Large spoon, unless the container/can is too small for it and a smaller spoon must be used. I don't like fishing elusive things with inadequate tools. (Which is also the reason why today I often eat tiny things such as rice with a spoon & fork rather than the norm of my country which is with a fork & knife.)

Originally posted by Gabu

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Browsing through Craigslist when I come up with this. Going to have to nod my head in agreement here. It just feels like all the quality employers have moved on to different sites.

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Originally posted by Xkeeper

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Originally posted by Bisqwit

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There is a principle in scheduling, that every layer of scheduling adds some percentage to the estimated cost in time. For example, if the developer says it will take two hours, the manager will communicate that it will take four hours and the salesman will sell it as taking seven hours.

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I wish I lived in your fantasy world. I have never seen anything but the opposite, where the developer says 5 hours and the sales team turns around and says one hour.

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It is all too bad that you work in a stupidly managed company.

It is common knowledge in this profession that programmers are overly optimistic in their time estimates. Any manager worth their salt knows that unless they add some buffer to it, sooner or later they will end up with projects that exceed their budgets in both time and cost.

Programmers generally aren't in the habit of doing like Scotty, i.e. holding something back so they can satisfy inevitable and yet unreasonable "I need more" requests. Unless they're desperately in the need of vacation.

Originally posted by Peardian

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I could never eat a grasshopper... I like them too much to do so.

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I also would rather have let it go, but it was all “life is pain *twitch*” after my cat had exercised with it for a few moments...

Ugh. The craziness people do. And to think, some do that for religious reasons.



I have to say the foley team did quite well, though.

Do you get that when sleeping in other houses/locations?

Well, as a Bible believer myself I would not set it aside that it is a spiritual issue.
But unlike in movies where you hire an exorciser and they take care of the issue and it is done with, in the model of reality that I subscribe to, it always requires also a permanent change in the circumstances.

Matthew 12:43-45: "When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, it travels through dry places, seeking rest, but finds none. Then it says, I will return into my house from which I came out; and it returns, and finds it vacant, swept and garnished. And it goes and takes seven other spirits, more wicked than itself, and they all enter in and dwell there, and the last state of that man is worse than the first. Even so shall it be also unto this wicked generation."

In general, this verse is used to explain that if a person has been set free by God (from any kind of sin, including alcoholism), but that person still continues to live according to their own ways, not really yielding to God, not accepting God's Spirit (who would fill the "vacancy"), they are still subject to succumbing even deeper than they were previously.

More technically, willingly committing sin (transgression of Torah) is literally making a legal contract with unclean spirits. As long as the man sticks to that contract (to which the sin is a proxy), God honors the contract and does not separate its associated parties. Now, what is the most common sin? I do not know, but I would guess unforgiveness is on the top of the list.
Now, disembodied sounds and other wacky phenomena are not the regular type of unclean spirits. The typical ones just make diabetes.

The lesson: Watch whose songs you sing, and what kind of company it attracts.

I know. I know people who could be called with that word.
Luckily, going with all kinds of HYPE is not among the traits of those particular people.

With that list, are you suggesting some kind of ROLE play?

Originally posted by Delpolo

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Hah, and I thought this thread was going to be about how it seems like anyone can choose their own thumbnails by uploading an image now, as opposed to only YouTube partners.

I mean, I'm definitely not a partner, yet I can choose thumbnails now...

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Hmm, doesn't seem to be available to me.

And I am definitely not a YouTube partner, because the partner program is not offered to people in my country to begin with.

Originally posted by Rick

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Superplay Theater? Sure. I'll see if I can come up with something with a good ring to it.

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Wow. That is an incredibly good suggestion.

I wish I had thought of it 7 years ago.

Then again, with that kind of name someone might think the site is about baseball...

Originally posted by SamuelEarl666

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Making sandwiches with either crisps or fish fingers are actually quite nice though (in my opinion).

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I wonder how many people have tried fish fingers and custard after watching the 11^th Doctor.

Originally posted by Garr

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Content: I once ate a whole dandelion, because I thought it would taste good. Yellow flower and all. I was very wrong about my thoughts.

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I have eaten dandelion leaves though. They are mildly edible.
Once I even ate a stew made from dandelion roots. It was a lot of work cleaning them before cooking. In the end, it wasn't all that bad.
In fact, I hear it is healthy. Don't know about the actual flower.

If I had infinite free time, one of the projects I would do would be a redesign of TASVideos from scratch. (Really.) Even before I gave out the site, I was hoping to get into doing it for a year or two.
I like the wiki + movie archive thing, but based on all the past experience I would probably do bits a thing differently, especially on the backend side. I don't really have a completely fleshed-out redesign idea though.

