While the poster gave bad/incomplete examples, he does actually have it right.
Guiding Hand Social Club: A small band of social manipulators who took on a hit job against a CEO and its corp. Result after almost a year of work infiltrating the corporation and earning trust; $16,500 worth of items stolen and/or destroyed in addition to ganking him in his most expensive bling-fitted ship.
The two main guys leading that corp are legends for the numerous heists they've pulled.
Chribba: In a universe of paranoia and mistrust, he is the only guy that everyone knows will never break a deal. When he isn't flying one of his mining-fitted dreadnought in high-security space (of the handful built there before it was disallowed), there is always someone wanting him to secure the transfer of super-carriers and titans.
Really easy to play? You say that when you don't even know how to play.
Can't do nothing for a year? Well, explain this for me:
A couple of of experienced corp mates made new characters and started a shadow training corp. They recruited people from a week old to 3 months, most of them closer to a week. The corp members were flying in low-sec ganking expensive ship flown by characters with years of experience using nothing but the smallest and cheapest ships.
Five of them even took down a faction fitted T3 ship which would have been 2-300 times as expensive as the sum of those frigates they flew. Doing stuff like that isn't easy but neither is it impossible. So saying EVE is easy mean you don't know shit about the real EVE, and saying you can't do anything for a year cause you need to train skills just compounds that fact.
What I can't really figure out is why didn't the guy try to get money from Apple, which is much safer?
There's no way they wouldn't be willing to pay $5000 or so to have it all hush-hush and forget-you-ever-saw-it. The important part here would be how he approached them.
He developed the project on his own, _then_ got hired to improve it. Likely he messed up and therefor it's legally confusing. Had he made clear at the start that what he was providing was the service of improving his _own_ project and that those changes belonged to him, then there would be no problems.
This all depends on what was said when he was hired; did the university say they wanted to pay him to improve the project, or did they say they wanted to hire him so he would write code for them? Since it was his own project initially the former claim could very well work.
What they meant was that looking from the outside (read; rest of the democratic world), the US/UK/Canadian system of election seems arcane and not very democratic.
Well, does 18 of 20 top positions on the UN Human Development Index list count for anything? (Oh, and the US is not successful as a country... actually it is quite far down the list these days.)
While you don't need to prove or disprove AGW, you _DO_ need to prove that those rejected papers upheld proper scientific standards. Else you're just another denier shouting CONSPIRACY.
Of course, Piper Alpha exploded in the North Sea in the late 1980s. Big loss of human life, but no "gusher" (it was a gas platform rather than oil). But nonetheless, it shows that there are dangers inherent in these offshore operations, and the North Sea is not immune.
The early North Sea operations were a lot more reckless than anything you would get past regulations these days. So using 30 year old accidents in a discussion on oil rigs of today is not really relevant.
Apple does not have any interest in the thousands of iPhones being lost every day around the world. The caller must have known that.
I bet he 'forgot' to mention that the phone looked like a prototype phone and mention it probably belonged to an Apple employee. (Rather than some random guy working at Walmart)
'Oh hey Apple Random Support guy; I found an iPhone lying around in a bar and was wondering if you guys are interested in getting it back?'
And...
'Hello, is this Apple Corporate Headquarters? Yeah, it seems I have come into the possession of what seems like a prototype iPhone belonging to an employee named Gray Powell. Was just wondering if you guys were interested in getting it back.
initialism (-nsh'-lz'm)
n. An abbreviation consisting of the first letter or letters of words in a phrase (for example, IRS for Internal Revenue Service), syllables or components of a word (TNT for trinitrotoluene), or a combination of words and syllables (ESP for extrasensory perception) and pronounced by spelling out the letters one by one rather than as a solid word.
Hmmm... So NASA would be an acronym and BBC would be an initialism, right?
Sorry, the data, collection points (or lack thereof) and analysis methodology make AGW an unlikely hypothesis.
