Posts by giovanni tiso
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namely, Merchant Category Codes (or MCC).
I know the MCC list by heart and neither "pay per view movies" (porn or otherwise) nor "expensive bubbly at restaurant" are separate from other hotel or restaurant spending. The flowers... well, it depends on where Carter purchased them.
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Chris Carter's is eight fingers thick.
Oh boy. Tway-tu-tu-tway, tu-tu-twang-twang.
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The early series are quite good, but it's more notable for the aesthetic aspects than anything else, and in that respect it's dated somewhat. It's not remotely as good as The Wire, but you can certainly look at it as a stepping stone.
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I borrow five dollars from you, with the proviso that if I haven't paid it back within a month, Craig will pay you back. If I pay you back within that month, Craig's money will never leave his pocket, although you could also say that he's incurred a potential liability between my borrowing of the five dollars and the repayment. Still, saying that he's spent five dollars would stretch the definition of "spending" somewhat.
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Marx had the theory that a popularist, successful sports team can distract the oppressed masses and prevent an uprising.
It doesn't seem able to prevent riots, though, does it?
'because it makes me happy'
Happiness is counter-revolutionary, obviously.
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I've been doing translations for an expense management software company and they have a facility to flag payments as personal so that employees can then refund the company when the statement comes back - so it must be how some corporates decide in fact that it's the most rational way to deal with it.
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No, actually until repayment is due the money simply hasn't been spent. It's abusing a line of credit at best. It seems quibbling in the face of precise rules and reiterated advice that it was not OK, however.
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Yes, but does Rock of Love Bus have Wendell Pierce in it?
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But if Labour knew that several 'wineboxes' full of papers were going to be released, there's no way Goff should have been off overseas.
That is quite precisely where Phill Goff needed to be.
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Yeah. I'm not sure if that has to do with the original source material as compared to the TV shows - I haven't read the originals
It's faithful to the originals. But hey, they chose their source. They could just as easily have chosen a different one, or integrated it somewhat. As it is, it's a study on the plight of the American marine, and that is not quite comparable to some of the things that The wire tried to do. I liked it, mind, it was very good drama and some of the themes were treated quite beautifully.