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Whilst the radio market faces significant new competition, it still retains large audiences and extensive relationships with advertisers. Stuart Mays, Director of Commercial Strategy for Global, the UK Media and Entertainment Group, outlines the steps the UK's number radio group has taken to expand its business and harness new opportunities. Find out how the group's focus on events, new digital properties and programmatic advertising has changed what the company does.
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Radio is approaching a world with no boundaries. Production and delivery are ubiquitous and it's entering a new world of integration. This shift touches the entire radio ecosystem, from journalists to programmers to finance. It's a fast moving world that has to consider how to best use AI, deliver new media content to Voice Assistants, maintain leadership in Podcasts and preserve brand and content integrity in a world of "Fake News". DAVID Systems will host a QA session with industry leaders on suggestions to step up our game and build a better Radio platform.
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So you want to launch a big new show with a really well known host… but what is the process behind it all? Who do you choose and why? How do you go about poaching them from a rival station? And then, how do you create a fresh, exciting new programme from scratch? Dave Berry was the host of the Capital FM Breakfast show for over 5 years before joining Absolute Radio in 2017 to host their new home time show - weekdays from 4pm. In this session Content Director of Absolute Radio, Paul Sylvester, will share the process behind signing Dave and launching the new programme... and one of the UK's most well-known radio hosts, Dave Berry, will talk about making the switch to Absolute Radio and how he approached starting a brand new show.
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3 innovative formats from 3 countries, which definitely will inspire you. Songwriter (Denmark) - the 2017 winner of Prix Europe in the category "Best music format". Host and producer Jonas Gülstorff will present this unique and original concept focusing on the actual process of writing a song. France Inter. A media experience with radio at the core. A live radio show in front of an audience in Paris is at the same time sent live in 40 movie theaters across France, to offer the possibility to all the listeners to be part of the event. The Denis Avdic Show (Slovenia). Apart from hosting his own popular morning show on Radio 1, Dennis is also hosting the most popular Saturday night TV show and doing his own stand-up and one-man theatre shows. Denis will talk about what makes a great radio show.
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The battle for attention means your radio station is competing against every other content creator on every other platform for the attention of your listeners. The challenge is how to use social media to win the attention of new listeners and turn existing listeners into loyal fans by creating a deep and on-gong relationship with them. But how do you stand out on Twitter, Facebook, Snapchat or Instagram? In this session we'll show you how to build a relationship with the audience beyond the show and how to take a marketing approach to your social media, so as to build a strong radio brand in social media spaces. There will be plenty of examples of current work that Somethin' Else is creating for the BBC's biggest national radio stations and we'll see great examples from how other broadcasters are approaching it and how these lessons can be applied to radio.
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Lynx's Moore Wins WNBA MVP Award
MINNEAPOLIS - Minnesota's Maya Moore has won the WNBA most valuable player award after leading the league in scoring.
The WNBA announced that Moore will receive the award before the Lynx host San Antonio in the opener of the Western Conference semifinals on Thursday night.
It's the first league MVP award for Moore in her four-year career. She averaged a career-best 23.9 points and set a WNBA record by scoring at least 30 points 12 times, including in four straight games. The scoring mark was the third-highest average in league history, trailing only Phoenix's Diana Taurasi's 25.3 points in 2006 and 24.1 in 2008.
Moore received 35 of the 38 first place votes, followed by Taurasi and Atlanta's Angel McCoughtry. Los Angeles' Candace Parker was fourth and Phoenix's Brittney Griner finished fifth.

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From cubicle farms to cafeteria food, life at the office can be pretty boring and, at times, annoying.
But some companies have figured out that if you get a little creative, and offer a few extra perks, it can go a long way toward keeping employees happy – and more productive.
In this day and age of cutbacks and downsizing, that's pretty extraordinary.
Maybe it's a cool gathering place, with bean-bag chairs, couches or café seating, that makes people excited to go to meetings – not to mention it keeps them from talking loudly in front of other co-workers' desks!
Or maybe it's not a physical thing but a creative policy like offering employees unlimited vacation time or flexible hours, with the caveat that they have to deliver above-average results, or they're out.
Oh, and if you think it's just the private companies having all that fun, you'd be wrong: Half of them are public.
Here are Six Cool Companies to Work For, what makes them cool, and the answer to the question you're dying to ask: Are they hiring?
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We are a small business that deals in rare coins and has been selling an eBook on rare coin values for a few years. We are presently revising the website used to sell the eBook, and are looking for a new cover!
The book has been put together to give people an accurate idea of what their coins are worth - the information is accurate and 100% guaranteed.
The website is: http://coinvaluesonline.com.au, keep in mind this is going to be redesigned also.
Our main website is: http://www.sterlingcurrency.com.au/
The target audience is comprised of adults in Australia, they're looking for accurate and trustworthy information, without BS or gimmicks.
They actively look for cues that either confirm the legitimacy and integrity of the information they're looking for, so the design is obviously integral to the promotion of the information being sold.
We'd like to incorporate the winning design into the existing inDesign document, and believe that the existing cover is both too busy and doesn't sell the product well enough.
We have a huge image library that can be accessed for inspiration or to incorporate into the final design.
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Sadly, as one reflects on what America stood for during the years John F. Kennedy was president, and what it stands for now under President Barack Obama, we have to ask ourselves what happened?
How did we go from "ask what you can do for your country" to "ask what your country can do for you." It speaks volumes about the President of "Free Stuff" but sadly, and even worse, about the people who re-elected him for another term. America is surely in decline.
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Good morning.
Hackers may be waging war against some of tech's biggest names, but investors could care less, at least in terms of what it means for stock prices. The Nasdaq hasn't seen these levels in a dozen years, and futures are holding tight to prior gains.
Andrew Parlin believes there's still plenty room for markets to run. In fact, the Kotell Advisors LLC co-founder says "this rally is in its infancy" and the way the central bank is behaving continues to create a "nirvana" for stocks. We'll hear more from the Federal Reserve later in the day, with what it has to say about the risks/exit strategy of QE3 at the forefront.
And while the Biebs may be doing his part in propping up demand for gold, the precious metal continues to fall further out of favor with investors, suggesting that, despite fears of a tired bull, there's still thirst for risk out there.
Key market gauges: Futures on the Dow /quotes/zigman/9049316 YMH3 and the S&P /quotes/zigman/8751039 ESH3 are signalling another steady day on the markets, following a strong showing in Asia /quotes/zigman/6959860 XX:ADOW . Nasdaq futures /quotes/zigman/8751120 NDH3 are holding tight, as well.
