What i think is, lately, the generation that have grown during the 80-90's metal/trash/punk era is now adults, and the representatives of this generation working in the gaming and entertainment industry are adversely effecting the creative works in that they always have an inclination to relate evil to 'rebel', and portray it as a good, and charismatic thing.
Im no republican, and no conservative in any respect. however when i see that the evil represented in masterpieces like star wars, warcraft world being portrayed, or totally transformed into things other than how they were when the title first came up and made a stunning impact, i get irritated.
Having evil elf elements in celtic mythos justifies that warcraft I was more based on lord of the rings for certain. As orcs were evil, and the usurper, attacker, a burner of homes, and the elves, men and dwarven were in alliance.
The 'alliance' is definitely a thing from lotr, and definitely identifies warcraft as being based on lotr heavily.
This in conclusion would lead to the fact that horde is evil.
Re:Horde IS supposed to be evil ?!?!?!
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WoW is not set in middle earth, however its ancestor, warcraft was set in a world of ancient celtic myths, and as a matter of fact, naturally, lotr.
Almost all of the prominent races, and hero classifications there are from celtic myths.
And in the celtic myths, there has never been a time that orcs, trolls, goblins were classifiable as non-evil.
They are still evil. just, many people want to play 'evil' for the 'thrill' and 'charisma' of it, but being good in heart deep down, and hence couldnt be able to accept playing an evil character consciously, they twist it.
Horde is a gathering of orcs, orcish, trollish races. Orcs, trolls were always EVIL - not talking about metaphors, real evil, really real evil - in celtic legends, and tolkien have brought them to the lotr as such.
But later on the net, as it always happens, some crowd has come up and SOMEHOW related the horde with "REBEL", the "ordinary man" - just like many ~13 bambino, punk/death metal enthusiast have related the EVIL sith to 'rebel' 'charismatic' and 'extraordinary'. Ah the elves, who are the mentors and protectors of humans in celtic legends have been made into some 'snob' race.
Bullshit. Everything to its place - if one enters a game of fantasy, based on myths, they have to stick to the core of the myths.
This seems more like an inner talk in the lines of "i want to be evil but i cant make myself accept it since the community wont accept people who are wanting to be evil, even in roleplay" to me.
You are being held in a state of worry through the economic practices so you would not rise to object. On another side your taxes and dearly paid gasoline fees goes to be paid to military-industrial complex for the purchase of weapons, they feed the adminstration and cycle goes on. You need to break it from some place, be it privacy rights, or your economical supression.
Seriously i mean ? All i hear that loose organisations with small representative base among population trying to do something.
Arent these YOUR rights ? Why arent you fighting back ? Isnt being ripped off your rights by your government similar to being ripped off your rights by a foreign power, like in 1774 ?
Wasnt the telecom industry & isp providers were looking for new areas to expand into ? there it is ? broadband - this time fully utilized.
Werent they already basking in the joy of low usage as very little percentage of their users were utilizing their allocated bandwidth in full ?
So when it comes to providing all the contracted bandwidth, is it too painful for the eyes ? Why did they sell internet connectivity for those prices then ? If the service and bw promised can not be provided if everybody demanded them in full, then it means that all this time they were selling us hot air, some product that is not guaranteeable. is THIS legal ? I guess not ? If they were not, then whats the problem ?
It is odd that you are proposing the objection about the unions, and their irrelevancy to telecommunications industry, to ME, as i have not proposed any idea close to it. Somebody else said that, unions being a milestone of development in the 20th century and they would help the it field too, so I suppose you should direct your objection to him/her.
As for multiple jobs, having a union that FORCES the industry to make them pay more for a job does not mean that you will be able to get the job. In such situations industry prefers to lay off employees, reduce the number of them and make them work their full pays' worth, sometimes overusing them
As for 'not answering to' the union, that can change, and such changes did happen in history. Also, not all the unions are alike, not all unions are like yours. There are unions that can limit where you can work and where you can not, and can limit your mobility instead of boosting it in terms of geo location.
As for unionization, the past history is not sufficient to judge their value in the case of it - never before in the world history there has been much flexibility and communication and networking than internet is offering. we are not local, we are global.
As for families, having a family and roots is ALWAYS hard whether you are unionized or not. What will happen if a plant closes and union gets a deal elsewhere ? Youll move, as a family and thats it. Whats the difference ? At least , in it field, you dont have to answer to no union, and you can work from home, and get MULTIPLE jobs. You cant do that with a union.
we IT workers are the most advantageous
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Budgeting for Layoffs?
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when it comes to layoffs.
Especially programmers, designers, web developers, or any information technology service or counseling / technical support, anything that can be performed remote :
We have the internet.
