Scanman

My old coworker died yesterday. She was my semi-boss (she was the payroll manager in HR, I was the accountant responsible for recording payroll).
 
She was in her late 60's so it wasn't exactly unforeseen. I have no idea the cause, it could be any chronic illness or temporary sickness.
 
I haven't spoken to her in probably 3 years, so no condolences necessary. It was sad though.
 
Life comes at you fast 😕

My old coworker died yesterday. She was my semi-boss (she was the payroll manager in HR, I was the accountant responsible for recording payroll).
 
She was in her late 60's so it wasn't exactly unforeseen. I have no idea the cause, it could be any chronic illness or temporary sickness.
 
I haven't spoken to her in probably 3 years, so no condolences necessary. It was sad though.
 
Life comes at you fast 😕

My old coworker died yesterday. She was my semi-boss (she was the payroll manager in HR, I was the accountant responsible for recording payroll).
 
She was in her late 60's so it wasn't exactly unforeseen. I have no idea the cause, it could be any chronic illness or temporary sickness.
 
I haven't spoken to her in probably 3 years, so no condolences necessary. It was sad though.
 
Life comes at you fast 😕

My old coworker died yesterday. She was my semi-boss (she was the payroll manager in HR, I was the accountant responsible for recording payroll).
 
She was in her late 60's so it wasn't exactly unforeseen. I have no idea the cause, it could be any chronic illness or temporary sickness.
 
I haven't spoken to her in probably 3 years, so no condolences necessary. It was sad though.
 
Life comes at you fast 😕

"How do you do, fellow daters?"

looks like New Yorkers have found a solution to their current garbage problem.
 
 
Yo. De Blasio.  Your Move Creep.

He didn't lie.

As a recent father, I think it's very strange that people would look at a beautiful baby boy and say, "You know what would make this better? If we started cutting bits of his penis off."
 
You're (people are) solving almost nothing by circumcising. Meanwhile you're potentially causing a littany of other problems, including ED. I listened to a video of circumcision happening and it made my skin crawl. 
 
I imagine my parents wouldn't have had me circumcized (without my consent, btw) if they weren't Christian. That's a big thing- you're mutilating a person who can't defend themselves.
 
Not digging at religious people, but circumcision is a barbaric practice that we almost certainly wouldn't do -without- religion. Just leave that shit in the bronze age.

As a recent father, I think it's very strange that people would look at a beautiful baby boy and say, "You know what would make this better? If we started cutting bits of his penis off."
 
You're (people are) solving almost nothing by circumcising. Meanwhile you're potentially causing a littany of other problems, including ED. I listened to a video of circumcision happening and it made my skin crawl. 
 
I imagine my parents wouldn't have had me circumcized (without my consent, btw) if they weren't Christian. That's a big thing- you're mutilating a person who can't defend themselves.
 
Not digging at religious people, but circumcision is a barbaric practice that we almost certainly wouldn't do -without- religion. Just leave that shit in the bronze age.

I know there's really no point, but I got into an argument (or a debate) against my Chinese student last night.
 
Her:
"There is a double standard that the West applies to China with regard to human rights (double standard not stated), they focus on political and religious rights and ignore financial rights when discussing human rights. They have no idea how much better life is for the average person in China."
 
Me:
"Yeah, but compared to what? The reason Chinese people were so poor in the first place was because the government spent 30 years following Mao Zedong's economic lunacy; sending farmers to make steel in backyard furnaces (while starving 30 million people to death) during the "Great Leap Forward" and sending college students  to farm in the countryside during the "Cultural Revolution". The fact that their lives are improving now (mostly due to innovations/foreign direct investment from the West) is not a selling point of your terrible government. Even with their own measures of poverty alleviation, they simply changed the poverty line to ~$450 per YEAR, which is a joke of a poverty line."
(note: I am aware that for the vast majority of Chinese history peasants were quite poor and had no rights, but this is true of the entire rest of the world as well, and the Communist programs made things demonstrably worse)
 
Her:
"You cannot talk about the past when discussing the financial situation today!"
-----------------
later
Her:
"Of course, comparing China to the US, the US is more wealthy. But compared to another developing country like India, China is doing quite well."
 
Me:
"Then don't compare it to the US. Compare it to Taiwan, which was also poor as dirt after WWII, is also Chinese people, and is now much wealthier and more developed than the mainland, has an excellent human rights record, is a democracy etc. They developed first because they didn't go through the "Great Leap Forward" and the "Cultural Revolution."
(note 2: I am aware that for about 30 years Taiwan was a pretty terrible dictatorship under the Chiang family. They still developed much faster.)
 
Her:
"You cannot compare a tiny country of 20 million to a giant country of 1.4 billion!"
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It's a wonder if I don't lose this student. I was sick and in no mood for her apologist propoganda.

