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You meant it not sarcastically?

w00t! I'm mediocre! I got promoted!

Best excuse ever.

I'm currently negotiating a project, and would dearly love to tell my counterpart that they're deranged, and have totally unrealistic expectations.

Not really a surprise I'm afraid. Mkreku has a point about disregard for civilian casulaties. Yes, every time we do an air strike civilians tend to get killed. Sometimes a LOT of civilians. This doesn't make me proud but consider three points: 1. There are massive headquarters units whose only job is checking air strike missions for the effect on civilians. They can and do veto missions if they are judged to be legally and morally unsound* 2. _If_ the target was a terrorist financier or bomb maker then they are themselves responsible for hundreds of civilian deaths in Iraq. Is taking them out not a justified reduction in civilian deaths? 3. Terrorism also involves hiding behind civilians. Coalition forces do not hide behind civilians. If you do this you endanger civilians. That's why we don't do it. A few thoughts. *By the rules of war and Geneva conventions

We have quite a few eatern Euros here. Makes life more interesting. I'm glad we never had to fight them in a Sov inspired ww3.

I'm not sure that scraping your shins with a fork counts as touching yourself. I was still wrecked, and dranka botle of wine, played some psychonauts, and went to bed at 2000. Slept until seven this morning. Wrote up reports, and rang my assistant to apologise for being an unreasonable **** on Saturday. He made the kind of noises you make when an apology is overdue. Reheated remains of roast lamb in wok with peppadew peppers, cream cheese, and mustard. Served over hot toast. Large mug of coffee.

I don't think they're hard to work on at all. The keyboard is about the same size as an old Spectrum 48k. The screen size could be an issue, but so far no trouble at all. The more important thing is that they're properly portable. Good battery life, and very light.

All those self made guys are all blow hardy d bags. They think it was all their work that got them to the top even though it was most likely a team of people like me in the shadows. I'm sorry that you had to endure wals. :'( This is why you need an assistant who can be a certified yes man and also with a small investment of $1,350 could also be your body guard who is a master of the deadly arts of jiu jitsu and various striking techniques. ? Unfortunately for you, I already have a power-packed assistant. He has to put up with all kinds of shenanigans. And by shenanigans i mean poor working conditions, and unreasonable demands.

Why do I get the feeling he hates us?

As in "If I were a witch man?"

*remembers that mkreku hates smiley responses* :ROFL:

Pitched big project to self-made man yesterday. Six hours of waiting for our spotter to call us in like some besuited SWAT team, then SEVEN GODDAMN HOURS being alternatelygriled and told rambling stories. I still can't work out which side was being less professional. I mean, we spent at least half an hour discussing the etiquette of punching people in the face.

I'd be surprised if many school educations mentioned the Hungarian revolution. Mine did, but we had a lunatic for a history master.

Demand they put you on doxycycline. That **** kills anything. And I mean ANYTHING.

Less hentai obsessives?

If you can't stop the pain, can you take your mind off it? Maybe watch comedy? Go for a run? You might try hypnosis, if you can find a good practitioner.

I know it looks awful, but there is a real problem with people refusing to tell past partners to get checked up. Anything which makes the process easier must therefore be a good thing?

I think it's interesting. However, the 'murder' did affect an investment of time on her husband's part. Depriving him of the benefits of that investment surely [moot] constitutes an offence.

It was all about oil. Modern political thinking's universal theory of everything. Actually, I'd like to hear more. Tell us.

*chuckles* It certainly marks out a fundie that they insist on only their interpretation. Speaking of which, though, wasn't someone telling me recently that a hallmark of Islamic history has been a phobia of 'fitnah', or religious schism, caused by differing interpretations? Isn't differing interpretations what set the Taliban and Iran at each other?

The client made moves to mollify me after my prima donna incident yesterday, offerring to spring for lunch, and cracking out some papte and wine for snacks. Lesson learned: throw hissy fits more often. Very much sobered reading and thinking of Fio's mom. For what little good it is worth...

It could just be the hangover talking, but isn't this something quite fundamental? How can any extreme social agenda ever really represent the will of a people as heterogenous as the USA? Therefore is it not an argument that therefore an extremist platform is logically and ineluctably unsuitable for a national leader?

The Black Hawk Down soundtrack

But you're mind-policing them getting pissed off! You nutloop. Okay, I confess I'm not certain if that comment was made in a completely tongue-in-cheek manner, but I'll bite. I should make it clear that I'm not trying to take away their righteous wrath. They are completely free to throw all the fits they see fit (ahem). That was never the point and if it were, I doubt SCEE would have enacted this abominable self-censorship - hence my comment about the irrelevance of my being offended. The problem comes when they act upon those pet peeves of theirs, or threaten to do so. Then it's no longer a question of mind-policing, but a question of them enforcing (or at least attempting to) said mind-policing by means of terror and death. As I said, not even the idea of universal free thought should be exempt from scrutiny, accepted as it may be. Problem is, a bunch of clowns take the opposite for granted and have no problem with marking for death those who would dare to defile the God-given certainty of their beliefs. I see. In which case we've been agreeing for three pages. Sorry. I was aiming my objection at the reaction of somke people which is furious intolerance of the mere taking of offence by Muslims. As if a Western sense of humour should be compulsory issue to all humans.