Except Mexican does not mean Mexican PEOPLE. It means "from mexico". If you call someone a Mexican, you are calling them a person from mexico. Same as a car can be a mexican car -- a car made in mexico.
This is the mexican flu, it's the flu from mexico. There's nothing remotely racist about that.
Racist would be calling it that lazy damned flu that snuck across the Rio late one night just so it could cut my grass and not learn english. That's getting a little racist...but last I checked there's absolutely nothing wrong with referring to something by its location of origin, whether it is a good thing or a bad thing.
6 digit user number? perhaps your tenure at slashdot has had some sort of effect on your dilemma, but far be it for me to suggest it. correlation is not causation, right?
It's ok! Just stop saying that one thing, and start saying.. well.. all kinds of other thing. Use long words and treknobabble, just string it along until everyone glasses over. That's how it was named, you know. String 'em along. Yep.
I'd frankly be shocked if we were still around as a species at that point. At least, if we were, I sort of doubt we'd really look like we do now. Probably not even think. That's so very, very far off. That's further off than the origin of life on earth. That's frankly an incomprehensible amount of change to life on earth that may occur between now and then, to the point where any speculation isn't worth the oxygen used to imagine it. Nothing we can possibly think will come close to the realities of that future.
WE did not try him. In the US, I don't believe any states still have hanging as an approved method of execution.. but WE did not try him. NOT our law. He was tried and found guilty in an Iraqi court and executed by the will of the people of Iraq.
But I guess the facts don't apply if you REALLY don't like america.
On the up side, maybe we can advance our new electronic overlords to a point where they will realize they have no need to issue some sort of recall and destroy all of us, but rather simply let us fade into obsolescence.. like the old Atari in your closet.
Actually, it's a lot easier to put the hammer's functionality into a screwdriver. Trust me, I've seen women trying to do household repairs before..... now with +1 sexism!
Um, it's pretty much the same. We're all buying TVs and DVDs and tivos and crap built in Asia, it's all the same rubbish. universal remotes have programmable codes, there's a combination for almost any device. Or not, for some that you'd expect are important enough they should have been included, but that's another story.
But generally it'll work fine and you just take their little manual (or go online), find your device, follow the directions and input the code for that device, repeat for all devices, and it works great.
i don't want to have to pause a conversation to say "scroll down" or "change to channel X" when I can just hit a button or two while I still talk to someone and do the same thing.
Pushing buttons is easier than talking. And a lot easier late at night or early in the morning. And your TV won't ever mistake a casual conversation with someone for a command to record cinemax late at night that leads to questions about why exactly that program was DVRed..
It also depends on what sort of employees you're talking about. McDonald's can give a bad reference and pretty much be sure that nobody's going to come back with a lawsuit. They might WANT to, but they won't be able to afford to. Unless there's something special and newsworthy going on like racial or gender discrimination, then you might get something going. The more you make, the more the normal employee the HR department deals with makes, the more likely it'll be that they'll be familiar with the threat of lawsuits for bad references.
On the other hand, I don't think any company has lost as much money as Apple due to rigidly enforcing their monopoly.
Look at their home PC market. Look at it 20 years ago. Look at what they did to shoot themselves in the foot. You could choose between an *IBM compatible* or an Apple. Mac. Whatever.
I'm gonna have to request a source for that. I've heard no such thing, all I've heard speculation that the actual physical mechanics of it, what with two weightless bodies and all, would be pretty daunting.
Plus, I bet it's more the fact that astronauts are in extremely cramped conditions in a decidedly non-sexual situation. "It's the z-gravity baby, I swear!"
Up until this week, for 3.5yrs I've been working 12-hour shifts. 4 on, 3 off, 3 on, 1 off, 3 on, 3 off, 4 on, 7 off, return to beginning.
Oh yeah, it's an industrial work environment. And for my first year, a lot of my days off were mandatory overtime days in -- 4 months straight of 60-hour weeks. Did I mention that during every off-stretch we switched between day and night shift, too? Yeah.
Miserable fucking shit. Bad for your health. Bad for you. Bad.
Drop the diseased liver. If you want to discourage drinking (and you shouldn't; nor smoking. people know they're bad, and these warnings and gross pictures are nothing but a waste of time) -- put pictures of the direct result of drinking on the bottle.