"The NASA findings indicate a mean worldwide temperature of about 58.496 degrees F., topping the previous record, set in 1995 of 58.154."
Ya gotta love the touch of using 'about', followed by a world temperature quoted to 1/1000 degree F. why we are justified in assuming such preposterous "accuracies" from processes that have half degree error bars? How do they estimate the Earth's temperature in 1938 to within a half of a degree. I would like to see the procedure used to do that, and the measures employed.
I just did something funny; I ran those numbers through google converting them from F to C. I got something funny considering science is generally done in celsius.
Seems to me including at least two decimal places would be expected from the scientific community and since they are likely to be based on much of the same instruments and post-processing techniques, the error bar for the temperature change would no doubt be _much_ smaller than the one relating to how close to the actual global temperature those measurements really were. (And it is the former, not the latter, that is important)
Your ass is flapping in the wind spewing fecal matter all over the place, all that over a simple Celsius to Fahrenheit conversion.
I believe what you meant to say was 'Almost everywhere are you required to report such things to the police' or leave it where it lies. (when the item is below a certain value this might not apply)
Oh... perhaps you meant 'in America' or 'in Kids world where finder's keeper'.
The current situation is also a case of 'erring on the side of caution til we know more' kind of thing.
Do not doubt that there will be a lot of studies from now on to determine what amounts of volcanic ash is safe, what procedures will be needed and such. The next time a volcano erupts over major air traffic space the response will be much more tempered.
This will diminish America's technological superiority and our lead in spaceflight. However, I believe that in the case of Obama, that he WANTS to diminish our leadership. He has shown nothing but contempt for our allies since getting into office and constantly bows (literally) to our enemies. I honestly believe that we have a President who does not like this country.
Your the kind of guy Buzz Aldrin should punch in the face. Repeatedly.
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I believe you just counted something that didn't need to be counted.
While the poster gave bad/incomplete examples, he does actually have it right.
Guiding Hand Social Club: A small band of social manipulators who took on a hit job against a CEO and its corp. Result after almost a year of work infiltrating the corporation and earning trust; $16,500 worth of items stolen and/or destroyed in addition to ganking him in his most expensive bling-fitted ship.
The two main guys leading that corp are legends for the numerous heists they've pulled.
Chribba: In a universe of paranoia and mistrust, he is the only guy that everyone knows will never break a deal. When he isn't flying one of his mining-fitted dreadnought in high-security space (of the handful built there before it was disallowed), there is always someone wanting him to secure the transfer of super-carriers and titans.
And there are many more...
Show us an MMO with more than 300k subscribers and consistent growth for 7+ years.
Really easy to play? You say that when you don't even know how to play.
Can't do nothing for a year? Well, explain this for me:
A couple of of experienced corp mates made new characters and started a shadow training corp. They recruited people from a week old to 3 months, most of them closer to a week. The corp members were flying in low-sec ganking expensive ship flown by characters with years of experience using nothing but the smallest and cheapest ships.
Five of them even took down a faction fitted T3 ship which would have been 2-300 times as expensive as the sum of those frigates they flew. Doing stuff like that isn't easy but neither is it impossible. So saying EVE is easy mean you don't know shit about the real EVE, and saying you can't do anything for a year cause you need to train skills just compounds that fact.
What I can't really figure out is why didn't the guy try to get money from Apple, which is much safer?
There's no way they wouldn't be willing to pay $5000 or so to have it all hush-hush and forget-you-ever-saw-it. The important part here would be how he approached them.
More like; If your roommate finds out you got $5000 for something that is illegal, be ready to cut him a share of it.
Unfortunately? I do believe you haven't seen cute Japanese boys cross-dress cosplay. I'd hit them any day.
It's not as clear as that.
He developed the project on his own, _then_ got hired to improve it. Likely he messed up and therefor it's legally confusing. Had he made clear at the start that what he was providing was the service of improving his _own_ project and that those changes belonged to him, then there would be no problems.
