The question is why he was asked if somebody gave him a blowjob under oath....
Well, that's not really the question, but the answer to that is: Because he was being sued for sexual harassment, so an alleged blowjob at work from someone that works for you is relevant. Baseless lawsuit or not, you shouldn't be able to lie under oath and get away with it.
i imagine there are hundreds of thousands in just chicago who would. Imagine New York Atlanta, ect and all of their public transit riders.
We have MARTA here in Atlanta, and it's a joke. There are basically two rail lines, and neither go far enough in any direction for it to be much of a factor. There are people who need to ride it (carless), and those who ride it out of principle (saving the environment, etc...), but I'd be surprised if MARTA had more than 10% of the daily traffic of a city like Washington DC or Chicago.
Were there two seasons of this show? Or are you counting the last six episodes of the first season (that they didn't show for a couple of years) as the second season?
I watched the show in its entirety (unless this phantom second season exists somewhere) three times. Great show - it's too bad it never took off.
The situation in Cuba is much different because they get hit with hurricanes much more often than New Orleans, so they evacuate more often. Plus, when a communist dictator says "move", you move. When a governor or mayor in the U.S. says "move", you don't really have to. People have weathered many hurricanes before and quite a few of these people had no reason to believe that this storm would be any different. In a lot of cases, it was people's choice that left them stranded in NO, not private industry's or the government's fault.
I had a friend that used to work at Universal Pictures, and he told me that to get The Grinch made, they basically gave Jim Carrey all of the profit from the film, but the studio kept all of the merchandising profits. So the studio can claim that they made no money on the Box Office of Grinch, but they made tens of millions on toys, clothes, etc... and even more on the DVD sales.
Universal is the worst about unskippable ads, and it seems to be getting worse with them, not better. Plus, they use those awful DVD cases with the two clips that hold it closed. I rip those off the second I take off the shrink wrap. I wish I had principles and would boycott them until they change both of these practices, but Universal seems to make movies and TV shows that I really really like.
I accept the unskippable copyright messages (even when they have to show it in 8 different languages)
I sure don't. Put it on the DVD box if you must, but most people know it's illegal to copy a DVD (and if you don't know, you probably couldn't copy one anyway) so it's a waste of my time. It's the equivalent of being forced to watch a 15 second video clip saying, "Don't steal" before entering a store. The message won't stop a single person from copying a DVD. Either that person wouldn't have copied it in the first place or they don't care that it's illegal.
Well, yes, WMA DOES exclude Linux:
Michael Robertson (Linspire) wrote in an article that he had actually contacted Microsoft about WMA licensing, yet Microsoft actively REFUSED to license it to his Linux distribution (ok, well, it seems WMA was allowed, but not the Digital Restrictions Management component).
I am a former employee of a company (Zapmedia - no longer in business) that made a set top box for TVs that ran on Linux and had WMA/WMV with DRM, so it has happened. I'm not saying this guy is wrong, just that in the right situation, MS will license it for Linux.
Now, if they passed these benefits along to the public, either through paying their employees more or hiring more people, that would be a good thing. The greatest benefit for the most people. If they used it to eliminate workers and pay their shareholders and executives more, that would be a bad thing, since it benefits the fewest number of people.
Wal*Mart (or any other for-profit company) doesn't exist to benefit people. It exists to make money. Why do people insist that when a company becomes more efficient and makes more money (as long as it's done legally), that this is a bad thing?
"The greatest benefit for the most people" should mean nothing to a for-profit company. This might be the mantra of a company in a Socialist society, but hopefully not in the U.S.
Why do people insist on using this term? Microsoft isn't forcing anyone to buy anything. They can't. If you don't like the options they've presented, don't buy the damned thing. PS2 works this way (and I assume the other two gaming systems as well, but I don't own them, so I don't know). Accessories are a big money-maker in this industry.
If they did release the 360 with only one option: HDD, wireless controller, and everything else that comes in the premium package at $399, people would be bitching that they are 'forced' to pay for stuff they don't want. But you would still have two options: 1) pay $399 for the box or 2) Don't give MS any money.
I don't see anyone being forced to do anything at all.
