Fine. Now that, I can understand. It's also more constructive than your previous comment. But that's definitely not what I meant to imply. I simply advocate documenting anything that might come back to bite you in the ass in a "your word vs their word" type situation.
Where I work, the bigger threat is that you won't be able to move from one division to another with that kind of baggage. Also, a lot of our turn over has gone to our competition or to other tech departments in the same downtown area for different companies. A bad reputation can follow you a lot farther than most people think
I can read things like: "I started working for a small company in the middle of January as their IT Manager" for example. Can you comprehend? That's over 2 months he's been there.
While he can certainly say "All this was like this before I started" and probably be able to prove it in court (provided his company kept records, want to place odds on that?) he'd still be required to go through the time and expense of defending himself if he got attached to any criminal/civil actions against the company, and (if he quit) most likely at his own expense, because I doubt his ex-employer will foot the bill for a lawyer. Having his own records will help considerably.
Also, not reporting a crime may not, in itself, be a crime (obviously, I am not a lawyer), but I would think after 2 months (or however long it takes for the BSA to catch on), as the only "IT Guy", a pretty good case might be able to be made that he's a part of the whole mess, and not just some guy who wandered into it. So, kudos to him for not installing software without licenses, but what, exactly, is he doing to get everything properly licensed, and where is the documentation to prove it?
CYA is the phrase of the day.
So, are you always such a dick, or is this just a bad day for you?
If you choose option d), make sure to send an email to your boss, your boss's boss, and human resources. Follow it up with an actual letter addressed to all the same. Also, make hardcopies of any communications you've had regarding this. Quitting may not get you off the hook, as your ex-employer could claim ignorance of your methods for tracking licenses, and it will all fall back in your lap.
There are a whole slew of gaming-related illnesses, going back decades, such as Space Invaders Wrist. And let's not forget the terrible losses suffered due to Pac-Man Fever
Now, that's not what I said, is it? I stated that there is a difference between eyewitnesses and camera recordings.
Also, if you put up a camera on your property, that's a whole heck of a lot different then the government having a camera on every street corner, don't you agree?
"If you're in public don't do anything you wouldn't want your mother to know about."
This kind of proves my point. The solution, as you state, to not getting caught on tape doing embarrassing things in public is to not do them. In other words, the presence of cameras alter behavior. It is one thing if the camera in question is owned by a private citizen or business. It is another entirely if the camera causing this altered behavior is owned by the government.
Again, this is all just my opinion. If cameras don't bother you, then more power to you, especially the way the world is heading at the moment.
"For the most part? We know they are inneffective and almost all are not even watched."
Unless there is a couple making out, or a fine looking woman in a short skirt bending over, then suddenly the person watching the camera gets REALLY attentive.
For those who say that there is no expectation of privacy while in public, I say fine and dandy, that's your opinion and you are welcome to it. My opinion is that there is a huge difference between something being witnessed only by people on the scene and something that is recorded permanently on camera and can be shown to people who weren't there, even many years later.
The difference, for example, of being seen doing something embarrassing that becomes water-cooler gossip for a bunch of people you don't know, which is quickly forgotten, or of ending up on some reality-TV caught-on-tape type nonsense which your kids might see 10 years from now.
Sorry, went off on a tangent. Yeah, UK response to the bombings in WW2 was nothing short of heroic. I wish my own countrymen and women would show the same backbone over the much smaller threat of domestic terrorism. But that's kind of the point. Liberty comes with risks, and they only way to negate the risks is to give up liberty. That's what these cameras are doing, in my opinion.
The mini-expansions are three separate quest lines. From what I've heard, there will be no new areas or gameplay added. Pretty much just quests and missions. Therefore, nobody who only wants to play just for the loot has to worry about paying for the expansions.
I like the stories in FFXI enough to buy the mini-expansions, though. They sound like fun.
First of all, that was never true. The game never required you to level in a group of 6. It's just that the player base wasn't willing to try anything else, because they always insisted on fighting critters 5-10 levels higher than they were.
While I agree that, for most jobs, soloing to 75 was a task not worth contemplating (especially a few years ago) that doesn't mean that you needed six people to gain decent XP. Really, any damage dealer job + a healer job working together could duo their way up with little difficulty. Granted, a full party CAN be more efficient gaining XP, but I've actually had better xp gain in some duos and trios.
