...which is why there are hard modes for the raid content these days. The 45-minute baron run was their first attempt at a hard mode, and it could be overcome with good gear. The new Ulduar hard modes are certainly not easy, and they cannot be overcome with good gear. Gear helps, but ultimately you need very good coordination and execution to succeed. Let me tell you that pulling those off still feels like a great accomplishment.
As for dungeons, there is an almost exact equivalent to the baron run, which is the Cleansing of Stratholme run, also timed, and actually pretty demanding even in good gear. If you want different kinds of challenges in the 5-man dungeons, there's the achievements, some of which are pretty hard to get.
PCI is crap, because it's only really meant to be a way to cover your ass if something goes wrong. I see you skimmed the headlines of PCI compliance, and a lot of it is either just common sense or plain bullshit.
1.4 Install personal firewall software on any mobile and/or employee-owned computers with direct connectivity to the Internet (for example, laptops used by employees), which are used to access the organizationâ(TM)s network.
There are a lot of points about making sure as few people as possible has access to the card data environment, but still they slap on this. I'm sure your PCI auditor can sell you such a software if you don't already have it...
5.1.1 Ensure that all anti-virus programs are capable of detecting, removing, and protecting against all known types of malicious software.
My absolute favourite. Never mind that anyone familiar with computer science can prove that it is impossible to construct such an anti-virus program ever, you still have to check this box and claim you ensured this. I'm sure there are more points in the specification that are 100% bullshit that others can find:
To be fair, that was 7% in the EU elections, where people are more likely to vote for single issue parties, where the voter participation is pretty low, and where it feels like it doesn't really matter if you vote left or right.
In the national elections, voter participation is much higher, and a lot of people who would vote for the PP in the EU elections might not do so, because they think it's more important to vote for the left or the right, myself included.
Then again, our current right-wing coalition passed a bunch of copyright maximalist bullshit laws, and even though I'd rather have them in power than the left wing, that betrayal stings, and I think a lot of people like me are similarly pissed about it come the next national elections in 2010.
He's a troll, because he's obviously exploiting it and only going after successful games that might infringe, and he always threatens to drag it to court unless he gets a big bag of money. In the case of the iPhone game he wanted them to change the name, AND half of the revenues accumulated up until the name change. Mobigames offered to change the name of their game to Edgy, whereupon Langdell as quickly as possible trademarked that name as well, and said that that name change also wasnt' acceptable.
Oh, and they're apparently developing a game called "Mirrors, a game by Edge".
It's those little details that make him a huge trademark troll.
No, it doesn't cost you any money, because Sweden has a system where the loser pays the legal fees. In the first TPB trial, TPB lost and was also ordered to pay the legal fees of both sides, but since they appealed it, that order is also stayed for now.
However, it costs you time and effort to defend yourself in court, which can be misused.
"However, the best evidence currently available suggests that cognitive behavioural therapy is effective for patients who report being hypersensitive to weak electromagnetic fields."
Electrohypersensitivity is nothing new, and people claiming to have it is also nothing new. In Sweden there's been a lot of research on the subject since there's been a lot of cases of it over the last 15 years. There's no evidence for it, noone has been able to show it exists in a controlled experiment, and the science of its proponents have been thoroughly debunked.
The guy from TFA is undeniably sick and needs help, but shielding him from wifi is not the solution to his problem.
The long term success rate is bad, not because cosmic rays or fairy dust makes people fat again, but because people stop caring about their weight again, and go back to the same old bad habits that made them fat in the first place.
Your argument is fatalistic, you say that since the statistics show that long-term weight loss is so rare, you might as well not even try in the first place. But that way you've just set yourself up for failure again. Long-term weight loss is possible for everyone, but it requires effort and determination not luck to beat the statistics.
I've read a bunch of your posts now in this thread, and you continuously assert that you are somehow a special case, yet from what you write, you behave *exactly* like the typical diet-failure case.
1) You claim that it is impossible for you to lose weight. This is not true. I'm sure it's harder for you than for most people to lose weight, but by claiming it's impossible, you've resigned yourself to useless victimization.
2) You claim that since the long-term results are so bad, you might as well give up already. It is true that many who "go on a diet" return to their original weight afterwards, when they resume their original eating/exercising habits. This is obvious, it is exactly those habits that made you gain weight in the first place. Most people fail to achieve permanent weight-loss, because they fail to realize that the changes to their eating and exercising habits has to be equally permanent. The ones that succeed are the ones that realize this.
