>Bill Clinton said he looked at the same intel for 8 years
Clintons intel was from his term so his intel is 8 years old. Sure Saddam had some Iran/Iraq war relics in 1996 but not in 2003. Contrary to the lies of the Bush administration: the UN inspectors did their job as they claimed and there are no WMD in Iraq during the invasion. Hows that for facts for you?
Ive done nothing but provide you with facts:
1. Bush claims WMD: false on their face. A suppression of contradictory intel and punishing those who went to the press (Plame). 2. Condi claims nuclear war: False. That aluminum was not used in any reactor and Plane knew it. 3. Cheney: Atta worked for Saddam thus Saddam had a hand in 9/11: False. A recent poll shows Fox News viewers still believe this. 4. Fact: 500k people lost their lives in this conflict. Thats like a 9/11 every work day for a year. 6. Fact: This administration went to war on lies.
What you are doing is trying to salvage Bush's reputation by comparing him to Saddam, a vicious dictator. Anyone short of Pol Pot or Stalin looks good compared to that guy. In the end your argument is unconvicing for these reasons:
1. No one knows how many people would have died under Saddams rule. History shows us that it would have been less than the 500k the US killed. 2. No one has the moral right to pull a number out of their ass, say "these people will die, so lets go to war." 3. The war was never sold as saving Iraqis, but as a security measure to prevent nuclear and biological castrophe. The "proof" was the intel report Plume debunks and Powell's bullshit about smallbox trucks.
You can retcon Bush into anything you like, but the facts are out there. Your delusion is pathetic. Bush should be remembered for taking us to war with false justifications and someone who liberate 500k people from their bodies. In the end the left was right: No WMD, Bush lied, and no cakewalk. In the end your side is wrong.
>Censoring speech is oppression. So oppression does exist here.
Being censored by the government is oppression. By a private organization its a violation of the TOS. Or dont you believe in property rights?
I just checked the constitution and it doesnt give us any promises about free photo hosting without censorship or pulling photos to avoid copyright lawsuits. You can even say the word "fuck" on TV! I'll check it again if I need to.
You can turn this into a big anti-obama rant but its not government censorship, its just our old friend copyright and private industry come to bite us in the ass again. Instead of railing on about politcal distrations we should be discussing copyright reform.
That half or more Americans think Iraq was involved in the 9/11 attack -- perhaps the most media-covered event in our history -- stands as a horrific indictment of U.S. media today. Such levels of ignorance can't be found in other countries.
Americans who are fundamentally misinformed about 9/11 provide the bulk of those tallied in polls as supporting Bush and the Iraq war. Subtract them from polls and Bush is an unpopular president -- widely seen as having accomplished a bait and switch, redirecting U.S. anger and vengeance toward a country that did not attack us.
>The media treats Democrats better than Republicans.
You obviously werent around for the Clinton years.
>Google "media bias" for more.
Sure, from here. Turns out they have a corporatist right-wing bias because right-wing ideas like taxing the poor and not the rich and going to war on a whim means more profits for the elites:
In 1983, 50 corporations controlled the vast majority of all news media in the U.S. At the time, Ben Bagdikian was called "alarmist" for pointing this out in his book, The Media Monopoly. In his 4th edition, published in 1992, he wrote "in the U.S., fewer than two dozen of these extraordinary creatures own and operate 90% of the mass media" -- controlling almost all of America's newspapers, magazines, TV and radio stations, books, records, movies, videos, wire services and photo agencies. He predicted then that eventually this number would fall to about half a dozen companies. This was greeted with skepticism at the time. When the 6th edition of The Media Monopoly was published in 2000, the number had fallen to six.
In 2004, Bagdikian's revised and expanded book, The New Media Monopoly, shows that only 5 huge corporations -- Time Warner, Disney, Murdoch's News Corporation, Bertelsmann of Germany, and Viacom (formerly CBS) -- now control most of the media industry in the U.S. General Electric's NBC is a close sixth.
