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thedailybmp.com?
(b-movie plot)
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My wife wrote this comment for me...
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But then it would say,
"I am Vinit's wife, and I wrote this comment for Vinit."
Otherwise you have a recursive paradox.
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(Haven't checked lately, but last time I tried there was no default application to open an rtf file. Plenty of software will do it if you start from there, but that doesn't help if they save it to desktop and then double-click to look at it.)
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You're missing the point. Someone is claiming that Canada is "their own country" on the basis of their ancestors being there first, which means either:
They are of native origin, in which case maybe they should be more upset with the descendants of white colonists who took the country from the poster's people in the first place and not the immigrants they have more recently welcomed.
Or, they're a descendent of said white colonists with a surprising lack of awareness of history or just an inability to empathize with people they see as "different".
I'll leave it up to you to guess which one is more likely.
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Right or wrong, this... oh, wait. Too late. :(
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Weeks and weeks go by and you can't find one single developer?
The problem is you, RJ, not them.
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All that stuff is a waste of time. Take every candidate out for JD and rails of blow and if the candidate meshes, regardles off the applicants qualifications, the applicant will eventually make a good fit for the job. Just give it time and the applicant lots of blow.
p.s. I export all my resumes from vi to pps and then perm my hair!
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For the position I'm currently in, I was interviewed by five people. Most of them took notes on the copy that I handed them. It's very thoughtful to give each interviewer their own, fresh copy of your resume.
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For comparison, the US needs voter ID.
How about the first nations, who're a fucking minority in their own country, because your family invaded and in the space of just 20 generations you've mostly wiped out those who were there for 10,000 generations?Admin
I don't think I'd blackball them for this; at least not at first. My first sally would be, "Well, since you sent as a know-nothing hoping to sneak a big fee, how about you pay us for the time we wasted interviewing her?"
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Why does being somewhere for 20 Generations entitle YOU to anything? The world changes get used to it.
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I guess they're the ones to go to if you don't like your affirmative-action regs.
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If you live in a place, that's your place. Just because someone has been in that place for longer than you should not mean that person has privileges over you. And it most certainly does not mean that a person who has lived longer in a place is better than a person who has not lived there for as long.
Goes both ways, of course. When you move into a place, it's good manners to adopt the customs, laws and language(s) of the place you moved into (at least in public). After all, presumably you move to a place because you like that place (customs, laws and language(s) all).
The real WTF is restricting access to a place based on where a person was born. This person can come here because he/she was born in that place, but that person can't come here because he/she was born in that other place.
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Wine enthusiasts and bums aren't mutually exclusive. In fact, some wine enthusiasts even become bums
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We've sent invoices out at work for stuff like that before (we never actually expect a payment). Most are ignored as we expect, but sometimes the offending supplier will call and ask what it's about... These usually turn into payments when you explain that it cost a few hundreds dollars in staff time, or in some cases, had to supply extra products or discounts to keep a customer happy after a huge delay.
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20 generations you say? Quite interesting my little racist friend. Quoting from Wikipedia: "The original settlement, named Gastown, grew around the Hastings Mill logging sawmill and a nearby tavern, both established in 1867. Enlarging to become the townsite of Granville, with the announcement that the railhead would reach the site it was renamed "Vancouver" and incorporated as a city in 1886."
So Vancouver has been a city for around 130 years. That is much, much less than 20 generations. There are Chinese in Vancouver whose families have been there almost as long as yours, which I assume has been there for no more than 3-4 generations. Actually, YOU are the immigrant that went and took over land that belonged to others.
I am now racist against you, you don't deserve to live in Vancouver, please leave, go back to France or the UK or whatever European country you came from.
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"Native origin", definitely not Asiatics crossing the Bering land bridge 10,000 years ago. The only native inhabitants of America are rodents (slight exaggeration).
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Oh, puh-lease. We don't want him back. Send him to Saudi Arabia, whose inhabitants can teach the world plenty about racism.
