Happy Birthday, Chief!

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My big problem is with employers doing credit checks before hiring someone. Many times it gets people into vicious cycles that they can't escape. You loose your job, so you can't pay your bills, so your credit goes down and then you can't get a job, to pay your bills, because you have a bad credit. I feel that that three digit number has way too much control over our lives. It's scary to think that up to a few decades or so ago, you weren't event allowed to check on your credit score or know what was dragging it down.

I can see this in some circumstances, but I know it also serves a useful purpose in others. For example, a credit check is step 1 of obtaining a government (DOD/DOE) security clearance. The reasoning behind this is that foreign or nefarious entities could use this as a leveraging tool against you to acquire top secret information. "Bad credit? Hey, we'll give you LOTS of money if you give us this measly bit of information." I would imagine it would be a similar case with any other company with proprietary secrets (i.e. the recipe for Coca-Cola). Even then, though, that's why they have a full investigation process to your background and take many things into account before approving or denying. I've known of people who had bad (maybe not awful, but certainly not stellar either) credit to get their clearance. I would hope that companies that do the same thing would at least have a reason for running a credit check and having enough checks and balances in place to reasonably deny an otherwise qualified person employment.

Happy Birthday...it's time for your spankings!

Happy Birthday Nick!!

Our Fleet Admiral has a birthday today. Happy Birthday Nick!

My big problem is with employers doing credit checks before hiring someone. Many times it gets people into vicious cycles that they can't escape. You loose your job, so you can't pay your bills, so your credit goes down and then you can't get a job, to pay your bills, because you have a bad credit. I feel that that three digit number has way too much control over our lives. It's scary to think that up to a few decades or so ago, you weren't event allowed to check on your credit score or know what was dragging it down.

IDK I'm going with the 5 year or the LEO the contract roller derby would be awesome.

1. I attended UNM Emergency Medical Services Academy
2. It's disgusting but I can belch the ABCs
3. I've dated a former model

I personally LOVE the Temeraire series by Naomi Novik.

Its takes place during the Napoleonic wars. Everything is the same as history tells us except there is a pretty significant twist. Dragons exist, they talk, and they serve as the waring nation's "air force". There are 6 books so far, and I think there are going to be several more.

I highly recommend them, especially if you are an animal person.

Izzy

Thanks so much for all the recommendations. There are several suggestions you all made that I plan on pursuing as well. And also you inspired some fun memories, like the mention of Robert Asprin. I was a huge fan of the Myth series back in the day. That thought lead to the fun I had with the Thieves World and Wild Cards collaborative novels. Ah, nostalgia. I wonder if there are series like that anymore.

I just bought: '1Q84' by Haruki Murakami. I'm excited because I've really enjoyed some of his other books.

The reviews for book 4 and 5 of the Game of Thrones Series are pretty meh, so I am avoiding that for now even though I absolutely loved the first 3.

I could also go for a neuromancer-ish novel at the moment. Maybe I'll check in on his more recent books.

Oh, and I downloaded the two Thomas Hardy books since they are free! Great review Qiqjoe!

I still would enjoy a well written queer sci-fi or fantasy novel if there was one to be found.

Perhaps all hope is not lost:

Senators ask feds to probe Facebook log-in requests


"Employers have no right to ask job applicants for their house keys or to read their diaries -- why should they be able to ask them for their Facebook passwords and gain unwarranted access to a trove of private information about what we like, what messages we send to people, or who we are friends with?" added Schumer (Charles Schumer D-N.Y.)

Episode 564 - Voyager - "Counterpoint" - 12/16/1998

http://www.allstepisodes.com/megvid.php?n=4510

While passing through Devore space, Voyager is routinely searched for telepaths.

Enjoy!

I,C,G.

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Playing with myself has never felt better (that statement came out wrong, maybe I'll come back and edit it later ;) ).

I dont have anything to contribute, but just in case he choosed to try editing that away. B)

Woobies guessing cat name Neville is lie
Errusk middle name riker I think is lie
Nicholas guessing the kentucky is a lie
Varel gonna guess that you are scared to 'perform'
Dtronski I think you dont have 2 cute kittens

Me
1) My longest lasting relationship was 5 years.
2) I was offered a contarct to do roller derby professionally.
3) I have dated LEO's (aka Law Enforcement Officers) from state, county, city and federal bureaus.

Oh some of my guesess missed the other pages and now I see folks revealing ignore me I was being a dingleberry.

Hi all I am fairly new so havent seen the dramatic attendence drop some have mentioned. The one thing I can comment on is the lack of yapping it up in our general kos (republic side channel).

