I work for a company that does the online banking web sites for many smaller financial institutions, and, let me tell you, if we had to go in and turn off the bill pay button for every one of them that were using CheckFree, it would take us about two days, and it's a pretty simple thing to do too.
Don't assume that your financial institution has little coders and web designers in the back room doing all of that stuff for them, it's often much easier, cheaper, and more efficient for them to hire a company that does all of that for a living.
Possibly something like "How much IT infrastructure saves your other employees in hours worked"?
Then make the point that someone has to maintain all of that stuff in order to keep all of those employees working on what they need to be doing instead of figuring things out with clipboards and calculators?
If you would stop wanking to Ayn Rand for a minute, you'd see that these things are supported by the people!
Social Security, so that people don't have to work for their entire lives. Child Labor laws, so that children aren't forced to work to contribute to the poorer households. Public Schools, so that people can learn to read, write, and contribute to society. Libraries, so that all of the world's knowledge can be accessed by ANYONE, no matter how wealthy or poor, what their political beliefs, or religious beliefs, etc. The Military, to keep you safe from other countries. The Police, to keep you safe from other citizens. The Fire Department, to keep your property safe. Water, Sewer, Garbage systems, to make your place of residence livable. A Legal System, which both prosecutes, AND defends people, along with locking them up to keep them away from society if they are convicted.
ALL of these things are part of the "so-called" socialism. You had better be prepared to give them ALL up, or start paying for each service out of your own pocket.
Some people may "deserve" to die, but it is never our job to make sure that they do. There's always people out there who say that So-and-So should be killed, but if they were the one who had to actually look that person in the eye and kill them, they never would be able to.
I always preferred what some of the native tribes in the pacific northwest would do, exile someone to an island, and leave them there. At that point, they're out of society, and their survival relies entirely on their own means.
The "free" demo does also come bundled with SecuROM, so, downloader beware.
Also, it includes about 8 items out of each of the menus. If you're wanting to, you can pay the full price for the demo and get everything, and then proceed to upload your content to help out the developers by allowing them to have content ready when the game launches.
So, basically, you're paying EA to make their game world better, and they don't even trust you enough to give you access to the limited edition of the demo without some pretty intrusive spyware. And EA wonders why they get such a bad rep?
Actually, no. The person's name is NEVER recorded on the ballot. The only thing that the voting machine cares about is which choice you're picking. The verification of the voter is done by the monitors there at the voting station.
The way it worked in my state is that once one of the nice bluehairs verified that you were, indeed, on the rolls for their precinct, they gave you a card with an embedded chip which would plug into the voting station. These cards were prepared ahead of time and had to be reset after each vote, so there was no way to place any of your information on them. You plugged that card into the voting machine, voted, and the machine thanked you, and you took the card back to the bluehairs.
The thing it lacked, however, was the verifiable paper trail. It was the only thing missing from the equation.
That's the problem right there, "believe". I can "believe" that snakes grow on trees, and that honey comes from electrical outlets, but unless I can "prove" any of that, scientifically, I'm just a nut who likes to lick electrical outlets and is afraid of trees!
Unfortunately, they can't have the silhouette on the screen. You see, Jim Mallon owns the whole MST3k thing, kit and caboodle, and that includes having robots as silhouettes on the screen making fun of a movie, and he announced, in no uncertain terms, that it was not going to come back, and no one would be doing that again without his express permission.
They're able to get around that with the new series because it sufficiently different enough that they're not infringing on any copyright issues, but they're still able to deliver the funny commentary. If you miss the silhouettes, talk to Jim.
The one thing that the new series IS missing is that the writers aren't all together to do them, and it's only Mike, Bill, and Kevin, instead of a whole stable of writers. That diversity is what made MST3k fun in the first place, since there were so many different references, thrown out by all sorts of different people. Unless they are able to get this project REALLY going, it's just going to be the three of them doing the writing.
Seconded. Be was really the first OS that I enjoyed enough to get me off of my old Amiga. I purchased an old Mac back when it ran either on a Mac or BeBox. It was a wonderful OS, and I really miss it. The GUI was, perhaps, the best one I have ever used. It lacked in clutter, had a nice look, was well thought-out, and damn was it fast.
