Well, since you asked.... generally, puppies, pie, and alcohol have no means to provoke my wrath. unless it's a meat pie. MEAT PIE IS JUST MORE DINNER IN DISGUISE.. DISGUSTING DISGUISE! >:|
So really, less of a pattern, more of a.... everything.
Anyway, this is the thing I hate about evolution. It's blind and doesn't necessarily move towards more advanced or better forms. Case in point? "Half two" Saves a WHOLE SYLLABLE! At the cost of ambiguity and confusion, and blind rage!
I submit that your arguments are completely invalidated and in fact your stance in support of any of these matters serves only to weaken and prove that opinion inferior due to your use of "half two"
seriously, half two? HALF OF TWO IS ONE, BILLY.
that is, easily, the most idiotic and non-obvious way of stating time or date I have ever encountered, and were you to speak it in my presence I most likely would demand you forever leave my sight under threat of violence. This includes clocks which run counter-clockwise, base-10 time, and, yes, even base-10 clocks that run counter-clockwise. with mirror-image numbering on their faces.
Most people ARE idiots who make bad decisions... but they ought to be free to make those bad decisions. It's the only way they, it's the only way we, will learn.
(and just to clue you in, if we withdraw from the UN, the UN is essentially over. We're the largest contributer to the UN.. by far. And UN resolutions really, honestly, and actually, don't mean jack shit. What would be the consequences? Military action? Laughable. Economic sanctions?... when large portions of the economies of many foreign nations depend heavily upon trade with the US? Hugo Chavez isn't even crazy enough to stop selling us oil -- economic sanctions only work when they hurt the victim country more than the imposing countries.)
You want a reason why UN election observers aren't wanted here, but why many are BASED here?
This is America, and as Americans we (we being the people, not our government) really don't give a fuck (or even know, most of the time) what the hell is going on in another country. That means there's no reason for an american observer to ignore this or claim that and support one side over another (and don't play the "OMGPONIES PEOPLE AREN'T CORRUPT LIKE THAT!"... lack of corruption is more likely to be due to ignorance of the possibility of corruption, or ignorance of a reason to be corrupt, than it is to be due to something silly like moral fortitude.)
Everyone in the world, however, seems to know exactly what we should be doing in our country. Foreigners have opinions on political matters in the US.. Americans have no clue what matters politically in the rest of the world.
It was never really that big to BEGIN with... it just happened to have three things going for it.
apparently, many writers are closet furries and so play second life.. and it's not a traditional game with, you know.. a purpose. or anything to do. so they could get away with raving about it at work as some sort of ultra-hip new thing. and finally, since nobody ever fucking heard about it, all you've got to go on is all this hyperbole bullshit speak and so until you actually take 15 seconds to look closer at the game, until you have some basis for judging it other than some complete deviant's testimony, it might sound neat.
There is a difference between "LESS than lethal" and NOT lethal.
If you RTFS, you'd see that of all those deaths associated with tasers being used.. the coroners only ruled them a contributing factor in 30 deaths.
That's a lot less than if those people were "restrained" using traditional means. Those means are, as I said, beating the piss out of you.
Most of the deaths associated with tasers are due to cardiac events. Heart attacks. Often due to.. get this.. being fat, being on coke / meth / crack, and fighting with cops. That's not good for your heart. You're probably going to have a heart attack whether you're shocked or not.. but you'd be more likely to have a heart attack if the cops started hitting you with nightsticks.
Nobody is saying that tasers are 100% safe -- they ARE far safer than shockaganda says they are -- but what they ARE is far safer than other means of dealing with certain situations.
They ARE overused -- and so become LESS safe than other ways of handling THOSE situations -- but that's because they're used when they should not be, not because they are inherently a flawed device. For what they SHOULD be used for, they are a safer alternative. Not 100% safe. Safer than night sticks. Safer than fire hoses. Safer than police dogs.