Europe /quotes/zigman/2380150 XX:SXXP isn't showing much early, though the FTSE /quotes/zigman/3173262 UK:UKX pushed through 6,400 for the first time since early 2008. Read: London markets.
Keep an eye on gold /quotes/zigman/8702781 GCJ3 , too. Futures are off, and, technically speaking, it could be in deep trouble, as pointed out by this tweet:
Gold has delivered a "death cross". The price of the yellow metal has seen the 50-day moving average fall below the 200-day moving average
— FT Global Markets (@FTGlobalMarkets) February 20, 2013
The economy: The U.S. Department of Commerce reported that U.S. housing starts fell 8.5% to 890,000 in January. Economists polled by MarketWatch had been looking for a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 914,000, down from 954,000 in December, which was the highest level since June 2008.
Later, the Federal Reserve will release minutes from its last meeting, in which the central bank is expected to have spent a lot of time talking about when and how it would stop QE3. Read: What to expect on the U.S. economy.
Earnings: If it hadn't happened already, this Tesla tiff jumped the shark the moment CNBC's auto reporter got behind the wheel of the Model S to retrace the infamous steps of the range-anxiety-inducing New York Times reporter. The collective "enough already" could be heard from my desk here in London.
In the spirit of closure, it turns out Tesla and it's Big Brother approach to test drives did, in fact, prove the reporter's account to be flawed. The editor behind the story admitted there were problems with "precision and judgment." Here's the Tesla founder being happy about it.
For the Tesla fanboys who maybe, just maybe, are going a bit overboard in defense of their beloved car, TechCrunch's John Biggs offers some advice on "the best way to love something unequivocally without looking like a freak."
At any rate, Tesla /quotes/zigman/118681 /quotes/nls/tsla TSLA will report its fourth-quarter results this afternoon. Manufacturing targets for 2013 and gross margin are two of the metrics in focus. Read the full preview.
The buzz: Both OfficeMax /quotes/zigman/359604 /quotes/nls/omx OMX and Office Depot /quotes/zigman/236952 /quotes/nls/odp ODP are seeing big share gains in the premarket on word, whether it's official or not, that the two have agreed to merge in an all-stock transaction. If the deal does go through, as the premature release suggests, it would market the latest chapter in what Josh Brown of the Reformed Broker blog recently called "the healthiest M&A boom in decades."
Two of the stock market's highest-profile companies have given investors another reason to sing their praises. Both Google /quotes/zigman/93888 /quotes/nls/goog GOOG and Berkshire Hathaway /quotes/zigman/219651 /quotes/nls/brk.a BRK.A are pushing into uncharted territory, recently taking out key levels of $800 and $150,000, respectively. Could they possibly move even higher? One of the many questions wafting through cyberspace today.
Score one for Icahn. Herbalife /quotes/zigman/361145 /quotes/nls/hlf HLF posted a higher profit and raised its outlook for the year, sending its shares up nicely before today's opening bell. Ackman still has the overall edge as the stock is about 6% lower from where it was before word of his short sale leaked. Read about Carl Icahn's picks for 2013.
Dell /quotes/zigman/27952 /quotes/nls/dell DELL also posted results late yesterday, but the focus continues to be on the computer maker's plans to go private. The stock is up nominally before the opening bell. Read: Will Lenovo make things worse for Dell?
Other top trending tickers include Sony /quotes/zigman/197524 /quotes/nls/sne SNE , with anticipation heating up ahead of tonight's potential PlayStation announcement, and BlackBerry /quotes/zigman/18534 /quotes/nls/bbry BBRY , singled out as the "battleground stock du jour."
Yahoo /quotes/zigman/59898 /quotes/nls/yhoo YHOO will come under closer scrutiny after CEO Marissa Mayer blogged about the launch of a "more intuitive and personal" Yahoo experience.
The chart of the day: Tim Wu tackles the old tech adage that "open beats closed." That's another way of saying a company that allows interoperability, like Google, has an advantage over, say a closed-off AOL /quotes/zigman/577531 /quotes/nls/aol AOL . Apple /quotes/zigman/68270 /quotes/nls/aapl AAPL has been the wild card in the equation, succeeding wildly despite its closed approach. But Wu contends the company had a one-off genius on its side. Now that Jobs is gone, Apple has been getting crushed. Here's a chart ranking the openness of some of the biggest tech names and how they have fared since 2006.
The call of the day: As for Apple, it's probably best that you don't jump on board for the long haul, warns Seeking Alpha contributor George Kesarios. He lays out his case in which he says "conventional thinking" on how to play the stock isn't working. "Apple is no longer a long-term, buy-and-hold stock," he wrote. "Apple has turned into a dog stock and is only good for swing trading or if you are interested in the dividend."
Random Reads: Note to self, buy domain name before opening a restaurant.
"They get one hour for breaks and lunch, talk for three and work for three. I told the French union workers this to their faces. They told me that's the French way!" Read more about the Titan chairman's letter to the French industry minister.
The Brussels diamond robbers might have made off with the most lucrative diamond heist ever. One estimate put the number at $350 million. Here are the current top ten.
The riveting Norwegian TV show that included chopping and stacking wood. And then the added bonus of eight hours of fire burning in a fireplace.
The unsettled "porch marijuana question" and the perils of pot tourism in Colorado.
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Starting with KDE 4.5, CMake >= 2.6.4 is required.
We are not aware of any incompatible changes between KDE 4.4 and 4.5.
Starting with KDE 4.5, CMake >= 2.6.4 is required (KDE 4.2 to 4.4 required 2.6.2).
This change brings us mainly two new features:
searches in lib/cmake/Foo/ for installed FooConfig.cmake files, while CMake 2.6.0..2.6.2 only look in lib/Foo/cmake/. With CMake < 2.6.3 manual work was required to be able to find these files, now with CMake 2.6.4 it just works and we are compatible to all other CMake-based packages which install their files in such locations.
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The commit policy introduced during the 4.3 development cycle is still active and must be followed.
The new variable KDE_PLATFORM_PROFILE can be used to test for which profile KDE is currently built for. Possible values are "Desktop", "Tablet" and "Mobile".
With KDE 4.5 3 four new libraries were added to kdelibs: the kemoticons library, the kidletime library, the kcmutils library and the kprintutils library. These libraries come with their associated variables. So if you want to link against these libraries, use ${KDE4_KEMOTICONS_LIBS}, ${KDE4_KIDLETIME_LIBS}, ${KDE4_KCMUTILS_LIBS} and ${KDE4_KPRINTUTILS_LIBS} respectively. They don't require an additional include directory.
