EVE Corporation - Page 880

On November 22 2011 22:18 KwarK wrote:
A man walks into a private members club. In the entrance hallway there is a description of the club and its ethos, a list of rules, requirements for members, achievements, general tips for members and a description of membership and recruitment policy. He walks past these without reading them. The halls are filled with the history of the club, newspaper cuttings of the success of members, recollections of great moments, the story of the cluib and its members throughout the years. The man skips past these, instead strolling into the lounge where a dozen old friends are sitting around in armchairs, sharing a fine Scotch and smoking cigars. He flops down amongst them as the conversation buzzes around him, people relating their experiences of the day to each other, and then suddenly says "so, does anyone still come here?". The conversation pauses as the assembled group consider this question. "Yes" would be the obvious answer but the very act of answering validates the assertion, regardless of the words. To look deeper the asking of the question to the assembled room would seem to answer itself, the question "does anyone hear me?" can never be answered with a "no", the answer can only be affirmative or no answer at all. The room fell into stunned silence until KwarK cut through the paradox like Alexander at Gordion, the simple expression "idiot" echoing Alexander's sword stroke.

All this went above the head of the stranger whose complete lack of understanding spawned indignation. Rising to his feet he declared to the room at large "if you're going to be so rude then I won't join your club, nor will I let you car pool with me in my Fiat Panda. More fool you, I got it second hand with interest free credit and I'll have it paid off in four years". Again the room falls into stunned silence. Each and every one of them is a highly educated, highly affluent professional, all individually capable of sustaining their own life of luxury while membership of the club grants them access to the privileges of obscene wealth, access to vast amounts of easy credit, insider trading information, cheap access to goods and expert knowledge on every field. Stockbrokers, lawyers, hedge fund managers, directors in large multinationals, politicians and master thieves share a collective sigh. The stranger seizes the moment and steps up his assault crying "and I see not one of you is wearing a chunky 12ct gold chain around your neck, can't you afford one?!?".

BBQ is the first to react, admitting the collective failings of the group in their effort to between them achieve a single gold chain. The man had a point, not one gold chain between them. His dry wit was lost on the stranger who again tried to seize the initiative. Assured that his point was made he asked when his membership card would arrive so he could be a part of the group.

Finally the chairman has had enough and explains to the realities of the situation to the stranger. That his approach was both disrespectful and idiotic, that he interrupted a conversation between people detailing their activities that night to ask if anyone was there, that he ignored the work and effort put in by members to help people such as himself, that he acted as thought he instructions in the OP did not apply to himself and instead approached a group of his betters like a spoiled child claiming an entitlement. That his offer to car pool did not make him special to a group with access to private jets and that he was a supplicant and an outsider whose arrogance was both misplaced and unwelcome.

The stranger paused as he attempted to process the verbal assault. The collective group waited breathless to see his response to the explanation of his place in their house. Several minutes passed as the man stared aimlessly into the distance, his lips silently mouthing words as his brain struggled to process this new information. However the task proved too difficult and his brain rebooted itself, seizing a fact it was familiar with and uttering it with renewed certainty. His back straightened and he announced to the room "I have a car!".

The room responded with silence as the group collectively rolled their eyes. It was clear he didn't, or rather couldn't, understand.

Sensing his words may not have had the intended effect the stranger continued stating "I moved out of my parent's house and I've fed myself for over three years!". As he looked around the dimly lit room he noticed a lack of awe in the faces of the assembled men. He didn't notice that many of them were considerably older than him, nor that all of them were in expensive fitted suits and brand name accessories. The fact that several of them shared surnames with large multinationals was lost on him. Having not deigned to read the description, ethos or rules of the club before inviting himself he was completely unaware of his faux pas, twice a victim of his own arrogant assumptions. However he was beginning to notice the hostility with which several of the members responded to his claims. Unable to comprehend his error he couldn't possibly understand its cause and, suddenly feeling defensive, he withdrew.

On November 23 2011 00:11 DiracMonopole wrote:
Yesterday I concluded another scam.

I read this thread: https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=23217

tl;dr, someone got suicide ganked in an untanked t1 hauler and dropped 4B worth of plex in jita. This person put a 4B bounty on the guy who SGed him.

Now, its easy to fake killmails, Ive done it before, but the contractor demanded API verification! What to do, what to do. Aha! We run our own killboard! After asking the admin, he agreed to flag whatever kills I wanted as API verified.

So I then contacted the mark, and negotiated him into paying out the entire worth of the ship, instead of only isk destroyed. He agreed. I also told him that Galen Oskold (the "target") does ninjaing, and I would use this to bait him. I then got him to probe down my highsec macha pilot, who killed him. http://hatchery.me/kills/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=1953

Except that alt has absolutely nothing trained.

The mark was very pleased with my kill, and after looking at the mail, asked me to verify it on battleclinic. Oh no, I am undone!

Or the mark is a very special kind of stupid. I made up a conspiracy theory.

He accepted this argument and paid me 1.5B

A few weeks later, I went and made another killmail. This one I fucked up a few times, since the T3s are a bit more complicated, but the killboard admin deleted my first attempts.

http://hatchery.me/kills/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=2413

I mailed the mark again, and after a bit of a delay, he sent me 3 plexes as payment. The delay was because I had told him there were tears, which he wanted, so I had to fake them. The contract against the suicide ganker is now completed, with me taking about 3.7B of the 4B total.

Harari victor!
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On November 23 2011 02:31 Zedd Althor wrote:
A quick google search on Ivan Krukov turned up the following.

Post 99 in this thread:
http://eve-search.com/thread/1113824-0/page/4#99
"I myself am a corporation thief as well. Props to you Maddan." - Ivan

And looking at his corp history, I was in AWE corp with him several years ago, and if I remember correctly he was also kicked for corp theft.

On November 23 2011 02:31 Zedd Althor wrote:
A quick google search on Ivan Krukov turned up the following.

Post 99 in this thread:
http://eve-search.com/thread/1113824-0/page/4#99
"I myself am a corporation thief as well. Props to you Maddan." - Ivan

And looking at his corp history, I was in AWE corp with him several years ago, and if I remember correctly he was also kicked for corp theft.

On November 23 2011 03:23 motbob wrote:
When no one was looking, Ivan Krukov took forty rifters. He took 40 rifters. That's as many as four tens. And that's terrible.

On November 23 2011 03:53 Zedd Althor wrote:
I think the more pressing issue is "how will our fleets survive with out the rifters?"

On November 23 2011 02:31 Zedd Althor wrote:
A quick google search on Ivan Krukov turned up the following.

Post 99 in this thread:
http://eve-search.com/thread/1113824-0/page/4#99
"I myself am a corporation thief as well. Props to you Maddan." - Ivan

And looking at his corp history, I was in AWE corp with him several years ago. If I remember correctly he was also kicked for corp theft.

On November 23 2011 09:40 Firebolt145 wrote:
Self-admitted corp thief, history of flying with our enemies, comes in and is completely oblivious to the surr--

Oh wait, you can fly caps?!

Come in, good sir!