One thing I'd say is that from a UK / EU perspective on WoW this requirement IS NOT very well known.

Most players don't read the forums, and quite a lot don't visit the http://www.wow-europe.com/ homepage (the EU equivalent of the www.worldofwarcraft.com page)

You'd expect them to have an annoucement on the wow login page - but no there's just Free-Server Transfers there.
You'd expect them to have an in-game notice - but no there's just stuff about fake/hack alpha-beta for Cata.

Come Nov 12th Blizzard are gonna have a heck of a lot of players going "WTF" "why have you locked me out" etc etc on the forums and a shed-load of phone calls.

1/2 Impulse is NOT 0.5-C

Impulse maximum speed is dependent on the vessel's Impulse drive, a combination of fusion-reactor(s), a driver coil / accellerator, and a vectored thrust output. These create a vectorable (steerable) thrust of plasma, effectively a plasma rocket.

The speed available depends on the power (of the impulse drive) vs weight (of the vessel).

Examples of season episodes (thus CANON) give speeds of anywhere from 2.5% lightspeed (for a shuttle "TNG:Suspicions") up to 66% lightspeed for a long range survey starship (Voyager "VOY:Fair Haven").

So some idiot is buying my stuff and reposting it at a higher price?

So I get the gold and the try to resell my original sale for uber-high prices.
If its too high it won't sell.
I just resell more items at higher and higher prices untill the "price fixer" stops buying my stuff.

The market effectively prices the price-fixer out of business.

Dr Doom's homeland is LATVERIA
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latveria

not Latvia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latvia

My mistake apparently it was 90 containers.

For those who want to know:

A standard 40foot long container (the ones you usually see on flatbed units in Europe) is

12m long (approx) (exact 12.192m)
2.5m high (approx) (exact 2.438m)
2.5m wide (approx) (exact 2.591m)

volume is 67.5 cubic meters
and can hold a dry max volume of 26,600kg (26.6tons)

So it would appear that someone filled up 50 odd containers with mixed non-shippable waste.

Inevitably the people who have a vested interest in SALE of new textbooks are the people who use thier own textbook as a lecture/coursebook.

I saw this a lot during my years at University, where several lecturers would bring out a new variation every one or two years. We'd all get the "you'll benefit from the extra notes and of course be able to sell the book onto next year's class" and then find out after buying it that the lecturer revised the book slightly every year.

Anyone with the previous edition of the coursebooks had small but inevitably annoying missing information.

With regard to complex projects and over-expectation of users, the answer is to drop it on the desks of the management.

That means for each project you have to produce a Terms of Reference and get the users to agree to it. Then schedule the work in and allow the upper management of the business to agree to it before you start.

That way the implementation schedule for any project is the responsibility of the business management NOT you!

With regard to policy violation .. wipe their computers clean and install a base image every time you find a voilation.
Works wonders here.

Before investing in Carier Pigeon NET I suggest you acquaint yourself with the following

RFC1149 A Standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams on Avian Carriers
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1149.html

I Kid You NOT!

Of course with all this twittering about doing backups to tape (or other removable media) and offsiting them , or using over-the-net offsite backkup, the one thing that hasn't been mentioned is the need to TEST YOUR BACKUPS!

I've been in the industry for 20-odd years now and have come upon some managers of small companies wailing "but we backup!"

Backing up using two tapes, swapping between them every day, never examining the logs, and using the same DAT tape for 5 years is NOT a solid backup strategy.

You need to examine the backup logs on a daily (or summary weekly) basis.
You need to swapout media after reasonable life.
You need to have a retention cycle that is longer than LEGAL requirements.
You need to have a rotation cycle that is bigger than your short term and medium term estimated restoration requirements.
You need to keep your backup OFF SITE and no that doesn't mean on a shelf in the garage of a manager.