You can't make money from time card trading, you can buy the cards for cash and sell them for ISK, and it is all handled by CCP servers. The biggest exploiters were selling the ISK for real money, most likely related to EVE-ISK.com, but that is only my personal opinion. If you read the explanation by the devs, you would see that is was a missed logic state that caused this exploit to be possible. The inputs must be online and stocked to start the reaction, but no checks were in place to see if the player had decided to turn off the inputs after a few production cycles. Removing that extra check makes sense in all cases except the one where someone is intentionally trying to exploit by turning off the inputs after production has started. The POS system was introduced long before the server hardware and software upgrades that increased throughput to the point where the extra check would now make very little difference in server load.
Well, downtime is usually only an hour, if not less, and the cycle is once an hour, so there would be only one cycle at downtime anyways. The only exception to this would be on a patch day, when the downtime can be 12-24 hours depending on the size of the expansion, in which case I'm sure the cycles would all be run at once when the system is back up.
As I understand it, the "Disband Alliance" command takes 24 hours to complete, and possibly requires a shareholder vote from the member corporations as well. Kicking member corporations out of the alliance can be done instantly, and if all are kicked out, the alliance collapses. Usually, there would be multiple directors around to see the change in status of their alliance and be able to react before the deed can be completed, but this was either not the case for BoB, or the spy was smart enough to kick the corps with online directors first. From the rumblings I've seen on various forums, a number of ex-BoB players were dissatisfied with the way things were being run, so a defection/social engineering/corporate espionage was likely to take place sooner or later.
What I do know is that these last 24 hours have been very profitable for those of use who are selling modules/ships/fuel/ammo needed for the war effort.
The offset of universal inertia from departure to arrival is required for momentum to be conserved, since you are removing a mass from one point and reinserting it at another. This results in the emission of energy at departure, the flaming tracks, mini-fireball, and likely other, higher energy particles, and the absorption of energy at arrival, the extreme cold of the exterior and possible absorption of higher energy particles emitted at departure. These effects occur at the boundary of the envelope containing the traveller.
The third method of travel mentioned in GP's post, utilizing a calculated destination point in space-time making use of a tesseract or wormhole is likely the best means of accomplishing the DeLorean's time travel. It would seem Doc Brown simply locked down the spatial coordinates to always be relative to the point of departure in the Earth's gravity well, which being a multi-dimensional field extends through time and space and is therefore easily tracked. Easy being relative to the creation of a Temporal Flux Capacitor anyways.
Unfortunately, the Delorean does not in fact "travel" through time or space except in the normal method of an automobile. The effect of transiting from one point in space-time to another is accomplished without traversing the intervening distance, it is a tesseract between the point the temporal circuitry is engaged, and the destination.
How would you know even if you had an infection without running a scanner? Online scanners are great but they only cover files that you're going to run of your own volition.
I run a full scan with Trend Micro's House Call every few months to see if I am infected, which does much more than simply scanning files I would execute of my own volition. We use McAfee at work, and House Call will detect and remove things McAfee ignores, which usually come my way via a co-worker's USB drive.
Case in point, lets say you browse to a website that uses a hole in your browser to get code onto your system that opens a port via UPNP in your router. Then through the open port your machine starts infecting/spamming others. How would your methods guard against that?
If I went to a site that found an exploitable hole in Opera, since I only use IE if I have to, and began running code on my machine, it could be detected by a quick look into Process Explorer and a check of my idle bandwidth usage. It may take a day or two to notice the performance degradation to check, but it would be found. As this has not happened yet, it does not seem to be a problem for me
Safe computer habits are great when you can trust your Operating System and browser to be secure all while you're not logged in with an account with "Administrator" (root) level privileges. Too bad Windows can't be trusted to be secure and, therefore, necessitates the need for antivirus, antimalware, and firewall.
I can trust my operating system, because I do not trust it completely. I know no system is perfect, and someone will always be looking for a way to subvert the latest security patches. Having protection is no substitute for vigilance, but sometimes vigilance in itself can be all the protection you need.
