The danger about developing social relations inside a video game with a monthly payment plan is that the social circle might become the reason you keep on paying a gaming company.
Re-write this...
The danger about developing social relations at a coffee house with a per cup payment plan is that the social circle might become the reason you keep on paying a coffee house.
Feel free to replace coffee house with any "acceptable" (non-Internet) based "social circle" and see if it really matters anymore.
Well, if I tell my RL friends that I am tired of our normal coffee house, they will usually be willing to try another with me. Or maybe just hang out somewhere else entirely. Because we share more than our enjoyment of coffee in common (usually) and are not roped into that particular coffee house with the 50hours we spent leveling up and making our powers symbiotic.
Coffee houses, bars, whatnot are places you go to meet friends, but usually not the reason you have and keep friends, unlike a game, where your symbiotic powers with so and so are about all you have in common. You don't even know he just shaved his head and tattooed a swastika on it, because really you couldn't care less as long as his aura keeps you pumped.
Many of them paid for the attacks with their lives, either killed or captured.
I hear extremists are pretty cheap these days. If you want the lives of suicide bombers factored into the costs, name a figure; how much do you think they spent recruiting some crazies?
I'd say a few dozen man hours and some heroine, not much at all.
Actually, that is a brilliant way to highlight the purpose of the scanners. The only reason people don't think them using them is like having to dance about a stripper pole is the cold professional air that surrounds them. Get a couple scanner fetish bars going and people will pause a moment to consider whether they want to be in one of these boxes.
In my experience as a voter, the Republicans fail to delivery their campaign promises, leaving me disappointed, and the Democrats tend to deliver on their campaign promises, leaving me disappointed.
In my experience as a voter, the Democrats fail to delivery their campaign promises, leaving me disappointed, and the Republicans tend to deliver on their campaign promises, leaving me disappointed.
Yes, you should not blame a game for lack of self control, but farm ville goes farther than our typical game; I can play an hour of CIV V, decide to save my game and return later. Or maybe decide that I just don't have time to play today at all and nobody cares.
In social games that happen in real time, you're friends could really use that extra tomato or lost lamb tonight and you're apple orchard has to be harvested in another hour, so you have to stay up for it or show your friends that you are bad and unreliable at the one thing that you'll still do together.
Sure you may be expected to show up for a raid in a non casual game, but these used to be issues reserved for hardcore gamers that they knew they were signing up for. Now every person who wanted to keep up with their friends is offered to come play a fun little game with them, only to realize (some of them will anyway) that it is designed to get them hooked and suck away their time and money.
In this case the school is a high school, where, if similar to the U.S., funding is tied to attendance. So truant kid = lost dollars.
Well, recorded truant kids = lost dollars. If the system says the are all attending classes, then the money will keep flowing. Unless test scores count for something there, as no child left behind does in the US, then they will definately have some issues.
I'm currently reading GTD and accept those things, luckily I am mostly responsible for my own little portions of our projects and can budget time accordingly and really benefit from those principles.
However, I know many people who have bosses (that is several bosses per person) who decide what the person should learn and get done in any given amount of time. And when their bosses dole out too much information and tasking, no matter how they break it down or what principles they use they use they are going to get in trouble by somebody for being too stupid or too lazy.
Because they're animals. You can kill them, but you aren't allowed to torture them.
Well, in the context of what we are discussing: We are allowed to have dogs chase them down tear them up in an already unfair fight before we come in and shoot them until they are too wounded to keep running from us, then knife them to death, video tape the whole thing including the after death humiliation of skinning and impromptu sports games with non-tasty body parts. It's fine to show these videos to your kids, actually your kids were probably there to see daddy being a man. However, if these animals were to enjoy some peanut butter off your nuts, not ok: torture.
Well, he forgot to include the important step of how to borrow your owners credit card and order the parts you need for your progeny; I wouldn't be too worried...yet.
I'd love that. I think that confusing the customer ultimately gives the corporation more power.
A confusing end user license that finely encodes in legalese, "you are now a right-less servant of this company," is a benefit to the company. However, privacy policies is something that many customers look for and scrutinize. I would be much faster to sign up with random services if I knew exactly what they did with my personal data.
