It's only in modern times that pedophelia has become taboo. Go back 15 hundred years and you will see legal works reflecting upon and discussing the ramifications of sex with minors, both male and female, as well as sex of minors with each other.
The idea that sexual attraction to, or between, minors is somehow "wrong" is reminiscent of modern society's hang-up with homosexuals.
While you're on in the first part, hang-ups with homosexuals are not exactly new, though historically being on the receiving end was viewed more harshly than being the giver. Viking age pagans often accused contemporary Bishops of being homosexual and therefore 'less manly'. Julius Casesar's political opponents would regularly accuse him of having had an affair with Nicomedes IV.
Completely agreed. I've got one of those right now. While he's not clueless on the tech end, it's not what he spends most of his time on. I go to him when the requirements from finance don't make any sense, he comes to me when he can't remember exactly which shell command does what he wants. His lack of technical expertise hasn't lessened my respect for him. It's simply not what he's there for. In exchange, he doesn't argue with my design decisions. He may sometimes question or make suggestions, but he leaves me with complete decision making authority in the technical realm. I don't think I'd want it to be different.
The prologue of the first book has a man being slain and then rising from the dead as a sort of zombie. Dany immolates herself and emerges unharmed and with three dragons. Thoros is able to repeatedly bring Dondarrion back to life. Melisandre demonstrates a number of different magical abilities (immunity to poison and cold, creation of the shadow that kills Renly, etc). Jaqen completely changes his face and appearance while Arya watches. There are prophecies that are later realized all over the place.
Those are all fantasy elements. That the characters don't use magic to fly around all over the place or for more casual things like lighting their way in the dark IMHO makes the times when usage occurs more significant to me.
Sometimes when people complain about what they feel are gratuitous sex scenes, he's responded with something to the effect of "No one complains about the gratuitous feasting." I guess that's not true anymore.
I've been following it pretty closely since AFFC came out, and while he's said things like "I hope to be done by the end of this year" or "Aiming for next spring!", this is the first time I've seen him commit to a date.
It barely classifies as fantasy in the first place. After so many books, there's just a mere hint of supernatural elements. Most of it is like some fictional European history.
To each his own. To me what you said is a selling point.
and had the "bad guys" acting like they'd never encountered politics before in their lives.
That held true for Cersei sure, but then I think he's trying to describe her as paranoid and borderline insane. It's not completely clear who else is a definite bad guy in Feast.
No one in NYC pays $300k a year for an entry/junior level slot. For that matter, you don't get that kind of money with 10+ years experience and genuine expertise. I'm not completely at liberty to give out numbers, but the amount is also nowhere near a tenth of that at $30k either. I've been forced to hire people with more experience and knowledge at lower salaries in the past, and have had better luck than I'm having right now. The offered salary is in a reasonable range -- I actually brought in an overqualified friend to interview for the slot. He was working at a place where he had been grossly undervalued, so this was actually going to be a salary bump for him anyway. To my and his surprise, they made a staggeringly large counter, so he stayed there. My point being though that the salary and benefits were good enough for a guy who had qualifications well above and beyond what I'm actually looking for. I don't get to set the salary range but I believe it to be reasonable.
Benefits are fairly standard, with % of medical, dental, 401k, and other fairly generic stuff, though we also have flexible hours and a liberal work from home policy (I'm at home 2 days a week)
The disconnect happens at both ends. I'm currently looking to hire (NYC, relatively junior position, general unix skills strongly preferred, perl also preferred but not required, what we really want is someone who has a little bit of general programming experience and demonstrated problem solving skills). Almost every candidate has had a Master's degree and only one of them showed anything resembling actual programming ability.
Also, I hate dishonest resumes. If you put something on there, I will ask you about it, and expect you to know something about it. I will ask about things that have nothing to do with the job you're interviewing for if you list them on your resume. Sadly, I haven't even bothered to get to this point of the interview in our recent batch of candidates -- none of them have done well enough with the softball questions to make it worth grilling them on harder stuff.