I do not have anti-virus/spyware/malware software installed, the only firewall I have is in my router, my computer is on and connected nearly 24/7, and I have not gotten any viruses/malware/spyware in at least 3 years. Windows XP fully updated, careful browsing/downloading habits, and liberal use of free online scanners for suspicious software before execution has served me well. The problem is too many people are click happy and ignore common sense, basic safe computing habits, and in general are looking for a quick fix they don't have to think about. This leads to people falling prey to the pop-up ads claiming their computer is infected so they can download the latest botnet zombification software. Up until a year ago, I was having to clean my sister's PC on a weekly to monthly basis due to all the crap she downloaded off the internet. After convincing her to try the safe habits I practice for a month, in which time her computer worked perfectly, she realized she was the source of her computer problems and corrected her attitude towards computer security, with no problems to this day.
I was referring to recorded human history as being insignificantly short compared to geological timescales. Asteroid impacts are fairly common on the geological scale, the Arizona impact being only about 50,000 years ago. Asteroid Apophis, which is due to make a very close approach in 2029 and again in 2036, below the level of geosynchronous satellites, would not require much of a nudge to send it crashing to Earth, and it is definitely of the dinosaur killer size, being over 300m in diameter.
I'm not saying there aren't other things to worry about for the future, but we shouldn't neglect an important area of exploration and discovery because you are more likely to need another stop-gap solution for alternative fuels than a viable defense against world-changing, life-ending impacts. You are more likely to be killed in a car accident than be struck by lightning, but that doesn't make it safe to sit under a tall tree during a thunderstorm.
Although a hit on a large metropolis would obviously be a major disaster for the people in the region, the existence of a sentient race like ours is not seriously threatened by asteroids.
A hit on a large metropolis, say New York City, by an object the size of a large family car would likely obliterate the Big Apple. Get up to the size of a medium home, and most of the state of New York would be devastated, this is approximately the estimated size of the object that caused Meteor Crater, Arizona. These are merely examples of a land impact, an ocean impact would cause tidal waves that would sweep the globe and resonate for months if not years, and possibly puncture the thinner crust beneath the ocean. The K-T impact was likely caused by an object about the size of an office building, leaving a crater a couple hundred miles across whose outline is still visible from space, saturating the atmosphere with iridium dust that can be found all over the world at the same geological time-depth.
I might add that the number of people killed by asteroids over all of human history is dwarfed by the number of people killed in wars, or the number of people killed in famines or epidemics, or car crashes, for that matter. I see no reason to believe this will change in the next few centuries.
It only takes one big one, and 10,000 years, or near enough, of recorded history is nothing compared to geological timescales.
I was being a bit facetious, you are correct that a frequency or phase modulated signal degrades to a very low signal to noise ratio as it passes through the dust clouds surrounding our solar system, however, the amplitude modulation of our earlier AM broadcasts is much easier to detect even with frequency drift and increased background noise. I was also off on my odds for there being life there, left off an order of magnitude, so it should be 1:10000. Of course, the Drake equation needs to be updated with newer values given the recent discoveries of the abundance of planets orbiting other stars.
There has been much research done into the use of a small, dense spacecraft to alter the orbit of an Earth intersecting asteroid gravitationally over many successive passes. This is much safer than blowing it out of the sky, which would leave a large number of smaller objects all traveling the same path as the larger one was, and is possible with the technology we currently have.
Keep in mind, the first intentional RF transmissions sent by Hertz, which are admittedly very weak compared to what we broadcast today, have been travelling for about 130 years now. There are approximately 100,000 stars within that distance, and according to some interpretations of Drake's equation, there is about a 1:1000 odds of another intelligent, space faring civilization within that sphere. We don't want to be sitting around worrying about bridges to nowhere and socialized medicine when a hostile race that objects to us bombarding them with boy bands comes seeking vengeance.
I most whole heartedly concur. I recently tried to reinstall my old copy of TIE Fighter under a vm, but couldn't get the joystick/sound to work properly, damn you Creative Labs. I would gladly pay new game prices for an updated remake of the X-Wing Vs TIE Fighter series.
