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happy new year fackers!

Kampframmer wrote:

I had another feedback talk with my boss.
I'm still on that 50/50 line of getting into the selection program for the promotion. Right now I do my job and I do it well, but instead of the 100% i'm doing right now they wany me to really put int the extra effort and doing 110%.
I see where they're coming from with all this and i know how to do it (it's hard work though), but still, I've seen people that already have the function perform worse than i do.
Even though i understand the situation and what they want form me, I can;t help but have the feeling that they're stil using this promotion as a carrot on a stick to keep me there for as long as possible. It's not like i would've quit if they had said no form the start and even if i dont make it at the last moment i'll still stay. but if i find any evidence that they've been using me and wasted my time with all this i will quit right there on the spot. Thinking of the possibilty alone sickens me, but it wouldn't surprise me.

e: i should add that prep work for the teamleader selection means that right now i'm already doing the work of said function 50-75% of the time, but not for the additional pay of course.

This is exactly what was happening with me. This is why I quit and bailed for a competitor, and have pretty much doubled my pay. It's all stick and no carrot.

Hai everyone.

I know BF2s loves a good competition, so I'd like your help with this one. It's a daddy and baby photo competition. The downside is that you have to register to vote, but it doesn't take long at all to register; and I'm hoping when you see the picture you won't be able to help yourself!

link is here:
http://www.bounty.com/competitions/112837/entry/113573

Thanks in advance

Love and Hugs

James (and Jacob)

Buckles wrote:

Just interviewed for a job, and it went really well. I've met the guy a few times and he invited me for interview today. I'll go from £17k basic to OTE of c.£33k. And the targets are very achieveable. Here's hoping I get it; should hear in the next few days.

Got a call yesterday offering me the job. I am over the moon! :-D

Just interviewed for a job, and it went really well. I've met the guy a few times and he invited me for interview today. I'll got from £17k basic to OTE of c.£33k. And the targets are very achieveable. Here's hoping I get it; should hear in the next few days.

look at managed funds tbh

PSN   Sgt_Buckles

I looked at the screenshot posted by IrishKin, saw the Xbox gamer tag, and actually laughed out loud.
What an asshat

I have audiobooks on my ipod. The dulcet tones of Stephen Fry ALWAYS send me to sleep in under 10 mins. I know this because I set a 10 minute sleep timer on the ipod and pretty much always fall asleep before it switches off.

Got a baby boy due in a few weeks. So yes. Because I love my wife, and I want a family of my own.

I originally came across this site when you could hotlink live stat sigs, years and years ago. Maybe re-introducing this would help generate more members?

gah. I could find that, but i'd rather not spend it. I guess I'll have to convince my father to upgrade his rig and scavenge his old components. Cheeky bugger is minted (unlike me) and always has a top-end rig, which he uses for word-processing and freecell/minesweeper.

Git

EDIT:
Cheers for the help guys

So there's no affordable CPU upgrade either?

Otherwise, is it possible to upgrade my rig to a decent enough spec for under £300?
I have a decent case and PSU, so that isn't an issue - these are probably worth more than the rest of my rig in it's entirety.

Hai Guys,

I'm trying to decide whether to upgrade my rig for BF3, because I really don't want to have to get it on PS3.
Here's a SS of my CPU-Z readout



More info available on request. I'll just point out that I have 2 different pairs of RAM, so slots 1 & 2 match, as do 3 & 4, which is why i've included readouts of both sticks.

I think I'd like to just upgrade my graphics card, as I'm poor as a Pauper right now (see sig), so I'd prefer to keep total cost under £100 GBP.

I also don't mind refurbished/reconditioned

Cheers

Sgt_Buckles

Is there any way to make a group, as on steam?

Would it be wrong of me to suggest that we try to make these jokes about Steve Jobs dying a little more PC?

Steve Jobs' funeral is expected to cost around $200,000.

Samsung have just announced they'll do it for $200.

What's the difference between cancer and a black man?
Cancer gets Jobs.

Steve Jobs isn't really dead, the nurses are just holding him the wrong way.