When you get laid off, even in the u.s., you have the chance to put your resume & experience in a post titled 'experienced..... looking for work/taking on projects' and shortly you get many inquiries.
Sure wages are not that high, comparable to when you work full time on-site.
But then again, a hourly $15 should be enough thinking you are working from home ? or from a remote site on vacation - hell, practically anywhere in the world.
Our professions are the most suitable for the internet - no surprise, as we are the ones that built it.
That might not seem enough, a mere $15, however there is no limit as to how many projects you can take on or at the same time how many hourly paid jobs you can manage - handle 3 simultaneous work, get $45 in total - no contractor will object to you as long as you handle their work fittingly. That is something you cant do while working on-site : work on someone elses stuff for an hour, get busted, youre in trouble.
I understand that many have families and people to support, and quite a many have become accustomed to rather high living standards.
So what ? if we lower our standards a bit in such times, we can work anywhere, anytime.
And note that, not having a profession that is required to be registered, unionized, guildized etc nowhere in the world, makes us capable of working ANYWHERE.
Too high taxes in u.s. ? Move to some other country where you are allowed to live in, just start working there. Its that simple.
On top of that, many countries will be pleased to have more it workers.
Unionization, regulation and etc are not to our advantage, but to our disadvantage. Keep in mind that organisations always fail to represent the masses they set out to represent - because only the rich, powerful & influential enough can spare enough resources to get on the helm of any of them. Then the result leads to manipulation and molding of the related masses to some other power's interest, and that generally becomes the industry bosses.
So far so good, were not mine workers, we can easily find ways to sustain ourselves, heck, even prosper (we are always free to use our skills to set up our own job, and we can do it with minimum capital) whenever we get laid off.
Maybe we are not that safe always, but, for the first time in the world history maybe, we have more freedom than any profession member had on the face of the world.
nay not paid much attention to it. as a matter of fact i believe that the choosing of the name as emmett has much more crazy scientist effect added to it. Emmett - not a common name.
I dont believe how you u.s. slashdotters can put up with such crap in your backyard ?
Apparently these people are STUPID. there is no other explanation.
'Disabling of forums' - get a load of this !!!
Why noone is proposing a law to ban people from proposing laws for things they are totally clueless upon ?
Isnt looking after and upbringing of children are the responsibility of the PARENTS in america ?
If the society will protect the children from everythin, what the hell are parents will be good for ?
Will they just wander around spending money, going fishing, being lazy in general ? Is that it ?
That seems so.
You people are much too tolerant of idiots in your midst. Much too tolerant - even to the degree that their actions and wants might go to the extents hampering free speech, your first amendment, your rights, and even the concept of tolerance itself !!!
Placement of resident "observers" in family houses to ensure people do not lend cds to each other and no more than 5 people listen to the same music at a time in a party.
Yea, on-demand getting of anime is very important. If you need to shuffle among hoards of cds to get 2-3 episodes for watching, it becomes pain.
Maybe it would be logical to employ an old unused computer in the network as an anime server at home. With an upgraded hd of course. And same machine would help greatly in 'acquisitions'.
"the entire tech community has agreed that Mr Mckinnon is not only an idiot but a deluded attention seeker.'"
Just who are these 'entire' people ? Is there a power in the world to get ahold of 'entire people' in the tech community and poll them ?
It more seems like a sentence very much like the overly religious people use to 'disprove' darwing - "Entire science community now refuse darwin's theories" they say -
Having a screenshot or a jpg might have made kinnon a dead man by now.
I personally believe everything possible with a government. Everything.
Do they know that they might not be able to reach a portion of internet withouth their knowledge ?
Did you convey this information to them ?
What did they tell you ?
No i dont think you did that at all.
I do not think that any of your customers will be putting up with your 'such and such, google has to pay for their bandwidth' crap when they discover they are not able to reach google all the time.
Then theyll just move to another provider. So much for the better.
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What i think is, lately, the generation that have grown during the 80-90's metal/trash/punk era is now adults, and the representatives of this generation working in the gaming and entertainment industry are adversely effecting the creative works in that they always have an inclination to relate evil to 'rebel', and portray it as a good, and charismatic thing.
Im no republican, and no conservative in any respect. however when i see that the evil represented in masterpieces like star wars, warcraft world being portrayed, or totally transformed into things other than how they were when the title first came up and made a stunning impact, i get irritated.
and too much 'politically correct' saying.
..
It should not be 'NSA Chose Invasive Phone Analysis Option'
Its correct saying is 'NSA have violated your privacy'
Having evil elf elements in celtic mythos justifies that warcraft I was more based on lord of the rings for certain. As orcs were evil, and the usurper, attacker, a burner of homes, and the elves, men and dwarven were in alliance.
