As great as KotOR and Mass Effect was, why can't they just do KotOR 3? Why does everything always have to be an MMO these days?
Because now they can charge a lucrative subscription. With modern MMOs being loaded with instances, cut-scenes, phasing, single-player quests etc. they've managed to basically con us into paying $15 a month for an online lobby.
Never. However if you are one of many people who have seen their real income decrease over the past decade or so, you find yourself choosing between buying low-quality or not buying at all. And you'll have a hard time explaining that to your young child.
If it's a necessary product, then you should buy it. However most Chinese imports are disposable consumer crap you only think you need because the TV tells you so.
Third, the unmitigated, unregulated, and unabashed greed exhibited by American importers and their American consumers has not only poisoned our economy with a cavalcade of cheap crap, but put the lives and well-being of our pets, our children, and ourselves in danger.
Fixed your post somewhat. I imagine China will stop making dangerously cheap shit when Americans stop trampling each other to death to buy it.
IMHO, getting rid of free coffee is a huge mistake. In the scheme of things it's a tiny expense and you're going to lose far more in terms of people bickering about the coffee fund, people running out "on break" to buy coffee, and the basic office environment.
No chance of workers simply making their own damn coffee, like in every other workplace in the entire world? IT is no longer a glamour industry, it's just another job, and they can expect the same conditions as everyone else.
On the contrary, I'd say that it shows America's maturity as a nation that they no longer have to get into these dick-length contests by pissing billions away on uneconomical projects. Building the fastest internet, the most efficient public transport, renewable power, these would be impressive projects for leading nations.
This tower is just a developing country saying 'look at me'. They're not building it because it will benefit them, it's not like the place is short of sand to build on, they're just desperate for attention.
Actually medium-density is best. Cycling or walking half a mile is better than travelling half a mile in an electric elevator. Residents of Dubai have no interest in public transport; that's for poor people. Pristine outdoor spaces? Ha. The outdoor spaces are basically sand and sewage, and the Western ex-pats and emiratis won't be seen dead in anything other than an expensive car.
Not even close. The average PC has maybe a 17" monitor, driven by an AGP graphics card. Maybe you have a different definition of 'norm' to the rest of us.
None of this is actually true. It seems some capitalists just can't accept that their system isn't infallible, and can actually cause misery for millions of people.
I would rather ask what we did wrong so it could come to this, what our faults were concerning the trade balance, national debts, tax, regulations, protective tariffs and all that.
America hasn't done anything wrong, it's just that everyone else has caught up. The US being the sole economic and military superpower was just a temporary blip in history. China is just returning to where it was centuries ago, and the US is returning to being just another first-world nation.
Bear in mind that the US only achieved its superpower status by default after the rest of the world was destroyed by two world wars. Unless there's a third, I can't see the current trends changing.
So, it was the Iranians who shot down their own passenger jet, and overthrew their own government and replaced it with an American puppet? Maybe the Saudis are funding Israel and occupying Iraq too.
That's fine. They can sell their products outside of one of the largest markets in the world. Plenty of other companies will be happy to sell products in the American marketplace, employing Americans to produce them.
Except many industries these days are global. The USA represents around 25% of the global economy. That means, a company would make three times as much money operating outside of the USA than inside it.
Now, let's say you're an investor about to setup a computer chip fabrication facility, why would you spend billions and billions to make a third as much money?
If China could no longer export its products to the US, why would they lend money to the US? They wouldn't, so the US government would collapse, and US standards of living, hit by a double barrel of reduced credit and soaring costs of goods.
Hearkening back to days of protectionism through rose-tinted glasses is deluded. It's 2009, not 1500. What happens to Silicon Valley when the US can no longer export software? You'd lose all your skilled IT jobs in return for unskilled factory jobs. Is that a net benefit?
Then there are all the side effects, such as reduced competition. Can you imagine how bad Detroit's big three would be if they didn't have Toyota and Honda to compete against?
But seriously, you want to turn the USA into an isolated state like North Korea just so you don't have to compete for employment. And you haven't thought it through very well: protectionism works both ways. Cut yourself off from the world, and US companies won't be able to outsource any of their products. They'll have no option but to move their entire operations outside of the US, then you won't have any jobs at all.
Your argument is self contradictory, you say executives need to be paid a lot because they bring money into the company, but that they should still be paid a lot even when they don't. So their pay has nothing to do with what they actually do.
It seems the US is the only country with such a large gap between worker and executive salaries, do they know something the rest of the world doesn't? Are American executives some sort of supermen found nowhere else?
Even in the US, it's only a recent thing, executive pay used to be much closer to worker pay and American thrived. Is there any reason they couldn't return to the old system?
Even worse, when you consider how many computer programmers who get into college, versus how many football players bank on getting a football scholarship and end up in McDonalds because they didn't actually bother to study.
If that's all true, then how come the US, with the most entrenched two party system, has the worst government? Competing for moderates led to horrible waste, corruption, debts, countless wars, torture, shocking crime levels, abysmal public schools, half the country in jail etc. The US is an incredibly unstable nation, compared to countless European nations with multiple parties.
What, those tiny little shrivelled things served in microscopic portions? I got some 'large' fries from McDonalds once, there was more potato in 1840s Ireland.
Let market forces decide who gets it. Forcing buildouts to the far corners of rural America will just inflate everyone else's prices.
