Activation protocol? Do you know the difference between the activation protocol of a game bought off steam versus buying the game box?
Steam, make sure you're logged in to validate. Box copy, make sure you type in this stupid code.
I used to hate Steam, but for no good reason. It downloads, installs and updates the game for me. There's no more having to self manage patches. Granted this has been a liability with Railroad Tycoon 3, but this is due to one of the latest patches breaking the game with Vista. As others have said, you can get some games very cheap off steam. I bought Left4Dead and Unreal Tournament 3 at a significantly discounted price. I got World of Goo at 75% off. Steam has done wonders to increase the number of games I have bought due to price and convenience.
Why don't we use multiple nukes launched in series, use a few large ones to bust of the asteroid, with a few smaller yield warheads to blast the chunks into outbound trajectories from Earth.
Ugh, retention bonuses are issued if an employee stays with the company for a certain period of time. This is to prevent them from moving to other companies. The reason why these 11 individuals don't work for AIG anymore is likely for the following reason.
Bonuses are paid in a schedule determined by contract. Why the total bonus may be $1,000,000, it could very well be paid over 4 years in 4 payments of $250,000 instead of 1 payment for $1,000,000. In fact the bonuses were contracted over multiple payment periods over lower amount to avoid taking too high of a hit on taxes. It's all in how the contract is worded. So while those employees no longer work with AIG, they had worked for as long as was necessary to earn the retention bonus before moving on.
Regardless the retention bonus has nothing to do with performance it's a gamble on an employee that you think is valuable to the company. To use a car analogy, you bought a 500 gallon tank to store gas in when the price was $2.50 and you have to go through that gas before purchasing anymore. You did this because you were anticipating the price of gas to go up. Instead the price of gas dropped to $1.50, so you're currently paying $1.00 more per gallon than everyone else.
Personally, to destroy human kind I would first find some sort of virus that is produced in a plant in fertile Africa. Preferably this virus would grant superhuman strength and ability to a few, but would be highly toxic and deadly to most people. I would then create a giant pharmaceutical corporation to both research the virus, in small cells so no on knew too much, and fund the research of the virus. Any incidental profit is a plus.
In order to test the virus I would have secret facilities around the US as well as facilities in Africa which are staff by poor Africans desperate for jobs. I would then have those facilities have a fake disaster which is actually a releasing of the virus to test it on the populace. After my secret American facility and the city which it lays underneath are destroyed by the US government in order to contain the infection, and my company eventually collapses. I would hire a striking attractive brunette to investigate a parasite that is capable of control humans. This parasite will conveniently pop up in Spain.
I would then conduct research on the parasite, strengthening it, using a facility in Africa that is based over where the original virus came from. I would then blend the virus and parasite to create a super bio-weapon which either consumes the host or allows the host superhuman abilities. The whole plan hinges on the fact that I inject myself with a parasite that allows me to control all the other infected by the engineered parasite. With this, I unleash the bio weapon on earth, destroying most of humanity while leaving the rest of the infect in a state where I can control them.
You must have not heard about the story where a lv1 challenge a character of the highest level to a duel where the loser had to give the winner all his equipment. The high laugh, agreed and started the duel. The high level watched and did nothing as the low level beat on him for awhile barely harming him. The high level then left and went to get something to eat from Taco Bell. When he got back, his health was at 1% and before he could kill the lv1, the lv1 put the killing blow on the high level, winning all his equipment.
That's only as long as you have the proper cause and effect pair. Just because you have a rise a knife crime, and all knife crime perps play violent video games does not mean that they are related.
If the factor causing a rise in knife crimes is not video games, then perhaps the correlation that individuals that commit crimes are more likely to play violent videos is more true than people who play violent video games are more likely to commit violent crimes. The violent video game could very well serve as an outlet for the criminal when he cannot, for whatever reason, commit the crimes he wants to commit.
You got it wrong. People who live in Nebraska don't exist. Have you ever met someone from Nebraska who wasn't in the military? I haven't. Nebraska is nothing but a big military installation.
I hear women talk about their girlfriends all the time. I thought it was fairly common for women to refer to their female friends as girlfriends, even if there is no romantic or sexual relation between them.
At first I thought he was talking about Galactic Civilizations II, then I remembered there is no mining in Galactic Civilizations II. I just assumed he was talking about EVE, but thanks for confirming that.
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You put forth a strong argument with pie, however I feel that cake is a better argument.
Yes, it's a great thing that America is a democracy.... oh wait.....
Activation protocol? Do you know the difference between the activation protocol of a game bought off steam versus buying the game box?
Steam, make sure you're logged in to validate.
Box copy, make sure you type in this stupid code.
I used to hate Steam, but for no good reason. It downloads, installs and updates the game for me. There's no more having to self manage patches. Granted this has been a liability with Railroad Tycoon 3, but this is due to one of the latest patches breaking the game with Vista. As others have said, you can get some games very cheap off steam. I bought Left4Dead and Unreal Tournament 3 at a significantly discounted price. I got World of Goo at 75% off. Steam has done wonders to increase the number of games I have bought due to price and convenience.
