Although the money helps this isn't about money...
It's about the fact that these "people" are doing actions of an individual under the name of a corporation. The difference in your example between your corporation vs commoner is that one is an individual. The government can certainly throw the book at a corporation, but what happens? It either gets a bad reputation and loses the market for a while or they just dissolve it and start something new under a new name. There is no personal responsibility for any of the actions of a corporation and therefore there is absolutely no accountability for their actions.
As long as we continue to treat a corporation as the "person" responsible for its actions and not the actual people in charge will they be able to do whatever they want with little to no consequences. These people have just learn to shield their own malfeasance under the guise of a legal corporation.
I'm by no means saying that all corporations are like this, but at some point it seems they stop caring about the work they are doing and start caring about the state of the company.
North Dakota isn't having problems because they are going through an oil boom.
When the oil dries up they will be back to being a 2nd rate rural state with little no sway over anything in the country.
Except a lot of cases of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) aren't treated with medication. It's treated with close social therapy designed to help those diagnosed the extra attention they need to develop social skills. What you are seeing is a blurring of the lines between what is considered ADHD and ASD. The symptoms can be very similar in some kids.
Also autism is no longer just restricted to the severe cases where the ticks and visual cues are obvious. There is a wide range of levels now and a lot of them don't require any kind of medication if treated properly. Also if you've seen a kid with just ASD on ADHD meds it makes the symptoms much much worse. They tend to become even more reclusive and focused on their ticks.
Everything you said in my opinion is a good thing. All the people you mentioned in your post are exactly the people I don't want to play with...
People who are afraid of the world and the people in it.
Children who have no reason to be unsupervised and unprotected
People who use anonymity to be total asshats
Bad things happen to good people all the time. The fact of the matter is if a person is so determined to track you down and punish you in real life, then they were probably going to do it by whatever means are necessary.
Then maybe you shouldn't piss people off by griefing them...
Or even better yet, hopefully a few of these d-bags will go and get themselves arrested, killed, ect and finally eliminate them from the gene pool altogether...we can only hope...
Blizzard isn't forcing anyone to do anything. All you won't be able to do is post on the forums. You didn't buy their game to post on their forums. They didn't say you have to use your full first and last name as your character name.
You real name will be visible in the exact same places it is currently unless you *CHOOSE* to post on the forums. No one is forcing you to and you aren't required to post on the forums to use their product.
QQ moar
Wow who's been printing money exactly? Who's been in office for the 8 years prior to the current administration. How much money did we print during the Bush administration? How much did the deficit/debt go up in those 8 years?
How much additional government was created in those years? How much hate in the world was generated during those 8 years?
Sure seems like the conservative view is the way to go...
If I've been paying attention to the hardware storage roadmaps isn't the next "DRM" idea that the games will be stored in a very large uncompressed format in order to make it costly to copy and pass around the games?
Isn't this movement going to work exactly contrary to this streaming cloud gaming concept?
I suppose they could make a stripped down compressed version, but another hardware medium has been doing that for years. It's called cable. Take a look at some of your channels and see how compressed video data looks. Probably only a matter of time before they would have to do something similar to provide this kind of service moving forward.
Maybe this kind of thing will finally give Comcast enough legitimate reasons that customers can and do exceed the 250gig/month limit.
Wow and when have gun totting militias been left alone when they attempt to flex those freedoms?
No guns escalate situations they don't solve them. If push comes to shove and the government derails to the extent that your guns are necessary to stop it then we are in serious trouble. If the military industrial complex decides they want to side with the government then you're screwed and you having a gun is only going to get you killed.
In addition isn't it the same people who support guns rights who turned around and absolutely decimated any sense of privacy or hope of privacy in this country? Not to mention not start one war, but two wars simultaneously and for what? It has nothing to do with your rights to carry weapons. It was revenge and money.
I'm sorry, but the honest truth is that your guns will not prevent a tyrannical government when you turn around and put tyrants in the position of controlling the government in the name of protecting our rights.
Quoted from the proposal:
"Although there appears to be general agreement on the basic functional architecture
for TV band database(s) (i.e., a data repository, a data registration process, and a query process), there
are a variety of views on whether we should designate one data repository administrator and allow
multiple registration and query service providers, have each administrator perform all functions, or some
other combination."
They obviously don't know how to do it, no matter how clear the answer is in front of them. I don't think its a bad thing to ask for solutions from the private sector. They don't want to manage it, but they also don't know the best person to manage it either.
It makes perfect sense. They have no idea how to do it or the answers to those questions, so they are asking for current database experts to propose a solution.
That is opposed to arguing about whatever option they happen to chose arbitrarily until nothing gets done.
You are correct. It wasn't anyone associated with CCP, the creators of EVE Online, it was the CEO of a virtual bank within the game that stole the virtual currency.
It's always easier to lay on layers of detail and complexity if you want them. It is not so easy to present a simple to understand and fun initial set of rules to attract new people. I think this is an excellent change if they can pull it off.