Prices will be set at what the market is willing to bear. Not building into the far corners will not reduce your prices, it will just inflate corporate profits. Maybe as a non-American I don't quite get this 'neo-liberalism at all costs' mentality, but there seem to be an awful lot of corporate apologists on this site lately. Many of them ACs. Who are they working for?
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Even better, eight players sat around the computer watching the unskippable twenty-minute monologue before the fight.
As great as KotOR and Mass Effect was, why can't they just do KotOR 3? Why does everything always have to be an MMO these days?
Because now they can charge a lucrative subscription. With modern MMOs being loaded with instances, cut-scenes, phasing, single-player quests etc. they've managed to basically con us into paying $15 a month for an online lobby.
So, it's not 100% contained, and vulnerable to operator error.
If it's a necessary product, then you should buy it. However most Chinese imports are disposable consumer crap you only think you need because the TV tells you so.
Fixed your post somewhat. I imagine China will stop making dangerously cheap shit when Americans stop trampling each other to death to buy it.
Even if it was unconstitutional, surely the planet is more important than a bit of paper written by slavers two hundred years ago?
No chance of workers simply making their own damn coffee, like in every other workplace in the entire world? IT is no longer a glamour industry, it's just another job, and they can expect the same conditions as everyone else.
On the contrary, I'd say that it shows America's maturity as a nation that they no longer have to get into these dick-length contests by pissing billions away on uneconomical projects. Building the fastest internet, the most efficient public transport, renewable power, these would be impressive projects for leading nations.
This tower is just a developing country saying 'look at me'. They're not building it because it will benefit them, it's not like the place is short of sand to build on, they're just desperate for attention.
Actually medium-density is best. Cycling or walking half a mile is better than travelling half a mile in an electric elevator. Residents of Dubai have no interest in public transport; that's for poor people. Pristine outdoor spaces? Ha. The outdoor spaces are basically sand and sewage, and the Western ex-pats and emiratis won't be seen dead in anything other than an expensive car.
Not even close. The average PC has maybe a 17" monitor, driven by an AGP graphics card. Maybe you have a different definition of 'norm' to the rest of us.
None of this is actually true. It seems some capitalists just can't accept that their system isn't infallible, and can actually cause misery for millions of people.
America hasn't done anything wrong, it's just that everyone else has caught up. The US being the sole economic and military superpower was just a temporary blip in history. China is just returning to where it was centuries ago, and the US is returning to being just another first-world nation.
Bear in mind that the US only achieved its superpower status by default after the rest of the world was destroyed by two world wars. Unless there's a third, I can't see the current trends changing.
So, it was the Iranians who shot down their own passenger jet, and overthrew their own government and replaced it with an American puppet? Maybe the Saudis are funding Israel and occupying Iraq too.
The funniest thing is, some people actually believe this.
Except many industries these days are global. The USA represents around 25% of the global economy. That means, a company would make three times as much money operating outside of the USA than inside it.
Now, let's say you're an investor about to setup a computer chip fabrication facility, why would you spend billions and billions to make a third as much money?
If China could no longer export its products to the US, why would they lend money to the US? They wouldn't, so the US government would collapse, and US standards of living, hit by a double barrel of reduced credit and soaring costs of goods.
Hearkening back to days of protectionism through rose-tinted glasses is deluded. It's 2009, not 1500. What happens to Silicon Valley when the US can no longer export software? You'd lose all your skilled IT jobs in return for unskilled factory jobs. Is that a net benefit?
Then there are all the side effects, such as reduced competition. Can you imagine how bad Detroit's big three would be if they didn't have Toyota and Honda to compete against?
DEY TOOK OUR JERBS!!!
But seriously, you want to turn the USA into an isolated state like North Korea just so you don't have to compete for employment. And you haven't thought it through very well: protectionism works both ways. Cut yourself off from the world, and US companies won't be able to outsource any of their products. They'll have no option but to move their entire operations outside of the US, then you won't have any jobs at all.
But Americans all drive butt-ugly SUVs, how can they criticise this motorbike?
Your argument is self contradictory, you say executives need to be paid a lot because they bring money into the company, but that they should still be paid a lot even when they don't. So their pay has nothing to do with what they actually do.
It seems the US is the only country with such a large gap between worker and executive salaries, do they know something the rest of the world doesn't? Are American executives some sort of supermen found nowhere else?
Even in the US, it's only a recent thing, executive pay used to be much closer to worker pay and American thrived. Is there any reason they couldn't return to the old system?
Even worse, when you consider how many computer programmers who get into college, versus how many football players bank on getting a football scholarship and end up in McDonalds
because they didn't actually bother to study.
If that's all true, then how come the US, with the most entrenched two party system, has the worst government? Competing for moderates led to horrible waste, corruption, debts, countless wars, torture, shocking crime levels, abysmal public schools, half the country in jail etc. The US is an incredibly unstable nation, compared to countless European nations with multiple parties.
What, those tiny little shrivelled things served in microscopic portions? I got some 'large' fries from McDonalds once, there was more potato in 1840s Ireland.
Cue all the Americans whining about those Europeans daring to stand in the way of their corporate imperialism.
No offence, but I don't see what a single anecdote about your fucked up family really has to do with anything.
Prices will be set at what the market is willing to bear. Not building into the far corners will not reduce your prices, it will just inflate corporate profits. Maybe as a non-American I don't quite get this 'neo-liberalism at all costs' mentality, but there seem to be an awful lot of corporate apologists on this site lately. Many of them ACs. Who are they working for?
He doesn't go to parties.