Actually, the official casino policy regards card counting as cheating. I actually thought like you did, and argued the hell out of with my friend, using "how is using math to help cheating?" as my logic. So to shut me up the next time we were getting our blackjack on he asked the dealer, who confirmed that it is cheating.
I live in Vegas, and I actually know a guy that can do this, and can really clean up at a Blackjack table. It's not about actually remembering every card's place in the deck and trying to predict when the card will come up, it's about trying to predict when face cards will come up. Their's actually a rhythm/pattern to it while you're watching the cards come out, so a REAL easy way to spot someone doing this is to look for someone that's trying to use a make-shift metrinome, like someone rolling a chip in their hands or tapping the table in a specific, contantly-repeating pattern. Pit Bosses can spot this shit through a hurricane, so unless you can count in your head, you're fucked(it seems simple, but it's hot, noisy, and if you're cheating, you're probably pretty nervous).
It's important to note that it's not like Rainman where you're going to be able to say a 10 of hearts is coming up next, or anything specific like that. You just want to be able to predict with good odds that a face card is going to be up soon. A lot of tables, however, use multiple decks, so it gets pretty hard. Extremely high-roller tables have even been known to use a new deck for every hand. Most tables, though, just have a big plastic holder with 6 shuffled decks inside.
It's really not that hard, and my friend can make about $5,000 a weekend on average, but remember, you may have to sit at a table for 8 hours a day for 2 days to make this kind of money, but hell, that's a work schedule, and a $1,000 a day isn't bad. Just remember, the trick to not getting caught is don't be a stupid fuck. Don't come in a 10am, play the $5 dollar tables, and 2 hours later be raking in at the $1,000 tables, or they'll nail your ass. If they even SUSPECT your cheating, they'll take the money, kick you out, and you can't do shit about it(what are you gonna do, sue them for the money you came there with?). And this is a at nice casino. God help you if you cheat at a shady casino.
Actually, you're half-confused. I hear people complaining all the time that getting those last two blue bubs seems insanely difficult, but their's a simple reason. Even I'm guilty of this.
When you're that close, you'll go start attacking light-blue cons just to get a little xp. But light blues actually give so little you probably won't even notice a change in the bar. That's why people are like "I've killed 10 things and I'm barely a blue bub up!". If you're that close, calm down, get full mana, and go kill a dark blue or white con. The bug you mentioned, I've NEVER heard of anyone mentioning it. EVER.
While I disagree with their tactics in everyday business, I can say that it would be extremely funny to watch this company go after Microsoft.
Microsoft Lawyer: "Your honor, we've taken the liberty of creating Godzilla using advanced cloning and dna-manipulation technology. He's just as big, just as mean, and of course, breathes fire. We feel it only fair to alert the people of Japan he will be on his way over should this ridiculous trial proceed any further."
I think it's important to note that most nations would not do a Mars trip because they were altruistic, but because they know it would be a mighty display of technological, and yes military power. Especially India. If they do it, it will be nothing more than a display of military might, plain and simple.
I'm an EQ'r, and I've read AL's site. Under requirements for membership they have line along the lines of "Must be able to raid from 6PM-3AM PST". That's ridiculous. I play EQ, and I've never considered myself and addict. I get home from work about 6ish, eat dinner, play with my daughter and chill with the wife until about 10pm, when the little one usually goes to sleep, then I play from 10pm-Midnight.
These people that have 300 hours logged in are really, REALLY bad examples. Most people that have that kind of time played are farmers, which to non-players means they go somewhere where an uber mob drops and uber item, waits possibly hours to kill it, gets the item, and then goes into a commons/bazaar area and tells everyone they have it for sell until someone buys it. Or they're multiquesters, which means they'll go get one piece of a quest, and then sell it to someone actually doing the quest for a ridiculous amount of money just because the person doing the quest may have ample money, but little time and/or patience.
The numbers are wildly inaccurate for people that actually PLAY the game. If you concentrate on nothing but actual leveling up your character, it will not take this long, under any circumstances. I have a lvl 60 character, maximum level possible, with a total playing time of about 700 hours, over a span of playing him for roughly two years, off and on.
Without ongoing expenses, huh? You are aware that may be stupidest shit you'll ever utter in your life. If that were true, you're power, gas, & water would be turned off. Not that it would matter because you would've been kicked out of your residence long ago. Now even if you managed to find a place to stay, you would certainly stink like hell at this point, because you do occasionally have to buy more soap, but as you said you're not down for that whole "keep paying for stuff" way of thinking.
"Here's a story for ya. Knew a guy, a lot like you. Didn't want to pay his rent, so kicked his ass out in exchange for someone who would. His parents came around, I told them he ran off with some guy. He's probably thinking of drinking his own pee right now."
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I want to ride the space rails like a hobo..