A significant number of people are not being killed, and it's less than lethal because the vast majority of people who it is used against do NOT die. A small fraction die. RTFS, only 30 even had tasers ruled a contributing factor. That's.. negligible. That's less than lethal.
it's an alternative to them beating the piss out of you with a nightstick.
and frankly, I for one would RATHER get tased than beat with a club.. but hey, that's just me.
Taser use IS a bit excessive.. that's really unquestionable.. but to damn the device because of overuse neglects to take in to account the fact that police DO need less-than-lethal means of dealing with people who refuse to cooperate, and if you don't give them any other options that means will be beating you until you go limp.
When I google my name, a plethora of results come up -- all about a gay reverend. Clearly, not me.
I see it as a strength. So long as I use my REAL name with employers, that's all they have to search by -- and they won't find *anything* that's actually about me. If they wanted to find out things about me, they'd need one of my online handles -- which are different than what I use here, but sufficiently similar that anybody who knows who I am before-hand would be able to recognize the common thread I base my user names on.
IMO it's a win-win all around. The only danger is if you put your real name out there -- say, for CAL, or an amazon wish list, or on LJ or myspace or something -- and it's tied to a handle-based email address. If you do that, anybody who knows your handle can find your real name and vis versa. That's not a good thing.
As to original problem... tell them they won't find work with your real name but you would be glad to provide examples. If it includes your handle, and it's the same as a handle you used somewhere you don't want them to find, tell them it's what you used at that particular place -- hopefully it's not tied to an email that they could find and track to somewhere else. If it IS an email handle, and it IS also used somewhere you don't want them to go.... you've placed yourself in a conundrum. Just give them examples of your work and tell them your e-footprint has been kept purposefully small. That sounds sufficiently like a buzzword to me, they'd eat it up I'm sure.
Actually I've been in this situation several times.
Back in college, the roommate I had for my first semester was in a frat. And stereotypically was constantly drunk. And since this was back in the day all of 8 years ago, he didn't have a cell phone, and instead used a calling card to call home from our dorm room's phone. And several times he started with 911.. because he was drunk. Probably 4 or 5 times in one semester.
Cops would show up, knock on our door, ask what was going on. He'd be gone already, and I'd just be sitting around playing Half-Life or some shit. Scared the piss out of me the first time, though, I tell you what -- but there wasn't any EMS or fire response, just two cops trying to figure out what was going on.
Having it open to "everyone" would be problematic just looking at the issue of time.
anybody with legit 'powers' could easily satisfy the entry requirements for the randi prize -- after all, thousands of scam artists qualify (yet generally refuse to take the challenge, since close scrutiny to their methods is kryptonite)
Give me a break. Put away your magical healing crystals and step into reality for a minute.
The only way to prove that joker wrong would to have him starve to death. That's in nobody's best interest, and as living without food or water IS impossible, it's apparent that that applicant is incredibly delusional to the point where he is not even able to realize and recall the intake of food or water. That is, I believe, officially, fucking nuts.
stealing a WoW account could be jailable, I'd THINK... but items?
naw, man, naw. naw.
if that were true anybody that plays WoW and wound up being their guild vault would be in jail for embezzlement and theft and all kinds of other things..... uhm, i would imagine..
yeah.. all ruby is, is aluminum oxide. in crystalline form. the created rubies / emeralds / sapphires are essentially identical to their natural counterparts in composition and structure these days..
it can be synthed without too much trouble, but the cost of an alum.ox. antenna would still probably be pretty high, though. while it's cheaper to create a gem in the lab than buy a wild one, that's just for gem-sized pieces. it'll cost a fair shake regardless if you're talking about FEET (or METERS) rather than inches or mm.
I've been through Falling Water. And um. Gotta tell you, besides the fact that it's.. well falling into the water.. it wasn't exactly comfortable to even *walk* through for me. I can't recall ever actually hitting my head, but I do recall stooping quite a bit to make sure I wouldn't. And I'm only 6'2.
