Party B alters document, signs document, gives document to Party A for review and signature.
Party A reviews and signs document.
The assumption that the document party A received is the same as the document that party A handed out is the fault of party A.
The plan is unlikely to ever be viable because most companies will hand you a pre-signed or otherwise pre-approved document - copying their signature / barcode / whatever would be fraud.
Neglecting to mention that you altered the contract would not be. If I agree to rent a place for X with a deposit of Y, and they hand me a lease that says I'm renting it for X with a deposit of Z, then it is up to ME to notice the change, and agree/disagree to it.
Of course a judge will rule based on both the letter and the spirit of the law - and as such the most likely outcome would be that the entire contract is invalidated if the preparer can convince the judge that you indeed altered the contract. When you're altering a contract in this way, you obviously dislike the original offered contract and don't want to be held to its terms. When the judge throws out the contract, you still win.
Obviously this tactic has very limited uses - your landlord / property manager will know when you pay the first month's rent. The gym will know when you pay your first month's dues.
But you could, for example, alter the terms of something on the tail end. Apartment doesn't allow pets? Change it, hide your pets, and if you get caught, trot out the contract to buy yourself more time before getting kicked out (they'll still find some bullshit reason to kick you out of course, and keep your security deposit). Gym won't let you cancel your membership until 2 years have past? Change it to 2 months. Cancel in 4 months when you realize you never go to the gym, and trot out the contract.
"Read before you sign" applies equally to both the person preparing the document and to the person accepting (or not accepting) the terms. If you're dumb enough to provide someone an unsigned contract, let them take it out of your sight, and then blindly sign it when they bring it back, you deserve what you get.
The human brain operates on around a 22.5 hour cycle. Sleep, the sun, diet, and routine are enough to compensate for the 1.5 hour difference between our wired cycle and the Earth''s rotational cycle.
The Navy operates submarines (shift-wise) on a 16-hour cycle. And without the sun, that shit gets fucked up enough as it is.
Sounds like a good plan to me. I'll try this the next time I have to sign something.
Simply edit it slightly to my advantage, film myself doing so (in case they then do the same, and in court, it'll be a question of which is the original), sign it, turn it in, and let them sign it / approve it.
They still allow objects with more serious potential through. A laptop as a blunt force instrument? The potential energy stored in a laptop battery? The RF radiation created by handheld electronics? The fact that a highschool football player could overpower the flight crew and air marshals? They worry about that tube of toothpaste. What if 100 of the tickets for a flight were booked by terrorists? Good luck for the rest of the passengers to overpower them.
A fist is an effective blunt force instrument.
A whopper from the food court has an order of magnitude more energy than your laptop battery.
The RF radiation is completely safe - both for you meat beings and for the equipment.
Air marshals (do they even exist?) have guns. A football player could not overpower them. Nor could he overpower a plane full of people. Nor could he bust down the cockpit door before a timid stewardess decided to ram him with the beverage cart.
Terrorists wouldn't buy 100 tickets. It's not cost effective. And the more you buy the more likely you are to get caught. And the terrorists don't like to send their minions out in large groups. If any one of them has second thoughts they blow the whole thing. The more tickets you buy the less infidels there are on the plane to kill.
4. Planes are made of metal which is much stronger than people, so they are harder to explode. And before you mention fuel, the fuel is inside the metal.
Plus, that crazy weapons upgrade scale. It was painfully slow and there was no practical way to get a feel for all the weapons before the game is over (and there's no way I'll play that game again).
You're doing it wrong. The upgrade system is not meant to allow you to upgrade all of your guns fully. Only a couple of them.
And besides - the starting gun is the best gun, by far.
You also can't remap the controls to whatever wongo you like on the console versions either. And you found a way to do it.
Anti-aliasing? Any is better than what you get on the consoles. And you can always set it to a certain method manually in your graphics card control panel.
V-Sync was the only real issue. Just force it on in the graphics card control panel. And I believe they fixed it with a patch. Never had a mouse speed issue.
It had issues, sure, but 5 minutes of "uh, what? hmm. internets? ah." fixed it and the game is absolutely fucking amazing.
The good thing about conferences and lectures (at least those I have attended) is that most of the crap has already been filtered by someone who knows about the subject. A good lecture usually get me thinking in new directions, talking about best practices and giving good advice - usually things that drowns in a flood of useless/amateur advice when using google.