In the previous releases of KDE 4, the library installation directory was always added to the RPATH of libraries and executables. With KDE 4.5 this is now only done if the library installation directory is not one of the system default library directories. This means that e.g. /usr/lib is not added anymore to the RPATH.
Support for the new QtDeclarative module has been added to FindQt4.cmake. To use it, you can use the new variables QT_QTDECLARATIVE_LIBRARY, QT_QTDECLARATIVE_INCLUDE_DIR, QT_QTDECLARATIVE_FOUND and QT_USE_QTDECLARATIVE.
but you can set it to a tool to serialize resource-intensive commands in parallel builds, e.g. icecc when using icecream .
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ECCENTRIC CIRCLE Rebecca Lickiss Ace, Jul 2001, 5.99, 224 pp. ISBN: 0441008283 Piper Pied considers herself to be the only normal person in her eccentric family, but that does not stop her from choking up at her grandmother's funeral. Since Piper shoveled the first payload of dirt on the grave, she inherits a Victorian house sitting on a secluded plot. Working part-time Piper feels she has the right atmosphere and the amount of time to write ...
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Ace, July 2002, 6.50, 272 pp. ISBN 044100907 Prince Althelstan has been ordered by his father to marry a princess but the only one available is two years old. Not willing to wait that long, he follows clues that lead to a castle where all the denizens are in an enchanted slumber. When he gets there he finds three sleeping princes who need a princess to wake them up. Althelstan returns to his home to ask his adventurous cousin Lady Vevila to ...


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HIV in the Classroom: What Would a Good Catholic Do? Bioethicist Helps Students Wrestle With Theology and HIV
An Interview With Professor Robert Doyle of Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles
February 21, 2013
No, we're not all HIV positive. But we all are at risk for acquiring HIV. In recognition of this fact, theologian and bioethicist Robert Doyle teaches a graduate course that examines HIV not as a moral issue in itself, but as a major global epidemic with moral questions embedded in the ways communities respond. He's also the author of a forthcoming paper entitled "We Are All HIV Positive: A Catholic Social Teaching Response to the HIV/AIDS Epidemic."
While many in the HIV community have have had mixed-to-negative experiences with the Catholic Church as an institution, Doyle is invested in showing the positive points Catholic theology can bring to a conversation around treating those living with HIV. In his course, "Theological Ethics and HIV," Professor Doyle asks his students to articulate the reach and scope of the HIV epidemic; identify current political and religious responses to the epidemic; and wrestle with the epidemic's moral implications for faith communities.
Professor Doyle is a visiting assistant professor and the graduate program director at the Bioethics Institute at Loyola Marymount University. He sat down with TheBody.com to discuss teaching HIV in a classroom setting; what theology and ethics can bring to a discussion of HIV and health care; and how an "us vs. them" mentality is fueling the HIV epidemic.
Read other articles in this spotlight series.
How did HIV become a part of your academic life? Did you have any previous experience as an HIV advocate?
The interest began when I took a class as a graduate student earning a master's degree in theology. I took a class in HIV/AIDS, probably five or six years ago. It was fascinating to study it from an academic standpoint. I was asked about three or four months ago if there was any class I'd like to introduce, and I thought that it would be really interesting to teach a class like that on my own.
I don't have any personal experience with HIV/AIDS. But as a theologian, I found that religions have various approaches to the epidemic, and I was fascinated with the responses -- some being more positive than others. I thought, by offering a course based in theological ethics, it would give me and students an opportunity to examine just what these positions are, why some of these positions are positive, why some of the positions are negative, and begin to analyze and to unpack some of the theological responses to HIV/AIDS.
I looked at it from a Catholic position, particularly because that tradition has a body of teachings that are more organized than other traditions. It was easy to see the various responses within that particular tradition. So that's where I'm coming from, particularly in a course like this.
At the very beginning of your paper, which is titled "We Are All HIV Positive: A Catholic Social Teaching Response to the HIV/AIDS Epidemic," you talk about the "us/them" mentality that's driving the epidemic. What do you think inspires the "us/them" mentality in people? Do you think it's just a natural human response?
The interesting thing about HIV/AIDS is that somewhere in our thinking, there is still a sense that this is just a disease associated with gay men and intravenous drug users. For whatever reason, there's this idea that morality is attached to it. You get this disease for doing an "evil act." Because of that, I think it paints a different picture than other diseases. When you talk about someone with cancer, it's not "us vs. them." Because we somehow still attach this sense of morality to HIV/AIDS, it's "Oh, you must've done something wrong, and that's why you have this disease and I don't." There's still that separation there, and that's the focal point of that paper, is trying to debunk some of those myths by examining women, African Americans, impoverished people in this country. It's recognizing that it's not just an issue of morality, or just an issue of gay men and intravenous drug users.
Some people I know call what you were just talking about the "dignified diseases." That there's a sense of dignity attached to certain diseases, especially certain types of cancer. Even within cancers, there's a kind of hierarchy, like breast cancer is very dignified, but if you smoke and get lung cancer, it's less dignified. People would ask, "Why were you smoking?"
Yes, and I think that's exactly what creates the "us vs. them" mentality.
What are some of the course objectives for this class? What do you hope students will absorb? What are some potential real-world applications of this information for students who are bioethicists?
I have a few goals. One is to raise awareness of the HIV/AIDS crisis. To really see how it's impacted people in this country. Not just the typical groups that we were just talking about. But that it's far reaching. And it's unlike any epidemic that we have ever seen in this country. It is not confined to a particular gender or a particular race, or a particular socioeconomic group. It really encompasses all of those. The first thing is to raise awareness that it's not just something we can throw money at, or throw drugs at, and realize that it's an epidemic that has consequences among all different types of groups.
The other thing that I want to explore in the course is the diverse responses to the challenges posed by HIV/AIDS, so that we begin to see, as I mentioned at the start of the interview, how some groups within the Catholic Church have responded positively and reached out to those with HIV/AIDS, and why other groups have responded differently, let's say. Also, I want students to be able to analyze critically what's been presented. Why have groups responded in different ways? Why has there been an "us/them" mentality? Why is it that various groups and socioeconomic classes don't receive as much support? They can begin to see that this is a unique epidemic that requires extraordinary responses.
The four principles of Catholic social teaching are extremely important to your paper, and to being a Catholic today. One of them is "solidarity." In what part of your class will you address the history of activism, especially that of ACT UP and Treatment Action Group, which were about solidarity during the darkest times of the epidemic?