As a recent father, I think it's very strange that people would look at a beautiful baby boy and say, "You know what would make this better? If we started cutting bits of his penis off."
 
You're (people are) solving almost nothing by circumcising. Meanwhile you're potentially causing a littany of other problems, including ED. I listened to a video of circumcision happening and it made my skin crawl. 
 
I imagine my parents wouldn't have had me circumcized (without my consent, btw) if they weren't Christian. That's a big thing- you're mutilating a person who can't defend themselves.
 
Not digging at religious people, but circumcision is a barbaric practice that we almost certainly wouldn't do -without- religion. Just leave that shit in the bronze age.

I know there's really no point, but I got into an argument (or a debate) against my Chinese student last night.
 
Her:
"There is a double standard that the West applies to China with regard to human rights (double standard not stated), they focus on political and religious rights and ignore financial rights when discussing human rights. They have no idea how much better life is for the average person in China."
 
Me:
"Yeah, but compared to what? The reason Chinese people were so poor in the first place was because the government spent 30 years following Mao Zedong's economic lunacy; sending farmers to make steel in backyard furnaces (while starving 30 million people to death) during the "Great Leap Forward" and sending college students  to farm in the countryside during the "Cultural Revolution". The fact that their lives are improving now (mostly due to innovations/foreign direct investment from the West) is not a selling point of your terrible government. Even with their own measures of poverty alleviation, they simply changed the poverty line to ~$450 per YEAR, which is a joke of a poverty line."
(note: I am aware that for the vast majority of Chinese history peasants were quite poor and had no rights, but this is true of the entire rest of the world as well, and the Communist programs made things demonstrably worse)
 
Her:
"You cannot talk about the past when discussing the financial situation today!"
-----------------
later
Her:
"Of course, comparing China to the US, the US is more wealthy. But compared to another developing country like India, China is doing quite well."
 
Me:
"Then don't compare it to the US. Compare it to Taiwan, which was also poor as dirt after WWII, is also Chinese people, and is now much wealthier and more developed than the mainland, has an excellent human rights record, is a democracy etc. They developed first because they didn't go through the "Great Leap Forward" and the "Cultural Revolution."
(note 2: I am aware that for about 30 years Taiwan was a pretty terrible dictatorship under the Chiang family. They still developed much faster.)
 
Her:
"You cannot compare a tiny country of 20 million to a giant country of 1.4 billion!"
-----------
It's a wonder if I don't lose this student. I was sick and in no mood for her apologist propoganda.

I know there's really no point, but I got into an argument (or a debate) against my Chinese student last night.
 
Her:
"There is a double standard that the West applies to China with regard to human rights (double standard not stated), they focus on political and religious rights and ignore financial rights when discussing human rights. They have no idea how much better life is for the average person in China."
 
Me:
"Yeah, but compared to what? The reason Chinese people were so poor in the first place was because the government spent 30 years following Mao Zedong's economic lunacy; sending farmers to make steel in backyard furnaces (while starving 30 million people to death) during the "Great Leap Forward" and sending college students  to farm in the countryside during the "Cultural Revolution". The fact that their lives are improving now (mostly due to innovations/foreign direct investment from the West) is not a selling point of your terrible government. Even with their own measures of poverty alleviation, they simply changed the poverty line to ~$450 per YEAR, which is a joke of a poverty line."
(note: I am aware that for the vast majority of Chinese history peasants were quite poor and had no rights, but this is true of the entire rest of the world as well, and the Communist programs made things demonstrably worse)
 
Her:
"You cannot talk about the past when discussing the financial situation today!"
-----------------
later
Her:
"Of course, comparing China to the US, the US is more wealthy. But compared to another developing country like India, China is doing quite well."
 
Me:
"Then don't compare it to the US. Compare it to Taiwan, which was also poor as dirt after WWII, is also Chinese people, and is now much wealthier and more developed than the mainland, has an excellent human rights record, is a democracy etc. They developed first because they didn't go through the "Great Leap Forward" and the "Cultural Revolution."
(note 2: I am aware that for about 30 years Taiwan was a pretty terrible dictatorship under the Chiang family. They still developed much faster.)
 
Her:
"You cannot compare a tiny country of 20 million to a giant country of 1.4 billion!"
-----------
It's a wonder if I don't lose this student. I was sick and in no mood for her apologist propoganda.

I know there's really no point, but I got into an argument (or a debate) against my Chinese student last night.
 
Her:
"There is a double standard that the West applies to China with regard to human rights (double standard not stated), they focus on political and religious rights and ignore financial rights when discussing human rights. They have no idea how much better life is for the average person in China."
 
