Saying religion is not some bronze age fairytale and coexisting with the scientific knowledge of the 21st century is something I find deeply offensive.

It is time we stopped treating fairytales with undeserved respect or reservation.

Lies! It was the Cone Of Silence!

The point you're missing is that there is no in-game seed of PLEX. All PLEX that is on the in-game market was purchased by a player for real cash and put on the in-game market by a player.

Now, it should be pretty obvious as to why a company the size of CCP would be worried about "unclaimed" pre-paid subscriptions worth anything between 1 and 5 million dollars floating around inside their own game.

Well, I might be missing the point here, but it doesn't seem obvious to me. Could you spell it out please?

I'd think that having lots of unclaimed PLEX in game would be the best use of PLEX from CCP's point of view, since they got paid for the PLEX, but didn't have to provide a service for it (yet) and any in-game trading just moves resources around between players. The unclaimed PLEXes are probably highly decentralized and a large fraction will never be used to buy service for it.

If there is a time to use it, this is it.

I'm an advanced slashdot user, I don't even read the summary anymore.

What the fuck did you expect, excellent design practices and high quality code?

Nuclear safety is amazingly safe as-is, what is needed is replacing older plants with new designs that are inherently more safe and provide that safety more cost effectively.

The reactionary approach due to Fukushima is precisely the wrong way to look at things, the takeaway lesson should be that even with the worst possible scenario nuclear is vastly safer than coal, gas and hydro and possibly safer than solar. It's the small frequent events vs large singular event problem that plagues the car vs airplane safety disparity all over again.

We as a species need to learn to evaluate risk better or at least try to be more fact based in global infrastructure matters.

If Obama has a sense of humour he should admit he wasn't born in the US, but that he actually is a 400 year old dutch soldier and he was a citizen of the united states at the time of the adoption of the constitution.

Haven't you seen it on Doctor Who?

...>1Gbit/s is currently not on the top of my list of residental broadband problems. Sure, more bandwidth is always nice, but there is a long list of issues that impact me more, like the crappy unreliable modems/home gateways that is provided by ISPs, the bufferbloat issues in them that cause latency to be intolerable, the lack of IPv6, the underprovisioned networks, etc...

Uranium based ones: easy to build, hard to get materials for

Plutonium based ones: relatively easy to get materials for, very hard to build

This has been known for years, nothing much is new here.

I still have some liquid soap left from last year's flu hysteria. And some air masks too. Who wants some? There was also a hysteria for the mad cow disease, but my wife did not buy anything, we merely rode the car through pools of soapy water back then (near farms) The problem when the media says apocalypse is coming once a year, and we're still there the next year is that we pay less attention the next time.

Not every disaster that didn't happen was hysteria. They are just unlikely. If an catastrophe has 5% chance to happen and if it would happen it would kill a third of the world population, it makes sense to try to reduce that 5% chance. Whether those methods for reducing the risk work or not is another matter, but by definition 95% of the time when disaster doesn't happen we end up with some people saying there was nothing to be afraid of in the first place.

Of course. Genetic research in the Soviet Union was set back by decades because Stalin selected the theory that was wrong.

At least that was a theory, albeit a flawed one. Creationism is just a logical paradox - the omnipotent entity - not falsifiable.

No, but the idea came from sites like these.