I take privacy policies much more seriously than EULAs; I've never been able to un-void a warrenty (because of violation in clause 8 of paragraph 12 in section 173 under heading warrenty terms 4 included silently in unpublished updates to chapter 12 of the EULA I said I read) by whining enough to customer service, but I have signed up for services and suddenly discovered I've been signed up for all sorts of bonus advertising services that I are far more work to get rid of. I suspect I'm not alone.
It's not illegal, but it's not likely to "easily happen".
I disagree. I easily forgot the passwords to my encrypted data. I can remember doing it at least twice with serious data (back in college I lost access to cryptography experiments regularly). One I think was only 8 characters (but now no one knows). When you really lock stuff down, you'll also have to remember seeds, password hashing info and offsets. Plus sometimes keep track of disks that supply some sort of additional info you'll need to get in.
Though, you are right in the sense that I never lost the password to a partition that I either used to run my OS or entered almost daily.
Sounds like OpenDNS, FreeDNS or AltDNS are encouraging infringement. ISPs will probably get a talk to about the possibility of infringement enabling forms of DNS and how they should force customers to use the standard DNS system.
Picture yourself as an HR person. When you have stopped screaming, think which would look better to your bosses: You taking a chance on dr drinksalot, or rejecting him with evidence...
Now, I picture myself as the HR person's boss. You denied someone an interview because you saw a picture of them drinking. I brew beer in my home, drink wine whenever possible and love a good Jack and Coke. Guess what Mr/Ms/Mrs HR person, you're too up tight, you're fired.
Well, after seeing the guy in his underwear with a lampshade on his head, your instinct may get a little skewed against him. HR is allowed to get rid of people on instinct, you can decide not to hire him officially because his resume had some errors on it, and not because of the real reason that: he is a fan of "Getting piss drunk!! Y3ah!!!1!!" on facebook.
Aside from the fact these people are monitoring pictures tagged with your name, which are not necessarily posted by you. Are you going to walk around in an invisibility cloak all the time to keep people from taking pictures of you?
Won't help, does this company know what you really look like? I know several pictures tagged with friends names that are either someone doing something stupid and tagged with the wrong name as a joke. Or celebrities that look an awful lot like them. Movie celebrities also often carry around guns and are in the vicinity of explosions; I hope this companies employees have watched ALOT of movies (especially B-grade ones). Actually especially the horror one that my friends shot, and posted stills from online.
I was thinking the same thing, but their methods are proprietary. You won't know exactly what they are looking for. Does your pride in your NRA membership make you look like a good american citizen with a healthy understanding of firearms or a +25% gun violence risk?
I would also point out that I had a psych examination one time. Results: The test was invalidated because I did not show enough of the typical issues that a normal person has. So, I was clearly lying in attempt to prove my sanity (I actually answered honestly on that one, guess I'm really abnormally sane). I also recall that James Bond was outed in several movies as a spy, because he had a flawless record, clearly a few fuckups and the occasional speeding ticket will be needed to look normal.
However, if anyone gets a hold of their formula, I would love to see it, and change my facebook posts to follow their good behavior to the letter.
And other scientists would say this is normal! Short girls are faster and more likely to get married and have children (see wikipedia:hight_descrimination), assumed by some scientists (but mainly based on my personal observations) because men tend to choose shorter women as mates, regardless of what they say is attractive.
Or maybe that's a great analogy...I think I will go copyright my bank account info right now. My SSN will be trademarked. Identity thieves beware! The law is far too light on identity thieves, but now that I just copyrighted my checking account number as lyrics to my new song, wait till I sick the RIAA on them!
Why shouldn't I share about my 150lb pit bulls on facebook? I'm very proud of them! Except of course, raising them takes so much money and effort I haven't really purchased anything else of value for my home.
Oh, and my girlfriend just got a 4th degree blackbelt!
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The danger about developing social relations inside a video game with a monthly payment plan is that the social circle might become the reason you keep on paying a gaming company.
Re-write this...
The danger about developing social relations at a coffee house with a per cup payment plan is that the social circle might become the reason you keep on paying a coffee house.
Feel free to replace coffee house with any "acceptable" (non-Internet) based "social circle" and see if it really matters anymore.
