^ Perhaps you need to get a copy of Econ For Dummies and look up the difference between a "market" and a "service". Your post makes no frikkin sense whatsoever.
One fundamental flaw with your idea: While resources can be phased within a zone, once those resources show up on the auction house, they affect the realm economy as a whole. Farming resources takes time. As such, I expect to be "compensated" for my efforts by getting a fair price at auction. Someone using a bot to farm doesn't have this time investment and can thus sell his resources at a drastically undervalued price.
Not quite... Simply killing mobs solo is not an efficient way of leveling a character. You gain far more experience (and thus level faster) by questing. It just happens that camping on a mob spawn point and attacking anything that comes in range is easier to script.
Only if a reasonable person would believe that those charges are true.
Yes. That works so well. Because we never hear stories of long-time and even popular teachers being accused of sexually abusing their students. How exactly is a "reasonable" person supposed to determine, on accusation, which allegations of sexual abuse are true when abusers can be anyone?
So you admit that it made testable claims that were proved false, making it a science.
Sadly, no. If it were "science", once the testable claims were proven false, ID would be thrown into the dustbin of history; like heliocentrism, steady-state cosmology, and Lamarckian Evolution. Proving ID false will, just again, cause its proponents to ignore the results.
Young-earthers do dispute geology, just as blindly as they dispute evolution. And you need to read your bible more closely, as the very first two chapters of it contradict everything we know about evolution, biology, geology and cosmology.
This is my feeling as well, I personally feel that God the creator created the universe. I have too hard a time with any 'spontaneous creation' scenario (the Big Bang seems to fly in the face of the second law of thermodynamics IMO) to give them credence.
If you have a problem with "spontaneous creation", you're probably arguing against the First Law of Thermodynamics, not the Second. This article from Talkorigins should clear things up for you...
"Rammed through"?? You are aware that congress has been working on this bill for over a year right??
...without 70% of the peoples approval.
Turn off Glen Beck, please. It's killing your brain cells. Not even a Senate filibuster requires a 70% majority to break. Cloture was passed on the senate bill (with a supermajority of votes), and the house passed the senate bill with a majority. You lost. Deal with it.
The only ones that dont are the ones jealous of people who work for a living that they get nice cars and they dont. Hey i should have that car too! who do you think you are! Im a person too, im entitled!
My, don't you sound like quite the asshole?? But please, don't let facts get in the way of your fantasy world where the poor are to blame for everything. 40% of all bankruptcies in America are caused by medical bills. And of those bankruptcies, a majority of them happen to people with insurance.
So please, step away from the computer and go back into your bunker. You're starting to embarrass yourself.
The state's $22 billion education fund is among the largest educational endowments in the country. Texas uses some of that money to buy or distribute a staggering 48 million textbooks annually -- which rather strongly inclines educational publishers to tailor their products to fit the standards dictated by the Lone Star State. California is the largest textbook market, but besides being bankrupt, it tends to be so specific about what kinds of information its students should learn that few other states follow its lead. Texas, on the other hand, was one of the first states to adopt statewide curriculum guidelines, back in 1998, and the guidelines it came up with (which are referred to as TEKS -- pronounced "teaks" -- for Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills) were clear, broad and inclusive enough that many other states used them as a model in devising their own. And while technology is changing things, textbooks -- printed or online --are still the backbone of education.
What "point" is that, exactly? That I can find 100 people in the barrens to/wave at? WoW was never built around group questing. If you want to put a group together you're likely either 1) doing an instance, or 2) raiding or 3) looking to pick a fight with the opposing faction. And guess what? All of these are going to be arranged in a major city, since only cities have linked chat channels.
To be fair, the dungeon finder does make the world feel "smaller". There's no more cleaning out armies of trash on the way to an instance, no more getting two people in your group 1/2 way across the world to summon the rest of the party, no more mountains of PvP corpses leading up to the entrance of the Daily Heroic...