Unless he was somehow trying to say that he's one of the people who dwelt in that area before the Europeans arrived, and now there are more people in that area of Euro ancestry than those of his own ethnic group. Although 20 generations, as has been calculated, equates to something of the order of 500 years, which doesn't quite tally with that hypothesis either.
Maybe your OP is functionally innumerate, and all numbers over 3 are a confusing lotsness to him. Or her, come to that, although to suggest a female can't count may, right or wrong, be construed as offensive.
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You know, you could've just said "But then, I'm a frakking moron" and save us all a lot of time.
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because your world view, which includes belief in inherited guilt, is the only possible world view.
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"In developed nations the average familial generation length is in the high 20s and has even reached 30 years in some nations"
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation#Familial_generation
Also, see source links on wiki page.
You're welcome.
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The little Iranian weasel was prone to brag about being Iranian with each and every breath. Nice one on the species though :).
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John Jiang Jingleheimer Schmidt, His name is my name, too. Whenever we go out, The people always shout, "There goes John Jiang Jingleheimer two!" Da da da da da da da da
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http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word-help/protect-a-document-from-unauthorized-changes-HP001044674.aspx#_Toc280362682 give them a passworded word doc.
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In fairness, he didn't say that his family has been in VANCOUVER for 20 generations. The relevant in which he made the comment about generations was, "I'm a f---- minority in my own country, and my family's been here for 20 generations." I think the plain reading is that his family has been in Canada for 20 generations, not necessarily specifically in Vancouver.
I don't know when the poster's ancestors arrived here or where they came from, but there were European settlers in Canada the 1500s, so it's not implausible.
Of course all of this is assuming that he meant the number literally and not as a poetic exaggeration. Life if someone says, "Man, this program takes a MILLION YEARS to run", I don't suppose that that time is literal.
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This is a highly racist idea. To say that the "white people" invaded and kicked out the "native Americans", and that the "native Americans" rightly owned the place because they were here first, only makes sense if you take it for granted that the only thing that matters about a person is the color of his skin.
I was born in New York State. When the British came to New York, they ultimately forced out the previous inhabitants, the Iroquois Indians.
But the Iroquois certainly had NOT been there for 10,000 generations or anything remotely approaching that. They conquered the land from the Algonquins. I frankly don't know when the Algonquins arrived or who they supplanted, but the Hopewell were there before them, maybe others in between.
To say that the Iroquois have some sacred right to the land just because they have the same color skin as people who were there before them, but that white people have no right to the land because they have a different color skin, is to see the world in totally racist terms. I sincerely doubt that as the Iroquois were killing the Algonquins, that the Algonquins said to themselves, "It would be really terrible if we were killed by white people, but as the people killing us are fellow native Americans, why then it's ok. Whether we win or lose, in the end the land will still be owned by native Americans, and that's what really matters."
It is difficult to see why the fact that the Iroquois drove out the Algonquins gives them a sacred, unalienable right to own the land for all time to come, while the fact that white people drove out the Iroquois means that white people can never be said to be truly "native" no matter how many generations they live there.
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Now that you mention it, that's a cool idea. I think the next time I go on a job interview, I'm going to bring along five resumes, all radically different, and give one to each person who interviews me. Then let the company get all confused when they talk about the applicants and one says, "Yes, this fellow has a lot of C# experience, I think we really need that," and then another says, "What? I didn't see anything on his resume about C#", etc.
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"I'm sorry, Billy won't be able to come to school today. He's very sick. I'm taking him to the doctor. This is my mother speaking."
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I don't live in poverty, but sometimes I get the feeling that my nation has been conquered by imperialist foreigners. Our government and our media regularly tell us that the great threats to our nation are immigrants, religious zealots, and gun owners. Which I find strange, as this country was founded by a group of immigrant religious zealots with guns.
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Maybe not, but if someone says he wants to work here, that must mean that he was unable to get a job with a real company. He's a loser.