Well, if I tell my RL friends that I am tired of our normal coffee house, they will usually be willing to try another with me. Or maybe just hang out somewhere else entirely. Because we share more than our enjoyment of coffee in common (usually) and are not roped into that particular coffee house with the 50hours we spent leveling up and making our powers symbiotic.
Coffee houses, bars, whatnot are places you go to meet friends, but usually not the reason you have and keep friends, unlike a game, where your symbiotic powers with so and so are about all you have in common. You don't even know he just shaved his head and tattooed a swastika on it, because really you couldn't care less as long as his aura keeps you pumped.
Many of them paid for the attacks with their lives, either killed or captured.
I hear extremists are pretty cheap these days. If you want the lives of suicide bombers factored into the costs, name a figure; how much do you think they spent recruiting some crazies?
I'd say a few dozen man hours and some heroine, not much at all.
it will eventually make all the screeners quit...except maybe the pervy ones
This is the right way to do it? While we continue to get increasingly invasive pat downs and scans, limit the people who dispense them to pervs?
Actually, that is a brilliant way to highlight the purpose of the scanners. The only reason people don't think them using them is like having to dance about a stripper pole is the cold professional air that surrounds them. Get a couple scanner fetish bars going and people will pause a moment to consider whether they want to be in one of these boxes.
I was going to mod this, but as an American, it's not really insightful, it's more of a "well duh" which we don't have a mod for.
In my experience as a voter, the Republicans fail to delivery their campaign promises, leaving me disappointed, and the Democrats tend to deliver on their campaign promises, leaving me disappointed.
In my experience as a voter, the Democrats fail to delivery their campaign promises, leaving me disappointed, and the Republicans tend to deliver on their campaign promises, leaving me disappointed.
I bet the "working with law enforcement part" is not even true
How about "...unleashing our lawyers and lobbyists in attempt to legally coerce our customers..."
Yes, you should not blame a game for lack of self control, but farm ville goes farther than our typical game; I can play an hour of CIV V, decide to save my game and return later. Or maybe decide that I just don't have time to play today at all and nobody cares.
In social games that happen in real time, you're friends could really use that extra tomato or lost lamb tonight and you're apple orchard has to be harvested in another hour, so you have to stay up for it or show your friends that you are bad and unreliable at the one thing that you'll still do together.
Sure you may be expected to show up for a raid in a non casual game, but these used to be issues reserved for hardcore gamers that they knew they were signing up for. Now every person who wanted to keep up with their friends is offered to come play a fun little game with them, only to realize (some of them will anyway) that it is designed to get them hooked and suck away their time and money.
encourage leaning and enthusiasm socially...Try giving them something fun to do.
Well, looks like they learned something on their own! I'm sure it was fun to do as well.
In this case the school is a high school, where, if similar to the U.S., funding is tied to attendance. So truant kid = lost dollars.
Well, recorded truant kids = lost dollars. If the system says the are all attending classes, then the money will keep flowing. Unless test scores count for something there, as no child left behind does in the US, then they will definately have some issues.
I'm currently reading GTD and accept those things, luckily I am mostly responsible for my own little portions of our projects and can budget time accordingly and really benefit from those principles.
However, I know many people who have bosses (that is several bosses per person) who decide what the person should learn and get done in any given amount of time. And when their bosses dole out too much information and tasking, no matter how they break it down or what principles they use they use they are going to get in trouble by somebody for being too stupid or too lazy.
who travels with porn?
Sometimes you can't find what you need in that country; sounds like Australia is pretty repressed, I don't think I could get enough of a fix there.
Because they're animals. You can kill them, but you aren't allowed to torture them.
Well, in the context of what we are discussing: We are allowed to have dogs chase them down tear them up in an already unfair fight before we come in and shoot them until they are too wounded to keep running from us, then knife them to death, video tape the whole thing including the after death humiliation of skinning and impromptu sports games with non-tasty body parts. It's fine to show these videos to your kids, actually your kids were probably there to see daddy being a man. However, if these animals were to enjoy some peanut butter off your nuts, not ok: torture.
Well, he forgot to include the important step of how to borrow your owners credit card and order the parts you need for your progeny; I wouldn't be too worried...yet.
I'd love that. I think that confusing the customer ultimately gives the corporation more power.