Making a comparison to Apple is quite fitting, I think, when you consider the actual reality of a FLW design and not just the pretty pictures. Apple products look great in a picture too. Neither are something I'd want to have to actually deal with.
You should ALWAYS assume that ANYTHING your employer tells you is a big pile of stinking bullshit. ESPECIALLY if it pertains to the company itself.
You will never be disappointed.
Case in point, several months ago the company I work for (which is, in its field, iirc still the largest in the world..) undertook some procedural changes to streamline things. This resulted in production *only* dropping 8% from the previous quarter.. which was heralded as a success. Less production via a massive investment in equipment and retraining, and it's a success. That's pretty much how it goes in any large corporation. So.. yeah, trust what the clowns in the suits tell you about your company at your own peril.
Actually, on pointless shit like slashdot and message boards that don't matter at all, there's no reason to not use the same password across all of them. who the fuck cares if that gets compromised.. congrats you can post as me on slashdot and the vnboards and a few of the other boards I post to? Um.. ok, boy, that'll really ruin my life.
Separate passwords are for important things. That include personal / financial information. Slashdot doesn't fall under that definition, not even close.
You see, WITH the antimatter beam, they now have a ray of death with which to threatened said teachers. put the syllabus online or we'll strip every electron from your body in a glorious explosion of photons, gamma rays and neutrinos!
and kudos to them, we need more supervillians in this world.
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Well, since you asked. ... generally, puppies, pie, and alcohol have no means to provoke my wrath. unless it's a meat pie. MEAT PIE IS JUST MORE DINNER IN DISGUISE.. DISGUSTING DISGUISE! >:|
So really, less of a pattern, more of a.... everything.
Anyway, this is the thing I hate about evolution. It's blind and doesn't necessarily move towards more advanced or better forms. Case in point? "Half two" Saves a WHOLE SYLLABLE! At the cost of ambiguity and confusion, and blind rage!
The part where he wrote out 2:30 and then "half two" sort of tipped me off as to what was going on.
I still stand by my blind rage against idiocy were I to ever ask the time and given an answer in the form "half (number)"
I submit that your arguments are completely invalidated and in fact your stance in support of any of these matters serves only to weaken and prove that opinion inferior due to your use of "half two"
seriously, half two? HALF OF TWO IS ONE, BILLY.
that is, easily, the most idiotic and non-obvious way of stating time or date I have ever encountered, and were you to speak it in my presence I most likely would demand you forever leave my sight under threat of violence. This includes clocks which run counter-clockwise, base-10 time, and, yes, even base-10 clocks that run counter-clockwise. with mirror-image numbering on their faces.
it's that terrible and more.
Most people ARE idiots who make bad decisions... but they ought to be free to make those bad decisions. It's the only way they, it's the only way we, will learn.
Sniff, sniff.
I smell e-rage.
(and just to clue you in, if we withdraw from the UN, the UN is essentially over. We're the largest contributer to the UN.. by far. And UN resolutions really, honestly, and actually, don't mean jack shit. What would be the consequences? Military action? Laughable. Economic sanctions?... when large portions of the economies of many foreign nations depend heavily upon trade with the US? Hugo Chavez isn't even crazy enough to stop selling us oil -- economic sanctions only work when they hurt the victim country more than the imposing countries.)
You want a reason why UN election observers aren't wanted here, but why many are BASED here?
This is America, and as Americans we (we being the people, not our government) really don't give a fuck (or even know, most of the time) what the hell is going on in another country. That means there's no reason for an american observer to ignore this or claim that and support one side over another (and don't play the "OMGPONIES PEOPLE AREN'T CORRUPT LIKE THAT!"... lack of corruption is more likely to be due to ignorance of the possibility of corruption, or ignorance of a reason to be corrupt, than it is to be due to something silly like moral fortitude.)