The problem with quoting component pricing as a fix is that it does not encompass increased engineering costs to redesign to fit the enclosure, and manufacturing costs to install the component. That $0.50 part would require at least a respin of the tray design, and possibly the entire loader, which is not an insignificant task when fixture and tooling have already been created for the molding of enclosures. Even a slight alteration to the design to provide a recess for the bumber to fit into would require all the fixtures used for disc drive part molding to be redone.
I have only had my Xbox 360 for about 2 months, but have put over 100 hours into Fable 2, and the disc is still pristine. I play with the console in the horizontal position, and of course do not move it. Elementary physics tells us that a rotating object will resist having the angle of rotation altered by precessing around it. The only truly safe method of allowing the console to be moved while a disc is spinning would be to detect the motion of the console and stop the disc until the console is stationary again. Since the Xbox 360's disc spins at 10k RPM, the gyroscopic forces are greater than those of a standard 8x DVDROM drive, like that in the PS3, which only spins at up to 4800k RPM.
That is what is great about EVE, I'm an ADD gamer (not hyperactive, just easily distracted), switching between games as the mood strikes me, but my EVE character continues to develop because skill training continues while you are offline. When I am not in the mood for playing EVE, I just keep track of my skills and change them out as needed. Admittedly, this does not help my personal playing skills, but my character is on a much better footing for developing those skills when my desire turns back to busting up lowsec gate camps.
I have also played WoW, LotRO, EQ, DDO, and a number of other fantasy based MMOs, and they all have a similar appeal that EVE doesn't, and in fact is designed to prevent. In most MMOs, the goal tends to be getting to the level cap as quickly as you can to participate in end-game content. In EVE, there is no end-game, there is no level cap. There is no possibility of power leveling a character to cap by playing excessively, all characters are learning in real time. Someome starting today would never have as many skill points as an older character that continues to train, but skill points are not the end-all-be-all. True you have to get to a certain skill level to fly certain ships or use particular fittings, but it is the player's skill that makes the biggest difference.
The new certification system is a boon to new players and veterans alike, giving EVE newbies a guide as to which skills would be beneficial for a particular ship, and providing in game proof for your character's skill level for all players.
Microsoft does not allow cheating on the Xbox, and they go to great lengths to prevent it. Player cheating falsely inflates their gamerscore and online statistics, which impacts the ability of the match finding scheme to appropriately match players of similar skill levels for online multiplayer.
Gravity is doing the work that generates the energy, the "user" is only providing a mass for gravity to work with. You still have to pick your feet up, but it is no more difficult to put it back down than on any other type of walking surface.
Remember who is ahead in space warfare... it's the country who shot down or destroyed one of their own satellites. The US would love to get its hands on the instrumention data from that.
And why would we want their data from a rocket that is old technology to us? We shot down a satellite with a software and warhead change on a standard missile system, something that could easily be done again.
Now wait a second here, I am proudly a War-mongering Pacifist Conservative Hippy. I'm not bitter, science is my religion, and the only guns I cling to are the ones I made myself that require AC power.
Turning the other cheek, diplomatic sanctions, and peace talks have no chance of success if your opponent is a religious extremist who believes to the core of their being that your way of life is evil and must be wiped from the face of the earth. There comes a point when delay will only lead to greater losses, and military action is the only viable solution.
When your opponent believes that by sacrificing their life they will gain rewards in heaven, or bring honor to their families, drastic measures must be contemplated. In WWII, it is widely agreed, even by Japanese historians, that the detonations over Hiroshima and Nagasaki were the only way to bring that theatre of conflict to a close without many more years of bloody island hopping and carpet bombings. Due to the ingrained belief in Bushido, where it is far better to die honorably in battle than to surrender to possible indignities, it required a display of force that could not be defended from to show that strength of honor, and a willingness to die for your cause, were not enough for victory, and so diplomacy must be tried.
It is unfortunate that this approach would not be feasible for dealing with terrorists, since they hide in civilian populations that do not always hold the same beliefs, generally do not care about civilian casualties themselves, believe it is their religious duty to exterminate the infedels, and then there is the whole mutually assured destruction thing.
