Imagine what West Virginia would be like _without_ coal mining, however. Very pretty, I'm sure. But certainly far poorer.
probably much better off, actually. abundant natural resources are about the worst thing that can happen to a political entity--they almost invariably lead to corruption and government-sponsored concentration of wealth. the less free stuff you have sitting around in the ground, the more your people have to learn to actually create value themselves, which is where real prosperity always comes from.
and why shouldn't i be able to decide my own time/money balance there?
Because not everybody gets to be an astronaut. Yes, yes, in America, we know that financial might makes right, but Blizzard owns this particular playground.
sorry, i should have been more clear: that wasn't "why won't bliz let me", but "why should it offend other players so much".
there must be something out there that can be stretched into precedent for this. what about internal accounting systems, where a company's departments "pay" each other for services, but the government only cares about money which crosses the organization's boundary?
frankly, i would welcome a little of this in WoW--the things that seriously affect your ability to play (i.e. high-end gear) are already pretty well walled off from economic effects (available only as raid drops or PVP rewards). it's the silly new bling (bike, mammoth, dalaran ring, pilton bag, etc.) that requires ridiculous amounts of gold-grinding to get--and why shouldn't i be able to decide my own time/money balance there?
Also, you won't end up with the heat in the office if the system is cooled with *tap* water (heat is lost in the sewers)
hmm, this gives me an idea--residential tap water is free in new york city, and relatively cold, so why not use an always-on stream piped from the kitchen/bathroom? would sure simplify the plumbing and cleaning.
i'll get on it as soon as i'm done with my bathtub hydroelectric project....
statistically speaking, there are probably at least a couple people reading this article whose grandfathers died on omaha beach. how much are they owed by EA?
It was the Flu pandemic
And it swept the whole world wide
It caught soldiers and civilians
And they died, died, died!
Whether they're lying in the trenches
Or lying in their beds
Twenty million of them got it
And they're dead, dead, dead!
There was a soldier on the battleground in 1917
He turned there to his buddy with his face a ghastly green
He said "We made it both through Passchendaele, the Somme, and Flanders too
But now my number's up my lad for I've gone and caught the flu"
chorus
Well a nurse was in the hospital when Tommy was brought in
When he sneezed she caught a face full that was flying in the wind
She wrote a letter home to England to tell them of her plight
But the letter never got there 'cause the postman too had died
chorus
From the meadow-lands of Somerset and o'er the bounding main
To the shores of old Americay they sung the same refrain
Mothers, fathers, uncles and aunts as well as the odd nephew
Brothers and sisters and bosses and lovers were all got by the flu
chorus
Well a farmer out in China watched his family dropping down
And a businessman in Cairo hit the street without a sound
And an eager little Bolshevik in old Sevastopol
couldn't keep up his grinnin' at Lenin as Comrade Virus took its toll
never said you did. platinum's corrosion resistant, expensive, and shiny, which makes it a perfect fit for monster's business model. (it's also a worse conductor than gold, but their target market won't know that.)
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Imagine what West Virginia would be like _without_ coal mining, however. Very pretty, I'm sure. But certainly far poorer.
probably much better off, actually. abundant natural resources are about the worst thing that can happen to a political entity--they almost invariably lead to corruption and government-sponsored concentration of wealth. the less free stuff you have sitting around in the ground, the more your people have to learn to actually create value themselves, which is where real prosperity always comes from.
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isn't that about the fine for detonating a nuke within city limits in berkeley?
from heinlein:
and why shouldn't i be able to decide my own time/money balance there?
Because not everybody gets to be an astronaut. Yes, yes, in America, we know that financial might makes right, but Blizzard owns this particular playground.
sorry, i should have been more clear: that wasn't "why won't bliz let me", but "why should it offend other players so much".
there must be something out there that can be stretched into precedent for this. what about internal accounting systems, where a company's departments "pay" each other for services, but the government only cares about money which crosses the organization's boundary?
frankly, i would welcome a little of this in WoW--the things that seriously affect your ability to play (i.e. high-end gear) are already pretty well walled off from economic effects (available only as raid drops or PVP rewards). it's the silly new bling (bike, mammoth, dalaran ring, pilton bag, etc.) that requires ridiculous amounts of gold-grinding to get--and why shouldn't i be able to decide my own time/money balance there?
actually, for a while they were just going to skip straight to X, due to legal issues with the other OS-9
Also, you won't end up with the heat in the office if the system is cooled with *tap* water (heat is lost in the sewers)
hmm, this gives me an idea--residential tap water is free in new york city, and relatively cold, so why not use an always-on stream piped from the kitchen/bathroom? would sure simplify the plumbing and cleaning.
i'll get on it as soon as i'm done with my bathtub hydroelectric project....
"interesting"? really? oy....
statistically speaking, there are probably at least a couple people reading this article whose grandfathers died on omaha beach. how much are they owed by EA?
http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=932
courtesy of The Flying Fish Sailors, it's Flu Pandemic! everybody sing along on the chorus!
It was the Flu pandemic
And it swept the whole world wide
It caught soldiers and civilians
And they died, died, died!
Whether they're lying in the trenches
Or lying in their beds
Twenty million of them got it
And they're dead, dead, dead!
There was a soldier on the battleground in 1917
He turned there to his buddy with his face a ghastly green
He said "We made it both through Passchendaele, the Somme, and Flanders too
But now my number's up my lad for I've gone and caught the flu"
chorus
Well a nurse was in the hospital when Tommy was brought in
When he sneezed she caught a face full that was flying in the wind
She wrote a letter home to England to tell them of her plight
But the letter never got there 'cause the postman too had died
chorus
From the meadow-lands of Somerset and o'er the bounding main
To the shores of old Americay they sung the same refrain
Mothers, fathers, uncles and aunts as well as the odd nephew
Brothers and sisters and bosses and lovers were all got by the flu
chorus
Well a farmer out in China watched his family dropping down
And a businessman in Cairo hit the street without a sound
And an eager little Bolshevik in old Sevastopol
couldn't keep up his grinnin' at Lenin as Comrade Virus took its toll
can i just say that the dept. tag on this is possibly the worst pun i've ever seen on slashdot?
the important thing is fitting lucy liu in somehow
or three times, even
i'd prefer chloe from smallville, ideally from the period where she was infected with bits of brainiac
your post looks remarkably like minnesota
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never said you did. platinum's corrosion resistant, expensive, and shiny, which makes it a perfect fit for monster's business model. (it's also a worse conductor than gold, but their target market won't know that.)
has monster come out with platinum cables yet?
life is a fatal std
Cats are prime eating, BTW...all species from domestic 'kitty' to the big cats...lions, tigers, jaguars, ocelots....
Interesting. I'd always heard that predators in general tasted bad; I'd have expected that to go double for obligate carnivores.
(cue up cat's in the kettle....)
wasn't there something a couple months ago on how jupiter sounds like a theremin?
too lazy to rtfa, but the numbers in the summary add up to 459, not "over a [sic] 1000"