Looks like you didn't read my post, either, champ.
Buy a case specifically for signatures. The case is empty. You have that case signed. You never crack open the 360. When you're done playing on the 360 for good or it's well past warranty, then you put the signature case onto the machine. That he put signatures on a case for a 360 he's playing on was his first big mistake. Ergo: "Just poor planning, really." It's okay, we all like to half-read posts and feel superior.
Furthermore, it doesn't matter what Microsoft says. Even if they told you "we'll take care of your baby, don't worry," I'm not going to send out my precious item to them if there is anything different about it than what came off the assembly line. There's always a chance it'll get lost in the mail, or a note gets put in wrong in the system for this repair, or the help desk giving the wrong information, or the QA people missing that the help desk gave the wrong information...
With all those variables, A) Why are you trusting the left hand to know what the right hand is doing in a major corporation involving one customer's repair, B) Why are you putting your precious cargo in the mail at all?, and oh, yeah, C) Why the hell are you putting signatures on a 360 case that's currently in use? I don't play football with my fucking Johnny U jersey. That's retarded.
You're intending to keep this for a long time, so for a couple of years you just have an empty case. When the XBOX 720 or whatever comes out, 360s will be a lot cheaper and you can put your old 360 in there or buy a new one to fill out the case.
I haven't looked into it deeply, but I saw that custom clear cases were $50 or so. How much could a stock case really cost?
Just poor planning, really. If you wanted to get signatures of all major developers and felt it important to preserve that, then, y'know, put that thing in a protective box and never open it.
I never said anything about you specifically with the exception of the "get a real job" comment, so try not to do what you're suggesting I'm doing yourself.
Live in a shitty apartment in LA, show up day in and day out to the studio, the shitty clubs, the shitty bars, get heckled, make barely enough to survive and then tell me what a "real" job fucking is. Waiting tables? Refilling copy machines and going to meetings? That's the easy route.
I find it interesting that people stick up for the torrents originally because it was all about the record companies seeking their profits and it's not like the artists get paid a dime for the litigation, and now that an artist who isn't with a label, who's completely running the show himself and ensures that a more-than-fair share if not all of the revenues go directly to the artist, suddenly people are blustering, "well, he's a hack, so it doesn't matter."
Nevermind that the artist in question is easily the largest influence in pop music alive today, both as a performer and a songwriter.
Suddenly the artists are greedy too and supposedly on their way out (okay, Village People was on their way out when they got there, I'll give you that). "Get a real job?" Something tells me you've never met professional songwriting musicians.
When Great Britain ruled the world, it didn't have thousands upon thousands of tons of instant world-killers.
There's a reason why Russia survived the collapse of the Soviet Union and remains an enormous power. They still had a reset button.
Different world, different rules. Maybe when we go galactic we'll see some power restructuring. For now, power is still in order of the size of your clear and present ability to render the globe a smoking ruin. And it's going to remain that way for a long, long time.
Did you know that despite Fox News claims of a 90%+ level of belief that regular attendance at church is at 40% and declining here?
Which really has little to do with belief - my entire family stopped going to church because every one they went to had nothing to do with God and everything to do with spying on each other and joining cliques... essentially a return to high school gossip. Oh, and the fact that the church they'd gone to for twelve years is now dropping $13 million on a new, bigger church, something they don't need since they don't fill the one they have now.
They still are very devout Christians, they just hold their own beliefs at home and decided not to have them messed with by churches that waste their tithing.
Harrison Ford himself made it clear that he hated the voice-overs, that he intentionally did it so bad because he was hoping the studio execs would just throw it out on account of its shittiness.
He was wrong - they used the VOs. And I believe Ford, I doubt it's an excuse for his poor voice acting since he's been known to cop to it whenever he does something less-than-great.
How's about you read that second paragraph from your own link, there?
Typically censorship is done by governments, religious groups, corporations, or the mass media, although other forms of censorship exist. The withholding of official secrets, commercial secrets, intellectual property, and privileged lawyer-client communication is not usually described as censorship when it remains within reasonable bounds. Because of this, the term "censorship" often carries with it a sense of untoward, inappropriate or repressive secrecy.
The spirit of censorship is that it's an inappropriate/repressive withholding of said information.
