Sounds good, I fully agree with your reasons and support a re-merge.

Saint Plazma-

I'm betting you can't belch the ABC's

For me...let's see;

1) I was in the military.
2) I prefer skydiving to bungee jumping.
3) I love going to nude beaches.

FYI

http://www.complianceweek.com/facebook-berates-employers-for-invading-employees-online-privacy/article/233735/

Happy birthday Mate, and Zep thats not nice :P im already called grandpa by my younger gay friends. B)

Wish I had read this yesterday. I logged on to STO to find that my account had been hacked. All of my gear and EC are gone from my main ships. Waiting to hear back from Cryptic to see what can be done. All I can do now is change all my passwords (including my e-mail just in case).

Arg this makes me so mad. I really hope karma comes back and bites the ones responsible.

Happy Birthday "Old" Man! Have a good one! ;)

Hi everybody,

I would like to let you all know that we have finally found a down-side to having two Republic guilds and so, as promised, I am opening up this issue again to get the opinion of everyone.

It seems that the guild banks which are coming in the next week or so (with the 1.2 update) are going to be expensive. Our Resources Officer, KiddKasper, has done some research on the test server and it looks like the first bank tab will cost us 600,000 credits and the price will increase with each subsequent tab. This would be expensive for us as we need to treat all three in-game guilds equally and open up bank tabs at the same time in each guild.

The reason we had to create the Soldiers of Stonewall guild so quickly without a chance to get everyone's input was because we had only 15 character spaces in Knights of Stonewall. We have now begun to remove "unknown" characters (those who have not put their username in their member note) and we are planning to start removing any character which has been inactive for more that 60 days. This will decrease the number of characters in the guilds and remove the urgent need for more space, also the ongoing 60 day inactivity limit will hopefully keep the number of characters in-game below the 500 limit for the forseeable future. We couldn't do this before as we hit the limit within the first month and all the characters were "active".

Contrary to what some people think, we have only lost a small number of members from the guild since launch and the real reason for our inactivity is that our current members are taking a break from the game or have decided not to play anymore. However they have mostly decided to stick with our community and still play with us in other games. We have also never put much effort into actively recruiting outside our website and the SW:TOR site as we did not want to look like we were poaching from other guilds (although I think we were the first one formed in the GLBT community). We will begin active recruitment to ensure that we can keep the guild as active as possible from now on, and we just hope that we are not too successful as we were before, lol.

Therefore, I will get to the point... We would like to re-merge the Soldiers of Stonewall guild's characters into the original Knights of Stonewall guild on the Republic side of the game. As well as allowing us to focus on fully paying for the guild banks in KoS and LoS, we hope that the ability for members to use the in-built "guild" chat function will solve some of the socialising issues (expecially the bugs that randomly kick people from the Kos channel).

What do you all think?

Zepari

Thanks guys :)

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I can see this in some circumstances, but I know it also serves a useful purpose in others. For example, a credit check is step 1 of obtaining a government (DOD/DOE) security clearance. The reasoning behind this is that foreign or nefarious entities could use this as a leveraging tool against you to acquire top secret information. "Bad credit? Hey, we'll give you LOTS of money if you give us this measly bit of information." I would imagine it would be a similar case with any other company with proprietary secrets (i.e. the recipe for Coca-Cola). Even then, though, that's why they have a full investigation process to your background and take many things into account before approving or denying. I've known of people who had bad (maybe not awful, but certainly not stellar either) credit to get their clearance. I would hope that companies that do the same thing would at least have a reason for running a credit check and having enough checks and balances in place to reasonably deny an otherwise qualified person employment.

That's along the same lines that bared gay people from working for the US Government for decades, ie if people found out they were gay, they could easily be blackmailed into giving up secret information. (See: The Pink Scare) If people are going to be a security risk, then that's the sort of thing that should show up in background checks and personality screenings.

Why would a company even take a chance on someone with bad credit? They have no obligation to be nice and give the person a job anyway. They can just turn down the applicant and move the the next candidate, specially in an economy like this.

Happy Birthday, Chief!

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My big problem is with employers doing credit checks before hiring someone. Many times it gets people into vicious cycles that they can't escape. You loose your job, so you can't pay your bills, so your credit goes down and then you can't get a job, to pay your bills, because you have a bad credit. I feel that that three digit number has way too much control over our lives. It's scary to think that up to a few decades or so ago, you weren't event allowed to check on your credit score or know what was dragging it down.

I can see this in some circumstances, but I know it also serves a useful purpose in others. For example, a credit check is step 1 of obtaining a government (DOD/DOE) security clearance. The reasoning behind this is that foreign or nefarious entities could use this as a leveraging tool against you to acquire top secret information. "Bad credit? Hey, we'll give you LOTS of money if you give us this measly bit of information." I would imagine it would be a similar case with any other company with proprietary secrets (i.e. the recipe for Coca-Cola). Even then, though, that's why they have a full investigation process to your background and take many things into account before approving or denying. I've known of people who had bad (maybe not awful, but certainly not stellar either) credit to get their clearance. I would hope that companies that do the same thing would at least have a reason for running a credit check and having enough checks and balances in place to reasonably deny an otherwise qualified person employment.

Happy Birthday...it's time for your spankings!

Happy Birthday Nick!!

Our Fleet Admiral has a birthday today. Happy Birthday Nick!

My big problem is with employers doing credit checks before hiring someone. Many times it gets people into vicious cycles that they can't escape. You loose your job, so you can't pay your bills, so your credit goes down and then you can't get a job, to pay your bills, because you have a bad credit. I feel that that three digit number has way too much control over our lives. It's scary to think that up to a few decades or so ago, you weren't event allowed to check on your credit score or know what was dragging it down.

IDK I'm going with the 5 year or the LEO the contract roller derby would be awesome.

1. I attended UNM Emergency Medical Services Academy
2. It's disgusting but I can belch the ABCs
3. I've dated a former model

I personally LOVE the Temeraire series by Naomi Novik.

Its takes place during the Napoleonic wars. Everything is the same as history tells us except there is a pretty significant twist. Dragons exist, they talk, and they serve as the waring nation's "air force". There are 6 books so far, and I think there are going to be several more.

I highly recommend them, especially if you are an animal person.

Izzy

Thanks so much for all the recommendations. There are several suggestions you all made that I plan on pursuing as well. And also you inspired some fun memories, like the mention of Robert Asprin. I was a huge fan of the Myth series back in the day. That thought lead to the fun I had with the Thieves World and Wild Cards collaborative novels. Ah, nostalgia. I wonder if there are series like that anymore.

I just bought: '1Q84' by Haruki Murakami. I'm excited because I've really enjoyed some of his other books.

The reviews for book 4 and 5 of the Game of Thrones Series are pretty meh, so I am avoiding that for now even though I absolutely loved the first 3.

I could also go for a neuromancer-ish novel at the moment. Maybe I'll check in on his more recent books.

Oh, and I downloaded the two Thomas Hardy books since they are free! Great review Qiqjoe!

I still would enjoy a well written queer sci-fi or fantasy novel if there was one to be found.

Perhaps all hope is not lost:

Senators ask feds to probe Facebook log-in requests


"Employers have no right to ask job applicants for their house keys or to read their diaries -- why should they be able to ask them for their Facebook passwords and gain unwarranted access to a trove of private information about what we like, what messages we send to people, or who we are friends with?" added Schumer (Charles Schumer D-N.Y.)

Episode 564 - Voyager - "Counterpoint" - 12/16/1998

http://www.allstepisodes.com/megvid.php?n=4510

While passing through Devore space, Voyager is routinely searched for telepaths.

Enjoy!