Simple fix, lower taxes on those making under $1 million per year, to make up for the increase. To make up for that, raise taxes on those making over $1 million.
These ideas did not help make America great. They helped make robber barons rich and delayed reduced the greatness we could have achieved without robber barons leaching off all the wealth. China may be a different culture, one that has very different ideas about authority and conformity and has for longer than we in the west have been civilized, but they trade with us and what they do is an unfair trade practice. We should sue them, and if they won't change their ways, impose tariffs to address this unfairness.
So? It still shows that the idea that this game made 600k euros in sales in a month is ludicrous. It didn't.
Here's my theory. These guys had some venture capital to start up their studio. Knowing Paypal's policies, they deposited the money into Paypal knowing full well that Paypal would lock the account. Then they screamed about the injustice to everyone who would listen. Now, everyone knows that this game is hugely popular, why just look how much money they had in the account!
Okay, there we go. 130k sales total? Where did the other 470k come from?
Stop reading things into my statements that just aren't there. I never said the game was crap. I never said anything about the quality of the game at all.
I am directly suggesting that a large deposit was made, by the developers, in order to do three things: get the account locked, garnering free publicity, and making it look as though the game is far more popular than it is.
Dirty pool, man. And it's an abuse of Slashdot. You want advertising here? Pay for it.
And I'm not claiming Paypal wasn't just fucking him over. But the story says he has been keeping the account cleared out and this is one month's worth of sales. We've heard one side of this story.
So you are claiming that it would not be unusual for an alpha release indie game to make over 600,000 euros a month in sales? I'm in the wrong business!
Maybe we should do a basic sanity check and ask ourselves, how much did the best selling game of all time make? Starcraft made 11 million dollars in sales in 12 years. If the game is actually selling 600,000 euros per month, it will top 11 million in a little over a year.
I'm sorry, but no game in the history of the world has made 600,000 euros in monthly sales. That translates to about 10 million dollars a year. Starcraft has made about 11 million in its twelve year publishing history.
600,000 euros in a month's worth of sales for an alpha release indie game? Must be damn good! I mean, at that rate of sales the game will top Starcraft as the number one selling game of all time in about a year. Starcraft took twelve years to reach that figure, but I'm sure this is much better than Starcraft.
Exactly. What does preventing theft get Paypal? They have their cut already. This was because 600,000 euroes went into the account, not because 600,000 euroes went out of it. Where's the profit in freezing an account with nothing in it?
Straw man. I never said it was because he was successful, but picture this: a small indie game making a few hundred bucks a week suddenly gets a 600,000 euro deposit. What does that look like to you? Paypal has a legal duty to prevent money laundering.
Okay, so yeah. That seems like a LOT of money to be traveling through the accounts of an alpha indie game. Maybe Paypal had real reasons to suspect something fishy was going on.
The CEOs were bouncing around in their piles of money so exuberantly that one got sick in his. The amount of money in your account fits our CEO frolicking needs perfectly. Thank you for the interest free loan, and don't ask about the funny smell on your money when you do receive it.
Robots are very literal. She was trying to say "Oh baby, don't stop I'm coming."
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Deceiver! I called some of my female coworkers that and now I'm in real trouble. "No! No! We're taking the word back from the bigots! I'm on your side! Not the HR sensitivity training films! Anything but that! I'll be good, I promise!"
Sheesh.
What, I can't say sheesh either because its insulting to Christians with a lisp? Damn you HR Naz... I can't say that either? Brother. What?!? How was I to know the typewriter rep was here today and would take that as an insult?
That was her old name. I think she just really didn't like being a woman...
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They really are more sturdy than most assume and not nearly as difficult to make as most people think. Pedantic Bitch? Is that what misogynistic mommies boys are calling smart, opinionated women nowadays? I just can't keep up with teenage slang...
"Your reproductive organ is far larger in both girth and length than any I have witnessed previously." "Yes. Yes. Yes. Just like that. Oh human infant, do not stop, I am presently experiencing climax!" "Engaging in illicit sexual activities with the washing machine? I have no idea what you mean."
I think you might have responded to the wrong person. I'm not bent out of shape over anything. I was wondering why the person I was responding to was. You do know what quoted text looks like on Slashdot, right, and that those are not my words at the beginning of the post?
I'm a total pansexual hippie freak who has several trans friends. I understand the incredible prejudice transsexuals go through. I've also seen first hand just how 'right' living as the opposite gender can be for a transsexual, my friend Fish (that's what she went by...) was the most awkward woman I've ever met, but as David he is more man than I am.
I just don't think the Carlin quote is worthy of rebuke. We all need to pick and choose our battles, and while it may not seem trivial to a trans person, this isn't a fight that will win you much sympathy. There are better vectors for education than picking on Carlin, who I'm sure had absolutely nothing against trans gendered people.
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Well I've made all of two souffles in my life, a chocolate one and a cheese one and neither fell down, so this should be a shoe in, haha!
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Simple fix, lower taxes on those making under $1 million per year, to make up for the increase. To make up for that, raise taxes on those making over $1 million.
