That makes sense. Until you are caught, you typically have only your perspective on what you're doing. There's no one else out there telling you that you've made a mistake. A lot of people change their minds about their activities once they realize that other people don't approve.
No, it only makes a sociopath sorry they were caught. Someone actually capable of feeling empathy would have thought about it after the first crime, not continue to do it 40 more times.
After they went from making games in house to being just another publisher and then just an agency that licensed the star wars names for games.
This happened in the late 1990's when the X-wing series went from being produced in house and moved to Totally Games. (I don't remember if that was Xwing vs. Tie Fighter or Xwing Alliance). Later on I noticed that they weren't even publishing games. Games were being released by Activision or EA.
I know the space combat sim died 10 and going on 15 years ago. That's why I've spent as much as I have looking forward to Star Citizen.
And X:Rebirth, and that Occulus Rift based game that CCP is teasing, but I don't have any confidence they will actually be able to deliver something good.
But I am expecting a "Rebirth" of the space sim genre in the next few years. Technology is finally catching up with the imagination of the classic games. Does EA still own the rights to Wing Commander? Ok so that one won't be part of the renaissance.
We could send way better greenhouse gases than CO2. However the volumes needed, what we would really need to do is send some factory that could produce the required gas. There is still the problem of the solar wind trying to blow it away, though.
It was also the era where the old school realistic flight sims died, much for the same reasons. Somehow it is 15 years later and Falcon 4 is still the best combat flight sim ever produced. I would love to give it a try with those community mods, but they dont make game ports to use my old Saitek x36, which has been boxed for over a decade and probably doesn't work anymore. (Which with the goofy keyboard mapping system never worked all that well to begin with.)
Maybe with the new generation of space games, X:Rebirth, Star Citizen, etc... it will be worthwhile to buy an new HOTAS. Thrustmaster and Saitek managed to survive all these years, perhaps it is time.
The fact that you cared about the quality of the reviews on your site makes you different, and sadly outdated in today's internet climate.
Yelp is almost certainly in on the scam and making money on it. (It is the only way to explain why their site is the way it is.) Amazon just doesn't give a shit. (Though this leads to hilarious reviews.)
A manager that thought I was a happy worker-bee was totally blindsided by my 2 weeks notice once. This was a manger that I generally consider one the best I have ever worked for. (Lost points for not realizing I did not like my job.) I like the man and am still friends with him today. And yet I still did not give any warning whatsoever, and gave no possibility of a counteroffer. It wasn't him that I did not trust, it was the giant evil company we worked for. I could not even trust to let him know off the record that I was on the way out the door. The company had a habit of laying people off and outsourcing for no good reason, and although my job was perfectly secure, enough was enough. Giant changes in the company were always a massive blindside to the employees. Employees are no more than pawns, cut a few hundred jobs to make the profit margin look better. Who cares if those that remain could not possibly handle the workload.
No, I am not bitter, even though it sounds so. I am just happy to no longer work for the giant evil company.
How about they hire competent bartenders that attend to their customers? I am all for technology for technology's sake, but when it comes to this I do not see how it is anything more than a stunt.
It's posts like these that make me wish we had a "-2 Not even a good troll" mod.
The post you are attempting to claim was a troll was based on reality, and anyone with any life experience knows this is true.
You're just a cunt ( literally or figuratively ) with a penchant for political correctness.
Really, so the bartenders can completely ignore customers and expect to stay employed? You probably go to some seriously douchy clubs. I go to places that have customer service. (And girls only need to show cleavage to get free drinks.)
Also, there is plenty of stupidity to pass around:
- The author of the article made it very vague as to when the reactor shut down. It was shut down in 1997, which the article does not mention. I am not sure if the 600 workers the article talks about were involved in decommissioning or were former workers let go in 1997. If these are decommissioning workers then shouldn't it be obvious when the project would be finished? Why does everyone treat it like a big surprise? Or were they surprised back in 1997? - The plant had run unsafe and falsified reports to the NRC. No wonder it was closed down. - A town of 3700 has 7 fire engines and a bunch of other crap they can no longer afford. Well did they expect the gravy train to never end? Sounds like the residents of the town were idiots too. - This lady: “Most of my family died of cancer, and I think the plant was the reason,” said Thompson, 55, a cashier at a fireworks shop. Because no cancer is hereditary, and the author trusts the gut feeling of an old woman over actual medical science. Ace reporting there.
Also, who cares about 3700 people in a small town in Maine? (besides those people themselves) As if this is the worst economic or environmental consequence of the plant closing. What about the pollution caused by the coal plants they are firing up to replace this Nuclear plant?
What an idiotic choice of words. It makes it sound like more anti-nuclear drivel about how radioactive waste is leaking from the closed plant or something. Or that every closed plant instantly becomes Chernobyl. This isn't sim city where plants auto-explode after 50 years.
Executives do not play by the same rules as the rest of us. The can obviously act in the worst interests of their company and shareholders, and are never taken to task for it.
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That makes sense. Until you are caught, you typically have only your perspective on what you're doing. There's no one else out there telling you that you've made a mistake. A lot of people change their minds about their activities once they realize that other people don't approve.
No, it only makes a sociopath sorry they were caught. Someone actually capable of feeling empathy would have thought about it after the first crime, not continue to do it 40 more times.
After they went from making games in house to being just another publisher and then just an agency that licensed the star wars names for games.
This happened in the late 1990's when the X-wing series went from being produced in house and moved to Totally Games. (I don't remember if that was Xwing vs. Tie Fighter or Xwing Alliance). Later on I noticed that they weren't even publishing games. Games were being released by Activision or EA.