Filtering out the crap and giving you zero substance.
Conferences are you sitting down and listening to some schlub talk for an hour or two in vague generalities about a topic barely related to your work.
Thinking about stuff is great, but at the end of the conference you've got nothing implemented. At best, you've got some scrappy notes about things you might want to look into.
People talking at conferences see ego boosters and paychecks.
People sending you to conferences expect you to somehow come back on Monday and make everything faster, cheaper, and more buzz-wordy by Friday.
People willingly attending conferences for anything other than a break from work with free food and swag or a chance to meet someone who will give them a better job are inept.
At the end of the day, you've got to get down to brass tacks and do the WORK. Tech work involves looking stuff up in boring documentation and then looking up the fixes for shit doesn't work as it's supposed to.
No amount of talks, lectures, or other such fluffery will get anything done. In the end, the time spent on the conference is time you could have spent getting some framework and test cases/demos up and running for whatever newfangled thing you're trying to get going.
"Free" software is not no-cost software, just no-initial-monetary-cost software. "Free" software is not unrestricted software, just pay-it-forward software.
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Yet all you did was raise the point that something being popular doesn't mean it's good, and provided Miley Cyrus as an example.
Your implications were clear.
For another example - there were melee combat FPS games for PC.
Ah yes, First-Person Stabbers.
Yet GoldeneEye 007 is one of the best FPS games ever.
Popular != good =/> popular = bad
Or that.
I dunno - I know it's approximately (as in, an average across people) 1.5 hours off.
22.5, 25.5, one of the two.
Party A prepares document.
Party B alters document, signs document, gives document to Party A for review and signature.
Party A reviews and signs document.
The assumption that the document party A received is the same as the document that party A handed out is the fault of party A.
The plan is unlikely to ever be viable because most companies will hand you a pre-signed or otherwise pre-approved document - copying their signature / barcode / whatever would be fraud.
Neglecting to mention that you altered the contract would not be. If I agree to rent a place for X with a deposit of Y, and they hand me a lease that says I'm renting it for X with a deposit of Z, then it is up to ME to notice the change, and agree/disagree to it.
Of course a judge will rule based on both the letter and the spirit of the law - and as such the most likely outcome would be that the entire contract is invalidated if the preparer can convince the judge that you indeed altered the contract. When you're altering a contract in this way, you obviously dislike the original offered contract and don't want to be held to its terms. When the judge throws out the contract, you still win.
Obviously this tactic has very limited uses - your landlord / property manager will know when you pay the first month's rent. The gym will know when you pay your first month's dues.
But you could, for example, alter the terms of something on the tail end. Apartment doesn't allow pets? Change it, hide your pets, and if you get caught, trot out the contract to buy yourself more time before getting kicked out (they'll still find some bullshit reason to kick you out of course, and keep your security deposit). Gym won't let you cancel your membership until 2 years have past? Change it to 2 months. Cancel in 4 months when you realize you never go to the gym, and trot out the contract.
"Read before you sign" applies equally to both the person preparing the document and to the person accepting (or not accepting) the terms. If you're dumb enough to provide someone an unsigned contract, let them take it out of your sight, and then blindly sign it when they bring it back, you deserve what you get.
Grabbin' peeels!
The new survivors suck. Bill and Zoey forever.
Hell, even Francis and Louis are better than any of the shitty fuckers we got this time around.
The human brain operates on around a 22.5 hour cycle. Sleep, the sun, diet, and routine are enough to compensate for the 1.5 hour difference between our wired cycle and the Earth''s rotational cycle.
The Navy operates submarines (shift-wise) on a 16-hour cycle. And without the sun, that shit gets fucked up enough as it is.
The solution? Nothing - power through, boys!
Sounds like a good plan to me.
I'll try this the next time I have to sign something.
Simply edit it slightly to my advantage, film myself doing so (in case they then do the same, and in court, it'll be a question of which is the original), sign it, turn it in, and let them sign it / approve it.
$16.7500 / month for rent? 2 year lease? Sweet!
"Also, first post BTW..."
Assuming "BTW" stands for "by the way", the issue is likely the redundancy - "also" and "by the way" are redundant.
And you never need to - they're all trash.
Cutter all the way.
While I agree it's all bullshit...