Oh yes, my oil comment was a little off-hand, but it is a significant reason for this conflict as well as a vendetta from his father's war, and the opportunity to put a US friendly government in the middle of the mideast and other points as spelled out so nicely by PNAC.
None of these reasons have anything to do with smallpox labs and nuclear weapons. Those are the lies we told Joe "bibles and guns" Conservative so we could sell him on this war. And war we got.
>Why take any step, however small, from the ideal towards tyranny?
Because social programs like welfare, the military, healthcare, roads, education, are NOT THE SAME AS COMMUNISM WHICH IS THE GOVERNMENT CONTROLED MEANS OF PRODUCTION AND OWNERSHIP OF ALL ASSETS.
To go from universal healthcare to the USSR is a ridiculous leap and a pitiful strawman. I dont see western Europe or Canada going red and they have all these programs and more.
Excuses excuses. So the WMD were there, but they werent. Or they were all transported, or maybe destroyed. The idea that Bush cherry picked intel to make a case he knew was damn unmakable in unacceptable by you, which is a shame as its the best thesis for why this war happened. All the reports skeptical of these claims were buried and ignored. A smear campaign from on top (Cheney told Libby to tell Novak to expose Plame as retribution), etc dont seem to phaze you. I mean, we are outing secret agents for telling the truth! And you still think this was all reasonable behavior.
You can nitpick the Lancet all you like but all studies float aroudn the same ballpark: HUNDREDS of thousands of lives. Ok, lets say they are off by 100k, its still around 400 to 500k lives killed. All civillians. Incredible!
>Oh wait, it is easier to make simplistic lies that we were interested in oil rather than look at the facts.
Even on a strict lives lost metric its a crazy position to take. Even then Bush invaded Iraq because of WMD that he knew were there. Turns out the left was correct and there werent any. The smearing of those who spoke to power like Valerie Plame's husband was in full effect. Colin Powell brought smallpox to the UN and pointed out water trucks and called them mobile biochemical factories. Joe Conservative was out there in the streets talking about mushroom clouds thanks to Condi Rice scaring people with warnings about nuclear war. From a country with no nuclear warheads or missile tech to hit any target in the west.
Hell, your premise doesnt make any sense as if the US wanted to save lives from warlords and dictators, Saddam is probably last on that list. The various warlords in Africa qualify quite a bit more, but there's no oil there, so we dont go there. Funny how that works.
>Even more so, combining the accusation of Socialism with a depiction of Obama as the Joker makes no fucking sense.
Do you think the average american has any idea of what the term socialism means. To many its code for "Yell something about Hitler and try to bring a gun to a town hall meeting if you can"
>It's because their ideas can't win in open debate.
Yes, by open debate you mean bringing a gun to a town hall meeting and screaming "Jesus" and/or "Hitler" every so often, then yes, there's no winning against that kind of "debate."
>It's funny how the group that screams for equal treatment and equal rights is so quick to silence any that oppose them.
Flikr is not the government, it is a privately held organization. Arent you for property rights? They have the right to pull what they want according to their TOS.
Oh right, youre just trolling for mod points from our Fox News inspired mods.
>resemble those of the ("early") Hitler : govt. healthcare, govt. takeover of car companies, stimulus money on creating his own civilians corps,... all those policies were implemented by both.
Or all early 20th century European governments. You know the ones today with excellent universal healthcare, less obsese people, better public trans, lower infant mortality, less debt, more personal savings, free education, and quality of life standards.
Oh right, everything is about Hitler. Thats "reasonable" and your side is hysterically yelling Hitler like spoiled children unable to win a debate.
>This is not unusual as most in the media, including Internet media, are liberal and will only allow their talking points to be heard.
What? You mean the same media that is reporting this to begin with? If its all a big conspiracy why would they invite the Streisand effect?
