But if you know how close it's going to pass to Earth, there's no possible way you can know its velocity.... DAMN YOU HEISENBERG!
For the humor impaired, yes, it's meant as a joke. I am well aware that the Uncertainty Principle (which recently has fallen into disfavor anyway) only applies to subatomic particles. You however are so disconnected from the world around you that very crude and simple humor just rushes right past your head. Please, it's time to put down the calipers, go outside, head to a bar and try very hard to acquire some sort of sexually transmitted disease, even if this costs you money.
It is not possible for a PLEX to exist in the game without a player plunking down ~$15.
Wrong. CCP can make all the PLEX it wants out of thin air, offer it for sale, and flood the market. And CCP can buy all the PLEX it wants and take it off the market with its magical ISK printing press. That's the fun of being a "Central Bank". One of the points of PLEX is providing a way to fiddle with the "money supply" without engaging in direct ISK transactions. Think of PLEX as a sort of Treasury Note, except it doesn't pay interest.
The price of items in Aurum is fixed. The quantity of Aurum per PLEX is fixed. So really it makes no difference if special items are paid for in cash or in ISK, there will be no inflation/deflation of these special items. Now what might change is the cost of PLEX, in ISK. If many people want special items, and the only way to get them is through PLEX, then the cost of PLEX in ISK will increase. This is good for CCP because for the same X dollars it makes a PLEX easier to sell to those who just want to use them to buy ISK. It's "bad" for people who fund their gameplay (like me) entirely through ISK, because the rising cost of PLEX makes it harder to finance a month's play time. So what I do is open more accounts and add more ice miners which need more PLEX to fund, but also increase my hourly ISK income. Dumping all that additional ice on the market drives the price of ice and POS fuels down which is GOOD for alliances that own POS, meaning they can do more moon-mining and manufacturing which will drive the price of minerals up and fuck, where do you want me to stop with this?
It's complicated and even the guy with a doctorate in economics doesn't know for sure. That's the funny thing about economies. But hey, I play EVE for "free", who am I to complain? CCP can do what they want so long as I'm not forced into these microtransaction thingies.
(cough) in-game currency can also be converted into PLEX. Where is the player run economy being side-stepped? You're just bitching because someone else can swipe a credit card and instantly get what it would take you a week of playing to get? How is that different than today swiping a credit card and buying PLEX and using that to buy a supercarrier, or swiping a credit card and buying a toon with all the skills you ever wanted (both of which are entirely "legal" according to CCP)?
Learn to play the game and earn enough to get what you want, and quit whining for a handout which is pretty much what you and everyone else is doing. No one is forcing you to buy these items. And if you can't stand the thought of someone with a stupid, overpriced monocle, what do you do with your neighbor and his overpriced MacBook, or your boss with his overpriced car, etc? Reality check. It's just a fucking game.
(grind for ISK)->PLEX->AUR->items and whoa were does CCP take a cut in all this? Hell if you're good you don't even have to pay the monthly subscription fee.
What, you too lazy to actually play the game now? Want everything to be given to you for free?
I think the whole thing is funny. After all no one is being forced into buying this crap, and all of this crap can be bought with ISK (the in-game currency) - in fact, ISK is the default currency, since to get the items you need AUR which is obtained via PLEX, which is obtained either with real money or in game ISK.
The argument about CCP later moving to an "I win" item set that will be available only to those with deep pockets is ludicrous because THIS ALREADY HAPPENS. People with a lot of money are already able to buy toons (characters) that have been trained by someone else, ISK galore to make all the ships they need, etc. The net change is zero. Rich people will always screw over poor people inside the game or out. However CCP is still permitting a path to those items for those of us who already have the skills and know-how to obtain all the ISK we will need.
So either play the game, or pay the game, or get out of the way.
What if you thought it was a 300 yard sprint and it turns out that the race was really a marathon? The US has given up and grown complacent. Enjoy. You reap what you sow.
I want my cake, and I want to eat it too. I want to go to a good school, but I don't want to meet all their requirements because it's a "waste" of my precious time.
