None of the victims chose to pursue legal recourse, but if they had, I have no doubt some slimy lawyer would of gotten a decent settlement on the off chance a jury might go their way.
Just because no real money was exchanged doesn't mean fraud and intentional emotional injury didn't occur. "If it doesn't fit, you must acquit" got OJ off, how much money could a lawyer suck out with something even more simple? Time = Money, and this guy = an asshole.
This type of thing will eventually go to court, it is only a matter of time. Whether it is this paticular guy or not remains to be seen.
That only makes it worse. 5 hours into a 10 hour game, and suddenly you realize you are 45 minutes behind the other team. Who is going to want to join that game on the losing side? Who is going to stick around for another 5 hours for assured loss?
I think the whole gaming-is-bad-for-you press is overblown. There hasn't been enough time for kids to grow up with gaming and learn how it fits into their lives for people to draw conclusions on how good/bad it is. What we are seeing is people who have half a foot in the door with computer literacy and another foot in the past, getting caught up in a whirlwind of an exploding addictive market.
I've played games for a long time, and yes, you get caught up in games. You get addicted to games, hype, communitys, and you learn to control your behavior. When kids grow up there are so many times when parents say, "It's a phase." These are phases that the whole gaming world is undergoing and people get panicy because they never got the chance to go through it during the saftey of childhood.
The more people you talk to who have experinced the let down of an overhyped game will tell you they just don't get that involved anymore. People who go hard core into a game and play 10 hours a day get burnt out, and just don't go back to that kind of playing. This isn't to say that gaming itself is a phase, I think it will be around for a long, long time. These new trends will move more twords younger ages, and as long as parents don't freak out due to media coverage of the evil video games, people won't be so ill-prepared for what happens when you get interested in gaming.
Paying for lifetime US-quality medical services, life insurance, widow's benifits, orphan benifits, pension benifits, college costs, and all the other costs associated with putting the numbers of men in the field, the cost benifit ratio may well prove to favor robots and other systems that keep service members out of harms way.
It's been in development for years and years, and they've managed to port diffrent mods to the Source engine, but didn't include death match? Some of the best parts of Half-Life 1 was playing the snarks-DM level, on top of which simple DM introduces you to multiplayer at its most basic level. Shoot, ammo, strafe.
Half-Life as a multiplayer game is a disaster, with steam and Counter-Strike which I can still play (with the same maps!) on my 4 year old disk.
I don't care if it's the bee's knees in single player, I haven't seen a single person who says it matches Max Payne 2 or Beyond Good and Evil. It's a shooter, the whole point is to deliver multiplayer, and they couldn't be bothered to package 5 or 6 DM maps. With that kind of service, there is no way it deserves the scores it's getting.
Why use a knife? Find a little poison ivy or something similar, get yourself a bad rash on and around the area implanted, and claim you are having an allergic reaction. They will take it out. Get everyone else in school to do the same.
You have the poison ivy, you know what to do with the people who don't play along.
It was ruled by the supreme court quite a while ago that corporations may exercise the same rights as individuals. THIS has got to go.
And small business get the shaft. What is a small business if not a single, couple, or several people who only became a true "business" because of the tax and other benefits afforded businesses? If you strip away their rights, you give them further disincentives to try their hand in a marketplace dominated by Walmarts of every product and service. This issue has so quietly slipped from the political landscape, but as everyone talks about big business, there is only one real alternative, and that's small business.
If the FCC had to get congress to put their heads together and pass something (house and senate) every time they wanted to make a decision, they would never get anywhere. The IRS does it's job without congress pulling every puppet-string, while it looks like the CIA may need a little congressional intervention.
If cellphones interfere with hospital equipment, the FCC needs the power to indepentantly step in and tell people to shut the damn cell phones off anywhere near hospitals without waiting for congress. If congress, the courts, or a presidental directive ("The voice of the President") wants to overrule them, so be it.
Heh, actually, there was (still is?) a provision in Canadian libel laws that said it didn't matter if you were reporting facts, but whether or not you were using those facts in an attempt to maliciously defame someone.
I think the idea is, we don't want another ice age. We don't want Jupiter-style hurricanes tearing the earth apart. We want a habitat we can survive and flourish in (as humans) even if we have to stop some natural progression that's already been kicked off.
