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I didn't think he was an 800lb gorilla so I went to google to find an image of him. I found some, but when I went to the first site it was taken down by "Vast Right Wing Conspiracy".

I guess he is an 800 lb gorilla.

You can choose to manage a country (think dictator) or become a bigshot CEO of a multi-national (sorry to say but microsoft is already active in the world, maybe AOL Time Warner is free?)

It is still under development, so be aware that things might look strange from time to time. It is activly developed by 4 people at this time

Currently they have 3 worlds active and around 6000 players. And they did not do a lot of advertising.

If you are realy good at the game they even reward you with cash via PayPal.

You can ready an interview with the creator of this game, Jossi Gil at Brassknuckles

Sounds to me like project leaders grasping at any possible straw to keep their baby alive. (Actually, I approve of this one. I just hope the baby is born, and finds its way back into civilian space.)

Personally, because of this aspect alone, I think the whole thing is a good idea. Other people posted that once we have the first space-based (sub-orbital or not) weapon we're going to have to develop more weapons (in space) to combat other people's weapons (in space). Think Fighters/Bombers.

I've recently read a few good books about the Gemini and Apollo era of space exploration, and the one common theory I've seen in all of the books is, "America needs an idea or threat to organize around- like the Manhattan Project or the Apollo Progam- to do anything of significant import to great ideals." (Not having to do with their immediate lives).

What this means, is if our population is suddenly worried about what type of missle carrying satellite China just sent up the population will support weapons reasearch and deployment. NASA had a budget of 5,000,000,000 during the height of Apollo because the public cared. If it does again more advances in space will be made.

Also, the ramifications of this would not only affect the military, because space, at the moment, is only NASA's domain. If the Air Force or whomever wants to launch missiles (heavy payload) they're probably going to need NASA's help. This means NASA gets money to research rockets, launching platforms, and whatnot. Every advance made for the military also helps the exploration of space in general.
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People Are Sheep

When Pericles (the monkey) landed his ship, and here's why:

Leo (the man) couldn't land his ship correctly at all. Can you believe this? He and the monkey go through the exact same thing (the storm I mean) and then TWICE Leo screws up. He's an idiot.
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People Are Sheep

I remember when Swirve had someone like this in their forums. This person spent 8 hours a day + for weeks spamming messages off of the forums, encouraging other people to do the same thing, getting upwards of a 100 different log ins, and constantly posting messages attacking the mods and creator of the game. This person literally spent so much time stirring up trouble that I believe they actually changed the way their forums worked to help get rid of her. Getting rid of people like this isn't stifling free speech, it's a service to everyone else who uses the boards....

Archfiend - Brass Knuckles Webzine

While I see the point, I'm wondering whether that makes whole "patent (my method for) doing something obvious" any less sinister. You have to wonder just how many different ways there are to index the net. Knowing nothing about AltaVista's internals, I could probably come up with a way that's close enough to get their lawyers grinning. And if Megacorp X's lawyers came after Joe User (or even a Minicorp with a lot of competitive potential), what do you think would happen?

Regardless of anything else, the more noise we make about silly patents, whether or not all of that fear is justified, the more likely we are to get people thinking about changing the system. And there is certainly no shortage of truly bad patents -- and lawyers itching to enforce them. The infamous Amazon.com "One-Click Patent" is one example we all know.

On a somewhat-related note, I just came acrooss tet another example of Megacorp sending a truckload of lawyers after some little kid: Hasbro vs. Dinobot.org. (From the we-wish-we-had-registered-that-domain-first file.)