EDIT
RIP

They used Oman as the demo map for BF2, and that was a pile of suck too

DoctorFruitloop
Haffeysucks (either deleted or name changed)
Marlboroman
Serge
Cougar
plarbearz
PspRpg-7
Penetrator

Some parts of Europe don't put ice in. Though you'll probably find the glass was frosted (i.e. been in a freezer

After breaking many pairs of headphones and nearly as many front 3.5mm jacks, my advice to you is to buy an extension cable and plug it into the back of your rig. Personally I've never got on with the surround sound headsets I've used; and much prefer a decent stereo pair.

If you do want to run it from the front inputs, you shouldn't have any technical problems. The front inputs just plug into your soundcard (or MoBo for onboard sound). You may have to connect it up however, if it isn't already.

Personal responsibility does NOT mean "every man for themselves". It means that an individual is responsible for their own actions (or inaction). Personal responsibility means it's the rioters and looters fault that they are rioting and looting because they chose to ignore the rules of law and good society. They do this for personal gain. By blaming the police and the government or whomever they want to blame, they are not taking personal responsibility for their actions, but trying to project social responsibility on everyone/anyone else.

Anyone who is arguing that they are taking personal responsibility by "looking after no.1" is either deliberately trying to wind people up or completely mis-understanding the point. That or they have a very mis-guided view on the world...

Steak should moo.

Buckles wrote:

Rift now has the Ascend-A-Friend program. It's a free 7-day trial.

http://www.riftgame.com/en/products/asc … end_invite

Cookies to whomever uses my code. I play a Defiant toon on Steampike shard. If you use this code you get some free goodies when you join.

In case anyone is interested, RIFT is now 75% off on Steam.

Hurricane2k9 wrote:

you could cause plenty of destruction with a few determined terrorists with a few suitcases of explosives just inside the airport.

Yes. You could. The airport security screening process is to stop these threats making it onto the aircraft itself.

Hurricane2k9 wrote:

or you could fill a suitcase full of whatever Timothy McVeigh used and not need to film jack shit.

Apples and oranges. McVeigh detonated a truck full of ammonia nitrate outside a building. That is worlds apart from smuggling explosives or munitions onto a commercial aircraft; which is, after all, what airport security is there to prevent.

And yes, they don't catch terrorist after terrorist wearing bomb-vests or with a Sig Sauer wrapped around their schlong. This is because they know not to do these things because they will be caught at security. Yes, if a terrorist organisation was determined enough to hijack a flight, then they would probably be able to find a way to do it. But at least it isn't as easy as half of Al-Qaeda stuffing suitcases with explosives and automatic weapons and hopping on a trans-atlantic flight.

As for filming in the security area, the more quality information a person has about the area, the more they can plan to circumvent it. Yes you could just sketch this instead, but that would take longer and you would almost certainly get noticed and asked/told to stop too. I'm not saying that having a video of the security area and procedures would make it simple to circumvent them, but it would make any effort to try a lot easier.

Now, I know this reply is pretty much pointless because people who believe one way will argue their view, and people on the other side will argue theirs. And no-one really considers the other side impartially. Instead we degenerate into petty point-scoring and pedantry.

Hurricane2k9 wrote:

Buckles wrote:

The woman is a douche and the man filming is a douche.
She is totally over-reacting, and the whole situation is more than likely staged.
The guy filming is obviously trying to be cool and clever, and failing miserably. "tell me which law says I cannot film here". He's in the security screening area of an airport. Of course he isn't allowed to film. I only watched 3 minutes of the first clip and clocked off because the guy was such a twat.

What do you mean of course he isn't allowed to film? Sounds like the same "logic" applied to people being told they can't film cops (but they can) or can't take photographs of federal buildings (which they can).

What's to stop people filming the locations of cameras? Locations of guard stations? Locations of security access doors? Filming someone entering their security codes?

It's a massive security risk, and if you've ever worked in a location with proper security, such as an airport, or a bank or similar, you will know this.

EDIT:
Basically, the thread, subject and clips are inflammatory. If you are travelling through an airport, you know that there are security processes that need to be followed. Regardless of how well trained the staff are, what you think of their education or qualification or otherwise; they are there to do a job. If you are not happy to be party to those security procedures, then don't arrange to travel through an airport.

