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Comment Re:Uh....May Fools Day? (Score 0) 213

Do you work for Paizo or something? They took the 3.5 rules and reprinted and sold them with very minor adjustments. The rules have to be open as far as I am aware because WotC unusually made the Open Game Licence where they open sourced their base rules, and so derivative works need to follow suit, which is why PF books say OGL on them. That people even buy Pathfinder is amazing to me. I am in a Pathfinder game on Thursdays and the difference from 3.5 is barely noticeable. In another group I'm playing the d100 Space Marine game this afternoon for the first time, though this group switches between 4e, nWoD and stuff like Dark Heresy, but they don't see the point in Pathinder, as they have all the 3.5 books, so why rebuy them with another company?

Are WotC occasionally a nasty company? Yes, they need to please their Hasbro overlords or they will be cut in to oblivion. Paizo SHOULD put more work in to their adventures, as they already put minimal work in to the ruleset and made a bunch of cash from it.

But seriously, do you work for them, with a post like this?

Comment Re:Why didn't they unlike the posts... (Score 2) 214

The sheriff was the defendant. The plaintiffs intended to uses the likes as evidence that the defendant fired them for protected speech. The judge said that the likes were not protected speech, which infers that if he did fire them for that then it was legitimate, meaning the case did not need to continue.

I am not a lawyer, but that's what I took from TFA.

Submission + - Megaupload shut down by US government (nymag.com)

betterunixthanunix writes: Just a day after mass online protests over SOPA and PIPA, the popular firesharing website Megaupload has been shut down by the Department of Justice. Claiming that the site was facilitating widespread copyright infringement and money laundering, the FBI arrested several people involved with the website and shut the website down. The DOJ's press release is available here:

http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2012/January/12-crm-074.html

Submission + - Megaupload.com Shut down by Feds (google.com)

Crewdawg writes: Just a day after protests regarding SOPA and PIPA the Justice Department unsealed an indictment against Megaupload.com and at least 6 defendants. As of now Megaupload appears to be down.

Comment Iran has its own Dolphins too (Score 1) 204

Iran bought dolphins from Ukraine in 2000.
Weren't dolphins also deployed in 2003? I recall a story about them being loosed in the sea and then just swimming off to freedom, but as I'm having trouble finding links to any such story maybe it is misremebered.
From the TFA I think this is interesting

Former Admiral KEATING: They are astounding in their ability to detect underwater objects.
NPR's TOM BOWMAN: Dolphins were sent to the Persian Gulf as part of the American invasion force in Iraq.
KEATING: I'd rather not talk about whether we used them or not. They were present in theater.
BOWMAN: But you can't say whether you used them or not.
KEATING: I'd rather not.

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