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Razgovory

#52140
October 05, 2015, 03:12:26 PM
Got a job interview at the bank!
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

mongers

#52141
October 05, 2015, 03:36:56 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on October 05, 2015, 03:12:26 PM
Got a job interview at the bank!

Raz, Good luck with that; fingers crossed.
"We have it in our power to begin the world over again"

Ideologue

#52142
October 05, 2015, 05:37:11 PM
Hey, Syt, SFDebris is finally back with some Trek stuff. :)
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Current reviews: The 'Burbs (9/10); Gremlins 2: The New Batch (9/10); John Wick: Chapter 2 (9/10); A Cure For Wellness (4/10)

Admiral Yi

#52143
October 05, 2015, 07:11:09 PM
An AC130 shot up a Medicins sans Frontiere hospital in northern Afghanistan.  Around 20 dead staff and patients.

jimmy olsen

#52144
October 06, 2015, 01:57:36 AM
 :hmm:

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Jet: So what kind of woman is she? What's Julia like?
Faye: Ordinary. The kind of beautiful, dangerous ordinary that you just can't leave alone.
Jet: I see.
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Razgovory

#52145
October 06, 2015, 06:43:29 AM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on October 06, 2015, 01:57:36 AM
:hmm:

Quote from: L. Neil SmithA sophisticated society doesn't lack customs, it simply has so many they all cancel out. It may be considered a measure of civilization how long a hypothetical "Man from Mars" can wander around without running afoul of the gendarmes or getting burned at the stake for violating some taboo.

He's a loon.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

Brazen

#52146
October 06, 2015, 09:27:38 AM
Was this you, Mono?
QuoteA Chinese customer left a seafood restaurant in the city of Qingdao with a bad taste in his mouth after claiming he was overcharged for prawns.

The diner ordered a dish of prawns that appeared to be marked at 38 yuan (£4, $6) on the menu, reported local media.

But he was later told the menu had specified the price was for each prawn, and was asked to pay 1,520 yuan (£160; $240) for the dish.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-34451390

Syt

#52147
October 06, 2015, 10:06:09 AM
Quote from: Ideologue on October 05, 2015, 05:37:11 PM
Hey, Syt, SFDebris is finally back with some Trek stuff. :)

Yeah, I've seen. :)
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MadImmortalMan

#52148
October 06, 2015, 12:57:40 PM
I saw this chick being interviewed in cnbc yesterday.

http://arstechnica.com/business/2015/10/yelp-for-people-app-if-it-exists-disappears-from-the-internet/

She was maybe the most smug shitty-attitude sort of person you could imagine. Basically, it's a rating system for people. Like we could make Martinus a page and all go on it and give him bad reviews so he couldn't get a job in the future.

Megan Kelly called it a "Mean Girl" app.



Total positivity.
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"Complacency can be a self-denying prophecy."
"We have nothing to fear but lack of fear itself." --Larry Summers

Syt

#52149
October 06, 2015, 02:05:39 PM
Has anyone ever been to a local TED? I like to browse their online archives, but not sure if I want to pay 100+ for the Vienna event at the end of the month (though the speakers look interesting ... then again most of it will be online afterwards ...).
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

Proud owner of 42 Zoupa Points.

Josquius

#52150
October 06, 2015, 03:42:06 PM
QuoteI saw this chick being interviewed in cnbc yesterday.

http://arstechnica.com/business/2015/10/yelp-for-people-app-if-it-exists-disappears-from-the-internet/

She was maybe the most smug shitty-attitude sort of person you could imagine. Basically, it's a rating system for people. Like we could make Martinus a page and all go on it and give him bad reviews so he couldn't get a job in the future.

Megan Kelly called it a "Mean Girl" app.

Yes, I've been following that one. It's interesting, Community already did an episode about such a thing.
However the latest update today suggests the app isn't real and instead its all publicity for something else. :hmm:

Nonetheless...the professional world at least is heading that way. Watson :ph34r:

Quote from: Syt on October 06, 2015, 02:05:39 PM
Has anyone ever been to a local TED? I like to browse their online archives, but not sure if I want to pay 100+ for the Vienna event at the end of the month (though the speakers look interesting ... then again most of it will be online afterwards ...).
Get your company to pay? :unsure:
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Baron von Schtinkenbutt

#52151
October 06, 2015, 05:11:23 PM
Quote from: Syt on October 06, 2015, 02:05:39 PM
Has anyone ever been to a local TED? I like to browse their online archives, but not sure if I want to pay 100+ for the Vienna event at the end of the month (though the speakers look interesting ... then again most of it will be online afterwards ...).

Is it "real" TED or TEDx?  The TEDx events are only loosely affiliated with the core organization and tend to be worthless shit filled with kooky fringe bullshit.

Ideologue

#52152
October 06, 2015, 06:05:38 PM
Oh, since nobody cared the first time, large swathes of Columbia have been evacuated.  Dams have burst all over the uplands, and, seriously, the city's underwater.

Barack Obama doesn't care about white people.  Or other black people. :(
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Current reviews: The 'Burbs (9/10); Gremlins 2: The New Batch (9/10); John Wick: Chapter 2 (9/10); A Cure For Wellness (4/10)

The Minsky Moment

#52153
October 06, 2015, 06:32:59 PM
[Sherman] The wind did it [/Sherman]
The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived by economists.
--Joan Robinson

Valmy

#52154
October 06, 2015, 08:59:36 PM
Quote from: Ideologue on October 06, 2015, 06:05:38 PM
Oh, since nobody cared the first time, large swathes of Columbia have been evacuated.  Dams have burst all over the uplands, and, seriously, the city's underwater.

Barack Obama doesn't care about white people.  Or other black people. :(

Didn't South Carolina refuse federal emergency dollars or something? I forget. There is something like that going on.
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