1. If intersteller travel is common, then, just like planes and boats, small teams can smuggle stuff. It's just that the required crew is two in the case of the Falcon. I'm a logical person, but I realize that not everyone is both logical and have the same safety standards. This is best possible if computerized systems can alert the crew in time for them to reach the controls and react. 2. Agreed. I mean, how hard would it be to give R2 a speech synth? Of course, you could have a society with issues about 'speaking automatons'. 3. All I ask for is internal consistancy. As long as they don't try to technobabble it, I have no problem with a Clark's law FTL system. 4. Agreed. 5. Agreed, however, I'd point out that even the insurgents in Iraq manage to kill US soldiers, and if you figure in an insurgency where the rebels have access to equal technology, asymetric warfare is quite possible. 6. Again, suspension of disbelief. Midochloreans count as technobabble. If you're this logical, watch a freeking documentory. 7. Happens in real life.
I'd be happy if movie and television producers hired a couple military and science people to act as advisors. Keep KISS in mind.
The problem with this is that the differences are so slight as to take a major lab to detect. Even if you miniturized and severly reduced the cost of police style DNA testing, it's not sensetive enough to tell the difference between the different DNA.
Though yes, as you age your DNA changes. The telemeres shorten, but the core remains the same.
So for the time being, having a twin is a good way to throw any DNA evidence off.
Bingo. This is because stores don't want to piss customers off and consumer protection laws protect you in most states. Heck, pay by credit card and if they refuse to take it back, dispute the charge. When stores decide to accept Visa/Mastercard, they agree to abide by certain rules, despite posted policy.
If you buy a new in box item, it is expected for that item to work. If it doesn't, you generally, at least by state law, have 30 days to return it for an exchange.
If some DRM fubared CD won't play in my $2000 player(Be it a computer or fancy stereo), which will play other discs, you can argue that it's defective. It doesn't meet CD standards (under which impression I bought it), thus causing the problem. I have the right to return it for another, but due to the CD manufacturing process producing essentially identical product, every single one suffers from the same defect. To prevent me from depleting their stock by serially returning them as defective, they simply give you your money back. And people will run through the stock on occasion. I did it once at a store with three copies of a game. Same pressing, but they actually fubared some CRC in their press master, so none of the CD's(that hit stores) would authenticate themselves! Talk about a bad decision. Oh yes, we'll DRM this game, foul up the DRM, and wipe out the profits from two other games because we'll have to take back the CD's, replace them, etc.
Exactly. What do enviromental scientists get for predicting 'all is well' or 'we can't affect the climate'? Not much. But 'We're going to melt the icecaps and flood the coastlines' gets them more money for studies.
Honestly speaking, just basic thought will reveal that if the global average temperature rises, even a couple degrees, that means that areas on the edge of commercial farming become viable, that the growing season lengthens as you go further south, and the year-round growing seasons of florida and parts of california move north, allowing more food to be grown. But do they mention this? Nope...
Break even point is important. It's a relativly simple calculation to tell you if a modification or method is worth it. Because, let's face it, it takes energy to make those cells. It takes money and energy to get the materials for the cells. The workers to manufacture the cells use power. Sure, some things are worth paying for, and that's exactly what the break even point is good for. Even if you don't pick the most optimal, at least you know why you didn't pick it, and just how much it cost you.
And no, it's not like crapping out in the lawn. It'd be more accurate to compare the difference between choosing whether you hook up to rural sewage, choose a septic tank system, tile field, or even an outhouse. Of course, electricity is pretty much electricity, so it's an apples -> apples comparison. Your septic waste disposal method, though, has different various issues that are harder to quantify than cost per kilowatt hour.
Though, if you don't like the fact that they're burning coal for your power, feel free to add a suitable 'penalty' when you figure out the break even point.
These shingles, for example, I'd probably invest in them if my other option was a gas or diesel generator in a remote enviroment. Of course, I'd also have to look at the fact that for consistant power, I'd still have to have that generator. So I'd have to be in a very sunny climate, and be needing power mostly during the day. And for what, AC? Washer? I mostly use my computer at night. Trying to use batteries is very wasteful, in that the investment in sufficient batteries, and the extra daylight(or windy, in the case of the turbine) capacity raises costs through the roof. If your power usage is the same during the night as the day, assuming 50% sun, you'd need triple the generation, and plenty of batteries(you loose about 50% of the power when charging a battery).
This is a problem, and they're starting to have to acknowledge it.
