Yep, I agree. I wholeheartedly believe that HItler would have stopped killing the Jews and given back all that land if we were just really nice to him and talked things out. It probably would have only taken, what, 10-20 years?
So wait, the best way to get a credit card is to ignore actually sign up for all of those Limited Time Offers I've been ignoring all these years? DAMMIT!
Well, it's a good thing that I never told them my e-mail address is i_have_mental_health_issues@yahoo.com and that I am HIGHLY interested in opening a new line of credit. Yes, very good thing, that.
I heard the same joke, but it instead of New Zealand it was Iceland. Now the financial prospects of Iceland are going in the pooper and the skys have literally darkened. That's the last time I take a piece of financial advice from a stand-up comic...
Where's the best place to start, then? Any advice for someone who is going to get their first CC this year? Should I get it from my bank, or somewhere else?
These lengths of time are pretty unnecessary though, IMO. Don't movies, music, games, etc. make most of their money in the first few weeks?
A year or two should be more than enough, especially in this fast-paced culture. Sure, maybe 100 years ago a period of 20 years was enough time to cover many different markets and make your money, but nowadays you can ship your book/DVD/CD almost anywhere in the world in 72 hours, tops.
It's meant to go up there, find a similarly-designed Chinese satellite, and play the world's most expensive and ostentatious game of Rock 'Em, Sock 'Em Robots.
I'm using "Hero" in the sense of a larger-than-life, well-known, legendary person.
If you're taking it from the moral-alignment definition of a good guy who saves kittens and babies from burning buildings, then there are almost none of those in EVE who survive long enough to get anything of significance. d:
If you're talking the whole "martial valor, ingenuity, and courage" route, then there's tons of those. The titans of business, the best of the best pilots, great leaders of power blocs, etc.
That's a pretty interesting comparison there between EVE and Wyoming. One is a vast, desolate land where only the boldest and bravest dare leave what little pockets of civilization exist, and the other is EVE.
P.S. left a detail out, New Guy was flying with our Corp but he had not yet actually been brought into the Corp, which is how this whole mess managed to happen. (In EVE, members of the same Corp - barring newbie corps, I believe - can shoot at one another with no reprisal in Empire.)
I just started playing a little over a month ago, but I've still heard legendary stories about the first carrier or dreadnought and the people who piloted them. People who have capitals still up in Empire (before they were restricted to 0.4 or lower space). People who have built nigh-empires single-handed... or destroyed them.
There's no NPC Thrall or Arthas etc. The players themselves are the legends.
That's not even to mention the local heroes, be it for fame or hilarious mistakes. You want a legend, I'll give you a legend:
One of my new corp mates (and an EVE newbie) is tooling around in a Destroyer playing Level 4 missions with some of the guys up in Empire. A logistics Basilisk targets New Guy. Logi Guy is auto-targeted by New Guy, and New Guy fires on Logi Guy (not knowing any better).
CONCORD, of course, shows up and blows up New Guy. But they also blow up Logi Guy because - get this - he was repping a criminal.
When I heard about this one over Vent I damn near pissed myself.
About half of that sounds awesome and the other half sounds pretty retarded. Can I keep the reductions on the labyrinthine tax system, the nationwide government health care, the improvement in education, and the restrictions on Wall Street while getting rid of the rest?
Or the Wikipedia admins who delete a page about a word that didn't exist until yesterday?
The thing that's (supposed) to be nice about Wikipedia is that it can create new pages regarding the latest and greatest stuff.
Read a subject specific wiki that isn't a part of Wikipedia (like Memory Alpha or Wookiepedia) and you're not going to see any of that [citation needed] or notability bullshit that gives the delitionists a rock hard boner. Honestly, is bandwidth and disk storage that expensive nowadays that you can't be an inclusionist entity?
Insulting xkcd on Slashdot? You, sir, are a brave man. You may as well talk shit about Linux and Richard Stallman while you're at it. After all, if your karma is gonna go down the shitter you may as well make it worth it!
Slashdot Mirror
Can I trade those fifty slashdots for fifty of something that isn't slower than a tug boat full of molasses?
The RIAA can lick my scrotus humungous.
NUCLEAR LAUNCH DETECTED.
Yep, I agree. I wholeheartedly believe that HItler would have stopped killing the Jews and given back all that land if we were just really nice to him and talked things out. It probably would have only taken, what, 10-20 years?
So wait, the best way to get a credit card is to ignore actually sign up for all of those Limited Time Offers I've been ignoring all these years? DAMMIT!
Well, it's a good thing that I never told them my e-mail address is i_have_mental_health_issues@yahoo.com and that I am HIGHLY interested in opening a new line of credit. Yes, very good thing, that.