The money it takes to recover from each environmental "disaster" is real, it stands for human labor and time spent gathering, processing, and applying materials to rebuild economies. We do not have an infinite amount of labor or money to adapt, so we need an answer that helps us live as peacefully as possible.
As someone on an incredibly low, and incredibly fixed budget, I'll say that I buy food when I need it, if I have the cash. Nothing you do or say will change the way the supermarket operates, and if you are too broke to buy food you end up A: getting food stamps, B: going to a food kitchen or food bank.
Prices in my area are very high for very simple things like bread and sandwich meat, but you can't exactly haggle at the cash register. Tomatoes are supposed to be outrageously expensive this year due to a number of reasons, the supermarket won't drop their prices because people are hungry.
We don't need courts to fight this one out, we need legislators to lay down the law. Pun intended.
After the election people went back to their lives and more or less the media said, "Well, Democracy worked." When courts are fighting it out, deciding wether the tax man can come collect over something that has never been collected before, there is no precedent and any ruling will end up angering people. When a law is passed, for better or worse, our representatives decide the way things will be and the judges rule on the constitutionality of that law.
Ambiguous laws are not fair to the people or the courts, and it is the jobs of the legislature to fix this, not the courts.
And now you have a ton of money sitting in a low risk low yield account doing nothing for you. Or maybe you are up to your eyeballs in debt because your washer, and your dryer died and you had to foot the repair bill. Either way you are no better off.
Properly investing the money into property, higher yield accounts or spending it on insurance that is worth the expense is the way to go, stuffing it in the mattress under the bed is not the answer.
If you don't have a rainy day fund without having to spare every extended warranty option, you shouldn't be worrying about this anyway.
Looking at sites like CheapAssGamer.com you will see how people turn 10$ into over 200$ buying and selling using price diffrences from stores like Walmart, the notorious GameRush, GameStop, even Electroics Boutique.
One of the quotes I remember the most is "Any experienced CAG can turn credit into cash." Half of all the deals are ABOUT turning credit into MORE credit, while the rest serve the less hardcore and simpily offer cheap games.
Cutting out the hardcore abusers would save these companies tons of money in all kinds of fees, and I am sure they do not represent anywhere near 40%, but likely make up a large portion of those losses.
I think we all know why they wanted Heather Graham *NSFW* involved with EQ2. People are tired with elves. I wonder how long until the nude patch is leaked.
I played Everquest up to level....19....
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Can anyone who plays tell me what the appeal is? Every other MMORPG has had a better community, better gameplay, better customer service. What about this game drives parents to neglect their children and children to neglect their studies?
This is perhaps the most fucked up thing I have read today. Force people to have children so we can force them into foster homes so the gays can have to fight to adopt-a-crack-baby?
Perhaps you do not have any understanding of "The System." "The System" is this. You get a caseworker. You get shoved into what amounts to a concentration camp. If you are lucky, you get "Temporary Placement" with people who are doing it for the money and couldn't give two shits about you. "The System" doesn't care about you, because there are a hundred more where you came from, a thousand more using your plan, and 50% have more serious needs than you. Should you be adopted by a family who you don't know, and they don't know you, you get the who fucking knows how many times in a lifetime oppurtounity chance of being forced to live by someone elses cultural and social standards, which is just like the rest of your life since you've been put in "The System."
The United States has set aside hundreds upon hundreds of National and State parks for people to go and enjoy nature untouched by the housing that is steadily covering every inch of this country. I don't think it would be that much of a shame to set aside five to ten official waste sites from 100-200 acres each in an effort to convert to nuclear power.
On the other side of the coin, if it still causes illness, the power generated by the plants and the money saved is what will be funding our economy, and our lifestyles that produce some of the most innovative medicine in the world and stretch individual life spans to the most atrocious levels.
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Does no one remember this?
None of the victims chose to pursue legal recourse, but if they had, I have no doubt some slimy lawyer would of gotten a decent settlement on the off chance a jury might go their way.
Just because no real money was exchanged doesn't mean fraud and intentional emotional injury didn't occur. "If it doesn't fit, you must acquit" got OJ off, how much money could a lawyer suck out with something even more simple? Time = Money, and this guy = an asshole.