The problem is one of integrity. Now, admitably, consumers of talk show/'news' outlets like Rush Limbaugh or Al Franken are around, and can sustain a market. On the other hand, news outlets like ABC, NBC, Fox News, the New York Times, Time Magazine, and others are advertised as news programs. Thus people expect factual news out of them. When they hear mis-statement after mis-statement, they lose viewership to other things, such as blogs.
It also helps that many blogs act as special interest sites, posting articles relating to their themes. Thus a reader can hear about news that didn't make it to the national sites.
As for the articles, I wonder how many of them are related to enviromental issues? I've read that some of the most frequently used climate models have some serious problems(IE they're unstable in the long run, and tend to run hot over time no matter what the initial inputs are).
I'll tell you what, I'll fight the republicans on the inside on matters of free speech, and you work on the Democrats and the RKBA, and we'll both push for balanced budgets.;)
Well, exactly. If you have to worry about the passangers yelling about your bomb as well as just police or rail officials, it's much more difficult to plant one.
One problem I see is car bombs, but I guess the best you can do is make sure that cars/vans can't get too close to areas with large numbers of people.
Was it a situation where you could of gone to help?
That'd be my reaction. Then again, there's a reason I carry a first aid kit. While I'm not a paramedic, I do have some training in emergency response. Check the airway, check for pulse, stop the bleeding.
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And where would I live? I support choice on abortion, and am not gay but support their right to enjoy the same privaleges of married couples. love my (good)chinese food*, but also am very attached to my firearms, support the military, like hunting, and support lower government spending and a balanced budget. It's usually a difficult choice on which politician to vote for.
In other words, I'd suggest that implying that red-state conservatives want a theocracy, be free to engage in incestuous relations(forbidden by same theocracy), and wanting to ressurect the KKK against gays is rather overdone, and will only alienate other people.
And what's wrong with raising chickens? I thought that was better than beef?
*If the restraunt has a steam table, it's not good chinese.
One of the things that the air force teaches is "everyone's a detector". The idea is that everyone, from the base commander to the airmen walking into their offices are supposed to look for stuff.
Now, this does tend to result in a high false positive rate, in that mysterious packages generate a response fairly quickly, ranging from having a bomb dog sniff it to blowing it up(one contractor tended to forget his briefcase in the chow hall, and had it blown up twice).
People just get to knowing that you don't leave packages around. Backpacks and such are labled, etc.
Given that I hear about violations of airport security almost weekly, as well as a number of supply side attacks(IE the terrorists get themselves hired as airport workers, then use the insider knowledge to smuggle stuff in).
Would you support the creation of a 'NRA airlines'? Their motto - 10% discount for open carry. Would you fly on that airline?
Actually, you're buying the preview edition now, to be updated to the final version when it's released. You just have to download it again. As in, you've just payed 3x the normal price for a baen ebook to get it early. But at least they're being honest about it:
You can wait, but if you are a true Weber and Honor Harrington addict we want to take advantage of you. Order At All Costs, Aka Honor #11 now instead of when it debuts as a WebScription title, (August 2005) Here's your deal:
I'm almost ready to buy it now, just for that honesty.
I've bought a number of baen e-books, preceisly because they have no DRM. You can download them in RTF & HTML, for pete's sake! You can't get any less DRM than that.
Not as nice to say, but it's more along the lines that when a Japanese person flips out, he or she is more likely to just commit suicide (their rate is multiples higher than in the USA), than to kill others.
Life in Japan is very stressfull, with a very strong demand to conform.
I think it's interesting though, that you could buy these drugs in regulated, standardized strengths.
And I'd argue expensive. A five pound bag of flour costs about the same abount as the 49 pound bag. So figure in factor of 10 inflation. A bottle of four ounces of medical quality option would run $2.80, $30 for 48 ounces. $27 for the syringe and portable case. Though the wonders of plastic and disposable needles, probably less. Certainly affordable for diabetics and others who have to inject themselves daily.
Trough the wonders of google, high end dosage seems to be about 200 mg. This translates out to.007 ounces. That would translate into over 500 doses in a single bottle($3). Even if it's more diluted than the sources I've been looking at, such that a user uses an entire bottle each day, I know many smokers who smoke more in a pack of cigarettes a day. In reality, I doubt any but the most hardcore user would be able to use an entire bottle.
What in American society is spurring the violence? American society encourages competition. It, in itself, is a form of aggression. In American society, if you lose your job, you just might suffer malnutrition because welfare-based food stamps have a finite duration. If you cannot find a job during that duration or before the expiration of unemployment benefits, you are screwed.
