thatmorrowguy

This right here is one of the fundamental misunderstandings of labor unions. In Labor's hey day, it wasn't the few unionized primadonnas demanding things at the expense of all of the un-unionized grunts, it was ALL of the Labor vs. Management. If game programmers, game artists, game QC, or game writers wanted to unionize, they would probably get the full support of SAG-AFTRA in their negotiations with the producers and development houses.

It doesn't have to be that the voice actors are getting more than their fair share, it's just that they're the only ones bothering to stand up and demand it.

Admittedly, I'm not anywhere near the industry or the negotiating table, but from the articles I've read, the latest proposal was for secondary compensation to not even take effect until 2 million units had been sold, with a cap of 8 million units.

This is much less of a case where they are trying to screw the relatively few voice actors on a very small number of blockbuster games. It's mainly a case where they are trying to hold the line against developers unionizing and demanding the same treatment.

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/video-game-voice-actor-strike-labor-issues

At least if you call the police first, they'll probably just send a single patrol car around for a welfare check rather than getting your door kicked in and pets shot by SWAT.

There are plenty of ways to abuse such a pledge.

I like candidate A, so I make a whole bunch of pretty crappy ads for candidate B, forcing candidate B to give a bunch of money to charity rather than spending it on campaigning. Sure, B got some free promotion, but you can blow a lot of money on ads that aren't very effective, or even ads that are ostensibly for candidate B, but really are a turn-off for them due to how bad they are.

Wait until after the last FEC fundraising reporting deadline to publish the major ad campaign. By the time the fundraising report comes out, the election is already over.

Really, this isn't something that could be sustained unless the candidates themselves were willing to push back on their own supporters and tell them to stop.

It can be really damned difficult to keep private information from leaking - particularly if someone can completely MitM your connection (like would be happening if they are running the exit node). Panopticlick is a project by the EFF to determine just how anonymous your browser is. If it is unique or nearly so, and they later manage to find that same browser signature doing non-anonymous things, there is good reason to believe they may be the same person. In addition, since they are the man in the middle, there's plenty of different browser and javascript bugs that it's theoretically possible to inject a virus into any non SSL encrypted page, and force your PC to phone home exactly who and where you are.