The half hour of commercials and previews is what truly kills me these days. "The Twenty" plays at my local theaters and they try to bill it as "pre-show entertainment" like they're doing us a fucking favor by throwing in some extra goodies. Previews are just as bad now. Although I have saved lots of money because many times I have seen a preview of a movie I was interested in, and since the preview showed all the funny lines and the entire plot, I saved $9.00. But most previews are of crap movies I wouldn't be interested in at all. Theaters don't try to match trailers with movies anymore. When I worked in theaters in the late 80s - mid 90s, we tried to show kids trailers with kids movies, horror with horror, etc... Now when I see the five or six trailers on the beginning of any movie, they seem randomly put together. If I am watching The Devil's Rejects, I am almost certainly not interested in Must Love Dogs and Sky High.
The problem with ushers keeping people quiet is that theater employees (managers included) don't seem to care about their jobs. I held every job possible in movie theaters over several years, and none of them are terribly difficult. Employees make minimum wage and managers don't make much more, so there is no motivation to speed up the lines or keep an especially clean or quiet theater. They know that most people won't complain and they'll come back next week anyway, so why work harder?
One of the best things that we did when I was an employee was have contests with tangible prizes. For example, in concessions whoever had the most dollar revenue or number of combo specials sold won Six Flags passes or a gift card or something similar (and the theater got these for free by trading passes - no actual cost). This kept everyone moving the lines quickly and the competition was fun (or at least a distraction from the boring job) for the employees, so most were in a good mood. All I get now when I go to a concession counter is a blank stare until I initiate the conversation. They get paid by the hour, not by the customer, and no one will reprimand them anymore for bad service, so I can't really blame them.
Just saying the game "sucks" isn't very descriptive of why you don't like it. What have you tried in the game? Have you tried High vs. Low pop servers? PvP vs. Non-PvP? All the classes? Questing like mad vs. grinding levels and loot? Solo vs. grouping, guild vs. non-guild? What level did you play to?
Lots of factors go into why people like or dislike a game. Asking a question like this isn't going to help the developers improve it.
Imagine this: I register a domain like 'mcdonaldsfrenchfries.com' where I display pictures of said fries in their red logoed box, and for some reason millions of people come to my site. I sell ad space and make money off of the McDonald's name. Why should McDonald's allow this?
Now, if I register 'mmmfrenchfries.com' and display pictures of only McDonald's fries, but do not display their logo prominently and do not mention them by name, then McDonald's should have no legal issue with this.
My own opinion is that if this guy just changed his site (and URL for sure) to not reflect the FedEx name, they'd be okay with what he is doing.
After I'd been programming about a year, I had a particularly tough problem to solve. After a few days, I had it working, and the bulk of it was some nasty nested for loops. I commented it as well as I could, but upon reviewing it, I knew no one would get it right away. I left a (hopefully) humorous comment at the top of the section that read:
Historically The best predictor of a TV show's sucess is the popularity of the show it debuts after. It really does not matter how good it is. We just start watching "what ever is on next" and get hooked that way.
Then how do you explain shows that debuted in the first prime time slot (8:00PM Eastern) like "Lost"? Fact is, people will seek out a show if they like it, no matter the time slot. And time slots mean less and less as more PVRs are sold.
Also, it has the only woman character ever to appear on American TV that is both sexy and intelligent.
I can think of two others immediately: Lauren Graham of Gilmore Girls and Reiko Aylesworth of 24. You can argue about both shows' quality, but both women are inarguably sexy and wriiten to be intelligent women.
F: 1
There was an episode where Joey got a hernia from lifting weights, and I think Rachel bumped her head once or twice, but never badly enough to mess up Jenifer Aniston's perfect hair. I believe that was pretty much it.
I think that you're forgetting Ross entirely. He was the character that was there mostly for physical and humiliating comedy. The tanning spray, the ultra-white teeth, etc... I think F needs to be 4 or 5 at least.
