Is it a sign that this technique is grasping at straws that I can think of one instance where this calling pattern would pop up that is totally legitimate in the first ten seconds of thinking about it?
Carbon emissions are only part of the problem, in fact, they're only a fraction of the problem. There are far nastier gasses vented by industralizing societies that the US no longer puts out that other nations still belch into the air in great quantity. One of the reasons that Bush didn't sign onto the Kyoto Accords was because the accords did little to nothing to curtail non-carbon emissions.
There have also been attempts to track the rate of mutation in mitocondrial DNA to try and determine how far back in time this killoff occured, with mixed results.
When you agree to the EULA, you are signing a legally binding contract that you aren't going to be using programs like Wowsharp. Argue the ethics all you want, but it's Blizzard's game and their rules.
Personally? I think it's not only unethical but also a sign of a lack of skill.
Hit the nail on the head here. The notification of the Warden WAS given, in the EULA. If you don't read all of the terms of the contract you're signing, you have no right to whine about it later.
The sad thing is, this whole deal was started because one of the WRITERS for the very programs that the Warden was sniffing around for discovered how he kept getting caught and started to whine loudly and constantly.
On top of this, MS is suffering from the aftereffects of its own campaign to get companies to upgrade every time a new version came out. There are still quite a few businesses and government agencies who are stinging from the horrible botch that was ME.
I know there are certainly still county and state government offices around where I live still using ME simply because nobody will budget OS upgrades.
This is like the ajar scare quite a few years ago now. Artificial things bad! Natural things good! What's happening is, a couple of very bored people with way too much time and money went out, drummed up some support from dull witted, impressionable people and went out to do somehting sensational to drum up publicity.
The only reason anybody got any attention is because they started to strip down.
You aren't kidding. A lot of museums have no idea what exactly they have sitting around. How many years have the upper skulls of particularly interesting hominids sat, moldering in a museum archive, mislabled as turtle shells?
The flaw of a large institution is that it is often slow to react to oncoming change. In addition to this, a sufficiently large institution can use its size and influence in an attempt to halt change entirely so that it can maintain its previous mode of operation.
It takes a truly monumental change to upset the apple cart.
Really it has all come down to the art of sucking less. People just really don't try as hard anymore. An aquaintance of mine put it like this: is 77, Lucas was hungry. He wasn't trying to make a box office hit, he was trying to make a fun movie. He wasn't looking for high art, he was looking for entertainment.
I think one of the pitfalls that film makers fall into is that they try to DO too much. They can't make something entertaining and it winds up being stupid. Or they try to make something artistic and it turns out astonishingly bland. I'm not going to point any fingers at when it happened or why it happened, that just seems to be how things have turned out.
A movie CAN be interesting and entertaining and fun to watch without really doing anything new for the artform.
The trick is finding out what sucks.. and what doesn't suck... So far there's been little effort in actually doing that, and a lot of effort put into simply 'sucking less.'
The human mind really is a fascinating thing. Think about all of the things that you perceive during the day. All the sights, smells, tastes and everything else. You're continually bombarded with so much information that you cannot possibly be paying attention to everything coming in. Doesn't it make a certain amount of sense for evolution to put some sort of mechanism into the brain to help collate those little signs that you would otherwise ignore into a larger, more apparent picture if it adds up to something Farking Dangerous?
The amusing thing is, if I recall correctly, the Kyoto Accords do absolutely nothing about gasses far worse than CO2 for pollution and greenhouse effects that the US no longer touches, yet quite a few signers of the accords themselves are quite happy to continue spewing into the air.
This is more than JUST a Chinese thing, there are people in the States who do this sort of thing... and it spreads across far, far more than just one or two games. Companies like IGE have been trying to set up systems across all MMOs to generate currency they can sell.
The end result of all this is inflation.
On most FF11 servers, for example, the Archer Ring is dropped by a single monster in the game, and there are people who work shifts camping that thing. To sell at an inflated rate to generate income. To sell by their company. To players. The result is a feedback loop that creates out of control inflation.
Some games make it harder for botters to play. Others become a bit more up front. World of Warcraft PvP server players have started compiling lists of known farmers working in shifts and are going around pounding them flat whenever they can (more power to em).
Meanwhile, IGE's mouthpiece can sit back in an interview and smugly say that his business is the wave of the future and has no ill effect on any game it's involved in, all the while watching his bank account climb.