I purposely started playing my repub account more because of that, but honestly it has been kinda dead in typed chat of late. I still got my empire account and a couple 50's and crafting hoard on that side which I have been ignoring, but it was mostly because I found the republic side to be doing more datacron runs etc with romyta et al.

An perhaps becasue I havent been playing my empire 50's of late I am missing out there .. lol .. decisions decisions .. if only they let us just have one GIANT guild no matter which side, hmm like say eq2 ... come on bioware dont force friend separation .. I mean they give us 8 slots per account that is only technically one of each type for one side .. I get the whole feel of imp vs pub ... but its hard for guild folks to operate in a friendly way that way .. and friends are what sells MMO's.

Sing it, sister!

Coming from a fairly diverse background in MMO's I simply cannot understand why we cannot have text macros in this game. It seems the burden is on the player community to ask for a simple implementation that we are all accustomed to using or reading .. (some wills say OMG it will start fleet spamming of items to sell), but what it really will accomplish is an easier way to PVP, do fp's, datacron runs etc.

With all this in mind here is a proposal I want to try to get started into the weekly Q&A submissions hoping it will be addressed. Feel free to copy, paraphrase etc. I searched but have not seen this issue answered if it has been please add a link to this post so I don't feel so silly.

Thanks

Proposed Q&A question
One of the most annoying things in pvp or flashpoints or other ops type situations is the inability to have macros in a text form to allow the ease of communication between players. I have read the game devs have no intention of implementing this but I ask you to reconsider; it is critical in a mmo so we dont have to constantly repeat things, or can have situational macros when in pvp groups with newer players. Its almost essential for many RP events for those types of servers as well.

Now on a wishlist would be to be like RIFT where I can chain together some instant actions, or like the old MUD days where I could write a script to cast, pause etc but I know that is shooting for the moon.
The reality is we need at least text based macros in this game for group, ops, fp and guild.

Thanks
CJ

B, G, J

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I know nothing of the US government but I always think laws for addictive chemicals are necessary not to protect the drug user from bad side effects but rather what that drug user then goes on to do in order to obtain the money he needs.

Break into houses? Steal? Muggings? Murders? .. I don't have statistics to back this up but I bet a lot of the crimes committed against the general public are by people on drugs, people who have gotten themselves into trouble and just "needed the money".

Now there's a lot of people who will work, pay for their drugs legally and consider themselves not at fault for a "big brother" society that prevents them from doing what they want. What they often don't realise though is that the drug trade only happens because people will buy it, supply and demand. You (the royal you, not you directly Kasper lol) may think you're in control but the guy waiting in line behind you is down to his last "dollar".

Addictive drugs are bad news and I think laws should be much stricter in all countries. Drug testing at job interviews may be a good deterant but then people with drugs problems are out of work and we're back to crime again.

It's a big web of mess and it's much easier if we didn't have it as a problem.

Statistics show that law enforcement in the US puts a small dent in the drug trade here. I agree with you that no good can come from using drugs. But, making them illegal and then trying to enforce those laws hasn't been very effective in the US.

In my opinion, they all should be legalized by the US government, regulated by the FDA and promoted by US drug manufacturers. So many other drugs have been kept out of the US by that exact process.

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Let me expand my response a bit further. I think this whole "war on drugs" thing is stupid. If someone wants to inject their veins with something that was created with household cleaners products in a bathtub (read: crystal meth) that's their choice. Or any other chemical, natural or man-made for that matter. I think the drug laws need to be seriously over-hauled like much of the US government.

I know nothing of the US government but I always think laws for addictive chemicals are necessary not to protect the drug user from bad side effects but rather what that drug user then goes on to do in order to obtain the money he needs.

Break into houses? Steal? Muggings? Murders? .. I don't have statistics to back this up but I bet a lot of the crimes committed against the general public are by people on drugs, people who have gotten themselves into trouble and just "needed the money".

Now there's a lot of people who will work, pay for their drugs legally and consider themselves not at fault for a "big brother" society that prevents them from doing what they want. What they often don't realise though is that the drug trade only happens because people will buy it, supply and demand. You (the royal you, not you directly Kasper lol) may think you're in control but the guy waiting in line behind you is down to his last "dollar".

Addictive drugs are bad news and I think laws should be much stricter in all countries. Drug testing at job interviews may be a good deterant but then people with drugs problems are out of work and we're back to crime again.

It's a big web of mess and it's much easier if we didn't have it as a problem.