His Documentaries are not anywhere near neutral. He's the founding father of the new stream of Documentaries that don't let the subject speak for itself but ram home opinions. I think it hurts the causes as much as it helps.
Not everything he says is lies, nor is it truth. He has a political point to make and he wants to make it more sexy so he'll get more attention.
As such there are points to be contained and rebutted. Roger met with Moore in Roger and Me, but Moore didn't show it. GM had years of bad press from that despite Moore being less than truthful. No wonder others have opinions on this. There are some in the Healthcare that think its fine, there's lots that think it's broke, but think it can be fixed without using Socialism as a cure due to the problems of socialized medicine in a nation that doesn't have vast oil reserves.
We're right now using a shit load of fuel that's been saved for a billion years. We don't have but one chance at this thing called society. Most plans I've seen for stability end up locking up standards of living and population. It also means using only renewable energies and doesn't have much new production possible
However, you get us into space and everything changes. Power, minerals, living space, all for the taking once we get to LEO cheap enough. One small metal asteroid will give the world decades of metal. A small methane-water ice asteroid will give us the resources to explore and exploit the rest of the system. Water, fuel, food. We can move all heavy manufacturing off earth, make pollution history, and get rich in the process
The reason why space might work is human greed making it possible, and the spin offs are going to be huge enough that everyone gets a better deal rather than locking the entire world into a single model and asking us to be rational.
Numbers are based off 1990 numbers, so Europe gets to base everything on burning coal and Soviet Bloc environmental laws. If you account for that, the US does better than most European nations.
The issue with fingerprints is that many industries and government jobs in the US need it as either proof of identity, eg you're not a convicted felon/rapist/theif whose traded identities.
My mother, for instance, teaches school. Recent law in Oregon requires all public employees who work with children to be fingerprinted and have their names checked against the sex crimes database to make sure that you don't have a convicted pedophile from halfway around the nation under a new name teaching first grade.
They do this in the big money industry in positions of trust. If you're working as a programmer for a bank, you may get a chance to steal or manipulate a great deal of money. With the ramifications being so large, the SEC requires anyone with access to be printed so they can have a trail to follow. It's not just office space where folks try the salami slicer. They look for it all the time because more than one programmer has tried to steal millions via programing 'bugs'. It's not the company that thinks you're a potential thief, it's the regulatory body for the company that thinks everyone in fiance is a thief.
The only thing that bugs me is when these databases get merged into the big national criminal database. It's one thing for the SEC to have a database incase of financial issues, the DoD to have one on government contractors for spy data, and a state police to have one on teachers for identity. It's another thing to have all these identity and special purpose databases added to the FBI criminal database.
What's worse is how these are adding to the dna equivalent. I sense a great opportunity for misjustice (along side justice, it's a double edge sword) if you have your dna on a one dollar bill a murdered person has.
The laws aren't Business-Friendly, they are related to public health.
Lets say I did what you wanted and planted you in a shallow grave with no casing and planted a tree. While a very nice gesture, your bodies' parasites and fungi live on. And if you died of say, Cholera, your Cholera rich body is leaking it into the ground water.
While there is a racket associated with much of the funeral biz, and much of it is greedy, there is reason behind the laws. Burial laws are in place to be a public health issue, and are written in river valleys where water tables make it so that naked corpses in shallow holes spread disease.
Now what I like are cremation with a few options for ashes. A caveat for incase of foul play of course. I like spreading my ashes as an option. Burying an urn is what my grandparents had done (they are in national cemeteries). While the last option that sounds nice is get your ashes compressed into a Diamond/Diamond like gem. I'm morally against to normal Diamond due to the economics. However, I like the idea of having my ashes in a Diamond that can be given to my grandchildren and on down the generations.
Good and Evil are subjective in WoW. For the most part, everyone has good reasons for their evil acts.
The Orcs, for instance, are mostly interested in cleansing themselves of their demon taint and protecting themselves from external threats. However, these societies are not monolithic. Thrall's New Horde only has about 3 clans worth of Orcs (Most of the Frostwolf, Warsong and Shattered hands exist as clans, the rest don't have clans). And there are Orcs in the horde that are double agents for the demons. Demon followers, such as the False Warchiefs Rend and Kargath Bladefist exist, but are separate from the player organizations.
Trolls, as played by the players, are a tiny tiny fraction of the total numbers. The Darkspear trolls are a remnant tribe who are closest to the oldest tribes around, the ones that never fell into total barbarism. They have embraced the light and the power of shamanism. They are also some of the oldest demon fighting lines around. The Shadowhunters will be back.
