pop culture atheism you got in the parking lot outside the Slayer concert
Wouldn't that be more likely to be a hotbed of satanism?
I could go on, but I'm not providing a longwinded education for you.
You're not providing any education. You're merely regurgitating shit that's utterly fucking irrelevant. The first testament is a hotchpotch of myths, legends and stories that date back ten thousand years, none of which demonstrate the proof of any deity. The second testament is even less reliable and has been heavily post-edited by people intent on making it give some perceived legitimacy to their ability to exploit ignorance.
Given the worldwide slave trade, and the large number of those slaves forced to work in the sex industry, are you really entirely sure that the violent and/or animal sex you're watching is completely consensual?
Censorship sucks donkeys but personally I don't download, watch or buy pornographic films or images. Provenance is just not possible and I'm very much against slavery.
..and yet. I was invited to a second interview somewhere, and asked to prepare a presentation relevant to the role.
So I put together a 40 minute presentation, Exec friendly, sufficiently comprehensive, intentionally gave viewpoints your generic research institutes (Forrester, etc) wouldn't.
They asked no questions. They gave me no chance to ask questions. Two of them sat there looking interested at what I had to tell them and the internal candidate they'd given the job to (as far as I can tell) sat there looking scared shitless, as I gave him a thorough grounding in what his new job was.
So yes, it did feel that I'd been brought in to give them an hour's consultancy. They knew my background, knew my capabilities, had no intention of giving me the job and cost me a day's preparation, a morning's travel and around an hour of my time presenting.
It wasn't a surprise when their HR team sent an email thanking me for coming in and wishing me luck elsewhere.
I don't know how my mother is, haven't heard from her since I blacklisted their email address in response to them entering my email address into a website.
I'm certainly not going to call her. I use my phone primarily as a 'net access device, and I can live without that or use wifi. I'm certainly not beholder to its telephony functions, or SMS. They're convenient and I use them, but it's not sufficiently justification to let someone fuck me over.
You put my monthly fee up by 2% each year, that's reasonable and may be supported by the courts. Hell, I'm not even going to take it to court.
Put my bill up by $30/month and I'm not only going to refuse to pay, I'm going to hold you to the original terms whereby you give me service at a reasonable price. The courts will look very favourably on that approach.
Or maybe - just possibly - the Ivy League universities continually turn out entrepreneurs because they teach the same material better.
Maybe it's because they foster a culture of exploration and innovation.
Maybe it's because people are surrounded by other self-starters.
Maybe it's because people wanting to kick something new off have access to wealthy individuals.
It's definitely there, I suspect it's a combination of several of those things, and I know that if I were seeking a university in the US I'd be applying straight to MIT and fuck the cost.
But I went to university in the UK, at one of the top five business schools in the world (when I was there - only in the top 20 or so now). I did fuck all on my degree but gained skills I'm still using personally and professionally two decades later.
A university education is almost nothing to do with the details of the subject matter.
In the UK we call them 'papers' and 'essays'. Write 1250 words describing X.
Exams on the other hand are exams. They don't ask you to repeat facts, they require you to demonstrate understanding of the underlying concepts, approaches and context. No memorisation needed, just a clear understanding of the subject.
Interpret 'profit share' the share of the overall profits within the specific market.
Apple does make more profit from the mobile business than their competitors.
(It does this by employing cheap Chinese labour, hammering its supply chain costs, leveraging efficiencies of scale and taking advantage of the cash wealth of the people that want a shiny status symbol)
The long lasting guilds do have face to face contact. Usually they include multiple groups of people that know each other outside of the guild, and a strong online community invariably ends up meeting face to face.
I've travelled to various countries and met with people I game with, and had more than a few come and visit me. I tend to be in guilds with several friends and make new friends online. This doesn't supplant my social life (just got in from dancing, where I danced and chatted with around 20 women - may not sound like a lot but that's only around 12 minutes each and it's mostly one-to-one), it adds to it - I'm now back home and chatting to a friend online.
Running a guild has all of that social interaction, but also a requires a strong and useful set of skills that are very pertinent to working in a large and complex organisation. I've yet to meet a good guild leader that wasn't intelligent, socially competent and emotionally aware.
We are social creatures and nothing replaces actually being with people
Running a large corporation on Eve is an inherently social activity. It requires stunning levels of diplomacy, understanding of social structures, command capability and organisation skills (your own or the leverage of others').
Which is why a high ranking US diplomat played Eve, and why people that can run large guilds are attractive to employers.
