well, you're wrong, then. I've always had this login, which is based on my name's initials, since I joined/. and never used any other login.
Not that I care about what you think, anyway. In fact, when you first mentioned that oswald guy, I thought you were trying to pick on me with some private joke or some american cultural reference.
And if you did bother checking, my karma is far from bad.
Hardly resembles the stories I know and what I managed to observe for myself.
Oswald who?
I am Portuguese. I've lived away from my country for some time and while it is true that they tend to group together due to cultural similarities and language ease, it's not true that we are closed or that we keep to ourselves. I lived in Danmark for some time and while I was there, the only thing preventing us from getting along with the danes was their native xenophobia. We got along just fine with all other foreigners there and believe me, I met quite the lot.
unless you're talking about the same typical american lack of culture that prevents them from identifying their own country in a world map and usually identifies Portugal as being a province of Spain, then, yes, I understand what you mean. Otherwise, not really.
It's not just doing something to relieve conscience. The problem is that while there is a way to profit, there will be people fighting for it, especially in extremely underdeveloped places and where human life has a value way low.
I know people are self centered everywhere. I know people are jealous and envious and power hungry and greedy and selfish everywhere.
But in most cases, what currently makes the difference between "developing" and "developed" countries is the way people apply those... "qualities". On the developed countries, it works out mostly because people invest they money so they can get a return. On the developing countries, they just pocket it and that's it.
Well, they could care. I don't know about the other minerals, but at least tungesten can be mined from Portugal, where... well, let's say things don't work as they do in Congo.
exactly because of the number of sales... According to his information, he had 7 sales, of which 5 were purchased by himself to give to friends, one was marked as a first sale, and another was his own 6th order that never arrived. At the same time, before the order went from "shipping" to "shipped", one copy appeared on Amazon without any sale. So, it seems to me a fairly decent way to track, when you know you bought all but one of the sold copies...
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The book I have in my signature is an example. Written by a friend, he kept a specific track of all the copies sold. The company didn't buy the book to resell. The company appeared on Amazon selling a book that wasn't bought. My friend was one copy short and the company that showed up on Amazon had a copy that appeared to come out of nowhere.
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Lulu in it self is a whole bad business idea. Not really the business idea behind it, but the company. Why? Because they're dishonest. They sell books but they say they have no responsability in what happens to them during transport. Then, the book misteriously disappears during shipping, even before the end of timeframe they say it takes for them to ship it and appears on that same day for sale on Amazon at twice the price, by some strange company. Then, we contact them to ask for explanations and they say they have no responsability.
I've got 7 computers around me right this moment. Some are running virtual machines. So, two copies of the OS each computer, more two copies each virtual machine. Does that mean I'm a very successful pirate?
Well, I was unable to make 7 work with the Ericsson F3507g 3G card that came integrated with the laptop... for which the right drivers were also preloaded on the 7 instalation. XP and Vista actually worked better there. I hate hardware manufacturers... I really do. And I believe I'll still sue a few more. Compaq - check, Fujitsu - check.
I tell you... I never had a problem with Vista (and then again, I was a late adopter). Never quite disappointed me and ran as smooth as it could for the hardware I allowed it to infect. I always followed all the discussions about Vista, and Vista vs XP and the like. Yesterday I bought a new laptop. It came preloaded with Windows 7. YUCK! It might seem strange, but I really do prefer Vista to 7. Vista seems so much smoother and organized. Seven, to me, seems to be more of a poorly done copy of Mac OS X's widgets and a computational mess. Thank me, that I only wanted the laptop to use something other than Windows.
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well, you're wrong, then. I've always had this login, which is based on my name's initials, since I joined /. and never used any other login.
Not that I care about what you think, anyway. In fact, when you first mentioned that oswald guy, I thought you were trying to pick on me with some private joke or some american cultural reference.
And if you did bother checking, my karma is far from bad.
now it's "joaoswald"? what the hell?
Hardly resembles the stories I know and what I managed to observe for myself.
Oswald who?