Outside of your world of conspiracy theories theres a real world of corporate owned media. Most media is owned by a pretty big company with holdings in other markets like healthcare, defense, etc. When there is real censorship and bias (not this kind of copyright bullshit) we see talking points that always seem to agree with whatever will make the media owners the most amount of money. Funny how little dissent for Iraq I heard on the news but so much for the healtcare proposals. Turns out that a lot of the media outlets are owned or have holdings in profitable private healthcare or in the defense industry.
There's a bias for profits. Ideology? Not so much, unless the outlet wears its ideology on its sleeve, like Fox News or the Wall Street Journal.
Well, I think an obvious counter to your rant is that we all deserve some kind of recreation. Sure, the guy who is a WoW addict is all sorts of messed up, but the guy who plays an FPS after work is just doing the same thing youre doing when youre watching Friends or Survivorman or whatever.
I think what really gets people is that games tend to fool us into thinking we've done work, like how pornography fools our reptilian brain into thinking we've had sex. We do labor, there are rewards, we feel like we are doing something, we are excited to play again and progress, etc but really we've done nothing worthwhile. Games that have too much of a sense of accomplishment like MMOs, RPGs, etc are probably the worst for us.
Thats what AT&T is doing as well as Verizon. UVerse and FIOS delivers phone, data, and tv in one IP based bundle. In the meantime telcos are still playing the "you need a phone line for DSL" game in some markets. In mine I can get a dry pair.
In most markets you dont need a phone for DSL. You can get a dry loop.
>My security alarm needs it
Why cant it use wifi or why cant they provide their own communications? I shouldnt have to pay 40-50 dollars a month just in case my security system needs it. Sounds like a problem with the security company's lack of innovation.
>The sound quality is far better than any cell I've ever had
With a headset I cant tell the different between landline and voip/cell, unless there is static or some other connectivity issue.
>During my 5 day power outage, my landline still worked
Sometimes the opposite is true. Cell phone works when landlines dont. I know this has been the case for several disasters. Turns out stringing wires all over the place can be fragile.
Its makes perfect sense to me as I find how much time I spend gaming or online is a good barometer on how depressed I am. I find that the better my moods, the less time Im willing to spend controlling a little avatar and doing repetitive tasks for virtual reward. The better I feel the less obsessive I am about things in general.
>Gaming, like watching tv dramas or sports or news, or listening to the radio or ipod, is simply a way to pass the time.
Sure, but the bigger question here is why do some people spend so much time with the TV or the computer? Is it related to mood? For many the answer is yes.
Or what will happen is what is happening now: people who are technophobes with little to no online presence will be the only ones winning elections. So the guy who thinks using a Mac is too hard will be running your country. Or the girl who has never contributed to an online discussion.
Perhaps people of the future will be more understanding, but considering we're seeing people waltz into town hall meetings with guns, yelling like nuts, and using loaded terms like "youre hitler!" today, something tells me things will get worse before they get better.
I just installed it last week and have put in a few hours. So far I'm not seeing all these bugs. I did have a glitch on one quest but it cleared itself up after a few minutes. I didnt like that mandatory non-grouping intro quest, as I prefer grouping, but it wasnt too bad. The game looks like its built for solo players, at least in the beginning.
Unfortunately, a lot of slashdotters are pretty bombastic and unforgiving people. Ignoring some of the more hysterical posters, you'll find the game to be a decent WoW clone.
>As a nit pic, Angels would be aliens for all intents and purposes, as would God.
No because thats revisionist nonsense. Religious people from the past were just that: religious. They had visions, dreams, etc and no concept of life on other planets, flying machines, outer space, etc. Ufo believers think they can just pretend its the same thing, but its not, but this mentality shows you how much of ufology is really a religious belief in itself.
>t also includes references to "top secret" projects only known by early "conspiracy theorists" and some of them were sometimes revaled true a few years later.
How about a few dozen cites? I have a ton of proof the other way: conspiracy theories spouting bullshit.