Duration limited welfare is a new condition. It was still mostly unlimited during columbine, and the worst crime period in US history. The crime rate in the US is dropping, and has been for years. The crime rate is increasing in much of Europe. And Columbine type tradgedies happen there too. I happened to be in Colorado when Columbine happened, and I happened to be in Germany when an incident happened at a high school there, it ended with 18 people dead in 2002. The same article mentions a school shooting in 1996, in Ireland, that killed 17 too (16 kids, 1 teacher, and suicided, but I don't count the murderer). Heck, the Columbine group only managed to kill 13, and there were more of them.
Fact is, if you disregard about 3% of the US's land mass, you're safer living in the USA than in Europe.
As for 'liberally practice capital punishment', how do you define liberally? Many states don't have capital punishment at all, and many that do haven't executed somebody in the last 30 years. But it's in the law in case they get somebody like Jeffery Dhalmer.
In Silicon Valley, well, pressures of global market. I've been given advice time and time again to always have a backup. SV has a glut of computer professionals. If you have the skills of an electrician, plumber, carpenter or such, you'll never have to live off welfare.
What causes the high numbers for the USA? I have some theories. 1. Cultural diversity: Most low-violence places are homogenous in population. Many of the worst places have two-three different cultures. The USA is the great 'melting pot', but most people come together eventually, we've passed out the other side, we have so many different ones. 2. Population density: The cities seem to be the larger havens of crime and violence. But then, I think that it has more to do with other factors as well. 3. Climate: Heat seems to attract crime as well. Not much else I can say on this. 4. Welfare: We have a couple generations who were raised to believe that it's the responsability of others to take care of them, that a life is 'owed' them, and have no idea what stuff is 'worth' in terms of labor other than what they need to pry it out of the dashboard. I have a cousin in prison over this belief. I also believe that it encouraged unresponsable procreation of children who weren't taught proper values and behavior. 5. Drug War: I could do whole essays on this(And #4), but I'll keep it short. Drugs are a market, supply will be found to meet demand. Being illegal, those involved in said trade don't have access to the legal tort system, thus have to handle matters on their own, leading to bloodshed, gangs, and turf wars. 6. Lack of people with effective means of self defense: Those areas with the most violence also regulate/ban legal firearms the most.
You also have to figure, well, leisure time into the equation. During those 80,000 years, leisure time as such was almost nothing for most of the population.
You also had very smart people working out theories based on flawed assumptions. Many people's works were also lost over the ages, their potential unrealized. I wonder how it might have been if the library of Alexandria hadn't been lost? I'd say the turning point was pretty much the development of the scientific method. Before that, research wasn't documented or the basics critiqued enough. Heck, wasn't Mendella's work outright lost for a couple centuries?
But I agree, the rate of revolutionary discoveries is slowing. We're making more evolutionary discoveries. But that's because the 'chinks' in our knowledge are ever smaller and smaller. We haven't developed a more dense form of energy generation since the 1940's or so. There's only so far you can go with chemical reactions, and we've determined that, for the most part, nuclear is too dangerous, poisonous to use.
That's because it's a whole lot easier to measure clean water than sewage. I mean, would you want to service a consumer house level meter for that stuff?
It's easier and cheaper to just base it off of your clean water usage.
I have to agree. While I like the occasional FPS, I also keep going back to some of the traditional games like solitare, mine sweeper, tetris, Mah Jongg, etc. Why? I play those when I'm trying to relax. I occasionally try the 'mystery' type games like Myst, but there's only so many mysterious puzzles I can solve. The last one I tried (out of the bargain bin), had me running back and forth to talk between three different people. I found myself wishing for some action.
In many of these MMOG games, building stuff is like a pyramid, but I think that it needs to be more like a tree. It shouldn't be you need these three sub-components to make this final part, and only that part. Make it more like you have 100 components, and can make 1000 parts. Make each stage of construction (mining, refining, building subcomponents, final component) a mini-game. Heck, have a resource market!
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1. If intersteller travel is common, then, just like planes and boats, small teams can smuggle stuff. It's just that the required crew is two in the case of the Falcon. I'm a logical person, but I realize that not everyone is both logical and have the same safety standards. This is best possible if computerized systems can alert the crew in time for them to reach the controls and react.
2. Agreed. I mean, how hard would it be to give R2 a speech synth? Of course, you could have a society with issues about 'speaking automatons'.
