For some reason in Europe, you tend to see a lot of stores advertising "-50% off!" sales and such.
No, you get either "–50%" or "50% off". I've never seen both — but perhaps a particularly illiterate or innumerate trader might do it.
"Chocolate" — generic for the brown stuff, in any format, but "would you like some chocolate?" implies a piece of a bar of the stuff.
"Chocolates" — a box of individually-formed bite-size items, usually filled with anything from a nut to some gooey stuff, coated in chocolate.
"Sweets" — generic for anything sugary and sold in bite-sizes, but not including chocolate or chocolates, except when used by undiscerning parents.
"Candy" — specialist forms of sweets, often highly-decorated or made to look like something else; does not include chocolate or chocolates. An American term rarely heard in the UK.
"Boiled sweets" — sweets of boiled sugar, flavoured and set to a glass-like consistency, favoured by dentists as a way to increase income.
YMMV, and there are probably hundreds of local, regional, and dialect variants.
Nokia has one (probably their last) shot : transform "featurephones" into "smartphones".
No, they have missed the boat, and nothing they can do will save them now. They may be bought up, but they had their chance when the mini-tablet (N800) and tablet-phone (N900) were handed to them on a plate and they simply couldn't see the potential.
Authors of the highest eminence seem to be fully satisfied with the view that each species has been independently created. To my mind it accords better with what we know of the laws impressed on matter by the Creator, that the production and extinction of the past and present inhabitants of the world should have been due to secondary causes, like those determining the birth and death of the individual.
Whether or not people need a saviour is unrelated to how people got here. If this is an example of the mental processes of an elected representative, he should probably go back to kindergarten and start again, without the religious upbringing which has led to his derangement.
However what stands out to me in this story is that the guy claims to have gotten a package from the offender, but doesn't so much as mention checking the return address.
Parcels sent locally here (Ireland) don't need a return address: that's an American requirement.
Have a BSc or better (normally in Computer Science or similar IT degree), plus several years real job experience.
I truly have to wonder why this has become the norm in IT. Do you really need BSc or better degree to admin windows servers or do basic support?.
Not when it's all working. You need the knowledge when it falls over, or when it needs redesigning, or when you need to call bullshit on some PHB's random ideas.
Anyway, you're from Europe, so go to one of them free colleges.
Ain't no such animal any more.
When I was in high school, I made web sites for realtors
So you're the one who caused the property crash...
I tell them to turn to the study of mathematics, for it is only there that they might escape the lusts of the flesh. -- Thomas Mann, "The Magic Mountain"
