In some places that is difficult to do since the entrenched congressman/politician runs with no opposition. Unfortunately, there is no option for "None of the Above" on the ballet.
What the Chrono Trigger or any other fans based games did (remakes of Kings Quest, etc.) was create content that included the artwork, music, and game engine that was under Copyright. In some cases they entirely reproduced the original game in entirely and distributed. Unfortunate as it is, they should have been and were shut down.
What this guy seems to be doing is just pretending to be a character from the game. As long as he doesn't do lewd things with the account, he probably is looked upon much like the people that dress up as Superman and Spiderman on Hollywood Blvd.
Well, I believe CBS does public service announcements because it is a requirement of the laws that govern their owning part of the public airwaves. It's not that "CBS Cares" it is that "CBS is required".
Sort of like how G.I. Joe was an educational program because of the last 30 seconds were "and knowing is half the battle" and there were all sorts of "Tonight on a very special Punky Bruster" type episodes in sitcoms.
Yeah, I am paying my stupid tax currently and this will be the last car purchased this way. I will happily drive a piece of crap to avoid having car payments.
And if you are smart you will jump through the hoops for the twenty times they will require it. I informed them and my insurance company at vehicle purchase, when I got said letter, and multiple times after the fact.
In the end, I had to threaten Wells Fargo with the Better Business Bureau in order to get them to remove the charges for insurance that I refused to pay for (since I had already been insured and notified them multiple times of it). Even then, it took two months to get the statements fixed (or least I gave up at that point, I still am fairly sure they screwed it up.)
As a Wells Fargo customer, the best advice I can give you is find another company to do business with even if the deal is not as good. That extra money paid is well worth avoiding Wells Fargo's stupidity.
If you look up the history of that, it became that way because of Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad. To quote wikipedia (I know, but you can find better sources):
The Supreme Court never reached the equal protection claims. Nonetheless, this case is sometimes incorrectly cited as holding that corporations, as juristic persons, are protected by the Fourteenth Amendment.[2] Although the question of whether corporations were persons within the meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment had been argued in the lower courts and briefed for the Supreme Court, the Court did not base its decision on this issue. However, before oral argument took place, Chief Justice Morrison R. Waite announced: "The court does not wish to hear argument on the question whether the provision in the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution, which forbids a State to deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws, applies to these corporations. We are all of the opinion that it does."[3] This quotation was printed by the court reporter in the syllabus and case history above the opinion, but was not in the opinion itself. As such, it did not have any legal precedential value.[4]
Nonetheless, the persuasive value of Waite's essentially ultra vires statement did influence later courts, becoming part of American corporate law without ever actually being enacted by statute or formal judicial decision.[5][clarification needed] For these reasons, it is literally an unprecedented extension of constitutional rights to US corporations.[2]
It makes me wonder why any financial institution would still design their websites to require Internet Explorer and/or Active X. Seems sort of like putting up guide rails at a bowling alley and then expecting everyone to bowl gutter balls.
Yes, Super Fanicom/Super NES games that were released long ago are normally 800 points. However, Final Fantasy IV: The After Years is an entirely new (well mostly new) game never released before in the States. If you spent anytime at all on any game site, you would know it was episodic. Even the wikipedia entry had this information for a year due to it originally being released in Japan for cell phones.
If you buy your games without reading up on it first, you deserve to get burned. If you don't think their pricing scheme is fair, then don't purchase and spend your money elsewhere.
I think that the merchant would be punished long before what I do hurts VISA or MasterCard.
Go in a store and count the number of transactions done with Credit/Debit versus the number done in cash. Except in low-income areas where people don't have bank accounts let alone debit cards, the card is king these days. Don't take it and you lose business to those that do.
Yes, how dare the customer pay a transaction fee when the merchant is the one that agreed to do so. If I pay with a debit card, I expect a fee. That is what my agreement with my bank is, I don't complain (and generally don't use my bank card that way).
If I run it as credit, the merchant pays the fee as per his agreement with VISA. I didn't force the merchant to sign said agreement, and I don't want to deal with him trying to cheat his way around them. If he didn't want the fees, then he shouldn't have the machine.
Just because someone agreed to a bad deal doesn't give them the right to take advantage of someone else.
Yeah, my generally policy is that I call said CC company and inform them of their merchant going against the agreement they signed.
