Comment Re:Just Never (Score 1) 194
I was silly enough to buy a cool looking marble one once. It ruined my knives. Never again.
I was dicing tomatoes on my S4 screen, and it messed up my knife too... DAMN YOU CORNING!
I was silly enough to buy a cool looking marble one once. It ruined my knives. Never again.
I was dicing tomatoes on my S4 screen, and it messed up my knife too... DAMN YOU CORNING!
"UN is not the governmemt, its the planet"
The UN is not as democratic as you might think it is. The UN General Assembly is, but it is pretty much subservient to the UN Security Council in which a few permanent members (amongst which the US) have veto right.
The first thing I thought of... Conveniently though, Russia is also one of the other 5. So this isn't exactly an altruistic move on anything. It just give them a piece of the action.
The prosecution claimed Zimmerman had a duty to retreat but that same duty applied to Martin too. Martin had a phone, he could have called the police and said someone is following me. He could have tried to lose Zimmerman, but instead, he went to confront the cracker ass cracker or whatever racial slur his friend he was on the phone with said he said before hanging up to put Zimmerman in his place.
This is something it seems like most people are missing out on in their rush to polarize.
Many people are trying to dismiss Zimmerman's duty to retreat by saying it was lawful or he had good intentions or whatever, but the fact is he was following the kid for dubious reasons, got lost, and then was ambushed by the person he was following. He should never have allowed himself to be in that situation, and he should have been prepared for Martin to verbally confront him.
Lots of people dismiss Martin's actions because they feel like Zimmerman's behavior was unwarranted, starting with following him. But that doesn't excuse his confrontation of Zimmerman.
The fact is, both of them made dumb mistakes that night, and both of them have paid for it. It will always seem unfair, because Martin was only 17 and, while he should have known better, it's understandable that he didn't know better. And he paid for it with his life.
Zimmerman's life is changed forever because of this, too, but it will never really seem fair because he's incompetent and an idiot who definitely should have known better and got off light compared to Martin.
The whole thing is just a tragedy that didn't need to happen.
This may be the single best summary of this situation I've read. Well done sir.
The US was no on he ground in Libya
I LOL'd at this....
I've heard time and time again, that Canadian (and American) men are highly desired by women in Japan. I've also heard time and time again, that the reason is because too many Japanese men are downright useless and misogynistic assholes. Are you a genuinely nice North American dude with a real job? If so, it really is remarkably easy to meet wonderful women in Japan.
I spent a year stationed in Japan in the military... Being 6'3" 220 the women were very nice to me. For a 21 year old kid, it was a pretty good year.
If the physical presence makes no difference (software development, for example) -- then you want the CHEAPEST place you can build an office and still be able to hire good talent. I think what many companies would find if they actually thought "outside the box" a bit, is that there's a LOT of great computer talent in the small, rural communities. Kids growing up there don't have as much to do, so many gravitate towards the home computer and the internet, and spend a lot of time with it. The technical minded who don't envision themselves working the family farm like their parents did constitute a good hiring pool that's neglected.
If a place is cheap is because nobody will like to to stay or have a business in that place most of the time. If you are building a factory with the working turns and an internal dining room and is so big that you have a private railway inside is a thing. If you are a tech company and your employees can't fill a 10 m bus and it's possible that you have to ask flex hours it's another thing.
Having a choice between herding goats and making tech support by phone I'll prefer herding goats. You can always butcher a obxonious goat.
This is why the growing approach is the combination of the two. RTP in North Carolina, Austin, New Orleans, Oklahoma City... All places people are willing to live, with stuff to do, much cheaper in terms of real estate / utilities / taxes, and a talent pool available. For a start up Cali or NYC make sense, but for an already established company? For example if Cisco will pay you the same amount of cash to work in RTP, Herndon, or San Jose why would you not go to RTP?
I swear i NEVER thought I would ever see the day that M$ was more responsive to it's customers needs than either Apple or Google. Looks like the "Big Bad Beast" has gotten a conscience.. while the "do no evil" camp has slowly become the devil incarnate... I think I like those guys at Redmond just a tiny bit more....
Make no mistake, this had nothing to do conscience and EVERYTHING to do with getting killed on pre-orders. That they came up with this in the first place proves they have nothing in the way of conscience about what the consumer wants.
It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster. - Voltaire
