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Sindobook:
No. These are largely marketing efforts designed to get or draw attention. Otherwise, they are meaningless. Just ignore them.
In 2005 the XPSL would regularly host tournies with prize money in the $10K to $40K range. At its height, it hosted a masters tournament with a price tag of roughly a million dollars that included a $100K payout. The money for these payouts came primarily from sponsorship, something that the XPSL had a lot of (several major manufacturers, a magazine, and so on).
These numbers are minuscule compared to popular sports, but they were unlike anything that the rather small extreme sport's 'pro' teams had ever seen. Every year the numbers would increase, culminating in 2006-2007 until in 2008 when the XPSL just suddenly disappeared off the rader. By the end of 2008, the parent organization of the XPSL had declared bankruptcy, as did another league, the NPPL.
Today, barely two years later, the name XPSL is virtually unknown. Few have even heard of the defunct league, no one remembers the cash awards or the teams that won their tournaments. The difference between the XPSL and other leagues (ie. NPPL) was the prize money, but despite that, the hundreds of thousands of dollars dispersed in prizes bought them little more than an obscure and often forgotten footnote among practitioners of the "sport".
http://thetaoteching.com/taoteching13.html
Sindobook:
Don't worrey, it gets asked a lot.
There's really no consensus among small animals. Or let me rephrase that, there is a consensus in that no one knows what to think or cares to think too heavily about it.
Mikey's long-term security planning group, aka. the "forward looking action team" met over the weekend but the response was just 'meh'. The team decided to take a position of NEUTRAL. Pig F, who took over "the pig's" gambling / odds setting organization, has set odds at 1:1, meaning payout yield is 2:1 minus the premium (actual formula is discussed on the website). Small animals wishing to place bets can do so at their local commissionary and/or branch office.
I should also mention that in the budgetary part of the meeting, there was a symbolic / balloon motion to allocate agency resources to 'get to the hind end of the matter', but it was denied in favor of another motion to increase the bulk purchase of Oxbow 'cavy cuisine' from a local bulk supplier.
After Mikey's meeting, Samantha released the official statement: "This is a forward-looking matter of concern, but it is not one that requires immediate addressing. At this point, there are too many conflicting reports, too much questionable information, and really nothing solid to go off either way. Even if we investigated further, it would be a sucker's game to try to predict the way things would go at this point. This one's really up in the air, so just keep your paws together[1] and we'll figure this one out in due time."
[1] A saying among bunnies that is roughly equivelent to "be patient".
One hour after I posted this, I got some more news. Mr. Sparkles reported that two of his bunny friends, bunny "R" and bunny "D", have stated they will be there. Shortly after, Samantha has stated that several members of the Bunny Brigade will deploy as an expeditionary force. So go figure.
Sindobook:
1) Friday:
At 6pm, a small animal meet and greet will be held. At 7pm, the Small Animal Commissionary / Branch Office will be trading popular items, bring your unwanted small animal items like pigloos, bunny hutches, or ferret items to trade.
Saturday:
At 1pm, there will be a small animal tea party[1].
[1] Political/Conservative "Tea Party" Activists are NOT WELCOME. This is NOT A POLITICAL EVENT.
More is in the works, please hold on.
2) Most people I know today use the ABCDS phonetics, that is, Aztec, Brick, Can, Dorito, Snake.
a) Can, Standup, Cylinder
b) Brick, Laydown
c) Dorito, Taco
d) Aztec, Temple
e) Snake
f) X (standing up)
g) X (on the ground)
h) Moon
3) I've been asked multiple times about the post on February 15.
There's still nowhere near a consensus. But that is the way it looks like things are leaning. "R" and "D" aren't exactly small fry in the world of bunnies, or small animals, and most do take notice when something like that happens. And Samantha was able to give that order to the Bunny Brigade because there were bunnies basically ready or waiting to go there anyways.
But in all honestly, it's hard to tell. Day to day, small animals can be very fickle, they can be latched onto one thing and suddenly forget about it tomorrow or change their mind just like that. In a few months, people will look back and this will either be 'the beginning of the tipping point', or it will be a small blip that didn't make any difference in the overall scheme things. But right now, there is just no way to know.
