Just add time to ship it to Australia, get it through customs, hope some dockworkers don't take a liking to it and probably 3-4 months after sun send it, it may get to its location and plugged in.
Yeah, but what they are doing is, say, capping all usenet and P2P (probably the 2 biggest uses for all that bandwidth) to 1mb/s on your fat 6mb/s pipe.
The way to sue them of course (IANAL) would be to claim that this capping represents a break in the "best effort" most contracts are based on, they are clearly not offering their best effort if they are capping everyone.
On a side note, thankfully they are not touching port 59 (or so it seems):)
Yup, noscript doesn't let such nasties run, unless you give them permission, which seems to be half the problem for most internet users.
As for the person saying noscript is hard to use, its usually a matter of just clicking the script item (like a youtube vid that is being blocked) and it allows it to run temporarily, should be built in standard imho.
Combine it with a nice ad server blocker (kerio personal firewall for instance) and the web just suddenly starts working as it was meant to:)
So, uh, the investors paid a "small sum" of money to retrieve a large sum of money, sounds like...
Hello Dear, This mail might come to you as a surprise and the temptation to ignore it as unserious could come into your mind but please consider it a divine wish and accept it with a deep sense of humility.
I am Mr. Gerald Zongo, the manager in charge of Auditing department of Bank of Africa (B.O.A) Ouagadougou Burkina Faso in West Africa , with due respect and Regard; I have decided to contact you on a business transaction that will be very beneficial to both of us at the end of the transaction.
During our investigation and auditing in this Bank, my department came across a very huge sum of money belonging to one of our deceased customer who died on Feb 29th 2002 of a ghastly motor accident and the fund has been dormant in his account with this bank without any claim of the fund in our Custody either from his family or relation before our discovery to this development. Although personally,
I keep this information secret to enable the whole plans and idea be Profitable and successful during the time of execution, the said amount is Twelve million four hundred thousand United States dollars(US$12.4m), as it may interest you to know, I contacted you to be my partner and person to be reliable and capable to champion a business of such magnitude without any problem.
Meanwhile all the arrangement to put claim over this fund as the next of kin to the deceased, get the required approval and transfer this money to a foreign account has been put in Place and directives and needed information will be relayed to you as soon as you indicate your interest and willingness to assist me and also benefit your self to this great business opportunity, In fact I could have done this deal alone but because of my position in this country as a civil servant and we are not allowed to operate a foreign account and would eventually raise eye brow on my side during the time of transfer because I work in this bank.
I will not fail to inform you that this transaction is 100% risk free, on smooth conclusion of this transaction, you will be entitled to 30% of the total sum as gratification, while 5% will be set aside to take care of expenses that may arise during the time of transfer, while 65% will be for me, please you have been advised to keep "Top Secret" as I am still in service and intend to retire from service after we conclude this deal with you.
I will be monitoring the whole situation here in this bank Until you confirm the money in your account, and ask us to come down to your country for subsequent sharing of the fund according to percentages previously indicated and further Investment, either in your country or any country you advice us to invest in and all other necessary vital information will be send to you when I hear from you.
I suggest you get back to me As soon as possible and also include your personal phone/mobile and fax numbers for easy communication.
Yours faithfully, Mr. Gerald Zongo The manager in charge of Auditing department of Bank of Africa (B.O.A) Ouagadougou Burkina Faso.
Hehe, lemme guess this is an AC post by Zonk who just happened to have a storyline to hand in a shiteload of exotic dancers?/me hoards their dancers
"dance my pretties! dance!"
As for an on-topic comment, I think its not a good sign for a game company that most of their player base seems willing to listen and pay heed to such mud when its slung (as was shown by them having to shut down their forums).
Well, I am betting MS have plenty of lawyers on retainer, so they would be paying them regardless.
Think of it like this though, for every MS lawyer that gets tied up dealing with this case, that's less lawyers free to pursue other legal fights for them.
Maybe we need to fire a few more "thompsons" at them:)
And no, I will not make a joke about a "thompson" or "thommy gun".
Comes back to the use of personal anti-satalite weaponry, so long as its not ballistic or laser you should be fine.
If you are charged with destruction of national property you can ask them where it was clearly labled, and of course claim that you thought it was a meteorite and you were upholding your right to bear (admittedly a little overpowered) arms to defend your home, family and country.
Of course they would just throw you in jail with no charges and claim 6mths later that "army contractors have finnished testing of a new weapon", but there would be one less eye up there...
CoH is really a very interesting rts, they took out all the boring bits (resource hunting, "upgrade after upgrade", massive tech trees) to leave you with just the strategy of how to get a bunch of grunts to do what they are best at.
Very happy with the murmurings about the expansion, if the new armies are half of what they are saying, it will be great:)
The real matter (that you both, and many others are overlooking) is that the guy did not break the law in america, he broke an australian law (which happens to also be a law in america) IN australia, so why is he being trialled in america and not the country he broke the law in? Are the plaintiffs (prosecutors/whatever) afraid that our laws are not going to be tough enough?
