It is no blood it is red blood in a humanoid creature.
This was discussed a few years ago when the MMORPG Asheron's Call 2 was released. They had red blood and also as you damaged creatures they started to show cuts, it got rated M.
They also had the in game option to turn the blood green and according to old discussion if they had gone with that it would of rated an upper teen. They stayed with the red blood since the MMORPG demographic is already primarily adult.
All of this existed before the US Patriot act, as far as this story is concered everything in it could of happened before.
Alot of what they complain about was more freely allowed under C-36.
Under the Patriot Act thier as of 2003 thier were 250 criminal charges and 130 convictions or guilty pleas.
During that same thier were 34 allegations of violations but no convitions.
The allegations are similar to the following
An inmate's allegation that during a physical examination a Bureau of Prisons physician told the inmate, "If I was in charge, I would execute every one of you... because of the crimes you all did." According to the report, the physician treated other inmates "in a cruel and unprofessional manner." After an internal Bureau of Prisons investigation substantiated the allegation, the physician received a verbal reprimand.
Claims that an Immigration and Naturalization Service detention enforcement officer "held a loaded gun to an alien detainee's head and threatened the detainee while transferring him to another detention facility."
That should be fairly easy to fight, since the card expired before they billed. A letter to both saying they charged an expired card should be enough to get that going.
With an actual expired card alot of times you get the same card number but with a new date, with the tempory cards they generate a new number so charging it is not tied to you also it has a maximum withdraw so even if they try to bill out it would come back as insignificant credit amount.
The main thing they are complaining about is that an American company could be ordered by a US court to supply info that they owned and was stored in Canada and that a US company that was storing infomation for a Canadian company could also be ordered by a court to provide infomation on a person.
This is no different then was going on before the patriot act, so no big change, it just looks better to the mass idiots if include the words US Patriot act in the headlines.
In addition to your credit card check your credit card companies web site and they will probably provide a way that you can create a temporay credit card number.
You can specify the experation date and the total amount that can be charged to it.
I always use thoses for anything that has an auto-renewal, if I forget about it and they recharge they cannot get the money. If it is something I do still use they will always send me a piece of e-mail telling me my subscription is about to expire.
Once you get it into inital orbit payload weight would not be a problem, size would matter size it could not block the sails. Whatever the payload is I hope that you don't mind it smashing into the planet. They don't discuss slowing down or landing.
Going at 60 kilometres per second it is going to take a good amount of fuel and time to slow that thing down.
I went with getting quicken 2004 for under $15 after shipping.
I figure this will last for 2 more years, and by then maybe ms-money or some other will have wisened up and I will switch to them.
"The clear answer is the folk who collect the investment fees"
Except in the US except for some very few cases in retirement funds you do not pay any fee. The companies make thier money by keeping a certain percent of monies earned from the investments not the deposits. Theses costs are not included in the interest shown in the fund, so if a fund says it earned 12% over a period it actually earned more but thier profit was already taken out. You can find funds that that do charge but that can take some work.
If they use the system that is used by US government employees and allows people to put the 2% of thier SS into that system, then the people would not see any direct costs. Even the worse case of that system has far exceeded the SS return.
It was not a comment on the message it was a question on when the message was made.
The parent did not post a link to the article, so I could check it myself, so seeing the comment that Buffet was 2nd richest indicated it was probably made 3+ years ago.
However it looks like the source was using incorrect figures by not bring the value of the richest people to a common currency denominator, in which Buffet is 2nd richest instead of third.
Interesting article however they are mixing pension plans with the American Social security and 401K plans.
Here is an older 1999 article from the Times which does a better job of explaining the British system.
Personnaly I could care less about what happens with the SS program, I retire in 30+ years and already am planning my retirement without factoring it in. I do miss the 14% salary that I am loosing because of it.
Ignoring the various side busnisses that have cropped up and the issues they bring most various arguments come from theses two sides.
