Is there a third alternative? Maybe decentralized governance? Self-governance? A meritocracy? Unpaid volunteership? Management by 1000 chimpanzees randomly pushing buttons?
May I point out the the world wide web, one of the most widespread and well known parts of the Internet, was developed by a European (an Englishman in fact)?
The Internet as it is now was an International effort, just because the US kickstarted it doesn't make it your brainchild.
The last time I heard about connections in the UK it was about 60 pounds for a one meg line!
You're completely right there, if you're talking quarterly. Although it sounds expensive, bear in mind we get PAID more as well as things being more expensive.
Thousands die every day. Just because these people happened to die in a more spectacular fashion than anyone else doesn't make them more newsworthy. And the unfortunate weather incident will affect a lot less people than Operating Systems that make the entire modern world go round.
I think you may have confused Sid Meier with Will Wright.
Meier is responsible for the amazing Civilisation series and Alpha Centauri, which are more games than attempts at simulation, whereas Wright is the creator of the brilliant Sim City games and its friends.
Why not make it a first-person perspective! And replace his sword with a gun! And replace the plot and gameplay with graphics and thousands of ignorant bastards from all over the Internet who call you a "n00b"!
Honestly, I am anticipating this game very much, and it's good to see people trying to make games enjoyable again, and not a matter of "my e-wang is bigger than yours" or "j00 not hardcore RPG players lol CS r00lz rofl!!!1!"2111"
Well if the sci-fi predictions are true, fusion will be extremely cheap (relative to todays energy production) so all of the energy big boys don't really want to see that kind of thing cutting into their bottom line. And from what I know of Western politics, government campaigns tend to be funded by energy companies quite a bit.
I don't think the energy boys realise that if we opened up viable fusion, then they could divert funds into developing new and interesting ways to use it, but there seems to be a mortal fear of deviating from the tried-and-true for some time now.
It's a sorry state of affairs, I know, but until governments wake up and smell the crude oil we're fucked.
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Oh no... It's the attack of the armchair psychologist!
Apparently violent crime has done nothing but drop Since the release of the original Doom in 1994. (source)
(note, first saw this on http://pointlesswasteoftime.com/ but true nonetheless)
Is there a third alternative? Maybe decentralized governance? Self-governance? A meritocracy? Unpaid volunteership? Management by 1000 chimpanzees randomly pushing buttons?
We already have AOL thanks!
They would use the technology to further oppress their people (illegally, I might add)
Illegally according to who?
Oh, the US--Bastion of all that is legal and moral.
May I point out the the world wide web, one of the most widespread and well known parts of the Internet, was developed by a European (an Englishman in fact)?
The Internet as it is now was an International effort, just because the US kickstarted it doesn't make it your brainchild.
(Remember Russia got a man into space first)
Iraq wasn't broken before the US went storming in to try and "fix" it, and now look at the mess it is.
Double standards much.
but in the only country founded on individual rights
You forgot to add for white, christian males aged 25 to 40 to that sentence, just a heads up.
Libya, Dubya, same difference :P
Have you heard of Microsoft?
American corporation!
*tongue in cheek*
The last time I heard about connections in the UK it was about 60 pounds for a one meg line!
You're completely right there, if you're talking quarterly. Although it sounds expensive, bear in mind we get PAID more as well as things being more expensive.
Thousands die every day. Just because these people happened to die in a more spectacular fashion than anyone else doesn't make them more newsworthy. And the unfortunate weather incident will affect a lot less people than Operating Systems that make the entire modern world go round.
*waves goodbye to his karma*
What is your favourite game of all time, and why?
I think you may have confused Sid Meier with Will Wright.
Meier is responsible for the amazing Civilisation series and Alpha Centauri, which are more games than attempts at simulation, whereas Wright is the creator of the brilliant Sim City games and its friends.
The GP2X intrigues me though, even though there is some claim that it will be DRM enabled,
The GP2X website has details about the DRM used, and the reasoning behind it!
How is that any more offensive than "...when the brits..." or "...when the aussies..." exactly?
Stop being so politically correct, it's just an abbreviation, not a sly insult like "yank" or "kraut".
Keyboards will be obsolete as well from the moment speech recognition is a mature technology.
Good luck programming or using regular expressions then.
I think that, in a democracy, it's down to the people who put the current government in charge...
Ooh ooh ooh!
Why not make it a first-person perspective! And replace his sword with a gun! And replace the plot and gameplay with graphics and thousands of ignorant bastards from all over the Internet who call you a "n00b"!
Honestly, I am anticipating this game very much, and it's good to see people trying to make games enjoyable again, and not a matter of "my e-wang is bigger than yours" or "j00 not hardcore RPG players lol CS r00lz rofl!!!1!"2111"
...but to increase the quality of life of any civilization desperate enough to commit mass-murder in an organized way.
Wasn't the quality of life in Pre-WWII Nazi Germany relatively high?
That turned out quite badly though...
Well if the sci-fi predictions are true, fusion will be extremely cheap (relative to todays energy production) so all of the energy big boys don't really want to see that kind of thing cutting into their bottom line. And from what I know of Western politics, government campaigns tend to be funded by energy companies quite a bit.
I don't think the energy boys realise that if we opened up viable fusion, then they could divert funds into developing new and interesting ways to use it, but there seems to be a mortal fear of deviating from the tried-and-true for some time now.
It's a sorry state of affairs, I know, but until governments wake up and smell the crude oil we're fucked.
This new learning amazes me, Sir Editor. Explain again how sheep's bladders may be employed to prevent earthquakes.
Touché!
...arrogantly denying users any choice.
Well they have the choice to use a different bloody email service for one.
half the population that have taken IQ tests have IQ's below that, thank you.
Any company that runs the firewalls on the workers desktop computers is just asking for them to be turned off anyway.