I don't seem to be seeing much success in explaining to my co-workers what the problem is here.
Well, what is the problem? Do you just not like long e-mail threads, or is there a legitimate concern here?
Convincing them there's a legitimate problem, aside from your ideal form of etiquette, ought to be step one. Otherwise - why would random_employee_002 do anything different?
In the middle of '03 I tried to convince our director of "innovation" that we needed to do motion control, simple and intuitive controllers, and focus on family oriented and just plain fun content.
Were employees lined up outside this director's door to extol the virtues of motion-sensitive controllers? If not, a sufficiently-motivated manhunt could probably narrow down who this person is fairly quickly.
... which would then make it the administration's word against the kid's, and everybody knows Little Billy would never do anything to get into trouble.
Think I'll pass on this issue and save the outrage for stuff that is actually important.
They might want to keep an eye on e-mails flowing in to the athletic department for awhile. If you think e-mail threats aren't as crazy, wait'll you see the hordes of e-mails from angry internet fans after the recent loss in football.
In 1991, the team's season ticket base consisted of just 17,635 fans, barely enough to support the club. Fifteen
years later, the season-ticket base stands at a capped total of 61,759 and more than 50,000 fans are on a waiting list. The
Patriots have sold out 142 consecutive home games (dating back to the 1994 regular-season opener) including regular-season,
preseason and playoff games. (Source)
Not all football teams are like this, but with a waiting list almost as long as the list of actual ticket holders for the Patriots, you can imagine tickets are kind of hard to come by. There are some tickets available on a first-come first-serve basis, but if the waiting list for season tickets is this long you can just about imagine what the waiting list for single-game tickets looks like. Yes a fanatical fan will find a way to get a ticket, but why camp outside the ticket office for weeks just to attend a football game when you can go to Stub Hub instead?
Maybe somebody who's a little more familiar with the ticket situation for NFL teams can chime in, but on the college level if you're trying to get tickets at a place that is routinely sold out it is not as simple as showing up at the ticket window several hours before kickoff. A lot of times season tickets are locked up for years by the same person and the only single-game tickets available are the ones that come back to the athletic department from season ticket holders who can't make it to a particular game. Those tickets are released about a week before the game, and if you don't get lucky with your speed dial or you didn't get in line on their website quick enough, you're SOL. At that point going to Ebay or Stub Hub or some other local outfit is the only way to get a ticket without taking your chances with a scalper 30 minutes before kickoff.
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They just e-mailed the CEOs of Sony, Fox, Warner Brothers, etc., and asked them to pick a number between 1 and 50.
I don't seem to be seeing much success in explaining to my co-workers what the problem is here.
Well, what is the problem? Do you just not like long e-mail threads, or is there a legitimate concern here?
Convincing them there's a legitimate problem, aside from your ideal form of etiquette, ought to be step one. Otherwise - why would random_employee_002 do anything different?
In the middle of '03 I tried to convince our director of "innovation" that we needed to do motion control, simple and intuitive controllers, and focus on family oriented and just plain fun content.
Were employees lined up outside this director's door to extol the virtues of motion-sensitive controllers? If not, a sufficiently-motivated manhunt could probably narrow down who this person is fairly quickly.
Not if you're Jack Bauer it doesn't!
Along with a point-by-point response to everything in that document, just like they do to everyone who has sent them legal threats over the years.
... and start showing unsuspecting shoppers "advertisements" for goatse, tubgirl, 2girls1cup, etc etc etc.
The CES's Blogger-B-Gone device is working just fine.
So you have a problem with evolutionary theory because sand castles don't randomly pop up on the beach. Ok.
bork bork bork!
Oh wait, it's only 830. nm.
The first rule of NNTP is that we do not talk about NNTP.
You must be new here. Welcome!
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... which would then make it the administration's word against the kid's, and everybody knows Little Billy would never do anything to get into trouble.
Think I'll pass on this issue and save the outrage for stuff that is actually important.
That's correct your honor... this ISP has no dick.
-1, Wrong
Read how the Japanese title is written out here. It's been written that way since day one. In katakana, using loaned English words. It never meant anything but "Final Fantasy".
Could have been the Buffalo Bulls
Set your funny modifier to -6. Out of sight, out of mind.
Now where will people in Chicago have to go for 100 hour work weeks?
They might want to keep an eye on e-mails flowing in to the athletic department for awhile. If you think e-mail threats aren't as crazy, wait'll you see the hordes of e-mails from angry internet fans after the recent loss in football.
No. Don't you have anything better to do than be offended at things for the sake of being offended at things?
9.68/10. Highly recommended for everybody.
In 1991, the team's season ticket base consisted of just 17,635 fans, barely enough to support the club. Fifteen years later, the season-ticket base stands at a capped total of 61,759 and more than 50,000 fans are on a waiting list. The Patriots have sold out 142 consecutive home games (dating back to the 1994 regular-season opener) including regular-season, preseason and playoff games. (Source)
Not all football teams are like this, but with a waiting list almost as long as the list of actual ticket holders for the Patriots, you can imagine tickets are kind of hard to come by. There are some tickets available on a first-come first-serve basis, but if the waiting list for season tickets is this long you can just about imagine what the waiting list for single-game tickets looks like. Yes a fanatical fan will find a way to get a ticket, but why camp outside the ticket office for weeks just to attend a football game when you can go to Stub Hub instead?
Maybe somebody who's a little more familiar with the ticket situation for NFL teams can chime in, but on the college level if you're trying to get tickets at a place that is routinely sold out it is not as simple as showing up at the ticket window several hours before kickoff. A lot of times season tickets are locked up for years by the same person and the only single-game tickets available are the ones that come back to the athletic department from season ticket holders who can't make it to a particular game. Those tickets are released about a week before the game, and if you don't get lucky with your speed dial or you didn't get in line on their website quick enough, you're SOL. At that point going to Ebay or Stub Hub or some other local outfit is the only way to get a ticket without taking your chances with a scalper 30 minutes before kickoff.
Oblig. Final Fantasy 7 reference:
Keep goin'?! Current battle points: 10
Off course! No, way!