A confusing end user license that finely encodes in legalese, "you are now a right-less servant of this company," is a benefit to the company. However, privacy policies is something that many customers look for and scrutinize. I would be much faster to sign up with random services if I knew exactly what they did with my personal data.
I take privacy policies much more seriously than EULAs; I've never been able to un-void a warrenty (because of violation in clause 8 of paragraph 12 in section 173 under heading warrenty terms 4 included silently in unpublished updates to chapter 12 of the EULA I said I read) by whining enough to customer service, but I have signed up for services and suddenly discovered I've been signed up for all sorts of bonus advertising services that I are far more work to get rid of. I suspect I'm not alone.
It's not illegal, but it's not likely to "easily happen".
I disagree. I easily forgot the passwords to my encrypted data. I can remember doing it at least twice with serious data (back in college I lost access to cryptography experiments regularly). One I think was only 8 characters (but now no one knows). When you really lock stuff down, you'll also have to remember seeds, password hashing info and offsets. Plus sometimes keep track of disks that supply some sort of additional info you'll need to get in.
Though, you are right in the sense that I never lost the password to a partition that I either used to run my OS or entered almost daily.
Sounds like OpenDNS, FreeDNS or AltDNS are encouraging infringement. ISPs will probably get a talk to about the possibility of infringement enabling forms of DNS and how they should force customers to use the standard DNS system.
Picture yourself as an HR person. When you have stopped screaming, think which would look better to your bosses: You taking a chance on dr drinksalot, or rejecting him with evidence...
Now, I picture myself as the HR person's boss. You denied someone an interview because you saw a picture of them drinking. I brew beer in my home, drink wine whenever possible and love a good Jack and Coke. Guess what Mr/Ms/Mrs HR person, you're too up tight, you're fired.
Well, after seeing the guy in his underwear with a lampshade on his head, your instinct may get a little skewed against him. HR is allowed to get rid of people on instinct, you can decide not to hire him officially because his resume had some errors on it, and not because of the real reason that: he is a fan of "Getting piss drunk!! Y3ah!!!1!!" on facebook.
Aside from the fact these people are monitoring pictures tagged with your name, which are not necessarily posted by you. Are you going to walk around in an invisibility cloak all the time to keep people from taking pictures of you?
Won't help, does this company know what you really look like? I know several pictures tagged with friends names that are either someone doing something stupid and tagged with the wrong name as a joke. Or celebrities that look an awful lot like them. Movie celebrities also often carry around guns and are in the vicinity of explosions; I hope this companies employees have watched ALOT of movies (especially B-grade ones). Actually especially the horror one that my friends shot, and posted stills from online.
Couldn't we just bribe the officials at this company for $20 a month?
I was thinking the same thing, but their methods are proprietary. You won't know exactly what they are looking for. Does your pride in your NRA membership make you look like a good american citizen with a healthy understanding of firearms or a +25% gun violence risk?
I would also point out that I had a psych examination one time. Results: The test was invalidated because I did not show enough of the typical issues that a normal person has. So, I was clearly lying in attempt to prove my sanity (I actually answered honestly on that one, guess I'm really abnormally sane). I also recall that James Bond was outed in several movies as a spy, because he had a flawless record, clearly a few fuckups and the occasional speeding ticket will be needed to look normal.
However, if anyone gets a hold of their formula, I would love to see it, and change my facebook posts to follow their good behavior to the letter.
I like short girls for some reason.
And other scientists would say this is normal! Short girls are faster and more likely to get married and have children (see wikipedia:hight_descrimination), assumed by some scientists (but mainly based on my personal observations) because men tend to choose shorter women as mates, regardless of what they say is attractive.
white Power
Well know I know google doesn't send any traffic to my white-energy projects. And all that brainstorming to come up with a catchy name.
Or maybe that's a great analogy...I think I will go copyright my bank account info right now. My SSN will be trademarked. Identity thieves beware! The law is far too light on identity thieves, but now that I just copyrighted my checking account number as lyrics to my new song, wait till I sick the RIAA on them!
Why shouldn't I share about my 150lb pit bulls on facebook? I'm very proud of them! Except of course, raising them takes so much money and effort I haven't really purchased anything else of value for my home.
Oh, and my girlfriend just got a 4th degree blackbelt!