Citations will be forthcoming soon(and some great photos). I have it on good authority that George Soros told one of Saddaam's ex-body doubles(interesting back story-LOL) that during the meeting Kissinger had had all of his pubes shaved off and was asleep in an old bathtub out the back of Bush's ranch with a Sec. State who had taken three ecstacy.
I am getting 17.5km/l( 41mpUSg) and that's in an 11yo Nissan. 50% country. I always drive to be efficient(frugal by nature). Don't get me wrong! When the lovely young girl at the supermarket today shook her tin at me smiled sweetly and said "for the environment", I said no. After I bought my crap I put the change in the big brown dog's head.
It had already been determined by professionals that the children had no hope at all of being anything but profoundly disabled and unable to look after themselves ever. The two parents lived in a residential care facility as they needed help to do such mundane things as to go to the toilet. They were incapable of caring for the child in any meaningful way at all.
We could bundle up entire extended families of them as an 'exotic' financial instrument. Call them Care Based Derivative Options and guarantee a minimum 17% return per annum over 90 years. We could make out like bandits (or at least Japanese schoolgirls).
My wife and I made a conscious decision to remove the television from our lives(No TV for about 15 years now) and I believe that this decision has enriched our lives in a major way. It also makes one thing very obvious to us and that is, when we visit friends who have a television it draws our attention every time without fail. There is something about TV that just sucks you int. When you haven't had a TV for so long it really is fascinating to experience this. It is a creepy feeling.
I don't want to advocate Nazi style killing off of the weak
In nature it's called survival of the fittest. I once made the mistake of stating in public how I felt about a severely disabled couple having children(who would be also be severely disabled themelves) and was labelled all sorts of terrible things that are so far from my true nature it isn't funny. Then I heard about parents using the IVF program to guarantee that their child has the same defect as themselves and finally realised that I must be the one with the screwed up value system.
If the sun shone out of my arse like it does yours I would definitely log in and let the community know who I am so that I was not alone basking in the glory that is me. Then again if i was just some fuck-knuckle spouting crap about stuff I know nothing about I would probably remain as an AC too.
I may have been wrong in the above post. the HL1 key problem may have been a VAC ban hence I may not have had any dealings with Valve/Steam at all over that incident (it was many years ago after all and I am getting old).
Admittedly, I have never dealt with Steam in any way at all. I know nothing of them.
Honesty is refreshing online
However: I think that you, too, have never had to call Steam CS on finding an authentication code refused. I think your experience with steam CSR might well be different than someone in the AC's position. Having said that, I have no information either way.
I was banned from playing online with a HL1 key. the key was apparently in use in several countries. I have no idea what the resolution would have been as I just used another key as I had several copies. The multiple usage of the key wasn't surprising as it was from an ex-rental copy I purchased for $5. They were nice, polite, and at no time acted in an unprofessional manner.
My last question stands, though: In the face of a remote authority accusing you of malfeasance, what is the proper response. That is, if you DID take the AC's story at face value, what response is proper.
The name of the CSR, the date and time of the call and immediate escalation to his/her superior to report them for their obnoxious attitude(I would hazard a guess here that once a manager heard this story that your CD Key problem would be resolved quite quickly). I am definitely not saying that if this CSR did say what is claimed that it's OK.
I would be very, very careful as to what claims I made about my treatment and in what forums I made these claims as it is very possible that the entire conversation was recorded (it would actually be quite good as a training aid).
You've declared that taking the bad authentication code box back to the store is bad. What should have been done instead?
I would have contacted Steam and had the product's key replaced. Not sure if I stated this in another thread but I am aware of this exact problem with a retail Orange Box and it was rectified within a week. Valve/Steam are definitely aware that keys get stolen from retail copies of their games and this is the first time I have ever heard of them making accusations about the customer's character/behaviour. What i do know is that the key that was given in replacement came with a firm warning that it would not be replaced again and the fact that it had been replaced had been diarised(strange way to put it, but I digress) on the account's notes.
Mind, there are scenarios where each of the three parties might be at fault: the customer, the store, or Steam.
If the AC's story was true then in the AC's scenario all three would be at fault.
