So after reading about Zenimax on wikipedia, it said that Dr. Chris Weaver was forced out of the company. (Dual Doctorates at MIT). And zenimax didn't pay its 1.2 million severance in the contract.
Kinda interesting, Weaver broke into Zenimax's email server and used the copies in court. So the appeals court dismissed his case due prejudice. The other interesting thing is the CEO of Zenimax was in a banking fraud scandal and banned from banking industry by the feds.
Doesnt sound like a great team heading it up. I bet this comes back to bite Carmack in the ass down the road.
There are few scams that are basically money generating, its not about security for the customer. * Larger cellular companies charge more per minute and plan on credit plan. * Credit score companies make money selling this information, and they are not correct or regulated, and they differ between companies.
Basically the mantra, we have to charge higher interest rates on poor credit because they are poor risk, is false. If they could charge everyone the higher interest rates they would. Thus the reason for some states putting caps on loan fees, and the federal government capping on military (most are minimum wage earners) loans.
ATT can sell prepaid minutes at 35 cents a minute to poor credit holders at 10 cents to good credit. They would take every penny they can with the lie of "credit" and they are not the only company doing this, just one of the most visible.
Its basically a scam, but you have to think why they need your SSN. They need it for credit, so they can figure out how much to charge you. If any service has to figure out how much more they can charge you, its basically a scam. This is why the smaller local regional banks and credit unions would verify income to loan money. But the feds stepped in and told them they had to loan more money, and threatened with "lower bank credit scores" for not loaning money, and mark the banks rating down for now loaning enough money!
Credit scores, was used against the banks by the feds, and the banks for greed on mortgages. We all want a capital society, but false credit scores are so ingrained in our banking system that its hurting the poor, ripping off the middle class, and forcing large companies to turn away cash paying customers.
I wont even go into the whole unregulated federal reserve, which isn't federal but a privately owned bank, that was never audited...
Ever have a 5 year old ask you the why game? Try it yourself, why do you need to have use a SSN for a phone? Because we need to do a credit check. Why the credit check? So they can figure out what plan and interest rate to charge you. Why does a different interst rate, etc...
We don't tend to do that anymore, just accept and move on. Common sense is lacking, and if you question something, you must be a nut job. Why wouldnt you just accept and move on. Trouble maker or nut job.
Confirmed. If you are not on a schoolbus route, dont expect the county to help. You need it plowed in the winter, and graded in the summer. Washboarded roads are easy to slide on, due to less tire traction. Also, oiled down if too much dust.
Ever check out the favorite topics and edits of some of the popular wikipedia editors? They have their personal bias's already. Its been biased editing going on since day one. People can say it doesn't happen, but it does. It has a very large group of editors who think alike and push the rules towards their own beliefs and moderate accordingly. They already use the rules to ban or alter topics they have strong opinions about, even though this goes against the rules.
They might as well, just open the flood gates and let what spin offs happen. This is the motto of open source as a whole. As long as the information is free and everyone can add/change articles, let the public do what what they want.
I'd rather see it open to more topics, and less editor heavy handed on people or topics they dont like. Do we really need every simpson episode in full detail articles yet smaller articles are routinely deleted because some biased editors report they are not popular enough?
Wikipedia could be so much, but its bogged down in politics and personal agendas. Might as well open up more, than trying to rule it with an iron fist.
They don't have to cost so much. In fact, the cost of providing SMS service is next to nothing - it's an afterthought that runs in the cell phone control channel.
I love armchair engineers. Always the same mantra about SMS doesnt cost carriers, it free, its air! Wrong. The hardware, network and support for each carrier runs into the millions. Yes, they make a profit, but its not free for the telcos. These misconceptions get pushed around as common sense. Look at the mods for insightful on these types of comments.
I think point is that out of millions of folks "connected" to the game at any given time, each one should be able to "find" the other in the game world.
Exactly, how many friends, family and co-workers are spread across servers. And you cant chat or help them.
Secondlife seems to handle the chat feature and shards pretty well. Unless a zone is full, and you cant enter it. But that happens in wow with the amount of instances allowed to serve.
>From my basic understanding of the US legal system, evidence obtained improperly is considered tainted and suspect, and is thus thrown out.
Normally yes. But SCOTUS has been working hard to make police mistakes admissible. That seems like a slippery slope argument. How do you tell if its a mistake? The polices word? Every time is a mistake then.