Tauren are one of the few good races. There's nearly nothing bad you can say about them. They might be a tad naive, but they honestly believe they can cure the forsaken and heal the blood elves.
Forsaken are pissed off at life and their lot. They are former zombies that often enough remember not only their deaths, but the deaths of their loved ones at their own hands. They want to be free, and lack the moral limits they had in life. They are driven by the desire for revenge, and can only clearly feel hate. When you've killed part of your family, and the rest is driven off, they hate the humans very much.
Blood elves are addicts. They have cravings for magic large enough to do nearly anything for it. But they have limits. They don't actively consort with demons, they don't blow up planets, and they know their king went insane. They are also not monolithic in culture, with some speaking against magic, encouraging the use of holy rather than arcane.
On the flip side, Humans have been beaten down again and again. Their king got kidnapped and the queen rules over the 6 year old prince. She's also an evil dragon trying to wreck their society. They are tearing apart under the outside parties.
Dwarves are digging for their past as diggers for the ancient Titans. They have their crowned princess run of with the ruler of the dark dwarves.
Gnomes are insane, radioactive, and have no home having blown it up. They also didn't ask for help to keep the war against the demons going.
Night elves are arrogant mofos whose arrogance doomed us everyone else multiple times. They are also attempting to be the guardians of the world against evil.
I've ridden ICE some rather nice distances. Except for construction work, it was straight. I've also ridden Amtrak around the Pacific NW between Spokane/Seattle, Spokane/Portland and Seattle/Eugene. This is 137,858 square miles for Germany, 98,466 for Oregon, and 71,342 for Washington. These two states are larger than Germany, with just over 9 million in the space of 82 million.
Spokane to Portland or Seattle takes about 8 hours. This is using a heavy sleeper liner that travels between Chicago and Seattle, taking approximately 46 hours. It is also available once a day, leaving at 2 in the morning from Spokane.
The Eugene-Seattle line is a newly built train from Taiwan based off the type used in Europe for regional lines. The train is available about 6 times a day, takes 5 hours to do Eugene-Seattle, partly due to layover. It's actually a really nice train and has a good bistro car along with it's own built in movie service. It's also slower than driving.
Much of the reason why they are slow is the US hasn't built new rail lines in a very long time. Most of these lines are just improved versions of the ones first laid down after the Civil War. And some of these lines skip major towns in semi-rural areas because their spurs don't have enough traffic. Southern Oregon lacks Amtrak service because of this. The line East of the Cascades was kept up, but the line going parallel to I5 (the major West Coast freeway) can't carry modern trains.
Most of these lines have to slow down every 5 to 10 minutes as they cross highways and city streets. Compare this to European dedicated lines that have their own right of way and don't need to slow down except for stations...
Now consider the coast of refurbishing the entire rail network in the US to have its own right of way. Billions upon billions. There's talk of going maglev in some small sections of the country along populated stretches. One plan to connect LA and Las Vegas has already spent billions for about 1 mile of track.
And one related note. The reason US telecom lags is because 15 years ago we were the best in the world. Billions upon billions were spent by the DoD to build a hardened land line network that can survive a nuclear war. Mandates extended this out to nearly every hamlet. It gave the US spare capacity for a number of years. While Europe and Asia didn't have this large infrastructure and skipped to new generation wireless.
Thats what happens when particles that are traveling faster than the speed of light in one material enter another. It's faster in Uranium than water, resulting in the particles having to give up the extra energy.
You can beat the speed of light in vacuum if it goes in a material with an N less than 1. A few already exist.It's the same trick as slowing the speed of light in a material with a huge N.
More complex then that. What's the physical cost of a CD? Blank media from staples works out to a few cents. Before staples, it's even cheaper. Now burning data on a CD does cost money. A red laser in 1983 that can burn media would cost in the tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of dollars. Now it costs less than 100 USD, again retail.
So yah, if it cost the same amount to actually make the CD in 1983 as it did in 1996, or 2007, there might be some validity. But the physical cost of the CD fully packaged is 10 cents or so.
So we're expected to believe the majority of costs in that same article are related to booths. When a 6$ record is replaced by a 14$ CD, the price works out the same. Nothing got cheaper, they just want us to believe a CD is magically as hard to make now as a LP in 1983.
Bob works in the loading docks, he moves cases and has a hazmat certificate. He also likes chronic.
Ted is a clerk doing accounting and random bureaucracy crap. He's also a closeted homosexual (mostly due to his own ability to acknowledge it and the fact he's really only Bi and has a wife and kids). In order to enjoy himself he takes meth.