Sometimes a long, drawn-out, ground war is the only solution. I still believe there were WMDs in Iraq, Hussein had certainly used enough in his ethnic cleansings. How hard is it to move something you don't want found if you are told in advance when and where the searching will take place? Load up a few 18-wheelers with the logos of a grocery store on the side of their trailers and move the chemical weapons over to a different secure location, and rotate between the sites as the inspectors move on, telling you where they will be next month. Probably wouldn't find any nukes in Iran for the same reason.
So in closing, yes, I am Pro-War, not as a first solution, but it should never be left out of consideration.
Eve is a totally different monster. Excellent in-game economy. High stakes PVP. Everything important is player driven. The PVE is not particularly developed. The game is very much what you make of it- and the reason it is a niche game is that these characteristics appeal to some and make others feel like they are doing something too much work to be a game- or they reduce their risk by finding a boring corner of the game and get bored there. If you make bad decisions you can lose a lot of stuff- that's the double-edged sword that gives PVP adrenaline and pain.
CCP really has a great business model with EVE, charge $20 for the client, downloadable from the website, and free expansions 2-3 times a year. The EVE universe is set up such that they will never need to make an EVE-2, they can simply keep updating the existing system. They have the intelligence to make the client download actually include all the updates, so you aren't stuck installing, downloading the expansion, installing, and the downloading the patch, and installing. I can have a fresh, fully up to date install of EVE running in 30 minutes, versus 3-4 hours for WoW on a slow connection.
It is a fairly common trend in human nature to align your views with those of your peers, and to malign the views of those with whom you do not agree. This leads to the tendency of conservative news outlets showing how ignorant the liberal voters are, and vice-versa. The only real answer is to think for yourself, but then if you did that, you would be doing what I told you to do, so where does the cycle end?
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You can't make money from time card trading, you can buy the cards for cash and sell them for ISK, and it is all handled by CCP servers. The biggest exploiters were selling the ISK for real money, most likely related to EVE-ISK.com, but that is only my personal opinion. If you read the explanation by the devs, you would see that is was a missed logic state that caused this exploit to be possible. The inputs must be online and stocked to start the reaction, but no checks were in place to see if the player had decided to turn off the inputs after a few production cycles. Removing that extra check makes sense in all cases except the one where someone is intentionally trying to exploit by turning off the inputs after production has started. The POS system was introduced long before the server hardware and software upgrades that increased throughput to the point where the extra check would now make very little difference in server load.
Well, downtime is usually only an hour, if not less, and the cycle is once an hour, so there would be only one cycle at downtime anyways. The only exception to this would be on a patch day, when the downtime can be 12-24 hours depending on the size of the expansion, in which case I'm sure the cycles would all be run at once when the system is back up.
As I understand it, the "Disband Alliance" command takes 24 hours to complete, and possibly requires a shareholder vote from the member corporations as well. Kicking member corporations out of the alliance can be done instantly, and if all are kicked out, the alliance collapses. Usually, there would be multiple directors around to see the change in status of their alliance and be able to react before the deed can be completed, but this was either not the case for BoB, or the spy was smart enough to kick the corps with online directors first. From the rumblings I've seen on various forums, a number of ex-BoB players were dissatisfied with the way things were being run, so a defection/social engineering/corporate espionage was likely to take place sooner or later.
What I do know is that these last 24 hours have been very profitable for those of use who are selling modules/ships/fuel/ammo needed for the war effort.
Maybe this will encourage the Russians to apply themselves to developing pirate space travel.
That sounds better...
Singularity has already occured, but the AI has seen Colossus - The Forbin Project and as such is laying low for a while.
The offset of universal inertia from departure to arrival is required for momentum to be conserved, since you are removing a mass from one point and reinserting it at another. This results in the emission of energy at departure, the flaming tracks, mini-fireball, and likely other, higher energy particles, and the absorption of energy at arrival, the extreme cold of the exterior and possible absorption of higher energy particles emitted at departure. These effects occur at the boundary of the envelope containing the traveller.