That doesn't nessicarily work. The problem that many of us have, myself especially, is my parents are on the internet, and I get at least 10 messages a week from my mother with "Send this message to 10 people, and the the answer to this joke will pop up on your screen! It really works!"
If my mother sends that to 10 people, and I'm one of them, and someone she's forwarded that to sends it to someone else, and it eventually gets back to a spammer, my mailing address, and everyone else's, gets put onto one of those 1 Million email address CDs, which are then sold to spammers.
And, no matter how hard I might try to tell her not to, my mom keeps doing that.
The reviewing job isn't that bad. I mean, until I actually get to a nationally recognized level, I'm just writing about games I bought when they came out, but I was going to buy them anyway, so why not?
Don't really get that much in the way of kickbacks, but having to play through one or two games a month and still hold down another job pretty much means you won't be able to have any sort of other social life. Luckily I don't.
The great thing about the show, for me, is that it was always cheap, but the plots were always great enough that it didn't matter.
I mean, honestly, I would normally never be frightened of a robot armed with a plunger, or think that an RC car with a dog-looking shell on it would be anything but laughable, but with good writing, I'm willing to forgive those types of things and let them get on with the story.
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Funny, I thought it didn't do well because it wasn't fun.
Guess us "masses" should just sit down, shut up and buy what people tell us, even if we don't like it.
I work for a company that does the online banking web sites for many smaller financial institutions, and, let me tell you, if we had to go in and turn off the bill pay button for every one of them that were using CheckFree, it would take us about two days, and it's a pretty simple thing to do too.
Don't assume that your financial institution has little coders and web designers in the back room doing all of that stuff for them, it's often much easier, cheaper, and more efficient for them to hire a company that does all of that for a living.
Possibly something like "How much IT infrastructure saves your other employees in hours worked"?
Then make the point that someone has to maintain all of that stuff in order to keep all of those employees working on what they need to be doing instead of figuring things out with clipboards and calculators?
Hate to be nitpicky, but:
AK = Alaska
AR = Arkansas
AL = Alabama
You have NO idea how many times I've seen Alaska written as AL, and it irks me every time.
Actually, in Alaska, they have to do a special election. The Governor does not/can not appoint anyone to fill a vacant seat.
If you would stop wanking to Ayn Rand for a minute, you'd see that these things are supported by the people!
Social Security, so that people don't have to work for their entire lives.
Child Labor laws, so that children aren't forced to work to contribute to the poorer households.
Public Schools, so that people can learn to read, write, and contribute to society.
Libraries, so that all of the world's knowledge can be accessed by ANYONE, no matter how wealthy or poor, what their political beliefs, or religious beliefs, etc.
The Military, to keep you safe from other countries.
The Police, to keep you safe from other citizens.
The Fire Department, to keep your property safe.
Water, Sewer, Garbage systems, to make your place of residence livable.
A Legal System, which both prosecutes, AND defends people, along with locking them up to keep them away from society if they are convicted.
ALL of these things are part of the "so-called" socialism. You had better be prepared to give them ALL up, or start paying for each service out of your own pocket.
Except that sentencing won't be until February, so there's no real way that he can do that... right?
I mean, you can't pardon someone who's not actually in jail, right?
Some people may "deserve" to die, but it is never our job to make sure that they do. There's always people out there who say that So-and-So should be killed, but if they were the one who had to actually look that person in the eye and kill them, they never would be able to.
I always preferred what some of the native tribes in the pacific northwest would do, exile someone to an island, and leave them there. At that point, they're out of society, and their survival relies entirely on their own means.
Or, at least, until the coroner/crime scene investigative unit said so.
If there's no one to charge for the crime, it's not going up to a judge or a jury.
The "free" demo does also come bundled with SecuROM, so, downloader beware.
Also, it includes about 8 items out of each of the menus. If you're wanting to, you can pay the full price for the demo and get everything, and then proceed to upload your content to help out the developers by allowing them to have content ready when the game launches.