You know what, princess? It's ok that your parents spoiled you - but unless you're the next billionaire (and you're not, or you'd be well on your way by now) the world simply isn't going to change for you. Posting that question here only shows that you are interested in "the easy way out", the "low hanging fruit", the "path of least resistance". Life ain't like that kid. Now GTFO and stop wasting MY precious time.
A moon rocket is so expensive that only one country in the history of the world has ever built them, and they stopped after a few years when they realized no one was racing them anymore.
Except the hare decided to take a nap under the tree, because he was so far ahead of that slow tortoise anyway...
Who said the race was over? America != the whole world. In fact it's a tiny fraction of the world's population. And the whole world is catching up. Both India and China have their sights set on the moon. Of course the typical response from the American hare is "so, they're just duplicating what we did 50 years ago". Mmmhm. But in today's economy, paying today's prices for pretty much everything except labor (which is not exactly true, as we're talking highly skilled labor here). Plus the space program was never really about the moon itself- it was about organizing the industrial infrastructure to make a space program possible. Infrastructure that in the US has collapsed thanks to greed on the part of executives, mergers and, well, greed again on the part of stockholders.
Personally I think the hare is in a coma and isn't going to wake up any time soon.
This is the dust that NASA originally said wasn't moon dust/moon rocks in the first place, right? I'm having a hard time keeping up with all the lies nowadays.
Believe me that with all the social problems associated with illegal immigration, those cheap bananas and apples are costing you far more than $5. Just because you pay migrant workers next to nothing doesn't mean that you are getting a good deal. It's called "hidden economic cost".
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It's not Jesus but Sony that watches you masturbate.
You betcha! Dump a handful of inmates from an American supermax into any prison in western Europe and they will be running the place in a week.
Dead in a week, you mean. You have a lot to learn about Eastern European values, apparently.
But if you know how close it's going to pass to Earth, there's no possible way you can know its velocity.... DAMN YOU HEISENBERG!
For the humor impaired, yes, it's meant as a joke. I am well aware that the Uncertainty Principle (which recently has fallen into disfavor anyway) only applies to subatomic particles. You however are so disconnected from the world around you that very crude and simple humor just rushes right past your head. Please, it's time to put down the calipers, go outside, head to a bar and try very hard to acquire some sort of sexually transmitted disease, even if this costs you money.
Reading this thread I keep remembering the movie "Idiocracy", and that "ow my balls" show. This does not bode well for the future of nerding.
Oh so you've been all over that fbi, cia and senate shit already, huh?
The interesting thing is that if you got shot and killed, absolutely no one would notice.
Yeah, Americans are always so proud of their prison system.
Somalia, Iraq and Afghanistan too. I mean why just single out Vietnam.
How about a 50 foot soap bubble?
And somehow this situation is tremendously different from a week or so ago before the release of Final Cut X?
That requires actual thought, rather than just doing what Apple tells them to do. Wrong demographic, buddy.
It is not possible for a PLEX to exist in the game without a player plunking down ~$15.
Wrong. CCP can make all the PLEX it wants out of thin air, offer it for sale, and flood the market. And CCP can buy all the PLEX it wants and take it off the market with its magical ISK printing press. That's the fun of being a "Central Bank". One of the points of PLEX is providing a way to fiddle with the "money supply" without engaging in direct ISK transactions. Think of PLEX as a sort of Treasury Note, except it doesn't pay interest.
Do your own homework :)
The price of items in Aurum is fixed. The quantity of Aurum per PLEX is fixed. So really it makes no difference if special items are paid for in cash or in ISK, there will be no inflation/deflation of these special items. Now what might change is the cost of PLEX, in ISK. If many people want special items, and the only way to get them is through PLEX, then the cost of PLEX in ISK will increase. This is good for CCP because for the same X dollars it makes a PLEX easier to sell to those who just want to use them to buy ISK. It's "bad" for people who fund their gameplay (like me) entirely through ISK, because the rising cost of PLEX makes it harder to finance a month's play time. So what I do is open more accounts and add more ice miners which need more PLEX to fund, but also increase my hourly ISK income. Dumping all that additional ice on the market drives the price of ice and POS fuels down which is GOOD for alliances that own POS, meaning they can do more moon-mining and manufacturing which will drive the price of minerals up and fuck, where do you want me to stop with this?
