Surprised nobody's dusted off the old microsoft motto -- Embrace, Extend, Extinguish. They could hit all sorts of birds with this stone...Wordpress, GPL, PHP, just to name some off the top of my head.

Answer: Yes, you can buy them in-game. Also, TFA says it was more like $1300

CCP recently re-introduced the mechanic for moving these items around after a long hiatus of being completely unable to do so; however, there really isn't any reason to (especially not $1200 worth.

Once you purchase the item with real cash, you must then go to someplace which is a) perfectly safe and b) where the item can be sold; you can then 'redeem' the item, causing it to appear in the game world. While moving them between such places, obviously, the items are vulnerable to theft and destruction, but again, there's really no reason to do so.

That pretty much sums it up I think. I am an American and I am NOT proud of everything my country does. The fact is, I'm an American, really and truly; Obama is a real, true American, and the fact that we can disagree with you (or that you are allowed to disagree with us) is one of the the few accomplishments Americans actually can be proud of.

The fact is, one doesn't have to feel an overwhelming sense of stunning self-satisfaction for simply having been born into this great nation; America -isn't- the only nation on earth and never has been, and like it or not you've got a lot more fellow Americans than you think you do.

It's crap like this that makes me sick of my fellow Americans and, in many cases, their smug, self-satisfied pride at being born into such a great heritage.

That said, I think Obama has bigger fish to fry (yes, bigger than another trip to the moon). For one thing, I'd like some form of profitable employment and so would thirty percent of other voting age Americans who are unemployed or working part time at Wal Mart (or whatever the number is this week). I'd like to see America claw its way back to the top of the world powers, a position nobody thinks it still has. And I'd like to see America stop bleeding its jobs to its enemies in China, India, and Mexico.

Once we do that, and we're in a position to afford such frills as a moon trip again, I'm all for it.

The Internet Service Providers providing internet service to the 90 zeus command nodes suddenly (and involuntarily) stopped providing internet service. TFA attributes this to "anonymous community action". Basically, someone got irritated at the bot net and blacked out a fair chunk of Kazakhstan in order to damage it.

Well, there's broken and then there's broken. Check out what it does to the phrase "Be evil".

It worked on firefox for me, try turning off flash block.
However, it thinks "Who were you before you were who you are" has the same meaning as "Many people before the eyes of many people?"
I think I broke it.
http://translationparty.com/#6824917

Even assuming their entire country is a prison, the US -still- has more people in prison than North Korea does.





//(Technically wrong by a factor of 10, but still likely to hit +5 funny before it hits -5 troll).

I'm thinking more along the lines of the supermutants from the fallout series...or spiderman!

The fallacy in your logic is that a corporation is a construct. It has no life without the people who are its members. When "a corporation" does this or that, it means that a person or a group of people decided it ought to be done. Saying corporations are above such petty concerns as right and wrong is the exact same as saying the CEO's and other decision makers of such corporations regard themselves as above such petty concerns as right and wrong. It's sloppy thinking like this that helps make the corporate world the slime-filled mess it is today.

Mandatory XKCD: http://xkcd.com/644/

I have no data on earbuds damaging hearing any more or less than any other sound system damaging hearing, but I do have data on earbuds damaging ears. I have a set of cheapo headphones with mic I bought from Staples (and I liked them so much that when they broke I bought a second pair); I occassionally wear them all day (aaaall day, 12 to 16 hours) with no ill effects. However, every earbud I put on makes my ears sore within 15 minutes, and within an hour my ears are red and inflamed for the rest of the day. I guess I just have a weird-shaped ear canal or something...

If for some reason you are not now using a microsoft product, a microsoft product will be given to you free and you will be...encouraged...to use it.

Logically speaking, why would their operating costs be any higher? They aren't actually shipping books around--they're shipping data. And that data is probably hosted on the same servers, maybe even the same bits as their US products.

A more reasonable explanation, in my opinion, is that pictures are being stripped and the internet locked down so they aren't liable under chinese law for anyone who evades the eWall of China. And they're charging more because they think they can get away with charging more, leading to higher profits.

That would be like me putting a download on my site and saying "If you live in the US, click HERE so I can charge you $10 usd. If you do not live in the US, click HERE so I can charge you $14 usd."

The days start at Sunday and the months start at January--which is the same as saying, tis mere convention that their numeric array key values start at 1, whereas years are of type Int rather than String, and so of course they start at 0.

"The book "Zen of [Wicca]" by [Author] introduces an original view to the challenging world of [Wicca]. He refers to the Zen philosophy as a "therapeutic device" helping [Wiccan] practitioners to get rid of prejudices and opinions in order to apply a clear mind-set based on real-life experiences and the application of technology knowledge. Each chapter of the book is prefaced by Zen Truism that the author suggests to "revisit, reflect on it longer, and see if you are able to establish a truth from the narrative, as well as from your own experiences." In fact, the book is about a [Wiccan] Blueprint outlining a methodology for building a successful [Wiccan] strategy. The target audience is [Wiccans] undertaking or intending to undertake adoption of [Wicca] throughout their organizations. I strongly recommend the book to all [Wiccan] practitioners involved in implementation of [Wicca].
The author's vision is based on extensive experience in the [Wiccan] arena and he elegantly leads and prepares the reader for the introduction of his [Wiccan] Blueprint approach. I personally enjoyed reflecting on the Zen conundrums which stimulated me to focus and understand the content."

Fixed that for you.