The only reason I could see for him to be extradited in such a way is if he used servers in america to comit the crimes, in which it would usually still be trialled in australia.
Just some speculation (IANAL) but could it be that whatever particular law he broke is a civil matter only in australia but a criminal one in america?
Its "greifing" NOT rape, not murder, not even assault.
2 ways exist in most games to deal with greifers;
* log off and read a book
* get some friends together and fight back
I have played PvP muds and mmog, and cannot conceive of playing anything without PvP any more, pitting your wits against live targets is the best fun to be had.
Ultimately however it is up to the game makers to make it so greifing cannot happen without the greifee having some way of fighting back with a hope of winning, after all, they don't want people to all of a sudden log off and read a book, they may find its better than their game ^_^
8800gtx owner here, upgraded from a pair of 7900gt a few months back (well, when the gtx first came out actually) and paired with a 24" screen can just keep games above that 35 fps with all details up @1920x1200
Yes, it is definitely worth the money for the gtx imho, however....
Yeah, the HP laserjet printers are a great lot, picked up an old laserjet 4 plus, with network interface and a brand new toner cart (appx 40,000 pages or so worth of toner) for around $50AU (about $35 US).
What I generally recommend to my customers (I work at an OEM/retail) is that they get a nice little multi function, usually canon or epson (they are the best of the bad lot, meaning ink jet printers) and get a hp or Fuji/Xerox basic laser too, the laser printer will pay for itself in in an about 6-12 mths:)
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Just add time to ship it to Australia, get it through customs, hope some dockworkers don't take a liking to it and probably 3-4 months after sun send it, it may get to its location and plugged in.
Did you even read the summary?
Check out the nokia e65 for a nice voip 802.11g compatible phone, or if you have too much money the n95 :)
Yeah, but what they are doing is, say, capping all usenet and P2P (probably the 2 biggest uses for all that bandwidth) to 1mb/s on your fat 6mb/s pipe.
:)
The way to sue them of course (IANAL) would be to claim that this capping represents a break in the "best effort" most contracts are based on, they are clearly not offering their best effort if they are capping everyone.
On a side note, thankfully they are not touching port 59 (or so it seems)
Or just block iexplore and make lynx the default browser :)
Most vid production servers I have seen use a striped pair raid5 or raid6 arrays, very very fast, and a single failure will not doom you.
Yup, noscript doesn't let such nasties run, unless you give them permission, which seems to be half the problem for most internet users.
:)
As for the person saying noscript is hard to use, its usually a matter of just clicking the script item (like a youtube vid that is being blocked) and it allows it to run temporarily, should be built in standard imho.
Combine it with a nice ad server blocker (kerio personal firewall for instance) and the web just suddenly starts working as it was meant to
So, uh, the investors paid a "small sum" of money to retrieve a large sum of money, sounds like...
Hello Dear,
This mail might come to you as a surprise and the temptation to ignore it as unserious could come into your mind but please consider it a divine wish and accept it with a deep sense of humility.
I am Mr. Gerald Zongo, the manager in charge of Auditing department of Bank of Africa (B.O.A) Ouagadougou Burkina Faso in West Africa , with due respect and Regard; I have decided to contact you on a business transaction that will be very beneficial to both of us at the end of the transaction.
During our investigation and auditing in this Bank, my department came across a very huge sum of money belonging to one of our deceased customer who died on Feb 29th 2002 of a ghastly motor accident and the fund has been dormant in his account with this bank without any claim of the fund in our Custody either from his family or relation before our discovery to this
development. Although personally,
I keep this information secret to enable the whole plans and idea be Profitable and successful during the time of execution, the said amount is Twelve million four hundred thousand United States dollars(US$12.4m), as it may interest you to know, I contacted you to be my partner and person to be reliable and capable to champion a business of such magnitude without any
problem.
Meanwhile all the arrangement to put claim over this fund as the next of kin to the deceased, get the required approval and transfer this money to a foreign account has been put in Place and directives and needed information will be relayed to you as soon as you indicate your interest and willingness to assist me and also benefit your self to this great business opportunity,
In fact I could have done this deal alone but because of my position in this country as a civil servant and we are not allowed to operate a foreign account and would eventually raise eye brow on my side during the time of transfer because I work in this bank.
I will not fail to inform you that this transaction is 100% risk free, on smooth conclusion of this transaction, you will be entitled to 30% of the total sum as gratification, while 5% will be set aside to take care of expenses that may arise during the time of transfer, while 65% will be for
me, please you have been advised to keep "Top Secret" as I am still in service and intend to retire from service after we conclude this deal with you.
I will be monitoring the whole situation here in this bank Until you confirm the money in your account, and ask us to come down to your country for subsequent sharing of the fund according to percentages previously indicated and further Investment, either in your country or any country you advice us to invest in and all other necessary vital information will be send to you
when I hear from you.
I suggest you get back to me As soon as possible and also include your personal phone/mobile and fax numbers for easy communication.
