In my experience, this only really kicks the hardcore players in the ass. I play sasually, and the various rewards given as time progresses work well to offset the non-pay penalties.
SWTOR does this well. Sign up for a secure key app, there is 100 coins a month. Progressing in levels and achievements in game nets you xp boosts and such. Quest rewards are the same for everyone- and often it is XP or power boosts as well. Spend the coin to pen pay-only areas for a week, go play them that week. if you like it open them again next month. Pop your XP boosts and you play a level game with a subscriber. Or, as you get high level, buy those market items from the auction house for game money. When you are sitting on a couple million with nothing else to spend it on, why bitch as a 10 pack of major XP boosts for 10k? Or a token to open restricted areas for a month for 100k?

I WANT IT!!!!!

Now. But for my Jeep, not the soccer-mom mobile.

We simply hold everyone responsible for their trades. No bailouts, not rescues, no help. You fuck up, YOU burn.

Restore regulation to help keep the inventors of new scams from their short term gains before the general surge crashes that particular market segment. I think a lot fewer major scams would happen if the downside of trading was left intact.

SCADA systems are old, and originally never intended to be secure as they were not internet aware.
Add to that the fact that scada controls are expensive and last nearly forever in many cases- you get a mixed bag of new and old on the same network.

Source: I used to have to deal with SCADA on gas processing plants all over the southwest up to 2008.

you say that like it is a bad thing. Making all these entertainment options easy to use on the TV is an improvement in my book. Fuck cable, tiered plans, and everything that goes with it.

I disagree. Freedom of speech is a two way street. You have every right to say what you will, but you have no right to be shielded from the social repercussions of that speech.

If you want to act like a pariah, you need to accept people treating you like one.

"Dry" -
That word you keep using. I do not think it means what you think it does. -Inigo Montoya
I lived in Orange County as well as Oceanside. Dry is not the term I would use. When the air is so humid you have to chew it, that is wet. My position is relative, I grew up in a desert and lived at high altitudes the rest of the time except for that foray into SoCal.

I tend to packrat hardware. It pays off in the long run. When I want something, I build it. When the clutter starts to grow I will throw parts on EBAY and see what flies. Usually I can get about $10 per part for most, some I get nothing.
I just sold late 90's HP RAID controllers for the NetServer SCO servers, new in the original box. I got $900 each for them. Somebody has an old server running a critical legacy application, when they see working spare parts for it, they snatch them up. Apparently there were more than one for this piece as the bidding was furious on both auctions.

You have clearly never worked for/consulted small businesses. Budget is paramount, and a used server can be the difference between a viable setup and a user's laptop running as a fileserver.

I take sugar free gum. Offer it to the mothers of older children nearby who are in pain. Younger children, I show the obviously new mamma how to help baby pop their ears.

(it's easy, pull gently straight down on the lobes. Baby's crying will take care of the rest.)

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you are welcome.

This is very annoying ting about Prime. I do not use the streaming function because it is frustrating in this way. The shipping savings are worth it, even with the cost raise just announced. If, that is, you do a lot of Amazon buying, which I do.

netflix does 4k if you have the bandwidth. I get great netflix resolution.