That sounds kind of self-evident, but you're right regarding the British use of Asian, although it could be Indian, Pakistani, Sri Lankan or possibly Indonesian. Similary 'Oriental' tends to infer non-Asians from the East - Oriental restaurants tend to be Chinese or Thai.
Both terms are imprecise, and people will 'go out for an Indian' and happily eat Pakistani, Indian or Brummie* food without worrying about its ethnogeographic antecedants.
* Note that many British dishes sold in 'Indian' restaurants were developed and became popular in Birmingham. The real one, not that weird one in America. Where Brummies speak Brummie, a language nobody on the wrong side of the Atlantic can comprehend (or indeed, many people on this side either). Indeed, a drunk Brummie can be less intelligible than a Glaswegian or a Geordie (neither of whom require the adjective 'drunk' due to stereotypical assumptions regarding their natural state).
I interpret this as a degree of insecurity amongst American actors. It seems the American culture is very heavily geared towards personal achievement, and showing yourself to be individually heroic is an important part of demonstrating your success, along with the wealthy acquired as a result (or, if you're not an actor, just the wealth).
Whereas the British actors have a culture of being inherently superior and so feel no pressure to try and prove it. They can take roles that portray them as villains, knowing that society values them for their art, not their commercial success.
I'm not sure this helps with the Turkish thing, and suggesting that the Turks have a cultural inferiority that leads them to complain incessantly would be a disservice to many Turks. Although not the bastards that invaded Cyprus. Get out of my country you ignorant cunts.
If that were true, then why is the cell phone contract not lower if I bring my own phone
I think every carrier in the UK offers 'sim only' contracts and 'sim only' 'pay as you go' services.
I'm paying £16/month for unlimited data (and so many texts, calls and other shite I don't need that they're approximately infinite) on a rolling one-month contract. I just kept my previous phone (which is still only a year old and has just two handset models available worldwide that I consider to be upgrades).
If nobody in the US offers that then rent some bandwidth on one of the existing carriers and make merry with a tremendous business opportunity.
Paypal have me blacklisted and refuse to take payments from me.
Tried buying something last week, seller's website said "VISA/Mastercard" so I used my credit card. Refused. Used my other credit card. Refused. Checked with both card companies: Neither had been asked to authorise payment.
Got a friend to buy on my behalf. He paid with credit card; got a bill from PayPal.
It all goes back to the first time I tried using my card to buy something online from a seller that used Paypal for their card payments. I entered my details, was told payment had been taken, then got an email asking me to provide details for my Paypal account.
I said no. Then I found out that Paypal had already debited my card, but were holding onto the cash instead of sending it through to the seller.
So I wrote to them telling them to send the money through. They refused. So I wrote to them telling them to give my money back. They refused. So I contacted VISA, the OFT and my card supplier stating fraudulent activity.
I got my money back. Paypal blacklisted me. Not a major problem really, except for idiots that use them as their sole card payment solution.
I need to hit them with a SAR, find out what their system says about me. But using them to ID myself to the Government? Not a fucking hope. Which is frankly a good thing.
I have a friend that games when his wife goes out. He leaves the kids to amuse themselves, takes a break to put them to bed, then enjoys himself gaming.
Sometimes if she's in he'll game just to spend time with his friends. Some guys I know will go out to the pub, some of my friends go out to play snooker; he plays an online game using a headset, and can still share physical presence with her.
This is of course ignoring the whole "working away from home" problem, where gaming is one of the least destructive ways of avoiding boredom in a another city. At least, when you're married it is;)
Just for clarification, does this include people that game on PC rather than xbox/PS3?
I didn't get desperately sick before I turned 40 so I'm hoping PC gaming makes me immune.
Btw, see my post above re: ladies gaming. Add in the number of women I know that game, in various ways, and/or are happy that their partner games because it gives them time to engage in their own interests.
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pop culture atheism you got in the parking lot outside the Slayer concert
Wouldn't that be more likely to be a hotbed of satanism?
I could go on, but I'm not providing a longwinded education for you.
You're not providing any education. You're merely regurgitating shit that's utterly fucking irrelevant. The first testament is a hotchpotch of myths, legends and stories that date back ten thousand years, none of which demonstrate the proof of any deity. The second testament is even less reliable and has been heavily post-edited by people intent on making it give some perceived legitimacy to their ability to exploit ignorance.
Reading that shit happened and finding archaeological evidence for it is fine.
Where's the archaeological evidence of the flying spaghetti monster being responsible for any of it?
(Hint: the same place as evidence of any other fuckwit deity people imagine exist)
She quite possibly wasn't making that distinction.
My point is that unless I'm present at the filming I can't make that distinction either, so I'm erring on the side of caution.