3) You say you have such a busy schedule that you don't have the time to lose weight/eat right. That's fine. It's perfectly ok to value your job and your family higher than your weight, and for you to choose to spend time on that instead of yourself. But be honest about it. Don't play the victim by blaming all sorts of other things. "I don't have time to exercise because I'd rather spend that time with my family" is perfectly fine. "I don't exercise because it's impossible for me to lose weight" is not fine. It's a lie.
4) You say you did maintain a strict diet and exercise routine for 8 months and that you hated it. Then you're doing it wrong. To achieve permanent weight-loss, you have to change your lifestyle permanently. Noone can live a lifestyle they hate, that's just a giant setup for failure. You have to change your diet and your exercise habits into something you actually enjoy. Talk to a doctor or dietitian to get help finding what's right for you. You can get inspiration and ideas from random idiots on the internet like me, but don't trust us, you have to find out for yourself what works for you.
5) You are very frustrated by the weight-loss industry. That's understandable, but not very useful. The entire weight-loss industry is one giant scam. They cannot help anyone lose weight, and they're not interested in it either. Ignore it. There are no magic pills or diets or exercises. There is only this: Eat less. Exercise more.
Finally, start small. Pick one thing to change at a time. Drop sweetened beverages for mineral water. Switch fries for carrots. Eat fruit instead of candy. Just do one small thing at a time, and only do things you are comfortable with sustaining.
I agree, and funnily enough, so does the Pirate Party. There may be people inside the Pirate Party (and elsewhere) that wants to remove copyright altogether, but it's not what the majority on Slashdot wants, and it's not the official policy of the Pirate Party either. Stop putting up straw men.
So, you'll end up in a logfile. The big question, in my opinion, is for how long said logfiles should be stored. From my point of view? No more than 3-5 days, unless there is an ongoing incident.
A short time and for internal purposes, fine. But the EU data retention directive wants to force ISPs to store these logs for years, and make them available to the police upon request.
Exactly, which is all good. But the copyright maximalists want to restrict fair use as much as possible, to maximize their own profits. That is not acceptable, and it is exactly that concern which the Pirate Party will be bringing up.
In terms of voting power a single MEP sure doesn't contribute much, but the main benefits of having the Pirate Party represented is that there is now one person on the inside that can report on everything that threatens privacy and integrity or furthers the copyright maximalist agenda. He can expose and bring all those issues to the public eye, where other MEPs may or may not be interested in doing so. The other benefit is that he can talk, build alliances, educate and speak to the other MEPs as an equal, not as an outsider with an agenda, because he now has actual voter mandate to do so. There are also a lot of other MEPs from other parties that care about these issues, and there is now one person whose only job is to bring them all together and drive these issues in the direction we want.
The nationalists may have gotten a few seats, but in this issue most other MEPs are engaged against them, educated about it, and know exactly that they do not want to work with them, so it's much more of an uphill battle for them.
It concerns me that people think they can use the product of my mind for free and against my wishes. How can you justify that? Don't the rights of those who create the content matter?
Yes, sometimes those nefarious pirates even quote what you say, without asking your permission. Dastardly! Yarr!
No. People voted for the "free stuff!" party (seriously, why do you think they call themselves pirates) because they're leeches who don't want to lose their free ride
What civil liberties and personal rights are you voting to protect?
The right to not have my traffic snooped on by the government as the FRA law in Sweden allows.
The right to not end up in a logfile whenever I send an email or visit a webpage, as the EU data retention directive wants.
The right to not have my internet cut off on the say-so of big copyright holding companies, as the French three-strikes law allows.
The right to not have my home searched and my assets seized on the say-so of copyright holders, as the Swedish IPRED law allows.
These things are important, not only for me, not only for those who download illegally, but for everyone who uses the internet. It is absolutely essential that civil liberties are respected on the internet and in real life. I didn't vote for the PirateParty so people can download stuff for free, I voted for them to stop the draconian surveillance bullshit that's being pushed in the name of stopping terrorism, child porn and illegal filesharing, but which in reality accomplishes nothing of the sort, it only lessens my right and my liberties.
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...which is why there are hard modes for the raid content these days. The 45-minute baron run was their first attempt at a hard mode, and it could be overcome with good gear. The new Ulduar hard modes are certainly not easy, and they cannot be overcome with good gear. Gear helps, but ultimately you need very good coordination and execution to succeed. Let me tell you that pulling those off still feels like a great accomplishment.
