I started out on private servers around 2008 or so, so mid-TBC. But many quests more complex than "kill # of trolls" or "gather # of berries" quests were broken, so it was an odd experience for awhile. Finally joined retail last year and it has been quite fun. I'm not a serious raider or pvp'er, just dabble in the respective "looking for..." random groupings. Pet collecting, achievement-hunting, trying out alts or new specs. There always seems to be some other place in the game you can focus on for a bit if you get bored or burnt-out on the others.
Sort the videos by rating, 4 of the top 5 are 20-something women, such as Ilona from Finland. Her bio reads;
I'm a critically discerning cosmopolitan, identifying with a variety of roles and yet very few. As a bookish diplomat by nature, I choose to leave my heart and mind open and listen to the sounds of the world. I aim to live a long, hearty life, only rich in experience and knowledge, fueled by ideas, inspiration and questions. Beauty lies in human achievement. Through my person, I want to portray a generation of our time, a truly universal one, bold and borderless but not detached from its roots.
maybe I'm just a cranky old codger, but that sounds a lot like the vapid, not-really-saying-anything "hi I saw your profile so let's chat" kind of e-mail spam we get all the time.
What on earth do people hate about self -checkout? Our grocery store here has had it for 2 years now, I have not gone through a live line since. Scan and drop it in the bag, weigh your produce and scroll through the numbers to find your code. Could not be easier.
Traditional retailers want business? Change their service, train staff better, have more registers open, kick out the rabble who just hang out in stores and never buy stuff. Most of all lower prices.
I don't disagree per se, but how do you expect them to invest in better training and hiring, increased staff, etc...while lowering prices? If anything, that added cost would be passed down to the consumer via higher prices.
1. Dodger, not Badger. Never did like that episode, it was a bit of a ham-fisted "look at the horrors of war" retelling of Hamburger Hill or the like. 2. Down-Below was largely a ghetto and a refuge for criminals & miscellaneous psychos so it isn't too surprising that most shown down there are thuggish. There were obvious exceptions though such as the doctor with the healing device in the "Quality of Mercy", and the alien that Kosh sends Sheridan to to meditate on beauty. (forget the ep name) 3. Kinda nitpicky. Trek was far, far worse with jargon and deus ex machina in general. Far too many episodes of the
"We're in an impossible situation!" "What if I reconfigure the phase blaster arrays and the converter matrix to create an inverse warp field?" "Make it so."
variety.
4. If you didn't see Delenn & Sheridan coming from day 1 of her chrysalis emergence, then I dunno what to say. The flirting was obvious, and it developed over quite a period of time...the watching of the faces during sleep, the crowd of Minbari outside their door ("Whoopee?"), etc... 5. That is a commonality of most fantasy, not just sci-fi. Humanity is portrayed as either the already-dominant or the ascending-towards-dominance race, while a race or several are entering into twilight, a passing-of-the-torch moment. e.g. Tolkien and the passing of the Elves to the West while Gondor rebuilds. Remember that the Shadows and/or Vorlons tried to wipe out Sheridan leading upto his GTFO speech, but other races and ships stepped up and intercepted the missiles. When a bully realizes that he can no longer rule though fear, then he has nothing left.
It really is sad how there is no real channel for this stuff anymore, this re-branded "SyFy" thing is far too infatuated with shows about ghost hunting and lesbian vampires to ever give an honest sci-fi show a shot again.
When the party van pulls and you're arrested for downloading kiddie porn, let us know how the "it must have been some guy leeching my interwebs!" defense works out...
I am well-aware my e-mail is visible, I have never been much into identity-shielding. A few of us reverted back to our old handles once that director left.:)
This is pure layman's WTFishness coming here, no legal experience whatsoever, but I can't quite understand how someone could feel they have a case here. How can one patent the actual "act" of doing something? At my place of business right now, we have a Xerox Workcentre 7775. We paid money for the purchase, the service contract with a local copier company for initial training, and now maintenance & supplies. We have many staff members entered into the simple one-touch menu, where it take their document, scans it, and e-mails a PDF attachment.
Are these people claiming they own a patent on us using a product we own, that was designed with this specific feature?
