• All these European countries are just the same (unregistered) in reply to Marvin the Martian
    Marvin the Martian:
    Anyway, I know you're referring to the SNCF.
    Uhm... SNCF seems very French to me. What are they doing in Greece?

    Are you 100% sure you know that he is referring to the SNCF?

  • (cs)

    Myriad is ten thousand, and in mahjong tiles the Chinese numbers have the red sign meaning ten thounssand.

  • frits (unregistered) in reply to Hortical
    Hortical:
    Matt Westwood:
    mainframe_web_dev:
    Here in Ohio (pronounced O-Hi-Yah), myriad means "many, and of different types". That would be American English, slang Midwest.
    Here in Britain we just use the term "shitloads".
    When talking to an American, you'll have to qualify it: "metric shitload" to avoid confusing it with a "U.S. shitload", which is a bit larger considering diet, which is a bit larger considering the prevalence of all-you-can-eat buffets.
    Here in America, all restaurants serve "all-you-can-eat" portions. Only morons pay extra for those buffets.
  • Mark (unregistered) in reply to Matt Westwood
    Matt Westwood:
    Plato:
    OK, splain this to me. You have a buncha countries all using the same currency. One country's politicians decide to have lots of giveaways to the voters so they can get re-elected. They go into national debt like there's no tomorrow.

    In the USA we solve this by just printing up a few tons more money. Can Greece just print enough to give everybody a million Euros? Wealth and happiness for all? Or who decides how many Euros to print and which country gets to hand them out?

    What I don't understand is: it appears that every country is in debt. Who to? It sounds to me like saying: every single team in the league lost on Saturday.

    To our future selves... and the evil bankers of course.

  • (cs) in reply to Kuba
    Kuba:
    Severity One:
    but the rest of Europe that uses the common currency isn't particularly happy with the Greeks right now. For example, the wage of a train driver working for the national railways (which haven't made a profit, ever, and are incredibly indebted) is around €100,000 (US notation, so 'one hundred thousand euros'). This is more than what the French president used to earn before he increased his wage by a factor of 2.5.
    Wow, I should have moved to Greece and milked them for all they got! ;) 100k Euro for a train driver? Shit, that's better than the higher GS-13 govt pay grade that NASA Astronauts can get (up to USD 100k). I guess if you're in Greece, driving trains is harder than flying Shuttle missions.

    Well, yeah ...

    How hard can it be? Press the "takeoff" button. Lie there while it takes off. Lots of automatic stuff in there to fly it for you. Goodness me, it's not exactly rocket science. As opposed to driving a train: you've got a start and a stop button. Knowing which to use, and when to use it, takes a considerable amount of sophisticated and expensive training.

  • Herr Otto Flick (unregistered) in reply to In the wrong line of work.
    In the wrong line of work.:
    Severity One:
    the wage of a train driver working for the national railways is around €100,000
    A train driver makeing ~$135K ? Damn.

    In London, tube drivers - job description, "holding down dead man's handle" - get $80k a year and 50 days holiday a year. Yes, 50.

  • (cs) in reply to Expert
    Expert:
    LMC:
    Myriad come from the greek "myrias" that means 10.000

    Wrong again.

    Myrias (μύριος) translates as "countless"

    For ancient greek it just arbitrary large number, that objects of such quantity cannot exists in the world.

    According to Liddell and Scott, "myrios" alone is "countless", but with an article, "a myrios" or "the myrios", it's 10,000. Most of its derivatives use the 10,000 meaning.

  • Mike (unregistered) in reply to Expert
    Expert:
    10000 is arbitrary impossible large number, like, myriad people come to your party (you can't have 10000 friends)

    So says you, Zuckerberg.

  • Patrick Stein (unregistered) in reply to Looked it up
    Looked it up:
    http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/myriad

    Though it should have been "a myriad of".

    http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/myriad[2]

  • Patrick Stein (unregistered) in reply to Patrick Stein
    Patrick Stein:
    Looked it up:
    Though it should have been "a myriad of".

    http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/myriad[2]

    Ignore me. I didn't even notice the "a" when I read the original sentence.

  • Shea (unregistered) in reply to ParkinT

    Sadly - I thought this was a joke too. Having more than a decade experience in both coding and networking it was hard for me to get my brain wrapped around the fact that computers were 'new' to many 'smart' people at the time.

    But alas, this is a true story ;)

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