We're certainly going to explore those. I have a couple of weeks built into the course where we look at the gay community's response to HIV/AIDS, but I think that's just a small part of activism, particularly today. By and large, the gay community has done a good job of handling the HIV/AIDS epidemic, raising awareness, promoting health within the community, promoting testing. I think it's other communities that haven't done as great a job.
Part of what I'm talking about in terms of solidarity is not looking at one particular group, but looking at all these groups where HIV/AIDS has had an impact and exploring how those communities have engaged, or perhaps not engaged, with the epidemic.
"The underlying principle is this idea of human dignity. ... If someone else is suffering, then we have this duty to respond to them in solidarity."
You talk about how the four principles of Catholic social teaching must work together to address the HIV epidemic. The four principles are: "dignity of the human person," "preferential option for the poor," "responding to structural sin," and "solidarity." Can you talk about how they're all interconnected, for someone who may not know?
The underlying principle is this idea of human dignity. If we recognize that, by our very nature, all of us have human dignity, then the other principles fall into place. If someone else is suffering, then we have this duty to respond to them in solidarity.
A disease like HIV/AIDS hits poor people hardest, so standing in solidarity -- recognizing the human dignity of people living in poverty with HIV/AIDS -- we certainly should have a preferential option for them. When we talk about the distribution of health care resources, for instance, whether it's pharmaceutical drugs or access to testing, we need to make sure that communities that are poor receive these resources. I think, in that sense, they're all connected, starting with the idea of human dignity.
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ppp (Paul's PPP Package) is an open source package which implements the point-to-point protocol (PPP) on Linux and Solaris systems. It is implemented as single pppd daemon and acts as backend for xl2tpd, pptpd and netcfg. 3G, L2TP and PPPoE connections are internally based on PPP protocol and therefore can be managed by ppp.
Install ppp, available in the official repositories.
Make sure that your kernel is compiled with PPPoE support (present in default kernel):
$ zgrep CONFIG_PPPOE /proc/config.gz
Create the connection configuration file:
plugin rp-pppoe.so # rp_pppoe_ac 'your ac name' # rp_pppoe_service 'your service name' # network interface eth0 # login name name "someloginname" usepeerdns persist # Uncomment this if you want to enable dial on demand #demand #idle 180 defaultroute hide-password noauth
If you want usepeerdns to work, you have to edit your
/etc/ppp/ip-up and add a command that copies
/etc/ppp/resolv.conf to
Put a line like this in
/etc/ppp/pap-secrets or
/etc/ppp/chap-secrets as required by the authentication method used by your ISP. It's OK to write these two files at the same time, pppd will automatically use the appropriate one.
someloginname * yourpassword
You can now start the link using the command
# pppd call your_provider
Alternatively, you can use this
# pon your_provider
To see whether your pppoe connection is started correctly, check
/var/log/errors.log first and then check
/var/log/everything.log. On a successful connection, you should see something like the following in the everything.log:
# tail /var/log/everything.log
Aug 9 00:18:08 localhost pppd[2268]: Using interface ppp0 Aug 9 00:18:08 localhost pppd[2268]: Connect: ppp0 <--> eth0 Aug 9 00:18:11 localhost pppd[2268]: CHAP authentication succeeded Aug 9 00:18:11 localhost pppd[2268]: CHAP authentication succeeded Aug 9 00:18:11 localhost pppd[2268]: peer from calling number 00:06:29:AF:4F:E0 authorized Aug 9 00:18:11 localhost pppd[2268]: Cannot determine ethernet address for proxy ARP Aug 9 00:18:11 localhost pppd[2268]: local IP address 10.6.2.137 Aug 9 00:18:11 localhost pppd[2268]: remote IP address 10.6.1.1 Aug 9 00:18:11 localhost pppd[2268]: primary DNS address 10.6.1.1 Aug 9 00:18:11 localhost pppd[2268]: secondary DNS address 188.8.131.52
By default the configuration in
/etc/ppp/peers/provider is treated as the default, so if you want to make "your_provider" the default, you can create a link like this
# ln -s /etc/ppp/peers/your_provider /etc/ppp/peers/provider
Now you can start the link by simply running
# pon
To close a connection, use this
# poff your_provider
Starting pppd with Arch
- The init script
/etc/rc.d/pppcalls the default ppp provider (
/etc/ppp/peers/provider), so make sure you have the right configuration file there, otherwhise you could create a symlink to the desired provider as explained before.
- Make sure ppp module is loaded. If ppp support is compiled as a module, you have to load the
ppp_genericmodule. In this case, add this to
MODULES=(... ppp-generic ...)
- Add ppp to
/etc/rc.conf, and make sure that you also have the network daemon listed:
DAEMONS=(... network ... ppp ...)
- Also make sure that you have the correct interface declared in the networking section of
Extra tweaks
Do an auto redial
pppd is running, you can force a connection reset by sending the
SIGHUP signal to the process
# export PPPD_PID=$(pidof pppd) # kill -s HUP $PPPD_PID
And you have redialed the connection.
Make sure you have
persist option enabled in your
/etc/ppp/peers/provider tab.
ISP auto-disconnect after 24h
If you use a flat-rate always-on connection on a computer, some providers restart your connection after 24h. That makes sure that the IP is rotated every 24h. To compensate, you can use an dynamic DNS service in combination with
inadyn (available on AUR) to compensate for the rotating IP address. But to avoid disconnects when you don't need it, you might try to restart the connection using a cron job at a time of day you know no one will be using the connection (ex. 4 AM).
As root, do the following:
Create a bash script similar to this and give it a name (ex
#!/bin/bash message="Restarting the PPP connection @:" $(date) pppd_id=$(pidof pppd) kill -s HUP $pppd_id wall $message
Give it execute permissions and put it on a path visible to root.
Then create a cron job using
crontab -e. Check that your
EDITOR env variable is set if the command fails. So add anywhere in the file,
0 4 * * * /bin/bash /root/pppd_redial.sh
Save and exit. Your PPPoE connection will now restart every day at 4AM.
Default route
If you have a preconfigured default route before the pppd is started, the default route is kept, so take a look in
/var/log/errors.log and if you have something like:
pppd[nnnn]: not replacing existing default route via xx.xx.xx.xx
and xx.xx.xx.xx is not the correct route for you
- Create a new script
$ chmod +x
with this content:
#!/bin/sh /sbin/route del default
- Restart pppd:
$ /etc/rc.d/ppp restart
Masquerading seems to be working fine but some sites don't work.