I find the whole argument that the legal system works is laughable. We have appellate courts overturning cases all the time. States who cant even agree on the same rules. Federal and State disagreements on evidence. SCOTUS interpreting the law for each's own moral or political views and ignoring common sense.
I'd rather side on caution for the person than the state. But that view seems to be lost in our nanny 911 culture.
- God is Great, Beer is Good, People are crazy - Billy Currington
No, they're not trying to remove the First Amendment. It's still there, and if this bill conflicts with the First Amendment (and I can't see how any reasonable person could say otherwise), its clear legally that the bill would be tossed out as unconstitutional.
The thing about that, you sit in prison until the courts overturn your conviction.
Funny how the outcome of a witch hunt from the republican party to nail Clinton on anything, was a sexual harassment suit paid by the conservative legal group. Failed to nail him on whitewater. A right wing ex-judge Starr finally got him on something.
But that was word play, the definition given to POTUS, oral sex wasnt technically sex under the definition agreed by counsel, but common sense says oral sex is sex. Was POTUS wrong? Judge says he was. But a more liberal judge could have said under the definition its not technically due to the agreement. That's the problem with courts. The judge could have said, let me rephrase to include oral sex, but didn't.
Perjury is funny. Most people if found innocent, or even plea, they can be found guilty of perjury by judge if the judge says so. No proof is needed.
Bush learned this lesson. Do not let anyone speak, half-truths or partial truths is more than a yes or no answer. And if you answer yes or no, and a degree of it contradicts, you can be found guilty of perjury.
Wonder if people started using terms, well mostly yes or mostly no. But then that leads to other scenarios to make you look guilty when innocent.
I think the only way you can win, is not to play the game.
>I laughed a little when I read your comment. Stupid USA, no internet on their cell phones! Get with the times. >It occurred to me shortly after, that I don't have internet on my cell phone either. A sad truth.
My cellphone runs Linux and has internet connectivity. I have ssh, RSS reader, twitter, and I can tether to my laptop for 3G.
Android G1 on T-mobile, one of the best multifunctional phones out. If it had a good low light and high pixel camera, longer battery life, it would be perfect. IMHO.
This is why countries like sweden, finland, etc have laws relating to the hiring and firing. In the USA most states are a right to work state, (lame term) meaning you can quit or be fired without benefits.
I'd love to see how the smaller companies are being ran compared, then compare to USA mom and pop shops, so the argument of costs can be differentiated.
You are correct! This is exactly why Wallmart and Cabela does. They build stores in smaller towns, and the townships give them tax free services. Basically pushing out all the local chains who still pay taxes. In fact, the stores collect the tax and get to keep it, bumping up the profit. 8% tax in the pocket is a nice chunk of change...
Cabelas actually has a wierd profit margin just on taxes they keep.
Cabela's also builds part of its store as a museum and gets to write the store off as educational too.
This isnt what capitalism is about, its not fair trade when your competitors get tax breaks, incentives and subsidies. (Of course, this is also what WTO talks about, but I'm talking within the same area..)
WHAT? What about the daily Hodir quests, Thrusting the Spear, Polishing the Helm and Blowing the Horn? I dont know what they are hinting at, but the quests are super.
I love spotify, but I only was able to use for 2 weeks before they disconnected me for using it in the USA.
I'd take spotify over last.fm anyday, soon as spotify opens up to the USA, I'll pay a subscription to it.
I wish someone would compare all of them and write a nice article on benefits. Last.fm has a horrible website and user interface, too annoying to take seriously.
Good idea, but with music being recorded with horrible loudness levels, its a waste. But I do like being able to not use something other than MP3, and burning back to a CD anytime I want.
Anyone want to place bets the supreme court will agree with the state, and restrict a students rights?
After reading Morse v. Frederick, only John Paul Stevens understood the right for first amendment rights to protest illegal behavior. (aka Vietnam and medical marijuana as examples)
Chief Justice Roberts went along the normal "war against drugs" lie, that they had to punish the student to "SEND A MESSAGE"...
Justice Clarence Thomas viewed schools have no free speech and "Teachers commanded, and students obeyed."
/sigh
It's crazy. I think I understand the issue better than then most of the Supreme Court, the most educated, the best of the best? They agreed to strip a fundamental right away for a war on drugs, and to make a teachers job easier. To allow a child to be randomly strip searched without proper cause? To prevent protests in a non-disrupting behavior off school grounds? wow.. just wow...
