A friend of mine used to run a restaurant. One of his dishwashers was a Salvadorean kid named Juan. Juan was a pretty good worker, but once in a while he'd send a substitute to work for him. Usually it was one of his cousins; one time he sent his grandmother. Grandma couldn't speak a word of English, but that's not necessarily an impediment to working in a kitchen. My friend suspected that Juan was the only one in the family with a green card, and that he was doing the same thing at his other job, but he didn't really care to pursue the matter; the dishes were getting clean, Juan's family was earning a living, the arrangement seemed to be working well for everybody.
I don't drink either coke or pepsi. (Although coke is almost palatable if you add enough rum and lime juice.) And I avoid fast food places, unless I'm truly desparate. I'm telling you, life's too short to eat crappy food. Thanks to Mickey D's and BK, most Americans don't even know what a good burger is supposed to fucking taste like! The good burgers are out there, but they've been effectively squeezed out by the big chains with better advertising. (My personal pick: Kope's Garage in Ithaca, NY.)
"Wearing a outfit" will definitely cause a lonely gal nothing but trouble. Much better to just skip down the middle of the street wearing nothing but a smile and a flask of Bourbon.
Can't find the citation at the moment, but the way I read it is that "Dracula" means "of the dragon". Vlad's father was apparently awarded the Order of the Dragon (by some emperor or another) for his military achievements.
If any of you are fluent in medieval Transylvanian and feel like correcting me, please do so...
Excuse me? Music has been around, in various forms, since the dawn of human civilization. Music recordings, on the other hand, have only been around for about a century - I'm guessing that's what you were referring to.
I have a friend, an intelligent and hard-working woman who unfortunately used to be a manager at a Friendly's. I advised her to leave that one off her resume, or at least leave off the word "manager". There ain't no shame in having a McJob in your past, McJobs happen to many of us at some point, but most employers don't want McManagers, and you don't want to work for the ones that do want them.
What's this have to do with the topic at hand? Fuck if I know. I do know this: when hiring people, I tend to be more impressed by spectacular failure than by reliable mediocrity.
My guess is that big companies are more diligent about verifying resumes. In a 1000-employee company, there's probably a whole crew of HR people who need to justify their paychecks somehow; in a 10-employee company, the guy who interviews you is probably the owner, and he's got better things to do than check references.
If you liked "Shaolin Soccer", then you must check out "God of Cookery", also by Stephen Chow. It was one of the funniest movies I've ever seen, and I bet half the jokes were lost in translation. Imagine "Iron Chef" with kung-fu and bearded schoolgirls, and you'll have some inkling of what it's all about.
What the fuck are you smoking? This isn't about selling illegal substances, this is about selling movies. Not bootlegs, either - these are perfectly legit copies.
What's happening is that Miramax is taking its sweet time releasing the movies in the US - so the free market steps in, and people start buying DVDs from overseas retailers. If that's illegal now, then we got big problems.
Don't give them any ideas. Before you know it, we'll be seeing Jesus spam alongside cock-enlargement spam. Along with raging on-line battles between all the different factions of the Jesus business. Now that you mention it, I'm surprised they haven't started already.
the designers and participating governments have chosen to pass up the huge revenue from 10000 speeders a day
They didn't choose shit, they simply realized that people would never stand for such a massive surveilance system being introduced overnight. So instead, they're trying to phase it in slowly.
EZ Pass? It's in a lead bag (for film) in the glove box when I'm not going through a toll booth.
So? They could just measure the time it took you between two tollbooths, and mail you a speeding ticket based on that. I don't think they're actually doing it yet, but I imagine it'd be pretty easy - most of the hardware is already in place.
I don't use those things, myself. Partly for the reasons being discussed here, partly because there aren't any toll roads where I live.
Just a bit of advice for the kids out there: If you want to experiment with trying to find just the right buzz for coding, that's cool, but whatever you do, don't play Tetris on mushrooms.
OK, I didn't know that. But I think my point is still valid: there are a lot of big corporations contributing to Free Software, and it'd be pretty silly to refuse those contributions, as the original poster seemed to be implying. (Apple contributed code to the KHTML lib; Sun is actively backing the NetBeans project; and of course, we all know about SCO's contributions to the Linux kernel.)
I then tell them that Mozilla/Firebird is NOT being developed with corporate dollars and therefore has the user's interests at heart.
The Mozilla Project is funded by the Netscape corp. Ain't nothing wrong with corporate dollars, if they're used for writing high-quality, free software.
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A friend of mine used to run a restaurant. One of his dishwashers was a Salvadorean kid named Juan. Juan was a pretty good worker, but once in a while he'd send a substitute to work for him. Usually it was one of his cousins; one time he sent his grandmother. Grandma couldn't speak a word of English, but that's not necessarily an impediment to working in a kitchen. My friend suspected that Juan was the only one in the family with a green card, and that he was doing the same thing at his other job, but he didn't really care to pursue the matter; the dishes were getting clean, Juan's family was earning a living, the arrangement seemed to be working well for everybody.
