Comment already on itunes... (Score 1) 409
Just out of curiosity , I searched on itunes. Lo, Dark Side of the Moon was there.
http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/dark-side-of-the-moon/id14336410
Comment just one recruiter? Put the effort in! (Score 1) 344
"Fire" a headhunter? Implying that you only have one? My experience is that some recruiters are good, some are bad and some are middling. If you're looking for work, I've always found it much more advantageous to have as many applications (to relevant positions only, obviously) out as possible, with multiple recruiters, and to keep track of what companies your application has gone into yourself, to ensure you're not double-submitted. Far more effective.
Ricardo Montalban Dead At 88 280
DesScorp writes "Ricardo Montalban, immortalized as Khan in the Star Trek franchise, is dead at age 88, passing at his Los Angeles home. Montalban had a long and successful career on television and film. The voice of Rich Corinthian Leather is silenced, but we still have the memories."
Comment Re:Judicial not product confusion (Score 1) 462
check your TLDs - .co.il is Israel, not Ireland (.ie)
Journal Journal: things keep breaking
the pedal fell off my bicycle today.
Comment Re:SnowCrash and CyberPunk books/movies (Score 1) 146
Roland Gift is the name I think you're looking for.
Comment Jocks vs. Nerds, an Irish experience (Score 1) 1228
My flatmate is frightened of guys with long hair and black clothes, despite the fact that her only (!) experience of meeting one was unilateraly positive. It reminds one of the cliche regarding "[Insert ethnic group] people can't be trusted/steal/are bad. Of course John/Jill is different, but they are an exception. And no, I don't know any blacks/jews/whites/asians, other than John/Jill."
Most of my (male) friends (I am in my mid-twenties) have long hair and wear black clothes (and long coats). In general, such people are among the quietest, friendliest, most-least-likely-to-harm people I know. I know it has been said before, and most people reading Slashdot will know it anyhow, but it bears repeating over and over - and not just here, but in any social setting we find ourselves in - in order to defend people's freedoms: Fashion and computer games don't kill, people with guns do.
On School, I come from Ireland, and my experience was that much of school was blighted by the natural propensity for evil of a small proportion of teenagers, and the instinct of the majority to blend in with the confident students.
However, I think that the situation described by many commentators - on Slashdot and elsewhere - where Sports Jocks are viewed as minor gods, and the only way a teenager should want to be, is not matched here in Ireland. I always thought those films and TV shows were using an unrealistic stereotype (geeks vs. jocks), and wondered why it was so popular an image. Now I know.
One (short) final point : here in Ireland, coverage of sport in the media has reached saturation point. I like current affairs and talk radio, but it is impossible to listen to a talk-based station, without a sports item being put into every general programme, as well as dedicated sports shows. This saturation thing is recent. Are there similar developments elsewhere, and is there a solution?
Andrew
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Most of my (male) friends (I am in my mid-twenties) have long hair and wear black clothes (and long coats). In general, such people are among the quietest, friendliest, most-least-likely-to-harm people I know. I know it has been said before, and most people reading Slashdot will know it anyhow, but it bears repeating over and over - and not just here, but in any social setting we find ourselves in - in order to defend people's freedoms: Fashion and computer games don't kill, people with guns do.
On School, I come from Ireland, and my experience was that much of school was blighted by the natural propensity for evil of a small proportion of teenagers, and the instinct of the majority to blend in with the confident students.
However, I think that the situation described by many commentators - on Slashdot and elsewhere - where Sports Jocks are viewed as minor gods, and the only way a teenager should want to be, is not matched here in Ireland. I always thought those films and TV shows were using an unrealistic stereotype (geeks vs. jocks), and wondered why it was so popular an image. Now I know.
One (short) final point : here in Ireland, coverage of sport in the media has reached saturation point. I like current affairs and talk radio, but it is impossible to listen to a talk-based station, without a sports item being put into every general programme, as well as dedicated sports shows. This saturation thing is recent. Are there similar developments elsewhere, and is there a solution?
Andrew
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