The anti-outside selling has a problem because it brings an outside influence into the game. The best example I have seen of why this is wrong is this. Say you are playing a game of Monopoly with a bunch of friends, and park place broadway are owned by different people. On of the person offers the other person $5 in real world currency for the other place. While not agaist the rules it does change the game. Does it make a difference if they do the real world money exchange in private or in public?
The pro side says that they are just tring to make it easier for the casual player to compete in the game. Since the casual player has less time in the game and has problem getting all the better items they should be allowed to spend real world money in place of the time spent in-game
First it does not cause in-game inflation. While the costs of player sold goods may increase the basic costs to produce or any non-player rates do NOT increase nor does the chance that something will appear change. This is greed not inflation; the best term so far for this has been mudflation.
If you want to see inflation in a game they would need to tie in the costs of something with all the available money that all player posess. So the costs of NPC items raise and fall depending on the currentcy in the world.
Personnally the idea of the 24 hour in game clock, was on the most stupidest thing that was implemented in the game.
It is kind of cute that the clock chime at the same hour as RL, but that goes away really neat. Instead most people play at the same time and never get to see things like night and day in the game.
So it is day or night almost all the time a person plays and they never get to see the humans turn into worgs or the worgs as humans.
Besides I don't think they are factoring in actual daylight hours so come summer when it is light outside the game will be dark, and thier goes on of thier purposes of having the game reflecting the players outdoors conditions.
The breaking up of the people into different physical servers is the main reason you do implement instances/zones/areas. Then you have a seperate comm server to handle the communication between players.
With the lack of instances for such large areas as WoW does, does mean that people are all on the same physical server and why they are needing to upgrade the hardware.
In the older days of MMORPG(3-4 years ago) 3000 was the magical number passed around as the max number of people that could be logged on at once with, just looking at numbers and WoW far exceeds that. Then to make matter even worse they implemented that very stupid time zone stuff so you get people filling the servers at the same prime time.
Tie that in with the announcement that they implemente code tuning along with the better hardware then look at what is the result and thoses queues are not going away for a long,long time.
If you go by numbers that SOE released on EQ around 2/3 of the monthly fee goes into paying costs.
In addition they still have loans and don't forget VU wants a chunk of that money.
Also EQ is rather stable and does not need to purchase new servers, so that money is gone rather quick.
If you read it more clearly, along with additional info since posted, the main battlegrounds will not be instanced.
The main one which is persistant and gives bonuses to the currently winning side will be the one with the major queue. While you are twiddling your thumbs waiting you can enter the instanciated areas which will allow just plain PvP for the bonus the points gives your character.
Or I could be wrong and then WoW would be so much dummer then DaOC, since the battlefields would just be meaningless and provide no additional capability to the winning side. Then atleast DaOC had the various keeps and areas you could take over.
On main reason is this administration likes to keep closed lips. Another example is that people have been criticizing Bush for never visiting people wondered in war or calling the parents of thoses who died, that has not been the case however they just don't release press accounts when they do this.
That is not really the solution they are tring to solve with this, considering that EQ2 was just released and is doing really good.
For the majority of MMORPG players, they only play one game, and will cancel the previous one. At that point only 5%(10% is considered really high) of the quit players will ever come back. With the subscription thing, SOE is gambling that people will be willing to pay the $10 extra just on that off chance they will go back to thier old game(covered by subscription) or they will think that if they want to take a break from thier current game they can just purchase a $20 copy of the retail box for another game and they already have the subscription.
Check the boards, one is having a survey of players and if they would recommend WoW to friends over 40% would not.
WoW servers are having a major problem, and while the game is good it can be a major hassle to get online, even on low population servers.
Check the server you plan to join and its average login queue for the times you want to play before you start.
The problem WoW is having is downtime of servers, don't expect much PR from them until they fix the servers and can handle the increased sales that PR could create. Same reason they are not producing more boxes.
You are starting to see more problems on the fan boards, one is having a survey on if current players would recommended WoW to friends over 40% would not. Then to top it off people are quitting because of the server problems, will be interesting to see if they come back after the prolems are fixed.
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It is no blood it is red blood in a humanoid creature.
