Better check your state laws (assuming you are in US) as this is not universally true. Quite a few states have made it illegal to travel in the left lane if you are not passing/merging/traveling faster than flow of traffic. This is regardless of the speed limit.
2) Guess all date rape cases aren't really rape. Does that also mean that if I kill someone and they are so dead they don't remember what happened that I should only get half the time?
Yea, when the bar across the street from me closes a bunch of presumably drunk harley riders feel the need to go full throttle down the street past my apartment. Real classy, I had a harley with a touch loud mufflers for a while and I barely used the throttle if I was in a residential area after dark. I just have the stock system on my fz1, don't see a need for anything else. I've been pulled over for "loud exhaust" on a bone stock sportbike but no cops ever batted an eye (or ear I guess) at my louder-than-legal-but-not-SUPER-obnoxious harley. Makes perfect sense to me...
I need one of those shirts that says "If loud pipes save lives imagine what learning to ride that thing could do."
More and more motorcyles are adding cats to meet regulations (mine has one, 08 fz1 (05 was first year with a cat for this model)). All of them have mufflers from the factory.
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Unless a LOT has changed in the last few expansions, they didn't leak enough. Huge amounts of quests and integral spells did not work on privates last time I tried to play on one (admittedly during vanilla). These were things people definitely wanted to work but couldn't make happen, not your standard mods of xp and gold amounts.
As commonly used, atheism doesn't have a core belief structure. Eugenics certainly isn't a requirement. You seem to have assigned atheism as the worship of evolution, when really it is just the rejection of deities. Evolution is just the current best explanation for differing species, not a goal to be worked toward.
I do sys/net admin at a highschool that has promethian boards. We have quite a few different models due to acquiring them over time. They waste a fair amount of the help desk's time due to getting disconnected constantly and requiring someone to go help the teacher get them reconnected. Blue tooth ones seem to be the worst. It is possible we have a shit setup or exceptionally stupid teachers, I don't really deal directly with either (boards or teachers) so I'm not really sure if there is something we are doing to cause the high amount of disconnects.
I know a fair number of gamers and none have every complained about not having a single player mode in an MMO. Kinda would defeat the entire purpose of the genre don't you think?
Add another vote from me for $15/mo rather than Free2Pay(in smaller chunks).
Not saying they don't exist, but I've yet to meet anyone (that has an income capable of paying their owning gaming costs) that prefers micropayments over subscriptions.
The game would suck ass (even more? haven't played for over a year) if it was single player, so even if that was an option it would be worthless if the servers were shutdown. At risk of sounding like your quote, it seems like you haven't played for very long if you think there is much (fun) to be had solo. On the bright side, if you like being a courier (90% of questing), people will actually pay you to do that IRL.
That is an interesting thing to suspect. I have never had nor seen anyone on any street in my neighborhood have a usps package left on the curb at their mailbox. Mine are always left between the screen door and front door if small enough, or outside the screen door on the top step if not.
Maybe it is up the mail carrier but I have never seen that. When I have gotten packages at apartments they have never left them at the mailboxes either, always inside the building just outside my units door or at the complexes concierge if one exists.
This. This is the single event in my mind that significantly changed the average players outlook on the game. The honor system is the second. World PVP and BGs prior to the honor system (even after to some extent, but prior to cross-realm) were the most fun in the game. Guild vs Guild to prove who was the best. No one surrendered flags to end the game cause it is more points/hour to lose fast than win slow or any of that crap. You were there for the long haul and there to win. Also, the amount of dickbags was much lower due to the fact that if you pissed off your realm enough you couldn't meaningfully play. Now you just do whatever you want, act like an ass 24/7 BG or 5man and who cares? There are 4 other idiots you've never met before that will be more than happy to deal with your bullshit after waiting 45minutes for a tank.
At the end of wrath I hardly knew what guilds on my realm on my faction were good let alone what guilds on the other faction were. Who cares? You don't really have to interact with anyone on your own realm.
Did you bother to read the article at all? It isn't off at all is the entire point. Put your hand on it when it is "off" and when it is on, it is just as hot 24/7 no matter what you are doing. Hell, by default FIOS boxes run a full screen "screen saver" that says push menu to turn on. As far as I can tell, and confirmed by this article, the only difference is the brightness of the power led on the front of the box. The long boot times are referring to time from a cold boot (unplugged state with most/all US cable boxes), not from changing the output from screen saver to tv show.
