Jim from the Office does a fine job as Jack Ryan, and that show seems great to me so far. I think Jim is a pretty good actor too. To be fair, he was always the straight guy on the Office, and the things he did were funny in the context of what the more typecast, Dwight style characters, were doing.
I don't know what it is, but I absolutely hate it when people tell me about a dream they had. I find it the most pointless, difficult thing to listen to. It's a figment of your imagination. It's only interesting to you 99.999% of the time. So the next time you think you might tell someone about a dream you had, just stop. It's boring. :)
Am I the only one having trouble with playback. I tried HTML5 and Progressive and in both cases, it plays the audio normal, the video plays normal for a second, then goes into slow motion, then everything cuts out, and it keeps repeating that.
My problem with the race stuff is that the charge of racism is so overused today. I don't, nor have I ever used the language of racism as Vinny calls it. I grew up in the midwest, where there was almost no racism to be seen. We do not have a huge minority population here. Race relations were always excellent here. There was almost no overt racism. Fast forward to today, and I'm constantly called a racist by the left for things that have absolutely nothing to do with race. I was called a racist for wanting a balanced budget. I'm called a racist for wanted true equality to be enforced from the government. No sanctioned discrimination against anyone of any color. To the left, that's a racist statement, which makes no logical sense at all. The dog whistle racism charge is the last refuge of a scoundrel in my opinion. Dog whistle simply means that everything I say might be racist if I don't agree with your politics.
I think Trump is a reaction to the constant scream of racism. Sure there are racists on the right, but they are a fringe minority, at least here, in a place Trump won and Obama won twice (Wisconsin). I never hear anyone saying or doing racist things and I know lots of conservatives. There's also plenty of racism on the left directed at white people. Let's not kid ourselves. Final point, I agree that the language of racism should not be used by anyone. I think even black people using the "n" word is likely not a healthy thing for black people. It also makes it a very casual thing. I don't care about putsy pie or whatever his name is. He sounds like an idiot, and using the "n" word while streaming as a white dude is pretty stupid. I'm sure it's not doing him any favors for his brand or business, and I tend not to listen to anyone or any media that uses that word.
Disheartening to hear that you weren't playing this due to political stuff. Adults should be allowed to be adults. If their labor practices stink, those people can go get jobs somewhere else. I'll never understand why we say, we should be allowed to do x (swear on the internet, or tv, nudity, whatever the social thing is) because we're adults and so on and so forth, but we can't let people make their own decisions about where they work under the same logic. If they don't like it, they should quit. Eventually that will force the people in Kerbalville to do the right thing.
When I got started out doing studio work, I was salaried, paid the equivalent of minimum wage, and worked over 100 hours a week. I loved it. I learned so much. Now, 16 years later I make good money, started my own business, and view that time as the most educational and valuable time of my life. The economic reality of the recording studio business is that there isn't much money to be made there. Another valuable lesson learned. It's not so much that they were taking advantage of me, but that they weren't making enough money to pay me more. I'm still in that field, but my business supports it, rather than doing engineering work.
Also Cassini was FAR beyond the planned mission life. It had already had two massive extensions to the mission.
I just want to chime in on eBay. It's very stupid to put your stuff in the "as is" category and to sell it as untested. The amount of money you lose doing that FAR outweighs the tiny amount of fraud there is on eBay. My company sells at least a million dollars a year on eBay. We ship dozens of packages each day to eBay customers. We have had ONE customer who tried to rip us off by returning a different item than what we sent them. Just one. That loss ended up being $50.
By selling things as is and for parts, and saying you didn't test them, you're EASILY losing 25% on every sale. It makes absolutely no sense to do that. So what, you get a few returns where the item works fine and you lose some shipping. Big deal. You're getting screwed, by YOURSELF, on every sale because you're saying you didn't test it and it's as is. In my business we deal have a lot of crossover with the video game customer (aka young men from 15 to 30 make up most of our customers). We don't sell video games, but we sell things that are equally as complicated, if not more, and yes we get returns and then we sell the thing again. If we sold everything as is, untested, we would not be in business.
So if you feel like eBay is a bad deal, you have nobody to blame but yourself. I also buy tons of video games on eBay personally, and I never have issues, outside of needing to return an item from time to time. I go into it with the attitude of someone who knows they might have to return a few things.
Also, saying something is as is and untested does NOT protect you on eBay from returns. They can still say it wasn't as described and return it. All they have to do is say, description said the label was in tact, or pictures showed label intact and it wasn't, and they can return it. The people who abuse return policy stuff like that, they'll do it on as is stuff too.
I say all this as someone with over 20,000 feedback from buying/selling.
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