Me:
"Yeah, but compared to what? The reason Chinese people were so poor in the first place was because the government spent 30 years following Mao Zedong's economic lunacy; sending farmers to make steel in backyard furnaces (while starving 30 million people to death) during the "Great Leap Forward" and sending college students  to farm in the countryside during the "Cultural Revolution". The fact that their lives are improving now (mostly due to innovations/foreign direct investment from the West) is not a selling point of your terrible government. Even with their own measures of poverty alleviation, they simply changed the poverty line to ~$450 per YEAR, which is a joke of a poverty line."
(note: I am aware that for the vast majority of Chinese history peasants were quite poor and had no rights, but this is true of the entire rest of the world as well, and the Communist programs made things demonstrably worse)
 
Her:
"You cannot talk about the past when discussing the financial situation today!"
-----------------
later
Her:
"Of course, comparing China to the US, the US is more wealthy. But compared to another developing country like India, China is doing quite well."
 
Me:
"Then don't compare it to the US. Compare it to Taiwan, which was also poor as dirt after WWII, is also Chinese people, and is now much wealthier and more developed than the mainland, has an excellent human rights record, is a democracy etc. They developed first because they didn't go through the "Great Leap Forward" and the "Cultural Revolution."
(note 2: I am aware that for about 30 years Taiwan was a pretty terrible dictatorship under the Chiang family. They still developed much faster.)
 
Her:
"You cannot compare a tiny country of 20 million to a giant country of 1.4 billion!"
-----------
It's a wonder if I don't lose this student. I was sick and in no mood for her apologist propoganda.

I know there's really no point, but I got into an argument (or a debate) against my Chinese student last night.
 
Her:
"There is a double standard that the West applies to China with regard to human rights (double standard not stated), they focus on political and religious rights and ignore financial rights when discussing human rights. They have no idea how much better life is for the average person in China."
 
Me:
"Yeah, but compared to what? The reason Chinese people were so poor in the first place was because the government spent 30 years following Mao Zedong's economic lunacy; sending farmers to make steel in backyard furnaces (while starving 30 million people to death) during the "Great Leap Forward" and sending college students  to farm in the countryside during the "Cultural Revolution". The fact that their lives are improving now (mostly due to innovations/foreign direct investment from the West) is not a selling point of your terrible government. Even with their own measures of poverty alleviation, they simply changed the poverty line to ~$450 per YEAR, which is a joke of a poverty line."
(note: I am aware that for the vast majority of Chinese history peasants were quite poor and had no rights, but this is true of the entire rest of the world as well, and the Communist programs made things demonstrably worse)
 
Her:
"You cannot talk about the past when discussing the financial situation today!"
-----------------
later
Her:
"Of course, comparing China to the US, the US is more wealthy. But compared to another developing country like India, China is doing quite well."
 
Me:
"Then don't compare it to the US. Compare it to Taiwan, which was also poor as dirt after WWII, is also Chinese people, and is now much wealthier and more developed than the mainland, has an excellent human rights record, is a democracy etc. They developed first because they didn't go through the "Great Leap Forward" and the "Cultural Revolution."
(note 2: I am aware that for about 30 years Taiwan was a pretty terrible dictatorship under the Chiang family. They still developed much faster.)
 
Her:
"You cannot compare a tiny country of 20 million to a giant country of 1.4 billion!"
-----------
It's a wonder if I don't lose this student. I was sick and in no mood for her apologist propoganda.

I know there's really no point, but I got into an argument (or a debate) against my Chinese student last night.
 
Her:
"There is a double standard that the West applies to China with regard to human rights (double standard not stated), they focus on political and religious rights and ignore financial rights when discussing human rights. They have no idea how much better life is for the average person in China."
 
Me:
"Yeah, but compared to what? The reason Chinese people were so poor in the first place was because the government spent 30 years following Mao Zedong's economic lunacy; sending farmers to make steel in backyard furnaces (while starving 30 million people to death) during the "Great Leap Forward" and sending college students  to farm in the countryside during the "Cultural Revolution". The fact that their lives are improving now (mostly due to innovations/foreign direct investment from the West) is not a selling point of your terrible government. Even with their own measures of poverty alleviation, they simply changed the poverty line to ~$450 per YEAR, which is a joke of a poverty line."
(note: I am aware that for the vast majority of Chinese history peasants were quite poor and had no rights, but this is true of the entire rest of the world as well, and the Communist programs made things demonstrably worse)
 
Her:
"You cannot talk about the past when discussing the financial situation today!"
-----------------
later
Her:
"Of course, comparing China to the US, the US is more wealthy. But compared to another developing country like India, China is doing quite well."
 
Me:
"Then don't compare it to the US. Compare it to Taiwan, which was also poor as dirt after WWII, is also Chinese people, and is now much wealthier and more developed than the mainland, has an excellent human rights record, is a democracy etc. They developed first because they didn't go through the "Great Leap Forward" and the "Cultural Revolution."
(note 2: I am aware that for about 30 years Taiwan was a pretty terrible dictatorship under the Chiang family. They still developed much faster.)
 