This was discussed a few years ago when the MMORPG Asheron's Call 2 was released. They had red blood and also as you damaged creatures they started to show cuts, it got rated M.
They also had the in game option to turn the blood green and according to old discussion if they had gone with that it would of rated an upper teen. They stayed with the red blood since the MMORPG demographic is already primarily adult.
All of this existed before the US Patriot act, as far as this story is concered everything in it could of happened before.
Alot of what they complain about was more freely allowed under C-36.
Under the Patriot Act thier as of 2003 thier were 250 criminal charges and 130 convictions or guilty pleas. ... because of the crimes you all did." According to the report, the physician treated other inmates "in a cruel and unprofessional manner." After an internal Bureau of Prisons investigation substantiated the allegation, the physician received a verbal reprimand.
During that same thier were 34 allegations of violations but no convitions.
The allegations are similar to the following An inmate's allegation that during a physical examination a Bureau of Prisons physician told the inmate, "If I was in charge, I would execute every one of you
Claims that an Immigration and Naturalization Service detention enforcement officer "held a loaded gun to an alien detainee's head and threatened the detainee while transferring him to another detention facility."
That should be fairly easy to fight, since the card expired before they billed. A letter to both saying they charged an expired card should be enough to get that going.
With an actual expired card alot of times you get the same card number but with a new date, with the tempory cards they generate a new number so charging it is not tied to you also it has a maximum withdraw so even if they try to bill out it would come back as insignificant credit amount.
The main thing they are complaining about is that an American company could be ordered by a US court to supply info that they owned and was stored in Canada and that a US company that was storing infomation for a Canadian company could also be ordered by a court to provide infomation on a person.
This is no different then was going on before the patriot act, so no big change, it just looks better to the mass idiots if include the words US Patriot act in the headlines.
They already exist and are called MUDS.
In addition to your credit card check your credit card companies web site and they will probably provide a way that you can create a temporay credit card number.
You can specify the experation date and the total amount that can be charged to it.
I always use thoses for anything that has an auto-renewal, if I forget about it and they recharge they cannot get the money. If it is something I do still use they will always send me a piece of e-mail telling me my subscription is about to expire.
Once you get it into inital orbit payload weight would not be a problem, size would matter size it could not block the sails. Whatever the payload is I hope that you don't mind it smashing into the planet. They don't discuss slowing down or landing.
Going at 60 kilometres per second it is going to take a good amount of fuel and time to slow that thing down.
FYI legal info.
I went with getting quicken 2004 for under $15 after shipping.
I figure this will last for 2 more years, and by then maybe ms-money or some other will have wisened up and I will switch to them.
"The clear answer is the folk who collect the investment fees"
Except in the US except for some very few cases in retirement funds you do not pay any fee. The companies make thier money by keeping a certain percent of monies earned from the investments not the deposits. Theses costs are not included in the interest shown in the fund, so if a fund says it earned 12% over a period it actually earned more but thier profit was already taken out. You can find funds that that do charge but that can take some work.
If they use the system that is used by US government employees and allows people to put the 2% of thier SS into that system, then the people would not see any direct costs. Even the worse case of that system has far exceeded the SS return.
It was not a comment on the message it was a question on when the message was made.
The parent did not post a link to the article, so I could check it myself, so seeing the comment that Buffet was 2nd richest indicated it was probably made 3+ years ago.
However it looks like the source was using incorrect figures by not bring the value of the richest people to a common currency denominator, in which Buffet is 2nd richest instead of third.
Interesting article however they are mixing pension plans with the American Social security and 401K plans.
Here is an older 1999 article from the Times which does a better job of explaining the British system.
Personnaly I could care less about what happens with the SS program, I retire in 30+ years and already am planning my retirement without factoring it in. I do miss the 14% salary that I am loosing because of it.
Ignoring the various side busnisses that have cropped up and the issues they bring most various arguments come from theses two sides.
The anti-outside selling has a problem because it brings an outside influence into the game. The best example I have seen of why this is wrong is this. Say you are playing a game of Monopoly with a bunch of friends, and park place broadway are owned by different people. On of the person offers the other person $5 in real world currency for the other place. While not agaist the rules it does change the game. Does it make a difference if they do the real world money exchange in private or in public?
