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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."
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I Have Crabs!
Wednesday, December 17, 2003
Dear Blue Lobster:
I was recently given 3 small crabs that look very much like the larger ones that people eat but these are smaller than a quarter around including the legs. I have never seen anything like them and would like to know how to care for them. They are not hermit crabs. They stay in water like a fish and have no sea shells attached to them. They were purchesed from a pet store so im guessing someone knows about them.
Dear Gentle Sir:
These crustaceans that you have are female Fiddler crabs (uca spp.). I find it curious that the pet store sold these crabs without some sort of label, but the description you provide indicates this gentle decapod. Fiddler crabs can be fun, but here are some rules of thumb to keep in mind while you care for them.
1. Multiple females are OK, multiple males are a bad idea. Fiddler crabs live in large loose-knit groups called colonies that may number in the thousands. Within each colony are smaller groups called clutches that usually number no more than 12. The group consists of several females of various ages and one dominant male. Immature males may also be part of the group, but generally males will not tolerate other males of breeding age. This social structure holds true in your tank as well as a beach, so feel free to add females to a group but never more than one male. Just because the pet stores stock many males and females together does not mean you should -- ever notice how many males are missing legs? Wonder why no longer.
2. Much like crayfish, Fiddler crabs can breathe air, but unlike crayfish Fiddler crabs must breathe air occasionally. Filling a tank to the top isn't the way to go, so make sure you have plenty of rocks and supports where the crabs can emerge from the water. Also make sure that each Fiddler crab has at least two and a half gallons to themselves. Keep the tank temp stays around 76 degrees at all times, and use bright fluorescent lights that mimic natural sunlight. Aquarium conditions are important for the health and longevity of your Fiddlers!
3. Fiddler crabs prefer live food over dried food. Fiddler crabs don't have the largest mouth parts, but a small earthworm or maggot will fit nicely down their gullets. If you can't feed the Fiddlers live food all of the time, try frozen blood worms. The Fiddler crabs will benefit from the fresh nutrients and be healthier for it. A steady diet of dried pellet food will result in sluggish, lethargic crabs, so these pellets should only be used to add variety to the diet and not as a staple food source. Also make sure some sort of soft water vegetation is available for them to munch on.
4. Music is important in the life of a Fiddler crab. During feeding Chopin or Brahms are appropriate, as the peaceful soothing melodies aid digestion. During the night even slower works are favored as they forage quietly on the tank bottom for leftovers from earlier and groom themselves in the darkness. During mating season the males love to wave their oversized claw around to the works of Wagner and Mozart. The higher frequencies are not so important as the lower ones are, so placing the sub-woofer directly under the tank usually achieves the best results. Your Fiddlers will thank you for the music with increased activity and vibrant colors. Don't neglect this aspect of your new pets!
Don't forget to read up on these wonderful creatures both online and at your local library! They can provide hours and hours of entertainment for the whole family as they share their private crustacean world with you through the glass of the aquarium tank!
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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.
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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
3) ??? 4) PROFIT!