I once worked for a university IT department, where a lot of us still retained our old "not everyone needs e-mail" addresses well in to the late 90's, such as simple tom@school.edu, bob@school.edu, and so on. One day our rather red-faced director, "Steve", came out to us and said it may be time for everyone to adopt the current "jsmith" standard, and told how a young woman on campus had just sent a quite amorous e-mail to her boyfriend, also name of "Steve", but she only put his first name in the To: field.
As long as the "U.S. Metric Association" continues to run out of the digital equivalent of a man's garage, and with a ~1999 web design to boot, it will not be taken seriously.
I agree. They're better than the originals, especially Revenge of the Sith.
I think the biggest problem is that the originals left so much open to the imagination when it came to the prequels. People grew up on them and their imagination of the prequels took hold and they imagined them to be something they couldn't possibly be. Too many people as adults continued to remember Star Wars from their childhood perspective and never acknowledged much of the silliness and flaws -- the silliness and flaws weren't apparent when we were children and they're hard to acknowledge as an adult because that would mean reassessing the quality of those films.
OMG that is EXACTLY what I have tried to convey to people I know, pretty much since 1999...I think my problem though was less-flattering terminology, i.e. "man-children still cherishing their Yoda Undaroos".
But yea, who among us didn't start concocting images in our heads of what the other movies would be like as soon as walking out of the theatre in '83? I think a lot of childhood imagination was pored into that 83-99 time period, and that late-20-early-30-something walked into the Phantom Menace expecting that same childlike wonder to wash over them, but y'know, they weren't actually kids anymore.
The later films had flaws, sure, but they weren't the high crime that many...many many many...fans made them out to be.
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I moved on to Star Wars: The Old Republic and I've not looked back.
Well that's good, cause it's not like you're going to see anything resembling a playerbase in front of you...
I started out on private servers around 2008 or so, so mid-TBC. But many quests more complex than "kill # of trolls" or "gather # of berries" quests were broken, so it was an odd experience for awhile. Finally joined retail last year and it has been quite fun. I'm not a serious raider or pvp'er, just dabble in the respective "looking for..." random groupings. Pet collecting, achievement-hunting, trying out alts or new specs. There always seems to be some other place in the game you can focus on for a bit if you get bored or burnt-out on the others.
Sort the videos by rating, 4 of the top 5 are 20-something women, such as Ilona from Finland. Her bio reads;
maybe I'm just a cranky old codger, but that sounds a lot like the vapid, not-really-saying-anything "hi I saw your profile so let's chat" kind of e-mail spam we get all the time.
You dont have "Fast" checkouts yet, where you've scanned all your items as you walk around the shop?
Hm, have never heard of such a thing. How does it handle cases where someone picks up something, then changes their mind a few minutes later?
What on earth do people hate about self -checkout? Our grocery store here has had it for 2 years now, I have not gone through a live line since. Scan and drop it in the bag, weigh your produce and scroll through the numbers to find your code. Could not be easier.
god bless sales tax-free New Hampshire.
Traditional retailers want business? Change their service, train staff better, have more registers open, kick out the rabble who just hang out in stores and never buy stuff. Most of all lower prices.
I don't disagree per se, but how do you expect them to invest in better training and hiring, increased staff, etc...while lowering prices? If anything, that added cost would be passed down to the consumer via higher prices.
Hopefully the cops don't wise up to Immortal Technique's "Bin Laden" any time soon;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aE5Ufx5GSAg
Either way, it's good news for Nook tablet owners
I'm sure both of them will be overjoyed.
1. Dodger, not Badger. Never did like that episode, it was a bit of a ham-fisted "look at the horrors of war" retelling of Hamburger Hill or the like.
2. Down-Below was largely a ghetto and a refuge for criminals & miscellaneous psychos so it isn't too surprising that most shown down there are thuggish. There were obvious exceptions though such as the doctor with the healing device in the "Quality of Mercy", and the alien that Kosh sends Sheridan to to meditate on beauty. (forget the ep name)
3. Kinda nitpicky. Trek was far, far worse with jargon and deus ex machina in general. Far too many episodes of the
"We're in an impossible situation!"
"What if I reconfigure the phase blaster arrays and the converter matrix to create an inverse warp field?"
"Make it so."
variety.