Everyone in the world, however, seems to know exactly what we should be doing in our country. Foreigners have opinions on political matters in the US.. Americans have no clue what matters politically in the rest of the world.
Honesty through ignorance, my friend.. it works.
It means Americans don't trust nor care for the UN... which isn't exactly a bad idea
It was never really that big to BEGIN with... it just happened to have three things going for it.
apparently, many writers are closet furries and so play second life.. and it's not a traditional game with, you know.. a purpose. or anything to do. so they could get away with raving about it at work as some sort of ultra-hip new thing. and finally, since nobody ever fucking heard about it, all you've got to go on is all this hyperbole bullshit speak and so until you actually take 15 seconds to look closer at the game, until you have some basis for judging it other than some complete deviant's testimony, it might sound neat.
There is a difference between "LESS than lethal" and NOT lethal.
If you RTFS, you'd see that of all those deaths associated with tasers being used.. the coroners only ruled them a contributing factor in 30 deaths.
That's a lot less than if those people were "restrained" using traditional means. Those means are, as I said, beating the piss out of you.
Most of the deaths associated with tasers are due to cardiac events. Heart attacks. Often due to.. get this.. being fat, being on coke / meth / crack, and fighting with cops. That's not good for your heart. You're probably going to have a heart attack whether you're shocked or not.. but you'd be more likely to have a heart attack if the cops started hitting you with nightsticks.
Nobody is saying that tasers are 100% safe -- they ARE far safer than shockaganda says they are -- but what they ARE is far safer than other means of dealing with certain situations.
They ARE overused -- and so become LESS safe than other ways of handling THOSE situations -- but that's because they're used when they should not be, not because they are inherently a flawed device. For what they SHOULD be used for, they are a safer alternative. Not 100% safe. Safer than night sticks. Safer than fire hoses. Safer than police dogs.
A significant number of people are not being killed, and it's less than lethal because the vast majority of people who it is used against do NOT die. A small fraction die. RTFS, only 30 even had tasers ruled a contributing factor. That's.. negligible. That's less than lethal.
yes.. but unfortunately your derogatory slang is convoluted and unclear. possibly a result of mad cow disease. moooooRAWR
A taser is NOT an alternative to a cop's sidearm.
it's an alternative to them beating the piss out of you with a nightstick.
and frankly, I for one would RATHER get tased than beat with a club.. but hey, that's just me.
Taser use IS a bit excessive.. that's really unquestionable.. but to damn the device because of overuse neglects to take in to account the fact that police DO need less-than-lethal means of dealing with people who refuse to cooperate, and if you don't give them any other options that means will be beating you until you go limp.
This is why I, for one, call your entire country by the blanket-term "those rotten-toothed limey bastards across the pond"
No worries about making any mistakes there!
When I google my name, a plethora of results come up -- all about a gay reverend. Clearly, not me.
I see it as a strength. So long as I use my REAL name with employers, that's all they have to search by -- and they won't find *anything* that's actually about me. If they wanted to find out things about me, they'd need one of my online handles -- which are different than what I use here, but sufficiently similar that anybody who knows who I am before-hand would be able to recognize the common thread I base my user names on.
IMO it's a win-win all around. The only danger is if you put your real name out there -- say, for CAL, or an amazon wish list, or on LJ or myspace or something -- and it's tied to a handle-based email address. If you do that, anybody who knows your handle can find your real name and vis versa. That's not a good thing.
As to original problem... tell them they won't find work with your real name but you would be glad to provide examples. If it includes your handle, and it's the same as a handle you used somewhere you don't want them to find, tell them it's what you used at that particular place -- hopefully it's not tied to an email that they could find and track to somewhere else. If it IS an email handle, and it IS also used somewhere you don't want them to go.... you've placed yourself in a conundrum. Just give them examples of your work and tell them your e-footprint has been kept purposefully small. That sounds sufficiently like a buzzword to me, they'd eat it up I'm sure.
Boy, math really likes to rain on people's parades.
