Yea, I think it's fairly clear these guys aren't thieves or RMT, they're just scammers. 1tn should be enough to keep them in PvP fits and PLEX for many years to come!
Yea I know, look at Spaceship Barbie's contract history! I figured out the 1 trit mineral scam the first time I ever hit the grid in Jita, it amazes me that people with billions of ISK don't twig.
Although having said that, you do get players who somehow manage to amass large amounts of ISK despite having no skill, like this killmail.
Actually, some people do treat Eve as a serious investment, like the real money traders ISK Bank. Using them violates the TOS; it's not something I would do even though their prices are far cheaper than selling PLEX purchased legitimately.
Having said that, ISK Bank apparently make enough money to keep the Russian that runs it in vodka and caviar.
For most people Eve is just a game though. There's no legitimate way to extract money from it, in fact the smart way to play Eve is to figure out how to generate enough revenue in-game for the minimum effort, so you don't have to spend any more money on it.
Black market RMT PLEX sells for almost half the price of PLEX acquired via GTC. The RMT seller must have a margin in there too, so in pure RMT terms if 1tn ISK is $51k in GTC PLEX it's worth more like $20k in RMT.
That's not that big a haul considering how long it took. Eddie really went to town spamming the trade hubs, I even remember seeing him in outlying systems round Amarr a few months back.
You can't turn the 30 Day Pilot License Extension back into a Game Time Card. It's not possible to legitimately sell PLEX for real money, although there are third party sites that will sell PLEX for real money at slightly below market rates and deliver then in-game via Jita contract.
That's a ToS violation though, so it's not legitimate.
Just FYI, the dollar figure quoted is how much it'd cost to buy that much ISK if you were converting Eve Game Time Cards at today's prices.
It's entirely possible, with a little skill and effort, to play Eve essentially for free. Spending money upfront to turn a GTC into ISK is actually pretty sensible. I did it to generate some operating capital and now I'm the situation of having a trade / industry alt that I log into every few days to update orders, move stock around and whatnot (pretty much the trading part of Elite) and a main PvP / PvE.
Eve is actually really casual friendly if you're a little smart about it!
I think it's fairly obvious that the author was trying to incite further revolution whilst still maintaining a level of reasonable doubt as to whether he was directly calling for it.
Egypt is still in a revolutionary situation; since the removal of Mubarak it's been business as usual. The military administration are doing their best to imprison and otherwise remove dissenters before the change in government in November.
Really? I was investigating this and the fastest media player I could find was AVPlayer HD, which just uses both cores of the A5 and has occasional stutters with 720p video. The only media player I found that uses the GPU was xbmc. It requires a jailbreak but can apparently playback 720p video fine.
So, which third party media player on the App Store uses the GPU with non-Apple formats?
Apple also sells a lot of stuff to pensioners (or "seniors" as I supposed they're referred to in America).
My dad's laptop recently died and I ended up convincing him to get an iPad, which he loves. All he wants is web, email, maps, BBC iPlayer and the odd film. He hated it when his laptop was slow or had any sort of technical issue and never installed any applications on it, so the iPad is a perfect replacement.
Apparently you can also buy blood pressure monitoring peripheral for it, which made my mum giggle as it's a bother to get him to see the nurse and get his pressure checked.
I'm personally not interested in iOS devices: I find the arbitrary limitations (third party media players aren't allowed to use the GPU? That's should be the subject of an anti-trust probe on grounds of unlawful tying, they're clearly trying to create an iTunes lockin for HD video content) frustrating. Other people really like them though!
Actually, the main reason why CCTV doesn't have much of an effect on conviction rates is because the police can't be bothered going through the footage.
For high profile cases like the recent riots they'll make the effort.
Well, in between the ear canal and the brain there's the inner ear which is full of bones and fluid.
Of course, that's leaving aside what those photosensitive proteins do in the brain. Maybe they're some leftover defence mechanism in case the brain gets exposed to light?
Even assuming that this device does have an effect on the brain, photosensitive proteins in the brain are clearly a surrogate endpoint with respect to seasonal affective disorder.
Oh god, reading that press release it just gets better.
