I agree here. I delete anything that's not for me appearing in my personal email. I have kept the more interesting ones. I figure since he's not my child, I don't have any responsibility sorting out his crap.
If it's my work email address, I direct requests to IT and let them sort it out if it becomes a problem. If it's a random one off, I'll email/call them back and they're usually quite quick to sort it out.
Chances are it's part of a money laundering operation. Buy cards with stolen credit card. Resell cards to buyers. Person with the card needs to purchase songs as soon as possible before someone queries the transactions.
When I was in university, we had to submit a paper for one of our accounting classes. Naturally, many students didn't reference a few of their citations since they had met the minium required. (Myself included.) At the end of the following class, the professor informed us that he KNEW who had plagiarised portions of their papers. If we didn't turn ourselves in, we would be reported to the dean. Naturally, the entire class turned themselves in. He wasn't thrilled when the entire class lined up outside of his office to point out which minor excerpts we had taken as our own without proper referencing. Turned out only 2-3 people had plagiarised their entire papers. I wish he had done a better job wording his announcement. Would've saved everyone a lot of time.
While I'm sure several students did cheat, everyone who so much as glanced around or thinks they may be suspected of cheating will turn themselves in to avoid worse consequences.
The article states that he "forgot". (In quotes.) There's no clarification that he had paid prior years on time or if he had been "forgetting" for several years. If anyone had been injured as a result of them not showing up over a $75 annual fee, then there would be a lot more shit hitting the fan.
Since his insurance is paying part of the loss, I'm assuming their stance on this will be very important. If they hold the homeowner to a higher standard because of his failure to pay, then he's lost everything and won't receive much compensation. If the insurance takes the view that this was a preventable loss and that the fire department should've shown up regardless, then this could be interesting.
The fire department should've shown up in either case. Worst case, he honestly forgot to pay this year and they'll get $75 out of showing up. If he's "forgotten" to pay the past few years, then they'll have grounds for a lien on this property until he can reimburse them for their costs.
If the neighbour's sustained any damage, I wonder who they'll go after. The broke guy who just lost everything, or the fire department?
Even if there is/was/will be a first contact, chances are, it would not be public knowledge. I thought this quote from Men In Black would be appropriate:
Edwards: Why the big secret? People are smart. They can handle it. Kay: A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it. Fifteen hundred years ago everybody knew the Earth was the center of the universe. Five hundred years ago, everybody knew the Earth was flat, and fifteen minutes ago, you knew that humans were alone on this planet. Imagine what you'll know tomorrow.
How sad, that someone is so stuck on an old book they pretend it's a religion. Its not discriminating against religion, because much like all others, its made up!
See what I did there? Just because you don't agree with the origin of a religion, doesn't make it any less valid than yours.
Seems like so many people share the same advice regarding firstname.lastname, and I'm beginning to wonder if you all have such unique names that you can be assured that you won't have any issues getting your desired address with virtually any provider.
While most people won't mind paying a little extra to support their favourite studios, there is potential for the studios to really tear the ass out of it with DLC. I imagine someone will have the nerve to release crap DLC and eventually release some amazing DLC which requires all of the crap to already be installed.
The people most likely to throw away a case are those who don't build their own computers. Not everyone has the know how or desire to do so. It's much easier to just order already made.
I doubt their premiums will go up very much next year. Any business of that size will have their own captive. With no significant losses in the prior years (at least that I know of publicly), there's no reason to jack their rates beyond inflation.
The article doesn't clearly state what the differences between the two games are. Is the non-violent version more challenging in which I need to pay more attention to the road in order to meet the objective? Is the violent version easier where they've placed the pedestrians right in the middle of the road and I don't really need to try to hit them?
I'm sure if they actually made it so that both versions had the pedestrian/checkpoint in the exact same position, then we'd see a difference. Even if they're in the same position, which did the players play first? I'm sure we can all remember back to how the first time we played any Need For Speed title, how we didn't really notice the background and were more intent on the other cars and the road. Once we played it enough, we'd start to notice the background and potential shortcuts.
