I am glad everyone else choked when reading this comment. God, at home I can't even get over 1MB/sec through the apartment complex cable. Contract is up in August. Although honestly, I haven't really found anything else comparatively better in the area for the price ($45/month). Don't know why.
That's a strange justification for theft:
I think it's more accurate to say that this is the ONLY thing* you can do to help
Have you ever thought of... just NOT playing the game. As in, at all? I understand I'll probably be modded troll because I'm talking crazy talk, but seriously.
If there is something that you don't like, you could always:
* Complain to the company. (Obviously, in this case it worked! Shock!)
* Boycott it. Don't buy it. Don't play it. Don't buy their other games, even used. Even if corporate won't listen to you, they will listen to retailers. Find other creative ways to protest. Here's a site with 198 ways to have a non-violent protest. (Although I'm not sure in this case #22, "Protest disrobings" - aka, mooning the company - would work:-p)
* If you own stock in that company, dump it.
* Mail peanuts to the company (or in this case, lots of mushrooms -- get it, spores?:-p)
Oblig. Office Space ref:
JOANNA: So you're stealing.
PETER: Ah, no. No. You don't understand. It's, uh, very complicated. It's, uh,
it's, it's aggregate so I'm talking about fractions of a cent that, uh,
over time, they add up to a lot.
JOANNA: Ok. So you're gonna make a lot of money, right?
PETER:Yeah.
JOANNA:Ok. That's not yours?
PETER:Well, it, it becomes ours.
JOANNA:How's that not stealing?
PETER:I don't think, I don't think I'm explaining this very well.
According to Dell
The Dell Warranty Parts Direct program is a service offered to Dell customers who wish to appoint a service provider (Third Party Maintainer) to maintain their Dell hardware.
For Dell customers who have internal IT professional resources and in many cases troubleshoot and diagnose their own IT issues, Dell ProSupport for IT with Fast-Track Dispatch is available.
It was already a law that residents had to pay sales tax on out of state items. But with no real way for the state to enforce it, most taxpayers are not going to bother.
Also, per resident this is a very small amount, which makes it almost silly to bother reporting on your state tax return. According to the first article, "The provision is meant to contribute about $50 million to the $122 billion budget" In 2006, the population of NY state was 19,306,183. By those numbers, each resident would be paying an average of $2.59.
In NY, sales tax is different IN EACH COUNTY! (Statewide it varies between 7% and 9%). This means that a $24.95 book would have $1.74-$2.24 tax owed to NY state. Who would bother? Granted, some people order hundreds of dollars worth or merchandise off of Amazon, so it would be higher for some people, that's not the point. Obviously, not many people pay their share, which is why the greedy politicians passed this law.
One HIGHLY invasive option is for the state of New York to sue Amazon and force them to hand over the addresses of NY residents. Heck, they could probably even sue for the entire purchase history per year, per account. I am not sure that New York could enforce it even then, though. What are they going to do, knock on each Amazon shoppers door and threaten to take them to take them to jail if they don't pay two bucks?
(I am not saying that this is a GOOD option, but since it was already a law, I am surprised that the state of NY did not try to get their grubby mitts on taxpayers money this way. Bring on the flames...)
Theft is theft. Period. If you don't like it, change the law.
PETER
So when the subroutine compounds the interest, right, it uses all these
extra decimals places that just get rounded off. So we just simplify
the whole thing and we just round it down and drop the remainder into
an account that we own.
JOANNA
So you're stealing.
PETER
Ah, no. No. You don't understand. It's, uh, very complicated. It's, uh,
it's, it's aggregate so I'm talking about fractions of a cent that, uh,
over time, they add up to a lot.
JOANNA
Ok. So you're gonna make a lot of money, right?
PETER
Yeah.
JOANNA
Ok. That's not yours?
PETER
Well, it, it becomes ours.
JOANNA
How's that not stealing?
PETER
I don't think, I don't think I'm explaining this very well.
I'm from the US. I work in IT. At every company I have worked for, you must sign a technology use policy form. Here are some real life examples of people who have been fired for misusing company technology:
* Using your company email address to apply for other jobs (lead to early termination).
* Installing a cracked copy of a video game on your company laptop, and being found in possession of 2,000+ illegally downloaded MP3's (proved by network and IP logs). The cracked game also happened to contain a trojan downloader.
* "Killing your laptop": downloading so many viruses, infected emails, toolbars, and keyloggers that the computer is utterly unusable. Visiting pr0n sites on company time did not help this person's case either.
* Using the color laser printer to make 100's of fliers for your garage sale, bake sale, poetry reading, and printing out every email "just in case" (everything is tracked by cost-code, $0.08 per page).
* Using company-provided internet access to hire someone to kill your spouse.
* Pulling up outside of a hotel to leeching off their "free wi-fi", not using the company provided VPN, and then have the employee's connection snooped causing loss of company data.
Chandler: I was just at the bank and there was this really hot teller, and she didn't ask me to go do it with her in the vault!
