Its posts like this that are why we need a "-1 Timecube" moderation option.

Had I not spent my mod points earlier this very day, it would be insightful for you.

Given 12 parsecs is almost 10^10 trips around the full circumference of the earth, I would be more amazed that someone had done a grocery run exceeding this distance...

Based on actually reading the article it appears in (heresy around these parts I know, but it was linked earlier) I believe that picture specifically refers to case of a corporate election, where one's voting power is determined by how many shares in the company they own.

I just went to task manager and read it off its process count.

It is posts like this that make me wish I had mod points. +insightful to you sir!

Also, reading the sales brief for a previous game (also named Bodycount, funnily enough) one notices a few.. marked similarities:
http://www.mobygames.com/game/operation-body-count

Quoting:
"OBC also features a near fully destructible environment; the Flame Thrower can set bad guys, scenery and the level itself on fire, which could make movement extremely hazardous for the player, especially as the fire randomly spreads. The Grenade launcher meanwhile can destroy any wall (with some hard coded exceptions)."

Which sounds just like what we have here. Except this game was released in 1994...
"Next Gen" huh?

In the mainframe days we put in place a delay before another attempt that exponentially grew each time the password was entered incorrectly. First fail - 2 seconds delay, Second fail - 4 seconds delay, Third fail - 8 seconds...etc

I don't know about "grownups" in the corporate world, never having worked there, but my 10 year old son, net savvy, fully understands the concept that you don't download that really wanted video game or that help file without first evaluating the source, or if questionable, asking dad. Software from an unknown source is like asking criminals into your home because they have doughnuts for you. In 1995, I opened a Halloween card from a known friend. It had an .exe. It began to erase all files beginning with the last modified. It worked backwards and erased 3 months of work before I yanked the plug out of the wall. Since that was 15 years ago, and arguably on a very different internet, how can this still be an issue. (NO, I don't work in IT)

I think its "bailout" at the business management screen, all lower case.

So the obvious way to maintain such secrecy is have it posted to slashdot.
Brilliant...

So by that logic all people who play violent video games must automatically think that its ok to kill people in real life because we do in the game?

99.9% of people who play these games know they shouldn't kill other people and etc, but do so in the game because there are no consequences. Should we take away all violent video games just because of a 0.1% that might go on a school shooting spree?

It does in the short term, but printing money in this manner is a very slipperly slope to deep government debt and inflation.

The source engine was, and still is, built with the capacity to perform file streaming of this sort. Its just never been implemented.

Because all pubishments for cheating infringement are handled completely via steam's account system - aka VAC bans.