Probably sent a letter on forged headed paper, puporting to come from a respectable and established legal firm.
This would be sent to a real lawyer outfit, and would ask them to take over the litigation - don't worry - the ex-finance minister of Nigeria will cover all bills...
GAME THEORY
Theory of rational behavior for interactive decision problems. In a game, several agents strive to maximize their (expected) utility index by chosing particular courses of action, and each agent's final utility payoffs depend on the profile of courses of action chosen by all agents. The interactive situation, specified by the set of participants, the possible courses of action of each agent, and the set of all possible utility payoffs, is called a game; the agents 'playing' a game are called the players.?
My Grandmother said to me: "Never chase after a bus or a girl: There will be another one coming along soon"
This explains why a significant portion of my teen years were spent standing next to deserted bus stops, in the pissing rain, and with a raging hard-on."
I can't give my real name or tell where I work for obvious reasons...
The good news is, no matter how broke you are, if the rent's due after next Thursday, you shouldn't worry about it too much. You're probably better off blowing the spare cash on whores and booze.
You can buy yourself that Corvette you've always hankered after - trust me - the repayments will not be a problem - just do it quickly.
The bad news is you really should call your parents. Come on, a five-minute call versus an eternity of guilt!
Gotta go now: Cheyenne mountain won't just fill itself with faceless spooks, you know! Oh, and er Good Luck. You never know - we might meet up after "It", and I'll buy that Corvette from you for an MRE and a bottle of water.
Every friggin' time I read the phrase "business model" on this board, it becomes transmuted (by some form of verbal alchemy) into "I should get a ton of stuff for free".
"...It's the execs job to know what is going on and take responsibility. If they didn't they were negligent..."
It's the exec's job to set the strategic targets and monitor progress against these targets. The strategic aims are percolated down the chain, through team leads to the guys at the rock face. If anybody should have rung the alarm bell (if Castle are indeed in breach of GPL) it's the immediate supervisory level - the guys who have responsibility for HOW things get done, and who still get their hands dirty.
Don't fool yourself into thinking you know what's going on in this world. The first duty of power is to perpetuate itself, and we don't even know who the actual powerful people are. Truman started the whole American tradition of secrecy after WWII with Project Paperclip, in which the CIA put captured Nazi scientists to work on America's nuclear arsenal, the space program, and all this "otherworldly" technology they'd come across. (And you know what I mean.) Then they got Truman to create the super-secret Majestic 12 committee to oversee Project Paperclip, not to mention other weird stuff the government wanted hidden. They ran the whole thing, and they've been running it for years, but nobody knows who "they" are. But I'm pretty sure they're all Freemasons.The whole Kennedy thing is so huge because it's at the center of so many other covert shadow-government operations. Kennedy himself was the smallest part of it, because it was actually a power play between Dulles' CIA, the anti-Castro military, LBJ, the Giancana Mafia, and a bunch of other dirty players. Oswald was a patsy, sure, but he put a gun on Jack. Of course, so did other test-mules from Dulles' MK-Ultra LSD-mind-control experiments. Zapruder was in on it, too: He was a KGB mole from way back. And the whole thing had ripple effects, like Jonestown, which was an assassin training camp that got found out. As for the Warren Commission, that thing was a joke--Dulles himself was on it, and there was only one person on the whole commission who wasn't on the CIA payroll and suspected Oswald didn't act alone. He died in a plane crash, after a young congressional aide named Bill Clinton drove him to the airport. It's all true, but nobody wants to admit it. Nobody.Now, Roswell, that's a bunch of crap. The Air Force was in possession of captured alien technology years before that. In '43, they started reverse-engineering a torus-shaped craft that came down in Arizona, and the next thing you know, America has The Bomb, supersonic aircraft, and a space program. Glenn saw stuff up there, flying lights. You can look it up. You know what I think? I think that skirt-chaser Kennedy wanted to spill the beans about our alien friends, so they killed him. He told his girlfriend Marilyn Monroe, and they killed her, too. No doubt, you're wondering, "Who are 'they'?" Well, I think the numbers speak for themselves: The Trinity site, where the first A-bomb was detonated, Dealey Plaza, where Kennedy bought the farm, and Area 51 are all on the 33rd parallel. And what other significance does the number 33 happen to have? It's the highest rank of the Masonic order. Wheels within wheels, my friend. Wheels within wheels.