English and Spanish are without a doubt the two most common languages spoken in the US. But it's a rare day that I can get to work (in Manhattan) without hearing at least four languages spoken -- most often English, Spanish, German (tourists. whenever there are non-English speaking tourists in NYC, they are inevitably German) and some form of Chinese, but I lack the skill to tell the dialects apart. Less often I get Russian, Greek, Korean, Vietnamese, French, or Hindi. About once a week I hear something that I can't identify (I recently found myself staring at some guy because I was fascinated by the cadence of his language. I had it pegged as something African but couldn't do better than that in the two minutes I was near him).
Someday I will be ask my opinion on something, and I'll say "They would've blah blah blah", and I'll be quoted in print as "They would of blah blah blah" and then there will be another article about me killing the reporter.
'If left alone, the best bulb will win its rightful standing in the marketplace. Government doesn't need to be in the business of telling people what light bulb they have to use.'
I agree with this provided....
Why is a 'provided' needed? The evidence that the guy is right is in the last two lines of the summary.
I'd have to agree, Civ V is okay, but not nearly as good a game as Civ 4 was. While I'm okay with the non-stacking in Civ V, I do feel like it really cripples the AI as it's far less capable of handling the military strategy -- I've found myself able to easily handle opponents who are statistically much stronger than I am. This was true sometimes in Civ IV as well, but never quite to the same degree. I also strongly dislike the absence of tech trading. My favorite changes stem mainly from the naval changes: Ships are much more useful in V than they were in IV, and I also particularly like the embark unit ability.
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It's only in modern times that pedophelia has become taboo. Go back 15 hundred years and you will see legal works reflecting upon and discussing the ramifications of sex with minors, both male and female, as well as sex of minors with each other.
The idea that sexual attraction to, or between, minors is somehow "wrong" is reminiscent of modern society's hang-up with homosexuals.
While you're on in the first part, hang-ups with homosexuals are not exactly new, though historically being on the receiving end was viewed more harshly than being the giver. Viking age pagans often accused contemporary Bishops of being homosexual and therefore 'less manly'. Julius Casesar's political opponents would regularly accuse him of having had an affair with Nicomedes IV.
Maybe they'll go with "Mobile Slut" ?
That might be more realistic, but it sure as hell ain't better.
No we just have it slightly later on the 31st of april
Let me know how that works out for you.
Completely agreed. I've got one of those right now. While he's not clueless on the tech end, it's not what he spends most of his time on. I go to him when the requirements from finance don't make any sense, he comes to me when he can't remember exactly which shell command does what he wants. His lack of technical expertise hasn't lessened my respect for him. It's simply not what he's there for. In exchange, he doesn't argue with my design decisions. He may sometimes question or make suggestions, but he leaves me with complete decision making authority in the technical realm. I don't think I'd want it to be different.
Didn't Trinity use nmap in one of the Matrix movies? That's way more authentic then I ever thought I'd see from Hollywood.
I don't know if I would agree with that.
The prologue of the first book has a man being slain and then rising from the dead as a sort of zombie.
Dany immolates herself and emerges unharmed and with three dragons.
Thoros is able to repeatedly bring Dondarrion back to life.
Melisandre demonstrates a number of different magical abilities (immunity to poison and cold, creation of the shadow that kills Renly, etc).
Jaqen completely changes his face and appearance while Arya watches.
There are prophecies that are later realized all over the place.
Those are all fantasy elements. That the characters don't use magic to fly around all over the place or for more casual things like lighting their way in the dark IMHO makes the times when usage occurs more significant to me.
Sometimes when people complain about what they feel are gratuitous sex scenes, he's responded with something to the effect of "No one complains about the gratuitous feasting." I guess that's not true anymore.
I've been following it pretty closely since AFFC came out, and while he's said things like "I hope to be done by the end of this year" or "Aiming for next spring!", this is the first time I've seen him commit to a date.
