Aside from ideological objections, I have a simple logistical one... multiplayer games stink for those of us with disabilities. My games must revolve around me, waiting for me to hit the next button, and must not punish me harshly and irrevocably for poor mouse ability. I am playing through Baldur's Gate again, and I do so slowly and with many, many misclicks. But BG gives me infinite pause time to get all the commands in that I need to to play well, and allows to me fix my mistakes. Civilization happily autosaves every turn so that I can roll back killer mistakes. Multiplayer games wait for no man, and they are the province of the able bodied. Even "social connection" doesn't appeal... I can slowly play an overly easy MMORPG like WoW, but I can hardly drive my character and type to people at the same time! And passing kiddies don't need to feast their eyes on my staggering, inept playstyle. LAN games are ok, where friends can play to your limitations, and turn timers can be turned off.

I answered "already" based on a genetic test for HSP. I won the prize of having a disease variant named after me once I'm dead.

This is a free dev kit, not an id-style open source release of the engine (title was kind of misleading).

Where did the title or summary say this was a source release? It's a free release of a dev kit for non commercial use. Which is what the summary and the links say. That you assumed it meant something other than what was explicitly stated is your own poor reading comprehension skills at work.

The URL preview at the bottom of my browser told me all I needed to know. No, I did not go there.

I have an idea, assuming we're able to deploy a very thin cable attached to a satellite in geosync with a few thrusters capable of accelerating to maintain tension in the cable.
Then send a second spacecraft along with a few rolls of that same cable, attach both spacecraft and send down-climbing robots back to earth with the extra cables. Once they reach the floors attach the new cables somewhere near the first cable.
Repeat
Now you have a heavy mass orbiting the earth attached to a strong cable. I'm not sure but I think that if we want to haul anything up, the orbiting mass has go to be at least equal to the mass on the ground.

True, but UT did introduce *blam* "HEADSHOT!!" sound effect which seems to be on every FPS server I play on these days.

You are, to a great extent, correct.

However, one of the biggest problems US ISPs (Comcast, Time Warner) are getting hammered on and what is causing much of the public outcry is that the actual disparities are far outside any reasonable interpretations of the agreements.

For example, my current home ISP's service description is for up to 5mbps downstream, 256kbps upstream. Typical basic residential service, but should adequate for web browsing/email/online gaming/etc. I live in a rural area so housing density is low, but even still I don't expect to be getting max figures.

What I really didn't expect, however, was that my downstream would be closer to 1400kbps and upstream would consistently be in the range of 16-32kbps!!!

There is no reasonable argument there that my ISP is providing service at levels advertised and paid for even accounting for network congestion and throttling. The disparity is just too great, but still the company insists there is nothing wrong with the equipment or service and hides behind the "up to" clause. I am quite certain there is nothing wrong with my rig, router, or software... I'm just not getting what I'm paying for.

In your example, its clearly a trademark violation so Citibank has the right to use the normal procedures that get used when a DNS name violates their trademark and either get the domain name shut down (i.e. removed from the DNS) or handed over to Citibank.

looking at his other replies in this thread, i think that he works for NetZero

I would like to know what the Libertarian position is on monopolistic competition?
I believe one ought be free to do what one wishes with one's money, and it follows that paying someone (some people call it bribery) to persuade them to a position is fine. The problem is i haven't studied this and, not being an expert, it's difficult for me to see negative externalities that may ensue should this be brought into practice. Any advice?

Dagnabbit, hit mod button by accident. Great link, by the way!

e107.

It has nothing to do with marketing "in a fashion", that is the definition of marketing period.

Apple could be viewed the same way.

Teenage girls defaming one another over boys is unlikely to lead to the ruination of lives. While these amateurs force professional defamers like journalists lawyers and politicians to simulate outrage, the real crime of stealing boyfriends is ignored. The so-called victim in this case clearly wasn't taught about virtue by her parents, and should be removed from society with the other incorrigible degenerates like copy-right offenders and smokers.

I love it that someone who is criticizing certain folks for being incapable of engaging productively with their fellow human beings or tolerating dissent being mod'd down as flamebait by one of those very people thereby proving his point.