I would _strongly_ recommend against anyone trusting their private data to a company with physical ties to the United States.
What alternative email provider would you recommend Edward Snowden now gets an account with?
What good are laws if government ignores them?
If the government ignores the laws, then we change the government!
Wait... I'm on a list now, aren't I?
Don't know if you were being sarcastic, but EVE doesn't use levelling
And it's not exactly a 2D grid like the GP suggests. There are over 5,000 star (solar) systems but each is basically full size. It's true that like a normal star system, the overwhelmingly vast majority of that is empty space, but you can be anywhere within it. Most of the action does take place around celestial bodies, space stations, star gates, and anomalies, but EVE does a good job of making a galaxy feel mindbogglingly huge, which is appropriate.
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