Another reason you don't protest is that if you escalate the manager will probably kick you out.
They know that at "peacetime" they can get away with being a jerk, knowing that they can push it right up to the point where anyone who retaliates will trip the war alarm and summon security.
How much trolling do they get as a percentage of overall forum activity, versus other forums?
If they're really a magnet for assholes then I suggest it's due to one of two reasons:
1) The personality inherent to being in a MMORPG brings out competitiveness and through it a tendency to act up versus other people. 2) Insufficient or defective moderation policies that don't do enough to deter misbehavior.
1) teacher makes it a rule that you get a zero if you don't submit it to the anti-cheat database 2) anti-cheat database has legalese granting them a license to your submissions (EULA)
Success in the real world isn't always based on intelligence.
If you're half as smart as the average Joe yet you have the charisma, connections, and good old fashioned balls to get cozy with the power people, you can thumb your nose at the nerds all you like and get away with it.
Tax evasion includes an element of fraud where you try to conceal your income or falsify records. If you're simply honest but being an ass and giving the bird to the IRS, that's not evasion.
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Which doesn't even address the fact that SCO made contributions to the kernel under the GPL.
Any so-called infringement is fully licensed.
In theory, having a problem that only accepts a single solution by definition would preclude the creativity inherent in a copyrightable work.
You've actually got a point.
How many creative endeavors have failed due to legal threats?
...the powers that be are trying to cover up corruption?
I can imagine that the communist overlords wouldn't want their state run hospital implicated in anything naughty.
Just like 90 percent of the time you don't need to file an insurance claim, but when you do, you really do need it.
It's just insurance.
Sorta like how we have a big military that is spending more time in training than actual combat.
Another reason you don't protest is that if you escalate the manager will probably kick you out.
They know that at "peacetime" they can get away with being a jerk, knowing that they can push it right up to the point where anyone who retaliates will trip the war alarm and summon security.
How much trolling do they get as a percentage of overall forum activity, versus other forums?
If they're really a magnet for assholes then I suggest it's due to one of two reasons:
1) The personality inherent to being in a MMORPG brings out competitiveness and through it a tendency to act up versus other people.
2) Insufficient or defective moderation policies that don't do enough to deter misbehavior.
And the companies hiring them have the right to piss off.
True, but in order to go through bankruptcy you will probably have to surrender significant amounts of property.
It's not a fine, it's a judgment for damages.
1) teacher makes it a rule that you get a zero if you don't submit it to the anti-cheat database
2) anti-cheat database has legalese granting them a license to your submissions (EULA)
Success in the real world isn't always based on intelligence.
If you're half as smart as the average Joe yet you have the charisma, connections, and good old fashioned balls to get cozy with the power people, you can thumb your nose at the nerds all you like and get away with it.
Yet another case of a PHB bowing to political pressure and meddling in the affairs of his underlings.
The problem is that by catering to spammers you prove that you don't really give a fuck how they got the electronic manpower they needed to reach you.
You are subsidizing botnet herders, spammers, hackers, and all sorts of nefarious people.
Sorta like how people who buy gold on WoW or ISK on EVE support account crackers and keylog producers.
Scalpers drive down the supply by hogging all the tickets, then turn around and resell them in a market of scarcity that they themselves caused.
Debeers scalps diamonds, for example.
It's just a small scale version of monopoly.
It's been that way ever since corporate interests bought out both sides.
Corporations get their support from one politician by threatening to contribute assloads of money to their opponent if they don't get their way.
Simple.
They come in with lawyers and threaten to sue the living daylights out of them if they don't comply.
Bad moderations usually get cancelled out over the long run.
Happened to me plenty of times.
Going off on a rant though just gets you off topic.
Does the oil industry even NEED subsidies to stay in business?
If so, then they are inefficient and the free market needs a chance to boot them out of business. If not, then they are a waste of money.
Either way, subsidies for oil companies are a load of crap.
That would be "tax protester"
Tax evasion includes an element of fraud where you try to conceal your income or falsify records. If you're simply honest but being an ass and giving the bird to the IRS, that's not evasion.
The income tax WAS unconstitutional.
The amendment made it constitutional.
I just go on the assumption that any power strong enough to resurrect me is also strong enough to give me a spanking new set of lungs.
Is it still yours once you're dead?
Can you express this in the form of a car analogy?
That is exactly why they take it, because they know you're in a hurry and can't put up a fight.