That's pretty dumb on the Republican's part, but all that stupidity is essentially random and cancels itself out over a large enough sample size and you end up with a nearly 50-50 split.
That last minuscule slice of the vote is what decides it, so yes, a very tiny percentage of people voting strategically can make a difference.
Looks like it. There's some evidence of photoshopping just above her ankles. Also, on the right ankle you can see veins beginning abruptly on her right foot.
That, plus the industrial park in the background and her busted-ass face looks like the beginning of a snuff film if you ask me.
I used to do that with beer all the time. You have to get the temperature just right, but if you sip all of the ice off, you can stop it from freezing down. Then you've got the coldest beer possible. I imagine the same would work for soda.
The skill comes in a lot of ways: being able to identify the capabilities and probable loadout based on ship type, knowing how to approach an enemy while keeping your transversal speed up so their turrets can't track you, orbiting at the right distance to do the most damage, balancing your MWD (turbo boost) added speed vs the fact that it makes it easier to lock you and hit you with missiles (unless you're going fast enough to counter-act that). Some people's setups can run permanently, some can only run for a limited time. You have to guess who's gonna run out of juice first.
Most games, 95% of the abilities you have bring no downsides. You activate it, it costs you some magic points, and you're better. In Eve, 95% of the abilities do have a downside. A good 1v1 or small gang fight is an ever-shifting battle of counter moves.
It's not a nuclear power plant. This is fun. Now go away little troll.
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Play Eve. Take two characters with the exact same gear, but one has 2 million skill points, the other has 10, and the 10 million point char should slaughter the other without breaking a sweat.
Provided they're both training combat skills that is. If that 10m SP char is an industrial character, they don't stand a chance.
After skill points, or in some cases before, it's all about your skills. Take someone who doesn't know how to put together a good ship, or how to fly one well, and then your 2m SP char is ruining the 10m SP char's day.
Plus scamming is part of the game. Makes for a very paranoid, careful feel. Get out into 0.0 security (no law enforcement at all) and suddenly you're in the wild west. In spaceships.
Carry a knife, with 9-inch or so blade. If it was the US I'd say get a gun and a concealed carry permit. You've been warned, at this point if you get beaten or killed, well, you knew.
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30 length on passwords is definitely not the way to go. You'll encourage people to pick horrible passwords that can be defeated by automated means. If you use password complexity requirements, they'll just write them down and stick them all over the place. Best is to make password expiration fairly long, like 180 days or more, and require strong passwords.
As for creating new passwords, at the very least use a scheme that isn't predictable, at least by automated means. I usually go with "^changeme^" or "(change#this)" or something like that. If for some reason I couldn't make people change it on first login, I'd make it horrible to type. Like "Y0u%HQu!|)C|-|4nG37H1%" (that's youshouldchangethis horribly mangled) Yes, I would really go that far. Unless they're stupid assholes, they only have to type it once.
You can, and should be nice, but it is your job to keep them secure, and they don't know any better. IF they give you crap about it, shrug and look embarrassed, then blame it on your boss. "Sorry man, company policy you know..." Not quite a lie, I mean, it's your policy, so technically it's company policy.
Also, make sure you do this job well. It will teach you a lot of things about how to write software when you see the horrible things that other non-sysadmin programmers have written. INFORMATIVE ERROR MESSAGES FUCK OHGOD PLEEEASE
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Is there a reason you can't require a password change on first login?
A close friend of mine sandblasts & repaints bridges for a living. Showed $98k on his W2, which doesn't include the insane retirement plan, vacation and medical benefits he receives that all FAR, FAR outstrip anything I've ever heard of in the white-collar world, and with the under-the-table kind of things that go on in their industry, just imagine what he actually made.
We don't normally compare paychecks, but an engineering-degreed friend of mine drunkenly told me about the big raise he got after 3 years at the company. Before his 12% raise he was making $45k.
Warehouse and sanitation is about the lowest of the low, you can hardly compare that to the "average" manual laborer. Also, maybe your friends are just successful.
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That's pretty dumb on the Republican's part, but all that stupidity is essentially random and cancels itself out over a large enough sample size and you end up with a nearly 50-50 split.
That last minuscule slice of the vote is what decides it, so yes, a very tiny percentage of people voting strategically can make a difference.
Talk to me when it's OVER NINE THOUSAND!
It appears those were handcuff chains. It's some German BDSM skank.
Looks like it. There's some evidence of photoshopping just above her ankles. Also, on the right ankle you can see veins beginning abruptly on her right foot.