"everytime someone looks up your credit who isn't you, it negatively impacts your credit rating"
Every time anyone including you makes a credit inquiry, it is marked on your record. This is called a 'footprint'. Lots of footprints on your credit history in a short space of time = you are a bad credit risk. This can be offset to a large extent, if you make damn sure that the footprint is marked as "Inquiry Only" rather than a full-blown "Application" (for credit).
If you decide to shop around for a cheap loan from lots of lenders ensure that their searches will be flagged "Inquirey Only"...
Slashdot Mirror
1) Set his reference count to zero.
2) GC him.
3)
4) Prophecy!
Maybe photoshop an "Intel Inside" sticker onto one of the goatse man's ass-cheeks?
T&K.
Probably sent a letter on forged headed paper, puporting to come from a respectable and established legal firm.
This would be sent to a real lawyer outfit, and would ask them to take over the litigation - don't worry - the ex-finance minister of Nigeria will cover all bills...
The legal equivalent of an open relay, no less!
T&K.
"Heh. News flash, the genders aren't equal. One of them can bear children..."
T&K.
"Yes, because everything about Europe is roughly equivilent to what we had going in the mid 80s."
Reaganomics? Ugh!
T&K.
"You ever seen a british summer?
No. And I live there.
T&K.
Just listen to yourself.
Bona-fide middle management material or what?
T&K.
Hey - me too!
(Defense, software, navy, RH6.2)
Who knows, maybe we sit at adjacent desks...
If that's the case, next time, will you fill
the friggen' coffee machine up when you take
the last cup?
T&K.
Fer God's sake mod this ass down to -10^googol where he belongs.
How soon will job-exporting western companies realise that they are laying off their customer's customers?
Think about it.
T&K.
"The French never did anything that didn't directly benefit them"
Since when has sheer altruism been a motivating factor in international affairs?
Do you seriously thing dubya would be so keen to liberate the people of Iraq from a vile tyrant if:
He had no need to "busy giddy minds with foreign quarrels", having been scorched in the Enron scandal? Minor motivation
Iraq didn't have vast oil reserves which GWB can control directly or by proxy? Major motivation
I despair sometimes, I really do...
T&K.
Fries
Toast
Kissing
Horns
Ticklers
Doors
Polishing
Y'all should go hang with loony old Bob Ney.
T&K.
I mean, could anybody be that fukken clueless?
GAME THEORY
Theory of rational behavior for interactive decision problems. In a game, several agents strive to maximize their (expected) utility index by chosing particular courses of action, and each agent's final utility payoffs depend on the profile of courses of action chosen by all agents. The interactive situation, specified by the set of participants, the possible courses of action of each agent, and the set of all possible utility payoffs, is called a game; the agents 'playing' a game are called the players.?
T&K.
"Salon has failed, capitalism has suceeded"
Maybe Salon has failed, capitalism continues?
Notes for Modders: -1, Irrelevant, -1 Off-Topic.
T&K.
My Grandmother said to me: "Never chase after a bus or a girl: There will be another one coming along soon"
This explains why a significant portion of my teen years were spent standing next to deserted bus stops, in the pissing rain, and with a raging hard-on."
T&K.
How, in the name of God, does a post which consists of three questions get modded "5 Informative"?
"5 Interrogative", would be more appropriate, no?
T&K.
I can't give my real name or tell where I work for obvious reasons...
The good news is, no matter how broke you are, if the rent's due after next Thursday, you shouldn't worry about it too much. You're probably better off blowing the spare cash on whores and booze.
You can buy yourself that Corvette you've always hankered after - trust me - the repayments will not be a problem - just do it quickly.
The bad news is you really should call your parents. Come on, a five-minute call versus an eternity of guilt!
