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Why dont you (or the school) simply drop them a nice email asking how/in which format would they like the material delivered, that you appreciate their offer but that you prefer to do these things in house. Then if they dont ignore the email, just email the appropriate stuff back yourself, or since meriter volunteered, ask him to give it a go if theres not too much stuff to adjust (probably wont be since, as you said, they are probably fucking with you).





Also, it seems you have been busy this week but im going to ask anyway, any timeline on when we can expect your idiot proof explanation of hangul that you mentioned in the olympics thread that you would put together for those interested?

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Originally posted by Moongoose Why dont you (or the school) simply drop them a nice email asking how/in which format would they like the material delivered, that you appreciate their offer but that you prefer to do these things in house. Then if they dont ignore the email, just email the appropriate stuff back yourself, or since meriter volunteered, ask him to give it a go if theres not too much stuff to adjust (probably wont be since, as you said, they are probably fucking with you).

The principal is in charge of all this and, like I said, there's the hierarchy problem. Since she chose this printing house herself, recommended by the governmental agency, there isn't much I can do other than warn her.

And warn her I did

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Originally posted by Moongoose Also, it seems you have been busy this week but im going to ask anyway, any timeline on when we can expect your idiot proof explanation of hangul that you mentioned in the olympics thread that you would put together for those interested?

I hope it'll be ready by the end of next week. There's a potential job at university, and I want to be ready in case it's suited for my field

Am I wrong to suggest that you take the file, save it as a .doc (or whatever), open it in Word, edit as you see fit, print, then re-save as .pdf?

take a screencap with your phone, email it to yourself, print it out, then scan the printout and fax it to them

Nothing feels like a vicegrip on your nuts like after a cold swim.

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Originally posted by meriter take a screencap with your phone, email it to yourself, print it out, then scan the printout and fax it to them

Does that really degrade the quality that bad? I only know .pdfs from forms, and circumventing paying Adobe's ridiculous prices typically just entail converting it to a different format. It compresses the file, but it is unacceptable? It might be for mass printing purposes. This is why I'm not in graphic design.

I thought you were making a joke.. no you can't do shit with a pdf in word

When I did web work I had a client who would fucking take a screen shot of their website, print it out, handwrite notes on it, scan it in black and white, and then depending on who it was or maybe if they had huffed enough paint that day they would either email it to me (in a variety of formats, PDF, word file, a couple of times in a excel file with multiple pages) or they would fax it to me.


God damn.

Great ideas

Also, I've just seen an interview with an old native Brazilian called "Megatron". He's got to be epic awesomeness incarnate.

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Originally posted by meriter I thought you were making a joke.. no you can't do shit with a pdf in word

It's no joke, surely you can re-save a .pdf as a Word file, edit it, then re-re-save as a .pdf. It works for mere documents, but if you require graphics or a certain dpi of text, it's rather ill-advised.

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Originally posted by Lira The principal is in charge of all this and, like I said, there's the hierarchy problem. Since she chose this printing house herself, recommended by the governmental agency, there isn't much I can do other than warn her. And warn her I did

Must be a culture difference then, over here if anyone even suspected that you were trying to scam them a war of epic proportions would break out...we are in the balkans after all

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Originally posted by Lira I hope it'll be ready by the end of next week. There's a potential job at university, and I want to be ready in case it's suited for my field

Ah sweet, on both counts

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Originally posted by Moongoose Must be a culture difference then, over here if anyone even suspected that you were trying to scam them a war of epic proportions would break out...we are in the balkans after all

There's also the fact that being too direct in Japanese is extremely rare, specially when you don't have direct evidence. The best I could say was "You know the guys from the printing house? The things they said don't really add up" or something like that. I'd have to be absolutely certain of what they're up to before I could say something like "KILL ALL INFIDELS!!!" or something with as much impact

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Originally posted by Moongoose Ah sweet, on both counts

I'm not exactly optimistic this time around, because I'm not sure they really want someone versed on Japanese linguistics... but, let's see. I got a similar job 4 years ago, so there's little reason to believe I won't get it this time

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Originally posted by Lira There's also the fact that being too direct in Japanese is extremely rare, specially when you don't have direct evidence. The best I could say was "You know the guys from the printing house? The things they said don't really add up" or something like that. I'd have to be absolutely certain of what they're up to before I could say something like "KILL ALL INFIDELS!!!" or something with as much impact

Its amazing they get anything done really if one cant call out an obvious fraud because you cant bee too direct.

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Originally posted by Lira I'm not exactly optimistic this time around, because I'm not sure they really want someone versed on Japanese linguistics... but, let's see. I got a similar job 4 years ago, so there's little reason to believe I won't get it this time

Well i hope you get it then Jobs where being versed in japanese linguistics is a requirement or helpfull do not seem all that common to me so good luck

Prison Break is so fucking stupid sometimes, but I can't help but want to finish it

How many twists and unrealistic situations do you need to make your plot piece together.

Dumb fucking writers.

/rant

What they did with prison break is, they had an awesome 12 episode mini series, and when they saw the ratings they though to themselves "Hey this is actually awesome, we should stretch this out" and thats when things went to shit quickly.

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Originally posted by meriter

Is that your kitty?

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Originally posted by meriter

ugly little cuss....

lol..j/k... that bottom pic is funny.

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Originally posted by Moongoose Its amazing they get anything done really if one cant call out an obvious fraud because you cant bee too direct.

It is

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Originally posted by Moongoose Well i hope you get it then Jobs where being versed in japanese linguistics is a requirement or helpfull do not seem all that common to me so good luck

Precisely, that's why I'd be confident about the job if I knew that's what they want. Because if they don't, then I'm screwed

And cheers, I'll let you know how it goes

god i would completely smash that

I found this to be a really good read:

http://gawker.com/5936554/the-other...er?popular=true

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Originally posted by Halcyon+On+On I found this to be a really good read: http://gawker.com/5936554/the-other...er?popular=true

I'm so glad I got kicked out while the rest of my unit was sent to Iraq. In hindsight, it's the best thing that could have ever happened to me.

Truly sad what a lot of war veterans are going through and will continue to go through.

"Just another number."

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Originally posted by meriter

Brilliant.

Agreed. The three Henri vids are quite captivating

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Originally posted by Halcyon+On+On I found this to be a really good read: http://gawker.com/5936554/the-other...er?popular=true

I really suggest reading On Killing by Lt. Col. Dave Grossman, US Army (Ret.).

Humans do not want to kill each other and doing so fucks them up more than anything you can imagine. Its not the fear of death, or the fear of injury that scars people in war. Its the fear that they have done something wrong, or will have to do something innately wrong, or that they will have let someone else down because they can't do what they feel is wrong (survivors guilt, etc).

It is even worse today because they are so conditioned to kill that it becomes a mechanical process, the scaring effects of battle not appearing till later in a way that makes them second guess themselves.

Also, especially in Vietnam, we do not take the proper measures to "deprogram" and re-assimilate and provide care for their mental wounds when they come back, we being not only the military but our society. It has gotten quite a lot better, but its still a very hard thing for these men and women to come back and not feel like they are out of place somehow, or guilty.

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