And there are jobs designed to solo as well. I'm not just talking about Beastmaster. You were actually on one of the jobs (Dragoon) that could solo pretty much from the beginning. Slap on a mage sub and go fight piercing-weak creatures like birds and crabs. I took Dragoon to 75, mostly solo, in a couple of months of casual leveling. With status bolts, Thief can level pretty easily to 75 solo. Red Mage and Black mage, also, by picking the right targets and using the nuke/sleep/bind method of killing. And these days, any melee job can solo indefinitely with a Dancer subjob.
In addition, SE has made solo play much easier, especially in the last year. XP rings, lowered XP requirements, boost to XP given by weaker enemies, Signet/Sigil XP bonuses given to parties of less than 6 players, and things like Campaign and the new Fields of Valor. I wouldn't say that FFXI is as solo-friendly as WoW, but these days, it sure isn't hard.
Now, most quests and missions, especially final missions, require a group. Nothing wrong with that. Those are epic fights.
Absolutely. Worlds.com went after someone smaller, in order to set a precedent to use against other game companies. It really all comes down to who can throw the most money at it (in terms of numbers of lawyers). Blizzard is too big for them to overwhelm now.
What they're probably trying to win is a small amount of money per "client" installed. If they can win here, they can use that capital and the precedent to go after bigger fish. It's in Blizzard's best interest to help out the defense in this case, maybe even just pay for the entirety of it themselves to make sure it's done right.
All I can say is, if they dare go after Hello Kitty Online, it is ON!!!
> REAL pedophiles? Remember? Those that actually DO illegal stuff!
But it IS illegal stuff; the court has spoken.
That's why it is vitally important your cartoons depict 200-year-old VAMPIRE children -- then you'll be safe.
Or robots, aliens, magical creatures, actual adults that have been physically de-aged somehow... really, all sorts of ways to depict a childlike form while implying "not a child".
I don't think that will help you if they decide to come after you, though.
That's a good point... The ideal solution would be for people to realize that "innocent until proven guilty" really means something. Too many people equate "Charged with..." as "Guilty of..."
I can agree to that. A suspects name should be confidential until convicted. So many lives are ruined over false accusations or mistaken identity.
But you know some bozo of a file clerk somewhere will leak a person's name to the media either for money, for the joy of giving away a secret, or because they think they're doing a good thing.
Not in liberal, progressive California.
If your "date" is under 18 years of age then you must be within 3 years of age. 21 - 17 = 4.
So, if she's 15, you can be 18
If she's 16, you can be 19
If she's 17, you can be 20, and
If she's 18, you can be 82
So, I guess Hef's in the clear. Filthy old pervert I don't envy at all (no, really!)
You can rent out a safety deposit box, leave your login details (websites to go to, userID/PW combo, what you want them to say, etc.) in there. Keep your key on you. When you die, your spouse or whoever will get the key and be able to retrieve that information.
Obviously, if you change your passwords, you have to change what's in the safety deposit box, so there is some upkeep there.
The problem with that is the fact that calling black people "monkeys" is something that bigots have been doing for a good few generations. It's slightly different, don't you think?
There's no pre-existing racial slur to calling a white person a monkey, therefore it is safe to assume that the white person in question actually resembles a monkey. Calling a black person a monkey... well, maybe you mean he resembles a monkey, and maybe you are using a racial slur.
Also, a few idiots blaming the wrong people and threatening/committing violence does not equal "the Left". It equals a few idiots.
If you believe that a few nutballs represents the entire Left, then you have to believe that every idiot who does reprehensible things on the Right actually represents everyone on the Right.
I agree, though, the rules should apply to everyone. Everyone deserves to be treated with basic respect, in my opinion.
While there are quests that are the "go bring me X number of drops from such-and-such critter", there are plenty of quests with lots of dialog and story, that lead to other quests with more story, which leads to other quests... etc, etc.
Also, the mission arcs are fantastic. Many people rave about the CoP story line, deservedly so. It really was an incredible journey.
Respectfully, I disagree. I've been playing for 5 years and have loved every minute of it. Not to mention they've added in many more lower-level XP options, like the signet bonuses, and cranking up XP received from critters of a lower level than you. Not to mention, Level sync expands the number of people who can play with you.
The main problem these days, with low-level leveling, is that people are so fixated on getting a "full" party, tank, DD, healer, support, that they'll just sit around Selbina/Qufim/Kazham/wherever just waiting for all the right elements. With the bump to XP you get for lower level monsters, not to mention the bonus you get for having less than 6 people in a party, you can get just as much if not more XP with a 2-4 man group, killing stuff at your own level or lower in rapid succession. From my own experiences pre-30, a monk and a puppetmaster duo can get faster XP than a full party.
