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Comment Re:Two sides to every issue (Score 5, Interesting) 401

Total BS. I'd take a American IT worker with an inflated ego over a corporate bean counter any day. I've been in the IT field since 1979, and trust me, I'm an expert in my speciality. They might be able to replace me with someone and pay then 1/2 of what I make, but they're not going to get my skillset.

Do you realize you just confirmed what GP's saying?

"Trust me, I'm THAT good".
"No foreigner has my skillset".
"I'm an expert".

Seen quite a few people with exactly those statements who were smashed from a skillset perspective by some guy whose name one needs half a day to spell properly (e.g. Kumar Bheemasandralakshminarayana).
Never say never.

On a more general note, more often than not people substitute a thick accent with lack of intelligence. "He can't speak English very well therefore he's dumb". They couldn't be further from the truth.

Comment Re:What if? (Score 1) 725

I'm nothing resembling -ist. I simply live outside any religious belief. I could say that at the same time accept all of them and don't particularly care about any, apart from a knowledge perspective. I like knowing about them (think "20 questions") but that's it.

Comment Re:How fitting (Score 3, Interesting) 333

It's okay to be an extrovert, but if you can't think alone for 15 minutes, that makes you ADHD (Or ADD)-prone.
My take: the inability to just sit tight and think for 15 minutes is a result of how society and way of living are shaped nowadays. Instant gratification, stimuli overload, everything is faster than the speed of thought (literally).

People get used to that way of doing things and that way of living, and when you get them out of their perceived "natural" environment, they freak out. Quite normal, all things considering, might I say.

Comment Re:why? (Score 3, Interesting) 346

Maybe. The GP raises an interesting point though.
Is the "address" (johndoe123@example.com) the same as its user (Mike Somehow who uses the previously mentioned e-mail address)?
Real life example: I rent an apartment which was previously occupied by a foreign citizen. I receive snail mail addressed to:
- The owner
- Previous renter
- Me
- My wife
- Unspecified recipient (SPAM)
- Others (named people who don't live at my address).

I am legally entitled to open mail addressed to me and "unspecified recipient". Now, in case of an e-mail address, the same could apply. The actual recipient might not be the one who "lives" there, and there might be elements that specifically mention a different recipient than me. Since an e-mail is a non-physical item, I can't really "return without opening" but I could destroy it (after or instead of reading its contents).

Is this covered by the GMail EULA? I confess I've never read the whole damn thing.

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