I just got a FIOS install 3 weeks ago and all the boxes are hot to the touch 24/7. They are newer and smaller than the ones at my parents house (and lack the channel/time display on the front which is an annoying feature to drop imo) which exhibit the exact same hot all the time behavior. Point being that they can't even use that excuse as the new ones are still doing the same thing.
Your anecdote is representative of all school districts in the US... or not.
In the district I work for teachers make significantly more than the average citizen paying their wages, went on strike this year over salary and healthcare costs (which they already pay significantly less than the average citizen). Oh, you know what else they were striking about. The district wanted to add 2 days of training to their year. You know during the time the people paying their salary are still working and they are on a 3 month vacation.
Top that off with them being nasty to tech staff (we are "administration") since they don't have a contract. Yea, you will really gain my support by a) getting paid double what I make to fail at your job while making mine harder, b) pay half what I pay for healthcare, c) work 3/4 of the time I do, d) be nasty to me in the process of crying about your horrible plight that is significantly better than mine. And they wonder why citizens are lining up at board meetings telling the board not to budge on the strike and showing up and the picket lines heckling teachers.
"HONK IF YOU MAKE LESS THAN ME AND ARE ON THE WAY TO WORK WHILE I WHINE ABOUT MY AWESOME SALARY AND BENEFITS"
I'm sure neither of the districts we are talking about are unique, but it will take a lot before I'm crying for the overall collective of teachers.
I seriously doubt this is a real time feed. I didn't get that impression anyway.
1. Buy GPS data.
2. Place speed camera where you already know a huge amount of people regularly speed based on historic GPS data you recently purchased.
3. ???
4. Profit
As if there was anyone left that didn't understand yet that the traffic cops' primary job is revenue collection rather than traffic safety this ought to help pound it through their skull.
If you are using WEP, they won't need to ask for the key. WEP probably makes your situation worse. "Sir, you have a secure wifi network, how could anyone be responsible except for you?"
Well, other than the fact that he did nothing illegal but got raided and harassed by police and probably has his name associated with kiddy porn all for leaving his wifi open. What difference does it make if he left it open due to ignorance or if he was just being nice? That facts are that an IP address is not a person and the police need to stop treating it as such.
I hate to break this to you but, your rent is paying someone's mortgage AND they turn a profit. And if their mortgage is paid, well, they are competing with people still paying one and thus price to maximize profit.
Your extra $ in rent are buying you the freedom to pack up and leave if the house/building goes underwater.
Shit pay depends on where you live/work I guess. District I work at teachers make far more than the average citizen in the district, pay FAR less for insurance, have far more paid time off, work shorter hours per day, etc. Basically, if you compare any compensation of theirs to the general public it is well above the average. Yea, they went on strike this year, half of them are douches to me and the rest of my team who, you guessed it, make less, work more, pay more, but we are the "administration" who is keeping all the money for ourselves and they don't make enough.
Local hockey equipment supply shop in my area went out of business probably about 10 years ago. It was awesome as they had a large selection you could actually try on before buying and talk to someone knowledgeable about the inventory. During their going out of business sale we talked to the management and they said they had tons of "customers" that would repeatedly come in to try on all sorts of stuff and leave empty handed only to return to try on tons of the next item and leave empty handed. They assumed (and rightly so I'm sure) that these people were using them as the fitting room for online places with cheaper prices. Now I have to drive about an hour to find a store with a much smaller selection. Yay for making up for your online "savings" in shipping costs to try on items.
Well, sure you can play StarCraft via LAN all you want (which isn't much apparently), but it will be pretty tough to keep the LAN scene alive when all the new games are removing the feature. Blizzard is the primary offender here.
Now who downloads 2gb just to play 10 minutes of a game?
Anyone with broadband?
I have done this numerous times as have many people I know. However, as other posters have noted, quite a few of these instances have reduced my chance of purchase rather than increase it.
The same reason they aren't leaking that you went to work today and performed your duties legally and ethically. It shouldn't be newsworthy when someone does their job correctly.
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Better check your state laws (assuming you are in US) as this is not universally true. Quite a few states have made it illegal to travel in the left lane if you are not passing/merging/traveling faster than flow of traffic. This is regardless of the speed limit.