Why am I always disagreeing with them on most issues. I talk to co-workers, family and friends, and we seem to be in the same beliefs and values. Yet, I read the Supreme Courts views and I disagree, most of the time. I very rarely agree with the court. Few times have I cheered decisions about cases. Take Lawrence v. Texas which effectively legalized being gay. And of course, Scalia, Rehnquist, Thomas dissented. My favorite comment roughly (I cant find it) from Texas "We dont discriminate against Gays just Gay Sex", and a justice asked "What is the difference?"
I'll end this lengthy topic that means much to me with a Scala qoute.
"Let me be clear that I have nothing against homosexuals, or any other group, promoting their agenda through normal democratic means. Social perceptions of sexual and other morality change over time, and every group has the right to persuade its fellow citizens that its view of such matters is the best... But persuading one's fellow citizens is one thing, and imposing one's views in absence of democratic majority will is something else." --Scalia.
"The name Sci Fi has been associated with geeks and dysfunctional, antisocial boys in their basements with video games and stuff like that, as opposed to the general public and the female audience in particular,â said TV historian Tim Brooks, who helped launch Sci Fi Channel when he worked at USA Network.
So, as a father of 4, working the tech sector for over a decade, early adopter in tech, when it comes to TV, I'm a horrible demographic to want? I'm not the general audience because I am a geek and a man?! WTF!? Thats f'cking sexist and rude.
I'm rather insulted by these guys statement. The whole statement is a slam. Maybe they should be paying attention how well sci-fi does in the movie theaters, how well our demographic buys electronics...
Dave Howe and Tim Brooks, you both need a good punch in the nose for those comments and selling out the people who watched and supported that channel.
Oh, and good choice on the new name, now it sound like a disease. syfylis.
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They are lawyers, it's a given that they are crooks.
All lawyers are crooks except the one trying to help you out of your mess!
Wait till you get the bill.
Too late, Exxon already bought the patent.
Opera has a nice resize options for viewing multiple nagios pages on multiple monitors, the best so far.
The first you sit in a cell because you committed a crime, the 2nd you sit in a cell because committed no crime.
So after reading about Zenimax on wikipedia, it said that Dr. Chris Weaver was forced out of the company. (Dual Doctorates at MIT). And zenimax didn't pay its 1.2 million severance in the contract.
Kinda interesting, Weaver broke into Zenimax's email server and used the copies in court. So the appeals court dismissed his case due prejudice. The other interesting thing is the CEO of Zenimax was in a banking fraud scandal and banned from banking industry by the feds.
Doesnt sound like a great team heading it up. I bet this comes back to bite Carmack in the ass down the road.
There are few scams that are basically money generating, its not about security for the customer.
* Larger cellular companies charge more per minute and plan on credit plan.
* Credit score companies make money selling this information, and they are not correct or regulated, and they differ between companies.
Basically the mantra, we have to charge higher interest rates on poor credit because they are poor risk, is false. If they could charge everyone the higher interest rates they would. Thus the reason for some states putting caps on loan fees, and the federal government capping on military (most are minimum wage earners) loans.
ATT can sell prepaid minutes at 35 cents a minute to poor credit holders at 10 cents to good credit. They would take every penny they can with the lie of "credit" and they are not the only company doing this, just one of the most visible.
Its basically a scam, but you have to think why they need your SSN. They need it for credit, so they can figure out how much to charge you. If any service has to figure out how much more they can charge you, its basically a scam. This is why the smaller local regional banks and credit unions would verify income to loan money. But the feds stepped in and told them they had to loan more money, and threatened with "lower bank credit scores" for not loaning money, and mark the banks rating down for now loaning enough money!
Credit scores, was used against the banks by the feds, and the banks for greed on mortgages. We all want a capital society, but false credit scores are so ingrained in our banking system that its hurting the poor, ripping off the middle class, and forcing large companies to turn away cash paying customers.
I wont even go into the whole unregulated federal reserve, which isn't federal but a privately owned bank, that was never audited...
Ever have a 5 year old ask you the why game? Try it yourself, why do you need to have use a SSN for a phone? Because we need to do a credit check. Why the credit check? So they can figure out what plan and interest rate to charge you. Why does a different interst rate, etc...
We don't tend to do that anymore, just accept and move on. Common sense is lacking, and if you question something, you must be a nut job. Why wouldnt you just accept and move on. Trouble maker or nut job.
Confirmed. If you are not on a schoolbus route, dont expect the county to help.