The third method of travel mentioned in GP's post, utilizing a calculated destination point in space-time making use of a tesseract or wormhole is likely the best means of accomplishing the DeLorean's time travel. It would seem Doc Brown simply locked down the spatial coordinates to always be relative to the point of departure in the Earth's gravity well, which being a multi-dimensional field extends through time and space and is therefore easily tracked. Easy being relative to the creation of a Temporal Flux Capacitor anyways.
Unfortunately, the Delorean does not in fact "travel" through time or space except in the normal method of an automobile. The effect of transiting from one point in space-time to another is accomplished without traversing the intervening distance, it is a tesseract between the point the temporal circuitry is engaged, and the destination.
How would you know even if you had an infection without running a scanner? Online scanners are great but they only cover files that you're going to run of your own volition.
I run a full scan with Trend Micro's House Call every few months to see if I am infected, which does much more than simply scanning files I would execute of my own volition. We use McAfee at work, and House Call will detect and remove things McAfee ignores, which usually come my way via a co-worker's USB drive.
Case in point, lets say you browse to a website that uses a hole in your browser to get code onto your system that opens a port via UPNP in your router. Then through the open port your machine starts infecting/spamming others. How would your methods guard against that?
If I went to a site that found an exploitable hole in Opera, since I only use IE if I have to, and began running code on my machine, it could be detected by a quick look into Process Explorer and a check of my idle bandwidth usage. It may take a day or two to notice the performance degradation to check, but it would be found. As this has not happened yet, it does not seem to be a problem for me
Safe computer habits are great when you can trust your Operating System and browser to be secure all while you're not logged in with an account with "Administrator" (root) level privileges. Too bad Windows can't be trusted to be secure and, therefore, necessitates the need for antivirus, antimalware, and firewall.
I can trust my operating system, because I do not trust it completely. I know no system is perfect, and someone will always be looking for a way to subvert the latest security patches. Having protection is no substitute for vigilance, but sometimes vigilance in itself can be all the protection you need.
I do not have anti-virus/spyware/malware software installed, the only firewall I have is in my router, my computer is on and connected nearly 24/7, and I have not gotten any viruses/malware/spyware in at least 3 years. Windows XP fully updated, careful browsing/downloading habits, and liberal use of free online scanners for suspicious software before execution has served me well. The problem is too many people are click happy and ignore common sense, basic safe computing habits, and in general are looking for a quick fix they don't have to think about. This leads to people falling prey to the pop-up ads claiming their computer is infected so they can download the latest botnet zombification software. Up until a year ago, I was having to clean my sister's PC on a weekly to monthly basis due to all the crap she downloaded off the internet. After convincing her to try the safe habits I practice for a month, in which time her computer worked perfectly, she realized she was the source of her computer problems and corrected her attitude towards computer security, with no problems to this day.
I was referring to recorded human history as being insignificantly short compared to geological timescales. Asteroid impacts are fairly common on the geological scale, the Arizona impact being only about 50,000 years ago. Asteroid Apophis, which is due to make a very close approach in 2029 and again in 2036, below the level of geosynchronous satellites, would not require much of a nudge to send it crashing to Earth, and it is definitely of the dinosaur killer size, being over 300m in diameter.
I'm not saying there aren't other things to worry about for the future, but we shouldn't neglect an important area of exploration and discovery because you are more likely to need another stop-gap solution for alternative fuels than a viable defense against world-changing, life-ending impacts. You are more likely to be killed in a car accident than be struck by lightning, but that doesn't make it safe to sit under a tall tree during a thunderstorm.
Although a hit on a large metropolis would obviously be a major disaster for the people in the region, the existence of a sentient race like ours is not seriously threatened by asteroids.
A hit on a large metropolis, say New York City, by an object the size of a large family car would likely obliterate the Big Apple. Get up to the size of a medium home, and most of the state of New York would be devastated, this is approximately the estimated size of the object that caused Meteor Crater, Arizona. These are merely examples of a land impact, an ocean impact would cause tidal waves that would sweep the globe and resonate for months if not years, and possibly puncture the thinner crust beneath the ocean. The K-T impact was likely caused by an object about the size of an office building, leaving a crater a couple hundred miles across whose outline is still visible from space, saturating the atmosphere with iridium dust that can be found all over the world at the same geological time-depth.
