Because I don't want to pay a corrupt bloated bureaucracy that cares about its own perpetuation and political power and doesn't give a flying fuck about me.
Because I can negotiate my own fucking wages.
Because I'm worth what I get paid, and if someone negotiates that higher than I'm being paid more than I'm worth. If someone negotiates that lower then they've cost me money. Neither of these are good.
Because I didn't ask the union to do a fucking thing for me.
Because my employer can't afford those wages so the company is doomed.
Is that enough reasons yet, or do I need to keep going?
Removing my right to negotiate my own terms with the employer is interference. Extorting money from me is pretty fucking serious interference. Destroying my working environment is interference. Destroying my employer is interference.
The union and its officials can go take an acid bath.
As an employer, my contracts are with my staff. I do not contract a union to provide staff for me. That's an outsourcing relationship and I'm legally allowed to switch outsourcers at will. Yes, I can stop paying for your unionised arse because you don't work for me if you're telling me a union is a supplier.
But what happened to the first two, and why aren't they still around?
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Really? Shit, I wouldn't suggest that to someone that expressed deep misgivings regarding the integrity of online evaluators of modern digital entertainment.
My satellite feed drops a comparable amount to your own. But I live in the UK and don't get to enjoy the violent thunder storms that some parts of America are blessed with, so I can believe that this becomes more an issue where the weather it's quite so moderate.
Somewhere, someone has mastered this input system. We need Hypersports reimplementing with a QWOP HCI; that'd be a proper e-sport with a genuinely scary skill ceiling.
If you bought one, you just got ripped off by Microsoft.
I think that's a tad harsh. I could easily afford one and would buy it knowing it's bloody expensive but also acknowledging that it offers a value proposition unavailable from other controllers.
That's an informed choice, and that means I'm not being ripped off.
I haven't bought one because I like the Steam controller which includes additional buttons too and a touchpad rather than a second thumbstick. That's working nicely for me and I'd prefer not to mix and match my right thumb's activities between different controllers. Otherwise I'd probably buy the expensive Microsoft one based on the broad feedback saying it's actually jolly good.
Yeah, bunny hopping is the result of game design flaws. Of course it's harder to headshot someone that's bouncing around like a demented Zebedee but why the fuck has the game even given them that option.
Twitch mechanics are more interesting. That's a definable game style and very popular so I think it's going to stay around. I agree it shouldn't preclude non-twitch FPS though, but those are harder to design and make fun and enjoyable. Doesn't Arma do that?
I don't personally want realistic though. If I had the physique and reactions to play major league basketball I wouldn't play computer games; give me some escape from my physical limitations please!
I started computer gaming on a device with no mouse or keyboard. Each controller was a dial with a button; rotate clockwise or anticlockwise, press the button.
Although.. it did also have a light gun. There's something we need more of; light guns and games that use them well. They're fun damnit.
(I upgraded from that to a Commodore Vic-20, which came with a musical keyboard overlay for its qwerty keyboard. Had to wait another decade for a mouse though)
I like mine. I use it for Rocket League and for American Truck Simulator.
I have a nice wheel/pedals that I use for Assetto Corsa and Project Cars but the Steam Controller is still better for ATS - mainly because ATS is self-indulgent comfort gaming and the controller lets me play it in bed.
Maybe that's what I should do when I take a sabbatical later this year. Go fruit picking for a couple of months, lose a bit of flab, meet some interesting people.
I'm not sure how much control Valve have over third party DRM notifications. I suspect it's a "Please indicate" but not mandatory.
http://forums.steampowered.com... does have a commentator suggesting that Denuvo isn't DRM. I'm not sure how they reached that conclusion but it may be worth sanity checking Valve's definition for DRM too - could be that Denuvo slips through a crack.
In order to human and other animals to exhale CO2 plants have to extract that CO2 from the atmosphere in the first place.
The biggest fucking irony is that I've been modded down as flamebait and you're getting away with making such fucking ludicrous statements as this.
There are no plants on the moon. Did Buzz Aldrin just stop fucking breathing while he was there?
Oh look, with one simple statement I've demonstrated how utterly full of shit you are and what a waste of my own CO2 emissions it is arguing with you.