1: The retail store for allowing the key to be stolen (it does happen. there are websites that advise you to act like you are making a phone call on your mobile as you type in the key from the box open before you).
2: Steam for treating the AC in such a despicable manner. If the CSR really did this then he is in the wrong and it should be grounds for immediate termination (in the USA I guess you could sue him for the emotional distress caused and your recently acquired fear to play video games subsequently destroying your social life).
3: The AC for 'tricking'(AC's words) the clerk into changing the game for something else so as the CD Key problem is not resolved and causes someone else difficulties. ALSO, when a game gets returned under the auspices of it being defective it is NEVER replaced with a different game! You just teceive another copy of the same game, otherwise you could have taken it home, duplicated it, and then got something else. Not many clerks are this stupid and store policies definitely aren't.
Altering the global average temperature will affect precipitation patterns.
Only if the alterations aren't just on paper(and the real unadjusted data lost forever)
Our current croplands are chosen to match current precipitation patterns.
Hence all that cotton and rice being grown in just the right spots for it precipitation wise
Altering them would be extremely expensive, maybe even impossible given the short amount of warning we'll probably get. (That's because predicting exactly how precipitation will change is very difficult.)
If precipitation patterns are that hard to predict climate must be much harder to do
You'd of course have to be a complete idiot to design an authenticating mechanism in this manner. TrueCrypt does not share this design.
What is even more worrying is that this device actually complied with some/any official standard. It doesn't matter which standard. it demonstrates that the device's method of keeping your data safe is retarded. Also that those who make and regulate these standards are also retarded.
How many people would have kept confidential data on these things due to a mistaken belief that the standards themselves aren't broken let alone the device that has been certified as complying with them.
One hundred years ago workers on strike cared about their jobs, their friends jobs, complete strangers jobs, jobs that hadn't even been created yet, benefits to people yet unborn, etcetera, etcetera. In today's society the majority of people couldn't give two shits about anyone but themselves. Unionisation only works when those involved care about more than the immediate benefits available to them and to them alone. By breaking society up and making people more distant from one another the powers than be have won a great victory.
When i was a student I purposefully moved to an area that had very low rent ($23pw when the average around town for equivalent accommodation was $150pw) and the area was considered a poor, violent, nasty place to live, and was the brunt of many jokes. Living there for a few years was a great education. the first night an old lady from a couple of doors down turned up at the door with a pot full of fresh home made soup(it was delicious). Within a week I knew pretty much everyone that lived within a ten house radius. people were nice, kind, looked out for one another, and the majority generally cared about the welfare of others(even ones they hadn't met yet).
I wonder if this is what Orwell meant when he wrote "If there was hope then it was in the proles"(paraphrased badly).
The first people in this country from the general public to hear about this filter tells the story of what it is all about. Here's the link you can draw your own conclusions.
Probably not as many as the media would like us to believe. I live in Adelaide, South Australia and there is absolutely no reason for anyone in this particular city to go hungry (let alone starve). There is a homeless drop in centre(you cant sleep there but can spend the day there if you choose) where you are fed a fantastic cooked lunch for $2. if you have no money then you can get your meal on credit. You get a maximum of two weeks credit as social security in this country is paid fortnightly. In theory you should be able to pay your credit off when you get your payment and either pay for your meals up front or get on the credit train again (I know this as I have volunteered there). On top of which there are DOZENS of places that will give you food or vouchers with which you can buy food with(no cigarettes or alcohol though).
Anyone having dealt with Steam CSR's would most likely agree with me that the story as told above is decidedly dodgy. If it had been told in a believable way and didn't include the poster confessing that he's a completely thoughtless Dick then I would have gifted him Orange Box content via Steam(they allow that which in my book gives them a few credits for decent behaviour)
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Citations will be forthcoming soon(and some great photos). I have it on good authority that George Soros told one of Saddaam's ex-body doubles(interesting back story-LOL) that during the meeting Kissinger had had all of his pubes shaved off and was asleep in an old bathtub out the back of Bush's ranch with a Sec. State who had taken three ecstacy.