Gotta go now: Cheyenne mountain won't just fill itself with faceless spooks, you know! Oh, and er Good Luck. You never know - we might meet up after "It", and I'll buy that Corvette from you for an MRE and a bottle of water.
Ciao,
T&K.
"...DirectTV has a flawed business model..."
Every friggin' time I read the phrase "business model" on this board, it becomes transmuted (by some form of verbal alchemy) into "I should get a ton of stuff for free".
Nauseating.
T&K.
"I can't help but wonder how far we are from literally being able to record dreams and thoughts
Ok, I'm on it. You document the protocols: I'll record the dreams. Deal?
T&K.
To Quote an unnamed Slashdotter:
"If it's heading towards [insert the name of your most unloved celebrity here] , I say leave it alone!"
"...It's the execs job to know what is going on and take responsibility. If they didn't they were negligent..."
It's the exec's job to set the strategic targets and monitor progress against these targets. The strategic aims are percolated down the chain, through team leads to the guys at the rock face. If anybody should have rung the alarm bell (if Castle are indeed in breach of GPL) it's the immediate supervisory level - the guys who have responsibility for HOW things get done, and who still get their hands dirty.
T&K.
Don't fool yourself into thinking you know what's going on in this world. The first duty of power is to perpetuate itself, and we don't even know who the actual powerful people are. Truman started the whole American tradition of secrecy after WWII with Project Paperclip, in which the CIA put captured Nazi scientists to work on America's nuclear arsenal, the space program, and all this "otherworldly" technology they'd come across. (And you know what I mean.) Then they got Truman to create the super-secret Majestic 12 committee to oversee Project Paperclip, not to mention other weird stuff the government wanted hidden. They ran the whole thing, and they've been running it for years, but nobody knows who "they" are. But I'm pretty sure they're all Freemasons.The whole Kennedy thing is so huge because it's at the center of so many other covert shadow-government operations. Kennedy himself was the smallest part of it, because it was actually a power play between Dulles' CIA, the anti-Castro military, LBJ, the Giancana Mafia, and a bunch of other dirty players. Oswald was a patsy, sure, but he put a gun on Jack. Of course, so did other test-mules from Dulles' MK-Ultra LSD-mind-control experiments. Zapruder was in on it, too: He was a KGB mole from way back. And the whole thing had ripple effects, like Jonestown, which was an assassin training camp that got found out. As for the Warren Commission, that thing was a joke--Dulles himself was on it, and there was only one person on the whole commission who wasn't on the CIA payroll and suspected Oswald didn't act alone. He died in a plane crash, after a young congressional aide named Bill Clinton drove him to the airport. It's all true, but nobody wants to admit it. Nobody.Now, Roswell, that's a bunch of crap. The Air Force was in possession of captured alien technology years before that. In '43, they started reverse-engineering a torus-shaped craft that came down in Arizona, and the next thing you know, America has The Bomb, supersonic aircraft, and a space program. Glenn saw stuff up there, flying lights. You can look it up. You know what I think? I think that skirt-chaser Kennedy wanted to spill the beans about our alien friends, so they killed him. He told his girlfriend Marilyn Monroe, and they killed her, too. No doubt, you're wondering, "Who are 'they'?" Well, I think the numbers speak for themselves: The Trinity site, where the first A-bomb was detonated, Dealey Plaza, where Kennedy bought the farm, and Area 51 are all on the 33rd parallel. And what other significance does the number 33 happen to have? It's the highest rank of the Masonic order. Wheels within wheels, my friend. Wheels within wheels.
Only joking.
T&K.
Oh, you cheesy little bastard!
Well, yes they are. Can't you read, or do you need help with the long words?
"everytime someone looks up your credit who isn't you, it negatively impacts your credit rating"
Every time anyone including you makes a credit inquiry, it is marked on your record. This is called a 'footprint'. Lots of footprints on your credit history in a short space of time = you are a bad credit risk. This can be offset to a large extent, if you make damn sure that the footprint is marked as "Inquiry Only" rather than a full-blown "Application" (for credit).
If you decide to shop around for a cheap loan from lots of lenders ensure that their searches will be flagged "Inquirey Only"...
T&K.