Slashdot Mirror
Infinium Labs Threatens HardOCP Again
XBox4Evr writes "In a follow up from two weeks ago, Infinium Labs is again threatening the tech website HardOCP with legal action. This in itself, is no big deal, but to actually read the letter from Infinium Labs lawyers will make you wonder if an educated person actually penned the documents. This seems to another huge blow to IL's credibility in the console market in general, now that ex-Xbox manager Kevin Bachus is on board with Infinium Labs."
Download the MS source code, your letter will soon be in the mail!
GRAMMAR
Yes, I'm offtopic. I'm also drunk. But, look... this is a suggestion for improvement on /., so here goes:
This in itself, is no big deal, but to actually read the letter from Infinium Labs lawyers will make you wonder if an educated person actually penned the documents.
Should be re-written as:
This, in itself, is no big deal. However, actually reading the letter from Infinium Labs' aywers will make you wonder.....
Mod up or down as you will. Yes, I really am wasted on Balmoral whiskey and Arrogant Bastard ale. Moderate as necessary.
Alito: A vote for Alito is a punch in the eye to put that bitch back in her place!
No, Bacchus knocked the test back. The Member Admins (A few more priveleges than moderator) of the forum have full Dev kits, us lowly beta testers don't.
1. Keep it on-topic. Obviously, this is the most important thing to remember.
2. Post early. Most moderating is done when there are less than 100 posts on a story. This is extremely important. There may be hundreds of posts on a topic, so naturally it is the most important thing to remember of all.
3. Use something familiar. Everyone has apparently seen Monty Python, but nobody seems to have the exact specifics of the very funny Iraq Information minister nailed down. example:
There is no open source licence. These GPL boffins would have you believe that in America they give away software for free. But it is all lies! I triple gauruntee that there is no free nasa software, allah be praised. The United States has said that they are approaching the free software front cautiously, but when they besige us, we will surround them it will be them who will be beseiged, allah willing. We will sell them our proprietary space software for only 299 dinar and a shoe.
This site has loads of quotes from the Information Minister which says that that post ought to be funny, but it is only a +2, funny. Oh well. The weighing of the duck scene seems to be popular as well, directly quoted with no imaginitive inserts. So much for creativity. You must be creative or you won't stand out. Creativity therefore is the most important rule to remember in posting to /.
4. Browse at a very low threshold for a little while (a LITTLE while, prolonged low threshold has been shown to drive moderators insane, hence the moderating system) to see what doesn't work, what gets modded troll, how offtopic you have to be to get modded offtopic, etc. Knowing where the boundaries are will make you a better poster. There can be no doubt that this is the most important thing of all.
5. By all means, take a good idea and run with it. But don't go too far. Examples:
All your somethings belong to us
1. something 2. ??? 3. Profit!!!
In Soviet Russia the Somethings verb you!
These have to be really funny or they don't make it. Having a set plan is good, but knowing when too much of a good thing is really too much is of the utmost importance.
Even those who arrange and design shrubberies are under considerable economic stress at this period in history.
> He said it wasn't difficult.
Wrong. Learn to read, coward.
He specifically said:
> Law, as a subject, isn't that hard.
That was not the point whatsoever. He missed it in his law student fervor to be contrary.
> On the issue of the law being deliberately
> confusing, it is not.
Then you are utterly clueless about the law. Lawyers draft the law to be deliberately confusing because it ensures that they are needed.
> There is a certain amount of jargon used
> however, laws are written to be percise and
> nothing more.
Hahahahaha Oh my, that's a whopper.
> If you cannot understand law that is fine but
> just because you cannot understand something
> doesn't mean others cannot.
You enjoy arguing against straw men apparently.
I understand the law just fine. Most people do not, however, because the law is deliberately written to be confusing to average, everyday folks.
That is why morons like yourself come here and blather foolishly in perfect demonstrance of your idiocy on the matter.
> As mentioned before Chief Justice John Marshall
> only studied it for six weeks.
Yipdee doo. Einstein flunked algebra. Does that mean quantum physics is easy too?
Get a clue, coward.
-Michael
Threshold RPG