Well Sakura is a plant and all, tons of girls named after plants here... Just be hopeful that Naruto runs it's course before she gets to much older or she'll get teased for the actions of that Sakura with her classmates...;)
"Microsoft, coyly moved to #2. Next round No Halo from Bungie."
I think you need to reread the announcements from Bungie... They have no interest in leaving Halo dead after this installment. It may not be quite the Halo we've seen next time around, but it will continue the franchise... It's also likely to stay with MS as they are committed to MS for the time being.
TW does that to me when I use IRC, though it seems related to data transmission amount (Aka reach 5 MB through X and it gets cut). Not sure why they do it, but they do...
The only thing I've ever found was a picture I used to test 'ourmedia' a few years back... everything else talks about other people with the same name as me... However if I type in my most commonly used name online, then that shows results for me... How you'd link the two though is a good question... I know Google can't manage it...
Well I know from personal experience how hard it is to pay the loans back... 60k in debt & I earn 30k/year, which is higher than average for my area, but the cost of living isn't _that_ low. So the government takes ~25% (federal, state, & local), I'm state mandated to a fixed 7.5% pension program (which is 10% after taxes are taken out). Leaving me about 20k left to live on... Then have my loans want 10k of it every year... And I'm expected to live how...? I'm required by being on call to own both a cellphone and a car for my job, that doesn't leave much of anything left...
I've gotten plenty messy before while 'challenging a close-combat trained killer' or at least a reasonable faximille. It was when I was breaking the arm of the guy trying to mug me with a knife... Then again I was trained in hand to hand by my uncle who was a special forces hand to hand instructor... So I'd say I'm not exactly the norm...
baby-sitting, strangely enough, does now require a college degree... I should know as my mother never finished her college degree and used to work in day care, but they laid down the rule that if she was going to stay on she'd have to finish her degree. She choose not to, since she doesn't want to have to relearn things from three decades ago... Not that she really had the money to anyways... Working in daycare she made $7.50/hour...
At least in the US the health care situation makes going to a psychologist often nigh impossible... It's not free, if it is covered by insurance (and quite often it isn't) then the limits are silly like three visits max and they would rather pay to drug you up, If your a kid you often need a parents assistance to get that kind of help and often parents not paying attention to your needs is an issue causing part of the problem...
I know from personal experience where I was clinically depressed through my teen years and into most of my twenties, but I never had the means to get any real help... The only 'help' people wanted to give was getting me to buy into drugs I couldn't afford to take (because they weren't covered by my insurance and where $60+ per bottle that lasts 2 weeks). Even if I could have afforded to pay for the drugs, would that have even done anything except give me a dependency on drugs to live my life...? I sure didn't think so...
Having worked in retail during the life cycle of the PS2 I can say, beyond any and all doubt, that the Xbox 360 is no worse than the PS2 in regards to issues. I once had a customer buying their 5th PS2 in 3 years... Then again while working retail I saw alot of things that just make me believe that all the console vendors are idiots about hardware... And it's all done in the name of lowering cost of construction...
I once had a shard of glass in my glass (ironic that) at a restaurant I visited. I was insanely lucky I hadn't managed to swallow it. When informed of it the restaurant decided my compensation for being put in a potentially life threatening state was to make my drink free and give me a new glass... Needless to say I was not terribly impressed and even though I liked the food, I never went back...
Well as the admin, in fact I sometimes do... Since I'm in several email groups that I often have to send messages to... I don't think that's to weird... It's not like I'm sending email directly to myself or something...
Though in a strange way when I had to move offices I was supposed to write a request to myself to move and connect the computers in the 'new' office... I however didn't follow procedure, bad me...
Strangely a friend of mine owns a business in the US and has the exact same issues with people from everywhere else in the world (though they seem to add claiming the item was never received while the delivery service swears it was and get their banks to take back the money they paid, which lead to my friend no longer dealing with customers outside the US).
That said, I rarely get emails that start with 'hello' except for my own... Most people seem to treat email differently from letters or memos in that way.