Certainly, mashing farmers is cathartic... but the real solution is to NOT patronize these people.
I concurr. People saw that it was shut down and seem to be automatically assuming things one way or the other. Unless someone has their Great Karnak hat and crystal ball out and is reading the future, I seriously doubt anyone (save for the parties directly involved) has any clue what's going on.
But since Yellow Journalism is back in a big way, scary headlines sell.
I'd hate to sound like I'm accepting of this sort of nonsense, but since when is any of this actually news? It's been going on for a long time in some form or another. I've seen it happen and I've seen the very amusing reactions companies generate when what they thought was a sure-thing positive review backfire horribly. I'm not entirely certain why it's suddenly some sort of big deal now though.
I've been sitting here, ove rthe past few days, thinking about how much the world I live in has actually changed since September 11, 2001. And you know? For a long tiem I was pretty happy. Things had, on a personal level, been looking up for me.
Recently, though.. I started thinking about how I went ABOUT my day to day life.
I've adopted a real hatred of air travel.
Everyone I know has.
We drive everywhere, we avoid airports and suggest to people they do the same. Why? Nothing to do with terrorism. It's the hassle of dealing with security around the airports. I live near a naval/air base and the local international airport has been in high alert ever since. Beautiful, freshly rennovated facilities are being entirely unused now, which I find rather amusing.
Security has skyrocketed. And none of it is out of a concern for safety. It's all flexing muscle and trying to look important, as if they have a reason to justify their existance.
Nobody REALLY gives any effort to it. It's all about shifting the grief of the job off on someone else.
So.. Yeah.
I'd hate to use the 'if we do such and such the terrorists win' cliche but.. well.. wake up, Grandma's dead.
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Irony and Satire become a little more hazy when people have a nasty habit of going ahead with suggestions about randomly meddling with other pages.
Is it a sign that this technique is grasping at straws that I can think of one instance where this calling pattern would pop up that is totally legitimate in the first ten seconds of thinking about it?
The overseas shipping industry.
Carbon emissions are only part of the problem, in fact, they're only a fraction of the problem. There are far nastier gasses vented by industralizing societies that the US no longer puts out that other nations still belch into the air in great quantity. One of the reasons that Bush didn't sign onto the Kyoto Accords was because the accords did little to nothing to curtail non-carbon emissions.
There have also been attempts to track the rate of mutation in mitocondrial DNA to try and determine how far back in time this killoff occured, with mixed results.
Didn't I hear something about a huge stink over a genetric researcher who DEMANDED a lab assistant donate their eggs?
Said governemnt official has apparently been replaced by a short shell script...
I heard about this find years ago.
Heck, it's been on the Discovery Channel at least once or twice.
I do not trust a python to give me advice on how securing my chicken coup is morally wrong.
When you agree to the EULA, you are signing a legally binding contract that you aren't going to be using programs like Wowsharp. Argue the ethics all you want, but it's Blizzard's game and their rules.
Personally? I think it's not only unethical but also a sign of a lack of skill.
Hit the nail on the head here. The notification of the Warden WAS given, in the EULA. If you don't read all of the terms of the contract you're signing, you have no right to whine about it later.
The sad thing is, this whole deal was started because one of the WRITERS for the very programs that the Warden was sniffing around for discovered how he kept getting caught and started to whine loudly and constantly.
Consider the source.
On top of this, MS is suffering from the aftereffects of its own campaign to get companies to upgrade every time a new version came out. There are still quite a few businesses and government agencies who are stinging from the horrible botch that was ME.
I know there are certainly still county and state government offices around where I live still using ME simply because nobody will budget OS upgrades.
The workers are NOT pleased.
Hopefully people will have learned the mistakes that caused the last great .com implosion and not get the economy trashed yet again.
Brainless speculation and investment in junk does not an economy bolster.
At least, not in the long view.
Not really in the short view either.
This is like the ajar scare quite a few years ago now. Artificial things bad! Natural things good! What's happening is, a couple of very bored people with way too much time and money went out, drummed up some support from dull witted, impressionable people and went out to do somehting sensational to drum up publicity.
The only reason anybody got any attention is because they started to strip down.
Just a bunch of stupid co-eds acting like fools.
I know.. I'm completely blown away by the concept...
