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Commented on Games Workshop declares war on best customers. Again.
This, and other acts of stupidity such as this, is why I do not give them my money. Their entire business model is based on maximizing customer cash drain without totally bankrupting the individual hobbyist. Kind of like the board...
Commented on Trailer for Collapse, a documentary about coming global meltdown
So when is this supposed to happen? 2012? I had no idea the Myans were such expert geophysicists and petroleum engineers. Seriously, way too many Chicken Littles, all warning me about the rain of acorns about to strike. I've hit...
Commented on Video tour through the history of SFX
Nice, but one glaring omission kills it: The big gap between Mary Popins and Star Wars where 2001 should be. The effects at the time for 2001 were light years beyond anything that had been done previously. Many of those...
Commented on The death of "locational privacy"
Rule #3 - If you can be found, you can be controlled....
Commented on Piranha in Indiana
"(Indiana Department of Natural Resources biologist Dean Zimmerman) expects this is an isolated case, probably of someone dumping their pet in the river." You hope......
Commented on TIME on unsustainable farming practices
It would be nice if we all lived in harmony with Mother Earth, but considering the people I've been seeing on the TV at the Townhall Meetings, I have absolutely no confidence that human kind will change it's ways. The...
Commented on Mission Control: ambient music and NASA audio
BEEP! Frakkin' awesome! BEEP!...
Commented on Cambridge study: DRM turns users into pirates
http://xkcd.com/488/...
Commented on Bus driver texting at wheel. What happens next?
More fun with San Antonio's public transit drivers: http://www.woai.com/mediacenter/local.aspx?videoid=686914@video.woai.com&navCatId=14...
Commented on Power company plans first orbital solar power satellite
About damn time!...
Commented on It Has Begun: Time Warner Cable to put bandwidth cap on home internet (40GB!)
@#13 - San Antonio does not have FiOS yet, but it does have Uverse. As soon as Uverse was available for me I dropped Time Warner and never looked back. Uverse is very nice....
Commented on Nom Nom Nom: The Bunny Song.
So is there an opposite of the 'unicorn chaser'? Something angry and bitter that will wash all this sugar and cuteness from my tortured mind? Please help!...
Commented on The Big Takeover: A Must-Read from Rolling Stone's Matt Taibbi
I give up. I really don't care anymore. Between this, and the destruction of our biosphere at our own hands, I'm seriously thinking about leaving this damned little planet. The only thing keeping me from exercising my '9mm Opt Out'...
Commented on Vaio P finishing and detailing kit
And I thought I was special when Apple gave me a black microfiber cloth with an embossed Apple logo with my Black MacBook (late 2007 Santa Rosa). Hey Apple! See what Sony users are getting?...
Commented on Federal judge allows rapist sheriff to remain free until sentencing in May
Why don't all you trash talkers come down here to Texas and say that to my face. I'd be happy to show you what a wonderful place this is, and how down right friendly we can be. Have a Shiner...
Commented on Autonomous aerial drones for less than $500
You know, it's only a matter of time before R/C model aircraft are outlawed as a potential terrorist weapon....
Commented on Free classic space board-game that teaches vector arithmetic and Newtonian mechanics
Ah, a blast form my past. It's amazing that we used to play games like this 'back in the day' with nothing more than paper, pencils, dice and our minds. No computers needed....
Commented on Top independent, peer-reviewed research indicating that climate change is real, deadly, and caused by humans
I check Boing Boing this morning and find all this sadness. I grew up during the cold war in an American city (San Antonio, Texas) that had 4 Air Force bases, 1 Army Base, and the assumption that we were...
Commented on Ziggy Stardust remix album
I love Bowie's music, and this made a wonderful 'unicorn chaser' after all the global warming sadness on Boing Boing this morning. Thanks Cory, I need more music like this in my life....
Commented on Dell price gouges Japanese business market for spray painted Mini Inspiron
Paint a laptop black and charge more for it? Who does Dell think they are? Apple? Evidently yes. Once again Apple leads and others follow... (This was typed on a white MacBook that Apple painted black for an extra $150.)...
Commented on Caligula for President: It's Time for a Tyrant
Orgies? He's got my vote!...
Commented on XKCD strip explains how DRM creates piracy
@#11 - Awhile back my wife had her MacBookPro stolen. When she replaced it, she contacted Apple about all the music she had bought from iTunes. They were most accommodating and let her download all her songs for no additional...
Commented on Data-mining sucks: official report
Come now! As a professional data miner for a major telecommunications company I can tell you that it doesn't suck. In fact, it's a whole lot better than working in an electronics factory, cleaning parking lots in the middle of...
Commented on World Made By Hand by James Howard Kunstler
Honestly, if this were to become the future I had to live in, I'd utilize my '9mm Opt-Out' plan....
Commented on Chinese banks told to stop loaning money to American banks / **UPDATED**
Did I just smell something hit the fan?...
Commented on You deserve a medal for your many victories
Agree with #5 - Need something for we old Atari vetrans!...
Commented on Report: Massive, warrantless raids on peace protesters in Minneapolis, ahead of RNC.
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Commented on Report: Massive, warrantless raids on peace protesters in Minneapolis, ahead of RNC.
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Slickam commented on Games Workshop declares war on best customers. Again.
There's a Creative Commons licensed war game coming out next year from Catalyst Game Labs, the company behind Battletech. Leviathans is a steampunk game about flying warships in an alternate 1910. This is the second product they're releasing under a Creative Commons license (the first was Eclipse Phase, discussed here at http://www.boingboing.net/2009/08/12/eclipse-phase-cc-lic.html ) As a bonus, the company doesn't treat their customers like dirt either. For example, when a fan of Battletech (and a member of the official forums) passed away recently, they dedicated a book to him and made a custom mech he had designed and used canon. If...
Matthew Miller commented on Games Workshop declares war on best customers. Again.
I'm not a Games Workshop fan, but I read something interesting about them and their business model a year or so ago. I thought it was here, but maybe it was on some gaming site. The upshot was: yeah. duh. Their business model *relies* on driving out "aging" customers, who tend to be more of pain to support and already have big collections -- and who tend to be frightening to the parents of the target market: wholesome young teens and their allowance money. So this kind of behavior is not only no surprise, but is in fact carefully cultivated....
wackyvorlon commented on Games Workshop declares war on best customers. Again.
Well, there go my plans to get into warhammer :/ Thanks to everyone who posted some alternatives, greatly appreciated!...
techsoldaten commented on Games Workshop declares war on best customers. Again.
You are forgetting, their lawyers are british lawyers. At least their chief legal council is. The only thing worse than the american legal system is the british legal system it was based on. Absolutely no room for common sense, strict interpretation of every law and hundreds of years of prescedent on every issue. It is like they are continually recodifying 18th century morality. I mean, this is the only way you get people worldwide to spend an average of $5 on a 1 inch piece of plastic, then go buy 100s of them. You have to have a system that...
mark.leaman commented on Games Workshop declares war on best customers. Again.
Slashdotted... http://games.slashdot.org/story/09/12/01/070232/Games-Workshop-Goes-After-Fan-Site...

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