Given the worldwide slave trade, and the large number of those slaves forced to work in the sex industry, are you really entirely sure that the violent and/or animal sex you're watching is completely consensual?
Censorship sucks donkeys but personally I don't download, watch or buy pornographic films or images. Provenance is just not possible and I'm very much against slavery.
So I put together a 40 minute presentation, Exec friendly, sufficiently comprehensive, intentionally gave viewpoints your generic research institutes (Forrester, etc) wouldn't.
They asked no questions. They gave me no chance to ask questions. Two of them sat there looking interested at what I had to tell them and the internal candidate they'd given the job to (as far as I can tell) sat there looking scared shitless, as I gave him a thorough grounding in what his new job was.
So yes, it did feel that I'd been brought in to give them an hour's consultancy. They knew my background, knew my capabilities, had no intention of giving me the job and cost me a day's preparation, a morning's travel and around an hour of my time presenting.
It wasn't a surprise when their HR team sent an email thanking me for coming in and wishing me luck elsewhere.
More interesting was that he was prosecuted for Malicious Hooliganism.
Sounds a bit of a giggle until you remember the specifics of the Russian justice system.
Sorry, your example is meant to demonstrate what exactly? Please, let me criticise:
You're paying twice as much as me. I have unlmited talk and text. I have unlimited data.
So compared to you, my phone service provider is giving me a 50% discount so that I'll accept their unlimited data offer.
The only real difference between the US and European markets appears to be that the Europeans research before criticising others.
I don't know how my mother is, haven't heard from her since I blacklisted their email address in response to them entering my email address into a website.
I'm certainly not going to call her. I use my phone primarily as a 'net access device, and I can live without that or use wifi. I'm certainly not beholder to its telephony functions, or SMS. They're convenient and I use them, but it's not sufficiently justification to let someone fuck me over.
Which in the UK is completely unenforceable.
You put my monthly fee up by 2% each year, that's reasonable and may be supported by the courts. Hell, I'm not even going to take it to court.
Put my bill up by $30/month and I'm not only going to refuse to pay, I'm going to hold you to the original terms whereby you give me service at a reasonable price. The courts will look very favourably on that approach.
Or maybe - just possibly - the Ivy League universities continually turn out entrepreneurs because they teach the same material better.
Maybe it's because they foster a culture of exploration and innovation.
Maybe it's because people are surrounded by other self-starters.
Maybe it's because people wanting to kick something new off have access to wealthy individuals.
It's definitely there, I suspect it's a combination of several of those things, and I know that if I were seeking a university in the US I'd be applying straight to MIT and fuck the cost.
But I went to university in the UK, at one of the top five business schools in the world (when I was there - only in the top 20 or so now). I did fuck all on my degree but gained skills I'm still using personally and professionally two decades later.
A university education is almost nothing to do with the details of the subject matter.
In the UK we call them 'papers' and 'essays'. Write 1250 words describing X.
Exams on the other hand are exams. They don't ask you to repeat facts, they require you to demonstrate understanding of the underlying concepts, approaches and context. No memorisation needed, just a clear understanding of the subject.
Jury verdict notwithstanding, it's pretty hard to demonstrate that Samsung infringed, let alone wilfully.
Provided a misquote wont change that.
Interpret 'profit share' the share of the overall profits within the specific market.
Apple does make more profit from the mobile business than their competitors.
(It does this by employing cheap Chinese labour, hammering its supply chain costs, leveraging efficiencies of scale and taking advantage of the cash wealth of the people that want a shiny status symbol)
lol at all the teenage fandroid rage
I shouldn't reply to an immature cunt, but
Samsung will eventually settle this and cross-license patents
Apple are refusing to allow licence Samsung to licence them. And Apple's patents are utter bullshit. And Apple is refusing to pay for FRAND licences.
I'm not seeing much misbehaviour from Samsung on this one. Why would they settle?
The long lasting guilds do have face to face contact. Usually they include multiple groups of people that know each other outside of the guild, and a strong online community invariably ends up meeting face to face.
I've travelled to various countries and met with people I game with, and had more than a few come and visit me. I tend to be in guilds with several friends and make new friends online. This doesn't supplant my social life (just got in from dancing, where I danced and chatted with around 20 women - may not sound like a lot but that's only around 12 minutes each and it's mostly one-to-one), it adds to it - I'm now back home and chatting to a friend online.
Running a guild has all of that social interaction, but also a requires a strong and useful set of skills that are very pertinent to working in a large and complex organisation. I've yet to meet a good guild leader that wasn't intelligent, socially competent and emotionally aware.
