mogrim

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by mogrim 13y ago
> McDonalds certainly doesn't suggest that you do that I thought part of the problem was that McDonalds /did/ suggest you /could/ do that, without any ill-effects - that their meals were healthy and you could eat
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by mogrim 13y ago
It's not a foreign country, though - they're not immigrants.
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by mogrim 13y ago
> If you only got your world-view from western-TV, you'd think America is paradise with perfect people, aside from blacks & mexicans. That's not the view of the US I get from Spanish news: there's a /lot/ of
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by mogrim 13y ago
A hundred years earlier: "Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration."
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by mogrim 13y ago
I think that probably depends a lot on where you work, and your seniority - in Spain a senior developer or project manager that changed jobs yearly would have a harder time finding work than one who showed more loyalty to his/her compa
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by mogrim 13y ago
That depends entirely on the child - my eldest is a perfectionist and hates being bad at something, the youngest is quite happy doing the activity, even if she isn't very good at it.
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by mogrim 13y ago
Successful experience, too.
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by mogrim 13y ago
A good question, and one for a historian to answer - not me! The example I picked shows bias, but as I stated earlier I'm unsure as to which article is closer to the truth. Just for the record, though, the English article includes 9 ci
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by mogrim 13y ago
Theoretically you're right, and for a subject such as mathematics you may even be correct in many cases. But in practise (as my example shows) you're wrong.
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by mogrim 13y ago
And let's not forget a personal favourite: "You fucking piece of shit!", which nicely spans the faecal/sexual linguistic divide.
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by mogrim 13y ago
Also a fair point, it was interesting to read "An Army At Dawn" by Rick Atkinson: generally most of the books on WWII that I'd read were by British authors, and there was a definite change of viewpoint (or bias) when reading
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by mogrim 13y ago
> Or consider the fact that Germans tend to use faecal terms to curse while in English, sexual terms are more common. Bullshit. :) (But I fully agree with the rest of what you say).
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by mogrim 13y ago
> Why would you consider this bias? Because it quite patently is. The English language article about the battle makes little mention of any Spanish contribution, and portrays it as basically Wellington and the British vs. the French; the
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by mogrim 13y ago
What's also interesting is the bias that appears when the same topic is covered in different languages. Take the English and Spanish articles about the Battle of Vitoria: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Vito
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by mogrim 13y ago
They have a Spanish site, too, and it's exactly the same as the US version - the same scam.
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by mogrim 13y ago
A room full of noisy people is actually less of a problem than an overly quiet office, where a single phone ringing will set everyone doing meerkat impressions... Not disagreeing with the headphones bit, I couldn't wear them for 8hrs.
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by mogrim 13y ago
Not if you stick the reader on the back (or side) of the phone.
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by mogrim 13y ago
> Things that rarely help: speaking more loudly and repeating the same phrase multiple times. The Spanish do that - and it doesn't help them much, either. Oh, and you've forgotten the "waving your arms about" bit.
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by mogrim 13y ago
Ideally you would probably want to cross reference it with something like Al Jazeera to get a non-western point of view, too.
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by mogrim 13y ago
Me too, a deadline really forces me to get down to studying, it's all too easy to let life get in the way otherwise!
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by mogrim 13y ago
There are a few places in Europe that you wouldn't be able to get to - the centres of some small villages, for example, or some smaller residential streets - but they're a definite minority. Don't forget we have buses and del
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by mogrim 13y ago
you... bastard. Did you really have to mention ribs? I'm starving now :(
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by mogrim 13y ago
And here it is in on sale: http://www.movistar.es/particulares/movil/moviles-tarjeta/fi...
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by mogrim 13y ago
Presumably lowers the risk: try the devices out on a smaller market, iron out the inevitable bugs, and then release worldwide? Lower costs, too: Telefónica will be paying for most of the marketing, the sales channels, they might also be pro
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by mogrim 13y ago
ASCII: what a disaster. As anyone who's ever had to program in any language other than English will have discovered.
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by mogrim 13y ago
Unlikely: a standing army is a lot easier to squash than a load of unrelated, unconnected individuals.
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by mogrim 13y ago
I managed to install mine, and if I can do it anyone can :) The fact that it's fixed in one location often isn't that much of a problem, given that ceiling lights are traditionally mounted in the center of the room, which is just where you
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by mogrim 13y ago
Get a ceiling fan, they're usually a lot quieter.
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by mogrim 13y ago
What a surprise: the only naked figures are a) women and b) cute.
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by mogrim 13y ago
James Bond films are James Bond films, as long as you accept that fact they're great. They're only stupid if you try to impose reality on them.

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