Timewaster's Guide Archive

The UN is like the the EU

Spineless
Appeasment

Someone forgot the lessons of History
That and UN Failures and inactio did ALOT to contribute to that (and many other) Bloodbath.  (Ooops found the black box 9 years too late)

The wrong action is often less deadly than inaction.

I blame the career-uber-alles attitude you see in Japan and you see evolving in the USA.

People focus too much on what they do. Your job should be only a means by which you provide for your family and self.  

Carribian
James Mitchner

Picked it up after my Honeymoon in Cancun.  When I was down there I found myself more intrested in the Mayan Ruins and the interior of the Yucatan, than by the famous Cancun Party Scene.  
One of my favorite memories of the trip was climbing the Pyramid at Ek Balam, and wandering the ruins of Tulum.  Then I read Carribian, and part of it took me down the same path through Tulum, from the beach where I wet my feet, to the NW Gate of the City, only 800 years ago.   It was a breathtaking read in that light.  

Also, I'll never look at a bottle of Capt Morgan again.  The real Capt Morgan was a right sod-off Basturd

I am Grumpy because I had to tell my friend/boss that I disliked my job and was looking for a new one.  I expected him to get mad and possibly fire me

Instead he was sympathetic and understanding, letting me keep working for him until I find something and offering to help me look, making me feel lower than low for leaving his employ

That's really too bad.

Stupid Americans.  It's too bad consistency doesn't count for anything, eh?

Americans have more Nuclear warheads, we get to decide the grammer.  

Opinions should not be aggressive and all caps. You have to admit, your post was pretty in-your-face.

I am an in-your-face guy.
Its why I use IMAO instead of IMHO
the H dont apply

WRONG
The best companies know how to work within their constraints and manage their time
Black Isle Studio
Raven Software
etc...
Look at the mess Ion Storm ended up with when they tried a "Developer Friendly" environment.  Diakatana slipped interminably and was released FINALY, years late, uninspired, to a world that called it junk.  
No,
You have to have some form of deadlines,  with room for flexibility.  
The problem is that the Developer and the Publisher are 2 seperate entities in most cases, and the Publisher dosent know whats going on and is therfore unflexable with deadlines.  
Thankfully Valve is starting to change that, with Steam they can start releasing games STRAIGHT to the user and bypass the publisher all together.  

The problem isn't just the deadlines,  its the Farbot Dev-Pub system we have now.  

 

+1 to SE
also,
Here is my own proclimation

The internet is a dirty broken place.  If you connect to it, you are dipping your computer into a vat of filth and electronic disease.  Those who fail to protect their machines while coating them in such filth are simply excersizing their role in evolution.  The destruction of their data will help the surviving computing community to become wiser and stronger

If the internet were introduced in the state it is in now, NO ONE would touch it.