Also, if you find yourself in a shell (guild) with people like you describe, then leave. There are plenty of more mature shells out there, though it might take a little looking.
They make better productions than the Sci-Fi channel, but that's not saying much. So does my teenage nephew and his friends with a handheld video camera.
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Fine. Now that, I can understand. It's also more constructive than your previous comment. But that's definitely not what I meant to imply. I simply advocate documenting anything that might come back to bite you in the ass in a "your word vs their word" type situation.
Where I work, the bigger threat is that you won't be able to move from one division to another with that kind of baggage. Also, a lot of our turn over has gone to our competition or to other tech departments in the same downtown area for different companies. A bad reputation can follow you a lot farther than most people think
Why, yes, as a matter of fact I can read.
I can read things like: "I started working for a small company in the middle of January as their IT Manager" for example. Can you comprehend? That's over 2 months he's been there.
While he can certainly say "All this was like this before I started" and probably be able to prove it in court (provided his company kept records, want to place odds on that?) he'd still be required to go through the time and expense of defending himself if he got attached to any criminal/civil actions against the company, and (if he quit) most likely at his own expense, because I doubt his ex-employer will foot the bill for a lawyer. Having his own records will help considerably.
Also, not reporting a crime may not, in itself, be a crime (obviously, I am not a lawyer), but I would think after 2 months (or however long it takes for the BSA to catch on), as the only "IT Guy", a pretty good case might be able to be made that he's a part of the whole mess, and not just some guy who wandered into it. So, kudos to him for not installing software without licenses, but what, exactly, is he doing to get everything properly licensed, and where is the documentation to prove it?
CYA is the phrase of the day.
So, are you always such a dick, or is this just a bad day for you?
If you choose option d), make sure to send an email to your boss, your boss's boss, and human resources. Follow it up with an actual letter addressed to all the same. Also, make hardcopies of any communications you've had regarding this. Quitting may not get you off the hook, as your ex-employer could claim ignorance of your methods for tracking licenses, and it will all fall back in your lap.
Hey, that gives me a great idea... Wrestling, using all their various monsters of the week! Mansquito vs Ice Spiders!
I'd hate to say it, but I might actually watch that.
There are a whole slew of gaming-related illnesses, going back decades, such as Space Invaders Wrist. And let's not forget the terrible losses suffered due to Pac-Man Fever
Also, if you put up a camera on your property, that's a whole heck of a lot different then the government having a camera on every street corner, don't you agree?
"If you're in public don't do anything you wouldn't want your mother to know about."
This kind of proves my point. The solution, as you state, to not getting caught on tape doing embarrassing things in public is to not do them. In other words, the presence of cameras alter behavior. It is one thing if the camera in question is owned by a private citizen or business. It is another entirely if the camera causing this altered behavior is owned by the government.
Again, this is all just my opinion. If cameras don't bother you, then more power to you, especially the way the world is heading at the moment.
Unless there is a couple making out, or a fine looking woman in a short skirt bending over, then suddenly the person watching the camera gets REALLY attentive.
For those who say that there is no expectation of privacy while in public, I say fine and dandy, that's your opinion and you are welcome to it. My opinion is that there is a huge difference between something being witnessed only by people on the scene and something that is recorded permanently on camera and can be shown to people who weren't there, even many years later.
The difference, for example, of being seen doing something embarrassing that becomes water-cooler gossip for a bunch of people you don't know, which is quickly forgotten, or of ending up on some reality-TV caught-on-tape type nonsense which your kids might see 10 years from now.
Sorry, went off on a tangent. Yeah, UK response to the bombings in WW2 was nothing short of heroic. I wish my own countrymen and women would show the same backbone over the much smaller threat of domestic terrorism. But that's kind of the point. Liberty comes with risks, and they only way to negate the risks is to give up liberty. That's what these cameras are doing, in my opinion.
Can we try ignoring him and hope he'll go away? He feeds off attention. Let's starve him.
The mini-expansions are three separate quest lines. From what I've heard, there will be no new areas or gameplay added. Pretty much just quests and missions. Therefore, nobody who only wants to play just for the loot has to worry about paying for the expansions.
I like the stories in FFXI enough to buy the mini-expansions, though. They sound like fun.
:P
Go ahead. I write fanfics, too.
