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I hope you're not using their billing software.
I don't remember the 2-hours long monologue part. You sure you're thinking of the right film/book?
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That Blockscape game looks AWESOME!
i'm kidding. i loved the incredibles.
they did manage to condense the main Ayn Rand theme into one line from the villain, though.
My God.
it's amazing.
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The other one Brad Bird did, Ratatouille, also had that overarching theme of "STAY IN YOUR STATION. Skills are handed out at birth: use them appropriately, never question their distribution."
It's a bit weird, but both movies are quite fun.
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How is it a rat's station to be a good chef?
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He's inherently gifted.
Remember, the message was specifically not "Anyone can cook", but "anyone from any station can be gifted with the ability to be great, and we must allow them to be. People not gifted with that ability should let a rat tug their hair, then become a waiter."
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... The theme was that anyone, no matter how humble their origin, could be great.
--LeVar Burton
Nope. The hospital uses it for stamping for doctors.
Of course the obvious solution is a Java applet that runs on the hospitals website that we have access to through a VPN.
All of clicking a god damned button and display text. Seriously first year students at ITT Tech could do better.
I don't know who they have designing this shit.
"Anyone can cook no matter their station" plus "and you can't fucking cook if you're not gifted. Stop trying and be a waiter."
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I am happy that no matter how badly I do in this degree I can find a job getting paid to write shit.
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well, no. no it's not.
doesn't the guy who wants to be a cook fail to be a cook, because he doesn't have the ability, and so he becomes a waiter? the rat becomes a cook because, as durandal said, he has the inherent gift.
the theme, from a positive perspective, is "if you have the gift for something, you can be great, and don't let anyone stop you."
i don't have much of a problem with that, because it's a lot better than "if you try hard enough, you can do anything, no matter what!" which i think is a poisonous attitude
"Anyone from any station can be gifted with the ability to be great [in a certain vocation]" is the opposite of "STAY IN YOUR STATION."
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i don't think we should necessarily focus on that when making things for children, since we want to promote the idea that they should be trying hard and learning new things and experimenting and building confidence. we just want to do it more realistically.
the more world-weary resignation and acceptance of failure or unattainability can come later in life
I mean, it's pretty easy to write garbage applications... but like, who's thought process was "Well we have this text... and we want doctors to hit a button and acknowledge they read it, and put it on the text. HEY LETS USE MOTHERFUCKING JAVA."
It's already on a webpage, jesus christ html has all the functionality they need for that.
Also, the human's only reason for thinking that he could be a great chef was the fact that he was the son of a great chef.
The falsehood of that belief is a statement against nepotism and one more denial of the idea that skills are/should be restricted to certain classes.
And yeah, I agree about that latter statement being a poisonous attitude, especially since it leads to the belief that people who don't succeed are simply not trying hard enough.
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GENIUS!
I'd prefer some how sliding in the theme that you won't automatically be great at everything you want to be.
It was a difficult realization in the 4th grade, and it's a difficult one now.
Ah, but remember Syndrome! Don't try to be a hero, guy. You've got no gift! Stay normal.
Similarly, waiter-guy? Stop, you're done. Stay a waiter. Hoping is worthless you need a natural talent.
You can't be gifted, you can simply have it or not have it. If you don't have it you are finished, and there's nothing you can do.
Also it annoys me because cooking is in no way a natural talent. It's the opposite of a talent! It's hard work and time and thoughtfulness and skill and it's got shit all to do with being able to smell shit better then normal.
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360 Days of personal use. Five days where the Smith Family paid me by check, and 100 days where I got cash. FUCK YOU TAX MAN.
#FreeScheck
#FreeSKFM
Medical software is shit. I can relay hours and hours of headaches and stories about the dental software we use. The crap that can destroy itself during an update so much to the point you have to reinstall. And if it happens on your server, whelp you are reinstalling the whole office and hoping that the update works the next time which it can.
Or the fact that the wireless interoral cameras actually run on their own wireless network that the computer will try to connect to 25% of the time.
But hey at least ours lets up go out months in advance in the scheduling book. Some only let you move your schedule one day at a time. So you want to make an appointment 3 months out, you get to flip pages for about 90 days worth of scheduling.
You actually can do anything, generally, kind of. Not practically, obviously, but it's true that any given person can become the Best Chef. They just won't have the time, money, luck, or inclination. Life will get in the way.
We try to cover up this sad fact by pretending that they don't have the "talent", and that the Best Chef attained the station because it was correct for him or her to attain that station.
It's similar to the ridiculously broadly applied term "intelligence" being used to justify anything.
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He wasn't a "hero" though. He was an inventor. A really good inventor too, even as a child. But he idolized something that he wasn't, and in fact put people in danger because of it. The message of both movies isn't "stay in your station", it's that different people are good at different things, and everybody's good at something.
And a Rogue's Gallery.
Really, it needs several sequels.
What are the options?
I do.
me
I wanna see them go into the Earth and fight John Ratzenberg. Or whatever that character's name was.
that's not mixed. you need to rent more than to 2 weeks for it to start being classified as mixed rental property. hell, you don't even have to pay tax on that rental income.