Are you smoking something? $US25 million to secure a movie that will pump a very large percentage of close to $US700 million into the local economy, such as the building industry, catering, accommodation, transport and other ancillary areas is a damned good deal. Other countries were willing to pay a lot more, but it is clear that Warners and especially PJ wanted the movie filmed in NZ if at all possible. I just hope that Australian fuckhead Simon Whipp lives up to his promise and doesn't try and fuck around with the movie or he will have 4 million pissed off Kiwi's after his blood. the Aussie actors union have fucked up their industry and now it seems they were contemplating the same thing in NZ. An attempt by the US actors unions to try and drive the movie industry back to the US after FAG...sorry,. I mean SAG screwed up their own industry.

he will find that he will get a cricket bat to the face if he tries it in the UK, Australia, New Zealand or any other country that is more sensibly governed that the US.

I am hoping this will cause his whole media empire to crash and burn. That way we won't have to put up with his demeted, corrupt, senile twist on the news.

Chavez is just another tinpot dictator with a really small penis who doesn't like it when people don't bow down and kiss his ass. The sooner the people step up and bitchslap the little wanker the better.

I will stick with my 17 year old Holden (local GM owned car maker) with it's mechanical accelerator. That way I don't have to peel my face of the back of a truck due to a shitty piece of Jap crap.

Amazon can kiss my fat, hairy, unwiped ass in that case. I won't be buying that piece of crap if that is how Amazon are going to fuck people living outside the US.

give them a right old anal fisting, yet again. What a surprise.

Jobsientology doesn't give a flying fuck about their iPhone end customers. The only ones they care about are the ones lining their pockets year on end through the "exclusivity" scam. Buying an iPhone is the equivalent of handing Jobsientology a signed blank check and a signed document reading "I hearby agree to bend over, spread my ass cheeks as wide asd possible and consent to Apple jamming ever larger and ever rougher objects up my ass and I will scream "Thank You Oh High And Mighty Saviour Steven Jobs" each time until my throat is hoarse".

Aby is the goth computer geek chick from NCIS

We would be comepletely fucked, especially if Macro$lut, crApple and other malevolent beheamouths such as them manage to get their greedy, rapacious, self absorbede snouts in that particular trough.

Not when it comes to Corporate America and their victims^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hcustomers.

It seems that in the USA the corporates can just bend you right over and fist fuck you till they have extracted all they can then just toss you away like yesterdays garbage.

So what is Blizzard's excuse then?

the "make your way to EBay, flog off the Ford and buy a decent car." option?

Almost the same here. At work they are on a "save money" drive sao I shut the computer down at night to keep the idiot beancounters happy (thankfully no PHB's around here). My XP gaming box and the Linux box in my lounge and the laptop in my bedroom rarely get rebooted.

Blizzard does not have a clue about customer relations. I play Eve Online and there are a number of player developed applications such as Evemon and Eve Fitting Tool which not only have the name of the game in their title but make use of an API system developed by CCP that allows these apps to connect to the servers and get information such as currently training skills, assets and their locations, the status of research or ship, module or ammunition building jobs, etc. CCP also release a database which contains information on all the ships, modules, etc so that people that create the player made apps can have the correct information for the modules and ships, such as their bonuses, etc. The whole idea is to work with your player base rather than be a bunch of whiny bitches like Blizzard. Players will always try to create apps based around their MMOG. Blizzard should wake up to this and work with their player base (although I bet most of the "players" are nothing more than gold farmers), instead of against it.

So I guess you didn't bother asking for help in the appropirately named "Help" channel or in the corp chat channels. Eve Online players will help each other when they first start out. Also there are lots of websites, most of which are accessible through the Eve Online forums, which, incidentally, also contain lots of help if you look.