You think the IT guys choose Vista? Cause if you do think again... Some guy (or in a few cases at least gal) who pushes numbers and makes as much as all the IT guys put together will decide they 'need' vista and that will get passed down to IT. At least that's how 99.9% of IT decisions get made in the places I've worked...
I've watched a secretary look at a linux (ubuntu btw) desktop and have no clue how to do anything. If we go by these observations as proving fact like you use in your post, then I've now 'disproved' your 'proven' 'fact' that Linux is just as easy. People become familiar with a certain system and will resist any and all changes (and I mean that literally). It doesn't mater if it's windows XP->Vista, or Windows XP->Linux, or even Windows 98->Linux (which is what I tried where I admin), it's change and they will manage to forget while learning anything different if they don't want to change.
I think the biggest reason for this was more that their was a long delay (not to long as book writing goes, but sizable to keep interest) between chapters. If I remember correctly some gaps where near 4 months. Who can really be kept in suspense for 4 months by the beginning of a book...?
Having done a series of stories myself online, though I offered my work free to the public. I can say honestly that it's not easy making something that is effectively 'episodic content' work. The rate of content/versus time is key and the more content that exists the more interest in it you will see. If I look today I'll see I had nearly 20,000 readers for the six months I was actively writing. I couldn't keep up with the schedule though when I went back to work, and people started trailing off. If every person who ever read my series donated a dollar to me I could have lived on how much I'd have made, In fact 20k isn't bad money at all for a first time author.
Btw the other consideration as well is in how many people felt that they had already spent $X on the series, why spend more...? I mean if you donated, say... $5 the first chapter, why not wait a few chapters to pay again...? An entire book is usually $20 for near 400 pages (hard cover, soft cover is about $7). You also have to add in that readers to read the files for this don't really exist in a hand held fashion (there are some, but they are rare/restrictive/expensive), so you are stuck sitting at a PC to read them... Quickly the investment becomes to much for most people to deal with.
Maybe it is now, but when I was a teen in that bracket (about 12 years ago), my 'allowance' was ~$2.5/week... To buy the average CD would have taken me about 2 months (no 'walmart' or other big chain stores with low priced CD's so closer to $20 than $15)... And my parents wouldn't just go buy me crap, I'd have to earn enough to buy it. The best I ever got out of them was getting and advance on the next couple weeks allowance.
I don't think I'm going to treat my kids (when I have some) all that differently either... I may get called 'stingy' by my kids whose friends have iphones and weekly 'allowances' in excess of $200 for lazying around the house all day, but I think learning to deal with small amounts of money for the things they want and making them work for it is a good thing for preparing them for the real world. Not some fantasy.
I'm tri-lingual (knowing English, French, and Japanese) and frankly I agree with the majority that the information in the other languages needs to be kept and the translation of the language in case we have a later use for it, but the language shouldn't be maintained if no one has an interest in doing so.
I know if English (my primary language) died out in general use (and in certain places that is highly likely)... I'd be sad to see it go as a melting-pot language, but I'd let it happen.
That's nice if your company actually uses employment contracts... My state doesn't require the use of employment contracts, so most businesses don't use them. Instead you have things like 'PAF's which list details of what you get paid and your benefits, but don't do much more than that... They will give you a 'job description', which is fairly all encompassing and basically says 'You'll do anything we tell you to, but mostly X, Y, and Z unless we say otherwise'... On the other hand I'm not required to give 2 weeks notice either in my state, but I don't see that as a big gain...
Welcome to the club... As a network admin I make #38/year and had to live with $28k/year my first year because they weren't prepared to pay me what they initially promised (though not in wiriting of course). All this in the same region as you... Though I live in PA (and not Philly or Pittsburgh either, but the northern half).
I'd love to live closer to my job... That however is not realistic as I can't afford to. After you factor in all the bills I have now and figure out the higher cost of living within the city I work in (rather than the town 30 miles from where I work), it's cheaper by nearly $300/month to live where I do and drive in. $300 may not mean much to you, but unlike you I make 38k/year where I live as a network admin. And from talking to other network admins here, I actually do pretty well compared to them (when you factor in the best paid makes $50k/year and is 20 years my senior). For how much I make $300/month can get me alot more where I am.