>like "aurora" "blackbird" or theories about UFO's when I was kid
In other words one rumored experimental plane and another real one (SR77). I dont think anyone doubts the government has experimental aircraft. Everyone doubts that this involves anything non-terrestrial. Yes, the xfiles writers did look into the UFO community. Big deal. Thats like saying Anne Rice looked into vampire legend. Its all still silly fantasy.
Exactly. Ive seen some really dumb thugs doing this kind of work. To say they lacked customer service skills is something of an understatement.
Recently, we upgraded my dad's directv service to HDTV and the guy they sent over was somewhat rude, but I didnt care as log as he got the job done. Turns out the job was harder than he thought so he said he was going to his van, left the dish in the snow, and never came back. Yep, he just said "fuck it" and went home. I doubt he got fired.
A little while after that I got Dish network at my place and was talking with the installer. I told him Ive put up dishes before at old places. He looked surprised. he said that they have guys with 5 weeks training that cant even up a dish.
5 WEEKS to mount and point a dish? Wow. These arent the brightest bulbs.
( ) hidden/earned powerful class (x) difficult to play powerful class ( ) no class ( ) no balance ( ) randomization
It wont work because
( ) tough to implement (x) people dont like playing difficult classes (x) people want to essentially play arcade games ( ) changes game dymanics too much ( ) will chase off old timers ( ) will cause a riot on the message boards
Ive seen something similiar in the MUDs I used to play, byt MUD players were a bit more serious and sophisticed than your typical MMO players. Face it, these MMOs are the mcdonalds of role playing games. Its just kids whining about ganks, balance, and equipment. They dont really want to play a wizard like this, although I would love to. They just want an RPG that plays as much as an arcade game as possible. Perhaps someone will release a more challenging MMO that can do oddball things like this.
>It is not the ISP's place to make these decisions. Period. End of Story.
Actually it is, because it becomes the ISPs problem when my VPN, VOIP, gaming, etc time out because some guy doing bulk transfers is eating into all the bandwidth. Running a network involves priority and shaping. You may not even notice the shaping, because you can handle 150-200ms latencies with FTP, but the services I mentioned above will notice. Frankly, its networking 101.
>They have just made themselves complicit in committing innumerable crimes ranging from spreading virii to transmitting child porn to terroism.
I see youre as much as a lawyer as you are a network admin.
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>Bill Clinton said he looked at the same intel for 8 years
Clintons intel was from his term so his intel is 8 years old. Sure Saddam had some Iran/Iraq war relics in 1996 but not in 2003. Contrary to the lies of the Bush administration: the UN inspectors did their job as they claimed and there are no WMD in Iraq during the invasion. Hows that for facts for you?
Ive done nothing but provide you with facts:
1. Bush claims WMD: false on their face. A suppression of contradictory intel and punishing those who went to the press (Plame).
2. Condi claims nuclear war: False. That aluminum was not used in any reactor and Plane knew it.
3. Cheney: Atta worked for Saddam thus Saddam had a hand in 9/11: False. A recent poll shows Fox News viewers still believe this.
4. Fact: 500k people lost their lives in this conflict. Thats like a 9/11 every work day for a year.
6. Fact: This administration went to war on lies.
What you are doing is trying to salvage Bush's reputation by comparing him to Saddam, a vicious dictator. Anyone short of Pol Pot or Stalin looks good compared to that guy. In the end your argument is unconvicing for these reasons:
1. No one knows how many people would have died under Saddams rule. History shows us that it would have been less than the 500k the US killed.
2. No one has the moral right to pull a number out of their ass, say "these people will die, so lets go to war."
3. The war was never sold as saving Iraqis, but as a security measure to prevent nuclear and biological castrophe. The "proof" was the intel report Plume debunks and Powell's bullshit about smallbox trucks.
You can retcon Bush into anything you like, but the facts are out there. Your delusion is pathetic. Bush should be remembered for taking us to war with false justifications and someone who liberate 500k people from their bodies. In the end the left was right: No WMD, Bush lied, and no cakewalk. In the end your side is wrong.
>Censoring speech is oppression. So oppression does exist here.
