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I'm unsure about what the "Fair Play to them" means.
What I honestly think of transgender people? Nothing. I mean, they are people, why would I think different of them? I do think different of people who discriminates the LGBT community, I think those people are scum and do not deserve to share my planet.... But then again, I can't be passionate about stuff at times xD

I'm unsure about what the "Fair Play to them" means.
What I honestly think of transgender people? Nothing. I mean, they are people, why would I think different of them? I do think different of people who discriminates the LGBT community, I think those people are scum and do not deserve to share my planet.... But then again, I can't be passionate about stuff at times xD

What the hell is that in your signature, Van?

Down here, Meteorology and Physics are both majors hosted by the School of Physics from the Faculty of Science (it works like that here, the University is divided into Faculties, each faculty has 1 or more schools, each schools hosts the careers or majors, and classes for other careers that need them).
If you are doing physics, you have to take 6 optional classes from a list of like 20 available, and if you select carefully those 6, you end up 1 class away from a major in Meteorology (and the same applies for the meteorologists). So is funny, they call it the 2x1 career combo. Not that you would get a job here thanks to those 2 particularly unemployed careers, but hey, you know, teaching physics at high school pays apparently (that't what about 70% of my class mates are doing now). I never graduated anyway, decided that having a family and a good paid job was better for me.
I started doing call center stuff at 18, first working as Customer Service for BetOnSports.com Have you guys heard about all the phone gambling business that was done abroad by Americans and how it took years for the IRS to pursue them? Well, about half of them had their Customer Service here and it gave employment to THOUSAND of young university guys who spoke good english and knew how to use a computer here.
I worked on BetOnSports for about 1 year, then another year in a different sportsbook, and then another. Attrition is high, but they used to pay well. When I was 21 I stopped working in those places and moved to work full time at my university as a professor's assistance and later on as teaching assistance, where I actually teach university level classes (mainly General Physics Lab 1, 2 and 3) for engineering and science students. Enjoyed it, I was very good to the point where I actually was assigned more groups than actually graduated guys. It helped the university: I was reliable, trustworthy and less expensive (I was paid as an undergrad assistant, not as a half time professor). I eventually made it to Coordinator Assistant for labs 1 and 3. By then I was 23/24 and was sharing my time between those clases; an assistance post at the Plasma Research Lab at the Nuclear, Molecular and Atomic Interactions Research Center; my Peruvian girlfriend; my elected position as General Accountant to the Student's Federation of my University; and a shit-load of drinking... So I was tired, exhausted, and decided to make a change after my GF dumped me: quit the Student's Fed, quit the university classes but 2, quit the research center, and find a night shift job as Customer Support for a website that still operates today: https://www.bingohall.ag/(formerly .com), more online gambling. Within 6 months I was Accounting Support; 6 months later, Payout Lead and 6 months more and I was accounting department manager, with 4 accountants under my supervision... they didn't liked being managed by an undergraduated physics student. I left that place in 2010 and moved to HP, where I did 3 years of HP Proliant Servers Support (running MS and Linux and ESX/ESXi) and then moved to my current post as SAP Enablement and Data Manager...
EDIT:
I'm not sure why I wrote all that but it seemed relevant. I'm only 32 but it seems I've lived a liftime already, can only admire the experience of some people here. I'm happy about it.

Down here, Meteorology and Physics are both majors hosted by the School of Physics from the Faculty of Science (it works like that here, the University is divided into Faculties, each faculty has 1 or more schools, each schools hosts the careers or majors, and classes for other careers that need them).
If you are doing physics, you have to take 6 optional classes from a list of like 20 available, and if you select carefully those 6, you end up 1 class away from a major in Meteorology (and the same applies for the meteorologists). So is funny, they call it the 2x1 career combo. Not that you would get a job here thanks to those 2 particularly unemployed careers, but hey, you know, teaching physics at high school pays apparently (that't what about 70% of my class mates are doing now). I never graduated anyway, decided that having a family and a good paid job was better for me.
I started doing call center stuff at 18, first working as Customer Service for BetOnSports.com Have you guys heard about all the phone gambling business that was done abroad by Americans and how it took years for the IRS to pursue them? Well, about half of them had their Customer Service here and it gave employment to THOUSAND of young university guys who spoke good english and knew how to use a computer here.
I worked on BetOnSports for about 1 year, then another year in a different sportsbook, and then another. Attrition is high, but they used to pay well. When I was 21 I stopped working in those places and moved to work full time at my university as a professor's assistance and later on as teaching assistance, where I actually teach university level classes (mainly General Physics Lab 1, 2 and 3) for engineering and science students. Enjoyed it, I was very good to the point where I actually was assigned more groups than actually graduated guys. It helped the university: I was reliable, trustworthy and less expensive (I was paid as an undergrad assistant, not as a half time professor). I eventually made it to Coordinator Assistant for labs 1 and 3. By then I was 23/24 and was sharing my time between those clases; an assistance post at the Plasma Research Lab at the Nuclear, Molecular and Atomic Interactions Research Center; my Peruvian girlfriend; my elected position as General Accountant to the Student's Federation of my University; and a shit-load of drinking... So I was tired, exhausted, and decided to make a change after my GF dumped me: quit the Student's Fed, quit the university classes but 2, quit the research center, and find a night shift job as Customer Support for a website that still operates today: https://www.bingohall.ag/(formerly .com), more online gambling. Within 6 months I was Accounting Support; 6 months later, Payout Lead and 6 months more and I was accounting department manager, with 4 accountants under my supervision... they didn't liked being managed by an undergraduated physics student. I left that place in 2010 and moved to HP, where I did 3 years of HP Proliant Servers Support (running MS and Linux and ESX/ESXi) and then moved to my current post as SAP Enablement and Data Manager...
EDIT:
I'm not sure why I wrote all that but it seemed relevant. I'm only 32 but it seems I've lived a liftime already, can only admire the experience of some people here. I'm happy about it.