The Emperor will return! Save your Norton-bucks!
I don't drink either coke or pepsi. (Although coke is almost palatable if you add enough rum and lime juice.) And I avoid fast food places, unless I'm truly desparate. I'm telling you, life's too short to eat crappy food. Thanks to Mickey D's and BK, most Americans don't even know what a good burger is supposed to fucking taste like! The good burgers are out there, but they've been effectively squeezed out by the big chains with better advertising. (My personal pick: Kope's Garage in Ithaca, NY.)
Where did this thread start, anyway?
Do you boycott coca-cola products because they sometimes do cross-promotions with disney?
No, I just boycott them because they taste like shit.
"Wearing a outfit" will definitely cause a lonely gal nothing but trouble. Much better to just skip down the middle of the street wearing nothing but a smile and a flask of Bourbon.
as the incarnation of devil (dracul)
Can't find the citation at the moment, but the way I read it is that "Dracula" means "of the dragon". Vlad's father was apparently awarded the Order of the Dragon (by some emperor or another) for his military achievements.
If any of you are fluent in medieval Transylvanian and feel like correcting me, please do so...
for the first 90 years of music
Excuse me? Music has been around, in various forms, since the dawn of human civilization. Music recordings, on the other hand, have only been around for about a century - I'm guessing that's what you were referring to.
I have a friend, an intelligent and hard-working woman who unfortunately used to be a manager at a Friendly's. I advised her to leave that one off her resume, or at least leave off the word "manager". There ain't no shame in having a McJob in your past, McJobs happen to many of us at some point, but most employers don't want McManagers, and you don't want to work for the ones that do want them.
What's this have to do with the topic at hand? Fuck if I know. I do know this: when hiring people, I tend to be more impressed by spectacular failure than by reliable mediocrity.
My guess is that big companies are more diligent about verifying resumes. In a 1000-employee company, there's probably a whole crew of HR people who need to justify their paychecks somehow; in a 10-employee company, the guy who interviews you is probably the owner, and he's got better things to do than check references.
Outsource your boss! Chances are, you won't do any worse with a foreign one.
If you liked "Shaolin Soccer", then you must check out "God of Cookery", also by Stephen Chow. It was one of the funniest movies I've ever seen, and I bet half the jokes were lost in translation. Imagine "Iron Chef" with kung-fu and bearded schoolgirls, and you'll have some inkling of what it's all about.
What the fuck are you smoking? This isn't about selling illegal substances, this is about selling movies. Not bootlegs, either - these are perfectly legit copies.
What's happening is that Miramax is taking its sweet time releasing the movies in the US - so the free market steps in, and people start buying DVDs from overseas retailers. If that's illegal now, then we got big problems.
Don't give them any ideas. Before you know it, we'll be seeing Jesus spam alongside cock-enlargement spam. Along with raging on-line battles between all the different factions of the Jesus business. Now that you mention it, I'm surprised they haven't started already.
Old bumper sticker: "Cthulhu for President: why settle for the lesser evil?"
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they are the equivalent of brain-dead humans [until they are proven to be sentient]. They should have about the same rights as those.
#include "GeorgeBushJoke.h"
the designers and participating governments have chosen to pass up the huge revenue from 10000 speeders a day
They didn't choose shit, they simply realized that people would never stand for such a massive surveilance system being introduced overnight. So instead, they're trying to phase it in slowly.
EZ Pass? It's in a lead bag (for film) in the glove box when I'm not going through a toll booth.
So? They could just measure the time it took you between two tollbooths, and mail you a speeding ticket based on that. I don't think they're actually doing it yet, but I imagine it'd be pretty easy - most of the hardware is already in place.
I don't use those things, myself. Partly for the reasons being discussed here, partly because there aren't any toll roads where I live.
...he was smuggling pirated DVDs to Norway! It's right out of a Scooby Doo episode!
You mean they've got drills and saws and stuff running Linux now?!
Oh yeah, they do... Routers and lathes, too, I believe.
Just a bit of advice for the kids out there: If you want to experiment with trying to find just the right buzz for coding, that's cool, but whatever you do, don't play Tetris on mushrooms.
OK, I didn't know that. But I think my point is still valid: there are a lot of big corporations contributing to Free Software, and it'd be pretty silly to refuse those contributions, as the original poster seemed to be implying. (Apple contributed code to the KHTML lib; Sun is actively backing the NetBeans project; and of course, we all know about SCO's contributions to the Linux kernel.)
I then tell them that Mozilla/Firebird is NOT being developed with corporate dollars and therefore has the user's interests at heart.
The Mozilla Project is funded by the Netscape corp.
Ain't nothing wrong with corporate dollars, if they're used for writing high-quality, free software.
And the usual situation for "dead man switches" to operate is probably when the human operator is distracted or careless, rather than dead.
"Stoned man switch"?
"Manager/Employee".
It basically means the same thing as "Master/Servant", just less archaic.