I am getting 17.5km/l( 41mpUSg) and that's in an 11yo Nissan. 50% country. I always drive to be efficient(frugal by nature). Don't get me wrong! When the lovely young girl at the supermarket today shook her tin at me smiled sweetly and said "for the environment", I said no. After I bought my crap I put the change in the big brown dog's head.
Sisters, not so common. I can see it happening in extreme situations, though.
I can picture the sisters in my head. They are definitely trying but alas no baby.
It had already been determined by professionals that the children had no hope at all of being anything but profoundly disabled and unable to look after themselves ever. The two parents lived in a residential care facility as they needed help to do such mundane things as to go to the toilet. They were incapable of caring for the child in any meaningful way at all.
We could bundle up entire extended families of them as an 'exotic' financial instrument. Call them Care Based Derivative Options and guarantee a minimum 17% return per annum over 90 years. We could make out like bandits (or at least Japanese schoolgirls).
I thought the 90s were more of a polished dog turd
My wife and I made a conscious decision to remove the television from our lives(No TV for about 15 years now) and I believe that this decision has enriched our lives in a major way. It also makes one thing very obvious to us and that is, when we visit friends who have a television it draws our attention every time without fail. There is something about TV that just sucks you int. When you haven't had a TV for so long it really is fascinating to experience this. It is a creepy feeling.
Yet for some odd reason we rode our bikes and are still alive. Do kids these days have softer skulls or what changed?
The problem is that the kids today are all so stoned on legal drugs that they have lots more serious crashes.
I don't want to advocate Nazi style killing off of the weak
In nature it's called survival of the fittest. I once made the mistake of stating in public how I felt about a severely disabled couple having children(who would be also be severely disabled themelves) and was labelled all sorts of terrible things that are so far from my true nature it isn't funny. Then I heard about parents using the IVF program to guarantee that their child has the same defect as themselves and finally realised that I must be the one with the screwed up value system.
Do I need to explain further?
Only if you aren't yet tired of banging your head against a brick wall.
shenanigans
If it hadn't been for LSD I would never have obtained a tertiary education.
Makes my eyes red just thinking about it
I hope you aren't trying to bring reason and common sense to the discussion? If so, then shame on you.
If the sun shone out of my arse like it does yours I would definitely log in and let the community know who I am so that I was not alone basking in the glory that is me. Then again if i was just some fuck-knuckle spouting crap about stuff I know nothing about I would probably remain as an AC too.
I have mod points does that coint?
I have not argued for or against any position - sorry.
All I have stated is that their was one hold out when it came time to vote - sorry again
I may have been wrong in the above post. the HL1 key problem may have been a VAC ban hence I may not have had any dealings with Valve/Steam at all over that incident (it was many years ago after all and I am getting old).
Admittedly, I have never dealt with Steam in any way at all. I know nothing of them.
Honesty is refreshing online
However: I think that you, too, have never had to call Steam CS on finding an authentication code refused. I think your experience with steam CSR might well be different than someone in the AC's position. Having said that, I have no information either way.
I was banned from playing online with a HL1 key. the key was apparently in use in several countries. I have no idea what the resolution would have been as I just used another key as I had several copies. The multiple usage of the key wasn't surprising as it was from an ex-rental copy I purchased for $5. They were nice, polite, and at no time acted in an unprofessional manner.
My last question stands, though: In the face of a remote authority accusing you of malfeasance, what is the proper response. That is, if you DID take the AC's story at face value, what response is proper.
The name of the CSR, the date and time of the call and immediate escalation to his/her superior to report them for their obnoxious attitude(I would hazard a guess here that once a manager heard this story that your CD Key problem would be resolved quite quickly). I am definitely not saying that if this CSR did say what is claimed that it's OK.
I would be very, very careful as to what claims I made about my treatment and in what forums I made these claims as it is very possible that the entire conversation was recorded (it would actually be quite good as a training aid).
You've declared that taking the bad authentication code box back to the store is bad. What should have been done instead?
I would have contacted Steam and had the product's key replaced. Not sure if I stated this in another thread but I am aware of this exact problem with a retail Orange Box and it was rectified within a week. Valve/Steam are definitely aware that keys get stolen from retail copies of their games and this is the first time I have ever heard of them making accusations about the customer's character/behaviour. What i do know is that the key that was given in replacement came with a firm warning that it would not be replaced again and the fact that it had been replaced had been diarised(strange way to put it, but I digress) on the account's notes.