They reckon that because a photosensitive protein is found in the human brain, shining light in through the ears must help in seasonal affective disorder. To demonstrate this they cut up some cadavers and showed that this protein was found in their brain.
I'm quite certain you can't see the brain by looking in through the ear canal.
I think Mueller is particularly offensive because he's managed to make himself a story. I recall a thread either on Groklaw or LWN where it was suggested that he had been in private conversation with PJ regarding their different analysis; he was privately admitting to being a troll.
I can't be bothered to go back and find all the links because life's too short. As to why single him out, well, it's simply because I remember him. I think if he wasn't so obnoxious about putting his name out there he might manage to go unnoticed whilst still getting traffic. Most other astroturfers have the common sense to submit stories as AC. If I could remember and identity them, I'd make a point of not clicking their links either.
He has a history of saying controversial things to drive traffic to his weblog. He had a long running feud with PJ and the Groklaw community in general where his analysis into the various SCO cases was consistently shown to be total crap.
It's also very doubtful that he has any legal qualifications whatsoever. He's just an attention whore trying to scrape a living on Adsense revenue. He deserves pity, but not attention.
Well, we currently waste enough food to feed 1bn people. Add in all the overheads caused by the market and it's easy to see how we could feed everyone essentially for free.
As to how we make sure people bother to farm, maybe we could just turn food production into a form of (inter)national service? If you don't want to take part fine, you just have to spend your life paying for food. People who want it can spend a couple of years when they're young doing farm work and then enjoying free food for life.
Then it's just a matter of housing; houses are relatively cheap to build and maintain. I'm sure we can figure out how to build even better, cheaper and more easily maintainable houses. That would mean that again, one would only have to spend a small proportion of ones life engaged in housing work.
Once you've got food and housing, everything else is gravy.
Well, I don't think capitalism will just eventually switch to socialism. The point at which things start being made so cheaply leading to overproduction is when cuts are made to increase profits. That's the point that socialists need to organise to take over society through either constitutional or revolutionary methods. Either is appropriate depending on the circumstances faced by organised labour.
The big question is what comes next. I don't think it's immediately possible to do away with markets, but markets could clearly be better regulated. Personally I'd rather refuse and sewerage workers, for example, had the best houses for doing the least desirable jobs.
Also I think it would be desirable for everyone to essentially work for agencies at a good rate (possibly one massive agency; in the scenario I'm envisioning I think a natural monopoly would emerge anyway) so that people were allocated jobs depending on what needs doing within their area. Combine that with a generous wage subsidy so that even small local enterprises wouldn't have to be concerned about affording wages and I think it would be better than the current system.
What I'm trying to say is that we shouldn't have some people working long hours for terrible pay and other people not working at all for terrible benefits. We should have general employment and general subsidy to share both the free time and the money.
Obviously all of this should be done democratically: Stalinism isn't socialism. The question is how we organise society so that there are incentives to cooperate, peoples needs and desires are fulfilled and that everyone plays a part in production insofar as they are able.
That's just one idea on how we can transition from where we are now to a society that's centred around the needs of working people. The process of getting working people educated, active and talking about these kinds of ideas and organising to make things happen is socialism!
So basically what you're saying is that Marx was right about class warfare and crisis of overproduction. Capitalism depends on consumers to buy the things that are produced but individual capitalists want to have as few workers as possible to cut costs, thereby creating a contradiction.
Note that I'm not trolling you; I find it heartening to see more people coming around to socialist ideas.
Of course code needs testing, I was just making the point that, from the notes, their testing procedure seems to be a little cack handed. Of course they are just notes. It could be that the notes are just messy due to the writing style of the author.
The point is that it's not evidence of fraud, fudging data or any other misconduct.
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Yea, I think it's fairly clear these guys aren't thieves or RMT, they're just scammers. 1tn should be enough to keep them in PvP fits and PLEX for many years to come!
Actually, ISK Bank uses PayPal. If they fail to deliver, you can always use PayPal to get your money back.
If you get found out and banned though, well, that's always a risk.
As other people have pointed out RMT isn't illegal, it's just a breach of contract.
CCP have recently started to take a firmer line on RMT and have mass banned accounts suspected to be engaged in botting activity and RMT.