Yes, this post can be modded flamebait because I just fucking roasted you. Now fuck off and get an education because right now you and your moderator chums are clearly just full of shit.
People who say we'd better stop breathing because of the CO2 we exhale are just demonstrating what dumb shits they are.
Fortunately saloomy didn't say that and was merely highlighting the stupidity of claiming they were going to cut all emissions, and by definition that includes CO2 emitted by breathing.
no long term net effect on the level of CO2
If all humans started wearing masks that captured all the CO2 they breath out then yes, there would be a net effect on the level of CO2.
You don't appear to understand that net CO2 emissions include all sources of CO2, including people breathing.
The plants don't follow people around going, "here, let me have that CO2 you're breathing out", they just draw from whatever is in the atmosphere. If that came from a coal power station the plants don't go, "Sorry, wrong C02"
It has gone from "Explain that plot point to me" to "This film is racist!!!" (or sexist or homophobic or..) and "I can't believe people liked this" or "Why do people hate this?"
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Given the costs of staff turnover and the productivity implications most employers do want content and motivated staff.
Unionisation is not a prerequisite to achieving this.
Because I don't want to pay a corrupt bloated bureaucracy that cares about its own perpetuation and political power and doesn't give a flying fuck about me.
Because I can negotiate my own fucking wages.
Because I'm worth what I get paid, and if someone negotiates that higher than I'm being paid more than I'm worth. If someone negotiates that lower then they've cost me money. Neither of these are good.
Because I didn't ask the union to do a fucking thing for me.
Because my employer can't afford those wages so the company is doomed.
Is that enough reasons yet, or do I need to keep going?
When I walk in and demonstrate that I'm worth $30/hour and the union prevents me getting it, the "agent" just cost me a lot of fucking money.
Yes, that's happened to me.
the company is free to hire scabs.
Oh, anybody that doesn't toe the union line is a scab? Even if they're not in the union? Shit, that's prima facie justification for violence.
Therefore the union is not interfering at all.
Removing my right to negotiate my own terms with the employer is interference.
Extorting money from me is pretty fucking serious interference.
Destroying my working environment is interference.
Destroying my employer is interference.
The union and its officials can go take an acid bath.
Nope. The employee agrees to those dues as part of the contract with the employer.
Not if the employee is working there prior to unionisation.
Also, why the fuck should I pay some cunt a cut of my salary to interfere negatively in my relationship with my employer? Fuck that.
Closed shops are a fucking travesty and horrifically anti-employee.
As an employer, my contracts are with my staff. I do not contract a union to provide staff for me. That's an outsourcing relationship and I'm legally allowed to switch outsourcers at will. Yes, I can stop paying for your unionised arse because you don't work for me if you're telling me a union is a supplier.
But what happened to the first two, and why aren't they still around?
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Really? Shit, I wouldn't suggest that to someone that expressed deep misgivings regarding the integrity of online evaluators of modern digital entertainment.
The places I work at all say, "Please follow the data retention policy" and get their lawyers involved in defining that.
My satellite feed drops a comparable amount to your own. But I live in the UK and don't get to enjoy the violent thunder storms that some parts of America are blessed with, so I can believe that this becomes more an issue where the weather it's quite so moderate.
1/2 even. ffs. It's late and I have a cat lying on me.
See, I can't even do basic maths and I'm able to spot the flaws in their approach. Muppets.
But a square root is actually 'to the power of -2' so they need to generate a -2 for each square root they use.
They fail. They basically defined a set of rules then cheated. Fuck 'em. I can do that and I don't need any fancy fucking maths.
I can't believe you forgot to mention the pension fund, and what a fantastic cash source it is.
Somewhere, someone has mastered this input system. We need Hypersports reimplementing with a QWOP HCI; that'd be a proper e-sport with a genuinely scary skill ceiling.
If you bought one, you just got ripped off by Microsoft.
I think that's a tad harsh. I could easily afford one and would buy it knowing it's bloody expensive but also acknowledging that it offers a value proposition unavailable from other controllers.
That's an informed choice, and that means I'm not being ripped off.
