EA put out a game that was likely to be offensive, selling a bunch of it to Gamestop, who hoped to make bank on it.
AAFES found it offensive and yanked it from all on-base outlets, including space concessioned to Gamestop.
Therefore...(waits for you to do the math as well)...Gamestop loses revenue, (and possibly also shipping and labor costs) on a game it has been anticipating selling a bunch of, because EA doesn't do proper market research.
They had no right to use one of those sets of funds, but they did anyway. Conversion. It's like theft except that they had a right to possess the property temporarily, just not to use it for what they used it for.
Should take about 5 minutes to fix. Call UoP, ask for whatever they call their Director of Financial Aid and Ancilliary Frauds, and tell him you're calling the state A.G.'s office if they don't have a check in your hand by the end of the week. Then if they don't, call the state A.G.'s office.
They may squawk that it's an administrative mistake that will take time to correct, but you should say so what, that's their problem and they need to put your money into your hand now and work out their internal account balancing on their own time.
Used to be about 9 logos on the back of one of my cards. Now I just assume the one or two that are there are the ones still willing to pay for the space. There's still a raft of stickers on the ATMs.
I'm still having an email fight with them to get them to flip the bit to opt me out. They seem to hesitate whenever I mention federal law, so I'll keep doing that.
The military propped it up when it first realized it wasn't going to make back its nut, and owns some of the ground stations (handy when you're going to shroud them in barbed wire and secrecy). They don't own the network, and service is sold through a vast network of resellers.
$5 billion / $1.50 / was sustainable when planned but planners didn't foresee extent of build-out of terrestrial capabilities by competitors / $50 million / survived because the military was going to keep it up no matter what.
Other than that, you got it wrong.
Iridium actually works, and everyone knew that, but it failed as a business because its market had shrunk drastically while it was being developed (it wasn't late, its planners were just completely oblivious to the idea that their competition was perfectly willing to reach most of the world with wiresin a few short years. That left only the oceans, the most desolate land spaces, and disaster zones with massive infrastructural damage as places you really need satellite phones. And there were people (like the military) with a desire to avoid or no expectation of access to local carrier services). It does succeed because its daily maintenance costs are low and its prices are high (although the cost of replacing a satellite is relatively gigantic and the price of a small software error could be catastrophic loss of equipment).
Duke Nukem's end market is only getting bigger. But it may be a crufty pile of unimpressive suck, by now. It cost its current owners about what it would have cost them if they'd bought it now but it had been released a couple of years ago. If it is suck, then the first reviews are going to bury it and they'll lose money no matter what. If it isn't, then hey, free money. I.e., Iridium was no gamble to acquire; this game is all-or-nothing.
Peel off as much of the sticker as you can, preferably until there's just a schmutz of glue left, then rub your finger on the side of your nose and use that to loosen the rest of the glue. After a little rubbing, you can wipe it all away with a cloth or towel.
It's free, all-natural, always handy, and something you want to get rid of anyway.
Well, the difference between natural saturated fat (as found in cows) and artificial saturated fat (hydrogenated oils) is trans-fatty acids, which will clog your arteries quite a bit faster.
The thing about the "artificial" label is that it tells you that it wasn't made by a process that evolved over billions of years to be efficient and produce a safe, high-quality material for use elsewhere in the system, but was probably made by the cheapest process achievable and with the least quality control needed to convince the consumer to pick the product up off the shelf, which is decreased by a ton when you consider the power of advertising and packaging.
I just looked all over their website and I can't make head or tail of what the thing really does.
Do I have to load data on it or is a just controller and link manager? Does it have native wireless capability (the spec pages say no, the comparison page says yes)? How many boxes do I need to handle 2 PCs , 1 dual-tuner satellite dish/PVR, a BD player, and 3 TVs?
I will never understand why anyone tries to sell a product the customer can't visualize. I will never understand someone who buys something the seller can't explain simply.
How about we go out to Ft. Bliss or Ft. Hood and ask how the soldiers playing the fake IED planters feel about what they're doing...
The military is playing the enemy 24/7. It's the best way to train your side to recognize them and their behaviors without putting yourself in the way of a real IED.
I'm pretty sure we've been doing it in this country for a couple of hundred years. I bet it goes back a few millennia.
But so does idiotic dismissal of everyone's rights when wailing and sophistry enter the room.
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EA put out a game that was likely to be offensive, selling a bunch of it to Gamestop, who hoped to make bank on it.
AAFES found it offensive and yanked it from all on-base outlets, including space concessioned to Gamestop.
Therefore...(waits for you to do the math as well)...Gamestop loses revenue, (and possibly also shipping and labor costs) on a game it has been anticipating selling a bunch of, because EA doesn't do proper market research.
Hmm.
They had no right to use one of those sets of funds, but they did anyway. Conversion. It's like theft except that they had a right to possess the property temporarily, just not to use it for what they used it for.
Should take about 5 minutes to fix. Call UoP, ask for whatever they call their Director of Financial Aid and Ancilliary Frauds, and tell him you're calling the state A.G.'s office if they don't have a check in your hand by the end of the week. Then if they don't, call the state A.G.'s office.