Jon is a PhD working on a project deep in the labs. He also likes to take X when he has sex.
Each of them is both a work place hazard and a security risk. Bob needs his job, it's union, damn good pay and job security for it's level. However not only does chronic make him risky if he's moving say, Uranium Hexafloride around, really only if he's doing it on the job of course, but he's blackmailable. He has to move a barrel to this office instead of that office, or some nonsense or they tell his bosses.
Ted has to give up this information, or his wife will know his exploits. Or his lovely meth habit means he starts stealing.
Jon get his ass blackmailed because high off his ass he had sex with someone he shouldn't. Or just that he's taking it enough that he comes in high and starts loving the feel from the radioactive stuff he's working with.
Now I'm being general here, but there are work place hazards and more importantly blackmail considerations in illict drug use. People in the position to get classified information are watched carefully.
One other point. You don't have to be doing anything really dangerous at a national lab, nor anything that you could have access to that's classified to freak out the security guys. Mostly any schmoe that is in a national lab gets checked out. Especially if you're foreign. It took some folks I know with US passports about 10 minutes to get their security passes at a lab. That includes the photo taking. While it takes another guy with a Ukrainian or Chinese passport hours.
Indeed, getting off oil is about more than just one issue.
Foreign Oil has ethical issues more severe than coffee. Often enough you get a local strongman supported by oil money, or a clan of bloody thieves.
Oil has a billion and one environmental issues, from CO2, which is claimed to cause the current global warming (although I'm skeptical of causation rather than collation). Not to mention Sulfur, trace minerals, lead, benzene exposure, oil spills killing cute and fuzzy animals.
Or better yet, oil being wasted on burning, rather than plastics and fertilizers for the next thousand years.
Except that these tiny wires are fraction of the size the light wires have to be. Optical chips are going to need to be quite a bit larger to do the same as existing chips. Light might be faster, but engineering issues can be quite large to make an optical chip worth a damn. It's like everytime we hear of X technology, it's not going to win anytime soon because the existing tech usually has twenty or more years of hard work behind it.
Yes he plays with his kid. But this isn't pure entertainment to him. This is work for Mike, screwed up as it sounds. He has to play games and keep on top of them. Although there are going to be plenty of/.ers that will make a joke, his work is video games.
He's successfully integrating his work with his homelife. Although you know he enjoys it greatly, Mike is like millions of other parents whose work comes home with them and their kids get interested. I had a physics Prof who would tell us about her child that would ask questions about the papers she was working on, and she'd try to give the best explanation she could and let her child help sort papers.
Yah, if he was a normal Joe working 9-5 and coming home ploping on the couch and having the son just watch, I'd a bit concerned about that. But this way he gets to spend time with his son while doing work related gaming.
This company is pretty much the best mail order company for science products that exists. In a number of items, they have their entire stock bought out by homeland security for their own uses. Like their UV flashlights that are useful for searching for explosives.
They also have a great page up about the Po. It would take 15,000 times the dosage of that $69 vial to get into the lethal range. Which ends up at over $1 million. And then you'd have to combine all the 15,000 needles they come in, which is not gonna happen. You get 10x more in a single smoke detector for far cheaper.
The guy might be slightly batty, I don't know, but I do know he's got the best chemistry kits you can still buy, and taking this guy outta the market is a blow to future scientists.
There's one quest line that is a coda to a Blizzard novel. The quest chain that ends with In Dreams, the Fording saga, tells the story of the rebirth of the Knights of the Silver Hand. It's deep into lore, with the quest itself having pages of dialogue between characters. And as the game progresses, this storeline becomes more and more important, as Tiron Fording is the last True Paladin, a warrior of the Light whose powers can not be stripped from him despite the Order kicking him out.
And how much higher is Wow's subscriptions than when it first came out?
Yes there haven't been any expansion packs. However, there have been 10 major patches, some of which have more content then EQ expansion packs. There have been 6 raid dungeons added, 4 battlegrounds, and in testing is a major update adding a large amount of items for free, along with the paid xp.
Yes there are issues, yes the hardcore raiders are insane (I'm one). But the wow killers have all gone flat. Wow might have some issues, but they are trying and have added oodles from the day it went live.
TBC is approximately half again as much content as currently in game. I have friends in beta, and it's breathtaking. Furthermore Blizz wasn't just working on TBC, but getting their department into shape to make regular decent sized expansion packs a reality. Plans are 1 a year from now on.