What if I missed an ad in a particular area because I happened to do a poor job navigating a corner and wind up facing away from the ad?
Too may variables exist between each person. There doesn't appear to be a good control to balance it out.
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I agree consoles are a great way to get a bunch of people in the same room involved, but unfortunately almost everything released lately has no offline multiplayer. At best it has some sort of 2 player mode if we're lucky. The rest of us have to sit around and wait for their turn. My friends and I still play Red Faction 2 and Bomberman just because of that.
All this pay to play DLC just annoys me to no end and keeps me from considering purchasing my own console. They're effectively just fleecing the consumers. Unfortunately, I don't see this revenue stream drying up since many console players are so diehard that they won't even consider a PC beyond a game of Solitaire. (At least my friends won't.) Is there no other option for people with consoles? Isn't there somewhere else they could just download the desired content for free and still play it? I know the PS3 has a browser, so I'm sure there's got to be somewhere they could go to get the same content.
While ditching the current console systems' trends in using joysticks, using a trackball would be an utter nightmare. Think of how much dirt and crap will get in there if your friends are half as messy as mine. Cleaning out your controller just to play would be a nuisance. Opening up the controller just to clean it would inevitably lead to warranty issues. I'll deal with the current setup. It's not too bad.
While they have expressly forbidden the exchange of virtual currency/services for real cash, it does not forbid the exchange of their time (services) for a player's cash.
This does not prevent them from offering powerlevelling, honor farming, or item grinding. (Change the term for whatever your MMO of choice terms these services.) These services are normally quoted as a function of time.
Anyone who uses a bit of creative wording/pricing can still continue to sell virtual currency. So long as they refer to it as a service, then in theory they should be able to skirt this new ban. Quite a few sites list a time frame in which they can get gold to you. Up to 2 days for larger orders. Let's say someone wants to buy 10,000g. With a 2 day turn around time, that's about ~210g per hour. (Most players with a bit of a clue can easily bang out that much if not more per hour.) Thus, they have sold the player their playing time for a specific goal.
I honestly don't think this solves anything. It'll either create an underground market, or sites will start to use more creative wording.
The summary has left out a key point in that the device can be turned off by the driver.
So we're back to square one.
Another thing is that they've selected a horrible sample of individuals to test the device on.
"TfLâ(TM)s trial will include a London bus, a licensed taxi and 20 cars driven by road engineers, traffic managers and highway inspectors."
All of whom have a vested interest in sticking to the speed limit beyond avoiding being involved in accidents. They should have selected habitual speeders, people who are close to having 12pts in three years as well. Can't really say if a device is working as intended when you don't let the intended user test it.
I'm sure they knew. It's just that with all of these superhero movies doing so well lately, why spend millions to make one when you can let someone else mistakenly think they have the distribution rights and invest their own money into it?
They won't move to stop the movie. They'll hold it up long enough for WB to cave and give them what they think is a reasonable cut.
Would this technology actually be able to prove that I am an active drug user, or would it just indicate that I have come into contact with the substance? (Money is mostly likely to have been exposed to drugs.)
At the very least, I can see that it would suggest that some employees may need to learn to wash their hands after using the bathroom.
The more money you have to burn, the more likely you are to think about what you're spending your money on. This excludes the individual's vice, whether it be sex, drugs, or alcohol.
It's generally the middle to lower class people who go out of their way to flaunt their supposed wealth.
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I agree here. I delete anything that's not for me appearing in my personal email. I have kept the more interesting ones. I figure since he's not my child, I don't have any responsibility sorting out his crap.
If it's my work email address, I direct requests to IT and let them sort it out if it becomes a problem. If it's a random one off, I'll email/call them back and they're usually quite quick to sort it out.