The woman is a douche and the man filming is a douche.
She is totally over-reacting, and the whole situation is more than likely staged.
The guy filming is obviously trying to be cool and clever, and failing miserably. "tell me which law says I cannot film here". He's in the security screening area of an airport. Of course he isn't allowed to film. I only watched 3 minutes of the first clip and clocked off because the guy was such a twat.

Done. You better mess up and send me a voucher for 100% discount.

Rift now has the Ascend-A-Friend program. It's a free 7-day trial.

http://www.riftgame.com/en/products/asc … end_invite

Cookies to whomever uses my code. I play a Defiant toon on Steampike shard. If you use this code you get some free goodies when you join.

I like a vet on hand when I eat mine.

Searing hot pan, whack the steak in, flip it over, seal the sides and done. should have a half mm of cooked meat then raw in the middle.

fuck off sam, shouldn't you be busy growing on brad's carpet?

People ignored the content of my posts and just abused the colour.

Nic wrote:

Yeah.... I don't think "I let mold go in my carpet for so long that it grew mushrooms. Whats the best cleaner for that? " is a great opener.

Unless she's REALLY filthy in bed

Aspergillus.

Get a professional in you cheap, filthy bitch.

Marriage means you don't get sex so often, but you aren't allowed to bash 'em out at will either. Unless she's at work

Final Fantasy X
World of Warcraft + Expansions

Doctor Strangelove wrote:

DrunkFace wrote:

Small groups of a few hundred also staged protests

Indonesia's 200 million Muslims

Ohhh Jesus NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What kind of "NOOOOOOOOO!" is that one?

Like the NOOOOOOO that Frodo gives when Gandalf falls down the mine, or the NOOOOOOOO that Vader gives when he learns he accidentally wife?

Definitely the second one. I hate it when I wife; accidentally or not

If you just stuck in "extra sticks of ram you had lying around", then you're probably going to be better off with just 2 matching 2gb sticks, rather than 4 mis-matched sticks and trying to force windows to see more of them.

CapnNismo wrote:

Anyone that seriously attempts this is an idiot...

fuuu...

RDMC wrote:

AussieReaper wrote:

Buckles wrote:

You mean it sounds like the Warp Drive?
Impulse drive is for sub-light-speed travel.

Then what the hell is trans-warp drive that the Borg use?

Think trans-warp drive allowed them to create tunnels through time and space I think. Making the entrance at their current position and for instance making the exit near earth.

This.

Stubbee wrote:

being a trekker, this sounds a lot like impulse drive. Imagine ripping off Gene Roddenbury! The nerve!

You mean it sounds like the Warp Drive?
Impulse drive is for sub-light-speed travel.

Voted. Catching up again.

FatherTed wrote:

you're not black?

also, what a bunch of shit.
All that's going to do is make the word nigger synonymous with slave to anyone who discovers this new book at a young age. /conspiracy

Why all the hate with the [brackets]? For one it's in the rules:

Please preface each topic with the game title, eg: [counterstrike]

and it means conformity on the board and it makes it easier to search for a specific topic, by including the [brackets] in the search field.

What's more annoying than a change in thread title is the half a page of OT whining about the change.
/rant

I'll go back to lurking now

now Chrome is telling me the site is unsafe.

somtin baaaad happen

Dauntless wrote:

i am still in two minds weather to do it or not, the drive is still under warranty so i could probably get samsung to repair it, but i don't think they would try to save the data

You could try to argue the case that their drive failing has caused the data loss, so they should either recover the data or pay the cost of your getting it recovered, so you're not out of pocket for their drive being made of suck.

If the Drive is within Manufacturer's Warrenty, have you tried contacting Samsung or the retailer and see if they would cover the data recovery, as the HDD has failed?

So what would the settlement be? a copy of Playschool magazine and a chocolate bar?

This seems ridiculous to me in it's entirety. The kids knocked the old lady over, and broke her hip. Yeah that sucks for the old lady, but a big bunch of flowers and an apology should suffice. Shit happens, after all. It's not a matter to sue for. If anything, they should press charges for ABH, and see how fast that shit gets laughed out of court.

EDIT:
The lawsuit started before the Ms Menagh died. It was merely carried on by her son as Executor.