This type of thing will eventually go to court, it is only a matter of time. Whether it is this paticular guy or not remains to be seen.
That only makes it worse. 5 hours into a 10 hour game, and suddenly you realize you are 45 minutes behind the other team. Who is going to want to join that game on the losing side? Who is going to stick around for another 5 hours for assured loss?
It's not a bug, it's a feature.
I think the whole gaming-is-bad-for-you press is overblown. There hasn't been enough time for kids to grow up with gaming and learn how it fits into their lives for people to draw conclusions on how good/bad it is. What we are seeing is people who have half a foot in the door with computer literacy and another foot in the past, getting caught up in a whirlwind of an exploding addictive market.
I've played games for a long time, and yes, you get caught up in games. You get addicted to games, hype, communitys, and you learn to control your behavior. When kids grow up there are so many times when parents say, "It's a phase." These are phases that the whole gaming world is undergoing and people get panicy because they never got the chance to go through it during the saftey of childhood.
The more people you talk to who have experinced the let down of an overhyped game will tell you they just don't get that involved anymore. People who go hard core into a game and play 10 hours a day get burnt out, and just don't go back to that kind of playing. This isn't to say that gaming itself is a phase, I think it will be around for a long, long time. These new trends will move more twords younger ages, and as long as parents don't freak out due to media coverage of the evil video games, people won't be so ill-prepared for what happens when you get interested in gaming.
Paying for lifetime US-quality medical services, life insurance, widow's benifits, orphan benifits, pension benifits, college costs, and all the other costs associated with putting the numbers of men in the field, the cost benifit ratio may well prove to favor robots and other systems that keep service members out of harms way.
What it comes down to is the almighty dollar.
You mean jam the signal, scoop up the bot, and reprogram it? I don't think the DMCA will stop any opposition forces.
Even hardware intrusion detection won't last long against a determined hacker with plenty of bots to play with.
The same war is waged over real soldier's morale with propaganda. Is it so inconceivable that the next step is waves of defecting robots?
It's been in development for years and years, and they've managed to port diffrent mods to the Source engine, but didn't include death match? Some of the best parts of Half-Life 1 was playing the snarks-DM level, on top of which simple DM introduces you to multiplayer at its most basic level. Shoot, ammo, strafe.
Half-Life as a multiplayer game is a disaster, with steam and Counter-Strike which I can still play (with the same maps!) on my 4 year old disk.
I don't care if it's the bee's knees in single player, I haven't seen a single person who says it matches Max Payne 2 or Beyond Good and Evil. It's a shooter, the whole point is to deliver multiplayer, and they couldn't be bothered to package 5 or 6 DM maps. With that kind of service, there is no way it deserves the scores it's getting.
Why use a knife? Find a little poison ivy or something similar, get yourself a bad rash on and around the area implanted, and claim you are having an allergic reaction. They will take it out. Get everyone else in school to do the same.
You have the poison ivy, you know what to do with the people who don't play along.
It was ruled by the supreme court quite a while ago that corporations may exercise the same rights as individuals. THIS has got to go.
And small business get the shaft. What is a small business if not a single, couple, or several people who only became a true "business" because of the tax and other benefits afforded businesses? If you strip away their rights, you give them further disincentives to try their hand in a marketplace dominated by Walmarts of every product and service. This issue has so quietly slipped from the political landscape, but as everyone talks about big business, there is only one real alternative, and that's small business.
If the FCC had to get congress to put their heads together and pass something (house and senate) every time they wanted to make a decision, they would never get anywhere. The IRS does it's job without congress pulling every puppet-string, while it looks like the CIA may need a little congressional intervention.
If cellphones interfere with hospital equipment, the FCC needs the power to indepentantly step in and tell people to shut the damn cell phones off anywhere near hospitals without waiting for congress. If congress, the courts, or a presidental directive ("The voice of the President") wants to overrule them, so be it.
Heh, actually, there was (still is?) a provision in Canadian libel laws that said it didn't matter if you were reporting facts, but whether or not you were using those facts in an attempt to maliciously defame someone.
How does anyone get elected?
A bigger index does not equal better search results, however, with the press this will generate, it will equal profits.