All that's figuring anyone wanted to sell there house less than 2 miles from where I work...
Also I have to pay about $50/month for myself to have health insurance... No one here gets free health insurance from their employer. If I had a family that would be about $150/month to cover them as well.
It depends hugely on where you live even in the US. Where I live and with me being a just shy of 30 year old (6 months and I'm 30 even) network admin, I make roughly 38,000 US per year. So I make about as much as my Eurpoian counterpart. I however probably have expenses (like having to own a car to get to work), that the Europian wouldn't.
The problem when comparing salaries across the country however becomes places with insane cost of living expenses like most of california and new york city (among others), where $38k/year US means nothing and you'd be living out of your car.
Personally I've tried a few times after getting a raise to borrow some cash, at the time for a ring for my now ex-girlfriend, and was denied for having to much credit... None of my cards is maxed, but they specifically list me as having to much credit in general. The funny part of this is that most of my cards have maybe 50% load with a limit no higher than 1.5k, credit card-wise, and the only reason I wanted to add a line of credit was to avoid having to use multiple cards and potentially max one or more of them to buy them. I only have 3 cards anyways, so it's not like I have alot of them. A bank didn't want to give me a loan for a whopping $800, with them saying that I wasn't interesting enough to them with such a small sum.
Oh well my now ex-girlfriend took care of that problem by dumping me while trying to work out how to afford the ring to ask her to marry me with...
Long Answer: We seem to like our 'criminals' to suffer for life for their crimes... A Pardon can however fix that, but only Governors and the pres can do those, so those don't happen all that often...
After all you can't leave little Sally with a convicted drug dealer (from 20 years ago) at a day care... Think of the children!
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Well Sakura is a plant and all, tons of girls named after plants here... Just be hopeful that Naruto runs it's course before she gets to much older or she'll get teased for the actions of that Sakura with her classmates... ;)
"Microsoft, coyly moved to #2. Next round No Halo from Bungie."
I think you need to reread the announcements from Bungie... They have no interest in leaving Halo dead after this installment. It may not be quite the Halo we've seen next time around, but it will continue the franchise... It's also likely to stay with MS as they are committed to MS for the time being.
TW does that to me when I use IRC, though it seems related to data transmission amount (Aka reach 5 MB through X and it gets cut). Not sure why they do it, but they do...
The only thing I've ever found was a picture I used to test 'ourmedia' a few years back... everything else talks about other people with the same name as me... However if I type in my most commonly used name online, then that shows results for me... How you'd link the two though is a good question... I know Google can't manage it...
Well I know from personal experience how hard it is to pay the loans back... 60k in debt & I earn 30k/year, which is higher than average for my area, but the cost of living isn't _that_ low. So the government takes ~25% (federal, state, & local), I'm state mandated to a fixed 7.5% pension program (which is 10% after taxes are taken out). Leaving me about 20k left to live on... Then have my loans want 10k of it every year... And I'm expected to live how...? I'm required by being on call to own both a cellphone and a car for my job, that doesn't leave much of anything left...
I've gotten plenty messy before while 'challenging a close-combat trained killer' or at least a reasonable faximille. It was when I was breaking the arm of the guy trying to mug me with a knife... Then again I was trained in hand to hand by my uncle who was a special forces hand to hand instructor... So I'd say I'm not exactly the norm...
baby-sitting, strangely enough, does now require a college degree... I should know as my mother never finished her college degree and used to work in day care, but they laid down the rule that if she was going to stay on she'd have to finish her degree. She choose not to, since she doesn't want to have to relearn things from three decades ago... Not that she really had the money to anyways... Working in daycare she made $7.50/hour...
