I just skimmed an essay about renumeration vs. remuneration and it says that technically Merriam-Webster defines renumeration as the act of counting something again but then I went to Merriam-Websters website and searched for renumeration and it said thats not a word so whoever wrote that essay decided to tell historys most boring lie whatever gets you off I guess
Broke as fuck in the style of the times. Gratitude is all that can return on your generosity.
I just had a Berenstein bears moment with remuneration.
There is apparently no such word as renumeration.
Between this post and learning that piano version of "everytime we touch" is indeed by the same group that did the eurobeat version, I've come to the conclusion that all human perception is illusory.
Oh I know what Malta is! It's a secret paramilitary organization.
After World War II ended, a lot of super-humans who'd fought for the US left the service, leaving us weakened against the paranormal assets of our new enemies in the Soviet bloc. To counter this, a CIA spook named Roger Vrabel pulled enough strings to get the Might for Right act passed, which let him draft meta-humans into his own special strike force. When the Might for Right act was overturned in '67, the Soviets proceeded to kick our asses in all the Cold War spy games and it started to look grim. So Vrabel, McIntosh, and a bunch of others got together at a little conference organized by Neil McIntosh and the 17 of them formed an illegal intelligence conspiracy called the Malta Group. They acted outside of their own governments, recruiting meta-humans by any means fair or foul to fight their invisible war. These days, communism's gone, the cold war is over, and the Malta Group's had to change. Now they've dedicated themselves to the spread of their version of democracy and capitalism, which really is more like a dictatorship wrapped in an American flag.
I, meanwhile, had to go to Wikipedia to refresh my memory as to where, and indeed what Malta even is
Apart from hosting some startlingly modern descendants of ancient crusaders, Malta has been in the international news A LOT lately because of that Panama Papers assassination scandal, which gets stupider and more blatantly corrupt every week and I'm hoping to crap George Clooney has already commissioned a screenplay.
I, meanwhile, had to go to Wikipedia to refresh my memory as to where, and indeed what Malta even is
Apart from hosting some startlingly modern descendants of ancient crusaders, Malta has been in the international news A LOT lately because of that Panama Papers assassination scandal, which gets stupider and more blatantly corrupt every week and I'm hoping to crap George Clooney has already commissioned a screenplay.
this is still one of those things that I am continually shocked made basically no impact on public consciousness
I feel like I hear a lot more about the Epstein stuff than any of the Panama fallout, but it's way more recent so I guess give it a couple of years.
Seriously though this is gonna be a great movie. Two of the masterminds were planning to escape to Dubai via pleasure yacht! One of them is the prime minister's Chief of Staff! A random taxi driver called Melvin was the lynchpin in the whole scheme!
I'm already excited.
I, meanwhile, had to go to Wikipedia to refresh my memory as to where, and indeed what Malta even is
Apart from hosting some startlingly modern descendants of ancient crusaders, Malta has been in the international news A LOT lately because of that Panama Papers assassination scandal, which gets stupider and more blatantly corrupt every week and I'm hoping to crap George Clooney has already commissioned a screenplay.
this is still one of those things that I am continually shocked made basically no impact on public consciousness
like the Epstein "suicide"
The memelords over at Reddit and Imgur have been so dedicated to keeping the Epstein thing alive that it's gotten counterproductive. I'm sick of hearing about it every three posts.
I say that, but even they seem to have forgotten it recently. I guess I haven't really seen any "epstein didn't kill himself" memes for a while, I guess it's true that nothing can trend forever.
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I went to Malta on my European OE.
I wish I could say I enjoyed it, but I was pretty tired of travel by the time I got there. I had already seen every kind of historic ruin there was in Europe and it was getting old hat. Even flirting with attractive bikini-clad Austrian girls was just something to fill in the time.
There were also some culture clashes to work through. In Europe I usually tried to learn at least one phrase in the local lingo, even if it was only how to order a large stein of beer in German. In Malta, the phrase I bothered to learn was "Your daughter is 13 and you dress her like a whore", which encapsulates both my impression of the local culture and my immediate reaction to it.
In closing, I was due to fly out of Malta a few days after September 11, 2001 when that happened and I got temporarily trapped in the country while all international air travel got shut down which was really the final cap on an experience that was already teetering pretty close to the edge. Overall I can't say I had a great time, but there were some pretty unique extenuating circumstances.
But I did get to hang out at some ancient Knight fortresses and learn about the Great Siege of Malta and Napkin and WW2 so it wasn't a complete write-off.
I know about Malta primarily because of Milo Minderbinder buying eggs there for 7 cents each and selling them in Pianosa at 5 cents each for a profit.
Wait what
Well you have to think about what "buying" really means
It was a scam, OK?
Yes, and what
The whole deal with The Syndicate (which is Heller's meta-commentary on the military-industrial complex) is that Milo gets paid by the government for the government doing the things that it was doing anyway. He uses commissary funds to buy the eggs for 7 cents, then The Syndicate sells the eggs. The maths makes no sense until you realise that he is stealing the eggs.
The modus operandi of the Syndicate is using the government's money and assets for the Syndicate's profit, and the book narrates several increasingly egregious examples, eg: Milo being contracted by the Germans to attack his own airbase using the air force's own planes. He gets in trouble for this until he reveals what a huge profit he made, because after all...
..."What's good for the Syndicate is good for America!"
