There's nothing wrong with firing a customer and/or client if they cost you more than you will ever make from them. Bad customers must be shown the door, then they become your competitions problem. Let the bad customer suck the life out of your competition instead of you.
If prinicples were any factor then the cops would bust meth labs and drug dealers year round, not right before the end of the fiscal year so they can justify a large anti-drug budget.
Nobody is going to lose a job because minumum wage goes up. Every business that I know of has just enough staff to operate with, nothing more. Less employees, and these businesses will have to shorten hours, offer less services, etc... which will mean that they will lose money, which they will not do.
It does seem that Sony (as in the megalithic corporation) is lacking more and more to be desired lately. Something seems to have happened within its culture that basically says "We don't give a flying fuck about the customer beyond the sale."
There you have it folks. There's no better way to condition people to the concept that electronics (no matter how insecure) is a better alternative to cash. Doing it with a game is insidious.
"There most certainly is intellectual property [reference.com]. Once something is defined in the dictionary, I think it is time to take your fingers out of your ears and stop screaming, "LALALA I CAN'T HEAR YOU!" Intellectual property is a description for a variety of laws covering copyrights, patents, trademarks, and trade secrets. It's a convenient shorthand in common use, even if it is not specifically defined in U.S. laws. Pretending that this does not exist or doesn't affect you is the best way to get crushed, like these emulator programmers are likely going to be."
There are many dictinaries out there, but none of them are government laws on what is or isn't a real term. 'Intellectual property' is just phraseology made by lawyers to confuse the issue, and the public. When the law is applied, if it not defined within law, it doesn't exist. No amount of applied phraseology makes 'intellectual property' as an envelope term... real. Lawyers, and those using the term 'intellectual property' must be pinned down, and forced to use real terms for what they mean.
The whole emulated server game hasn't yet been truly test in court. Bnetd guys just kinda gave up. The server emulator isn't, evidently, based off of stolen code, and they treat the client like a black box. I don't see where any 'intellectual property' (there is no such thing, there are copyright, patents, and trademarks) is being 'stolen' or misused since it doesn't make an alteration to the Sony SWG client. But, then again, I am not a lawyer, I have a backbone, no yellow streak down my back, and my head isn't up my ass.
I'd think that the emulator would be considered a derivative work, not the original work itself. But, I am not a lawyer. You'd think that Sony would be more than happy to have the pre-CU crowd of their servers, and their forums./yeah, I'm one of those guys.//I give em hell.
No, freedom isn't a hippie issue. It's the underhanded presentation of his version of 'freedom' that is a hippie issue. Also, look at the guy, and his lifestyle. He is a hippie, and nothing good has ever been done by hippies. He presents 'free as in beer' as a 'free as in speech' issue. Software doesn't want to be free. Software just is. It's like saying a bridge wants to be free. It's just as ludicrous as people who pander about 'intellectual property' as one entity when you know damn well there are three major ideals involved which are completely different things (patents, copyright, and trademark). When you hear in talk about 'free software' he tries to make it sound as if he means 'free as in speech', but you know damn well he means 'free as in beer'. He just won't be honest and just come out and say it. He's the conceptual equivilent of a stoner campaigning for medical marijuana.
Delicacy is usually the key. I got a good gash across the top of my thumb when a particularly stubborn cdrom power connector decided to suddenly give it up and detach from the drive. Took two stitches, and came close (mm close) to cutting the connective tissue on the top of the thumb. The machine worked fine after that since it got it's taste for blood satiated, but it will eventually require more blood.
All measurments are arbitary unless there's at least a photo with some sort of scale object in it. What they did was probably look at it, see the fireball, and think "Shit, from here it looks about as big as a dinner plate." Not literally, "Ya know, I approximate the size of the asteroid itself to be that of a dinner plate."
We had one of these a few weeks ago in south east New Mexico. The explosion shook the house. People that did see it said it was the 'size of a dinner plate' before it exploded. Unfortunately nobody had a camera handy. Didn't get much media coverage at all.
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There's nothing wrong with firing a customer and/or client if they cost you more than you will ever make from them. Bad customers must be shown the door, then they become your competitions problem. Let the bad customer suck the life out of your competition instead of you.
Looks like it's an exterior device. Just hit it with paintballs... repeatedly.
If it doesn't outright break, the paint might gum it up so that it doesn't work properly.
You'll find that that 911 call was never made. No record of it anywhere, sorry.
Why do you hate America?