Yea I know, look at Spaceship Barbie's contract history! I figured out the 1 trit mineral scam the first time I ever hit the grid in Jita, it amazes me that people with billions of ISK don't twig.
Although having said that, you do get players who somehow manage to amass large amounts of ISK despite having no skill, like this killmail.
Sure, reply with a character name for me to Eve mail. I'll be happy to give you a few hints upon receipt of 100m ISK :)
Actually, some people do treat Eve as a serious investment, like the real money traders ISK Bank. Using them violates the TOS; it's not something I would do even though their prices are far cheaper than selling PLEX purchased legitimately.
Having said that, ISK Bank apparently make enough money to keep the Russian that runs it in vodka and caviar.
For most people Eve is just a game though. There's no legitimate way to extract money from it, in fact the smart way to play Eve is to figure out how to generate enough revenue in-game for the minimum effort, so you don't have to spend any more money on it.
Black market RMT PLEX sells for almost half the price of PLEX acquired via GTC. The RMT seller must have a margin in there too, so in pure RMT terms if 1tn ISK is $51k in GTC PLEX it's worth more like $20k in RMT.
That's not that big a haul considering how long it took. Eddie really went to town spamming the trade hubs, I even remember seeing him in outlying systems round Amarr a few months back.
You can't turn the 30 Day Pilot License Extension back into a Game Time Card. It's not possible to legitimately sell PLEX for real money, although there are third party sites that will sell PLEX for real money at slightly below market rates and deliver then in-game via Jita contract.
That's a ToS violation though, so it's not legitimate.
Just FYI, the dollar figure quoted is how much it'd cost to buy that much ISK if you were converting Eve Game Time Cards at today's prices.
It's entirely possible, with a little skill and effort, to play Eve essentially for free. Spending money upfront to turn a GTC into ISK is actually pretty sensible. I did it to generate some operating capital and now I'm the situation of having a trade / industry alt that I log into every few days to update orders, move stock around and whatnot (pretty much the trading part of Elite) and a main PvP / PvE.
Eve is actually really casual friendly if you're a little smart about it!
Calling for the assassination of unelected generals who are engaged in an opposition purge as part of a revolutionary strategy isn't evil or immoral.
Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice, and moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue!
I think it's fairly obvious that the author was trying to incite further revolution whilst still maintaining a level of reasonable doubt as to whether he was directly calling for it.
Egypt is still in a revolutionary situation; since the removal of Mubarak it's been business as usual. The military administration are doing their best to imprison and otherwise remove dissenters before the change in government in November.
Really? I was investigating this and the fastest media player I could find was AVPlayer HD, which just uses both cores of the A5 and has occasional stutters with 720p video. The only media player I found that uses the GPU was xbmc. It requires a jailbreak but can apparently playback 720p video fine.
So, which third party media player on the App Store uses the GPU with non-Apple formats?
Apple also sells a lot of stuff to pensioners (or "seniors" as I supposed they're referred to in America).
My dad's laptop recently died and I ended up convincing him to get an iPad, which he loves. All he wants is web, email, maps, BBC iPlayer and the odd film. He hated it when his laptop was slow or had any sort of technical issue and never installed any applications on it, so the iPad is a perfect replacement.
Apparently you can also buy blood pressure monitoring peripheral for it, which made my mum giggle as it's a bother to get him to see the nurse and get his pressure checked.
I'm personally not interested in iOS devices: I find the arbitrary limitations (third party media players aren't allowed to use the GPU? That's should be the subject of an anti-trust probe on grounds of unlawful tying, they're clearly trying to create an iTunes lockin for HD video content) frustrating. Other people really like them though!
Actually, the main reason why CCTV doesn't have much of an effect on conviction rates is because the police can't be bothered going through the footage.
For high profile cases like the recent riots they'll make the effort.
Yep, the automobile was actually seen as environmentally friendly improvement over horses!
People hate horseshit when it's not on their garden :)
Well, in between the ear canal and the brain there's the inner ear which is full of bones and fluid.
Of course, that's leaving aside what those photosensitive proteins do in the brain. Maybe they're some leftover defence mechanism in case the brain gets exposed to light?