Being censored by the government is oppression. By a private organization its a violation of the TOS. Or dont you believe in property rights?
I just checked the constitution and it doesnt give us any promises about free photo hosting without censorship or pulling photos to avoid copyright lawsuits. You can even say the word "fuck" on TV! I'll check it again if I need to.
You can turn this into a big anti-obama rant but its not government censorship, its just our old friend copyright and private industry come to bite us in the ass again. Instead of railing on about politcal distrations we should be discussing copyright reform.
If media was liberal then how the hell does this happen:
That half or more Americans think Iraq was involved in the 9/11 attack -- perhaps the most media-covered event in our history -- stands as a horrific indictment of U.S. media today. Such levels of ignorance can't be found in other countries.
Americans who are fundamentally misinformed about 9/11 provide the bulk of those tallied in polls as supporting Bush and the Iraq war. Subtract them from polls and Bush is an unpopular president -- widely seen as having accomplished a bait and switch, redirecting U.S. anger and vengeance toward a country that did not attack us.
>The media treats Democrats better than Republicans.
You obviously werent around for the Clinton years.
>Google "media bias" for more.
Sure, from here. Turns out they have a corporatist right-wing bias because right-wing ideas like taxing the poor and not the rich and going to war on a whim means more profits for the elites:
GE owns NBC. GE makes aircraft engines for planes used in Iraq and Afghanistan. MSNBC was completely and uttery pro-war with their hilariously inept Lestor Holt giving us the "Iraq Lowdown" everynight more or less cheerleading for war. Funny how that works.
Oh yes, my oil comment was a little off-hand, but it is a significant reason for this conflict as well as a vendetta from his father's war, and the opportunity to put a US friendly government in the middle of the mideast and other points as spelled out so nicely by PNAC.
None of these reasons have anything to do with smallpox labs and nuclear weapons. Those are the lies we told Joe "bibles and guns" Conservative so we could sell him on this war. And war we got.
>Why take any step, however small, from the ideal towards tyranny?
Because social programs like welfare, the military, healthcare, roads, education, are NOT THE SAME AS COMMUNISM WHICH IS THE GOVERNMENT CONTROLED MEANS OF PRODUCTION AND OWNERSHIP OF ALL ASSETS.
To go from universal healthcare to the USSR is a ridiculous leap and a pitiful strawman. I dont see western Europe or Canada going red and they have all these programs and more.
Excuses excuses. So the WMD were there, but they werent. Or they were all transported, or maybe destroyed. The idea that Bush cherry picked intel to make a case he knew was damn unmakable in unacceptable by you, which is a shame as its the best thesis for why this war happened. All the reports skeptical of these claims were buried and ignored. A smear campaign from on top (Cheney told Libby to tell Novak to expose Plame as retribution), etc dont seem to phaze you. I mean, we are outing secret agents for telling the truth! And you still think this was all reasonable behavior.
You can nitpick the Lancet all you like but all studies float aroudn the same ballpark: HUNDREDS of thousands of lives. Ok, lets say they are off by 100k, its still around 400 to 500k lives killed. All civillians. Incredible!
>Oh wait, it is easier to make simplistic lies that we were interested in oil rather than look at the facts.
Sounds like that describes you better than me.
>But you can contend that he preserved more life by going into Iraq than what was lost.
That war killed hundreds of thousands of civillians. A study by the lancet estimates 650k.
Even on a strict lives lost metric its a crazy position to take. Even then Bush invaded Iraq because of WMD that he knew were there. Turns out the left was correct and there werent any. The smearing of those who spoke to power like Valerie Plame's husband was in full effect. Colin Powell brought smallpox to the UN and pointed out water trucks and called them mobile biochemical factories. Joe Conservative was out there in the streets talking about mushroom clouds thanks to Condi Rice scaring people with warnings about nuclear war. From a country with no nuclear warheads or missile tech to hit any target in the west.