3. All I ask for is internal consistancy. As long as they don't try to technobabble it, I have no problem with a Clark's law FTL system.
4. Agreed.
5. Agreed, however, I'd point out that even the insurgents in Iraq manage to kill US soldiers, and if you figure in an insurgency where the rebels have access to equal technology, asymetric warfare is quite possible.
6. Again, suspension of disbelief. Midochloreans count as technobabble. If you're this logical, watch a freeking documentory.
7. Happens in real life.
I'd be happy if movie and television producers hired a couple military and science people to act as advisors. Keep KISS in mind.
The problem with this is that the differences are so slight as to take a major lab to detect. Even if you miniturized and severly reduced the cost of police style DNA testing, it's not sensetive enough to tell the difference between the different DNA.
Though yes, as you age your DNA changes. The telemeres shorten, but the core remains the same.
So for the time being, having a twin is a good way to throw any DNA evidence off.
Bingo. This is because stores don't want to piss customers off and consumer protection laws protect you in most states. Heck, pay by credit card and if they refuse to take it back, dispute the charge. When stores decide to accept Visa/Mastercard, they agree to abide by certain rules, despite posted policy.
If you buy a new in box item, it is expected for that item to work. If it doesn't, you generally, at least by state law, have 30 days to return it for an exchange.
If some DRM fubared CD won't play in my $2000 player(Be it a computer or fancy stereo), which will play other discs, you can argue that it's defective. It doesn't meet CD standards (under which impression I bought it), thus causing the problem. I have the right to return it for another, but due to the CD manufacturing process producing essentially identical product, every single one suffers from the same defect. To prevent me from depleting their stock by serially returning them as defective, they simply give you your money back. And people will run through the stock on occasion. I did it once at a store with three copies of a game. Same pressing, but they actually fubared some CRC in their press master, so none of the CD's(that hit stores) would authenticate themselves! Talk about a bad decision. Oh yes, we'll DRM this game, foul up the DRM, and wipe out the profits from two other games because we'll have to take back the CD's, replace them, etc.
By the way, you forgot to mention that this would make a good portion of the world uninhabitable.
How? Are you talking about the melting of the icecaps, or just the heat making areas unpleasant to live in?
If so, I'd like to point out that a few degrees of warmth will make North Dakota and Siberia and Canada nicer places to live in.
Besides, geologically speaking, we're in a mini-iceage.
Exactly. What do enviromental scientists get for predicting 'all is well' or 'we can't affect the climate'? Not much. But 'We're going to melt the icecaps and flood the coastlines' gets them more money for studies.
Honestly speaking, just basic thought will reveal that if the global average temperature rises, even a couple degrees, that means that areas on the edge of commercial farming become viable, that the growing season lengthens as you go further south, and the year-round growing seasons of florida and parts of california move north, allowing more food to be grown. But do they mention this? Nope...
Break even point is important. It's a relativly simple calculation to tell you if a modification or method is worth it. Because, let's face it, it takes energy to make those cells. It takes money and energy to get the materials for the cells. The workers to manufacture the cells use power. Sure, some things are worth paying for, and that's exactly what the break even point is good for. Even if you don't pick the most optimal, at least you know why you didn't pick it, and just how much it cost you.
And no, it's not like crapping out in the lawn. It'd be more accurate to compare the difference between choosing whether you hook up to rural sewage, choose a septic tank system, tile field, or even an outhouse. Of course, electricity is pretty much electricity, so it's an apples -> apples comparison. Your septic waste disposal method, though, has different various issues that are harder to quantify than cost per kilowatt hour.
Though, if you don't like the fact that they're burning coal for your power, feel free to add a suitable 'penalty' when you figure out the break even point.
These shingles, for example, I'd probably invest in them if my other option was a gas or diesel generator in a remote enviroment. Of course, I'd also have to look at the fact that for consistant power, I'd still have to have that generator. So I'd have to be in a very sunny climate, and be needing power mostly during the day. And for what, AC? Washer? I mostly use my computer at night. Trying to use batteries is very wasteful, in that the investment in sufficient batteries, and the extra daylight(or windy, in the case of the turbine) capacity raises costs through the roof. If your power usage is the same during the night as the day, assuming 50% sun, you'd need triple the generation, and plenty of batteries(you loose about 50% of the power when charging a battery).
This is a problem, and they're starting to have to acknowledge it.
