Comment Re:Let's see if I get this right... (Score 1) 133
Troll, eh? I guess some people will just never get sarcasm.
They applied for a permit to get a roof deck; and were asked straight out for a bribe to make it happen, when they refused.... so was their permit. This shit goes on everywhere.
Because it goes on where you are? Provincialism fallacy much?
Remember back when you were 14, what you understood as the Internet was an entirely different thing.
When I was fourteen, there was no such thing as "the Internet", you insensitive clod.
It is absolutely racist to argue that this or that trait gives this or that group an "unfair" in advantage in this or that pursuit.
The police, who wants to fight piracy which is claimed to be happening by the corporations, go bust servers with neither warrants nor court orders. What exactly are making these claims legit enough to skip due process? Or is due process some sort of privilege that we shouldn't expect them in the first place?
Due process? Who do you think you are? Some citizen with some kind of rights? You are our customers, and you will take what we give you, and like it.
Warmest Regards,
Your Corporate Overlords
These sort of things are legal now. Corporations are people, and people have free speech, and spending money is speech.
More fundamental than that, this is an example of the free market at work. The natural monopolies are "free" to do anything they fucking want to make sure that their monopoly is protected. So shut up all you whining communists. This is a great day for American capitalism. U-S-A! U-S-A! U-S-A!
East Germany and the Soviet Union really bought into the idea of Socialism: the state owned everything. Private property was outlawed. You could go to jail for making a profit.
The East Germans were so committed to the idea that the state owned everything that they believed they had a right to build an enormous wall to keep the governments property (people) from escaping to the West.
[citation needed]
On the flip side, how many hours were wasted the could have been put to better use?
Assuming that one does not count creativity and the cultivation of it's associated skills as "wasted", I am going to say that zero hours were wasted. You don't really understand what's involved in a real RPG, do you.
1,000 out of 4,000,000 tickets makes a 0.025% error rate. That's a perfectly acceptable margin of error.
You need to discriminate between positive and negative error rates in situations like this.
And you need to factor in the time frame, dumbass.
I tell them to turn to the study of mathematics, for it is only there that they might escape the lusts of the flesh. -- Thomas Mann, "The Magic Mountain"