I know the space combat sim died 10 and going on 15 years ago. That's why I've spent as much as I have looking forward to Star Citizen.
And X:Rebirth, and that Occulus Rift based game that CCP is teasing, but I don't have any confidence they will actually be able to deliver something good.
But I am expecting a "Rebirth" of the space sim genre in the next few years. Technology is finally catching up with the imagination of the classic games. Does EA still own the rights to Wing Commander? Ok so that one won't be part of the renaissance.
I'm too old to wear a Darth Vader t-shirt.
Well that is more of a sad story about your life than the franchise.
Yeah, Americans use Rhode Islands for area. Its a conversion rate of 6.6 Rhode Islands per Wales.
We could send way better greenhouse gases than CO2. However the volumes needed, what we would really need to do is send some factory that could produce the required gas. There is still the problem of the solar wind trying to blow it away, though.
Except that Mars' atmosphere is less than 1% as thick as Earth's.
No, he actually looked up an article. Mars has less than 1% of the atmosphere that Earth has.
So your convictions are strong enough to be able to call the company evil but not enough to name names? Isn't that called being complicit?
I'm anonymous, you're the coward.
I don't post my email address or contact details to slashdot either.
It was also the era where the old school realistic flight sims died, much for the same reasons. Somehow it is 15 years later and Falcon 4 is still the best combat flight sim ever produced. I would love to give it a try with those community mods, but they dont make game ports to use my old Saitek x36, which has been boxed for over a decade and probably doesn't work anymore. (Which with the goofy keyboard mapping system never worked all that well to begin with.)
Maybe with the new generation of space games, X:Rebirth, Star Citizen, etc... it will be worthwhile to buy an new HOTAS. Thrustmaster and Saitek managed to survive all these years, perhaps it is time.
Yes, getting raped by absurd repair fees and crappy service from the dealer is totally worth all the other stupid crap they do.
'Installation' art is the worst.
That explains InstallShield.
Shut your mouth! These two hacks got nuthin' on DJO!
Fine, it is like DJO but not funny.
It sounds like Happy in Paraguay.
The fact that you cared about the quality of the reviews on your site makes you different, and sadly outdated in today's internet climate.
Yelp is almost certainly in on the scam and making money on it. (It is the only way to explain why their site is the way it is.)
Amazon just doesn't give a shit. (Though this leads to hilarious reviews.)
A manager that thought I was a happy worker-bee was totally blindsided by my 2 weeks notice once. This was a manger that I generally consider one the best I have ever worked for. (Lost points for not realizing I did not like my job.) I like the man and am still friends with him today. And yet I still did not give any warning whatsoever, and gave no possibility of a counteroffer. It wasn't him that I did not trust, it was the giant evil company we worked for. I could not even trust to let him know off the record that I was on the way out the door. The company had a habit of laying people off and outsourcing for no good reason, and although my job was perfectly secure, enough was enough. Giant changes in the company were always a massive blindside to the employees. Employees are no more than pawns, cut a few hundred jobs to make the profit margin look better. Who cares if those that remain could not possibly handle the workload.
No, I am not bitter, even though it sounds so. I am just happy to no longer work for the giant evil company.
How about they hire competent bartenders that attend to their customers? I am all for technology for technology's sake, but when it comes to this I do not see how it is anything more than a stunt.
It's posts like these that make me wish we had a "-2 Not even a good troll" mod.
The post you are attempting to claim was a troll was based on reality, and
anyone with any life experience knows this is true.
You're just a cunt ( literally or figuratively ) with a penchant for political correctness.
Really, so the bartenders can completely ignore customers and expect to stay employed? You probably go to some seriously douchy clubs. I go to places that have customer service. (And girls only need to show cleavage to get free drinks.)
Also, there is plenty of stupidity to pass around:
- The author of the article made it very vague as to when the reactor shut down. It was shut down in 1997, which the article does not mention. I am not sure if the 600 workers the article talks about were involved in decommissioning or were former workers let go in 1997. If these are decommissioning workers then shouldn't it be obvious when the project would be finished? Why does everyone treat it like a big surprise? Or were they surprised back in 1997?
- The plant had run unsafe and falsified reports to the NRC. No wonder it was closed down.
- A town of 3700 has 7 fire engines and a bunch of other crap they can no longer afford. Well did they expect the gravy train to never end? Sounds like the residents of the town were idiots too.
- This lady: “Most of my family died of cancer, and I think the plant was the reason,” said Thompson, 55, a cashier at a fireworks shop. Because no cancer is hereditary, and the author trusts the gut feeling of an old woman over actual medical science. Ace reporting there.
Right, because nobody watched or cared about the Apollo missions or shuttle.
Moron.
Also, who cares about 3700 people in a small town in Maine? (besides those people themselves) As if this is the worst economic or environmental consequence of the plant closing. What about the pollution caused by the coal plants they are firing up to replace this Nuclear plant?
What an idiotic choice of words. It makes it sound like more anti-nuclear drivel about how radioactive waste is leaking from the closed plant or something. Or that every closed plant instantly becomes Chernobyl. This isn't sim city where plants auto-explode after 50 years.
Hanlon's Razor: Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
Stupidity can not explain the decisions made here. Only malice can.
Executives do not play by the same rules as the rest of us. The can obviously act in the worst interests of their company and shareholders, and are never taken to task for it.
In Soviet Russia... this academy had more freedom than it does now.
Wow.
With three letters, you can get most people's attention... YOU. With three more letters, you can piss them all off... ASS