The 'alliance' is definitely a thing from lotr, and definitely identifies warcraft as being based on lotr heavily.
This in conclusion would lead to the fact that horde is evil.
WoW is not set in middle earth, however its ancestor, warcraft was set in a world of ancient celtic myths, and as a matter of fact, naturally, lotr.
Almost all of the prominent races, and hero classifications there are from celtic myths.
And in the celtic myths, there has never been a time that orcs, trolls, goblins were classifiable as non-evil.
They are still evil. just, many people want to play 'evil' for the 'thrill' and 'charisma' of it, but being good in heart deep down, and hence couldnt be able to accept playing an evil character consciously, they twist it.
Yes it is ?
Horde is a gathering of orcs, orcish, trollish races. Orcs, trolls were always EVIL - not talking about metaphors, real evil, really real evil - in celtic legends, and tolkien have brought them to the lotr as such.
But later on the net, as it always happens, some crowd has come up and SOMEHOW related the horde with "REBEL", the "ordinary man" - just like many ~13 bambino, punk/death metal enthusiast have related the EVIL sith to 'rebel' 'charismatic' and 'extraordinary'. Ah the elves, who are the mentors and protectors of humans in celtic legends have been made into some 'snob' race.
Bullshit. Everything to its place - if one enters a game of fantasy, based on myths, they have to stick to the core of the myths.
This seems more like an inner talk in the lines of "i want to be evil but i cant make myself accept it since the community wont accept people who are wanting to be evil, even in roleplay" to me.
I admit that you have put all perfectly together in this post ...
Next : RIAA fleet to plunder coastal towns whose citizens are known to indulgue in p2p.
... You wont be escaping ... Its coming ... Its RIAA ...
... The RIAA Strikes Back !!!
Planned : RIAA prison camps full of former p2p people to be used as slave labor in music industry.
You wont be hiding
Coming to a theatre near you this summer
Official site : www.riaastrikesbackwithfear.com
You are being held in a state of worry through the economic practices so you would not rise to object. On another side your taxes and dearly paid gasoline fees goes to be paid to military-industrial complex for the purchase of weapons, they feed the adminstration and cycle goes on. You need to break it from some place, be it privacy rights, or your economical supression.
Seriously i mean ? All i hear that loose organisations with small representative base among population trying to do something.
Arent these YOUR rights ? Why arent you fighting back ? Isnt being ripped off your rights by your government similar to being ripped off your rights by a foreign power, like in 1774 ?
Huh ?
Wasnt the telecom industry & isp providers were looking for new areas to expand into ? there it is ? broadband - this time fully utilized.
Werent they already basking in the joy of low usage as very little percentage of their users were utilizing their allocated bandwidth in full ?
So when it comes to providing all the contracted bandwidth, is it too painful for the eyes ? Why did they sell internet connectivity for those prices then ? If the service and bw promised can not be provided if everybody demanded them in full, then it means that all this time they were selling us hot air, some product that is not guaranteeable. is THIS legal ? I guess not ? If they were not, then whats the problem ?
It is odd that you are proposing the objection about the unions, and their irrelevancy to telecommunications industry, to ME, as i have not proposed any idea close to it. Somebody else said that, unions being a milestone of development in the 20th century and they would help the it field too, so I suppose you should direct your objection to him/her.
As for multiple jobs, having a union that FORCES the industry to make them pay more for a job does not mean that you will be able to get the job. In such situations industry prefers to lay off employees, reduce the number of them and make them work their full pays' worth, sometimes overusing them
As for 'not answering to' the union, that can change, and such changes did happen in history. Also, not all the unions are alike, not all unions are like yours. There are unions that can limit where you can work and where you can not, and can limit your mobility instead of boosting it in terms of geo location.
As for unionization, the past history is not sufficient to judge their value in the case of it - never before in the world history there has been much flexibility and communication and networking than internet is offering. we are not local, we are global.
As for families, having a family and roots is ALWAYS hard whether you are unionized or not. What will happen if a plant closes and union gets a deal elsewhere ? Youll move, as a family and thats it. Whats the difference ? At least , in it field, you dont have to answer to no union, and you can work from home, and get MULTIPLE jobs. You cant do that with a union.
when it comes to layoffs.
..... looking for work/taking on projects' and shortly you get many inquiries.
Especially programmers, designers, web developers, or any information technology service or counseling / technical support, anything that can be performed remote :
We have the internet.
When you get laid off, even in the u.s., you have the chance to put your resume & experience in a post titled 'experienced
Sure wages are not that high, comparable to when you work full time on-site.
