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Ralin wrote:I read a couple of them as a kid. They seem kinda creepy and sexist in retrospect. And isn't the author on record defending pedophilia in some of his other work?

His Apprentice Adept series goes hardcore on the pedo stuff. I'm honestly surprised any tv network is willing to touch his books.

I've found the trick to dealing with jobs that don't tell you how much they'll pay but ask you to put in a desired salary is to mark down some crazy number that they'd never realistically pay you. Most companies won't dismiss you for being optimistic and if they do then fuck em.

Is that even legal? Up here it's not - while there are plenty of indirect methods an employer can use to discourage employees from talking amongst themselves, they are not allowed to flat out make it a part of company policy, nor demand that you do so. If it's illegal no one has challenged it, and ...

Honestly I don't see this as necessarily a bad thing. If it keeps all the "reviewers" who think they deserve to get paid for their shitty videos reviewing someone else's content out of Youtube then I'm in favor of it.

Dictionaries are like mirrors - they do not determine the meaning of words, but reflect (report) the general usage. I didn't deny the word was being used with this secondary meaning; just saying that it was not the primary meaning. The point is possibly over your head. :P The point is you might nee...

Since Merriam Webster includes payment for services you're really making a non point.

This company has weird terminology. Wages are not compensation. I frequently refer to salary or wages as compensation. I got offered a job in Houston this past fall, but we couldn't agree on how much they were going to pay me. I don't say that though, I say "we couldn't agree on compensation &...

I tried giving one of the Gundam series a run back in the mid-2000s but I recall being bored fairly quickly and only making it a few episodes. Could have been being "Not Macross" was the turn off. It might have been the original Gundam series (also known as Gundam 0079). It was so slow th...

Eventually Bleach gets to the point but the show had to play catch up with the manga releases. It's not quite Dbz level bad.

Fair warning, Bleach has a lot of filler episodes that don't actually contribute anything important to the main story. We're talking whole seasons of filler.

Crazedwraith wrote:You mean what Angelus mentioned right there in the post you quoted?

I'm inclined to think thats a mythology gag rather than an indication of his actual motivation.

I'm going to just say I was probably too sleepy to notice what he said when I quoted him.

So in the comics, Thanos is trying to win over Lady Death. Could the MCU just be short-cutting that to be Hela? Sounds feasible, but we don't know Thanos' actual motivation on the MCU. He could simply be a megalomaniac that wants to take over the universe or something. All we have so far is a menti...

I have no idea how "made a few mistakes in his past" is relevant to being beaten because United fucked up and the guy had patients to take care of. I personally wouldn't be shocked if United were involved in this narrative being pushed, or the records being "uncovered." It just ...

Maybe the right wing channels just aren't as popular as they thought they were and want the excuse to bash leftists.

I can understand why an airline would want to sell every seat on a flight, but is overbooking really worth the trouble caused when the people who bought tickets all show up expecting to fly, considering how much the law says they can be compensated for being bumped? Ballpark, they only have to over...

So it looks like United managed to piss off a guy that actually has the resources to sue their ass.

http://www.latimes.com/business/lazarus ... story.html

Crazedwraith wrote:Huh. Weird. In the UK the propose wage range for the position is right there in the job ad in most cases.

Sometimes they give you a range in the job ads here sometimes they don't. There's no laws requiring it that I know of.

And forgive me for my ignorance of non IT hiring, but what's the problem with that? If you tell them what you're willing to work for they can legally pay you below the fair market value if you don't know what the average wages for your job are. It gives them a legal out to short change their employ...

Or the HR person can do another HR trick and just ask you how much do you expect to be paid. And forgive me for my ignorance of non IT hiring, but what's the problem with that? If you tell them what you're willing to work for they can legally pay you below the fair market value if you don't know wh...

Can you boot into safe mode and uninstall the previous windows update?

While we're on the subject.

Insys Therapeutics gave $500,000 to help defeat an Arizona legalization initiative last year. Now, the FDA has just approved its marijuana-based drug.

Do you have a better idea then? One that could plausibly work in America or Europe now? Yes. How about changing the laws and closing loopholes that allow cops escape responsibility? Especially in Europe, where I think you're overestimating the scale and scope of the problem. And how do you do that?...

That's why the FDA, which colludes with the DEA moved marijuana up to a schedule 1 drug, essentially saying it's more addictive than cocaine and just as addictive as heroin, which is fucking ridiculous. That's sort of not at all true. No, it really is. I only quoted this part (though I concede on t...

Based on my limited experience of trying to see a doctor about my back pain, I ended up giving up because I didn't feel like I was being taken seriously and had a nagging suspicion the doctors probably thought I wanted drugs. I can't imagine how bad it is for people with far more serious problems.

The FDA's involvement is mostly to say whether a drug can be sold for human consumption. There is a burden of research which the scheduling system makes prohibitive for marijuana to do that. Do we're in a catch 22 of high potential for abuse (which is true, as far as it goes) but no accepted medica...