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Or bringing back tax incentives to be a doctor/nurses in places that really need them.
Not everything he says is lies, nor is it truth. He has a political point to make and he wants to make it more sexy so he'll get more attention.
As such there are points to be contained and rebutted. Roger met with Moore in Roger and Me, but Moore didn't show it. GM had years of bad press from that despite Moore being less than truthful. No wonder others have opinions on this. There are some in the Healthcare that think its fine, there's lots that think it's broke, but think it can be fixed without using Socialism as a cure due to the problems of socialized medicine in a nation that doesn't have vast oil reserves.
However, you get us into space and everything changes. Power, minerals, living space, all for the taking once we get to LEO cheap enough. One small metal asteroid will give the world decades of metal. A small methane-water ice asteroid will give us the resources to explore and exploit the rest of the system. Water, fuel, food. We can move all heavy manufacturing off earth, make pollution history, and get rich in the process
The reason why space might work is human greed making it possible, and the spin offs are going to be huge enough that everyone gets a better deal rather than locking the entire world into a single model and asking us to be rational.
Numbers are based off 1990 numbers, so Europe gets to base everything on burning coal and Soviet Bloc environmental laws. If you account for that, the US does better than most European nations.
My mother, for instance, teaches school. Recent law in Oregon requires all public employees who work with children to be fingerprinted and have their names checked against the sex crimes database to make sure that you don't have a convicted pedophile from halfway around the nation under a new name teaching first grade.
They do this in the big money industry in positions of trust. If you're working as a programmer for a bank, you may get a chance to steal or manipulate a great deal of money. With the ramifications being so large, the SEC requires anyone with access to be printed so they can have a trail to follow. It's not just office space where folks try the salami slicer. They look for it all the time because more than one programmer has tried to steal millions via programing 'bugs'. It's not the company that thinks you're a potential thief, it's the regulatory body for the company that thinks everyone in fiance is a thief.
The only thing that bugs me is when these databases get merged into the big national criminal database. It's one thing for the SEC to have a database incase of financial issues, the DoD to have one on government contractors for spy data, and a state police to have one on teachers for identity. It's another thing to have all these identity and special purpose databases added to the FBI criminal database.
What's worse is how these are adding to the dna equivalent. I sense a great opportunity for misjustice (along side justice, it's a double edge sword) if you have your dna on a one dollar bill a murdered person has.
The laws aren't Business-Friendly, they are related to public health. Lets say I did what you wanted and planted you in a shallow grave with no casing and planted a tree. While a very nice gesture, your bodies' parasites and fungi live on. And if you died of say, Cholera, your Cholera rich body is leaking it into the ground water. While there is a racket associated with much of the funeral biz, and much of it is greedy, there is reason behind the laws. Burial laws are in place to be a public health issue, and are written in river valleys where water tables make it so that naked corpses in shallow holes spread disease. Now what I like are cremation with a few options for ashes. A caveat for incase of foul play of course. I like spreading my ashes as an option. Burying an urn is what my grandparents had done (they are in national cemeteries). While the last option that sounds nice is get your ashes compressed into a Diamond/Diamond like gem. I'm morally against to normal Diamond due to the economics. However, I like the idea of having my ashes in a Diamond that can be given to my grandchildren and on down the generations.
Good and Evil are subjective in WoW. For the most part, everyone has good reasons for their evil acts.
The Orcs, for instance, are mostly interested in cleansing themselves of their demon taint and protecting themselves from external threats. However, these societies are not monolithic. Thrall's New Horde only has about 3 clans worth of Orcs (Most of the Frostwolf, Warsong and Shattered hands exist as clans, the rest don't have clans). And there are Orcs in the horde that are double agents for the demons. Demon followers, such as the False Warchiefs Rend and Kargath Bladefist exist, but are separate from the player organizations.
Trolls, as played by the players, are a tiny tiny fraction of the total numbers. The Darkspear trolls are a remnant tribe who are closest to the oldest tribes around, the ones that never fell into total barbarism. They have embraced the light and the power of shamanism. They are also some of the oldest demon fighting lines around. The Shadowhunters will be back.
Tauren are one of the few good races. There's nearly nothing bad you can say about them. They might be a tad naive, but they honestly believe they can cure the forsaken and heal the blood elves.
Forsaken are pissed off at life and their lot. They are former zombies that often enough remember not only their deaths, but the deaths of their loved ones at their own hands. They want to be free, and lack the moral limits they had in life. They are driven by the desire for revenge, and can only clearly feel hate. When you've killed part of your family, and the rest is driven off, they hate the humans very much.