I haven't bought one because I like the Steam controller which includes additional buttons too and a touchpad rather than a second thumbstick. That's working nicely for me and I'd prefer not to mix and match my right thumb's activities between different controllers. Otherwise I'd probably buy the expensive Microsoft one based on the broad feedback saying it's actually jolly good.
Yeah, bunny hopping is the result of game design flaws. Of course it's harder to headshot someone that's bouncing around like a demented Zebedee but why the fuck has the game even given them that option.
Twitch mechanics are more interesting. That's a definable game style and very popular so I think it's going to stay around. I agree it shouldn't preclude non-twitch FPS though, but those are harder to design and make fun and enjoyable. Doesn't Arma do that?
I don't personally want realistic though. If I had the physique and reactions to play major league basketball I wouldn't play computer games; give me some escape from my physical limitations please!
I started computer gaming on a device with no mouse or keyboard. Each controller was a dial with a button; rotate clockwise or anticlockwise, press the button.
Although.. it did also have a light gun. There's something we need more of; light guns and games that use them well. They're fun damnit.
(I upgraded from that to a Commodore Vic-20, which came with a musical keyboard overlay for its qwerty keyboard. Had to wait another decade for a mouse though)
I like mine. I use it for Rocket League and for American Truck Simulator.
I have a nice wheel/pedals that I use for Assetto Corsa and Project Cars but the Steam Controller is still better for ATS - mainly because ATS is self-indulgent comfort gaming and the controller lets me play it in bed.
Gets you fit as well.
Maybe that's what I should do when I take a sabbatical later this year. Go fruit picking for a couple of months, lose a bit of flab, meet some interesting people.
Can we no longer trust Valve to tell us when a game contains 3rd-party DRM?
Never did: http://pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/T...
I'm not sure how much control Valve have over third party DRM notifications. I suspect it's a "Please indicate" but not mandatory.
http://forums.steampowered.com... does have a commentator suggesting that Denuvo isn't DRM. I'm not sure how they reached that conclusion but it may be worth sanity checking Valve's definition for DRM too - could be that Denuvo slips through a crack.
Is HDCP 1.4 or 2.2 support part of the ratified standard, or updates to it?
Waiting doesn't help. Getting fucked over by anti-consumer DRM implementations is going to happen anyway.
In order to human and other animals to exhale CO2 plants have to extract that CO2 from the atmosphere in the first place.
The biggest fucking irony is that I've been modded down as flamebait and you're getting away with making such fucking ludicrous statements as this.
There are no plants on the moon. Did Buzz Aldrin just stop fucking breathing while he was there?
Oh look, with one simple statement I've demonstrated how utterly full of shit you are and what a waste of my own CO2 emissions it is arguing with you.
Yes, this post can be modded flamebait because I just fucking roasted you. Now fuck off and get an education because right now you and your moderator chums are clearly just full of shit.
People who say we'd better stop breathing because of the CO2 we exhale are just demonstrating what dumb shits they are.
Fortunately saloomy didn't say that and was merely highlighting the stupidity of claiming they were going to cut all emissions, and by definition that includes CO2 emitted by breathing.
no long term net effect on the level of CO2
If all humans started wearing masks that captured all the CO2 they breath out then yes, there would be a net effect on the level of CO2.
You don't appear to understand that net CO2 emissions include all sources of CO2, including people breathing.
The plants don't follow people around going, "here, let me have that CO2 you're breathing out", they just draw from whatever is in the atmosphere. If that came from a coal power station the plants don't go, "Sorry, wrong C02"
just demonstrating what dumb shits they are
Irony.
No. For me it's car horns. They cause a reaction that skips any conscious assessment and goes straight to the 'fight or flight' reflex.
This isn't a choice, this isn't linked to where I am or who's making the noise, this is a primeval reaction over which I have no control.
I haven't hit anybody as a result of this, but I have punched a car hard enough to leave a dent. Shouldn't have made that fucking noise.
Agree, although that's a lot of work for them.
It has gone from "Explain that plot point to me" to "This film is racist!!!" (or sexist or homophobic or..) and "I can't believe people liked this" or "Why do people hate this?"
Where can people that _like_ films go..?