The pro side says that they are just tring to make it easier for the casual player to compete in the game. Since the casual player has less time in the game and has problem getting all the better items they should be allowed to spend real world money in place of the time spent in-game
First it does not cause in-game inflation. While the costs of player sold goods may increase the basic costs to produce or any non-player rates do NOT increase nor does the chance that something will appear change. This is greed not inflation; the best term so far for this has been mudflation.
If you want to see inflation in a game they would need to tie in the costs of something with all the available money that all player posess. So the costs of NPC items raise and fall depending on the currentcy in the world.
Personnally the idea of the 24 hour in game clock, was on the most stupidest thing that was implemented in the game. It is kind of cute that the clock chime at the same hour as RL, but that goes away really neat.
Instead most people play at the same time and never get to see things like night and day in the game. So it is day or night almost all the time a person plays and they never get to see the humans turn into worgs or the worgs as humans.
Besides I don't think they are factoring in actual daylight hours so come summer when it is light outside the game will be dark, and thier goes on of thier purposes of having the game reflecting the players outdoors conditions.
What is the date on this?
Warren Buffett has not been the world's second riches individual 2003.
The breaking up of the people into different physical servers is the main reason you do implement instances/zones/areas. Then you have a seperate comm server to handle the communication between players.
With the lack of instances for such large areas as WoW does, does mean that people are all on the same physical server and why they are needing to upgrade the hardware.
In the older days of MMORPG(3-4 years ago) 3000 was the magical number passed around as the max number of people that could be logged on at once with, just looking at numbers and WoW far exceeds that. Then to make matter even worse they implemented that very stupid time zone stuff so you get people filling the servers at the same prime time.
Tie that in with the announcement that they implemente code tuning along with the better hardware then look at what is the result and thoses queues are not going away for a long,long time.
If you go by numbers that SOE released on EQ around 2/3 of the monthly fee goes into paying costs. In addition they still have loans and don't forget VU wants a chunk of that money.
Also EQ is rather stable and does not need to purchase new servers, so that money is gone rather quick.
If you read it more clearly, along with additional info since posted, the main battlegrounds will not be instanced.
The main one which is persistant and gives bonuses to the currently winning side will be the one with the major queue. While you are twiddling your thumbs waiting you can enter the instanciated areas which will allow just plain PvP for the bonus the points gives your character.
Or I could be wrong and then WoW would be so much dummer then DaOC, since the battlefields would just be meaningless and provide no additional capability to the winning side. Then atleast DaOC had the various keeps and areas you could take over.
On main reason is this administration likes to keep closed lips. Another example is that people have been criticizing Bush for never visiting people wondered in war or calling the parents of thoses who died, that has not been the case however they just don't release press accounts when they do this.
Don't just read the report the guy being sued put up, read court case and any intellectual honesty shows why they won.
That is not really the solution they are tring to solve with this, considering that EQ2 was just released and is doing really good.
For the majority of MMORPG players, they only play one game, and will cancel the previous one. At that point only 5%(10% is considered really high) of the quit players will ever come back. With the subscription thing, SOE is gambling that people will be willing to pay the $10 extra just on that off chance they will go back to thier old game(covered by subscription) or they will think that if they want to take a break from thier current game they can just purchase a $20 copy of the retail box for another game and they already have the subscription.
Check the boards, one is having a survey of players and if they would recommend WoW to friends over 40% would not.
WoW servers are having a major problem, and while the game is good it can be a major hassle to get online, even on low population servers.
Check the server you plan to join and its average login queue for the times you want to play before you start.
The problem WoW is having is downtime of servers, don't expect much PR from them until they fix the servers and can handle the increased sales that PR could create. Same reason they are not producing more boxes.
You are starting to see more problems on the fan boards, one is having a survey on if current players would recommended WoW to friends over 40% would not. Then to top it off people are quitting because of the server problems, will be interesting to see if they come back after the prolems are fixed.