The MTU under pppoe is 1492 bytes. Most sites use an MTU of 1500. So your connection sends an ICMP 3:4 (fragmentation needed) packet, asking for a smaller MTU, but some sites have their firewall blocking that.
Using PMTU clamping can solve that:
iptables -I FORWARD -p tcp --tcp-flags SYN,RST SYN -j TCPMSS --clamp-mss-to-pmtu
pppd cannot load kernel module ppp_generic
Symptom: When starting PPTP Client, the pppd process cannot locate the appropriate module.
Couldn't open the /dev/ppp device: No such device or address Please load the ppp_generic kernel module.
Solution: Edit the
/etc/modprobe.d/modules.conf file and change
alias char-major-108 ppp
alias char-major-108 ppp_generic
If there is no alias included add
alias char-major-108 ppp_generic
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"The Destiny of the Galaxy is ours"
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I know a lot of rookies are more intent on getting into their first fighter/transport or learning the ropes, but it doesn't hurt to hit 'em with a little RP from day one
Yeah, np. pity it's just you me and a bunch of guys/gals cobbling together a mish-mash of notes scattered all over the forums here there and everywhere.
wouldn't it be cool if someone sat down without devs or GM/OPs or anyone official and wrote up why we call Jumpgate, "The Reconstruction Initiative" in a way even the layman can understand? (
mission statement
wouldn't it be neat if someone thought up a way to explain what *IC* meant to the layman? you know, stuff like "Why does TRI have a shitty economy and what's the reason behind calling the paramilitary branch of TRI pilot roster, "honor guard"? Why roids don't move...why alot of things that threaten *OOC* suspension of disbelief. (
Someone's already asking these questions; click me
wait wait. ..i'm already doing it. damn. Sorry, just watched the Bourne Identity so i'm kinda inspired i suppose *deep breath*
Okay, first off i have to admit if a n00b asked me straight up wtf "TRI" meant and what are we doing here i can fudge, but n00bs aren't dumb. they never were...we're just kidding ourselves if we babble semantics of what "Reconstruction" means...i mean, hell. all the n00b would be listening to is a Thesaurus. We sound like
when we try to explain the larger picture here in an *IC* way.
Damnit. i always get upset about this train of thinking. Okay, first off i've gotta look up a decent quote by shakespeare or mark twain or somebody talking about "Suspension of Disbelief" because otherwise it's just me and i don't pretend to have much imagination or wit. (i need some serious backup here)
*phew. omg right F'ing on! w00t! 1 easy simple entry on Quoteland.com ...blessed i am. okay morale doing good again. (god, i hate getting 200 entries of goop when i run a search)
"...so as to transfer from our inward nature a human interest and a semblance of truth sufficient to procure for these shadows of imagination that willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith."
~Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Chapter XIV of his autobiography, Biographia Literaria
Two centuries have passed since Coleridge nailed the idea. He got it as surely and neatly as Michael Jordan got a slam-dunk.
The idea was very much in the air of Europe at the time but Coleridge figured out how to say it in five words, words so well chosen that nobody needed to say it again or differently.
But what are these shadows, now lengthening, which if you look carefully have been there all the time? Shadows of doubt which if examined more closely seem to conceal abysses of ignorance and despair.
As one prominent figure wading through the bog recently put if: If objectivity is dead, then there�s no longer any question of who�s right; all that matters is who�s interesting.
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Now, i won't start asking stupid philisophic questions about quantum physics and how even real life needs suspension of disbelief....that's just stupid. Right now i can't even explain what role i play in a sci-fi space-sim MMOG called "JumpGate".
what character do i want to portray, but what role does my character play?
What role does TRI play?
More importantly, how do i explain this in plain english to a n00b who just asked me what "TRI" stands for and do it in such a way that the very explanation reinforces suspension of disbelief (ie. deconstructs the silly propaganda that said n00b is bound to have heard -- the "sound bites" -- the *pseudo-OOC* words told by fanbois who become rather blinkered in that everything that CAN be is the entirety of our JumpGate universe)
glossary: NLS = nearlightspeed (spaceships); FTL = fasterthanlight (starships)
first, we must deconstruct the 9 planets = 1 galaxy. what follows is that TRI pilots stop becoming movers and shakers of a massive reconstruction initiative, but elite genetically engineered test pilots [
read: crazed eunuchs
] who help to construct prototypes of a civilization's attempt at recapturing the glory of an empire that spanned a galaxy, not just 9 planets.
Next, we need to explain what steps are being taken with the technology we HAVE (
what's on the drawing board in R&D; ie. Capital Ships - multipilot starships with FTL capability)...that explanation must be *IC* of course.
just recently completed a synopsis of what methods "we" do have to gain strategic control in "our" galaxy. you can find that here: (click below pic for link)
next we need to point out that these pilots employed by an organization calling itself, "TRI", are not pioneers but highly paid throttle jockeys working for what is basically a glorified R&D section - A joint venture by three massive factional and very balkanized governmental empires paid for by taxpayers - now, the
pioneers are those folk out beyond the primary systems (there's hundreds if not thousands of heavily populated planets, only 9 of those are near stable anomalies) These pioneers who are lightyears from the nearest Jumpgate wait for TRI to finish testing the prototypes that R&D has released.
Next we need to explain the time scale here. TRI started recruiting massive amounts of test pilots
2-3 years ago, while the farflung pioneers have been developing NLS propulsion and their faction's empires for a thousand years ever since civilization moved beyond the thousand year "Dark Age" after "The Great Collapse"...
...what's more, FTL communications weren't possible until 400 years ago and that only because some rocket scientist figured out how to piggyback a signal through one side of an anomaly to the other using jumpgate pylons on either side...200 years ago the means to genetically engineer humanoids to survive an FTP trip using the jumpgates was discovered. (so, in a nutshell, pioneers within 200 light years have begun preparing for the day FTL starships free themselves of anomalies, thus ushuring in the new era...an era long since turned to legend might become a reality within a single generation)
(*OOC* i assume you've read
's story) So now we have Pioneers crewing NLS spaceships building the infrastructure for the return of the golden age. Okay, a n00b's gonna ask about who's in control. Is TRI some kind of hegemony ruled by some kind of "Caesar" or is TRI merely an R&D section of a shaky coalition between byzantine factional governments controlled by Megacorporations? (*OOC* i hope to Hamalzah and all that's holy NetDevil doesn't consider TRI pilots to be some Jedi Knight order in some kinda Space Opera)...Anyways, i'm going to assume the eleven Megacorporations control alot more than just the corner store of the stations servicing TRI. ALOT more.
alright, now i'm feeling better. So at this point in time i'm going to quote more excerpts from a magazine devoted to GDW's MegaTraveller's megacorporations.
