My mistake for thinking you were on of these advertisers.
You are probably right that I'm not immune. Its a big reason I stopped watching TV. I didn't like being repeatedly told that I had to buy things to live a good life.
So you are pretty much saying the goal of marketing is to seperate consumers from rational thought regarding your product.
I really think all you guys should be lined up against a wall and shot. I could make a decent arguement that a lot of the things that are wrong with America are due to this philosophy of advertising.
In response to bullet point 1: The earth's magnetic field is produced by currents in its molten iron core. It might be possible for a solar flare to temporarily overwhelm it, but I do not see any obvious way it could damage it.
I stopped really being interested in it after the shadow war. Somehow people using shadow alien technology wasn't as riveting as shadow aliens using shadow alien technology.
I doubt it. The screensaver works by downloading the attack list off of a Lycos server. I imagine they will be careful about what gets on to that list.
This isn't a troll. I honestly liked the film version of "From Hell" more than the novel. It seemed that Moore was just used a style of not referring to anything directly and everything important obliquely so that the reader had to piece the actual writing together. I understand that its a legitimate writing technique, but most of what makes it good comes from the pieces the reader is creating in his/her head.
That crosshatched drawing style also pissed me off by page three.
I can attest to this. I work out of San Diego. Three of the other centers I work with on my project on a regular basis are spread around Europe. Just getting a reply on an email takes overnight. Getting actual work done involves open some sort of trackable item (ie create an error in the database, create a change request, etc.) instead of just walking down to the cube down the hall.
Keep in mind this isn't outsourced work; it is just different centers of the same corporation.
v) The service checks the DRM in your browser. If it isn't approved you don't get to use the service.
Google likes to make their services display correctly with all browsers but I doubt there is anything in their business model that says they have to be open source compatible even if it ruins a market segment.
A few years back I had the collections department of the cable company track me down for an unpaid bill for a residence I had not lived in for over a year. Not terribly unusual, except that it was originated three months after I had moved out of that residence and terminated service. I called up customer service, explained the situation, and told by the rep that it was their fault and would be taken care of.
A month later I get another notice. I call up their collections department. I am told to clear up the matter I will have to fax them
1) a my old lease
2) my new lease
3) a recent utility bill
Nearly 6 months after the first notice was sent to me I receive another notice. When I call billing this time I am told I have to come down to their office in person. When I finally get there I am handed a check by the receptionist in the amount that I supposedly owed them. Still boggles the mind.
And anyone above a certain management level is allowed to personally rewrite policy. "Callback policy? I dont have time for that s#$*. How about you give me my password now and I don't have you fired."
Also a good social engineer would just call up the CEOs secretary and ask for the CEOs password, mother's maiden name, and dental checkup schedule for the next two years.
It does however allow a little bit of retribution on the victim's side. Think about 419-baiting for a second. If it wasn't for the fact that 419s are illegal in the first place you could probably be tried for fraud for lying to the guys.
"It's always annoying to see somebody use "always" or "never". At/., that's usually a tipoff to a troll. I understand what you wrote and how those ideas may have evolved. You have the right to keep them despite anything I or anybody else presents to the contrary. The only thing I ask is that you leave a wider door open for the possibility that you could be entirely wrong."
This will probably out me as a nerd but the first thing I thought was someone saying incredulously "Compaq makes great harddrives. I've had one for years with no problems. I don't know what you guys are saying about them breaking."
Killing Peter would definitely get in the way of his obsession, since he needed the tritium. (Although I don't know why he didn't just beat it out of Harry instead of making a deal with him. I guess he was still pretty pissed off at Spider-Man, though.)
That whole scene bugged me (no pun intended). It was like Ock was carjacking Harry for the tritium. It would seem that most business executives would not keep an item worth a substantial portion of their company's value in a safe in their den, but rather some place more heavily fortified.
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My mistake for thinking you were on of these advertisers.
You are probably right that I'm not immune. Its a big reason I stopped watching TV. I didn't like being repeatedly told that I had to buy things to live a good life.
So you are pretty much saying the goal of marketing is to seperate consumers from rational thought regarding your product. I really think all you guys should be lined up against a wall and shot. I could make a decent arguement that a lot of the things that are wrong with America are due to this philosophy of advertising.
Its taken piecemeal from Western culture as business dictates.
Does anyone else find it amusing that they used English words to form a Hindi acronym?
Says something about Indian culture.
In response to bullet point 1: The earth's magnetic field is produced by currents in its molten iron core. It might be possible for a solar flare to temporarily overwhelm it, but I do not see any obvious way it could damage it.
as long as we are arguing semantics I have to make the point that P2P traffic != web traffic
In other words, Japanese people have more cool tech toys because they are willing to spend more money on cool tech toys.
I stopped really being interested in it after the shadow war. Somehow people using shadow alien technology wasn't as riveting as shadow aliens using shadow alien technology.
I doubt it. The screensaver works by downloading the attack list off of a Lycos server. I imagine they will be careful about what gets on to that list.
what about hooded justice and the original nite owl? or do you think that the scenes from the early crew will be cut?
This isn't a troll. I honestly liked the film version of "From Hell" more than the novel. It seemed that Moore was just used a style of not referring to anything directly and everything important obliquely so that the reader had to piece the actual writing together. I understand that its a legitimate writing technique, but most of what makes it good comes from the pieces the reader is creating in his/her head. That crosshatched drawing style also pissed me off by page three.
I can attest to this. I work out of San Diego. Three of the other centers I work with on my project on a regular basis are spread around Europe. Just getting a reply on an email takes overnight. Getting actual work done involves open some sort of trackable item (ie create an error in the database, create a change request, etc.) instead of just walking down to the cube down the hall.
Keep in mind this isn't outsourced work; it is just different centers of the same corporation.
How do you respond to the common criticism that you need to find a stricter editor to pare down your writing?
The whole purpose of DRM is that you can verify the client beyond Req: Are you the right client? Resp: Of course buddy
v) The service checks the DRM in your browser. If it isn't approved you don't get to use the service. Google likes to make their services display correctly with all browsers but I doubt there is anything in their business model that says they have to be open source compatible even if it ruins a market segment.
I have to agree with this. If there isn't any avenue to legally purchase it I have no moral qualms with downloading it.
Would someone mind telling me what Deus Ex Aurum means? Google gave me nothing. Is it similar to Deus Ex Machina?
A month later I get another notice. I call up their collections department. I am told to clear up the matter I will have to fax them 1) a my old lease 2) my new lease 3) a recent utility bill
Nearly 6 months after the first notice was sent to me I receive another notice. When I call billing this time I am told I have to come down to their office in person. When I finally get there I am handed a check by the receptionist in the amount that I supposedly owed them. Still boggles the mind.
Also a good social engineer would just call up the CEOs secretary and ask for the CEOs password, mother's maiden name, and dental checkup schedule for the next two years.
Who is going to generate the publicity? Its the corporate media who is against Olympians posting this stuff in the first place.
It does however allow a little bit of retribution on the victim's side. Think about 419-baiting for a second. If it wasn't for the fact that 419s are illegal in the first place you could probably be tried for fraud for lying to the guys.
RTFA. Real specifically said that they didn't want to strip off all of the DRM.
This will probably out me as a nerd but the first thing I thought was someone saying incredulously "Compaq makes great harddrives. I've had one for years with no problems. I don't know what you guys are saying about them breaking."
So he had some way of refining it in to one large ball too?
That whole scene bugged me (no pun intended). It was like Ock was carjacking Harry for the tritium. It would seem that most business executives would not keep an item worth a substantial portion of their company's value in a safe in their den, but rather some place more heavily fortified.