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[SOUP]

I finished my Arcade Stick! I just tested it out and all the wiring and buttons work perfectly! It's always a relief to finally test it out and see it works fine. I think I'll be playing some Super Streeties for the first time in a while now.

Congrats .

[Toggi3]

Well, I went to a job interview this morning. If things go smoothly, I'll be a part-time web admininstrator and web page designer starting next monday. I really need to thank my cousin for hooking me up with those guys.

I am so freaking out right now... Of joy, of course.

Greetings fellow geek-by-trade.  I do some web stuff but mainly systems and networking.  Hope it works well for you.

Out of curiosity what do you charge hourly for freelance work?

[max_cady]

I had that talk with my future employer, but I still don't know how much will my fee be.

I know web designers get payed by the hour, but apparentely I'll be getting a comission for every website(about 10-15%) I build for the customers.

Other than that, I'll be mostly watching the company servers and being a small company, I'll also be doing some menial tasks for them.

[MadeManG74]

I finished my Arcade Stick! I just tested it out and all the wiring and buttons work perfectly! It's always a relief to finally test it out and see it works fine. I think I'll be playing some Super Streeties for the first time in a while now.

Congrats .

Thanks!

I also went back today and upgraded my older arcade stick with new art and removed those unseemly brass screws. Unfortanately I wasn't able to get a new Perspex plate for the front case, so it's still a bit ratty. Hopefully I can update it later with a new panel. The varnish makes it look a lot lnicer than it used to though.

[SOUP]

The one and two player buttons are a nice touch.

[max_cady]

This topic is amazing!

After 30 pages of just random conspiracy theories implying somehow and someway either The Tea Party, or Sarah Palin, or Glenn Beck or Rush Limbaugh were responsible for this poor Congresswoman getting shot, finally they get into the specifics of the gunman being a potheaded Mein Kampft and Communist Manifesto-reading psycho once it was actually revealed as such.

NeoGaf: Keeping me amused since 2010...

[MadeManG74]

^Mein Kampft AND Communist Manifesto? Don't the ideals of Communism and Facism direcly contradict eachother?

[max_cady]

Only on a very superficial level, there's a few books out there detailing some Hitler's Worker's National Socialist Party(yes, that was the full name of Hitler's Nazi party) overall social experiments as both Staline and Hitler's idea was to create a completely state-dependent and state-controlled society. And much like state-dependent societies, everytime something went horribly wrong, they would just pin the blame on someone, preferably something vague and invisible, to scare people...

What some today call "market speculators" the root of all problems, back then, they went by a different name: "Jews" and Christians as well.

So completely random arrests and executions were the bread and butter of both these regimes, because they were also never given any actual profile of what an "evil-doer"  does or how they look like.

Hitler was also a strong advocate for gun control, because he didn't want the people to put 2 and 2 together suddenly realize their mistake and impeach him, by force if necessary.

Both Staline and Hitler wanted a controlled news media and both had their fair share of "useful idiots" and "puppet celebrities" to help their cause.

The short answer is: Different means, but ultimately the same goals.

[George]

I shit, its the red scare all over again.

[George]

[bruno]

Yes. The standard gear goes like this: Gun, baton, OC spray, taser, and handcuffs.
The kind of guns used depend on the police service (RCMP use different ones than the OPP).
In Ontario, it's all regulated as far as exactly what types of guns officers are given.

That's really a nice gear, the gun, baton pepper spray, taser..

[max_cady]

The most gruesome murder in the US was commited by a fashion model...Brrr....

[Happy Cat]

zzzzzzz...

lol... bored in a XHTML class. This whole semester is gonna be review. Gonna ace this class.

[max_cady]

Man, the boss did say that Thursday and Friday are the toughest work days and he wasn't kidding.

But that just makes things all the more interesting!

I'm dreaming of the day when I get my first real paycheck. Sa-weet.

[max_cady]

You know, I give up.

There are only two words that can describe the current portuguese goverment and that is: "comically corrupt".

There was an auction where a lot of portuguese public debt was apparentely bought by an unspecified number of countries.

China appears to be have bought some of Portugal's debt in some unspecified and murky deals that were made. The Ministry of Finance comment on this? "It's possible that China may have bought some of Portugal's debt". That is all. Transparency at it's best. I laughed when I read the headline.