Down here, Meteorology and Physics are both majors hosted by the School of Physics from the Faculty of Science (it works like that here, the University is divided into Faculties, each faculty has 1 or more schools, each schools hosts the careers or majors, and classes for other careers that need them).
If you are doing physics, you have to take 6 optional classes from a list of like 20 available, and if you select carefully those 6, you end up 1 class away from a major in Meteorology (and the same applies for the meteorologists). So is funny, they call it the 2x1 career combo. Not that you would get a job here thanks to those 2 particularly unemployed careers, but hey, you know, teaching physics at high school pays apparently (that't what about 70% of my class mates are doing now). I never graduated anyway, decided that having a family and a good paid job was better for me.
I started doing call center stuff at 18, first working as Customer Service for BetOnSports.com Have you guys heard about all the phone gambling business that was done abroad by Americans and how it took years for the IRS to pursue them? Well, about half of them had their Customer Service here and it gave employment to THOUSAND of young university guys who spoke good english and knew how to use a computer here.
I worked on BetOnSports for about 1 year, then another year in a different sportsbook, and then another. Attrition is high, but they used to pay well. When I was 21 I stopped working in those places and moved to work full time at my university as a professor's assistance and later on as teaching assistance, where I actually teach university level classes (mainly General Physics Lab 1, 2 and 3) for engineering and science students. Enjoyed it, I was very good to the point where I actually was assigned more groups than actually graduated guys. It helped the university: I was reliable, trustworthy and less expensive (I was paid as an undergrad assistant, not as a half time professor). I eventually made it to Coordinator Assistant for labs 1 and 3. By then I was 23/24 and was sharing my time between those clases; an assistance post at the Plasma Research Lab at the Nuclear, Molecular and Atomic Interactions Research Center; my Peruvian girlfriend; my elected position as General Accountant to the Student's Federation of my University; and a shit-load of drinking... So I was tired, exhausted, and decided to make a change after my GF dumped me: quit the Student's Fed, quit the university classes but 2, quit the research center, and find a night shift job as Customer Support for a website that still operates today: https://www.bingohall.ag/(formerly .com), more online gambling. Within 6 months I was Accounting Support; 6 months later, Payout Lead and 6 months more and I was accounting department manager, with 4 accountants under my supervision... they didn't liked being managed by an undergraduated physics student. I left that place in 2010 and moved to HP, where I did 3 years of HP Proliant Servers Support (running MS and Linux and ESX/ESXi) and then moved to my current post as SAP Enablement and Data Manager...
EDIT:
I'm not sure why I wrote all that but it seemed relevant. I'm only 32 but it seems I've lived a liftime already, can only admire the experience of some people here. I'm happy about it.

I learned Remote Sensing using LANDSAT and SPOT imagery when I was studying for my physics major with a minor in meteorology. At the Meteorology lab they still have some of those old magentics saves as a memento, but all their info was already ported to CDs and DVSs (a few years ago, I hope they have now moved to other storage options, lol).
I had to learn to create filters, and to interpret land and meteorological findings under different filters, heh.
What did you majored / mastered in, Winni?

Such as cancer and diabetes Which is what is a safer focus.

*nods*  Healthy or not, it's a choice.  And people don't like their freedom of choice infringed, which the anti-tobacco forces have chosen as their approach.
 
A condition such as Autism though, is not a choice. It's something out of your control.

Apple's whole market strategy is to over price their stuff based on concepts of uniqueness and design. And that is now, honestly they weren't SO much like that by the early 90s. But hell, they are nasty buggers.

