"Shoot a little high, you might be able to sever that spinal cord. A little to each side and low, maybe you’ll put the skeleton on the ground and incapacitated. A direct hit will probably do both, leaving the skeleton to only crawl toward you, allowing you time to escape. Or, I suppose, it could ride C3P0-on-Chewbacca style on another skeleton. Regardless, it’s one less coming after you under its own unholy power."
Importantz informationz. U must reed. Nao.
Well, if I was ANet and planning to make changes to the game that may alienate the passionate fans, then obviously I would try to get the money from those fanboys before telling anybody about those changes. :devil:And I'm quite sure they still remember what happened when they talked about Transmutationstones for the first time...
If I could cancel, I would. But I can't, since I bought directly from ArenaNet.
If you're happy with Guild Wars 2 and where it's going, good for you. Me, I now know better than to trust any game studio again.
On Friday, June 15, 2012, attorney Charles Carreon passed from mundane short-term internet notoriety into a sort of legal cartoon-supervillainy.
He transcended typical internet infamy when he filed a federal lawsuit last Friday in the United Sates District Court for the Northern District of California in Oakland. He belonged to the ages the moment he filed that lawsuit not only against Matthew Inman, proprietor of The Oatmeal, but also against IndieGoGo Inc., the company that hosted Inman's ridiculously effective fundraiser for the National Wildlife Federation and the American Cancer Society.
But that level of censorious litigiousness was not enough for Charles Carreon. He sought something more. And so, on that same Friday, Charles Carreon also sued the National Wildlife Federation and the American Cancer Society, the beneficiaries of Matthew Inman's fundraiser.
Yes. Charles Carreon, butthurt that someone had leveraged his douchebaggery into almost two hundred thousand dollars of donations to two worthy charities, sued the charities.
LOL! I'm going back and forth between 'you have got to be kidding me' and 'epic lulz!' XD
Also, the letter The Oatmeal's lawyer wrote to Carreon is worth reading. Now there's a proper - and classy - lawyer. XD
Ok, so time to lick our wounds, get back on the horse, and find a new job. At least we stuck it out and won't have to pay back our relocation costs according to the Chief Operating Officer. Wrong! On June 1st, we get a letter from Atlas Van Lines with 10 days to pay our overdue moving bill of a sizeable amount. Six months has gone by since our move. There was no notice at any point that this had not been paid and now we get a bill with 10 days to pay. Why now? Haven't they had 6 months to collect this? Didn't the company say we would be let out of our contract since they folded? Couldn't they have given us a heads up at any point before we were broke and our savings gone to feed our children? After all, a heads up on this might have alerted us to a problem with 38 Studios before we got to this point. Well on one page in a series, of approximately 45, we signed a document stating in tiny print that we would be responsible if the company does not pay. I don't know if most people are aware, but moving with three kids, a dog, and a cat from one coast to another is a bit tiring and this document was of course presented on the day our stuff arrived in Rhode Island, which was chaos.
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This is heartbreaking.
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From the Nugboy's reaction though, this pie is almost orgasmically good if you're a chocoholic. I'm not, but the Nugboy is. Lol. The sounds he was making! XD
To a non-chocoholic, this pie is like a velvety cross between a dark chocolate mousse and a ganache. It's denser than the former, and much fluffier than the latter. In terms of chocolatiness, it falls somewhere in the middle. It's the kind of pie that goes, 'HAI! I R CHOCOLATE! CHOCOCOCOOCCOHOLATE CHOCOLATE WHEEEEEEEEEEEE!' And then raspberry tugs on it and goes, 'Calm down you. Hai. I r Raspberry!'
Also needs pre-made chocolate pie-crust (or bake your own if you can bake lol), and some raspberry jam to spread on top of the chocolate coating. Fresh raspberries beaten to a juicy pulp would probably be nicer, but alas, there were no raspberries available to assault when I made this pie.
Chocolate coating is made from Nugget's Haxx Chocolate Sauce for Dummies.
Super Easy No-Bake Raspberry & Chocolate-Coated Chocolate Pie
4 portions of sweetened condensed milk (1 can = 4 portions)
4 portions of cream (whipped to stiff peaks)
2 portions of unsweetened chocolate (melted.You can add more or less depending on how much chocolatey you like.)