So, basically, you're paying EA to make their game world better, and they don't even trust you enough to give you access to the limited edition of the demo without some pretty intrusive spyware. And EA wonders why they get such a bad rep?
Actually, no. The person's name is NEVER recorded on the ballot. The only thing that the voting machine cares about is which choice you're picking. The verification of the voter is done by the monitors there at the voting station.
The way it worked in my state is that once one of the nice bluehairs verified that you were, indeed, on the rolls for their precinct, they gave you a card with an embedded chip which would plug into the voting station. These cards were prepared ahead of time and had to be reset after each vote, so there was no way to place any of your information on them. You plugged that card into the voting machine, voted, and the machine thanked you, and you took the card back to the bluehairs.
The thing it lacked, however, was the verifiable paper trail. It was the only thing missing from the equation.
I hope that the printer gets a good lawyer and demands a trial by jury.
Hell, I hope that it even takes the stand in its own defense!
You're forgetting... The US Public School System.
Multiplying by 2? I didn't know I had to do ALGEBRA to understand the story! And don't even get us STARTED on Metric!
And there is also the ability to play two players in AudioSurf.
That's the problem right there, "believe". I can "believe" that snakes grow on trees, and that honey comes from electrical outlets, but unless I can "prove" any of that, scientifically, I'm just a nut who likes to lick electrical outlets and is afraid of trees!
NCSoft said this. Cryptic no longer owns or maintains the City of Heroes/Villains franchise.
Which do YOU prefer, Joel or Mike?
Unfortunately, they can't have the silhouette on the screen. You see, Jim Mallon owns the whole MST3k thing, kit and caboodle, and that includes having robots as silhouettes on the screen making fun of a movie, and he announced, in no uncertain terms, that it was not going to come back, and no one would be doing that again without his express permission.
They're able to get around that with the new series because it sufficiently different enough that they're not infringing on any copyright issues, but they're still able to deliver the funny commentary. If you miss the silhouettes, talk to Jim.
The one thing that the new series IS missing is that the writers aren't all together to do them, and it's only Mike, Bill, and Kevin, instead of a whole stable of writers. That diversity is what made MST3k fun in the first place, since there were so many different references, thrown out by all sorts of different people. Unless they are able to get this project REALLY going, it's just going to be the three of them doing the writing.
Seconded. Be was really the first OS that I enjoyed enough to get me off of my old Amiga. I purchased an old Mac back when it ran either on a Mac or BeBox. It was a wonderful OS, and I really miss it. The GUI was, perhaps, the best one I have ever used. It lacked in clutter, had a nice look, was well thought-out, and damn was it fast.
I miss Tracker, and the tabs...
So... I post a link somewhere to goatse, on, say, IRC. A kid clicks on that, so I go to jail for the rest of my life?
It shouldn't be too bad, if you can get past the claws and the biting...
And my dark elf didn't have a barbed, ahem, john thomas.
That doesn't nessicarily work. The problem that many of us have, myself especially, is my parents are on the internet, and I get at least 10 messages a week from my mother with "Send this message to 10 people, and the the answer to this joke will pop up on your screen! It really works!"
If my mother sends that to 10 people, and I'm one of them, and someone she's forwarded that to sends it to someone else, and it eventually gets back to a spammer, my mailing address, and everyone else's, gets put onto one of those 1 Million email address CDs, which are then sold to spammers.
And, no matter how hard I might try to tell her not to, my mom keeps doing that.
The reviewing job isn't that bad. I mean, until I actually get to a nationally recognized level, I'm just writing about games I bought when they came out, but I was going to buy them anyway, so why not?
Don't really get that much in the way of kickbacks, but having to play through one or two games a month and still hold down another job pretty much means you won't be able to have any sort of other social life. Luckily I don't.
The great thing about the show, for me, is that it was always cheap, but the plots were always great enough that it didn't matter.
I mean, honestly, I would normally never be frightened of a robot armed with a plunger, or think that an RC car with a dog-looking shell on it would be anything but laughable, but with good writing, I'm willing to forgive those types of things and let them get on with the story.
Does this mean we'll be able to get other games working that were made under the Build engine?
I'd really like to be able to play Blood again.