That, plus the industrial park in the background and her busted-ass face looks like the beginning of a snuff film if you ask me.
This is South Korea's Mohammed.
I know who!
http://youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0
Because of you.
therms?
Is that a typing lisp or thomething?
I used to do that with beer all the time. You have to get the temperature just right, but if you sip all of the ice off, you can stop it from freezing down. Then you've got the coldest beer possible. I imagine the same would work for soda.
Calm down.
The skill comes in a lot of ways: being able to identify the capabilities and probable loadout based on ship type, knowing how to approach an enemy while keeping your transversal speed up so their turrets can't track you, orbiting at the right distance to do the most damage, balancing your MWD (turbo boost) added speed vs the fact that it makes it easier to lock you and hit you with missiles (unless you're going fast enough to counter-act that). Some people's setups can run permanently, some can only run for a limited time. You have to guess who's gonna run out of juice first.
Most games, 95% of the abilities you have bring no downsides. You activate it, it costs you some magic points, and you're better. In Eve, 95% of the abilities do have a downside. A good 1v1 or small gang fight is an ever-shifting battle of counter moves.
It's not a nuclear power plant. This is fun. Now go away little troll.
Play Eve. Take two characters with the exact same gear, but one has 2 million skill points, the other has 10, and the 10 million point char should slaughter the other without breaking a sweat.
Provided they're both training combat skills that is. If that 10m SP char is an industrial character, they don't stand a chance.
After skill points, or in some cases before, it's all about your skills. Take someone who doesn't know how to put together a good ship, or how to fly one well, and then your 2m SP char is ruining the 10m SP char's day.
Plus scamming is part of the game. Makes for a very paranoid, careful feel. Get out into 0.0 security (no law enforcement at all) and suddenly you're in the wild west. In spaceships.
Dude, if that's one meal for you, you must weigh 250lbs.
That's like 3-4 meals.
Agreed, just whatever you do, get yourself into a 0.0 corp ASAP and never go into empire again.
Yes, but you can gank cell R19, take all its stuff, then call it a faggot.
That's good times.
What do you think light is?
Nobody knows how to knife fight, except maybe Steve Segal. Cut and stab everyone as fast as you possibly can.
Yikes. Wouldn't want to live there then. I know the "make X illegal and only criminals will have X" is hackneyed, but damn.
Carry a knife, with 9-inch or so blade. If it was the US I'd say get a gun and a concealed carry permit. You've been warned, at this point if you get beaten or killed, well, you knew.
Oh man, he's juicin'!
30 length on passwords is definitely not the way to go. You'll encourage people to pick horrible passwords that can be defeated by automated means. If you use password complexity requirements, they'll just write them down and stick them all over the place. Best is to make password expiration fairly long, like 180 days or more, and require strong passwords.
As for creating new passwords, at the very least use a scheme that isn't predictable, at least by automated means. I usually go with "^changeme^" or "(change#this)" or something like that. If for some reason I couldn't make people change it on first login, I'd make it horrible to type. Like "Y0u%HQu!|)C|-|4nG37H1%" (that's youshouldchangethis horribly mangled) Yes, I would really go that far. Unless they're stupid assholes, they only have to type it once.
You can, and should be nice, but it is your job to keep them secure, and they don't know any better. IF they give you crap about it, shrug and look embarrassed, then blame it on your boss. "Sorry man, company policy you know..." Not quite a lie, I mean, it's your policy, so technically it's company policy.
Also, make sure you do this job well. It will teach you a lot of things about how to write software when you see the horrible things that other non-sysadmin programmers have written. INFORMATIVE ERROR MESSAGES FUCK OHGOD PLEEEASE
Is there a reason you can't require a password change on first login?
The double irony of making the central joke of your post the tired old "Orwell spinning in his grave" is delicious.
A close friend of mine sandblasts & repaints bridges for a living. Showed $98k on his W2, which doesn't include the insane retirement plan, vacation and medical benefits he receives that all FAR, FAR outstrip anything I've ever heard of in the white-collar world, and with the under-the-table kind of things that go on in their industry, just imagine what he actually made.
We don't normally compare paychecks, but an engineering-degreed friend of mine drunkenly told me about the big raise he got after 3 years at the company. Before his 12% raise he was making $45k.
Warehouse and sanitation is about the lowest of the low, you can hardly compare that to the "average" manual laborer. Also, maybe your friends are just successful.
I've spent very little time on Digg, but I'd rather read that all day than spend one hour reading Youtube comments. They're almost as bad as this one.
I will keep snickering.