I'm an American and I have a hard time understanding anti-Americanism, especially among the educated. The war in Iraq was justified by saying that we'll take down a dictator who was trying to commit genocide and presented a threat to our national interests.
While there's a lot of opinion about what Bush and Co. knew and didn't know, there's nothing definitive; besides, Saddam had the factories and labs to produce WMDs.
My problem stems from this: we've sent troops into foreign wars many times, including both world wars. The justifications are similar between Iraq and World War 2. Where's the benefit of the doubt for a nation that's saved Europe a couple of times? Why all the hatred for a country that gives large, large amounts of money to third world nations?
(and for those who think this is off topic, it's mentioned in the summary)
The article actually examines whether or not open source projects tend to have competition. It's not a matter of whether open and closed source applications compete, it's whether you create your own competitor when you open your source code. For the most part the author concludes that you don't.
However, in many instances this is not the case. KDE and Gnome, for example, compete a lot and fiercely at times. The author's point is that, once a really good app comes out, often it dominates heavily and no competition appears.
combined with the fact that EVE's developer team is much more hands-off with regard to player-to-player interaction And here I thought that they'd gotten in trouble for their developers being too hands on.
One of the reasons, if not the chief reason, that rape is so absolutely horrible is that the victim has no choice. They're powerless to do anything against this monster who's forcing them to do something that's normally very intimate. In Second Life, where's the intimacy? Where's the powerlessness? If real rape could be handled by a few power switches or a task manager then it wouldn't be nearly as bad as it is.
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Thanks for not making it anti-US. Very eloquent.
I'm an American and I have a hard time understanding anti-Americanism, especially among the educated. The war in Iraq was justified by saying that we'll take down a dictator who was trying to commit genocide and presented a threat to our national interests. While there's a lot of opinion about what Bush and Co. knew and didn't know, there's nothing definitive; besides, Saddam had the factories and labs to produce WMDs. My problem stems from this: we've sent troops into foreign wars many times, including both world wars. The justifications are similar between Iraq and World War 2. Where's the benefit of the doubt for a nation that's saved Europe a couple of times? Why all the hatred for a country that gives large, large amounts of money to third world nations? (and for those who think this is off topic, it's mentioned in the summary)
The article actually examines whether or not open source projects tend to have competition. It's not a matter of whether open and closed source applications compete, it's whether you create your own competitor when you open your source code. For the most part the author concludes that you don't. However, in many instances this is not the case. KDE and Gnome, for example, compete a lot and fiercely at times. The author's point is that, once a really good app comes out, often it dominates heavily and no competition appears.
Google pays to be the default search engine.
One of the reasons, if not the chief reason, that rape is so absolutely horrible is that the victim has no choice. They're powerless to do anything against this monster who's forcing them to do something that's normally very intimate. In Second Life, where's the intimacy? Where's the powerlessness? If real rape could be handled by a few power switches or a task manager then it wouldn't be nearly as bad as it is.
The reason it's generic is that every other game copied it.