Even assuming that this device does have an effect on the brain, photosensitive proteins in the brain are clearly a surrogate endpoint with respect to seasonal affective disorder.
Oh god, reading that press release it just gets better.
They reckon that because a photosensitive protein is found in the human brain, shining light in through the ears must help in seasonal affective disorder. To demonstrate this they cut up some cadavers and showed that this protein was found in their brain.
I'm quite certain you can't see the brain by looking in through the ear canal.
Of course it's not peer reviewed: it's not being published in a reputable journal.
This is pure snake oil. We don't have photoreceptors in our ears.
I think Mueller is particularly offensive because he's managed to make himself a story. I recall a thread either on Groklaw or LWN where it was suggested that he had been in private conversation with PJ regarding their different analysis; he was privately admitting to being a troll.
I can't be bothered to go back and find all the links because life's too short. As to why single him out, well, it's simply because I remember him. I think if he wasn't so obnoxious about putting his name out there he might manage to go unnoticed whilst still getting traffic. Most other astroturfers have the common sense to submit stories as AC. If I could remember and identity them, I'd make a point of not clicking their links either.
He has a history of saying controversial things to drive traffic to his weblog. He had a long running feud with PJ and the Groklaw community in general where his analysis into the various SCO cases was consistently shown to be total crap.
It's also very doubtful that he has any legal qualifications whatsoever. He's just an attention whore trying to scrape a living on Adsense revenue. He deserves pity, but not attention.
You think the internet reduces hate? Have you seen the comments on Youtube, or even here?
Well, we currently waste enough food to feed 1bn people. Add in all the overheads caused by the market and it's easy to see how we could feed everyone essentially for free.
As to how we make sure people bother to farm, maybe we could just turn food production into a form of (inter)national service? If you don't want to take part fine, you just have to spend your life paying for food. People who want it can spend a couple of years when they're young doing farm work and then enjoying free food for life.
Then it's just a matter of housing; houses are relatively cheap to build and maintain. I'm sure we can figure out how to build even better, cheaper and more easily maintainable houses. That would mean that again, one would only have to spend a small proportion of ones life engaged in housing work.
Once you've got food and housing, everything else is gravy.
Well, I don't think capitalism will just eventually switch to socialism. The point at which things start being made so cheaply leading to overproduction is when cuts are made to increase profits. That's the point that socialists need to organise to take over society through either constitutional or revolutionary methods. Either is appropriate depending on the circumstances faced by organised labour.
The big question is what comes next. I don't think it's immediately possible to do away with markets, but markets could clearly be better regulated. Personally I'd rather refuse and sewerage workers, for example, had the best houses for doing the least desirable jobs.
Also I think it would be desirable for everyone to essentially work for agencies at a good rate (possibly one massive agency; in the scenario I'm envisioning I think a natural monopoly would emerge anyway) so that people were allocated jobs depending on what needs doing within their area. Combine that with a generous wage subsidy so that even small local enterprises wouldn't have to be concerned about affording wages and I think it would be better than the current system.
What I'm trying to say is that we shouldn't have some people working long hours for terrible pay and other people not working at all for terrible benefits. We should have general employment and general subsidy to share both the free time and the money.
Obviously all of this should be done democratically: Stalinism isn't socialism. The question is how we organise society so that there are incentives to cooperate, peoples needs and desires are fulfilled and that everyone plays a part in production insofar as they are able.
That's just one idea on how we can transition from where we are now to a society that's centred around the needs of working people. The process of getting working people educated, active and talking about these kinds of ideas and organising to make things happen is socialism!
So basically what you're saying is that Marx was right about class warfare and crisis of overproduction. Capitalism depends on consumers to buy the things that are produced but individual capitalists want to have as few workers as possible to cut costs, thereby creating a contradiction.
Note that I'm not trolling you; I find it heartening to see more people coming around to socialist ideas.
Of course code needs testing, I was just making the point that, from the notes, their testing procedure seems to be a little cack handed. Of course they are just notes. It could be that the notes are just messy due to the writing style of the author.
The point is that it's not evidence of fraud, fudging data or any other misconduct.