No, you can't write to your congressman and ask for him to be set free because he's a CANADIAN! In fact, a QUEBECER! But that's OK, he'll be free in a couple months just like all the other murderers and rapists are up here. Maybe you can adopt him. - gnome
They're all by ACs and they all read 'hey, [article topic] would be great for beowulf clusters.' Or something along those lines. Some poor sod is just getting his rocks off.
Yeah, so you put a first post that says 'Wooh! I got first post!' Big friggin deal. Nobody cares if you have nothing meaningful to say. (Yeah, I know this is off topic, but...)
If ABC was really concerned about such things as a high-placed White House person coming on and waxing poetical about the current administration, they would have merely let the public know that *this* person was the head of the Department for Spreading Lies, and *this* person was the guy who takes care of the water cooler in the Oval Office... and leave the other IPs alone. (It seems like ABC is just flexing; 'Grrr! We have your IP addresses! Look what we can do!' without really accomplishing much except making people paranoid.) Publishing IP addresses isn't necessary. Then again, it isn't the end of online privacy, either. Like it's been mentioned before, it's fairly easy to mask your IP, so if you're that paranoid, go ahead. But you just gotta ask yourself, is Bill really clever enough to try to impersonate Joe Average, let alone mask his IP? (Then again, our Beloved Ruler Chretien swore he chatted with homeless people every day, and he's far less sneaky than Bill, so...) Oh, gods, 8:20 and I've already been through two cups of coffee. It's going to be a long day... - dom
Just 'cos the cards *can* sell for $x doesn't mean they will. Many rares in MtG were/are useless unless someone found a new use for them in a fad deck of the month. {g} And of course unless the kids know the market they're going to be burned regardless. (I let Autumn Willow go for a song, way back when... baka...) Ahem. In any case, store owners aren't obligated to fork over any money at all for rare cards, unless it's to turn around and sell them for even higher prices. Now, since this is WotC, I assume this is the Pokemon CCG. This begs the question, why are the kids buying scads of cards to get rares to *sell* them when they could just be trying to better their decks? I wouldn't blame this on Nintendo, or WotC, since they made a game and not something static like a baseball card set. I don't know who to blame. *Someone* has impressed on these kids that the cards are pure money and have diverted the focus away from playing the game to viewing it as a way to get rich by selling rares... =\ Certainly different from what happened in MtG. (Well, at least in my case and in that of most of the people I met playing it.) - dom - dom
Hey, parents! Wanna know how to stop your kids from buying so many Pokemon cards? It's an absolutely amazing, simple and effective solution... Don't give them all that money! 'I was forced to buy all these packs to get rare cards!' It must be those strobes. Nintendo's putting subliminal messaging technology to great effect. Way to go, boys! *sigh* I have to say this lawsuit really surprises me. If I was going to predict something like this I would have pegged it to come in the middle of the MtG craze. But it's a few years later, times have changed... and now my ten year old cousin usually has more pocket money than I do. - dom - dom
Hmm. If it gets stolen nobody can listen to your stuff without a code? Or erase it and reuse it, maybe. So all he's got is a useless piece of hardware. Hmm. Not bad. - dom - dom
Wasn't there a movie a little while ago called 'You've Got Mail'? Now, why is AOL going after this one little person when they can go for the real money and try to kick a major movie production company in the teeth? Hell, they can try going after all kinds of people in that regard... =) Wouldn't mind seeing that... -- - dom - dom
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No, you can't write to your congressman and ask for him to be set free because he's a CANADIAN! In fact, a QUEBECER! But that's OK, he'll be free in a couple months just like all the other murderers and rapists are up here. Maybe you can adopt him. - gnome
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They're all by ACs and they all read 'hey, [article topic] would be great for beowulf clusters.' Or something along those lines. Some poor sod is just getting his rocks off.
Isn't there a moderation tag like (Moron)?
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I do TS for Juno, and thankfully my shift is almost over... no wonder it's been toasty in here since 1-ish. =)
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I think what it really means is that after reading that, you'll end up with a big headache. Am I mistaken or was that really one huge sentence?
*digs around for his aspirin*
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Yeah, so you put a first post that says 'Wooh! I got first post!' Big friggin deal. Nobody cares if you have nothing meaningful to say. (Yeah, I know this is off topic, but...)
- dom
If ABC was really concerned about such things as a high-placed White House person coming on and waxing poetical about the current administration, they would have merely let the public know that *this* person was the head of the Department for Spreading Lies, and *this* person was the guy who takes care of the water cooler in the Oval Office... and leave the other IPs alone. (It seems like ABC is just flexing; 'Grrr! We have your IP addresses! Look what we can do!' without really accomplishing much except making people paranoid.) Publishing IP addresses isn't necessary. Then again, it isn't the end of online privacy, either. Like it's been mentioned before, it's fairly easy to mask your IP, so if you're that paranoid, go ahead. But you just gotta ask yourself, is Bill really clever enough to try to impersonate Joe Average, let alone mask his IP? (Then again, our Beloved Ruler Chretien swore he chatted with homeless people every day, and he's far less sneaky than Bill, so...) Oh, gods, 8:20 and I've already been through two cups of coffee. It's going to be a long day...
- dom
The one I want to see is 'Ten or more doomsday cults cease to exist as of Jan 1.' But I'd only get 5-1 odds or somesuch. - dom
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Just 'cos the cards *can* sell for $x doesn't mean they will. Many rares in MtG were/are useless unless someone found a new use for them in a fad deck of the month. {g} And of course unless the kids know the market they're going to be burned regardless. (I let Autumn Willow go for a song, way back when... baka...) Ahem. In any case, store owners aren't obligated to fork over any money at all for rare cards, unless it's to turn around and sell them for even higher prices. Now, since this is WotC, I assume this is the Pokemon CCG. This begs the question, why are the kids buying scads of cards to get rares to *sell* them when they could just be trying to better their decks? I wouldn't blame this on Nintendo, or WotC, since they made a game and not something static like a baseball card set. I don't know who to blame. *Someone* has impressed on these kids that the cards are pure money and have diverted the focus away from playing the game to viewing it as a way to get rich by selling rares... =\ Certainly different from what happened in MtG. (Well, at least in my case and in that of most of the people I met playing it.) - dom
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Damn... there's a bunch of time and money wasted. *stomps off in disgust* - dom
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Hey, parents! Wanna know how to stop your kids from buying so many Pokemon cards? It's an absolutely amazing, simple and effective solution... Don't give them all that money! 'I was forced to buy all these packs to get rare cards!' It must be those strobes. Nintendo's putting subliminal messaging technology to great effect. Way to go, boys! *sigh* I have to say this lawsuit really surprises me. If I was going to predict something like this I would have pegged it to come in the middle of the MtG craze. But it's a few years later, times have changed... and now my ten year old cousin usually has more pocket money than I do. - dom
- dom
Hmm. If it gets stolen nobody can listen to your stuff without a code? Or erase it and reuse it, maybe. So all he's got is a useless piece of hardware. Hmm. Not bad. - dom
- dom
Wasn't there a movie a little while ago called 'You've Got Mail'? Now, why is AOL going after this one little person when they can go for the real money and try to kick a major movie production company in the teeth? Hell, they can try going after all kinds of people in that regard... =) Wouldn't mind seeing that... -- - dom
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