4) http://www.youtube.com/user/TwWwIsTed#p/u/6/rhGQr3zPPk0
Appears briefly at 2:37.
5) No, and this has been verified, "Pinkbunny" is not a bunny, or pink, or any kind of small animal at all, for that matter.
6)
Friday:
7pm Swap meet
Saturday:
11am Vocaloid
12pm Pokemon
1pm Small Animal Tea Party
2pm Final Fantasy
7:30pm Masquerade
1am Rum Party
Sunday:
12pm Fashion Show
1pm Cosplay Chess
7) Actual intelligence 'is really sparse', according to Mikey. But, what information does exist, one general theme previals. While sympathizers do exist, they do not exist in large numbers, they are easily overshadowed by the bad apples (2:1) and systemic or structural problems.
"I wouldn't bet on it.", explains Mikey, "No matter how you split a rotten apple, it's still rotten."
Sindobook:
On March 11, 2011 (Friday), Samantha gave the order for full mobilization of the bunny brigade. March 13 (Sunday), the entire brigade of roughly 270 bunnies was fully mobilized, and I'm told they all arrived safely yesterday (Monday).
Mikey will continue to oversee day-to-day security in the area. To compensate for the absence of the brigade, local forces were joined by about 20 bunnies from the Joint Tactical Lepus Alliance to the north. This group is headed by Ollie, please direct all local bunny brigade correspondence to him instead of Samantha.
No word on the length of the brigade's deployment, but I do expect it will be quite long.
Sindobook:
1a) Annually, it would be $200,000.00, seeing as how he was hired in September and made roughly $50K that year. And, since he is only listed as working 20 hours a week, that would be about 16 weeks in the year of 2009, meaning his hourly pay comes out to $156/hr. As expected, this is somewhat in line with typical wages for an executive of that stature hired on a consulting basis for an organization of that size.
1b) Travel expenses increased a little, but these costs aren't broken down so it's hard to see who they were spent on. Possibly, next year's filings will tell more.
1c - all speculation) For 2010, his pay would be on the order of $150K (since he left in September 2010). His contract probably lasted a year, at the end of that year his pay was to be cut to only $100K annual instead of $200K. A NPO that compensates an employee in excess of $100K or more has to fill out all this additional paperwork, and even more paperwork if that compensation is in excess of $150K. It ends up looking bad, ie. like they are less of a volunteer-based organization.
2) One is being planned 'on each day'. That means 4 in total, and probably at the same time of day. I think it's revenge for all attacks on UT/VO as of late. It's not going to stand down, it's not going to go away, it's going to keep getting bigger and bigger and there's nothing anyone can do about it.
3) Confirmed, and at the ______ festival too. You didn't hear it here.
4) I don't. I just shoot what's there. Honestly if it comes down to it, you could say I'm a practitioner of 'no-style' or absolute minimalism. If it looks 'bright and happy' that's just because, that's how it was. Granted most things I do, they're 'bright and happy' things.
Technical fundamentals help you cope with limitations in the instrumentation, such as limited DR. That's honestly all I do, I'm not trying to dress up what I see in some novel or unusual, novel, or artistic way.
5) It's done, I'm not just posting it here. Too many stalkerz out there.
6) I've read the reports. The snake will be present on Saturday, for certain, but is labelled as 'no danger' at this time as he is operating alone. Mikey advises to identify him by his (somewhat distinctive) appearance, not his special item, as he is not always using the latter all the time. I suspect that he may be present on Sunday also, but that is just my suspicion.
If you want to talk to him, please be cautious, always outnumber him 3:1 at all times and watch for any sudden moves in your direction. If you need assistance, feel free to grab a few members of the Lepus Alliance, they shouldn't be that hard to find in those distinctive uniforms.
7) The small animal(s) in question do not show up in any files. I checked against every possible match I could find. Nothing came up. They're unknowns. Mind you this isn't too unusual, there's a lot of small animals out there and most aren't in any kind of file.
8 ) It sounds nasty, I'd stay away, really there is no point to it. Things like that can only go one way, they're never 'for the best'. Even if you are into that kind of stuff, you should be asking 'what happens afterward'.
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