... But it's worth it.
Try leveling a toon with the goal of seeing all of the instanced content. Unless you're on a very high population server, it ain't going to happen. First off, you'll be wasting hours upon hours in Trade chat trying to get your group together for the dungeon you want to visit. Secondly, good luck getting a group together for the 58-60 Classic dungeons, or the 68-70 BC dungeons. The only way I was able to see these was by soloing them as an 80.
Now, with the dungeon finder, my time investment drops from hours to seconds. I pick my dungeon, click "find", and I'm on my way. I can actually LEAVE THE CITY and get back to playing the game while the DF puts my group together for me.
Prior to the DF, I could, if I was lucky, run one instance a day while levelling. Now, I can run instances pretty much at-will. If it's "Group Play" you're concerned about, this is exactly where you want to be!
If you enjoy soloing PvE content Nothing is frikking stopping you! All of the old content is still there. All of the quests are still there. If flying on your drake "ruins the experience" of exploration, don't use it. Pull out your horse and do the whole thing on foot. If you don't like the idea of the Dungeon Finder, don't use it!!
Feel free to spend an hour in trade chat spamming LFG messages to get a group together.
That's all world PvP in WoW is, for example. It's just level 80s picking on level 30s who are completely incapable of defending themselves.
There is remediation for this. If my lowbie Shaman is getting greifed, I simply log out, log back in as my lv 80 Warlock, sound the alarm in Trade chat, then go back out to take care of business. Greifing in WoW is seldom without consequences. The consequence usually is the faction getting griefed will retaliate.
Unfortunately, pretty much the only PVP that exists on PVP servers any more is griefing. I leveled from 1-70 without encountering a single enemy player that wasn't a skull (more than 10 levels above me) until I got to level 61, where they would fly overhead on their flying mount, waiting for me to drop to low health so they could swoop in for the easy kill.
The reason for this is actually pretty simple. There's a good shot that the number of lv 80's logged in to any PvP realm is greater than the number of 1-79's combined. When leveling, PvP against equal opponents is rare (my Druid just got his first Honorable Kill at level 46), but this is just a function of the population. On my realm, Kalimdor and Eastern Kingdoms are virtually empty compared to Northrend. Frequent world PvP doesn't really happen until you hit 80. Even on my low-population server, farming Hodir reputation invariably turns into a PvP bloodbath.
From an article cited above, the remote activation of the webcam was in place to help locate a laptop if it was stolen. Definitely a legitimate use from an IT perspective.
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Yes, because we all know that that is a licensed use of the WoW client...
^ Perhaps you need to get a copy of Econ For Dummies and look up the difference between a "market" and a "service". Your post makes no frikkin sense whatsoever.
One fundamental flaw with your idea: While resources can be phased within a zone, once those resources show up on the auction house, they affect the realm economy as a whole. Farming resources takes time. As such, I expect to be "compensated" for my efforts by getting a fair price at auction. Someone using a bot to farm doesn't have this time investment and can thus sell his resources at a drastically undervalued price.
Did you click the "I Agree" button at the end of the EULA? Legally, that's authorization enough.
Not quite... Simply killing mobs solo is not an efficient way of leveling a character. You gain far more experience (and thus level faster) by questing. It just happens that camping on a mob spawn point and attacking anything that comes in range is easier to script.
Last I checked, Cobain's "state of mind" was "splattered across his living room". -- Sorry, simply couldn't resist that one!
Yes. That works so well. Because we never hear stories of long-time and even popular teachers being accused of sexually abusing their students. How exactly is a "reasonable" person supposed to determine, on accusation, which allegations of sexual abuse are true when abusers can be anyone?
Sometimes, I wish slashdot had a "-1 Frikkin Idiot" moderation...
So was 2000... And we see how well that worked out.
I agree. But we're talking about 35% of the United States population here. Mass ignorance with a frightening amount of political clout.