(Milo also comments that "The Germans pay their bills a lot more promptly than some people I could mention")
I know about Malta primarily because of Milo Minderbinder buying eggs there for 7 cents each and selling them in Pianosa at 5 cents each for a profit.
Wait what
Well you have to think about what "buying" really means
It was a scam, OK?
Yes, and what
The whole deal with The Syndicate (which is Heller's meta-commentary on the military-industrial complex) is that Milo gets paid by the government for the government doing the things that it was doing anyway. He uses commissary funds to buy the eggs for 7 cents, then The Syndicate sells the eggs. The maths makes no sense until you realise that he is stealing the eggs.
The modus operandi of the Syndicate is using the government's money and assets for the Syndicate's profit, and the book narrates several increasingly egregious examples, eg: Milo being contracted by the Germans to attack his own airbase using the air force's own planes. He gets in trouble for this until he reveals what a huge profit he made, because after all...
..."What's good for the Syndicate is good for America!"
(Milo also comments that "The Germans pay their bills a lot more promptly than some people I could mention")
this sub plot is one of the more entertaining parts of Catch-22
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Everything about this was both new and bewildering to me
There is apparently no such word as renumeration.
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Between this post and learning that piano version of "everytime we touch" is indeed by the same group that did the eurobeat version, I've come to the conclusion that all human perception is illusory.
I did know a bunch of it but it's because I have a cheat code aka a close friend from Malta
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A Malta is a tiny little toy dog with luxurious locks!
After World War II ended, a lot of super-humans who'd fought for the US left the service, leaving us weakened against the paranormal assets of our new enemies in the Soviet bloc. To counter this, a CIA spook named Roger Vrabel pulled enough strings to get the Might for Right act passed, which let him draft meta-humans into his own special strike force. When the Might for Right act was overturned in '67, the Soviets proceeded to kick our asses in all the Cold War spy games and it started to look grim. So Vrabel, McIntosh, and a bunch of others got together at a little conference organized by Neil McIntosh and the 17 of them formed an illegal intelligence conspiracy called the Malta Group. They acted outside of their own governments, recruiting meta-humans by any means fair or foul to fight their invisible war. These days, communism's gone, the cold war is over, and the Malta Group's had to change. Now they've dedicated themselves to the spread of their version of democracy and capitalism, which really is more like a dictatorship wrapped in an American flag.
Apart from hosting some startlingly modern descendants of ancient crusaders, Malta has been in the international news A LOT lately because of that Panama Papers assassination scandal, which gets stupider and more blatantly corrupt every week and I'm hoping to crap George Clooney has already commissioned a screenplay.
this is still one of those things that I am continually shocked made basically no impact on public consciousness
like the Epstein "suicide"
Seriously though this is gonna be a great movie. Two of the masterminds were planning to escape to Dubai via pleasure yacht! One of them is the prime minister's Chief of Staff! A random taxi driver called Melvin was the lynchpin in the whole scheme!
I'm already excited.
The memelords over at Reddit and Imgur have been so dedicated to keeping the Epstein thing alive that it's gotten counterproductive. I'm sick of hearing about it every three posts.
I say that, but even they seem to have forgotten it recently. I guess I haven't really seen any "epstein didn't kill himself" memes for a while, I guess it's true that nothing can trend forever.
I wish I could say I enjoyed it, but I was pretty tired of travel by the time I got there. I had already seen every kind of historic ruin there was in Europe and it was getting old hat. Even flirting with attractive bikini-clad Austrian girls was just something to fill in the time.
There were also some culture clashes to work through. In Europe I usually tried to learn at least one phrase in the local lingo, even if it was only how to order a large stein of beer in German. In Malta, the phrase I bothered to learn was "Your daughter is 13 and you dress her like a whore", which encapsulates both my impression of the local culture and my immediate reaction to it.
In closing, I was due to fly out of Malta a few days after September 11, 2001 when that happened and I got temporarily trapped in the country while all international air travel got shut down which was really the final cap on an experience that was already teetering pretty close to the edge. Overall I can't say I had a great time, but there were some pretty unique extenuating circumstances.
But I did get to hang out at some ancient Knight fortresses and learn about the Great Siege of Malta and Napkin and WW2 so it wasn't a complete write-off.
Wait what
this post hurts my head
wut
Well you have to think about what "buying" really means
Yes, and what
The whole deal with The Syndicate (which is Heller's meta-commentary on the military-industrial complex) is that Milo gets paid by the government for the government doing the things that it was doing anyway. He uses commissary funds to buy the eggs for 7 cents, then The Syndicate sells the eggs. The maths makes no sense until you realise that he is stealing the eggs.
The modus operandi of the Syndicate is using the government's money and assets for the Syndicate's profit, and the book narrates several increasingly egregious examples, eg: Milo being contracted by the Germans to attack his own airbase using the air force's own planes. He gets in trouble for this until he reveals what a huge profit he made, because after all...
..."What's good for the Syndicate is good for America!"
(Milo also comments that "The Germans pay their bills a lot more promptly than some people I could mention")
this sub plot is one of the more entertaining parts of Catch-22
You can't read those until you've read 22.
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Ah jeez. What a pickle. There should be a name for a situation like this.
No no that's a malt SHOP you're thinking of.
Is Mitchell a worse movie than Final Justice or are they both the worst in their own special way?
yep!