Seems fair to me too, them losing their CC machine over it. It's a cost of doing business that, in part, prevents greedy bastards from ripping off customers.
Which has been repeatedly proven to NOT be asus's web site, but is yet again a fake. The correct Asus UK site is uk.asus.com. Do a whois on asus.co.uk.
Domain name: asus.co.uk
Registrant: Asustek Computer Inc
Trading as: Asus
Registrant type: UK Individual
Registrant's address: The registrant is a non-trading individual who has opted to have their address omitted from the WHOIS service.
Relevant dates: Registered on: 23-May-1997 Renewal date: 23-May-2011 Last updated: 22-May-2009
Registration status: Renewal request being processed.
Name servers: ns59.1and1.co.uk ns60.1and1.co.uk
I'm sure that Asus registered it as an individual and is hosting it through 1and1.co.uk. Instead of, ya know, hosting it on their own servers like all their other sites.
I am just grateful I never gave up the keyboard shortcuts from my Windows 3.1 days. Otherwise, I would be a lot angrier since I have to use MS Office 2007 at work.
Because an unofficial website registered to a private individual and not Asus told you so? Plus look at the graphic on the www.itsbetterwithwindows.com page. I am pretty sure that Microsoft and/or Asus would not need to bother with horrible compression in their graphics. I thought my eyes were going to bleed from the low quality work.
If money changed hands, it was monopoly money. This most likely is either a fanboy trying to cause problems or a angry employee attempting to do the same.
Which has been pointed out numerous times before to be fake. Unless ASUS lets private individuals register their domains for them and host them on non-corporate servers.
Marx states that only a temporal all powerful all seeing state can crush away the minority of those few greedy individuals that control society by means of capital and use their power to perpetuate such 'statu quo'. Once the goal acomplished, such powerful state machinery would dismantle itself and vanish.
Yeah, that worked out great for Russia now didn't it. Those crazy people holding the power of the state machinery just said, "Okay, we've crushed everyone now let's just sprinkle this power all around to them to make them feel better."
Or just have a media not motivated to paint them that way. Look at how they treated Ron Paul last election.
Instead of using his Congregational photo like all the other candidates, they used one that made him look crazy. They never asked him a serious question, it was always something like "Who are you going to vote for when you lose?". They marginalized him because he wasn't their pick.
I think having the media biasing debates and political news like that is a large part of the problem. Fox News, CNN, and MSNBC are all guilty of it. Look at what happened to the commentator on CNBC that was negative towards Obama.
Been using it since Alpha 5, and the only complaint I have is that Flash no longer works properly (especially in fullscreen). I used to be able to watch hulu.com or use picnik.com without issue, but these days it sucks.
And before anyone posts it, yes I have filed bug reports. However, they are all ignored, marked duplicate for a bug that doesn't really relate (flash plugin missing), or marked fixed for the wrong reasons (it works on Intregrated Intel now with a hack, but everyone else is screwed).
Personally, I think this is a pretty bad bug to ship with since a large portion of the web is dependent on Flash.
Actually here in TN the problem isn't that the gas tax isn't enough to pay for the infrastructure, it's that the politicians only use 60% of it on the roads. The other 40% is diverted to other things the tax was not intended for. (That 40% comes out to $261 million being diverted)
I could care less about bandwidth caps, as long as they are reasonable and not raping the customer. What TWC is proposing is asinine.
And as I've pointed out before, I most likely will not have this issue since I subscribe to fiber provided by the local Department of Electricity.
Thankfully, my local government doesn't have their heads up their backsides (or else stood to profit greatly) by adopting technology instead of fighting it.
I think someone needs to spend some time away from the television and computer. There are much more important things going on in the world than whining about the name picked from a contest.
And I am sure that the naming of the Enterprise had nothing to do with the fact there are multiple Enterprise Ships in the history of the United States.
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In some places that is difficult to do since the entrenched congressman/politician runs with no opposition. Unfortunately, there is no option for "None of the Above" on the ballet.
What the Chrono Trigger or any other fans based games did (remakes of Kings Quest, etc.) was create content that included the artwork, music, and game engine that was under Copyright. In some cases they entirely reproduced the original game in entirely and distributed. Unfortunate as it is, they should have been and were shut down.