Stopping tax-paid workers from revising history about motherfucking Gundam during the work hours that the people pay for does not constitute censorship.
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Buy a case specifically for signatures. The case is empty. You have that case signed. You never crack open the 360. When you're done playing on the 360 for good or it's well past warranty, then you put the signature case onto the machine. That he put signatures on a case for a 360 he's playing on was his first big mistake. Ergo: "Just poor planning, really." It's okay, we all like to half-read posts and feel superior.
Furthermore, it doesn't matter what Microsoft says. Even if they told you "we'll take care of your baby, don't worry," I'm not going to send out my precious item to them if there is anything different about it than what came off the assembly line. There's always a chance it'll get lost in the mail, or a note gets put in wrong in the system for this repair, or the help desk giving the wrong information, or the QA people missing that the help desk gave the wrong information...
With all those variables, A) Why are you trusting the left hand to know what the right hand is doing in a major corporation involving one customer's repair, B) Why are you putting your precious cargo in the mail at all?, and oh, yeah, C) Why the hell are you putting signatures on a 360 case that's currently in use? I don't play football with my fucking Johnny U jersey. That's retarded.
You're intending to keep this for a long time, so for a couple of years you just have an empty case. When the XBOX 720 or whatever comes out, 360s will be a lot cheaper and you can put your old 360 in there or buy a new one to fill out the case.
I haven't looked into it deeply, but I saw that custom clear cases were $50 or so. How much could a stock case really cost?
Just poor planning, really. If you wanted to get signatures of all major developers and felt it important to preserve that, then, y'know, put that thing in a protective box and never open it.
I just thought people were trippin' balls on X.
A self-serving corporation?! Oh snap! (I'll still buy their Macbooks.)
Live in a shitty apartment in LA, show up day in and day out to the studio, the shitty clubs, the shitty bars, get heckled, make barely enough to survive and then tell me what a "real" job fucking is. Waiting tables? Refilling copy machines and going to meetings? That's the easy route.
Nevermind that the artist in question is easily the largest influence in pop music alive today, both as a performer and a songwriter.
Suddenly the artists are greedy too and supposedly on their way out (okay, Village People was on their way out when they got there, I'll give you that). "Get a real job?" Something tells me you've never met professional songwriting musicians.
Any Canadians know if this is common?
I don't trust my government enough to get it right.
Which is the fucking problem!
"Drink Miller! Kill your liver or start your Jeep - it's your call!"
I just nuked everyone I could. I'll let you guess which civilization I chose.
I've played Gears of War against people who were obviously high on weed. Fuck. That. Noise.
That is redundant, sir.
Hell, brother, you won't even tell us your name!
Doesn't fair use handle satire?
That's either silly if you don't like the state secrets privilege, and very dangerous if you do.
There's a reason why Russia survived the collapse of the Soviet Union and remains an enormous power. They still had a reset button.
Different world, different rules. Maybe when we go galactic we'll see some power restructuring. For now, power is still in order of the size of your clear and present ability to render the globe a smoking ruin. And it's going to remain that way for a long, long time.
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Which really has little to do with belief - my entire family stopped going to church because every one they went to had nothing to do with God and everything to do with spying on each other and joining cliques... essentially a return to high school gossip. Oh, and the fact that the church they'd gone to for twelve years is now dropping $13 million on a new, bigger church, something they don't need since they don't fill the one they have now.
They still are very devout Christians, they just hold their own beliefs at home and decided not to have them messed with by churches that waste their tithing.
To Abignale's credit, his solution isn't to restrict technology but to invest more in the character of people.
Now this is a problem with the 360, but because they don't have it? Man, we are all over the place.
Uh... violence, dude.
Harrison Ford himself made it clear that he hated the voice-overs, that he intentionally did it so bad because he was hoping the studio execs would just throw it out on account of its shittiness.
He was wrong - they used the VOs. And I believe Ford, I doubt it's an excuse for his poor voice acting since he's been known to cop to it whenever he does something less-than-great.
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- War: Fights you.
- Power: Asserts you.
- Politics and Party: Plays you.
I hope we all learned something today.The spirit of censorship is that it's an inappropriate/repressive withholding of said information.
Stopping tax-paid workers from revising history about motherfucking Gundam during the work hours that the people pay for does not constitute censorship.