*doublepromote a *quality cash *money offer…I hope it’s accepted. The Supreme Court is not supposed to be a cash cow for the justices, they get paid a decent wage, and can make millions above board and legally by writing books and speaking. Taking a dime from anyone with business before the court should be instant disbarment and prison, selling “justice” to the highest bidder is about as anti American as it gets, IMO.

At least its a true link,
Black lives matter is just a Democrat cash cow front, which donation goes mostly to Democrat candidates and not to help black lives. Millions to Biden pocket

The Iran deal was a joke, a personal pledge from Obama and his circle of cohorts to make a political pledge ti Iran. This agreement has no legal standing, otherwise Trump could not have been able to walk away from it so easily.

It was nothing more than Obama's political pledge.

I think the real real deal was this adventure was a cash cow for those involved.

The agreement was legally worthless.
If it was then Trump would not have been to back away from it.

It was nothing more than Obama's political pledge.

I think the real real deal was this adventure was a cash cow for those involved.

I'm not sure. Fargo is a great film, one of my favourites, but it's old now and it's hardly a great big cash-cow franchise, so it seems like more of a gamble than a safe-bet. I mean, I'll bet the mainstream audience don't remember the film at all, let alone fondly enough to make a series a sure-fire winner. I hope the writers have a good story up their sleeves.

"Pop culture on the skids", if you want to put it that way, is better exemplified by another reboot of Battlestar Galactica (happening) or a series based on C-tier characters from the Marvel Universe (Agents of Shield) or the new Spider-Man film series. Or a Nirvana/Kurt Cobain musical (also on the cards). Compared to all that crap, a Fargo series sounds brand-new.

The reason MMA fights are more likely ending with getting choked out than having your limbs broken is quite simple. If you are the guy who breaks everybodys shit, nobody will want to fight you anymore because broken bones take you out of fighting (the thing you do to make money), training (the thing that allows to compete on such a level in the first place) and the enjoyments of life (ever tried to masturbate with two broken hands?) for weeks. Weeks or erven months.
Nobody will book you or allow you in their competitions anymore because 30 second fights aren't that interesting (which is why proffesional boxing matches rarely turn out to be like Muhammad Ali vs random guy from the audience), getting qualified and equal fighters as opponents becomes next to impossible (see above) and "liability" would be the word promoters mutter in their sleep while having nightmare about faceless lawyers.
MMA isn't the Kumite from Bloodsport. MMA matches are a business and their cash cows are their fighters otherwise it would be just bum fights. You can't milk a cow with a broken udder. But you can choke its nipples until the milk flows, you just gotta have the right technique.

I'd heard that they've refocused on WoW, stopped treating it like a b-team project when they realized it was still their cash cow and their new games weren't pulling in the money they'd hoped.

Haha,

So destroying prospects for an Iran-Iraq-Syria-Pakistan-China pipeline via massive social engineering, extensive multi decade wars and risky political espionage is somehow cheaper than just good old price competition?

The Suez Canal is a much more direct threat to the trans-Israel pipeline (just look at a map to see what I mean) and clearly there is no massive, violent international conspiracy to suppress trade through that canal - Israel just undercuts their prices.

And for that matter, it's not like the trans Israel pipeline is some massive cash cow that is secretly protected at all costs. It's max capacity is only 400000 barrels per day - that's nothing as far as Israel is concerned profit-wise and definitely pathetic by Chinese daily demand-wise.

There is a grain of truth in every conspiracy: of course AIPEC is probably too influential, and of course the various wars going on right now have some economic incentives, but let's not be dumb about our accusations if we want to be taken seriously.

Not playing it how Blizzard intended for it to be played is exactly why there is such an uproar over the game in the first place. Everyone wants to have their way with their Blizzard game and Blizzard ain't complying. Yeah the DRM sucks but there isn't all that much different in Diablo 3 than any other recent Blizz title. It's a scheme. Anyone who has played any of their games since War3 knows that the games are multi-tiered so what at first seems like a simple, boring, repetitive game ends up being finely tuned & crafted in the end. By ACT III on Nightmare mode it becomes apparent and if one doesn't get that far into the game then they really shouldn't be giving it a review because they should just know better from the get-go.

It's got some of the best multiplayer aspects that I've had in recent memory, running relentlessly across vast floors trying to avoid pools of Hell, or encountering impossible zombie mobs moving 50% faster than normal. It's a lot of fun. Blizzard is a different company than they were back in the day, I don't like it as nearly as much as the first Diablo, for sure... but it's still fantastic. It's still Blizzard. Great mechanics - for what it is - better art direction than most games, great sound and the absolute insanity of it on the more difficult modes where it really comes together. Yeah there are a lot of things that piss me off about D3...

I must admit it seems to me like Blizz didn't give it their all on this one... maybe so they can make sure people go back to their cash cow
The levels are barely random, what the ^%$# is up with the lag? There is too much loot like Yahtzee said, the normal mode IS too easy, nightmare & normal are light/day... don't waste our time. The art direction is great... but not as great as I'd expect from Blizz, muddy textures, accesses the hard-drive too frequently, some of those "cut-scenes" are whack, on Hell mode the random encounters are more difficult than the main quests, no in game auction house? Why the hell is that loot popup menu always there? The story is dumb as fuck. But, regardless that is what the Diablo series is - not much innovation here except in chaos and mechanics and that is good enough for me. We can't compare every Blizz game to WoW... and that is exactly why D3 is great, it's like WoW-ultralite meets Left For Dead, nothing wrong with that.

Look, Casino Royale showed up twenty years of Bond films to be the mindless derivative drivel that they were.

