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by dvtv75 9y ago
Your understanding is more-or-less irrelevant: war graves are legally protected by many nations, and you may not interfere with those nation's war graves them unless you have dispensation to do so.
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by dvtv75 9y ago
Not true. As recently as 2013 I was using VHS, Betacam, Betamax, and others (DV Cam, DV Mini, occasionally even 16mm film, blah blah) in a commercial role. VHS was a last resort, because the image was absolutely awful. Even fresh VHS reco
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by dvtv75 9y ago
Wasn't one of the key causes of the disintegration of the USSR the simple fact that people were using position and influence to have more than others? The further up the chain one was, they had better access to food, a better car, bet
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by dvtv75 9y ago
I have a handful of rather nice images, photos taken of the Moon, rainbows, or crepuscular rays. As I said, they're rather nice, but as you suggest, I really wish I had my Nikon on me at the time. They wouldn't just be "rat
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by dvtv75 9y ago
It wasn't just the 70s, my father's picked up on it from all the conspiracy theory YouTube channels and rants on about it today. That, and the Zero Point Energy system that was developed and bought, then hidden away by the oil co
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by dvtv75 9y ago
Drawing a conclusion from this, if a person has a disability that leads them to being unable to interact until they understand the nature (rules) of the person or group around them, then they're more-or-less screwed in an interview sit
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by dvtv75 9y ago
> I don't see how anyone could be atheistic--how can you prove a negative? From this, I take it that you believe we walk around disbelieving your god. "There's no god. Oh look, a tree, that wasn't created by a god.
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by dvtv75 9y ago
> Yes, but who is doing the judging, and how? What does taking "moral responsibility" mean? Hasn't this already been solved? Take a leaf out of Engineering or Medical licensing.
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by dvtv75 9y ago
That is a very good point. At my work if you work more than 8 hours in a day, they just won't pay you for the extra. It looks bad on reports, and doesn't matter if the job must be completed by midnight you still can't work 1
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by dvtv75 9y ago
I must say, this is the first time that I have seen not spending money defined as "hurting yourself."
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by dvtv75 9y ago
A couple of years back, I installed Windows Vista on a Lenovo something (no idea what). Took me three days to find most of the drivers and get it all running, and about an hour to do the actual install. I ran it for a few weeks, then the
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by dvtv75 9y ago
So, instead of taking the 50/50 chance of something being great, you'll accept downright poor instead. I'm not actually poking fun of you, one of my friends has the same attitude - something that I just can't understand.
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by dvtv75 9y ago
As a friend of mine explained (his Master's Thesis used this topic), the idea that the marketer is trying to get them to spend money on something is simplistic and misguided. What's actually happening is they're trying to cr
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by dvtv75 9y ago
About ten years ago, I read a news article about a management firm in Auckland, New Zealand, who collected rent, conducted monthly inspections, and had found the greatest tenant. SO, when the tenant moved out and the landlord decided to ins
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by dvtv75 9y ago
I'm of the same opinion, they're working for minimum wage or near enough to it, maybe just being nice to them will make their day a bit better. I've worked those jobs, and have been abused for an incompetent (or lying) boss.
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by dvtv75 10y ago
I recently upgraded my Linux PC, and had to reinstall Skype. So I sign in to the new Skype, and can't remember my password. That's OK, I'll just get them to reset it. Oh, my email address expired while my PC was sitting on
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by dvtv75 10y ago
This is something that's actually in the process of happening at my workplace. The CEO is trying to reduce our shifts by half, because there isn't enough work for us to do. (He's a poor CEO, we have a terrible reputation th
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by dvtv75 10y ago
> Why do we always bring up CEO compensations... I certainly bring up professional athlete salaries. Given that they produce absolutely nothing of value beyond a marketing opportunity, they're all overpaid for very little real work
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by dvtv75 10y ago
Even if his philanthropy allows him to pressure governments to change intellectual property laws around the world?
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by dvtv75 10y ago
An immediate relative of mine worked at the Hillside Workshops in Dunedin, at the time the Chinese were given a contract to build the passenger carriages. I remember very clearly the stories he told me, when the carriages arrived: every si
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by dvtv75 10y ago
I lived in Dunedin. Items there were charged at rates suitable for wealthy tourists. Pay rates were legal minimums, although the added extras you had to provide for your work were well outside any legal rights employers have. For my last
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by dvtv75 10y ago
NZ yes. My ex's family went and worked in Australia for a year or two. They boarded the plane, came back to New Zealand, and got a letter from the IRD demanding payment of taxes for the time they worked in Australia. Her father shot
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by dvtv75 10y ago
My understanding was also that Christchurch is the most dangerous city in the country, but I've no figures to back that up. My ex lives up there, and when I stayed with her family they had me lock the car door when we were driving thr
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by dvtv75 10y ago
You sound like every single martial artist that I've ever met, and almost every single one of them has - just like you - an overblown sense of how tough and knowledgeable they are, and how everyone around them is a pathetic worm who ju
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by dvtv75 10y ago
I have a friend in the army who was on a training course. The entire section were spending 8-10 hours a day on the Playstation.
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by dvtv75 10y ago
So you're saying that it's "of the people, by the people, for the people"?
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by dvtv75 10y ago
> Did they just have them say the lines over and over and over until they accidentally got a good take? Not everyone is George Lucas. Seriously, though, I think the various coaches (dialog, accent, acting) on set might have a lot more in
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by dvtv75 10y ago
> Also a good way to ensure sick people heroically come to work and infect everyone else. There will always be people who'll do that, some out of sheer disregard for others and feelings of being a superhero by not letting a "li
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by dvtv75 10y ago
> Having to meet with a lawyer, accountant, etc isnt a "vacation", but I'm expected to use vacation not > sick days for those appointments. You think you've made a point, but you really haven't. You don&#x27
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by dvtv75 10y ago
Sometimes satire and sarcasm are the best way to draw attention to the absurdity of a given position.

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