Since when has their been a thriving market for 2nd hand PC games? I don't know of any places that buy consoles games that will buy PC games.
Wasn't dropping bombs in space for propulsion the basic design of the Orion Project?
Why don't we use multiple nukes launched in series, use a few large ones to bust of the asteroid, with a few smaller yield warheads to blast the chunks into outbound trajectories from Earth.
Maybe he's talking about West Virginia. You know about the West Virginians. We don't trust them.
Ugh, retention bonuses are issued if an employee stays with the company for a certain period of time. This is to prevent them from moving to other companies. The reason why these 11 individuals don't work for AIG anymore is likely for the following reason.
Bonuses are paid in a schedule determined by contract. Why the total bonus may be $1,000,000, it could very well be paid over 4 years in 4 payments of $250,000 instead of 1 payment for $1,000,000. In fact the bonuses were contracted over multiple payment periods over lower amount to avoid taking too high of a hit on taxes. It's all in how the contract is worded. So while those employees no longer work with AIG, they had worked for as long as was necessary to earn the retention bonus before moving on.
Regardless the retention bonus has nothing to do with performance it's a gamble on an employee that you think is valuable to the company. To use a car analogy, you bought a 500 gallon tank to store gas in when the price was $2.50 and you have to go through that gas before purchasing anymore. You did this because you were anticipating the price of gas to go up. Instead the price of gas dropped to $1.50, so you're currently paying $1.00 more per gallon than everyone else.
And yet the deficit for this year alone is going to be $1.8 trillion dollar.
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These were retention bonuses. That means the employees are still with AIG. If you don't know what a retention bonus is, please look it up.
This game probably has the 2nd most epic boss fight ever.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tA5aHFPMSCo
This is the most epic boss ever.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGKsGtv6Dqo
No, but it does involve bees that shoot german shepherds out of their mandibles when they buzz.
Personally, to destroy human kind I would first find some sort of virus that is produced in a plant in fertile Africa. Preferably this virus would grant superhuman strength and ability to a few, but would be highly toxic and deadly to most people. I would then create a giant pharmaceutical corporation to both research the virus, in small cells so no on knew too much, and fund the research of the virus. Any incidental profit is a plus.
In order to test the virus I would have secret facilities around the US as well as facilities in Africa which are staff by poor Africans desperate for jobs. I would then have those facilities have a fake disaster which is actually a releasing of the virus to test it on the populace. After my secret American facility and the city which it lays underneath are destroyed by the US government in order to contain the infection, and my company eventually collapses. I would hire a striking attractive brunette to investigate a parasite that is capable of control humans. This parasite will conveniently pop up in Spain.
I would then conduct research on the parasite, strengthening it, using a facility in Africa that is based over where the original virus came from. I would then blend the virus and parasite to create a super bio-weapon which either consumes the host or allows the host superhuman abilities. The whole plan hinges on the fact that I inject myself with a parasite that allows me to control all the other infected by the engineered parasite. With this, I unleash the bio weapon on earth, destroying most of humanity while leaving the rest of the infect in a state where I can control them.
Does Einstein's quote also apply to government?
You must have not heard about the story where a lv1 challenge a character of the highest level to a duel where the loser had to give the winner all his equipment. The high laugh, agreed and started the duel. The high level watched and did nothing as the low level beat on him for awhile barely harming him. The high level then left and went to get something to eat from Taco Bell. When he got back, his health was at 1% and before he could kill the lv1, the lv1 put the killing blow on the high level, winning all his equipment.
That's only as long as you have the proper cause and effect pair. Just because you have a rise a knife crime, and all knife crime perps play violent video games does not mean that they are related.
If the factor causing a rise in knife crimes is not video games, then perhaps the correlation that individuals that commit crimes are more likely to play violent videos is more true than people who play violent video games are more likely to commit violent crimes. The violent video game could very well serve as an outlet for the criminal when he cannot, for whatever reason, commit the crimes he wants to commit.
Be honest now, are you a sweet transvestite from Transsexual Transylvania?
You got it wrong. People who live in Nebraska don't exist. Have you ever met someone from Nebraska who wasn't in the military? I haven't. Nebraska is nothing but a big military installation.
Wouldn't how much ice be a matter of area + thickness? Ice isn't a 2 dimensional object.
Funny RPGs?
Earthbound
Other RPGs with funny elements?
Tales of *
Chrono Trigger
Personally I think Vertigo is sufficiently twisted.
I hear women talk about their girlfriends all the time. I thought it was fairly common for women to refer to their female friends as girlfriends, even if there is no romantic or sexual relation between them.
At first I thought he was talking about Galactic Civilizations II, then I remembered there is no mining in Galactic Civilizations II. I just assumed he was talking about EVE, but thanks for confirming that.
U-505 anyone?
No, it's not a rocket attack, it's more like an ICBM launch.