"Remember, we're going the speed of light, so when you jump, try to roll."
Actually, it was a joke, llama. And you must have this site confused with your favorite Nascar site, because a gearhead typically refers to car enthusiast.
I'm going to give you a C- for that reply. You had heart kid, but your misuse of gearheads cost you big time. In the future, I suggest you check the URL bar in your browser to make sure where you are.
And maybe if you had used a sock instead, you would still have some kleenex.
I had a health teacher in junior high that I, along with every other guy in the room, just knew was a sexual predator. Not violently so, but it was pretty obvious the guy was sleeping with a student or 2. This is junior high, mind you, so these girls were(thinking..) 12-14 years of age or so.
So one day I'm watching the news, and I see this guy has been arrested for statchatory(sp?) rape. I move to the phone so fast I created a paradox in my living room. All of my friends lines are busy, for at least 20 minutes, maybe 10-15 people. Finally I get through to one. "Oh SHIT! Did you hear about Mr. C'Debaca? Bastard is in jail, yo!" "Hell yeah I heard, my phone hasn't stopped ringing in 20 minutes!"
From that point on, if I suspected that of any other teachers(cough, Mr. Eberhardt, cough), I mor or less assumed it to be true.
It's all about the benjamins? These times they are a changin'?(post below). Can you possibly speak without using trite cliche's? If you have to resort to using someone else's momentary maxim's, you really don't deserve a seat at the debate table.
And what in the FUCK does Enron have to do with a company deciding it wants to start getting paid for its work? I would love to know how you can find a similarity between an embezzling, criminalistic company and a small software company with ideas of coming up in the world and creating bigger and better software, which requires money, son.
My god you are ignorant. What the hell is "OS style" software? Open Source is yes/no type of thing, it either is or it isn't, and last time I looked Activestate wasn't. "OS Style"..is that like being "kinda pregnant"?
So the people involved in the company want to stop driving geo's and living in studio apartments. Oh no, when will the evilness end? They must in league with Lucifer and the Bill Gates and the DMCA monster, run for the hills!
You are the genetic summation of every/. user that thinks the constitution protects his ability to warez photoshop or that compares Gates to Hitler or thinks software piracy makes him a freedom-fighter. With friends like you, the concepts of OS, Free-software and technology rights needs no enemies.
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I would be worried about the level of customer service for the airline:
Passenger: Stewaress, can I get some peanuts?
Stewardess: Get em yourself, fucking newb. Can you believe this little bitch? Thinking he has skills.
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The upside: Perfect flying record.
The downside: Takes a team of 4 people reading faqs for 2 hours just to figure out how to get the damn landing gear to retract.
I've found a way to properly put my feelings into writing, so maybe the debate will continue.:)
My opinion was originally aimed at the average slashdotter, which you do not seem to be a part of. Their are some people that are educated on the DMCA facts, and I think you're on of them. However, the majority of slashdot readers that like to talk about the DMCA and how it affects them are little more than software pirates looking for a moral soapbox from which to sound their quasi-freedom fighter bullshit ideals. They've somehow got it into their mind that everytime they burn photoshop for their friends they elevate themselves to a modren day Che Guervas[sp?]. This is what I hate, and the people my opinions were directed at. I apologize if the message was lost, or worse yet, never effectively conveyed in the first place. I eagerly await your reply(seriously) and anytime to ever want to discuss this further, unicron@thcnet.net
At this point, I'm more or less done with this debate. We'll never see eye-to-eye, and we probably think some relatively negative things about each other. I honestly believe you've chosen this issue because it could possibly affect your ability to partake in illegal activites, and that alarms you. Maybe it doesn't directly affect you, and you've chosen it because it's a safe, trendy, and easy issue to be a part of.
Either way, I think you have nothing to worry about from this law, and should it ever directly affect you, I'm positive you will not have clean hands before the fact.
Well, in America, it wouldn't be law. I don't know about Europe, but here in America, a law like that would have a snowballs chance in hell of getting approved.
As for me saying the U.S. Goverment couldn't control the internet, it's true. No government could. They probably wouldn't even be able to control their aspect of it. The internet is no one country, no one ISP, no one firewall, no one server. Even if they blocked every ISP in Europe from getting out, people would still find away.
The entire thing is so ridiculous that it's not even worth putting thought into. To think that any one establishment, even the US Government, can control something like the internet to any degree is laughable. That's like saying "Europeans unhappy with the way the US government has been aligning the planets".
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Actually, the official casino policy regards card counting as cheating. I actually thought like you did, and argued the hell out of with my friend, using "how is using math to help cheating?" as my logic. So to shut me up the next time we were getting our blackjack on he asked the dealer, who confirmed that it is cheating.
