This isn't "just to be accurate". It's to be pedantic and trollish.

And look, I replied. Well played.

Here come the RealDolls with goosebumbs. And reactive nipples.

So let me get this straight: I can pay gameservers.com $14.95 for a 16-player server, or my group can pay a total of $80 to Minefold for the same thing. This is what passes for innovative these days?

It's $5B, isn't it? I mean, come on, basic facts too much to ask?

SecondLife's Linden Dollar, exchangeable for real cash, has maintained its value remarkably well, at roughly L$265/US$1, for the last 5 years.

Unfortunately, I lost my blue-box B2 - Keep on the Borderlands, complete with D&D (not AD&D) Rule Book to the Flood of '93.

And me still playing First Edition. Sheesh. I feel old (but well invested).

I elected not to mod you down for one reason, and one reason only: Your post was well though out and insightful. I don't disagree with the content. But that "First Post" shit causes me to instantly devalue your input before even reading it. You're only hurting yourself.

If I am held responsible for the smooth uninterrupted operation of a network, then I will most certainly take ownership of it. If you think that the IT department contributes zero to the bottom line, ask yourself how that bottom line would look if your network had 50% uptime instead of 99% or better.

If you aren't willing to let your Systems Administrators take ownership of IT assets, you really need to go back to abacuses and legal pads.

Seriously. They should have built a RAID5 of manufacturing plants.