We are social creatures and nothing replaces actually being with people
Running a large corporation on Eve is an inherently social activity. It requires stunning levels of diplomacy, understanding of social structures, command capability and organisation skills (your own or the leverage of others').
Which is why a high ranking US diplomat played Eve, and why people that can run large guilds are attractive to employers.
Oriental people are from the Orient.
That sounds kind of self-evident, but you're right regarding the British use of Asian, although it could be Indian, Pakistani, Sri Lankan or possibly Indonesian. Similary 'Oriental' tends to infer non-Asians from the East - Oriental restaurants tend to be Chinese or Thai.
Both terms are imprecise, and people will 'go out for an Indian' and happily eat Pakistani, Indian or Brummie* food without worrying about its ethnogeographic antecedants.
* Note that many British dishes sold in 'Indian' restaurants were developed and became popular in Birmingham. The real one, not that weird one in America. Where Brummies speak Brummie, a language nobody on the wrong side of the Atlantic can comprehend (or indeed, many people on this side either). Indeed, a drunk Brummie can be less intelligible than a Glaswegian or a Geordie (neither of whom require the adjective 'drunk' due to stereotypical assumptions regarding their natural state).
I interpret this as a degree of insecurity amongst American actors. It seems the American culture is very heavily geared towards personal achievement, and showing yourself to be individually heroic is an important part of demonstrating your success, along with the wealthy acquired as a result (or, if you're not an actor, just the wealth).
Whereas the British actors have a culture of being inherently superior and so feel no pressure to try and prove it. They can take roles that portray them as villains, knowing that society values them for their art, not their commercial success.
I'm not sure this helps with the Turkish thing, and suggesting that the Turks have a cultural inferiority that leads them to complain incessantly would be a disservice to many Turks. Although not the bastards that invaded Cyprus. Get out of my country you ignorant cunts.
If that were true, then why is the cell phone contract not lower if I bring my own phone
I think every carrier in the UK offers 'sim only' contracts and 'sim only' 'pay as you go' services.
I'm paying £16/month for unlimited data (and so many texts, calls and other shite I don't need that they're approximately infinite) on a rolling one-month contract. I just kept my previous phone (which is still only a year old and has just two handset models available worldwide that I consider to be upgrades).
If nobody in the US offers that then rent some bandwidth on one of the existing carriers and make merry with a tremendous business opportunity.
See, if you'd used an architect the building wouldn't be fucking collapsing.
Paypal have me blacklisted and refuse to take payments from me.
Tried buying something last week, seller's website said "VISA/Mastercard" so I used my credit card. Refused. Used my other credit card. Refused. Checked with both card companies: Neither had been asked to authorise payment.
Got a friend to buy on my behalf. He paid with credit card; got a bill from PayPal.
It all goes back to the first time I tried using my card to buy something online from a seller that used Paypal for their card payments. I entered my details, was told payment had been taken, then got an email asking me to provide details for my Paypal account.
I said no. Then I found out that Paypal had already debited my card, but were holding onto the cash instead of sending it through to the seller.
So I wrote to them telling them to send the money through. They refused. So I wrote to them telling them to give my money back. They refused. So I contacted VISA, the OFT and my card supplier stating fraudulent activity.
I got my money back. Paypal blacklisted me. Not a major problem really, except for idiots that use them as their sole card payment solution.
I need to hit them with a SAR, find out what their system says about me. But using them to ID myself to the Government? Not a fucking hope. Which is frankly a good thing.
Steak and Kidney pie is fine except that kidneys taste horrible. Similarly liver. I guess I just don't like the taste of organs.
I have a friend that games when his wife goes out. He leaves the kids to amuse themselves, takes a break to put them to bed, then enjoys himself gaming.
Sometimes if she's in he'll game just to spend time with his friends. Some guys I know will go out to the pub, some of my friends go out to play snooker; he plays an online game using a headset, and can still share physical presence with her.
This is of course ignoring the whole "working away from home" problem, where gaming is one of the least destructive ways of avoiding boredom in a another city. At least, when you're married it is ;)
Just for clarification, does this include people that game on PC rather than xbox/PS3?
I didn't get desperately sick before I turned 40 so I'm hoping PC gaming makes me immune.
Btw, see my post above re: ladies gaming. Add in the number of women I know that game, in various ways, and/or are happy that their partner games because it gives them time to engage in their own interests.
Get him started on a scarf. Don't tell him how to finish until it's improbably long. Wear it any time you can so that he feels appreciated.
Buy him a knitting machine. Let him hack it. Challenge him to install linux and teach it to knit the results of Google image searches.