FYPOriginally Posted by definatelynotKKassandra
You're wrong, geology is awesomely boring.
Edit: What a terrible post for my 1000
FYPYou're wrong, geology is awesomely boring.
Edit: What a terrible post for my 1000
i tihnk thats me, seamus on there too. Although there could be more than one, id not be surprised at all.Those are some seriously deluded people on that forum! Although the one who asked for a homoeopathic solution to the problem too much 'radiation' must surely be a troll. He has to be ...
"But the vast majority of this forum is European and/or highly urbanized and quite liberal in their firearms views. Take this discussion to ih8mud.com (Toyota Land Cruiser forum) or even knifeforums.com and you'd see the opposite."
-OrangeAfroMan
Project wasn't awarded to my company, so I don't get to go out and do that. Sniffle. No other projects in sight either, driving me up the wall.
Patent wall-driving technology
Better luck next time m8
Fucking homoeopaths, do not get me started on that festering wank pile of pseudo-medicine and snake oil.i tihnk thats me, seamus on there too. Although there could be more than one, id not be surprised at all.Those are some seriously deluded people on that forum! Although the one who asked for a homoeopathic solution to the problem too much 'radiation' must surely be a troll. He has to be ...
You're both fucking nerds. Look at those books. Just look at the books you're talking about. Fucking nerds.
Well, someone emailed me back asking for photos of the damage. I'm just about sitting in bed by this point though, so that will be a job for tomorrow morning.
The whole dotcom thing is a terrible fuckup and embarrassment for NZ. The police had already seized the data centre and disconnected it from everything. There was no possibility at that point for Dotcom to interfere with it whatsoever. Still they went in with the tactical squad, another tactical squad, two helicopters, 4 cars, several dogs, even more police and in total a shitload of guns. For a bald fat guy and his kids. On warrants that have already been declared illegal. All for something the US doesn't want to provide any evidence for. Just look at the guy. If he'd have to lift a gun, he'd break such a massive sweat, he'd put his doughnut down! And you just know he's never going to do that!Do you honestly believe that the fact he did insider trading makes it legal to use that much force and to destroy his business before being proven guilty? If they can prove he did those shady things in the 90s, then I hope he'll be charged and punished for it, but that's totally irrelevant to the current situation. The guy is a giant asshole, but he has rights.
Kim Dotcom is certainly a bellend. But this is just bollocks and massively over the top. There's no way Megaupload or Kim fucking Dotcom, whatever you think of it or him, is that type of threat to the human race! I hope he sues the crap out of NZ. I hope the amount of compensation he gets is so high that next time the US knocks on the door somewhere they get told to produce the evidence or go fuck themselves.
With a guy that has such a shady past it is fair to assume that he has backup plans in case the shit hits the fan. Just knocking at the door with a warrant would have been foolish imo. Kimble always was a egomaniac crook and it's hard for people who know most of his past to have any sympathy for him. The amount of filesharing platforms that shut down after the megaupload raid pretty much shows how legal they think their business really is.Do you honestly believe that the fact he did insider trading makes it legal to use that much force and to destroy his business before being proven guilty? If they can prove he did those shady things in the 90s, then I hope he'll be charged and punished for it, but that's totally irrelevant to the current situation. The guy is a giant asshole, but he has rights.
:brofist/hug:
Seamus, well played. I CBA to try with those idiots.
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I wish the bus would come. I wish fatty would give me a ride.
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That only shows how scary the whole thing is. Small "cloud file-locker" website owners don't have the funds of Dotcom and know they can't fight multiple years long legal battles in both their country and the USA simultaneously. Instead they decided to close their websites wheter or not it has been proven illegal (I can't imagine Dropbox, iCloud and others to be illegal, either). The whole point was to shut down Megaupload, not to prove all those services illegal or to put Dotcom in prison. It worked.
Bart, I just hope that the NZ judge goes deep enough in the investigation to ruin the careers of the government officials who authorized the raid and scare other countries from bending over like that. As I said, it's certainly the most interesting legal battle going on at the moment, with the UK News Corp scandal a close second, in my opinion.
Give me a break, please. They had already seized the data centre. All the evidence they could possibly need. Then what? Dotcom would run? Have you seen the guy? He'd have trouble getting up a staircase!With a guy that has such a shady past it is fair to assume that he has backup plans in case the shit hits the fan. Just knocking at the door with a warrant would have been foolish imo. Kimble always was a egomaniac crook and it's hard for people who know most of his past to have any sympathy for him. The amount of filesharing platforms that shut down after the megaupload raid pretty much shows how legal they think their business really is.Do you honestly believe that the fact he did insider trading makes it legal to use that much force and to destroy his business before being proven guilty? If they can prove he did those shady things in the 90s, then I hope he'll be charged and punished for it, but that's totally irrelevant to the current situation. The guy is a giant asshole, but he has rights.
In the end the US didn't provide any evidence to detain him. The warrants they used to detain him and seize his data centre turned out to be illegal. And then they turned what could have been just walking up to the door and inviting him to the police station into a military operation.
It doesn't matter that Dotcom is a massive bellend. This is a massive cockup. And I hope NZ and those responsible for it are forced to pay through the nose for it. Perhaps then, next time the US makes up a cock-and-bull story to ruin a guy they don't like, countries will be a little less willing to just go along with it.