First of all, that was never true. The game never required you to level in a group of 6. It's just that the player base wasn't willing to try anything else, because they always insisted on fighting critters 5-10 levels higher than they were.
While I agree that, for most jobs, soloing to 75 was a task not worth contemplating (especially a few years ago) that doesn't mean that you needed six people to gain decent XP. Really, any damage dealer job + a healer job working together could duo their way up with little difficulty. Granted, a full party CAN be more efficient gaining XP, but I've actually had better xp gain in some duos and trios.
And there are jobs designed to solo as well. I'm not just talking about Beastmaster. You were actually on one of the jobs (Dragoon) that could solo pretty much from the beginning. Slap on a mage sub and go fight piercing-weak creatures like birds and crabs. I took Dragoon to 75, mostly solo, in a couple of months of casual leveling. With status bolts, Thief can level pretty easily to 75 solo. Red Mage and Black mage, also, by picking the right targets and using the nuke/sleep/bind method of killing. And these days, any melee job can solo indefinitely with a Dancer subjob.
In addition, SE has made solo play much easier, especially in the last year. XP rings, lowered XP requirements, boost to XP given by weaker enemies, Signet/Sigil XP bonuses given to parties of less than 6 players, and things like Campaign and the new Fields of Valor. I wouldn't say that FFXI is as solo-friendly as WoW, but these days, it sure isn't hard.
Now, most quests and missions, especially final missions, require a group. Nothing wrong with that. Those are epic fights.
What they're probably trying to win is a small amount of money per "client" installed. If they can win here, they can use that capital and the precedent to go after bigger fish. It's in Blizzard's best interest to help out the defense in this case, maybe even just pay for the entirety of it themselves to make sure it's done right.
All I can say is, if they dare go after Hello Kitty Online, it is ON!!!
> REAL pedophiles? Remember? Those that actually DO illegal stuff!
But it IS illegal stuff; the court has spoken.
That's why it is vitally important your cartoons depict 200-year-old VAMPIRE children -- then you'll be safe.
Or robots, aliens, magical creatures, actual adults that have been physically de-aged somehow... really, all sorts of ways to depict a childlike form while implying "not a child".
I don't think that will help you if they decide to come after you, though.
That's a good point... The ideal solution would be for people to realize that "innocent until proven guilty" really means something. Too many people equate "Charged with..." as "Guilty of..."
But you know some bozo of a file clerk somewhere will leak a person's name to the media either for money, for the joy of giving away a secret, or because they think they're doing a good thing.
Not in liberal, progressive California. If your "date" is under 18 years of age then you must be within 3 years of age. 21 - 17 = 4.
So, if she's 15, you can be 18
If she's 16, you can be 19
If she's 17, you can be 20, and
If she's 18, you can be 82
So, I guess Hef's in the clear. Filthy old pervert I don't envy at all (no, really!)
There's something fishy about those guys...
It may sound silly, but this is a first step for IBM to patent and control the world's first Bistromathic drive, as first theorized by Douglas Adams.
Obviously, if you change your passwords, you have to change what's in the safety deposit box, so there is some upkeep there.
There's no pre-existing racial slur to calling a white person a monkey, therefore it is safe to assume that the white person in question actually resembles a monkey. Calling a black person a monkey... well, maybe you mean he resembles a monkey, and maybe you are using a racial slur.
Also, a few idiots blaming the wrong people and threatening/committing violence does not equal "the Left". It equals a few idiots.
If you believe that a few nutballs represents the entire Left, then you have to believe that every idiot who does reprehensible things on the Right actually represents everyone on the Right.
I agree, though, the rules should apply to everyone. Everyone deserves to be treated with basic respect, in my opinion.
Also, the mission arcs are fantastic. Many people rave about the CoP story line, deservedly so. It really was an incredible journey.
The main problem these days, with low-level leveling, is that people are so fixated on getting a "full" party, tank, DD, healer, support, that they'll just sit around Selbina/Qufim/Kazham/wherever just waiting for all the right elements. With the bump to XP you get for lower level monsters, not to mention the bonus you get for having less than 6 people in a party, you can get just as much if not more XP with a 2-4 man group, killing stuff at your own level or lower in rapid succession. From my own experiences pre-30, a monk and a puppetmaster duo can get faster XP than a full party.
Also, if you find yourself in a shell (guild) with people like you describe, then leave. There are plenty of more mature shells out there, though it might take a little looking.
How did you fail THIS badly?
I'm guessing lots of practice
I mean, come on... Ice Spiders?