I am Portuguese. I've lived away from my country for some time and while it is true that they tend to group together due to cultural similarities and language ease, it's not true that we are closed or that we keep to ourselves. I lived in Danmark for some time and while I was there, the only thing preventing us from getting along with the danes was their native xenophobia. We got along just fine with all other foreigners there and believe me, I met quite the lot.
unless you're talking about the same typical american lack of culture that prevents them from identifying their own country in a world map and usually identifies Portugal as being a province of Spain, then, yes, I understand what you mean. Otherwise, not really.
What's Boston got to do... got to do with it? (8)
Because, if I understood it right, you're saying Portugal belongs to the list of the "developing" countries? "that rogues gallery"?
Do you really know anything about Portugal? Coz, either you didn't explain yourself very well, or I really didn't understand you at all.
Not sure I would trust doing business with anyone but Portugal out of that rogues gallery tho.
I meant this.
Please rephrase/explain this better.
It's not just doing something to relieve conscience. The problem is that while there is a way to profit, there will be people fighting for it, especially in extremely underdeveloped places and where human life has a value way low.
I know people are self centered everywhere. I know people are jealous and envious and power hungry and greedy and selfish everywhere.
But in most cases, what currently makes the difference between "developing" and "developed" countries is the way people apply those... "qualities". On the developed countries, it works out mostly because people invest they money so they can get a return. On the developing countries, they just pocket it and that's it.
Well, they could care. I don't know about the other minerals, but at least tungesten can be mined from Portugal, where... well, let's say things don't work as they do in Congo.
Nope, the first sale was only last week. The "disappearing book" and Amazon posting was 6 months ago.
exactly because of the number of sales... According to his information, he had 7 sales, of which 5 were purchased by himself to give to friends, one was marked as a first sale, and another was his own 6th order that never arrived. At the same time, before the order went from "shipping" to "shipped", one copy appeared on Amazon without any sale. So, it seems to me a fairly decent way to track, when you know you bought all but one of the sold copies...
The book I have in my signature is an example. Written by a friend, he kept a specific track of all the copies sold. The company didn't buy the book to resell. The company appeared on Amazon selling a book that wasn't bought. My friend was one copy short and the company that showed up on Amazon had a copy that appeared to come out of nowhere.
Lulu in it self is a whole bad business idea. Not really the business idea behind it, but the company. Why? Because they're dishonest. They sell books but they say they have no responsability in what happens to them during transport. Then, the book misteriously disappears during shipping, even before the end of timeframe they say it takes for them to ship it and appears on that same day for sale on Amazon at twice the price, by some strange company. Then, we contact them to ask for explanations and they say they have no responsability.
I've got 7 computers around me right this moment. Some are running virtual machines. So, two copies of the OS each computer, more two copies each virtual machine. Does that mean I'm a very successful pirate?
Well, I was unable to make 7 work with the Ericsson F3507g 3G card that came integrated with the laptop... for which the right drivers were also preloaded on the 7 instalation. XP and Vista actually worked better there. I hate hardware manufacturers... I really do. And I believe I'll still sue a few more. Compaq - check, Fujitsu - check.
I tell you... I never had a problem with Vista (and then again, I was a late adopter). Never quite disappointed me and ran as smooth as it could for the hardware I allowed it to infect. I always followed all the discussions about Vista, and Vista vs XP and the like. Yesterday I bought a new laptop. It came preloaded with Windows 7. YUCK! It might seem strange, but I really do prefer Vista to 7. Vista seems so much smoother and organized. Seven, to me, seems to be more of a poorly done copy of Mac OS X's widgets and a computational mess. Thank me, that I only wanted the laptop to use something other than Windows.
"I aim vor ze starz, but zumtimes, I hit London."
Werner Von Braun
I don't know about blue whales, but there's an House episode that has him commenting on some dolpinh+human female sex scenes with his team.
actually... it's done. can't really remember, but I know I once saw it in the screen caps mosaic from the gallery posts
Humans will have sex with pretty much everything they can...
(if you don't trust me, think of this: if you can think it, someone has made porn about it, just check the tubes).
I trully hope not. I'm counting on this to workout.
Isn't 2012 also the year the Mayans predicted the end of the world?
I happen know there is a "Bob Morgan" who is a group manager, whose alias actually is robert[something]morgan...
I don't yet know on which department, though...
hard drive makers do, unfortunately...