What bothers me more is that people pigeon-hole any simplifying into being WoW-like. WoW has made a dramatic impression on many aspects of gaming, but to constantly compare or equate future products back to WoW will require a non-WoW-like product to be overly complex and often unworkable simply for the sake of disassociation. Leave WoW in its own category and judge things upon their own merit.
Well that's because people want popular software to work as well as it's going to straight out of the box. Not after spending a couple hours at least tinkering, tweaking, reading man pages, installing other packages, and generally screwing around with things that only a handful of people want control over. Handful being relative to the total number of computer users in the world. Regardless of whether Windows does or does not work well in all situations, it is the OS with a widest range of easy to use software straight out of the box.
When Apple, Redhat, or whomever can get the software developers to develop a wide range of easy to use software that includes not only utilities and business apps, but also popular games then there may be a chance for an alternative to Microsoft's market dominance.
Yes I know there are alternatives that can work to some extent, but they are not complete replacements for running native applications on the OS they were designed to be run.
Great so it can play all the old games that have already been rehashed a couple hundred times. The problem I see with the Linux community is they spend so much time and energy just trying to get already existing software and technology to run on their systems, that they have little or no time to truly create something new and innovative. Instead of trying to create an alternative system that does everything that your current system can do natively, create something new that your current system can't do. Then maybe you will see adoption of Linux as a viable alternative for the widespread public using mainstream hardware and software. Not speaking of the merits of Linux itself, simply the attitude of the community in general. Also just because something runs Linux doesn't make it any more or less crappy than any other system.
This could be said about anyone who immerses themselves in a hobby. In fact I would say there is more opportunity to have wide spread social interactions in WoW then there is playing softball with the same team every year or some other pointless sport that I don't enjoy.
You go do whatever it is that you do to waste your life outside and leave the people who waste their life inside alone.
It's perfectly legal for them to write it off. If the IRS had discovered the discrepancy prior to the purchase it would have been added to the purchase cost and therefore an expense to Symantec.
Even in the event that Symantec has to pay, which it won't, Symantec has like $2.4 billion in cash. So worse case senario they slightly deplete their cash reserves.
What is more likely to happen is either it will get appealed or Symantec will negotiate a significant reduction settlement, pay the back taxes, and then write off the payment as an expense accured during the purchase of Veritas.
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Although the money helps this isn't about money... It's about the fact that these "people" are doing actions of an individual under the name of a corporation. The difference in your example between your corporation vs commoner is that one is an individual. The government can certainly throw the book at a corporation, but what happens? It either gets a bad reputation and loses the market for a while or they just dissolve it and start something new under a new name. There is no personal responsibility for any of the actions of a corporation and therefore there is absolutely no accountability for their actions. As long as we continue to treat a corporation as the "person" responsible for its actions and not the actual people in charge will they be able to do whatever they want with little to no consequences. These people have just learn to shield their own malfeasance under the guise of a legal corporation. I'm by no means saying that all corporations are like this, but at some point it seems they stop caring about the work they are doing and start caring about the state of the company.
North Dakota isn't having problems because they are going through an oil boom. When the oil dries up they will be back to being a 2nd rate rural state with little no sway over anything in the country.
Except a lot of cases of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) aren't treated with medication. It's treated with close social therapy designed to help those diagnosed the extra attention they need to develop social skills. What you are seeing is a blurring of the lines between what is considered ADHD and ASD. The symptoms can be very similar in some kids. Also autism is no longer just restricted to the severe cases where the ticks and visual cues are obvious. There is a wide range of levels now and a lot of them don't require any kind of medication if treated properly. Also if you've seen a kid with just ASD on ADHD meds it makes the symptoms much much worse. They tend to become even more reclusive and focused on their ticks.
Everything you said in my opinion is a good thing. All the people you mentioned in your post are exactly the people I don't want to play with... People who are afraid of the world and the people in it. Children who have no reason to be unsupervised and unprotected People who use anonymity to be total asshats Bad things happen to good people all the time. The fact of the matter is if a person is so determined to track you down and punish you in real life, then they were probably going to do it by whatever means are necessary.
That people are willing to trust complete strangers more than their own friends and colleagues? Yes it is broken....welcome to the real world.
Then maybe you shouldn't piss people off by griefing them... Or even better yet, hopefully a few of these d-bags will go and get themselves arrested, killed, ect and finally eliminate them from the gene pool altogether...we can only hope...
Blizzard isn't forcing anyone to do anything. All you won't be able to do is post on the forums. You didn't buy their game to post on their forums. They didn't say you have to use your full first and last name as your character name. You real name will be visible in the exact same places it is currently unless you *CHOOSE* to post on the forums. No one is forcing you to and you aren't required to post on the forums to use their product. QQ moar
You realize that you unwillingly sluff off your DNA all the time. Get your Gattaca branded incinerator today. Good luck trying to control it.
