That's because this idea has been floating around for awhile. This company was founded by Max Keiser, who created a model that would allow you to set up a Stock Exchange based on any market. Keiser, to say the least is a very colorful character.

Scarily enough, the Pentagon had once wanted to set up a similar stock exchange that would rely in predicting when terror attacks would occur.

He is doing a very interesting project called Pirate My Film where producers can finance their films by selling future copies of their movie, where investors can expect a share in any future profits from sale of the film.

http://www.piratemyfilm.com/

If the NHTSA didn't exist Toyota would have had to spend money to fix the problem instead of paying ex-regulators to quash multiple investigations.

The same goes for Wall Street. Most of the financial regulators are former high level executives from Goldman Sachs or strong ties to them and other financial institutions.

I don't understand why we need so many useless regulators who are usually wolves being put in charge of the hen house when the courts could easily handle this. It's going to end up being prosecuted in a court of law anyway and not solved by some magic regulation hand-waving.

You mean, expansion packs which have just as much content as they normally would, just like any strategy game since C&C has done?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilization_IV:_Warlords

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilization_IV:_Beyond_the_Sword

Then you had Civ4: Colonization which was a standalone remake of the original Colonization with the Civ4 engine.

So Civ4 did exactly what Blizzard plans to do: add unique civilizations and single-player scenarios to be played along with other general improvements.

The only difference between Blizzard and Firaxis is Blizzard is upfront about how they are going to split up single player content and have yet to divulge their pricing scheme.

How is that new edition of Newspeak coming along?

To quote P.T. Barnum: "There's a fucker born every minute."

Where have they said they aren't releasing a complete game at launch and where have the released their pricing scheme?

You are simply making assumptions.

It seems a little odd to be upset that they are more upfront about their plans for expansion packs and the content that will be in them. Each race will still be playable in multiplayer. There is no indication that the SCII won't have as much single player content as the original SC, albeit you'll only be able to play one races campaign.

I'd much rather wait and see more details on what it entails before passing judgement.

So when they launch a false flag attack on the internet in order to shut it down and censor it they can have a report and say, "See, we told you!"

I, for one welcome our new aquatic suicide bombing robot overlords.

The article states that he indeed, did:

How brave of him. Now he has to bravely face some teenager leaving a note at his door that most assuredly called him a "nigger faggot."

Doesn't he know that AT&T's motto is, "Your World Delivered... to the NSA"

Then you have already won because the only winning move is not to play.

If you really want to have privacy in the digital age the only winning move is not to play. The people in control of things want to endlessly analyze every single thing they can in order to better control and shape society to their will and it is too easy to get that data through computers.

See: The Trap