Comment Now, now (Score 1) 131
Now, now, be fair. The "editing" was bullshit before DICE took over.
Now, now, be fair. The "editing" was bullshit before DICE took over.
They made all items worth using "soulbound", meaning you can't trade them. So no, there's no 3rd party item selling. You can only use what you find.
Interestingly, STO (Which Charliemopps complains about being too much like gambling) has done the same thing. All of the best items are character-locked, let alone account-locked. Also, in STO you earn dilithium ore for just playing the game, you refine an amount every day, and you can trade it for Zen (locked to STO) on the exchange.
Researchers have found that given access to alcohol, monkeys are approximately as likely as us to behave the way we do; that is to say that teetotalers, social drinkers, lushes, and outright alcoholics appear in about the same proportions in studied monkey populations as in human populations. Addiction is simply a thing. It would be nice if we could have some addictive games that helped fold proteins to "cure cancer" or whatever, though. Right now, at best they are a fuckoff waste of time. Sometimes that has personal benefits, but anything can be taken too far.
One thing to remember here is that most of these edits are probably made by junior IT staff
It doesn't matter who makes them, the only thing that matters is the reason.
While I was VP for Public Affairs at E'Prime Aerospace, we evaluated various sites for establishing a space port to launch our MX-derived rockets. It turned out that the presence of a military air strip at Ascension Island allowed a military jet transport large enough to deliver entire launch vehicles. Of course, the MX system was solid fueled so we didn't have to transport cryogenics long distances, but it would be feasible to set up a LOX facility on the island. There is a particular coastal cliff that is ideal for a launch pad.
There already is a generator.
Expect the first planet to be named Lave, and be famous for its vast rain forests and Laveian tree grub.
Even knowing that, Republicans will vote for Republicans and Democrats for Democrats and Libertarians for people who are not libertarian. Even knowing they're just putting the yin and yang into those crushing boots, they will continue to believe if they could only defeat other leg, once and for all, their lives would be glorious.
The one thing a Libertarian cartoonist won't tell you though, is if you follow those boots up to the legs, and the legs up to the pockets and the pockets up to the head, you will find the corporate wizard pulling the levers, whispering, "God...guns...gay rights...family values...free markets...climate change...Sarah Palin...Michael Moore...liebruls...wingnuts..." into the megaphone. He's a wizened little man, looks a lot like Sheldon Adleson, in fact, whose own legs have withered. He's the subject of the Picture of Dorian Gray. Call it, "The Picture of John Galt". Corrupt, suppurating and certain of his position among The Elect. Plump and parasitic.
It's so easy to blame team red or team blue, but only because The Commissioner likes to keep our attention focused on the heels and away from the head.
The ONLY thing required for this to happen is secure communications.
That's like saying "the ONLY thing required is world peace".
What admins and engineers have known for a long time, and which people like Snowden provided evidence for is that secure communication is not a given, and highly unlikely to be an option for the masses.
If the government won't let people have a shadow economy they can't monitor or control, expect physical alternatives to take their place. There's plenty of precedence for turning to valuable metals when the currency cannot be trusted. And there are examples of governments banning both gold and silver trade as a kneejerk reaction, but that just moves the market to something else.
That most people already have a smartphone.
The data plan issue is a bigger one, I think.
Some people avoid buying a smartphone precisely because many carriers force purchase of a data plan. For example, Virgin Mobile USA offers pay-per-minute voice service starting at $20 per 90 days but won't activate that plan on a smartphone. Instead, plans that can be activated on a smartphone start at $35 per month, which is five times as much.
By the parent using the parent's bank card.
With a substantial transaction fee.
By the kid splitting a larger card so he can give some amount to his buddy
With a substantial transaction fee each.
or combining several cards he got from his buddies.
With a substantial transaction fee each.
I'm switching out my lightbulbs - to halogen lights.
I can't stand the visible flickering of LED lights, nor that they don't light in a continuous spectrum. Some colors will show stronger and some less in LED light, which irritates me.
It's like listening to music with an 18-band equalizer, and three random knobs turned all the way up, and the rest down.
Halogen lights don't have that problem, and you can get them in many color temperatures. They're far more efficient than regular incandescent bulbs, while still having the advantages of an unbroken spectrum and little flickering. They're also safer for the environment to dispose of than LEDs.
I would like to name it Sodom. The people that live there are Sodomizers.
I believe they would actually be called Sodomites, which is already funny enough.
But then you have to pay hundreds of USD for an iPhone (or maybe one hundred for a compatible Android phone) and hundreds of USD per year to upgrade from voice-only cellular service to smartphone service. Or what am I missing?
That most people already have a smartphone.
The data plan issue is a bigger one, I think.
Remember to say hello to your bank teller.