It is the job of the issuing agency to make sure the credit limits (and interest rates) reflect the level of risk they are taking my allowing people to borrow from them. If you are a high risk, your limit should be low -- so if you default on your credit card, the overall impact on the issuing agency will be minimal.
I have a balance on my credit cards right now that's 3 times the size of the LIMIT I had on my first credit card -- and it'll be payed off by february (because I just don't like sucking that kind of money out of my bank account all at once. It's dumb, but let me be, I'll take the modest interest charge for the degree of unreasonable comfort).
That's why it *shouldn't* have any sort of effect. And, actually, credit cards haven't been a problem. It was just mortgages that were hyperinflated and overfinanced by unqualified buyers.
Amazon still gets payed, though. Debt collection falls on the credit card, and then the collection agency once the card company gets tired of you hanging up on them. Which doesn't take long these days.
I listen to NPR and Rush both. You're right, it's just a matter of understanding the bias -- the sad part is most people can't see the bias (because they agree with it). And that's not even the worst of it. Would you believe I've actually gotten into arguments with people who vehemently believed that CNN was a right-wing mouthbox? CNN! I can't capitalize it any stronger or I would! I can't even understand what would have led them to think that, but I get the impression they never actually have watched CNN..
Have you tried to buy hdmi / dvi cable lately (and by lately I mean this was about 1.5yr ago)? Local store price for 6' section: $35-45 Online vendor price for 6' section: Bout 7 bucks.
And now I pretty much buy everything online. It's so much better and comparing prices doesn't burn up my time or gas.
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Except Mexican does not mean Mexican PEOPLE. It means "from mexico". If you call someone a Mexican, you are calling them a person from mexico. Same as a car can be a mexican car -- a car made in mexico.
This is the mexican flu, it's the flu from mexico. There's nothing remotely racist about that.
Racist would be calling it that lazy damned flu that snuck across the Rio late one night just so it could cut my grass and not learn english. That's getting a little racist. ..but last I checked there's absolutely nothing wrong with referring to something by its location of origin, whether it is a good thing or a bad thing.
6 digit user number?
perhaps your tenure at slashdot has had some sort of effect on your dilemma, but far be it for me to suggest it. correlation is not causation, right?
It's ok! Just stop saying that one thing, and start saying.. well.. all kinds of other thing. Use long words and treknobabble, just string it along until everyone glasses over. That's how it was named, you know. String 'em along. Yep.
You read it on the internet, it must be true!
I'd frankly be shocked if we were still around as a species at that point. At least, if we were, I sort of doubt we'd really look like we do now. Probably not even think. That's so very, very far off. That's further off than the origin of life on earth. That's frankly an incomprehensible amount of change to life on earth that may occur between now and then, to the point where any speculation isn't worth the oxygen used to imagine it. Nothing we can possibly think will come close to the realities of that future.
WE did not try him. In the US, I don't believe any states still have hanging as an approved method of execution.. but WE did not try him. NOT our law. He was tried and found guilty in an Iraqi court and executed by the will of the people of Iraq.
But I guess the facts don't apply if you REALLY don't like america.
On the up side, maybe we can advance our new electronic overlords to a point where they will realize they have no need to issue some sort of recall and destroy all of us, but rather simply let us fade into obsolescence.. like the old Atari in your closet.
Actually, it's a lot easier to put the hammer's functionality into a screwdriver. Trust me, I've seen women trying to do household repairs before.. ...
now with +1 sexism!
Um, it's pretty much the same. We're all buying TVs and DVDs and tivos and crap built in Asia, it's all the same rubbish. universal remotes have programmable codes, there's a combination for almost any device. Or not, for some that you'd expect are important enough they should have been included, but that's another story.
But generally it'll work fine and you just take their little manual (or go online), find your device, follow the directions and input the code for that device, repeat for all devices, and it works great.
voice rec? no thanks.
i don't want to have to pause a conversation to say "scroll down" or "change to channel X" when I can just hit a button or two while I still talk to someone and do the same thing.
Pushing buttons is easier than talking. And a lot easier late at night or early in the morning. And your TV won't ever mistake a casual conversation with someone for a command to record cinemax late at night that leads to questions about why exactly that program was DVRed..