Those are good ideas....why don't you do a study, build a model, and get back to us?
I think the idea is, we don't want another ice age. We don't want Jupiter-style hurricanes tearing the earth apart. We want a habitat we can survive and flourish in (as humans) even if we have to stop some natural progression that's already been kicked off.
The money it takes to recover from each environmental "disaster" is real, it stands for human labor and time spent gathering, processing, and applying materials to rebuild economies. We do not have an infinite amount of labor or money to adapt, so we need an answer that helps us live as peacefully as possible.
As someone on an incredibly low, and incredibly fixed budget, I'll say that I buy food when I need it, if I have the cash. Nothing you do or say will change the way the supermarket operates, and if you are too broke to buy food you end up A: getting food stamps, B: going to a food kitchen or food bank.
Prices in my area are very high for very simple things like bread and sandwich meat, but you can't exactly haggle at the cash register. Tomatoes are supposed to be outrageously expensive this year due to a number of reasons, the supermarket won't drop their prices because people are hungry.
India closes it's borders. Mexico soon to follow.
There are more news organizations around the world than those we are familiar with in the USA.
We don't need courts to fight this one out, we need legislators to lay down the law. Pun intended.
After the election people went back to their lives and more or less the media said, "Well, Democracy worked." When courts are fighting it out, deciding wether the tax man can come collect over something that has never been collected before, there is no precedent and any ruling will end up angering people. When a law is passed, for better or worse, our representatives decide the way things will be and the judges rule on the constitutionality of that law.
Ambiguous laws are not fair to the people or the courts, and it is the jobs of the legislature to fix this, not the courts.
And now you have a ton of money sitting in a low risk low yield account doing nothing for you. Or maybe you are up to your eyeballs in debt because your washer, and your dryer died and you had to foot the repair bill. Either way you are no better off.
Properly investing the money into property, higher yield accounts or spending it on insurance that is worth the expense is the way to go, stuffing it in the mattress under the bed is not the answer.
If you don't have a rainy day fund without having to spare every extended warranty option, you shouldn't be worrying about this anyway.
My bad...its 20% of customers wrong.
I was just thinking about how much I could save on those latest Halo 2 deals.
Looking at sites like CheapAssGamer.com you will see how people turn 10$ into over 200$ buying and selling using price diffrences from stores like Walmart, the notorious GameRush, GameStop, even Electroics Boutique.
One of the quotes I remember the most is "Any experienced CAG can turn credit into cash." Half of all the deals are ABOUT turning credit into MORE credit, while the rest serve the less hardcore and simpily offer cheap games.
Cutting out the hardcore abusers would save these companies tons of money in all kinds of fees, and I am sure they do not represent anywhere near 40%, but likely make up a large portion of those losses.
I think we all know why they wanted Heather Graham *NSFW* involved with EQ2. People are tired with elves. I wonder how long until the nude patch is leaked.
Can anyone who plays tell me what the appeal is? Every other MMORPG has had a better community, better gameplay, better customer service. What about this game drives parents to neglect their children and children to neglect their studies?
This is perhaps the most fucked up thing I have read today. Force people to have children so we can force them into foster homes so the gays can have to fight to adopt-a-crack-baby?
Perhaps you do not have any understanding of "The System." "The System" is this. You get a caseworker. You get shoved into what amounts to a concentration camp. If you are lucky, you get "Temporary Placement" with people who are doing it for the money and couldn't give two shits about you. "The System" doesn't care about you, because there are a hundred more where you came from, a thousand more using your plan, and 50% have more serious needs than you. Should you be adopted by a family who you don't know, and they don't know you, you get the who fucking knows how many times in a lifetime oppurtounity chance of being forced to live by someone elses cultural and social standards, which is just like the rest of your life since you've been put in "The System."
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The United States has set aside hundreds upon hundreds of National and State parks for people to go and enjoy nature untouched by the housing that is steadily covering every inch of this country. I don't think it would be that much of a shame to set aside five to ten official waste sites from 100-200 acres each in an effort to convert to nuclear power.
On the other side of the coin, if it still causes illness, the power generated by the plants and the money saved is what will be funding our economy, and our lifestyles that produce some of the most innovative medicine in the world and stretch individual life spans to the most atrocious levels.