Three cheers for math!
Unemployed, phone ringing every 10 minutes?
my 3 years of college is telling me that that's how it goes when you're slingin'.
Actually I've been in this situation several times.
Back in college, the roommate I had for my first semester was in a frat. And stereotypically was constantly drunk. And since this was back in the day all of 8 years ago, he didn't have a cell phone, and instead used a calling card to call home from our dorm room's phone. And several times he started with 911.. because he was drunk. Probably 4 or 5 times in one semester.
Cops would show up, knock on our door, ask what was going on. He'd be gone already, and I'd just be sitting around playing Half-Life or some shit. Scared the piss out of me the first time, though, I tell you what -- but there wasn't any EMS or fire response, just two cops trying to figure out what was going on.
we call them "Zach Morris phones" 'round these parts.
I think that says more about these parts than about those old phones, though.
Having it open to "everyone" would be problematic just looking at the issue of time.
anybody with legit 'powers' could easily satisfy the entry requirements for the randi prize -- after all, thousands of scam artists qualify (yet generally refuse to take the challenge, since close scrutiny to their methods is kryptonite)
Give me a break. Put away your magical healing crystals and step into reality for a minute.
The only way to prove that joker wrong would to have him starve to death. That's in nobody's best interest, and as living without food or water IS impossible, it's apparent that that applicant is incredibly delusional to the point where he is not even able to realize and recall the intake of food or water. That is, I believe, officially, fucking nuts.
stealing a WoW account could be jailable, I'd THINK... but items?
.... uhm, i would imagine..
naw, man, naw. naw.
if that were true anybody that plays WoW and wound up being their guild vault would be in jail for embezzlement and theft and all kinds of other things.
yeah.. all ruby is, is aluminum oxide. in crystalline form. the created rubies / emeralds / sapphires are essentially identical to their natural counterparts in composition and structure these days..
it can be synthed without too much trouble, but the cost of an alum.ox. antenna would still probably be pretty high, though. while it's cheaper to create a gem in the lab than buy a wild one, that's just for gem-sized pieces. it'll cost a fair shake regardless if you're talking about FEET (or METERS) rather than inches or mm.
I've been through Falling Water. And um. Gotta tell you, besides the fact that it's.. well falling into the water.. it wasn't exactly comfortable to even *walk* through for me. I can't recall ever actually hitting my head, but I do recall stooping quite a bit to make sure I wouldn't. And I'm only 6'2.
Making a comparison to Apple is quite fitting, I think, when you consider the actual reality of a FLW design and not just the pretty pictures. Apple products look great in a picture too. Neither are something I'd want to have to actually deal with.
Don't forget that many younger Americans never have been vaccinated against Polio, which is still out in the wild in some areas of the world!
You should ALWAYS assume that ANYTHING your employer tells you is a big pile of stinking bullshit. ESPECIALLY if it pertains to the company itself.
You will never be disappointed.
Case in point, several months ago the company I work for (which is, in its field, iirc still the largest in the world..) undertook some procedural changes to streamline things. This resulted in production *only* dropping 8% from the previous quarter.. which was heralded as a success.
Less production via a massive investment in equipment and retraining, and it's a success. That's pretty much how it goes in any large corporation. So.. yeah, trust what the clowns in the suits tell you about your company at your own peril.
Actually, on pointless shit like slashdot and message boards that don't matter at all, there's no reason to not use the same password across all of them. who the fuck cares if that gets compromised.. congrats you can post as me on slashdot and the vnboards and a few of the other boards I post to? Um.. ok, boy, that'll really ruin my life.
Separate passwords are for important things. That include personal / financial information. Slashdot doesn't fall under that definition, not even close.
You see, WITH the antimatter beam, they now have a ray of death with which to threatened said teachers. put the syllabus online or we'll strip every electron from your body in a glorious explosion of photons, gamma rays and neutrinos!
and kudos to them, we need more supervillians in this world.