It is, as it never overestimates the real cost.

Totally disproportionate actions like this are the reason hackers are classified as terrorists.

You're a bit late: http://www.thesixthaxis.com/2011/08/08/london-riots-blame-grand-theft-auto/

That's a redundant statement. You could just say "That's a redundant statement."

Sometimes, when it's quiet, I can still hear the monkeys.

N1 has had constant OTA updates since it was launched - in fact, it was updated to 2.3.4 about two weeks ago.
NS, exactly the same, some times getting releases some weeks before N1.

So... did you just not bother looking for it, or are you intentionally spreading FUD?

Not just on T-Mobile, on any carrier. The carrier doesn't provide the updates, google does.

Yep, I know: no, they didn't allow it.

“No, unfortunately we don’t do that. The whole game is built around playtesting, which extends to the hardware and how people use it. We have people internally who played on the PS3 – we use it all the time – and we constantly iterated it.”

Also,

  "Luckily, Portal 2's not a super twitchy, complicated game, so we just focused on making a comfortable controller experience"

Of course not, given that humans didn't evolve from monkeys. The split happened around the Haplorrhini, if you are thinking about New World Monkeys, or the Catarrhini, if you are thinking about Old World Monkeys. The resulting branch, Hominoidae, then split into the Hominidae and the branches that would end up being the gibbon, situation repeated with the Homininae and the orangutan branches, Hominini and the gorillas, Hominina and the chimpanzees, and after that it's continue producing different competing branches, eventually leading to the genus called Homo. Eventually, we have the Homo sapiens, which is the only species of the genus Homo that survived.

All of this, and a ton more that I skipped, is well documented in the fossil record. Sometimes I just can't decide if people spewing the "BUT WHERE ARE THE FOSSILS?!?!?!?!!!!!111" question are knowingly lying about their ignorance, or are just totally blind to anyone saying "RIGHT THERE".

But of course, we'll never find the fossils of creatures somewhere between monkeys and humans, which is what you asked for. So this time, I'll go with ignorance.

I was *this* close to spitting my tea all over the keyboard. An that's not a euphemism.

The fact that you considered that to be a possible response by North Korea says more about you than it says about North Korea.

    To be fair, and speaking from experience, this is usually a matter of common policy when it comes to call center. And it's not a US-only problem, or a problem just with outsourced services. I have worked in call centers located in several countries, and I know for a fact that the people at the phone very strong guidelines about what they can and cannot do: this includes deviating from the script. As a matter of fact, deviating from the script can and WILL get you fired if anyone learns about it (and with random call screening, this is a constant possibility).

    A very similar thing happens when you ask for a supervisor: they either ask their supervisor, who tells them to go away and not bother them with this kind of shit, or they actually risk being fired for not solving the "problem" of someone asking for a supervisor without actually talking to one.

    And on top of it, other common issues mentioned like "can't transfer you" or "can't tell you my name" are ALSO policy that can get them fired if they don't do it. I've known plenty of people that would have loved to be able to help the customer more, but they're not allowed to, by company policy.

    Customer support workers are some of the most overworked, stressed out and badly treated people in the service industry, and while there are incompetent and rude people amongst them, don't assign to incompetence what can be explained by pure corporation greed: Their job is not to solve your problem, but instead to answer as many calls as possible. That's what they're paid for. That's what the company wants them to do, and that's what they have to do to do their job.

    So next time you find that someone won't help you outside their script, or won't tell you his/her name, or won't transfer you, complain to the company, not the worker. The worker is as powerless as you are.

"People on the side of The People always ended up disappointed, in any case. They found that The People tended not to be grateful or appreciative or forward-thinking or obedient. The People tended to be small-minded and conservative and not very clever and were even distrustful of cleverness."

Terry Pratchett, Night Watch

"Prey" was also easily activated in Steam. I don't even know where my DVD/manual is anymore.

13 667 dangerous alien crimonals?