You need it plowed in the winter, and graded in the summer. Washboarded roads are easy to slide on, due to less tire traction. Also, oiled down if too much dust.
Ever check out the favorite topics and edits of some of the popular wikipedia editors? They have their personal bias's already. Its been biased editing going on since day one. People can say it doesn't happen, but it does. It has a very large group of editors who think alike and push the rules towards their own beliefs and moderate accordingly. They already use the rules to ban or alter topics they have strong opinions about, even though this goes against the rules.
They might as well, just open the flood gates and let what spin offs happen. This is the motto of open source as a whole. As long as the information is free and everyone can add/change articles, let the public do what what they want.
I'd rather see it open to more topics, and less editor heavy handed on people or topics they dont like. Do we really need every simpson episode in full detail articles yet smaller articles are routinely deleted because some biased editors report they are not popular enough?
Wikipedia could be so much, but its bogged down in politics and personal agendas. Might as well open up more, than trying to rule it with an iron fist.
They don't have to cost so much. In fact, the cost of providing SMS service is next to nothing - it's an afterthought that runs in the cell phone control channel.
I love armchair engineers. Always the same mantra about SMS doesnt cost carriers, it free, its air! Wrong. The hardware, network and support for each carrier runs into the millions. Yes, they make a profit, but its not free for the telcos. These misconceptions get pushed around as common sense. Look at the mods for insightful on these types of comments.
GCC should be on that list...
I think point is that out of millions of folks "connected" to the game at any given time, each one should be able to "find" the other in the game world.
Exactly, how many friends, family and co-workers are spread across servers. And you cant chat or help them.
Secondlife seems to handle the chat feature and shards pretty well. Unless a zone is full, and you cant enter it. But that happens in wow with the amount of instances allowed to serve.
>From my basic understanding of the US legal system, evidence obtained improperly is considered tainted and suspect, and is thus thrown out.
Normally yes. But SCOTUS has been working hard to make police mistakes admissible. That seems like a slippery slope argument. How do you tell if its a mistake? The polices word? Every time is a mistake then.
I find the whole argument that the legal system works is laughable. We have appellate courts overturning cases all the time. States who cant even agree on the same rules. Federal and State disagreements on evidence. SCOTUS interpreting the law for each's own moral or political views and ignoring common sense.
I'd rather side on caution for the person than the state. But that view seems to be lost in our nanny 911 culture.
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God is Great, Beer is Good, People are crazy -
Billy Currington
But Windows 7 isnt released yet. When it does come out, expect new stickers that say its supported. I bet VT is going to be a requirement.
Trying to buy hardware on an unreleased OS a year away without research is asking for trouble.
No, they're not trying to remove the First Amendment. It's still there, and if this bill conflicts with the First Amendment (and I can't see how any reasonable person could say otherwise), its clear legally that the bill would be tossed out as unconstitutional.
The thing about that, you sit in prison until the courts overturn your conviction.
Funny how the outcome of a witch hunt from the republican party to nail Clinton on anything, was a sexual harassment suit paid by the conservative legal group. Failed to nail him on whitewater. A right wing ex-judge Starr finally got him on something.
But that was word play, the definition given to POTUS, oral sex wasnt technically sex under the definition agreed by counsel, but common sense says oral sex is sex. Was POTUS wrong? Judge says he was. But a more liberal judge could have said under the definition its not technically due to the agreement. That's the problem with courts. The judge could have said, let me rephrase to include oral sex, but didn't.
Perjury is funny. Most people if found innocent, or even plea, they can be found guilty of perjury by judge if the judge says so. No proof is needed.
Bush learned this lesson. Do not let anyone speak, half-truths or partial truths is more than a yes or no answer. And if you answer yes or no, and a degree of it contradicts, you can be found guilty of perjury.
Wonder if people started using terms, well mostly yes or mostly no. But then that leads to other scenarios to make you look guilty when innocent.
I think the only way you can win, is not to play the game.
>I laughed a little when I read your comment. Stupid USA, no internet on their cell phones! Get with the times.
>It occurred to me shortly after, that I don't have internet on my cell phone either. A sad truth.
My cellphone runs Linux and has internet connectivity.
I have ssh, RSS reader, twitter, and I can tether to my laptop for 3G.
Android G1 on T-mobile, one of the best multifunctional phones out. If it had a good low light and high pixel camera, longer battery life, it would be perfect. IMHO.