The reason why I am no longer doing a thing for TASVideos is that considering the finite amount of time and energy I have at my disposal, and that I was (correctly) expecting things that occupy both to be increasing in the near future, I really need to prioritize my time and attachments, and in that process TASVideos was one of the first things to go. I am still not using my time optimally; extremely far from it, but I'm quite happy with one less liability.

I have no problem with people knowing my real name... And in fact, I have insisted a realname policy on many systems I have moderated during this millennium.

But beyond the real name, it gets complicated. I know there are many people who know my address and phone number that probably should not know it (because it was written in a very public international registry for years; not sure how many did bother to look it up though). But should a need arise, I can change both at relatively little hassle.
So far, there has not been any problem.

But what are the risks, really?

I have no problem if someone who used to know me only from the Internet will suddenly call me, or send me a letter, or even appear behind the door, as long as they aren't stalking and harassing me, or posting that information in some services that send you eh, spam, through those channels. Most people I know though, are either so introverted, or just unwilling to spend money in any of those communication methods, that none of that happens.
By principle, I never permit giving any such information for marketing purposes, if at all possible.
How about my bank account number? So far I haven't been able to see any problem with having it public. To my knowledge, there's nothing you can do with knowing someone's bank account number except send them money, and I have no qualms with that.

I suppose the bigger problem is with the personal identification number (or social security number). Many services use it for identification and authentication of the person. For example, if you pay by a bank or credit card in Finnish stores, and your card does not have the smart chip in it, they take your signature, and beyond a certain sum, write down your SSN. They also take your SSN and signature in the post office when you fetch a package. In addition, if you travel by train without a valid ticket and get caught, they ask (and verify) your SSN and use that for inspection fee related purposes. Technically, you could give someone else's credentials in all of those situations, but it would be a legal fraud.
There may be some people who know my SSN that should not know it, but in general I have avoided typing it anywhere in the Internet. Also a few people have seen my signature, but there's little value in that. I could scribble anything, really.

There are only a few situations where I truly wish to be completely anonymous, and I realize it is quite difficult really, especially in the Internet. I am not used to using proxies like Tor, and in general I do a shoddy job at masquerading my own style. I use certain types of sentence structures, and a particular wording at times, and a person who has a suspicion might cross-reference and determine a match.

In a related topic: I was actually surprised to learn yesterday, that in USA it is practically a constitutional right to be anonymous in any situation, even in legal and commercial situations. You could have a pseudonym and use it anywhere, and it would be permissible. Not so in Finland! In fact, in Finland we are basically taught and educated in such manner that if you introduce yourself using a false name somewhere, it FEELS wrong and that you are a terrible cheating bastard for doing so. In Finland, we are taught that in any and all official situations, like opening a bank account, or cashing in a cheque (should you still receive such thing from some undeveloped country), or voting, or subscribing to a magazine, or when a cop pulls you over in traffic, or indeed, picking up parcel in the post office, you will have to prove your identity in an unambiguous manner (usually by showing your papers, which might be the driver's license, or a personal identification card, or a passport). It is a very different world.

Originally posted by Dorito

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i used it for about a week a game card for an mmo... i think it was $10?

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Sounds like seriously not worth anyone's time.

In 2009-2010, I received three times the same spam from PointShop.fi. Someone had "recommended" their site to me, and I received their autogenerated recommendation. I do not know who it was -- the e-mail address shown in the recommendation was not familiar to me. The message said I can earn "points" by participating in competitions, filling surveys and by recommending to friends; and that those "points" can be exchanged to goods in their shop. I promised to never ever load their webpage.

Today now that I search for information about that shop, I find countless stories by people who tell how difficult it was to actually get anything beyond something trivial like candies, how they lost their money due to return/cancel policies that were made nearly impossible to follow without extreme persistence, and how they had to give their information to advertisers fully knowing it will be used for direct marketing.

I stand by the opinion that I made the right choice to never even load their webpage.

Years ago, it happened that I received an offer from some magazine (by Bonnier AB) that if I subscribe to their magazine, I get a nice coat as a gift. The condition was that you must wait until you get the first magazine. I considered it a good deal if I subscribe for a month, and get a magazine and a coat, and cancel immediately thereafter. How they did was that it took a lot time for that first magazine (and the gift) to arrive, so that I had to actually pay for two months of subscription. When I finally did get my gift, I cancelled the subscription immediately. Afterwards, I found out that they added my information to their direct advertising lists. Year after year, the following happened once every few months: Their advertisements land in my mailbox that has a sticker on it that says "No advertising". I take my phone and call their customer service, and tell them to immediately remove my information from any database they have; from all marketing lists and such. They promise to do so. Repeat two or three months later. For several years straight. I don't know what finally stopped them. Maybe because I moved, or something.