1 portion of lemon juice (freshly squeezed)
Omitting the whipped cream will get you something almost identical to a ganache. So if you want to make a pie out of that instead (that can travel decently without going splooooog), you can. However, it'll be much MUCH denser and more intensely chocolatey, and not at all fluffy like a fluffy thing being fluffy in the night.
FunnyJunk's reaction - WE WILL STOP THIS FUNDRAISER IF WE DON'T GET THE MONEY NO ONE DOES!
O.O
Waow.
Learn anything about anything under the sun. ZOMG SQUEE!
Abstract:
Numerous websites have implemented the Facebook Like button to let Facebook members share their interests, therewith promoting websites or news items. It is, thus, an important business tool for content providers. However, this article shows that the tool is also used to place cookies on the user’s computer, regardless whether a user actually uses the button when visiting a website. As an alternative business model this allows Facebook to track and trace users and to process their data. It appears that non-Facebook members can also be traced via the Like button. This means that Facebook’s tentacles reach far beyond their own platform and members. Due to the extensive web coverage with Like buttons, Facebook has a potential connection with all web users. Web activity can be linked to individual accounts or a separate data set can be created for individuals who are not (yet) a Facebook member. The hidden collection of data on browsing behavior and the creation of individual data sets has implications for the privacy of individuals. This article discusses privacy issues arising from third party cookie use and connectivity of web activity and devices, using the technical process behind the Facebook Like button as an example.Number of Pages in PDF File: 10
Keywords: Facebook, Like button, Cookies, Profiling, privacy, Data protection
JEL Classification: K00, K10, K30
working papers series
From the PDF...
"A (small but important) difference with the Like button is that there can at least be supposed to be some link to Twitter, because the web user has visited this web site. For Facebook, this is not necessary at all. This implies that individuals who consciously choose not to participate in Facebook are still tracked and traced by Facebook. When someone does not connect to Facebook himself, Facebook makes the connection."
"Another important difference is that Facebook can connect the browsing behaviour to member accounts. These accounts are, usually, quite rich concerning disclosed information, but the Like button as exploited by Facebook makes that far more information is collected about individual members then the information disclosed on the personal profile page. Thus, people who have an account, but do not want to disclose that much information are still profiled more extensively. Their browsing behavior discloses much information concerning personal interests, and this information can also be collected by Facebook and connected to the individual account. In the end, consciousness in disclosing information, either by not participating on Facebook or by very limited disclosure of personal information, is not sufficient to escape Facebook’s tentacles."
"That data are transferred even when the button is not clicked upon is difficult to imagine for the ordinary web user. In addition, web users who have no connection with Facebook at all do certainly not expect to have their data transferred to this social network site. As a result, individuals who consciously choose not to participate in the social network site are still connected to this web site."
Oh, and by the way, clearing your cookies doesn't work. Just go read it. XD
This pie is like having a HUGE Reese's Peanut Butter Cup, only it's a fluffy, creamy pie that has all the nomminess of peanut butter without any of the stickiness. The chocolate coating is thin, soft, and delicate - so it's easy to cut through neatly, even without a heated knife. Having been a 'wallet chef' (i.e. I use my wallet to make people make me food) for years, I am delighted to give this pie of doom my highest wallet chef praise: "I would happily pay for this."
Sweetness level is just right - it's not a super-sweet pie - and the filling only needs needs 4 ingredients. I used a pre-made pie-crust because I have a) no oven, b) no idea how to bake anything.
Chocolate coating is made from Nugget's Haxx Chocolate Sauce for Dummies, and is easy peasy lazy mode as well.
Giant Peanut Butter Cup Pie
4 portions of sweetened condensed milk (1 can = 4 portions)
4 portions of cream (whipped to stiff peaks)
2 portions of peanut butter (melted)
1 portion of lemon juice (freshly squeezed)
Note:
The stoopid cream has to be hand-whipped, because that apparently makes the whole thing hold up better. Aerosol whipped cream will NOT work, your pie will ooze and sludge and never solidify. On the bright side, if you DO choose to use aerosol whipped cream, you can then stick the mixture in the freezer, where it will NOT freeze solid, and tell everyone you made soft-serve icecream. XD