The megacorporations or "megacorps", as they are also called, are organized much like any smaller company. There is a board of directors, a chief executive offier, a president or presidents, a host of vice-presidents and so on. The difference comes in the amount of oversight these high level officers have. For the most part, due to the distance and travel times, they only make general policy and assign long term goals and objectives.
[NLS comms outside of the systems near Jumpgates are the only way to communicate, except that this will change once the prototype "Subspace Transceiver" blueprints get transitted via NLS to the farflung pioneers in their spaceships and colonies far far away from any jumpgate.]
. For now, operation of the megacorp's divisions falls under a regional general manager (RGM) or other individual with a similar title.
An RGM may control only a fraction of the corporation's total assets, but that fraaction may amount to more power than that wield by local factional officials. While a small number of factional and local regulatory agencies have power over the megacorps, regional managers can conduct business pretty much as they see fit. One unwritten rules remains inviolate though -- direct confrontation with the Factional governments is expressly forbidden because of the effect it could have on business. Of course this only means that RGMs are a little more careful where violations of Factional law are concerned.
Megacorporations take advantage of local situations to increase profits, but at the same time, they would suffer from the effects of a fragmented "TRI alliance" if such a thing happened. It would become harder to move resources and finished goods across contested space in such a case. Factories, warehouses and other property would become the target of factional armies and navies, pirates and commerce raiders. Corporate infighting would give rise to nasty tradewars and terrorist actions. Individual systems would nationalize megacorporate property, insurance rates would rise dramatically, and financial institituions would be less willing to fund new or continuing ventures.
[Like the construction of Megacorporate owned Subspace Transceivers now underway.]
Lastly, markets would fluctuate as new factions came into being and new borders were established. In time, the cost of doing business would begin to outstrip revenues from war profiteering. For the first time in their history the meagcorporations might operate at a net loss. Events would just move too fast in too many places for them to adjust quickly enough
[even if "KTRI relays" were in place and FTL starships roamed across the entire galaxy.]
In essense, the fragmentation of each megacorporation would mirror the disintegration of the "TRI alliance" if it ever did so. And if the megacorps fragment, so would the galaxy's economy.
Okay, i have to stop. in order to continue paraphrasing this excellent fictional article i need. NEED to know from an official source how far Sarath V's fist/hand stretches beyond the 9 systems and the sectors adjacent to jumpgates. (hopefully PiuX or a real life MightyGame's CEO or something, i'll take a developer from NetDevil or GM_Moll from Themis Group)
APPENDIX (the scattered threads)
Uhm...i have a stash of links concerning *IC* versus *OOC* plus a host of other roleplaying related topics
, a more volatile one
, a vociferous one located
and a horribly eccentric one
...finally there's a self-combusting one
ADDENDUM (crossreferences)
MG rookie forum thread
PlanetNetDevil *ask a dev* query
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You might want to add this
I'm fairly sure we were more prolific explorers in the past, so rediscovering more of the close by universe would count as reconstruction.
And just generally building more things to expand and consolidate our inter system work. There are sectors now which have nothing in them except beacons and gates.
Assuming that what we lost in the Great Collapse relates directly to our technologies and inter-stellar structures, to recover that we have to really expand back into space, and research those technologies once more.
So we would need not just construction related to improving our lives as TRI pilots, but also construction which will benefit the planet-side population - resource collection (mining), increased trading capabilities (for inter faction goods which post collapse were no longer available), and technological research for all technology, not just for TRI pilots.
Since records on what was the norm before TGC are scarce, I'd prefer it if we measured reconstruction by what we've built and discoverd to benefit everyone. Just my :2c:
to your consideration. Despite the fact you may have forgotten you posted in it ;), even if you didn't say much constructive.
On the basis of that thread, and the lack of an official response then from MG, I think your answer will be along the lines of 'Um, that sounds about right, lets go with that'. The storyline, despite the fact that it is meant to be 3 years long, is (or seems to be) fairly lacking in the background detail of, say, the Star Wars or MechWarrior universes.
I think we'll find that the most convincing story is the one you write yourself - if the ND/MG devs don't have the time or inclination to make those calls, then perhaps we should be proposing background in some official form, and having them ratify it before integrating it into the official line?
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<3 much thanks for think!! weeeeeee
the US thread that inspired that thread of Daishi was a barely contained flame war from hell. (a wynar post about the lack of Faction Missions...FYI, there has not been a single damned FM since august last year - "Josh too busy, etc" for 6+ months. what? is he coding from a prison cell or something?)
...remember, i'm not asking the GM's "What have you done for me lately?" in a FM sense at all. More like i've taken the KTRI subspace transceivers (an old FM) and am running with it. I've run as far as i can go and i need to know the parameters because i'm pushing the edge of the envelope here and it's mighty cold and lonely in deep space.
Originally posted by GMHollis
The set of Quantar FMs to construct the Refuel Station and the armory in Quantar Gate was actually intended as reconstruction project. Repopulating space. The players didn't really welcome it, though. For quite some time after that, I had the opinion that any FM that won't have a direct benefit for the players would be slow, and perhaps not a good idea for the enjoyment of the game.
the reason players think buildings are lame is because Refuel stations don't recharge FFs, and Armouries don't sell missiles. (stuff like rocket pods might be a cool idea, but with POS arriving it's moot) ...Besides, with EP2 promising all the goodies i think talking about "TRI" being about the next "building"/FM is kinda facile.
How about we stop hearing, "
RP? crap! they want more FMs and events...maybe a news blurb on JOSSH about something NEW AND IMPROVED!?