Her:
"You cannot compare a tiny country of 20 million to a giant country of 1.4 billion!"
-----------
It's a wonder if I don't lose this student. I was sick and in no mood for her apologist propoganda.

I know there's really no point, but I got into an argument (or a debate) against my Chinese student last night.
 
Her:
"There is a double standard that the West applies to China with regard to human rights (double standard not stated), they focus on political and religious rights and ignore financial rights when discussing human rights. They have no idea how much better life is for the average person in China."
 
Me:
"Yeah, but compared to what? The reason Chinese people were so poor in the first place was because the government spent 30 years following Mao Zedong's economic lunacy; sending farmers to make steel in backyard furnaces (while starving 30 million people to death) during the "Great Leap Forward" and sending college students  to farm in the countryside during the "Cultural Revolution". The fact that their lives are improving now (mostly due to innovations/foreign direct investment from the West) is not a selling point of your terrible government. Even with their own measures of poverty alleviation, they simply changed the poverty line to ~$450 per YEAR, which is a joke of a poverty line."
(note: I am aware that for the vast majority of Chinese history peasants were quite poor and had no rights, but this is true of the entire rest of the world as well, and the Communist programs made things demonstrably worse)
 
Her:
"You cannot talk about the past when discussing the financial situation today!"
-----------------
later
Her:
"Of course, comparing China to the US, the US is more wealthy. But compared to another developing country like India, China is doing quite well."
 
Me:
"Then don't compare it to the US. Compare it to Taiwan, which was also poor as dirt after WWII, is also Chinese people, and is now much wealthier and more developed than the mainland, has an excellent human rights record, is a democracy etc. They developed first because they didn't go through the "Great Leap Forward" and the "Cultural Revolution."
(note 2: I am aware that for about 30 years Taiwan was a pretty terrible dictatorship under the Chiang family. They still developed much faster.)
 
Her:
"You cannot compare a tiny country of 20 million to a giant country of 1.4 billion!"
-----------
It's a wonder if I don't lose this student. I was sick and in no mood for her apologist propoganda.

I know there's really no point, but I got into an argument (or a debate) against my Chinese student last night.
 
Her:
"There is a double standard that the West applies to China with regard to human rights (double standard not stated), they focus on political and religious rights and ignore financial rights when discussing human rights. They have no idea how much better life is for the average person in China."
 
Me:
"Yeah, but compared to what? The reason Chinese people were so poor in the first place was because the government spent 30 years following Mao Zedong's economic lunacy; sending farmers to make steel in backyard furnaces (while starving 30 million people to death) during the "Great Leap Forward" and sending college students  to farm in the countryside during the "Cultural Revolution". The fact that their lives are improving now (mostly due to innovations/foreign direct investment from the West) is not a selling point of your terrible government. Even with their own measures of poverty alleviation, they simply changed the poverty line to ~$450 per YEAR, which is a joke of a poverty line."
(note: I am aware that for the vast majority of Chinese history peasants were quite poor and had no rights, but this is true of the entire rest of the world as well, and the Communist programs made things demonstrably worse)
 
Her:
"You cannot talk about the past when discussing the financial situation today!"
-----------------
later
Her:
"Of course, comparing China to the US, the US is more wealthy. But compared to another developing country like India, China is doing quite well."
 
Me:
"Then don't compare it to the US. Compare it to Taiwan, which was also poor as dirt after WWII, is also Chinese people, and is now much wealthier and more developed than the mainland, has an excellent human rights record, is a democracy etc. They developed first because they didn't go through the "Great Leap Forward" and the "Cultural Revolution."
(note 2: I am aware that for about 30 years Taiwan was a pretty terrible dictatorship under the Chiang family. They still developed much faster.)
 
Her:
"You cannot compare a tiny country of 20 million to a giant country of 1.4 billion!"
-----------
It's a wonder if I don't lose this student. I was sick and in no mood for her apologist propoganda.

Isnt Britney Renner the lady that trapped a basketball player by getting pregnant?
 
The amount of nuts that broad is won't ever make her attractive. 

So true.

What really needed to happen is some benevolent billionaire/company buying SF/other fighting franchises away from Capcom in 2003, because Capcom and most Japanese corporations are goddamn terrible and slow to adapt. It took them 15+ years to figure what rollback even -was-, let alone all the other problems they have.
 
Really? I don't think he had much influence on 5 anyway. They'll probably still do their multiple installment, shitty netcode, dress up simulator with a fg thrown in on the side tactics.
 
I'm a lot more hopeful for Project L, whatever it eventually is/whenever it's eventually released.