It's complicated and even the guy with a doctorate in economics doesn't know for sure. That's the funny thing about economies. But hey, I play EVE for "free", who am I to complain? CCP can do what they want so long as I'm not forced into these microtransaction thingies.
(cough) in-game currency can also be converted into PLEX. Where is the player run economy being side-stepped? You're just bitching because someone else can swipe a credit card and instantly get what it would take you a week of playing to get? How is that different than today swiping a credit card and buying PLEX and using that to buy a supercarrier, or swiping a credit card and buying a toon with all the skills you ever wanted (both of which are entirely "legal" according to CCP)?
Learn to play the game and earn enough to get what you want, and quit whining for a handout which is pretty much what you and everyone else is doing. No one is forcing you to buy these items. And if you can't stand the thought of someone with a stupid, overpriced monocle, what do you do with your neighbor and his overpriced MacBook, or your boss with his overpriced car, etc? Reality check. It's just a fucking game.
I'm getting tremendous entertainment out of this, for no additional charge :)
(grind for ISK)->PLEX->AUR->items and whoa were does CCP take a cut in all this? Hell if you're good you don't even have to pay the monthly subscription fee.
What, you too lazy to actually play the game now? Want everything to be given to you for free?
Yeah, because ships and faction/officer items are not being sold for real money right now.
I think the whole thing is funny. After all no one is being forced into buying this crap, and all of this crap can be bought with ISK (the in-game currency) - in fact, ISK is the default currency, since to get the items you need AUR which is obtained via PLEX, which is obtained either with real money or in game ISK.
The argument about CCP later moving to an "I win" item set that will be available only to those with deep pockets is ludicrous because THIS ALREADY HAPPENS. People with a lot of money are already able to buy toons (characters) that have been trained by someone else, ISK galore to make all the ships they need, etc. The net change is zero. Rich people will always screw over poor people inside the game or out. However CCP is still permitting a path to those items for those of us who already have the skills and know-how to obtain all the ISK we will need.
So either play the game, or pay the game, or get out of the way.
In EVE the players ARE the economy.
What if you thought it was a 300 yard sprint and it turns out that the race was really a marathon? The US has given up and grown complacent. Enjoy. You reap what you sow.
I want my cake, and I want to eat it too. I want to go to a good school, but I don't want to meet all their requirements because it's a "waste" of my precious time.
You know what, princess? It's ok that your parents spoiled you - but unless you're the next billionaire (and you're not, or you'd be well on your way by now) the world simply isn't going to change for you. Posting that question here only shows that you are interested in "the easy way out", the "low hanging fruit", the "path of least resistance". Life ain't like that kid. Now GTFO and stop wasting MY precious time.
A moon rocket is so expensive that only one country in the history of the world has ever built them, and they stopped after a few years when they realized no one was racing them anymore.
Except the hare decided to take a nap under the tree, because he was so far ahead of that slow tortoise anyway...
Who said the race was over? America != the whole world. In fact it's a tiny fraction of the world's population. And the whole world is catching up. Both India and China have their sights set on the moon. Of course the typical response from the American hare is "so, they're just duplicating what we did 50 years ago". Mmmhm. But in today's economy, paying today's prices for pretty much everything except labor (which is not exactly true, as we're talking highly skilled labor here). Plus the space program was never really about the moon itself- it was about organizing the industrial infrastructure to make a space program possible. Infrastructure that in the US has collapsed thanks to greed on the part of executives, mergers and, well, greed again on the part of stockholders.
Personally I think the hare is in a coma and isn't going to wake up any time soon.
This is the dust that NASA originally said wasn't moon dust/moon rocks in the first place, right? I'm having a hard time keeping up with all the lies nowadays.
Believe me that with all the social problems associated with illegal immigration, those cheap bananas and apples are costing you far more than $5. Just because you pay migrant workers next to nothing doesn't mean that you are getting a good deal. It's called "hidden economic cost".
No, the whole program existed to get that government money in the first place.