I might add that the number of people killed by asteroids over all of human history is dwarfed by the number of people killed in wars, or the number of people killed in famines or epidemics, or car crashes, for that matter. I see no reason to believe this will change in the next few centuries.
It only takes one big one, and 10,000 years, or near enough, of recorded history is nothing compared to geological timescales.
I was being a bit facetious, you are correct that a frequency or phase modulated signal degrades to a very low signal to noise ratio as it passes through the dust clouds surrounding our solar system, however, the amplitude modulation of our earlier AM broadcasts is much easier to detect even with frequency drift and increased background noise. I was also off on my odds for there being life there, left off an order of magnitude, so it should be 1:10000. Of course, the Drake equation needs to be updated with newer values given the recent discoveries of the abundance of planets orbiting other stars.
There has been much research done into the use of a small, dense spacecraft to alter the orbit of an Earth intersecting asteroid gravitationally over many successive passes. This is much safer than blowing it out of the sky, which would leave a large number of smaller objects all traveling the same path as the larger one was, and is possible with the technology we currently have.
Keep in mind, the first intentional RF transmissions sent by Hertz, which are admittedly very weak compared to what we broadcast today, have been travelling for about 130 years now. There are approximately 100,000 stars within that distance, and according to some interpretations of Drake's equation, there is about a 1:1000 odds of another intelligent, space faring civilization within that sphere. We don't want to be sitting around worrying about bridges to nowhere and socialized medicine when a hostile race that objects to us bombarding them with boy bands comes seeking vengeance.
I most whole heartedly concur. I recently tried to reinstall my old copy of TIE Fighter under a vm, but couldn't get the joystick/sound to work properly, damn you Creative Labs. I would gladly pay new game prices for an updated remake of the X-Wing Vs TIE Fighter series.
The problem with quoting component pricing as a fix is that it does not encompass increased engineering costs to redesign to fit the enclosure, and manufacturing costs to install the component. That $0.50 part would require at least a respin of the tray design, and possibly the entire loader, which is not an insignificant task when fixture and tooling have already been created for the molding of enclosures. Even a slight alteration to the design to provide a recess for the bumber to fit into would require all the fixtures used for disc drive part molding to be redone.
I have only had my Xbox 360 for about 2 months, but have put over 100 hours into Fable 2, and the disc is still pristine. I play with the console in the horizontal position, and of course do not move it. Elementary physics tells us that a rotating object will resist having the angle of rotation altered by precessing around it. The only truly safe method of allowing the console to be moved while a disc is spinning would be to detect the motion of the console and stop the disc until the console is stationary again. Since the Xbox 360's disc spins at 10k RPM, the gyroscopic forces are greater than those of a standard 8x DVDROM drive, like that in the PS3, which only spins at up to 4800k RPM.
Also, suicide is a useful population control, and should be viewed as such.
Evolution in action, let the weaker ones die off, we will be much better for it as a species in the long run. And no, I'm not being sarcastic.
That is what is great about EVE, I'm an ADD gamer (not hyperactive, just easily distracted), switching between games as the mood strikes me, but my EVE character continues to develop because skill training continues while you are offline. When I am not in the mood for playing EVE, I just keep track of my skills and change them out as needed. Admittedly, this does not help my personal playing skills, but my character is on a much better footing for developing those skills when my desire turns back to busting up lowsec gate camps.
I have also played WoW, LotRO, EQ, DDO, and a number of other fantasy based MMOs, and they all have a similar appeal that EVE doesn't, and in fact is designed to prevent. In most MMOs, the goal tends to be getting to the level cap as quickly as you can to participate in end-game content. In EVE, there is no end-game, there is no level cap. There is no possibility of power leveling a character to cap by playing excessively, all characters are learning in real time. Someome starting today would never have as many skill points as an older character that continues to train, but skill points are not the end-all-be-all. True you have to get to a certain skill level to fly certain ships or use particular fittings, but it is the player's skill that makes the biggest difference.
