while the US's plants may be just fine (knock on wood) what about the rest of the world? with a good wind, it wouldn't matter where the plants were if there was an accident.
the confidence of everyone elses posts only serves to make me more uneasy.
that was one of the more arcane systems for commenting. they could have set up a web form in the space it took to describe how to email in the comments...
its different because someone is purchasing an item which would be tangible in RL (house, gold) but which is really only a simulation of that thing.
that is the sense in which the property is "virtual:" its a simulation of a real thing. a world within a world.
ISP accounts, securities, intellectual property, etc. are not, strictly speaking, simulations.
now what would be really interesting is if some character in UO wrote a video game that the other characters could play, then sold the game as intellectual property. or if the virtual game was another simulation, and your character had a character in that game which owned property.....
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the wierd thing is that all the irish (read:from Ireland) people here in boston that i know drink bud.
must be something in the air.
you speak as if this is a game and we never make mistakes anyway.
while the US's plants may be just fine (knock on wood) what about the rest of the world? with a good wind, it wouldn't matter where the plants were if there was an accident.
the confidence of everyone elses posts only serves to make me more uneasy.
isn't just posting this stuff on slashdot a DoS attack? :)
that was one of the more arcane systems for commenting. they could have set up a web form in the space it took to describe how to email in the comments...
whatever happened to that? are we afraid linux would loose?
i've had Code Poet on my business cards for 3 years now.
its different because someone is purchasing an item which would be tangible in RL (house, gold) but which is really only a simulation of that thing.
that is the sense in which the property is "virtual:" its a simulation of a real thing. a world within a world.
ISP accounts, securities, intellectual property, etc. are not, strictly speaking, simulations.
now what would be really interesting is if some character in UO wrote a video game that the other characters could play, then sold the game as intellectual property. or if the virtual game was another simulation, and your character had a character in that game which owned property.....
i hope you don't have kids- a police state is no way to govern.
shit... "since"
i haven't seen a discussion in the comments as good as this one sense the early days of usenet. i think the scoring thing is working!
varesearch has 'em.
bit expensive tho.