Blood elves are addicts. They have cravings for magic large enough to do nearly anything for it. But they have limits. They don't actively consort with demons, they don't blow up planets, and they know their king went insane. They are also not monolithic in culture, with some speaking against magic, encouraging the use of holy rather than arcane.
On the flip side, Humans have been beaten down again and again. Their king got kidnapped and the queen rules over the 6 year old prince. She's also an evil dragon trying to wreck their society. They are tearing apart under the outside parties.
Dwarves are digging for their past as diggers for the ancient Titans. They have their crowned princess run of with the ruler of the dark dwarves.
Gnomes are insane, radioactive, and have no home having blown it up. They also didn't ask for help to keep the war against the demons going.
Night elves are arrogant mofos whose arrogance doomed us everyone else multiple times. They are also attempting to be the guardians of the world against evil.
Dranerai have awesome accents.
Now most applied technical papers end up being short form condensed, same as short scientific articles.
But white papers go on and on and on and on and on.....
It's worse than that...
I've ridden ICE some rather nice distances. Except for construction work, it was straight. I've also ridden Amtrak around the Pacific NW between Spokane/Seattle, Spokane/Portland and Seattle/Eugene. This is 137,858 square miles for Germany, 98,466 for Oregon, and 71,342 for Washington. These two states are larger than Germany, with just over 9 million in the space of 82 million.
Spokane to Portland or Seattle takes about 8 hours. This is using a heavy sleeper liner that travels between Chicago and Seattle, taking approximately 46 hours. It is also available once a day, leaving at 2 in the morning from Spokane.
The Eugene-Seattle line is a newly built train from Taiwan based off the type used in Europe for regional lines. The train is available about 6 times a day, takes 5 hours to do Eugene-Seattle, partly due to layover. It's actually a really nice train and has a good bistro car along with it's own built in movie service. It's also slower than driving.
Much of the reason why they are slow is the US hasn't built new rail lines in a very long time. Most of these lines are just improved versions of the ones first laid down after the Civil War. And some of these lines skip major towns in semi-rural areas because their spurs don't have enough traffic. Southern Oregon lacks Amtrak service because of this. The line East of the Cascades was kept up, but the line going parallel to I5 (the major West Coast freeway) can't carry modern trains.
Most of these lines have to slow down every 5 to 10 minutes as they cross highways and city streets. Compare this to European dedicated lines that have their own right of way and don't need to slow down except for stations...
Now consider the coast of refurbishing the entire rail network in the US to have its own right of way. Billions upon billions. There's talk of going maglev in some small sections of the country along populated stretches. One plan to connect LA and Las Vegas has already spent billions for about 1 mile of track.
And one related note. The reason US telecom lags is because 15 years ago we were the best in the world. Billions upon billions were spent by the DoD to build a hardened land line network that can survive a nuclear war. Mandates extended this out to nearly every hamlet. It gave the US spare capacity for a number of years. While Europe and Asia didn't have this large infrastructure and skipped to new generation wireless.
Thats what happens when particles that are traveling faster than the speed of light in one material enter another. It's faster in Uranium than water, resulting in the particles having to give up the extra energy.
Vacuum has an N of 1. It's possible to be faster than vacuum, but in terms of Group Velocity, which is useless to send encoded information on.
You can beat the speed of light in vacuum if it goes in a material with an N less than 1. A few already exist.It's the same trick as slowing the speed of light in a material with a huge N.
They are also investing a fortune in nuclear power. Pebble bed reactors, and so forth.
So yah, if it cost the same amount to actually make the CD in 1983 as it did in 1996, or 2007, there might be some validity. But the physical cost of the CD fully packaged is 10 cents or so.
So we're expected to believe the majority of costs in that same article are related to booths. When a 6$ record is replaced by a 14$ CD, the price works out the same. Nothing got cheaper, they just want us to believe a CD is magically as hard to make now as a LP in 1983.
Ah, but are they regenerated younger than they went in? They might not be immortal, but they may have added a few dozen years to their lives.
60's? Bah. Remember he drank from the Holy Grail. He gets to live a nice long time.
/queue Unix jokes.
I'm expecting him being in the 80's or 90's.
No. It's an argument for mostly legalizing and regulating drugs.
But it ignores the hazards of being high and work.
You forget that most of these test for Alcohol misuse as well. A Hazmat worker on chronic isn't much different than a drunk.
Lets take three examples.
