6) PRIZES: Forty (40) Prizes will be awarded: $1,000 cash, awarded as a check from the sweepstakes administrator. Total approximate retail value of all prizes=$40,000. Winners will be notified as outlined above and prizes will be awarded by U.S. mail. Prizes are nontransferable and no substitution is allowed, except by the sponsor who reserves the right to award a prize of equal or greater value if advertised prize is unavailable. Any expenses not explicitly listed herein, including any applicable tax on a prize is the sole responsibility of the winner. Sponsor reserves the right to substitute a prize of equal or greater value if entire prize or a portion of the prize is unavailable.
Huh? The lawyers that wrote this think Microsoft might not be able to scrape together $1000 for the prize? Bill Gates could probably find that under his couch cushions.
A professional chef at a fancy restaurant can make a lot of money. The guy flipping burgers at McDonald's makes minimum wage. They're both cooking, so what's the difference? The chef's job requires a level of skill that not very many people have, whereas almost anyone can flip burgers. You can't just lump them both into a job category called "cooks" and pretend they're doing the same thing. Similarly, the most skilled programmers will continue to make a lot of money while the people writing html code see their jobs go to high school students or overseas.
It's true that your player's race will affect gameplay - but the situation was far worse in earlier versions of the game. In fact, before the Emancipation Proclamation patch was applied in 1863, players could be "owned" by other players and forced to work for them as slaves - typically endless "farming" of certain items such as Tobacco and Sugar Cane. Whether or not you could be owned as a slave was determined by your character's race.
Many problems remained after the patch. This has required additional patches to ensure that all players have an equal chance to develop their character and participate in the in-game economy regardless of character race. The admins still have some work to do, but the game is much better in this regard than it used to be.
Unfortunately, many of these problems continue due to malicious players. On several occasions, players have amassed power and tried to kill all players of a certain race. The worst of these was a German player who killed several million players this way in the 1940s, and started a round of PvP combat that lasted six years and involved player armies from nearly all the regions of the game world. The fighting only stopped after a group of players in the North America region discovered the Nuclear Weapons Exploit and used it to force a surrender.
Microsoft is already using money to influence politics, and they favor Republicans 2-1... you think they can give Bush a few hundred "extra" Florida votes if he needs them?
The goal of a corporation is to make as much money as possible for the shareholders. If the record labels think they can make more money by going after the touring revenues, they'll do it, regardless of what is happening on the CD side of the business.
This would be like saying Major League Baseball is charging more for TV rights because ticket sales are down. Believe me, if MLB thinks they can milk more money out of the TV networks, they'll do it no matter how many people go to the games.
Many people are uncomfortable with the idea of being on their own. Put them in a room by themselves, and they get restless and bored. I think most of these people can't deal with the idea that some people can entertain themselves in this situation (read a book, play a video game, whatever) and they see introverts as people that must be defective in some way. When the news media focuses on people that are both antisocial and introverts (Ted Kaczynski for example), people start to think anyone that's introverted must be antisocial. This explains why people freak out about the possibility of their kid falling into the "gamer" stereotype.
Being an introvert doesn't mean you don't like the company of other people - what it does mean is you have the ability to work independently, and may find that interacting with other people (especially those you don't know well) requires a lot of energy and doesn't come naturally. Of course, many worthwhile/fun activities aren't easy to do. There is nothing wrong with this, even if popular (usa) culture says you have to be an extravert.
First, a lot of spam is "stock tips" (pump n dump scams) where the spammer wants you to buy shares of the stock, or links to porn sites where the spammer makes money through referral fees. These don't require spammers to collect money from the people they spam.
As for the rest of the spam - if spammers couldn't collect credit card payments, they would switch to paypal, or direct debit from checking accounts, or something else. Sure, the response rate would be less, but given the economics of spam, spamming would still be profitable. That said, if the credit card companies can help reduce the volume of spam, I'm all for it.