I wonder what would be involved in making a print-on-demand newspaper machine.
Print-on-demand publishing like Lulu is a pretty cool concept (despite the price).
What if you could even cherry pick what to print, and everything was priced accordingly? That'd be pretty cool.
Food is good for the short term. For the long term, invest in hydroponics and a nuke-proof bunker with a good air filtration system.
All of those hippies living in communes won't be doing so great if they're having apples with a side of fallout.
I heard the same joke, but it instead of New Zealand it was Iceland. Now the financial prospects of Iceland are going in the pooper and the skys have literally darkened. That's the last time I take a piece of financial advice from a stand-up comic...
Where's the best place to start, then? Any advice for someone who is going to get their first CC this year? Should I get it from my bank, or somewhere else?
The only way your feedback has weight to a politician is if it makes his wallet heavier.
These lengths of time are pretty unnecessary though, IMO. Don't movies, music, games, etc. make most of their money in the first few weeks?
A year or two should be more than enough, especially in this fast-paced culture. Sure, maybe 100 years ago a period of 20 years was enough time to cover many different markets and make your money, but nowadays you can ship your book/DVD/CD almost anywhere in the world in 72 hours, tops.
It's meant to go up there, find a similarly-designed Chinese satellite, and play the world's most expensive and ostentatious game of Rock 'Em, Sock 'Em Robots.
Not to mention the lens setup, apeture, timing, photoshop/cleanup, etc.
Dude, those weren't actually the ninja. Those were very, very cleverly disguised logs.
The ninja were already behind the muggers.
I'm using "Hero" in the sense of a larger-than-life, well-known, legendary person.
If you're taking it from the moral-alignment definition of a good guy who saves kittens and babies from burning buildings, then there are almost none of those in EVE who survive long enough to get anything of significance. d:
If you're talking the whole "martial valor, ingenuity, and courage" route, then there's tons of those. The titans of business, the best of the best pilots, great leaders of power blocs, etc.
Hell, show us an MMO with 300,000 subscribers - often as high as 50,000 simultaneously online - on one server.
That's a pretty interesting comparison there between EVE and Wyoming. One is a vast, desolate land where only the boldest and bravest dare leave what little pockets of civilization exist, and the other is EVE.
P.S. left a detail out, New Guy was flying with our Corp but he had not yet actually been brought into the Corp, which is how this whole mess managed to happen. (In EVE, members of the same Corp - barring newbie corps, I believe - can shoot at one another with no reprisal in Empire.)
There *are* heroes.
I just started playing a little over a month ago, but I've still heard legendary stories about the first carrier or dreadnought and the people who piloted them. People who have capitals still up in Empire (before they were restricted to 0.4 or lower space). People who have built nigh-empires single-handed... or destroyed them.
There's no NPC Thrall or Arthas etc. The players themselves are the legends.
That's not even to mention the local heroes, be it for fame or hilarious mistakes. You want a legend, I'll give you a legend:
One of my new corp mates (and an EVE newbie) is tooling around in a Destroyer playing Level 4 missions with some of the guys up in Empire. A logistics Basilisk targets New Guy. Logi Guy is auto-targeted by New Guy, and New Guy fires on Logi Guy (not knowing any better).
CONCORD, of course, shows up and blows up New Guy. But they also blow up Logi Guy because - get this - he was repping a criminal.
When I heard about this one over Vent I damn near pissed myself.
I've had this fetish for years, but searching any streaming porn site for "hot sticky black" just brings up wholly disappointing results.
About half of that sounds awesome and the other half sounds pretty retarded. Can I keep the reductions on the labyrinthine tax system, the nationwide government health care, the improvement in education, and the restrictions on Wall Street while getting rid of the rest?
Or the Wikipedia admins who delete a page about a word that didn't exist until yesterday?
The thing that's (supposed) to be nice about Wikipedia is that it can create new pages regarding the latest and greatest stuff.
Read a subject specific wiki that isn't a part of Wikipedia (like Memory Alpha or Wookiepedia) and you're not going to see any of that [citation needed] or notability bullshit that gives the delitionists a rock hard boner. Honestly, is bandwidth and disk storage that expensive nowadays that you can't be an inclusionist entity?
Insulting xkcd on Slashdot? You, sir, are a brave man. You may as well talk shit about Linux and Richard Stallman while you're at it. After all, if your karma is gonna go down the shitter you may as well make it worth it!
That would be both awesome and hilarious.
[Democrat]
*beep*
INSUFFICIENT FUNDS
PLEASE VOTE AGAIN
Do you hear that?
That is the sound of several dozen MPAA lawyers simultaneously popping a boner.