These ideas did not help make America great. They helped make robber barons rich and delayed reduced the greatness we could have achieved without robber barons leaching off all the wealth. China may be a different culture, one that has very different ideas about authority and conformity and has for longer than we in the west have been civilized, but they trade with us and what they do is an unfair trade practice. We should sue them, and if they won't change their ways, impose tariffs to address this unfairness.
So? It still shows that the idea that this game made 600k euros in sales in a month is ludicrous. It didn't.
Here's my theory. These guys had some venture capital to start up their studio. Knowing Paypal's policies, they deposited the money into Paypal knowing full well that Paypal would lock the account. Then they screamed about the injustice to everyone who would listen. Now, everyone knows that this game is hugely popular, why just look how much money they had in the account!
Okay, there we go. 130k sales total? Where did the other 470k come from?
Stop reading things into my statements that just aren't there. I never said the game was crap. I never said anything about the quality of the game at all.
I am directly suggesting that a large deposit was made, by the developers, in order to do three things: get the account locked, garnering free publicity, and making it look as though the game is far more popular than it is.
Dirty pool, man. And it's an abuse of Slashdot. You want advertising here? Pay for it.
And I'm not claiming Paypal wasn't just fucking him over. But the story says he has been keeping the account cleared out and this is one month's worth of sales. We've heard one side of this story.
So you are claiming that it would not be unusual for an alpha release indie game to make over 600,000 euros a month in sales? I'm in the wrong business!
Maybe we should do a basic sanity check and ask ourselves, how much did the best selling game of all time make? Starcraft made 11 million dollars in sales in 12 years. If the game is actually selling 600,000 euros per month, it will top 11 million in a little over a year.
I'm sorry, but no game in the history of the world has made 600,000 euros in monthly sales. That translates to about 10 million dollars a year. Starcraft has made about 11 million in its twelve year publishing history.
600,000 euros in a month's worth of sales for an alpha release indie game? Must be damn good! I mean, at that rate of sales the game will top Starcraft as the number one selling game of all time in about a year. Starcraft took twelve years to reach that figure, but I'm sure this is much better than Starcraft.
I was pretty clear that I was speculating. It just seems very odd for that much money to be coming from sales of an alpha release indie game.
Exactly. What does preventing theft get Paypal? They have their cut already. This was because 600,000 euroes went into the account, not because 600,000 euroes went out of it. Where's the profit in freezing an account with nothing in it?
While this is undoubtedly true, it is also true that wise people do not funnel 600,000 euros through Paypal to fund their startup.
Straw man. I never said it was because he was successful, but picture this: a small indie game making a few hundred bucks a week suddenly gets a 600,000 euro deposit. What does that look like to you? Paypal has a legal duty to prevent money laundering.
Okay, so yeah. That seems like a LOT of money to be traveling through the accounts of an alpha indie game. Maybe Paypal had real reasons to suspect something fishy was going on.
The CEOs were bouncing around in their piles of money so exuberantly that one got sick in his. The amount of money in your account fits our CEO frolicking needs perfectly. Thank you for the interest free loan, and don't ask about the funny smell on your money when you do receive it.
I've heard this worm only infects users who are prone to both sexually harassing coworkers and stealing from the company. I'm notifying HR.
Robots are very literal. She was trying to say "Oh baby, don't stop I'm coming."
Deceiver! I called some of my female coworkers that and now I'm in real trouble. "No! No! We're taking the word back from the bigots! I'm on your side! Not the HR sensitivity training films! Anything but that! I'll be good, I promise!"
Sheesh.
What, I can't say sheesh either because its insulting to Christians with a lisp? Damn you HR Naz... I can't say that either? Brother. What?!? How was I to know the typewriter rep was here today and would take that as an insult?
That was her old name. I think she just really didn't like being a woman...
They really are more sturdy than most assume and not nearly as difficult to make as most people think. Pedantic Bitch? Is that what misogynistic mommies boys are calling smart, opinionated women nowadays? I just can't keep up with teenage slang...
"Your reproductive organ is far larger in both girth and length than any I have witnessed previously."
"Yes. Yes. Yes. Just like that. Oh human infant, do not stop, I am presently experiencing climax!"
"Engaging in illicit sexual activities with the washing machine? I have no idea what you mean."
Dang, that is weird. I never noticed that about idle but you are right.
I think you might have responded to the wrong person. I'm not bent out of shape over anything. I was wondering why the person I was responding to was. You do know what quoted text looks like on Slashdot, right, and that those are not my words at the beginning of the post?
I'm a total pansexual hippie freak who has several trans friends. I understand the incredible prejudice transsexuals go through. I've also seen first hand just how 'right' living as the opposite gender can be for a transsexual, my friend Fish (that's what she went by...) was the most awkward woman I've ever met, but as David he is more man than I am.
I just don't think the Carlin quote is worthy of rebuke. We all need to pick and choose our battles, and while it may not seem trivial to a trans person, this isn't a fight that will win you much sympathy. There are better vectors for education than picking on Carlin, who I'm sure had absolutely nothing against trans gendered people.
Well I've made all of two souffles in my life, a chocolate one and a cheese one and neither fell down, so this should be a shoe in, haha!