4. If you didn't see Delenn & Sheridan coming from day 1 of her chrysalis emergence, then I dunno what to say. The flirting was obvious, and it developed over quite a period of time...the watching of the faces during sleep, the crowd of Minbari outside their door ("Whoopee?"), etc...
5. That is a commonality of most fantasy, not just sci-fi. Humanity is portrayed as either the already-dominant or the ascending-towards-dominance race, while a race or several are entering into twilight, a passing-of-the-torch moment. e.g. Tolkien and the passing of the Elves to the West while Gondor rebuilds. Remember that the Shadows and/or Vorlons tried to wipe out Sheridan leading upto his GTFO speech, but other races and ships stepped up and intercepted the missiles. When a bully realizes that he can no longer rule though fear, then he has nothing left.
It really is sad how there is no real channel for this stuff anymore, this re-branded "SyFy" thing is far too infatuated with shows about ghost hunting and lesbian vampires to ever give an honest sci-fi show a shot again.
Anyway, in case it is genuine:
Somebody has been freeloading, so what?
When the party van pulls and you're arrested for downloading kiddie porn, let us know how the "it must have been some guy leeching my interwebs!" defense works out...
Someone made an applet for others to use, it counted the time accumulated that Mitnick was at the time sitting in jail awaiting trial.
Good ol' days...
Well, thank god for tenure then, eh? Otherwise your colleagues would be fired for such incompetence.
Yes it was. I love the intermission during 2001, there's just something about a pause in the story accompanied by Ligeti that's just surreal.
I am well-aware my e-mail is visible, I have never been much into identity-shielding. A few of us reverted back to our old handles once that director left. :)
This is pure layman's WTFishness coming here, no legal experience whatsoever, but I can't quite understand how someone could feel they have a case here. How can one patent the actual "act" of doing something? At my place of business right now, we have a Xerox Workcentre 7775. We paid money for the purchase, the service contract with a local copier company for initial training, and now maintenance & supplies. We have many staff members entered into the simple one-touch menu, where it take their document, scans it, and e-mails a PDF attachment.
Are these people claiming they own a patent on us using a product we own, that was designed with this specific feature?
I once worked for a university IT department, where a lot of us still retained our old "not everyone needs e-mail" addresses well in to the late 90's, such as simple tom@school.edu, bob@school.edu, and so on. One day our rather red-faced director, "Steve", came out to us and said it may be time for everyone to adopt the current "jsmith" standard, and told how a young woman on campus had just sent a quite amorous e-mail to her boyfriend, also name of "Steve", but she only put his first name in the To: field.
CraZy, that is.
This is the kind of craxy one finds on Alex Jones or rense.con. Or the local Tea Party rally.
to http://lamar.colostate.edu/~hillger/, i.e. a faculty website of http://www.cira.colostate.edu/people/view.php?username=Hillger of Dr. Don Hillger, a Colo St meteorologist.
As long as the "U.S. Metric Association" continues to run out of the digital equivalent of a man's garage, and with a ~1999 web design to boot, it will not be taken seriously.
So, how many accounts did you lose today?
Why not jsut shoot them like dog in the backyard ?
Works for me. As far as I'm concerned, the lives of pedophiles are forfeit.
We have at present 973 devices in our organization, 589 of which are on WIndows XP.
Runs like a champ.
I agree. They're better than the originals, especially Revenge of the Sith.
I think the biggest problem is that the originals left so much open to the imagination when it came to the prequels. People grew up on them and their imagination of the prequels took hold and they imagined them to be something they couldn't possibly be. Too many people as adults continued to remember Star Wars from their childhood perspective and never acknowledged much of the silliness and flaws -- the silliness and flaws weren't apparent when we were children and they're hard to acknowledge as an adult because that would mean reassessing the quality of those films.
OMG that is EXACTLY what I have tried to convey to people I know, pretty much since 1999...I think my problem though was less-flattering terminology, i.e. "man-children still cherishing their Yoda Undaroos".
But yea, who among us didn't start concocting images in our heads of what the other movies would be like as soon as walking out of the theatre in '83? I think a lot of childhood imagination was pored into that 83-99 time period, and that late-20-early-30-something walked into the Phantom Menace expecting that same childlike wonder to wash over them, but y'know, they weren't actually kids anymore.
The later films had flaws, sure, but they weren't the high crime that many...many many many...fans made them out to be.