I live in Vegas, and I actually know a guy that can do this, and can really clean up at a Blackjack table. It's not about actually remembering every card's place in the deck and trying to predict when the card will come up, it's about trying to predict when face cards will come up. Their's actually a rhythm/pattern to it while you're watching the cards come out, so a REAL easy way to spot someone doing this is to look for someone that's trying to use a make-shift metrinome, like someone rolling a chip in their hands or tapping the table in a specific, contantly-repeating pattern. Pit Bosses can spot this shit through a hurricane, so unless you can count in your head, you're fucked(it seems simple, but it's hot, noisy, and if you're cheating, you're probably pretty nervous).
It's important to note that it's not like Rainman where you're going to be able to say a 10 of hearts is coming up next, or anything specific like that. You just want to be able to predict with good odds that a face card is going to be up soon. A lot of tables, however, use multiple decks, so it gets pretty hard. Extremely high-roller tables have even been known to use a new deck for every hand. Most tables, though, just have a big plastic holder with 6 shuffled decks inside.
It's really not that hard, and my friend can make about $5,000 a weekend on average, but remember, you may have to sit at a table for 8 hours a day for 2 days to make this kind of money, but hell, that's a work schedule, and a $1,000 a day isn't bad. Just remember, the trick to not getting caught is don't be a stupid fuck. Don't come in a 10am, play the $5 dollar tables, and 2 hours later be raking in at the $1,000 tables, or they'll nail your ass. If they even SUSPECT your cheating, they'll take the money, kick you out, and you can't do shit about it(what are you gonna do, sue them for the money you came there with?). And this is a at nice casino. God help you if you cheat at a shady casino.
Actually, you're half-confused. I hear people complaining all the time that getting those last two blue bubs seems insanely difficult, but their's a simple reason. Even I'm guilty of this.
When you're that close, you'll go start attacking light-blue cons just to get a little xp. But light blues actually give so little you probably won't even notice a change in the bar. That's why people are like "I've killed 10 things and I'm barely a blue bub up!". If you're that close, calm down, get full mana, and go kill a dark blue or white con. The bug you mentioned, I've NEVER heard of anyone mentioning it. EVER.
It was beaten back into darkest, blackest pit of hell from which it came.
I remember Romero's head on a pike behind the last boss in Doom2.
While I disagree with their tactics in everyday business, I can say that it would be extremely funny to watch this company go after Microsoft.
Microsoft Lawyer: "Your honor, we've taken the liberty of creating Godzilla using advanced cloning and dna-manipulation technology. He's just as big, just as mean, and of course, breathes fire. We feel it only fair to alert the people of Japan he will be on his way over should this ridiculous trial proceed any further."
Toho Lawyer: "We must flee!"
I think it's important to note that most nations would not do a Mars trip because they were altruistic, but because they know it would be a mighty display of technological, and yes military power. Especially India. If they do it, it will be nothing more than a display of military might, plain and simple.
I'm an EQ'r, and I've read AL's site. Under requirements for membership they have line along the lines of "Must be able to raid from 6PM-3AM PST". That's ridiculous. I play EQ, and I've never considered myself and addict. I get home from work about 6ish, eat dinner, play with my daughter and chill with the wife until about 10pm, when the little one usually goes to sleep, then I play from 10pm-Midnight.
These people that have 300 hours logged in are really, REALLY bad examples. Most people that have that kind of time played are farmers, which to non-players means they go somewhere where an uber mob drops and uber item, waits possibly hours to kill it, gets the item, and then goes into a commons/bazaar area and tells everyone they have it for sell until someone buys it. Or they're multiquesters, which means they'll go get one piece of a quest, and then sell it to someone actually doing the quest for a ridiculous amount of money just because the person doing the quest may have ample money, but little time and/or patience.
The numbers are wildly inaccurate for people that actually PLAY the game. If you concentrate on nothing but actual leveling up your character, it will not take this long, under any circumstances. I have a lvl 60 character, maximum level possible, with a total playing time of about 700 hours, over a span of playing him for roughly two years, off and on.
I worked retail for a couple of years and in two or three instances I found duplicates.
I knew I had seen those 3 black bars next to that little black bar before...but where!?
Without ongoing expenses, huh? You are aware that may be stupidest shit you'll ever utter in your life. If that were true, you're power, gas, & water would be turned off. Not that it would matter because you would've been kicked out of your residence long ago. Now even if you managed to find a place to stay, you would certainly stink like hell at this point, because you do occasionally have to buy more soap, but as you said you're not down for that whole "keep paying for stuff" way of thinking.
"Here's a story for ya. Knew a guy, a lot like you. Didn't want to pay his rent, so kicked his ass out in exchange for someone who would. His parents came around, I told them he ran off with some guy. He's probably thinking of drinking his own pee right now."
I want to ride the space rails like a hobo..
