line for 20 minutes* at the north pole I would say that there is a teeny weeny bit of evidence that it is getting warmer there on occasion. And that some people are crazy, since he did it *without a wetsuit* (it was below zero Celcius but he is odd).
When I visited New York and Los Angeles I noticed they have some sort of reverse TARDIS technology going on with their cabs - huge on the outside, with the turning radius of an oil tanker, but tiny on the inside, with my knees scraping against the seat (and I am a short guy). Why not make the car smaller on the outside and bigger on the inside, like London cabs? You can even buy some of the older models (e.g. the TXII) in the USA now...
But, but, but the Unreal engine is perfect and bug-free and a work of genius, and doesn't look at all like it was written at 1 in the morning by someone half asleep...
Huh? Producers nearly *always* provide food. Junk food anyway (pizza, chinese, indian, thai, fish+chips, kebabs). That's been the case since the role of producer was invented many years ago (although some of them were rubbish at getting the order in) - even for freelancers/contractors in my experience. Why do you think we are so unhealthy?:-)
Installing showers would be a good thing, especially for all the cyclists who come in each morning (thanks to the government scheme). I think Rare had beds at the office. I used to sleep at the office when I was homeless but that was just in a sleeping bag, and it probably broke some law:-)
Aside from that, I don't know what kind of positions you might have that there aren't better qualified American Citizens (if the job is in the US) available.
Um, he works in "life sciences" which probably means some biology is involved. IIRC Americans don't believe in Biology since it isn't in the Bible. </flamebait>
talking about subways... got me no end of odd looks
But we have loads of branches of Subway - 4 or 5 just in my local town! There are better sandwich shops though, but you gotta admire their pipelined production method.
OTOH when my boss was in California the cop got upset when telling him to put his hands on the hood, and my boss put his hand on his (hooded) jacket, instead of the car's bonnet.
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Some of us moved countries to get a job in games. Sheesh, you don't even need a passport to move state...
You get to work on boy games? Lucky you! For us it is all ponies and putting makeup on rainbows these days, since the DS pink came out...
Don't farming vehicles use farm diesel, which is taxed at a lower rate anyway? Or is that just europe?
Huh? Are you sure? AFAIK National Insurance is for Pensions/Bereavements and Unemployment. The NHS is paid for out of general taxation (income tax, VAT (sales tax), etc.).
Hey, that's not fair. In the year 2000 the good folk of Alabama even voted 59% in favour of allowing black and white people to marry each other (changing their state constitution)! That's a majority of forward thinking people!
Yes, for some reason all Russians think that all foreign people think that they (Russians) all have bears. Who knows why?
That would obviously be fronted by Heston Blumenthal, chef at allegedly the best restaurant in the world.
British Football 3D - play entirely respectful games of football winning with skill, but also good manners and complimenting the opponents to victory.
Obviously you are talking about proper Rugby Football, not that upstart Association "Soccer" Football.
Railways on-line - improve an already perfect railway to be even more "perfecter". The more you make the French jealous, the more points you get.
That would be a Hornby themed game, or possibly Thomas the Tank Engine :-)
Colonoscopy: £1500 (which probably translates to $20,000 with US health system inflation, I don't know). Doesn't investigate your stomach. Preparation really sucks. Anaesthetic gives you glowing feeling afterwards though. Chance of perforation and possible death if you are unlucky (1 in 2000). Handy for preventing colon cancer - worth it as a 40th birthday present for a man :-)
If its in your *stomach*, you might want an endoscopy instead (through the mouth rather than the other end). This is very unpleasant with local aneasthetic but the doctor can look for stomach ulcers.
Um, to help pay off the "seven years" war which means that the US speaks English now instead of French?
Outline mode? I know they want to add it to Write but I didn't think it was there yet. Until then, OO is useless for anything longer than a page or two.
Yeah, but some of us prefer not to pirate games, and pirated games are the only ones that *work* on the PC (because of the DRM for shop-bought games being so picky and borderline malware).
OK, that was a bad example - they were arrested but there was some diplomatic negotiation so I think they were not in jail. I think it ended up with Anchor Spreadable being made from local ingredients.
Similarly Sony executives in London were threatened with ASBOs for flyposting (advertising bands illegally on lampposts), but I think they got away with it.
So perhaps a better example is David Carruthers, the British executive of an internet gambling company (BetOnSports) who foolishly changed planes in the USA and was arrested. But that is an example of US law (which the US thinks applies to the whole world, or certainly the whole internet) rather than EU law. I am grateful for small mercies though - they didn't extradite them using the terrible lop-sided extradition treaty but got him when he was actually on US soil. BTW Gambling is legal (and common!) in the UK. For example several companies quote odds on the winner of next weeks Eurovision song contest.
I apologise for my poor example there.
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Well if the USA abolishes its army like Costa Rica did, that would save a huge amount of its federal budget! I'm not sure the USA wants to get into a bidding war with small countries over tax exemptions though.
Considering that Excel 2007 whinges every time you edit a .xls file I expect getting it to support other file formats is a bit of a stretch.
Tell that to the Anchor Butter executives who were arrested for selling butter that was too high quality in the EU - i.e. that breached the quota for "premium" butter. You'd be amazed by what the EU can do, let alone real governments. Vague crimes like "conspiracy to commit fraud" cover a lot of ground.
Considering a guy *swam in a straight line for 20 minutes* at the north pole I would say that there is a teeny weeny bit of evidence that it is getting warmer there on occasion. And that some people are crazy, since he did it *without a wetsuit* (it was below zero Celcius but he is odd).
When I visited New York and Los Angeles I noticed they have some sort of reverse TARDIS technology going on with their cabs - huge on the outside, with the turning radius of an oil tanker, but tiny on the inside, with my knees scraping against the seat (and I am a short guy). Why not make the car smaller on the outside and bigger on the inside, like London cabs? You can even buy some of the older models (e.g. the TXII) in the USA now...
But, but, but the Unreal engine is perfect and bug-free and a work of genius, and doesn't look at all like it was written at 1 in the morning by someone half asleep...
Huh? Producers nearly *always* provide food. Junk food anyway (pizza, chinese, indian, thai, fish+chips, kebabs). That's been the case since the role of producer was invented many years ago (although some of them were rubbish at getting the order in) - even for freelancers/contractors in my experience. Why do you think we are so unhealthy? :-)
Installing showers would be a good thing, especially for all the cyclists who come in each morning (thanks to the government scheme). I think Rare had beds at the office. I used to sleep at the office when I was homeless but that was just in a sleeping bag, and it probably broke some law :-)
Um, the "Uni" part of the name says not originally multi-user, well until 1970 anyway. :-)
Um, he works in "life sciences" which probably means some biology is involved. IIRC Americans don't believe in Biology since it isn't in the Bible. </flamebait>
Meow! He's no pretty-boy like Mitch Hewer (Skins series) or even Matthew Waterhouse (Adric), but that would detract from the role!
No doubt in the American remake the doctor will be cast as Brendon Fraser...
But we have loads of branches of Subway - 4 or 5 just in my local town! There are better sandwich shops though, but you gotta admire their pipelined production method.
OTOH when my boss was in California the cop got upset when telling him to put his hands on the hood, and my boss put his hand on his (hooded) jacket, instead of the car's bonnet.
In New Zealand we had a Minister for Lord Of The Rings IIRC :-) and predating that (thanks to Mike Moore) an official Wizard!