This all depends on what was said when he was hired; did the university say they wanted to pay him to improve the project, or did they say they wanted to hire him so he would write code for them? Since it was his own project initially the former claim could very well work.
What they meant was that looking from the outside (read; rest of the democratic world), the US/UK/Canadian system of election seems arcane and not very democratic.
So the title is perfectly valid.
Well, does 18 of 20 top positions on the UN Human Development Index list count for anything? (Oh, and the US is not successful as a country... actually it is quite far down the list these days.)
While you don't need to prove or disprove AGW, you _DO_ need to prove that those rejected papers upheld proper scientific standards. Else you're just another denier shouting CONSPIRACY.
Of course, Piper Alpha exploded in the North Sea in the late 1980s. Big loss of human life, but no "gusher" (it was a gas platform rather than oil). But nonetheless, it shows that there are dangers inherent in these offshore operations, and the North Sea is not immune.
The early North Sea operations were a lot more reckless than anything you would get past regulations these days. So using 30 year old accidents in a discussion on oil rigs of today is not really relevant.
Yeah, cause according to the 2010 list of best selling laptops, there's 6 mac gamers out there...
Apple does not have any interest in the thousands of iPhones being lost every day around the world. The caller must have known that.
I bet he 'forgot' to mention that the phone looked like a prototype phone and mention it probably belonged to an Apple employee. (Rather than some random guy working at Walmart)
There's a difference between:
And...
Hmmm... So NASA would be an acronym and BBC would be an initialism, right?
So passport numbers and military ID numbers don't need to be encrypted?
What part of '(b) driver's license number or state-issued identification card number' did you not understand?
Sorry, the data, collection points (or lack thereof) and analysis methodology make AGW an unlikely hypothesis.
Ya gotta love the touch of using 'about', followed by a world temperature quoted to 1/1000 degree F. why we are justified in assuming such preposterous "accuracies" from processes that have half degree error bars? How do they estimate the Earth's temperature in 1938 to within a half of a degree. I would like to see the procedure used to do that, and the measures employed.
I just did something funny; I ran those numbers through google converting them from F to C. I got something funny considering science is generally done in celsius.
Seems to me including at least two decimal places would be expected from the scientific community and since they are likely to be based on much of the same instruments and post-processing techniques, the error bar for the temperature change would no doubt be _much_ smaller than the one relating to how close to the actual global temperature those measurements really were. (And it is the former, not the latter, that is important)
Your ass is flapping in the wind spewing fecal matter all over the place, all that over a simple Celsius to Fahrenheit conversion.
I believe what you meant to say was 'Almost everywhere are you required to report such things to the police' or leave it where it lies. (when the item is below a certain value this might not apply)
Oh... perhaps you meant 'in America' or 'in Kids world where finder's keeper'.
The current situation is also a case of 'erring on the side of caution til we know more' kind of thing.
Do not doubt that there will be a lot of studies from now on to determine what amounts of volcanic ash is safe, what procedures will be needed and such. The next time a volcano erupts over major air traffic space the response will be much more tempered.
A 9mm is _LESS LETHAL_ than a taser cause just pointing the 9mm at someone is enough to subdue them, while taser is used immediately.
True, but then God said "Neitzsche is dead".
Actually, that was said by some smartass religious guy who was still alive.
Atheists believe in something that is obviously untrue (the non-existence of self).
Holy batman, that's an impressive strawman. You should take it to the burning man festival, it'll impress everyone there.
The oligarchy shut down the program because they hate mankind.
Are you fucking serious?
This will diminish America's technological superiority and our lead in spaceflight. However, I believe that in the case of Obama, that he WANTS to diminish our leadership. He has shown nothing but contempt for our allies since getting into office and constantly bows (literally) to our enemies. I honestly believe that we have a President who does not like this country.
Your the kind of guy Buzz Aldrin should punch in the face. Repeatedly.