Hell, your premise doesnt make any sense as if the US wanted to save lives from warlords and dictators, Saddam is probably last on that list. The various warlords in Africa qualify quite a bit more, but there's no oil there, so we dont go there. Funny how that works.
>Even more so, combining the accusation of Socialism with a depiction of Obama as the Joker makes no fucking sense.
Do you think the average american has any idea of what the term socialism means. To many its code for "Yell something about Hitler and try to bring a gun to a town hall meeting if you can"
>It's because their ideas can't win in open debate.
Yes, by open debate you mean bringing a gun to a town hall meeting and screaming "Jesus" and/or "Hitler" every so often, then yes, there's no winning against that kind of "debate."
>It's funny how the group that screams for equal treatment and equal rights is so quick to silence any that oppose them.
Flikr is not the government, it is a privately held organization. Arent you for property rights? They have the right to pull what they want according to their TOS.
Oh right, youre just trolling for mod points from our Fox News inspired mods.
>resemble those of the ("early") Hitler : govt. healthcare, govt. takeover of car companies, stimulus money on creating his own civilians corps, ... all those policies were implemented by both.
Or all early 20th century European governments. You know the ones today with excellent universal healthcare, less obsese people, better public trans, lower infant mortality, less debt, more personal savings, free education, and quality of life standards.
Oh right, everything is about Hitler. Thats "reasonable" and your side is hysterically yelling Hitler like spoiled children unable to win a debate.
>This is not unusual as most in the media, including Internet media, are liberal and will only allow their talking points to be heard.
What? You mean the same media that is reporting this to begin with? If its all a big conspiracy why would they invite the Streisand effect?
Outside of your world of conspiracy theories theres a real world of corporate owned media. Most media is owned by a pretty big company with holdings in other markets like healthcare, defense, etc. When there is real censorship and bias (not this kind of copyright bullshit) we see talking points that always seem to agree with whatever will make the media owners the most amount of money. Funny how little dissent for Iraq I heard on the news but so much for the healtcare proposals. Turns out that a lot of the media outlets are owned or have holdings in profitable private healthcare or in the defense industry.
There's a bias for profits. Ideology? Not so much, unless the outlet wears its ideology on its sleeve, like Fox News or the Wall Street Journal.
Well, I think an obvious counter to your rant is that we all deserve some kind of recreation. Sure, the guy who is a WoW addict is all sorts of messed up, but the guy who plays an FPS after work is just doing the same thing youre doing when youre watching Friends or Survivorman or whatever.
I think what really gets people is that games tend to fool us into thinking we've done work, like how pornography fools our reptilian brain into thinking we've had sex. We do labor, there are rewards, we feel like we are doing something, we are excited to play again and progress, etc but really we've done nothing worthwhile. Games that have too much of a sense of accomplishment like MMOs, RPGs, etc are probably the worst for us.
Thats what AT&T is doing as well as Verizon. UVerse and FIOS delivers phone, data, and tv in one IP based bundle. In the meantime telcos are still playing the "you need a phone line for DSL" game in some markets. In mine I can get a dry pair.
In most markets you dont need a phone for DSL. You can get a dry loop.
>My security alarm needs it
Why cant it use wifi or why cant they provide their own communications? I shouldnt have to pay 40-50 dollars a month just in case my security system needs it. Sounds like a problem with the security company's lack of innovation.
>The sound quality is far better than any cell I've ever had
With a headset I cant tell the different between landline and voip/cell, unless there is static or some other connectivity issue.
>During my 5 day power outage, my landline still worked
Sometimes the opposite is true. Cell phone works when landlines dont. I know this has been the case for several disasters. Turns out stringing wires all over the place can be fragile.
Its makes perfect sense to me as I find how much time I spend gaming or online is a good barometer on how depressed I am. I find that the better my moods, the less time Im willing to spend controlling a little avatar and doing repetitive tasks for virtual reward. The better I feel the less obsessive I am about things in general.
>Gaming, like watching tv dramas or sports or news, or listening to the radio or ipod, is simply a way to pass the time.
