I wholeheartedly disagree. Tying one's career to ideology is one of the smartest moves any person can make. Money is a means to help survival, then happiness. Once survival is attained, it's stupid to sacrifice happiness for more money. If someone goes against their ideals to boost their career, that's exactly what they're doing.

It's always started with vapid teenagers (or younger). The original Star Wars movies (4, 5, 6) were making 3 times as much on toys as they were on the movies. The good stories operate on an adult level and hold our interests as we grow. Others lack longevity. And many are infused with longevity through more adult oriented remakes (Batman Begins?).

How old were WE when we first got into sci-fi, fantasy, etc?

As a US citizen that works abroad, I have to FILE taxes, but pay nothing. I basically declare that I made a certain amount working abroad and was taxed in that country. I declare I made 0 in the US, and I owe 0 US taxes. Apparently making rather large sums of money overseas is different, according to the H&R Block person who helps me file.

Also, bringing over 10K back into the US is taxed.

Note: I live in a 1st world country that the US is quite friendly with. It may be different in Afghanistan.

The United Arab Emirates has a fairly high standard of living because of the discovery of oil there. Before discovering it, they were scraping by on fishing.

However, it's not a 1 step process. The 2nd step has a lot to do with it: "The late Sheikh Zayed, ... president of the UAE at its inception, ... directed oil revenues into healthcare, education and the national infrastructure."

Why is there always a focus on the negative side of automation? It really means less work, same productivity. Humans no longer need to work as hard to produce the same quality of life.

The difficulty with these stories lies in the fact that it's a redistribution of wealth from the workers to the owners of the company, until those owners redistribute the wealth again by investing the savings. So it's difficult for the people who lose their jobs, as they now have to fight to get new ones. It's sad. But for humanity as a whole, extra efficiency means greater wealth, since we are now creating the same product with less work invested.

It raises everybody up in the long run. Compare medieval kings to lower middle class people of today and we find the kings did not have the amount of entertainment to choose from, the durable clothes, the variety of food available, the health care quality, perks like temperature control of their rooms, etc.

That's the overall and long term effect, the greater positive side, and something that is too often ignored.

Ludwig "van"

"von" in German denoted nobility at the time. The Dutch "van" in Beethoven's name did not, however he tricked the Austrian courts during his custody battle for his nephew, Karl, into thinking he was born from nobility and tried the case in a court for noblemen.

He later let it slip that he wasn't nobly born and the case was transferred.

To offer some perspective, here in Japan we have numerous internet service providers all competing for the same turf, and so we have a number of fairly cheap ISPs to choose from, all offering very quick uncapped service.

Yet if Diablo 2 had the same sort of activation as SC2, and Blizzard stopped running BattleNet, you wouldn't be able to play it today, because when you upgraded your computer (I'm assuming you've upgraded since you bought D2) you wouldn't have been able to activate it again.

The US also counts "infant mortality" as showing any signs of life while outside the womb. Many other countries have less strict standards, and count similar deaths as not having been born.

Comparing Infant Mortality Rates

All "value" is speculation.

While there's a lot to criticize about governmental policies in China, Russia, and... Canada?... at least they're not wasting millions of man hours trying to enforce the copy restrictions of other countries.

Trademarks exist to help the public distinguish the original source of something. If it's possible that people may be confused and think this fan site is actually made by people at Warhammer, then they may have a trademark infringement case.

I strongly disagree with trying to turn a "Public Good" into a "Club Good". I do not believe innovation on public goods (such as artistic endeavors) will stop if the artificial scarcity created by IP law is lifted. Others may disagree with me, but the experiment is being done on the internet right now with movies, music, literature, and software. Quality work is being done by people that are not given monetary incentives. The easier it gets to create and distribute, the less current IP law can be justified (since its purpose is to give incentives to create and distribute by restricting what other people can do with the work).

I think the misconception comes from being able to distinguish between things that require maintenance (ex: internet lines) and things which do not (ex: the patterns being transmitted by the internet lines).

Because the man can do the same exercises without the Wii, without the game.

Wii Fit is like a cheap personal trainer/motivator. No competent doctor is going to recommend it as a full replacement for a rehabilitation therapist. But they may recommend it as healthy, daily exercise. The same thing can be accomplished by handing the man a pamphlet, except Wii Fit motivates better.

Yes, Wii Fit should be recommended to motivate patients. No, a government shouldn't pay for this "extra motivation".

Interesting to think that with the information on that video, there is an extremely good chance of life on Saturn's Enceladus, at least in the form of these simple vesicles. Enceladus has the water, carbon, nitrogen, and heat that is all that's needed to make these vesicles form spontaneously.

Whether they have evolved into anything more complex depends on the stability under the ice (do these vesicles continuously get eradicated or have they been given time to "compete" with one another).

I'm not advocating anything, but learning to properly operate weapons can be both a difficult endeavor and possibly useful out in the wilderness. It requires patience, an amount of full body control, and (if presented correctly) a respect for the dangerous force of machines.

Learning the basics of an FPS does none of this.


Also, we're talking about cub scouts here (approx. age 7-10). Cub scouts are limited to Archery and BB gun shooting with trained supervisors present. Only boy scouts (teenagers) are allowed to operate firearms.