At least in the US the health care situation makes going to a psychologist often nigh impossible... It's not free, if it is covered by insurance (and quite often it isn't) then the limits are silly like three visits max and they would rather pay to drug you up, If your a kid you often need a parents assistance to get that kind of help and often parents not paying attention to your needs is an issue causing part of the problem...
I know from personal experience where I was clinically depressed through my teen years and into most of my twenties, but I never had the means to get any real help... The only 'help' people wanted to give was getting me to buy into drugs I couldn't afford to take (because they weren't covered by my insurance and where $60+ per bottle that lasts 2 weeks). Even if I could have afforded to pay for the drugs, would that have even done anything except give me a dependency on drugs to live my life...? I sure didn't think so...
Having worked in retail during the life cycle of the PS2 I can say, beyond any and all doubt, that the Xbox 360 is no worse than the PS2 in regards to issues. I once had a customer buying their 5th PS2 in 3 years... Then again while working retail I saw alot of things that just make me believe that all the console vendors are idiots about hardware... And it's all done in the name of lowering cost of construction...
What you don't tip your DM...? As hard as a good DM has to work to create a good story, I'd hope they get something out of it...
I once had a shard of glass in my glass (ironic that) at a restaurant I visited. I was insanely lucky I hadn't managed to swallow it. When informed of it the restaurant decided my compensation for being put in a potentially life threatening state was to make my drink free and give me a new glass... Needless to say I was not terribly impressed and even though I liked the food, I never went back...
Because they need it now and there isn't a brick & mortar around, except BB to buy from...?
Well as the admin, in fact I sometimes do... Since I'm in several email groups that I often have to send messages to... I don't think that's to weird... It's not like I'm sending email directly to myself or something...
Though in a strange way when I had to move offices I was supposed to write a request to myself to move and connect the computers in the 'new' office... I however didn't follow procedure, bad me...
Strangely a friend of mine owns a business in the US and has the exact same issues with people from everywhere else in the world (though they seem to add claiming the item was never received while the delivery service swears it was and get their banks to take back the money they paid, which lead to my friend no longer dealing with customers outside the US).
That said, I rarely get emails that start with 'hello' except for my own... Most people seem to treat email differently from letters or memos in that way.
You think the IT guys choose Vista? Cause if you do think again... Some guy (or in a few cases at least gal) who pushes numbers and makes as much as all the IT guys put together will decide they 'need' vista and that will get passed down to IT. At least that's how 99.9% of IT decisions get made in the places I've worked...
I've watched a secretary look at a linux (ubuntu btw) desktop and have no clue how to do anything. If we go by these observations as proving fact like you use in your post, then I've now 'disproved' your 'proven' 'fact' that Linux is just as easy. People become familiar with a certain system and will resist any and all changes (and I mean that literally). It doesn't mater if it's windows XP->Vista, or Windows XP->Linux, or even Windows 98->Linux (which is what I tried where I admin), it's change and they will manage to forget while learning anything different if they don't want to change.
I think the biggest reason for this was more that their was a long delay (not to long as book writing goes, but sizable to keep interest) between chapters. If I remember correctly some gaps where near 4 months. Who can really be kept in suspense for 4 months by the beginning of a book...?
Having done a series of stories myself online, though I offered my work free to the public. I can say honestly that it's not easy making something that is effectively 'episodic content' work. The rate of content/versus time is key and the more content that exists the more interest in it you will see. If I look today I'll see I had nearly 20,000 readers for the six months I was actively writing. I couldn't keep up with the schedule though when I went back to work, and people started trailing off. If every person who ever read my series donated a dollar to me I could have lived on how much I'd have made, In fact 20k isn't bad money at all for a first time author.
Btw the other consideration as well is in how many people felt that they had already spent $X on the series, why spend more...? I mean if you donated, say... $5 the first chapter, why not wait a few chapters to pay again...? An entire book is usually $20 for near 400 pages (hard cover, soft cover is about $7). You also have to add in that readers to read the files for this don't really exist in a hand held fashion (there are some, but they are rare/restrictive/expensive), so you are stuck sitting at a PC to read them... Quickly the investment becomes to much for most people to deal with.
