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And, oddly enough, in some coins.

As an aside, it turns out some folks are allergic to nickel, and can get dermatitis from handling coins. Who knew?
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Now that is sig-worthy. +rep for you. Oh, wait...

Personally, I couldn't agree more. I never said *I* would risk my own IP here. But then, architectural plans don't really translate to this environment so I really have nothing to risk.

Exactly. If an established author comes up with a character concept on CoX, then ended up wanting to write about said character, that could be a lot more 'thorny' from a legal standpoint.

Not to mention that when your work is to write creatively, sometimes you don't want to be creative in your 'hobby time'.

Companies write EULAs like this one mainly to protect themselves. In NCSoft's case, it helps them defend lawsuits like the Marvel one. While it might seem to let them take ownership of a character, in reality using it that way would be far too expensive. Would NCSoft really want to spend millions to gain the property rights to, for instance, Harry Dresden? It's just not something that'd be profitable for them in the end.

I just got a 'Heavy Rock' temp power the other day. Still one use, just like the regular 'Rock' power, but with higher base damage.

Talk about a "WTF?" moment...

Whoa, Cimerora and the ITF has been online for two years? Wow, where *has* the time gone?
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Yeah, that's pretty much been my experience as well. Just thought I'd see if it'd gotten any less ... problematic.

Been playing 42 months or so, and my main is -> <- that close to 50. So no, haven't deleted a 50 - I'd have to *have* a 50 first...

Hmm, never thought of that! Learn something new, etc.

I find myself using the auto-complete feature liberally in both instances. Hunting groups is great for newer players to see the zones, but after 3+ years 'Defeat 30 warwolves' and so on draws an immediate auto-complete from me.

Shouldn't let you have two accounts with the same user/pw combo. I think you're going to have to get with Customer Support to straighten this out, but they should be able to fix it for you easily as it happens all the time. Yes, I did the same thing once upon a time.

Wow, thanks for that link! Dig the pics of Maynard Ferguson as a young buck hanging out in the trumpet section.

Hey, you left out the problem with the Dark Defender. What was their story?
It's nice to see a post that owns up and apologizes without blasting others, and without 'woe is me' dramatics. For the record, obviously I wasn't on that team but it seems from here that you were not at the top of this particular problem-causing totem pole.

Anyway, sounds as though at least you learned something from the experience, and that's never a bad thing.

EDIT: I'm being light-hearted (which is tough for a dinosaur like me ) and I hope that's obvious, but if it isn't, I'm not implying that Katie V *was* at or even near the top of the proverbial totem pole. When I reread my post I thought it could possibly be taken that way.

It's gonna depend upon the manufacturer. Most of them will use something reasonably available since it's cheaper for them. Sometimes it'll be a stock drive but you'll have to reuse the little plastic piece on the front since it's shaped to fit the contours of the specific laptop case design.

Is it still under warranty? I'd start by calling customer support for that laptop and see if they have a parts 'guy'. They may be willing to ship you a new drive and let you install it. Some manufacturers would freak out about that, others will be OK with it.

My newest buzzkill - actually *agreeing* with graystar about something. I think something just died inside.

I like my TA/A *far* more on a team. After I lay down debuffs, the mobs are dropping so fast I barely have to shoot damaging arrows, so I don't much miss the damage buff.

While I completely agree with you, I must point out that you've just described a large percentage of today's public.
FYI, existing cable/satellite customers can sometimes get new customer rates. The amount of whining, kvetching, and asking for the manager will vary widely. I recently did this with my cable company and lowered my bill considerably.

Of course it may have helped that I'd just been laid off. They were very understanding and helpful.

Cell phone companies are another matter, since most folks probably bought into a long-term contract when they started their service, so there is much less incentive for their carrier to 'deal'.
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