It's probably stolen by drug dealers who then pass it off as the real thing. Or, since we're so used to being lied to by the government (I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa, etc.) people assume that if the sign says there's no THC then the plants must have THC.
Humans should have evolved 8 fingers
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Then we would all be using hex, and non-geeks could understand a binary currency system.
In addition to your suggestions, I would also offer this one. In the U.K., sales tax is included in the price of items listed. This means that with a bit of mental arithmetic, I can work out exactly how much I am going to have to pay and get it ready while I am standing in the queue. Also, purchases tend to be rounded to multiples of 5 or 10 [yes, yes, multiples of 10 are multiples of 5] pence. In the U.S., the sales tax means that you usually don't know the cost until it's time to fork over the mulah. At this point, you don't want to seem like some old lady fishing about for change so you just fork over a wad of bills and let the cashier do the change thing.
I agree. The few times I can do this in the US (like buying coffee at work, which I know is 0.91, or 1.29 if you get the Starbucks) the transaction ends up taking a lot less time. The advantage to the US system, though, is you always know how much money the government is taking. The European system hides it more.
The oil industry makes campaign contributions. Result: US troops are sent to protect the oil wells and the Oil Ministry.
The RIAA makes campaign contributions. Result: US lawyers are sent to protect the latest Britney Spears and Eminem albums.
The Iraqi National Museum doesn't contribute to the campaign. Result: The museum gets looted, and priceless artifacts thousands of years old are stolen or destroyed.
Perhaps property owners in Damascus should take notice? Or is this just a wild conspiracy theory?
President Bush has accused the Moon of aiding and abetting the Iraqi regime by lighting up the battlefield at night, nullifying the US advantage in night-vision technology.
In response, the President has ordered the USS Kitty Hawk to deploy to the Sea of Tranquility.
I was just thinking that myself. While we're at it, let's sue anyone that has 401(k) money in an S&P 500 index fund for wrongful death because Philip^H^H^H^H^H^HAltria is part of the S&P 500.
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6) PRIZES: Forty (40) Prizes will be awarded: $1,000 cash, awarded as a check from the sweepstakes administrator. Total approximate retail value of all prizes=$40,000. Winners will be notified as outlined above and prizes will be awarded by U.S. mail. Prizes are nontransferable and no substitution is allowed, except by the sponsor who reserves the right to award a prize of equal or greater value if advertised prize is unavailable. Any expenses not explicitly listed herein, including any applicable tax on a prize is the sole responsibility of the winner. Sponsor reserves the right to substitute a prize of equal or greater value if entire prize or a portion of the prize is unavailable.
Huh? The lawyers that wrote this think Microsoft might not be able to scrape together $1000 for the prize? Bill Gates could probably find that under his couch cushions.
A professional chef at a fancy restaurant can make a lot of money. The guy flipping burgers at McDonald's makes minimum wage. They're both cooking, so what's the difference? The chef's job requires a level of skill that not very many people have, whereas almost anyone can flip burgers. You can't just lump them both into a job category called "cooks" and pretend they're doing the same thing. Similarly, the most skilled programmers will continue to make a lot of money while the people writing html code see their jobs go to high school students or overseas.
It's true that your player's race will affect gameplay - but the situation was far worse in earlier versions of the game. In fact, before the Emancipation Proclamation patch was applied in 1863, players could be "owned" by other players and forced to work for them as slaves - typically endless "farming" of certain items such as Tobacco and Sugar Cane. Whether or not you could be owned as a slave was determined by your character's race.
Many problems remained after the patch. This has required additional patches to ensure that all players have an equal chance to develop their character and participate in the in-game economy regardless of character race. The admins still have some work to do, but the game is much better in this regard than it used to be.
Unfortunately, many of these problems continue due to malicious players. On several occasions, players have amassed power and tried to kill all players of a certain race. The worst of these was a German player who killed several million players this way in the 1940s, and started a round of PvP combat that lasted six years and involved player armies from nearly all the regions of the game world. The fighting only stopped after a group of players in the North America region discovered the Nuclear Weapons Exploit and used it to force a surrender.
