Well, it looks like it's good news and bad news to me.
The good news is that they want you and don't want to let you go.
The bad news is that they can't afford your salary at the moment.
The problem is that based on what you wrote, you didn't leave them wiggle room for negotiation. It was a take it or leave it deal from my POV.  From their prespective, you might be #1 to get picked, but the price you want would be too high. If they go to #2 who is 90% of your capabilities but costs 10-20k less from what you're asking, who would they pick?
It'll be your decision on whether you want the job ot not. If you do want it, you may want to email back to that HR immdiately thanking here for allowing you to be interviewed and as a side note, mention that you were impressed with what you seen in the company, enough to negotiate. After all, if they're willing to pick up the transportation tab in whole or part as a perk, it would make a good starting point for negotiations.
Just remember Bob, just like fishing..it's the one that got away!
Some movement on my part. Three of the applications I placed for OSHA was "referred for further consideration". Which meant it made the first cut by the HR folks and it's on it's way to the hiring authority.An amusing note is that the grade I'm being  considered seems to be all over the place, even when I sent the same answers to all positions. One of them was at GS-5, two at GS-9 and the other one which is till at GS-11 but I haven't confirmed it yet.
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Into terror!,  Into valour!
Charge ahead! No! Never turn
Yes, it's into the fire we fly
And the devil will burn!
- Scarlett Pimpernell

All right, for thoes of you who have gotten to play with the new Ultra mode, What are its system requirements? I'd like to max out COH's graphics when it comes out so if anyone could tell me what i'll all need to upgrade (Besides graphics card) it would be appriciated.
Windows Vista 'Home Premium' 32 bit Operateing system (..fucking vista >.>)
 Quad Core 2.4 Gig
3 gigs of Ram
8600GTS
if any more information is needed/wanted...I'll try to provide as asked.

I got the link to this article from the Wednesday issue of my thrice-weekly emailing of interesting tech stories from the ACM:  a utility program that effectively lets you "unlock" application interfaces to rearrange or revise them to fit your own preferences or needs.  http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/5 ... nt-article]Article here.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

Anyone been to Google yet this morning?  Or maybe I should say... Topeka?

-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

284.
The truth revealed!  And Fate was oddly lackadaisical about security for this op.
...They put her in the damn haircut.  And she remembers it all.  This is graveness and it isn't even signature time yet.
...HUNDRED years?!  Hold the phone!  NOT NEGI'S AUNT.  SHIPPING RESUMES IN FIVE, FOUR, THREE...
I was right!  The first meeting with Nagi wasn't the capital disaster, that happened later.
Anya the Meido.  What depths she has sunk to.
And Asuna is BACK.  Screw the dark past, she's awesome!
Okay.  Total genocide because that's the only fair option.  What a bastard.  Someone get Simon in here to punch some courage into him!
The survivors would be transported to real-Mars.  Yeah, not good.  And I think we all can see where that event leads.
...And to top it all off, Fate is operating on HEARSAY that the Perfected World exists.
Yeah, this is a great plan.  Nothing could possibly go wrong.
Negi?  Scrap his ass.
--Sam
"Absolute power is a sticky wicket."

Villain Plan by Mids' Villain Designer 1.621
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Click this DataLink to open the build!
Lithium Cell: Level 50 Magic Brute
Primary Power Set: Electrical Melee
Secondary Power Set: Electric Armor
Power Pool: Leaping
Power Pool: Fitness
Power Pool: Fighting
Ancillary Pool: Mu Mastery
Villain Profile:
Level 1: Charged Brawl

• (A) Crushing Impact - Damage/Endurance/Recharge
  
• (9) Crushing Impact - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance
  
• (23) Crushing Impact - Accuracy/Damage/Recharge
  
• (39) Crushing Impact - Damage/Recharge
  
• (39) Crushing Impact - Damage/Endurance
  

• (A) Impervium Armor - Resistance/Endurance
  
• (3) Impervium Armor - Resistance/Endurance/Recharge
  
• (3) Titanium Coating - Resistance/Endurance
  
• (11) Titanium Coating - Resistance/Endurance/Recharge
  
• (29) Aegis - Resistance
  

• (A) Touch of Death - Damage/Endurance/Recharge
  
• (7) Touch of Death - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance
  
• (23) Touch of Death - Damage/Recharge
  
• (37) Touch of Death - Damage/Endurance
  
• (39) Touch of Death - Accuracy/Damage
  

• (A) Titanium Coating - Resistance
  
• (5) Titanium Coating - Endurance
  
• (5) Titanium Coating - Resistance/Endurance
  
• (11) Titanium Coating - Resistance/Endurance/Recharge
  

• (A) Luck of the Gambler - Recharge Speed
  
• (7) Luck of the Gambler - Defense
  

• (A) Obliteration - Chance for Smashing Damage
  
• (9) Scirocco's Dervish - Chance of Damage(Lethal)
  
• (13) Eradication - Chance for Energy Damage
  
• (15) Armageddon - Chance for Fire Damage
  
• (15) Multi Strike - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance
  
• (17) Scirocco's Dervish - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance
  