But then again, a hourly $15 should be enough thinking you are working from home ? or from a remote site on vacation - hell, practically anywhere in the world.
Our professions are the most suitable for the internet - no surprise, as we are the ones that built it.
That might not seem enough, a mere $15, however there is no limit as to how many projects you can take on or at the same time how many hourly paid jobs you can manage - handle 3 simultaneous work, get $45 in total - no contractor will object to you as long as you handle their work fittingly. That is something you cant do while working on-site : work on someone elses stuff for an hour, get busted, youre in trouble.
I understand that many have families and people to support, and quite a many have become accustomed to rather high living standards.
So what ? if we lower our standards a bit in such times, we can work anywhere, anytime.
And note that, not having a profession that is required to be registered, unionized, guildized etc nowhere in the world, makes us capable of working ANYWHERE.
Too high taxes in u.s. ? Move to some other country where you are allowed to live in, just start working there. Its that simple.
On top of that, many countries will be pleased to have more it workers.
Unionization, regulation and etc are not to our advantage, but to our disadvantage. Keep in mind that organisations always fail to represent the masses they set out to represent - because only the rich, powerful & influential enough can spare enough resources to get on the helm of any of them. Then the result leads to manipulation and molding of the related masses to some other power's interest, and that generally becomes the industry bosses.
So far so good, were not mine workers, we can easily find ways to sustain ourselves, heck, even prosper (we are always free to use our skills to set up our own job, and we can do it with minimum capital) whenever we get laid off.
Maybe we are not that safe always, but, for the first time in the world history maybe, we have more freedom than any profession member had on the face of the world.
nay not paid much attention to it. as a matter of fact i believe that the choosing of the name as emmett has much more crazy scientist effect added to it. Emmett - not a common name.
AND NOBODY ELSE !!!!
No one will best the scientist image that character presented forever !
Splendid character in all respects !
1 GIGAWATTS 1 GIGAWATTSS ??? OH MY GODDDD !!!!
I dont believe how you u.s. slashdotters can put up with such crap in your backyard ?
Apparently these people are STUPID. there is no other explanation.
'Disabling of forums' - get a load of this !!!
Why noone is proposing a law to ban people from proposing laws for things they are totally clueless upon ?
Isnt looking after and upbringing of children are the responsibility of the PARENTS in america ?
If the society will protect the children from everythin, what the hell are parents will be good for ?
Will they just wander around spending money, going fishing, being lazy in general ? Is that it ?
That seems so.
You people are much too tolerant of idiots in your midst. Much too tolerant - even to the degree that their actions and wants might go to the extents hampering free speech, your first amendment, your rights, and even the concept of tolerance itself !!!
Placement of resident "observers" in family houses to ensure people do not lend cds to each other and no more than 5 people listen to the same music at a time in a party.
Yea, on-demand getting of anime is very important. If you need to shuffle among hoards of cds to get 2-3 episodes for watching, it becomes pain.
Maybe it would be logical to employ an old unused computer in the network as an anime server at home. With an upgraded hd of course. And same machine would help greatly in 'acquisitions'.
Yay for Anime fans !
It has become too difficult to cope with all these hoards of anime - no hard disks ever big enough, no cd writer fast enough -
Cavalry on the way it seems. We can speed up 'acquisition' of anime eh ?
"the entire tech community has agreed that Mr Mckinnon is not only an idiot but a deluded attention seeker.'"
Just who are these 'entire' people ? Is there a power in the world to get ahold of 'entire people' in the tech community and poll them ?
It more seems like a sentence very much like the overly religious people use to 'disprove' darwing - "Entire science community now refuse darwin's theories" they say -
Having a screenshot or a jpg might have made kinnon a dead man by now.
I personally believe everything possible with a government. Everything.
If i had found out that i have been cut of any major site like google.
A few hours, if i learned that i was being cut of from other sites.
Do they know that they might not be able to reach a portion of internet withouth their knowledge ?
Did you convey this information to them ?
What did they tell you ?
No i dont think you did that at all.
I do not think that any of your customers will be putting up with your 'such and such, google has to pay for their bandwidth' crap when they discover they are not able to reach google all the time.
Then theyll just move to another provider. So much for the better.
What differs ? Millions are spent to publish 2 minute ads on tvs. This thing bested them all.
Earlier i was just joking around with corporations copyrighting everyday stuff, but it seems it is becoming a reality.
If this rate continues we will not be able to talk to each other in public without having an intellectual property expert nearby.
I think people should counter-sue these companies in class action lawsuits.
Well,
Im not talking about this in particular
Every other day a microsoft problem is announced in slashdot. We cant wake up to a day that microsoft wont be appearing with some problem it seems.