Maybe it is now, but when I was a teen in that bracket (about 12 years ago), my 'allowance' was ~$2.5/week... To buy the average CD would have taken me about 2 months (no 'walmart' or other big chain stores with low priced CD's so closer to $20 than $15)... And my parents wouldn't just go buy me crap, I'd have to earn enough to buy it. The best I ever got out of them was getting and advance on the next couple weeks allowance.
I don't think I'm going to treat my kids (when I have some) all that differently either... I may get called 'stingy' by my kids whose friends have iphones and weekly 'allowances' in excess of $200 for lazying around the house all day, but I think learning to deal with small amounts of money for the things they want and making them work for it is a good thing for preparing them for the real world. Not some fantasy.
I'm tri-lingual (knowing English, French, and Japanese) and frankly I agree with the majority that the information in the other languages needs to be kept and the translation of the language in case we have a later use for it, but the language shouldn't be maintained if no one has an interest in doing so.
I know if English (my primary language) died out in general use (and in certain places that is highly likely)... I'd be sad to see it go as a melting-pot language, but I'd let it happen.
That's nice if your company actually uses employment contracts... My state doesn't require the use of employment contracts, so most businesses don't use them. Instead you have things like 'PAF's which list details of what you get paid and your benefits, but don't do much more than that... They will give you a 'job description', which is fairly all encompassing and basically says 'You'll do anything we tell you to, but mostly X, Y, and Z unless we say otherwise'... On the other hand I'm not required to give 2 weeks notice either in my state, but I don't see that as a big gain...
Welcome to the club... As a network admin I make #38/year and had to live with $28k/year my first year because they weren't prepared to pay me what they initially promised (though not in wiriting of course). All this in the same region as you... Though I live in PA (and not Philly or Pittsburgh either, but the northern half).
I'd love to live closer to my job... That however is not realistic as I can't afford to. After you factor in all the bills I have now and figure out the higher cost of living within the city I work in (rather than the town 30 miles from where I work), it's cheaper by nearly $300/month to live where I do and drive in. $300 may not mean much to you, but unlike you I make 38k/year where I live as a network admin. And from talking to other network admins here, I actually do pretty well compared to them (when you factor in the best paid makes $50k/year and is 20 years my senior). For how much I make $300/month can get me alot more where I am.
All that's figuring anyone wanted to sell there house less than 2 miles from where I work...
Also I have to pay about $50/month for myself to have health insurance... No one here gets free health insurance from their employer. If I had a family that would be about $150/month to cover them as well.
It depends hugely on where you live even in the US. Where I live and with me being a just shy of 30 year old (6 months and I'm 30 even) network admin, I make roughly 38,000 US per year. So I make about as much as my Eurpoian counterpart. I however probably have expenses (like having to own a car to get to work), that the Europian wouldn't.
The problem when comparing salaries across the country however becomes places with insane cost of living expenses like most of california and new york city (among others), where $38k/year US means nothing and you'd be living out of your car.
Personally I've tried a few times after getting a raise to borrow some cash, at the time for a ring for my now ex-girlfriend, and was denied for having to much credit... None of my cards is maxed, but they specifically list me as having to much credit in general. The funny part of this is that most of my cards have maybe 50% load with a limit no higher than 1.5k, credit card-wise, and the only reason I wanted to add a line of credit was to avoid having to use multiple cards and potentially max one or more of them to buy them. I only have 3 cards anyways, so it's not like I have alot of them. A bank didn't want to give me a loan for a whopping $800, with them saying that I wasn't interesting enough to them with such a small sum.
Oh well my now ex-girlfriend took care of that problem by dumping me while trying to work out how to afford the ring to ask her to marry me with...
Simple Answer: No.
Long Answer: We seem to like our 'criminals' to suffer for life for their crimes... A Pardon can however fix that, but only Governors and the pres can do those, so those don't happen all that often...
After all you can't leave little Sally with a convicted drug dealer (from 20 years ago) at a day care... Think of the children!