What this guy seems to be doing is just pretending to be a character from the game. As long as he doesn't do lewd things with the account, he probably is looked upon much like the people that dress up as Superman and Spiderman on Hollywood Blvd.
But how else will we get out of that recession that we are in unless we have multi-billion dollar corporations throwing money on frivolous ideas.
I say more research! It isn't a completed idea until I can have Clippy offer to add smileys to the end of all my messages!
Well, I believe CBS does public service announcements because it is a requirement of the laws that govern their owning part of the public airwaves. It's not that "CBS Cares" it is that "CBS is required".
Sort of like how G.I. Joe was an educational program because of the last 30 seconds were "and knowing is half the battle" and there were all sorts of "Tonight on a very special Punky Bruster" type episodes in sitcoms.
Yeah, I am paying my stupid tax currently and this will be the last car purchased this way. I will happily drive a piece of crap to avoid having car payments.
True, but it was enough to apparently motivate them to fix them problem. The Attorney General would have been the next phone call.
I believe in escalating consequences instead of playing all the cards at once.
And if you are smart you will jump through the hoops for the twenty times they will require it. I informed them and my insurance company at vehicle purchase, when I got said letter, and multiple times after the fact.
In the end, I had to threaten Wells Fargo with the Better Business Bureau in order to get them to remove the charges for insurance that I refused to pay for (since I had already been insured and notified them multiple times of it). Even then, it took two months to get the statements fixed (or least I gave up at that point, I still am fairly sure they screwed it up.)
As a Wells Fargo customer, the best advice I can give you is find another company to do business with even if the deal is not as good. That extra money paid is well worth avoiding Wells Fargo's stupidity.
If you look up the history of that, it became that way because of Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad. To quote wikipedia (I know, but you can find better sources):
The Supreme Court never reached the equal protection claims. Nonetheless, this case is sometimes incorrectly cited as holding that corporations, as juristic persons, are protected by the Fourteenth Amendment.[2] Although the question of whether corporations were persons within the meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment had been argued in the lower courts and briefed for the Supreme Court, the Court did not base its decision on this issue. However, before oral argument took place, Chief Justice Morrison R. Waite announced: "The court does not wish to hear argument on the question whether the provision in the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution, which forbids a State to deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws, applies to these corporations. We are all of the opinion that it does."[3] This quotation was printed by the court reporter in the syllabus and case history above the opinion, but was not in the opinion itself. As such, it did not have any legal precedential value.[4]
Nonetheless, the persuasive value of Waite's essentially ultra vires statement did influence later courts, becoming part of American corporate law without ever actually being enacted by statute or formal judicial decision.[5][clarification needed] For these reasons, it is literally an unprecedented extension of constitutional rights to US corporations.[2]
It makes me wonder why any financial institution would still design their websites to require Internet Explorer and/or Active X. Seems sort of like putting up guide rails at a bowling alley and then expecting everyone to bowl gutter balls.
Yes, Super Fanicom/Super NES games that were released long ago are normally 800 points. However, Final Fantasy IV: The After Years is an entirely new (well mostly new) game never released before in the States. If you spent anytime at all on any game site, you would know it was episodic. Even the wikipedia entry had this information for a year due to it originally being released in Japan for cell phones.
If you buy your games without reading up on it first, you deserve to get burned. If you don't think their pricing scheme is fair, then don't purchase and spend your money elsewhere.
I think that the merchant would be punished long before what I do hurts VISA or MasterCard.
Go in a store and count the number of transactions done with Credit/Debit versus the number done in cash. Except in low-income areas where people don't have bank accounts let alone debit cards, the card is king these days. Don't take it and you lose business to those that do.
Yes, how dare the customer pay a transaction fee when the merchant is the one that agreed to do so. If I pay with a debit card, I expect a fee. That is what my agreement with my bank is, I don't complain (and generally don't use my bank card that way).
If I run it as credit, the merchant pays the fee as per his agreement with VISA. I didn't force the merchant to sign said agreement, and I don't want to deal with him trying to cheat his way around them. If he didn't want the fees, then he shouldn't have the machine.
Just because someone agreed to a bad deal doesn't give them the right to take advantage of someone else.
Yeah, my generally policy is that I call said CC company and inform them of their merchant going against the agreement they signed.