Joey: Same kind of thing happened to me! Woman pizza-delivery guy comes over, gives me the pizza, takes the money, and leaves!
Chandler: What? No, "Nice apartment, I bet the bedrooms are huge?"
Joey: No! Nothing!
Chandler: You know what? We have to turn off the porn.
Most of my users LOVE Vista.
*ducks*
Every single machine I send out, I set to the "Bubbles" screen saver. It only took one data entry clerk to see that, and pretty soon I heard clamors of, "I want the bubbles!" When I told them they needed Vista to have "the bubbles", I immediately received a flood of requests for Vista.
Well, OK. Give the people what they want.
Now, my power users that actually have to mess around with "advanced" stuff like wireless, network shares, or using Excel -- they hate Vista. They really hate Office 2007's Ribbon. It takes about a little training, but pretty soon they abandon their wild ways and forget the leash is even there... err, I mean Ribbon.:-p
I install Vista more and more every day as we phase out our XP machines. I have run test installs of SP1 on many different machines with different hardware. No errors.
My thoughts for the peanut gallery:
The promised file-copy speed improvement works.
Outlook 2007, which in some cases used to go abysmally slow, now runs like the wind.
Why bother outsourcing? Voice changing software would do the job just as well (NOT an advertisement, seriously -- just offering a link). You would only need one voice actor. It is creepy how well some of this software works, really... they even have templates for celebrities.
On another note, all of you pervs who were voice chatting with a hot, lonely girl on Yahoo last night? Just remember: "The Internet! Where the men are men, the women are men, and the teenage girls are undercover FBI Agents! "
Wal-Mart greeters will be glad to hear that "each of us could be uniquely suited for some niche on earth". As the largest United States employer, they do their best to make you feel unique, just like everyone else.
...he came to understand that what we now know as guerrilla warfare was the only way to fight in the American wild, and he mastered it
I can see it now: Sweede/geeks hiding behind server clusters, plotting raids on Rockstar caches, wearing down the morale of the enemy by constantly playing Hamster Dance.
"Don't cry for me, HD-early-adopters! The truth is I will never leave you!"
I wonder how long it will be until revisionist historians start telling this over, not as a format war in which one was better than the other, but as a story of martyrdom. I can see it now: "the Toshiba executives, in the interest of promoting better television quality, chose to nobly sacrifice themselves for the good of all mankind."
For that matter, I wonder if there will be some holdouts, such as those in the deep south who still believe that the south shall rise again. Maybe a historical re-enactment society will latch on to the idea, and they can have mock battles in staged boardrooms. Lest we forget.
*TAPS PLAYS SWEETLY ACROSS A BATTLEFIELD*
*CURTAIN*
Slashdot Mirror
"You rarely see a merger announcement with the phrase, 'So long, suckers.'"
http://dilbert.vtools.net/Dilbert%201998/images/dilbert19980627.jpg
F*CK! I'm not reading all that!
Based on how you read that statistic, they are increasingly occupying the country.
(Just playing devil's advocate, not in ANY way trying to say that suspending Constitutional rights is OK).
and my wallet is too small for all these $100 bills!
Oh, sorry, I thought we were on the Rachel Ray forums for a second... :-p
I am glad everyone else choked when reading this comment. God, at home I can't even get over 1MB/sec through the apartment complex cable. Contract is up in August. Although honestly, I haven't really found anything else comparatively better in the area for the price ($45/month). Don't know why.
Talk about irony! Look at this photo from the Microsoft offices. They're all using Macs!
Dude, you should definitely post more when you are drunk. Great post. :-D
Oh, and to the minors out there... uh, drinking is wrong, kids.
I think it's more accurate to say that this is the ONLY thing* you can do to help
Have you ever thought of... just NOT playing the game. As in, at all? I understand I'll probably be modded troll because I'm talking crazy talk, but seriously. If there is something that you don't like, you could always:
* Complain to the company. (Obviously, in this case it worked! Shock!)
* Boycott it. Don't buy it. Don't play it. Don't buy their other games, even used. Even if corporate won't listen to you, they will listen to retailers. Find other creative ways to protest. Here's a site with 198 ways to have a non-violent protest. (Although I'm not sure in this case #22, "Protest disrobings" - aka, mooning the company - would work
* If you own stock in that company, dump it.
* Mail peanuts to the company (or in this case, lots of mushrooms -- get it, spores?
Oblig. Office Space ref:
JOANNA: So you're stealing.
PETER: Ah, no. No. You don't understand. It's, uh, very complicated. It's, uh, it's, it's aggregate so I'm talking about fractions of a cent that, uh, over time, they add up to a lot.
JOANNA: Ok. So you're gonna make a lot of money, right?
PETER:Yeah.
JOANNA:Ok. That's not yours?
PETER:Well, it, it becomes ours.
JOANNA:How's that not stealing?
PETER:I don't think, I don't think I'm explaining this very well.