Wow who's been printing money exactly? Who's been in office for the 8 years prior to the current administration. How much money did we print during the Bush administration? How much did the deficit/debt go up in those 8 years? How much additional government was created in those years? How much hate in the world was generated during those 8 years? Sure seems like the conservative view is the way to go...
Then maybe you should take a little more responsibility for what you are posting for the public to view.
If I've been paying attention to the hardware storage roadmaps isn't the next "DRM" idea that the games will be stored in a very large uncompressed format in order to make it costly to copy and pass around the games?
Isn't this movement going to work exactly contrary to this streaming cloud gaming concept?
I suppose they could make a stripped down compressed version, but another hardware medium has been doing that for years. It's called cable. Take a look at some of your channels and see how compressed video data looks. Probably only a matter of time before they would have to do something similar to provide this kind of service moving forward.
Maybe this kind of thing will finally give Comcast enough legitimate reasons that customers can and do exceed the 250gig/month limit.
Wow and when have gun totting militias been left alone when they attempt to flex those freedoms? No guns escalate situations they don't solve them. If push comes to shove and the government derails to the extent that your guns are necessary to stop it then we are in serious trouble. If the military industrial complex decides they want to side with the government then you're screwed and you having a gun is only going to get you killed. In addition isn't it the same people who support guns rights who turned around and absolutely decimated any sense of privacy or hope of privacy in this country? Not to mention not start one war, but two wars simultaneously and for what? It has nothing to do with your rights to carry weapons. It was revenge and money. I'm sorry, but the honest truth is that your guns will not prevent a tyrannical government when you turn around and put tyrants in the position of controlling the government in the name of protecting our rights.
Quoted from the proposal: "Although there appears to be general agreement on the basic functional architecture for TV band database(s) (i.e., a data repository, a data registration process, and a query process), there are a variety of views on whether we should designate one data repository administrator and allow multiple registration and query service providers, have each administrator perform all functions, or some other combination." They obviously don't know how to do it, no matter how clear the answer is in front of them. I don't think its a bad thing to ask for solutions from the private sector. They don't want to manage it, but they also don't know the best person to manage it either.
It makes perfect sense. They have no idea how to do it or the answers to those questions, so they are asking for current database experts to propose a solution. That is opposed to arguing about whatever option they happen to chose arbitrarily until nothing gets done.
You are correct. It wasn't anyone associated with CCP, the creators of EVE Online, it was the CEO of a virtual bank within the game that stole the virtual currency.
It's always easier to lay on layers of detail and complexity if you want them. It is not so easy to present a simple to understand and fun initial set of rules to attract new people. I think this is an excellent change if they can pull it off.
What bothers me more is that people pigeon-hole any simplifying into being WoW-like. WoW has made a dramatic impression on many aspects of gaming, but to constantly compare or equate future products back to WoW will require a non-WoW-like product to be overly complex and often unworkable simply for the sake of disassociation. Leave WoW in its own category and judge things upon their own merit.
Well that's because people want popular software to work as well as it's going to straight out of the box. Not after spending a couple hours at least tinkering, tweaking, reading man pages, installing other packages, and generally screwing around with things that only a handful of people want control over. Handful being relative to the total number of computer users in the world. Regardless of whether Windows does or does not work well in all situations, it is the OS with a widest range of easy to use software straight out of the box. When Apple, Redhat, or whomever can get the software developers to develop a wide range of easy to use software that includes not only utilities and business apps, but also popular games then there may be a chance for an alternative to Microsoft's market dominance. Yes I know there are alternatives that can work to some extent, but they are not complete replacements for running native applications on the OS they were designed to be run.
Great so it can play all the old games that have already been rehashed a couple hundred times. The problem I see with the Linux community is they spend so much time and energy just trying to get already existing software and technology to run on their systems, that they have little or no time to truly create something new and innovative. Instead of trying to create an alternative system that does everything that your current system can do natively, create something new that your current system can't do. Then maybe you will see adoption of Linux as a viable alternative for the widespread public using mainstream hardware and software. Not speaking of the merits of Linux itself, simply the attitude of the community in general. Also just because something runs Linux doesn't make it any more or less crappy than any other system.
It's not even for real money. It's $300 store credit to some junk store that sells crappy handheld knock offs.
This could be said about anyone who immerses themselves in a hobby. In fact I would say there is more opportunity to have wide spread social interactions in WoW then there is playing softball with the same team every year or some other pointless sport that I don't enjoy. You go do whatever it is that you do to waste your life outside and leave the people who waste their life inside alone.
It's perfectly legal for them to write it off. If the IRS had discovered the discrepancy prior to the purchase it would have been added to the purchase cost and therefore an expense to Symantec.
Even in the event that Symantec has to pay, which it won't, Symantec has like $2.4 billion in cash. So worse case senario they slightly deplete their cash reserves. What is more likely to happen is either it will get appealed or Symantec will negotiate a significant reduction settlement, pay the back taxes, and then write off the payment as an expense accured during the purchase of Veritas.