Seems fair to me too, them losing their CC machine over it. It's a cost of doing business that, in part, prevents greedy bastards from ripping off customers.
To quote user 1090101:
Which has been repeatedly proven to NOT be asus's web site, but is yet again a fake. The correct Asus UK site is uk.asus.com. Do a whois on asus.co.uk.
Domain name:
asus.co.uk
Registrant:
Asustek Computer Inc
Trading as:
Asus
Registrant type:
UK Individual
Registrant's address:
The registrant is a non-trading individual who has opted to have their address omitted from the WHOIS service.
Registrar:
1 & 1 Internet AG [Tag = SCHLUND] URL: http://registrar.1und1.info/ [1und1.info]
Relevant dates:
Registered on: 23-May-1997 Renewal date: 23-May-2011 Last updated: 22-May-2009
Registration status:
Renewal request being processed.
Name servers:
ns59.1and1.co.uk ns60.1and1.co.uk
I'm sure that Asus registered it as an individual and is hosting it through 1and1.co.uk. Instead of, ya know, hosting it on their own servers like all their other sites.
I am just grateful I never gave up the keyboard shortcuts from my Windows 3.1 days. Otherwise, I would be a lot angrier since I have to use MS Office 2007 at work.
Because an unofficial website registered to a private individual and not Asus told you so? Plus look at the graphic on the www.itsbetterwithwindows.com page. I am pretty sure that Microsoft and/or Asus would not need to bother with horrible compression in their graphics. I thought my eyes were going to bleed from the low quality work.
If money changed hands, it was monopoly money. This most likely is either a fanboy trying to cause problems or a angry employee attempting to do the same.
Which has been pointed out numerous times before to be fake. Unless ASUS lets private individuals register their domains for them and host them on non-corporate servers.
http://uk.asus.com/ is the correct UK corporate page.
Marx states that only a temporal all powerful all seeing state can crush away the minority of those few greedy individuals that control society by means of capital and use their power to perpetuate such 'statu quo'. Once the goal acomplished, such powerful state machinery would dismantle itself and vanish.
Yeah, that worked out great for Russia now didn't it. Those crazy people holding the power of the state machinery just said, "Okay, we've crushed everyone now let's just sprinkle this power all around to them to make them feel better."
Or just have a media not motivated to paint them that way. Look at how they treated Ron Paul last election.
Instead of using his Congregational photo like all the other candidates, they used one that made him look crazy. They never asked him a serious question, it was always something like "Who are you going to vote for when you lose?". They marginalized him because he wasn't their pick.
I think having the media biasing debates and political news like that is a large part of the problem. Fox News, CNN, and MSNBC are all guilty of it. Look at what happened to the commentator on CNBC that was negative towards Obama.
It's posted so we can read such insightful comments such as yours...
Been using it since Alpha 5, and the only complaint I have is that Flash no longer works properly (especially in fullscreen). I used to be able to watch hulu.com or use picnik.com without issue, but these days it sucks.
And before anyone posts it, yes I have filed bug reports. However, they are all ignored, marked duplicate for a bug that doesn't really relate (flash plugin missing), or marked fixed for the wrong reasons (it works on Intregrated Intel now with a hack, but everyone else is screwed).
Personally, I think this is a pretty bad bug to ship with since a large portion of the web is dependent on Flash.
Actually here in TN the problem isn't that the gas tax isn't enough to pay for the infrastructure, it's that the politicians only use 60% of it on the roads. The other 40% is diverted to other things the tax was not intended for. (That 40% comes out to $261 million being diverted)
http://billhobbs.com/2008/02/bredesen_longs_for_higher_gas.html
I could care less about bandwidth caps, as long as they are reasonable and not raping the customer. What TWC is proposing is asinine.
And as I've pointed out before, I most likely will not have this issue since I subscribe to fiber provided by the local Department of Electricity.
Thankfully, my local government doesn't have their heads up their backsides (or else stood to profit greatly) by adopting technology instead of fighting it.
TW Exec 1 - "What was that?"
TW Exec 2 - "That was the sound of a million subscribers switching to DSL and our stockholders crying in pain."
I think someone needs to spend some time away from the television and computer. There are much more important things going on in the world than whining about the name picked from a contest.
And I am sure that the naming of the Enterprise had nothing to do with the fact there are multiple Enterprise Ships in the history of the United States.