Seriously. In Sweden you're charged with rape for having sex without a condom because you published stuff the US didn't want to see go public. In NZ they ruin your business and you get your house raided by a couple of SWAT teams the US copyright fanatics don't like you. When is enough enough?
Thanks. *hug*:brofist/hug:
What bums me out is not really the loss of the project (although it was a really nice one) but the context:
1) Only the 2nd real shot at a project I've had since I started working there. This is not my fault, but in the meantime I'm still just faffing about and getting bored. (If they'd chosen to send me off on another project instead of colleague X, I would be sitting there and not colleague X. Instead they banked on this project for me.)
2) My trial period/probation (however you want to call it) only ends in a week. That means that if they decide somehow that they made a mistake and cannot "sell" me, they can get rid of me - despite that being their apparent misconception and not something I did/misrepresented (I didn't).
Objectively speaking I can be pretty sure that they won't get rid of me before thursday the 16th. But - I can't be sure. And that's something I don't deal with super well (controlfreak? me? never!). Then there's some more boredom incoming.
I totally agree. Corporate america wanted to make a 'statement' to all those types of website. So they went after one of the big ones. Ofcourse it didn't hurt that Dotcom is such a shmuck either. And it worked. But that doesn't make it right!That only shows how scary the whole thing is. Small "cloud file-locker" website owners don't have the funds of Dotcom and know they can't fight multiple years long legal battles in both their country and the USA simultaneously. Instead they decided to close their websites wheter or not it has been proven illegal (I can't imagine Dropbox, iCloud and others to be illegal, either). The whole point was to shut down Megaupload, not to prove all those services illegal or to put Dotcom in prison. It worked.
Bart, I just hope that the NZ judge goes deep enough in the investigation to ruin the careers of the government officials who authorized the raid and scare other countries from bending over like that. As I said, it's certainly the most interesting legal battle going on at the moment, with the UK News Corp scandal a close second, in my opinion.
But it is the same type of character assassination as with Assange (who also a bit of a shmuck).
Just this time both the US and NZ fucked it up. Royally. And I hope they have to pay for it. Dotcom being an egomanic with money, I'm sure he'll try his best. I hope those officials responsible for this fuckup will be held to account. In NZ there's actually a chance of that. I am actually following this as well. Not least because I'm waiting for the holiday to end, so there's little development to follow in the News Corps scandal at the moment.
It sounds like somebody got their hands on a shipment of books that was meant to go back to the distributor for some reason. I remember every year my mother would have to score the front cover of textbooks (just as you said) before they got sent back... That way they could not be sold as new.
I thought they'd just rip out the title page for that ...It sounds like somebody got their hands on a shipment of books that was meant to go back to the distributor for some reason. I remember every year my mother would have to score the front cover of textbooks (just as you said) before they got sent back... That way they could not be sold as new.
I would say more like because the whole business is in a grey area, sure they only provide the file sharing service and can argue that they are not responsible for what the users upload. At the same time they know the reason their business is doing so well is that the majority of their users use their service to share ebil pirate stuff. Not that i want to whiteknight the other side, it's crooks vs crooks in this one.That only shows how scary the whole thing is. Small "cloud file-locker" website owners don't have the funds of Dotcom and know they can't fight multiple years long legal battles in both their country and the USA simultaneously. Instead they decided to close their websites wheter or not it has been proven illegal (I can't imagine Dropbox, iCloud and others to be illegal, either). The whole point was to shut down Megaupload, not to prove all those services illegal or to put Dotcom in prison. It worked.
I don't agree with the data centre being all the evidence they could possibly need. Everyone knows they gonna find copyrighted stuff there, the big problem they have is to prove that megaupload runs their business with the intention of profiting from copyrighted material being shared. So the untouched laptop of kimble, for example, could possibly provide far more evidence for their case then the whole data centre. And 4 swat cars and 2 helicopters sound not too overkill for a mansion of this size tbh. Kimble has obv. good lawyers so they will use every technicality in the book, the reason the warrant got declared illegal was because of "not specific enough on reasons for search and hence a general warrant which is illegal", as long as i don't see the actual warrant i don't trust any side. I don't agree with the usual US rambo tactics and they might aswell fucked up again here, but in this case it certainly didnt hit the wrong guy.
I was bored so i decided to watch Battlestar Galactica again. ITS LIKE SOMEONE IS HAVING SEX WITH MY BRAIN.
HHHHHNNNNNNGGGGGGG.
Also noticed this during one of the first eps:
Spoiler:
Which is cool.
Considered substitute teaching as a temporary stopgap to my unemployment situation, but found that the county I live in outsourced substitute teaching to a private education staffing service... who stopped making new hires in this state in 2010. Apparently. Their own website was very unclear about details at that level so I'm now awaiting an email back from them. Since I've got an MA my take-home from a day of subbing in my county would be about the same as I got at my old job (not enough to gamble on investments, but more than enough to live on and still accrue decent savings.)
I should qualify for a temporary teaching certificate here with a social science area focus, which would let me work full-time as a real teacher. But that's what my brother does and he's spent more time unemployed than employed since he got his teaching degree. Also he had to switch from social science to math, mainly because of the state's math and reading-based standardized tests at the expense of other subjects.
Last edited by Dirk Magnum; August 9 2012 at 07:16:25 PM.
The question is: do you want to teach? Being a teacher, even if you just sub, is not for someone just looking to collect a paycheck. I mean, you can treat it like that, but you will not like it and your students will not get anything from your teaching either.
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