It barely classifies as fantasy in the first place. After so many books, there's just a mere hint of supernatural elements. Most of it is like some fictional European history.
To each his own. To me what you said is a selling point.
and had the "bad guys" acting like they'd never encountered politics before in their lives.
That held true for Cersei sure, but then I think he's trying to describe her as paranoid and borderline insane. It's not completely clear who else is a definite bad guy in Feast.
no problem.
The summary lists 12 of the 13, for those who don't want to RTFA, #13 is Thailand.
No one in NYC pays $300k a year for an entry/junior level slot. For that matter, you don't get that kind of money with 10+ years experience and genuine expertise. I'm not completely at liberty to give out numbers, but the amount is also nowhere near a tenth of that at $30k either. I've been forced to hire people with more experience and knowledge at lower salaries in the past, and have had better luck than I'm having right now. The offered salary is in a reasonable range -- I actually brought in an overqualified friend to interview for the slot. He was working at a place where he had been grossly undervalued, so this was actually going to be a salary bump for him anyway. To my and his surprise, they made a staggeringly large counter, so he stayed there. My point being though that the salary and benefits were good enough for a guy who had qualifications well above and beyond what I'm actually looking for. I don't get to set the salary range but I believe it to be reasonable.
Benefits are fairly standard, with % of medical, dental, 401k, and other fairly generic stuff, though we also have flexible hours and a liberal work from home policy (I'm at home 2 days a week)
The disconnect happens at both ends. I'm currently looking to hire (NYC, relatively junior position, general unix skills strongly preferred, perl also preferred but not required, what we really want is someone who has a little bit of general programming experience and demonstrated problem solving skills). Almost every candidate has had a Master's degree and only one of them showed anything resembling actual programming ability.
Also, I hate dishonest resumes. If you put something on there, I will ask you about it, and expect you to know something about it. I will ask about things that have nothing to do with the job you're interviewing for if you list them on your resume. Sadly, I haven't even bothered to get to this point of the interview in our recent batch of candidates -- none of them have done well enough with the softball questions to make it worth grilling them on harder stuff.
English and Spanish are without a doubt the two most common languages spoken in the US. But it's a rare day that I can get to work (in Manhattan) without hearing at least four languages spoken -- most often English, Spanish, German (tourists. whenever there are non-English speaking tourists in NYC, they are inevitably German) and some form of Chinese, but I lack the skill to tell the dialects apart. Less often I get Russian, Greek, Korean, Vietnamese, French, or Hindi. About once a week I hear something that I can't identify (I recently found myself staring at some guy because I was fascinated by the cadence of his language. I had it pegged as something African but couldn't do better than that in the two minutes I was near him).
Someday I will be ask my opinion on something, and I'll say "They would've blah blah blah", and I'll be quoted in print as "They would of blah blah blah" and then there will be another article about me killing the reporter.
'If left alone, the best bulb will win its rightful standing in the marketplace. Government doesn't need to be in the business of telling people what light bulb they have to use.'
I agree with this provided....
Why is a 'provided' needed? The evidence that the guy is right is in the last two lines of the summary.
I managed not to snort while laughing, but it took effort.
If I didn't do it, and I were to deny doing anonymously, would that count?
That's just a pleasant side effect of 'going Greek'
And that's why I always use CCYY-MM-DD format.
That and you can compare two dates as strings to see which one is earlier.
I'd have to agree, Civ V is okay, but not nearly as good a game as Civ 4 was. While I'm okay with the non-stacking in Civ V, I do feel like it really cripples the AI as it's far less capable of handling the military strategy -- I've found myself able to easily handle opponents who are statistically much stronger than I am. This was true sometimes in Civ IV as well, but never quite to the same degree. I also strongly dislike the absence of tech trading. My favorite changes stem mainly from the naval changes: Ships are much more useful in V than they were in IV, and I also particularly like the embark unit ability.
There are a number of things that have happened during my lifetime, which I've not told ANYONE.
Could you provide examples?
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