Don't believe these people... This project is simply part of the Government's control on teh people.... They are working on a time machine, soon this database will also be able to read books that haven't even been written yet, books that are from the future... Once they can do that, THEY WILL CONTROL US...
Pssh you want sense of danger? Go play EVE-Online where one wrong move and a player pirate will have you lose your 1 billion isk ship which took you one month to deck out with the best gear.
Nope I don't mean that at all. This is simply what the whole economy is about.
Who needs diamonds? no one, but theres a HUGE market for them.. Art? Music? Games? Spiffy Clothing? Same thing, all useless junk that no one really NEEDS.
Now I'm not arguing that we should give up all these items and live with only what we need, no way! I'm simply stating that the economy is driven by these useless things that are produced by people. If it is a scarce good, then it will have a value. Those items in that virtual world are scarce goods.
As much as people like to chastise the government's of the first world for doing what the Romans did ie creating a circus to entertain the people, nada the situation different. Your simplistic comparisons are invalid and fall on their face.
PS: What are the problems of the real world?
World Hunger? Nada we can feed everyone on this planet Overpopulation? Nada, the human population in first world countries is barely breaking even. Oil Crisis? Who needs oil???? Global Warming? So what the human speciecs won't die out because of global warming.
And yes thats nice that you can retire at 45 with no 200mph car, no $2000 computer, and especially no 60 inch TV.;-) Nah just pulling your leg
Seriously though, do whatever the hell you want that makes you happy, no one's forcing you to buy any of those things. If you value retiring at 45 more then owning a bunch of useless junk, then good for you!
Pretty simply, you spend your money on silly useless things all the time! Games for example? How the hell could you spend your money on video games?
Anyways the point of the economy is to produce goods and to consume them. The point of becoming wealthy is to dabble in useless things. The point of becoming a rich country is so that everyone can then dabble in those useless things. It's all useless!
But things are being produced and consumed in this online world so the economy gets stronger and more people have more useless things!
Ohh Really? Tell me mister, what is this bold faced plan of yours that our politicans are supposed to implement? Banning of all electricity? Complete switch to wind power(lol!)?
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Just as useless as a some new flashy clothing, or a diamond ring, or a fast sports car, or the last football game....
;-)
Whats your point? When you realize this come back to me
Don't believe these people... This project is simply part of the Government's control on teh people.... They are working on a time machine, soon this database will also be able to read books that haven't even been written yet, books that are from the future... Once they can do that, THEY WILL CONTROL US...
STOP THE GOVERNMENT STOP GOOGLE!!!
You have been warned...
Fortunately for us, useless toys are what run the economy!
Pssh you want sense of danger? Go play EVE-Online where one wrong move and a player pirate will have you lose your 1 billion isk ship which took you one month to deck out with the best gear.
:D
That game is risky, and fun
I think he ment drove PC Developers away from the PC market and onto the console market.
:P
And Most PC developers are in the US/Canada aka Americas
Except the USA Does NOT DO ANYTHING TO CHINA
As long as it's not in the news 24/7 though you will continue to perpepuate this myth.
April fools was last month folks!!
because saying nazi invokes godwin's law.
.NET is pretty innovative and usefull
Nope I don't mean that at all. This is simply what the whole economy is about.
Who needs diamonds? no one, but theres a HUGE market for them.. Art? Music? Games? Spiffy Clothing? Same thing, all useless junk that no one really NEEDS.
Now I'm not arguing that we should give up all these items and live with only what we need, no way! I'm simply stating that the economy is driven by these useless things that are produced by people. If it is a scarce good, then it will have a value. Those items in that virtual world are scarce goods.
As much as people like to chastise the government's of the first world for doing what the Romans did ie creating a circus to entertain the people, nada the situation different. Your simplistic comparisons are invalid and fall on their face.
PS: What are the problems of the real world?
World Hunger? Nada we can feed everyone on this planet
Overpopulation? Nada, the human population in first world countries is barely breaking even.
Oil Crisis? Who needs oil????
Global Warming? So what the human speciecs won't die out because of global warming.
Stay away from WoW, that's all I have to say for you!!
Hey if that's what makes you happy, keep doing it.
No one is going to force you to do anything! Except well maybe the RIAA, they might force you to buy their music even if you don't want it...
Hostile eh?
;-) Nah just pulling your leg
And yes thats nice that you can retire at 45 with no 200mph car, no $2000 computer, and especially no 60 inch TV.
Seriously though, do whatever the hell you want that makes you happy, no one's forcing you to buy any of those things. If you value retiring at 45 more then owning a bunch of useless junk, then good for you!
But you have no 60inch TV, no $2000 computer, no 200mph car...
And then you die, gone, finished, never to come back.
Is the stock market legal?
Pretty simply, you spend your money on silly useless things all the time! Games for example? How the hell could you spend your money on video games?
Anyways the point of the economy is to produce goods and to consume them. The point of becoming wealthy is to dabble in useless things. The point of becoming a rich country is so that everyone can then dabble in those useless things. It's all useless!
But things are being produced and consumed in this online world so the economy gets stronger and more people have more useless things!
Just like this useless post!
Sorry... But the Middle East is such a shit hole now because of the colonial expansions of Europe pre WW1.
FYI All this shit stems back from WW1 so yes WW1/WW2/+ are all very relevant.
Guess who drew up the borders of Iraq and put Completely different Ethnic groups together? Yeah Britain.
Ok...... Im talking pre global warming here. Species have been dying every year. It happens... Big Woop.
and there's plenty of more serious material available in the EU that would be illegal had a US entity posted the same thing.
Care to elaborate on that one? Or are you just spewing crap like I think you are?
Is it due to global warming? I don't think so.
Or maybe just maybe the fuel could go into a breeder reactor and be umm REUSED?
A bunch of Earth's species is destroyed every year.
Ohh Really? Tell me mister, what is this bold faced plan of yours that our politicans are supposed to implement? Banning of all electricity? Complete switch to wind power(lol!)?
Don't mean to sound rude, but are you stupid?
Nuclear Fuel can easily be reused many many many times.
That stuff you call waste is perfectly good fuel.
PS what do you do with the thousands of tons of CO2 and other such things that are released from coal plants?
Yucca Mountain vs Thousands of tons of junk and CO2 into the atmosphere
You choose.
Or maybe humans breed 6 legged sheep so that we can eat them and get more meat :-D