You forgot to provide citations for your "evidence"...
Sadly, no. If it were "science", once the testable claims were proven false, ID would be thrown into the dustbin of history; like heliocentrism, steady-state cosmology, and Lamarckian Evolution. Proving ID false will, just again, cause its proponents to ignore the results.
Young-earthers do dispute geology, just as blindly as they dispute evolution. And you need to read your bible more closely, as the very first two chapters of it contradict everything we know about evolution, biology, geology and cosmology.
And just think: 80 years before that, you could legally own another human being as property.
If you have a problem with "spontaneous creation", you're probably arguing against the First Law of Thermodynamics, not the Second. This article from Talkorigins should clear things up for you...
Ya... Suddenly I don't feel so bad spending the past two evenings running around searching for eggs...
"Rammed through"?? You are aware that congress has been working on this bill for over a year right??
Turn off Glen Beck, please. It's killing your brain cells. Not even a Senate filibuster requires a 70% majority to break. Cloture was passed on the senate bill (with a supermajority of votes), and the house passed the senate bill with a majority. You lost. Deal with it.
My, don't you sound like quite the asshole?? But please, don't let facts get in the way of your fantasy world where the poor are to blame for everything. 40% of all bankruptcies in America are caused by medical bills. And of those bankruptcies, a majority of them happen to people with insurance.
So please, step away from the computer and go back into your bunker. You're starting to embarrass yourself.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/14/magazine/14texbooks-t.html?pagewanted=all
To be fair, the dungeon finder does make the world feel "smaller". There's no more cleaning out armies of trash on the way to an instance, no more getting two people in your group 1/2 way across the world to summon the rest of the party, no more mountains of PvP corpses leading up to the entrance of the Daily Heroic...
Try leveling a toon with the goal of seeing all of the instanced content. Unless you're on a very high population server, it ain't going to happen. First off, you'll be wasting hours upon hours in Trade chat trying to get your group together for the dungeon you want to visit. Secondly, good luck getting a group together for the 58-60 Classic dungeons, or the 68-70 BC dungeons. The only way I was able to see these was by soloing them as an 80.
Now, with the dungeon finder, my time investment drops from hours to seconds. I pick my dungeon, click "find", and I'm on my way. I can actually LEAVE THE CITY and get back to playing the game while the DF puts my group together for me.
Prior to the DF, I could, if I was lucky, run one instance a day while levelling. Now, I can run instances pretty much at-will. If it's "Group Play" you're concerned about, this is exactly where you want to be!
If you enjoy soloing PvE content Nothing is frikking stopping you! All of the old content is still there. All of the quests are still there. If flying on your drake "ruins the experience" of exploration, don't use it. Pull out your horse and do the whole thing on foot. If you don't like the idea of the Dungeon Finder, don't use it!! Feel free to spend an hour in trade chat spamming LFG messages to get a group together.
You nailed it. Every class has a unique style of gameplay. The quests and dungeons are the same, but the experience is entirely different.
There is remediation for this. If my lowbie Shaman is getting greifed, I simply log out, log back in as my lv 80 Warlock, sound the alarm in Trade chat, then go back out to take care of business. Greifing in WoW is seldom without consequences. The consequence usually is the faction getting griefed will retaliate.
The reason for this is actually pretty simple. There's a good shot that the number of lv 80's logged in to any PvP realm is greater than the number of 1-79's combined. When leveling, PvP against equal opponents is rare (my Druid just got his first Honorable Kill at level 46), but this is just a function of the population. On my realm, Kalimdor and Eastern Kingdoms are virtually empty compared to Northrend. Frequent world PvP doesn't really happen until you hit 80. Even on my low-population server, farming Hodir reputation invariably turns into a PvP bloodbath.
From an article cited above, the remote activation of the webcam was in place to help locate a laptop if it was stolen. Definitely a legitimate use from an IT perspective.
Smoking a joint while updating his MySpace page?