Bob works in the loading docks, he moves cases and has a hazmat certificate. He also likes chronic.
Ted is a clerk doing accounting and random bureaucracy crap. He's also a closeted homosexual (mostly due to his own ability to acknowledge it and the fact he's really only Bi and has a wife and kids). In order to enjoy himself he takes meth.
Jon is a PhD working on a project deep in the labs. He also likes to take X when he has sex.
Each of them is both a work place hazard and a security risk. Bob needs his job, it's union, damn good pay and job security for it's level. However not only does chronic make him risky if he's moving say, Uranium Hexafloride around, really only if he's doing it on the job of course, but he's blackmailable. He has to move a barrel to this office instead of that office, or some nonsense or they tell his bosses.
Ted has to give up this information, or his wife will know his exploits. Or his lovely meth habit means he starts stealing.
Jon get his ass blackmailed because high off his ass he had sex with someone he shouldn't. Or just that he's taking it enough that he comes in high and starts loving the feel from the radioactive stuff he's working with.
Now I'm being general here, but there are work place hazards and more importantly blackmail considerations in illict drug use. People in the position to get classified information are watched carefully.
One other point. You don't have to be doing anything really dangerous at a national lab, nor anything that you could have access to that's classified to freak out the security guys. Mostly any schmoe that is in a national lab gets checked out. Especially if you're foreign. It took some folks I know with US passports about 10 minutes to get their security passes at a lab. That includes the photo taking. While it takes another guy with a Ukrainian or Chinese passport hours.
Foreign Oil has ethical issues more severe than coffee. Often enough you get a local strongman supported by oil money, or a clan of bloody thieves.
Oil has a billion and one environmental issues, from CO2, which is claimed to cause the current global warming (although I'm skeptical of causation rather than collation). Not to mention Sulfur, trace minerals, lead, benzene exposure, oil spills killing cute and fuzzy animals.
Or better yet, oil being wasted on burning, rather than plastics and fertilizers for the next thousand years.
Except that these tiny wires are fraction of the size the light wires have to be. Optical chips are going to need to be quite a bit larger to do the same as existing chips. Light might be faster, but engineering issues can be quite large to make an optical chip worth a damn. It's like everytime we hear of X technology, it's not going to win anytime soon because the existing tech usually has twenty or more years of hard work behind it.
He's successfully integrating his work with his homelife. Although you know he enjoys it greatly, Mike is like millions of other parents whose work comes home with them and their kids get interested. I had a physics Prof who would tell us about her child that would ask questions about the papers she was working on, and she'd try to give the best explanation she could and let her child help sort papers.
Yah, if he was a normal Joe working 9-5 and coming home ploping on the couch and having the son just watch, I'd a bit concerned about that. But this way he gets to spend time with his son while doing work related gaming.
Good sire,
This company is pretty much the best mail order company for science products that exists. In a number of items, they have their entire stock bought out by homeland security for their own uses. Like their UV flashlights that are useful for searching for explosives.
They also have a great page up about the Po. It would take 15,000 times the dosage of that $69 vial to get into the lethal range. Which ends up at over $1 million. And then you'd have to combine all the 15,000 needles they come in, which is not gonna happen. You get 10x more in a single smoke detector for far cheaper.
The guy might be slightly batty, I don't know, but I do know he's got the best chemistry kits you can still buy, and taking this guy outta the market is a blow to future scientists.
Here's the best summary of the whole thing.
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There's one quest line that is a coda to a Blizzard novel. The quest chain that ends with In Dreams, the Fording saga, tells the story of the rebirth of the Knights of the Silver Hand. It's deep into lore, with the quest itself having pages of dialogue between characters. And as the game progresses, this storeline becomes more and more important, as Tiron Fording is the last True Paladin, a warrior of the Light whose powers can not be stripped from him despite the Order kicking him out.
How many Wow killers have their been?
And how much higher is Wow's subscriptions than when it first came out?
Yes there haven't been any expansion packs. However, there have been 10 major patches, some of which have more content then EQ expansion packs. There have been 6 raid dungeons added, 4 battlegrounds, and in testing is a major update adding a large amount of items for free, along with the paid xp.
Yes there are issues, yes the hardcore raiders are insane (I'm one). But the wow killers have all gone flat. Wow might have some issues, but they are trying and have added oodles from the day it went live.
TBC is approximately half again as much content as currently in game. I have friends in beta, and it's breathtaking. Furthermore Blizz wasn't just working on TBC, but getting their department into shape to make regular decent sized expansion packs a reality. Plans are 1 a year from now on.