" and start hearing "No, we aren't pulling stuff out our arse as we go along. there's a 3 year storyline. honest." and we start getting some answers to
questions like, "TRI's power beyond the jumpgates and 9 systems, compared to the factions/corporations is...<insert official answer>" or "KTRI subspace transceivers and other buildings were built because...<insert official answer>" or "The pre-collapse technology didn't work and we needed to rediscover an entire new paradigm, but the reason Artifacts
is because...<insert official answer>" or "The population of the entire TRI universe, compared to the 9 systems is...<insert official answer>" or "TRI corporations, beyond their 'general store' dept.s at stations, have power and autonomy that, compared to the factions/TRI is...<insert official answer>" or "TRI markets receive injections/infusions of base commodities without TRI pilots hauling in ore from a source based...<insert official answer>"
And how about military NLS spaceship fleets? Who controls these strategic assets? Does TRI have a NLS navy of it's own or is TRI merely an alliance of Factions? If TRI is more than just a figurehead "galaxy bureaucracy" and is an actual Hegemony, does TRI permit the factions to own or even get away with NLS naval conflicts, or does TRI even have a say in intersystem warfare as long as it doesn't impact the jumpgate sectors? Do corporations own naval forces, and/or are they allowed to form battle fleets...are they even permitted autonomy or are they nationalized? Furthermore, if Factional (and/or TRI) navies are maintained through taxpayers then how much influence do the corporations have? Who builds the NLS spaceships? Going further, if Corporations aren't private but public nationalized institutions are they themselves the Factional/TRI navies?? Finally, if TRI is some Uberpowerful galaxy dominating force, then what how stable is this empire?
Heretic has answered some of these questions,
, but until we get official word we're all pissing in the wind, aren't we? (BTW,
long ago made a decent stab at the arty question,
made a stab at station population,
yeah, i could decide what the answers are, but it IS their game and i tend to think that if i was the only one to have wrote something "answering" this question then i'd get really pissed later on if they decided that the opposite stance is the official one...Do you realize what a phenomenal waste of time this thread would be then? (yes yes, it's a joy to write and i'm happy to have a brain and to use it, but get real!) Besides, if they don't answer my question i'm going to be forced, on principle, to remove this from database forum and move it to the Fan Fiction forum.
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You're not preserving a link to the thread then? (Or not at least noting your scary admin powers by leaving an
edited by MajorFreak
note? :))
Anyhoo, I think you'd have to actually track down either an ND dev, or probably GMIsk in IRC, or some real time sense, so that you can actually ask them the question directly. I had hoped when Gloomash and the others started the JG Background projects, that they would be integrated into the official story somehow, hence the reason I jumped on board and pushed everyone so hard. But for all the encouraging posts by GMs/OPs, not once did they ever give the hint that our efforts might be used to flesh out the universe.
Because let's face it, if it's not accepted into the official storyline, and used in JOSSH (or at least linked), then it's just seasoned RPers telling stories to other seasoned RPers, and it all goes right past the noob's heads. :headbang:
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yeah. but, 1) i think "edited by muffy" would scare the unwashed masses away and 2) i don't know how to enable that flag. not to mention 3) look close at that quote i did. notice the link embedded in your name? 1337, yes?
lmao rofl
oh, and i think you agree with me about the fact we DON'T want n00bs to roll their eyes and stamp this thread and others with a big phat ugly
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Must learn to use my admin powers on the OV boards more often. :)
Anyway, there was a tendency to drift into speculation and random stuff on the JG Background threads, things like saying 'every station should have a DownTime area (poor quarter), etc.' Things that are quite fundemental and far reaching in the game, but made without justification. I was steering people away from things like that, which while required for fan fiction, were just more likely to discourage the powers that be from utilising any of our work.
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oh yeah, saying "every x should have y" is bound to turn off even the most stoic GM. lol. or DM.
Magic Missiles anyone?
Flash Animation
"We want THIS and THAT; we demand a share in that; and most of that; some of this; and fuckin ALL of that; less of that and more of this; and fuckin plenty of this; now then, we want it NOW; i want it yesterday; i want fuckin more tommorrow; and the demands will be all changed by then so fuckin stay awake"
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Have you mailed someone at MG (as I think the response from ND will be less than forthcoming)? They tend to ignore forum posts...
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This thread
gives some inkling as to ND's approach to player-written fiction. I'd say start writing it. I can't see ND spending time sanctioning (or more likely, damning) this sort of thing. Publish and be damned. If they label it as "fanfic", screw 'em.
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Well, I've been thinking about writing up a semi-official "backstory" for quite some time, and I've had some of the same misgivings I'm seeing here.
I've been writing quite a while, but I hesitate to put out work that a) Won't be used or b) be poo-poohed as "fanfic" and not used. If there were more depth to the factional backgrounds, or that of TRI, even, I wouldn't hesitate. As it is, it's so incredibly vague a canvas, that I sincerely hesitate just due to the massive complexity it would entail.
I love world building, but I know how labor-intensive it is. I'm thinking of doing a shortened version just for squad purposes, and sumbit it to Themis/ND and see if they like it. I don't know what kind of writing staff they have for some of this, and if they'd let us do it, I'd love to help them. But it all hangs on whether they *want the help* or not. From what I've seen, the answer would be "no".
I used to write quite a bit of RP material in short story form, and submit it to Themis, but all they've ever told me, when I do, is "that's cool! write more!" I get a little feedback, but only in a "fanfic" sort of way. *sigh*
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Muffy asked me to post here. His question was: "How far does Sarath V's power extend beyond the 9 planets and the sectors adjacent jumpgates?"
If you�re awake and sane, this will probably read like a bunch of gibberish. If you�re dead tired and lack caffeine, this might even make sense:
How does TRI government work, generally? You may notice there are lots of Bureaus and ministries, all of them TRI. Not many faction ministries, are there? We featured the Oct Defense Ministry, the Sol Corporate Board or the Quant High Council of Hamalzah every now and then in the news, but mostly it is TRI doing all the work in space.
Imagine if you will a slightly different version of the German government. In Germany, there are communes and cities governed by parties, then there are states (Bavaria, Sachsen, etc�) which may be governed by a completely different party, and then there�s the country, which may be governed by a third party or a coalition of parties. While the big ass country government may dictate global laws and regulations and employs ministries and committees, many things are left to states and cities. For example, the education system is in the hands of the states that can set their own specifications (which is why southern schools are much tougher than northern ones).
If you put that on the TRI galaxy, you have a galaxy-wide government with ministries and offices, dictating laws in space and governing the coalition of the three factions, the factions themselves are governed by their representatives, be it Tahir, Emperor or Prime Minister. The factions more or less govern themselves internally except in issues that concern TRI.
So if you ask how far the power of Sarath V, head of TRI, extends, I�d be inclined to say that technically he is the head honcho of regulated space and all planets and stations within. His position is not one of a mere representative president more that of the German Chancellor. All space that is considered �regulated� is under his jurisdiction. As for the planets and factions themselves, Sarath most likely cannot set opening hours for bars on Kapenja or gun restrictions on Ares Prime.
I hope that was understandable and sufficient. 8P
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I didn't think of that...I was thinking more along the lines of foreign heads of state answering to a "world government" (or EEC to take your analogy further)
Muffy asked me to post here. His question was: "How far does Sarath V's power extend beyond the 9 planets and the sectors adjacent jumpgates?"