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Actually, this is where the whole business confuses me.
It's true that an agency is unlikely to do business with the same employee again. I've only once gone back to an employment agency that I had used before, and that was many years and several jobs later.
Still, if they do a particularly good or particularly bad job for you, you're likely to tell your friends. Just because a company rarely does repeat business with the same person doesn't mean they don't have to worry about reputation.
But on the other side, I've known employers who routinely use the same agency. I think most companies are hiring new people pretty regularly -- even if they're not growing, there are always people quitting who need to be replaced. You'd think the agency would have a big incentive to keep the employer-client happy.
But curiously, I do regularly seem them fake out resumes. They DON'T seem to care that much about maintaining a good reputation.
Maybe we're all exaggerating the problem. Maybe we just remember a relatively small number of times that agencies have played games with employers, and not all the times that they've done a good job. I don't have any statistics. But even if that was true, it would be double reason why agencies SHOULD have to be squeaky clean.
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Which is precisely why they are dangerous. They conquered this nation once they can conquer this nation again.
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Not entirely. Some states require this, but plenty don't. I don't think I've ever had to show any ID at all to vote...
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..and you think numbers that are valid for modern, developed nations are still valid for a hundred years ago? five hundred? TEN THOUSAND???
It wasn't all that long ago that people would get married as young as 13; I highly doubt they were waiting until 25 to have kids.
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Bingo. Dems are fighting hard against ID laws, since they "champion" for the poor, who often don't have an ID.
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Here, have a cigarette. Want a light? There you go. Oops, I've set fire to your head. Oh dear, you seem to have completely burned up, with a godawful amount of smoke. Why didn't you tell me you were made of straw?
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Where I live, they post you a little card with the details of where you are invited to go to vote. You turn up at the location. You hand your card to the person at the desk. They note you have arrived and neatly cross your name off the list of the people they are expecting. They give you a piece of paper with a number on it. You then go into the booth and make a mark on that piece of paper. You fold it over twice and pass it through the slot at the top of a big box.
At the end of the day, the boxes are opened and the marks that people have made on the pieces of paper are examined, and those pieces of paper are sorted into categories appopriately. Then they count up the number of pieces of paper in each category and the category with the highest number of pieces of paper in it wins.
I asked once what was the purpose of the numbers on the paper. I was told by the officiating person that they were so they could correlate the number with the voter, and work out what they had voted. Thus if any voter wrote something on the piece of paper that the authorities did not like, they could pay that person a visit and give them a strict talking to, or in extreme cases, deprive them of their liberty. I protested about that, and declared that this was therefore not a secret ballot. She agreed, and told me that it was not supposed to be, and that the authorities had the right to demand to know exactly what each person had voted, in order to be able to take appropriate action against people who voted contrary to the way in which they would have preferred. At that point I ripped up the piece of paper and threw the pieces up into the air, thereby risking having action taken against me for littering.
It was not until several years later that I learned that I had been given incorrect information by that official. In fact, the numbers are on the pieces of paper in order that there be a safeguard against ballot fraud.
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I will do that as soon as you learn how to user BBCode properly.
Anyway: I highly doubt that you will find any valid sources for "500 years ago", since no one bothered to do statistics back then. So, we have to go with what we have now, right? And if you had actually bothered to "read and comprehend" the link I gave you, you could've found this: "Conversely, generation length has changed little and remains in the low 20s in less developed nations." And by "changed little" they mean "changed little from the late 18th century".
See above. Where do we get a reliable source for "a generation" from ten thousand years ago?
Again, if you had actually bothered to read the link, you could've found this: "Conversely, generation length has changed little and remains in the low 20s in less developed nations."
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Yeah, because the Romans weren't taking censuses since at least 475BCE, for taxation purposes.
And of course the French and British weren't doing it 500 years ago. Or the Germans. Or the Chinese or Indians, for that matter.