The film reintroduced the darkness that was at the heart of Bond that hasn't been seen, arguably, since the death of Bond's just-married wife at the end of the highly underrated "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" (which coincidentally had the best soundtrack of all Bond films). That was in 1969.

Some would contend that Timothy Dalton captured the true essence of Bond's dark moodiness in his too-short stint as Bond in The Living Daylights and Licence to Kill - but he had the advantage of actually being able to act, a skill no one could accuse Pierce Brosnan of bringing to the franchise.

I believe that the Bourne films effectively modernised Bond and the franchise was forced to follow, after years of meandering aimlessly with Brosnan whose films retained a misplaced focus on gadgets and 'witty' lines. There is a place for these, but they superseded plot, character and genuine style. Product placement became too much of a cash cow as well (although I hear an agreement has been made to replace Bond's signature martini with Heineken in Skyfall).

Casino Royale returned Bond to his rightful place. Bourne is great, but he's no Bond. Compared to CR, Quantum of Solace was indeed inferior. But Yogi is right - it was way better than every Brosnan Bond film, which were total disappointments to genuine fans.

So there.

OK, wait.

Dear Bank of America:
This card is the banks idea, your idea. We didn't ask for it.

It was established to curve the rising costs of moving money around. It costs money to move coin from one location to the next. Paper money costs money to print and replace as it deteriorates. Moving money electronically greatly decreases the instance of hold-ups and robbery.

I remember having arguments with bank managers who wouldn't let me stand in line at the bank - I had to use the machine. The bank in question had someone in-line asking each person in the teller line-up what their transaction was and diverting everyone they could to the machines.

Saying that the card system costs the banks money and the consumer must pay the price of having one is absurd. This is YOUR cost of doing business. I currently pay a bank service charge which includes my ability to have a card. I am allowed a limited number of transactions per month, after that I am charged per transaction (30¢ each). I am also charged a $1 fee every time I use a bank machine from a different bank (interac connected). Further, there are machines strategically located (example inside the movie theater) where they charge an extra $3 to make a withdrawl - which is robbery because they pulled the debit from the theater and force you to use these machines if you need cash for the concession.

For us to pay extra fees and pay for fraud coverage is also a scam. The system the bank uses is faulty, it always has been and they know it. To charge us fees to cover losses for a system that by design is easy to fraud is a sham. If they can't figure out a fraud free system, why are we using it? Fix the dam system. Adding a chip that can be scanned from a foot away as someone walks by is a faulty system and no better than the strip it replaced.

Clearly, the card is a cash cow that was instituted as a money scheme from the beginning. The banks pull more money from clients with the invention of these cards than anyone realizes. That combined with accounts that never pay interest, or so little that it's invisible, Overdraft fees, Service fees, and every other fee aside from you investing our money and grossing profit while it sits with you is the tip of the iceburg.

Your take from us is not unlike taxes, we are forced to pay it. Our pie is getting smaller and smaller while you keep asking for bigger and bigger pieces. Housing costs have skyrocket, mortgage rates, insurance rates and all the other plates that want a piece of the monthly pie. By the end of the month, there is little, if nothing, left for all our hard work.

And for all that, you slap us in the face and try to institute another fee just because you think you can. Are you that disconnected with the patrons that grace your bank with their business? You work for us and only when we ask you to. If we come to shop at your place of business, you should be grateful and pander to your clients. Not throw leg-irons on us and laugh at us behind our backs.

Thanks for listening.. (I wish)

The sequel will lack the immediacy and relevance of the original, and be revealed as the cash cow it was always going to be.

>> ^sirex:

its ok, the usa owns the chinese ! Maybe he meant "owes" the chinese.... and maybe enough to go bankrupt.


When you owe someone tons of money, it is easier to dictate the terms. Look at most credit card settlements. The CC holds all the cards, but more often then not settle for much less than the contractual amount. Once a debt is sufficiently large, enough to jeopardize ANY return, the debtor has more power than one would normal consider. A cash cow can quickly turn to a liability if it isn't handled correctly. If a debtor knows his stuff, he can put considerable strain on the debt holder. It isn't common sense, but he is correct.

Fox allows the Simpsons to air purely because it's the biggest Cash Cow they Have!

O'Reilly is like a a mouse with a stick, poking at a Bull Steer!

>> ^coolhund:

That was such an awesome game. But thanks to consoles the time of such PC games is over.
Really sad to see games actually regress to a point where very old games like this has the superior gameplay.


I think actually what you will find is that the most inovatve games can still be found on pc.

the thing you see less now on pc are giant publisher cash cows , which more often than not contain the same old game play repackaged. something that i am not sad to see leave pc.

pc innovated in FPS in the late 90s and early 00s, pc games are now innovating in other places such as social gaming ultra casual gaming. I think pcs will always be home to developers like Frictional Games or independents that don't want to dip into funding.

I think consoles are gr8 fun , but the thing that pcs or open architecture platforms will allays have is this Testbed mentality where new concepts can be knocked out , before risk adverse publishers will back them and push them on platforms like ps3 360. granted u have psn and xbl arcade and indi but i dont realy think they are that viable for an indi as primary ditrabutoin platform where as pc and some of the new mobile platforms are.


any way , lol my point is I think pc will be the place where games as gr8 and revolutionary as home world will be spawned ( the majority of the time). and console will pretty much be the place where well tried and tested games will be found. at least in the western markets ,

in Japan they are far more open about having new and often totally mental ideas debue on console. I guess relative to the madness found in manga and animé its a safe bet for them , I also think cultraly they can easily separate core game play mechanics from the visual context.


What is disastrous however is that on pc we are now getting shit console ports constantly so i guess that aspect of pc gaming is pretty shitty.