As for dungeons, there is an almost exact equivalent to the baron run, which is the Cleansing of Stratholme run, also timed, and actually pretty demanding even in good gear. If you want different kinds of challenges in the 5-man dungeons, there's the achievements, some of which are pretty hard to get.
PCI is crap, because it's only really meant to be a way to cover your ass if something goes wrong. I see you skimmed the headlines of PCI compliance, and a lot of it is either just common sense or plain bullshit.
1.4 Install personal firewall software on
any mobile and/or employee-owned
computers with direct connectivity to the
Internet (for example, laptops used by
employees), which are used to access the
organizationâ(TM)s network.
There are a lot of points about making sure as few people as possible has access to the card data environment, but still they slap on this. I'm sure your PCI auditor can sell you such a software if you don't already have it...
5.1.1 Ensure that all anti-virus
programs are capable of detecting,
removing, and protecting against all
known types of malicious software.
My absolute favourite. Never mind that anyone familiar with computer science can prove that it is impossible to construct such an anti-virus program ever, you still have to check this box and claim you ensured this. I'm sure there are more points in the specification that are 100% bullshit that others can find:
https://www.pcisecuritystandards.org/security_standards/download.html?id=pci_dss_v1-2.pdf
To be fair, that was 7% in the EU elections, where people are more likely to vote for single issue parties, where the voter participation is pretty low, and where it feels like it doesn't really matter if you vote left or right.
In the national elections, voter participation is much higher, and a lot of people who would vote for the PP in the EU elections might not do so, because they think it's more important to vote for the left or the right, myself included.
Then again, our current right-wing coalition passed a bunch of copyright maximalist bullshit laws, and even though I'd rather have them in power than the left wing, that betrayal stings, and I think a lot of people like me are similarly pissed about it come the next national elections in 2010.
He's a troll, because he's obviously exploiting it and only going after successful games that might infringe, and he always threatens to drag it to court unless he gets a big bag of money. In the case of the iPhone game he wanted them to change the name, AND half of the revenues accumulated up until the name change. Mobigames offered to change the name of their game to Edgy, whereupon Langdell as quickly as possible trademarked that name as well, and said that that name change also wasnt' acceptable.
Oh, and they're apparently developing a game called "Mirrors, a game by Edge".
It's those little details that make him a huge trademark troll.
No, it doesn't cost you any money, because Sweden has a system where the loser pays the legal fees. In the first TPB trial, TPB lost and was also ordered to pay the legal fees of both sides, but since they appealed it, that order is also stayed for now.
However, it costs you time and effort to defend yourself in court, which can be misused.
+1 Old Fart.
"However, the best evidence currently available suggests that cognitive behavioural therapy is effective for patients who report being hypersensitive to weak electromagnetic fields."
i.e. the guy is a kook.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_hypersensitivity is pretty informative.
Electrohypersensitivity is nothing new, and people claiming to have it is also nothing new. In Sweden there's been a lot of research on the subject since there's been a lot of cases of it over the last 15 years. There's no evidence for it, noone has been able to show it exists in a controlled experiment, and the science of its proponents have been thoroughly debunked.
The guy from TFA is undeniably sick and needs help, but shielding him from wifi is not the solution to his problem.
The long term success rate is bad, not because cosmic rays or fairy dust makes people fat again, but because people stop caring about their weight again, and go back to the same old bad habits that made them fat in the first place.
Your argument is fatalistic, you say that since the statistics show that long-term weight loss is so rare, you might as well not even try in the first place. But that way you've just set yourself up for failure again. Long-term weight loss is possible for everyone, but it requires effort and determination not luck to beat the statistics.
I've read a bunch of your posts now in this thread, and you continuously assert that you are somehow a special case, yet from what you write, you behave *exactly* like the typical diet-failure case.
1) You claim that it is impossible for you to lose weight. This is not true. I'm sure it's harder for you than for most people to lose weight, but by claiming it's impossible, you've resigned yourself to useless victimization.
2) You claim that since the long-term results are so bad, you might as well give up already. It is true that many who "go on a diet" return to their original weight afterwards, when they resume their original eating/exercising habits. This is obvious, it is exactly those habits that made you gain weight in the first place. Most people fail to achieve permanent weight-loss, because they fail to realize that the changes to their eating and exercising habits has to be equally permanent. The ones that succeed are the ones that realize this.
3) You say you have such a busy schedule that you don't have the time to lose weight/eat right. That's fine. It's perfectly ok to value your job and your family higher than your weight, and for you to choose to spend time on that instead of yourself. But be honest about it. Don't play the victim by blaming all sorts of other things. "I don't have time to exercise because I'd rather spend that time with my family" is perfectly fine. "I don't exercise because it's impossible for me to lose weight" is not fine. It's a lie.