"Remember, we're going the speed of light, so when you jump, try to roll."
...said the anonymous coward.
Take what you can get man, you might not see another passing grade for quite awhile. Remember, losers can't be beggars.
Actually, it was a joke, llama. And you must have this site confused with your favorite Nascar site, because a gearhead typically refers to car enthusiast.
I'm going to give you a C- for that reply. You had heart kid, but your misuse of gearheads cost you big time. In the future, I suggest you check the URL bar in your browser to make sure where you are.
And maybe if you had used a sock instead, you would still have some kleenex.
No, you're quite alone on this one, Chester. In fact, you may have just sealed your fate.
I had a health teacher in junior high that I, along with every other guy in the room, just knew was a sexual predator. Not violently so, but it was pretty obvious the guy was sleeping with a student or 2. This is junior high, mind you, so these girls were(thinking..) 12-14 years of age or so.
So one day I'm watching the news, and I see this guy has been arrested for statchatory(sp?) rape. I move to the phone so fast I created a paradox in my living room. All of my friends lines are busy, for at least 20 minutes, maybe 10-15 people. Finally I get through to one. "Oh SHIT! Did you hear about Mr. C'Debaca? Bastard is in jail, yo!" "Hell yeah I heard, my phone hasn't stopped ringing in 20 minutes!"
From that point on, if I suspected that of any other teachers(cough, Mr. Eberhardt, cough), I mor or less assumed it to be true.
It's all about the benjamins? These times they are a changin'?(post below). Can you possibly speak without using trite cliche's? If you have to resort to using someone else's momentary maxim's, you really don't deserve a seat at the debate table.
/. user that thinks the constitution protects his ability to warez photoshop or that compares Gates to Hitler or thinks software piracy makes him a freedom-fighter. With friends like you, the concepts of OS, Free-software and technology rights needs no enemies.
And what in the FUCK does Enron have to do with a company deciding it wants to start getting paid for its work? I would love to know how you can find a similarity between an embezzling, criminalistic company and a small software company with ideas of coming up in the world and creating bigger and better software, which requires money, son.
My god you are ignorant. What the hell is "OS style" software? Open Source is yes/no type of thing, it either is or it isn't, and last time I looked Activestate wasn't. "OS Style"..is that like being "kinda pregnant"?
So the people involved in the company want to stop driving geo's and living in studio apartments. Oh no, when will the evilness end? They must in league with Lucifer and the Bill Gates and the DMCA monster, run for the hills!
You are the genetic summation of every
I would be worried about the level of customer service for the airline:
Passenger: Stewaress, can I get some peanuts?
Stewardess: Get em yourself, fucking newb. Can you believe this little bitch? Thinking he has skills.
The upside: Perfect flying record.
The downside: Takes a team of 4 people reading faqs for 2 hours just to figure out how to get the damn landing gear to retract.
Perhaps it's time he considered the financially and health ramifications of two broads simultaneously.
I've found a way to properly put my feelings into writing, so maybe the debate will continue. :)
My opinion was originally aimed at the average slashdotter, which you do not seem to be a part of. Their are some people that are educated on the DMCA facts, and I think you're on of them. However, the majority of slashdot readers that like to talk about the DMCA and how it affects them are little more than software pirates looking for a moral soapbox from which to sound their quasi-freedom fighter bullshit ideals. They've somehow got it into their mind that everytime they burn photoshop for their friends they elevate themselves to a modren day Che Guervas[sp?]. This is what I hate, and the people my opinions were directed at. I apologize if the message was lost, or worse yet, never effectively conveyed in the first place. I eagerly await your reply(seriously) and anytime to ever want to discuss this further, unicron@thcnet.net
I'll probably get beat down for this one.
Big oak tree down the street. 3pm. Be there.
At this point, I'm more or less done with this debate. We'll never see eye-to-eye, and we probably think some relatively negative things about each other. I honestly believe you've chosen this issue because it could possibly affect your ability to partake in illegal activites, and that alarms you. Maybe it doesn't directly affect you, and you've chosen it because it's a safe, trendy, and easy issue to be a part of.
Either way, I think you have nothing to worry about from this law, and should it ever directly affect you, I'm positive you will not have clean hands before the fact.
Well, in America, it wouldn't be law. I don't know about Europe, but here in America, a law like that would have a snowballs chance in hell of getting approved.
As for me saying the U.S. Goverment couldn't control the internet, it's true. No government could. They probably wouldn't even be able to control their aspect of it. The internet is no one country, no one ISP, no one firewall, no one server. Even if they blocked every ISP in Europe from getting out, people would still find away.
The entire thing is so ridiculous that it's not even worth putting thought into. To think that any one establishment, even the US Government, can control something like the internet to any degree is laughable. That's like saying "Europeans unhappy with the way the US government has been aligning the planets".