They may squawk that it's an administrative mistake that will take time to correct, but you should say so what, that's their problem and they need to put your money into your hand now and work out their internal account balancing on their own time.
Alchemy?
Student loans stopped existing?
Used to be about 9 logos on the back of one of my cards. Now I just assume the one or two that are there are the ones still willing to pay for the space. There's still a raft of stickers on the ATMs.
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See how there's no other option?
I'm still having an email fight with them to get them to flip the bit to opt me out. They seem to hesitate whenever I mention federal law, so I'll keep doing that.
I for one welcome our frozen, chocolate-covered, delicously creamy overlords.
Didn't say they weren't. But who do you think was hocking the AAFES manager to do it? Fucking pollyannas.
Give it a shot. They need the revenue after what EA did to them.
The military propped it up when it first realized it wasn't going to make back its nut, and owns some of the ground stations (handy when you're going to shroud them in barbed wire and secrecy). They don't own the network, and service is sold through a vast network of resellers.
$5 billion / $1.50 / was sustainable when planned but planners didn't foresee extent of build-out of terrestrial capabilities by competitors / $50 million / survived because the military was going to keep it up no matter what.
Other than that, you got it wrong.
Iridium actually works, and everyone knew that, but it failed as a business because its market had shrunk drastically while it was being developed (it wasn't late, its planners were just completely oblivious to the idea that their competition was perfectly willing to reach most of the world with wiresin a few short years. That left only the oceans, the most desolate land spaces, and disaster zones with massive infrastructural damage as places you really need satellite phones. And there were people (like the military) with a desire to avoid or no expectation of access to local carrier services). It does succeed because its daily maintenance costs are low and its prices are high (although the cost of replacing a satellite is relatively gigantic and the price of a small software error could be catastrophic loss of equipment).
Duke Nukem's end market is only getting bigger. But it may be a crufty pile of unimpressive suck, by now. It cost its current owners about what it would have cost them if they'd bought it now but it had been released a couple of years ago. If it is suck, then the first reviews are going to bury it and they'll lose money no matter what. If it isn't, then hey, free money. I.e., Iridium was no gamble to acquire; this game is all-or-nothing.
I'm pretty sure that's why they named it that in the first place.
Unless their bullshit is valid and yours isn't, in which case cultural relativism is the relevant issue.
Variability == expense.
They wouldn't even put the S/N on a sticker if it wasn't how they tell when your warranty's expired.
I remove that by clicking on the Wintel box next to it before inserting my CC number.
Nose oil.
No, seriously.
Peel off as much of the sticker as you can, preferably until there's just a schmutz of glue left, then rub your finger on the side of your nose and use that to loosen the rest of the glue. After a little rubbing, you can wipe it all away with a cloth or towel.
It's free, all-natural, always handy, and something you want to get rid of anyway.
Well, the difference between natural saturated fat (as found in cows) and artificial saturated fat (hydrogenated oils) is trans-fatty acids, which will clog your arteries quite a bit faster.
The thing about the "artificial" label is that it tells you that it wasn't made by a process that evolved over billions of years to be efficient and produce a safe, high-quality material for use elsewhere in the system, but was probably made by the cheapest process achievable and with the least quality control needed to convince the consumer to pick the product up off the shelf, which is decreased by a ton when you consider the power of advertising and packaging.
I just looked all over their website and I can't make head or tail of what the thing really does.
Do I have to load data on it or is a just controller and link manager? Does it have native wireless capability (the spec pages say no, the comparison page says yes)? How many boxes do I need to handle 2 PCs , 1 dual-tuner satellite dish/PVR, a BD player, and 3 TVs?
I will never understand why anyone tries to sell a product the customer can't visualize. I will never understand someone who buys something the seller can't explain simply.
How about we go out to Ft. Bliss or Ft. Hood and ask how the soldiers playing the fake IED planters feel about what they're doing...
The military is playing the enemy 24/7. It's the best way to train your side to recognize them and their behaviors without putting yourself in the way of a real IED.
I'm pretty sure we've been doing it in this country for a couple of hundred years. I bet it goes back a few millennia.
But so does idiotic dismissal of everyone's rights when wailing and sophistry enter the room.
"Out of" a total disregard for the meaning of the lives of those who died defending the Constitution, "we will not be stocking this game".
This is the result of hand-wringing do-gooders who don't know the military from the bible.
You think the military isn't conducting training exercises with real humans in the role of the Taliban?
Putting it in a video game just makes it cheaper to repeat for the newbies.
Someone tell GameStop they're totally fucking stupid, here.
TFA doesn't say how many pixels it is.
One?
Actually they were doomed to fail until Microsoft invested something like $135 million in them to foster development of the Mac version of MS Office.
Since then, they've been doom-free.
Didn't Microsoft just... OHHhhhhhhhh... I see what Steve Jobs did, there.
It's racist apologia projected on /. as a troll-tag.
I'll just say it, with a little help from a link:
Darwin wasn't racist.