Chances are it's part of a money laundering operation. Buy cards with stolen credit card. Resell cards to buyers. Person with the card needs to purchase songs as soon as possible before someone queries the transactions.
When I was in university, we had to submit a paper for one of our accounting classes. Naturally, many students didn't reference a few of their citations since they had met the minium required. (Myself included.) At the end of the following class, the professor informed us that he KNEW who had plagiarised portions of their papers. If we didn't turn ourselves in, we would be reported to the dean. Naturally, the entire class turned themselves in. He wasn't thrilled when the entire class lined up outside of his office to point out which minor excerpts we had taken as our own without proper referencing. Turned out only 2-3 people had plagiarised their entire papers. I wish he had done a better job wording his announcement. Would've saved everyone a lot of time.
While I'm sure several students did cheat, everyone who so much as glanced around or thinks they may be suspected of cheating will turn themselves in to avoid worse consequences.
The article states that he "forgot". (In quotes.) There's no clarification that he had paid prior years on time or if he had been "forgetting" for several years. If anyone had been injured as a result of them not showing up over a $75 annual fee, then there would be a lot more shit hitting the fan.
Since his insurance is paying part of the loss, I'm assuming their stance on this will be very important. If they hold the homeowner to a higher standard because of his failure to pay, then he's lost everything and won't receive much compensation. If the insurance takes the view that this was a preventable loss and that the fire department should've shown up regardless, then this could be interesting.
The fire department should've shown up in either case. Worst case, he honestly forgot to pay this year and they'll get $75 out of showing up. If he's "forgotten" to pay the past few years, then they'll have grounds for a lien on this property until he can reimburse them for their costs.
If the neighbour's sustained any damage, I wonder who they'll go after. The broke guy who just lost everything, or the fire department?
Even if there is/was/will be a first contact, chances are, it would not be public knowledge. I thought this quote from Men In Black would be appropriate:
Edwards: Why the big secret? People are smart. They can handle it.
Kay: A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it. Fifteen hundred years ago everybody knew the Earth was the center of the universe. Five hundred years ago, everybody knew the Earth was flat, and fifteen minutes ago, you knew that humans were alone on this planet. Imagine what you'll know tomorrow.
Did you forget what modern journalism is about? (Formerly known as tabloids.)
Wouldn't at the picture vaguely resemble the person? It's at least a better start than the fuzzy picture they may have gotten from a security camera.
How sad, that someone is so stuck on an old book they pretend it's a religion.
Its not discriminating against religion, because much like all others, its made up!
See what I did there? Just because you don't agree with the origin of a religion, doesn't make it any less valid than yours.
Seems like so many people share the same advice regarding firstname.lastname, and I'm beginning to wonder if you all have such unique names that you can be assured that you won't have any issues getting your desired address with virtually any provider.
The achievements you've listed are considered to be Feats of Strength. As such, they aren't part of the current 986 achievements in the game.
While most people won't mind paying a little extra to support their favourite studios, there is potential for the studios to really tear the ass out of it with DLC. I imagine someone will have the nerve to release crap DLC and eventually release some amazing DLC which requires all of the crap to already be installed.
The people most likely to throw away a case are those who don't build their own computers. Not everyone has the know how or desire to do so. It's much easier to just order already made.
I doubt their premiums will go up very much next year. Any business of that size will have their own captive. With no significant losses in the prior years (at least that I know of publicly), there's no reason to jack their rates beyond inflation.
The article doesn't clearly state what the differences between the two games are. Is the non-violent version more challenging in which I need to pay more attention to the road in order to meet the objective? Is the violent version easier where they've placed the pedestrians right in the middle of the road and I don't really need to try to hit them? I'm sure if they actually made it so that both versions had the pedestrian/checkpoint in the exact same position, then we'd see a difference. Even if they're in the same position, which did the players play first? I'm sure we can all remember back to how the first time we played any Need For Speed title, how we didn't really notice the background and were more intent on the other cars and the road. Once we played it enough, we'd start to notice the background and potential shortcuts. What if I missed an ad in a particular area because I happened to do a poor job navigating a corner and wind up facing away from the ad? Too may variables exist between each person. There doesn't appear to be a good control to balance it out. (Sorry for the formatting.)
