I personally feel that the only system I have seen so far with a reasonable rate of success is dedicated servers with some sort of permaban of accounts caught cheating. While by no means a perfect system; my personal experience (with TF2 as that is the only FPS game besides MW2 I have played over the last few years) was that I found a gaming site that ran servers for a variety of games. An extended group of people frequented those servers, creating a community of sorts, and I personally never had much problems with cheaters (that I can recall). Either they were banned/kicked swiftly and effectively, or they never logged on that particular set of servers; or possible a combination of the two. Though it should be mentioned that over the last two weeks, or so, of playing Modern Warfare 2 I haven't really seen a lot of players that I could confidently claim were cheating; though I have seen a few that were ridiculously good. Perhaps that is just me not really paying attention.

Cheating or no cheating, sales or no sales, I personally feel that despite Modern Warfare 2 being a really great game at its core, I won't be playing much more than I have; as it really feels impersonal when all the other players are random. And there is no forum for me to hang around talking some trash between matches and evenings. This of course isn't helped by the fact that Iwnet seem to have about a 30% (number I pulled out of my behind but it is how I have experienced it so far) failrate; disconnects, game closings, kicked from a lobby before you have connected to it, random ping, and people leaving games because a map comes up that they don't want to play (Highrise and Estate seem to see half the "group" leave when they come into rotation) leading to lobby's closing most of the time.

Why wait? You need one now, don't you?

Oh, and don't forget ammo. You'll need ammo, plenty of it.

Capitalism cannot work with maximum jobs for citizens, because the "maximum jobs for citizens" means 100% employment, which means that a company cannot just simple fire you and hire someone else...
 
Exactly my point- which is the economy as the slave to mankind, not mankind as slave to the economy.
 
  The problem is that people model the economy under various assumptions, and those assumptions may be entirely false. So, both capitalism and communism look great on paper, because of the assumptions made by the modeler.
 
It's not just the assumptions, it's the ethics. Put the profit motive above ethics, and just about anything evil becomes inevitable.
 
  However, real life sucks. In truth, people work in an economy because they pretty much have to. If that economy is designed, or based on the principles that its citizens serve the economy then it will begin to exploit the "captive market" of workers. This can be true of any system, capitalism or communism.
 
That is true. Thus, the definition one needs to change, is real life.

Hear, hear. I saw this when I was stationed at Tinker AFB.

Military hanger(s): spotless, orderly, tools and equipment in good working order, work mostly done by E-3s with (light) non-commissioned supervision.

Contractor hanger: dirty, bird-shit infested, disorderly, with most work done by guys making $60k who sat on their asses as much as possible. Both sides used and maintained the exact same class of aerospace ground equipment.

Needless to say, when the boys in suits (whom we grunts referred to as "office fairies" back then) start talking about "public-private partnerships" and "contracts," it's time to duck for cover.

I'll concede that point. After doing some research (avoiding MSM sites, thanks), it's pretty clear that the people in charge of the city and state failed in their duties. Perhaps they were skeptical of "whitey" from the federal government, or perhaps they just didn't care as long as their own families and friends were OK.

As for the death of the girl in the SuperDome, and the conditions there generally, I can only trust the eyewitness account of a good friend.

That doesn't negate the responsibility of people to take care of themselves, however.

I had friends in the Superdome during Katrina. There was no water or food. A young girl was raped and killed in a bathroom; her neck was snapped. My friends, who were from England and New Zealand, had to get together with other white people to form a small circle where they could huddle without being harassed. There was a lot of anger against whites in that place, which is understandable considering that the wealthier (presumably white) parts of the city had left these people behind without the consideration you would show a dog.

Thousands of people were huddled together in the Superdome like animals for days with no food, water or law enforcement. You clearly have no idea what you're talking about.

Actually, until 1953, it *was* a democracy. You can read about the president the British and Americans helped to overthrow here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammed_Mossadegh