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Re: More Big Picture Details |
Feb 28, 2013, 09:25 |
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"Those accused of infringing can file an appeal for $35."
LOL you have to pay to prove your innocence. I guess they are judge and jury, someone is going to be suing soon.
But lets say you got a coupe of these... wouldn't the next step be just finding another ISP? So in the end they are telling at least some customers to leave? I left ATT very soon after I rec'd a letter about I was using too much internets (Netflix probably the biggest culprit) and was soon going to be billed extra for it. I called them said fine, cancel me. I found a faster/cheaper provider any way. They have some genius business managers over there. I cut my att home phone at the same time.
WB Cable called my dad to offer him some new services for more cash, he didn't want it so the telesales said, hey the package you have has been updated, you can get a faster and cheaper package. He did and saved $10 a month for better (and new router). Again what wonderful business people they have, they call to sell more and in the end it costs them more. Love it!
I'll need to see what email my ISP has for me, so I know where to monitor. I have Wave, which seems isn't on the list yet.
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| News Comments > Morning Legal Briefs |
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Re: More Big Picture Details |
Feb 28, 2013, 07:51 |
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Beamer wrote on Feb 28, 2013, 07:24:
RollinThundr wrote on Feb 27, 2013, 19:00:
wealth redistribution. Says the guy who is a die hard fan of the party responsible for the most wealth redistribution this country has ever seen?
Which, incidentally, put us in a massive economic downturn?
That is total bullshit. The issue that hit us was the housing crash, which led to the stock market crash, nothing more. I went from 150K ahead to 100k down on my house. We are still recovering from that. Now ultimately I blame the banks on that one, but if you had to blame the president during that period, then that would have to fall on a Republican. It is still not that long ago to remember what the current president inherited along with gridlock. Gridlock alone is a large enough problem.
I would say if all businesses paid the actual taxes they say they do, to the country/state they should be paying, things would be normal. To me that is the current issue, tax evasion, we aren't over taxed, in fact we are under taxed when the NET result is calculated. I have a company that continues to state publicly they pay a high 34% tax rate, but that is before all the write offs, when that is applied they pay a paltry 4%. So I see what they are doing there.
Then you have companies using Ireland to screw countries/states out of billions. Or some states that let you incorporate in them while their entire workforce is in another. This to me is the single biggest issue we have right now. Collect the money THEY SAY they are paying... and all the public needs will be satisfied and deficit reduced. But their goal is to bring the whole mother down so corporate gov't can take over, then they can rid the bill of rights, pay less and escape lawsuits and more. They are jelly of China. That is why for decades we wouldn't do business with a commi country because it would be selling out our own workforce, which means selling out ourselves. Surprise! But no, we let or ideals down, sleep with the enemy and now the rich should be richer and factory workers shall live there, with no rights at all. You get killed, sweep'em up, you are now a flesh robot.
Right now big business is sitting on more money then they ever have and it's chocking us. They say it is because of uncertainty, which I don't believe, there are always some uncertaintys, but when you have more money than ever, what's this new founded fear amongst the brave? I think it's more pouting because they aren't getting what they want and they are being dicks about it. This continues, we deserve to fail as a race.
And what the fuck is this Wealth Redistribution lie? I don't see wealthy becoming poor and poor becoming rich. Or is wealth redistribution the new politically correct way of saying "collecting a pay check?". Again it's pouting because they aren't getting everything they want right now and they need to sell fear. It's their only chance right now to get back in total power. Fear.
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| News Comments > Morning Legal Briefs |
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Re: More Big Picture Details |
Feb 27, 2013, 11:48 |
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Creston wrote on Feb 27, 2013, 11:02:
HorrorScope wrote on Feb 27, 2013, 10:34:
How many strikes do you have?
117. The funny thing about it is that
A) My ISP doesn't even bother joining in with it.
B) Even if they did, the proposed "throttled" speed would still be faster than my maximum speed anyway, so I still wouldn't notice anything. 
Not that I download illegal stuff on my connection, because it just takes way too damn long.
Also, that Game of Thrones title is wrong. It really should be "Game of Thrones director realizes that illegal downloads don't matter."
It's not a claim, it's a simple fact.
Creston
I have two boys that dabble some, the one that does the most is moving out this summer. The other, very little and I'll stop that.
The question I have is: How are we alerted? Are we alerted? So if you get a strike do they let me the homeowner know so I can have a Brady family huddle to update everyone, break some fingers? I just don't have a clue how this thing is going to go down and because of that lack of info, I can see anything but this being totally wrong. |
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| News Comments > Guild Wars 2: Flame and Frost - The Gathering Storm Launches |
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Re: More Big Picture Details |
Feb 27, 2013, 11:43 |
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Jivaro wrote on Feb 27, 2013, 11:24:
HorrorScope wrote on Feb 27, 2013, 11:02:
I like the game. But man Anet lost all good will they built up with me during GW1. To me it's like it's not even the same company anymore. They were bought once by NCSoft and their biggest shareholder is Nexon. It just doesn't feel right, the direction they took, to me they turned their backs on their own words too many time already. I cannot trust anything they say on their site, too much is just wrong as if they are clueless.
Can you give a few examples? I have always looked at Anet as perhaps the only sane part of that whole NCSoft family tree. Is there some specific situations you are referring to that I am (probably) oblivious of?
Many things in their manifesto (which I'm positive they'll never do again) have been broken.
#1 is horizontal loot progression promise and now we have vertical. And on top of that calendar controlled vertical with the laurels. Then they just added a gob of ectos to get your ascended earnings in addition to calendar controlled laurels. All from a dev that swore to hell and back that this game will not be vertical and not be a grind. There is a fair argument it's one of the grindiest now.