Sure, but the bigger question here is why do some people spend so much time with the TV or the computer? Is it related to mood? For many the answer is yes.
Or what will happen is what is happening now: people who are technophobes with little to no online presence will be the only ones winning elections. So the guy who thinks using a Mac is too hard will be running your country. Or the girl who has never contributed to an online discussion.
Perhaps people of the future will be more understanding, but considering we're seeing people waltz into town hall meetings with guns, yelling like nuts, and using loaded terms like "youre hitler!" today, something tells me things will get worse before they get better.
I just installed it last week and have put in a few hours. So far I'm not seeing all these bugs. I did have a glitch on one quest but it cleared itself up after a few minutes. I didnt like that mandatory non-grouping intro quest, as I prefer grouping, but it wasnt too bad. The game looks like its built for solo players, at least in the beginning.
Unfortunately, a lot of slashdotters are pretty bombastic and unforgiving people. Ignoring some of the more hysterical posters, you'll find the game to be a decent WoW clone.
>As a nit pic, Angels would be aliens for all intents and purposes, as would God.
No because thats revisionist nonsense. Religious people from the past were just that: religious. They had visions, dreams, etc and no concept of life on other planets, flying machines, outer space, etc. Ufo believers think they can just pretend its the same thing, but its not, but this mentality shows you how much of ufology is really a religious belief in itself.
>t also includes references to "top secret" projects only known by early "conspiracy theorists" and some of them were sometimes revaled true a few years later.
How about a few dozen cites? I have a ton of proof the other way: conspiracy theories spouting bullshit.
>like "aurora" "blackbird" or theories about UFO's when I was kid
In other words one rumored experimental plane and another real one (SR77). I dont think anyone doubts the government has experimental aircraft. Everyone doubts that this involves anything non-terrestrial. Yes, the xfiles writers did look into the UFO community. Big deal. Thats like saying Anne Rice looked into vampire legend. Its all still silly fantasy.
Exactly. Ive seen some really dumb thugs doing this kind of work. To say they lacked customer service skills is something of an understatement.
Recently, we upgraded my dad's directv service to HDTV and the guy they sent over was somewhat rude, but I didnt care as log as he got the job done. Turns out the job was harder than he thought so he said he was going to his van, left the dish in the snow, and never came back. Yep, he just said "fuck it" and went home. I doubt he got fired.
A little while after that I got Dish network at my place and was talking with the installer. I told him Ive put up dishes before at old places. He looked surprised. he said that they have guys with 5 weeks training that cant even up a dish.
5 WEEKS to mount and point a dish? Wow. These arent the brightest bulbs.
You have proposed this solution to class balance:
( ) hidden/earned powerful class
(x) difficult to play powerful class
( ) no class
( ) no balance
( ) randomization
It wont work because
( ) tough to implement
(x) people dont like playing difficult classes
(x) people want to essentially play arcade games
( ) changes game dymanics too much
( ) will chase off old timers
( ) will cause a riot on the message boards
Ive seen something similiar in the MUDs I used to play, byt MUD players were a bit more serious and sophisticed than your typical MMO players. Face it, these MMOs are the mcdonalds of role playing games. Its just kids whining about ganks, balance, and equipment. They dont really want to play a wizard like this, although I would love to. They just want an RPG that plays as much as an arcade game as possible. Perhaps someone will release a more challenging MMO that can do oddball things like this.
>It is not the ISP's place to make these decisions. Period. End of Story.
Actually it is, because it becomes the ISPs problem when my VPN, VOIP, gaming, etc time out because some guy doing bulk transfers is eating into all the bandwidth. Running a network involves priority and shaping. You may not even notice the shaping, because you can handle 150-200ms latencies with FTP, but the services I mentioned above will notice. Frankly, its networking 101.
>They have just made themselves complicit in committing innumerable crimes ranging from spreading virii to transmitting child porn to terroism.
I see youre as much as a lawyer as you are a network admin.
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