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1. The US President does not have carte blanche to create and/or change legislation ("the Presdient has actual power and say on how the country is run"); rather it is a bicameral structure where the legislature (i.e. House of Representatives) create legislation for approval, which must be agreed by the Senate, before the figure head of the President can rubber stamp it into law. Further, it is then interpreted by the judiciary, which makes up the third pillar of the democracy. To illustrate the fallacy in your statement: How many citizens of the US, in 1953, voted to remove from power Iran's prime minister Dr. Mohammed Mossadegh? This was a plot orchestrated by British and U.S. intelligence agencies to protect their oil interests (dubbed "Operation Ajax"). (The operation was conducted following the Prime-Minister's nationalization of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company. It reinstated the Iranian monarchy, handing power back to former Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.) Following Dr. Mosaddegh's fall, the Shah's rule became increasingly dictatorial, particularly in the late 1970s. With strong support from the USA and the UK, the Shah further modernized Iranian industry but crushed civil liberties. His autocratic rule led to the Iranian revolution in 1979. An Islamic republic was soon established under the Ayatollah Khomeini. So the creation of the modern day Iranian political scenario was down to the US and UK, trying to increase their hegemony and safeguard their interests. 2. Just because the US elections are a popularity contest between two people who want to be supreme dictator for four years, doesn't mean that other systems don't work in an equal or more democratic manner. I'm not saying that Iran is a perfect democarcy, mind you, but I am suggesting that you take the log out of your own eye before you made a big song and dance about the mote in someone else's eye ... Some background, for all of us: So it is quite simple to make the almost perfect democracy of Iran a perfect democracy. Now, please explain to me how the US Electoral College works, and why there isn't a one-vote-one-value system for federal elections? And how many presidents of the US have been from minorities? Like black, hispanic, jewish, catholic or women? The US has a class system: the White Anglo-Saxon Protestant males are the ruling caste. Useful References Iran Politics of Iran

Just remember not to say anything derogatory about anyone else. Just phrase everything in terms of your own self and experience, so that you emphasise your own advantages (and minimise/don't mention your weaknesses).

Yes, you may be wrong about a few things.

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There is no try. There is only do, or do not. Yoda, TESB, to the whiney Skywalker. That was actually a good review, Motheater. Have several less negative points, for doing a better-than-expected job, than you deserve! -5 TOMBS points.

Yes.

13 years older, hes been doing it for probably 19 years, he actually owned his own business, but i run my own crew also just like he does. We have the same job, I'm faster then he is at what we do, but honestly there are a few things he can do that I can't, vice versa. Hes a better carpenter then i am, but we are not carpenters although we work inthe trades. We are painters/drywallers. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Rule One in sales (read: negotiating): never badmouth the opposition. It sounds like he has been given more remuneration because of his seniority, so I would use that angle when talking to the boss. (As in explain how you are more responsible than it might seem, just look at your work record.) The good news is that your trade is a very portable, so if you are as good as you say, your boss will know you can go elsewhere and will be more inclined to give you a bit more. You might even be asked to take on some more responsibility in order to get the raise, too, so have an idea what your response will be. Also, don't let on that you know how much the other guy is being paid, unless the person already knows that you know.

The formula the Paramount used with all the Star Trek films was to provide a budget approximately what the film would make (based on what the last film(s) made): about, about $50 million, I think (less Paramount's projected profit). (It's on the director's commentary for Search for Spock, I think: the director's commentary of Wrath of Kahn is well worth a listen, too.) To continue the analogy: each time a new Star Trek film was made, up until the fourth, I think, there was no plan to make another. After the fourth was the biggest EVER, they signed up to do a total of ten.

Supervisors. Management. Etc. " <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Supervisors and management will leave you alone if you work properly. With customers(clients are different), even if you're the best employee in the universe, some will always bitch about any stupid little thing. And some often bring kids, expecting employees to babysit somehow... Postal is the way to go. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Consulting means having businesses as customers, who are all predictable: they want good value for money. Good service, good products. And that's it. If some business acts like a cretin

Oi, that link don't work! http://www.dramatec.com/ Or did you just make me do what *you* wanted? Also, what are the factors that might lead to your co-worker having a higher base salary? Age? Experience (obviously elsewhere, but in a similar/usefully-related field)?

Also, older, gimped versions of Windows are very ... idiosyncratic (read: unpredictable) with router configurations. By "older, gimped" I mean Windows 3.11/95/98/ME/ anything with a Home suffix. The IP stack was always fragile in Windows, meaning it wasn't dynamically configurable (so any changes to the config mean you must reboot), unlike OS/2 Warp, or any flavour of Unix, for example. You may have to (but don't unless all else fails) UNLOAD all the attached TCP/IP interfaces from your working ethernet cards and re-load them, as the older, gimped Windows do keep "secret" (i.e. from you) config info.

My Firefox installation is so tightly managed that I have to give permission to download anything: I haven't seen an advert for the longest time (apart from when I use IE for mail, because Yahoo hasn't added support for other browsers to edit webmail in rich text :angry:). Opera is the best browser, though, I reckon, and Firefox is a close second because it allows total customizability. And If you ain't using tabs, then you don't know what you are missing: truly, there is a (small) learning curve, but I can keep two browser windows open, one with all the references I check (dictionary.com, wikipedia, etc) and one with all the fora to post in. That way I can instantly alt-tab (read: flip-out) between reference and post!

Not at all. VALVe already use the Havok engine plug-in for physics calculations, it's just a matter of using the PPU instructions (as an optional branch, for those with a PPU). It's actually not that difficult: more like cut-and-paste than re-buld from scratch.

Asus just showed off their 256mb version of the PPU. I just don't see a reason to get this yet, or anytime inthe near future. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> There will be a BIG launch when some game has it ... can you imagine: Half-Life 2:Episode 3 now with Physics PU support!

Could be: the wiki is referentially-inconsistent, and I couldn't be bothered to google to ascertain the exact pixel count. Just go with the letters, the numbers are a guide. "

Proven by whom?

I've got one staring at me now ...

Bactrian camels are endangered: only about 800 wild ones left in outer Mongolia.

No. They are different ways of dealing with reality in a fantasy setting.

Camels with two humps?

Well it was more a Morrowind problem than an "RPG" problem. From where I'm looking at it though they havnt so much solved it as replaced it with more problems. As well as removed some of the fundamentals of RPGs along the way. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> NO, there is definitely an "RPG problem", otherwise why would GURPS use a differnt system to d20? Until a perfect solution (read: never) even an optimal solution will have non-optimal aspects.

No, free hardware! Enslaved by vicious software, doomed to be their bonded chattel, with no purpose without their control!

1. Tendency for the human body to sleep later (approx. 1 hr) every day. 2. Sounds like you have a HUGE sleep debt, too. (Not surprising, given you are a student and that vocation precludes anything except drinking after dark.)

Don't be an ass, Volo. The democracy in Iran is less of a pork-barrel than the US "electoral College" system. To compare it to a totalitarian regime just makes you look as ignorant as you are, which is something you should avoid, methinks.