If prinicples were any factor then the cops would bust meth labs and drug dealers year round, not right before the end of the fiscal year so they can justify a large anti-drug budget.
Just bitch-slap him. You can't fix ignorance.
Nobody is going to lose a job because minumum wage goes up. Every business that I know of has just enough staff to operate with, nothing more. Less employees, and these businesses will have to shorten hours, offer less services, etc... which will mean that they will lose money, which they will not do.
Why do you hate America?
What the hell happened to porn, or a blowjob from the cute receptionist?
Your post is incomplete, it lack the required "Fuck you, you fucking fuckers!"
It does seem that Sony (as in the megalithic corporation) is lacking more and more to be desired lately. Something seems to have happened within its culture that basically says "We don't give a flying fuck about the customer beyond the sale."
There you have it folks. There's no better way to condition people to the concept that electronics (no matter how insecure) is a better alternative to cash. Doing it with a game is insidious.
Christians! We know they are behind every nefarious scheme since the dawn of history.
"There most certainly is intellectual property [reference.com]. Once something is defined in the dictionary, I think it is time to take your fingers out of your ears and stop screaming, "LALALA I CAN'T HEAR YOU!" Intellectual property is a description for a variety of laws covering copyrights, patents, trademarks, and trade secrets. It's a convenient shorthand in common use, even if it is not specifically defined in U.S. laws. Pretending that this does not exist or doesn't affect you is the best way to get crushed, like these emulator programmers are likely going to be."
There are many dictinaries out there, but none of them are government laws on what is or isn't a real term. 'Intellectual property' is just phraseology made by lawyers to confuse the issue, and the public. When the law is applied, if it not defined within law, it doesn't exist. No amount of applied phraseology makes 'intellectual property' as an envelope term... real. Lawyers, and those using the term 'intellectual property' must be pinned down, and forced to use real terms for what they mean.
The whole emulated server game hasn't yet been truly test in court. Bnetd guys just kinda gave up. The server emulator isn't, evidently, based off of stolen code, and they treat the client like a black box. I don't see where any 'intellectual property' (there is no such thing, there are copyright, patents, and trademarks) is being 'stolen' or misused since it doesn't make an alteration to the Sony SWG client. But, then again, I am not a lawyer, I have a backbone, no yellow streak down my back, and my head isn't up my ass.
I'd think that the emulator would be considered a derivative work, not the original work itself. But, I am not a lawyer. You'd think that Sony would be more than happy to have the pre-CU crowd of their servers, and their forums. /yeah, I'm one of those guys. //I give em hell.
No, freedom isn't a hippie issue. It's the underhanded presentation of his version of 'freedom' that is a hippie issue. Also, look at the guy, and his lifestyle. He is a hippie, and nothing good has ever been done by hippies. He presents 'free as in beer' as a 'free as in speech' issue. Software doesn't want to be free. Software just is. It's like saying a bridge wants to be free. It's just as ludicrous as people who pander about 'intellectual property' as one entity when you know damn well there are three major ideals involved which are completely different things (patents, copyright, and trademark). When you hear in talk about 'free software' he tries to make it sound as if he means 'free as in speech', but you know damn well he means 'free as in beer'. He just won't be honest and just come out and say it. He's the conceptual equivilent of a stoner campaigning for medical marijuana.
He's a hack, and I don't mean that in the good sense of the term. He's nothing more than a freakin hippy that won't shut the hell up and get a job.
yeah, the irony struck me after I posted that one.
So, is this just rumor or is it real? C'mon... post it up on fuckedcompany.com
Bravo! Very good!
Delicacy is usually the key. I got a good gash across the top of my thumb when a particularly stubborn cdrom power connector decided to suddenly give it up and detach from the drive. Took two stitches, and came close (mm close) to cutting the connective tissue on the top of the thumb. The machine worked fine after that since it got it's taste for blood satiated, but it will eventually require more blood.
The fireball from entry was spotted as far away as Albuquerque(sp).
All measurments are arbitary unless there's at least a photo with some sort of scale object in it. What they did was probably look at it, see the fireball, and think "Shit, from here it looks about as big as a dinner plate." Not literally, "Ya know, I approximate the size of the asteroid itself to be that of a dinner plate."
We had one of these a few weeks ago in south east New Mexico. The explosion shook the house. People that did see it said it was the 'size of a dinner plate' before it exploded. Unfortunately nobody had a camera handy. Didn't get much media coverage at all.