Diminishing Returns. Does any other mmo even have such a thing? And if you do have it on you because you are working an area too much, why not alert us if we are hitting it? It leaves you wondering... Am I being penalized now? Because loot is crazy stingy in this game.
Things like Fractals were introduced and the only place to get ascended items for months. Which meant a lot of people stopped open world venturing and all became stuck in an instance now going for the best items. Completely against their vision for GW2. Instance Wars 2!
Nov 15. All bosses REALLY will drop loot now... They didn't, not even close. They were called on it and wouldn't quickly fix it, nor even acknowledge. We'll have to see if yesterdays patch fixed that. We had a laugh when we read that as a group.
Open World vs Dungeon difficulty, can something vary more than that. One is brain dead easy, the other is we take all the baddies in the open world and multiply their HP's x25... So unfun, it's punishing. Very few %'wise can run dungeons at level. Most get their level 80's and then run lower leveled dungeons. Whoever deigned/balance these should be pink slipped.
Culling, the more they change it the more you want the original code.
WvWvW, is anything ever going to happen with it?
Accumulating Jan/Feb and now Marches... They are supposed to equal the size of other games expansions. March is going to have to be a killer to live up to that whopper. I'm sure it will fizzle enough.
DE's and their lasting affects live up no where near the manifesto's hype.
I hope that is enough to start with.
The thing is I do like it, but it's sloppy, seemingly unorganized which was everything GW1 wasn't to me. That was tight from day 1.
That said, I still got my money's worth, but I guess I just wanted more. I wanted them to do as they say.
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Feb 27, 2013, 11:02 |
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| I like the game. But man Anet lost all good will they built up with me during GW1. To me it's like it's not even the same company anymore. They were bought once by NCSoft and their biggest shareholder is Nexon. It just doesn't feel right, the direction they took, to me they turned their backs on their own words too many time already. I cannot trust anything they say on their site, too much is just wrong as if they are clueless. |
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| News Comments > Morning Consolidation |
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Feb 26, 2013, 22:16 |
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Julio wrote on Feb 26, 2013, 17:23:
PS3>Xbox 360 this generation
I don't console, but those around me that do, pretty much are unanimous the other way. Live was the must have feature. Or what I like to call AOL 2.0, once they figure that out, they'll run fast from it. |
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| News Comments > Morning Safety Dance |
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Re: More Big Picture Details |
Feb 25, 2013, 10:41 |
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I bet we all got troves of video games... Explain why we haven't gone off the deep end? Discuss.
There are just a lot of things a killer does, that the rest of us do to. |
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| News Comments > Steam Top 10 |
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Feb 24, 2013, 20:15 |
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JohnBirshire wrote on Feb 24, 2013, 18:19:
I loved Skyrim and finished 70% of the content or so. Finished main quest, mages guild, dark brotherhood, and companions. The game got incredibly boring though when you were so powerful you could tear every enemy up in two seconds on hardest difficulty, so didn't get around to finishing imperials vs locals or the thieves guild. Does Dragonborn make the game any more challenging?
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| News Comments > Sunday Legal Briefs |
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Re: More Big Picture Details |
Feb 24, 2013, 18:50 |
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| What happens when 1000 people in the FBI dept tally a total of 6 strikes (by end of next week), are they cut off? How about a company. This has got to be the most "who knows wtf is going on thing" I've seen in a while. What are the rules? |
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| News Comments > Sunday Q&As |
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Re: More Big Picture Details |
Feb 24, 2013, 18:47 |
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The Half Elf wrote on Feb 24, 2013, 15:35:
But how long ago did NWN come out, and please name 1 other engine that has anywhere near the level of modability/editing that NWN 1 had?
Right all Bioware games since NWN's have had miniscule levels with load after load. Kills immersion, even their MMO is made up of tiny maps and load... load... load... load... load...
I am not talking about nothing more than that, so how NWN can be modded isn't on my point anyway, I'll throw out E.S.'s though.
Frosbite is like a reinvention of the company, think of 10 years of being stuck in tiny level hell. |
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Feb 24, 2013, 14:20 |
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| Frostbite to me is the best news to come out in Bioware since BG days. NWN sucked enough because of how tiny the area loads were. |
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| News Comments > Saturday Mobilization |
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Re: More Big Picture Details |
Feb 24, 2013, 14:19 |
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Jeraxle wrote on Feb 24, 2013, 06:37:
It's called natural selection. Let them kill themselves. I only feel bad for the poor bastard that hits them.
Tough fucking crowd here. Not that I think many are actually dying this way, but here's to you never knowing anyone close. |
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| News Comments > Sunday Legal Briefs |
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Re: More Big Picture Details |
Feb 24, 2013, 11:45 |
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Yeah we are going to hear some real humdingers with this 6 strikes thing.
To me it simply reads... "We are cable content providers, we want your internet connections to suck, because it is threatening us". |
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| News Comments > Saturday Mobilization |
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Feb 23, 2013, 22:19 |
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The Half Elf wrote on Feb 23, 2013, 21:24:
People already kill themselves by using a cell phone in places they shouldn't (driving, walking, etc), how much worse is it going to be when they are wearing them?
How many people you know that have died because they were using their cell-phone? Leave out driving, that is banned. Sounds like a bunch of grandma's round here... Time for the plastic bubbles. |
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| News Comments > Saturday Mobilization |
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Feb 23, 2013, 22:17 |
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Cutter wrote on Feb 23, 2013, 20:39:
Even cell phones, the vast majority of people don't even need one
Really? Who is deciding NEED here? You or each of us? Lots of people don't need a lot of things. |
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