2) Guess all date rape cases aren't really rape. Does that also mean that if I kill someone and they are so dead they don't remember what happened that I should only get half the time?
Yea, when the bar across the street from me closes a bunch of presumably drunk harley riders feel the need to go full throttle down the street past my apartment. Real classy, I had a harley with a touch loud mufflers for a while and I barely used the throttle if I was in a residential area after dark. I just have the stock system on my fz1, don't see a need for anything else. I've been pulled over for "loud exhaust" on a bone stock sportbike but no cops ever batted an eye (or ear I guess) at my louder-than-legal-but-not-SUPER-obnoxious harley. Makes perfect sense to me...
I need one of those shirts that says "If loud pipes save lives imagine what learning to ride that thing could do."
More and more motorcyles are adding cats to meet regulations (mine has one, 08 fz1 (05 was first year with a cat for this model)). All of them have mufflers from the factory.
Unless a LOT has changed in the last few expansions, they didn't leak enough. Huge amounts of quests and integral spells did not work on privates last time I tried to play on one (admittedly during vanilla). These were things people definitely wanted to work but couldn't make happen, not your standard mods of xp and gold amounts.
As commonly used, atheism doesn't have a core belief structure. Eugenics certainly isn't a requirement. You seem to have assigned atheism as the worship of evolution, when really it is just the rejection of deities. Evolution is just the current best explanation for differing species, not a goal to be worked toward.
I do sys/net admin at a highschool that has promethian boards. We have quite a few different models due to acquiring them over time. They waste a fair amount of the help desk's time due to getting disconnected constantly and requiring someone to go help the teacher get them reconnected. Blue tooth ones seem to be the worst. It is possible we have a shit setup or exceptionally stupid teachers, I don't really deal directly with either (boards or teachers) so I'm not really sure if there is something we are doing to cause the high amount of disconnects.
I know a fair number of gamers and none have every complained about not having a single player mode in an MMO. Kinda would defeat the entire purpose of the genre don't you think?
Add another vote from me for $15/mo rather than Free2Pay(in smaller chunks).
Not saying they don't exist, but I've yet to meet anyone (that has an income capable of paying their owning gaming costs) that prefers micropayments over subscriptions.
The game would suck ass (even more? haven't played for over a year) if it was single player, so even if that was an option it would be worthless if the servers were shutdown. At risk of sounding like your quote, it seems like you haven't played for very long if you think there is much (fun) to be had solo. On the bright side, if you like being a courier (90% of questing), people will actually pay you to do that IRL.
That is an interesting thing to suspect. I have never had nor seen anyone on any street in my neighborhood have a usps package left on the curb at their mailbox. Mine are always left between the screen door and front door if small enough, or outside the screen door on the top step if not.
Maybe it is up the mail carrier but I have never seen that. When I have gotten packages at apartments they have never left them at the mailboxes either, always inside the building just outside my units door or at the complexes concierge if one exists.
This. This is the single event in my mind that significantly changed the average players outlook on the game. The honor system is the second. World PVP and BGs prior to the honor system (even after to some extent, but prior to cross-realm) were the most fun in the game. Guild vs Guild to prove who was the best. No one surrendered flags to end the game cause it is more points/hour to lose fast than win slow or any of that crap. You were there for the long haul and there to win. Also, the amount of dickbags was much lower due to the fact that if you pissed off your realm enough you couldn't meaningfully play. Now you just do whatever you want, act like an ass 24/7 BG or 5man and who cares? There are 4 other idiots you've never met before that will be more than happy to deal with your bullshit after waiting 45minutes for a tank.
At the end of wrath I hardly knew what guilds on my realm on my faction were good let alone what guilds on the other faction were. Who cares? You don't really have to interact with anyone on your own realm.
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Go touch your FIOS box and tell me it is in any sort of power saving mode...
Did you bother to read the article at all? It isn't off at all is the entire point. Put your hand on it when it is "off" and when it is on, it is just as hot 24/7 no matter what you are doing. Hell, by default FIOS boxes run a full screen "screen saver" that says push menu to turn on. As far as I can tell, and confirmed by this article, the only difference is the brightness of the power led on the front of the box. The long boot times are referring to time from a cold boot (unplugged state with most/all US cable boxes), not from changing the output from screen saver to tv show.