4) You say you did maintain a strict diet and exercise routine for 8 months and that you hated it. Then you're doing it wrong. To achieve permanent weight-loss, you have to change your lifestyle permanently. Noone can live a lifestyle they hate, that's just a giant setup for failure. You have to change your diet and your exercise habits into something you actually enjoy. Talk to a doctor or dietitian to get help finding what's right for you. You can get inspiration and ideas from random idiots on the internet like me, but don't trust us, you have to find out for yourself what works for you.
5) You are very frustrated by the weight-loss industry. That's understandable, but not very useful. The entire weight-loss industry is one giant scam. They cannot help anyone lose weight, and they're not interested in it either. Ignore it. There are no magic pills or diets or exercises. There is only this: Eat less. Exercise more.
Finally, start small. Pick one thing to change at a time. Drop sweetened beverages for mineral water. Switch fries for carrots. Eat fruit instead of candy. Just do one small thing at a time, and only do things you are comfortable with sustaining.
Even if you don't recognize the state, could you please learn to spell it right? My eyes hurt.
Israel. Israel. Israel.
I'm sorry your party lost a seat in the parliament, but could you try to spread a little less bullshit around, and stick to the facts?
No, the Pirate Party gained a seat in the EU parliament in Brussels, not in the Swedish parliament.
I agree, and funnily enough, so does the Pirate Party. There may be people inside the Pirate Party (and elsewhere) that wants to remove copyright altogether, but it's not what the majority on Slashdot wants, and it's not the official policy of the Pirate Party either. Stop putting up straw men.
So, you'll end up in a logfile. The big question, in my opinion, is for how long said logfiles should be stored. From my point of view? No more than 3-5 days, unless there is an ongoing incident.
A short time and for internal purposes, fine. But the EU data retention directive wants to force ISPs to store these logs for years, and make them available to the police upon request.
Exactly, which is all good. But the copyright maximalists want to restrict fair use as much as possible, to maximize their own profits. That is not acceptable, and it is exactly that concern which the Pirate Party will be bringing up.
In terms of voting power a single MEP sure doesn't contribute much, but the main benefits of having the Pirate Party represented is that there is now one person on the inside that can report on everything that threatens privacy and integrity or furthers the copyright maximalist agenda. He can expose and bring all those issues to the public eye, where other MEPs may or may not be interested in doing so. The other benefit is that he can talk, build alliances, educate and speak to the other MEPs as an equal, not as an outsider with an agenda, because he now has actual voter mandate to do so. There are also a lot of other MEPs from other parties that care about these issues, and there is now one person whose only job is to bring them all together and drive these issues in the direction we want.
The nationalists may have gotten a few seats, but in this issue most other MEPs are engaged against them, educated about it, and know exactly that they do not want to work with them, so it's much more of an uphill battle for them.
It concerns me that people think they can use the product of my mind for free and against my wishes. How can you justify that? Don't the rights of those who create the content matter?
Yes, sometimes those nefarious pirates even quote what you say, without asking your permission. Dastardly! Yarr!
No. People voted for the "free stuff!" party (seriously, why do you think they call themselves pirates) because they're leeches who don't want to lose their free ride
No they did not.
What civil liberties and personal rights are you voting to protect?
The right to not have my traffic snooped on by the government as the FRA law in Sweden allows.
The right to not end up in a logfile whenever I send an email or visit a webpage, as the EU data retention directive wants.
The right to not have my internet cut off on the say-so of big copyright holding companies, as the French three-strikes law allows.
The right to not have my home searched and my assets seized on the say-so of copyright holders, as the Swedish IPRED law allows.
These things are important, not only for me, not only for those who download illegally, but for everyone who uses the internet. It is absolutely essential that civil liberties are respected on the internet and in real life. I didn't vote for the PirateParty so people can download stuff for free, I voted for them to stop the draconian surveillance bullshit that's being pushed in the name of stopping terrorism, child porn and illegal filesharing, but which in reality accomplishes nothing of the sort, it only lessens my right and my liberties.
"Here, let me bing that for you."
Hmmmm... No.
Thanks. I would have appreciated someone modding it up instead. I need to get it to +5 Funny for another achievement.
First post! You received 25xp. DING! You reached level 5.
And in the Very next post down, less than a minute later...
I should start a psychic hotline.