You aren't kidding. A lot of museums have no idea what exactly they have sitting around. How many years have the upper skulls of particularly interesting hominids sat, moldering in a museum archive, mislabled as turtle shells?
The flaw of a large institution is that it is often slow to react to oncoming change. In addition to this, a sufficiently large institution can use its size and influence in an attempt to halt change entirely so that it can maintain its previous mode of operation.
It takes a truly monumental change to upset the apple cart.
Really it has all come down to the art of sucking less. People just really don't try as hard anymore. An aquaintance of mine put it like this: is 77, Lucas was hungry. He wasn't trying to make a box office hit, he was trying to make a fun movie. He wasn't looking for high art, he was looking for entertainment.
I think one of the pitfalls that film makers fall into is that they try to DO too much. They can't make something entertaining and it winds up being stupid. Or they try to make something artistic and it turns out astonishingly bland. I'm not going to point any fingers at when it happened or why it happened, that just seems to be how things have turned out.
A movie CAN be interesting and entertaining and fun to watch without really doing anything new for the artform.
The trick is finding out what sucks.. and what doesn't suck... So far there's been little effort in actually doing that, and a lot of effort put into simply 'sucking less.'
The human mind really is a fascinating thing. Think about all of the things that you perceive during the day. All the sights, smells, tastes and everything else. You're continually bombarded with so much information that you cannot possibly be paying attention to everything coming in. Doesn't it make a certain amount of sense for evolution to put some sort of mechanism into the brain to help collate those little signs that you would otherwise ignore into a larger, more apparent picture if it adds up to something Farking Dangerous?
The amusing thing is, if I recall correctly, the Kyoto Accords do absolutely nothing about gasses far worse than CO2 for pollution and greenhouse effects that the US no longer touches, yet quite a few signers of the accords themselves are quite happy to continue spewing into the air.
This is more than JUST a Chinese thing, there are people in the States who do this sort of thing... and it spreads across far, far more than just one or two games. Companies like IGE have been trying to set up systems across all MMOs to generate currency they can sell.
The end result of all this is inflation.
On most FF11 servers, for example, the Archer Ring is dropped by a single monster in the game, and there are people who work shifts camping that thing. To sell at an inflated rate to generate income. To sell by their company. To players. The result is a feedback loop that creates out of control inflation.
Some games make it harder for botters to play. Others become a bit more up front. World of Warcraft PvP server players have started compiling lists of known farmers working in shifts and are going around pounding them flat whenever they can (more power to em).
Meanwhile, IGE's mouthpiece can sit back in an interview and smugly say that his business is the wave of the future and has no ill effect on any game it's involved in, all the while watching his bank account climb.
Certainly, mashing farmers is cathartic... but the real solution is to NOT patronize these people.
I concurr. People saw that it was shut down and seem to be automatically assuming things one way or the other. Unless someone has their Great Karnak hat and crystal ball out and is reading the future, I seriously doubt anyone (save for the parties directly involved) has any clue what's going on.
But since Yellow Journalism is back in a big way, scary headlines sell.
I'd hate to sound like I'm accepting of this sort of nonsense, but since when is any of this actually news? It's been going on for a long time in some form or another. I've seen it happen and I've seen the very amusing reactions companies generate when what they thought was a sure-thing positive review backfire horribly. I'm not entirely certain why it's suddenly some sort of big deal now though.
..well, not really.
And here I thought *I* wasn't photogenic.
I've been sitting here, ove rthe past few days, thinking about how much the world I live in has actually changed since September 11, 2001. And you know? For a long tiem I was pretty happy. Things had, on a personal level, been looking up for me.
Recently, though.. I started thinking about how I went ABOUT my day to day life.
I've adopted a real hatred of air travel.
Everyone I know has.
We drive everywhere, we avoid airports and suggest to people they do the same. Why? Nothing to do with terrorism. It's the hassle of dealing with security around the airports. I live near a naval/air base and the local international airport has been in high alert ever since. Beautiful, freshly rennovated facilities are being entirely unused now, which I find rather amusing.
Security has skyrocketed. And none of it is out of a concern for safety. It's all flexing muscle and trying to look important, as if they have a reason to justify their existance.
Nobody REALLY gives any effort to it. It's all about shifting the grief of the job off on someone else.
So.. Yeah.
I'd hate to use the 'if we do such and such the terrorists win' cliche but.. well.. wake up, Grandma's dead.
They DID win.
Funny, ain't it?