The problem is one of integrity. Now, admitably, consumers of talk show/'news' outlets like Rush Limbaugh or Al Franken are around, and can sustain a market. On the other hand, news outlets like ABC, NBC, Fox News, the New York Times, Time Magazine, and others are advertised as news programs. Thus people expect factual news out of them. When they hear mis-statement after mis-statement, they lose viewership to other things, such as blogs.
It also helps that many blogs act as special interest sites, posting articles relating to their themes. Thus a reader can hear about news that didn't make it to the national sites.
As for the articles, I wonder how many of them are related to enviromental issues? I've read that some of the most frequently used climate models have some serious problems(IE they're unstable in the long run, and tend to run hot over time no matter what the initial inputs are).
Then they're probably doomed to follow in the steps of the DIVX disc format. Not many people are going to pay more for less functionality.
I'll tell you what, I'll fight the republicans on the inside on matters of free speech, and you work on the Democrats and the RKBA, and we'll both push for balanced budgets. ;)
Well, exactly. If you have to worry about the passangers yelling about your bomb as well as just police or rail officials, it's much more difficult to plant one.
One problem I see is car bombs, but I guess the best you can do is make sure that cars/vans can't get too close to areas with large numbers of people.
Ouch...
Was it a situation where you could of gone to help?
That'd be my reaction. Then again, there's a reason I carry a first aid kit. While I'm not a paramedic, I do have some training in emergency response. Check the airway, check for pulse, stop the bleeding.
And where would I live? I support choice on abortion, and am not gay but support their right to enjoy the same privaleges of married couples. love my (good)chinese food*, but also am very attached to my firearms, support the military, like hunting, and support lower government spending and a balanced budget. It's usually a difficult choice on which politician to vote for.
In other words, I'd suggest that implying that red-state conservatives want a theocracy, be free to engage in incestuous relations(forbidden by same theocracy), and wanting to ressurect the KKK against gays is rather overdone, and will only alienate other people.
And what's wrong with raising chickens? I thought that was better than beef?
*If the restraunt has a steam table, it's not good chinese.
One of the things that the air force teaches is "everyone's a detector". The idea is that everyone, from the base commander to the airmen walking into their offices are supposed to look for stuff.
Now, this does tend to result in a high false positive rate, in that mysterious packages generate a response fairly quickly, ranging from having a bomb dog sniff it to blowing it up(one contractor tended to forget his briefcase in the chow hall, and had it blown up twice).
People just get to knowing that you don't leave packages around. Backpacks and such are labled, etc.
Actually, given the sheer quantities of targets that terrorists can attack, I feel that the best policy is to actively go after them.
A dead terrorist isn't going to kill anyone. And captured ones can often provide intel on planned attacks.
Given that I hear about violations of airport security almost weekly, as well as a number of supply side attacks(IE the terrorists get themselves hired as airport workers, then use the insider knowledge to smuggle stuff in).
Would you support the creation of a 'NRA airlines'? Their motto - 10% discount for open carry. Would you fly on that airline?
I'm almost ready to buy it now, just for that honesty.
I've bought a number of baen e-books, preceisly because they have no DRM. You can download them in RTF & HTML, for pete's sake! You can't get any less DRM than that.
Or better yet, yank the HD and place it(with suitable adapter) into a desktop to pull all the data/format.
This product counts on the laptop thief to be like most thieves (who get caugth), stupid and or lazy.
Not as nice to say, but it's more along the lines that when a Japanese person flips out, he or she is more likely to just commit suicide (their rate is multiples higher than in the USA), than to kill others.
Life in Japan is very stressfull, with a very strong demand to conform.
Reminds me of one guy's statement concerning a couple incidents tied to dungeons & dragons:
They were cracked, they would have fixated upon something.
In this case, it's the media and school systems fixating, but it's still true.
I think it's interesting though, that you could buy these drugs in regulated, standardized strengths.
.007 ounces. That would translate into over 500 doses in a single bottle($3). Even if it's more diluted than the sources I've been looking at, such that a user uses an entire bottle each day, I know many smokers who smoke more in a pack of cigarettes a day. In reality, I doubt any but the most hardcore user would be able to use an entire bottle.
And I'd argue expensive. A five pound bag of flour costs about the same abount as the 49 pound bag. So figure in factor of 10 inflation. A bottle of four ounces of medical quality option would run $2.80, $30 for 48 ounces. $27 for the syringe and portable case. Though the wonders of plastic and disposable needles, probably less. Certainly affordable for diabetics and others who have to inject themselves daily.