Mind, there are scenarios where each of the three parties might be at fault: the customer, the store, or Steam.
If the AC's story was true then in the AC's scenario all three would be at fault.
1: The retail store for allowing the key to be stolen (it does happen. there are websites that advise you to act like you are making a phone call on your mobile as you type in the key from the box open before you).
2: Steam for treating the AC in such a despicable manner. If the CSR really did this then he is in the wrong and it should be grounds for immediate termination (in the USA I guess you could sue him for the emotional distress caused and your recently acquired fear to play video games subsequently destroying your social life).
3: The AC for 'tricking'(AC's words) the clerk into changing the game for something else so as the CD Key problem is not resolved and causes someone else difficulties. ALSO, when a game gets returned under the auspices of it being defective it is NEVER replaced with a different game! You just teceive another copy of the same game, otherwise you could have taken it home, duplicated it, and then got something else. Not many clerks are this stupid and store policies definitely aren't.
I still call shenanigans
No scientific backing?
Great sauce
Altering the global average temperature will affect precipitation patterns.
Only if the alterations aren't just on paper(and the real unadjusted data lost forever)
Our current croplands are chosen to match current precipitation patterns.
Hence all that cotton and rice being grown in just the right spots for it precipitation wise
Altering them would be extremely expensive, maybe even impossible given the short amount of warning we'll probably get. (That's because predicting exactly how precipitation will change is very difficult.)
If precipitation patterns are that hard to predict climate must be much harder to do
You'd of course have to be a complete idiot to design an authenticating mechanism in this manner. TrueCrypt does not share this design.
What is even more worrying is that this device actually complied with some/any official standard. It doesn't matter which standard. it demonstrates that the device's method of keeping your data safe is retarded. Also that those who make and regulate these standards are also retarded.
How many people would have kept confidential data on these things due to a mistaken belief that the standards themselves aren't broken let alone the device that has been certified as complying with them.
One hundred years ago workers on strike cared about their jobs, their friends jobs, complete strangers jobs, jobs that hadn't even been created yet, benefits to people yet unborn, etcetera, etcetera. In today's society the majority of people couldn't give two shits about anyone but themselves. Unionisation only works when those involved care about more than the immediate benefits available to them and to them alone. By breaking society up and making people more distant from one another the powers than be have won a great victory.
When i was a student I purposefully moved to an area that had very low rent ($23pw when the average around town for equivalent accommodation was $150pw) and the area was considered a poor, violent, nasty place to live, and was the brunt of many jokes. Living there for a few years was a great education. the first night an old lady from a couple of doors down turned up at the door with a pot full of fresh home made soup(it was delicious). Within a week I knew pretty much everyone that lived within a ten house radius. people were nice, kind, looked out for one another, and the majority generally cared about the welfare of others(even ones they hadn't met yet).
I wonder if this is what Orwell meant when he wrote "If there was hope then it was in the proles"(paraphrased badly).
The first people in this country from the general public to hear about this filter tells the story of what it is all about. Here's the link you can draw your own conclusions.
Why oh why would you bring common sense and a dose of reality into any conversation where governments are being bagged?
Probably not as many as the media would like us to believe. I live in Adelaide, South Australia and there is absolutely no reason for anyone in this particular city to go hungry (let alone starve). There is a homeless drop in centre(you cant sleep there but can spend the day there if you choose) where you are fed a fantastic cooked lunch for $2. if you have no money then you can get your meal on credit. You get a maximum of two weeks credit as social security in this country is paid fortnightly. In theory you should be able to pay your credit off when you get your payment and either pay for your meals up front or get on the credit train again (I know this as I have volunteered there). On top of which there are DOZENS of places that will give you food or vouchers with which you can buy food with(no cigarettes or alcohol though).
Anyone having dealt with Steam CSR's would most likely agree with me that the story as told above is decidedly dodgy. If it had been told in a believable way and didn't include the poster confessing that he's a completely thoughtless Dick then I would have gifted him Orange Box content via Steam(they allow that which in my book gives them a few credits for decent behaviour)