• (A) Titanium Coating - Resistance
  
• (13) Titanium Coating - Endurance
  
• (43) Titanium Coating - Resistance/Endurance
  
• (46) Titanium Coating - Resistance/Endurance/Recharge
  

• (A) Run Speed IO
  

• (A) Springfoot - Endurance/Jumping
  

• (A) Resist Damage IO
  
• (17) Resist Damage IO
  

• (A) Numina's Convalescence - +Regeneration/+Recovery
  
• (19) Numina's Convalescence - Heal
  
• (19) Numina's Convalescence - Heal/Endurance
  

• (A) Performance Shifter - Chance for +End
  
• (21) Performance Shifter - EndMod
  
• (21) Performance Shifter - EndMod/Accuracy
  

• (A) Mako's Bite - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance/Recharge
  

• (A) Obliteration - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance/Recharge
  
• (25) Obliteration - Accuracy/Damage/Recharge
  
• (25) Obliteration - Damage/Recharge
  
• (37) Obliteration - Accuracy/Recharge
  
• (40) Obliteration - Damage
  

• (A) Touch of Death - Damage/Endurance/Recharge
  
• (27) Touch of Death - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance
  
• (27) Touch of Death - Damage/Recharge
  
• (37) Touch of Death - Damage/Endurance
  
• (40) Touch of Death - Accuracy/Damage
  

• (A) Doctored Wounds - Heal/Endurance/Recharge
  
• (29) Doctored Wounds - Heal/Endurance
  
• (31) Doctored Wounds - Heal/Recharge
  
• (34) Doctored Wounds - Endurance/Recharge
  

• (A) Obliteration - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance/Recharge
  
• (31) Obliteration - Accuracy/Damage/Recharge
  
• (31) Obliteration - Damage/Recharge
  
• (40) Obliteration - Accuracy/Recharge
  
• (43) Obliteration - Damage
  

• (A) Obliteration - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance/Recharge
  
• (33) Obliteration - Accuracy/Damage/Recharge
  
• (33) Obliteration - Damage/Recharge
  
• (33) Obliteration - Accuracy/Recharge
  
• (34) Obliteration - Damage
  
• (34) Endurance Reduction IO
  

• (A) Efficacy Adaptor - Accuracy/Recharge
  
• (36) Efficacy Adaptor - EndMod/Accuracy/Recharge
  
• (36) Efficacy Adaptor - EndMod/Recharge
  
• (36) Efficacy Adaptor - EndMod/Accuracy
  
• (46) Efficacy Adaptor - EndMod/Endurance
  

• (A) Recharge Reduction IO
  

• (A) Thunderstrike - Damage/Endurance/Recharge
  
• (42) Thunderstrike - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance
  
• (42) Devastation - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance/Recharge
  
• (42) Devastation - Accuracy/Damage/Recharge
  
• (43) Devastation - Damage/Endurance
  

• (A) Positron's Blast - Chance of Damage(Energy)
  
• (45) Positron's Blast - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance
  
• (45) Positron's Blast - Damage/Range
  
• (45) Positron's Blast - Damage/Recharge
  
• (46) Positron's Blast - Damage/Endurance
  

• (A) Positron's Blast - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance
  
• (48) Positron's Blast - Damage/Range
  
• (48) Positron's Blast - Damage/Recharge
  
• (48) Positron's Blast - Damage/Endurance
  

• (A) Impervium Armor - Resistance/Endurance
  
• (50) Impervium Armor - Resistance/Endurance/Recharge
  
• (50) Titanium Coating - Resistance/Endurance
  
• (50) Titanium Coating - Resistance/Endurance/Recharge
  

• (A) Empty
  

• (A) Empty
  

• (A) Empty
  

ABC News: http://abcnews.go.com/Health/Wellness/b ... d=10243784]Brain's Moral Compass Shifted With Magnets

Basically, MIT researchers were able to turn off people's morals by applying magnetic fields to certain parts of their brains. (For example, the response to a hypothetical event that could have killed someone but didn't was changed from "that could have been bad so don't do that" to "no harm, no foul".) When the fields were removed, the subjects' morals returned.

Miniaturize the gear so its wearable, put it in mass-produced helmets, and issue the helmets to your loyal underlings, and you've got an less-moral goon squad... No wonder the stereotypical Evil Overlords issue helmets with the uniforms they supply to their henchmen. Or force the henchmen to buy, for truly evil Evil Overlords.

(In Fenspace, this is obviously Boskonian standard-issue equipment. In an In Nomine game, Vapula's been busy...)
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

Ulta Mode is so pretty...

Positron Task Force is still a little glitchy, but there was a notable lack of a million Ruin Mages charging in to violate us.

Squee?
http://goingrogue.na.cityofheroes.com/e ... ideos.html

I give you the CW-AEC02X Strike Cannon.  Look upon it and weep. 
(A translation is here.)
As far as I can tell by reading the forums, this is legit.  And awesome.
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Stand between the Silver Crystal and the Golden Sea.
"Youngsters these days just have no appreciation for the magnificence of the legendary cucumber."  --Krityan Elder, Tales of Vesperia.