The News of Tomorrow, Today!

Yes, please. Now that we are working full time on making this place as lively as before, the Delegate and GUardians will be discussing the changes and forum fixes needed.
Thanks for the input tho!

For Movember - can we stick mustaches on all our avatars?

! Run, it's infected someone!
 
Underneath it's all the same hardware these days, so when you buy an Apple you're paying for the design and name as well.  Personally I am still a Windows guy for my workstations/laptops, but most of my servers when I have a choice are Linux (usually Ubuntu Server these days).
If you're going for an HP, I would have a look at their Business lineup rather than their consumer if you can...the HP ProBooks (yeah, I know, basically rifting off the Mac Book name) are quite good...we brought in about 400 of them last year at my office and I've only had to do warranty on maybe 4 of them...  and so far only one kid has managed to actually damage the case so bad that we had to order new parts, so they seem fairly durable.  And they're light weight.
 
Personally I'm a sucker for the Dell XPS 15 that they showed off this year, but I'm not in the market for a new laptop for a while...plus I don't think the School Board is going to buy me a top end model like that without some questions....... lol

Prices are unreasonably high for Apple products in the US as well, because they're simply unreasonable. You can get a windows (you can also run linux if you prefer) laptop that does everything a Macbook Pro does, but for less than half the price. An HP Pavillion has twice the RAM, more storage, a comparable processor, hell they both even have the same crummy Intel HD 4000 GPU, and will save you a few hundred bucks.

As you already know, we recently completed our first Autism Awareness Week and had previously collaborated with another region's DIABETES AWARENESS DAY.
In a vote for the region, the majority of voters considered this is a thing we should continue doing, as a manner of taking advantage of the thousands of persons we reach in the game.
I've created this thread to open a long term discussion and perhaps even to create a small committee that could work on researching and creating our future awareness day / week / weekend whatever.
There are some I'd like us to for sure (like October's International Breast Cancer Awareness, as well as November's Men Movember Awareness for Prostate Cancer. We don't NEED to do them monthly so we may still have 5 months before the two I'd like us to make sure we keep in sight.
I've sent a TG to all those who voted for the option about wishin to be involved with the planning, but ANYONE seing this is more than welcome to propose, comment and even offer their help
Let's do something nice for the world together

What this BBB! It is clear eviDENce!!!!

As you already know, we recently completed our first Autism Awareness Week and had previously collaborated with another region's DIABETES AWARENESS DAY.
In a vote for the region, the majority of voters considered this is a thing we should continue doing, as a manner of taking advantage of the thousands of persons we reach in the game.
I've created this thread to open a long term discussion and perhaps even to create a small committee that could work on researching and creating our future awareness day / week / weekend whatever.
There are some I'd like us to for sure (like October's International Breast Cancer Awareness, as well as November's Men Movember Awareness for Prostate Cancer. We don't NEED to do them monthly so we may still have 5 months before the two I'd like us to make sure we keep in sight.
I've sent a TG to all those who voted for the option about wishin to be involved with the planning, but ANYONE seing this is more than welcome to propose, comment and even offer their help
Let's do something nice for the world together

As you already know, we recently completed our first Autism Awareness Week and had previously collaborated with another region's DIABETES AWARENESS DAY.
In a vote for the region, the majority of voters considered this is a thing we should continue doing, as a manner of taking advantage of the thousands of persons we reach in the game.
I've created this thread to open a long term discussion and perhaps even to create a small committee that could work on researching and creating our future awareness day / week / weekend whatever.
There are some I'd like us to for sure (like October's International Breast Cancer Awareness, as well as November's Men Movember Awareness for Prostate Cancer. We don't NEED to do them monthly so we may still have 5 months before the two I'd like us to make sure we keep in sight.
I've sent a TG to all those who voted for the option about wishin to be involved with the planning, but ANYONE seing this is more than welcome to propose, comment and even offer their help
Let's do something nice for the world together

Are all Texans, former DENites?

Aye, I agree. Raiding is not evil. Cheating is a punch in the face of every other player, and it DESERVES punishment.

All you can do is make a habit of leaving this forum address on the NS TWP forum.

Welcome to the Snarkiest Region in NS!

Welcome. You know that regardless of your past DEN affiliation, both myself and BBD consider you a decent fellow, so feel welcome to the region, at least on my behalf.
You'll need to keep in mind some TWP natives may still feel ill towards the events of a few months ago (ejem...) so please be patient towards them should the need arise.
We are The Weird Pacific!

Interestingly enough, I don't think of Raiders as evil. The play a part of the game I am not fond of, but I have privately raided in the past (and I have also defended) and I can tell you both sides draw fun out of what sometimes can be a very dull game.