I hope you mean 1.25x. Getting paid a quarter of your normal salary to be a 24h slave is a shit deal.

This isn't the first time I've heard the "don't unsubscribe" wisdom. It's logical but doesn't reflect reality.

At my last job, I was asked frequently about the volume of spam. I got less than almost anyone else in the office despite having one of the most widely publicized email addresses. Why? Because I unsubscribed whenever I got something. When I was able to convince others to unsubscribe, they saw drastic decreases in spam.

This theory relies on the idea that spammers stop spamming people they don't get a reply from, and that's lunacy. The only time they give up on an address is if the email is rejected or if they cease operations. That being the case, there's no harm in trying to unsubscribe.

To address the initial question, if this company is so notorious why aren't they blocked at the SMTP server? Your IT people ought to be able to blacklist them with very little effort.

a few examples...

DarkPlaces
Tenebrae
ioquake3
World of Padman
OpenArena
Tremulous
Space trader
Smoking guns
Urban terror (used to be a Q3 mod but made standalone with the source release)

Hinduist, not Buddhist

I, _____, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God.

What's a soldier to do when those two statements are in conflict with each other? Personally, I'm glad he chose the first. Few of us would have the courage.

Last time I got to name a large quantity of servers, I named them all after WW2 planes (mustang, lightning, zero, typhoon, tempest, spitfire, etc). My manager immediately made me change them all to (app01, app02, app03...) which made me wonder why he let me name them in the first place.

At home all my machines have been named after Starcraft units: lurker, raven, overlord, overseer, goliath, baneling, interceptor...

Don't forget the infamous, "Federal agents raid gun shop, find weapons".

...with Watchmen wasn't the ending. I think they should have kept the fake alien invasion and just not have used the giant candy space squid. My main gripe was how much they cut or rushed so they could squeeze in action scenes. I felt like they lost the feel of the story in the process.

Are they ill-tempered?

Here ya go

Maybe he should change it to a fox that eats roosters while being pursued through a maze by a farmer and family. He can call it Cock Gobbler.

I'm not comfortable with the idea that basic geometric shapes can be copyrighted. I don't know if they can be or not, but they sure as hell shouldn't be. At least Mrs PacMan has a bow and some lipstick... PacMan is just a yellow circle.

I thought it was bullshit that Bizarre Creations enacted a takedown of Grid Wars a few years back, for example. The gameplay of both Geometry Wars and Grid Wars was done 25 years ago in Robotron and the "characters" are all basic geometric shapes. Grid Wars had a different (and superior) ruleset, so what exactly where they violating?

Where do you people keep coming up with these numbers? I think someone above said there was a $5,000 premium on the TDI.

http://www.vw.com/jetta/compare/en/us/

Looking at that comparison, it's quite obvious that the TDI is slightly cheaper than it's most-similar gasoline-powered trim, the SEL. Even if you add the 3 options to bring them completely even, the TDI is still less than $1,000 over the SEL.

Actually, Pennsylvania is a real state; you're thinking of Wyoming (a Cheyenne word meaning 'dark void').

Ignoring that, I pretty much agree with you.