Agreed. Time-to-live boot: 45 seconds. I have a Centrino Duo w/ 2GB RAM.
It was already a law that residents had to pay sales tax on out of state items. But with no real way for the state to enforce it, most taxpayers are not going to bother.
Also, per resident this is a very small amount, which makes it almost silly to bother reporting on your state tax return. According to the first article, "The provision is meant to contribute about $50 million to the $122 billion budget" In 2006, the population of NY state was 19,306,183. By those numbers, each resident would be paying an average of $2.59. In NY, sales tax is different IN EACH COUNTY! (Statewide it varies between 7% and 9%). This means that a $24.95 book would have $1.74-$2.24 tax owed to NY state. Who would bother? Granted, some people order hundreds of dollars worth or merchandise off of Amazon, so it would be higher for some people, that's not the point. Obviously, not many people pay their share, which is why the greedy politicians passed this law.
One HIGHLY invasive option is for the state of New York to sue Amazon and force them to hand over the addresses of NY residents. Heck, they could probably even sue for the entire purchase history per year, per account. I am not sure that New York could enforce it even then, though. What are they going to do, knock on each Amazon shoppers door and threaten to take them to take them to jail if they don't pay two bucks?
(I am not saying that this is a GOOD option, but since it was already a law, I am surprised that the state of NY did not try to get their grubby mitts on taxpayers money this way. Bring on the flames...)
Hopefully Amazon will win this.
Hear hear!
I for one welcome our hands-off overlords.
MOD PARENT UP!
PETER
So when the subroutine compounds the interest, right, it uses all these extra decimals places that just get rounded off. So we just simplify the whole thing and we just round it down and drop the remainder into an account that we own.
JOANNA
So you're stealing.
PETER
Ah, no. No. You don't understand. It's, uh, very complicated. It's, uh, it's, it's aggregate so I'm talking about fractions of a cent that, uh, over time, they add up to a lot.
JOANNA
Ok. So you're gonna make a lot of money, right?
PETER
Yeah.
JOANNA
Ok. That's not yours?
PETER
Well, it, it becomes ours.
JOANNA
How's that not stealing?
PETER
I don't think, I don't think I'm explaining this very well.
Joey: Same kind of thing happened to me! Woman pizza-delivery guy comes over, gives me the pizza, takes the money, and leaves!
Chandler: What? No, "Nice apartment, I bet the bedrooms are huge?"
Joey: No! Nothing!
Chandler: You know what? We have to turn off the porn.
Most of my users LOVE Vista.
:-p
*ducks*
Every single machine I send out, I set to the "Bubbles" screen saver. It only took one data entry clerk to see that, and pretty soon I heard clamors of, "I want the bubbles!" When I told them they needed Vista to have "the bubbles", I immediately received a flood of requests for Vista.
Well, OK. Give the people what they want.
Now, my power users that actually have to mess around with "advanced" stuff like wireless, network shares, or using Excel -- they hate Vista. They really hate Office 2007's Ribbon. It takes about a little training, but pretty soon they abandon their wild ways and forget the leash is even there... err, I mean Ribbon.
Alright, I'm done. Flame away...
SP1 works for me!
I install Vista more and more every day as we phase out our XP machines. I have run test installs of SP1 on many different machines with different hardware. No errors.
My thoughts for the peanut gallery:
The promised file-copy speed improvement works.
Outlook 2007, which in some cases used to go abysmally slow, now runs like the wind.
I'm happy, my users are happy. Moving on.
Why bother outsourcing? Voice changing software would do the job just as well (NOT an advertisement, seriously -- just offering a link). You would only need one voice actor. It is creepy how well some of this software works, really... they even have templates for celebrities.
On another note, all of you pervs who were voice chatting with a hot, lonely girl on Yahoo last night? Just remember: "The Internet! Where the men are men, the women are men, and the teenage girls are undercover FBI Agents! "
Wal-Mart greeters will be glad to hear that "each of us could be uniquely suited for some niche on earth". As the largest United States employer, they do their best to make you feel unique, just like everyone else.
99.9999999% = 1 per one billion...
Your argument is flawed.
I can see it now: Sweede/geeks hiding behind server clusters, plotting raids on Rockstar caches, wearing down the morale of the enemy by constantly playing Hamster Dance.
"Don't cry for me, HD-early-adopters! The truth is I will never leave you!"
I wonder how long it will be until revisionist historians start telling this over, not as a format war in which one was better than the other, but as a story of martyrdom. I can see it now: "the Toshiba executives, in the interest of promoting better television quality, chose to nobly sacrifice themselves for the good of all mankind."
For that matter, I wonder if there will be some holdouts, such as those in the deep south who still believe that the south shall rise again. Maybe a historical re-enactment society will latch on to the idea, and they can have mock battles in staged boardrooms. Lest we forget.
*TAPS PLAYS SWEETLY ACROSS A BATTLEFIELD*
*CURTAIN*