On the bright side, that's millions of available South Korean women.
I agree consoles are a great way to get a bunch of people in the same room involved, but unfortunately almost everything released lately has no offline multiplayer. At best it has some sort of 2 player mode if we're lucky. The rest of us have to sit around and wait for their turn. My friends and I still play Red Faction 2 and Bomberman just because of that. All this pay to play DLC just annoys me to no end and keeps me from considering purchasing my own console. They're effectively just fleecing the consumers. Unfortunately, I don't see this revenue stream drying up since many console players are so diehard that they won't even consider a PC beyond a game of Solitaire. (At least my friends won't.) Is there no other option for people with consoles? Isn't there somewhere else they could just download the desired content for free and still play it? I know the PS3 has a browser, so I'm sure there's got to be somewhere they could go to get the same content.
While ditching the current console systems' trends in using joysticks, using a trackball would be an utter nightmare. Think of how much dirt and crap will get in there if your friends are half as messy as mine. Cleaning out your controller just to play would be a nuisance. Opening up the controller just to clean it would inevitably lead to warranty issues. I'll deal with the current setup. It's not too bad.
While they have expressly forbidden the exchange of virtual currency/services for real cash, it does not forbid the exchange of their time (services) for a player's cash. This does not prevent them from offering powerlevelling, honor farming, or item grinding. (Change the term for whatever your MMO of choice terms these services.) These services are normally quoted as a function of time. Anyone who uses a bit of creative wording/pricing can still continue to sell virtual currency. So long as they refer to it as a service, then in theory they should be able to skirt this new ban. Quite a few sites list a time frame in which they can get gold to you. Up to 2 days for larger orders. Let's say someone wants to buy 10,000g. With a 2 day turn around time, that's about ~210g per hour. (Most players with a bit of a clue can easily bang out that much if not more per hour.) Thus, they have sold the player their playing time for a specific goal. I honestly don't think this solves anything. It'll either create an underground market, or sites will start to use more creative wording.
For some reason, I keep seeing Fry step on that footstep and leaving the Nike symbol behind. (Futurama ref.)
The summary has left out a key point in that the device can be turned off by the driver. So we're back to square one. Another thing is that they've selected a horrible sample of individuals to test the device on. "TfLâ(TM)s trial will include a London bus, a licensed taxi and 20 cars driven by road engineers, traffic managers and highway inspectors." All of whom have a vested interest in sticking to the speed limit beyond avoiding being involved in accidents. They should have selected habitual speeders, people who are close to having 12pts in three years as well. Can't really say if a device is working as intended when you don't let the intended user test it.
In the past my former employers have only given my reference directly to my prospective employer, or at least given me a sealed envelope to deliver.
Perhaps it's natural curiousity, but I'd like to know what they have said about me. As is, I can't agree with or dispute any negative comments.
Do we have a right to see what was said about us?
Lucy Liu Bots anyone?
I'm sure they knew. It's just that with all of these superhero movies doing so well lately, why spend millions to make one when you can let someone else mistakenly think they have the distribution rights and invest their own money into it?
They won't move to stop the movie. They'll hold it up long enough for WB to cave and give them what they think is a reasonable cut.
Essentially free money.
Would this technology actually be able to prove that I am an active drug user, or would it just indicate that I have come into contact with the substance? (Money is mostly likely to have been exposed to drugs.) At the very least, I can see that it would suggest that some employees may need to learn to wash their hands after using the bathroom.
I've had the opposite experience.
The more money you have to burn, the more likely you are to think about what you're spending your money on. This excludes the individual's vice, whether it be sex, drugs, or alcohol.
It's generally the middle to lower class people who go out of their way to flaunt their supposed wealth.