Bay 12 Games Forum

Quote from: BlackFlyme on November 12, 2014, 05:48:43 pm

Is it some sort of program-related thing? Everyone in the accounting program is automatically assigned to the accounting society.

Hee hee, sounds like the most boring club ever.

I think the closest I came to that was after-class talking, which mostly consisted of trying to figure out how to commit tax evasion and fraud. The teacher(s) even joined in a couple times.

Uh. Know thy enemy and whatnot >_>

... that... there's definitely something really zogging weird going on, because kor'pul should be an absolute cakewalk at level 14. Even the vaults shouldn't be notably risky at that point.

Still, in case of open rooms, get out, fight in corridors, etc. As noted, movement infusions or tele runes are really useful for that sort of thing. You never really want to fight more than one critter at a time, anyway (barring some oddities like brawlers, and honestly not even then most of the time).

Ah, cheers. Until I forget again next year, then.

Different sellers, different time of year, different transport conditions, different products... all sorts of stuff can impact shipping time. No telling what it is this time.

I don't care what anything says, if you sell cakes and I ask a (legal) cake you have to make it. Just like I don't think a printer shop should be allowed to refuse to print messages it doesn't like(as long as they are legal.

Well... as noted, you're welcome to that belief, but it's very much in contrary to the legal situation in, at least, the US. Buying and selling is entering into a contract with one another, and there are very, very few situations in which you can force someone to enter contract with another person. It's a very basic, very fundamental part of contract law that provides the precedence for almost any business to refuse service to anyone, under any circumstance.

... whether it's a crime or not depends entirely on the laws in the area in question. There's circumstances in the US where the noted refusal could result in a potential civil case, but it's very niche and has absolutely nothing to do with the convictions of the people involved and absolutely everything to do with contract law and the violation thereof.* I don't know enough (read: I know basically nothing) about that place's law structure, so. Yeah.

I think it was fairly stupid from a business perspective to refuse, though. Money's money, and in this case the amount of influence a single cake can have is basically nil. And the thought that production of something == support of the thing's message is vaguely farcical, imo. Generally, when you've been contracted to do something, you're absolved from most association with the thing afterwards -- responsibility lies primarily with the contractor, not the contractee. Obviously, there's exceptions to that, but they're exceptions that prove the rule and tend to involve grievous bodily harm, not... cake.

But... coming from an american perspective, it's a silly thing. The owner has a right to refuse business on any grounds over here, in most industries. Just as people have equal right to protest, boycott, etc. They're also perfectly able to attempt civil suit against the businesses, they'd just, y'know, fail. But they generally can't really demand folks enter contract with (i.e. sell something to) them.

*Though that does change in certain industries. Public freight, ferex, has no right of refusal, iirc. Package could be wrapped in tear-outs from a homosexual porn magazine and they'd still be legally obligated to transport it, regardless of the convictions of the workers or owners.

One thing I find odd- a woman can choose whether or not to bring a child to term, but if the child's father disagrees he still has to pay child support.

The non-custodial parent pays child support. Child support's not really a gender thing. Custody is more arguable, but child support, not so much.

Also, beards can be awesome, but they can also make you look like a rapist/homeless guy/WoW player, so you need to be careful with that one.

Also a mennonite or jew, among others, depending on where you are. There's an odd handful of cultural/religious groups that do the beard thing often enough and obviously enough it gets associated with them, in certain areas.

E: And BP was a fairly active israeli poster, tended to pipe up fairly often in the european/middle-eastern political threads. Just... a bit more nationalistic than could manage to maintain a comfortable level of discourse? Something along those lines, and being... somewhat more charitable than I have been in the past. Respect for the parted, or somethin'.