Good for Dow. It's probably about time some company jumped on this. I'm just waiting for one of the big oil companies to shut them down so they can go back to using expensive corn crops for ethanol. I mean, corn? Really? Couldn't they have come up with anything more costly that produces less ethanol? Oh! Coming in 2015 from Shell: puppy ethanol!

Thomas Jefferson was a bit nerdy, true, but he was disqualified from being the first nerd president because it's a well-known fact that he ran his own fantasy football league. And we all know that fantasy football is the territory of jocks, not nerds.

That's just his way of keeping it old school.

Your analogy is pretty poor considering air is both required to live and free to breathe. On the other hand, missions to the moon, while interesting, cost a lot of money which could be used to pay for any number federal or state budget items and would have a more immediate impact on the economy. I just think that the $79,000,000 could have been spent on something more beneficial.

That statement applies to most video games not just MMOs. However, unlike most games, subscription MMOs are heavily reliant on the number of players. A subscription-based MMO with too few players probably won't survive for long. So the developers have to find a balance between accessibility and challenge.

Make your game less challenging and you'll annoy the dedicated players. Make your game less accessible, however, and you risk driving off a majority of your subscription base. While I want a challenging MMO as much as the next guy, I want one that will survive.

With regards to your comments on "breaking camp", I remember well those days in the Northern Desert of Ro. I also remember the early days in Upper Blackrock Spire where crowd control was absolutely essential. While I do miss those days a bit, I also remember waiting an hour just to find a group to kill the same couple of camps over and over and over. I also remember ten-man UBRS runs taking more than two hours just to have the boss drop a chest piece for a class not even in the group. Those are not the days I want to relive. Heck, I don't even have time in my life to play games that work like that anymore.

Because the job of "Evil Politician" pays as much and has very little in the way of intellectual requirements.

Who needs it? Was I the only person greatly disappointed by GTA IV? Compared to the previous GTA games on the PS2, there was nothing to keep me playing after the story. In my opinion, more story wouldn't bring players back to the game as much as more interesting multi-player modes, car mods, and maybe some sort of turf wars or some other reoccurring event in single player.

I would like to donate money to your research on chronic boredom disorder as long as you find Video Games to be an effective cure.

Kinda like in prison?

SANS.org offers a whole lot of courses regarding InfoSec. Start with SANS 401 unless you feel you really need the into 301. Sadly, they get pretty pricey if you don't have a company reimbursing you.

Oh goodness, please tell me you're just trying to be funny.

Listen people: if you're alive, one day, you're going to die. You can take steps to live longer (eat healthy, wear a seatbelt, don't drink cyanide, etc), but worrying about every plane that flies over your house is not one of them.

Take heart in knowing that you're more likely to be struck and killed by a train while worriedly searching the sky for an airplane thousands of feet up.

Couldn't someone make the same correlation with video games: that sitting on your butt playing video games can lead to obesity which leads to health problems later in life?

Good point. I was never taught all these tax rules I need to follow, either. However, when it comes to tax time, there are several sections on the form where I'm supposed to declare any income or purchases that were not taxed: out-of-state purchases or services like plowing my neighbor's driveways, etc.

Assuming there's something like that on the Sweden tax forms, then these girls should be listing their untaxed income from their "web services".

Of course, I don't know too many people who actually declares their out-of-state purchases and untaxed income, but that's a whole other discussion.