They still allow objects with more serious potential through. A laptop as a blunt force instrument? The potential energy stored in a laptop battery? The RF radiation created by handheld electronics? The fact that a highschool football player could overpower the flight crew and air marshals? They worry about that tube of toothpaste. What if 100 of the tickets for a flight were booked by terrorists? Good luck for the rest of the passengers to overpower them.
A fist is an effective blunt force instrument.
A whopper from the food court has an order of magnitude more energy than your laptop battery.
The RF radiation is completely safe - both for you meat beings and for the equipment.
Air marshals (do they even exist?) have guns. A football player could not overpower them. Nor could he overpower a plane full of people. Nor could he bust down the cockpit door before a timid stewardess decided to ram him with the beverage cart.
Terrorists wouldn't buy 100 tickets. It's not cost effective. And the more you buy the more likely you are to get caught. And the terrorists don't like to send their minions out in large groups. If any one of them has second thoughts they blow the whole thing. The more tickets you buy the less infidels there are on the plane to kill.
And before you go through the FIRST checkpoint? At some point, there is a first checkpoint.
-Mr. Freeman
A lot of good that first checkpoint at Black Mesa did, eh Mr. Freemen? We'll be seeing you soon, Mr. Freeman.
4. Planes are made of metal which is much stronger than people, so they are harder to explode. And before you mention fuel, the fuel is inside the metal.
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I had no problem with the asteroid sequence.
Did it it one try on both playthroughs (hard and impossible).
The only people who complain about that are people who played it on a console / with a game pad.
Wrong. There were very few "bosses" in the game.
The game was about the monsters after 5 minutes.
The game was also about the ship (and later the marker) throughout.
The game was certainly not about killing the monsters. It was about getting the ship repaired and such - the monsters were just an obstacle.
Plus, that crazy weapons upgrade scale. It was painfully slow and there was no practical way to get a feel for all the weapons before the game is over (and there's no way I'll play that game again).
You're doing it wrong.
The upgrade system is not meant to allow you to upgrade all of your guns fully. Only a couple of them.
And besides - the starting gun is the best gun, by far.
but since even after all those effort the controls were still awful compared to any other FPS straight out of the box
Forgot to mention - LOL DEAD SPACE is NOT an FPS!
Oh please.
You also can't remap the controls to whatever wongo you like on the console versions either. And you found a way to do it.
Anti-aliasing? Any is better than what you get on the consoles. And you can always set it to a certain method manually in your graphics card control panel.
V-Sync was the only real issue. Just force it on in the graphics card control panel. And I believe they fixed it with a patch. Never had a mouse speed issue.
It had issues, sure, but 5 minutes of "uh, what? hmm. internets? ah." fixed it and the game is absolutely fucking amazing.
If you played it on a 4:3 monitor I can see your issue.
Completely different experience compared to a 16:9 monitor.
Free?
There is always a cost. They mine your data.
Google is an advertising company.
No thanks.
Fast?
They're shit compared to my ISP and most others, and other non-ISP DNS services. So no, they're not doing anything special.
Not if it's not physically connected to the PSTN.
The good thing about conferences and lectures (at least those I have attended) is that most of the crap has already been filtered by someone who knows about the subject. A good lecture usually get me thinking in new directions, talking about best practices and giving good advice - usually things that drowns in a flood of useless/amateur advice when using google.
Filtering out the crap and giving you zero substance.
Conferences are you sitting down and listening to some schlub talk for an hour or two in vague generalities about a topic barely related to your work.
Thinking about stuff is great, but at the end of the conference you've got nothing implemented. At best, you've got some scrappy notes about things you might want to look into.
People talking at conferences see ego boosters and paychecks.
People sending you to conferences expect you to somehow come back on Monday and make everything faster, cheaper, and more buzz-wordy by Friday.
People willingly attending conferences for anything other than a break from work with free food and swag or a chance to meet someone who will give them a better job are inept.
At the end of the day, you've got to get down to brass tacks and do the WORK. Tech work involves looking stuff up in boring documentation and then looking up the fixes for shit doesn't work as it's supposed to.
No amount of talks, lectures, or other such fluffery will get anything done. In the end, the time spent on the conference is time you could have spent getting some framework and test cases/demos up and running for whatever newfangled thing you're trying to get going.
That is not Free software, just no-cost software.
"Free" software is not no-cost software, just no-initial-monetary-cost software.
"Free" software is not unrestricted software, just pay-it-forward software.
Free food.
Swag? Puh-lease.
I'm hungry!