Total soft money contributions made by Microsoft for the 2002 election cycle:
Republicans: $1,890,401
Democrats: $800,343
Source
Microsoft is already using money to influence politics, and they favor Republicans 2-1... you think they can give Bush a few hundred "extra" Florida votes if he needs them?
The goal of a corporation is to make as much money as possible for the shareholders. If the record labels think they can make more money by going after the touring revenues, they'll do it, regardless of what is happening on the CD side of the business.
This would be like saying Major League Baseball is charging more for TV rights because ticket sales are down. Believe me, if MLB thinks they can milk more money out of the TV networks, they'll do it no matter how many people go to the games.
Everyone should be required to install this ringtone before entering a theater.
Many people are uncomfortable with the idea of being on their own. Put them in a room by themselves, and they get restless and bored. I think most of these people can't deal with the idea that some people can entertain themselves in this situation (read a book, play a video game, whatever) and they see introverts as people that must be defective in some way. When the news media focuses on people that are both antisocial and introverts (Ted Kaczynski for example), people start to think anyone that's introverted must be antisocial. This explains why people freak out about the possibility of their kid falling into the "gamer" stereotype.
Being an introvert doesn't mean you don't like the company of other people - what it does mean is you have the ability to work independently, and may find that interacting with other people (especially those you don't know well) requires a lot of energy and doesn't come naturally. Of course, many worthwhile/fun activities aren't easy to do. There is nothing wrong with this, even if popular (usa) culture says you have to be an extravert.
First, a lot of spam is "stock tips" (pump n dump scams) where the spammer wants you to buy shares of the stock, or links to porn sites where the spammer makes money through referral fees. These don't require spammers to collect money from the people they spam.
As for the rest of the spam - if spammers couldn't collect credit card payments, they would switch to paypal, or direct debit from checking accounts, or something else. Sure, the response rate would be less, but given the economics of spam, spamming would still be profitable. That said, if the credit card companies can help reduce the volume of spam, I'm all for it.
It's probably stolen by drug dealers who then pass it off as the real thing. Or, since we're so used to being lied to by the government (I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa, etc.) people assume that if the sign says there's no THC then the plants must have THC.
Then we would all be using hex, and non-geeks could understand a binary currency system.
Excerpt from Census form:
9. Describe your religious beliefs:
a. Christian conservative
b. Other Christian
c. Please add my name to John Ashcroft's list of "suspicious persons"
I agree. The few times I can do this in the US (like buying coffee at work, which I know is 0.91, or 1.29 if you get the Starbucks) the transaction ends up taking a lot less time. The advantage to the US system, though, is you always know how much money the government is taking. The European system hides it more.
2^64 gold coins would weigh 522.97 trillion Kg, and would take up 2.86 cubic lightyears.
Assuming the volume of a gold coin is 31.36 quintillion cubic miles, and the mass is 28.6 milligrams, yes.
The oil industry makes campaign contributions. Result: US troops are sent to protect the oil wells and the Oil Ministry.
The RIAA makes campaign contributions. Result: US lawyers are sent to protect the latest Britney Spears and Eminem albums.
The Iraqi National Museum doesn't contribute to the campaign. Result: The museum gets looted, and priceless artifacts thousands of years old are stolen or destroyed.
Perhaps property owners in Damascus should take notice? Or is this just a wild conspiracy theory?
President Bush has accused the Moon of aiding and abetting the Iraqi regime by lighting up the battlefield at night, nullifying the US advantage in night-vision technology.
In response, the President has ordered the USS Kitty Hawk to deploy to the Sea of Tranquility.
I was just thinking that myself. While we're at it, let's sue anyone that has 401(k) money in an S&P 500 index fund for wrongful death because Philip^H^H^H^H^H^HAltria is part of the S&P 500.
Expect a slugfest with the Raiders finally winning 24-21 on a late TD
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I hope you're right... that would match my numbers in the office pool