To date, there have been 1,924 ascents of Mount Everest (more than 1,300 different climbers), and 179 people have died. The overall fatality rate is thus about 9% (fatality rate is defined as successful summits compared to fatalities). However, since 1990 there has been an explosion of summiteers and fatality statistics have changed. Up to 1990, the Everest fatality rate is a whopping 37%, with 106 deaths and only 284 summits. Yet from 1990 until today, the rate has dropped to 4.4%; 73 people have died, and 1,640 have summited. Thus, the rate decreased to about eight times less than the pre-1990 fatality rate!
The fatality rate from attempts is even less since more people attempt it each year than actually summit. Look something up before you spout off stats that sound good.
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Politicians lie all the time - this is nothing new. A sitting President lying under oath was new.
And he was impeached... it wasn't "nearly".
"Goober?"
I watched the show in its entirety (unless this phantom second season exists somewhere) three times. Great show - it's too bad it never took off.
The situation in Cuba is much different because they get hit with hurricanes much more often than New Orleans, so they evacuate more often. Plus, when a communist dictator says "move", you move. When a governor or mayor in the U.S. says "move", you don't really have to. People have weathered many hurricanes before and quite a few of these people had no reason to believe that this storm would be any different. In a lot of cases, it was people's choice that left them stranded in NO, not private industry's or the government's fault.
I had a friend that used to work at Universal Pictures, and he told me that to get The Grinch made, they basically gave Jim Carrey all of the profit from the film, but the studio kept all of the merchandising profits. So the studio can claim that they made no money on the Box Office of Grinch, but they made tens of millions on toys, clothes, etc... and even more on the DVD sales.
I am a former employee of a company (Zapmedia - no longer in business) that made a set top box for TVs that ran on Linux and had WMA/WMV with DRM, so it has happened. I'm not saying this guy is wrong, just that in the right situation, MS will license it for Linux.
"The greatest benefit for the most people" should mean nothing to a for-profit company. This might be the mantra of a company in a Socialist society, but hopefully not in the U.S.
If they did release the 360 with only one option: HDD, wireless controller, and everything else that comes in the premium package at $399, people would be bitching that they are 'forced' to pay for stuff they don't want. But you would still have two options: 1) pay $399 for the box or 2) Don't give MS any money.
I don't see anyone being forced to do anything at all.
http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/642/642656p1.html
The problem with ushers keeping people quiet is that theater employees (managers included) don't seem to care about their jobs. I held every job possible in movie theaters over several years, and none of them are terribly difficult. Employees make minimum wage and managers don't make much more, so there is no motivation to speed up the lines or keep an especially clean or quiet theater. They know that most people won't complain and they'll come back next week anyway, so why work harder?
One of the best things that we did when I was an employee was have contests with tangible prizes. For example, in concessions whoever had the most dollar revenue or number of combo specials sold won Six Flags passes or a gift card or something similar (and the theater got these for free by trading passes - no actual cost). This kept everyone moving the lines quickly and the competition was fun (or at least a distraction from the boring job) for the employees, so most were in a good mood. All I get now when I go to a concession counter is a blank stare until I initiate the conversation. They get paid by the hour, not by the customer, and no one will reprimand them anymore for bad service, so I can't really blame them.
Lots of factors go into why people like or dislike a game. Asking a question like this isn't going to help the developers improve it.
Now, if I register 'mmmfrenchfries.com' and display pictures of only McDonald's fries, but do not display their logo prominently and do not mention them by name, then McDonald's should have no legal issue with this.
My own opinion is that if this guy just changed his site (and URL for sure) to not reflect the FedEx name, they'd be okay with what he is doing.
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Then how do you explain shows that debuted in the first prime time slot (8:00PM Eastern) like "Lost"? Fact is, people will seek out a show if they like it, no matter the time slot. And time slots mean less and less as more PVRs are sold.
I never compared those bits to the ones on Fawlty Towers. I just said the score should be higher.
I think that you're forgetting Ross entirely. He was the character that was there mostly for physical and humiliating comedy. The tanning spray, the ultra-white teeth, etc... I think F needs to be 4 or 5 at least.
http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/content_pages/ record.asp?recordid=56192
The fatality rate from attempts is even less since more people attempt it each year than actually summit. Look something up before you spout off stats that sound good.