The new certification system is a boon to new players and veterans alike, giving EVE newbies a guide as to which skills would be beneficial for a particular ship, and providing in game proof for your character's skill level for all players.
Microsoft does not allow cheating on the Xbox, and they go to great lengths to prevent it. Player cheating falsely inflates their gamerscore and online statistics, which impacts the ability of the match finding scheme to appropriately match players of similar skill levels for online multiplayer.
No, because Macs are so user friendly, they will recognize a cop in the room and begin pulling up all the contraband automatically.
Gravity is doing the work that generates the energy, the "user" is only providing a mass for gravity to work with. You still have to pick your feet up, but it is no more difficult to put it back down than on any other type of walking surface.
Remember who is ahead in space warfare ... it's the country who shot down or destroyed one of their own satellites. The US would love to get its hands on the instrumention data from that.
And why would we want their data from a rocket that is old technology to us? We shot down a satellite with a software and warhead change on a standard missile system, something that could easily be done again.
Now wait a second here, I am proudly a War-mongering Pacifist Conservative Hippy. I'm not bitter, science is my religion, and the only guns I cling to are the ones I made myself that require AC power.
Turning the other cheek, diplomatic sanctions, and peace talks have no chance of success if your opponent is a religious extremist who believes to the core of their being that your way of life is evil and must be wiped from the face of the earth. There comes a point when delay will only lead to greater losses, and military action is the only viable solution.
When your opponent believes that by sacrificing their life they will gain rewards in heaven, or bring honor to their families, drastic measures must be contemplated. In WWII, it is widely agreed, even by Japanese historians, that the detonations over Hiroshima and Nagasaki were the only way to bring that theatre of conflict to a close without many more years of bloody island hopping and carpet bombings. Due to the ingrained belief in Bushido, where it is far better to die honorably in battle than to surrender to possible indignities, it required a display of force that could not be defended from to show that strength of honor, and a willingness to die for your cause, were not enough for victory, and so diplomacy must be tried.
It is unfortunate that this approach would not be feasible for dealing with terrorists, since they hide in civilian populations that do not always hold the same beliefs, generally do not care about civilian casualties themselves, believe it is their religious duty to exterminate the infedels, and then there is the whole mutually assured destruction thing.
Sometimes a long, drawn-out, ground war is the only solution. I still believe there were WMDs in Iraq, Hussein had certainly used enough in his ethnic cleansings. How hard is it to move something you don't want found if you are told in advance when and where the searching will take place? Load up a few 18-wheelers with the logos of a grocery store on the side of their trailers and move the chemical weapons over to a different secure location, and rotate between the sites as the inspectors move on, telling you where they will be next month. Probably wouldn't find any nukes in Iran for the same reason.
So in closing, yes, I am Pro-War, not as a first solution, but it should never be left out of consideration.
Eve is a totally different monster. Excellent in-game economy. High stakes PVP. Everything important is player driven. The PVE is not particularly developed. The game is very much what you make of it- and the reason it is a niche game is that these characteristics appeal to some and make others feel like they are doing something too much work to be a game- or they reduce their risk by finding a boring corner of the game and get bored there. If you make bad decisions you can lose a lot of stuff- that's the double-edged sword that gives PVP adrenaline and pain.
CCP really has a great business model with EVE, charge $20 for the client, downloadable from the website, and free expansions 2-3 times a year. The EVE universe is set up such that they will never need to make an EVE-2, they can simply keep updating the existing system. They have the intelligence to make the client download actually include all the updates, so you aren't stuck installing, downloading the expansion, installing, and the downloading the patch, and installing. I can have a fresh, fully up to date install of EVE running in 30 minutes, versus 3-4 hours for WoW on a slow connection.
Only if he chose to get mangled in the car accident.
I think this would be more appropriate:
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It is a fairly common trend in human nature to align your views with those of your peers, and to malign the views of those with whom you do not agree. This leads to the tendency of conservative news outlets showing how ignorant the liberal voters are, and vice-versa. The only real answer is to think for yourself, but then if you did that, you would be doing what I told you to do, so where does the cycle end?