I just got a FIOS install 3 weeks ago and all the boxes are hot to the touch 24/7. They are newer and smaller than the ones at my parents house (and lack the channel/time display on the front which is an annoying feature to drop imo) which exhibit the exact same hot all the time behavior. Point being that they can't even use that excuse as the new ones are still doing the same thing.
Your anecdote is representative of all school districts in the US... or not.
In the district I work for teachers make significantly more than the average citizen paying their wages, went on strike this year over salary and healthcare costs (which they already pay significantly less than the average citizen). Oh, you know what else they were striking about. The district wanted to add 2 days of training to their year. You know during the time the people paying their salary are still working and they are on a 3 month vacation.
Top that off with them being nasty to tech staff (we are "administration") since they don't have a contract. Yea, you will really gain my support by a) getting paid double what I make to fail at your job while making mine harder, b) pay half what I pay for healthcare, c) work 3/4 of the time I do, d) be nasty to me in the process of crying about your horrible plight that is significantly better than mine. And they wonder why citizens are lining up at board meetings telling the board not to budge on the strike and showing up and the picket lines heckling teachers.
"HONK IF YOU MAKE LESS THAN ME AND ARE ON THE WAY TO WORK WHILE I WHINE ABOUT MY AWESOME SALARY AND BENEFITS"
I'm sure neither of the districts we are talking about are unique, but it will take a lot before I'm crying for the overall collective of teachers.
I seriously doubt this is a real time feed. I didn't get that impression anyway. 1. Buy GPS data. 2. Place speed camera where you already know a huge amount of people regularly speed based on historic GPS data you recently purchased. 3. ??? 4. Profit As if there was anyone left that didn't understand yet that the traffic cops' primary job is revenue collection rather than traffic safety this ought to help pound it through their skull.
If you are using WEP, they won't need to ask for the key. WEP probably makes your situation worse. "Sir, you have a secure wifi network, how could anyone be responsible except for you?"
Well, other than the fact that he did nothing illegal but got raided and harassed by police and probably has his name associated with kiddy porn all for leaving his wifi open. What difference does it make if he left it open due to ignorance or if he was just being nice? That facts are that an IP address is not a person and the police need to stop treating it as such.
I hate to break this to you but, your rent is paying someone's mortgage AND they turn a profit. And if their mortgage is paid, well, they are competing with people still paying one and thus price to maximize profit.
Your extra $ in rent are buying you the freedom to pack up and leave if the house/building goes underwater.
Shit pay depends on where you live/work I guess. District I work at teachers make far more than the average citizen in the district, pay FAR less for insurance, have far more paid time off, work shorter hours per day, etc. Basically, if you compare any compensation of theirs to the general public it is well above the average. Yea, they went on strike this year, half of them are douches to me and the rest of my team who, you guessed it, make less, work more, pay more, but we are the "administration" who is keeping all the money for ourselves and they don't make enough.
I think Grandpa is the rich not the feds.
Local hockey equipment supply shop in my area went out of business probably about 10 years ago. It was awesome as they had a large selection you could actually try on before buying and talk to someone knowledgeable about the inventory. During their going out of business sale we talked to the management and they said they had tons of "customers" that would repeatedly come in to try on all sorts of stuff and leave empty handed only to return to try on tons of the next item and leave empty handed. They assumed (and rightly so I'm sure) that these people were using them as the fitting room for online places with cheaper prices. Now I have to drive about an hour to find a store with a much smaller selection. Yay for making up for your online "savings" in shipping costs to try on items.
Opens the door to a trivial denial of service by just spamming x number of bad logins per y amount of time for all (or some number of) usernames.
Well, sure you can play StarCraft via LAN all you want (which isn't much apparently), but it will be pretty tough to keep the LAN scene alive when all the new games are removing the feature. Blizzard is the primary offender here.
Now who downloads 2gb just to play 10 minutes of a game?
Anyone with broadband?
I have done this numerous times as have many people I know. However, as other posters have noted, quite a few of these instances have reduced my chance of purchase rather than increase it.
The same reason they aren't leaking that you went to work today and performed your duties legally and ethically. It shouldn't be newsworthy when someone does their job correctly.