Yours faithfully,
Mr. Gerald Zongo
The manager in charge of
Auditing department of
Bank of Africa (B.O.A)
Ouagadougou Burkina Faso.
Its a shame really, would be so much easier to get anime and manga in Aus then ^_^
Hehe, lemme guess this is an AC post by Zonk who just happened to have a storyline to hand in a shiteload of exotic dancers? /me hoards their dancers
"dance my pretties! dance!"
As for an on-topic comment, I think its not a good sign for a game company that most of their player base seems willing to listen and pay heed to such mud when its slung (as was shown by them having to shut down their forums).
Dear gods not NZ, I hear their broadband (and I use that adjective very very loosely) is worse than Australia.
Now I have to send internode more cake and bribes to get them to put a 'DSL connection down in my area.
Canada? why would I fly overseas?
;)
Oh, wait, don't tell me you assumed I was american?
The aussie drawl should have given me away
Well, I am betting MS have plenty of lawyers on retainer, so they would be paying them regardless.
:)
Think of it like this though, for every MS lawyer that gets tied up dealing with this case, that's less lawyers free to pursue other legal fights for them.
Maybe we need to fire a few more "thompsons" at them
And no, I will not make a joke about a "thompson" or "thommy gun".
From the same company that lets a text document run code without asking first ^_^
Virus-Enablement Features (yes, I know I just butchered a word, but THEY started it!)
Problem with modern day versions of any full on "war" style games, western war methods will win so long as overkill is not a problem.
:)
Of course there is no such thing as overkill, only "open fire" and "hold and reload"
An older version of this would be nice, say middle ages, hell do a classic ancient Greece version ^_^
Comes back to the use of personal anti-satalite weaponry, so long as its not ballistic or laser you should be fine.
If you are charged with destruction of national property you can ask them where it was clearly labled, and of course claim that you thought it was a meteorite and you were upholding your right to bear (admittedly a little overpowered) arms to defend your home, family and country.
Of course they would just throw you in jail with no charges and claim 6mths later that "army contractors have finnished testing of a new weapon", but there would be one less eye up there...
CoH is really a very interesting rts, they took out all the boring bits (resource hunting, "upgrade after upgrade", massive tech trees) to leave you with just the strategy of how to get a bunch of grunts to do what they are best at.
:)
Very happy with the murmurings about the expansion, if the new armies are half of what they are saying, it will be great
The real matter (that you both, and many others are overlooking) is that the guy did not break the law in america, he broke an australian law (which happens to also be a law in america) IN australia, so why is he being trialled in america and not the country he broke the law in? Are the plaintiffs (prosecutors/whatever) afraid that our laws are not going to be tough enough?
The only reason I could see for him to be extradited in such a way is if he used servers in america to comit the crimes, in which it would usually still be trialled in australia.
Just some speculation (IANAL) but could it be that whatever particular law he broke is a civil matter only in australia but a criminal one in america?
Its "greifing" NOT rape, not murder, not even assault.
2 ways exist in most games to deal with greifers;
* log off and read a book
* get some friends together and fight back
I have played PvP muds and mmog, and cannot conceive of playing anything without PvP any more, pitting your wits against live targets is the best fun to be had.
Ultimately however it is up to the game makers to make it so greifing cannot happen without the greifee having some way of fighting back with a hope of winning, after all, they don't want people to all of a sudden log off and read a book, they may find its better than their game ^_^
You should have gotten ultimate edition, best $100 poker software ever imho.
sarcasm(0);
/me grins
8800gtx owner here, upgraded from a pair of 7900gt a few months back (well, when the gtx first came out actually) and paired with a 24" screen can just keep games above that 35 fps with all details up @1920x1200
Yes, it is definitely worth the money for the gtx imho, however....
You will note the EVGA 8800gtx gives the same performance as a 8800ultra http://theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=39342
This new breed is just a 8800gtx heavily over clocked, no wonder NV didn't want people OEM OCing the gtx.
Of course, just got home from work late, and don't have any mod points today ;(
Deja vu, all over again.
"Never argue with an idiot. He will lower you to his level and beat you with experience." (Bob Smith, c. 1962)
:)
Just ignore him for now, he seems to be good at making nooses
Why is it people who play wow always consider any general mmog phrase must have originated with their game?
:)
I heard QQ used in daoc over 4 years ago, and in IRC further back than that, its just a slang term for text chat
Yeah, the HP laserjet printers are a great lot, picked up an old laserjet 4 plus, with network interface and a brand new toner cart (appx 40,000 pages or so worth of toner) for around $50AU (about $35 US).
:)
What I generally recommend to my customers (I work at an OEM/retail) is that they get a nice little multi function, usually canon or epson (they are the best of the bad lot, meaning ink jet printers) and get a hp or Fuji/Xerox basic laser too, the laser printer will pay for itself in in an about 6-12 mths
Hehe, I worked out step 5 for you :)
5. lobby to have overseas (eg lenovo) banned from getting US govt contracts.