Trough the wonders of google, high end dosage seems to be about 200 mg. This translates out to
What in American society is spurring the violence? American society encourages competition. It, in itself, is a form of aggression. In American society, if you lose your job, you just might suffer malnutrition because welfare-based food stamps have a finite duration. If you cannot find a job during that duration or before the expiration of unemployment benefits, you are screwed.
Duration limited welfare is a new condition. It was still mostly unlimited during columbine, and the worst crime period in US history. The crime rate in the US is dropping, and has been for years. The crime rate is increasing in much of Europe. And Columbine type tradgedies happen there too. I happened to be in Colorado when Columbine happened, and I happened to be in Germany when an incident happened at a high school there, it ended with 18 people dead in 2002. The same article mentions a school shooting in 1996, in Ireland, that killed 17 too (16 kids, 1 teacher, and suicided, but I don't count the murderer). Heck, the Columbine group only managed to kill 13, and there were more of them.
Fact is, if you disregard about 3% of the US's land mass, you're safer living in the USA than in Europe.
As for 'liberally practice capital punishment', how do you define liberally? Many states don't have capital punishment at all, and many that do haven't executed somebody in the last 30 years. But it's in the law in case they get somebody like Jeffery Dhalmer.
In Silicon Valley, well, pressures of global market. I've been given advice time and time again to always have a backup. SV has a glut of computer professionals. If you have the skills of an electrician, plumber, carpenter or such, you'll never have to live off welfare.
What causes the high numbers for the USA? I have some theories.
1. Cultural diversity: Most low-violence places are homogenous in population. Many of the worst places have two-three different cultures. The USA is the great 'melting pot', but most people come together eventually, we've passed out the other side, we have so many different ones.
2. Population density: The cities seem to be the larger havens of crime and violence. But then, I think that it has more to do with other factors as well.
3. Climate: Heat seems to attract crime as well. Not much else I can say on this.
4. Welfare: We have a couple generations who were raised to believe that it's the responsability of others to take care of them, that a life is 'owed' them, and have no idea what stuff is 'worth' in terms of labor other than what they need to pry it out of the dashboard. I have a cousin in prison over this belief. I also believe that it encouraged unresponsable procreation of children who weren't taught proper values and behavior.
5. Drug War: I could do whole essays on this(And #4), but I'll keep it short. Drugs are a market, supply will be found to meet demand. Being illegal, those involved in said trade don't have access to the legal tort system, thus have to handle matters on their own, leading to bloodshed, gangs, and turf wars.
6. Lack of people with effective means of self defense: Those areas with the most violence also regulate/ban legal firearms the most.
You also have to figure, well, leisure time into the equation. During those 80,000 years, leisure time as such was almost nothing for most of the population.
You also had very smart people working out theories based on flawed assumptions. Many people's works were also lost over the ages, their potential unrealized. I wonder how it might have been if the library of Alexandria hadn't been lost? I'd say the turning point was pretty much the development of the scientific method. Before that, research wasn't documented or the basics critiqued enough. Heck, wasn't Mendella's work outright lost for a couple centuries?
But I agree, the rate of revolutionary discoveries is slowing. We're making more evolutionary discoveries. But that's because the 'chinks' in our knowledge are ever smaller and smaller. We haven't developed a more dense form of energy generation since the 1940's or so. There's only so far you can go with chemical reactions, and we've determined that, for the most part, nuclear is too dangerous, poisonous to use.
Now there's a typo.
And they're keeping the stock, while firing her?
That sounds wierd.
That's because it's a whole lot easier to measure clean water than sewage. I mean, would you want to service a consumer house level meter for that stuff?
It's easier and cheaper to just base it off of your clean water usage.
I have to agree. While I like the occasional FPS, I also keep going back to some of the traditional games like solitare, mine sweeper, tetris, Mah Jongg, etc. Why? I play those when I'm trying to relax. I occasionally try the 'mystery' type games like Myst, but there's only so many mysterious puzzles I can solve. The last one I tried (out of the bargain bin), had me running back and forth to talk between three different people. I found myself wishing for some action.
In many of these MMOG games, building stuff is like a pyramid, but I think that it needs to be more like a tree. It shouldn't be you need these three sub-components to make this final part, and only that part. Make it more like you have 100 components, and can make 1000 parts. Make each stage of construction (mining, refining, building subcomponents, final component) a mini-game. Heck, have a resource market!