Yup, and windows 7 lets you backup to a file share, the backup and restore features play nice with linux.
Until the cards can do at least 60fps, with full FSAA turned on in most games, then no...
The benchmarks on some of those games are low 20fps on that card. And they dont even have Antialiasing turned on.
Icky performance on a 20 or 24inch lcd.
And we didnt even hit multi monitor with playing h.264 on one and wow on the other like some people do.
This is why countries like sweden, finland, etc have laws relating to the hiring and firing. In the USA most states are a right to work state, (lame term) meaning you can quit or be fired without benefits.
I'd love to see how the smaller companies are being ran compared, then compare to USA mom and pop shops, so the argument of costs can be differentiated.
You are correct! This is exactly why Wallmart and Cabela does. They build stores in smaller towns, and the townships give them tax free services. Basically pushing out all the local chains who still pay taxes. In fact, the stores collect the tax and get to keep it, bumping up the profit. 8% tax in the pocket is a nice chunk of change...
Cabelas actually has a wierd profit margin just on taxes they keep.
Cabela's also builds part of its store as a museum and gets to write the store off as educational too.
This isnt what capitalism is about, its not fair trade when your competitors get tax breaks, incentives and subsidies. (Of course, this is also what WTO talks about, but I'm talking within the same area..)
The quests don't really get any more interesting.
WHAT? What about the daily Hodir quests, Thrusting the Spear, Polishing the Helm and Blowing the Horn? I dont know what they are hinting at, but the quests are super.
I love spotify, but I only was able to use for 2 weeks before they disconnected me for using it in the USA.
I'd take spotify over last.fm anyday, soon as spotify opens up to the USA, I'll pay a subscription to it.
I wish someone would compare all of them and write a nice article on benefits. Last.fm has a horrible website and user interface, too annoying to take seriously.
Good idea, but with music being recorded with horrible loudness levels, its a waste. But I do like being able to not use something other than MP3, and burning back to a CD anytime I want.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness_war
Anyone want to place bets the supreme court will agree with the state, and restrict a students rights?
After reading Morse v. Frederick, only John Paul Stevens understood the right for first amendment rights to protest illegal behavior. (aka Vietnam and medical marijuana as examples)
Chief Justice Roberts went along the normal "war against drugs" lie, that they had to punish the student to "SEND A MESSAGE"...
Justice Clarence Thomas viewed schools have no free speech and "Teachers commanded, and students obeyed."
It's crazy. I think I understand the issue better than then most of the Supreme Court, the most educated, the best of the best? They agreed to strip a fundamental right away for a war on drugs, and to make a teachers job easier. To allow a child to be randomly strip searched without proper cause? To prevent protests in a non-disrupting behavior off school grounds? wow.. just wow...
Why am I always disagreeing with them on most issues. I talk to co-workers, family and friends, and we seem to be in the same beliefs and values. Yet, I read the Supreme Courts views and I disagree, most of the time. I very rarely agree with the court. Few times have I cheered decisions about cases. Take Lawrence v. Texas which effectively legalized being gay. And of course, Scalia, Rehnquist, Thomas dissented. My favorite comment roughly (I cant find it) from Texas "We dont discriminate against Gays just Gay Sex", and a justice asked "What is the difference?"
I'll end this lengthy topic that means much to me with a Scala qoute.
"Let me be clear that I have nothing against homosexuals, or any other group, promoting their agenda through normal democratic means. Social perceptions of sexual and other morality change over time, and every group has the right to persuade its fellow citizens that its view of such matters is the best ... But persuading one's fellow citizens is one thing, and imposing one's views in absence of democratic majority will is something else." --Scalia.
"The name Sci Fi has been associated with geeks and dysfunctional, antisocial boys in their basements with video games and stuff like that, as opposed to the general public and the female audience in particular,â said TV historian Tim Brooks, who helped launch Sci Fi Channel when he worked at USA Network.
So, as a father of 4, working the tech sector for over a decade, early adopter in tech, when it comes to TV, I'm a horrible demographic to want? I'm not the general audience because I am a geek and a man?! WTF!? Thats f'cking sexist and rude.
I'm rather insulted by these guys statement. The whole statement is a slam. Maybe they should be paying attention how well sci-fi does in the movie theaters, how well our demographic buys electronics...
Dave Howe and Tim Brooks, you both need a good punch in the nose for those comments and selling out the people who watched and supported that channel.
Oh, and good choice on the new name, now it sound like a disease. syfylis.