But you still got in the hole in the first place didn't you? Also you didn't beat Australia

Well, the man's woman's got a point. Let's not forget the rest of the world shall we?
Do one for Commonwealth Day or EU Day or Victory Day or start of the Golden Week (JP) ... in English.

P.S Can someone educate me wtf is Labor Day? May 1st?

Get used to it, Europe is ruined by Americans.

Yea Eritrea has a smokin 8.5 or should I choose Rwanda, time to move, my standard of living will skyrocket.

Hell If you live in the United states you might try Mexico, I hear they also don't have a patriot act.

Patriot Act is nothing, NDAA is the new Big Brother Boogie Man

Please explain I have not heard of the NDAA or I am not sure what it stands for.

National Defense Authorization Act. I don't know much about it, just that I've heard a lot of the same rumblings that the Patriot Act caused when it was passed.

Haven't logged in for some days and i've been greeted with this advertisement, and inmediately have been left wondering "when is that Labor day weekend?" I think it's something they do in the USA, but last time I checked, my feet were in a sorry piece of land on the southwestern tip of Europe and "Labor day" meant nothing for us.

Why every EVE player is greeted with an advertisement that only American can understand? Are we expected to understand it just because it's something American? Or are we being told to screw ourselves as it's only for American players?

Tip: as a rule of thumb, if your customers are international, don't use local events to mean dates, instead state the date clearly. (But you can screw that tip if you think that your customers appreciate cultural chauvinism...)

Hell If you live in the United states you might try Mexico, I hear they also don't have a patriot act.

Haven't logged in for some days and i've been greeted with this advertisement, and inmediately have been left wondering "when is that Labor day weekend?" I think it's something they do in the USA, but last time I checked, my feet were in a sorry piece of land on the southwestern tip of Europe and "Labor day" meant nothing for us.

Why every EVE player is greeted with an advertisement that only American can understand? Are we expected to understand it just because it's something American? Or are we being told to screw ourselves as it's only for American players?

Tip: as a rule of thumb, if your customers are international, don't use local events to mean dates, instead state the date clearly. (But you can screw that tip if you think that your customers appreciate cultural chauvinism...)

I think its awesome that CCP offers deals to shtipoasters from across the globe.

Its easy to pick up speed when you are drafting in a massive tailwind. Turns out theres this wierd effect where the further behind you are, the faster you grow. Turns out that the biggest problem unperforming countrys have is just getting started growing, after that its an explotion, relatively speaking.

Anywho, the comment was meant to get a rise, and chuckle. I think I need to work on the chuckle part. You guys are too serious.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ly1al4K3u2M

Lol, I just realized I typed cAjones. I'm a goof. :)

Need more coffee. :P

And holy crap my picture is terrible. I guess that what happens when you playing dressup right before server restart. 8>O

Public holidays in the USA are a big deal because your average pay worker maybe gets 10-15 days/year if they're lucky.

Unlike the EU, there is no requirement for a company to offer paid annual leave (holidays). In the USA its far more common for "holidays" to be accrued sick days (that you didn't take) rather than the 0-15 days theoretical entitlement.

Think of it in those terms.

Yeah, and you're lucky if you are entitled to sick days. More commonly, its tell the boss you are sick and hope he doesn't ask questions.

Isn't Labor Day where the US Government plans how to make their whole poor and middle class population into slaves, this being where the term Labor Day comes from?

In the UK you're not entitled to statutory sick pay for 5 days, some companies offer more. ie you don't get paid until you've been sick for more than 5 days, and even then you get a fraction of your wages/salary.

That's why people on minimum wage here don't take sick days - unlike the public sector (govt employees) where its endemic

Labor Day is an American federal holiday observed on the first Monday in September (this Monday) that celebrates the economic and social contributions of workers. This is traditionally celebrated by giving some workers the day off to enjoy a three day weekend with assorted outdoor games and cooking, while many in the retail/service sectors are forced to work even harder during various Labor Day "sales".

I guess it was difficult to say "Labor day weekend sale (Sep. 1st-3rd)" so non-American could know when was the sale...

There a kind of urban ledgend about europe, I think I heard it as germany that has mandatory vacation of a month or so a year. I don't know if its true or not.

We get are intitled a thing called workers compensation if we hurt on the just or sick as the result direct (like accident exposure to toxins and the like) of a job. But it on a state by state basis the criteria for coverage and the compensation. This is basicly a mandatory enrollment insurance that employers must pay on the behalf of each employee. Coverage usually require anything from proof of negligence on the part of the employer to just plain accidental injury. And compensation usually doesn't start until 30 to 45 days of disability.

So, there's a gap of course all the insurance company has plans to cover short term disability through the employers or employees, and long term disability must be enrolled by the employer. This of course costs more.

Good employers usually offer medical, dental, optical and long and short term disability. They are able to have their employees covered at groups rates because the insurance companies have lobbied to restrict many types of insurance from being able to be bought at any time by anyone, because they think there will be a selection bias. The bigger the group the lower the rates for all the insured. Buying the policies individually if possible are usually very expensive or very limited policies.

I studied and obtained a liscense to sell insurance. You need a license here to sell it because it is needlessly complicated. My liscense expired a couple of months ago, I just couldn't bear to keep selling it, because I was so disgusted with the process and its effectiveness in solving peoples issues. Its basicly giving somone money, in case something happens, and your rate is purposefully inflated if you aren't a part of very very large group. Even most employers are getting ripped off simply because there is some small statistical variance from large, but not the largest most ideally perfect group.

And there this blow back about mandated medical insurance that got passed, and the vast majority are against it because the are incapable of realizing that everyone is getting ripped off by the insurance companies. And it would be better if the group size as the totality of the american population. Then the government could come down of the insurance companies and start plugging useless loopholes and jargon and negotiate from a position of power, likely ending with a national fund. But somehow its socialism to want to pay lower rates.

And wow, that is one wall o text.

I might be a bit bitter.

Why would non-Americans care, are you interested in flying your personal jet to the states to take advantage of the great deals on crap you don't need in the first place available this weekend only at our local Walmarts? My point was simply that not everyone that the holiday is intended to honor actually get to enjoy it.