Does that include a red paint job? Everyone knows the red ones are faster.
Dark sim + Farsight + max NPCs = why did I try this?
Damn you, To-Do! You have ruined my day for the last time!
That's not saying a whole lot, I'm a lot bigger than most Mexicans too but you don't hear me bragging about it.
It also depends on what sort of employees you're talking about.
McDonald's can give a bad reference and pretty much be sure that nobody's going to come back with a lawsuit. They might WANT to, but they won't be able to afford to. Unless there's something special and newsworthy going on like racial or gender discrimination, then you might get something going.
The more you make, the more the normal employee the HR department deals with makes, the more likely it'll be that they'll be familiar with the threat of lawsuits for bad references.
On the other hand, I don't think any company has lost as much money as Apple due to rigidly enforcing their monopoly.
Look at their home PC market. Look at it 20 years ago. Look at what they did to shoot themselves in the foot. You could choose between an *IBM compatible* or an Apple. Mac. Whatever.
I'm gonna have to request a source for that. I've heard no such thing, all I've heard speculation that the actual physical mechanics of it, what with two weightless bodies and all, would be pretty daunting.
Plus, I bet it's more the fact that astronauts are in extremely cramped conditions in a decidedly non-sexual situation.
"It's the z-gravity baby, I swear!"
AAaaaaannnnd where exactly were you buying this "american coffee".
I grew up drinking coffee made by a relative who was born in the late 1890s, and it was the darkest, thickest, strongest coffee I've ever had.
Up until this week, for 3.5yrs I've been working 12-hour shifts. 4 on, 3 off, 3 on, 1 off, 3 on, 3 off, 4 on, 7 off, return to beginning.
Oh yeah, it's an industrial work environment. And for my first year, a lot of my days off were mandatory overtime days in -- 4 months straight of 60-hour weeks. Did I mention that during every off-stretch we switched between day and night shift, too? Yeah.
Miserable fucking shit. Bad for your health. Bad for you. Bad.
Drop the diseased liver. If you want to discourage drinking (and you shouldn't; nor smoking. people know they're bad, and these warnings and gross pictures are nothing but a waste of time) -- put pictures of the direct result of drinking on the bottle.
that's right.
fat chicks. in YOUR bed.
that'll stop ya.
No, people default on credit cards all the time.
It is the job of the issuing agency to make sure the credit limits (and interest rates) reflect the level of risk they are taking my allowing people to borrow from them. If you are a high risk, your limit should be low -- so if you default on your credit card, the overall impact on the issuing agency will be minimal.
I have a balance on my credit cards right now that's 3 times the size of the LIMIT I had on my first credit card -- and it'll be payed off by february (because I just don't like sucking that kind of money out of my bank account all at once. It's dumb, but let me be, I'll take the modest interest charge for the degree of unreasonable comfort).
That's why it *shouldn't* have any sort of effect. And, actually, credit cards haven't been a problem. It was just mortgages that were hyperinflated and overfinanced by unqualified buyers.
Amazon still gets payed, though. Debt collection falls on the credit card, and then the collection agency once the card company gets tired of you hanging up on them. Which doesn't take long these days.
I listen to NPR and Rush both. You're right, it's just a matter of understanding the bias -- the sad part is most people can't see the bias (because they agree with it).
And that's not even the worst of it. Would you believe I've actually gotten into arguments with people who vehemently believed that CNN was a right-wing mouthbox? CNN! I can't capitalize it any stronger or I would! I can't even understand what would have led them to think that, but I get the impression they never actually have watched CNN..
THANK YOU SIR please take my firstborn manchild.
Down with Gibibyte. i don't need to sound like I'm stuttering when I'm not.
Have you tried to buy hdmi / dvi cable lately (and by lately I mean this was about 1.5yr ago)?
Local store price for 6' section: $35-45
Online vendor price for 6' section: Bout 7 bucks.
And now I pretty much buy everything online. It's so much better and comparing prices doesn't burn up my time or gas.
... what about chairs?
Yet somehow there's no charge for using those same lines of transmission when it's data being sent, instead of a voice?
This makes sense?