If you�re awake and sane, this will probably read like a bunch of gibberish. If you�re dead tired and lack caffeine, this might even make sense:
How does TRI government work, generally? You may notice there are lots of Bureaus and ministries, all of them TRI. Not many faction ministries, are there? We featured the Oct Defense Ministry, the Sol Corporate Board or the Quant High Council of Hamalzah every now and then in the news, but mostly it is TRI doing all the work in space.
Imagine if you will a slightly different version of the German government. In Germany, there are communes and cities governed by parties, then there are states (Bavaria, Sachsen, etc�) which may be governed by a completely different party, and then there�s the country, which may be governed by a third party or a coalition of parties. While the big ass country government may dictate global laws and regulations and employs ministries and committees, many things are left to states and cities. For example, the education system is in the hands of the states that can set their own specifications (which is why southern schools are much tougher than northern ones).
If you put that on the TRI galaxy, you have a galaxy-wide government with ministries and offices, dictating laws in space and governing the coalition of the three factions, the factions themselves are governed by their representatives, be it Tahir, Emperor or Prime Minister. The factions more or less govern themselves internally except in issues that concern TRI.
So if you ask how far the power of Sarath V, head of TRI, extends, I�d be inclined to say that technically he is the head honcho of regulated space and all planets and stations within. His position is not one of a mere representative president more that of the German Chancellor. All space that is considered �regulated� is under his jurisdiction. As for the planets and factions themselves, Sarath most likely cannot set opening hours for bars on Kapenja or gun restrictions on Ares Prime.
I hope that was understandable and sufficient.
So any factional warfare in the past would have been seen as a 'Civil War' then? I mean, we have
TRI an it's bureaucracy ["Federal"] with probably a 'Praetorian Guard' and other multifactional elite forces (like TRI testpilot roster)
Factional TRI ministries ["States"] responsible for <levying/mustering/drafting/recruiting> the 'Regular TRI military fleets'
Sector ["Borough/County"] non-TRI factional governments controlling the day-to-day operation of interplanetary system operations like 'Colonial/Reserve military fleets'
Then, of course, you have the Planetary Governments that in some cases are probably completely 'Balkanized'...most likely the only TRI presence would be consolute, embassy and recruiting centers, except for the "State/Federal" Capitals.
Okay, so the only way you'd get a scenario where a Factional 'Regular' military force would be seen as autonomous and powerful enough, would be a mutiny/revolt/coup attempt.
I'm assuming the complete lack of any mention of Corporate influence on the military situation is because it's
? (ie. has become unstuck in a very unfunny way; what politicians call, "Dynamic" and what military folk call, "Snafu/Fubar" and what your average citizen calls, "Typical. Bloody typical"
Let's say, for the sake of argument that each of the three factional "States" can set regulations because the distances between each faction is so large that 'Capital Flight' and other ways corporations can coerce governments is cost prohibitive.
Corporate entities are entirely nationalized.
Corporate entities are not unlike *OOC* conventional situation...a high level of privatization, but corporate assets aren't considered "Extraterritorial" (ie. still under factional law/regulation)
Corporate entities ARE the factional regulatory body, the factional bureaucracy and the solrain military 'Regulars' might swear feilty to TRI but they all wear uniforms that would make *OOC* professional sports athletes blush. (walking adverts; get yer minds out of gutter)
Corporate Entities are "Extraterritorial" and beyond the regulatory reach of the government. (ie. *OOC* "Shadowrun" analogy) A faction that allows it's corps to maintain paramilitary and even it's own "microgovernment" so to speak.
We don't even know what they freakin look like
"Corporate Entities? where!" :eats:
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Depends on whether you count depriving us of weapons a corporate influence on the military situation. In the past, the companies have been happy to let us all kill each other,
except when their production was involved
. Hence the Hyperial Rush production battles - the Octavian government was fighting (militarily, in space) to get production facilities controller (nominally) by the Hyperial producers. The Hyperial producers were screaming bloody murder at TRI, who attempted to stop the Octavians from keeping control of some production.
HAH! Fools! No mere corporation can stand before the might of the Empire!
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Courtesy of Ask the GM, response from GM archon.
<b>Question:</b> How far does Sarath V's power extend beyond the 9 planets and the sectors adjacent jumpgates?" (assumption being the TRI "universe" spans a single galaxy) - MajorFreak<br><Br>
<b>Answer:</b> Sarath V's power is perhaps best understood by analogy to that of the General Secretary of the UN. As head of the only governmental body in interstellar territory accepted as legitimate by all 5 factions, he has considerable legal power over all of regulated space. However, the fact that Sarath V, like the UN, has no standing bodies of troops to enforce his dictates sharply limits his practical power over the various factions. <br><Br>
For more information, I refer you to GM Moll's comments at
"The price of Freedom, Is eternal Vigilance"
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from republican to kgb agent in less then a year!! wtg!!!
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. As you can see both servers have radically different ideas on what TRI bases it's power -
- and as long as these two sides don't start waffling (not talking about future developments; in reality, with enough official RP [arch0n say, "Iteration"] the balance of power could shift) we've got a decent base to build on.
The US server has apparent jurisdiction over anything outside of a planet's atmosphere. Now, since they have no standing army (*OOC* UN forces are "lent") they're about as effectual as a limp noodle beyond the universe JG pilots can reach. Oh, FTL travel and communication, once it gets past the prototype stage, is highly desired by every faction & corporation and
's power isn't weak at all - take the 2nd GVB wars won by Quantar TRI pilots swinging the advantage - Besides, the three main factions are practically Superpowers in their own right. (*OOC* visions of cold war era)
Yeah. "Cold War Era" theme for US server...As for corporate power? see my earlier post. basically nothing's changed as far as my ideas on corporate influence for each faction, except one change,
"...solrain regulars swear fealty to
their faction
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"The price of Freedom, Is eternal Vigilance"
TexMurphy wrote:
from republican to kgb agent in less then a year!! wtg!!!
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uh huh...we interrupt this program to clarify that muffy retracts the earlier thanks and replaces it with, "Thanks for doing what i asked for, now go fetch me my slippers" (maybe you should like edit your post with a disclaimer that says, "under duress" and whine and cringe about the egomaniacal tinpot dictator that muffy has always been and it's nice to see him show his true colours by pretending you actually LIKE coming here)
rofl lmao Drat!
teee heeee...omg i'm such a stinker
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