Comment Re:"trivial to circumvent" (Score 1) 178
"Information wants to be free, rent wants to be paid".
Someone getting paid millions of dollars should damn well look ideal.
And there I was thinking that the primary purpose of an actor/actress was to act. Silly me.
they're around $5 after tax each here, and given some people buy 10-20 of them at a time, accepting credit cards is required
What, your ATMs won't dispense $50-$100 at a time?
My understanding is that in Europe, professionals who don't work for themselves are not considered exempt from limits on how long they can be required to work.
You're thinking of the Working Time Directive.
can be easily beaten if you just have... a scanner that doesn't have that crippling code added to its firmware.
In which case you're not actually beating anything, are you?
people used to call it decelerating, but apparently that isn't a correct term
Well, yes and no - deceleration is just the name we give to the special case of accelerating in exactly the opposite direction to your motion, such that the only (direct/intended) effect is to change the speed you're moving at.
If there's any problem at all with calling it deceleration it's that it can confuse people into thinking that there's something special about it compared to "normal" acceleration.
Francine Smith: You quit your job!
Stan Smith: Francine I have a chance to join the Scarlet Alliance.
Francine Smith: You mean you haven't got the job yet!
Stan Smith: Francine I'm going to be rich in adventure
Francine Smith: Rich in adventure!
[Pretends to be on the phone]
Francine Smith: Hello MasterCard do you take payment in the form of adventure, hello colleges I'd like to pay my son's tuition, I don't have any money but my husband is rich in adventure!
Stan Smith: Well what'd they say.
This used to be common in the UK, before the governments of the '70s and '80s decided that judging people based on their ability was elitist and therefore bad.
Well, my school did that back in the 80s, my daughter's school does that now in 2012, and while I could be wrong I'm pretty sure my teacher friends (2 at this sort of level) both teach in schools that do that (one in London, the other in Leeds). I know, the plural of anecdote isn't data, but I think streaming of pupils in schools is still pretty common. (There's plenty to dislike about education in the UK, but from my perspective that isn't one of the things)
"Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines." -- Bertrand Russell
